VIDEO: Drunk driver plays diversity, victim cards, gets arrested anyway

Bodycam footage seen recently on X illustrates the social justice/police brutality/yada yada bullshit that cops (especially white male cops) have to put up with in Woke America.

If you didn't catch all of it, here's a list of excuses this... errr... lady?... Karen?... libtard?... wokester came up with in just three minutes.

* I have bad social anxiety

* I don't wanna step out of the car because there's a lot of stuff going around

* I'm an indigenous person

* I'm non-binary

* Don't call me "ma'am"

* I have mental health problems [I believe that one. Ed.]

* You're trying to intimidate me

* I have PTSD

* This is triggering

* I have generational trauma

* I don't like being around white people and cops

* You're scaring me

* You're hurting me!!!

To think that in Biden's woke America, people like this are allowed to not only drive cars (even when drunk), but to vote!

Would you drink a beer called "Pubic Hair"?

Step right up, folks, and get an ice cold can of "the perfect summer beer, light body with a subtle citrus flavour from the New Zealand Hops! Find one in the wild or in Alberta's liquor stores and pubs"

So says Hell's Basement Brewery, out of Medicine Hat AB [Seriously. Look it up. Ed.], which launched Huruhuru (the Feather) New Zealand Hopped Pale Ale two years ago. Two years. That's how long it took for word to filter back to Canuckistan that "huruhuru" actually means pubic hair in te reo, the language spoken by the Maori people of New Zealand.

A Facebooker named Te Hamua Nikora, who is Maori, this week called out the brewery and a leathercraft shop in New Zealand for both using the word. "What's the first thing most Maori think when they hear the word 'huruhuru'?" asked Mr Nikora in his FB video. "It was brought to my attention a few days ago that there is a new shop in Wellington...and it's called Huruhuru Authentic Leather."

He said he sent the shop a Facebook message to ask what they thought the word meant. He said they responded that they found it in a dictionary as a word for "feather". "When the Maori look at the name of your store, they're not going to see 'feather' or soft leather," he said, "they're going to see 'pubes'."

The FB post quickly came to the attention of Mike Patriquin, founder and general manager of Hell's Basement Brewery, who responded with a stereotypically Canadian fulsime apology. "The interpretation was intended as 'feather' – meaning the beer itself is light as a feather and this is also stated in the name," said Mike in an e-mailed statement.

"We acknowledge that we did not consider the commonplace use of the term 'huruhuru' as a reference to pubic hair, and that consultation with a Maori representative would have been a better reference than online dictionaries. We wish to make especially clear that it was not our intent to infringe upon, appropriate, or offend the Maori culture or people in any way; to those who feel disrespected, we apologize."

Huruhuru IPA is to be rebranded. Names are being checked carefully with the PC police, and "AB0" (AB for Alberta and 0 as in "zero") has already been rejected.

Note from Ed.: Walt has returned.

John Robson: Questions that will get you booted off the leaders' planes

What follows is really for those of our Canadian readers who wish their political leaders would give clear answers to their questions about the issues of the day. American readers (as well as Brits, Aussies, anyone and everyone) will also find it useful to clip, save and adapt to their own countries' politics for the next go-round.

This is copied, almost verbatim, from "Here are the questions that would get me kicked off the federal leaders' planes", by John Robson, in today's National Post, the only major Canuck news outlet that even tries to provide unbiased coverage of the election campaign. Mr Robson writes:

"...thoughtful eloquence isn't as useless as most politicians seem to think. And too many journalists, including those who accept, as the price of admission to the campaign plane, that instead of pressing the candidates they will report their hideous verbiage as actual speech. They make themselves complicit. And for what?

Before insulting anyone else let me congratulate debate organizers for finally inviting Maxime Bernier. And not only because I think he's the only one even trying to talk sense, though I do.... Bernier's a serious presence, especially because on a remarkable number of issues he's on one side and the four "major" parties busy hacking one another to rhetorical shreds are grouped tightly together on the other. (Five if you count the Bloc [Québécois].)

If you doubt me, imagine what their leaders would mumble, if cornered, on the following questions that I'd insist on asking firmly and repeatedly with zero patience for evasions, bait-and-switch, impenetrable syntax or pre-chewed talking points:

• Is government in Canada too big? If so, what would you get rid of? If not, how would you pay for it?
• Why can't we do health care the way the French or Swedes do instead of the way Cuba does? (Anyone who drags in "American-style health care" immediately has their mic cut off.)
• Is China friend, foe or simply a foreign entity pursuing its own national interest?
• Does Canada need capable armed forces? If so, what do we need and how much are you ready to spend? If not, how do we deal with a dangerous world?
• Is the world dangerous? If not, how do you explain the entire course of human history? If so, why aren’t you more worried?
• Why do we deliberately raise the price of food for the poor through supply management? (Maxime Bernier can just sit and smirk during this one. Andrew Scheer can't.)
• Why is Canada the only democracy without any sort of abortion law (Vietnam also has none but even Cuba regulates late-term ones) when most Canadians want some restrictions?
• Does man-made climate change threaten civilization within the next decade or three? If so, how are we going to get rid of fossil fuels pronto and what will we replace them with? If not, why won’t you call global warming alarmism baloney?
• How should Canada's national interest factor into our immigration policies? Is there a level of immigration that you believe would be beyond our capability to absorb?
• Do you really think Canadian Indigenous bands are separate nations? If so, when will you explicitly legislate that Canadian law does not apply on their territories and open embassies? If not, why do you pretend to? Won’t they be annoyed when they realize you’re lying again?
• Where do you get your ideas of right and wrong? If "the Catholic church", why aren't your policies remotely consistent with Church doctrine? If  "from within", how do you know you're right? If "there’s no such thing as right and wrong," how can we trust you to do what’s right?
• How large, of all that human hearts endure, is that part that laws and governments can cure?

There. I wouldn't be the first person thrown off a campaign plane, possibly by other journalists. But with that list I can reasonably aspire to be the first to go out the door in mid-flight.

Bravo, Mr Robson. Bravo! Let's see how many (if any) of these questions are addressed seriously in the Leaders' Debates.

Footnote: For those who didn't buy the programme, the political leaders pictured are: Top row, L-R: Andrew Scheer (Conservative), Maxime Bernier (People's Party of Canada), Justin Trudeau (Liberal); bottom row, L-R: Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc Québécois, which runs candidates only in la Belle Province), Elizabeth May (Green) and Jagmeet Singh (NDP).

"Anti-racist" reign of terror spreads from Confederate to Catholic statues

The violent alt-left extremism that is now sweeping the Excited States of America, as seen in Charlottesville VA and many other cities, has now extended its terror in another direction. First it was the desecration and destruction of historic statuary and monuments. Now it's religious (read: Catholic) statues that are under attack.

The first victim in this latest fit of iconoclasm was the statue of Fra Junipero Serra at a park across the street from Mission San Fernando, in California. Brother Juniper was a Franciscan missionary who brought the Catholic Faith to the Spaniards and Indians in Alta California. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 25 September 1988, and canonised on 23 September 2015, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, during JP II's first visit to the United States. Because of the Saint's recorded acts of piety combined with his missionary efforts, he was granted the posthumous title "Apostle of California".

Now the barbarians of the left, acting in the name of "indigenous rights", have spray-painted a statue of Saint Serra, covering the face, chest, and hands in red paint. The word "murder" is written in white down the front. An Indian (or Native American -- whatever's PC) boy standing with him as part of the statue has red painted under his eyes and down his front as though he were crying blood. The obligatory swastika, standing for everything the anti-Western, anti-Christian hates -- has also painted on the boy.

Thus the frenzy of destruction of statues honouring heroes of the Confederacy is extended to all statues, paintings, photographs and other reminders of people and events that make liberals, secular humanists and revisionists feel uncomfortable. But really... Fra Junipero Serra is a Catholic Saint, and his statue is a religious icon! There is talk, now, of moving the statue to a museum where it can be "protected" (read: forgotten about), but the damage has been done.

The problem is not so much the removal of a statue to a museum, but rather the question of where the revisionism ends. As President Trump has said, if statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are torn down because they were slave-owners, why not also destroy statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? After the statues, what next? The names of buildings, streets, cities and perhaps even states? (It's already happened in Canada's capital, where the name of Hector Langevin has been taken off the government building which houses the Prime Minister's office, because M Langevin dared to suggest that Indian kids might be better educated in residential schools.) Perhaps Washington DC and Washington state could be renamed to honour... let's see... how about Al Sharpton?

Why stop there? How about reprinting American currency to avoid any association with slavery... or Freemasonry? How about rewriting, or even discarding the Constitution because many of its authors were slaveholders? History is filled with unpleasantness, just like the present. It is important to acknowledge the sins of the past, but it is also important to recognize that some of the same people also contributed great things to the world. Shall we talk only about the sins -- real and imagined -- of these people, or simply write them out of history entirely? Shall we just deface, or totally destroy all things we don't like?

It seems that the world is sinking into a chaos of barbarism like that which followed the Fall of Rome. It was that chaos that led St. Benedict of Nursia to gather books and religious articles into his monastery at Monte Cassino, there to preserve Western culture until the Dark Ages ended. What will it take to make America -- or the blue half of it, at least -- come to its senses? And until it does, who will preserve and protect the physical evidence of what went before?

WORTH WATCHING: Dr. Steve Hurley talks about Confederate statues and cultural Marxism. Just posted on YouTube today. Find out what's really behind the mania.

UPDATED: What really happened in Québec City

Poor Len Canayen, having very little to do until the start of hockey season, has been keeping a sharp eye on the situation in the Canadian province of Québec, which has been inundated this summer with 1000s of "refugees" and asylum-seekers -- mostly from Haïti -- who have been fleeing across the world's longest undefended border to escape Trumpian "persecution" and (really) get more generous welfare and other benefits. See "1000s of Haïtians invade Canada as Trudeau government dithers", WWW 17/8/17.

UPDATE: Speaking today at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle QC, where about 98% of the invaders are crossing the US-Canada border while the Mounties stand by helplessly, Public Security Minister Ralph Goodale says he suspects that human smugglers [as opposed to robot smugglers? Ed.] may be the cause of the "spike". Nothing to do with Junior's putting out the welcome mat, then.

As you might expect (but won't be able to tell from reading the Canuck lamestream media) there has been a huge anti-immigrant backlash in la Belle Province, so much so that Prime Minister "Junior" Trudeau interrupted his march in yesterday's "Pride" parade in Montréal (in which he walked arm in arm with Ireland's new gay Indian prime minister) to denounce those who protest against the invasion and proclaim that Canada won't be defined by "a bunch of racists".

He was referring, no doubt, to La Meute (= The Pack, as in wolf pack), a group of Québécois which originated in a Facebook group and now has 43,000 members. They believe Québec is under the threat of Sharia law and radical, and are staunchly against immigration. Even as Hairboy spoke, La Meute was gathering in an underground garage in the centre of Québec City, in preparation for a march on the National Assembly (= legislature) for which they had a permit issued by the city government.

In anticipation of the protest march, several hundred loony left, antifa and "human rights" protesters assembled above ground, intent on "shutting down the racists". Here's a photo of some of the "counter-demonstrators". Note the hijabs, the masks and face coverings, and the red flags (including a Soviet Union flag worn as a mask). The flag with the depiction of an Indian (sorry for the un-PC word) is a symbol of the fight for "indigenous rights".

The alt-left counter-protesters had no permit. Their gathering was declared illegal by police when black-clad militants began jostling with authorities and threw projectiles at the police and members of La Meute. Maxime Fiset, who is paid by taxpayers for his "work" at the province's "anti-radicalization centre", admitted that their actions were violent. "I'm mad at such a display of violence," he told Radio-Canada, "because it was useless. It's a public relations victory for La Meute."

He looked on, ashen-faced, as members of La Meute emerged from their bunker and marched silently and peacefully down the street to the National Assembly... with a police escort. Here's a photo.

The leaders of La Meute were triumphant, claiming the group showed discipline when faced with provocation. Said Patrick Beaudry, one of the group's founders, "We made our point. I really believe this day will be the day La Meute gets out peacefully, just to the show the people what we really are."

Compare yesterday's march in Québec City with the events in Charlottesville VA. What began as a peaceful protest by the right was met with violence incited and initiated by the left. The protesters had a permit; the counter-protesters did not. Unlike in Charlottesville, in Québec City there was violence only by one side -- the alt-left side. (One of the leaders of the counter-protest was arrested and dragged away from the scene by police.) The difference in Québec City was that the police did what they are supposed to do, enforcing the law and protecting freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. Perhaps, just this once, Americans could learn something from Canadians.

WORTH READING (ADDED 24/8/17): "Astonishing nonsense from the Liberals amid surge of asylum-seekers", by Chris Selley in the National Post, 23/8/17.