Bud Talkinghorn and Several News Junkie Canada Compilations
To Readers for Christmas
You do have to scroll to the end of all today's compilations in order to get it. Now, take a minute from the frivolity and get caught up on the news; then you will find something FREE! You don't have to return it, re-gift it, nor hate it and hide it; it is intended to be perfect for all.
Merry Christmas -- Note "Christ" is in that word! Blessings upon all.
* Soft Laws-Soft Courts? Violence, Crime Supergroups, Terror Funding-Heroin $, RCMP-Cybercop, Stings, Sch-Safety-Bullies, Sch-Firebombing, Daycare
* Military: Funding, Politics and the Military, UN Troops and Police Attacked in Haiti
* Martin, Libya's Khadaffy/Gadhafi, UK: Libyan Arrested Under Terrorism Act
* Dalrymple-Empathy, UK Police State, Iran, Islam, Tyranny, Fundamentalism, Illiteracy, Hate Crime, Christians Finding Backbone
* Global Warming, Noranda-Minmetals, Canada's North-Oil-Tli Cho-Government-"Heritage Resources", EU Supports Kofi Annan
* Secrets, Neoconservatism, The Working Class
* Immigration, CRTC, Spyware Tools, Bombardier-Corporate Welfare, Bain Capital-Verizon-Symantec, Cattle Feed-DNA Tests
Bud Talkinghorn
Bud on Christmas Shopping -- Bud, Someone is Going to Be Expecting Presents from You -- and this is what you're saying?
Do you really want the baubles being offered in countless cookie-cutter malls and shops this Christmas? I don't. Certainly not enough to brave the hordes of disgruntled shoppers. All that plasticized stuff is going to be cheaper after Christmas anyway. I read that Americans are going to spend trillions this Christmas. The same day, it was announced that the U.S. trade deficit had hit a new high--$161 billion for the last quarter, while the year's total is expected to hit half a trillion dollars. Considering that most of what those shoppers are buying was not made in America, I would be surprised if it hits only that number.
Actually, I understand Bud's sentiments perfectly. It would be better if I were rich enough that my disdain for shopping were a choice -- and not a necessity. It rather ruins my condescension toward the shopping hordes, what? Bah!
A jest of the gods!
NJC
Paging Dr. Kervorkian
The next big debate will be over assisted suicide. Our government, so ready to throw away collective rights in favour of individual ones, still wants their collective right to tell you how you should die. The one thing that everybody should have as a fundamental right is forbidden. "Oh, this will be a slippery slope", they proclaim. "Next stop, enforced euthanasia." Complete nonsense of course. Certainly there will be attempts to knock off grannie for the inheritance, but that nasty fall at the top steps is an easier route to take. Ironically, the central government's agrument against it is rooted in religious belief--a belief that the state denigrates constantly.
There are a huge numbers of us out there who have the motto: Quality before quantity. I think my own mother was helped to an easeful death by "the big jolly", as morphine was called. It was the right thing to do to end the appalling agony of her final days. Let us allow all the indignities of life to be wiped out by a dignified death.
Bud, but what if you're not ready to go and someone has the power to make the decision for you? I'm afraid that I shall be--perhaps for the first time in my life--speechless and then . . . . . I want to end it when I want to but . . . NJC
New Canadian immigration slogans to be posted abroad -- prepared in anticipation by Bud
* An illegal refugee in every home.
* You can't be an inclusive country if you exclude anybody.
* Urdu spoken here.
* Canada warmly welcomes the Thugee cult to our shores.
* Let us cater your gay wedding.
* Our climate might be cold, but our welfare benefits are red hot.
* Feel threatened because you are a terrorist at home, well, you're just a nationalist here.
* Give us your wretched, your tired and your oppressed--oh, what the hell, give us your gangsters, sickly ancients, and fanatics too.
* Just because you bought your degree won't be held against you here.
* Singh? Of course you have a sponsoring relative in BC.
And the winners of this year's freedom from ignorance award
It was a tough battle to decide; however, it had to be split between The National Post and CNN's Lou Dobbs' Report. Both have exposed how Canada and America have refused to take the terrorist threat seriously. The Post presents the stark face of our enemy, while the Liberal government tries to pretend there is no problem. Dobbs shows how the porous borders of America make a mockery of the talk about security. Three million illegals come into the country and in many cases are allowed to do so by the pressure of big business. [I assume Bud is referring to the US here. NJC] Why hire a native citizen when you can get a 'wet back' to work for less than the minimum wage? The fact that illegal drugs and terrorists might be coming through also is a moot point for many. And the lump of coal in the stocking goes to the CBC and its media minions. According to them, the biggest outrages are the small incarcerations of suspected terrorists. But of course, they don't take the subway systems or the buses, do they?
Bruce Garvey wrote a column in The National Post, Dec. 16, 04, comparing where Canada is going in our social legislation with where the Dutch have gone. It is an interesting comparison for me as the Dutch are my favourite Europeans. In the past visits to Holland were always positive, there being a natural cultural bond, partly due to their liberation by Canadians in WW11. Once when stuck in Amsterdam in a freezing rain, we tried to hail a cab. When the cabbie found out we wanted only to go 10 blocks he refused to take us. Then he said, "Are you Americans?" When we said we were Canadians, he immediately said, "Jump in. The ride is free." The last time I was there, I was tear gased, along with others in an narrow alley. A few minutes later I encountered a Dutch bicycle cop and told him what had happened. He said, "It's those d***** North Africans again. They snatch and grab during the confusion." I asked whether these immigrants were a persistent problem and he affirmed they were. That was years ago. Now these people make up a fifth of the population.
Garvey updates my experience, with reports of a huge unassimilated Muslim population. Their opposition is not just vocal; it is violent. First, there was Pim Fortuyn, the charismatic politician who wanted to stop Muslim immigration and deport those that were there illegally. He was assassinated, supposedly by a loony-left environmentalist, but these people are now all interrelated. Then came Theo Van Gogh, who wrote about the horrible exisrence of most Muslim women. That earned him a death sentence as well--in broad daylight on a crowded street. The once extremely tolerant Dutch say the handwriting is on the wall. They could no longer keep flooding their country with foreigners, who not only weren't willing to assimilate to Dutch culture, but rather despised its values. In a panic the Dutch cracked down. The government started deportation of its illegal Muslim population, while the assassinations led to mosque and Islamic school burnings which were seen as the incubators of the anti-Western hatred let loose among the tulip-raising, dope-smoking burghers. The average Dutchman finally rose up to demand a severe change in their mushy multicultural policy. Through the Van Gogh murder the police discovered a whole cell of al-Queda members who blow up their apartment before capture. At long last, some in Europe are waking up to the enormousdangers they are facing. I only wish Canada would wake up to its own peril, but as long as the Liberals rule there will be endless placatiing of their faithful (for now) immigrant / refugee loyalists. Maybe getting rid of Minister Judy Sgro, and those of her ilk would be a start. However, that would be thinking creatively, which is not Martin's strong suit.
As one would suspect, she is all for inclusivemness. Trampling on a millennia-old religious ceremony in the name of 'progress' is par for the course with her. While her argument for separation of church and state is basically corrrect, she goes on to proclaim that there is no religious tension in Canada. All due to Liberal governance no doubt. I guess since she lost her seat, she has abandoned reading the papers because these papers present a very different picture of religious harmony in Western societies. The deaths of Dutch citizens at the hands of fanatics sympathetic to Islamist ideals is one example. Another is the stealing and burning of over 1,600 cars in Strasbourg by disaffected Muslim immigrant children. The calls in Hyde Park for the Islamicization of Britain and the execution of all homosexuals might be worth noting also. The silence about 9/11 by the Canadian imams, who months later half-acknowledged that their co-religionists might be behind it, is another example. Copps knows how these people would react to a 'homosexual marriage' in Saudi Arabia, Iran--in most of the Muslim world, for that matter. Those here are keeping their feelings secret--for now. We will see down the line, when they become a large voting bloc, how silent they will remain.
I am an agnostic on good days, an athetist on my bad days, but I take umbrage at the denigration of a religious festival that has been sacred for hundreds of years in Canada. Gift cards that wish you a 'happy holiday' don't really convey the proper sentiment. Can you imagine the Jews or the Muslims allowing themselves to be relegated to a consumer god? Happy al-Eid Fitr; don't forget to buy your halel meat at Abdullah's.
What Sheila Copps doesn't acknowledge is that Christianity in Canada has withered into nothingness--almost. It often cannot uphold even its basic tenets of belief. It is so desperate for acceptance that it will espouse anything. It stands for nothing, and nobody wants to stand for it. Meanwhile the vibrant, if deluded, faiths are full of pasionate intensity. You waffle all you want, Christianity, but you are going down to the hard-core believers who have no compunction about cutting your throats in the name of their god.
