No room for SoCons in Canada's "Conservative" Party

In four short months, Canada's Perpetual Opposition Party (currently calling itself the Conservative Party of Canada) will hold a leadership convention to replace the Hon. Andrew Scheer, whose inability to talk out of both sides of his mouth about abortion and "gay rights" was demonstrated in last fall's federal election.

Canada's Cuckservatives had no position on "values issues", because they were (and remain) deeply divided. On the left there are the Red Tories who will do and say whatever it takes to win (or at least not lose too badly), even if that means sounding like alt-Liberals. Opposing them are the True-Blue Tories, who claim to be social as well as fiscal conservatives, but don't like talking about killing unborn babies or the nonsense of gender ideology.

It appears that although Mr Scheep himself claims to be a SoCon, the Red Tories had the upper hand in the smoke-filled backrooms. Thus true Canuck conservatives had no party to vote for except "Mad Max" Bernier's People's Party of Canada, and even the PPC was not very strong on the pro-life side, saying merely that they would "allow debate" on the issue. The result, a whoda-thunk-it victory for the Rt. Hon. Justin Blackface, was utterly predictable.

Knives were stuck in Mr Scheep's back within 24 hours, not just be Canada's liberal media (Hello, CBC!) but by those who would be the new leader, notably Peter MacKay, who likened the Tories' loss to "having an empty net to shoot at, and missing." Mr MacHackey is now the leading contender for the leadership, with only a non-entity named Erin O'Toole [Mr or Ms? Ed.] claiming to be "true blue".

Six other "Conservatives" have entered the lists, bringing the total number of contenders for the poisoned chalice to eight. Not admitted to the list, officially announced yesterday, was Richard Richard Décarie, a social conservative whose post-secondary education includes graduate studies in Philosophy – Applied Ethics from the Université de Sherbrooke. M Décarie had submitted the required application, fee and nomination signatures, and was interviewed by the party, as required by its rules. Yet his nomination was rejected.

Why is M Décarie not being allowed to put his name forward? CPC spokesthingy Cory Hann [Ms or Mr? Ed.] couldn't say specifically why not, because "the process is confidential." Walt suggests it may have something to do with M Décarie's very public statements of his belief that being one of the alphabet people is a choice, and that government should defund abortion.

M Décarie has also said that "LGBTQ" is a liberal term, and that governments should work to uphold and restore "traditional values." Some of his opponents, including Mr MacHackey, Erin O'Toole and Marilyn Gladu [Who she? Ed.], condemned his remarks as did current MPs, party strategists and former staff. It appears that M Décarie is about as welcome in today's "Conservative" Party of Canada as a skunk at a garden party.

Walt predicts that on June 27th, Peter MacKay will be chosen as the new Cuckservative leader. Walt further predicts that he will never become Prime Minister of Canada. Never! Lifetime pct .992.

Speaking of special days, months, years, etc

In my earlier post today I admitted to nearly forgetting to mention "Stop Blaming White People" month, which ends tomorrow. I think I should be forgiven for that near-omission. There are so many bogus and useless days, months and years to celebrate, that's it's hard to keep track of them all.

And then there are the festivals. Nearly every weekend sees an ethnic festival of some kind going on in 100s of cities across the land. Then you have the harvest festivals, spring festivals (e.g. Groundhog Day, mentioned here earlier this month), national independence festivals, religious festivals, and on and on and on. One that I hadn't heard of until I saw this report in Metro News (UK), is Mexico's not-very-famous Exploding Hammer Festival.

The event, which takes place every February, involves people attaching a mix of sulpher and chlorate to the ends of sledge hammers. They they smash the hammers against rail beams, making the substance explode and send up massive clouds of smoke. Like this.

This unusual festival, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, is held in the small town of San Juan de la Vega. San Juan, so the story goes, was the victim of bandits who made off with his gold. (Where the gold came from, no-one knows.) St John the Baptist helped recover the gold, thus becoming a Mexican Robin Hood. What this has to do with exploding hammers is unclear, but never mind.

As you can see, some of the hammerers are flung backwards by the force of the explosion. One man hurt his leg in the blast and had to be carried off on a stretcher. Others were less seriously injured, bringing the total to 43 hurt. Assuredly, God and Saint John know their devotion.

"Stop blaming white people" month ends tomorrow

Agent 2 reminded me today that it is still February. Somehow I omitted to post this... errr... poster.

You still have a day and a half left to call this to the attention of people who aren't... errr... white.

A very Canadian crime story

Things are tough all across Canada. The country is in winter's icy grip. The natives are restless, demanding that Canadian "colonialists" respect their land rights, and blocking railway tracks to force the cancellation of a natural gas pipeline project in northern BC. The usual gang of antifa and loonie leftists have apprpriated the aboriginal protests for their anti-oil, anti-business, anti-white protests. The lily-livered arch-panderer Just In (for a visit) Trudeau does nothing.

Things are even worse in the western province of Alberta, where a major player in the oil patch, Teck Resources, has abandoned its Frontier tar sands mine plan. Teck's CEO says it's because "global capital markets are changing rapidly and investors and customers are increasingly looking for jurisdictions to have a framework in place that reconciles resource development and climate change, in order to produce the cleanest possible products. This does not yet exist here today."

The cancellation of the project means the loss of 7000 jobs in a province already butt-hurt from the years-long downturn in the oil industry. For many Albertans, unemployment benefits have long since run out, and other jobs just aren't available. In places like Fort MacMurray, if you're not working in the oil patch, you're not working. Period.

Airdrie AB is in the southern part of the province, not totally dependent on the oil economy, but things are still tough there, and people take desperate measures, including stealing from donation boxes at coffee shops. The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen are hoping to identify a man who allegedly used a rubber chicken to help him steal from a box at Tim Hortons earlier this month.

Inspector Knacker told the meeja that the man placed a rubber chicken over a donation box sitting on the front counter and used the prop to conceal the box as he left the business. The incident, which happened at the Tim Hortons in Airdrie on February 11th, was captured on camera. Today, the cops released a picture of the suspect, who they described as wearing a blue sweater or jacket, a balaclava and "holding a rubber chicken." Period.

VIDEOS: Memento, homo, quia pulvis est, et in pulverem revertetur

Ed. here. I don't believe we've ever posted anything special on Ash Wednesday, but the spread of the corona virus, the political and economic turmoil in virtually every country, and the crisis in the Church makes us think that today might be a good day to get serious about the frailty of life and the necessity of thinking about the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Hell and Heaven*.

In 1091 Pope Urban II ordered that the blessed ashes should be received by all the faithful on Ash Wednesday as a reminder of the certainty of death and the necessity of penance. Nobles and peasants, kings and common people, all participated in the same penitential ceremony that Catholics undergo today. For at least 1600 years Catholics have heard the same words, quoted from God's words to Adam on that first Ash Wednesday upon this earth, telling Adam of the consequences of his sin: "Memento, homo, quia pulvis est, et in pulverem revertetur" (Genesis 3:19, DRV). "Remember man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return."

*Here, in four videos, is "Death, Judgment, Hell and Heaven", the mission preached by Father Isaac Relyea at Holy Face of Jesus in Saint Catharines ON last week. May God bless you as you watch it.

James Carville: Sanders can't win by "expanding the electorate"

I've been laboring for nigh on 24 hours trying to think of something clever and original to say about Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT - Don't forget the "I" part) hyuge win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses. Something about the Dumbocrats drinking the socialist Koolaid, or lemmings stampeding towards the cliff... something like that... but alas, I'm dry. [Please keep your personal life to yourself. Ed.]

I am therefore tossing the ball to James Carville, a media personality with considerable expertise and experience in American elections. A prominent political consultant who specializes in developing framing and strategy for electoral campaigns, Mr Carville has consulted for candidates for public office in the Excited States of America and 23 foreign countries. (Funny that no foreigners have complained about US interference in their elections!)

Mr Carville, aka "the Ragin' Cajun", gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of Slick Willy Clinton. He's worked for the Clinton News Network off and on from 2002 until parting company with them in 2013. The following year, he joined Fox News as a contributor. Here's his reaction to the Sanders steamroller.

Note from Ed.: There was supposed to be a short video here, with Mr Carville's comments on MSNBC. For some reason I can't get it to embed, so I can only refer you to the link on Real Clear Politics; click right here!

In case you couldn't see it, here are two key quotes.

"The entire theory [put forward by Mr Sanders and his supporters "that by expanding the electorate, increasing turnout so you can win an election, is similar to climate denial. When people say that, they're as stupid to a political scientist as a climate denier is to an atmospheric scientist."

"If you want to vote for Bernie Sanders because you feel good about his program, you don't like the banks on Wall Street or you don't like pharmaceuticals, that's legitimate, I understand that. If you're voting for him because you think he'll win the election, politically, you're a fool."

There's nothing I could possibly say that would top those comments for brevity and pithiness. Well said, sir.

VIDEO: Is Pope Francis Catholic, after all?

Somewhere between the incredible (= not to be believed) Amazon Synod, held in Rome in October, and Querida Amazonia (= Beloved Amazon), Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, released on February 12th, something astonishing happened. The highly anticipated document, the shortest ever written by this pope, is completely silent on the two hot-button issues which dominated the discussions at the synod: the possibility of married priests and women deacons.

Instead, it focused almost entirely on the "four great dreams" - social, cultural, ecological, and ecclesial - in which Francis says he hopes to awaken an "affection and concern" for the Amazon for the whole world. - while calling for “outrage” over the treatment of the region's land and its peoples.

Although the letter is meant to be a response to the synod's final document, "The Amazon: New Paths for the Church and for Integral Ecology", Francis does not address the issue of married priests directly, saying only that "every effort should be made" to ensure people in the Amazon region, some of whom only see a priest once or twice a year, have "regular access to the sacraments, especially the Eucharist and confession."

What happened? Did Pope Bergoglio and the other modernists in the hierarchy (especially the German bishops) just blink? Have they realized at last that by introducing a "new theology" that is antithetical to the Faith of our fathers, they are leading us into heresy?

In this video, Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, says there was so much opposition coming from the ranks of faithful Catholics that, at least for the moment, "Team Francis" had to put their plans for married priests and women deacons on the back burner.



Bonus: If you haven't clicked the play button yet, there's more in this video. Mr Matt also asks and answers two very interesting questions:
Can a Catholic in good conscience vote for the twice-divorced Donald Trump? and
Is Rush Limbaugh right when he suggests that America may not be ready for President Buttigieg and the First Gentleman? Is this homophobic, or just a simple statement of fact? Watch the video!

VIDEO: Max Bernier launches regular show on YouTube

Whatever happened (I hear some of you ask) to Maxime Bernier, erstwhile leader of the People's Party of Canada? The PPC attracted a lot of attention -- a lot of it negative -- in last fall's federal election, but, sadly, failed to elect even one Member of Parliament. Even "Mad Max" lost his own seat in the Québec riding of Beauce, beaten by dairy farmers who didn't like his call for the end of supply management.

Now that the nominally Conservative Party of Canada is struggling to find a leader to replace the sheeplike Andrew Scheer, there has been some loose talk about M Bernier having another go at it, since he led the contest through 13 ballots only to be pipped at the post by Mr Scheer, who was backed by the dairy farmers just mentioned and the CPC's perennial core of Francophobes.

Well, Mad Max ain't gonna do it, nor is he going to disband the People's Party and disappoint the 300,000 members who stood by him through and very thin. In a word, he's not going away. To begin the campaign for the next election, which could come at any time since Mr Socks leads a minority government, M Bernier has launched a weekly show on YouTube in which he promises challenging commentary and interviews on the issues that matter to real Canadians.

Here's the première, including: 1:25 - Why I won’t go back to the Conservative Party; 7:10 - Interview with Philip Cross on the next financial crisis; 39:55 - Editorial on the railway blockades; 41:50 - Political Circus: Peter MacKay and Pride Parades. Check it out.

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If you liked what you saw, please subscribe. As he says in discussing the Cuckservative Party, Max Bernier is the only political leader in Canada who hasn't drunk the liberal Koolaid. He's saying what needs to be said, and what Canadians need to hear. Tell the others!

Footnote: Once and future PPC candidate Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson has her own YouTube channel and is presently busy defending herself against persescution by the "human rights" and "pro-choice" activists. Walt subscribes to both her and Max's channels.

Comment: Dem debate demolition derby

Just passing along the first paragraph of "The 2020 Dems' Responses to Bloomberg's Defense of Capitalism Should Terrify All of Us", by Paula Bolyard on PJ Media, 20/2/20. No comment needed except to recommend you follow the link to read the whole article.

No one would blame you if you thought Trump's rally in Arizona on Wednesday would be infinitely more entertaining than the Democrat debate in Las Vegas. Alas, you'd have been wrong. In what can only be described as a demolition derby—with a bunch of amped-up Yugos crashing into each other, over and over again, until engine fires forced the drivers out onto their roofs while sirens blared—Democrats took to the stage to eviscerate one another and pave the way for Trump's reelection.

Thanks and a tip o' the touque to Agent 35 for the cartoon!

VIDEO: "There'll be no more clean water, no more animals!"

As I was saying, there's a heap big protest going on across Canada, as a handful of Indians (politically incorrect term for "First Nations") and hundreds of radical left activists block railway tracks to protest the building of a natural gas pipeline across "Indian land" claimed by the Wet'suwet'en people of northern British Columbia.

The blockades have brought traffic on much of Canada's already struggling rail network to a halt, but according to the Prime Minister of Canuckistan "reconciliation" trumps economics, and the "unfortunate situation" must be resolved through "dialogue, not force". Walt finds it strange that Mr Socks hasn't sent his ace dialoguer, Chrystia Freeland (now Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of Nothing) to negotiate with the protesters. "These people are impossible! I'm going home!"

Here's a very short video scraped from CTV News yesterday, showing what happens when you to try to dialogue with climate alarmists and professional protesters.



"There won't be any more clean drinking water or any more animals!" Dontcha love it? And by the way, does that guy sound like an Indian to you? In Canada, First Nations people have a distinctive way of speaking, which you'll hear if you watch North of 60, a great drama series [soap opera? Ed.] produced in the 1990s by (incredibly) the CBC, and still viewable on APTN (the Aboriginal Peoples TV Network) and YouTube. But I digress. That snowflake sounds like a whitey to me. And why is it that all these protesters are wearing antifa-style masks and balaclavas? Just askin'...

UPDATE ADDED at 0725: Canada's Public Safety and Emergency Unpreparedness Minister Bill Blair has just announced that the Mounties in British Columbia have agreed to withdraw from their position on Wet'suwet'en territory and barricade themselves in a nearby town named L'alamo. [Ed., please check town name.]

So Just In (from Africa) Trudeau's Liberal government has caved to a few dozen radical activists who don't even have the support of the majority of the Wet'suwet'en people, as represented by their elected (as opposed to hereditary) chiefs. In today's Canuckistan, the mob rules!

Democrats: which rich old Jewish guy will you choose?

As the Nevada caucuses draw near -- actually they're already under way -- new polls show Mayor Pete, the darling of the alphabet people fading, and the contest for the Dumbocrat presidential nomination shaping up to be between (((Michael Bloomberg))) and Senator (((Bernie Sanders))).

A national poll from NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist -- good liberals, all -- released today showed Former Mayor Michael with 19% support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, putting him in second place behind the senator from Vermont, who had 31%. Mr Bloomberg's surge is enough to qualify him to participate in tomorrow's debate in Vegas, the first time the billionaire New Yorker will appear onstage alongside the billionaire from Brooklyn and other Democratic presidential rivals.

Isn't it odd (I hear you thinking) that the Democrats, the party of the common man [and woman, and those unsure or in transition. Ed.] should be poised to choose between one rich old New York Jew and another, to get out and there and fight for equality. The little cartoon expresses my thoughts.

UPDATED: EU court rules illegal immigrants don't have same rights as those who follow the law

Walt has been following events north of the World's Longest Undefended Border, where a handful of "First Nations" people ("Native Americans" to, errr, Americans) and the usual mobs of ultra-lefties and antifa types have succeeded in shutting down Canuckistan's railways almost completely.

They are protesting that the hereditary chiefs (as opposed to the democratically elected chiefs) of an obscure "nation" -- the Wet'suwet'ens -- were not consulted about the building of a natural gas pipeline that crosses their territory in northern British Columbia.

It's a big deal, since many of the things that millions of Canadians depend on to live a normal life -- e.g. water purification chemicals and propane, not to mention food -- move by rail. It's a big enough deal that Just In Trudeau interrupted his latest virtue-signalling world tour to come back to the World's Second-coldest Capital and take a meeting.

When he emerged, blinking in the sunlight, Mr Socks proclaimed that Canada is a country where the rule of law is respected and must be followed. This had Canucks ROFL because the railways have obtained court injunctions against the blockades, orders which the Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen refuse to enforce. In Canada, apparently, court orders and the country's laws don't apply to the marginalized and oppressed victims of colonialism, white privilege, yada yada yada.

Walt wonders what Blackface Justin thinks of a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The Gatestone Institute reports that on February 13th the ECHR issued a decision reaffirming the proposition that in order for migrants or other "victims" to benefit from certain human rights protections, such as access to lawyers, interpreters and the right to remain in Europe, they must first enter European territory in a legal, as opposed to an illegal, manner. Imagine that!

The case goes back to August of 2014, when hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa stormed the border fence at Melilla, a Spanish exclave in North Africa. After spending several hours perched on top of the fence, two men, one from Ivory Coast and the other from Mali, climbed down and were handcuffed by Spanish border police, who handed them over to Moroccan authorities.

The two Africans said they were never given a chance to explain their personal circumstances or receive help from lawyers or interpreters. In February 2015, with the help of human rights weasels ["lawyers", shurely! Ed.] the pair took their case to the ECHR.

In October 2017, the ECHR ruled that summary deportations were a violation of European law, which is politically correct on such things. The court determined that Spanish border police had failed to verify the identity of the migrants, or to provide them with access to lawyers, translators or medical personnel, and ordered Spain to pay each of the men €5,000 (over $5400 in real money). In December 2017, Spain's previous mildly conservative government appealed.

On February 13th, the ECHR unanimously reversed its previous judgment. In a statement, it explained that "[the migrants chose] not to use the legal procedures which existed in order to enter Spanish territory lawfully. Consequently, the Court considered that the lack of individual removal decisions could be attributed to the fact that the applicants — assuming that they had wished to assert rights under the Convention — had not made use of the official entry procedures existing for that purpose, and that it had thus been a consequence of their own conduct."

How about that?! Here's a photo of some illegal immigrants crossing the World's Longest Undefended Border at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Québec. Who's carrying their bags for them? Why it's the very same RCMP who, for some reason (Hello, Liberal government!) are not enforcing the injunctions against the mob blockading Canada's rail services.

Just In (from Africa) Trudeau has probably not heard about the ECHR decision, and it's not binding on Canadian courts or governments in any case. Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, spokesman for the Spanish Vox (= Voice) Party, commented: "The ECHR's ruling determines that a nation state has the right to defend its borders. When someone is dedicated to violating those borders, the nation state has the right to return that person to their place of origin as quickly as possible."

Wouldn't it be nice if Canada's woke government, or the even-more-woke government-in-waiting (?) of the USA did a 180, like the ECHR, and reserved the benefits of the rule of law to those who obey the law?

Further reading, from the National Post, 17/2/20:
"Enough is enough. Clear the blockades, restore the rule of law", by Derek H. Burney, a former Canadian ambassador to the USA and chief of staff to former PM Brian Baloney. "Dialogue is no prescription for those who refuse to listen because they believe themselves to be custodians of the only truth."
"If Trudeau has lost interest in his job, perhaps he should quit", NP editorial. "While cabinet members have struggled to deal with the rail blockades, Trudeau has been flying around Africa and Europe. Over his four years as prime minister, it has become noteworthy how often Justin Trudeau faces problems of his own making. His sanctimony keeps coming back to bite him. Canadians who follow politics have long been aware of the prime minister’s weakness for pious declarations of well-intentioned morality."

UPDATE ADDED 20/2/20: Canada's Public Safety and Emergency Unpreparedness Minister Bill Blair has just announced that the Mounties in British Columbia have agreed to withdraw from their position on Wet'suwet'en territory and barricade themselves in a nearby town names L'alamo. [Ed., please check town name.] So Just In (from Africa) Trudeau's Liberal government has caved to a few dozen radical activists who don't even have the support of the majority of the Wet'suwet'en people, as represented by their elected (as opposed to hereditary) chiefs. In today's Canuckistan, the mob rules!

George Orwell was right

The Wikipedia entry for George Orwell says that he was born in 1903. My theory is that he was actually a time traveller, and based his prescient novel, 1984, written in 1949, on a world he had actually seen before he travelled back in time to avoid having to live through it. His description of how things would be in this Brave New World (a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley) is uncannily accurate. The picture tells all ye know and all ye need to know. Mr Orwell must have known!

"Tom & Jerry" begat "Itchy & Scratchy", right? Oh... wait...

I'm already bored watching the Dumbocrats race towards the edge of the cliff, so have been reareading some of my National Lampoon mags, from back in the 70s. (These will eventually wind up for sale on Walt's Attic.) I found something in the June 1973 issue that sheds some light on a question which has bedevilled cartoon fans for ages: the origins of Itchy & Scratchy.

Everybody knows that "Itchy and Scratchy" was inspired by (or knock-off of) "Tom & Jerry". Right? "Tom & Jerry" is an American animated franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who later became infamous for the "partial animation" which ruined their made-for-TV cartoons, like "The Flintstones". The 161 cartoon shorts produced for MGM centered on a friendship/rivalry (a love-hate relationship) between the title characters Tom, a cat, and Jerry, a mouse.

Although, deep down, Tom and Jerry supposedly were great friends [homosexual lovers? Ed.], they spent most of their time chasing and battering each other, with violence which was more edgy than that seen in the more popular Disney and Warner Bros. cartoon. So when Matt Groening and the others responsible for "Itchy & Scratchy", a feature on many earlier episodes of "The Simpsons", made their cat and mouse even more violent, many fans-- and there are many -- figured it was just an outgrowth or parody of "Tom & Jerry". One entire episode is devoted to Marj's complaining about the violence of TV cartoons.

The comic book cartoon I discovered today in National Lampoon suggests that there may have been an intermediate step, like the so-called "missing link" between cavemen and modern men (sorry, "persons"). Check out "Kit 'n' Kaboodle", written by Brian McConnachie, with art by Warren Sattler.

Who knows? Maybe Matt Groening, or Brian McConnachie, or both of them, were (like Walt) regular readers of the "Adult Humor Magazine".

UPDATED: Was Lincoln a white supremacist?

An assiduous reader has challenged my assertion this morning that the views of Abraham Lincoln on the question of race and the position of African-Americans in society were not that much different from those of Robert E. Lee. "Are you saying," our reader asks, "that Lincoln was a racist?" No, that wasn't what I said. I was just alluding to a half-remembered quote, which Ed. checked with Snopes. Here's what he found.

During his famous debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln explained to the crowd: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

Snopes concludes that "Lincoln was no different than most white males, North and South, at the time. He was a white supremacist."

Now here's the quote from General Lee: "The negroes have neither the intelligence nor the other qualifications which are necessary to make them safe depositories of political power. They would inevitably become the victims of demagogues who...would mislead them to the serious injury of the public."

If anything, I would call General Lee's statement mild by comparison with that of President Lincoln. Snopes, being the arbiter of liberal truth, makes a half-hearted apology for Mr Lincoln. "Of course," they say, "this excerpt from one speech does not represent the totality of Lincoln's views on race and racial equality, but the remarks were far from a complete outlier, and Lincoln's views were more complex and uncomfortable than the prevalent modern impression of him as the racially-enlightened Great Emancipator." (My emphasis. Walt)

So there you have it, folks. Both Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee are guilty, guilty, guilty, and every white male in America must apologize profusely (and continually), and make amends (preferably in cash) to all persons of colour for those vile racist comments.

Footnote added 13/2/20: It's not just in the Paranoid States of America that such fulsome apologies are required. The Daily Caller reports that the heretical Church of England has decided to commission an expert to prepare a report on the church's "deeply, institutionally racist" history following an official apology for its past.

The General Synod, the church's legislative body, voted on February 11th to issue an official apology for the racism that "countless black, Asian and minority ethnic people" have experienced in the past 70 years. The church is also commissioning an expert to prepare a report on the racism of the church. Walt expects the Episopalian Church -- the American version of the C of E -- to follow suit any day now. [Hasn't it done that already? Washington and Lee were both Episcopalians and slave-owners. Ed.]

Remembering Abraham Lincoln

February 12th used to be celebrated as Lincoln's Birthday. Which it was. February 12, 1809 was the date. Because it's Black History Month, the only holiday Americans get now is Martin Luther King Day. Washington, Lincoln and other nobodies have to make do with "Presidents Day". That's one of the fruits of the triumph of freedom and equality begun by President Lincoln and completed by... wait for it... President LBJ.

Since President Lincoln and others are gradually being consigned to the Memory Hole, I thought it might be appropriate to share a few opinions of Honest Abe, as penned by his contemporaries, drawn from Civil War Curiosities, by Webb Garrison (Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, 1994).

No other war maker was so widely vilified as was Abraham Lincoln. Contemptuous of the president's announced policies, the abolitionist Benjamin F. Wade announced that Lincoln's views on slaver "could only come of one who was born of 'poor white trash' and educated in a slave State." Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, who had his own eyes on the White House, characterized his leader as "greatly wanting in will and decision, in comprehensiveness, in self-reliance, and clear, well-definted purpose."

Henry Ward Beecher, the nation's most famous clergyman in 1861, denounced the president from the pulpit. According to Beecher, the chief executive lacked any spark of genius and possessed "not an element of leadership, not one particle of heroic enthusiasm." Fellow abolitionist Wendell Phillips described Lincoln as "a second-rate man" and charged his "slackness" with "doing more than the malice of Confederates to break up the Union."

Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts, who was among the first to commit himself fully to the war effort, castigated the man for whom he raised regiments of volunteers. "Besides doing my proper work," wrote Andrews, "I amsadly but firmly tr5ying to help organize some movement, if possible to save the President from the infamy of ruining his country."

Soon the Massachusetts leader sent one of his top aides to confer with Lincoln. Reporting about this visit, Henry Lee said just what Andrew wanted to hear. As he sat waiting, Lee recalled, "I grew more and more cross to think that this Western mummy of a rail splitter should sit in Washington's chair."

Congressman Frank Blair of Missouri urged that the primary obligation of every Unionist was "to stop fighting Jeff Davis and turn in on our own Government and make something of it," According to the lawmaker, soon to become a Federal brigadier, all Confederate leaders taken together had not harmed the4 nation has as much as "the cowardice, ignorance, and stupidity of Lincoln's administration."

I'll leave for another day the quotation of President Lincoln's thoughts about "African-Americans" (as they are now called) and their place in American society. Suffice it to say that General Robert E. Lee's views, quoted in Walt's profile, were much the same as those of the Great Emancipator. And we know that they were both wrong, as evidenced by the contribution of people of colour to making America what it is today. Right?

VIDEO: Song for the Democratic primaries

Voting is under way in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, and I don't know which way to bet. All I know is that whoever wins in NH, if he/she can carry the convention and become the candidate for the presidensity of the Excited States of America, is going to lose to Still-President Trump. I know that because I know there are millions of Americans who feel like Bryan Lewis, here, who sings about what it would take for him to vote Democrat again.

VIDEO: Update on Jordan Peterson's health

I have been remiss in not posting news about the health crisis which has afflicted Jordan Peterson, whose name will certainly be familiar to regular readers. For those who don't know, Dr Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. He has for years been a champion of freedom of speech and thought, and a soft- but outspoken critic of political correctness.

In 2016, Dr Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing political correctness and the Canadian government's Bill C-16, "An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code". The act added "gender identity and expression" as a prohibited ground of discrimination. Dr Peterson characterised the bill as an introduction of compelled speech into law. He subsequently received significant media coverage, attracting both support and criticism.

Later that year, Dr Peterson went on a strict diet consisting only of meat and some vegetables to control severe depression and an autoimmune disorder. In mid-2018 he stopped eating vegetables, and went on a carnivore diet, eating only beef. In 2019, he entered a rehabilitation facility after experiencing symptoms of physical withdrawal when he stopped taking the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam, which he had begun taking, on his doctor's recommendation, following his wife's cancer diagnosis.

Last month, Dr Peterson's daughter, Mikhaila, revealed that he had spent the previous year struggling with both a physical dependency and a paradoxical reaction to the medication, and had gone to Russia to seek an emergency medical benzodiazepine detox, available only in that country. His condition was further complicated by severe pneumonia which developed in one of the hospitals he had been in previously.

Dr Peterson spent four weeks in the ICU, but survived. In this short video, Mikhaila gives an update on her father's condition.



Please join us in praying for Dr Peterson's recovery.

Further reading:

"Social justice lunatics celebrate Jordan Peterson’s struggles", by Libby Emmons, in the Post Millenial, 10/2/20.

"Jordan Peterson has done so much good — we owe him our gratitude", by Anthony Fuery, in the Toronto Sun, 10/2/20.

UPDATED: Ireland wakes up! Sinn Fein wins big in weekend elections

UPDATE ADDED 22/2/20: For a good in-depth analysis of what the success of Sinn Féin could mean in terms of the long-awaited unification of Ireland, Walt recommends "Is some revelation at hand? Brexit and Sinn Fein's success boost talk of Irish unification", in The Economist, 13/2/20.

Walt is almsot always happy to report on a nationalist political party doing well at the polls, because nationalism (IMHO) is natural to human beings. Globalism is unnatural. People prefer being with other people like themselves, in their own country, on their own land.

The Irish, after an inexplicable interlude in which they flirted with internationalism, diversity, inclusivity and all that rubbish, appear to have woken up, and I don't mean that in the liberal way! Since June of 2017, the government of the Irish Republic has been headed by Leo Varadkar, who has served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and Minister for Defence.

Mr Varadkar is ethnically Indian, and openly as gay as 18 balloons. It was therefore a bit of a surprise that when former Taoiseach Enda Kenny decided to quit in May of 2017, Mr Varadkar stood in the election to replace him as leader of the governing Fine Gael party. Although more party members voted for his opponent, Mr Varadkar prevalied, and was elected leader, thus becoming, at age 38, the youngest- (and gayest-) ever Taoiseach.

This weekend the plain people of Ireland (Hello Myles na Gopaleen!) had a chance to express their opinion of Mr Varadkar and his government, and surprised the pundits by (apparently) voting in roughly equal numbers for Gael, the opposition Fianna Fáil, and... wait for it... Sinn Féin, a left-wing party committed to reunification of the island. Sinn Féin is regarded, unofficially at least, as being the political arm of the Irish Republican Army.

Its many critics accuse Sinn Féin of having failed to repudiate the role of the IRA in the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. The plain people of Ireland apparently don't have a problem with that, as exit polls show the party in a virtual dead heat with the two parties that have governed since the country won independence (for all but the northern part of the island) almost a century ago.

Ballot counting is still under way as I write, but with 96% of first-preference votes tallied, Sinn Féin had 24.1%, Fianna Fáil 22.1%, Fine Gael also 22.1%, the Greens at 7.4%, and small left-wing parties and independents comprising the rest. The Grauniad calls the result "stunning".

Preliminary vote tallies suggested Sinn Féin could win around 36 seats, up from 22 in the outgoing Dáil, far exceeding its own expectations. It appealed to young voters in particular, who felt left behind by a booming economy and chafed at soaring rents, homelessness, insurance costs and hospital waiting lists.

The predicted outcome means some type of coalition government is almost inevitable, with Sinn Féin likely to be a central player in the negotiations to form one. Until now, both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have refused to work with Sinn Féin because of its links to the IRA. Now, though, the centrist parties' resolve may weaken as politicians reckon with the reality of Sinn Fein's strong showing.

But their sudden grudging acceptance of Sinn Féin may come too late. Sinn Féin says it's ready to talk about forming a government... to everyone but the two major parties! "I want us to have a government for the people," said Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald. "I want us to have, ideally, a government with no Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael in it. I have started the contact with other parties to explore over the next days whether that is a possibility." Stay tuned.

Recommended viewing: Michael Collins, starring Liam Neeson, a mostly-true story about the struggle for the Irish Republic. Here's the trailer.



You can just fast forward past the love story part, with Julia Roberts in as horrible example of miscasting as I've ever seen. That aside, Michael Collins is a great movie about a great Irishman.

New VIDEOS from Tuba Skinny - Ballin' the Jack & Sugar House Stomp

In all the excitement of the past week -- and what a week it has been! -- I didn't learn until today that my favourite New Orleans-style band, Tuba Skinny, had dropped some new videos recently. Here they are.

"Ballin' the Jack"


"The Sugar House Stomp"


Readers who are hot for Shaye Cohn [Project, much? Ed.] are gonna like these. Thanks to James Sterling for putting them up. If you tip the band (see link at start of video), tell `em Walt sent ya!

Man starts new job, steals $17,000, then disappears

I'm sure Agent 17 would agree that it's time for me to stop gloating about Still-President Trump's excellent week, and write about something else, maybe something on the lighter side. Consider it done, 17! Here's a story from Hamden CT which is good for at least a bemused smile.

The man in the picture, whose identity, ethnicity and religion are unknown, was hired by the owner of the Go On gas station in Hamden CT to work the midnight shift, on his own, under the watchful eye of the store's security cameras.

When the store owner used an app on his phone to view the cameras and check on how his new employee was doing, he was shocked, shocked to find that his brand-new employee was nowhere to be seen.

According to Hamden cops, "[The owner] quickly ascertained that the new employee had left. [He] immediately responded to the store and ascertained that the new employee had stolen numerous items including lottery tickets, 89 boxes of cigarettes and money." Yes, money -- some $17,000 in cash -- plus the cigarettes and, oh yes, some lottery tickets as well. On his very first day at work.

But wait, as Vince Offer used to say, there's more! The suspect also managed to steal the employment folder containing all of his personal information. So the store owner not only has no way to identify the man, but doesn't even know his name! [Any bets on "Mohammed"? Ed.] In a FaceBook post, the Hamden PD warned people "Careful whom you hire!"

Memo from Walt to all those afflicted with TDS

It's been fun watching the reactions of the Dumbocrats and their mouthpieces in the lamestream media to Still-President Trump's "victory lap", delivered this noontide from the East Room of the White House, which he will continue to occupy for at least another 11 months.

To all those afflicted with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), including but not limited to: Stephen Colbert, Nancy Pelosi, (((Chuck Schumer))), Mitt Romney, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosemary Barton, (((Jerry Nadler))), Paul Hunter, Rachel Maddow, (((Bernie Sanders))), Pete Buttigieg, Brian Williams, Ellen DeGenerate, Hellery Clinton, John Berman, (((David Frum))), Mrs Prince Harry, Mara Gay, Joy Anne Reid, Malcolm Nancy, the Bidens, Cher, Jim Carrey, Bobby DeNiro, Fauxcahontas, Amy Klobuchar [That's enough never-Trumpers. Ed.], I have just two words to say, quoting Nelson Muntz... HA ha!!!

Has Nervous Nancy committed a crime?

Following Still-President Trump's stirring State of the Union address Tuesday night, Nervous Nancy Pelosi ostentatiously ripped up the copy of the speech which was handed to her at the opening of proceedings.

At least, I think it was the speech. It might have been the Articles of Impeachment which the Senate found unfounded the next day. But assuming it was indeed her copy of the President's speech, Ms Pelosi should lawyer up and get ready to defend herself against criminal charges. Check out this provision of the U.S. Code.

18 U.S. Code § 2071.Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

Looks like Nervous Nancy's petty publicity stunt could have some major consequences... unless of course President Trump, magnanimous man that he is, decides to forgive her!

Still-President Trump found NOT GUILTY

President Donald John Trump has been acquitted of both charges in his Senate impeachment trial.

On the first article, the charge of abuse of power, the vote was 52 to 48.

On the second article, the charge of obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.

Donald John Trump is still President of the United States of America.

That's all ye know and all ye need to know. Walt's lifetime pct .992.

VIDEO: Iowa Democrat shocked to learn Pete has same-sex partner!

A little vignette from Monday's Iowa Democratic (sic) caucuses has been floating around the Internet. Here you see a Christian lady who had signed a card for Pete Buttigieg asking for her vote back after learning to Mayor Pete has a husband.



The unnamed lady is quite right. The Bible says marriage is for a man and a woman. But Holy Scripture goes beyond that, condemning homosexual acts absolutely. Walt pointed this out in one of the first ever posts on WWW (9/7/09), "Homosexuality condemned in the Word of God". In spite of the efforts of the secular humanists and (alleged) Pope Francis to downplay the Scriptural injunction against this sin, the words of God remain unchanged.

With 71% of the Iowa Democratic caucus vote now reported, allegedly accurately, it appears that the "wife" ["partner", shurely! Ed.] of Chasten Glazen (aka Chasten Buttigieg) received 26.8% of the vote, just ahead of (((Bernie Sanders))) who got 25.2%. That's good for 10 delegates each to the nominating convention. Fauxcahontas got 18.4% of the votes, and four delegates. Old Joe Biden reportedly got 15.4%, and, errr, ZERO delegates.

That could all change. 29% of the votes cast are still unreported, as Dumbocrat minions go door-to-door across the frozen, snow-covered fields [Stop it! Ed.] to retrieve the paper ballots cast by caucus-goers. Whether the lady in the video ever got her vote back remains a mystery.

Further reading: Rex Murphy calls the Iowa Democratic caucus night. "the most extravagantly amateur, blundering, messed-up calamity of a major political event in modern times." National Post, 4/2/20.

VIDEO: Walt reacts to President Trump's State of the Union speech

My sentiments exactly.

If you missed the best speech Still-President Trump ever gave, you can read the full text here, on Breitbart News.

UPDATED AGAIN: Iowa caucuses: BIG RIG in progress

As a watery sun rises over the frozen, snow-covered cornfields of Iowa, [Get on with it. Ed.] voters, observers and the commentariat are waiting to pick over the entrails of the Iowa Democratic caucuses to determine who won, who lost, and who was most likely to become the Democratic candidate for the presidensity. Will it be (((Bernie Sanders))), Old Joe Biden, Fauxcahontas, or the paler, gayer version of the Prez, Pete Buttigieg?

But Houston, we have a problem! Hours after the polls closed, the number of precincts reporting results was 0 (ZERO). Dumbocratic officials told skeptical onlookers that there were "reporting issues" and "inconsistencies" which meant that vote tallies, and the number of convention delegates to be allotted to each candidate, would not be available until, errr, later today. Translation: We didn't get the result we wanted so we're bringing in experts from Chicago and Philadelphia to sort things out. Shorter translation: Rigging is still in progress.

I'm reminded of the 2008 presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Zimbabwe, which has been ruled by one party, ZANU-PF, ever since the country was "liberated" from the hated colonialists in 1980. In 2008, ZANU-PF's Comrade R.G. Mugabe was opposed by Morgan Tsvangirai, candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change. The waters were muddied by the presence of an "independent" candidate put up by ZANU-PF to split the opposition vote.

Early results from the first round of voting showed Mr Tsvangirai in the lead, to the consternation of the government-controlled Electoral Commission, which responded by suspending counting so that certain "reporting issues" and "inconsistencies" could be cleared up. Sound familiar?

Weeks later it was announced that Comrade Bob had topped the polls, but had failed to garner 50% + 1 of the votes, so a second round would need to be held. The election process was marred by violence against and intimidation of voters and opposition party workers, which eventually led to Mr Tsvangirai's withdrawal from the poll, leaving Mr Mugabe the winner.

Back to Iowa now. As Thomas Luongo wrote yesterday in "Can Bernie and Tulsi Survive Hillary's 'Urge' to Save the DNC?", the Democratic National Committee has its hair on fire at the prospect of (((Bernie Sanders))), a certified [certifiable? Ed.] anti-establishment democratic socialist, becoming the party's nominee. Even the 1/1028th Native American Senator from Massachusetts would be marginally more acceptable to American voters, they reckon, than the Brooklyn-born Jew.

Trouble is, Iowa Democrats didn't appear to agree. A number of polls showed Senator Sanders neck-and-neck with Mr Biden for the lead, with Senator Warren and Mayor Pete battling for third place, well behind the leaders.

What to do?! How about taking advantage of confusion caused by new rules to delay any announcement until paper ballots, tally sheets etc could be collected and "verified", in order to be certain that their preferred candidate -- step forward, Joe Biden -- had indeed won.

Wasn't it just last week that Rep. Adam Schiff  (D-CA) told the Senate that they must take away from Still-President Trump the power to rig elections, because the American people can't be depended on to make the right decision? The voters, he suggested, could be led astray by, for instance, the interference of foreign powers, and might be fooled into re-electing Mr Trump. So the Senate, Mr Schiff said, should pre-empt that possibility by removing Mr Trump from office and ensuring that he could never run again.

Is it possible that the DNC likewise doesn't trust Iowa Democrats to make the right decision? Is that why we're still waiting, as a watery sun rises over the frozen, snow-covered cornfields [Enough! Ed.] for the officially approved results of caucuses which began over 12 hours ago? Just askin'...

Footnote: The Iowa Democratic Party is saying now that the problem was a "coding issue" found in the app used to record and report votes. Robby Mook [Who he? Ed.] had nothing to do with it! Mr Mook was a campaign manager for Hellery Clinton, and was part of the project Defending Digital Democracy (DDD) — an initiative aimed at protecting elections from cyberattack — that tested the app ahead of the botched caucus.

UPDATE ADDED 5/2/20: The New York Post reports that the Democratic National Committee is "taking over" the accounting of results from Monday's botched caucus count as state party operatives remain unable to provide a timeline for releasing the remainder of the tally. I think we all know what that means! (((Bernie Sanders))) came close to winning so the vote tallies will have to be "verified" to bolster the totals for Mayor Pete. Stay tuned...

UPDATE ADDED 6/2/20: In case you didn't stay tuned, here's the latest from the backroom boyz at the DNC. This morning, chairman Tom Perez demanded that Iowa state officials immediately recanvass the caucus vote, amid fears that the delayed results could be "inaccurate or inauthentic." [Ya think? Ed.]

"Enough is enough," tweeted Chairman Tom. "In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass." Looks from here like they're going to keep doing it until they get it "right" (read: not left).

Between a rock and a hard place?

One for the True Facts file, courtesy of Agent 34.

Note to Ed.: Could you make the type a little bolder, please? Geddit?

Democrats shun Hellery; Walt predicts old white man will win Iowa

I know Agent 2 and others who dislike the A-word will be miffed at seeing this meme, but the good folks over at Blazing Cat Fur thought it went well with the following story, and I liked it enough to copy it.

Naomi Lim, writing in the Washington Examiner yesterday, says "Hillary Clinton is finding out what it's like to be on the long list of Democratic also-rans. The party has, for years, discarded losing presidential candidates such as George McGovern, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis, among others — to the point that they're often treated as contagious diseases, seen at best as cautionary tales about how not to campaign for the White House. Fair or not, Clinton has, in many ways, had that dishonor bestowed on her."

Ms Lim refers to Friday night's Iowa campaign rally for Senator (((Bernie Sanders))), at which the well-known Muslim human rights activist [an oxymoron, shurely! Ed.] Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) booed Hellery from the stage. Referring to Mrs Bill Clinton's recent comments bashing the 78-year-old socialist candidate, Ms Tlaib said, "You all know I can't be quiet. No, we're gonna boo. That's all right. The haters will shut up on Monday when we win."

Mrs Clinton angered Dems when she said in an interview that she would be reluctant to support her 2016 nemesis should he secure the Democratic nomination for the presidensity this year. Many prominent Dumbocrats, Ms Lim writes, are wary about hearing from her anymore. She quotes Tommy Vietor — a former Obama administration official who worked on the 2008 Obama campaign that dashed Hellery's White House hopes back then — as calling her remarks about Mr Sanders "inexcusable".

"If Bernie wins the nomination, we all need to work our asses off to help him win," Mr Vietor tweeted. "If someone else is the nominee, we all do the same for them. Don't kick up this bullshit right before Iowa, especially after complaining about Bernie's lack of support in 2016." Ms Lim also quotes Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, who blasted Mrs Clinton's "popping off" at Sanders as "uncalled for" given "the main goal of Democrats is to beat Donald Trump." Mr Bannon also slammed her for "prioritizing herself over party unity."

Iowans are heading into their complex and arcane caucus meetings as I write. All of America -- or at least those who care -- will have to wait another 12 hours or so to learn which of the dozen or so Democratic presidential wannabes will be favoured by the states Democratic voters (George and Nancy Schmidt) to take on Still-President Trump. For what it's worth, Walt predicts the winner, by an RCH [an engineering term, I believe? Ed.], will be (((Bernie Sanders))). Or maybe Old Joe Biden. Who cares... Lifetime pct .991.

Further reading: "Can Bernie and Tulsi Survive Hillary's 'Urge' to Save the DNC?", by Thomas Luongo on LewRockwell, 3/2/20. "...never underestimate this woman’s narcissistic solipsism."

Impeachment of Still-President Trump moves to final phase

Today will see the opening of the final act of the impeachment charade [trial, shurely! Ed.] Over the previous ten days of "action", the senators who comprise the jury in this proceeding were asked to examine 28,000 documents, and nearly 200 pieces of video evidence from 13 (thirteen) witnesses, with all the video clips carefully selected by the Democrat House managers to present their side of the story. Senators asked 176 questions and received some 200 answers from the Dems and counsel for Still-President Trump.

After all that, they concluded by a vote of 51 to 49 that no more evidence was needed. Very misfortunate for the Dumbocrats, since, in the words of Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) they "have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the U.S. Constitution's high bar for an impeachable offense."

The answer to the donkeys' (plural possessive intentional) question, above, is therefore NO.

What happens today and tomorrow is that the House managers and counsel for the President get to make closing statements, which will be a rehash of the dozens of hours of argument heard over the last two weeks. Then individual senators can make statements. Expect Senate Minority Leader (((Chuck Schumer))) to repeat, probably word for word, what he told the meeja immediately following Friday's vote. Expect no-one to say "Hey, I changed my mind."

The final vote will be held on Wednesday. Expect acquittal. Lifetime pct .991.

Headline of the year (so far)

Today is 20200202, a very special date for Chinese and other numerologists. Why? Because it's a palindrome. Geddit? We will not see another one until... errr... we won't see another one.

32 days have passed into history. The funniest "news" headline I've seen so far this year is this one, from the Babylon Bee:

Boris Johnson Blows Conch Shell,

England Carried Away By Herd Of Manatees

And here's the illustration that goes with it.

Guess it has something to do with Brexit! Please keep in mind, dear readers, that the Babylon Bee is a purveyor of "fake news you can trust".

Breaking news: The latest real news from Old Blighty is that "a man" was fatally shot by armed police officers in south London, after a "terrorist-related", according to the Metropolitan Police. In a tweet Sunday morning, Inspector Knacker of the Yard said a "number of people" had been stabbed at Streatham High Road, but that the attacker had been killed. Nothing, of course, about the attacker's nationality, ethnicity or religion. "Allahu akbar!"?

Further reading: "London terrorist identified as Muslim. Sorry, suckers!", WWW 30/11/19... just over two months ago. That's why I'm not even going to bother reporting these "incidents" any more.

White and coloured rodents agree on early spring

Yes, folks, it's Groundhog Day... again. Furry seers on both sides of the World's Longest Open Border have been dragged out of their burrows -- cages, actually -- to blink in the sunlight... or not. American readers will be familiar with Punxatawney Phil, the one shown in the eponymous movie. [No. You could only say "eponymous" if the movie had been named "Punxatawney Phil", not "Groundhog Day". Ed.] Bah! You know what I mean...

I just want to say that, having seen the animal in the movie, our American readers may think that groundhogs are brown. That's true, but the Canucks have their own polar groundhog, not tawny like Phil (geddit?), but white! The Weather Woodchuck of Wiarton ON is called Wiarton Willie, and here's what he looks like.

Wiarton Mayor Janice Jackson was joined by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his "shadow cabinet" (geddit?) this morning for the announcement of Willie's forecast. The event was not without its share of excitement, however, when Ms Jackson misinterpreted the portent. She initially told the town crier that the rodent had seen his shadow, meaning spring was on the way. But by the time Willie was coaxed out of his den, the sky was cloudy, so, no shadow.

Punxatawney Phil also made an appearance this morning with his top-hatted handlers before a huge crowd at Gobbler's Knob PA, and likewise predicted an early spring.

There is another groundhog, colour unknown, further east, in Shubenacadie NS. They're on Atlantic Time there, so Sam is always the first groundhog in North America to make a prediction about how long winter will last, with Willie and Phil weighing in about an hour later. Sadly, the festivities at Shubenacadie Wildlife Park were cancelled this year due to a blustery snowstorm that hit the region last night.

[That's enough groundhogs. You're straining the spell-checker. Ed.]

George Parry: "How Not to Impeach a President"

Writing in The American Spectator today, George Parry says "arrogance and incompetence were all the spiteful Dems had to offer." A couple of excerpts:

"Obviously, this latest failed effort to depose Trump has left the Democrats frustrated, bitterly disappointed and, quite possibly, wondering how their sure-fire impeachment gambit turned into such a political train wreck.... How, the Democrats may ask, did things go so wrong?
On this last point, maybe I can help explain why the impeachment became an unmitigated, self-defeating mess....

"Having a certifiable mental case like Adam Schiff preside over the House proceedings and then serve as one of the House Managers at the Senate trial was a calamitous and entirely avoidable self-inflicted wound. Ever since Trump's 2016 election, Schiff has exhibited a messianic detachment from reality and sociopathic compulsion to prevaricate.

"For years, he has publicly and repeatedly insisted that he has secret, conclusive proof that Trump colluded with the Russians. Even after the exhaustive investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General exposed Russian collusion as a hoax, Schiff has neither retracted his claim nor disclosed his hidden evidence....

"But as bad as Schiff has been, he does not hold a unique distinction among the benighted House Managers for idiotic, self-defeating behavior. Take, for example, House Manager Jerrold Nadler’s bizarre attempt to intimidate the senators by claiming that a vote to acquit Trump would be tantamount to engaging in a cover-up. Slick move, Jerry. Crapping on the jury is always a winning technique....

"This is by no means a complete catalog of the House Managers’ self-defeating, unethical, and dishonest acts that will result in Trump’s acquittal. But you get the idea. Having been cossetted, protected, and praised by their mainstream media fan club, the House Managers have presented their case with fatal arrogance and stupidity which has all but guaranteed the president’s upcoming acquittal."

Marine Le Pen calls EU "failure", recommends "Frexit"

Regular readers will know that I have lots and lots of time for Marine Le Pen, the president of the French Rassemblement National (= National Rally), a power in French politics for over a decade, resisting globalism and promoting the growing movement to make France France again.

Madame Le Pen weighed in yesterday on Brexit -- the official withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union -- which finally took place on January 31st, at the stroke of midnight, western European time, in accordance with documents previously signed by both parties. In a Tweet, Mme Le Pen called the British exit from the EU the beginning of the collapse of the European Union and the formation of independent European states.

Mme Le Pen wrote (translated), "Brexit Day should mark the beginning of the construction of the European Alliance of Independent Nations, which we wish for." She believes the vast majority of Europeans want independence from the EU, which she predicted will go down in history as an "epic failure."

Inspired by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's success in "getting Brexit done", Mme Le Pen vowed to return France to "common sense". Millions of Frenchmen and women wish her well.

VIDEOS: Are your kids watching Sesame Street?

Sesame Street is good, right? Kids who watch it learn to count, they learn the alphabet, they learn to play nice with others... That was the case 50 years ago, when my kids watched. I watched too, and could do pretty good impressions of Grover (my favourite character), The Count and Bert and Ernie. All good clean fun, and educational too! What could go wrong?

Answer: plenty! Once the children's show got not just established but popular, the creators at the Children's Television Workshop (known now as Sesame Workshop) and their enablers at PBS became confident enough to start pushing their liberal, secular humanist, pro-queer agenda. Now the show is nothing but incessant propaganda for "diversity", "inclusiveness", and the current flavour of the month, gender ideology. Check this out.



Ah yes, some boys like to dress up as heroes, some like to play with dolls, some like to dress up as dolls. Right? Just in case the point was not clear, Sesame Street's producers announced this week that Billy Porter, a homosexual cross-dressing actor -- oh, he's black too! -- who is known to wear dresses on red carpets to posh Hollywood events, will be bringing his "fierce vibes" to the show, to do his bit to mold the minds of young viewers into the politically correct shape.

To the surprise of the show's creators, many fans have taken to social media to express outrage. According to Big League Politics, one parent said, "That is pushing [too] much at little children, it makes no sense, kids have [too] much on their little plates as it is. Why add more?"

Another viewer commented, "Sesame Street is for children. And diversity should be taught at a child appropriate level. A man in a dress is not child appropriate, in fact, it can be confusing. While striving to teach to 'be yourself' you're teaching boys who are masculine that it's not OK for them to be masculine."

This is nothing new. Check out the video, featuring our old buddy Gavin McInnes, posted in "Lefties demand white males be ashamed of being normal", 10/6/16.

Another Sesame Street fan asked, "As though our children are not confused enough. What is your agenda?" The agenda is clear enough. Sesame Street has been on the woke bandwagon for quite some time, pushing gender equality and gay marriage on children for years. It's all part of the whole pro-queer agenda. The victims are our children, who are subjected to this incessant propaganda and wind up confused and, all too often, abused. Watch this!



"Don't confuse me!" was posted over seven years ago, and the petition referred to at the end is long gone, but lots of people got the message. Lots of people, including (I hope) you, dear reader, know that the agenda being pushed by the "alphabet people" and their liberal enablers is morally wrong and a threat to our families. But we aren't standing up to them, and they're still at it, packing their fudge into the minds of kids who aren't young or sophisticated enough to know they're being groomed. Parents! Are you going to sit there and not do something, anything, to protest?

"What can I do?", I hear you ask. For starters, how about turning off the TV when Sesame Street comes on. There are many fine Christian TV shows for kids. Click here to visit Faithful Moms, "nurturing faith + faithfulness in our hearts & homes", for some suggestions. May God and His Blessed Mother guide and protect you and your children!

Further reading: "Washington Democrats Push Mandatory LGBTQ-Focused Sex Ed for Kindergartners", Conservative Media, undated.