Pride Toronto is, last I checked, a GLBTQ “pride” parade/festival organization. Exactly how does the fictitious concept of “Israeli Apartheid” relate to a gay pride event, again? Indeed, how does Israel in general relate to a gay pride event, at all?
I mean, one one hand, you have naked men performing apparently simulated Sex acts on each other in public, fat lesbians in bikinis (or partial bikinis), and bondage freaks doing…their thing. On the other hand, you have a bunch of Islamic terrorists lobbing rockets at Israel and then playing the victim when Israel gets pissed off every thousand rockets or so and smacks them around for a bit. Islamic terrorists, I might add, who’d merrily lop the heads off of any homosexual who flounced his way into their view…but for the fact that the Jews keep them distracted, I suppose.
Seriously…where’s the connection here? Is it just a mutual hatred of the Jooooooos?
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* I was going to type “Burning”…but I couldn’t resist…
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Apparently just a “moderate” one, only reaching a 5.0 magnitude. Still…it’s not the sort of news you usually hear out of Canada‘s capital region. There have been few — if any — reported injuries, and some minor property and infrastructural damage reported, although a number schools and public buildings in Toronto and Ottawa were evacuated for a few hours.
Honestly, I didn’t know that the capital region was…seismically active. But there you go.
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In other news, I’m back.
Following a very interesting election here in the UK, and a move from Yorkshire to the sunny south of Suffolk, I am beginning to find my blog-legs, once more.
In case you didn’t know, the Tories formed a coalition government here with the Liberal Democrats (an amalgam of the former Liberal and Social Democrat parties).
It’s going to work out well, because one of their first acts was to introduce a Great Repeal Bill, that clawed back massive amounts of power from the Big Brother State, including things from DNA databases to expansion of traffic cameras.
Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats – and now Deputy Prime Minister – announced some of the changes, today. It was pretty encouraging for those of us who have already had the opportunity – or misfortune – to punch Nanny patrols so hard in the sack that the bell-ends were wearing his appendix as a little hat.
For now, nice to be back, and look forward to ranting with you all again.
- CM
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Feeling lonely?
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Weekend Report: A weekly feature, like rent for your flat in Australia.
CANADA
- If you wanted to ruin the Supreme Court of Canada, Private Member’s Bill C-232 would be a good way to do it. But then, only in Canada would we expect to see fluency in multiple languages prioritized above legal experience. (National Post)
- Access to Information…isn’t always. (Teh Grope and Flail)
- Algonquins claim Ottawa and Montreal as their territory. You know…if anybody else tried to do this, especially while disclaiming affiliation with Canada, our response would properly involve the use of military force. (Newstalk 1010)
- GAME, SET, MATCH: Wendy responds to Skippy: “The argument I had with Skippy was that apparently, I wasn’t screaming enough about the rape of kids in the Church, even though I repeatedly pointed out the rape of kids in Islam, therefore making me a hypocrite. Or something. My argument was that in our Judeo-Christian culture, kidfucking=bad, but it Islam, kidfucking=business-as-usual. And that I therefore had every right to decry such a culture.” (Girl on the Right)
- Michael Ignatieff has decided to whip his party into voting to keep the current long-gun registry, pricy Liberal boondoggle that it already is, in place. Just how out of touch is this man? Rex Murphy provides additional commentary. (National Post)
- Clueless Dalton McGuinty finally gets one right, backs down on promotion of hyper-explicit sex-ed programme. (Catholic Exchange)
What the hell?
UNITED STATES
- Gotta love Barack Obama‘s space policy, eh? Shut down Constellation, the current programme to replace the shuttle fleet, but mandate that NASA somehow still put a man into Mars orbit “by the mid-2030s.” (BBC)
- ANN COULTER REMINDS YOU: the real Timothy McVeigh “was a drug-taking, self-described agnostic who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, ‘Science is my religion.’ That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.” (la Shaidle)
- Dear Andrew Sullivan…You don’t have a uterus. (The Other McCain)
- Apparently, according to the US Supreme Court, animal cruelty laws don’t extend to <quasi-pornographic videos in which “sexily”-dressed women crush the heads of small animals. (Wizbang)
- Records from an inquest into the notorious 1881 shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona — between lawmen including Wyatt Earp and three outlaws, who were killed — have been discovered in a Bisbee, Arizona court storeroom. (BBC)
- What an odd point in history we’ve come to, that straight politicians will pretend to be gay in order to win points with the electorate! (Mark Steyn)
- FREEDOM OF SPEECH FTW: Stop the Islamization of America (SOIA) ads — which read: “Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your head? Family or community threatening you? Got questions? Get answers! RefugefromIslam.com.” — are allowed to be displayed on buses again. (Atlas Shrugs)
- Is Obama even capable of engaging those who disagree with him without resorting to polarizing ridicule? Or is he that thin-skinned and insecure? (American Thinker)
- NOW THAT’S CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, in addition to slashing all kinds of budgets and infuriating teacher and government employee unions in a desperate but apparently successful bid to get the state’s deficit under control, also took $65 million from the state’s (utterly useless) global warming fund — its entire allocation — to balance the budget! (AmSpec)
- Ah, the motivated workers at the Securities and Exchange Commission. They could have watched the recession happen right in front of their eyes…if they hadn’t been watching reams of porn at work instead. (CBC)
- “Billy Graham’s Son Is Too Christian For Barack Obama’s Army” (RedState)
MEXICO
- Visit Mexico: see the sights, drink the tequila, flirt with the tanned girls in their microkinis…get abducted in random hotel raids. Sound like fun? Yeah…me neither. (BBC)
CUBA, SI!
- Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega warns that “Cuba is suffering its worst economic hardship since the slump that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union,” and also “urged the Communist authorities to free all political prisoners.” Just for good measure, y’know. (BBC)
YOU’RE UP!
- Apparently, Greece‘s deficit is worse than was previously thought. Not coincidentally, the Greek Prime Minister all but begged, a couple days ago, for European Union bailout loans. (BBC, CBC)
- Price fixing at Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific? Who could ever have thought it possible? (BBC)
ASIA
- Thai army ready to use live rounds — they’re done playing — against “red-shirt” anti-government protesters. (BBC)
- South Korea is insistent that its ship was sunk in a deliberate North Korean attack. (American Thinker)
- North Korea, meanwhile, says it will confiscate five South Korean-owned properties at a jointly operated mountain resort in the isolated communist country. (CBC)
THE MIDDLE EAST
- GOOD TO KNOW: Egypt denies involvement with or responsibility for a mystery rocket that destroyed a warehouse in Jordan. Regional stability…it’s a grand thing. (BBC)
- Speaking of regional stability, isn’t it refreshing to know that the United States “can’t rule out” the possibility that it might fire on the aircraft of its only true ally in the region, if in fact Israel sent planes over Iraqi airspace to strike nuclear facilities in Iran? (Gateway Pundit)
- It would seem that Armenia and Turkey are forever doomed to be at loggerheads. (BBC)
- Victor Davis Hanson argues that America’s recent rather lukewarm and neutral stance toward Israel invites violence into the Middle East. (NRO)
AFRICA
- Could this be one of the first times in history that the Congolese gave up the opportunity to kill some white guys? (BBC)
CATHOLIC STUFF
- Peter Hitchens — himself not a Catholic — weighs in on the media coverage of the abuse scandal. Not surprisingly, he finds that it has been overwrought, disproportionate, biased and excessive. (CMR)
- Pope Benedict XVI blessed a statue of the Virgin Mary that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. (EWTN)
- “The latest glut of “news” stories by the media hitting the Catholic Church for abusing children has much more to do with anti-Catholicism than actually protecting children.” Were it otherwise, one would expect that the legacy media would have “reported on the numerous videos by Live Action‘s Lila Rose which has proven time and again that abortion clinics routinely cover up the reporting of the sexual abuse of minors. The abortion clinics, in fact, profit from it.” (CMR)
- The Shroud Codex: The Da Vinci Code for faithful Catholics? (Catholic Exchange)
- Back in 2007, the Vatican paid some company to plant a bunch of trees, in order to make the papal state the first truly carbon-neutral state in the world. Three years later, said company is defunct, and not a single tree has been planted. Now, the Vatican is contemplating taking legal action. (Catholic Culture)
STARTS WITH ‘I’, RHYMES WITH ‘BLAM’
- Some Muslim cleric argued that female “immodesty” was the cause of the recent spate of Earthquakes. The Internet has responded. (Jay Currie)
HEALTH
- How desperate to lose weight do you have to be to even consider taking a poop transplant from a thin person? (24 Oranges, via BCF)
- Nebraska passes a new law forbidding abortions past the 20th week, on the grounds that the unborn can assuredly feel pain by that point. This is a more empirically sound “cutoff” (ahem) than the somewhat fluid notion of “viability”…and also paves the way for abortions to be banned at even earlier ages. Some research suggests, after all, that the unborn can feel pain as early as the fifth week of gestation. (Headline Bistro)
- Meanwhile, over in Virginia, they’ve imposed steep limits on public funding of abortion…entirely thanks to the health care reform legislation that Obama and the Democrats rammed through the House a while back. (Catholic Exchange, Moonbattery)
- THE PILL IS BAD FOR YOU: “Hormonal contraceptives – the oral pill and Depo-Provera – increase almost all known risk factors for HIV, from upping a woman’s risk of infection, to increasing the replication of the HIV virus, to speeding the debilitating and deadly progression of the disease.” (CNA)
- pedophilia and homosexuality: linked after all? (CNA)
NEWS OF THE ODD
- The skip of Canada’s gold medal-winning Paralympic curling team has been arrested for allegedly trafficking thousands of counterfeit Viagra and Cialis pills. (CBC)
- Saddest pillow ever: the girlfriend body pillow. Now available at Sears! (Gizmodo)
- Leonard Nimoy is (finally) calling it quits on the convention scene. (Little Miss Attila)
URF DAY
In answer to the question: Will You Be Celebrating Earth Day?
- When did Earth Day become so creepily totalitarian? “launching this Earth Day is Green My Parents, a nationwide effort to inspire and organize kids to lead their families in measuring and reducing environmental impact at home. Not just on Earth Day, but every day…a movement that activates & enlists kids to lead their families in measuring & reducing environmental impact at home & “challenge” their parents to share savings with kids.” (Takimag)
- And how did Obama spend Earth Day? In an airplane, evidently. And Joe Biden flew to the same place, in a separate plane. And yes, I know that’s a policy thing…but that doesn’t mean it isn’t also both incredibly wasteful and stunningly tone-deaf. (Gates of Vienna)
- The US Navy just successfully tested its “Green Hornet” biofuel-powered F-18, which is kind of cool. Except for the fact that its fuel costs are about fifty times higher.
- It might interest you to know: “The operating 2010 Mustang is 98.5 percent cleaner than the 1970 with its engine shut off, according to Ed Kulick, an emissions regulatory planner in Ford’s vehicle Environmental Engineering Department.” (Planet Gore)
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AMERICIAN NEWSISMS
- Exactly what is behind Sarah Palin‘s ability to get under the (admittedly thin) skin of Barack Obama and piss him off to no end? (National Post)
- So it turns out that back in his college days, Obama was kind of a fan of a couple of pro-nuclear-disarmament groups that a) opposed Ronald Reagan‘s nuclear arms initiatives (which were, by the way, geared toward the end goal of eliminating the need for nuclear weapons), and b) thought rather highly of the Soviet view of American disarmament. This would be the same man who just signed the latest START treaty on America’s behalf. (Powerline)
- Speaking of Palin, though…one does rather agree with what she had to say about the “Obama doctrine” of foreign policy: “…’yes we can’ kowtow to our enemies and publicly criticize our allies. Yes, we can. But someone ought to tell the President and the Left that just because we can doesn’t mean we should.” (Kathleen McKinley)
BRITISH NEWSISMS
- Butchers at Sainsburys banned from using effing knives…because they might accidentally cut themselves, you see. (Daily Mail)
- KARMA’S A BITCH: Judge who pardoned drunk driver twelve years ago…gets run down and crippled by the same guy who, surprise, surprise, was driving drunk yet again! (Daily Mail)
EDJAMACASHUN
- “The best” women‘s centres on various college campuses are committed to “aid[ing] universities and colleges in responding to particularly difficult challenges in higher education related to gender.”, or some such. One wonders, then, whether they’ll address this gender-related difficulty? (CARPE DIEM)
KATLICK STUFF
- SCANDAL, SCANDAL, SCANDAL: As a handful of atheist ass-clowns savour their fever-dreams of arresting the Pope for “crimes against humanity”, perhaps what we really need is a fair and balanced look at the sexual abuse scandal and its actual causes and genuine enablers. Some might even argue that the level of journalistic smear and malreportage that is being focused on this issue is itself the real scandal. (Creative Minority Report, WDTPRS, Ignatius Insight)
ASIATIC NEWSISMS
- South Korea is in rough shape, demographically, entirely thanks to the scourge of abortion. But at least they realize their peril and are attempting to do something about it. Whether it’s too little, too late remains to be seen. (Mark Shea)
SEXYTIMES
- A truly amusing rant about Sex and sexiness from the (Catholic!) feminine perspective. And not the Cosmo feminine perspective, I hasten to add. (Villainous Company)
- SEE? SEE? “Most popular notions about the male brain are based on studies of men ages 18 to 22 – undergrads subjecting themselves to experiments for beer money or course credit. But a man’s brain varies tremendously over his life span, quickly contradicting the image of the single-minded sex addict that circulates in mainstream consciousness.” (Villainous Company)
THE TUBES
- How to be a blogwhore. Yes, it’s a good thing. Stacy McCain says me so. (The Other McCain)
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Gabe, over at Ace’s, deploys a term I’ve not heard before, but quite like:
The Democrats are probably wondering why their hit-pieces in the legacy media are falling on deaf ears.
I really, really like that term, especially given my association with computers, and the typical meaning of “legacy” in a computing context: “legacy” really is only a step or so above being a pity case.
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BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams has apologised to the Bishop of Dublin for remarks he made today, saying that the Catholic Church in Ireland had lost all credibility.
The Daily Telegraph reports the “humiliating” apology was made by telephone, this evening.
Archbishop Williams affirmed that nothing could have been farther from his intention than to offend or criticise the Irish Church.
What a complete, unmitigated pillock.
Read it all, here.
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