Not a very original headline, but it's been in the back of my mind for half a year so I figure this is my last chance to use it. The Libyan dictator/tyrant/whatever ran like a rat up a drainpipe -- as the Aussies say -- but got caught and killed anyway. An ignominious end. [There's a word you don't see very often. Ed.] ["End"? Walt]
Walt has composed a little tribute.
So, farewell then
Moammar Gadhafi
Had you been more religious
You could have been known
As "the Mad Mullah"
Instead of
"The Mad Colonel".
That little war only took...what...seven months or so? Now the NATO forces can come home covered with glory, or at least sand. They return to America, Britain, Canada, France, Qatar [Are you sure about the last one? Ed.] with a perfect record:
No runs - Nobody ran away
No hits - Except for a few hundred innocent bystanders
No errors - See above
And
Nobody left on base.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Latest from Pat Buchanan on immigration
Pat Buchanan, once a contender for the Republican presidential nomination and still something of a media giant, appeared today on The Arena, on Canada's new cable outlet, Sun News TV. Here's what he had to say about what's happened to the USA.
"The transformation [of America] has been dramatic and unique in our history, and the reason America has and will lose its greatness is that we are no longer unified. Anybody can become a good American, coming from anywhere in the world. But whereas in the past we asked them to become American, now we encourage America to become like them.
"We've given away what made us one. Faith, symbols of unity, the European, overwhelmingly Christian heritage of the majority who were and made the country. People could be who and what they liked, but they had to know what the national core values and identity were. No longer."
It's a theme many Canadians might embrace, says host Michael Coren, but if they did so they're be accused or racism and fascism. Buchanan laughs. "Sure, and so have I! It's nonsense, but it's still said. Look, we need in the US to implement zero immigration policies. Now. And that has to stand until we reduce unemployment levels to something much more reasonable and manageable."
Mr. Buchanan was plugging his new book, Suicide of a Superpower. You can read more about the interview and the book here. Coren sums up, "[Buchanan's] opinions...are realistic to the point of pessimism. The United States will not be the power we have known, and the vacuum it leaves, he argues, will be filled by any number of ambitious rivals, all dominant in their own areas. It's a sobering truth, and one that unsettles the status quo. It's that, I suppose, that makes his voice so compelling and necessary."
Footnote: Sun News is carried on most Canadian cable networks, but not on the country's major satellite service, Bell. "Progressive thinkers" and liberal loonies have dubbed Sun "Fox News North". Is that why Bell won't give it one of its 500 or so channels? If you're a Bell Expressvu subscriber, and you're not getting "quality you can count on", get hold of Bell and ask them. [And lots o' luck getting to talk to a real person! Ed.]
"The transformation [of America] has been dramatic and unique in our history, and the reason America has and will lose its greatness is that we are no longer unified. Anybody can become a good American, coming from anywhere in the world. But whereas in the past we asked them to become American, now we encourage America to become like them.
"We've given away what made us one. Faith, symbols of unity, the European, overwhelmingly Christian heritage of the majority who were and made the country. People could be who and what they liked, but they had to know what the national core values and identity were. No longer."
It's a theme many Canadians might embrace, says host Michael Coren, but if they did so they're be accused or racism and fascism. Buchanan laughs. "Sure, and so have I! It's nonsense, but it's still said. Look, we need in the US to implement zero immigration policies. Now. And that has to stand until we reduce unemployment levels to something much more reasonable and manageable."
Mr. Buchanan was plugging his new book, Suicide of a Superpower. You can read more about the interview and the book here. Coren sums up, "[Buchanan's] opinions...are realistic to the point of pessimism. The United States will not be the power we have known, and the vacuum it leaves, he argues, will be filled by any number of ambitious rivals, all dominant in their own areas. It's a sobering truth, and one that unsettles the status quo. It's that, I suppose, that makes his voice so compelling and necessary."
Footnote: Sun News is carried on most Canadian cable networks, but not on the country's major satellite service, Bell. "Progressive thinkers" and liberal loonies have dubbed Sun "Fox News North". Is that why Bell won't give it one of its 500 or so channels? If you're a Bell Expressvu subscriber, and you're not getting "quality you can count on", get hold of Bell and ask them. [And lots o' luck getting to talk to a real person! Ed.]
Starting this week: another dumb war America can't win
"I don't oppose all wars.... What I am opposed to is a dumb war." So said then-state-senator Barack Hussein Obama in 2002. Presumably that's why the his government has now confirmed that it will pull out of Iraq at the end of this year, having spent nearly 800 billion dollars -- $800,000,000,000 -- and about 4500 American lives, and accomplished, errr, nothing except deposing a ruthless dictator and replacing him with, errr, next to nothing.Meanwhile, another dumb war continues in Afghanistan. According to Arianna Huffington's book, Third World America, Obama's presumably much smarter surge in the summer of 2010 cost a mere $33,000,000,000. For what? Admiral Michael "Moon" Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the goals of the surge included not just defeating the Taliban but "reducing corruption, making local government work and, eventually, providing jobs."
"Talk about mission creep!" says Ms Huffington. "Is that why we are still fighting a war there nine years later -- to provide jobs for the people of Kandahar? It's like a very bad joke!... The Obama administration is ramping up a multibillion-dollar program that will create a host of new jobs. The bad news is, you have to move to Kandahar to apply."
But wait (as Vince Offer would say), there's more! On Friday the Prez announced with pride a brand new military adventure: the deployment of 100 troops to Uganda [that's in central Africa, not far from the land of Obama's ancestors. Ed.] to hunt for Joseph Kony, infamous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a fanatical militia that has killed an estimated 30,000 people over the past two decades.
All the more reason for a huge new US base in Libya (geddit?). And very useful for robbing Africa of the rest of its raw materials while denying them to the rising super-power, China.
But it's no biggie. It's only 100 "advisers". Well, OK, they are going to be armed, but they won't shoot first...maybe. What they'll be doing is crashing through the jungle -- it really is a jungle out there! -- trying to catch Joey Kony, who has managed to evade capture for something like 20 years. Some say he has magical powers or ointments that make him invisible, sort of like a darker Scarlet Pimpernel.
Yes, only 100 American troops...this week. But just wait. Walt's opinion? Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. Trust me, Hussein. This won't get you re-elected!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Hockey Night in Canada: Cole must go!
Walt has a word for Bob Cole, who does the play-by-play on Hockey Night in Canada's Saturday night games from Montréal. STUPID! That's the word...
Last night, at the beginning of the second period, a Colorado player did a dastardly deed and the referee immediately signalled an infraction. Quoth "Old King" Cole, "That's the first penalty of the game." That in spite of the presence in the penalty box of another Colorado player who'd been sent off at the end of the first. And get this. Cole said it twice! STUPID!
The colour commentator, former player Garry Galley -- Cole never played the game, it seems -- made an oblique reference to Montréal's "five-on-three power play" a few seconds later, but it took a couple of minutes before Cole twigged and apologized for his egregious error.
Later in the period, Cole completely missed a penalty to the Habs for delay of game. STUPID. This time Galley took the fall for it, lamely remarking that he should have said something about the Canadien player clearing the puck over the glass "and that's why the whistle went on that last play".
Bob Cole is 187 years old. He is visually challenged to the point where glasses can't help any more. It's time for him to wend his way to the home, before they come and get him.
Last night, at the beginning of the second period, a Colorado player did a dastardly deed and the referee immediately signalled an infraction. Quoth "Old King" Cole, "That's the first penalty of the game." That in spite of the presence in the penalty box of another Colorado player who'd been sent off at the end of the first. And get this. Cole said it twice! STUPID!
The colour commentator, former player Garry Galley -- Cole never played the game, it seems -- made an oblique reference to Montréal's "five-on-three power play" a few seconds later, but it took a couple of minutes before Cole twigged and apologized for his egregious error.
Later in the period, Cole completely missed a penalty to the Habs for delay of game. STUPID. This time Galley took the fall for it, lamely remarking that he should have said something about the Canadien player clearing the puck over the glass "and that's why the whistle went on that last play".
Bob Cole is 187 years old. He is visually challenged to the point where glasses can't help any more. It's time for him to wend his way to the home, before they come and get him.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The great multicult mistake
Here's a brief history of multiculturalism in Canada, according to Salim Mansur, political scientist, columnist for Canada's Sun newspapers, and author of Delectable Lie: A liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, a new book soon to be panned by the lamestream media as "unhelpful" and "downright racist".
Canada was the first of the Western democracies to turn multiculturalism — an idea Mansur calls "without philosophical substance" — into official policy. In October 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced multiculturalism as an official policy for Canada. PET told Canadians that they wouldn't recognize Canada after he got through with it. He was right.
In 1988, in a blatant attempt to grab a bigger share of "the ethnic vote", Lyin' Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives enshrined Trudeau’s policy in a new Multiculturalism Act. The ethnics and vizmins kept voting Liberal anyway.
The lesson is that you can't blame official multiculturalism on either the centre-left Liberals or the centre-right Conservatives. Both parties, just as much as the pinko NDP, are unwavering in their support for the cult of multicult, even today. It was not just Trudeau, but Canada’s political elite, supported by the intellectual and media elites of the country -- the Rosedale liberals -- who adopted as the law of the land a dubious and deeply flawed policy, with virtually no questions asked.
Four decades after multicult became not just trendy but politically correct, some of the Western democracies -- Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands -- have openly expressed regrets. Their elected leaders have all publicly admitted the failure of official multiculturalism to secure social harmony or advance national interests.
In Delectable Lie: A liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, Mansur (of Arab origin, please note) analyses why the multicult policy was imposed on Canada in an act of bad faith, and is detrimental to the vitality of Canada or any liberal democracy.
The bad faith resided in the ridiculous proposition that all cultures are equal. This is the keystone of multiculturalism as an idea, and, Mansur says, is untenable.
Individuals are born equal, he argues, but cultures — by definition, culture represents the shared values, beliefs and customs of a collective — are not and never have been equal.
It is absurd, he writes, to say that the culture of the Saudi Arabs — or the Taliban, or Muslims from Pakistan, Iran, Somalia etc. — is in any way equal to and deserving of equal respect as the culture of an advanced liberal democracy, such as Canada before it was smitten by the dogma of multiculturalism.
Late in life, we are told, Trudeau expressed his misgivings about multiculturalism. He was asked to comment on how, as a result of his policy, most new immigrants ranked their ethnic-based cultural identity ahead of Canadian identity. He indicated his sadness, admitting this is not what he had wanted. That's as close as PET would ever come to admitting he made a mistake. Unfortunately, the damage had long since been done. Perhaps it can never be undone.
Click here to read some excerpts from this worthwhile new book. The website is that of ACT! for Canada, which is loosely connected with Brigitte Gabriel's ACT! for America, which has over 150,000 members, close to 500 chapters across America and a full time lobbyist on Capitol Hill.
Canada was the first of the Western democracies to turn multiculturalism — an idea Mansur calls "without philosophical substance" — into official policy. In October 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced multiculturalism as an official policy for Canada. PET told Canadians that they wouldn't recognize Canada after he got through with it. He was right.
In 1988, in a blatant attempt to grab a bigger share of "the ethnic vote", Lyin' Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives enshrined Trudeau’s policy in a new Multiculturalism Act. The ethnics and vizmins kept voting Liberal anyway.
The lesson is that you can't blame official multiculturalism on either the centre-left Liberals or the centre-right Conservatives. Both parties, just as much as the pinko NDP, are unwavering in their support for the cult of multicult, even today. It was not just Trudeau, but Canada’s political elite, supported by the intellectual and media elites of the country -- the Rosedale liberals -- who adopted as the law of the land a dubious and deeply flawed policy, with virtually no questions asked.
Four decades after multicult became not just trendy but politically correct, some of the Western democracies -- Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands -- have openly expressed regrets. Their elected leaders have all publicly admitted the failure of official multiculturalism to secure social harmony or advance national interests.
In Delectable Lie: A liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, Mansur (of Arab origin, please note) analyses why the multicult policy was imposed on Canada in an act of bad faith, and is detrimental to the vitality of Canada or any liberal democracy.
The bad faith resided in the ridiculous proposition that all cultures are equal. This is the keystone of multiculturalism as an idea, and, Mansur says, is untenable.
Individuals are born equal, he argues, but cultures — by definition, culture represents the shared values, beliefs and customs of a collective — are not and never have been equal.
It is absurd, he writes, to say that the culture of the Saudi Arabs — or the Taliban, or Muslims from Pakistan, Iran, Somalia etc. — is in any way equal to and deserving of equal respect as the culture of an advanced liberal democracy, such as Canada before it was smitten by the dogma of multiculturalism.
Late in life, we are told, Trudeau expressed his misgivings about multiculturalism. He was asked to comment on how, as a result of his policy, most new immigrants ranked their ethnic-based cultural identity ahead of Canadian identity. He indicated his sadness, admitting this is not what he had wanted. That's as close as PET would ever come to admitting he made a mistake. Unfortunately, the damage had long since been done. Perhaps it can never be undone.
Click here to read some excerpts from this worthwhile new book. The website is that of ACT! for Canada, which is loosely connected with Brigitte Gabriel's ACT! for America, which has over 150,000 members, close to 500 chapters across America and a full time lobbyist on Capitol Hill.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Who are we kidding about the Afghan war?
Walt is amazed that, all of a sudden, it has become politically acceptable to call the war in/on Afghanistan a waste of time, money and 1000s of lives. Even the lamestream media are starting to stray from the government line, now that said line -- that we're there to bring peace, democracy and civilization to the barbaric hordes -- has been proven to be a big black crock of shit.
A couple of days ago, Walt passed on Lawrence Martin's review of Murray Brewster's new book, The Savage War. Today Jeffrey Simpson (Martin's stablemate at the Moan and Wail) joins the chorus with "The timeless intractability of Afghanistan". He begins: Whom are we kidding in Afghanistan? Ourselves, it would appear.
Well, not really. As Walt has said before (ahem!), we are not kidding ourselves. We are being kidded by the governments of the USA, the UK, and Canada. And the lamestream media -- led by the likes of the Globe and Mail, the Times (New York) and the other Times -- have been abetting the ongoing and thoroughly vile deception. Until this week. Told ya so!
A couple of days ago, Walt passed on Lawrence Martin's review of Murray Brewster's new book, The Savage War. Today Jeffrey Simpson (Martin's stablemate at the Moan and Wail) joins the chorus with "The timeless intractability of Afghanistan". He begins: Whom are we kidding in Afghanistan? Ourselves, it would appear.
Well, not really. As Walt has said before (ahem!), we are not kidding ourselves. We are being kidded by the governments of the USA, the UK, and Canada. And the lamestream media -- led by the likes of the Globe and Mail, the Times (New York) and the other Times -- have been abetting the ongoing and thoroughly vile deception. Until this week. Told ya so!
"Change has come to America"
Well, there it is. As the Prez sez, "change has come to America". That's what he promised, and that's what he's delivered. How's that working out for you?
The lamestream media have already pronounced Rick Perry's new ad "scary", "defeatist", "unhelpful" (eh?), "undemocratic" (since when is telling it like it is not a democractic right?), and so on.
Walt agrees 100% with the message. The same point could be made about no-longer-great Britain, and the not-so-great, not-so-white North, meaning Canada. But the question is, who, in any of these countries, is going to do what needs to be done to "get [fill in the name of your country] working again"?!
Rick Perry and the creators of this ad would have you believe he's the man. Walt is not so sure. Love the ad though.
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