Category: Media

A tip o the old chapeau to Small Dead Animals for the heads-up on the online poll the Globe & Mail is running asking: “We’ve asked this before but the federal Conservatives keep bringing the question up: Do you approve of same-sex marriage?” So far the count is 63% against to 37% for (not exactly the done deal that the would-be social engineers of the left would have us believe). Make sure you vote.

[UPDATE] PTBC has a posting on how this poll was just so not going the way that the lefty Globe thought it would and Mark Peters has his two cents worth in too…

No rants today, ladies and gents.  As usual, it’s the weekend and I just don’t have the time.  Instead, I’m just going to slap up some good stuff by people who do have more time that I do.  Hope y’all enjoy it as much as I did…

Stripping on TV can’t free a nation

Canadians hoodwinked by pricey charade

It’s time to speak truth

Confessions of a Foul-Tempered, Right-Wing Grouch

The Final Say

New prisons don’t mean higher taxes

Bon apetit.

And now, from the “hold that excuse still while I get my chainsaw” department… I usually find MacLean’s a little too far to the left for my taste (even though I read it anyway), but every now and then, something pops up in those pages that reminds me just why I bother reading it in the first place. As some others have already noted, Mark Steyn’s recent book review in Canada’s national mag (a review of Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It, by Juan Williams) puts the boots to political correctitude almost as vigorously as the book itself:

Most Americans looked at what was happening in New Orleans and concluded that it’s a great place to enjoy a margarita with a topless transsexual Mardi Gras queen, but you wouldn’t want to live there: a deeply dysfunctional city exclusively controlled by Democrats for generations, it’s a welfare swamp with a lucrative tourist quarter. More to the point, its citizenry seem reluctant to learn the lessons. Despite the embarrassingly inept performance by Ray Nagin, the city’s Mayor Culpa whose Emergency Management Plan consisted of finding the nearest TV camera and pointing fingers at everybody else, his electorate nevertheless returned him to office out of the most feeble racial solidarity.

The whole review can be found here. As for me, I’m not much of a reader these days, but I think I just might buy this book.

I came across this over at PTBC and won’t bother trying to explain it. Suffice it to say that this is something that every true Canadian should watch and think long and hard about whenever thinking about what we’re doing in Afghanistan…

Click here to see the video.

Does anybody else remember how, not so long ago, Aiman al-Zawahiri (the number 2 turd on the al-Quaeda manure pile) was blabbing his sorry arse off about how Canadians were nothing but “second rate crusaders?” Remember how he was burbling on that we should “prepare to bury your dead?”

And now we have an assortment of squawklets whining and handwringing that we’re “losing” in Afghanistan. Somehow, I don’t think so.

If recent accounts can be trusted (and I trust even the MSM a hell of a lot more than I’d trust some nutjob like Zawasneezy), the casualty ratio for Operation Medusa was something like 300 to 1 in our favour (5 Canadians KIA, to some 1500 or so toasted Taliban).

So tell me there, Aimy; if those are the “second-rate” ones, what the hell are you gutless buggers going to do when we decide to throw some real hardasses at ya? Just wondering, ya know…

I would like to begin today by saying, on behalf of all of us here, that our most heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to the family and friends of Anastasia DeSouza, whose life was ended so tragically yesterday in Montreal. We also maintain our highest hopes for those still struggling to live through the ordeal. May their families get good news, and get it soon.

Out of respect for the sensitivities of those so deeply affected by this event, it has been decided that there will be no posting of opinions about the social implications (or anything else) regarding this matter until after the families have had the chance to come to grips with their loss and say their final farewells to their loved ones, after whatever fashion they follow.

There will be NO capitalizing on this issue here. Any commentary to that affect will be deleted immediately and the poster will be banned.

Again, our best wishes to the families. If there is anything at all that we can do, please do not hesitate to contact any of us.