Justin Trudeau's Sad and Feckless "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu"

Want to get to the crux of the "real" Justin Trudeau? What makes him tick? Why he is the way he is?

You might think that he's trying to fill the shoes of his papa Pierre, the man who, for reasons that now seem silly and rather bizarre, made the country swoon such that Canadians allowed him to refashion their land into the multiculti Trudeaupia it is today. But, as Jonathan Kay, ghost-writer of young Justin's memoirs informs us in a piece that appeared in yesterday's National Post under the headline "The Trudeau I Know" (you can find the piece online at The Walrus, which Kay edits, under a slightly different title), the Liberal leader is in fact animated by his mother's abandonment.

As Kay tells the story, following his parents' split, little Justin used to wait at the top of stairs for his flaky mom's visits, which never came. And it seems he's still waiting:

You can find the real Justin right there, at the top of those stairs, playing his record player. He’s someone who desperately wants to do the right thing. Who believes that what he does and says can set things right; that he can heal people and relationships; that he can make people like him and—a sad fantasy for many children of divorce—one another.

Yikes. It's like Barack Obama all over again, only this time it's Dreams From My Mother.

Don't you wish these abandoned ones would work out their issues in therapy instead of imposing them on the populace? I know I do. And here's the letter I wrote the Post (it's in today's paper) wherein I say as much:

The real Trudeau

Re: The Trudeau I Know, Jonathan Kay, Oct. 5. 

It is immaterial to me whether or not Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau received enough hugs from his mom when he was but a sprout. The Trudeau I know would send our national debt skyrocketing into the stratosphere Barack Obama-style, and would swiftly frog-march Canada back into step with the United Nations’ all-consuming negative focus on Israel. 

As for the prospect of Trudeau going mano-a-mano with the Vladimir Putins of the world: sorry, but that would look a lot like Bambi versus Godzilla. And I can guarantee he isn’t going to garner much affection — or, for that matter, respect — in that arena.

A Preview of Coming Revisions: Robert Redford Whitewashes "Rathergate"

Redford, who portrays the Bush Derangement Syndrome-sufferer who sabotaged his own storied career, has the chutzpah to call the farrago Truth.

Prevarication, more like.

Dhimmitude In Action: The Feds Make Sure to Euphemize "Jihad" When Dialoguing With Easily-Offended Muslims

As of this past April, Canada's security establishment has met with around 500 young Muslims in groups of 100 at a time. And, all in all, it's been mighty friendly, not the least because that provocative "j" word has been banished/censored/kept under wraps:

Gurski says one of the most important things about working with Muslim communities is avoiding the word “jihad.” 

“Rather than using terminology that’s bound to offend — and we’re probably going to get wrong anyway — why don’t we use terminology that we can all agree on?” 

Gurski says his former colleagues prefer terms like “al-Qaida-inspired radicalization” and “violent extremism.” He says government employees are motivated by logistics, not political correctness. 

“You’re not mislabelling it; they’re calling it for what it is. You’re simply using terminology that’s not going to get you behind the 8-ball after the first few sentences when you get there.”...

I dunno. "Al-Qaida-inspired radicalization" and "violent extremism" could also land you behind the 8-ball.

To be super-safe, I suggest the security wonks employ something with even less potential to offend--"expressions of hostility fueled by an unknown/unidentified source" or "violent acts committed by Muslims that are completely unrelated to Islam," say.

Also, I would ix-nay any mention of those 72 irgins-vay (along with any use of offensive Pig Latin).

Seven Years of Obama: From Hopeychange to Total Derangement

Or, put another way, from Kumbaya to chaos.

Mahmoud of La Mancha Sings His Showstopper

The man with the lavender tie and the quixotic quest to redraw the map sans a viable Israel sings his heart out:

To dream the impossible dream.
To whup the unwhupable foe.
To rid that unriddable Jewry.
To rant with intense bra-va-do.

To grasp the ungraspable keys.

To o'en the uno'enable doors.

To rid Al Quds of "filth" and garbage.

To win the unwinnable wars.

This is my quest: to launch "Palestine."
No matter how hopeless, the cause is divine.
To fight for our "rights" even though it's jihad.

To persuade the whole world it's the Jews who are bad.

And I know if I'll only hang tough and not waver or turn

That I'll get everything that I want and have money to burn.

And the world will applaud what I do

And throw Jews 'neath the bus one more time

And betray the Israeli who's glaring...

To seethe and create Palestine!

Live From New York It's...Yet Another Attempt to Make Prickly Hillary Seem Warm 'n' Fuzzy

I was catching my zzzz's when it aired, but apparently the skit where guest host Hillary played a bartender named Val ("Clinton, the amateur, delivered her lines cleanly and with a straight face and good timing," gushes the WaPo TV blogger) and Kate McKinnon played an adorable barfly named Hillary Clinton was a highlight:

The third topic that was covered was unstated and overarching: that Clinton is approachable and appealing. That’s the whole point of the thing, of course, the point of her appearing on live television at midnight (with the full understanding that the critical audience will watch it streaming the next day).  But the bit couldn't help but point it out explicitly, as when McKinnon-as-Clinton told Clinton-as-Val that she was “easy to talk to,” prompting Clinton-as-Val to say, “That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that.”

The conceit of the bit — which, you’ve seen by now, I assume — is that McKinnon-as-Clinton is only imagining the conversation with Clinton-as-Val. Cecily Strong, playing Huma Abedin, enters after a brief (bad) song interlude to point out that there is no “Val.” “No,” McKinnon replies. “She was real. And smart, and really nice in person.”

The most important point to make here, though, is probably that this appearance will be included for years in reminiscences of the 2016 election. But by itself, it will not tilt the scales in one direction or the other. If you see someone say to you, Wow, that Hillary appearance probably really helped/hurt her, you have my permission to report them to the authorities. 

Au contraire. The most important point to make here is that NBC and SNL are in the tank for Hillary, and so is the gushing WaPo TV hound. Try getting an unscripted Clinton to come clean about, say, her Benghazi misadventure or her unclassified/classified emails or her husband's sketchy fundraising and you'll see how "nice" and "easy to talk to" she really is.

Update: From Politico:

The skit made no mention of the email scandal that has been damaging Clinton’s campaign so far. Nor did it deal with her main rival for the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, or Vice President Joe Biden’s potential entry into the race. Instead, the appearance handed Clinton an opportunity to be self-deprecating, winking at her own stiffness and acknowledging some of her own weaknesses in a manner that seemed to score her points with the audience.

Hillary? Self-deprecating? Now, that really does take talent.

Update: My favorite funny Hillary moment so far was when, asked whether she had deliberately wiped clean her email server she suddenly went all blonde and, Marcel Marceau-ing a circular wiping motion, said, "What? Like with a cloth?"

Oscar-worthy, was that one.

Jason Kenney's Wrongheadedness Re the Niqab

Jason Kenney, who should really know better, has this to say about the meaning of the niqab:

"I think it's completely wrong-headed to associate the niqab with Islam," Kenney said. 

"The niqab reflects a medieval tribal custom that reflects a misogynistic view of women."

Er, didn't Islam gets its start in medieval times among tribes on the Arabian subcontinent, and isn't a chick's lowly status enshrined in Islam's foundational texts as well as in the sharia, Islam's inherently misogynistic set of laws?

Also, as the Ceeb's Terry Milewski points out,

Kenney is correct that the vast majority of Muslim women, in Canada and worldwide, do not wear a veil and do not see it as a religious requirement. On the other hand, it just happens that those who wear it tend to be Muslims.

So it appears that, all things considered, the niqab does have something to do with Islam.

Sounds to me like Kenney is trying--and failing--to split hairs in the manner of those who insist on a distinction between "Islam" and "Islamism."

Lawyer Edney's Gitmo Gobbledygook

This one sounds like a must-miss (hat tip: MW):

Join us for a night with Dennis Edney to learn about one of the defining civil liberties cases of our generation on October 4th in room 2050 of the Social Science building in Western University. Dennis Edney is a defence lawyer and has represented Omar Khadr for over 11 years. He remains by the side of Omar Khadr until this day, unwavering in his dedication to truth and justice. He and his family have dedicated a significant portion of their lives to Omar Khadr's case, which is one of the defining cases of our life time. Omar Khadr now lives with Dennis and his wife in Edmonton

One of the defining civil liberties cases of our generation, you say?

Sorry, Dennis. Your client, a member of Canada's most infamous jihad-minded family, ain't no Rosa Parks.

The Canadian Election As Seen by Russian Gov't News Source Sputnik

Usually the Ruskies manage to ignore us Canucks, but the anti-Putin rhetoric of our three political party leaders seems to have tickled Sputnik's antenna:

Sputnik wrote a long piece looking at the three-way debate on Canada's foreign policy held on Sept. 29, where all three party leaders vowed to keep up the pressure on the Kremlin. 

"It doesn't seem that the icy relationship between the two northern neighbors will thaw any time soon, regardless of who wins the parliamentary elections next month," Sputnik's coverage of the debate concludes. 

The story picks up on the fact that when Justin Trudeau, leader of the centrist Liberal Party — and scion of former prime minister Pierre-Elliott Trudeau — answered a question about sitting face-to-face with the Russian president, the audience broke out in laughter...

The laughter erupted because everyone knew that young Justin facing off with Putin would look something like this.

Could ISIS Plant Its Black Flags In Europe?

You betcha. ISIS members have the will, the resources and all the time in the world to get the job done.

And what do we have to defend ourselves from the onslaught? Well, according to the above link, we shouldn't even consider putting our filthy infidel boots on the ground because,

As we saw in Iraq, putting boots on the ground in a Muslim country only incites people to join ISIS. We have to be involved in the intelligence game, use airpower and diplomacy to rally our sometimes-reluctant allies into doing more.

Intelligence; airpower; diplomacy: yeah, that should do it.

That and our "empathy" for fleeing "refugees" (only a small number of whom are likely to be hot for ISIS/jihad).

The Jewish version of this "empathy"/humanitarianism is known as "tikkun olam" (which in our time, as I've come to realize, is Hebrew for "sh*t for brains").

And since we're on the topic of Syrian refugees, it's a good thing Syria's Jews were rescued some years ago, because had they remained, by now they'd all be dead.

Displaying Its Flagrant Anti-Israel Bias, the NYT Accuses Israel of Taking Advantage of Syria's Weakened Condition

The headline reads: As Syria Reels, Israel Looks to Expand Settlement in Golan Heights.

Two things to say here. First, can you imagine the dire straits Israel would be in had the Golan remained in Syrian hands?

Second: It's a good thing Israel does control the high ground, because ISIS would love to take it off the Jews' hands--for good.