"Tin Foil" Tom Mulcair compares cop shooter to Conrad Black

Yesterday on CTV's Question Period, the NDP boss compared a violent felon to Canada's most famous white-collar criminal.

It's not the first time the Opposition leader, who was busy last week trying to damage Canadian national interests in the US, made this comparison.

Mulcair's NDP has an affinity for murderous felons - they also enthusiastically supported bring convicted murderer and terrorist Omar Khadr to Canada.

Perhaps Mr. Mulcair could find time meet w/ the family of Joseph Pannell's late victim, police officer Terrence Knox: is.gd/lnGZuj
— Jason Kenney (@kenneyjason) March 16, 2013

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Using a serial rapist as a role model for kids? Thanks again Toronto District School Board!

One of the TDSB's role models they extol for Black History Month is serial rapist Eldridge Cleaver.

In his 1968 collection of essays titles Soul on Ice, the former Black Panther leader wrote:

"Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man’s law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women – and this point, I believe, was the most satisfying to me because I was very resentful over the historical fact of how the white man has used the black woman. I felt I was getting revenge. 

I started out practicing on black girls in the ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day. When I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically."

The TDSB's homage to a rapist

Interestingly, later in life, Cleaver renounced his past and became a conservative Republican. Naturally, the ideological nitwits at the TDSB omitted that from his biographical notes.

Though there are many incredible role models for Black History Month who are Republicans or conservatives, the fanatics who run the Toronto District School Board don't want children "of color" to grow up to admire anyone who doesn't embrace identity politics and entitlements.

Among the conspicuous omissions from the TDSB's list of role models are the brilliant authors and philosophers Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell, the military hero and former Congressman Allen West, and Former US Secretaries of State during George W. Bush's Presidency, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice.

Making the list, aside from the rapist Cleaver, was anti-Semitic author Alice Walker and Liberal patronage appointee Anne Cools.


More at Blazing Cat Fur


UPDATE: And as one could predict, the TDSB's indoctrination has produced children who are praising a gang of racist, murdering rapists and drug-dealers. Identity politics at its worst. Keep up the great job, Toronto District School Board!



update h/t Matthew L.

Toronto District School Board's partners OCAP hold "F*ck the Police" march

[ UPDATE: Apparently the headline should be "Some leaders and plenty of members of TDSB partner OCAP hold Fuck the Police March" ]

The appalling behavior and language from the mentally unbalanced fanatics at the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) during their "Fuck the Police March" last week is typical of that group. Carrying flags honoring Cuabn mass-murderer Che Guevara, they converged on Toronto's Police Headquarters where, ironically, the police protected them from oncoming traffic as the radicals hurled fowl-mouthed invective at the people whose responsibility is law enforcement.

Notable about this is that slow-witted leadership of the Toronto District School Board thinks it is appropriate to partner with the violent, radical OCAP and give them access to school children.




OCAP plans to gather at Toronto City Hall to harass the Community Development and Recreation Committee on Monday morning at 9 am. That may prove amusing.

h/t GenuineWitty

"We need to purge OISE and the TDSB or burn it to the ground, whichever is more effective"

For anyone at the Toronto District School Board too dim to understand, that headline is meant rhetorically.

But the following featuring Sun TV's Brian Lilley and John Robson is not:

Iranian shills at Press TV want Ben Affleck hanged for War Crimes

Yeah, you read that headline right. They want Ben Affleck, that Ben Affleck, hanged for 'war crimes."

The reason Iran's shills want the Hollywood star punished is for making the Academy Award-winning Argo, which they say could lead America to a war with Iran.

The article was done by the lunatic 9-11 conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett, who writes for an innocuously named anti-Semitic, online clearinghouse for mentally unbalanced bigots called Veterans Today.

His article appeared in Iran's English language propaganda service, Press TV.

The idiots at Press TV also think Affleck could be convicted of war crimes for his role in making Pearl Harbour.

Evidently, film criticism in Iran has reached the levels of tolerance they show to Gays in that brutal, authoritarian, Islamofascist country.

While the Iranians and their stooges are way off base on Argo, which was a good movie, they might have a point on the dreadful Pearl Harbor. But hanging seems a bit severe for being in a crappy movie. Although after seeing Gigli, 10 lashes for Affleck at the time did seem like a reasonable retribution sacrificing almost two hours for that drek. But clearly Ben has rehabilitated himself since then.

Mark Steyn has some interesting observations about this you can read at The National Review online.

LA TV Weatherman falls for Bart Simpson-like prank

Happy birthday to Hugh Janus!!

Salim Mansur gives an honest assessment of immigration and multiculturalism

City of Toronto funds anti-Israel, racist TDSB resource guide

On page 1 of  An Educator's Guide for Changing the World: Methods, Models and Materials for Anti-Oppression and Social Justice Workshops, its author,  Ann Curry-Stevens thanks the City of Toronto's Access and Equity Department for its financial contribution to the completion of the guide.

That office of Toronto's municipal government is under the aegis of Uzma Shakir, who in a posting at the radical neo-Marxist website rabble.ca wrote that because of the Canadian government's stance on Israel, Muslim immigrants do not necessarily owe loyalty to Canada.

Hardly any surprise therefore that the guide, which is endorsed by the Toronto District School Board Professional Library as a curriculum document, lionizes the fanatical anti-Israeli, anti-American zealot Rachel Corrie, who died as a result of playing 'chicken' with an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003.

Acclaim for a faux "peace activist" who was a member of a group that endorses violence against Israel is only the rancid cherry sitting atop a septic sundae of bigotry, fanaticism and hate being promoted by the Toronto District School Board.

Included in the gems of Ms Stevens' opus is the vapid, racist doctrine that all white people are racist, with only white people being branded with that hateful stigmatization.

We are also treated to the traits of being male being described as having "an assumption of superiority" and "the power to abuse."

The middle class and heterosexuals also get to play villains in the TDSB's comical piece of hysteria, being characterized as oppressors "being able to define history through the expenditure of public money" with "freedom from police harassment" and the "presumption of sexual innocence."

This sort of idiocy is typical of material promoted by the TDSB, but the City of Toronto financing such vile bigotry with tax dollars is reprehensible.

It's far past the time when the citizens of Toronto would benefit if the heads of the Toronto District School Board were removed.

And since the people at the top of the TDSB are clearly too idiotic to understand context, let me explain that in terms even someone as stupid as a Chief Academic Officer can understand, lest, like with blogger Blazing Cat Fur, the School Board send the police to my door.

By heads, I mean senior Administrative staff at headquarters. And by removed, I mean fired, not beheaded, as is done so often by those people that Rachel Corrie adored.

On the other hand...


h/t Matthew L.

UPDATE: Patrick Ross wrote a very insightful analysis of the systemic poison and the psychological and ideological corruption permeating the TDSB and its infusion into the curriculum. Please take the time to read his column at The Propagandist.

Another Arab Spring Triumph! Muslim Brotherhood denounces UN "End Violence Against Women" report

The complaints the Muslim Brotherhood have about the UN report include objections to Gay Rights, women's equality, and they want to preserve a husband's right to force sex upon his wife:

1. Granting girls full sexual freedom, as well as the freedom to decide their own gender and the gender of their partners (ie, choose to have normal or homo- sexual relationships), while raising the age of marriage.

2. Providing contraceptives for adolescent girls and training them to use those, while legalizing abortion to get rid of unwanted pregnancies, in the name of sexual and reproductive rights.

3. Granting equal rights to adulterous wives and illegitimate sons resulting from adulterous relationships.

4. Granting equal rights to homosexuals, and providing protection and respect for prostitutes.

5. Giving wives full rights to file legal complaints against husbands accusing them of rape or sexual harassment, obliging competent authorities to deal husbands punishments similar to those prescribed for raping or sexually harassing a stranger.

6. Equal inheritance (between men and women).

7. Replacing guardianship with partnership, and full sharing of roles within the family between men and women such as: spending, child care and home chores.

8. Full equality in marriage legislation such as: allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men, and abolition of polygamy, dowry, men taking charge of family spending, etc.

9. Removing the authority of divorce from husbands and placing it in the hands of judges, and sharing all property after divorce.

10. Cancelling the need for a husband’s consent in matters like: travel, work, or use of contraception.

These are destructive tools meant to undermine the family as an important institution; they would subvert the entire society, and drag it to pre-Islamic ignorance.

We wouldn't want the world to be dragged into pre-Islamic ignorance. Not when the Muslim Brotherhood and their friends have worked so hard to impose Islamic ignorance on so much of the Arab world.

h/t Irshad Manji

GenuineWitty is rattling all the right (bad) people

Obviously, I'm not trying hard enough.

I've been writing and going on television talking about malfeasance in the education system, in politics, among radicals and more, but other than the occasional hostile comment, email or tweet from a seemingly unbalanced weirdo, I haven't inspired obsessive hatred towards me yet.

Not like Greg Renouf, who publishes a blog called GenuineWitty.

Greg was one of the original people in Vancouver and Toronto's Occupy protests. Seeing the would-be movement become hijacked by the old left, and various nutcase radical groups, he set about to expose them and their agenda.

Which really bothers them a lot.

He has been physically attacked by the radicals he's exposed and has inspired pathological anarchist clowns to write idiotic things about him like:

Blogger Greg Renouf has been a terrible annoyance and worse to revolutionaries and activists across Turtle Island since at least December 2011 when he was called out publicly for harassing an activist about Occupy Vancouver even though that particular activist was hardly ever at the encampment. He has since moved to Torontowhere he has engaged in a more long-term campaign of slander, harassment, and conspiracy theories about the “tides funded” “treason” of what he sees as the left.

This is a callout for awareness, in the hopes that someone can shut him down in whatever capacity possible on the internet or wherever. It should also not be taken lightly that he is fairly tech-savvy.

That however, is the tip of the iceberg. Usually it requires someone to be a major public figure, like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford or Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to inspire the type of vindictiveness to get someone to devote the time and energy to creating blogs and twitter accounts for the sole purpose of attacking one individual.

Apparently the damage Greg Renouf is causing to the radical left, at least in their tiny minds, puts him in the league of nationally-known leaders.

Renouf has inspired both a blog and twitter account maintained by some lunatic that is obsessed with him and his exposure of insane radical protests groups and the people involved with them in Canada.

To which all I can say is, keep up the good work, Greg.

Below is a link to Renouf's report last week about the fanatical anti-Capitalist group, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty's attempt to take over Metro Hall - it is worth a read and you can access it through this link

That'll learn ya! "Critical Thinkers" at Toronto District School Board complain to police about sarcastic blogger

At the Toronto District School Board and particularly at its ideological godmother, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, they claim their goal is to produce critical thinkers. What they don't tell you is that by their definition, "critical thinking" means to think exactly the way they tell you to, without dissent...or else.

A Toronto blogger who goes by the moniker Blazing Cat Fur has been at the forefront of exposing the hypocrisy as well as the sheer idiocy promoted by the TDSB and it looks like they finally had enough.

Yesterday morning,the mild-mannered, law-abiding blogger received a visit from not one but two Toronto Police Service Detectives to investigate a sarcastic comment left on his blog musing, "OISE and the TDSB need to be purged, or burnt to the ground whichever is more effective."

Interestingly, when my friend, Muslim reformer Tarek Fatah, received an actual death threat via social media from someone in Toronto, the police didn't think it was worth their time to bother with that.

As usual, the TDSB brain-trust has made themselves look stupid and Blazing Cat Fur, as well as other critics of the preposterous social engineering attempts by the public school board, will redouble their efforts to expose them.

Please check out BLAZING CAT FUR'S post on this HERE..

Also check out The Toronto Sun article about this here

The Irish Rovers singing Oscar Brand's This Land of Ours

A Great Canadian Anthem:

Pope Update - There's a new Pope on the block

Meet the new Pope Francis

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Kelly McParland: Mulcair’s Keystone stumble in U.S. adds to growng list of missteps

Thomas Mulcair, according to the headline accompanying one report on his trip to Washington, was doing a “delicate dance” around the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline.

He wanted to be careful not to give the impression he was telling Americans what do: the pipeline would cross U.S. territory, and it’s their decision whether to approve it or not. On the other hand – and just by the by – he let slip that, in his opinion, its an unjustifiable assault on the environment, and Ottawa has been playing people for “fools” by pretending otherwise.

Evidently Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall isn’t much into dancing, because he failed to appreciate the subtlety of the NDP leader’s footwork.

“Why is he down there effectively betraying Canadian interests?” Wall demanded Tuesday in Saskatoon, noting he’d just returned from his own trip to the U.S. to promote Canadian energy supplies.

More at The National Post

Marc Garneau quits Liberal leadership race

Garneau just announced his resignation from the race.

Justin Trudeau will receive a coronation.

Garneau's statement:

I wanted you to be among the first to know that this morning I spoke with the Party and withdrew my candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

I want to give you my sincere, heartfelt thanks for everything you have contributed to my campaign. Your generous donations and volunteer time made everything possible.

Together, in this race, we worked tirelessly for what we believed in and I am extremely proud of what we accomplished. We started in October, with no network or infrastructure, and with your support we grew into a strong campaign team of smart and dedicated people all across the country.

Together we asked the tough questions, challenged the status quo and did what was right for the future of the Liberal Party. 

But it is my opinion now the Party has chosen. Justin must be commended for running an excellent campaign. He has renewed interest in the party, he has done the hard work that needs to be done to fundraise, organize and inspire the next generation of the Liberal Party. 

Again, I cannot thank you all enough. I enjoyed this race immensely, all the people I met. I couldn't have done this without you and I would not trade this experience for the world. 

- Marc 

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Jonathan Kay: Marc Garneau proves Canadians don’t want smart candidates with good ideas

Bully Bloggers are heroes in the War of Ideas

The history of mankind is really a chronicle of the conflict of ideas.

In the end, the hope is that good ideas will triumph over bad ones and that truth will unseat lies and deception.

The belief that truth will prevail explains in large measure why those societies we look back on as being the most repressive, cruel and unjust were the most censorious.  It has been and is fear that their support would crumble when confronted by ideas and facts challenging theirs that inspired guardians of the likes of Communism, Nazism and The Inquisition to the prohibition of dissenting speech and publications.

The right of Free Speech was the founding principle in that culmination of The Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and is something most of us in Canada take for granted. But we shouldn't. 

As the recent Supreme Court of Canada's Whatcott decision highlighted, there is an ongoing battle about just which ideas are permissible in a country that is supposedly based on principles of freedom and fairness.

That any idea other than those that specifically incite violence or commit libel should be banned is something many Canadians find not only offensive, but a dangerous indication that more rights may be usurped in the slide to the crushing of individual liberty.

An unlikely group of Canadians are at the forefront of the fight for the principle that ideas should be allowed to be freely expressed while exposing the hypocrisy of the would-be censors. They are a collection of activists and writers who have been disparagingly described by Bernie Farber,  the former Canadian Jewish Congress head and rumored successor to Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Barbara Hall, as "Bully Bloggers."

These so-called Bully Bloggers are characterized, in certain cases incorrectly, as "right-wing." What they do share is a belief that there are hypocritical, dishonest public figures in politics, unions and the media who are trying to shape opinion and influence culture and legislation, while attempting to suppress the free expression of ideas that dissent from theirs.

Lacking the resources of big media, government grants, wealth and powerful institutions possessed by those they criticize, the Bully Bloggers' tools are the Internet, cameras, computers and knowledge, operating in the idealistic hope that exposing hypocrisy and dishonesty can shift the flow of public opinion.

Sometimes that hope is in vain, but sometimes it is not. The mainstream media, despite publicly eschewing the Bully Bloggers, monitors their blogs closely and frequently steal stories from them when a tipping point is reached.

That happened when Bully Blogger Blazing Cat Fur brought to light information such as the practice of a Toronto public school using its facilities as a mosque during school hours, how the Toronto District School Board was promoting a group that advocated using vegetables as sex toys, and a Canadian Islamic School which had anti-Jewish slander as part of its curriculum.

It's not that all of the mainstream media or all public officials don't oppose such things, but they have conflicting interests and the safety of politically correct appeasement is often the expedient choice they make.

Fortunately, Bully Bloggers, who use their own time and resources to expose matters of public interest, have no such constraints. And their shedding the initial light on such matters can be the excuse that sympathetic members of corporate media use to give them wider exposure.

There are costs to putting oneself on the line for one's principles. The Bully Bloggers are exposing people who have powerful and wealthy connections in politics and the media. Frequently subject to hatred and threats, but sustained by the belief that getting the truth out is worth sacrifice, these dedicated citizen journalists soldier on.

Among the particular characteristics Bernie Farber attributed to Bully Bloggers were :

Targeting minorities, namecalling & attempts at intimidating r bully-bloggers stock & trade.

While one could easily dispute some of Farber's assertions about his Bully Bloggers (whom he never identifies by name), he fails to recognize the value of such things as name-calling in public discourse.

Jack Layton and the NDP decried the nickname "Taliban Jack" as a smear, but in our YouTube and Internet era of short attention spans,  people tend to think in shorthand. In two words, Taliban Jack conveyed the idea of a leader and a political party that was soft on Islamic extremism and Canada's commitment to fighting terror. It stuck - and not only because it was catchy, but because it was truthful.  And in the end, that reflects the Bully Bloggers' hope that the truth will get a hearing.

In some cases, name-calling is a very important tool. The people Bully Bloggers insult are those that would like to have authority or influence over the rest of us. As a general principle, the ones who seek out such power are the ones who deserve it least. Exposing and insulting them when they behave stupidly, viciously or hypocritically helps diminish the undeserving in the eyes of the public and keeps them away from the power they covet and all-too-often abuse.

So when Loony Libby Davies makes statements that effectively deny Israel's right to exist, or when she promotes 9-11 conspiracy theories in the House of Commons, it is in the public's interest to have a reminder that she may not deserve their respect.

When Crazy Muslim Mohammed Elmassry says that all Jews in Israel over the age of 18 are legitimate targets for murder, then it's useful for the public to have a mental trigger that he and the terrorist-supporting Canadian Islamic Congress he founded are contemptible.

When Sideshow Sarah Thomson makes implausible, self-serving accusations against Rob Ford, or Captain eHealth George Smitherman tries to regain public attention, it's relevant that both of those two people want to attain significant political power. That relevance is all the greater when considering that their records show how little they deserve such authority.

Critics of the Bully Bloggers accuse them of being racists and Islamophobes. These are two distinct and significant accusations that are often conflated and intentionally deceptive. To examine and refute those accusations, they need to be addressed one-by-one.

Racists are stupid people who believe individuals can be summed up and dismissed based on their race or ethnic origin. Racism is a belief system rooted in ignorance and hate and those that hold it are self-discrediting and can be easily dismissed. But race is different than culture. Culture is a system of ideas and practices and Bully Bloggers are not adherents to the fatuous leftist devotion to cultural relevance that considers all such beliefs and behaviors to have equal merit.

Confusing race with culture is a traditional facet of self-described progressives, who as a group are not very deep thinkers, so most of them have great difficulty differentiating between criticism of cultural practices and racism.

As far as being Islamophobes, some of the Bully Bloggers would plead guilty to that charge.  But before the Farbers of this world put on a smug smile and twinkle with what they might see as a damning confession by adversarial iconoclasts, they might consider that criticism of Islamic practices is a far cry from discrimination or prejudice against Muslims.

In fact, some of the people closest to the Bully Bloggers are Muslim critics of Islamism, like Salim Mansur, Tarek Fatah,  and Irshad Manji.

While the politically correct are afraid to call out Islamic terrorism as anything but extremism and an aberration, Bully Bloggers note how the promotion of violence is often a routine facet in the practice of Islam and the facts bear them out.

Much of Islamic practice is devoted to teaching fairness and integrity, particularly as the religion is manifested in North America. Naturally, the vast majority of Muslims abhor violence, are kind to their wives and daughters and are disgusted with terrorism. But there is a minority of Muslims who do not, and that minority is not insignificant in number. And how can those hateful, murderous ideologies be dealt with when they are denied by their perpetrators and swept under the rug by multiculturalist apologists?

Like Islamism's Muslim critics, Bully Bloggers are keenly aware that it is Muslims who are the most frequent victims of Islamist terrorism, totalitarianism and intolerance.

Islam, as it is preached and conducted in places like Saudi Arabia, The Palestinian Territories, Iran, Pakistan, and many other countries includes practices which are homophobic, brutally violent, racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic.  As Canada's Muslim population increases through immigration from those countries, in too many cases, those hateful ideas have immigrated with them.

In Canada, we have seen Islamic conferences which featured Imams who preached such hatred. And it took the Bully Bloggers to first draw that to public attention before anyone noticed.

Bully Bloggers led the charge that ended with Parliament voting to scrap the thought-crime laws of Section 13 of Canada's Human Rights Act. The removal of that blunt, totalitarian tool is something that sticks hard in the craw the professional Human Rights Industry. More so that the battle proved those people who claim to concern themselves with human rights are hypocrites with little regard for the most basic human right of free expression.

Maybe the next time Bernie Farber is schmoozing at a cocktail party, writing a mushy-minded op-ed for the Globe and Mail, or being a twittavist,  he might consider that the Bully Bloggers are on the front lines, at demonstrations, chronicling and exposing and sometimes being assaulted by the real hatemongers in Canada.

Bully Bloggers get called names and worse, but they can take it. Anyone seeking to shape public policy should be able to handle a few insults, and if they can't, they have no place in the public sphere. But in the end, assuming thoughts and beliefs and most importantly, genuine facts can be expressed freely, then we should have faith that the best ideas and people will prevail.

When they do, you might take time to consider the Bully Bloggers out there doing hard, often thankless  groundwork for those victories. And unlike being a Human Rights Commissioner, the work Bully Bloggers do actually requires backbone.

Bigot bully bloggers target the vulnerable-comments that follow are racist garbage.Fact-they just talk amongst themselves shower & move on
— Bernie M. Farber (@BernieFarber) March 9, 2013

Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Primitive Life, NASA Says

It's official: Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars, NASA says.

A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments "shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes," NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.

MORE at LIVE SCIENCE

Kathleen Wynne's Labour Minister wrote letter of support for book endorsing wife beating

Ontario's Labour Minister Yasir Naqvi wrote a letter of congratulation for the publication of an Islamic guide that promotes wife beating, but says he didn't read the book.

Today's news from the Islamofascist Republic

Iran, appropriately, is in talks to hire the girlfriend of a murdering terrorist to sue "Hollywood"

Iran is planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. She is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.

And in other news, the Islamic Republic's mullahs are upset that their President Ahmadinejad made skin contact with the mother of his "intimiate friend" the decesed quasi-dictator Hugo Chavez:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in tears last week when he brushed cheeks with the mother of president Hugo Chavez at the Venezuelan president’s funeral in Caracas, and clasped her hands, the Los Angeles Times reported. 

And then came another upset – a torrent of Internet-circulated criticism from his foes within Iran’s ultra-conservative clergy. Mr. Ahmadinejad’s misdeed? Violating a tenet within strict Islamic societies that prohibits touching members of the opposite sex who are not relatives.