We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.

As someone who struggles daily with depression and frequently fights the urge to stick a steak knife in my heart, I can’t help but be insulted - dare I say offended? - by tripe like this. I think the government has done enough already, thankyouverymuch.

My latest at Examiner.com, on the unprecedented move by Barack Obama to request the resignation of Rick Wagoner.

Thanks to everyone who has been clicking over (it’s how I get paid) - I have finally become one of the “Top Examiners”!

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On a tip from Sondra K:

I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on. …

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.

My latest at Examiner on the video of Joe Biden’s 27-year-old daughter Ashley allegedly snorting cocaine.

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You just can’t keep a good racist down. Despite the rumors from the leftosphere that the speaking event on April 13th in London Ontario has been canceled, it has in fact been moved to a larger venue.

Anyone driving up from Toronto want to give me a lift?

…I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that Islam is not a religion, but a death cult with the usual sexual component of female subjugation and underage rape.

Have a nice day.

In their zealousness to over-legislate everything, California has decided that blacks are bad for the environment. They get to hot and bothered.

I was talking about cars. What were you thinking?

So what about a red Corvette? Too dark? How about burgundy, or are we stuck with pink? And what about visitors to California? Will Grandpa have to pay a sin tax on his navy blue Cadillac when he visits from Nevada?

Try as I might, I cannot seem to figure out what common features those on America’s Wanted Terrorists list might have. I suppose that’s why I don’t work for the CIA, doing profiling. I feel as if I should see the link, and yet I don’t… Lemme think about it a while longer.

…write about politics! That usually does the trick.

My latest at Examiner, about Bobby Jindal. He was actually very amusing last night, from what I’m told.

So… coffee? Or try to sleep?

I am totally shaken. On the subway on my way over to feed Kathy’s cat while they’re away at a funeral, it finally happened. Some deranged 6th Century Mohammedan lost it and began screaming ALLAHU ACKBAR, calling everyone racists, and talking about Bin Laden and rising up.

Like good little sheep, someone pushed the yellow passenger alarm, stopping the train in the station. The little mid-train conductor man stepped out of his booth to see what was happening. We tried explaining to him that there was a potential terrorist on the train wit us, to call the police. Thew little Asian fellow appeared not to understand a damn word we were saying, decided there was nothing to see, and got back on the train.

Meanwhile Mohammed continued to rage about Allah on the platform where many of us stood. (obviously I got off the train - I wasn’t going to stay stuck on there with an Islamic madman). No security came. The train left with Mohammed pounding on the closed doors, saying he had a metropass and a right to free speech (the irony was not lost on me). When the next train came, he got on it.

I would like to know if this is part of the city of Toronto’s protocol to deal with a terrorist threat on the underground. This guy was a lunatic who was unarmed - what if the next one is packing? Will the same level of incoherence apply to TTC staff?

If anyone in Toronto is at all interested, here’s a pic I managed to grab of the guy.

And people wonder why I keep saying that Muslims - specifically devout ones - cannot be integrated into the modern world.

A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot.

Islam and airplanes - always a deadly combination!

Then I could come out with lines like this:

On the previous Saturday, we had the strange - but not unusual for the Post - spectacle of a page featuring the ex- and present husbands of Barbara Amiel kicking off the series.

Go forth and read his television tome of the week.

Worried that we’re being politically incorrect? Hate us for being so mean? Well, suck it up bitches - if it’s good enough for the President of the United States, it’s good enough for us!

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You are sitting in your office, going about the business of your business, when someone presents themselves at reception, saying they’ve come to confiscate your hard drive, your hard files and any peripheral e-storage devices. They have no warrant to back them up, and they don’t need one. They are from the government. They are valiantly fighting for the cause of human rights. You do not have the right to turn them away, and you must give them all they request.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have read Shakedown on a windy, rainy night. Maybe then I wouldn’t have written Ezra with a short email review: Bone-chilling.

While not necessarily the horror of Stephen King, Shakedown is a series of Orwellian tales perhaps worthy of the Twilight Zone. In Canada, Section 8 of our Charter (what passes for a constitution in this country) protects the proletariat from illegal search and seizure. Except when it doesn’t. Like, where the “human rights” commissions are involved.

Operating completely outside the law of the land, these “human rights” commissions and tribunals across the country have no set operating procedure. Every case is different, civil law and the Magna Carta have no bearing, and rules are made up as they go along. In addition, though they portend to be a wall of defense between hatred and the population, their employees and cronies are some of the largest purveyors of hate in the country.

If, for example, you and I were to write about niggers and kikes in an effort to foment hatred and possibly violence, the aforementioned Gestapo of the “human rights” rackets would invade our personal files and steal our computer equipment. Yet if one of their employees - past or present - did the same thing under a pseudonym, it would all be in the cause of fighting hatred.

Tell me, dear readers - especially those outside of Canada - does what I’ve written make you feel like you’ve fallen through the looking glass? Me too. The Queen of Hearts (in this case, Jennifer Lynch) passes judgment on intention and tone, branding people from all walks of life to be outside civilized society. Well, almost all walks. Like, for example, you can’t really be charged if you are a lesbian, or a Muslim. After all, you are one of your precious protected people. You are free to make spurious claims - at no cost to yourselves - against small business owners, private citizens and anyone who you may feel has slighted you. In turn, they must pay and pay throughout the process of being found guilty (for no one is ever found not guilty - ever), and then pay again upon being found guilty.

In Shakedown, Ezra Levant tells us these tales of horror, in his usual witty and bombastic manner, as well as telling us of his own infamous dealings with the Alberta “Human Rights” Commission for daring to report on a news story that Muslims found offensive.

Money quote: You can always ignore a racist. You can’t escape from the government.

Ezra has waged an almost three year battle to denormalize the “human rights” apparatus in Canada and to expose their unconstitutional practices to the sunlight of public opinion. Shakedown is his story, along with the stories of many other less connected Canadians who have suffered at the hands of the Court of Marsupial Magistrates.

Is this a book just for Canadians? No. Any country that subscribes to a politically-correct orthodoxy at the expense of common sense (I’m looking at you, Britain) is at risk of having quasi-judicial bodies break the law of the land in an effort to protect people from being offended.

Shakedown by Ezra Levant is available as of Tuesday, March 24th in Chapters/Indigo branches across Canada, and worldwide via Amazon. You can pre-order it through Amazon today.

UPDATE: D’uh. I thought it was a little odd that the book would be launched on a Tuesday, and I was right. It in fact launches today, Monday the 23rd of March. I actually saw it in Indigo last night after dinner.

Natasha Richardson, Tony award winning actress, was taken off life support today and pronounced dead. All this after a fluke skiing accident on the bunny trails at Mt. Tremblent in the Quebec Laurentides.

For about 90 minutes the words “natasha” and “richardson” were the main trending topics on Twitter. Now it’s “idol” because the average American cares more for American Idol than they do for dead movie stars. At least they will for about an hour. Then it will be something else. A few hours back it was “dodd” for Chris Dodd.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that we’re so plugged in now, we get so much news thrown at us throughout the day via the internet, that stations like CNN and Fox News who just recycle the same 15 headlines over a 24 hour period are pretty much useless. What was supposed to provide us with obscure and remote stories from around the world all day, and keep its content fresh, has failed to do both. The talking heads change from hour to hour, but the content remains static.

We would do better to have a 24 hour streaming Google News channel instead. Or just sit on Twitter.

In any case, RIP Natasha. You were great in Handmaid’s Tale.

Just sat in on a GOP conference call where we talked taxes. Here’s my latest at Examiner.com.

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Riley. Too cute not to post. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!

Andrea Harris writes of a very nervous Maryland mayor who is suffering from bad blog press.

In her final State of the City address, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman warned residents of what she sees as a great danger to the city: malicious bloggers.

Tilghman said in her address Thursday that over the last five years, the presence of a small group of suspicious, mean-spirited people focused on the negative has grown, endangering the city’s vitality.

Endangering the city? Really? Wow - Toronto is infested with bloggers of all political persuasions. Should we call in the exterminator? Perhaps if this Maryland mayor (and Toronto’s mayor, too) did a better job, they wouldn’t have the “malicious” bloggers to contend with.

I say she needs to put on her big girl panties and deal with it.

Wish I would make it there, but $$ is tight. However for me Ottawa peeps - James, Suzanne, are you listening? - you should get your butts out to this. Hosted by long lost pal Brian Lilley (another reason I’m sorry to be missing it). Barbara Kay and Tarek Fatah are always worth the admission.

Freedom of Speech: Restoring Reason, Truth & Civility to the Public Square

The Neeje Association for Women and Family Presents a Panel Conference

With guest speakers Babara Kay, Robert A. Kenedy, Nicole Scheidl, Tarek Fatah and Panel Moderator Brian Lilley

Friday, March 20, 2009 6:30 to 9:30 pm
The Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Adam Room

You can download a brochure and register online HERE.

Don’t be a dhimmi - get your ass out to this conference, pay attention, take notes. And if you want to do a guest post for me, giving the skinny on the event, you’ll get a t-shirt. Email me!