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Brass Balls Radio – Show 108

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This Air Canada kerfuffle is getting out of hand.

Here’s the scoop: The flight attendants are whining about… well, who the fuck cares, really? Air Canada is telling them to get stuffed, naturally. And the government is getting involved in the negotiations because… This is the part where Dawg and I become bedfellows.

Air Canada became private in 1988. And, it is no longer the only airline flying in and out of our vast country. We have Porter, WestJet, and a host of regionals. Therefore, the government has no claim that Air Canada needs to operate in order to avoid negatively affecting our economy. We have choice, and for years consumers have been expressing that choice by going to WestJet. Therefore, if Air Canada and its unions want to destroy themselves, they too should have the choice to do so.

We may be on different sides of the argument, but Dawg and I fundamentally agree that the Labour Minister, Lisa Raitt, has no place at the table. The government should butt out and let the airline and its spoiled unions destroy each other. It’s evolution, baby.

From Landmark Report:

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a member of the College’s search committee revealed the appointment to be Dr. Ingrid Mattson, a convert to Islam who is presently a Professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, and Director of the MacDonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.

The presence of a white, female, English-speaking, convert to Islam in such a leadership role for North American Muslims may seem like the community’s embrace of progressiveness, but Mattson is far from being a moderate.

In 2001, Mattson claimed that Wahhabism–Saudi-sponsored terrorism that was in play during the September 11 attacks–was “analogous to the European protestant reformation“. She denounced it had any role in 9/11, which has been disproven.

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Toronto tries hard. It has diverse colors and cultures existing side-by-side. It has one of the largest Gay Pride weekends in the world. It is very laissez-faire about everything.

But when it tries to accommodate the Comic Book Death Cult of Islam, things get hairy.

Four of the six speakers scheduled to appear at an upcoming Muslim conference at a downtown hotel have made anti-gay or anti-Semitic remarks.

The “Calling the World Back to Allah” conference is part of the “Canada Launch Tour” of the Islamic Education and Research Academy (IERA), a British organization seeking to establish a presence in Toronto and Montreal.

The conference is scheduled for Oct. 23 at the Sheraton Centre. Gay activists in Britain denounced a hotel chain in January for hosting a London IERA event involving several of the same speakers.

One of the speakers expected in Toronto, Malaysian convert Hussain Yee, has said “the Jews” are “the most extremist nation in this world.” He also suggested that Jews perpetrated and celebrated the 9/11 attacks.

Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, a British convert, has argued that open displays of homosexuality should be made a crime.

British convert Abdur Raheem Green, who also appeared at a July conference in Toronto, has written that gays, like adulterers, should be stoned to death. At the July conference, Green criticized the media for labeling him hateful and challenged critics to “find a pattern” of homophobia in his hundreds of public statements. “All you can find is one comment I made on my blog where I talked about Islamic law and punishment for homosexuals,” he said.

It’s not that Toronto doesn’t try to promote equality. It’s that Islam exists beyond the boundaries of societal norms and common sense.

Hatred of Jews is a major part of Islam. As a religion of conquest, converting, enslaving and killing the Jews of the Middle East is how it obtained a stronghold. And like most religions, it finds homosexuality to be an abomination (it is biologically useless), and therefore homosexuals should be disposed of. However, unlike Christian fundamentalists, Muslims don’t stand around with picket signs saying “God Hates Fags.” Islamic countries routinely murder homosexuals.

Poor Toronto, stuck in its own equality trap, trying to find common ground between friendly, law-abiding Jews and homosexuals, while also trying to make cultists feel welcome. Doomed to fail, and eventually there will be bloodshed.

Everyone knows the famous story of Michael Jackson’s fake skin condition that turned him and his sisters white.

Seems it’s Standard Operating Procedure in the black community, which appears to hate blacks way more than any cracker could.

He [Vybz Kartel, some Jamaican wanted for murder - though that's somewhat redundant] originally claimed to use cake soap - a clothes-bleaching product - to lighten his skin, so that it was easier to see his tattoos.

But after the Jamaican manufacturer of the product, Blue Power Group, refuted his claims, Kartel explained that he actually used his own special concoction.

Soon his secret recipe will be available to buy.

Skin whitening has been a controversial - and very worrying - trend among women for decades. It has become so commonplace that some cosmetics firms have been accused of making their Indian and black models look paler in their campaigns.

I live in the ghetto - I see it every day. There are no less than NINE wig shops within a two-mile stretch here, so that black women can wear the hair of white and Asian women. I see the black guys going after light and white women - I am particularly in the crosshairs, as I have a huge ass, a desirable quality to a black man.

There’s a cry to put racism behind us, to have equal respect for blacks as for white. To which I say: YOU FIRST. When you love and respect yourselves equally, get back to me.

Perhaps “holocaust” isn’t the best word to use on Yom Kippur, and I do apologize, but nothing else fit as well.

I don’t go home - home being Montreal - if I can help it. Home to me is death. Home is heartbreak, broken relationships, old hurts and the deaths of my parents. I went back in 2007 for less than 24 hours, and it was enough. It was more death. But it was easier than the one I dealt with when I went back in 04.

Today I got a facebook message. Another one down. I called the family in question - the same family as the link above from 2007 - to pay my respects. Instead of the usual platitudinal to-and-fro, I instead received a litany of deaths and cancers for the past 12 months.

I’m stupefied. I can barely breathe. My “home” is more a place of death than ever. And just when I was about to slip in to take care of some overdue business, then slip out again, a grieving ninja.

I can’t go back. I just can’t.

There once were three little drunks/pigs. Those three little drunks worked together to build a house of gasoline, a house of stucco, and a gorgeous L.A. beach house of bleached pine.

The one who built the house of gasoline died in 1995 - his house burned to the ground in 2004 and took my soul with it.

The one who built the house of stucco died 2 weeks ago, and I just found out.

The one whose house was made of bleached pine and a dream - he lives today despite surviving lung cancer and his wife’s recent battle with breast cancer. You cannot blow down the beach house of pine.

I am barely breathing, trying to absorb all this death and disease. There is no amount of vodka, no amount of valium in this world, that will make it all ok. My childhood is not only gone - it has died.

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Charles Adler, on Twitter: How do you thank someone for fathering the mother of all inventions?

Given my upbringing by the Quebec head of the IAMAW, I can’t say I’m overly fond of Air Canada.

But putting that aside, I do pity the poor bastards who are trying to walk the delicate line between safety and politics. Don’t they know that political correctness always trumps personal safety?

Over a decade ago I visited Winnipeg. Borrowing my host’s truck for a meander, I took a wrong turn and wound up in what appeared to be a Mexican shantytown, replete with lean-tos and outhouses, on a dirt road. I told my host about it later, and he not only gave me the height of shit, he forbade me from taking the truck again.

Injuns.

You know: Those people who hold an eternal grievance and refuse to do for themselves, and therefore overstretch available resources from the teat, finding them obviously lacking.

So now poor Air Canada has made the mistake of admitting their staff don’t feel safe in Injun-controlled parts of the ‘Peg, and want them moved elsewhere. Fools. Better to let your staff be killed by Canada’s poor Noble Savages than to protect them and look “raaaaacist.”

And by racist, I mean sane.

In a bulletin issued late last month, Air Canada informed its pilots and flight crew personnel that they would no longer be staying at the Radisson Hotel on Portage Avenue and Smith Street because of “questionable safety in the area.”

The airline’s decision has riled various Manitoba leaders, including Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz, who is demanding to know why Air Canada believes the city’s downtown is too dangerous for its crews during overnight layovers.

I understand that it’s the Mayor’s job to defend his city. I don’t begrudge him that. But common sense and personal safety come before sacred cows. Or squaws. Or whatever.

According to Stats Can (most recent stats I could find were 2010), the places with the highest crime are

NWT & Nunavut (both twice as high as other provinces), followed by Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It’s clear what the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have in common, but for my American readers, Sask & Man are much the same.  Full of indigent and indolent Natives with no desire to jump on the Western job boom. And frankly, why should they? With the government paying for their liquor, there’s no incentive to work.

Canadian gift shops are jammed with bad native art, for which the government pays handsomely out of some sense of perceived guilt, and which wealthy elitists buy for the same reason. It’s pretty ugly, but it’s the most visible way which we are accommodating Native mediocrity in Canada. There are many others which our visitors aren’t privy to.

Down in the U.S., there’s a frustration with reparations, which after 160 years are pretty much invalid. There are no survivors of slavery, and all that’s left is a giant welfare system that perpetuates aggrieved black poverty. Canada’s Natives are much the same. Born with a chip on their shoulders, they hold their hands out until white liberal guilt kicks in and someone hands them that which is worked for by others.

Isn’t it time we quit giving into the game, gave up the racism of low expectations, and actually demanded something from our natives?

It’s Wendy’s birthday, death comes in threes, and Canada is obviously the greatest threat to the United States… evahh!

Brass Balls Radio – Show 106

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