I’ve received a few emails about the link ad to the right of the screen. The one about cigarettes. One person reminded me that my mother died of lung cancer when I was still a child - good thing this busybody reminded me, because I had forgotten!

Look, I’m not Warren Kinsella, despite my affection for drinking, bad music, fucking around and pissing off my employers. Ok, maybe I am Warren Kinsella. But I’m not going to nanny you to death over your choices, and I don’t expect you to nanny me over my advertising.

The thing is, the guy who put the ad there paid me for it. He paid me in cash, not in cigarettes. That link on the side of my blog isn’t going to persuade me to smoke, and it likely isn’t going to persuade you either. But if you already smoke - and it’s frankly none of my fucking business if you do - you might be interested in the site he’s pimping.

There’s also an ad there for some kind of dick pills. I’m not terribly likely to take those, either (might be more suited to Warren, actually), but the ad is there in case someone is interested.

I don’t care if people smoke. I only care about me. And I don’t smoke. So please shut up.

Thanks!

Finally, Geert Wilders, outspoken Dutch MP and wild-haired critic of Islam, made it into England and to the House of Lords where his film Fitna was screened. His speech to the peerage can be read here.

Ladies and gentlemen, not far from here stands a statue of the greatest Prime Minister your country ever had. And I would like to quote him here today: “Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger retrograde force exists in the World. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step (…) the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” These words are from none other than Winston Churchill wrote this in his book ‘The River War’ from 1899.

Wilders isn’t the bigot that people make him out to be. He’s simply calling out a hypocrisy in the Netherlands that makes it ok to ban books like Mein Kampf, but not the Koran, which is even more vitriolic toward Jews. He has chutzpah, and a massive following in the Netherlands and around the world. Unless some crazed jihadi takes it upon himself to assassinate him in the near future, Wilders is poised to become the next prime minister of the Netherlands.

If you want to wear the smokin’ hawt t-shirt that you see on Wilders, you can order one here. The text reads “When you laugh you are not afraid. When youa re not afraid you are free.“

On Monday, after a long and agonizing separation, I was reunited with my gorgeous, smelly, dopey, loving, devoted and delightfully silly best friend, Bug. For four grueling months I went to sleep without the comforting lump against my ribs that used to tell me Bug was asleep next to me.

At one point I panicked, thinking I would lose him forever to the forces of those who think they know what’s best. But I persevered, and I was rewarded with snout smudges on my glasses, obscuring the tears I was so desperately trying to not spill.

Welcome back, Baby Bug. I love you.

I attended the MPP Peter Shurman press conference at Queen’s Park last week, to hear him denounce Israeli Apartheid Week on Ontario campuses. Click the link to read more.

Canada’s most outspoken MP is in hot water again with a special interest group - this time the LGBTTQ2SXYZ!!@#LMNOP lobbyists - the homos, in other words.

Gay and lesbian activists say Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s refusal to refer to gay rights and same-sex marriage in the Canadian Citizenship Guide was an effort to rewrite Canadian history.

And I agree with them, but not for the reasons they present. My concern isn’t about Canadian history - it’s about the Canadian present. That citizenship guide should have had gays and lesbians on every damn page, frolicking in their PRIDE attire or blowing each other in a bath house - for no other reason than to do exactly what the guide was supposedly designed to do: Weed out those who discriminate based on gender or orientation.

If Mohhamed Wahbbi from Wackistan looks at that guide and vomits, we don’t want him in Canada. If he reads that women are doctors and gays aren’t murdered or raped, and that the showing of ankles isn’t a crime here in Canada, he might get the idea that Canada isn’t for him. And good riddance to bad rubbish. We don’t want his kind here. We don’t need more honor killings, more gay bashing, more calls for shariah law to be put in place. If he wants to live like that, he can stay in Wackistan where he belongs. Leave us our flamers, and we’ll leave you your goat fellatio.

If Jason Kenney actually edited the manuscript for the guide - and he claims he didn’t - he made a huge mistake that actually undermines the position he has taken all along about radical elements entering Canada.

Oh, by the way, did you hear his interview with Ann Coulter?

Well done, Andrew. You have a bright future in American politics. You know, where things actually mean something.

I’ve been on the go since it was still dark out, but I’ve had some time to peruse my Google Reader on the BlackBerry. Here’s some stuff I thought was interesting:

Muslim woman refuses body scan, doesn’t get on flight

And speaking of swarthiness…

Charity concerts and such have always been bullshit

Hudson Hero Sully is retiring

ACORN is corrupt - who knew?

Ok, I have to hang curtains in the living room so I can fulfill my dream of throwing out all my pants. Later!