How I lost ten pounds in two weeks
I read about this book
The “short” version could almost be called the “affirmative action” diet — that is, no “whites” (except for egg whites):
No sugar, white flour (bread, pasta, cake) or white rice.
That sounded impossible, but for whatever reason, reading the book and buying the stuff on the grocery list (very important) helped me get my mind right.
I haven’t followed the book slavishly. For instance, its particular exercise program is just too hard and weird for me.
So now I have another ten pounds to go.
(According to every source I’ve ever read, I’m supposed to weigh around 100 pounds, and while I used to weigh that — and less — I don’t think that is realistic.)
Just a reminder from Colby Cosh: Catholic Church definitely NOT a child sex abuse cult, m’kay
Although, as he rightly points out, you’d never know that if you didn’t notice the troubling difference between a Catholic priest’s hagiographic obit for Joe Pa, and his earlier, nasty diatribe upon the occasion of Hitchen’s demise.
No siree, Bob.
Anyhow, I’m outta there, so de Souza’s other peoples’ problem now.
I’ve been served with libel notices before, but eight cops have never ARRESTED me for it
I guess that’s what happens if you’re a blogger who “had been protesting the ticket he received for riding his bike on the sidewalk.”
LeBlanc is no stranger to controversy. No one has ever been given the full details of why LeBlanc was barred from the grounds of the legislature, including the lawn in front of the building, in 2006.
OK, if you ride your bike on the sidewalk, you deserve to be shoulder-checked.
And this guy sounds like a crazy butt-pain.
But now this may become a “free speech” issue.
Congratulations, Canadian police!
Reason mag explains that defamatory libel is a crime, not a tort, hence our differing experiences, adding:
At least as scary as the raid itself is the fact that [City Councillor] Graham feels a need to explain at length (as you will see if you read the whole post) that
1) freedom of speech is important to the proper functioning of a liberal democracy,
2) people have a right to freedom of speech even if we don’t like what they say,
3) empowering police to arrest people who criticize them might have a chilling effect on speech.
(via Denyse O’Leary)
‘We have no fear of cancellation…’
Gentlemen will wear jackets and ties to conference events.
We will prepare name tags in advance; call us if you would like to use a nom de guerre…
The 2012 American Renaissance Conference looks like it’s actually going to happen.
One thing you can say about the Indians:
My awareness is already raised, bitches!
Finally: a National Film Board doc worth watching?
Quebec director Léa Pool chose to be indignant and subtle when she made Pink Ribbons Inc. (pictured), a National Film Board of Canada documentary that aims to debunk a giant breast cancer awareness movement it portrays as being fed by big corporations.
The documentary is based on Samantha King’s book of the same name
, which investigates how breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause marketing.
Republican women circa 1941: ‘indulging in traditionally male pastimes like cigar smoking, poker playing, and wrestling’
Mass immigration from Jamaica, Pakistan was class warfare
As generations of working class “scum” tried to tell you.
The folly of all that is now obvious.
The curious thing is that cranky, semi-literate old dad, firing off his misspelled letters to the local rag, was right on those issues, while all the credentialed panjandrums of politics, academia, business, and the media were wrong. For all his lack of education, dad was no fool.
I recall Lord Melbourne’s observation:
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”
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That’s why it was considered a federal matter that the people who posted this poem on an obscure website be punished:
The Official Jews, their lawyers and other privileged people could not allow ordinary Canadians to speak on the internet the way they did around the card tables and on the porches of my childhood.
Why yes, tranny Girl Guides ARE probably coming to Canada
Yesterday: my article about the gay takeover of Girl Guides.
Today: Kris Sims reports on the same phenomenon, happening here.
Nazis on the moon: ‘Iron Sky’ movie finally finished, will debut at Berlin Film Festival (trailer)
I thought it was illegal to display swastikas in Germany…
Limbaugh calls Corzine a ‘greaseball’; Italian-American group demands apology
Quiz: ‘How Deep in the Cultural Elite Bubble are You?’
I don’t think you can be “deep” in a “bubble,” which probably places me pretty deep in the bubble.
Note: the quiz itself says “thick,” which makes more sense.
Here are my results:
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UPDATE: related…
The ‘jazzification’ of stand up comedy continues
And of comedy “criticism,” as can be seen in the (surprise!) pretentious, painful-to-read example SHECKY points out, adding:
We’re not so sure stand-up can be saved.
Meanwhile — “comedy” people continue to talk like this (i.e., your mom):
Valid points are made on both ends (…) Comedians should be able to work through their material, which sometimes involves over-indulging in hubris. And paying audiences don’t deserve to be meant to feel bad [sic]. Let’s hope this is the end of the dispute…
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Remember when the saying used to be, “Were you dropped on your head as a child…?”
We’re gonna need to change it to, “Did your mother make you wear a helmet all the time…?”
‘I enquired of neighbour-kid as to his situation: hooky? Exams?’
“What brilliance got you that?” I asked.
“I was joking with my black friend, who calls me ‘The White Kid’. I call him ‘The Black Kid’. He brought some noodles to school today, and somebody asked me why. I said ‘Ask the Black Kid’, but then the teacher heard me. She told me that was unacceptable. My friend even tried to explain that “it was a joke back and forth between us all the time, and I call him The White Boy”, but that didn’t matter.”
