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Sounds filthy, doesn’t it?

Anyway, tonight Kathy will be on Canada’s second best political podcast (ahem, after Brass Balls, naturally) with Mike Brock, Jay Currie and whoever else they dig up. The subject is Immigration, so it should be a very hot room indeed.

More details here. The comments are very, very weird.

All the cool kids have one. Including much-maligned Dutch parliamentarian, Geert Wilders.

You can order yours here!

We reordered a bunch more to cover demand. I wear mine all the time. You know you want one.

Apparently NOT past-tense of “pigs fly”. Who knew?

There’s a lot of blame flying around the Internet these days. Illegals. Border control. Blah blah (according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, it might as well be Maple Flu, because Canada & Mexico are exactly the same) blah.

Except for the most part, Swine Flu isn’t creeping up from Mexico via illegal immigrants. Swine Flu is coming because of you, my dear reader. And me. And many of the people in my nice, middle class WASP/Jew neighborhood. Our great middle classes, bored and upwardly mobile, taking dirt-cheap all-inclusive booze vacations in Mexico. It’s an interesting chain of events…

* Consuela lives in a hovel with pigs, chickens and children all running around the yard in various states of filth
* To pay her rent, Consuela works fluffing pillow for gringos in a nice hotel in the next town
* A nice white middle class family from Kent, England decides to take a vacation at an all-inclusive hotel resort in Mexico
* Consuela, who is accustomed to the filth of her pigs, carries disease without it harming her in any way
* Consuela fluffs the pillow of Mr. & Mrs. Kent - dust from the pillows makes her sneeze
* Mr. & Mrs. Kent spend 7 days with reduced immunity due to the amount of rum & tequila they are consuming by the pool
* Mr. & Mrs. Kent fall into bed on their nicely fluffed pillows, rip-roaring drunk every night
* After 7 days of drunken debauchery, Mr. & Mrs. Kent hop back on the plane to England (or Canada or Iowa or wherever), feeling a little run down and sniffly, probably figuring it’s a change in climate they weren’t accustomed to
* Consuela tidies up a room at the hotel a few weeks later, and sees a discarded newspaper. When she picks it up, she catches a headline that says 500 people in the town of Kent, England died of Swine Flu
*Consuela shrugs, finishes her job, clocks out for the day and goes home to feed the pigs

So here’s a health tip: The cheapest, most booze-laden vacation might not be the best one to take. And you teenage boys in Texas and SoCal? You may want to fuck the local hookers instead of trotting town to Tijuana and Mexico City. Just sayin’.

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Instead of hosting such fraudulent conferences as Durban II in Geneva, it is time the West demonstrated its moral authority by demanding from the likes of Ahmadinejad and his anti-West allies to answer why they have denied their people freedom to fully embrace the proven model for prosperity that is the West.

In respect to Israel, it is a beacon of modern enlightenment restored to its ancient home and a reflecting mirror in which the Arab-Muslim world sees daily its appalling failure as a civilization that once merited respect.

Dammit, I hate having my thinking turned on its head. Makes me dizzy. But I just can’t help being in thrall to Salim Mansur.

From Vlad comes CCTV footage of Muslim “youths” kicking an infidel kid to death.

Hmmm… Vlad took down the link, and Zorpheous in the comments advises that the video is actually from Brazil. Thanks for letting me know, Zorph.

Those pesky underprivileged “youths” of the Netherlands, living in penury with their designer branded sportswear. This clearly takes place in a shopping mall - I would be just as interested in identifying those that walked by and ignored the scene before them. At which point their children should be handed over to the thugs, and they should be forced to watch as no one comes to their aid.

Kathy Shaidle, you’re gonna get served, I tells ya! Served!

Wendy tells me my “petulance” about this is “unseemly”. Well, a bunch of big words back at ya! Squaw speak with forked tongue!!

Squaw? Clearly a reference to my mother’s half-breed status.

Ooops, what’s this? Er, never mind, Kathy. Looks like this squaw has a few skeletons of her own…

How about a little Dita Von Teese?

Seems the lovely lady has taken to designing knickers.

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Lights Out, Mark’s new book about Islam and the West, arrived from Steyn HQ yesterday. A review will be forthcoming. In the meantime, Steyn fans can order direct from the Steyn Store.

I think I’ll go to bed early again tonight, and spend more quality time with Mark.

I’d like to be my dog. Aside from his physical presence – compact, lean, muscular – his ability to sleep through anything makes me jealous. Not for him the tossing and turning, trying to shut out thoughts best saved for the light of day. Bug never has to worry about money, or where the next meal is coming from, or taxes. He never stares at the ceiling in the dark wondering where he went wrong. Should he have chosen this or that relationship or made that career choice – these questions don’t plague him.

Bug jumps out of bed at the slightest food-related sound. Sometimes he wins, other times we ignore him and he just heads back to bed. My thrashing in my sleep doesn’t concern him much. He grumbles a little, moves somewhere further away, and goes back to sleep. If I infringe too much on his space, he bites me in the ass – and still just goes back to sleep! He can go from asleep to awake and back again in a matter of seconds. Dogs don’t get insomnia.

Unlike the cats, Bug is open and eager. The cats are standoff-ish and don’t want to be touched or cuddled. They look down on humans like we’re beneath them, which is very likely true. Bug just wants to hang out, in case there’s food. Or maybe we’ll toss the Hillary Clinton chew toy around.

I wish I had Bug’s ability to forgive. He can be spanked, or sent out of the bed, or denied a treat because he did something bad, and a few minutes later he forgets all about it and jumps back in my lap. Bug loves and is loved unconditionally. Humans are limited in that capacity. All that thinking and remembering keep us from being able to let go of slights – major and minor. The moment his day begins, he assumes he is loved, and that nothing bad will happen to him. After all, what harm could come to someone so cute and furry and utterly daft?

I’d really like to be Bug. However, I’d probably not eat the cat turds.

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In response, however, Miss USA judge and openly homosexual Perez Hilton called Prejean a “dumb bitch” and has been wailing about it for days. His blog has an image of Miss Prejean at the pageant and in place of the microphone that originally appeared in the image, Mr. Hilton has drawn in a penis near Prejean’s mouth. Very classy.

I expect a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over this one, but really… who cares?

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Because you’re sure as hell not going to get me to shut up.

Call me a racist, call me an Islamaphobe, call me anything you want. But if you want to silence me, you’ll have to kill me.

The little podcast that Mike Williams and I started on a whim last year is going to turn 1 next month. In our first three episodes, as we were setting out parameters and finding our stride, we had about 2,000 listeners each week. We were tickled pink at the idea that 2,000 people were tuning in to hear our banter.

Then something pretty special happened. When Mark Steyn appeared in British Columbia for his Human Rights Tribunal Show Trial, we interviewed him. Episode 4 was downloaded over 1,000,000 times in the month of June, after we released it on June 9. A million! Mark broke our bandwidth, causing Mike to spend the better part of two hours on the phone with our hosting provider, credit card in hand, expanding our capabilities and getting us back on track. Our fun little hobby had taken off.

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Winston from Spirit Of Man sent me this pic taken in London the other night. I’m the racist sitting next to Salim Mansur. Kathy’s the racist sitting next to Dr. Roy.

No worries about us dallying with them colored folk. We took ‘em out for a lynchin’ later that night. You know, after we made them pick up the check. Because that’s how we roll.

Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant and Salim Mansur were rockstars last night, playing to a packed music house in London Ontario. The evening was moderated by Dr. Christopher Essex of the University of Western Ontario (where Salim Mansur is also a Professor).

Filling a big room in a smallish town in Ontario on a Monday night (after a long weekend) was unexpected, but people drove in from Toronto, Montreal and even Michigan to attend. The topic was just that important - Freedom of speech as it pertains to the Canadian Human Rights apparatus.

I’ve known Ezra for a long time and of course Kathy and I are very close friends, but this was my first opportunity to meet Salim Mansur (pictured here with Doctor Roy Eappen, who came in from Montreal for the event). I promised myself that I would approach Mansur with an open mind out of respect for him and for the evening. However, I didn’t expect any real surprises. After all, I was the one who promised my readership that I could produce a leprechaun before they could produce a moderate Muslim. There ain’t no such thing, right?

Well… now I’m not so sure.

Aside from the fact that he’s a charming and dapper fellow, he speaks truth that I have craved to hear from Islam. On stage, he spoke of how the lights went out in Islam centuries ago, with those who dared to question the approved dogma silenced by imprisonment or death. This is something that continues to occur today, in a so-called modern world. He told the rapt audience of his early years, escaping the Islamist hordes in unruly Bangladesh, and his appreciation for Canada’s freedom, which is being sadly jeopardized by those very same people who cut off hands and murdered people in his youthful Bangladesh.

I have a feeling that Professor Mansur and I are not yet finished the conversation we began after hours in the bar of Ezra’s hotel, where we sat and talked directly to each other, despite the 20 or so other people that vied for both our attention throughout the evening. I may have found my elusive leprechaun, and that turns my thinking upside down. I may be in for my own enlightenment…

I have heard Kathy speak before, and have enjoyed her knowledge and humor. However in the past there have been a lot of “inside jokes” that perhaps other less involved members of her audience may not have got. Last night she was open and witty, educating and entertaining us all. Her book-signing before and after the panel was well attended, and I believe she may have sold out of the copies of Tyranny of Nice she had brought with her to London.

As a personal aside, I met a longtime reader who has always been very kind to me, even going so far as to check up on me by telephone when I was down in Kansas last year, Joe Molnar. He paid me a great honor last night by asking me to co-sign his copy of Tyranny, my signature right alongside Kathy’s. Thank you, Joe.

Ezra was… Ezra. For anyone who has ever caught him on TV or radio, or watched his YouTube videos, you already know how dynamic and entertaining a speaker he is. During the Q&A after the speeches, Ezra was asked by Ted Bellman how Jews can expect to be protected if we abolish Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code (that’s the speech/thought crime section). The crowd had a high Jew-to-WASP ratio, so it was a very relevant question to ask, considering that Canada’s official Jewish organizations have been so instrumental in creating the human rights monster that we rail against today.

Despite being a Jew himself, Ezra has no sympathy at all where Section 13 is involved. He reminded Mr. Bellman of the fact that it is very easy - and that it makes perfect sense - for the enemies of Jews to use this faulty legislation against the Jewish community, as we’ve seen with Ezra’s own case, as well as the case against B’Nai Brith, both instituted by radical Muslims.

Chapters/Indigo, the Canadian book behemoth, sent two delegates with crates of Shakedown
- now going into it’s THIRD printing - for sale and signing. Congratulations to Ezra on the runaway success of his book.

Apparently, last night was the largest, most well attended political meeting London has ever seen outside of an election campaign. Thanks must go to the Forest City Institute for organizing it. And a personal thanks to Josephine and Duke for hauling my ass back and forth to London to attend.

I just got back from The Event They Couldn’t Stop™ in London, Ontario. I am beat, exhausted, have had my thinking turned upside down, and I think I owe someone $500 for a leprechaun.

In the meantime, I leave you with this vague reference to an even vaguer inside joke, which I will explain tomorrow/later/after sleep.

Many thanks to the zillions of great people who came out of the woodwork last week when I asked for a ride to London. I’m really looking forward to tonight’s event.

Hitting the open road shortly on this lovely, sunny spring day. Expect a recap either late tonight or (very late) tomorrow.

PS - Toronto folk, don’t forget Ezra is doing a book signing downtown tomorrow. Another day I’ll be forced to rise before noon, but alas, it’s worth it.

Update: While I’m on the road, be sure to check out my latest at Examiner, regarding the upcoming Tea Parties across the USA. Remember, you click, I get paid. Thanks!