Bud Talkinghorn: UN Gag Order, Walkerton Trial-How Canadian! Politically Correct Canadians of the Year. CBC Christmas Classic -- Christmas Greetings

Bud sends his wishes that everyone have a safe holiday, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Update:

Dec. 21, 04, on Frost Hits the Rhubarb, I mentioned this book, The Cons And The Pros , a Christmas gift idea. Here is a source for it; it is not listed on Amazon. Information on how to order came from the site of Peter Warren, Investigative Journalist.

"The Cons And The Pros," by Willie Gibbs, former chairman, National Parole Board -- Note that you order from: 1.800.859.7474

Babble: The Friendly Dictator, source of the quotation below -- and more commentary

A prime minister [Jean Chretien] who throws his weight around on behalf of his troubled son may be a good father, but he is not being a good prime minister. [. . . . ]

It was Greg Weston, Dec. 9, 04, Sun Ottawa, who mentioned the book. Check his article, 'Disgusted' by Chretien




The UN issues a gag order

This week the UN Commission on Human Rights declaration, authored partly by the usual Thug States, failed to pass Canada's condemnation of Iran. A Ms. Weschler of Human Rights Watch condemned the failure as typical. All the serious human rights abusers on the commission have decided, apparently, that they will always cover up each others' atrocities. This time they went further, by using some bureaucratic bafflegab, so as not even to mention Iran. Ms. Weschler stated that Iran's human rights record keeps getting blacker by the year--think of those poor young girls who were lynched. One, because she dared defy the local mullah and another because she was a prostitute, but one who had been forced into it by her mother at age 11. Wouldn't Robert Picton be a saint over there? The butcheries that followed Khomeini's theocratic takeover, the sending of children into suicide missions during the Iraq-Iran war, and the destruction of the Ba'hai's temples and their livelihoods, should have had them condemned decades ago. This sort of thing always has me wondering what in h*** the multilateralists think they can achieve with this group of brigands. There is another Rwanda staring them in the face and they are doing nothing but talk. Surely, down the line of corpses, there will be a UN Human Rights condemnation of Sudan over Darfur? Don't expect too much though, because the Thug States will be on the panel.

© Bud Talkinghorn




The Walkerton Trial -- How Canadian!

The sentences in the Stan and Frank Koebel trial were a farce. Stan received a one year jail sentence for his part in the poisoned water epidemic, while brother Frank got nine months of house arrest--where he will probably remain in an alcoholic stupor, like he did when he was supposedly working. Stan's lawyer gave a long press interview after. He was "disappointed" at the jail time. Stan was a "man of great spirituality". Gee! I thought you had to be a serial murderer, facing a death sentence before you could pull the "I have found God" schtick. Save the religious conversion for the parole board that will let Stan out in seven months -- or less. Oh, yes, you will be pleased to know that Stan's lawyer believes that he "holds no anger towards anyone." Well, the same can't be said for millions of Canadians. Sorry Stan, but we still are furious with you and your drunken brother. Just hope that your cellmates are not from Walkerton.

© Bud Talkinghorn




The politically correct Canadians of the year

Wow! I guess we are becomng really wimpy, at least according to the liberal media. They have picked the ultimate symbols of victimology. First up, for Time Magazine's Canadian version is Maher Arar--a possible al-Queda operative--known to associate with other known al-Queda suspects. If it walks like duck and quaks like a duck, then . . . . The review I read on the article was that that Time also managed to get in a lot of anti-American rhetoric as well. [Did our government intervene here to make certain there was 'Canadian content'? Bah! NJC]

Next up, we have McLeans magazine. They picked the wheelchair champ from Quebec. I am sure that her victories are great examples of fortitude and natural talent, but please, she is not the major mover of Canadian society.

Forget my partisanship, but what about Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay, who forged an incredible alliance to challenge seriously the corrupt Liberal government?. I would have been able to swallow even Jack Layton over the two picked. Breakthroughs in medicine, anything that benefitted most Canadians should be the criteria used. I was going to look up this disabled lass's name, but I realize that not one in 100,000 can remember her name either.

What is going on here? How can the media be so misguided? They must have donned their 'victimology cloaks' before they voted. We are in sad, sad shape if these people are our greatest contributions to the world.

The leftist media has abandoned any pretense at objectivity. As CBC quadri-runs all their left-leaning programs, the drumbeat of socialist pap grows ever louder. They seem to have committed to memory Josef Goebbel's dictum: "Tell a big lie, and tell it often." Pitiful really.

© Bud Talkinghorn


PS: You must catch what only CBC would call "a holiday classic". It is "One Magic Christmas", a movie or made-for-TV movie, which blends Christian angels with Santa Clause (today the true patron of the festivities). Santa not only brings the kids gifts, but Santa has now been given holy attributes, and can raise the dead. A complete basphemy, I feel--and I am not even a practicing Christian. When will CBC show Ramadan and Hanukkah merging Santa Clause with their holiest ceremonies? Don't you just love the new Christmas spirit?

Bud Talkinghorn