Archive for March 2009
Steynian 335
Wallace’s words to live by:
Dico Tibi Verum, Libertas Optima Rerum:
Nunquam Servili Sub Nexu Vivito, Fili
Translation: My Son, Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
~ “SEE? THE LEFT IS FAR BETTER than the right any day, any time! The racist haters and their neo-fascist minions support and donate to those bloviators Ezra, and Steyn, and that harpy Shaidle and all their well-deserved lawsuits. We’re just balancing the scales.”
Really? Really really?
So you find some guy, lefties– on an official UN list as a terror-supporter, right? Man barred from entering Canada. So you.. support him, and raise cash to fly him here anyway, with “Project Fly Home“.
Isn’t that morally reprehensible, and possibly illegal? Could these proud Leftards be any more useful idiots in the current battles, without actually joining AL-Q and moving to Waziristan themselves? “Omar Khadr– Al-Q killer; Mahar Arar.. sinister links? No problem– we like ‘em!”
Good News On The Horizon?
~ DID SHAIDLE ET AL. JUST WIN THEIR LAWSUITS? Check it out: “Government of Canada publishes illegal ‘hate speech’ on web — your tax dollars at work (and bad news for The Guy Who Is Suing Us).” ~
Further news as details develop….
Binks
UPDATE– Ezra Levant: “It is the most incredible ruling I have ever read from a human rights tribunal.” And Teh Steyn weighs in, as well: Richard Warman’s arse. ~
Steynian 334
Gaucheries Galore
- Bitches: I’m Totally Pooped, OK?
ITEM-- PAGLIA: Obama’s clumsy, smirky staff is sinking him; Amateur hour in the White House; Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown. ~
“There’s nothing special about Britain.
You’re just the same as the
other 190 countries in the world.
You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”
~ Unnamed White House Source ~
~ DEAR USSA– MMmkay, it’s not technically our business, but your President is looking more and more like a doof. The Gift Gaffe signifies total stupid, and a collapse of normal White House protocols, on the say-so of The O, and (word has it) Mrs. O, who doesn’t like the English , or something like that. Whatevers.
Where does the buck stop? Whose watch is it? Who’s on deck? Barack [ forbidden name ] Obama, Esq.
Mrs. Binks and I agreed that this was more than mere faux-pas. US-Gov & White House protocols for greeting & feting world leaders are a couple hundred years old. Ceremony? Protocol? Bare amounts of civilized decency? You have not NOT want to do it right. Heck, even the White House staff know what to do.
The appropriate gift thing? There’s people for that: heck, their people have people. As Right Girl said on Coren, just send over to the Smithsonian for some spare historical junk of relevant history.
Steynian 333
UPDATE– HURRAY! I stand corrected. The rants here have no guarantees; many are off the top of the head; the best ones are based on the analysis of more sensible people; and I’m glad to learn on the passport thing that I was wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong.
For clarification, someone else mentioned the fact to me, not the detail of the changes. And since I’m not a liberal, I can admit I was mistaken, and leapt to conclusions. Aren’t facts great? Isn’t reality-based reality the best? Facts are not political particles, but real things we all have to investigate, account for, and ponder.
For the commenter, who wonders what else of my commentary is off, please take time to let me know. The aggregated news links directly to OTHER people’s views and ideas, and they are responsible for that.
In my own defence, questions have been raised about the role of Khaled Loufti Mouammar– Canadian Arab Federation leader– during his time on the Immigration board.
Binks
The former comment is over here.
~ IT’S INFORMATIVE, in a creepy way, to still be on the Obama Action Mailing List, as this slow-motion trainwreck unfolds. The worst part is the blank-check mentality implied by this statement: “Americans are ready for the bold new direction this plan offers. It’s what they voted for in November, and it’s needed now more than ever as we continue to face an unprecedented economic crisis.” Oh really?
Excuses, excuses
Dental Filling, cranky root canal, bathroom reno, no sleep, leftover flu = slower than usual blogging. Hopefully some stuff up by tonite.
Binks
