"Say Hello to a New Mo-Dog Every Month"

Purchase your Lars Vilks calendar here (via Creeping Sharia).

I Think I Know Why the Interfaith Service at St. Paul's "Attracted a Sparse Sunday Crowd"

It's because, unlike the usual pass-the-tasty-samosas bromides of the "Abraham, our common forefather" crowd, this interfaith event dealt with the persecution of Christians in Muslim lands.

Not to Alarm You or Anything But...

Mossad and the Saudis Convinced Iran Seeking Nuclear Holocaust

Election of Despots to UN "Human Rights" Body a Sign of a Bigger Problem

No kidding. And the "bigger problem" is correctly diagnosed here:

Last week's vote is a sign of much bigger problem than the flaws of a U.N. body. The accession of so many dictatorships reflects both their skillful diplomacy and the absence of principle among the democracies. Both need to be challenged.  

Need to be. Have been in the past by Canada. Likely won't be by many others—or by Canada once future former P.M. Justin Trudeau (a clueless mush-brain) is in charge.

Update: The video below reveals the huge disconnect between how the UNHRC sees itself and what it really is.

Sacre Bleu! Never Saw This One Coming

France as Israel's champion. What a strange--and yet awesome--turn of events!

"Climate Justice"

Gag moi.

ObamaCare Is "Generational Theft"

Think of it as Robin Hood stealing from the young to give to the previously uninsurable.

Update: A paraphrase of Oscar Wilde springs to mind. O-Care is the unspeakable (Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Sibelius et al) in pursuit of the uninsurable.

Update: Michelle Malkin nails it:

Sober up, young America. The “Affordable Care Act” is the progressives’ wealth-redistribution party from hell — and you’re paying for it.

JFK Was NOT Killed By a "Right-Wing Climate of Hate"

He was done in by a pissant little Commie. Deal with it, people.

Update: The creepy "Dallas killed JFK" trope isn't new...

Wannabe Jihadi Who Spent His Teen Years in Toronto Is In a Funk Over Al-Shabaab Infighting

Seems waging jihad isn't all it's cracked up to be:

Abdulhamid Daar's dreams of joining al-Shabaab began as a teenager in Toronto, with long sermons from imams on how Islam was under grave threat, making it the duty of believers to fight and defend the faith. This took the 23-year-old engineering student on a journey to Somalia and jihad. 

He experienced the excitement and satisfaction of being involved in the struggle for what he believed to be a righteous cause. But he also saw friends being killed, and felt the constant fear that he, too, would die or be left crippled. 

He resisted constant entreaties from his mother and four brothers and sisters to return home. He left in the end, he says, because al-Shabaab became deeply divided and turned on itself viciously. Foreign volunteers began to be executed on the orders of the movement's 36-year-old leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr. 

"He began seeing enemies everywhere, people kept getting accused of being spies and that meant no one was safe," said Abdulhamid Daar. "A lot of people have left, a lot have died, but the Shabaab can still keep going. You saw what happened in Nairobi – there will be others in different countries. That is what Abu Zubeyr wants, that's his mission and we used to say he will continue with it until a drone gets him." 

Abdulhamid Daar (not his full name) is one of a growing number of volunteers from abroad who have left the ranks of Somalia's Islamist movement as it goes through this period of internal bloodletting. Since leaving East Africa three months ago he has been in Amsterdam and Rome; he will not go to Britain or the US, in case he ends up "somewhere like Guantanamo". He refuses to say what kind of travel documents he has been using, and indignantly rejects suggestions that he and others like him have been in contact with Western security services...

Wanna bet he's been traveling on a Canadian passport?

"There Children are Sidelining a Dangerous Status Quo"

What pray tell might that be? Why, affixing the label "boy" or "girl" to your child. The person (she's a chick, actually) who penned that deathless line is the parent of Storm. As an infant, Storm and his folks gained some small notoriety when the Toronto Star picked up the story of how the newborn was going to be raised as neither a "he" nor a "she" but as neither, that is, as "gender neutral." Two years on from that initial article, Storm is still being raised in that manner, and his mom, Kathy Witterick, has contributed to a book on the subject of "gender fluid" parenting, which apparently is undergoing something of a groundswell these days. Ms. Witterick, who also has two other kids, writes:

My first two children acquired the words “Dad,” “Dog,” and a few dozen others before any name for me emerged. So it was an unexpected ode to motherhood when I heard Storm intone “Mum” just after a year. My heart felt full. The story becomes more beautiful. At 18 months, Storm had already been saying “Dad” for a few weeks, when one day, I watched with some mixture of amusement and stunned curiosity as Storm addressed David. “Mom, annie urse?” which translates to, “Mom, another nurse.” Storm was asking David to breastfeed!

Without hesitation, he cuddled Storm in a nursing position, and a tiny nose tucked itself into David’s naked breast. With closed eyes, adult and child were lost in a close embrace for two full minutes...

From experiences such as this she concludes

[t]here’s tremendous untapped creative power in children’s diversification of the gender landscape. We’re busy generating new labels (like gender fluid, gender creative or gender independent), organizing task forces and discussing gender non-conformity as if it’s an outbreak. While trained professionals in the 21st century write; “yes, a new pediatric problem is in town,” the real courage of gender-creative children unfolds.  

Gender nonconformity is not a problem to fix. These children are sidelining a dangerous status quo, risking censure to express a diversity that promises to transform the rigid teeter totter of binary gender into a more inclusive, joyful roundabout. Agency and freedom of expression are that important to being human, and gender nonconforming children are sticking up for everyone’s right to both.  

The Search Institute’s developmental assets framework names 40 markers of healthy development in children, including self esteem, integrity, honesty, and personal power. Empirical research suggests that children with those internal assets (and external assets like family support) will be more likely to thrive. 

I watch my nonconformers observe the status quo (what’s outside), acknowledge with confidence personal preferences, thoughts, feelings and interests (what’s inside) and synthesize the two into responsible, self-honouring choices. 

Not always, but enough that I understand that these skills would be useful to all children. It’s novel to see children gather empowerment in a way that doesn’t rely on obtaining it through denying others a fair share.

Nutty as almond bark, no?

Repressive, Misogynistic Cultures Perform Female Genital Mutilation. Decadent, Porno-Wracked Cultures Perform Cosmetic Vajayjay Procedures

Re the former, there's this, this and this. Re the latter, there's this.