Join me and @kimberlyhaney as we chat it up about healthcare, privacy laws, invasive government and the Canadian Human Rights Commission. We are joined by Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn to discuss the Warman v. Lemire decision.

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A Shi’ite who has been on death row in Saudi Arabia for 16 years for insulting the Prophet Mohammed was sentenced this week to another five years in jail for criticizing the Saudi justice system, an activist said.

Insulting the Prophet Mohammed. That’s what Ezra Levant was brought in front of the Alberta “Human Rights” Commission for. For printing the Danish cartoons in the now-defunct Western Standard magazine. But he wasn’t charged in Saudi Arabia - he was charged right here in “freedom-loving” Canada. A lunatic, illiterate Imam scrawled a complaint to the AHRC, and for two years Ezra was dragged through an expensive and ultimately bogus process.

No, he didn’t face death row for insulting the epileptic child molester who founded Islam as a land grab. Not this time.

You hear a lot of talk about the slippery slope. In Canada, the Human Rights apparatus was set up to make sure that minorities had equal access to housing and employment as other Canadians. It was a good idea at the time. But the slippery slope has slid us into a place where printing cartoons or writing a book about demography can get you hauled in front of a government body for years on end at high expense… for the good of the people.

Brass Balls Radio records tonight, and with me to discuss the outcome of Warman v. Lemire in front of adjudicator Athanasios Hadjis of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will be Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn. Yes, I’m asking these two great friends to give up part of their Friday evening before a long weekend to talk about the Kangaroo Courts. Again.

Download from iTunes on Sunday night or from the web on Monday morning to hear what they have to say about this recent - positive - turn of events.

We have a new entrant, but not with an official Hollywood Loser t-shirt. No, Little Miss Attila had to do her own thing.

I’ve seen Attila’s boobs during one very tequila-soaked night in DC where leopard print bathrobes, a Chihuahua, and far too many cameras were involved. They are lovely. They do Steyn proud.

For more info on the Battle of the Boobs, check out Mark Steyn’s post about the war that’s being waged for his attention.

Also, you may want to tune in to Monday’s edition of Brass Boobs Radio - and no, that’s not a typo.

I have. I’m having that week right now.

One would be forgiven for thinking that it all started with this post on Monday, about the launch of the Jennifer Lynch t-shirts. But one would be wrong.

In fact, it started a little over a year ago, on a misty night in May 2008, on the corner of Bay & Bloor, in front of the Indigo bookstore. Steyn had just finished his booksigning, and was chattering away with the cool kids (myself included) after Indigo kicked us out for closing time. At the time of this little rendez-vous, I was running a fundraiser (my boobs and I do a lot of fundraisers together) for the USO: Donate $100 and I’ll post a shot of my girls in one of my lovely and highly overpriced bras.

So on this damp Yorkville streetcorner, Mark Steyn turns to me and says in that charming pseudo-British accent of his “How’s the” *looks me up and down* “fundraising coming along?” Being the shameless tramp that I am, I never missed a beat. “We’re $200 short of our goal. If you want to kick it in, I’ll show ‘em to you right now.”

To which Mr. Steyn turned a lovely shade of plum, and La Shaidle quickly changed the subject to spare his sputtering reply.

So the “Be Mean To Jennifer Lynch” t-shirt launch was just an excuse for Mark to make reference to my breasts again.

Which is not to say I’m blasé about the whole thing. On the contrary, as far as people who have written odes to my breasts, Mark is high on the list of my favorites. So thank you Mark.

If anyone needs me, I will be spending the rest of the day curled up with a pot of tea, reading the collected letters of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin. Go buy a shirt.

Let me count the ways… (actually, I’d better not. I’d hate to find out that the elusive Mrs. Steyn reads this blog)

Anyway, His Steynship is hosting a fundraiser all day today to deal with the pernicious problem of Khurrum Awan and his hilarious suit against Ezra, wherein Ezra calls the incompetent Awan, er, incompetent.

If you haven’t read Lights Out yet, now’s your chance to buy a copy and keep the lights ON!

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Mike Williams and I have had a wonderful first year creating Brass Balls Radio for your amusement and enlightenment. We can’t thank Mark Steyn enough for agreeing to host our birthday bash for us while we sip our champagne on hammocks in the yard. On behalf of Mike and myself, thanks for listening, and we look forward to another great Brass Balls year.

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Mark Steyn Human Rights Show Trial!

Mark Steyn’s latest offering is Lights Out: Islam, free speech and the twilight of the west. The first section of the book is the offending Maclean’s articles that Mohamed El Masry and the Sock Puppet Three found “flagrantly Islamophobic“. These articles are presented in all their hateful glory, along with a point-by-point of why the thin-skinned law students were so offended, and a rebuttal from the Islamophobe himself.

Beyond that are further articles collected from Steyn’s various outlets that further prove what a hater he is, but that the Sock Puppet Three just didn’t have the time between prayers to scour for his calls to genocide. Or whatever it was they were yelping about at taxpayer expense for a year. Ho hum.

I was pleased to see the book included one of my all-time favorite Steyn articles: My Sharia Amour (not “flagrantly Islamophobic”).

There was a momentary silence, just long enough for me to start backing upstage nervously. And then the crowd went wild! The guys in the balcony cheered deliriously and hurled their machetes across the orchestra pit, shredding my pants. An Afghan wedding party grabbed their semi-automatics and blew out the chandeliers, sending them hurtling to the aisle, where they killed a Japanese camera crew. Tough luck, fellers, but that’s what happens when you get between me and my audience.

Lights Out is a hefty little book; a hardcover of 322 pages. But each article takes no more than a couple of minutes to devour, and you’ll miss the book when it’s finished.

Order it from the Steyn Store or from Amazon.com.

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 have here in my hot little hands an advance copy of Ezra Levant’s forthcoming book on the Canadian “human rights” racket: Shakedown.

It arrived this morning, but since I don’t really do mornings, I have just gotten to it now, and only as far as the foreword, by (naturally) Mark Steyn. In it he describes Ezra as “one of those shower units where the merest nudge of the dial sends it straight up to scalding.” I’ve met Ezra several times over the years, but putting Ezra+hot shower together will be a new thought for me. Hmmm. At any rate, when I die, I’m having Mark write the eulogy and the epitaph.

Ezra Levant will be joining us on Brass Balls Radio closer to the end of the month, and Mike and I are really looking forward to talking with him again about the abuses of our over-bloated human rights racket here in Canada. The book is due for release on March 24, but you can pre-order your copy from Amazon now.

I don’t think I would be exaggerating much to say that yesterday was the best day evah. So now that I’ve had 12 hours of quality sleep to bring me down from that crazy high I was on, I want to fill you in on a few other details.

I wrote of Loftus Cuddy being brother to Jim of my beloved Blue Rodeo. Hence the title of the post, about a small world. There was supposed to be more to that title. You see, Loftus is a massive fan of Mark Steyn. And he regaled me an amusing anecdote (long before he made his big reveal) about how his mother in law lived across the hall from Mark Steyn in Montreal and used to see Steyn’s wife in the laundry room all the time. So yeah, the world is minute. You just never know who you’re going to bump into.

In regards to that Big Reveal, I told Loftus that I didn’t want to know much about his brother and especially his brother’s politics. You see, I lost Melissa Etheridge years ago when she went from fabu rock star to militant lesbian. Her songs changed, and I couldn’t hear them the same way anymore. I didn’t want to lose Blue Rodeo. So Loftus and I talked of pretty much everything else except his brother!

While we’re playing the Six Degrees of Mark Steyn, when I finally arrived home last night my envelope from Tiffany (the Oracle of Steyn and Personal Assistant Extraordinaire) was waiting for me. I now have the signed copy of America Alone that will be given out to the Right Girl reader who wins the 5th Anniversary Valentine Contest. Better hurry, because the winner will be announced tomorrow!

The inscription in the book was very touching: To a fellow Girl on the Right reader, from a loyal RightGirl fan. Wow - that “from” bit was a nice touch - thanks, Mark. Tiffany also threw in a copy of Marshmallow World, which I’m listening to right now. You just can’t help but smile listening to this.

Also waiting for me was an envelop from Chris Chadwick of Mission Tags in Colorado. Chris is a reader who whipped up some vinyl window stickers that say “Conservative Girls are Hot” for me. I will include one with the Anniversary Winner’s Prize Pack.

Then another reader writes that while I was off hobnobbing and consuming martinis, Ezra Levant was carving Andrea Calver a new perineum on the Michael Coren Show. Kate has the video.

Let’s talk more about perineums, shall we? Mark has a post called “Richard Warman’s Arse“. Click the link to find out why.

Ok, well as great as it was, yesterday was a burn day. I got nothing concrete done, but I wouldn’t change a thing. Though, today I am playing catch-up. While I’m doing that, why don’t you have a listen to this week’s non-PG rated Brass Balls Radio?

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Feminism, goat butts, martinis and Mark Steyn. These are a few of my favorite things…

I believe Mark Steyn is becoming a stripper in Mississauga. You heard it here first!

“Canada is in contravention of so many sections of UN human rights, but not as many as Sudan or North Korea.” Steyn

Steyn has arrived. We all had coffee downstairs. Now we’re waiting for the session to reconvene.

I’m off to Queen’s Park today for the Standing Committee on Government Agencies where the Ontario Court of Marsupial Magistrates will be the topic of discussion. I guess people have finally cottoned on to the idea that these Human Right’s Commissions are nothing more than government censorship of the masses. Unfortunately, you can bet your ass that the committee will be stacked in favor.

Later in the afternoon, our team spokesmodel Mark Steyn will be taking the stand to tell his tale of woe.

The post entitled “test” was to deduce my live-blogging-via-BlackBerry capabilities. They are there, but annoying. I’ll do what I can.

Have a great day, y’all.

During the looooong year that Maclean’s and Steyn were being witch-hunted by the thought police and their assorted sock drawer, we normal people kept saying that if you want editorial control over a magazine, get your own damn magazine!

Mohammed El-Dirtbag has finally cottoned onto that idea. Too little too late. But a nice gesture just the same.

We’re a day early due to the long weekend on both sides of the border (Thanksgiving in the North and Columbus Day in the South). We decided that this show, regarding the Steyn/MacLeans verdict was too important to miss, so we’re giving you an extra day with it!

This week we welcome Pete Vere, co-author of The Tyranny of Nice, to talk about some of the lesser-known human rights complaints in Canada, as well as to discuss the Steyn verdict.

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Canadians, LISTEN TO THIS SHOW before you vote on Tuesday!

From Free Mark Steyn

Hmph. What do you think? Time to wrap this up? Has one of Canada’s top 25 political blogs done what it was supposed to, so make room for somebody else on Jago’s list?

Of course, as the noted Binks puts it:

“It’s very good news for Mark Steyn, of course, though not for his pocketbook.

But nothing has changed– we still have quasi-judicial tribunals ruling on free speech, so the basic question still remains: does the government have the right to regulate free speech and thought in Canada?

Until we get some serious revision of the Human Rights Act, there’s nothing stopping anyone from walking up and slapping Steyn or Ezra Levant or whomever else they don’t like with any number of human rights complaints. Months of mock-trial, expensive layers, and trouble ensues again.

The ordinary Joe or Jane Canuck is no safer today than last year when this all started. The Human Rights Commissions have probably learned only two things: the internet bites back when bloggers get rolling on an issue; and don’t chew on famous and well-connected targets.”

As there are many un-famous Canadians suffering under the “Tyranny of Nice,” Binky’s work at Free Mark Steyn isn’t done yet. Just like the late Martin Luther King JR is still invoked to deal with the scourge of inequality, so must Steyn still be invoked to deal with those who seek to silence satire, polemics, and even straight journalism. Could you imagine if these crazy Muslims had decided that the news was offensive on 9/11?

If I had a shot of tequila for every time he referenced Waziristan…

Seriously… ask Steyn to mention a far-flung place, or a terrorist hangout, or something more remote than his home in New Hampshire, and the answer will inevitably be Waziristan.