Kathy Shaidle and Mark Steyn are so great. So if you’re over here cause you followed their advice to help us with Brass Balls Bandwidth, here ya go:

As I was saying not so long ago, many in the pro-life fight are kind of… insane.

Your methods of persuasion fail on every level, what with the chopped up fetus pictures, and the outright hostility to anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep.

Dr. Tiller was a horrible example of the slippery abortion slope. But he did not deserve to be shot down on his way into a FUCKING CHURCH. Whatever his rationalizations for practicing such a horrific form of medicine, he knew there were holes in his imperfect human soul, and sought to fill those holes with Christ.

And some “pro-life” zealot (the kind who were here not so long ago screeching at me that this is a war!!1!one!!1!) shot him.

Do you insaniacs actually expect further sympathy to the cause now? Because it ain’t going to happen.

No quarter.

My account of yesterday’s pathetic anti-Bush protest in downtown Toronto. They have lost their fighting spirit, now that their arch-nemesis is a civilian just like you and I.

I don’t know who the Marxists, Socialists, Khadr’s, Stop the War etc have left to live for, now that they have no one to hate.

William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, is in Toronto today. Guard your daughters. And your mothers. And your pets, for that matter.

An increase in sexually transmitted disease among white, middle class leftoids is expected. Contact your GP (if you can get one in this godforsaken socialized hell) for information on antibiotics. It’s too late for preventative measures - he’s already in town.

I was up at 7 this morning. Ouch. I have a bit of a busy day, finishing up some client work before heading out to take pics of Bush protesters, then rushing back to record Brass Balls Radio late tonight.

Speaking of Brass Balls Radio, about that $12 donation you meant to give us, but clearly forgot. Yeah, you can still do it (and Mark Steyn says you should!). Thanks. We just paid our hosting bill - the one BEFORE the Steyn show. It was expensive enough. I don’t dare to speculate how much the big one will be.

My article on California upholding Prop 8 has garnered a ton of comments over at Examiner. Feel free to add your own voice to the mix. (There’s a little technical problem with the comments being cut off after x-amount of characters. Sorry, please bear with us while we get it straightened out.) Finally a moonbat has admitted there’s no legal reason to prohibit polygamy and that it should be allowed. Go forth and opine!

I found something fishy over at Technorati the other day. No wonder it isn’t used as much as it once was. What a scam! Just because you’re AOL and you can buy links… Not cool. Bloggers (legitimate ones) put a great deal of effort into their babies. I know I do.

A couple in San Diego have been busted for praying without a permit. Seriously.

“On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county.” David Jones told FOX News.

“We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all,” Jones said.

A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited “unlawful use of land,” ordering them to either “stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit,” the couple’s attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.

So much for the concept of:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I bet they voted for Prop 8.

Bloggers beware. A great article in the WSJ about libel chill in the ’sphere. Something many of my good friends know far too much about, sadly.

Civic gadflies and self-styled watchdogs who accuse local politicians and companies are getting slapped with lawsuits. People who post messages in chat rooms, online forums and blogs can be held liable for invasion of privacy or for making defamatory statements, which are damaging, false statements of fact.

Yeah, we know. Oh my, do we ever!

Ok folks, have a great day. I hope to get some good pics of raving moonbats from down in front of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this afternoon. I will be sure to post the best of them.

Dear Barbara Hall, Chief Commissar of the OHRC: Piss off!

Actually, Barbara, let me elaborate: Please take your politically correct, do-goody-good bullshit and shove it up your big, fat, censorship-loving ass.

Not really much I can add to that sentiment, except perhaps to point out that much of our press in Canada - nay the world - has chosen already not to be free. They have sided time and again with tyrants, to the exclusion of everyone else.

What Hall proposes is merely to put it in writing. Nothing would really change.

That’s right. Perhaps we could even send them to “residential schools”. You know, give them a fair shot at becoming a more integrated part of the Canadian cultural mosaic.

No? Bad idea? Unconstitutional? It will never fly?

Why not? These kids in many (if not all) cases are being taught to hate Canada, hate Canadians, hate infidels, loathe Jews, commit acts of violence…

HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:176] : Allah’s Apostle said, “You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, ‘O ‘Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.’ “

How dare we discriminate on the basis of faith, belief or color of flesh? If these parents (abhorrent though they may be) can have their daughter taken away for learning and espousing their belief system, then certainly all children raised in Muslim homes are in danger.

Disagree? Why?

Yesterday I wrote about the upholding of Proposition 8 by the California Supreme Court, over on my Examiner site. There’s quite a lot of commenting going on, so I thought I’d give y’all a chance to get over there and have your say.

Some of the comments:

Marriage is a religious institution at it’s roots. The state is prohibited from making laws respecting any particular religion or preventing the free exercise of any particular religion. So what justification does it have for regulating or defining marriage? None, it’s unconstitutional.

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Because it was never a “right” at all, just the latest irrational demand by petulant cry babies who insist on undermining tradition and family at every opportunity, while demanding acceptance of their unhealthy lifestyle.

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The “has been for millenia” argument is bunk…we had slavery “for millenia” by that line of “thinking”…

Anyway, I do agree, let’s give everyone equal protection and recognition under the law. The state will call these “civil unions”, and your church will or will not call them marriages. The point being, “marriage” will become the same thing as other religious institutions, “inconsequential”.

“Trivialize marriage”? Hehe, it’s doing a fine job by itself…

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People voting on civil rights is not democracy. It’s tyranny of the majority.

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That title isn’t an effort on my part to be racially divisive regarding the Obama administration. No, such a thing actually exists. Their logo is blood spattered, to mimic a gunshot wound, which is wholly appropriate.

Anyone who hasn’t gone to great effort to purge the memory from their mind may remember hip hop “star” Ludacris (so spelled in order to keep urban populations as illiterate as possible) bringing out a “song” during the Obama campaign telling America to paint the White House black. Ludacris and other rappers are part of this so-called Hip Hop Caucus, founded in 2004, whose mission statement claims:

The mission of the Hip Hop Caucus is to work towards ending urban poverty for the next generation. We organize young people in urban communities to be active in elections, policymaking, and service projects. Our priority issues are Urban Poverty, Urban Planning, Climate Change, Healthcare, Public Education, and Criminal Justice.

They also state: Our work re-shapes how young people of color are viewed by the media, elected officials, and the public.

On that point I would say all of hip hop have been very successful in taking an already marginalized community and turning them into an organized band of thugs. Excellent work!

They are not a caucus that is officially affiliated with government, but they are a lobby group with not inconsiderable influence. For example:

The US rap star T.I., who has worked with a political lobbying group with growing influence in Washington, is to serve less than a year in jail after being convicted of illegal possession of machine guns.

This should not come as a surprise to anyone. The courts know which way the wind blows in an Obamanation. Take one criminally affiliated black man, install him in the highest office in the land via the illegal methods of ACORN and a willing liberal media. Surround him with tax cheats who have never faced a day in court for their crimes. Praise him for his integrity. And watch the country sink deeper and deeper into the mire.

Word.

I was at Beth Shalom synagogue last night in Toronto, listening to Liberal MP Irwin Cotler speak and Liberal MP Carolyn Bennet stutter (Seriously, whatever her triumphs or faults, the woman is a terrible speaker. I wanted to claw out my own eyes and throw them at her. Get thee to a teleprompter, woman!) The subject was the rise of antisemitism, specifically on our campuses here in Toronto.

Cotler (we’ll focus on him, because he can speak) talked a good game about defeating this “new” antisemitism - Iran wanting to “excise the cancer” that is Israel, the UN passing resolution after resolution against Israel, kids at York university feeling threatened, etc. But during the Q&A at the end of the presentation, he kind of lost his cool.

A woman in the audience asked him how he could be such an advocate of Israel, and still be a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. After all, she pointed out, the immigrant voting block (i.e. Muslims) vote Liberal, so pandering must be done. Liberal MP Denis Coderre marched in Montreal in 2006 under the banner of Hezbollah. Michael Ignatieff himself is very critical of Israel, etc. So how could he reconcile having Mr. Harper’s unequivocal support of Israel and Canadian Jewry against the Liberal Party’s indifference to or outright bias against?

Mr. Cotler verbally punished the woman in the audience for even daring to say such a terrible thing. Told her that Denis Coderre had never marched beneath the Hezbollah flag in Montreal (he did). How dare this woman malign the Liberals, exposing such political polarization on such an important issue?!

One wonders if he was so strident in his opinions when he was asked the very same thing by his wife, Ariela:

I have been an active, involved and contributing member of
the Liberal party until yesterday, when I decided to give up my membership because of the statements from Michael Ignatieff, given in French to a Quebec radio station.

I was hoping that with his background as a professor of human rights, Mr. Ignatieff would be able to make the distinction between the attackers and the attacked. I would remind Mr. Ignatieff that it was a Liberal government that placed Hezbollah on the international terrorist organizations list.

Must be rather tense in the Cotler household, no?

As an aside, Cotler was very open in denouncing “Ahmadinejad’s Iran” as the root of many of today’s problems with antisemitism. Possibly due to the aforementioned Islamic voting block, Mr. Cotler was unwilling to point to Islam itself as the political/religious force behind the rise in Jew hatred around the world today. It was only “Iran, Iran, Iran.” Which I found hilarious as he went on and on about how people are cloaking their antisemitism in the guise of Anti-Zionism and dislike for Israel.

Pot? It’s Kettle on the line.

Either come right out and say what everyone in the room already knows you’re thinking, or just let the subject drop altogether. The people marching in the streets of Toronto, New York, Islamabad, London, Beirut, Dearborn and other cities are not Iranian. They are from a “broad strata” (if you’ll forgive me) of Islamic society. Yes, Iran has been the only state to come out and specifically call for the obliteration of Israel, but they are not the be-all and end-all of Islamic antisemitism, any more than Israel itself is the be-all and end-all of Judaism.

Mr. Cotler, I respectfully request that you either put up or shut up.

In other news, Cotler attended Durbin II. Need we say more?

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Or Decoration Day, as it used to be called. The day when the townspeople would flock to the cemeteries to decorate the graves of the fallen after a long winter.

While you’re barbecuing or playing with the kids today, spare a moment to remember why you had the luxury of sleeping in today.

Ah, the plight of Canada’s Natives. Wait, correction - Canada’s on-reserve Natives. There’s a difference. A big one.

Those who live off the reservation, if left to their own devices and not meddled with by either touchy-feely guilty white liberals or by the Chiefs -  Native equivelent of Al Sharpton and other race pimps, can usually manage some degree of assimilation. They may in many cases still collect social assistance or have substance abuse problems, but they are still far more adept at functioning within the larger society.

Those on the reservations… not so much.

Canada has approximately 400,000 Native living on-rez, at a cost of $8 Billion to the taxpayer. We keep them in these concentration camps as a sop to their traditions - traditions that existed 400 years ago when we arrived, and would have changed over time with the new surroundings, but which are now propped up by wishy-washy do-gooders who think that our Natives should still live in an infantilized version of 18th Century customs, with the added bonus of SkiDoos and satellite television to remind them daily of the lives they’re not living somewhere closer to civilization.

If a teenager completes ninth grade, he or she is probably better educated than many others on-rez. And so he can then work within the system, joining the Band or Council, making decisions that affect the lives of the others in his community and apportion the tens of millions of dollars allotted to his particular reservation. He does not need to know anything about engineering to make decisions on vital infrastructure. He does not need to know anything about health and safety or policing or anything else that affects the community. After all, a reservation is merely a Potemkin Village, with the Bands and Councils all for show; in the end, the feds step in to solve the problems that the infantilized residents cannot.

If we as a white European community wanted to give the Natives their 18th Century traditions back, they would be living in teepees and log cabins, not in derelict, mouldering modern pre-fab homes. They would not be driving snowmobiles or watching American television on satellite cable. They would not be reading this article on the Internet. Instead we have offered a half measure between dragging them forward and holding them back. The result is stagnancy, and just like stagnant water, the Native communities are attracting rot and disease.

And two more of their number have died.

A coroner’s jury looking into the deaths of two aboriginal men in a fire at an isolated northern Ontario reserve’s police station three years ago has called for more federal and provincial funding to improve First Nations police facilities and officers’ training.

Ricardo Wesley, 22, and James Goodwin, 20, burned to death on Jan. 8, 2006, while being held for public intoxication at the ramshackle Kashechewan First Nation police detachment.

Among its 80 recommendations made in a report released on Thursday in Toronto, the five-member jury called on the Ontario and federal governments to provide the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service the funds needed to ensure its policing standards and infrastructure are equivalent to those in non-First Nations communities.

The jury’s report also recommends Ontario and Ottawa should also provide adequate money for annual fire inspections of all Nishnawbe-Aski Nation police stations, as well as additional fire response training for officers.

Money, money, money. At what point do we stop throwing money at the Reservations in some lame attempt at making the problems go away? This is the very definition of insanity: Repeating the same action over and over, expecting a different result.

As an evil white European responsible for the creation and maintenance of Kashechewan, I will shoulder the responsibility for the lack of sprinkler system in the jail. But here are the things I will not shoulder responsibility for, in no particular order:

• No functioning smoke detectors
• No fire extinguishers
• Keys that were not clearly labeled or marked, stored in a disorganized fashion
• Lack of a fire escape plan
• Lack of adequate police training
• Lack of adequate fire employee training
• The two drunks that got themselves locked up in the first place

Guys, what did you do with the last $8 Billion we gave you? Did you spend it on candy and records? You wanted your own police and fire services - this is not like a little kid wearing a fire helmet. This is real grown up, you-could-get-hurt stuff.

Canada, and the Department of Indian & Northern Affairs, needs to make a decision. Are these going to be child-like people we will be caring for in perpetuity in sub-standard insane asylums, or will they be functioning members of Canada?

Is it waterboarding? Bikini waxing? High school?

My latest at Examiner doesn’t look at “what Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it”, but rather if what was done to Jihadists was torture at all. I think the world needs a little less handwringing and a little more perspective.

We must keep in perspective that our enemies do not have the level of civilization that we do. When they capture one of our sons (or worse yet, daughters), they do not have a medical team standing by to revive them if something goes wrong. Just because Christopher Hitchens, an ivy-league toff, wasn’t able to withstand more than four seconds of waterboarding does not necessarily make it torture.

Please check it out, and in the comments feel free to leave me your “”BLANK” is worse than waterboarding” suggestions.

Over the question of Michael Ignatieff’s “true patriot love“.

ALSO APPARENTLY “JUST VISITING”

• ABLONCZY, The Hon. Diane, P.C., B.Ed., LL.B. Date of Birth: 1949.05.06. Place of Birth: Peoria, Illinois, United States.
• MARK, Inky, B.A., B.Ed. Date of Birth: 1947.11.17. Place of Birth: Toysun, China.
• OBHRAI, Deepak. Date of Birth: 1950.07.05. Place of Birth: Oldeani, Tanzania.
• SHORY, Devinder. Date of Birth: 1958.08.03. Place of Birth: Punjab, India.
• TOEWS, The Hon. Vic, P.C., B.A., LL.B. Date of Birth: 1952.09.10. Place of Birth: Fildelfia, Paraguay.
• WONG, Alice, Ph.D. Date of Birth: 1948.06.30. Place of Birth: Hong Kong.

Here the Clever Jackal attempts to equate immigrants to Canada with Ignatieff, an immigrant from Canada who chose to live in Massachusetts and teach at Harvard for 30-odd years. You know, McGill or University of Toronto weren’t good enough for him.

Not that I can personally begrudge Iggy from wanting to get the hell out of here for any stretch of time - I’d do it myself. But then again, my own lack of “true patriot love” pretty much precludes me (above all other things) from running for Prime Minister.

Then again, if we base things on Ignatieff’s country of choice, we will see that hating America is no hindrance to the presidency. So what the hell, right?

When I’m not blogging Stupid Muslim Tricks or what have you over here, I spend my time on my writing site. Well, that’s a lie. I spend it on Twitter, but dabble on my writing site.

Some of my latest wordy-goodness:

• Interviewing
• Starting a blog
• Whoring my producer

So now you know what I’m up to when I’m not Steyn-swooning or lunching with Kathy (as I did today). Or not on Twitter.

Broken gas main in Toronto, corner of Avenue & Eglinton.

Our boys in blue and our boys in rubber are on the scene. Traffic is shut down in all directions for several blocks, with cops redirecting. The smell of gas in the area is strong in the area, but there’s a heavy wind, so it is unlikely to harm anyone.

Everything is under control, and I’ve never seen such a calm bunch as the fire fighters on the scene. That said, the corner is home to a large Petro Canada station, which has cut power to their pumps and is all but evacuated.

Should be cleared up shortly. At least, I hope so, seeing as I’m less than a block away from the ’splody-ness.

Ugh. I took a walk in the nice warm sunshine this afternoon. Had some letters to mail, and wanted a passion tea lemonade from Starbucks. I decided that instead of hitting one of the standalone ‘bucks, I’d go to the one in my local Indigo Books. Or Obama Books, as it should be rechristened (methinks “christened” might not be the best word to use, but oh well).

I counted no less than NINE books with either his face or his name on them. And not one of them was in the political section upstairs. The most ironic one was probably “Great Speeches” that had Alfred E. Mulatto’s face on the cover. Not Churchill (we shall fight them on the beaches), not Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), not Lincoln (government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth), but Barack put-em-to-sleep Obama. He may be many things: Historical, well dressed, something else I’m sure, but he is not a great orator. Bush you could listen to for the mistakes; like watching F1 for the crashes. Reagan was a passionate speaker. Clinton was emotive and kept the crowd’s attention. But Obama? Most people prefer to read the text of his speeches rather than actually listen to them. I harbor a guess that if he had them read aloud by William Shatner, his Neilsen Ratings would go up considerably.

I shrugged off this amusement and wandered to the business section. I figured I’d be Obama-free down there, since he never really had anything to do with business throughout his “career” as an Official Black Man™ and Community Organizer™. Alas, it was not to be:

Good Lord, is there hope (not to be confused with Hope™) left for America (and Canada, by extension)? Americans are graduating in illiterate droves, unable to string two sentences together that don’t involve the words “like” or “bling”. Now we want them to bore the ass off potential bosses, subordinates, investors and board of directors? Is that really a good idea?

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When Catholics do it, it s nation-wide scandal that has to be apologized for over and over again, with money flowing out of the Vatican like it’s a damn ATM.

But when Muslims do it, it’s their freakin’ culture.

Yasser Mohamed Shahade, a prayer leader who had been in the country for about two months and had been staying at the mosque, sexually battered the victim [aged 13] about 6 a.m., police say. Police were called about noon Sunday, and they responded to Tampa General Hospital, where the call came from, police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said. Police aren’t releasing the name or details about the person who made the call, and details about the boy’s condition aren’t immediately available.

Not only is rape used in Islam to shame the vulnerable into becoming suicide bombers, but the same passage of the Koran that tells these sexually repressed camel-lovers that they get 72 virgins to defile in paradise also tells them they get an unlimited amount of servant boys for pleasure. Women for procreation, young boys for pleasure. It’s in their Holy Book - why should we be surprised?