Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Shut up, Bill Graham

Bill Graham has criticised the Conservative government's- rather- Prime Minister Harper's quick support of Israel. Mr. Graham would prefer Canada act as an "intermediary" (read: milquetoast with no political clout whatsoever). Mr. Harper feels that Israel's response was appropriate due to Hezbollah's aggression and attacks. Mr. Graham forgets that Israel is constantly under attack from any Arab state and/or Islamic group one cares to mention, that Hezbollah started this and that a man mired in this really shouldn't point fingers or make any pronouncements whatsoever.

Was that low? Maybe. Deserved? Definitely.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

You Must Be Joking

Courage? Not bloody likely.

The Greatest Canadian?

Forget the previous post and do try not to make ubermensch connections with this current one.

Tommy Douglas, so-called progenitor of "universal healthcare" (in actuality, the concept was devised and used in a town in Saskatchewan long before he latched on to it) and dubbed the "greatest Canadian of all time", was a fascist who supported sterilisation of the poor, Catholics and the disabled. Please read here.

I suppose none of this should be a surprise. Trudeau had fascist leanings (long before driving Canada into the ground during the Seventies and early Eighties). Emily Murphy and Nellie McClung, members of the Famous Five, were bigots who advocated racial separation and sterilisation (I guess the Canadian Mint should carefully consider who they put on our money). Marc Garneau, astronaut and former Liberal candidate, also made derogatory remarks about the disabled (what is it with Liberals and fascism?). We brush over this because no one wants to admit that the same man who helped to ruin Canada was Hitler sympathiser or that the women who made Canadian women into "persons" just plain didn't like "dark" people. After all, we're a multicultural society!

At least the Austrians revile Hitler.