Party Animals

This one goes out to all the 'justice'-lovers who are getting set to celebrate their annual Whack-a-Jew week:

It's apartheid and we'll lie if we want to,
Lie if we want to, lie if we want to.
You would lie too if you knew what Jews do.

Nobody knows where the Arabs have gone.
They've been ethnically cleansed.
Once they've the "right of return"
We'll finally make some amends.

It's apartheid and we'll lie if we want to
Lie if we want to, lie if we want to.
You would lie too if you knew what Jews do.

Playin' our trump card--the apartheid fence.
Tear the awful thing down!
So what if Jews get blown up
And Bibi's wearin' a frown?

It's apartheid...

Judy and Sid have just spewed once again
About how Zion's 'unjust'.
Oh, what a thrilling 'surprise'
That in Hamas they do trust.

It's apartheid and we'll lie if we want to.
Cry if we want to, try if we want to.
You would lie too to get rid of the Jews.

Funniest. Steyn. EVER!

If you were at a Second Cup last Friday afternoon and saw a chick reading Maclean's magazine who chortled, hooted and cackled over the course of several minutes, that was me, and I apologize for disturbing your peace. It's just that I was reading this, and, well, the fault is Steyn's, not mine, because he wrote the following:

Judging by emails from readers in America, Britain, India, Australia, Europe, Africa and beyond, Vancouver’s Olympic ceremony was a gold medal snoozeroo of politically correct braggadocio impressive even by Canadian standards. A Florida correspondent suggested that Beijing’s decision in 2008 to downplay discreetly its official state ideology might have been usefully emulated by Canadian organizers unable to go a minute and a half without reflexive invocations of their own state ideology of “diversity.” A reader in Sydney said he had no idea until the ceremony that the majority of Canada’s population were Aboriginal. Actually, if they were, you’d be hearing a lot less talk about “diversity,” for reasons we’ll come to later.

But don’t take the word of doubtless untypical Steyn readers. Out on the Internet, the Tweeting Twitterers pronounced it a bust, and even in the Toronto Star Richard Ouzounian declared that “the eyes of the world were upon us and we put them to sleep.” On the other hand, the Vancouver Sun’s reporter cooed that this was “the Canada we want the world to see, magical and beautiful, and talented.” This just after she’d written: “Maple leaves fell from the sky. And then, the divine poetess Joni Mitchell and her haunting Clouds fills the air while a young boy floats and soars above the audience, undulating fields of wheat below.” I was pleasantly relieved to discover that a story about “the world’s most lethal cocktail” concerned some enterprising dealers who’ve been lacing heroin with anthrax, and not whichever malevolent genius came up with the idea of having airborne ballet dancers doing interpretative choreography over the Prairies to a mélange of Both Sides Now and W. O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen The Wind. As is traditional, most of the creativity went into the audience estimates: apparently, this tribute to the only G7 nation comprised solely of high priests of the Great Tree Spirit, armies of Inuit sculptors, and Cape Breton chorus lines of federal grant worshippers was watched by three billion people “worldwide.” As if the Royal Canadian Mint could afford to commission that many commemorative authentic pewter maple-encrusted manacles.

Canada’s message to the world: every cliché you’ve heard about our plonkingly insecure self-flattering PC earnestness has been triumphantly confirmed. You need pay us no further heed until the 2068 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Half the countries, twice as long!..

Do read the rest. It'll put a zing in your step, a grin on your face and make you feel at least as good as that "special" yogurt is supposed to make you feel.

Do As We Say Not As We Do

Whingers whine about "white" racism while flipping the bird at the be-wheelchaired.

Flagrant Misrepresentation on the Ontario 'Roo Site

Truth is no defence, fair comment has been deemed unfair, there's no presumption of innocence, and when it comes to judicial procedure, well, let's just say they've thrown the rule book out the window and are winging it. And yet this is how the Ontario "Human Rights" Tribunal, our very own 'roos, describes its work on its "new" website:

The Human Rights Code represents fundamental principles upon which our society is based. The Tribunal plays an important role in ensuring that those rights have real meaning. To do this, we have developed processes designed to be accessible and understandable.

The community must have confidence that Tribunal staff and members will treat each party with respect and address each Application in a fair and timely manner. Applicants, respondents and intervenors have the opportunity to be heard in a process that is accessible, fair, and based on the law and jurisprudence.

What a bunch of tommyrot! The process is not fair--since it is set up to favour the complainant, whose legal bills it picks up--not timely--it can drag on for years which, as Erza Levant has pointed out, is part and parcel of how it punishes the defendent--not accessible, or at least, accessible only to some (i.e. minorities/members of designated victim groups; if you want to complain about, say, an imam's hateful statements you can forget about it), and not based on the kind of law and jurisprudence on which Western law is predicated (although it does bear more than a passing resemblance to Soviet and Islamic law).

If we can't get rid of this cockamamie kangaroo court outright, can we at least get it to be honest about what it does?

Today's Depressing Question

If the Left is in the grip of multiculti delusions about "diversity" and the Right has been bought off by Saudi shekels and/or the jihadis, who's left to fight the good fight?

Dubeity About Dubai's Freak Out

Why is Dubai having such a hissy fit over stolen passports and a dead Hamas operative? Could it be to deflect attention away from its role in what the Wall Street Journal calls "the axis of enrichment"?

Although Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the increase of uranium enrichment to 20%—bringing Tehran much closer to weapons-grade nuclear material—China still opposes new United Nations sanctions. The responsibility for stopping the Iranian bomb thus rests with a "coalition of the willing." The attitude of Germany—Iran's most important Western trading partner—will be critical to the success of such a coalition. But while the recent announcement by Siemens and Munich Re to exit the Iranian market have garnered headlines, hundreds of German manufacturers remain determined to continue doing business as usual with Tehran.

Much of that business goes undetected via Dubai. Iran's Mullahs use the United Arab Emirates as a back door through which to funnel goods that cannot be brought in through the front door because of existing sanctions. The role of the German-Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce, founded only last year, on May 20, raises serious questions about the German government's commitment to meaningful sanctions.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the German economics minister at the time (who has since become defense minister), considered the Joint Council so important that he took time from his busy schedule to attend the founding festivities. Partly financed by German taxpayers, the council announced just a few months ago, on Nov. 5., the formation of an "Iran Working Group" to assess "how new trade and investment flows can be created—including [for] German companies—using the United Arab Emirates as a gateway to the Iranian market."...

Or, as I prefer to think of it, a gateway to genocide.

Update: Duplicitous Dubai

BombPants's Cabin-Mates Seek Insight Into His Actions

Why would a wealthy, educated young Nigerian want to stick 'splosives down his pants and blow up a large American airliner full of people? That's the question that plagues--baffles, really--some of those who shared cabin space with Umar AbdulMutallab on that fateful December day. CNN interviewed some of them:

(CNN) -- The weeks have passed and, in most cases, their nerves have calmed. What began as shock, that they were almost victims of an in-flight terrorist attack, has morphed for many into contemplation. There are those who are still talking about what happened to them on Christmas Day, and there are others who are determined to put the incident behind them.

The passengers of Northwest Flight 253 may have been one faulty explosive away from disaster.

The suspect in that incident, Nigerian-born Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, 23, pleaded not guilty in January to six federal terrorism charges. And he has been talking to authorities, thanks to help from his own family members.

But what if the passengers could be part of that conversation? What would they want to know or say to AbdulMutallab, the government, the world? CNN reached out by phone and e-mail to find out.

More than anything, if they could sit down with AbdulMutallab they would simply ask: Why? How did a young man who grew up with privilege, education and exposure to the greater world end up accused of attempting a terrorist attack?

"For me, these are the burning questions," said Roey Rosenblith, 27, who co-founded Village Energy, a company in Uganda that hopes to help bring solar electricity to the 80 percent of Africans who have no electrical power. "I've never had someone try to murder me, much less someone I didn't even know. So I'm very interested in finding out more about [his] motives so that we might possibly figure out how to avert others from traveling down the same path."

Could the fact that AbdulMutallab is talking to officials signal he has regret, Rosenblith wonders. If not, if he is a "lost cause," Rosenblith said he wouldn't care to waste breath speaking to him.

"I don't spend a lot of time seeking out conversations with Holocaust deniers, Islamic fundamentalists or religious fanatics of any stripe," he said. "I guess I've decided that people that are beyond the pale of reason are simply that and nothing I say will convince them otherwise."

Melinda Dennis, 31, was sitting about an arm's length from AbdulMutallab when he was taken up to first class after the incident. She stared at him, and his blank expression. Now she says she'd rather speak to others considering the path he is accused of taking.

"No matter what nationality we are or religion we choose, we are still people. I am a human being, a person that faces each day trying to make myself better and enrich the lives of people who know me," said Dennis, who's lived the past year-and-a-half in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where she works as a manufacturing project manager. "Whether I live or die should not be decided on the whim of a person that wishes to brand all Americans as evil people. I am not defined by my nationality, but I believe in the goodness that resides in the people of every country."...

Well, Roey, Melinda, I can explain why BombPants acted the way he did in a single line: Jihad is the way; sharia is the goal.

That's all you need to know, really. And it's the reason why, Anne Frank-esque bromides about innate goodness to the contrary (let's not forget, Anne made her comment while she was hiding in the attic, not when she was dying of typhoid in Bergen-Belsen), young Muslims will continue to act out in this "baffling" manner until you Roey, and you Melinda and everyone who dwells in that portion of the world not yet squared away for Allah concedes that sharia is numero uno.

It's as simple as that, I'm afraid.

Just in Time for Purim

The Presbyterian Church is putting a new spin on an old hatred, writes Phyllis Chesler:

The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) is about to release a report which denounces Israel as a “racist” nation which has absolutely no historical, covenantal, or theological right to the Holy Land. The report calls for the United States to withhold financial and military aid to Israel and for boycotts and sanctions against Israel. That’s not all. The report also endorses a Palestinian “right of return” and “apologizes to Palestinians for even conceding that Israel has a right to exist.” According to the press release, it also states that Israel’s history begins only with the Holocaust and that Israel is “a nation mistakenly created by Western powers at the expense of the Palestinian people to solve the ‘Jewish problem’.”

In addition, PCUSA has also resolved to divest in companies that supply military equipment to the American Army, e.g. Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, etc.

In 2004, this Church became the first mainline Protestant denomination in America to “approve a policy of divestment from Israel.” This was rescinded, but in 2008 the Church “created a committee dominated by seven activists holding strong anti-Israel beliefs. The lone member sympathetic to Israel, quit in protest when he saw their radical agenda.”...

God Bless Americans

Accoding to a new suvery, 63% of Americans support Israel over the Palestinians. (H/T Hot Air)

As I've said before, I have no faith whatsoever in America's elites/intelligentsia. I do, however, have enormous faith in the innate good sense of the American people, which is borne out by this poll.

Not a Good Look

A-jad in funny goggles

Monumental Bureaucracy a Colossal Waste

Q: How many Department of Homeland Security employees does it take to not detect a jihadi with a bomb in his briefs?

A: 188,000 (astoundingly, the department's "civilian work force"). Plus another 200,000 (can you believe it? - the reported number of "contractor employees"). Plus one more, the Nincompoopitano ostensibly in charge of the behemoth.

And in a related story, even though, no doubt, they are highly-trained professionals, DHS staff seem to have a hard time keeping tabs on their firearms:

Washington (CNN) -- Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report.

The officers, with Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "did not always sufficiently safeguard their firearms and, as a result, lost a significant number of firearms" between fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2008, the report said.

In all, 243 firearms were lost in both agencies during that period, according to the January report from Inspector General Richard Skinner. Of those, 36 were lost because of circumstances beyond officers' control -- for instance, ICE lost a firearm during an assault on an officer. Another 28 were lost even though officers had stored them in lockboxes or safes.

But 74 percent, or 179 guns, were lost "because officers did not properly secure them," the report said...

Gee, the criminals who made off with DHS firearms seem to have a lot more on the ball than the security "experts". Maybe Janet should consider getting rid of some of her dead wood and hiring the crooks.