My Goodness, How I Miss Mike Harris…

One wonders how good ol’ “Mike the Knife” would view this. Amen to the CTF and CFIB’s comments though!

German Sex Ed: Disturbing

Read it for yourself.

I wish I hadn’t.

I fear for Germany.

(And before I get the anti-Christian people commenting, look past the editorializing on what happens when a country’s government divorces itself from Judeo-Christianity. Just simply consider what has to be wrong for a government to condone and recommend that kind of behaviour.)

UPDATE: Good news is national and international outcry from this story breaking (though it turns out the story was first broken 2.5 years ago… I feel for all German children born in the last 2.5 years), has seen the resources advocating sexual abuse of infants by parents pulled.  Unfortunately, the songbooks advocating preschool masturbation are still in play…

Ontario Votes 2007: Shades of the Sponsorship Scandal

It’s official: Mike Colle (Liberal, Eglinton—Lawrence) is the first causality of the upcoming provincial election here in Ontario. The Toronto Sun is reporting that Colle resigned today after the provincial auditor found millions of dollars were sent off to various agencies without proper scrutiny and, in some cases, without the agencies even asking for the sums they were given. This has potential; finally the Provincial Liberals are caught with something that has traction for the opposition parties, and frankly it couldn’t have come at a worse time for McGuinty given that Simcoe Day, not Labour Day, is shaping up to be the beginning of the campaign period. Will it last until October 10th though? Well, I personally that it just might since it’s a tangible beef for Ontario voters to digest; unlike most of McGuinty’s lies, this is an obvious and unjustified misuse of taxpayers’ dollars and it still has echos of the federal Liberals’ sponsorship scandal despite the auditor finding no direct connection between these misplaced funds and the Ontario Liberal Party. A less polite way of saying that is that he didn’t find anything, but he didn’t give the Liberals a free pass either.

The bigger question right now is how well Howard Hampton and John Tory are able to use this message to wedge their way into voters’ consideration. Before voters will start looking at the PCs or NDP, they first need to be convinced in great numbers that the Liberals have to go. So far though, the NDP has lacked the influence and the PCs the nerve to make this happen…

Theodore Dalrymple Retires

Though thankfully not from writing:

Yet the scale of a man’s evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them. Some evil geniuses, of course, devote their lives to increasing that scope as widely as possible, but no such character has yet arisen in Britain, and most evildoers merely make the most of their opportunities. They do what they can get away with…

Intellectuals propounded the idea that man should be freed from the shackles of social convention and self-control, and the government, without any demand from below, enacted laws that promoted unrestrained behavior and created a welfare system that protected people from some of its economic consequences. When the barriers to evil are brought down, it flourishes; and never again will I be tempted to believe in the fundamental goodness of man, or that evil is something exceptional or alien to human nature.

What’s In A Name? – Sikhs and Immigration

The latest tempest in a teapot – Immigration officials asking Sikh immigrants using common surnames Kaur and Singh to change their names to avoid mixups.

You know, I really don’t care where you’re from, as long as you WANT to be Canadian.  If you are going to raise a stink about a request that could actually SPEED UP your immigration process because then bureaucrats will not be as confused?  Why not take it?  And if you won’t, and your name is so important to you that you’ll raise a ruckus, then maybe Canada isn’t the country for you.

“Today, they have singled out Singh and Kaur. Tomorrow, they may dislike Mohammed, and how soon before names such as Lee or Smith are targeted?” he said.

I’m an Edwards.  That’s pretty common.  I hear in Wales every 5th person is named Edwards.  I could care less if they asked me to change my name.  My name doesn’t define me.  Get over it.

Indian Enrichment Process Continues

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The 358 members of the Tsawwassen First Nation head to the polls Wednesday to decide whether to ratify B.C.’s first urban treaty, a process 14 years in the making.

If the members vote to ratify the treaty, they will get $40 million, a share of the Fraser River salmon catch and 372 hectares of Crown land south of Vancouver near the mouth of the Fraser River

Sooooo, 40 million divided by 358 is $ 111,731.00 per member. And that doesn’t even take into account the ongoing value of the salmon fishery and prime lower mainland real estate. Not bad work if you can get it.

Oh, sorry, did I say “work”?

Incomprehensible Justice

REGINA — After kidnapping two Prairie boys last summer, notorious pedophile Peter Whitmore made them sex slaves, even chaining the 10-year-old up and ordering the child to call him “master.”Those sordid and disturbing details and others about the boys’ captivity last July were made public for the first time Monday in a Regina court room shortly before Mr. Whitmore, 36, was handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for seven years.

Ugh.  Only seven years?  Come on.  But it gets worse.

The sentence was part of a controversial plea bargain struck by the Crown, and supported by the defence, that in exchange for Mr. Whitmore pleading guilty on all 12 charges, he would not be subjected to a dangerous offender application that could have kept the Ontario native in jail indefinitely.

How does as beast like this NOT get a dangerous offender status?  But wait.  It gets worse.

many… have voiced concern that the punishment isn’t harsh enough for a man whose sex crimes against children go back to 1989.

The guy’s got a 20 year old rap sheet of sex offences against children???  What is going on here?

 Judge McLellan described Mr. Whitmore’s crimes as “repulsive and sickening.”

Glad you disapprove… but…

He said the plea bargain spared the two victims a trial and potentially having to testifying. “They would have been victims once again,” he said.

So let me get this straight.  You have a monster of a pedophile on your hands.  He has an 18 year long rap sheet, demonstrated a clear pattern of behaviour, has proven that he is resistant to rehabilitation, but you let him have parole in 7 years and give him no “Dangerous Offender” status, because you want to spare his victims.

Rephrased, you want to let him abuse MORE children in 7 short years because you want to spare his victims from having to testify against him?

More John Tory Badness: Give Me a Break!

John Tory is going to want you to think that he’s the nicest guy aside from Jesus Christ Himself (although in a progressive, pluralistic society, we don’t mention such figures for it might offend some!). Don’t let him fool you though: this man has more than his fair share of stories in which he threatens, back-stabs, and mistreats the members of his own party — just read any political insider book from the 1980s! I’ve personally witnessed him in Ottawa and Niagara Falls getting into petty squabbles and worse (more to come during the election by the way!). But in the meantime, look at this:

John Tory was one of the most vocal in calling for an apology stating ‘The highest office, Premier McGuinty’s office, making slurs is not acceptable.’

Well, from what I’ve seen in the last year of stories, anything remotely related to the Government of Ontario is “not acceptable”; that’s all I hear from this guy. Does John Tory even know what he’s speaking to or is this just his standard line every time the media asks him for a comment? Look, I think Dalton McGuinty is a screw-up just as much as the next guy, but the man cannot be held accountable for a government employee who make a bad judgment call in an email! McGuinty did the right thing and phoned the offended individual personally to apologize; that’s more than he needs to do! The message we should send to John Tory over this: GROW UP!!!

Someone should teach John Tory the first rule of holes*

Because he’s obviously never heard of it:

Conservative Leader John Tory vowed Monday to look into government funding for religious-based schools. The leader of the Opposition wants to extend public funding to institutions of other faiths, such as Islamic, Hindu, Jewish and Christian.

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Tory said the move would bring Ontario more in line with other provinces — for a price tag of up to $400 million a year if all the schools agree to teach the province’s curriculum, participate in standardized testing and hire accredited teachers.

But Tory it shouldn’t be done without extensive consultation and thought — so he pledged to bring in the man who initially gave funds to Ontario’s Catholic schools in the 80s.

The Opposition leader said he’d appoint former premier Bill Davis to look at the plan’s feasibility. With the green light from Davis, Tory said pilot projects could begin around fall of next year.

You can only shake your head.

*When you’re in one, stop diggging.

Steve Sailor channels Max Weber

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Neoconservative commentators frequent assume that Mexican immigrants will automatically assimilate into American culture because our way of life is just so much more wonderful. In reality, however, Mexican culture is mature, stable, deeply-rooted, and highly appealing to Mexicans.

Granted, it’s not very effective at producing the kinds of things that, say, Ben Franklin most valued—such as scientific progress; technological inventiveness; a love of the printed word; civic cooperativeness; and an optimal mix of liberty, order, and equality.

But Mexicans have different values, which their culture caters to.

Meanwhile, Robert Putnam has not recently commented on the “vibrancy” of multiculturalism.

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