The Christian Right and Guiliani (and the others)

Chuck Baldwin on James Dobson’s refusal to publicly support Guiliani:

Hooray! It is about time that some of our national conservative Christian leaders began telling the truth about these phony conservatives in the Republican Party. However, Dobson needs to keep going and list the liberal Mitt Romney, and also CFR member (along with Thompson), womanizer, and elitist Newt Gingrich as unacceptable candidates.

Giuliani is especially revolting…

A NY reader responds:

I and millions of New Yorkers [are] well aware of Giuliani’s duplicitous, mean, autocratic, and just downright scary personality. His father was a small time mafia enforcer that did prison time. Rudy has many of his father’s characteristics.

And while you’re at The Smoking Gun, be sure to read the “Guiliani Weirdness Factor” report prepared by Rudy’s own campaign.

The Human Smuggling Party of Canada

Seems simple, really:

“Organizing and aiding entry into Canada is an offence under Section 117 of the (act).”

Yet too complex for the Liberal Party:

Liberal justice critic Marlene Jennings said she believes using the legislation required federal consent.

“That means that Rob Nicholson, the Attorney General of Canada, authorized it, and that’s a clear misuse and misinterpretation of the law,” she said.

In other words, Canada’s official opposition is committed to condoning human smuggling into Canada under the proper circumstances and to undermining Canada’s regulation of the refugees it admits.

I know!: Stephane Dion should pose for a campaign photo with Omar Khadr.

“We Must Stop All Forms of Public Smoking… but the Hookah…”

Says Vancouver City Council.

Go Rex.

Rwanda: “Shake Hands With the Devil”

The reviews are in on this new movie, filmed by Canadians, with a Canadian playing the lead role of Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian commander of the United Nations force sent to “keep the peace” in the middle of one of the worst genocides in world history, 1994, Rwanda.

I haven’t seen it yet, but I reccommend it to you for two reasons: first, the movie “Hotel Rwanda” by the accounts of the Rwandans I have talked to, was largely fiction – kind of like “Saving Private Ryan” – it is set in a real-life war, but the events are fictional.  This movie is based on Dallaire’s memoirs, and had more support from Rwandans.  I know this because “Hotel Rwanda” wasn’t even filmed in Rwanda (the hotel in the picture is actually in South Africa – I know because I have been to Hotel des Mille Collines, and it looks nothing like the movie).

The second reason is because it was actually filmed in Rwanda and most of the extras are real Rwandans.  I was in Rwanda last year while it was filming.  A friend of mine that I made while there was an extra – he was there as a missionary but took a bit of time for fun to play the role of a Dutch soldier in the United Nations force.

I know some people don’t like downer movies, but my opinion is this – a movie like this is more important in terms of understanding reality and our times than the next “based on a true story” sexfest.  You don’t need to know how Hollywood thinks people boinked in history.  You do need to understand the true consequences of war, genocide, and international ambivalence.

Plus, while Dallaire sits as a Liberal senator, I still salute him for his admirable service in Rwanda.  You should too.

Columbia Must be So Proud – Blacks Out Lectern and Backdrop

Columbia University may have hosted the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but from the looks of the blacked out lectern and backdrop they certainly didn’t want their previous name next to his face.

The New Rebellious Catholic Man

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“Saab…believes that many children of the 1970s, burdened with their parents’ social debt of divorce, fatherlessness, and sexual misery, were determined to do things differently. For Christian men especially, that meant carving out a brave new counterculture in which fathers reclaimed their position as head of the family, planted themselves in the pews alongside their wives and kids, and adopted a “provide and protect” stance in the face of the world’s trials and temptations.

Saab sees a parallel phenomenon among younger, unmarried Christian men, to whom his company’s products and Web site content are mostly aimed. They actively reject the “cheap version of manhood” that their generation has devised in an attempt to fill the masculinity vacuum: the “lowest-common-denominator” man who worships sports, electronics, and sex (yet who still somehow escapes feminist censure, presumably by agreeing to pay for half the abortion).

The French in Canada: Just another minority?

Dion’s current troubles re Jamie Carroll appear to highlight the intrinsic conflict between the Two Founding Peoples conception of Canada and the view that Canada is a multicultural sponge meant to soak up every aspect of every immigrant that arrives here, a view recently expressed by commenters on this site. Trouble is, the French founding people aren’t going to be equated with mere recent immigrant communities without putting up a fight:

After it was suggested to Jamie Carroll that Stephane Dion needs a few more Quebecers in his entourage to better understand Quebec, Carroll said that in that case, they better get some Chinese people in Dion’s entourage as well.

Carroll implied that French Canadians are just another minority in Canada. In Quebec, saying anything of the sort is tantamount to political suicide.

A Catholic or a Madman

If God isn’t Great, then he certainly subcontracted the job to someone pretty qualified:

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: “Excuse me?”

FATHER RUTLER: “That’s why you drink. God has offered us happiness, all of us. And you will either die a Catholic or a madman, and I’ll tell you the difference.”

H/T The Curt Jester and Kathy Shaidle aka Five Feet of Fury

Fr George Rutler’s academic pedigree here. And here.

Update September 28th:

I hate to interrupt one of our anonymous commenters as they receive their Five Feet of Fury (available in your choice of flavors just in time for Christmas), but since they mentioned Osama Bin Laden I thought it only fair to add a few pertinent details regarding Fr Rutler’s moral equivalence to Osama Bin Laden:

Evidently, Mr. Hitchens never met Father Rutler before their May 1 encounter, and did not know who he was. It happens that Father Rutler is a hero of 9-11. He holds a special place in the hearts of New York City’s police and firemen, for he was with them that day at Ground Zero. Before Father Mychal Judge was struck dead by a body falling from the burning towers, Father Rutler stood side-by-side with Father Judge, hearing confessions and giving the last rites to firemen en route to their deaths.

Full article at Free Republic 

Pill Popper

It is an irony worthy of Waugh that a Canadian province so utterly dependent on federal transfer payments as its opiate of the masses names its landmark holiday after a man who dedicated his life to trying to help them separate from their pusher.

Charming: Islam and Rape

* The Carleton University student who was sexually assaulted this month while working in a lab late at night wants to set the record straight: She was not raped.The 24-year-old woman, who does not want to be identified, made the clarification this week through the Ottawa Hospital’s sexual assault unit in an effort to save herself grief as an unmarried Muslim woman. In certain Islamic countries, victims of rape are considered “unclean” to potential future husbands.

Apparently one of those countries is Canada:

Ottawa’s Muslim community yesterday supported the woman’s decision to clear her name.

“Who are we to judge somebody else, especially if a person is innocent?” asked Mumtaz Akhtar, president of the Ottawa Muslim Association.

“Clear her name”? “If a person is innocent” of being raped???

Surely the left-feminists of Carleton’s Women’s Studies program will have something to say about this, right? Right? Bueller?

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