They Can Love You, They Can Hate You

but when they start laffing, pack your bags. Because. You're. Finished.

Obama shares plans with Russians, not with Americans

This guy is unbelievable.

Standing Up For Public Education

"In order to make higher education—and thereby entry into leading positions—
available to every able and industrious (person), the State must provide a thorough
restructuring of our entire public educational system. The courses of study at all
educational institutions are to be adjusted to meet the requirements of practical
life. Understanding of the concept of the State must be achieved through the
schools (teaching of civics) at the earliest age at which it can be grasped. We
demand the education at the public expense of specially gifted children of poor
parents, without regard to the latter’s position or occupation."

We Saved These People From the Nazis - Why?

UK state schools forbid kids to have a "best friend".

Scaramouche!: The Toulouse Horror Shows How Les Poulets Francais Have Come Home to Roost. So Why Can't Matt Gurney See the Chickens?

When even the French are catching on ...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

In keeping with this blog's tradition, here's the Pogues and the Dubliners joining forces for auld favorite The Irish Rover.
Erin Go Bragh!

The Trouble With Harry

seems to be that he's just plain ethically challenged.

UPDATE!!! --- Harry's not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree either it seems. It will be "interesting" to see what sort of a sinecure is found for Bloy, who's announced he's not going to give Burnaby-Lougheed voters a chance to fire his sorry backside out the door in '013 (or whenever), how his falling on his sword to protect the Boss will weigh against his appalling stupidity in leaking the email ... fascinating.

Hats off to Alex G Tsakumis for outstanding investigative journalism and guts, guts, guts.

News Flash! Bama Don't Like White Folks!

With all due respect to the late Andrew Breitbart I can't believe he seriously thought this old Obama college tape thing would amount to a cup of spit.

Despite the best efforts of some GOP media stalwarts like Sean Hannity to get some outrage going over the 'revelation' that student Bama was an enormous fan of hate spewing bigot prof Derrick Bell, the overwhelming reaction has been one big yawn, because a) Bama hating white folks just isn't news, and b) hating white folks is okay anyway, lots of white folks do themselves.

Now, maybe if Barry were to get drunk and drive a car into a river, abandoning the woman not his wife in the passenger seat to drown while he ran home and called his lawyer ... oh wait, never mind.

BC "Co-parents" At It Again

Won't somebody please think of the sick friends?

RINOs, Red Tories and Wets! Oh My!

"What do you mean, he's a rhino, Grandpa?"
Well, I explained of course, that its RINO - Republican in Name Only- that I meant. And I explained that in Canada they're called Progressive Conservatives or Red Tories (pass the sick bag, Ethel), while in the UK, Margaret Thatcher's term "wets" sums such pathetic creatures up rather well, but let's let the Iron Lady herself elaborate:

"Jim Prior was an example of a political type that had dominated and, in my view, damaged the post-war Tory Party. I call such figures 'the false squire'. They have all the outward show of a John Bull -ruddy face, white hair, bluff manner - but inwardly they are political calculators who see the task of Conservatives as one of retreating gracefully before the Left's inevitable advance. Retreat as a tactic is sometimes necessary; retreat as a settled policy eats at the soul. In order to justify the series of defeats that his philosophy entails, the false squire has to persuade rank-and-file Conservatives and indeed himself that advance is impossible. His whole political life would, after all, be a gigantic mistake if a policy of positive Tory reform turned out to be both practical and popular."

Thatcher, Margaret, The Downing Street Years pg 104.

"Wet" she explains, "is a pubic schoolboy term meaning 'feeble' or 'timid', as in 'he is so wet you could shoot snipe off him'.
So let's see about translation. I suggest that here we might say, 'He is so Progressive Conservative you could steal his appendix.'
Works for me.

Celebrate Diversity! Christy's Punjabi Pandering Goes Sideways

Outgoing Premier Hockey Mom is assuring anyone who'll listen she's "shocked" that Jaspal Singh Atwal, a Sikh "warrior" (not unlike those brave warriors who blew up Air India Flight 182, one supposes) with attempted murder on his rap sheet, was an honored, invited guest at the Budget Speech last week.

Christy of course is a Paul Martin Fed Fiberal, whose ties to such charming groups as the Tamil Tigers have been well documented. In short, they'll do a deal with any devil for a vote or two.

Nice try, Christy, but that brown stuff on your shoe really doesn't smell like chocolate ice cream from here.

Alex G. Tsakumis has the 411 on this.

Our Legends of the Left Series Debuts

Pol Pot was a man with a plan.

Not unlike his contemporary and fellow leftist intellectual Pierre Trudeau, Pot found his home and native land, Cambodia in this case, not at all to his tastes and decided on a teardown-rebuild, along lines inspired by his hero Mao Tse Tung.

In a move that must make Gregor Robertson giddy to contemplate, in 1975 (or "Year Zero" as he dubbed it) PP decreed that henceforth everyone in Cambodia would be a farmer, and as he and his Khmer Rouge party had taken the country beyond politics and divisiveness, buy-in was to be 100%.

Net result- a reduction in Cambodia’s carbon footprint to warm the cockles of Maurice Strong's liver, due in no small part to about a quarter of the country’s population receiving the final leftist sacrament - euthanasia.