Obama Has Now Apologized So Many Times That "Obama Apologizing" Could Become a New Drinking Game

Salim Mansur writes:

In apologizing for the inadvertent burning of the Qur’an by American soldiers, U.S. President Barack Obama has put on display yet again how abjectly craven he is when dealing with the Muslim world.

 Abjectly clueless, too.

"L'chaim!"

How Dalton McGuinty "Fixed" Ontario's "Human Rights" System

He fixed it so that now it doesn't work at all. Not that it has in years. And let's not even talk about the OHRC's "Hallacious" head...

Aren't You Glad We Got Rid of Libya's Bad Guys?

So that the other bad guys could have a chance to rule, I mean:

Tripoli - Libya's Muslim Brotherhood teamed up with other Islamists on Friday to establish a new political party that is set to be a leading player in the country's first elections since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in a Nato-backed uprising.

Islamist and secular parties will vie in June elections for seats in a national assembly that will draft a new constitution for the North African country.

Political analysts say Libya's Muslim Brotherhood is likely to emerge as the most organised political force and a leading player in the oil-exporting country where Islamists, like all dissidents, were harshly suppressed for 42 years...

Update: A Libyan mob has desecrated WWII graves. Our pals the "good" Libyans got their sheets in a knot over a Koran torching in far-off Afghanistan.

Blix Stix His Nose In--Nix to That!

Talk about yer blast from the past. After years of well-deserved obscurity, Hans Blix, ElBaradei's predecessor at the UN's toothless nuclear watchdog, has popped up in, of all places, the Tehran Times. And, boy, the Khomeinists are delighted to use him in their propaganda efforts:

Blix, who was the director general of the agency from 1981 to 1997, stated that the IAEA has been very “cautious about the information they have received about Iran.”

He added that Iran does not have a pressing geopolitical need to develop nuclear weapons and that makes it possible to come to a settlement with the West.

However, this requires a wise approach, something the Western states are failing to employ at the moment, Blix commented.

“They have run the diplomatic path and only sanctions remain,” he said. “We are talking about stopping oil importing and maybe bombing, but I think they have lost their imagination.”

There are still things that can be put on the negotiation table with Iran, but for that a colonial tone should be dropped and more attention should be paid to the reward side, Blix noted.

The U.S. could, for instance, promise resumption of diplomatic ties in exchange for the settlement, he added. 

Good thinking, Hans. I'm sure the Khomeinists would leap at the chance to dump their nukes if they knew it could lead to renewed diplomatic ties WITH GREAT SATAN. 

You Spend 10 Years in Afghanistan and What Do You Get?

You get murdered by "allies" for an injudicious disposal of an already thoroughly defaced Koran, that's what you get. Mark Steyn writes:

The Rumsfeld strategy that toppled the Taliban over a decade ago was brilliant and innovative: special forces on horseback using GPS to call in unmanned drones. They will analyze it in staff colleges around the world for decades. But what we ought to be analyzing instead is the sad, aimless, bloated, arthritic, transnationalized folly of what followed.

 Tarek Fatah adds:

The bottom line is America has wasted a decade, $500 billion US and the lives of 1,800 young soldiers in pursuit of an ill-conceived strategy in Afghanistan, made worse by an apologetic and guilt-ridden Obama.

The next-door Baloch in Pakistani-occupied Balochistan admire the Americans and would welcome their support.

But Obama and George Bush bet the farm on Pakistanis and Afghans, who have run circles around consecutive White House administrations, unable to understand they are hated by those they pay billions to, trying to buy their love.

A love that is destined to go unrequited, America being kafir and all.

Exactly How Dangerous is Globe & Mail Opiner Gerald Caplan's Harper Derangement Syndrome?

Very dangeous indeed, since the poor man is so filled with hate and rage for the "dangerous" prime minister that he may well spontaneously combust.

Palestine House's Ever-Changing "Details" Change Again

The google gremlins have been hard at work again, altering the "Details" that turn up during a Palestine House search. Today they read:

At a glance: palestinian people - israeli occupation - israeli apartheid - globe and mail - canadian government

Some "details" you'll never see "at a glance," of course: eliminationists - Zionhass - one state solution - jihad - Grand Mufti Jerusalem - kenney kicked its butt

If It's an "Apartheid" State, Why Do Minorities Who'd Be Victimized By that Policy Keep Trying to Get In Instead of Out?

Good question. I don't suppose it will be examined (at least not in an honest way) at any of the august academic institutions that will play host to this year's annual campus Zionhass fiesta.



Update: More non-fodder for campus IAW creeps--Israel wants to provide humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees.

What's the Deal With "Carbon Footprint" Indoctrination in Art Class?

To update you on what my kid is being hit over the head with learning in what is laughingly termed an "art" class: today the regular teacher was away and the substitute showed the class this video:

My kid had the audacity to pipe up that he thinks this "carbon footprint" stuff is a bunch of nonsense, an opinion the supply teacher was not prepared to entertain in any way whatsoever. In fact, she told him to keep his opinions on the subject to himself (rather the antithesis of education, no?).

You'll notice that at one point in this cartoon (whose message is that all was going swingingly on Earth, carbon-wise, until man had to show up and wreck everything) the screen goes black. That's when my son's best friend, who is something of a wisenheimer too, said, "What, you mean we're not going to have a sun?"

What insolence!

Here's my question: is it too much to ask that an art class be devoted to, well, actual ART? Da Vinci. Rembrandt. Goya. Matisse. Great works of art, and the artists who created them. How to become visually literate; to look at and appreciate these creations, and, yes, maybe even learn to love them.

How wonderful it would be to receive that sort of education instead of being forced to endure this David Suzuki-esque bollocks that has absolutely nothing to do with art. However, this being the domain of Dalton McGuinty, the greenest (and arguably the dimmest) premier in the land, I guess that's expecting way too much.

Taking On Harvard's Odious Eliminationist Conference

Andrea Levin does so here; Alan Dershowitz does so here.

There's No Getting Away From It--The Lorax Is an Eco-Snore-ax

Jenny Punter--a near-perfect last name for a Globe and Mail scribbler--reviews the movie version of Dr. Seuss's preachy eco-screed for impressionable moppets--in verse. Here's a sample:

For a Hollywood feature, mildly taking a stand,
Dr. Seuss's main story just had to expand.
So it's puffed up with lots of extraneous stuff--
Super fun for the kids but for grown ups? Just fluff.
(Already Lou Dobbs has made quite a kerfuffle,
its liberal "agenda" the Fox host wants to muffle,
claiming the film aims to brainwash our kids,
as they snorffle down popcorn and soda with lids.

Sorry, Jenny. As the mom of a kid who has been bombarded with eco-crapola without end, and who is being forced to make an actual facsmile of his carbon footprint in his art class, I have to side with the Fox host on this one:

I adore those Seuss books about Grinches and Horton,
But when it comes to the Lorax
I can't help but start snortin'.
He piles on the message so thick and unsubtle
That it's practically impossible to launch a rebuttal.
The Lorax--he's sort of a Seussian Al Gore,
Only shorter, hairier and even more of a bore.
He's cute as the dickens with his eco-tirades
About how mankind, well, sucks
Since the world it degrades.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, it's merely another--albeit a cuter--
Form of eco-indoctrination.
And all things considered, I wish educators
Would eschew the eco-hysterics
And stick with genuine education.



Update: From the review in People Magazine:

But as this is one of Doc's more political stories (it could even be called anti-capitalist), you may want to talk to kids about the issues it raises.

Indeed. And the issue I'd be inclined to talk about is Doc's disturbing anti-capitalism (what--does he think Marxist-Leninism is better?) that--you should pardon the pun--animates this twee bit of eco-kiddie porn.