I absolutely knew that I God damned well smelled a rat in all this mess. And now, the stink is getting worse than a dead skunk under the back porch.

It’s not enough that EC picks and chooses who they chase after.

It’s not enough that EC uses a warrant to get their hands on documents that were due to be used against them in a court case.

It’s not enough that the media were tipped off to make sure they Tories got as much bad press as possible.

Hell, it’s not even enough that somebody made sure the Goddamn Grits were there with a handydandy film crew to get some propaganda footage.

Hell, no, not NEARLY enough! Now we find out (thanks to some good sleuthing by Liz Thompson) that the Judge that signed the warrant, Justice Ian V.B Nordheimer, wasn’t just a Liberal appointee — which really isn’t much of a stretch, when you consider how many years the Librano$ had to stack the courts with their fellow travelers — but he was also a financial contributor to the LPOC, including ponying up to help get Allan Rock re-elected in ’97, just two years before being named to the bench by Rock’s successor Anne “gotcher guns” McLellan! (more…)

I sounded off briefly yesterday about the so-called “in-and-out scandal” (sounds like the plot for some corny ’70s porno flick, doesn’t it?) that has the HypoGrits and their MSM lapdogs in such a lather lately. Now, I know that I don’t often go off about the same topic several times in a row very often — my ex has often accused me of having the attention span of a hand grenade 🙄 — but the sheer depth and breadth of the anti-Conservative spin that’s flying about in this particular turd typhoon makes me feel like more needs to be said on this.

Just try finding something in the MSM on this that doesn’t have a strong stink of judging the Tories as guilty-until-proven-innocent. Trust me on this one, you’ll have to do a hell of a lot of sifting.

Here’s a few links to help folks in figuring out just how far off into the left field of partisanism Elections Canada has gone… (more…)

The hat’s off once again to Edmonton’s favourite Elmer Fuddette, Hunter, for posting this ahead of me (along with a knowing wink to frmgrl, one of her regular commentators who clued her in to it in the first place).

Some folks have been asking why I haven’t sounded off about the Great Raid That Wasn’tâ„¢, which was supposedly carried out by the RCMP on the Conservative Party of Canada. The simple answer is, that I haven’t had the time lately.

But I’ve got a few minutes now, and here’s what I think. The most important thing that was removed by Elections Canada from the CPC offices (and yes, it was Elections Canada doing the searching and not the RCMP) was something that had nothing whatsoever to do with Tory financing practices, but was also one thing that they could never have gotten their hands on otherwise. Are you ready? Here it is… (more…)

Yeah, it’s a slow day. And I have a reunion to go to tonight, so this is as good as it’s likely to get today. Get over it. 😛

Anybody that ever reads Dr. Roy’s Thoughts already knows a few things about the good doctor. Specifically: he’s a pretty bright guy, but a lousy typist and apparently wouldn’t use spellchecking if you put a gun to his melon. Every now and then, though, one of those typos just works out to be sooo sweet…

Jonas points out that the hrcs are social enginerring agencies.

Enginerring. Heh. Hehheh… Yeah… 😆

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, gather ’round as I tell you about 2008’s first nominee for Right Crazy’s BBIBC Awardâ„¢! Our first candidate for the year goes by the name of Kim Robinson. How the hell does a chick get nominated for the Biggest Balls In British Columbia, you ask? Easy: Kim’s a guy (that’s his picture on the right). From the sounds of the story, there just might be a bit of a “boy named Sue” thing going on here.

Now, some folks might argue (not unreasonably, I might add) that Kim may or may not be quite as ballsy as the BBIBC Award’s inaugural winner, Marc Patterson, but you still have to admit that this guy likely clanks when he sits. (more…)

I want to start out today by thanking Dave for the email that tuned me in to this book. I’ve never heard of Mary Lefkowitz before today, but after reading this review in the Wall Street Journal, I think I might just take some time to investigate more of her writings. They definitely seem to be worth the time.

For those of you who (like me) have never heard of her, Mary was a classicist at Wellesley College in the early ’90s, when she began to notice that some “Afrocentric” types were trying to rewrite history. This didn’t sit too well with Mary, what with her being one of those brick-headed “facts-are-good” types and all. Here’s a bit of what John Leo over at the WSJ had to say about it:

During this whirlwind of dubious scholarship, the academic world mostly remained mum, hiding behind the curtain of academic freedom and withholding its criticism lest a statement of simple truth be branded “racist.” For a 1991 column in U.S. News & World Report, I phoned seven Egyptologists and asked whether the ancient Egyptian population had been “black.” Of course not, they all responded, but not for attribution, since, as one said, “this subject is just too hot.”

The scholar who did the most to break this silence was Mary Lefkowitz, a mild-mannered classicist at Wellesley College. Without fully understanding the abuse she would invite by speaking out against Afrocentrism, she accepted an assignment in the fall of 1991 to write a long review of the second volume of Martin Bernal’s “Black Athena” for the New Republic magazine. She was shocked to discover that the Bernal volume, and a stack of other nearly fact-free books on Afrocentrism, had made headway in the schools and even in the universities.

She concluded that the Afrocentric authors regarded history as a form of advocacy: Like other postmodernists, they believed that truth is impossible to know — that all “narratives” are socially constructed and thus possess an equal claim to legitimacy. At the time, traditional scholarship was generally under assault, but the classics were particularly vulnerable, because they purported to study the foundational texts of the West. Attacking the classics as a complex system of lies was emotionally important to those who wanted to take Western culture down a peg. Feelings and politics mattered, not scholarship. As Ms. Lefkowitz puts it: “[Bernal] seemed to be saying that the most persuasive narrative was the one with the most desirable result. In effect, he was preaching a kind of affirmative action program for the rewriting of history.”

Read the whole review. I don’t know about you, but I definitely plan on reading this.