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Slaving over A Hot Blog

~ ONCE IN A WHILE (say, bi-weekly), any sensible uber-blogger gets a little weary of feeding the blog-monster. It’s sometimes a relief to step away, and live meat-life in realspace. But there’s a gift and calling in play.. mad aggregating skills that people seem to appreciate. So here sits the Binks, and suddenly I love it all over again, and remember it’s not an idle matter, but a battle of mind and heart and civilization, and this elf is honoured to have a part. Plus, there’s the love-thing: it’s for the love of souls and the love of freedom and truth and the love of disturbing the manure. For the love of the readers, even those who disagree.

That may not figure in the Utopian ideology: all opponents are by definition hate-filled and/ or ignorant– but that’s where such ideology falls short of reality. You might think that if your theory doesn’t account for all of reality, you might have a broken theory– but such ideologues would rather bend and twist people and reality to the busted theory, rather than cease the war on reality and those who are infidels to the all-holy theory.

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Mark Steyn

~ CANADA vs FREE SPEECH: Jennifer Lynch shreds the UN Declaration …. (steynonline)

~ HONEY, they shrunk the Ig, from Maclean’s, January 18th 2006 …. (steynonline)

~ “F” TROOP: Mark and Hugh on the Chicago machine …. (hughhewitt)

Ezra

~ HM MICHAEL Ignatieff’s aide tries to silence me with a lawsuit: “P.S. You can chip in through PayPal, below, or by sending a cheque by snail mail to my lawyer on this matter” …. (ez)

~ WARREN Kinsella sues Ezra Levant (again) …. (shotgun)

~ IN OTTAWA, the CHRC is seen as off balance …. (ezralevant)

~ WATCHING THE WATCHERS: Alberta’s HRC violates the Freedom of Information Act …. (Ez)

~ SIGNING A written contract with separatists isn’t normal …. (ezralevant)

~ SAYS EZRA Levant: the Evel Knievel of the Canadian Right; Alberta Human Rights Commission? They’re in violation of the Freedom of Information Act …. (fivefeetoffury, Ez)

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~ WARM THANKS to them what took a moment and commented over at Binkson Meeb’s New blogsite, and even on other Binkson Steeb’s blogweb, too. A little encouragement goes a long way. Now (as I’m telling them) they have to get up to some semi-regular posting, and maybe even write back to the commenters. You’re kind out there! ~

~ THE ANCHORESS— Advent & Interregnum; Season of Transitions; Prime preaching & Poems, too! …. (theanchoressonline)

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Mark Steyn

~ HAPPY HUMAN RIGHTS DAY! …but why is Canada in breach of the UN Declaration? …. (steynonline)

~ CANADA vs FREE SPEECH: ISLAMOSPAMOPHOBIA— Mastery of the lingo- plus: More peer-reviewed scholarship from Law Is Cool …. (steynonline)

The Nightmare Unfolds!

Folks:

First, Binks-son Steeb got online, now the other one has started his own M33BZ blog!

Drop by and let him know what you think.. it’s his first day of a world-famous career!

Binks

A Father, Proud But Not Obnoxiously So

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~ EVILS IS AFOOT! QUICK! TO THE BINKSMOBILE! There’s a relation between Evil and Stupidity on the one hand, and the passage of time on the other. We get used to all sorts of stuff, which perhaps once we found shocking, intolerable, ridiculous, or even blindingly evil.

There’s a poem out there somewhere about how it happens, usually as a function of time, not conviction. So we can find ourselves in an opposite position, simply because of a clock, not because we changed our minds. Baaaah. Added to that our capacity to ignore unpleasantries, and we have a perfect kind of self-imposed ignorance.

That’s why it’s important to have a conscience grounded on real and good and true things– and not the passing smelly little orthodoxies of the moment– and why it’s important to stand, fight and now be swayed over right an wrong, however comfortable it might be to let go of the rock and drift with the tides. It’s most important to keep our first principles when serious and dangerous change surrounds us, or when people are actively advocating evil, under the guise of expediency, or The Way We Think Now, or Do It Or Else.

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~ DURING WORLD WAR 2, Winston Churchill famously said of the enemy “Who do they think they are? Who do they think WE are?” or something to that effect. That’s my reaction to the political three-ring clown circus unfolding in Ottawa. It’s too unbelievable for a movie-plot, and too ridiculous for a farce.

However, the despicable LibNDPBlocoids are not actually playing games, they’re playing soft-fascist coup d’etat. Obama got the goodies by fudging democracy and sliming the electoral process; “P’raps”, thought the malevolent 3 Stooges, “we can grab the goodies by cooking something up between we odd bed-fellows of socialists, separatists, and the Canadian mafia party. Yeah, that’s the ticket!” Then Harper gave them a free opening, through some ill-conceived political stupidity.

Un-B-Lievable

Why, Look Everyone!..

.. It’s A Smoking Crater Where Their Teeny-Tiny Credibility Used to Be!

Sadly, the clueless wonders at Sockpuppets.com, BigCityGliberal, and the janitor’s closet office of J. Miller, B.A., Ryerson Jurnalizm perfessor cannot possibly enjoy, absorb, or even comprehend the Galactic-class defenestration, fact-check, and ass-whupping administered unto them by one Steyn, M.

Some similarly momentous defenestration or other, in which the City of Prague was thrown out a window, or somesuch.

Anyhow.. just got read the whole thing (Newsflash: sometimes I post links before I read them!). And if you do have sex with a certain special sheep, or marry and sexually abuse a grade 2 or 3 old girl, remember to follow the Ayatollah’s carefully worked out rules for Shi’ite Muslims everywhere.

Rock On, Mark.. rock on.

Binks

Elf Nog & Other Matters

~ ODDS & ENDS, but no news from here today. ~

~ BIRTHDAY? HAH! The Binky has a birth-week! Please consider a wee Amazon.com giftie to the highly esteemed & pressed WebElf Binky of FreeMarkSteyn. Plus, there’s that other December date coming up, of course. If you can’t give, please send prayers, encouraging words, hat-tips and links my way. All most gratefully received. If you can’t stand giving to me, then donate to the blogger defense fund. ~

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~ LOTS & BETTER commentators than this poor blogger are taking on the Mumbai slaughter. I only offer this: Remember– this is a holy war, and these are our enemy.. these, and the people who fund, excuse, and refuse to unequivocally condemn and take action against such moral monsters. ~

~ HRH JENNIFER LYNCH gets cyber-hacked. Bad hacker-people! Mind you, since that’s what the CHRC itself was doing on at least one occasion, we must ask if OberStumFuhrer Lynch now understands the outrage of that individual, and Canadians in general, over this sort of thing. ~

~ JAGO’S NEW Canada’s Top 25 Blogs coming tomorrow. We predict we’ll continue our downward slide into deserved obscurity. Watch for it! “What is this ‘Free Mark Steyn’ you speak of?” ~