Steynian 370

~ A COMMAND– Xanthippa is recovering from emergency surgery… Please stop by and wish our friend well. May God bless, heal, and comfort her & those caring for her …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

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The Dread Pirate Binks On Piracy

- ITEM: REAR ADMIRAL Barney Frank: Let’s spend TARP profits before taxpayers can get them.. Ahrr, me hearties!

- ITEM: What is Barney Frank up to now?

- ITEM: Corrupt black Congresscritters trying to avoid scrutiny

- ITEM: Congress: What Fiscal Crisis?

- ITEM: Democrats use TARP money to shore up personal fortunes

~ SURE I LIKE THE ‘romantic’ view of pirates.. not the whole rapine, murder, jolly rogering, and sea-going gangland thing so much. Strictly speaking, I guess Binky is more like a Privateer than a proper outlaw: honourable, nobel, good, but dangerous to foes and fools.

Sadly, it is apparent that the Obama Administration is nothing other and different than a massive coordinated pirate raid on the American government and people by the creeps, criminals, and corruptocrats of the Democrat and Republican collaborators. They need prison, not plunder; and shame, not credit for what they are doing.

Mid-level evil and theft by Pelosi and Co. has been going on for decades (check Pelosi & StarKist tuna gig via Google), and it’s part of every government, and human nature. What’s new is that the POTUS is a professional shyster and plunder expert via ACORN and his Ayer time in Chi-Town education scamming. What’s also new is that the pirates of the congress, senate, and wider government have grown bolder, and can’t be bothered to ever pretend to secrecy or wink-wink straight faces while looting the public and stuffing their own pockets.

Someone like Mass-Dem Barney Frank is leading the entitled & invulnerable pack, and laughing in American’s face. His fingerprints are everywhere, and on every democrat-caused disaster from Fannie Mae & the Mortgage crisis, to the Stimulapalooza, and pushing for the Pirate Lord Obama as POTUS. Never missing a chance to profit and do what he wills, Frank is cause, symptom, and exemplar of the rot in DC, and the cynicism and/ or idiocy of Massachusetts voters. Mind you, they elected generations of the Kennedy Crime family to local, state, and federal office, so it’s in the tradition.

Ultimately, the full tale of this pirate adventure will be told; what remains to be seen is if there are enough awake voters with spine and elected representatives with relatively untarnished hands to reform and renew the zombie/ pirate culture of the American ruling classes, and put the mutinous and piratical Obama, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, ACORN bosses, and all the rest where they belong: in a pauper’s prison, after complete public exposé and proper indictments. Take names, kick ass, ignore party affiliation, let the chips fall where they may. Yes, it may mean time, money, less hours in front of the flatscreen– but that’s a feature, not a bug.

And to quote the noted cultural philosopher Michael Jackson, “It don’t matter if you’re black or white”. Race-carding scumbags like Obama and Conyers and company get no free pass merely because they aren’t honkies, or because their ancestors were enslaved. In fact, such characters give aspiring Americans of all colours a bad name for using their new privileges to engage in such open criminality, special rules, and abuse of power.

Is this really what your slain secular saint MLKing, Jr. had a dream about: that black politicians might one day be just as despicable and greedy as whites? Really?!? What would abolitionist figures like Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) have to say about these shameful antics?

Pirates of the Caribbean is a Disney fun-ride, become a not-bad set of movies– yet not any way to run a nation.

Fire. Them. All. ~

'Bama's Democrats @ Work

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The Boomer Wars

- ITEM: First Baby Boomer Files For Social Security Benefits

~ NOT TO INSULT MY BOOMER READERS (heck, Teh Binks was born in the last possible year of that group, so am technically one), but when you look at some of what’s happening with debt in North America, it’s a nasty generational thing. Maybe a war, even.

The Most Self-Important Generation Ever, those wondrous post-war emperors and empresses, are entitled. Utter freedom with no consequences; every pleasure, forbidden or not; every goodie, privilege, no expense spared, best health care ever, richest safest most entertained and comfortable society in all of human history– why, it’s not the result of thousands of years of suffering and effort and making a better world for the next generation, it’s all about giving the greatest people ever the treatment they deserve!

How else can you explain all the U.S. great-grandfathering of impossible debt with imaginary dollars against future generations? TARP, CAP-N-Trade, Monster Budgets, Socialist Health Care? It’s economic violence and rapine on a generational scale.

A lot of spoiled Boomers have tried to remake reality into their own image– so ruining the church, working hard to disassemble the family, education, gender & parenthood, freedom, and the viability of Western Civ itself, all because they are entitled, so smart, and simply amazing. Consequences be darned– we’re the best that ever was!

So Boomer Barack, Boomer Dubya, Boomer Clinton, Boomer Blair, have helped their fellow generational cohort to suck the marrow out of the built up civilizational moral, spiritual, and material capital received from our forefathers as if there was no yesterday nor any tomorrow, leaving a desert in their wake for others to clean up and rebuild. Wasn’t that a party?

After all, “What tomorrow?” Once the 45-64 year old Boomers pass– having drained social security, pensions, health care, and left the wreckage behind them– sub-Boomers hardly deserve to be worried about, do they? Indeed, Western Boomers also prevented and aborted the largest number of babies ever, in part to enhance ther personal and material comfort. Millions dead, for the higher purpose.

We’ve all been in a giant generation-war with a Boomer-wave of over-indulged narcissists for years now– and as they age, we’re getting the regurgitation of their youth-culture yet again. I liked the 60’s and 70s and 80s.. but endlessly remaking all the TV and movies and music? Gack! Have the rising generations since the mid-sixties NOTHING unique or interesting to say of their own? Will nobody except Boomers and their younger Mini-Me clones have a say in politics and the media and pop-culture?

What’s also interesting is that the battle in the U.S. is now increasingly between Boomers and Boomers, as Boomers Dubya and Obama wiped out a lot of nest eggs, and current Dem schemes will be taxing and stealing from everybody in sight– Boomers as well as future generations. Not so pleasant when the theft hits home today, huh?

It’s not too late, O fellow Boomers. I’ve devoted much of my adult life to giving back from what I’ve received, and building up and passing on and trying to leave things better than I found them. Perhaps in our remaining years, we can turn again to rebuild and restore some of what we’ve selfishly consumed and laid waste to, realizing that we are not kings and queens, but ordinary mortals with an accountability to the past, present, and future, above and beyond our precious self-esteem and pleasures and inwardness, and our earthly comforts and treasures.

Binks

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Via Teh Intertubes

~ STUFF TO KNOW before jumping from XP to Windows 7 …. (instapundit)

~ GO EASY ON THE NEW BLOG– Just came across another hateful & narrow-minded French blog [ Poste de Veille ] covering Jihad & related matters in Quebec, like ‘Point De Bascules’: bookmark, BabelFish, and enjoy! It’s also in my higly esteemed & pressed blogroll …. (postedeveille.ca)

~ THANKS TO the bigots over at the must-read The Real Barack Obama for picking up one of my recent spittle-flecked screeds. Bookmark & read all their stuff– Binks: “Watch What He Does” …. (RBO)

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Canuckistan Day

~ TEH HYNEK– On Canada Day. What He Said …. (kennethhynek)

~ SOBERING THOUGHTS: “Canadians defer. We save our loonies and don’t jaywalk. It’s illegal, eh. We stand on guard at red lights, even when there is no traffic” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ ORWELL`S PICNIC– Daaahh dahhh dah-dah– “I’m actually finding it much easier to like Canada now that I no longer live there and have no plans whatever for returning” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ NATPOST– Canada has suddenly become one of the world’s most crappo countries; Nothing says Canada Day like “facile baloney” …. (nationalpost)

~ HAPPY Canada Day! …. (tyffh)

Faith News

“Pray for me that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”

- Pope Benedict XVI -

~ POPE BENEDICT, whose official pronouncments mostly cover matters or religious faith and sexual behaviour, is about to weigh in on the ills of the economy …. (nationalpost)

~ ST. PAUL ICON may be oldest in existence …. (nationalpost)

~ ORTHODOX Christianity and Capitalism Revisited …. (orthodoxytoday)

~ LIBERAL LEMMING-WATCH: “Religious Left Rallies for Nationalized Healthcare: 40 faith groups are encouraging our nation’s leaders to pass comprehensive and compassionate health care reform legislation this year”; Big Surprise From RCRC on National Health Plan (Not); UCC for Equally Bad Health Care …. (ird, reformedpastor)

~ RABBI Boteach on Jackson’s spiritual isolation: ‘Money is not a currency by which we can purchase self-esteem’ …. (dawneden.blog)

~ CANADIAN COAST GUARD for the North, not Navy. Plus, we already told the HMCS crowd that thy should but a dozen new U-Boats: green, quietest ever, and utterly suited to our various tasks and shallow home-coastlines. The lemon subs PM Chretien got from Honest John Bull’s UK Used Sub Mart (are any of them even currently sea-worthy?) are so 1980. Mind you, that’s a little better than our former subs, which were so 1950 (think Das Boot, with more room.. same torps, periscope, schnorkels, diesel tech, better batteries & computers) …. (dustmybroom)

~ NATPOST– What you need to know about the Dead Sea scrolls …. (np)

~ TWITTER: Coming to a church near you? …. (EO)

~ ZIETGEISTIANS: Jesus Wants You to Free Castro’s Spies! “The National Council of Churches (NCC) has rarely, if ever, shown interest in political or religious prisoners in communist prisons on Cuba. But the NCC chief, recently visiting in Cuba, has called for “justice” for five imprisoned Cuban intelligence agents serving prison terms in Florida” …. (theird.org)

~ MISSIONARY REPORTS from Honduras: What the world needs to know …. (dawneden.blog)

~ MARK SHEA– I think Chesterton was a saint …. (markshea.blog)

~ GOOD GOD, We Wouldn’t Want to Offend Them …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ MERE COMMENTS– The Ongoing Divisiveness of Women’s Ordination …. (merecomments)

~ ATHEISM & OTHER MATTERS– My favorite lectures from J.P. Moreland, Walter L. Bradley and Philip E. Johnson; Do biology textbooks lie to prove evolution? …. (winteryknight)

~ SATAN, Attorney at Law …. (rsmccain)

~ HEAVEN and Hell (in a Lift) …. (davidthompson)

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Mark Steyn

~ CANADA vs HUMAN RIGHTS: STATIST FAT CATS vs BLAZING CAT FUR– Canada’s Chief Censor complains her free speech is being silenced by bloggers …. (steynonline)

~ WIMBLEDON WEEKEND: NEW BALLS– Mark’s jokes get knocked out on opening day …. (steynonline)

~ IN THE CORNER: YOUR GREEN HOUSE– An assault on citizenship – plus Mopping up operation …. (NROTC)

~ HE HAUNTS US STILL, UNFORTUNATELY– DOMINION DAY: Mourning in Trudeaupia …. (steynonline)

~ SAITH MR. SHAIDLE– “erhaps Mark Steyn’s finest piece yet on the Human Rights Racket” …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ HUGH HEWITT– Steyn, Romney and Botkin; Reynolds and White; Jaffa and Jude …. (hughhewitt)

~ MARK STEYN WONDERS: “Is politics some kind of affirmative action program for sociopaths?” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ STEYN TO AMERICANS: “I confess I’m finding it harder and harder to see why you fellows bothered holding a revolution”; and “Just in time for Independence Day, The Wall Street Journal has reprinted Steyn’s thoughts on Paul Rahe’s new book, Tocqueville and Montesquieu – and where we’re headed” …. (nrtoc, WSJ)

~ OF MOSQUES AND MOSQUITOES: Paul Weston tries to run the numbers …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ WALKER: This Week’s Mark Madness– Links Steynian …. (walker)

~ SCARAMOUCHE– “Glorious and free? Think again: Mark Steyn puts Salman Hossain’s hateful –but apparently entirely legal–remarks in context; and “A Grand Inquisitor vs. a fiery feline: As a Maclean’s subscriber, I get to read Mark Steyn’s weekly savaging of the supremacist and the stupefyingly clueless at least half a week before Mark posts it on his site. (It’s the whole reason I subscribe to Maclean’s.) In case you missed it in hard copy, here’s his latest column wherein he ponders why Canada’s vast ‘human rights’ bureaucracy is so afeard of one little kitty” …. (scaramouche)

~ MARK STEYN TO BLAME: “Korea is suffering from a national crisis of super-low fertility. The head of the Korean affiliate of Planned Parenthood explains why”; Britain, Mass Immigration, and Poverty …. (mercatornet, nrotc)

~ DEMOGRAPHIC WINTER 2 Has Been Released …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ MOSQUITOES KREKAR TV: Anti-terrorist show to debut on NBC July 20– “The premiere will follow Mullah Krekar, the leader of an internationally designated terrorist organization who has been living in Norway. The second episode is set in Germany, where purported Al-Qaeda supporter Mamoun Darkazanli remains free.” …. (creepingsharia)

Ezra

~ NO APOLOGIES– Parts 2 and 3 of Ezra’s speech at our Calgary Fundraising Dinner …. (noapologies.ca)

~ THE SLACKER EZRA still seems to be kicking back and spoiling his Jew-family with too much Jew-attention …. (ezralevant)

FreeSpeechers

~ SHAIDLE– Buy all 3 of my ebooks, get $5 off — Canadians only!; ‘It was providential’: Noonan, McCullough and July 4; Mark Steyn: ‘Statist Fat Cats vs. Blazing Cat Fur‘; That ‘Eject, Eject, Eject’ guy bores my ass off, and other blogging heresies; Ed Anger says, ‘Al Franken is a clown!’; It’s Canada Day, so I’ll be busy not celebrating; ‘Awkward’: the new word for ‘Muslim’, the way ‘urban’ means ‘black’? …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ SOCIALIST SCUMBOT Bob Rae Wants PM To “Come Clean” On CHRC …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ OUR TAXES AT WORK– As Canadians celebrate their country’s birthday, Canadian Arab Federation VP says, “F**k Canada Day” …. (BCF)

~ JOIN HRH BARBARA HALL for A “Groundbreaking” New Potential Shakedown Market …. (CitC)

~ A COMPLAINT that’s bound to fall on deaf ears: After reading Salman Hossain’s splenetic rants about “the Jews,” a member of the tribe (my tribe, not Hossain’s) took it upon himself to complain to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal for the Ideologically Sound …. (scaramouche)

~ ESSAY in answer of the question: What is the dignity of the person and where does it find its source? …. (missmarprelate.blog)

~ CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES CEO Watts calls the cases before the Ontario Human Rights Commission and tribunal a “shakedown.” …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ SAITH THE MALIGNANT SCARAMOUCHE– “Kind of patronizing, no?: The Canadian Human Rights Commission is promoting a Canada Post effort to give Aboriginal Canadians who pursue at least a year of post-secondary education a $1000 reward. In other words, to pat them on the head for doing something that in many other communities is really no biggie” …. (scaramouche)

~ BC HUMAN RIGHTS Tribunal ordered to back up Anal Probe, turn head and cough …. (blazingcatfur)

~ BS ARTISTES– Christina Hoff Sommers explains feminist myth-making …. (winteryknight)

~ AMERICA– Law: The Senate is considering an expanded federal hate crimes law. And who wouldn’t be for such a law, given its obvious noble intent? Beware …. (ibdeditorial)

Lil’ Kim Jong! (new Steven Crowder video)

~ CANADIAN ARABS ill-served by the CAF: Barbara Kay says it’s time for the racist, Islamist, Judeophobic Canadian Arab Federation to make like a dodo and become extinct …. (scaramouche)

~ HOME-GROWN eco-terror: RCMP confirm fifth explosion against EnCana in northern B.C. …. (theglobeandmail)

~ JENNIFER Lynch and her thought police have not impressed the editorial board at the Montrel Gazette …. (torydrroy.blog)

~ SO WHY HAVE a day for a country that believes in diversity? Canada Day?? …. (MaD)

~ IT SEEMS ALL the “Do-Gooders”… do pretty damn good …. (macadamia.blog)

~ THE NAZI PLOT to have Pius XII kidnapped, and possibly killed.. but remember: he was ‘Hitler’s Pope’! …. (hynek)

~ FOR A CANADA in which we may once again freely measure, represent, debate and enact a shared reality …. (covenantzone.blog)

~ SAITH CATFUR “I have great readers… is Omar Shaban the Islamic Punky Meadows?” …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ TINFOIL HATTERY: “Spreading conspiracy theories – stories about a world warped by evil forces – remains the pastime of marginalised groups. But conspiratorial thinking, the idea that someone, somewhere is to blame for every misfortune, has become respectable” writes Frank Furedi …. (frankfuredi)

~ TORONTO Garbage Strike — The Crisis Continues …. (mitchieville)

~ REMEMBERING Versailles, 1919-2009: a new world order’s legacy …. (mercatornet)

~ FORMER GOV-GEN LeBlanc remembered as ‘one of us’ by N.B. mourners …. (theglobeandmail)

~ DAWN EDEN– Emotional ossification, feminist-style …. (dawneden.blog)

~ CANUCKISTAN: Ending Subsidies To Political Parties — Could Be Back On The Agenda? …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ PEOPLE SHOULD NOT be punished for their beliefs …. (frankfuredi)

~ A WISE LESSON from Lord Palmerston …. (socialcohesion)

~ BRAINING CATPAW– “Contrary to rumour… This is not Burny Farber”; U R So Gay …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ WHAT IS REALLY Important? Can an HRC give you an AH HA Moment? …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ CHEERFULNESS BREAKS IN, by Pat Rogers. On two new biographies of the incomparable Dr. Johnson …. (newcriterion)

~ SPEECH IMPEDIMENTS– Big Brother is actually a Canadian bureaucrat. by Michael Taube …. (weeklystandard)

~ FRESH SCIPIO– Honduras? Where’s That?; The God Of The Koran …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ FLAGRANT HETEROPHILE HYNEK– Is that heterophobia I sense? …. (kennethhynek.net)

~ KEVIN KINDRED – Lover of Free Speech and Lover of HRCs… Are They Compatible? …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ TAX-FUNDED ACCEPTABLE HATE? F*ck Canada! — “I have no doubt the CAF is riddled with such jihadis, but at least this idiot is gone. HM Government needs to tally defund this organization. I wonder how easily shaban will find employment after exposing his hate to the world?”; Arab group exec’s anti-Canada tirade; The CAF – Canada Day Edition …. (Various)

~ VIA DR. ROY– David Warren on Canada …. (torydrroy.blog)

~ H&TER, THE SEQUEL– The C.A.F. responds to the National Post. With Pure taqyyia bullshit …. (vladtepes)

~ FREED UP FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES! Job well done, government! Pay more people to quit! …. (mitchieville)

~ WHY SOME EXPERTS SHOULD WATCHED: Toronto 18 member’s jihad texts don’t call for violence in Canada: expert. That expert? “Mohammad Fadel, a University of Toronto professor.” He’d be a pimp for the sharia finance scam, making crap up about gender equality under Islam; and (of course) connected to the Islamo-Supremacist groups like CAIR-CAN, the Muslim Students Association, and speaking at the Saudi-Bought & Paid For ‘Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding’ at Georgetown University …. (Various)

~ THANK YOU FOR ignoring my heresy! A post linked by Glenn Reynolds yesterday (about Barry Goldwater’s revenge) reminded me of an excellent Observation which bears re-repeating: “I became a conservative by being around liberals, and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives.” …. (CV)

~ MERE COMMENTS– Here Lies Feminist “Scholarship” …. (merecomments)

Lord Devon, the Earl who sparked outrage when he banned gay weddings at his castle. Photo: Apex

~ STANDING ON PRINCIPLE– “The Earl of Devon, who lost £200,000 a year when he banned same-sex civil partnership ceremonies at his stately home, is being forced to sell the family silver to raise money”; Britain: where terrorists run free, and sodomites run the rest. Binks says: drop him a note, and if in the UK, book your wedding and reception there …. (telegraph, powderham)

~ ECONOMIC GROWTH and social rights: the last 100 years …. (flemmingholm.ca)

~ MACADAMIA– “It’s all fun and games, until somebody… loses a freedom” …. (macadamia.blog)

~ THEODORE Dalrymple’s new essay for the New English Review is a delightful analysis of the relationship between thought and language and its abuse by political correctness …. (skepticaldoctor)

~ NP`S HOLY POST– A caveman’s logic …. (nationalpost)

~ DEEPLY CHARMING Islamist Spreads Hate, Contempt Against Canada …. (sentinel.blog)

~ AN INTERESTING Web Store for Young Parents on the Go– This is not about Human Rights, but it is about humans, right? …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ OUTSPOKEN ACTOR John Voight rebuts ‘hate speech’ tag …. (washingtontimes)

~ WHEN THE CONSERVATIVE government gave $400,000 to Toronto’s homosexual activists to put on last week’s “Gay Pride” party, some said it was to build political support …. (noapologies)

~ AN INTERESTING TAKE– “Devout Muslims can see (as Luther, Calvin, and others could not) the long-term consequences of the Reformation and its consequent secularism: a marginalization of the Word of God, except as an increasingly distant cultural echo—as the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of the once full “Sea of faith,” in Matthew Arnold’s precisely diagnostic words” …. (skepticaldoctor)

~ THE BIBLE, Homosexuality and Human Rights …. (flemmingholm)

~ INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM in Canada: In case you wondered what was happening, on Canada Day; and Is the future of journalism … a hobby? …. (post-darwinist.blog)

~ THE UGLY FACE of liberalism …. (orthodoxytoday)

~ THE BRAIN-PORRIDGE SPREADS– “Two programmes designed to educate students on human rights have recently been introduced into Bermuda’s schools. The Human Rights Commission (HRC) developed the initiative, which is aimed at different age groups” …. (walker)

~ FUN WITH N-WORDS: Nigaz Corp. name sparks racism debate. Nye-gaz, pu-LEEZE! …. (bbc, dailybeast)

~ DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE, so it’s un-newsed: Old Media Covering Up Gay Pedo Sex Slave Trafficking; and News agencies gagging ‘gay’ factor in boy’s rape. But coverage beyond bonkers for fake Duke lacrosse assault …. (sentinel.blog, WND)

~ THE BRAIN and Relationships– What Has This Got to Do With Human Rights? …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ SEAL MEAT BECOMES tasty delicacy in Canada after Europe bans imports: report …. (nydailynews)

~ HUMOUR IN CUNEIFORM– These ancient artifacts aren’t as funny as the Brooks/Reiner relics. by John Podhoretz …. (weeklystandard)

~ THEY LIKE TO WATCH: “The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks” …. (nrotc)

~ FLEMMING HOLM– Freedom of Speech and Human Rights …. (flemmingholm.ca)

~ DAVID THOMPSON– “I’ve previously noted the tendency of some academic activists to indulge in wild overstatement, not least those entranced by the Holy Trinity of race, class and gender” …. (davidthompson)

~ PRE-CRIME WARNING– CNBC Anchor Claims Getting ‘Veiled Death Threats,’ for His Scathing Rebuke of Blogosphere. Better haul us all in, just to be on the safe side …. (newsbusters)

~ RIGHT GIRL– No Pants Friday™ Roundup; I Just Wanna Bitch …. (girlontheright)

~ ANCHORESS– Had enough Michael Jackson, yet? …. (firstthings)

~ CLUELESS IN DC– Holder flubs reasons ‘hate crimes’ needed. Confirms he doesn’t know about failures to prosecute. Senators get 705,000-plus letters opposing ‘hate crimes’ …. (WND)

~ ZOMBIE KING OF POP– More on the social significance of the life of Michael Jackson in The Globe and Mail; Michael Jackson: A Tragedy of Our Times, says Theodore Dalrymple; Jackson buried as a Muslim? …. (skepticaldoctor, vladtepesblog)

~ POLITICALLY CORRECT & INSANE Church of England school bans girl from wearing crucifix – but allows Sikh pupils to wear bangles …. (dailymail)

~ PUNDITA– H1N1/swine flu: BIO.DIASPORA vs CDC-WHO dogma; CDC hoodoo and swine flu lethality; H1N1/swine flu: China Beats the Devil or Why CDC Scientists Shouldn’t Do War Planning …. (pundita.blog)

~ WALKER BLOG– Salman Hossain – not a problem! — “Sigh…what a bore. Once again, a hate-monger has been found ‘not guilty’ by the courts – this time a real one, as opposed to one of its larger-eared Australian cousins” …. (walkersunknownthoughts)

~ EN FRANCAIS… Poste de veille– GB : Un collège catholique critiqué pour avoir interdit à des visiteuses de porter le niqab …. (postedeveille.ca)

~ IN A BLOW TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY and Freedom of Association, Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of Truth v. Kent …. (thefire.org)

~ REVOLUTION FATIGUE, by Guy Sorman: “Events in Honduras and Argentina point to a continent weary of socialism” …. (city-journal.org)

~ SANTA ROSA JR. COLLEGE Unconstitutionally Bans Use of “SRJC” in E-Mail Addresses …. (thefire.org)

~ MOLOCH DEMANDS FRESH BLOOD! Canadian Abortion Clinic Director Pleads for Late-Term Abortions killing viable pre-born boys and girls; Late Term Abortions: Never Necessary …. (bluewavecanada.blog, forlifeandfamily)

~ CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS in Santa Rosa County Fight Back Against the ACLU …. (lc.org)

~ SOBER SECOND THOUGHT.. Senators Behaving Badly …. (am770chqr)

~ “FREE” “HEALTH” “CARE”– As a few of our misguided souls in the U.S. consider nationalized health care, Dalrymple highlights a nonsensical new NHS policy in Britain, the kind of thing we Americans should expect if we do the unthinkable …. (skepticaldoctor)

~ DEAR PROFESSIONAL CANUCKI JEW FRANK DIMANT– A blog should be updated if you wnat people to actually read it. “February 11th, 2009″? FAIL! I was actually looking at it and linking to your stuff, so please make it worthwhile …. (bnaibrith.ca)

~ ACCIDENTALLY HONEST CAF VP says “F**k Canada” — Mooseandsquirrel says “Get the f**k out” …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ A TIPPING-POINT in Media Business Models …. (brain-terminal)

~ INTERESTING– The unelected leadership in Beijing suddenly backs down from its folly to censor the web in China — the brainiacs called the software censor “Green Dam Youth Escort”. Meanwhile, our unprincipled bastards watch notices this: PC makers voluntarily supply web filter in China.. Let Acer, Sony, Asus, Lenovo, and BenQ (thusfar) know how you feel about your computer-money going to support tyranny …. (therealbarackobama, theglobeandmail)

~ HRH PRINCE Iggy Claims His Bigotry ‘Misinterpreted’; Michael Ignatieff’s one-horse bandwagon …. (sentinel.blog)

~ SOCON– “No money for D&P”, say Canadian Catholics; The Canadian Bishops & Their Rebellion: What It’s Going to Cost; LifeSiteNews’ Detailed Response to Canadian Bishops’ Whitewash Report on Development and Peace …. (socon.ca)

~ DELIGHTFUL– Eugenicist’s grandson wants to what — censor or sterilize? …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ SNOTTY FORIEGN PEOPLE– Multiculturalism and the Case of the Unwanted Hello …. (islamist-watch.org)

KLOWN KOLLEGE

~ EXTRA ACCEPTANCE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY: Section 173.1 of Canada’s Criminal Code states parading in the nude “in the presence of one or more persons” is a crime …. (P2BC)

~ PJTV: The Depression Cure …. (drhelen)

~ CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK– “Ducking into the tepee for cover: A former CAF executive who expressed some, ahem, colourful birthday greetings to his adopted home and native land is attempting to deflect the flak by hiding behind Aboriginals” …. (scaramouche)

~ VICTOR Davis Hanson: Andrew Roberts recently published this riveting new book on four leaders of the Allied front in World War II. “The Armchair Alliance” …. (victorhanson)

~ AN ENEMY of real human rights and a best friend to tyrants …. (mooseandsquirrel)

~ COJONES-WATCH: “In a land where neuters, unicorn riders, and moonwalking molesters are deified and canonized, we can forget that there are real men still walking the American earth. Here’s one. Do you think she was glad to see him?” …. (americandigest)

~ RHYMES WITH REASON: “The poetry’s the thing in Shakespeare’s sonnets” …. (weeklystandard)

~ UN-DIVERSITY: The State of Free Speech on Campus: Harvard University …. (thefire.org)

~ SAITH CJUNK– “Buchanan Gets What Harper Doesn’t– What’s so difficult about this?” …. (cjunk.blog)

~ HMMMMM— Swiss to Outlaw Suicide Clinics; Are Dependent Elderly Persona non Grata in the UK? …. (firstthings)

~ MOOSE & SQUIRBLE– `Luv my new HollywoodLoser.com t-shirts! …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ THIS AIN`T YOUR GRANNY`S Humane Society: If you donate to a “humane” organization that engages in activism, you need to stop …. (SDA)

~ HOW LIBERALS THINK: Abortion mill operator teaches youngsters to ‘dry hump’, using cartoons …. (P2BC)

~ CREDIBILITY and democracy in Canada …. (flemmingholm.ca)

~ OFFICIALLY SOCIALIST Spain Deconstructs the Traditional Family …. (brusselsjournal)

~ BATCHELOR: Dubiously Waxman-Markey Sea Ice …. (therealbarackobama)

~ A REALLY inconvenient truth …. (exurbanleague)

~ UNPC TV– The Goode Family, which follows an environmentally obsessive PC household and their ostentatious concerns …. (davidthompson)

More here

~ OUR POTUS, TOO– Raphael Alexander: Obama sets Canada’s emissions rules, like it or not …. (nationalpost)

~ IT’S EASY BEING GREEN– “Environmentalism Is School Prayer For Liberals” …. (eddriscoll)

~ HOT AIR VORTEX & profiteer Al Gore Hijacks Independence Day …. (dailybayonet)

~ BEHOLD THE GLORIES of Socialized Medicine: UK Patients Clean Their Own Filthy Rooms. Yup, it’s all about downloading the misery to the patients, and to their families, so we can build up the bureacracy, scyrocket basic costs, and squander the money on anything except health …. (CitC)

~ HERE`S YOUR Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, July 3rd 2009 …. (dailybayonet)

~ THE ROAD TO HELL… is paved with Green Bricks …. (cjunk.blog)

~ PROTEIN WISDOM.. “Funny, eh, how on Nov 4, 2008, dissent stopped being patriotic? So much so suppressing reports that don’t conform to the political consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming doesn’t even make Krugman’s radar. Add to that, the Waxman-Markey turning-American-citizens-into-serfs bill does not even rate a mention in USA Today” …. (proteinwisdom)

~ DR. ROY WITH More on Carbongate …. (torydrroy.blog)

Obysmal

Tyrannosaurus Debt

~ ENEMY-LIST WATCH– California Dem leader: Conservative opinion on talk radio is “terrorism” …. (IFPS)

~ SENSE OF EVENTS– Machiavelli v. Obama …. (senseofevents.blog)

~ STIMULAND– Boehner’s Bloodhounds: ‘The Stimulus Isn’t Working’ (Video); Stimulus FAIL, Chapter 723 …. (humanevents, directorblue)

~ THE TRUTH ABOUT The Honduran Situation… from expert Ryan Mauro at FrontPage. He tells us what the Old Media won’t; Pamela Geller in American Thinker: “Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom Again” …. (sentinel.blog, A2K)

~ WORST EVER, EVER– Obama loses 2.5 million jobs, 9.5% unemployment, worst in 26 years; Round-up of news on Obama’s economic policies …. (WK)

~ OWN GOAL! Victor Davis Hanson (The Great): Missing Our Moment In Iran …. (CitC)

~ FORD SHALL BE PUNISHED! Privately-owned and operated automaker outsells government-subsidized one; What’s good for General Motors is good for Obama …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ WHAT THE O-MEDIA WON`T TELL YOU– Honduras defies Obama-supported socialist dictator; Obama supports socialist dictator against democracy in Honduras; Honduras Defends Its Democracy …. (winteryknight, odoxytoday)

~ AMERICAN DIGEST: How Beautiful We Were …. (americandigest)

~ UNELECTED & UNACCOUNTABLE Obama health czar directed firms in trouble. DeParle made millions from companies under federal investigation …. (WND)

~ LOTSA GLENN BECK: The Coming Insurrection; Cap and Favor$$; Al Franken and ACORN; SEIU in a Nutshell; ObamacareMart July 1 …. (realbarackobama)

~ 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~

~ THE PRESSTITUTES: Obama’s Lewinsky; Picked Off One By One …. (nosheepleshere.blog)

~ KATE OF SDA– Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose! …. (SDA)

~ FAILED COMEDIAN & RADIO MOGUL Al Franken takes his seat among pantheon of Senate funnymen …. (nationalpost)

~ CONSEQUENCES– “America isn’t hiring precisely because of government policy.” …. (drhelen.blog)

~ GREATEST JUDGE EVER– Sotomayor Achilles’ heel? Wrongly imprisoned man– Jailed for 16 years, he blames Supreme Court nominee for 6; Documents Show Sonia Sotomayor’s Group Opposed Pro-Life Judge Robert Bork …. (worldnetdaily, transfigurations.blog)

~ THE ENTERTAINER Obama: hardest working man in show business …. (firstthings)

~ PISSING INTO THE TEEPEE WATCH– David Frum: Republicans need protection from Palin; “Why do they hate Sarah Palin?” …. (nationalpost, FT)

~ BILL CLINTON Snubs Obama …. (thedailybeast)

~ NEVILLE– “Terrorists? Whatever! Like, der!”.. I had a spare afternoon so I called up the laughable National Security Hotline and ASIO …. (neville.blog)

~ PRIMETIME $$$$$– Wondering who’s behind all of these Obamacare ads? Hint: it rhymes with ‘ACORN’ …. (directorblue.blog)

~ OH, THE CRONYISM– eBay founder’s links to Obama unveiled: Endorsement, appointment included in billionaire’s connections …. (worldnetdaily)

~ NEENER-politics: Your candidate’s adultery is worse than mine! …. (classicalvalues)

~ WE’RE BEING czar’d nearly to death here! Now it’s a “consumer financial watchdog” …. (realbarackobama)

~ CAN THEY GET A REFUND, THEN? Boehner’s Bloodhounds: ‘The Stimulus Isn’t Working’; Haemorrhage Continues Under Obammunist ‘Stimulus’ …. (humanevents)

~ PRESIDENT BLOOD & Dead Babies– Obama Administration Creates Stir at UN by Introducing Inflammatory Language Into Their Call for Easier “Access” to Abortions …. (weaselzippers)

~ LARWYN’S LINKS: Another Tea-Bagging Racist …. (directorblue.blog)

~ CHICKEN LITTLE– Why Obama deliberately manufactures crises …. (worldnetdaily)

~ CRAP & SCAM– Best. Idea. Ever. Cap-and-Trade for Congress; The Democrats’ National Energy Tax Creates the Largest Welfare Program in U.S. History …. (directorblue.blog)

~ DUBYA Bush’s Greatest Contribution to the 08-09 Crash… was the removal of the uptick rule and certifying 3X Short ETFs …. (cjunk.blogs)

~ POTUS EXPLAINS IT ALL– President Obama is talking about, well, just about everything with the Associated Press today …. (thedailybeast)

~ ON WITH THE SHOW! What a Coincidence!; kinda like those telegenic hand-picked ‘undecided voters’ of 2007, wot wot?; Obama “Town Hall” Retardery: All 3 Supposedly Random Audience Members He Called on Had Close Ties With His Administration… White House Calls it a “Coincidence” …. (ace, WZ, ace)

Queen | The Show Must Go On

~ NO LAUGHING MATTER – America’s Path to Marxism …. (orthodoxytoday)

~ HATING SARAH Palin is so gay! …. (classicalvalues)

~ CO-INKY-DINK? “Controlled” Town Hall Meeting…. (mkfreeberg)

~ COLONEL NEVILLE– Dirty Obama …. (neville.blog)

~ ON OBAMA’S WATCH: ‘We’re in the Middle of a Crash’: Black Swan …. (cnbc)

~ GREEDY & SHAMELESS Democrats use TARP money to shore up personal fortunes …. (winteryknight)

~ HURRAY FOR THE OLD BROAD– Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama; Bozell: When Even Helen Thomas Denounces Obama Media Manipulation, You Know It’s Out of Control …. (cnsn, RBO, NB)

~ BLUB BLUB BLUB– but it’s only the annoying peasants little people, so who cares! “Nation’s Unemployment Rate Climbs to 26-Year High at 9.5 Percent“. Remember: for all Marxists, The People is the reality, the actual workers are contemptible & expendable abstractions who need to obey their betters …. (fox, Yahoo)

Monty Python- The Annoying Peasant

~ MESSIAH UPDATE– Quinnipiac Poll: Obama Losing Independents …. (ace.mu.nu)

~ VIDEO: ‘Fox & Friends’ on IG-Gate; Michelle Malkin Reports on IG-Gate …. (rsmccain.blog)

~ A PLETHORA OF little CAESARS– Czarred And Feathered …. (ibdeditorials)

~ REALITY CHECK: What do the top 10 cities with the highest poverty have in common?… Democrat leadership …. (catholic-caveman.blog)

~ THE HOLY MOTHER ABROAD: Michelle Obama to Russia, Ghana, Italy, Will Meet Pope Benedict, Show Him Her Fabulous Deltoids …. (politicsdaily)

~ ROGER KIMBALL– The Potemkin Presidency meets a moment of sanity in The New York Times (with an observation from Hilaire Belloc and an admonition from Friedrich Hayek) …. (rogerkimball)

~ REAR ADMIRAL Barney Frank: Let’s spend TARP profits before taxpayers can get them.. Ahrr, me hearties! …. (washingtonexaminer)

~ OBAMA’S CONGRESS: What Fiscal Crisis? …. (ace.mu.nu)

Via

~ ACORN head claims a home is lost every 13 seconds; here’s rest of the story …. (washingtonexaminer)

~ CAROLINE GLICK– Ideologue-in-chief …. (glick)

~ THE GOOD: Obama Finally Picks a Side in Iranian Crisis. The Bad: It’s the Mullahs …. (Wz)

~ NASTY ‘Anti-Israel’ adviser being considered as U.S. ambassador to Syria. Long identified as one of Jewish state’s greatest foes in Washington …. (therealbarackobama)

~ CALL IT ‘EGO-PR0N’ – Obama’s most adoring audience is himself. His love of Urdu poetry sets the tone; National Security & the Cult of Personality …. (lucianne, ace)

~ RACISM-WATCH: What Jesse Jackson & 19th Century Slave Owners Have In Common …. (rightwingnews)

~ ROGER L. SIMON: Is Obama “Objectively Pro-Fascist?” …. (eddriscoll)

~ OVERTHECOUNTER COPS? NyQuil Survives Nanny State Police, For Now …. (ajc.com)

~ THE REST OF THE STORY– Honduras’ Constitution and its army; “You are wrong about Honduras“; Obama stands with tyrants …. (senseofevents.blog, WaTi)

~ PONDERING Obama’s Stim-u-Loss Package: Get Your Blood Pressure Meds …. (directorblue.blog)

~ HISTORIC Declaration of Independence Copy Found in UK. Please keep it safe there, for when the Obama Regime is over! …. (ibloga.blog)

~ DEM STRATEGERISTS Worry Obama’s Popularity is Dropping; ‘Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar,’ Illustrated …. (lucianne, nationalreview)

~ CONTRA LATINA BIGOTRY– James R. Copland: Defeat Cloaked in Victory– The Supreme Court’s commendable Ricci verdict won’t change the Catch-22 logic of discrimination law; Ann Coulter: So Much for “Wise Latinas” …. (city-journal, CitC)

Geoff’s Unemployment Chart — June Edition

~ DR. EVIL REDUX– President Obama’s Trifecta Of Doom; Democrats’ “Cap and Trade” law includes provision for gov’t to come into your home and “inspect” it …. (rightwingnews, P2BC)

~ NUISANCE FEEBS– Socialized Healthcare: No Drugs For The Useless! …. (peoplescube)

~ STILL FIGHTING 2008– Team Maverick vs. Team Maverick– “As godawful as Barack Obama has been and will continue to be, it is very difficult to feel it is some great loss that these people didn’t get a chance to help run the country.”; and “Why can’t anyone from Team Maverick ever take responsibility for their own failures?” …. (rsmccain.blog)

~ WILL OBAMA ACCEPT a Quran from terror-linked CAIR? …. (creepingsharia)

~ ON ARLEN– “Go Ahead. Luxuriate In The Schadenfreude. You Know You Want To” …. (eddriscoll)

~ OBAMA’S SPECIAL FRIENDS– Record Serves as Reminder of Hugo Chavez’s Human Rights Transgressions …. (foxnews)

~ PALIN-HATING McCain Staff Leakers, Whomever You Are, Are Scum, Should Be Outed, And Should Never Get Another Job; Excitable Andy Still Pushing Trig Twooferism …. (rightwingnews)

~ POTUS: Lefties not happy– Much of obamessiah’s policy to fight terrorism is essentially a continuation of President Bush’s policy …. (torydrroy.blog)

New York City Tea Party

~ OUR SOPHIST-IN-CHIEF– Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner …. (commentarymagazine)

~ WORTHWHILE WORDS– A Letter to Sarah: Stay home and do your job and your homework. By Jonah Goldberg …. (nationalreview)

~ UNPATRIOTIC New York State Senators Refuse to Pledge to the Flag, not likely to refuse taxpayer-funded pay, perqs, pensions, and payola …. (therealbarackobama)

~ SEN. INOUYE Owned Stock in Bank He Helped Get Bailout Funding …. (bailoutsleuth)

~ YELLOW ROSE Governor Rick Perry on states that don’t suck, e.g. Texas …. (rsmccain.blog)

~ ALL FRANKEN’S “Super” Stolen Election …. (atlasshrugs)

~ T’OTHER McCAIN– “The Republican Party is going to have a hard time coming up with a strong presidential nominee in 2012.” …. (rsmccain.blog)

~ THE MIGHTY Obama announces ‘Seeing Green’ energy initiative …. (exurbanleague)

~ ANORAK– Barack Obama Becomes Adolf Hitler …. (anorak)

~ O COME LET US ADORE HIM.. Was His Birth Foretold? It works for Luke Skywalker… and Neo… and Barack Obama. “Yeah, yeah… I see that. Yeah, it’s just like Jesus, or King Arthur, or…” …. (directorblue.blog)

~ IOWAHAWK– Virgin-Americans Vow Fight Against Cap-and-Trade’s Blood Sacrifice Amendment …. (iowahawk)

~ PEOPLE’S CUBE– The Washington Pimp: Post For Sale; Honduras is the new Prague Spring; I Denounce Jeff Bezos for Not Being a Good Prog; Suck It Napolitano! …. (thepeoplescube)

~ DOES OBAMA Mean No Awesomeness? …. (imao)

Jihad

“Imagine if any other religion acted as does Islam — Christianity for example. If Christians made war upon cartoons? If Christians made war upon Buddhist statues? If Christians chopped off heads on camera? If Christians sent legions of suicide killers into schoolhouses? If Christians murdered their daughters for violations of ‘honor?’ If Christians boasted about blasting civilian airliners from the sky? If Christians were involved in almost every war on the planet? If Christians at the Vatican regularly stampeded and trampled to death hundreds of their own? If Christian youth made a sport of raping non-Christian girls? If Christians hunted down and killed all who tried to leave the faith? If Christians sent out hit squads to murder all who insulted the faith? If Christians around the globe jumped with glee after the towers fell? If Protestant and Catholic Christians engaged themselves in mutual slaughter? If Christians sexually mutilated their adolescent girls?”

~ Gagdad Bob ~

~ MORAL INSANITY– U.S. to block new sanctions on Iran; in other news, Iran to put British embassy staffers on trial; in unrelated news, “An Iranian “protester’s tale” is yet another example of rape as part of the judicial process in today’s Iran” …. (jihadwatch, ghostofaflea)

~ CAROLINE GLICK– “It works out that retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak – the man who shaped Israel’s judiciary in his own image – doesn’t care much for Jews” …. (carolineglick)

~ H8TER HAVEN– Canada Arab Federation shows ‘gratitude’ to Canada for July 1; Ali Mallah Tete: One more Islamist thug of the “Canadian Arab Federation”.. pens bizarre paranoid response to Omar Shaban outing …. (vladtepesblog, blazingcatfur)

~ HMMMMM– Khatami Joins With Mousavi; Khatami Jumps Ship, to Mousavi’s Side? …. (ibloga.blog)

~ PUSHBACK– Christian monastery in Turkey wins back land. Attemped pilferation of 1500 year old property fails for the moment …. (fathersofthechurch)

~ REVEALING THE DETAILS– Islamic invasion of America: The 20 Point Plan …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ THE ISNA CONFERENCE: American Thinker, by Dave Gaubatz– “American Muslims gather by the tens of thousands in our nation’s capital this weekend, as our nation celebrates its birthday”; ISNA’s Reform Hasn’t Shed It of Radical Ideologues …. (americanthinker, IVP)

~ GELLER– Islam: The War of Propaganda Makes Huge Gains …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ FLEA GHOST– Yes, this works, but it would take an awful lot to get us to fight that way again …. (ghostofaflea)

~ DIANA WEST– Pundits, Get Out of Iran’s “Green” Zone …. (townhall)

~ MICHAEL JACKSON DEATH UPDATE Day 20 Iran the Revolution: Time for an Israeli Strike, Obama still willing to Talk to Violent, Brutal regime …. (atlasshrugs)

~ A STUDY IN DEFEAT: Bruce Bawer calls out Western apologists for radical Islam …. (city-journal)

~ ZERB SOUNDS THE ALARM about “Zionists”: One of the things the Toronto Star’s anti-Zionist bloviator, Antonia Zerbesias, is proud of on this Canada Day is “free expression.” Trouble is some sneaky “Zionists” are conspiring to steal it away in the dark of night, those perfidious cads …. (scaramouche)

~ THE GLAVINATOR– “The Uprising Changes Everything, Part III: Exposing Iranian Treachery In Afghanistan” …. (transmontanus.blog)

~ WONDERFUL: Obama Released Iran-Backed Terrorist Who Killed American Soldiers for… Dead Bodies of Murdered Brits; Planning to Release Another One, Too …. (ace.mu.nu)

~ THE SHAMEFUL Silence: Iran, Revolution, and the American Media …. (EvoOP)

~ STEVEN EDWARDS: The new jihadi menu — eat your kill! …. (nationalpost)

~ FAREED ZAKARIA (whose Future of Freedom is a must read) has this to say about the possibility of revolution in Iran …. (CV)

~ SAUDI HATE FLICK Draws Private State Department Fire …. (IVP)

~ MILITANT ORTHODOX JEWS demand special footbaths, mikvehs, diet ary requirements. Colorado meat plant adds footbaths & ass-washes for Somali Muslims …. (creepingsharia)

~ GEO-POLITICS– Time for an Israeli Strike?; IDF watching Iran’s post-election turmoil …. (ibloga.blog, icej)

~ ROBERT SPENCER– “The question that arises out of the overwhelmingly angry reaction to Sarkozy’s view is whether anything associated with the religion of Islam is beyond intense scrutiny and interrogation” …. (jihadwatch.org)

The Path to Darkness

~ TERROR-FRIENDLY ACLU Recommendations Would Mean “More Money for Hamas”…. (investigativeproject)

~ BLIND TO THE TRUTH: Melanie Phillips blasts Allen Dershowitz for his refusal to see Obama for what he is–a bumbling, fumbling creep and no friend of Israel …. (scaramouche)

~ THAT LEFTY-JIHAD MAG? Still waiting. Not as easy as it looks, huh ElMo? So much easier to break other people’s stuff, or ride on their coattails …. (thecanadiancharger)

~ TELEGRAPH BLOG– The truth about sharia courts …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ ISRAELIS LISTEN to Obama …. (senseofevents.blog)

~ THE USUAL MANURE– Amnesty International ignores Hamas’ boasting about using civilians as human shields, says they didn’t use them but Israel did, accuses Israel of “war crimes” …. (jihadwatch)

~ THE REAL HISTORY History on Iran and Islam. Iran was amazing before Mohamed …. (vladtepesblog)

~ RELIGION OF PEACE– Muslim women should be killed for marrying a non Muslim …. (vladtepesblog)

Video: Sarkozy on the burqa

~ SURRENDERVILLE? — Walden: NY City Council backs closure of schools for Islamic Feast on Sept. 11th …. (therealbarackobama)

~ ZIONIST PLOT: Somali American Muslims Accused of Al Qaeda Ties Indicted on Terror Charges …. (creepingsharia)

~ THANKS, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! Obama: violence has affected dialogue with Iran …. (icej.org)

~ DELIGHTFUL Pakistan: Muslims, incited by mosque broadcasts, burn down 100 Christian homes and churches …. (vladtepesblog)

~ NEW VID from the Mumbai attack. Graphic …. (vladtepesblog)

~ SADDAM– Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it …. (spectator)

~ SUCH HAPPY PEOPLE! “Muslims went out in the streets, dancing and chanting ‘Come to Jihad’ and the ‘Cross is the enemy of God’, with the security forces chanting along with them!”; Muslims torch two church buildings in Zanzibar …. (jihadwatch)

~ UNITED IN HATE AUTHOR Jamie Glazov speaks …. (vladtepesblog)

~ STRATFOR: Return of classical terrorism. Greece …. (vladtepesblog)

~ MUSLIMS VS. EVVYBODY– Excellent 20 minute documentary about Indonesia’s ethnic killing and sectarian violence …. (vladtepesblog)

~ SAUDI ARABIA to build Apartheid Wall! Leftists don’t scream about apartheid, nor intend boycott …. (jihadwatch)

~ IRAN IS BREEZY with freedom. A parody …. (weeklystandard)

Coming Soon

News tonight, space monkeys permitting, and the sun doesn’t explode.

~ Binks

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Aftermath: Tehran

~ ITEM: IRAN: DAY 18 of the Revolution that will not die

~ ITEM: Iran Fading From Media Attention.. Iran? That’s so June!

~ ITEM: The rise and fall of Perez Hilton

~ ITEM: Obama’s Failure of Moral Courage

~ ITEM: North Korea’s Nuclear Program Is No Joke

~ ITEM: Out of sight, Iran remains on the brink

~ SO WHILE THE AD/HD news-cycle has moved on (Teh Obama having spoken), the bodies are still piling up in in the pre-dug graves outside Tehran. Many are in hiding, others in dungeons, others being tortured and/ or paraded in front of Mullah-TV to denounce the pre-approved enemies-list of Zionists, agitators, anything and anybody else than the ones with bloody hands.

It would be all so lame and giggle-worthy, were it not for real suffering now firmly behind the clerical curtains once again– we’ve all seen too many tinpot types and their various Baghdad Bob regime mouthpieces telling us the official lies we’re not supposed to believe. Yet again, our blood-stained media has chosen to look the other way, back to bread/ circuses/ pop culture ‘essential’ news.

But it’s not back to usual: this was Twittered, and an ancient people like the Persians have very very long memories, having been around for 6000 years and more. Further– and according to the Prophet Joe Biden’s schedule– six months in, and Glorious Leader/ Messiah has indeed faced two world-scale international challenges to his largely autopilot foreign policy, and failed. A mix of mumbles, hitting false notes, a disturbing lack of real and fitting emotion, topped off with the usual pandering that has much of the world scrambling to protect itself, disinvest in the U.S., and nuke-up before the bad guys have all the toys.

Paging Peter Sellers

The disturbing lack of apparent seriousness and bad PR from The Greatest President indicates a lack of deep-bottomed judgement and prudence, and a flippancy towards and within very serious times, matters, and choices. He’s supposed to lead the world, but thinks it appropriate to allow media to doggishly follow him around while he gets ice cream, goes golfing, and acts like a vacationing executive rather than the leader of a country in deep internal waters, and facing very serious external threats.

It’s like having a charming Inspector Clouseau in charge of the planet, without the dumb luck to save him.

Not With A Bang, But A Smirk

Look for Obama to take time off after the NORK nuking of San Diego and Honolulu to do a little shopping with the girls, then golf with the cronies– perhaps with a Kobe beef BBQ whilst he’s at it– even as he explains that his Schedule really is too tight for consulting with world leaders, since he’s busy with Stimulus II, and firing corporate executives at the moment, but he sincerely appreciates their concern, and thanks for the call.

Please, please, please let me be terribly, terribly wrong. ~

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Thriller: Redux

Lots More Here

~ WHILE POKING ABOUT on YouTube the day Michael Jackson died, I cam across an odd form of ‘modern tradition’ online: various assortments of wedding parties doing the ‘Thriller’ zombie dancing. Hmph.

Call me faux-anthropological, but it’s interesting to see descendants of mostly white Europeans doing such things, in the complete absence of whatever passed for happy celebratory dancing or music in the auld country having been passed on, or regarded as ‘old-fashioned’ or whatever. At one wedding I performed, the Scots-descended bride did some heart-breakingly joyful Scottish dancing for her husband during the reception dinner and after; other times, it’s been kilts and bagpipes for the occasion, but pretty much the same sorts of pop music and dancing at the reception.

It tells you something: our pop becomes the tradition, but the longing for a common something remains– albeit in the face of an anti-historical culture which worships the new, or at best, the old plundered for profit. Perhaps that’s the motivation behind Tartan Festivals & Renaissance Faires and thr suchlike: the old become new and present and non-embarrassing again.

Now that I’m more interested in genealogy and history than when I was married, I’d gladly wear the family tartan and hire a proper piper for a renewal of vows or somesuch– and see if we could hire some Scottish dancers (male & female) to liven up the afters.

Along with the haggis and bashed tatties an’ chappit neeps wi’ balmagowrie, aye? ~

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The Film That Started It All

~ THANKS to whichever anonymous Binks-minion sent along the alleged ‘Final Cut’ of one of my Top-10 movies ever, Bladerunner. It came out when I was working as a movie usher (love them polyester suits!), so I saw (and fell in love) with the film, the soundtrack, the dialogue and effects, and the whole thing. It’s very nearly a perfect movie, despite the notoriously difficult course of actually creating and filming the movie.

25 years on, and this flick still holds its own amongst the pixellated wonders of the last few years. Even if you’ve not had the privilege, you’ve seen Bladerunner copied in dozens of futuristic, sci-fi, or other dystopian visions of the future, characters, music plot elements, all the rest. It was seminal, germinal, trend-making, all that. Even great movies in their own right such as Aliens, or The Matrix, owe much to Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, and the rest of the talented folk behind one of the greatest modern movies ever.

Sadly, these days Harrison Ford is busy ruining Indiana Jones, bonking  some younger woman, and starring in rubbish like “Absolute worst movie in years: Crossing Over“.

So thanks again from this grateful giftee to the gifter– I will enjoy it soon, as a reward to myself and the rest of the elves at Binks-HQ on a day off from blogging (yes, Teh Binks does take those, contrary to reports or suspicions). ~

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More Things In Heaven & Earth

~ ITEM: “We have found a huge number of microbes a mile or so deep in the earth. In fact, there is more diversity under the surface of the earth than in the ocean. It is absolutely stunning.”

~ ITEM: King Coal

~ IF A GIANT meteor were to wipe out the surface of the earth, there would still be life: down under. In fact, I’d say that may well be where everrything else came from. Indeed, such life may exist in lots of other places in our solar system and the galaxy, overagainst more obvious little green persons and signs of ‘civilization. You just have to allow for a very wide range of conditions, chemistry, life-elements, and environment.

Oh, and did we mention that these bugs eat coal and leave methan behind? Useful bugs, too. They may be behind the whole underground ecology of oil, gas, coal, and other elements we use for energy.

God’s creation in endlessly beautiful, fascinating, and surprising. ~

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A Webelf– Since 1998

~ ITEM: Anglican bishop: Church of England likely gone in thirty years

~ WHY ‘WEBELF’?.. because in the Anglican blogging days, I found things like ‘Web Sexton’ or ‘Cyber Deacon’ too precious and smug / twee by half. Why ‘Binky’? It’s not the pacifier or blanket, just a small harmless-sounding name for someone actually good, but a little dangerous. Blame Sid Meier’s original ‘Pirates!‘, where I used it along with other similarly lame & amusing names, instead of ‘Cap’n DeathBlood McHate’ or some other such. So originally, Binky was a pirate-name, along the lines of The Dread Pirate Roberts.

The elf-thing kicked in when the easily bored boss of this insanity project started to add a massive HQ, staff, departments, and other imaginary elements. There have been two other actual elves in the computer line– Doug Elf and Mike Elf– the latter actually creating under the ‘CaNN- Classical Anglican Net News’ logo a server-base hosting 25 blogs, a number of e-mail and chat thingies, all in aid of traditionally-minded Anglican communications, news, and connectivity.

Pwned A Bit

After years of 10k+ daily visits, we endured a series of severe hackings from Episcopal Church HQs (God knows who you are!) and for some other reasons, all that CaNNet stuff was wrapped up.. and– for unfortunate technical reasons, much of the older content from Binks is offline, our famous Anglican.tk (that’s Tokelau) url having been hacked as well, and now memory-holed except via the Wayback Machine, and Teh Bink’s exceptionally spotty memory.

Backwards Into The Future!

Now Free Mark Steyn/ Canuckistan is back to the Elf Hisself, with tips and input from all the blogs we link to, and some fellow bloggers. Of course it LOOKS like a group-effort, but that’s only because of the immense talent and large amount of linkery involved.

Funnily enough, some folks have assumed this was some sort of giant operation, and thus part of various nefarious conspiracies of their chosen paranoid fantasies. Hence the Canadian Anglican establishment, some Muslims, some in the American Episcopalians establishment, to mention a few. “OK. Um– Yes.. you are being mocked and tormented by hordes of imaginary elves.. on the interwebs, you say?”

The specific kind of elf? Not sure: the ancient little people, partly (good, if not safe).. some Santa elvery in there.. along with Special Ops dangerous elves.. with a dose of LOTR elvishness. Plus a saucy sprinkling of rebel/ pirate/ scots wha’ hae to remind our foes and would-be friends that we aren’t going anywhere, and will gladly serve as your worst nightmare should you up and deserve it. Thus, Teh Binks is apparently “one of the cool kids” now, according to our being on the impecunious Can-blogger 1200 List. Never was much of a cool kid, except for grade  5– coolness as a grownup is much cooler and more enduring, of course.

Lost causes? Huzzah! Decline of the West? Last ditches are our speciality! Little chance of victory or success? Bring it on! Hurt us? We’ll rest and bleed awhile, then rise to fight again, kicking posterior and taking names. You may beat– but can never defeat– a true webelf. ~

This day, we fight!

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While We’re Surfing Teh CyberWeb Roadways

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

~ Winston Churchill, a radio speech delivered before the outbreak of World War II

Winston Churchill, Techno Star

SOME PITHY Winthston Churchill quoteth

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Giant Rogue Wave Ahoy

Oh Crap

~ ITEM: Have A Bad Day– “Please allow me to ruin your day. Read this essay by Peter Schiff. It is mercifully free of economic jargon. It is lengthy, so open a cold beer before you read it. By the end of it you will need another. Or perhaps switch to whiskey”

~ ITEM: Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency.

~ ITEM: The price of gold charted… into the future

~ ITEM: Smart money says… “Buy Candles“

~ FREE BINKTUITION: I think that there will be a further cream-skimming of the U.S./ World stock market this Summer. Hang in there. Precious metals are always good, as are negotiables like booze, smokes, and other hard-to-get items in case of severe troubles. The U.S. debt mounts, dollar wobbles, jobs drop, investments savings down.. the fundamentals are entirely not good, and the fibrillations of the American economic heartland continue.. while Obama spends imaginary money, and the shell-game Fed buys up its own unwanted long-term financial products.

It’s one thing to see those disaster-flicks or Discovery channel specials about enviro-disasters: those affect a large but limited area. Our world is a creaky patch-work interconnected rag-bag of structures, lies, hopes, money, and countries. When the U.S. collapses under Obamunism, it all falls down goes boom, without a U.S.A. to leap in and Marshall Plan or donate or save the day, as she has since the early 20th century. What– you think a financially crippled China will give generously with no hope of repayment? Not so much.

The further problem at the moment is nobody in government will tell the public honestly just how bad it is– except proven- right- almost- every- time analysts like Peter Schiff. Read him, watch him, and appreciate his courage and wisdom, freely given out to a world in deep financial troubles.

I stand or sit to be corrected, and there’s no money-back guarantee. Binktuitions: worth every penny. ~

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Ka-Boomery

~ ITEM: Utterly awful movie earns $200 million in five days

~ ORWELL’S CHICK ON TS2– “Bad. But it had quite a lot of what I like in films: giant robots and really big explosions.” Amen, my sister from another mother: not all movies must have deep & life-changing messages, heavy sighs, sparkly vampires, or.. well, plots. Sometimes ’splody bots is just what we need, says this elf and fan of the first movie. ~

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Enough, Already

~ ITEM: Gerard Wiki; Filmography

~ ITEM: Reign of Fire

~ ONE.. LAST.. THOT.. Loved him in the first Batman movie.. and in Reign of Fire.. starting to be tiresome in Terminator: Salvation.. now he’s in the upcoming Johnny Depp gangster flick.. yes, Christian Bale has finally reached the dreaded Will Farrell Limit™ of over-saturation. Go do something interesting, CB: you’re getting wearisome, fast.

Watch Scots player Gerard Butler.. he’s had a truly remarkable wide-reaching B-list movie track, showing his musical chops in Phantom, Beowulf & Grendel, 300, and a whole lot of other well-done projects. Unlike Butler (with whom Bale co-starred in Reign of Fire, along with an amazing Matthew McConaughey), for some reason Bale has reached a gack-point with this watcher. ~

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Mark Steyn

~ CANADA vs HUMAN RIGHTS– NOW THAT’S A HEADLINE! What a difference 18 months makes …. (steynonline)

~ MARK STEYN EXPLORES Gov. Mark Sanford’s desire to break out of “the bubble” — the cocoon of aides, handlers, associates and the like that the modern working politician finds himself trapped in, which is expanding exponentially alongside, not coincidentally, government itself — by indulging in extra-curricular activities in Argentina …. (eddriscoll)

~ THE THIN BLUE CROSS LINE– More tales of health care, north and south – plus Congratulations! It’s a … cross-border incident …. (nationalreview)

~ MARK’S MOVIE VAULT– ICE AGE: We’re off on the road to a personal growth experience …. (steynonline)

~ DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE– SONG OF THE WEEK: Leonard Cohen and three-and-a-half rhymes …. (steynonline)

Ezra

~ FRESH POST-BABY EZRA– Tim Hudak proves HRC reform is a political winner …. (ezralevant)

~ VIA WESTERN STANDARD– Mark Milke with Frontier Centre for Public Policy reports on the growing coalition against Canada’s human rights laws in his review of Ezra Levant’s powerful new book Shakedown …. (westernstandard.ca)

~ EZRA FALLOUT GOODNESS– “Something’s rotten in the Dominion of Canada: And that something is our very own Big Brother/P.C. enforcers, the “human rights” system. However, thanks to Ezra Levant’s book Shakedown, a detailed expose of the racket, others–for instance, Weekly Standard columnist Michael Taube–are waking up to the awful truth about the state-sanctioned murder of Canadian free speech” …. (scaramouche)

FreeSpeechers

~ FAITH-WATCH: Oldest Known Image of St. Paul Discovered in Catacombs of Rome …Update: St. Paul’s Bones Found; Pope confirms bones …. (Various)

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG– Marriage is not a right . . .hear! hear!; Mike Huckabee and John Stewart on abortion; Flying the friendly skies of United when your luggage goes AWOL …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SHAIDLE– Please don’t complain about the ads on my website; California pol calls conservative talk radio hosts ‘terrorists’; College is a waste of time and money; Where the man who calls me a ‘racist’ spent last Sunday afternoon; ‘Even Obama cannot say it. But someone has to say it.’; And if Mark Steyn’s last name had been “Smith…”; I hate my country. Just in time for Canada Day! …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ RITUAL DENUNCIATIONS TO FOLLOW! Winners denounced in ‘Be Mean To Jennifer Lynch’ t-shirt contest; Bumped – T-Shirt Slogan Contest: Be Mean to Jennifer Lynch!… Now endorsed by the CHRC!; Congratulations! You were mean to Jennifer Lynch… and all you’re gonna get is a Way Cool T-Shirt …. (fivefeetoffury, blazingcatfur.blog)

~ WHAT TO LOVE– Fresh word from Pope Benedict XVI: Allen and Novak on Caritas in Veritate; on top of ‘Spe Salvi‘ (what to believe); and ‘Deus caritas‘ (God’s love & what to hope for) …. (acton.org, vatican.va)

~ A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED: I have come to the conclusion that, in a free society, it is essential to allow for offensive speech …. (scaramouche)

~ BRASS BALLS Radio: Everybody’s Dead! Edition …. (girlontheright)

~ RIGHT GIRL ON Ladies Who Lunch; Let the coveting begin; Breaking: Stevie Ray Vaughan is STILL Dead!; Jackson Flashmob in London …. (girlontheright)

~ SAITH Blazing Cat Fur: Bad Ideas seem intrinsic to the culture of human rights commissions …. (catfur.blog)

~ CANADIAN Arab Federation to Honour Terrorist Supporter …. (marginalizedactiondinosaur)

~ KEEP CHECKING in with the shiny new ‘Lynch Mob’ …. (missnixon)

~ HOT MARSUPIAL ON MARSUPIAL ACTION! OHRC finds MHRC guilty of discrimination! …. (noapologies)

~ THE DEFIANT CHRC seeks more powers …. (walker)

~ SCARAMOUCHE HAS– A tale of two tyrannies: Oh, sure, here in Canada we don’t have to worry about nutty, draconian Ayatollahs crushing us like bugs–call it a tyranny of the un-nice–but as David Warren writes, we are at the mercy of another, equally soul-destroying tyranny …. (scaramouche)

~ CURRENT SOCON GOODNESS– A Time for War: A Response to the D&P Abortion Scandal Report (Part 1); Canadian Catholic Bishops Clear Development and Peace of Allegations LifesiteNews Never Made; D&P, The Winnipeg Snake, & The Strike at Episcopal Unity …. (ocon.ca)

~ I’M FEELING A LITTLE Discrimination Today– Fix That Please Ms. HRC …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ HOW OFTEN HAVE radical greens repeated those phrases in an effort to shield their global warming hoax from the inconvenient truth that there is no global warming? …. (dailybayonet)

~ KIDS NEED STABLE ROOTS– Teens who move a lot have twice suicide risk. Selfish little brutes to interfere with the money-worship, and narcissism of adults, curse them! …. (Mad)

~ CRANKS, Losers, and Blow-hards… after all, isn’t that all that bloggers are …. (cjunk.blog)

~ FREESPEECH– Google doublespeak …. (walker)

~ CANADA UNDER FINANCIAL ATTACK? No need to panic despite $20M in lost precious metals: Canadian Mint. It would appear that Minister responsible (John Baird, Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Communities), and Agency executives Ian Bennett, President and CEO, and Beverly Lepine, COO have some very uncomfortable questions to answer, and it’s not the first time, either …. (Various)

~ WHAT WILL Jack and Iggy Say? … when the one whom they adore and revere above all else, asks …. (cjunk.blog)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS ON Tony Blair’s Britain: “A delusion appears to have gripped the Schools Secretary Ed Balls that Britain is East Germany and he is head of the Stasi” …. (spectator)

~ AN ENEMY of real human rights and a best friend to tyrants …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ PARADING SHAME & BROKENNESS, and naughty-bits– What’s Pride Got to Do with It; in other TO news, “Dominion Day to be cancelled in Toronto?”; The Toronto Festival of Rats and Flies …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ SURVEILLANCE and Censorship Threaten Internet Freedom …. (walker)

~ HRH COUNT Ignatieff tries to win the west by demonizing Calgary …. (shotgun)

~ THE ONTARIO PC LEADERSHIP race and the human rights system By Catholic Insight Staff …. (catholicinsight)

~ STOCK UP ON regular ‘energy-guzzling’ bulbs before it’s too late …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)

~ CHRISTIAN EXTREMISM goes huge! Yes indeed, extreme Christianity is an increasing threat in the Western world, against which we should all be on guard …. (walker)

~ THE FACE OF EVIL EVER RENEWS ITSELF…. Wretchard has a post up that explores the evolution of George Orwell’s understanding of tyranny …. (drsanity.blog)

~ OUTLAW BLOGGING? In a blatant attempt to stop the march of progress, now comes this outrage …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ IF THE DIGITAL Michael Jackson starts appearing in a few upcoming videos, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised …. (eddriscoll)

~ ALL GONE BYE BYE! Financial shenanigans wiped out all productivity gains from digital technology …. (boingboing)

~ WITH THE HEADLINE of “King Of Pop Dead At 12?, the Onion’s parody of a typical Michael Jackson obit is brutal — and spot on …. (eddriscoll)

~ WHO EXACTLY IS REALLY CHILLED in Canada? It would be chilling to find out who is really Chilled …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ OBAMA’S VISION– ‘Talk show hosts may be accomplices under hate bill’ …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ HOW WE GOT HERE– BC teachers’ ’social justice’ conference By Ron Gray …. (catholicinsight)

~ PRYA FOR YOUR Persecutors– I don’t know for sure what the Question is but Prayer is the Answer …. (freethroughtruth.blog)

~ UTERINE PARASITE-WATCH: “The UK, the Philippines, Australia all, according to various “ethics experts” need to implement a One Child policy, just like the one in China that has been so successful, (with a lot of help from the UNFPA, UNICEF etc).” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ REACTIONS TO PEREZ Hilton’s tantrums reveal a cultural movement unhinged by the very behavior it claims to abhor …. (catholic-caveman.blog)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS: Quis custodiet ipsum Custodem? …. (spectator)

~ REMEMBER, FOLKS– Don’t give up your guns …. (sergesblog.blog)

~ WHEN THE GOODIES GO AWAY… “Draft Outcome Document of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development”; As UN’s “Faux” Financial Summit Begins, Host D’Escoto Calls Nepotism “Entertaining” …. (eyeontheun)

~ HE WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL– ‘This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20 1968 …. (neville.blog)

~ LOOKS LIKE WE GOTS AN infestation of conservatives– A Crackdown on Free Speech at … Bucknell University?; Bucknell President Announces Resignation Amid Censorship Scandal …. (pajamasmedia, brain-terminal)

~ A LIVING DEATH: a “gay drugged-out skeleton being controlled by vampires”.. if we use the Thriller analogy, while he was a werewolf for a little while, and a man somewhere in there, he indeed ended up a zombie: bald, brittle, breaking down, nose collapsed in on one side; This does make me sad. MJ seems to have essentially killed himself …. (crunchycon, torydrroy)

~ MO’ SHAIDLE– UK: As usual these days, even at ‘conservative’ publications, the real story’s in the comments …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ GRANNIES & SICKIES AND OTHER NUISANCES.. “As I think I’ve pointed out before, we’ve already got a word in the English language for “involuntary euthanasia”.” …. (anglocath.blog)

Please Curb Your Unwanted Elderly.. Into The Bin, Geezer!

~ THE REST OF THE STORY– “What makes this story more than something to mention in passing, is that there is a Frank Lombard, with a Duke email address, on the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Advocate in nearby Carrboro, North Carolina (listed here as a “gay friendly” church)… who is involved in anti-racism efforts.” …. (themcj)

~ FATHER Raymond J. de Souza– Hockey’s failure in America …. (fatherdesouza.ca)

~ INSIGHT WONDERS– Are temperatures plunging in hell? …. ((Insight)

~ PARENTS SUCK– Child misery lit gives parents a bad rap …. (roback-morse.blog)

~ JAY CURRIE– Another Reason Hate Speech Laws Are Silly; Oh No! Skippy is off the Rez again; I am not a fan of dumping the anti-discrimination work of the Commissions into the Courts …. (jaycurrie)

~ I SCORED 100%, but I’m nerdy and enjoyed HiSkool CanHistory: “Most Canadians struggle to identify Canadian icons” …. (ghostofaflea)

David Bowie: Big Brother

He’ll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He’ll build a better whirlpool
We’ll be living from sin,
then we can really begin

~ FASCISM WATCH– Tim Hudak elected leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives. Actual conservatism may return …. (macleans.ca)

~ HRH PRINCE Iggy hits the ground, hard …. (dustmybroom)

~ IDEOLOGY-WATCH– A press release today announces that “Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members will again participate in Toronto’s Pride Day celebrations.” They claim that doing so is a celebration of “equality, diversity and human rights.”; “Toronto Pride” is “child abuse” …. (noapologies)

~ WHITE FEATHERS GALORE? For too many in the West, surrender is indeed an option …. (ghostofaflea)

~ THE NEW RULES– Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay …. (jaycurrie)

~ PAGING HRH BABS HALL! Abused Women in Toronto Forced to Share Shelter, Showers With Transexuals …. (conservativeinthecloset)

~ ONE COSMOS: Gagdad Bob on “The Immortal M. Jackson”; Innocence Lost, Found, and Stolen …. (onecosmos.blog)

~ OUR LEFT COAST: The view from La-La land/Passing the wampum at Cornwall …. (dustmybroom)

~ BRITAIN ON THE ROCKS– How does Labour introducing the same far-right policy – especially with this Orwellian name – change its presumed racism? …. (ghostofaflea)

~ THE FEMINIZATION of society has taken a serious toll not only on boys but on families. Men need a boos …. (roback-morse.blog)

~ ON THE SOCON D&P THING… “I have just heard that the Canadian bishops, in their “God-given authority” can change external reality” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ TOO STUPID TO TEACH: Ontario Teacher Creates Play About Muslim Progressivist Neo-Nazi Threat, and “Hate’ Inspired by “Poverty” …. (CitC)

~ OOOOOH! Jennifer Lynch takes 3 to the chin …. (catfur.blog)

~ A VERY GOOD IDEA– Pro-Life Plaster …. (firstthings)

~ IN DAVID MILLER’S socialist paradise… there’s no such thing as a bad boy, er… girl… well… you know; queer pride trumps Canadian pride …. (hallsofmacadamia, scaramouche)

~ ECONOMIC Heresies of the Left …. (firstthings)

~ INTREPID VIDJOCKEY Intimidated by KKK – Kockeyed Keffiyah Kweers at Gay Pride March …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ GET RELIGION– Icons, idols and the Gloved One; Moonwalking into eternity …. (gr)

~ HANSON– Our Schizophrenic Society …. (victordavishanson)

~ SADLY CLUELESS Ontario Premier McGuinty: Human Rights Commissions Helpful and Build Tolerant, Accepting Society… More Liberal mumbo-jumo PCspeak …. (CitC)

~ SAYS IMAO: I’m interested in what’s happening in Iran but not particularly interested in Michael Jackson. Is there a news source that caters to someone like me? …. (IMAO)

~ MARK SHEA’S Obligatory Michael Jackson post; and “I hate George Bush with a passion and can see no good in him whatsoever, I’m not running this story which shows that his Administration saved 11 million lives in the fight against AIDS” …. (markshea.blog)

~ FIRST FARAH.. NOW THIS! Billy Mays Is Dead; and “Both Ed Mahon and Farah Fawcett were Catholics and received the sacraments prior to their deaths” …. (mitchieville, extremecatholic)

~ VICTORY FOR Free Speech By: Jamie Glazov– The Texas Court of Appeals dismisses Islamist lawsuit against Frontpage columnist Joe Kaufman …. (frontpagemag)

~ BRUCE BAWER commits a thought crime in Norway: In City Journal, Jacob Laskin reviews the aforementioned’s new book …. (scaramouche)

~ PERSECUTION WATCH– India – Refusal of Visas to U.S. Panel Stuns Christians; Top Indian Official Apologizes for Anti-Christian Violence …. (compassdirect)

~ FEW KNOW THE real risks in delayed motherhood …. (bigbluewave)

~ BRITISH Video: quizzed by police for criticising ‘gay rights’ …. (A-M)

~ ROGER SIMON: My liberal friends don’t want to talk about global warming anymore …. (instapundit)

~ LIVE FREE Or Enslaved …. (scipio)

~ CANADA’S banana cream threat to democracy …. (NP)

~ AND SOCIETY’S TO BLAME…. “Gay Duke University health expert charged with selling adopted 5-year old for sex ” …. (winteryknight)

~ WHAT WILL THE BRITISH STATE DO ABOUT THE BIBLE?– The legality of the Bible in English, at least in uncensored form, is now at its most precarious …. (AM)

~ CO-DISCOVERER of Natural Selection Believed in “Overruling Intelligence” Guiding Evolution: New Book …. (lifesitenews)

~ ON COLBY COSH– “Today he makes the argument that Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan’s invocation of “the family” as justification for his controversial legislation–giving terrifying new powers of investigation to the police–somehow reflects on the nation’s social conservatives and their fetishistic (nay, theocratic!) notion of the sanctity of “the family” …. (EMG)

~ BARBARA KAY– The end of the Ottawa-Quebec ‘Bidding War’ …. (barbarakay.ca)

~ INTERNET SPEECH Victory in “Kaufman vs. Islamic Society of Arlington County, Texas” …. (ifps)

~ SHOCK VALUE– Micah Mattix on Pro-Life Transgressions of the Avant-Garde …. (touchstonemag)

~ WALKER MORROW OF EVIL– Tim Hudek won the race for leader of the Ontario PC Party. Ezra Levant, as always, remains hopeful that this is a good sign for HRC reform …. (walker)

~ OUT OF THE MOUTHS of babes and suckers …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ THE AMAZING ONION Satirizes the Culture of Death …. (markshea.blog)

~ EVE TUSHNET on Romoeroticism …. (insidecatholic)

~ A REAL VICTORY for Free Speech, Slows Sharia in U.S. …. (creepingsharia)

Canadian, Please

~ DAVID WARREN– “Tyrannies: One of the truest things said about Iran under the mullahs is “nothing in that country is quite as it appears.” This is something journalists should know about Iran, or about any country where ideological misrepresentations of reality have been introduced, on a huge scale, for the very purpose of altering reality.” …. (davidwarrenonline)

~ JUNK ON A STICK– “[So much of the art in public spaces] is a make-work project for people on the margins of the economy, including the artists themselves.” …. (edwardmichaelgeorge)

~ SCIPIONICS– For The Bible Tells Me So; The New ‘MSM’; and Bruised Fruit …. (scipio)

~ THEOCRATS! Bible-distributing family arrested at ‘gay’-pride festival.. Gave away Good Book at event for years before being banned…. (wND)

Mr. Galloway In Action, With Tranny

~ REMEMBER the uproar when George Galloway claimed he’d been “banned” from Canada — which, of course, he hadn’t been? …. (nationalpost)

Cash Cab Cash Ambulance

~ SOME SOCIALIST policing to inspire you …. (dailymail)

~ EM GEORGE– Today, however, I’m not clear whether union leaders give a damn about public opinion—or indeed, the public …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ MORE ON MJ– Beat It …. (returnofscipio)

~ FABULOUS DICTATORSHIP? The strange, unexplored overlap between homosexuality and fascism; Coming Out of the Bunker: Gay Nazis …. (A-m)

~ ON SUPPRESSION of dissent: what it is and what to do about it …. (uow.edu.au)

~ PUNDITA– H1N1/swine flu: China Beats the Devil or Why CDC Scientists Shouldn’t Do War Planning; State Department tells of China quarantine horrors; Pundita tells State to suck it up …. (pundita.blog)

~ INJUSTICE UNDENIED– So how much is an illegal download worth? …. (directorblue.blog)

~ EH? WHUZZAT? WHAT-NOW? EPA? HMM? Media Ignore EPA Suppressing Skeptical Global Warming Report; Polar Bear Testimony Suppressed Due to ‘Inconvenient’ Truths; EPA: The ‘Environmental Political Agency‘ …. (Various)

~ EEEEEEEPAAAAA! The EPA: Enviro-Nitwit Protection Agency …. (thepeoplescube)

~ GREEN JOBLESSNESS– “Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating “green jobs” in “alternative energy” even though Spain’s unemployment rate is 18.1 percent” …. (drsanity.blog)

~ THE SOUND Of Suppressed Science …. (sda)

~ SAITH DER SCIPIO– “Governments see men in just this way, as nothing but chunks of flesh. They can be fed and housed and entertained, and thus made quiet and content. If a man becomes an annoyance he can be slain, either in his mother’s womb or at the end of his life. To the State, a man, being only flesh, is doomed to die anyway. What then does it matter what happens to him on this earth? After all it is the State that lives forever. All men must be made to acknowledge this fact” …. (thereturnofscipio)

‘Green Revolution’ Exposed

~ GREENER THAN GREEN Grass And High Tides Forever! …. (eddriscoll)

~ CASH GRAB– Never Have So Few Stolen So Much From So Many To Achieve So Little; Lorrie Goldstein on who is really… profiting from the global warming hysterics …. (nosheepleshere, torydrroy.blog)

~ WORD HAS IT DuPont made a killing in the battle over CFC regulation. Now it’s poised to do it all over again with carbon dioxide…. (sda)

~ MAXIMUM nihilism seems to be a recurring theme amongst some elements of the Rousseauvian left. Forget transhumanism — this is sans-humanism …. (eddriscoll)

~ DOOM-WATCH: “Robots that eat the flesh of living creatures; this can only go in good directions. Now, we just need to program them to shuffle around awkwardly and we can have a robot zombie apocalypse. Bulletproof zombies made from metal; awesome” …. (imao.us)

~ A NEW BOOK– The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan …. (boingboing)

Obysmal

“What’s striking about the Bystander-in-Chief is that the more he does nothing, the more credit he gets for everything. In the New York Times, Helene Cooper attributes events in Iran to the Obama “stealth effect.” The fellows in the street shouting “Death to the dictator!” were apparently inspired to rise up by Obama’s outreach to the, er, dictator.’

~ Mark Steyn ~

“The world believes that the US is borrowing money from capital markets. It is often said that the Chinese and the Japanese will buy government bonds. But the truth of the matter is that trust in the gravitas and reliability of the United States has suffered to such a great degree that fewer and fewer foreigners are purchasing its government bonds. That’s why the Federal Reserve is now buying securities that it has printed itself. The Fed’s balance sheet has more than doubled since 2007, making the US central bank one of the world’s fastest-growing companies. The purpose of this company, though, is to create money out of thin air.”

~ Der Spiegel ~

~ SHOTGUN BLOG– Obama’s reform: Systemic danger once again …. (westernstandard.ca)

~ NEVILLE ON OBAMA– “In the back of a dream car twenty foot long, oh I believe Lord, all the way!” …. (neville.blog)

~ ENEMY LIST– California Assembly Speaker: Conservative Talkers Are Terrorists …. (newsbusters)

~ BEWARE THE OBAMA ‘EVIL EYE’ he’s looking for Sarah Connor …. (drudgereport)

The Obama-Eye View?

~ TWITTER-TIMES VS. Tyranny: An Army of Davids takes on an Ayatollah Goliath …. (IFPS)

O-Jobs

~ THE GREAT SCAM– “Commenting on Japan Times editorial, Dancing with the dragon, John Opie claims the Obama administration whose incoherent foreign policy is governed by the two poles of domestic cronyism and sucking up to China” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ ACORN Rent-A-Mob Thugs to Harass Lenders in 14 Cities Tuesday as Part of its “Homewrecker 4″ Campaign …. (weaselzippers)

~ KATE @ SDA– Is “He’s Too Lazy* To Bother With His Homework” On The List Of Answers? …. (SDA)

~ SHAKEDOWN– House Apology for Slavery Runs Up Against Senate Disclaimer for Reparations. You know, cuz the whole ‘Great Society’ shakedown didn’t work, so try another one …. (realbarackobama)

~ USSA LONG-TERM Budget Outlook– Federal Debt Held by the Public Under CBO’s Two Budget Scenarios (As a percentage of GDP) …. (smalldeadanimals)

~ ECONOMIC REALITY-CHECK: Stocks Slump as Quarter Ends; US stocks down on dip in consumer confidence; Gloomy U.S. consumers clip housing recovery hopes; UK Economy Shrinks More Than Estimated; Biggest Contraction Since 1958 …. (Various)

~ OBAMA ‘PEACE PARTNER’ boasts: We’re responsible for more terrorism than Hamas. U.S.-funded group stages boastful televised play attended by its top officials …. (RBO)

~ OBAMA’S PROPOSED Progressive Monopoly; Obama’s Secret Economic Agenda Revealed!!! …. (peoplescube)

~ ACTUAL HATE ON THE MOVE– Obama’s Hate Crime Double Standard …. (pajamasmedia)

~ AMERICAN STATES brace for shutdowns; Deficit forces California to issue IOUs …. (latimes, ft)

Fresh Beck

Part 2

~ GLENN BECK: Cap and Trade; ACORN in a Nutshell June 29 …. (RBO)

~ SAITH CJUNK– That 3 a.m. Call is Ringing Off the Hook …. (cjunk.blog)

Open Laughter: It’s A Start

~ SKOOL CAESAR– FRC opposes Obama’s school safety nominee; Obama supports socialist dictator against democracy in Honduras …. (winteryknight)

~ DOUG GILES– “And Iran, Iran So Far Away, I Couldn’t Get Away,” Sung by Barack Obama …. (townhall)

~ THE BLOG-POLICE: Obama’s Federal Trade Commission have decided to regulate blogs based on the premise that undisclosed financial relationships between bloggers and businesses could lead bloggers to deceive their readers as to the ‘value of products’ they blog about. As usual, the Bushaters have yet to go conspirazoid on this, because it will only apply to enemies of Obamunism …. (brain-terminal)

~ THE LAWLESS Barack Obama vs. International Law; Israelis, US Jews Differ Dramatically on Obama …. (carolineglick)

~ STEVE DRIEHAUS votes to steal $4,000 from every American family; What was in the Waxman-Markey ‘Manager’s Amendment’? The Green Gestapo, for starters …. (directorblue.blog)

~ WALKER ON The Obama records debate …. (walker)

~ CHICAGO ON THE POTOMAC– Obama and the New Cronyism; The rank dishonesty of the Obama administration …. (hotair)

~ A BREAKTHROUGH on the Authorship of Obama’s ‘Dreams’ – Jack Cashill …. (americanthinker)

~ RED ALERT– La Raza: “Latino children need health care more than whites”. And then they would say things like “you must go out into your communities, use words like ’streamline’, use phrases like ‘all workers’ and ‘all families’,” because they said — and I quote — “If the American people find out that this bill is about giving health care to non-citizens, they will rise up against it.” …. (directorblue.blog)

~ WINTRY WONDERS– Does Obama’s stimulus bill discriminate against men? …. (winteryknight)

~ GLORIOUS DEAR LEADER Kim Jong Il in “White Heat 2″! …. (jerrybreen)

~ CLIMATE CAESAR– Special Climate Change Envoy, “True Believer”, and the Podestas’ man at State, Todd Stern …. (therealbarackobama)

~ WHEN IT’S NOT IRAN, Odd that Obama’s rich, nuanced concerns over perceived “meddling” fly out the window when he has the chance to support a leftist thug. Obama: never failing to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity …. (ace.mu.nu)

~ OBAMA CARE: The marketplace, of course, doesn’t conceive of separate spheres, neatly carved up by statists …. (sergesblog.blog)

~ OBAMA-SUPPORTING Ponzi Mastermind Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years for Fraud …. (breitbart.tv)

~ IT HAS BEGUN… Obama’s Kenyan Birth Certificate Sold On eBay …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ INDEED– “Obama is delusional enough to think that “extending an open hand” to the Islamist parasites will convert them. This makes about as much sense as extending an open sore to the bubonic plague” …. (onecosmos.blog)

~ WORD FROM THE ‘STACHE– John Bolton Opines on Obama …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ LIGHTBULB POLICE– White House announces new lighting standards …. (seattlepi)

~ THE ACLU GETS Bit On The Butt …. (catholic-caveman.blog)

~ TISSUE OF PREVARICATIONS? Michelle & Barack Obama’s Lies about Healthcare …. (actdcmetro)

~ TRACKING THE POTUS– Barack Obama: Zero to Carter in Five Months …. (brain-terminal)

~ A SAD DAY– RBO: $800 billion 1500 page National Energy Tax Bill passes House. Bamboozled Again! (Updated) …. (uppitywoman08)

~ NO SHEEPLES– Picked Off One By One …. (nosheepleshere.blog)

~ IN POCKETED? OBAMA’S Congress Honors Accused Child Molester— Just imagine if the Pope or a bishop did the same …. (creativeminorityreport)

~ ANDY McCARTHY writes, “Cap & Tax: Nobody Read It … Because It Doesn’t Exist” …. (eddriscoll)

Blank Cheque, USSA Style

~ YOU MIGHT THINK it would be obvious… Pope to Pelosi: Catholics can’t support abortion …. (anglocath.blog)

~ IS OBAMA’S realism better than Bush the younger’s idealism? …. (antiwar.com)

~ AMERICA IS VULNERABLE to An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack …. (humanevents)

~ INTO THE DITCH! Cap and Trade; a Solution to a Non-existent Problem with Devastating Consequences …. (canadafreepress)

~ MARK SHEA– “Presidental Press Conference and Congressional Yammering on C-Span.. would be immeasurably improved by the presence of monkeys on the White House and Capitol grounds.” …. (markshea.blog)

~ TRADITION, Europe, and the Muslim world …. (insightscoop)

~ HUSH-HUSH: Who Killed ACORN Probe? …. (spectator.org)

~ EIGHT KNIVES, One Nation’s Back, No Waiting …. (nosheepleshere.blog)

~ STIMULUS! British Rum Maker Got a $2.7 Billion Payout from TARP …. (instapundit)

~ CHRISTIANITY TODAY– Change They Could Believe In– How to resist cozy, lazy, government monopolies. by Robert Whaples …. (christianitytoday)

~ WHAT-NOW? CBO Ignores Economic Impact of Democrats’ Climate Bill; It’s all just a little bit of history repeating itself …. (cns, exurbanleague)

~ JUST SO HAPPY! Barack Hussein Obama’s Happy Muslim Rainbow Tour …. (orthodoxytoday)

~ MOONBAT CHRISTIANS– Limbaugh Attacked at UCC Synod by Wright’s Successor …. (spectator.org)

~ SAME OLD SAME OLD– Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer, Rudy Giuliani, John Ensign, Antonio Villaraigosa, James McGreevey, Gavin Newsom … yadda, yadda, yadda. How many times do we have to sit through this play? …. (proteinwisdom)

~ THE MICHELLE THINKS She Was Elected Empress …. (canadafreepress)

~ OBAMA VS. THE WATCHDOGS: A roundup on the Inspector General firing scandal …. (instapundit)

~ THE NEW AMERICA– Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA …. (boingboing)

~ CONSORTING WITH ISLAMO-NAZIS: Obama STILL Wants to Hold Talks With Killer Iranian Regime …. (gateway)

~ PAGING JOEY PLUGS– Obama’s New “Undisclosed Location” …. (spectator)

~ MESSIAH AT CHURCH– Obama Decides to Declare No D.C. Church Home; Obama chooses worship over spectacle …. (newsbusters, GR)

~ MONEY INTO THE BLENDER! Obamacare Nightmare: “If the American people find out that this bill is about giving health care to non-citizens, they will rise up against it.”…. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ AND WHAT ABOUT Cuba’s Dissidents, Mr. President? …. (spectator)

~ AN EXTRAORDINARY jail term for an “extraordinarily evil” fraud isn’t just for Bernie Madoff, writes Allan Dodds Frank from the courthouse. It’s a signal to all of Wall Street …. (thedailybeast)

~ PAMELA GELLER, World Net Daily: Will Obama Bow to Syria, too? …. (atlasshrugs)

~ A NEW BOOK– Me Read Good – Renegade: The Making of a President …. (skippy-posts.blog)

~ WAPO EDITORIAL: The Debt Tsunami: The CBO’s latest warning on the long-term deficit is scarier than ever. Hope and change! …. (instapundit)

~ ALLEGED MISCONCEPTIONS about Canadian healthcare; The definitive example of chutzpah …. (boingboing)

~ ABOUT THAT “Fire Shower of Nuclear Retaliation” …. (claudiarosett)

~ KOMRADE Americanski, did you learn nothing from Trudeau? …. (vladtepesblog)

~ POTS & KETTLES– The Left accused the “neo-cons” around President Bush of embracing the Platonic notion of the “noble lie.” President Obama has embraced it with a vengeance …. (nationalreview)

~ CATO TACKLES Obama’s Health Care Claims …. (spectator)

~ FRONTPAGE– Liberal Racists Take It on the Chin …. (frontpagemag)

~ RINOs STAMPEDE TO PORT– The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans…and the 44 Democrats who voted no; A LIST OF DEMOCRATS thought vulnerable due to cap-and-trade votes …. (malkin, instapundit)

~ NOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS run everything, everywhere– Federal, state, municipal– Where are all the screeds against one-party rule? …. (mkfreeberg)

~ WARREN BUFFETT on Tax and Trade: “It’s a Huge, Regressive Tax” …. (ace.mu.nu)

~ THE RETARD-HATING LEFT Left Continues to Crack Jokes About Trig Palin …. (Wz)

~ ED DRISCOLL– “What Do Wonkette And Nazis Have In Common?” …. (eddriscoll)

~ TONGUEBATH WATCH– It’s Come to This… Crazed Lib Reporters Clash Over Who Loves Obama Most (Video) …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ EXTREME PREJUDICE– “Since the Supreme Leader has refused to heed my powerfully worded warnings, I feel I have no choice but to raise the official Iranian Disaffection Meter to ‘gingerly chagrined’.” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ THE LEFT and Health Care Reform …. (spectator)

~ PEACEFUL Syrian group threatens ‘force’ against Israel. Warns it may move to capture strategic Golan Heights. Obama Embraces Syria… Syria Responds by Threatening Israel With War …. (realbarackobama)

~ DR. HELEN– “In my experience, the internet is not the disease but rather the symptom.” …. (drhelen.blog)

~ AMERICAN DIGEST– Rules of the Republican Priesthood …. (AmDig)

~ READ HIS LIPS… from the wayback machine …. (sondrak)

~ PROPAGANDIST Krugman Accuses Republicans Of ‘A Form Of Treason’ …. (newsbusters)

~ HOLOCAUST 2.0 WATCH– Official: Obama warns ‘golden era’ of Jewish construction in Jerusalem over. ‘The positions of the U.S. and Palestinian Authority are closer than ever’ …. (rbo)

~ PJMEIDA OBSERVES Obama’s Engagement Policy with Iran Is Dead. What’s Next? …. (pajamasmedia)

~ UNWISE LATINA? Racism rejected: SCOTUS reverses Sotomayor in firefighters case; Supremes Overrule Sotomayor …. (Various)

~ U.S. DEBTOR STATUS WORSENS DRAMATICALLY: “Over the years, America’s status as a creditor or debtor has changed enormously …. (instapundit)

~ MY UNICORN RUNNETH OVER: More Naked Obama Unicorn Art + Suggest A Painting To Be Commissioned …. (rightwingnews)

~ OBAMA’S rhetoric is catching up with him …. (proteinwisdom)

~ IOWAHAWK– Lucky Sox Fans To Get Mini-Bats, Split $800 Billion …. (iowahawk)

Islamonutters

~ KICK-TUCKUS “Stand by Me” for Iran: Better Than “We Are the World” and More Righteous …. (americandigest)

~ AT SENTENCING hearing for Canadian jihadist, attorney claims client was “‘kept in the dark’ about what the bombs would be used for” …. (jihadwatch)

~ WILDERS: This Week’s Wilders Round-up …. (defendgeertwilders)

~ PERSEPOLIS 2.0: fan-art story about Iran elections …. (boingboing)

~ MCJ BLOGGER– I guess you’re doing something right if Moody Onmydinnerjacket doesn’t like you …. (themcj)

~ BRINGING THE HATE– “One of the longest running and most contentious debates in Canadian broadcasting is coming to an end with the expected approval by federal regulators to allow Al Jazeera’s English television network to be carried here.” Mind you, it’s got lots of Canadians working there, so it will be like CBC, only moreso …. (macadamia.blog)

Ex-CBCer Avi Lewis

~ FRENCH LEADER wants to ban the Burqa. The French anti-Jihad blog, GalliaWatch, thinks this is a bad idea …. (ibloga.blog)

~ ISRAEL UNTO THE OBAMESSIAH: You’re Not the Boss of Me; While Iranians Bleed, Where is the UN? …. (ace.mu.nu, claudiarosett)

~ SOMALIA: Al-Shabaab Calls For Invasion of “Christian” Ethiopia …. (Wz)

~ MERCATOR NET– The real struggle in Iran …. (mercatornet.com)

~ ON THE AYATOLLAH, useful idiocy, multiculturalism, free speech, HRCs and the stealth jihad: In his new book, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom, Bruce Bawer explains how they’re all connected …. (scaramouche)

~ THE GLAVINATOR– One world is busy being born. Another’s busy dying. The uprising changes everything; The Uprising Changes Everything, Part II: Hands Off The People’s Mujahadeen Of Iran …. (transmontanus.blog)

~ MEET FARAH PANDITH, Recycled Muslim Envoy. Plus: A Perspective on Islamophobia …. (therealbarackobama)

~ RETURN OF SCIPIO– Mosques In The Sky @ The Return Of Scipio; The Glories Of Islam …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ SCARAMOUCHE– “Mully-bullies crow: Now that the Ayatollah has reasserted control (more or less) over his cranky populace, some weasels outside Iran are reportedly doing some concerted kissing up” …. (scaramouche)

~ IRANIAN SAYS: Israelis Help Us …. (classicalvalues)

~ AUSTRALIA, exactly as Canada does, criminalizes opinion of Islam …. (IFPS)

~ ANDREW BOSTOM– Iranian Women Were Emancipated—on January 7, 1937 …. (andrewbostom)

~ FIGHTING BACK– Lieberman, McCain, Graham Announce Legislation on Information and Internet Freedom in Iran …. (IFPS)

~ AHMINAJIHAD pretty sure that Iran’s enemies killed Neda or something like that; On the wrong side of history …. (fox, spectator)

~ DIANA WEST– “Their Jail Is Islam, and Changing the Warden from One Thug to Another Won’t Set Them Free” …. (dianawest)

~ A CALIPHATE of Toxic Assets By: Alyssa A. Lappen How Shari’a-compliant finance is preparing the next wave of Enrons …. (frontpagemag)

~ IRAN VIDEO: Basij Thugs Shoot Protesters From Rooftops …. (instapundit)

~ A FRENZY of Honor Killings …. (phyllischesler)

~ BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS– IRAN: The Silence of the Media …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ SAME AS IT EVER WAS– Swat Analysis: Focus Shifts to Waziristan, Taliban Reaches Muzaffarabad …. (counterterrorismblog)

~ NEVER NEVER NEVER WILL BE SLAVES– 85 Sharia courts now operating in Britain; Anjem Choudary filmed “converting” 11-year-old boy to Islam on British street …. (jIwA, a2k)

Pat Condell: Be my burka baby

~ HOT NEWS OUT OF Iran Intensifying: Basij Carry Out Nighttime Raids On Homes – Mousavi Attacks Khameini …. (ibloga.blog)

~ CURRENT– Stratfor: June 29 analysis on Iran; The Real Struggle in Iran and Implications for U.S. Dialogue …. (vladtepesblog)

~ GAGDAD BOB– “[I]n the Arab Muslim world, they are so inundated with vicious lies about America and Israel that it would be immoral for them not to hate us” …. (onecosmos.blog)

~ YANKEE, DON’T GO HOME: As U.S. troops move on, Iraqis fear the coming turmoil …. (instapundit)

~ SHINY NEW GREAT SATAN WATCH– “Mullahs Make Mistakes: The arrest of eight people on the staff of the British Embassy in Tehran is a clear portent of what is to come” …. (nationalreview)

~ FAILED STATES Index 2009: AfPak Makes Top Ten …. (therealbarackobama)

~ SLAVE-UP, Biatches! Death by A Thousand Cuts: Islam is the Way, Coming to DC! …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S AD699!.. Bangladesh: Widow whipped 202 times, man whipped 101 following cleric’s fatwa against them for “anti-social activity” …. (jihadwatch)

~ GOOD NEWS: Muslim Inmates Given Compases So They Can Face Mecca From Prison …. (CitC)

~ GELLER– The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom; IRAN: DAY 16 OF THE REVOLUTION …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? Hamas Terror Leader Meshaal Praises Obama …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ ANTI-STONING FILMMAKERS Bashed for ‘Inflating’ of 9/11, Crucifixion of Jesus …. (newsbusters)

~ JUNE 27TH, SWEDES continue protests at Iranian Embassy. Demand no more Islamic State …. (vladtepes)

~ AN EX-MUSLIM IN Uganda: Threats, expulsions for Christian couple …. (jihadwatch)

~ ENEMY INSIDE THE GATES– FBI LEADERSHIP GUILTY OF CONSPIRING WITH ISLAMIC JIHAD: PARTNERS WITH ISNA, leading islam-fascist Stealth-Jihadists …. (atlasshrugs)

~ BRITISH MUSLIM woman tells “Talibanized” Islamonutters to go back where they came from …. (anglocath.blog)

~ POD-PEOPLE CULT? “Where Islam touched, there is no recognition of the ways of life of the people. Islam, being a way of life, swallowed all that was African in the people.” …. (JiWa)

Dear Addicted Minions

Fresh Binks-love online by this evening, Lord willing, the weather permitting and the crick don’t rise.

LOTS of news, vids, and commentary in a bigger posting for your enjoyment. PLUS: the Origins of Binky The WebElf: Revealed!

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Were We Not Amused?

~ ITEM: The King is Dead: Lefsetz on the passing of Michael Jackson

~ ITEM: The wounded soul of Michael

~ ITEM: Mothers, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Freak Shows

~ ITEM: Jonah Goldberg on the Media and Michael Jackson’s death

~ ITEM: Michael Jackson: He never had a chance; Michael Jackson is dead

~ ITEM: Sadly missing from the nightly newscast is the latest on the hundreds killed, possibly thousands detained and injured while marching for freedom in Iran

“The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
Ezekiel 18:2

Show me the amusements of a culture, and I’ll show you it’s heart. So at the heart of ancient Rome was the Circus Maximus, and later the Flavian Amphitheatre ( the Colosseum), and the life and death battles there between man and animal, law and lawbreaker, man and man, Rome and the barbarians. It was all about the blood, and the judgement of the spectators: were they amused? Who deserved life and who deserved death? So via the public spectacles, the heart of that civilization was revealed.

What about our civilization? our amusements, judgements, and mortal battles?