Hey Whitey! You got no rights round here boy

The government of Manitoba is arguing that the Charter guarantee was not designed to provide a level playing field for white males.

Welcome to a brave new world, except for white males.

Damn those Canadian women!

I was on a conservative blog when I found a link to Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the highest Islam leader in Australia, and his little speech about theft and the position of the Koran regarding it. It really gets good at the end.

To boil it down it shows that American and Australian women are fine, it is those Canadian and Mexican women that are the problem.

Read it all and ask your spouses about it.

Hmm, a couple of updates, apparently the Imam was referring to the gang rape of an Australian woman and the trial of Bilal Skaf. Why doesn't the CBC talk about the gang rapists?

Hey look, I can post something too!

I read with interest the responses around Australian Beccy Cole's last single. It is blatantly pro military and pro Afghanistan war. A Canadian country singer Julian Austin released a single called Red & White that probably few outside of Afghanistan have heard. Why is it that a couple of country singers can express their support of the what the military is doing when pop stars cannot seem to grasp that insulting the President is also insulting every person that voted for him, which incidentally is more then those that voted against him. A few that decided the best way to win hearts and minds through name calling are Green Day with their single American Idiot, and Natalie Maines exclaiming:

Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas

The backlash was inevitable as people don't like being called stupid, particularly in large groups. The groups that disagreed with the anti-war groups used the insults as a wedge to disenfranchise those that disagree with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Until the high profile groups understand that derogatory comments and insults are going to be used by their opponents to derail the discussion.

All that being said, television and the internet has changed the way war is broadcast live now and everything is reduced to a sound bite. People never saw the horrors of anything prior to the Vietnam War, but atrocities happen in every war so what makes this one different?

I finish with two final comments Toby Keith turned his career into a pro military propaganda machine and John Ford on 9-11, just so everyone remembers why the US, and by extension, Canada is there.

I wrote this over two days and forgot what I was writing about...

Religious Freedom?

Ah, religious freedom. It's one of the most important freedoms we have because it represents freedom of thought. Yes, in a free country, you can think and believe whatever you want. Can you imagine not being able to think and believe what you want to think and believe? That would suck, wouldn't it?

Thank goodness for the Religious Freedom Coalition. Just look at the name! How can you not support them? Like I just said, religious freedom is pretty much freedom of thought. Here's their mission statement, taken from the About RFC section of their website:

The Religious Freedom Coalition is a non-profit educational organization head quartered in Washington, DC. Founded in 1982 the Religious Freedom Coalition is dedicated to the equality of all mankind and the freedom of religious expression. The Religious Freedom Coalition maintains that Religious Freedom is the “first liberty” and wherever Religious Freedom is suppressed there is no true freedom of assembly, press or speech

Isn't that nice? Doesn't that pull a tear from your freedom-loving eyeballs? I wonder why the line under their name says, Promoting Religious Freedom and Family Based Legislation?

What does that mean, family-based? Oh, I should have read further. Under Marriage/Family we read, "The Religious Freedom Coalition works to ensure that marriage remains the union of one man and one woman." So, I guess if your religion says you can marry someone of the same sex, then it's not really a religion, and doesn't need freedom.

Oh, it gets better! Besides supporting legislation like the Marriage Protection Act they also list the Ten Commandments Defense Act. Yes, the RFC is working hard to protect all religions by trying to make sure the Ten Commandments are posted in public buildings. I'm sure the Muslims would really feel that their religious freedoms were being defended if they had to look at the Ten Commandments in public buildings. We'd have to discuss which Ten Commandments we'd use, of course. And, what about that pesky first commandment (second in the Hebrew version)? Doesn't that whole, No other gods before me thing violate religious freedom for anyone who doesn't believe in the Christian god?

So, clearly, the RFC is working for Christian Religious Freedom. Well, that's ok, right? After all, most of the world is Christian, right? Well, at least 33% is! And for those namby-pamby Christians who don't agree with the RFC, well, they're not really Christians anyway.

I'm feeling more free already...

The dawn of a new superhero

Finally, at long last, gay men don't have to worry any more. Now there's Heteroy!

Does anyone else see a problem?

Why does the world feel more like an episode of Babylon Five?

Sure, it's quite likely that the US government has been torturing prisoners in the last while. I wouldn't be shocked if every country has done it. But George Bush has repeated many times, that the US doesn't torture prisoners. Amnesty International disagrees, but who are they?

Well, they don't have to worry about that any more.

Nope, it's now legal to torture prisoners. It's now legal to hold prisoners, and not even tell them why they're being held. You see, last spring, the US supreme court said that the Military commissions the US was using in Guantanamo Bay were Illegal under American and international law. What's a poor president to do?

Simple, you change the law. Now, thanks to Congress, the President can determine the things that interrogators can legally use. If that isn't enough to disturb you, the law provides for immunity for any CIA members who interrogated prisoners since 9/11. Yes, Bush can now declare, retroactively, that interrogation methods used were legal. This also means that, if anyone wants to suggest that Bush approved torture methods, he can just say, "It's ok, it's not illegal anymore!"

Yes, now George Bush is one step closer to being King George.

And what of the Geneva Convention? Well, Bush wanted Congress to say it didn't apply anymore, but those pesky Congress members didn't let him. Instead he can decide how to interpret this vague set of rules called the Geneva Convention. Darn that vague Geneva Convention.

Where is the US going with this?

Awww... you hurt his feelings!

Yeah, everyone has heard about silly lawsuits. Everyone seems to sue nowadays. Even the Hells Angels. Rick Ciarnello is a poor, downtrodden Hells Angel, and he's not going to take it any more. Every since Judge Fuerst called the Hells Angels a criminal organization, Rick Ciarnello says he feels shunned. Yes, Ciarnello is a long-time Hells Angel. Apparently, when he joined the Hells Angels, he expected people to think he was joining an organization working for, you know, peace and love.

According to the CBC article, Ciarnello claims, "he has been treated rudely by his local supermarket staff, and he says many people are no longer friendly toward him, and instead fear him or avoid him altogether."

And, if you ever had any desire to be a lawyer, that should go away if you consider some of the things you need to say as a lawyer. Alan Gold, the nice fellow who filed the petition against calling the Hells Angels a criminal organization called the legislation "Evil." I couldn't have made that up if I'd tried.

But, hey, maybe we've got them all wrong! Maybe the Hells Angels are just nice guys who want to sell clothes. Besides, you have to feel sorry for them. As an organization, they're being taken advantage of everywhere and they need to protect themselves from evil organizations that are just taking advantage of them.

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