Archive for: October 2006

I love when this happens.  Here we are, smack in the middle of the Librano$’ leadership race, with the whole country supposedly eagerly eyeing who the new leader of the Natural Governing Party (and therefore presumably the next PM) is going to be, canoe.ca puts up a poll that kinda pops the little liberal baloon:

It’s enough to make a guy feel all warm & fuzzy inside…

There are things wrong with our immigration and refugee system. Lots of them. But, every now and then, we will trip over something that reminds us that not everything is wrong with it. We find ourselves reminded that the vast majority of us either are, or are descended from, prople who came from someplace else. This country was built by immigrants, and I don’t mean the kind that we all like to complain about; showing up with a hand out and making a beeline for the welfare office and free health care (can anyone say “Khadr?”).

No, I’m talking about men and women like Ervin Kulcsar, a veteran of the Hungarian revolt of 1956 who came to Canada with next to nothing and not only made his own way, but contributed as well. After a harrowing flight from the commies following the failed revolt:

On New Year’s Eve, Kulcsar and some fellow freedom fighters found themselves crouching in the snow just yards from the border. After counting the 110 paces the guards took to go from one end of their section of fence to the other, they made a mad dash for the snow fence that separated free Austria from communist Hungary. They made it ~ even though Kulcsar reopened his wounds making the dive.

Kulcsar was allocated to Canada. He worked by day, studied by night to learn the language and get his engineering certification.

“There were so many Hungarians in Toronto at that time. I really appreciate the opportunity Canada gave to all of us. We all stuck together. But many of us were hoping to return to Hungary one day, that it would one day become a free country like Canada.”

But that only happened in 1989, and Kulcsar now feels more Canadian than Hungarian. When he goes to Hungary, he says he gets homesick for Toronto.

Now, 50 years later, he is happy Canada is remembering the refugees. “A lot of us don’t have much time left Sum But we have to make sure the memory of the Hungarian Revolution is passed on to younger generations.”

In December, Kulcsar will be made part of Hungary’s “Knighthood of Heroes.” But, he turned down the chance to get his medal in Budapest. He chose to mark the 50th anniversary in Canada, instead.

The whole article is here. Isn’t it nice to find a good story in the rubbish heap of the media every now and then?

As usual, when I don’t have a lot of time to go on a bunch of rants of my own, I’m just going to slap up a bunch of stuff that I came across on the net today that seems worth a look at.  Not that there’s something for everyone or anything like that, but from the slow but steady encroachment of radical Islam to the Catholic Mass, to Caledonia, there’s plenty for most.  Hope you find them as interesting as I did.

No one should live in fear
Christina Blizzard

Now we know why, when there are so many moderate Muslims in this country, so few of them ever dare speak out against extremists. To do so could be a death sentence.

Iranian horror
Peter Worthington

Especially ghoulish is that some of these women got prison sentences of up to 15 years for other “crimes,” with the stoning death to be carried out at the completion of their sentence.

In nomine Patris et Filii…
The National Post editorial staff

Since the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the old Tridentine mass has become almost a borderline human-rights issue within the Church.

Where’s the rule of law when you need it?
Lorne Gunter

Sunday, Ontarians — perhaps several thousands — angry at the eight-month-long occupation by native protesters of the Douglas Creek Estates subdivision near Caledonia, will rally at the disputed site to express their frustration that the illegal occupation continues despite several court injunctions ordering its end.

Dig in.

On the face of it, this might appear to just be yet another in the long and tiresome line of idiotic nuggets that the high and mighty roos in the SCC have left on the national rug but when you look at it just a little, it seems that they may have gotten it right this time. The Grand Roos declared today that judges do not have the authority to order convicts to submit bodily fluid samples on demand.

Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Maybe not, this time. The SCC isn’t trying to bugger about and rewrite or make up the law this time; their logic was clear and simple (for once):

“A sentencing judge has a broad jurisdiction in determining appropriate conditions of probation,” said the decision, written by Justice Louise Charron. “However, there is no authority under the Criminal Code to authorize a search and seizure of bodily substances as part of a probation order.

“It is Parliament’s role to determine appropriate standards and safeguards governing the collection of bodily samples for enforcement purposes.”

Oh, my gawd! Actually letting those idiots in Parliament (elected by the even more idiotic and ignorant unwashed masses) decide what is and isn’t the law in this country?? Her Beverlyness must have blown a synapse at the very thought of it.

As strange as this is going to sound, I actually think that this might not be a bad thing. For once, the SCC isn’t lounging on their lofty lipizzaners and declaring that the law is what they say it is, flying in the face of what has been democratically enacted by our elected representatives. The fact is that there is nothing in the CCOC to allow the collection of such samples, some other judge made it up. While he may have been well-intentioned and taking such samples seems only common sense, it is up to Parliament (chosen by the prople) to make laws in this country, NOT the courts (who are not elected). This is essentially what the SCC said in their decision.

Which makes me wonder: why is the SCC taking such a hands-off attitude to buggering about with the law all of a sudden? Could it be because we have a PM who has no qualms about (and, indeed, may even be eager to begin) putting this country’s courts back in their place? Just a thought.

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Ontario Premier Dolt McSquinty is once again proving, for all the world to see, that some white men really do speak with a forked tongue. The man who has been utterly MIA throughout the ongoing anarchy in Caledonia has seemingly suddenly come to the realisation that there are right ways and wrong ways to do things in this province (if you’re white, that is) and that a protest planned to take place in Caledonia this weekend should be held in Toronto instead. Everybody’s nobody’s favourite extraterrestrial kittyvore must have eaten a few too many kittens lately. How else to explain his hacking up this lovely little hairball of hypocricy:

“I think it’s important for all of us to recognize that if somebody has a particular beef with a government there is a legitimate way to give expression to that criticism, and I would encourage that individual to come to the front lawn of Queen’s Park,” McGuinty said yesterday.

Well, now; isn’t that just nice? And I wonder what his message to the Natives will be when it comes to ” a legitimate way to give expression to that criticism?” Not much, obviously. The Ontario Librano$ have been paralysed throughout the entire Caledonia affair, terrified of having an “Ipperwash incident” of their own (which would be a hell of a lot of egg on their faces, considering all their handwringing and mudslinging at former premier Mike Harris over that).

Gary McHale, the man behind the Caledonia Wakeup Call website and the organizer of a rally to be held at the disputed site this weekend, gets the message loud and clear: play by the rules so we can ignore you.

“Politicians won’t pay attention unless we go to Caledonia — that’s the only reason they’re talking about it,” McHale said. “So I don’t see the purpose of coming to Queen’s Park.”

The Fiberal government went on to wail that police should deal with the protestors (but not the Natives, of course) and even found time to throw in a vague threat (and unwitting admission of its assesment of the Native so-called “occupiers”) from the piehole of David Ramsay, the minister for aboriginal affairs:

“In fact, by coming out you potentially put your own life in danger, so it’s better if people just stay home.”

Gee whiz, don’t come out and exercise your lawful right to set foot on public land and complain about the nice, peaceful, law-abiding Natives; something might kill you. But not a nice, peaceful, law-abiding Native, of course. Tell me, Dave, just where is this mortal danger coming from, hmmm?

Mayor Marie Trainer of Haldimand County isn’t much better, either. She’s ready to declare a state of emergency. Not because of the Natives, mind you, but because of all those nasty Caledonia Wakeup types that are going to be showing up.

It all boils down to the same crap: Natives can get away with whatever the hell they want but everybody else should obey the law. The law, which is supposed to hold everyone to the same standard. Is anyone else getting sick and tired of all this two-faced, liberal, double standard bullshit?

I know, I know; I grump and complain a lot here, but what’s the point of being conservative if you can’t be a grouch? I consider it one of the benefits. But man cannot live on grump alone, so every now and then, I like to post something that just tickles my funnybone. You know, silly stuff. Like this right here: