VIDEO: Gavin McInnes: Half a century of white guilt is finally OVER

"Wakanda has lost its vibranium!" I love it. In this episode of Get Off My Lawn, which I believe was posted before the one we put up earlier today, our old friend Gavin McInnes discusses the death of racism.

I especially enjoyed his jibe about "Real Housewives of the NFL"!

If you describe to subscribe to Gavin's podcast, tell him Walt sent ya!

VIDEO: Banned in Canada - how come?

Here's a modern remake of an old country and western number, "Squaws Along the Yukon", first recorded in 1960 by Hank Thompson. This version was recorded by The Indians (with Noel Brady singing lead) which is actually an Irish show band, still going strong.

Evidently phrases like "cultural appropriation" and "political correctness" haven't reached Eire yet, but they sure have reached Canada (Emperor Trudeau II, Prop.) where the NPCs and SJWs succeeded in getting the Canuck Broadcast Standards Council to ban it from the airwaves. Here are the lyrics. What's wrong with that?

The words which the PC police now find offensive are slang words from "north of 60" which have been in use since the 19th century and are still to be found in complete dictionaries of Canadian English. Some of them are now regarded as unsuitable for use in polite company -- like the N-word -- but hey, it's only a song. What's next? Pretty soon we won't be able to sing "Old Folks at Home" because it includes the word "darkies". Oh... wait...



Walt wishes to give Agent 5 a feather for his headdress for drawing this to our attention. Unfortunately 5 sent the news to an old e-mail address, so it didn't reach us until just now, when Ed. was tidying up our databases. 5, do ye likewise, and Happy New Year!

Jill Colton strikes again - Trudeau 2019 campaign ad

Speaking of Canuck Prime Minister Just In Trudeau (mentioned in my earlier post today), many Canadians are relieved to know that Mr Dressup has to face the electorate in about 16 months. Yet they are anxious over the possibility that he just might be re-elected, if campaign ads like this one impress a sufficient number of hosers.



To Jill Colton, a big WELL DONE. Keep `em coming. And thanks to Agent 3 for sending us the link.

W.P. Kinsella, RIP

W.P. Kinsella died yesterday, having chosen "doctor-assisted suicide" under Canada's new laws permitting the same. RIP.

Mr Kinsella was a Canadian author and curmudgeon -- nice combination, that -- best known outside the Great Not-so-white North for His 1982 magic-realist novel Shoeless Joe, about a farmer who hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field. Readers -- those who actually read books, a rare breed nowadays -- will recognize that as the plot of the popular Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams. "If you build it, he will come."

In his home and native land, particularly in the west, Mr Kinsella is fondly (mostly) remembered for Dance Me Outside (1977), Moccasin Telegraph (1983), The Miss Hobbema Pageant (1989) and other collections of short stories set in and around the Hobbema Indian ["First Nations", please. Ed.] Reserve in central Alberta. The obit on CBC Radio this morning actually called Hobbema "fictional", which shows how much the CBC knows about anything outside of Toronto.

His stories about the Cree people and life on the "rez" aroused the ire of the liberals and SJWs, who accused Mr Kinsella of "cultural appropriation", since he was a paleface, therefore not entitled to speak/write with the voice of the indigenous people. Such is the stultifyingly political correct atmosphere of 21st-century Canada.

Carolyn Swayze, Mr Kinsella's agent, issued a statement calling the writer "a unique, creative and outrageously opinionated man. He was a dedicated storyteller, performer, curmudgeon and irascible and difficult man.... Not a week has passed in the last 22 years, without [my] receiving a note of appreciation for Bill's stories. His contribution will endure."

The notes of appreciation of which Ms Swayze spoke probably came from the USA. I say that remembering an interview in which Mr Kinsella said, "Americans are the kind of people who, if they like something, will send you a note to say 'I liked that.' Canadians won't send a note. They'll say 'I liked that. There must be something wrong with it.'"

A true (and ridiculous) Canadian story of political correctness

Nowhere -- repeat: NOWHERE -- is political correctness more firmly entrenched than in the Great No-longer-white North. Everything has to be done by the book: The Little Red Book of Diversity and Sensitivity (Queen's Printer, 1/4/15). The latest sin the PC police are trying to stamp out is "cultural appropriation".

Not quite the same as "cultural insensitivity", it seems to mean being so keen on some other ethnic/religious group's culture that you take it for your own. Many examples were found on Hallowe'en. White parents were instructed, for example, that it was "inappropriate" to send their kids out trick-or-treating dressed as Indians. [Hey! "First Nations"! Ed.] And one of the newly-minted Liberal cabinet ministers was pilloried in the meeja for having donned a coolie hat and gone to a Hallowe'en party as a Chinese. She was obliged to take "offensive" photos off her FB page.

And now for today's news from the battle against cultural insensitivity. At the resolutely bilingual University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa, a free class in yoga which had been given for seven years at the university's Centre for Students with Disabilities was no longer offered this fall because some students and volunteers were "uncomfortable with the 'cultural issues' involved."

Yesterday, The lead instructor, Jen Scharf, told CBC News, "I guess it was this cultural appropriation issue because yoga originally comes from India. I told them, 'Why don't we just change the name of the course?' It's simple enough, just call it 'mindful stretching'.... We're not going through the finer points of scripture. We're talking about basic physical awareness and how to stretch so that you feel good.

"That went back and forth.... The higher-ups at the student federation got involved, finally we got an email routed through the student federation basically saying they couldn't get a French name and nobody wants to do it, so we're going to cancel it for now."

You couldn't make this stuff up, could you. Anyone who can come up with a suitable name en français is invited to send it to Walt at the usual address, for forwarding to the U of 0, as many Canadians call the ultra-PC institution of higher learning.