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Canadian soldier serving in Af'stan reacts:

One can only thank the likes of blogger's like BCF and his wife [me], for whom many in my battalion read on on a regular basis. (...)

One can not even imagine the sheer delight, as I try in many ways to convey to my troops that free speech and the right to assemble are a privilege.

I think perhaps, Ms. Jodoin requires a platoon of Canadian soldiers at her next lawfull demonstration and perhaps you would consider explaining to us in person, how such privileges became privileges.

Brian Lilley writes:

As for media selectivity in religious outrage I’m waiting for the endless stream of stories about Pakistani gunmen killing Christians in the name of Islam. (...)

Why would they show those stories when they’ve got a pastor with a southern drawl to put on TV.
 

is now ready for your amusment!

OK, by "Bible," I mean "Acts," but still.

Via the highly entertaining commenters at Ace.

Ezra Levant writes:

Could it be true?

That a human rights complaint has been filed against none other than Richard Moon, law professor at the University of Windsor and hired gun for the Canadian Human Rights Commission?

Could it really be that the good professor is accused of both racism and sexism, based on his campaign to scupper the career of a woman of colour -- a campaign spurred on by Moon's wife?

What a nightmare for him. Even if he wins, he loses. Mind you, unlike me, I'm sure his (and his wife's) legal bills will be paid for by the university. Still, he's about to learn, first-hand, what a show trial is like from the inside.

Spengler writes:

His intervention into civilian issues of free speech is outrageous. Islam does not demand equal treatment with other religions, which had to take their share of lumps from a hostile secular environment. Muslims are demanding special treatment. They have no right to do so, and Petraeus has no business demanding that Americans give special treatment to Muslims.

A new post at my Twitter blog, about a cool opportunity you may want to check out if you're into blogging.

Thanks to the reader who sent this in:

The North Vietnamese Army put a bounty of $30,000 on Hathcock's life for killing so many of their men. Rewards put on U.S. snipers by the N.V.A. typically ranged from $8 to $2,000. Hathcock actually held the record bounty for highest bounty and killed every Vietnamese marksman who sought it.

The Viet Cong and N.V.A. called Hathcock Lông Trắng, translated as "White Feather," because of the white feather he kept in a band on his bush hat. After a platoon of trained Vietnamese snipers were sent to hunt down "White Feather," many Marines in the same area donned white feathers to deceive the enemy. These Marines were aware of the impact Hathcock's death would have and took it upon themselves to make themselves targets in order to confuse the counter snipers.

One of Hathcock's most famous accomplishments was shooting an enemy sniper through the enemy's own scope, hitting him in the eye and killing him...

"my plane mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community center so I could crash it into a target in Lower Manhattan oh wait did I say that out loud?"

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In a sane world, this man wouldn't have been permitted to fly commercial as of September 12, 2001, let alone travel the world promoting the enemy's interests on the public dime.

Picking up from my posts about Rush Limbaugh, Facebook and Twitter, intrepid reporter R.S. McCain invites El Rushbo to sign up.

And yeah, Mark Levin really is a great model for other talk radio guys when it comes to using social media.

Jonathan Kay writes:

...this view of women is not confined to Islam — it typifies all backwards, heavily tribalized societies from Africa to Central Asia.

But it is a particular problem in the Muslim world because the religion’s foundational text, the Koran, is essentially a crystallization of the tribal practices and myths of militarily successful 7th-century Bedouin Arab tribes.

How unfortunate for all these girls and women that their deaths didn’t come at the hands of Jews — in which case, they’d probably have streets named after them, just like al-Dura.

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The Bible is the story of a people's journey out of barbarism.

The Koran is the story of a people's embrace of it.

Speaking of Bedouin Arabs: who watched The March of Time series on TCM last weekend? Especially amusing was the short about "Palestine", shot just after WW2 but before independence.

For ten minutes, you see footage of lush farmland and new hospitals, with the narrator describing all the agricultural, medical, scientific and educational breakthroughs the Jewish refugees had already achieved in their new home.

Then the last minute showed a bunch of Arabs squatting in the dirt, puffing on pipes, doing sweet **** all, then another bunch of Arabs in military uniforms getting ready to kill their new neighbors, who'd just finished vaccinating their kids.

They're at it again:

...a recent addition to the 12th century Roman Catholic Saint-Jean-Baptiste cathedral in Lyon, France, features a slightly less traditional face: one of a Muslim man.

The gargoyle, nicknamed "Ahmed," perches above an inscription of "Allah Akhbar," or "God is the Greatest," in both French and Arabic, the AFP news agency reported.

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The camel's nose under the tent. The Muslim gargoyle on the cathedral.

"Oh, but it's on the OUTside, not the INside!" "Oh, I could show you WORSE gargoyles somewhere ELSE!" "Oh, the tradition of gargoyles goes back to the 12th century, you ignorant trolls, and the word 'gargoyle' is from the Latin for..."

**** the **** off!

Vichy.

Speaking of Germans:

Dresden mayor 'to lobby against building of Bomber Command memorial’

--on British soil.

Lady, you guys lost. You don't get a say in what gets built in someone else's country anymore.

Don't start two wars next time if you don't like it.

"they should instead conduct the burning 7-10 blocks away."

PLUS:

"Eisenhower: Der Führer's Face song could endanger troops -- no, wait..."

The idea that in wartime one should be careful not to do anything that the enemy is likely to respond to with irrational and even murderous anger may seem tactically wise at first glance, but ultimately it is a recipe for surrender. One is already accepting the enemy's worldview and perspective, and working to accommodate it, instead of working on various fronts, not just the military one, to show why it is wrong and should be opposed.

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Agreed:

If burning a book endangers the troops, the troops should not be there in the first place.

We should just nuke the site from orbit. (...)

I assume this means David Petraeus is running as a Democrat in 2016...

RELATED:

LONDON, June 19, 1944 — The top American commander in Normandy has warned that plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of Mein Kampf  on Tuesday, the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Russia, could play into the hands of the very extremists at whom the church says it is directing that message.

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via Vice magazine:

...but not a lot of people know [the actual story of CRASS]

Because it’s so inspirational and so “anti-music” (in the sense that it was a total revolt against the established music industry of the time) we feel that everybody with even a passing interest in punk rock should hear it.

And so we interviewed founding members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant for a brief history of the group and to procure their ideas surrounding this issue’s theme.

During the talks between myself and Penny that preceded this interview I discovered that the unthinkable has happened and that Crass, the most anti-authoritarian, anarchy-endorsing free spirits in the history of punk music, are on the verge of going to Crown Court to ask lawyers and judges to intervene in a huge row over some remastered CDs.

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Question to the author:

After you finished typing the words "a lot of you will be aware of their logo," why did you feel that anything which followed, especially if it was related to money and lawyers, would be "unthinkable"?

Take your time.

PS: from our "I've been married to a communist and I've been married to a capitalist, and neither one of them would take out the garbage" files...

I wanted the blonde girls and the free drinks, which I never got. The only people I spoke to at gigs were spotty blokes in anoraks asking me about anarchy.

A Washington Post columnist has an incoherent cure for what ails Obama. Hint: everyone is to blame except the President!

Check out my new post at David Horowitz's NewsReal blog.

Enjoy!

(Star Parker was a guest, too, and the audio's up.)

Great comment:

Canadian journalism is an incestuous cesspool, pulling, it seems, on an increasingly small gene pool, as you've pointed out.

We've got David Frum, Catherine Clark, Ben Mulroney, Noah Richler, Bronwyn Drainie, one of the Graham (as in Bill) kids, Darrow MacIntyre (Linden's son), Adam Radwanski, Robin Brown (Harry's daughter), Julie Van Dusen and siblings, Matthew Halton (David's son), and this is just the tip of the iceberg. (It would make an interesting study.)

Then, there are the nieces, nephews, and neighbours of members of the Canadian MSM and the political establishment.

These pompous scions of "equality" and "diversity" don't much practise it because their motto has always been "fairness/free speech/freedom of expression for me but definitely not for thee." So much for genuine openness and diversity, though they make nice sound bites.

Topped off with:

Bill Graham had kids?

Will wonders ever cease.

Ezra Levant writes:

So where is this wonderful place that Sri Lankan refugees are going to by the thousand?

Sri Lanka.

That’s right. Thousands of Tamil refugees are returning to Sri Lanka — because it’s safe. Within Sri Lanka itself, internal refugee camps for displaced Tamils are winding down, as Tamils go back home.

(…)

Question: If thousands of Tamil refugees from around the world are going home to Sri Lanka, and 71% of Canadian Tamil refugees go back there for holidays, why are we still going through the motions with the 492 Tamils on Vancouver Island, as if they are legitimate?

And why are more Tamil ships steaming our way?