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Our Ann Coulter is in port, as usual, in her weekly column here at PTBC. She not happy with President Bush again, re the ports, and that can’t be good. But she still has lots of stuff left for the “Treason Times”. So that’s good.
Two days after the Times editorial page justified its decision not to reprint the cartoons as “a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words,” the Times ran a photo of the Virgin Mary covered in cutouts from pornographic magazines and cow dung—which I seem to have just described using a handful of common words! Gee, that was easy!
Cinnamon Stillwell writes out something of a warning—to them and us—about what they’re thinking about in Israel. Originally published in the Arutz Sheva – Israel National News, I found it very interesting reading as always. What a mind!
Late last year, the Knesset signed a new bill into law that somehow manages to approve euthanasia according to Jewish law. While it is forbidden for a person to take another’s life under Jewish law, having a machine do it for you has apparently been deemed kosher. As a parliamentary spokesman put it, “The point was that it is wrong, under Jewish law, for a person’s life to be taken by a person but, for a machine, it is acceptable.”
The machine in question is a special timer attached to patients’ respirators. After 12 hours it sounds an alarm and then at the end of a 24-hour cycle, it turns off the respirator. The alarm would normally be overridden unless certain conditions are met, such as the consent of the (over 17) patient or legal guardian. The patient or guardian can request an extension at any time and living wills are to be kept on file at all hospitals.
Barbara Kay writes beautifully as always today, in her column which is available only here (!)… unless you’re a paid subscriber to the National Post.
Levant spoke of hiring protection against physical assault. He threw it out in a casual aside (“You get security … you deal with it”), and in Europe or the Middle East it wouldn’t cause a ripple of reflection. But for me it was a defining Canadian moment. To paraphrase an ignominious Liberal campaign ad: “A magazine publisher feels he needs security against possible acts of Muslim revenge for re-publishing political cartoons. Fear of violence by fellow citizens against his person. For exercising free speech. In Canada. I am not making this up.”
Ironically, while the original military ad I have just mocked quite rightly provoked a national chorus of indignation for its hyperbolic and baseless fear-mongering, I doubt my little parody will arouse righteous anger or laughter or anything but introspection, at least amongst media professionals. A physical coward myself, Ezra’s remark made me conscious of the fact that I tend to avoid commenting on any news story with Islamic “hot buttons” at its core—and when I do, as follows, I weigh and scrutinize every word and nuance of tone in a way I don’t when critiquing, say, feminists or Liberals. From a Western point of view, this is not a great compliment to Islam’s modern reputation, but there it is.
A surprise GUEST entry from a Trudeau-era Liberal today with a hat tip to reader Ross M. who made the connection for us. Senator Colin Kenny graces us with an article today after an email exchange with him, in which he reinforces Prime Minister Harper’s campaign promise to beef up law and order in this country and hire more RCMP officers. The Senator is on side, with details. Thanks, Senator!
For some time now the RCMP have been starved of resources. Inadequate funding has meant that the force has only been able to play a fringe role at our ports and on our borders. You may find the following numbers shocking—I do: The RCMP’s resources are so limited that they currently dedicate fewer than 30 officers permanently to monitor and investigate organized crime at ports across the country, fewer than 100 at all Canadian airports, and fewer than 150 to Integrated Border Enforcement Teams—the key units monitoring crime and national security investigations along the whole of the Canada-U.S. border.
These miniscule numbers give new meaning to the words “spread thinly.”
Charles Adler exposes his inner libertarian today as he sort of reviews a book written by a different kind of conservative. Hard to explain, so you best read it! Here’s a snippet:
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Now to be fair to Mr. Dreher, he doesn’t say he wants the state to lord it over the citizenry. But he is asking his people to turn down the Costco and turn up the Christ. He is asking people to leash Tony the Tiger and choose crunchy granola instead. And now you know why the booked is called Crunchy Cons.
The latter day Conservative Cap’n Crunch wants people to open their hearts and heads to the simpler things, like mom and pop stores and family farms. He also implores us to submit to a larger thing known as God. At the moment he doesn’t call for government coercing people to go to these small and large things.
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