Is France Safe for Jews?

In a word: non.

Montreal Rocker a Good Eco-"Sam"aritan

Did you know there's an e-zine called Samaritanmag devoted to the good deeds of celebrities and others? I just happened upon it--and this:

"If David Suzuki could hold a tune, I'm sure they would've asked him," Montreal rocker Sam Roberts quips in an interview with Samaritanmag about his recent appointment by the Canadian Academy of Recordings Arts & Sciences as the Juno Awards first-ever Sustainability Ambassador.

"I think that's gonna be my quote for the rest of this. If you hear it again, it's because that's gonna be my catch phrase," he laughs.

In all seriously (sic), the Juno Award-winning singer-guitarist is a perfect candidate for the title and its obligations. He was first informed of environmentally-friendly practices by his roommate in university and found living that lifestyle was "very simple. It doesn't really take much." All these years later, he continues to implement them, and more.

"There are so many things - from the most small mundane details like the cleaning products and detergent that you use and washing your clothes with cold water and using phosphate-free hand soap and dishwasher detergent, to not flushing the toilet every time we go pee to composting to try to recycle as efficiently as we possibly can," says Roberts.

Canada's biggest music awards show — which takes place in Ottawa this year over two nights, one a private untelevised gala dinner March 31 and one a more concert-like two-hour televised event April 1 — will be using the Canadian Standards Association's event sustainability management standard, CSA Z2010, to guide the design and delivery of the awards and associated Juno events...

In all seriously, I think I just tossed my Bran Buds.

Now We Know Why the Toulouse Jew-Killer Filmed His Crimes--So He Could Sent the Footage to al Jazeera

Supposedly, the Arab CNN (as if!) hasn't decided whether or not to air it.

Update: A-J won't air it.

Ceeb's Little Mosque Shill-Com (Now In Its Final Year of Production) Employed Muslim Brotherhood Advisors to Keep It In Line

At least, that's what Tarek Fatah told Michael Coren yesterday. So sad that, after all those years of service advising the show's producers and writers re which lines must not be crossed (i.e., do not mention honour crimes, the sacredness and efficacy of wife-beating in marriage, and/or Islam founder's child bride, etc.) these helpful Islamists won't be collecting taxpayer shekels any more.

At Long Last, Israel Severs Ties With the UN's Grotesquely Misnamed "Human Rights" Body

Since the UN's "human rights" council is Gound Zero for internationist Zionhass (hello, Durbans I, II and III!), and since that racket is presided over such "human rights" paragons as China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia, my one question for Israel is: what took you so long?

Coming Soon--The Best Little Whorehouse in...Mississauga?

In light of this, I don't see why not.

Damn You, Mad Men Ear Worm

Watched the show last night (back after a 17 month absence) and now I can't get this one out of my head:

You'll Never Guess What the White House Calls Obamacare

"The Affordable Care Act"

Affordable for whom?

As deranged euphemisms go, that one's right up there with "the religion of peace."

The 16 Worst Countries in the World in Which to Be a Member of a Religious Minority

In alphabetical order they are: Burma, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, (north) Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

While various religious minorities are persecuted in these lands, there is one religious group that is oppressed in every single one of them: Christians.

"Earth Hour" a Chance for Kooky TDSB to Display Its "Green" Bona Fides

Personally, I bristle at compulsory exercises in illusory virtue such as Earth Hour. But, hey, that's just me. The Toronto District School Board, which has "green" up the wazoo and the ying-yang, is ga-ga for it, and has found a way to take part even though it occurs outside school hours:

On March 30, the TDSB will celebrate its own Earth Hour from 2 to 3 p.m. at all schools and offices. The official global Earth Hour is on Saturday, March 31 between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. 

Earth Hour is a very inclusive event—even the youngest child can take part!

Again this year, schools and offices will use as little electricity as possible between 2 and 3 p.m. on Earth Hour Friday. Many schools go well beyond the single hour, and even start “warming up” by holding an Earth Hour once a week. Some schools focus indoors and seek out every possible way to unplug (with permission) — teachers manage regular classes without electricity-powered aids, administrative staff leave their computers and turn to organizing their files. Others go outside for student-run schoolground activities or neighourhood walks — using the Earth and the sun as free “teaching resources” that connect students’ learning to the world outside the classroom!

Earth Hour is an especially good candidate for a student-run environmental campaign about energy conservation and slowing climate change. Its sharp focus allows schools to undertake as little or as much awareness and action building as they are ready for...

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"If I Had a Son He'd Look Like Trayvon"

 It's always--always--about you, isn't it Barry? Daniel Greenfield writes re the POTUS who is manifestly narcissistic and egotistical such that he can never pass up an opportunity to insert himself into a media sensation:

To Obama, the significance of the whole event was that Trayvon Martin looked like his hypothetical son, which presumably Allen Coon ["a thirteen-year-old boy (who) was set on fire by two black teenagers who told him, “You get what you deserve, white boy""] did not. The insufferable egotism of that statement suggests that shooting victims only matter if they look anything like the head cheese. It’s racial feudalism and personal politics at its ugliest even as it once again confronts us with Obama’s inability to talk about anything without shining it through the narcissistic lens of the self.

Even Trayvon Martin only matters because he is in some hypothetical sense linked to Obama, and every trending topic from Jeremy Lin to the million hoodie march must be commented on by him in some way to demonstrate his own relevance in the mobius strip of fame. There can be no 2012 election without the race card, and so Martin was posthumously drafted into the Obama family portrait that appears on campaign ads to remind the rest of the country that they still need to feel guilty and vote the left’s ticket.

“All of us have to do some soul searching,” Obama urged, as somehow a local shooting had become a national matter and then a burden of guilt staining the souls of an entire nation. With the dexterous agility of the practiced race huckster, a Hispanic man shooting a black man had become another reminder of our endless burden of racial guilt. A burden that only our pope of the race card could briefly lift from us in a climactic moment of electoral hope and change.

 

Update: VDH rightly pegs Obama's self-insertion into media sensations as "demagoguery."