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- This blog's busiest month ever
Thanks to all of you for helping set a new traffic record -- January was my busiest blogging month since I started doing this in 2000.
January's traffic was up more than 30% over December, with an average of 3,000 uniques per day.
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:53:02 +0000 - I was right about the Osgoode Four: they're idiots (Plus: free speech? or private property rights?)
When the sheer unadulterated stupidity of El-Mo's Kids began to emerge, in the early days of the Mark Steyn case, I asked here whether or not Osgoode Hall Law School had affirmative action programs.
The answer turns out to be an unsurprising "yes."
Like me, Ezra Levant saw one of the Four on TV last night and was thoroughly unimpressed:
"There are two possibilities here: Khurrum Awan is really that bad a lawyer, or he's lying through his teeth. It's hard to believe that, even with its affirmative action programs, Osgoode Hall Law School would admit someone so thick as to support the first possibility, or if they did, to graduate him. I believe the second possibility is more likely true: that, like his boss Mohamed Elmasry, Khurrum Awan will say anything and do anything to promote the cause of radical Islam and to undermine our Western freedoms. If that means lying to CTV and its viewers about the nature of a human rights commission, why, that's just a little bit of taqiyya.
"Or maybe it's both option one and option two: because anyone who would utter such an easily checkable fib isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. When I first heard Awan was going to be on TV after me, I groaned. Not anymore: as far as I'm concerned, the more Canada hears from him and the rest of Elmo's Kids, the more damage they do to their credibility -- and, hopefully, to the human rights commissions themselves."Allow myself to repeat myself: the only people "exposing Muslims to hatred and contempt" are the Muslims going after Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant.
Last night, Awan retiterated the Osgoode's Four's obsession with Maclean's publisher Ken Whyte's declaration that he would "rather go bankrupt" than publish their unsolicited, unedited anti-Steyn screed.
Weird how fixated they are on Whyte's rather noble, old fashioned principled stance.
Me? Well, I'm reminded of Thomas More, or even Martin Luther's "Here I stand..."
Oh, wait: those were two Christians. I've never heard of Muslim historical figures being so principled; they tend to just go around killing people, marrying nine-year-old girls or stealing algebra from the Hindus.
I guess it illustrates the difference between a shame culture and an honour culture.
Still, anyone who's seen a Frank Capra film would recognize Whyte's attitude. Are these guys so culturally tone deaf?
I never thought I'd say this, but maybe more teenaged kids need to read The Fountainhead.
Or maybe they could just watch the Pakistani adaptation:
(I've just emailed Mark at Shocking Videos to see if he can't score the whole movie for me. 5MinutesToLive doesn't have it.)
You'd think Canadian law students would have a clearer notion of the sanctity of private property.
Oh wait: the Charter doesn't protect Canadians' right to private property.
Hence the Scott Brockie case.
No wonder Steyn's accusers are so confident. It's a natural progression from Brockie to Steyn/Maclean's.
Assuming you're an idiot, that is.
PS: Remember to send your polite yet enthusiastic support to MP Keith Martin TODAY, especially since other Liberals are calling him a "Nazi sympathizer" for tabling a motion to amend one sentence in the Canadian Human Rights Act:
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:24:32 +0000 - Alterna-totty for the knife averse
FreedomFolks dude goodnaturedly chides me for posting a picture of a hot chick with a knife.
OK, is this any better?
(Heck, it has got to be better than FF's proposed "Red State pole dancer who lived in a van down by the river back in 1992" alternative. Not afraid of pool cues, too, are ya?)
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:24:19 +0000 - New banner in the free speech cause: Support M-446
Support MP Keith Martin's private member's motion to amend the notorious Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Right now, it is illegal for any Canadian to "communicate... any matter" "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt."
In other words, a Canadian can not only be punished for expressing their views (thought crime), they can be charged with possibly harming someone in the near or distant future, merely by uttering or writing forbidden combinations of words (pre-crime).
Now, if I'm gonna have to live in a science fiction novel, I at least want my flying car and robot maid!
Presumably neither will be forthcoming, the government having wasted my tax dollars on frivolous Human Rights cases against Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant and many other less famous individuals.
So click on the link below to help support Dr. Martin's private member's motion, especially now that this Liberal MP is being called a "Nazi sympathizer" by members of his very own party, merely for introducing this bill:
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:55:25 +0000 - Liberal Party blog calls Liberal MP Keith Martin a Nazi sympathizer (!)
All this because MP Keith Martin -- as we told you this morning -- has tabled a private members bill calling for reform of the Canadian Human Rights Act, to remove the "likely to expose" section which in effect penalizes thought-crime and future-crime.
Classy, huh?
UPDATE: sad, isn't it? I get about 7 times more traffic than Little Bitty Lib:
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:04:59 +0000 - Is Warren Kinsella talking about me again?
Oh dear. I never hear about these catty Warren Kinsella posts unless a fan of mine tells me about it.
I don't care for Henry Rollins -- who seems to have traded in his once-promising talent to Satan in exchange for a lifetime supply of protein powder and faux-anarchist talking points -- so I have no idea what this video is about.
I gather it features Rollins pretending to proposition Ann Coulter.
If so: dear Warren, being cruised by a poseur like "Hulk Smash!" Rollins is not one of my fantasies. He's a bit too "strong like bull, smart like streetcar" for my tastes.
Now, if Warren is suggesting that I'm too old/ugly to be so propositioned, he is not far wrong.
However, my fellow "Wicked Witch", Kate at SmallDeadANimals, is quite attractive.
So, basically, I have no idea what Kinsella is talking about and I suspect he doesn't know either.
I'm merely posting about it because it has been over a week since Kinsella advised us to "retain counsel".
I've since received a generous offer of free legal assistance in this matter, yet we have yet to receive our registered letter.
Apparently Kinsella is too busy surfing YouTube and going through old "love letters" from Kate.
Anyway, you all know what those magic words "retain counsel" mean: that's right -- another picture of an actually attractive woman in skimpy underwear, as part of this blog's week-long tradition!
You're all so very welcome. But don't thank me -- thank Warren "I'm Not Obsessed by Women I Hardly Know or Anything!" Kinsella.
UPDATE: one blogger does NOT like the looks of that knife!
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:52:52 +0000 - Toronto gets blacks-only school. How could that possibly go bad?
And twenty years from now, the students will sue over this, just like Indian students sued over residential schools. And we'll all have to pay the bill. Again.
Some comments:
"Instead of wasting money on 'afro-centric' skools were their just going to teach them a fuller cirriculum of 'Hate Whitey-Blame Whitey' agit-prop,why not organize student trips back to Africa.
"Two week camping excursions to such African wonderlands like say, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Kenya, the Congo or the Sudan will probably be enough to convince every Blax student the importance of getting an education.""I also taught summer school in an inner city school with many black kids, many of the girls wearing hijab. The insolence, sense of entitlement, and plain bad manners of a good number of these kids was most disturbing, not to mention that, academically, the standard was pretty low. (One 'hijabbed' young miss, about 10, refused to stand for 'O Canada': 'It’s not my country.' That only happened on the first day as I made it altogether clear that sitting for the national anthem was NOT an option.)
(...)
"The accepted family structure of many kids by many fathers, with no dad around the home sets these kids up for failure from the start. Their mothers are often very young, uneducated, inarticulate, chip on the shoulder women who are not able to provide the security and role modelling necessary to socialize their kids. Any school for this type of kid would have to be built on a philosophy of high structure and non negotiable authority, consistently and seriously enforced. I believe any 'solution' which overlooks this is not going to make much of a difference."Thomas Sowell has written:
"'Leaders' have their own interests and agendas that they push, even when the effect on those for whom they claim to speak is detrimental. That is where we are today. Black leaders have a vested interest in black dependency -- on them and on the government that they can try to influence.
"Independent blacks who make it on their own are ignored as irrelevant or distracting. That is true not only of individuals, but also of institutions like all-black Dunbar High School in Washington, which for 85 years brought quality education to its students. Dunbar students exceeded national norms on IQ tests, years before the Supreme Court said that separate education was inherently unequal.
"Dunbar was located within walking distance of the Supreme Court that essentially declared its existence impossible..."
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:13:49 +0000 - If you download by new e-book 'Acoustic Ladyland' by midnight tonight...
My share of the revenue will be added to my first cheque, because it will count as a January sale.
Have I mentioned lately that I'm unemployed?
And that Mark Steyn loved the book...?
You can get a free preview when you hit the PREVIEW THIS ITEM button under the book's cover.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:02:12 +0000 - "Muslims should not be surprised at backlash"
Read the whole thing, please:
"My generation of immigrants conformed. We retain and value features of our origins, but we do not demand privileges or special treatment and we contribute to the life of the nation as best as we can. Ten thousand of us fought for Britain in the Second World War – a small expression of gratitude to the country which gave us refuge.
"Yasmin Alibhai-Brown needs to ask herself to what extent the racial intolerance which she condemns is of her, and others', own making? What has she, and others like her, done to bridge the ever-widening gap between what seems to us an alien culture and a way of life which in these islands has endured for centuries and which, in many ways, still makes this country one of the most civilised in the world?"Exactly. Rather than demand that a private enterprise publish their unedited writing, and file frivilous complaints against their betters, wouldn't the Osgoode Four's time be better spent, say, starting their own goddamn magazine or better yet, travelling to the Middle East to teach all those illiterate Muslims how to read.
The only people exposing Muslims to "hatred and contempt" are the Osgoode Four themselves.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:47:07 +0000 - David Warren: "Islam has been morphing into a violent and puritanical cult"
"Saudi-sponsored Wahabi Islam is consolidating its hold over the mosques of the West, and radicalizing the huge Muslim immigrant communities that have congregated in almost every major European city. Across Europe, and increasingly in North America (and as we've seen in Canada in the obscene 'human rights' trials of Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant), the most radical Muslims exploit state multiculturalism to score victories over free speech and win pathetic apologies from anyone accused of the thought crime of 'Islamophobia.'
"Islam is a broad and ancient religion -- we are not discussing that, today. We are discussing instead the contemporary reality. For internationally, Islam has been morphing into a violent and puritanical cult. Yet this very large and very hard fact is being rendered undiscussable, in historical or any other terms.
(...)"Whatever is surrendered to these people increases their power. There is one and only one possible strategy for resisting the advance of radical Islam -- and I mean, 'Islamism,' not conventional Islam. And that is to confront it, and destroy it, wherever it appears. The most disastrous possible policy is to appease it."
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:34:27 +0000
