Bush Gives Head a Shake: Nominates Alito

President Bush nominated 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

David Forte over at Ashbrook thinks it’s a good choice. Check it out.

UPDATE: Volokh muses on how the prospect of 5 Roman Catholics on the USSC affects US legal culture, and US conservatism in general (where 3 of the 5 are conservatives)

Canada’s Little Black Queen is in France

La «petite reine» noire du Canada est en France. So reads a Le Figaro’s headline yesterday. Rideau Hall’s spinning machine is doing an excellent job. Reading the piece, it would seem that Michaelle Jean’s visit to France is all about Michaelle Jean. There is brief mention that she will be going to Juno Beach. One line; that is all. Nothing about why or with whom. To be fair, that might not be Jean’s fault: it’s possible that talk about soldiers and war when it’s not to criticise the United States may be officially banned in France.

The article is about Jean, her immigrant status, her race, and her rise to notoriety. It does raise controversial issues like her separatist background, but there is no mention that she is half white. The tone is rather adoring of Michaelle Jean –good for her– with phrases like: “cette jolie princesse Ã? l’âme vagabonde” (This pretty princess with the bohemian soul).

Now, if Jean went to France to promote awareness that Canadian aboriginals fought on the French beaches to rescue and defend that cowardly and ungrateful nation, the focus of her trip has been lost. There is not a single line about them. The “Little Black Queen” has become the centre.

There is something about hyping these Governor-General-types to the point that the goal of their position is compromised. Jean should remind her staff to try to promote Canada and Canadians, even if just as a small courtesy, at the same time as they promote her. After all, the country is paying the bills.

Crossposted fromCivitatensis

Gay Militia Member Found Guilty

From the Edmonton Journal’s Alberta news round up.

A Calgary activist who made headlines for pieing Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has now been found guilty of disturbing a Christian dinner party.

Provincial court Judge Bruce Fraser has ordered Christopher Peter Geoghegan to pay $500 to the Concerned Christians Coalition.

He and other protesters from a group called the Gay Militia crashed the dinner and yelled obscenities while the main speaker was on stage.

Geoghegan was ordered to serve a 30-day intermittent jail sentence in 2003 for throwing a pie in Klein’s face at a Stampede breakfast.

Grits Working on Repentance Spin

CP reports that the federal Liberals will make offers to return the money that several of their party brothers in Quebec essentially stole from the public purse during the infamous AdScam activities.

The Liberal offer of reimbursement is part of the plan to soften the blow of the Gomery Inquiry’s partial report, which will be published on Tuesday morning.

That is clever idea. The Liberals could have offered to return the stolen monies long ago. The evidence, a few times corroborated in the Inquiry, that the Liberals were profiting from the illegal activity of AdScam, has been known for sometime. But they have held off to the moment of the bombshell report in order to deflect attention and to appear honest and magnanimous. Considering the level of political awareness of Canadians, the appearance of honesty and repentance may work. It seemed to have worked for David Dingwal, who promised to return the $2,000 or so that he misspent while at the head of the Royal Canadian Mint.

Crossposted from Civitatensis

Because of France’s Involvement in Iraq… Oh Wait

The Telegraph reports on how al-Qaeda operatives smuggled antiaircraft missile launchers into France in 2002. There were plans to hit the Eiffel Tower, Russian embassy in Paris, and a Christmas market in Strasbourg.

The Russians were targeted for the war in Chechnya.

The French were targeted because they were part of the US-led invasion of Iraq and over the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

Oh wait, the French weaseled out of the Iraq invasion and they’re patrons of the PLO.

Gee, maybe al-Qaeda doesn’t like the French either????

H/t: Nealenews

Charter and Incest

In Kitchener, Ontario, a judge has convicted a 42 year old woman and her 25 year old son for incest: they had 3 children.

The judge observed that it was the most awful case he’s ever had to try.

Obviously, the trial judge is not up on his Charter jurisprudence. Since marriage is now defined anyway we want to define it, why not recognize the rights of incestuous relations to get married? That’s how the defendants appear to have seen it:

The couple actually got married and the man claimed to be his mother’s husband.

See here on why the new definition of marriage opens this door. Oh yeah, there’s the biological factor of inbreeding. But hey, genetic engineering should fix that in short order.

H/t: Nealenews.

Civitatensis has more.

25th Anniversary of NEP

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the National Energy Program.

The National Post has details.

Details on Premie Ralph Klein’s warnings to Ottawa here.

O Canaduh!

Ten years to the day that thousands of Canadians poured into Montreal for a huge rally just before the 1995 sovereignty referendum, a dozen federalists took time out to relive the event.

After two hundred and fifty million or so misspent in AdScam, which, let us remember, the Libranos say would raise the level of support for Canada in Quebec, a dozen people show up to support the federation. Quel pays!

Crossposted from Civitatensis

Alberta Envy in Macleans

Via Small Dead Animals, check out this article on the 6/49 winners from Camrose, Alberta in Macleans. Here’s the 1st line of the story:

It’s just the thing Alberta needed – another multimillion-dollar windfall.

Funny, I didn’t win $54.3 million and I’m not envious.

Are Eastern Canadians that pathetic? I suppose Jack Layton’s going to call for Lotto 6/49 winnings to be spread around the country, except when it’s won by someone in BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario… well, you get the idea.

Screw You Cheques in the Mail

Hard to believe this is news. Well… not that hard when you consider the Globe and Mail’s typical anti-Alberta agenda. If anyone has received these fake cheques over email, drop us an email and we’ll post it for everyone to see.

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