This photo makes me feel so OLD!

OK, I AM old... older than dirt... But I hate being reminded of it by pix like this one.

In case you don't recognize these people -- I scarcely do myself -- they are (left to right) Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Scorsese, Dave Thomas, Martin Short and Joe Flaherty. What (some of you may be asking) do they have in common? Answer: all but Scorsese are alumni of SCTV, produced and performed in Canada by an all-Canadian cast... except for Joe Flaherty, who was made an honorary Canuck after the 13th season of reruns.

What's Martin Scorsese doing there? Well, according to a press release from Netflix, Mr Scorsese has signed on to direct a "Netflix original comedy special" which will explore the history and legacy of the Emmy-winning sketch comedy series. Wouldn't you wonder why Netflix couldn't find a Canuck to do that? I know I would.

I'm also wondering where the rest of the gang are. Missing from the panel will be missing funny lady Robin Duke and funny man Tony Rosato, who wasn't a happy person in real life and wound up as a guest of Her Majesty somewhere in eastern Ontario. And John Candy. He died. He was perhaps the best known of the cast, although not (IMHO) the funniest. That title goes to Rick Moranis, again IMHO.

Where is Rick Moranis? Maybe he didn't want to be involved with what is sure to be a truly dreadful production, not even worthy of Netflix, which isn't saying much. I can see a clip show interspersed with reminiscences, the sort of thing you might hear if you were sitting on the verandah of the Old Comedians Home. Ghastly. Don't stay tuned.

VIDEO: Students say we need to bring God back into our lives

Agent 9 sent us the link to this short (2:17) video, posted to YouTube back in 2015 by students at East Catholic High School, in Manchester CT. The recent massacre at Parkland School makes it even more relevant now than it was when first posted.



The message the students want to get through to the rest of us is that we should be more concerned with God than with being politically correct.
No more "prayer shaming", they say. Let's bring God and prayer back into our lives. Amen!

VIDEO: "Climate Barbie" has no time for "climate change deniers"

Walt's Canadian agents say they're enduring a never-ending winter. Mother Nature may skip spring and go straight to summer, they say... around June 20th. Global warming... HA!

Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change [sic], Catherine McKenna -- aka Climate Barbie -- has no time for those "climate change deniers", as she calls them, who insist that global warming and changes in the climate are the result of human activity, which can be changed. She says so herself, in this interview with Evan Solomon on CTV's Question Period.



There, in a nutshell -- word chosen deliberately -- is everything that's wrong with the "progressive" policy on the environment. Climate change is junk science at best, a hoax at worst, and the liberals (and Canada's big-L Liberals) are in denial about that.

Canadians are moderate sheeple, not much inclined to rise up in protest against anything except the NHL, but the majority of them simply don't believe in climate change, and are opposed to their Liberal government's California-dreamin' carbon tax policy. Climate Barbie doesn't get it. In fact she doesn't even want to hear any dissent from politically correct liberal thinking. She says so herself. And her boss, pictured below, agrees with her.

Footnote: Why on earth does she (along with so many others of her generation) preface every utterance with "So..."? What is that -- kind of like verbal punctuation meaning "I'm starting to speak now!"? I don't get it! See "So, there's a new bad English fad", WWW 30/6/14.

Further reading: "Climate Alarmists Maul Inconvenient Polar Bear Expert", by James Delingpole, Breitbart News, 11/4/18. Susan Crockford is a polar bear expert with a message that climate alarmists don’t want to hear: polar bear populations are thriving and are certainly in no danger from thinning summer sea ice supposedly caused by ‘man-made global warming.’

Walt congratulates Viktor Orbán on Hungarian election win

A wave of nationalism -- make that white nationalism -- and populism continues to roll over eastern Europe, making the elites of the European Union and western Europe (Hello! Angela Merkel) nervous. The latest victory for the forces of ethnic solidarity and anti-Islamization came on the weekend, when Hungary's conservative-populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, won a third term in office in a landslide. The farther-right Jobbik party finished second.

Mr Orbán's party, Fidesz, won not just a decisive majority but (along with some smaller allies) an outright super-majority, making possible changes to Hungary's constitution. During the campaign, Mr Orbán promised to push through legislation described by his government as the "Stop (((Soros))) package". "The reason we submitted this package before the elections," he told the meeja today, "is in order to allow the Hungarian voters to cast their vote knowing our intention on this. This has happened and we believe we are mandated by this election to pass this law."

Among other things, the proposed laws would require NGOs that work on migration-related issues to register with the interior ministry. They could be rejected on a national security basis after vetting by security agencies. Any foreign funding for migration-related activities would be subjected to a 25% tax.

Mr Orbán ran his campaign on the single issue of migration, and blamed a network of the political opposition, NGOs and critical media of being part of a plot orchestrated by the Hungarian-American billionaire (((George Soros))) to send millions of non-Christian (read: Muslim) "refugees" and asylum-seekers to Hungary.

Prime Minister Orbán has been one of the most determined foes of the compulsory migrant quota regime which the European Union is trying to shove down the throats (or some such orifice) of Europeans, at the behest of liberals and anti-Christian NGOs. Their pro-Muslim campaigns have become the focal point for an increasingly influential eurosceptic, anti-mass migration alliance within the EU, centred on the Visegrád Four countries -- the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

The top politicians and bureaucrats of the European Union, along with the (((controlled media))), have their hair on fire over Mr Orbán's win. One newspaper, however, will not be joining the rending of garments and nashing of teeth. That would be the 80-year-old Magyar Nemzet and its sister station Lanchid Radio, which are closing immediately due to financial problems.

Viktor Orbán is best known on this side of the Atlantic for his robust defence of Christian Europe against the tsunami of Muslim migrants washing over the continent. Unlike President Trump, he succeeded in getting a wall build along the southern border of his country. The erection of the wall and strengthening of border security cut illegal immigration by over 99%, while western European countries like Germany and Sweden put the welcome mat out for all the flotsam and jetsam of the Middle East and Africa with disastrous results.

The Orbán viktory (geddit?) should serve as confirmation and encouragement to POTUS and all others campaigning for an end to the Islamization of the West. A tip of Walt's hat to Mr Orbán and a thumb of Walt's nose to (((George Soros))).

Христос воскрес! Bоістину воскрес!

Walt and Poor Len

[and Ed.! Ed.]

wish our Ukrainian readers and friends
and all who follow the Julian calendar

Happy Easter!

"Allahu akbar!" (?) in Germany: 3 dead as van crashes into crowd

It was a fine spring morning in the German city of Muenster. Hundreds of people thronged the downtown market square. People were sitting in front of the popular Kiepenkerl bar, enjoying their beer and bratwurst, until a van roared down the street at high speed, crashing into the patio and a crowd of pedestrians. The body count so far: at least three people killed and 20 injured.

Following the crash, the driver of the van shot himself to deadh. Another suspect -- maybe more than one -- may have fled the vehicle after the crash, according to eyewitness accounts. Inspektor Katzenjammer of the local polizei said the driver's identity was unknown. So also his motive. A suspicious object was found inside the van, but police declined to comment on a rumour that it was a black flag with some kind of foreign writing on it.

A spokesthingy for German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- yes, she's still in office -- offered her condolences and said Frau Merkel was terribly terribly sorry that the German people couldn't see the benefits of Willkommenskultur. [Ed., please check that last part.]

The police coverup ["investigation", shurely! Ed.] continues. The koppers put out a brief statement on social media describing the situation as "confusing" and told members of the public, "Please don't speculate." (They didn't say what we shouldn't speculate about! Three guesses....) ”Walt will bring you further details just as soon as the first denunciation of Islamoophobia is released.

VIDEO: Great and Holy Friday liturgy at St. Elias Church

For those who have never experienced the beauty of the liturgies of the Eastern churches, we offer this video of the Great and Holy Friday liturgy at Saint Elias the Prophet Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic Church, in Brampton ON, in the Eparchy of Toronto. Recorded in 2017, the video runs 1 hour 37 minutes.



This is the new church building, replacing the one which burned to the ground just before Easter of 2014. The interior is not yet complete, as it will take many years to create new icons to replace the beautiful old ones which were lost. But, as the pastor, Father Roman Galadza (you can hear him clearly in the video) always says, the church is not the building but the people, and the people are there, stronger and more numerous than ever. It is particularly heartening to see so many young people taking part if the celebrations of the death and Resurrection of Our Lord.

Easter services continue today and tomorrow. Click here to view the schedule and a message from Father Galadza on the church website.

CHRIST IS RISEN! TRULY HE IS RISEN!