Category: Mailbag

June 14, 2009

Nannies, Nincompoops & Ne’er-do-wells

Filed under: BS,Canada,HRCs,Mailbag,Nanny State,Rights — Dennis @ 10:28 am

The Nanny State(Gonna start off with a big ol’ tip o’ the tuque to Jeremy for dropping this in my inbox)

You know things are looking bad for Big Nanny when she’s getting hit from so many sides at once. Everyone knows that Big Nanny’s convinced that there’s nothing you can do that she can’t do better, including and especially deciding what’s best for your kids.

It seems like that sacred cow’s taking a bit of a beating lately:

Whether we wanted it or not, knew it or not, over time, the work of child-welfare organizations has become “parenting by the state and the imposition of their value system on other people,” says Marty McKay, a clinical psychologist who has worked on abuse cases in the U.S and Canada. Provincial agencies have the power to intervene when children are considered “at risk” of abuse or neglect – even if none has actually occurred. Or, where spousal abuse happens, but kids are untouched. And what they do with the children they take can sometimes be worse than what they suffered at home.

Utter BullshitThen we have another favourite social-engineering sledgehammer, the Human Lefts Commissions which have popped up across the land like warts on a toad’s arse. Curiously enough, they’ve been yelping a lot lately about how they want to “engage in the debate” that has swirled around their malfeasance lately. I call bullshit on that; and so does Ezra Levant.

Yup; this right here is totally how you engage in a debate. Not. This kind of buffoonery would actually be funny as hell under different circumstances…

This evening, Jennifer Lynch, the chief commissar of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, tried to have CTV Newsnet kick me off their interview program Power Play, hosted by Tom Clark.

To their great credit, CTV refused to be bullied — and it was Lynch who wound up off the show.

You can watch the episode here.

What an embarrassment Lynch and her CHRC have become to this government — and to all Canadians.

December 11, 2008

Some Perspective

Filed under: Canada,Cluebat,Mailbag,Military,Traditions — Dennis @ 10:54 am

Got something in my inbox today from Jeremy in Ottawa. With all the whining we hear coming from everyplace, whether it’s the MSM or just some kook you bump into, you’d think we were living at the end of days.

There was a time, though, when things were different in this country. A lot different.

Methinks we really need, every now and then, to get ourselves a good upside-the-head kind of reminder that no matter how bad we think we have it, it could always be one hell of a lot worse.

I’ll let Jeremy tell it from here (reproduced just like I got it; just changed some format)… (more…)