A few items

These are a few of the items which drew my attention:

I am going through severe withdrawal symptoms at not having my paper copy of the National Post each morning. Online doesn't cut it unless you have a laptop for your favourite armchair, along with morning coffee.

Andrew Coyne: We've created a monster -- on the PM and the media Apr. 19, 06

Didn't we just go through an election in which the Conservative leader was loudly praised for riding herd on his sometimes restive caucus, ruthlessly suppressing those who went "off message" on such touchy subjects as abortion? And who was it leading the hosannas? The media, that's who. Even as we were chattering happily about the need for more free votes and a relaxation of Canada's stifling system of party discipline, we were rewarding those who practiced the opposite. Indeed, that's what we always do.

Can we blame them for taking the hint? Every time somebody actually speaks their mind in politics, we come down on them like a ton of bricks, shrieking "divisions" and "disarray." Eventually they get the message.

John Lawrence: Have we forsaken our daughters? Apr. 18, 06, Canada Free Press

Parents should be interested in this. Probably because of this article, I tried to find the following article which I had referenced last year and it is no longer available, except as cached by Google. For those interested, it is worth noting.

Homosexual ‘Marriage’ a Health Risk Doctors Warn Parliamentarians Apr. 19, 06 -- Scroll down for it.

OTTAWA, February 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of physicians has presented to Canadian Parliamentarians scientific evidence that Homosexual marriage is a health risk to Canadians. The heavily referenced brief titled "Gay Marriage and Homosexuality, Some Medical Comments" warns that the new law will result in the further normalization of Homosexual sex which has already resulted in severe health risks and related costs to care for and treat persons affected by risky sexual behaviour.

The document, signed by doctors in different disciplines from family medicine, dermatology and neurology, warns that anal sex as practiced by most gay men, has a large number of diseases associated with it, “many of which are rare or even unknown in the heterosexual population” such as: anal cancer, Chlamydia trachomatis, Cryptosporidium, Giardia lamblia, Herpes simplex virus, HIV, Human papilloma virus, Isospora belli, Microsporidia, Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and C and others. [....]

Think of the wonderful array of diseases to which our "anything goes" society would expose our children ... under the guise of sexual freedom.



NICHOLAS KOHLER AND BARBARA RIGHTON: Overeaters, smokers and drinkers: the doctor won't see you now -- Health care is meant to be open to everyone equally. But some doctors question, even deny, treatment to those with certain vices. April 18, 2006, Macleans

Once government gets involved ..... You knew it was coming, didn't you? Some lifestyles get punished, some don't. Some are even a right according to some people, and of course, the taxpayer-funded news organ.


The Federal Initiative to address HIV/AIDS in Canada: Canada's Report on HIV/AIDS 2004

[....] Canada's Epidemic is Growing and Changing

In Canada, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow despite the efforts of governments, community-based organizations, national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the health care sector, researchers and a legion of committed and dedicated volunteers across the country.

The Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (CIDPC) estimates that 56 000 people in Canada were living with HIV infection at the end of 2002 - a 12 per cent increase from previous estimates in 1999. [3] Men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be the most affected group, accounting for an estimated 58 per cent of all infections. [....]



Nathan Tabor: What is the Best Way to Prevent Abortions? May 26, 2005 -- a year old but still worth reading in its entirety.

Many sexually promiscuous teens become depressed, and some either attempt or commit suicide. Why? Well, according to Dr. Armand Nicholi of Harvard Medical School, our contemporary acceptance of casual sex "has often led to empty relationships, feelings of self-contempt and worthlessness," instead of the liberation, fulfillment and happiness implied by the suggestive Abercrombie and Fitch ads targeting teens.

Funny, you’d never guess that’s true from watching all those slick ads that glorify sex, like the new pornographic Paris Hilton commercial for Hardee’s hamburgers. Hollywood movies, TV sitcoms, and glossy magazines . . . everything in our popular culture screams SEX — JUST DO IT! Why not? Everybody else is. [....]

Because you just might get an incurable disease? -- herpes? -- feel like crap because you've been treated as something with little self-respect? ..... Fill in your own blanks. We are complex human beings who need something more than that.

We must help to protect our children. Canada needs parents with time to talk with their children and who will be home and looking out for their children and teens. Is it time to pay a salary to a mother or father, one of whom would be willing to stay at home and actually parent? I think so.

Coming to a river near you

Drugs don't affect you? Think again.

The Thames: awash with cocaine -- "after cocaine had passed through users' bodies and sewage treatment plants, an estimated 2kg - 80,000 lines - of the drug went into the river each day." By Nina Goswami and James Orr, (Filed: 06/11/2005)

I am concerned about the proliferation of drugs in Canada and particularly about how many of our children try drugs and have no idea of their provenance -- and how they are cut with cleansing products, etc. so drug dealers may make more money.



Joe Warmington: This ciry's a dump and smells like one -- on Toronto, counting the homeless and what they have wrought Apr. 18, 06

Interestingly enough, apparently, reporters are not to be around photographing as the homeless are counted -- privacy concerns. Now, isn't that ironic?




Muslim newspaper to launch in 4 cities -- in Canada -- Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal from a Muslim perspective -- just what Canada needs.

Related: Islamist Fifth Column in Canada's Foreign Affairs? -- from Canadian Coalition for Democracies
-- follow the complete thread including the commentary after this: Re: Daniel Pipes on Muslim Working Group in Cndn FA

Time to fight fire with fire Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, April 17, 2006

Western Europe is rolling over in total submission at every level of society in order to pander to Islamist coercion, Muslim votes and Arab money.

Muslim Brotherhood Children's Website: America Aspires to Control the Muslim World – & Our Role is to Prepare Ourselves for Jihad Against the Enemies of Allah; Murdering Children is Part of Judaism MEMRI via newsbeat1

One example: "Did you know that the corruption and deviance widespread in the world today are the result of activity and planning by the Jews, who are interested in leading people astray, away from the path of Allah?"



Heather MacDonald:
Postmodern “Rights” en Los Estados Unidos -- “I am here,” so deal with it. April 17, 2006

It is easy to understand why the multicultural lobby, with its antagonism to American identity, is pushing so hard for illegal-alien rights. It is less easy to understand why many conservatives, who otherwise stand for unfettered American sovereignty in all matters international, are so eager to dissolve not just our immigration laws but the principle of lawmaking behind them. They may soon discover that a postmodern conception of rights leads to a postmodern conception of nationhood.

Senator Jeff Sessions: Don’t Pass Just Anything -- The Senate immigration “compromise” won’t do. via newsbeat1, April 18, 2006.

When the U.S. Senate returns later this month from spring recess, it will get a second chance to pass meaningful immigration reform. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) has promised to hold new hearings and report out a revised bill by May 4. The committee's starting point will be the so-called Hagel-Martinez "compromise" bill that failed to pass the Senate earlier this month.

That bill, however, is fatally flawed, and I would like to point out several reasons why the committee should either rewrite it substantially or start from a clean slate. Among the problems with the compromise proposal: [....]

Worth reading: for example, "The bill reverses current law and allows illegal aliens to be eligible for in-state tuition rates, and compete with U.S. citizens and legal residents for Stafford loans, and other types of federal financial aid, such as work study."

So much for any advantage to citizenship, it seems.


CFP: Immigration, border security -- various articles including: Signs of the times John Burtis, April 17, 2006

The Intimidation of America Barry Zell, April 16, 2006

Global Commission on International Migration -- The United Nations and US Immigration Policy -- "Self-righteous globalists preach that no human being is illegal." Joseph Klein, April 11, 2006

A New York-based global technology attorney for more than 30 years, Joseph Klein is the author of Global Deception.

Growing disparities in standards of living are driving workers from the world’s poorest countries to cross national borders in search of better opportunities. The United States is not alone among the developed countries in having to deal with the consequences [....]

The Joys of Belonging to the EU?

Farmland 'must go back to the Middle Ages' By Charles Clover, Environment Editor, (Filed: 18/04/2006) via Jack's Newswatch

Half the arable farmland in the east of the country must be converted to grass within six years to avoid huge fines for pollution from the European Court, the Government has been warned.

Researchers have concluded that the land must go back to what it was in the Middle Ages if new EU rules on reducing nitrate pollution in water are not to be breached. [....]

William Gairdner: Cons, So-Cons, and Fis-Cons -- and commentary from Stephen Gray below his article Western Standard, April 18, 06 -- Gray's Info:



Accountability

Accountability act would infringe on rights Darcey on April 18, 2006 in Aboriginal Issues

I knew this was coming:

The proposed federal accountability act will infringe on native rights, an Alberta aboriginal leader says.[....]

Don't miss the comments: e.g. from jema54j and from Justzumgai who commented:

[....] There is no possible way to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. Welfare still harms the recipient and the "donor", and it does not become fair and it certainly won't become effective no matter how many auditors you pay to check the books.

And aboriginal policy is only the most blatant example of this. Go right down the list of every single major spending program and the same rules apply. Ripping tax money out of the hands of the owner of a profitable hotel and putting it into the hands of the owner of an unprofitable hotel is still a ripoff, even if auditors ensure that the recipient is not a friend of the prime minister, or a thief, or an arsonist. And so on for government "insurance" all kinds (employment, crops, pensions ...), crown corporations, health, education, immigration, culture ...

Canada is really just a big Indian reservation, and the inhabitants have been sniffing socialist glue for so long that they don't even know it.

I couldn't have said it better. Bang on!