Hully Gee! Who 'sploded de owl so it look like a Hamas flag!?!!!

Oh, wow! My first-ever hat tip!!!

My life is complete. Thank you, Charles.

Uh-oh, 'truth' is going to be upset. Now I love my life even more than I did a few minutes ago.

But if you watch the streaming video on this page at CBC News, you’ll see his family home in Gaza—with a Hamas flag painted next to the front door.

LMAO!

"No, no, we aren't Nazis."

"Could you tell us why you have a portrait of Adolf Hitler on the wall?"

"Oh that old thing..."

#3:

"Umm, it was here when we moved in. We're renters, you know..."

Perhaps the IDF interrogators got to Foreign Affairs Minister Graham...

I know, Debka, unreliable, blah, blah, blah. But this is disturbing:

DEBKAfile’s Political Sources: Sharon is behind every detail of Olmert’s broad package of concessions to Palestinians. In Friday interview, Israeli Dep. PM Olmert proposed Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from most of West Bank, Gaza Strip and parts of Jerusalem ceding them to future Palestinian state.

DEBKAfile’s sources: Olmert spelled out Sharon’s “unilateral steps” hints. He described those steps as leaving Israel with “roadmap minus”, granting “roadmap plus” to Palestinians - with Israel making all the running.

Maybe Israel threaten to turn the guy loose.

This is the same Canada that allowed its citizens to be held and tortured in a Saudi prison on a trumped up charge and not once called the Saudi ambassador on the carpet, publicly or privately. 'Scuse me while I go hurl.

Nobody is going to be rebuked. The ambassador should shut up while this thing is in the Israeli courts, if he's charged there will be a trial after which all the politicians can chat their heads off.

#5 ESTEBAN

Perhaps the IDF interrogators got to Foreign Affairs Minister Graham...

Or they had some 'dirt' on certain Canadian politicians.

OT: We're only down by 6 in the bottom of the first inning.

Kottke cannot stuff the box 24-7, but we can!

Slightly OT but...maybe the Jews in France are waking up.

Die, dirty Jew

#10 Mojo Jojo

We know Hamas has opened a front in Canada; perhaps a business card of Mr. Graham's fell out of his pocket when he was arrested...

OT, LGF has passed kottke, 2179 to 2172. Keep it up people!

#8 grayp

Good job; how soon we forget!
(Some of us anyway.)

#6 Colt 12/6/2003 06:09PM PST

I know, Debka, unreliable, blah, blah, blah. But this is disturbing:

At the risk of being redundant, I would recommend to check out their weekly email newsletter. That's where the real suff is. The free material on the web page is of a different caliber.

Julio

, Graham backed away from the idea that Divon will be scolded. "I'm sorry if there has been the impression"

What impression? There it is in black and white you lying bastard.

I live in ottawa. I know what is happening here, and I have seen the infiltration of these terrorists.

Our government is playing a balancing act of trying to appease lefties and the murdering bastard terrorists and trying not to look to cowardly in front of the world.

Doing the right thing and morality have little to do with this country.

I am staying in this Country. They have slapped me across the cheek. I turn my head and offer the other.

You can't scare me.

Reynald Dorion indeed! Have you ever noticed that all the spokespeople for the Canadian Government are French Canadians. Less than 20% of the population seems to hold 120% of top non-elected government positions.
The reason? Quebec churns out graduates with useless poli-sci degrees who can't get jobs in their own province and they gravitate to Ottawa - chanceux d'avoir une position avec le gouvernement federal - on pourrait gagner six chiffres sans savoir rien - we're lucky to have a six figure salary federal government job in spite of the fact that we know nothing, speak English like the cretin and are usually catastrophically boring and ugly as sin.
Those are the creeps running the anti-American, pro-Islamic show. The vast majority of Canadians are as fed up with the situation as most LGF posters.

Question concerning the Wizbang voting: I voted there last night, and now when I go to it says I've already voted and can't do so again, but I thought I was allowed to vote every 12 hours. Is there a way I can fix this?
Thanks!

I much prefer this Bill Graham, legendary concert producer. And check out his old friend Carlos Santana as Ambassador of Light. Gives one hope.

#19 Millie Woods:

I don't understand. Are these unelected people appointed or just career criminals - um, bureaucrats? If they're appointed by elected officials, it seems to me you've got some leverage.

I spent a week in Vancouver a few years ago - physically beautiful, mentally on life support. The media were insipid, the art literally did not reach beyond the totemic. The most provocative street life I saw was the druggie area around, I think it was called the "Gas Town" area.

I certainly don't mean to imply that after a week in one city, I know Canada, but I will state without reservation that what I did see was not encouraging.

#19 MIllie
The reason why there are so many French Canadians in th civil service is because one must be bilingual to be hired, and most people outside of Quebec don't learn French.

Canada is sooo disgustingly spineless.

We pride ourselves on being innofensive to everyone.

Bill Graham is an overt homosexual. He refuses to acknowledge that homosexuals in islam are to be sawn in half while alive.

The minister is a disgrace to this country.

I am ashamed to be a Canadian.

Damn those Liberals. Making me ashamed of my own country.

Fuckers.

Gray P - they're mostly appointed. The late Pierre Pelardeau who made a pile of money in the newsprint and newspaper business - we used to call him pellicule which is French for dandruff - once made an infamous anti-semitic comment that Jews have too much influence in society relative to their numbers. Well frankly, French Canadians have too much influence in Ottawa relative to their numbers in Canada. Pellicule also scolded Anglo-Quebeckers like me that we had to learn to behave like a minority. It's time for French Canadians perhaps to follow his advice and butt out of the rest of Canada where they are a very, very minor minority. What's sauce for the goose.

They're not going to admit it but I think there was a storm of protest. I know I emailed everyone in the government including the new PM-in-waiting Paul Martin and said that not only did I not want this little Hamas creep coming back into my country but I wanted the one from Guantanamo repatriated to his former country a well.

Bill Graham, MP is not going to say too much but I think the person who got 'told' was not the Israeli ambassador.

It's time for an election. It won't be long now.

Ron, that's a hyper myth. Bilingual if French is your first language, means speaking English like the cretin or worse. Bilingual if English is your first language, means having mastered French to the point where you become a candidate for le prix Gooncourt. My eight year old granddaughter who is completely bilingual and attends a French school in Montreal tied with a French first language student for the highest mark in French but wasn't allowed to receive a prize because she's an Anglo. Was she broken-hearted? Not in the least. She's an Anglo in Quebec, she knows what the score is.

Elizabeth, I think you're right about what happened.

I'd be interested in your take on this lawyer who's dropped all his security ticket cases because of a "threatening phone call." Something doesn't smell right about that at all. I've been wondering if he wanted to get out of representing those creeps and didn't know how to do it without prejudicing their cases, so he came up with this idea. Your thoughts?

#19 Millie Woods said:

Quebec churns out graduates with useless poli-sci degrees

I am doing a joint honours in political science and history at McGill. Something tells me my degree won't be so useless.

Then again, I'm not French Canadian, and I do realize that Quebeckers occupy a disproportionate percentage of high bureaucratic and even governmental (cabinet) positions. But a degree in political science should not be sneered at.

Minister Bill Graham is a cracker and he can lick my stick. I'm fed up with the drunk moose eaters up north and its time to put them on the axis list.

Lest we forget that some of the Saudi 9/11 bunch past through Canaduh as well as the other bunch of terror wannabes. The maple heads have yet to apologize.

#28 cba:

I think you've pegged it; the lawyer can see the way the jihadi wind is blowing around the world and where Canada may have been more liberal when he originally signed on with the government to take 'sensitive cases' before, there's been the bombings in Turkey recently where, no matter how liberal you are you couldn't equivocate that carnage no matter how hard you tried.

I think he realized his life in Canada might become unbearable and has either made up the threat or jumped on one that he got and is using the occasion to get out of ALL his 'sensitive' cases, not just this one. Frankly, I don't blame him.

#30 Bubbaman:

STFU! NO HIJACKERS CAME FROM CANADA, moron!

re: #30

Yeah, some of them may have passed through Canada but they friggin took flight school right here in the US. Who's more to blame for being careless? We are.

Father Guido Sarducci on Canada:

"His (Ronald Reagan's) favorite speech of mine, he gave the speech before the joint Houses of Congress, and what it was about was: the Central American threat. He made it sound like Central America was going to attack you tomorrow. It was so heavy. The best part: he looks straight at the camera and he says, 'Ladies and gentlemen, Central America is closer to Texas than Texas is to the state of Maine.' I'm shaking in my boots. Let's get out the globe and check it ourselves. So you get the globe and you go Central America - Texas, Texas - Maine, #&%$@#, it is closer!

"Whole idea of the speech was that your neighbors are just too darned close to you. So what I was thinking, if I was Ronald Reagan, I wouldn't be so upset about Central America, I would be afraid of Canada. Ladies and gentlemen, I looked it up myself, Canada is closer to the United States than South Bend is to Mishawaka. Look it up yourself. This country is 3,000 miles long, just looming over you, could come down any time and attack you. I know what everybody says, everybody says the same thing: Canada is your friend, you've been friends for 200 years or so. I say, don't push your luck. Who knew, ten years ago, there would be trouble in Central America? Ten years from now it could be Canada.

"So, if I was Reagan, I'd nuke 'em. I'd do it. One bomb on Toronto.

"I read this fact once, says you could take all the Chinese people, line 'em up four abreast, march them into the sea, and they would never stop. That means, I think, that there's so many of them, I guess they would be multiplying in line...

"...Canada has entire population of 180,000 people. Don't quote me on this exactly. 180, 190, but I know it's not more than 200,000 people. Anyway, you could line up the Canadian people, march them into Lake Erie, could take like an afternoon. You could have lunch, march them into the lake, be home for dinner. I say let's start, what's holding things up here?"

- from the album "Breakfast In Heaven," 1986

#16 Julio Jurenito

I'd subscribe if it were less expensive, but thanks for the tip.

Steve, no offence to you. My bias is based on the people I used to get in my classes at the U de M where I taught when I lived in Quebec. A more delusional bunch of ninnies it would be hard to find. Just a minor example - none of them had heard of Adam Smith but they could all quote Jeremy what's his name like scripture and knew how the US military-industrial complex was ruining the climate, impoverishing humanity, etc. etc. That's why I became so competuous of the poli-sci lot both profs and students.

That should have been contemptuous!

#33 PDM - You made me think of one of my favorite Dorothy Parker quotes:

"If you laid all the people here end to end...

...I wouldn't be a bit surprised!"

#31 Elizabeth -

Sorry, my dear but several of the 9/11 terrorists PASSED THROUGH CANADUH on the way to the U.S. taking advantage of CANADUH's lax immigration rules and open borders. I never stated that they "came" from CANADUH.

It is well known that CANADUH is the North American outpost for many terrorist organizations and their fundraising groups. So while your beloved nation tries to outlaw humanitarian organizations such as the Magen David Adom, it embraces groups such as HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH (Prime Minister Crapien has excused himself by saying that Hamas has a charitable wing that runs schools and hospitals in the Gaza strip and West Bank; only its military wing, he says, should be sanctioned. ) Even stinkin' PBS (LLL Central) recognizes that CANADUH is a terrorist haven. Another PBS link.

My advice: Be careful throwing stones when the other guy is carrying a big gun. Lay off the Molson.

Who the hell is Canada to tell Israel (or anyone else) how they must conduct a judicial review? They can offer their opinions, but to tell anothe government that they "must be discreet is rather arrogant.

Canada Will Not Chide Israeli Ambassador

Well, gee. That's mighty damn nice of them.

Clueless assholes.

I cannot vouch for this, but I was told that Graham's son worked in the West Bank for some media or aid organization and became a staunch Palestinian supporter and Israel basher. This might partially explain why Graham is always dragging his feet when it comes to condemning Arab terror and so quick to jump on the Israelis when they step out of line. A good example of this dynamic might be when the Canadian Government cancelled the tax deductability of Israel's Red Cross, Mogen David Adam because it was attending medical emergencies in the West Bank and Gaza. The Candaian Government and media is made up largely of Social Democrat types, (socialists) who have a very keen appreciation for the plight of the Palestinians and none at all for the Israelis.

Who the hell is Canada to tell Israel (or anyone else) how they must conduct a judicial review? They can offer their opinions, but to tell anothe government that they "must be discreet is rather arrogant.

Considering that it's a Canadian citizen in custody, and that the Israeli government is making allegations about this citizen's intentions towards his homeland in a way which could suggest that the Israeli government could be trying to score points, some degree of skepticism might indeed be justified.

BTW, it's rather sad to see the level of anti-French Canadian bigotry on the board. It's a shame that this forum has become dominated by knee-jerk bigots.

Millie:

Well frankly, French Canadians have too much influence in Ottawa relative to their numbers in Canada. [...] It's time for French Canadians perhaps to follow his advice and butt out of the rest of Canada where they are a very, very minor minority. What's sauce for the goose.

Three things, to be done in order.

1. Replace "French Canadians" with "Jews" and "Canada" with "America."

2. Identify whether the resulting statement does or does not reflect bigotry towards Jews.

3. Explain why the original statement doesn't reflect bigotry towards French canadians.

Yo Canada! Go ahead and help yourself to a big steaming cup of STFU!

Very clever, Randy, but not at all subtle. The point I was trying to make was just the one you accuse me of making. If the late Pierre Pelardeau thought that Jews to quote his own words take up to too much space, and Anglos should learn to behave like a minority - i.e. inferiors, then the Anglo majority in Canada can use the same argument against the French Canadians but they don't and won't because they and I are decent folk, not delusional twits still licking wounds acquired on the Plains of Abraham.
BTW it is common knowledge that the French fact is vastly over-represented in Ottawa and those who are there are not the productive Quebecois but layabout graduates with social science and/or law degrees who have never had a real job or met a payroll.

Millie:

Very clever, Randy, but not at all subtle.

It doesn't have to be. Your bigotry is evident.

The point I was trying to make was just the one you accuse me of making. If the late Pierre Pelardeau thought that Jews to quote his own words take up to too much space, and Anglos should learn to behave like a minority - i.e. inferiors, then the Anglo majority in Canada can use the same argument against the French Canadians but they don't and won't because they and I are decent folk, not delusional twits still licking wounds acquired on the Plains of Abraham.

1. You do realize that you're generalizing from one person to a population of seven million? You might as well say that you distrust Jews because you disliked a high-school teacher who happened to be Jewish.

2. Um, actually they did use that rhetoric. And some continue to do so. You do, for example.

BTW, impressive run-on sentence. Do they teach grammar?

BTW it is common knowledge that the French fact is vastly over-represented in Ottawa and those who are there are not the productive Quebecois but layabout graduates with social science and/or law degrees who have never had a real job or met a payroll.

Considering that the National Capital Region is bilingual, and that Canada is bilingual, and that people from a linguistic minority are more likely to be bilingual than people from a linguistic majority, this isn't surprising. Proof of a problem would have to involve Anglophones who are bilingual in French and English not getting a job. Where is it?

The whole talk of overrepresentation is silly and dangerous, in any case, denying individual rights by forcing people to join groups. Shall we make sure that no group is represented in public life outside of its numbers? So, we can't have more than 0.7% of all students at university being Jewish, say. You can take care of the French Canadians; perhaps you can find people to look after Jews, Chinese, and gays. I'm sure that you have the connections.

The reason why there are so many French Canadians in th civil service is because one must be bilingual to be hired, and most people outside of Quebec don't learn French.

Hah! The reason there are so many French in the civil service is that a person cannot be bilingual by definition unless they are born French Canadian and then learn to speak English later on in life. (Three or four words is all the English they require.) By definition English and Allophones simply can never master the French language. That goes double for the half breed offspring of traitorous French women who betray their culture by marrying English men. Children of French mothers with the English names of their nonFrench fathers can NEVER be bilingual, even if they never learned to speak any language except French. That also goes for promotions, government grants, scholarships and so forth.

Mind you, things may have changed since I saw that during the period before I left Quebec in 1979 as a fleeing Allophone refugee of Quebecois oppression. Pigs do fly sometimes, even French ones.

Randy is busy trolling several threads at once. He must be bored today. I, for one, will not be helping to alleviate his boredom.

It's a shame that this forum has become dominated by knee-jerk bigots.

I wasn't a bigot until my boss came into my office one day in 1979 and told me I had just lost my job to a my French Canadians assistant because I wasn't French Canadian and then that same day a French teller made me wait in line at the bank until all the French Canadians had been served first and a store clerk refused to accept my "dirty English money". After that I became a bigot. Three weeks later I became a Western Canadian.

FYI Randy if you're so concerned with bigot bashing why not start with Quebec legislation like Bill 101, outlawing the use of English and taking away the right of individual parents to send their children to a school of their choice.
And just to refresh your memory, you might mull over the incident of the Quebec cabinet minister manhandling a female employee of Spanish origin at a Montreal hotel, the night the results of the last referendum were published. You people who have no right here he growled at her are responsible for our loss. She refused to press criminal charges alas.
And if you want bigotry you should be like me who is not the Quebec ultra-nationalist's stereotypical nightmarish Anglo and eavesdrop on the never-ending hate speech about the English, Jews, Greeks, Italians, etc. which pours forth unsolicited from the ultras on every conceivable occasion.
When it comes to bigotry, French Canadian separatists have won le championnat mondial and they should not be holding down jobs in Ottawa.

I was at a cocktail party with the Israeli Ambassador a few fews ago. he said that when it comes to Canada, their position on Israel is "balance plus". He had only good things to say about Canada.

And since when is Graham gay? I don't think that's correct.

I am doing a joint honours in political science and history at McGill. Something tells me my degree won't be so useless.

Come on Steve, you know as well as I do that McGill has never been part of Quebec. Nothing you say about McGill can be applied to any other Quebec University. McGill is an anglo institute.

Whoopee - Randy's done a VFI pretending to be linguistically savvy. Run-on sentence, Randy? I don't think so. You obviously don't know what a run-on is. Now are you going to post your SAT scores and GPA to try to impress us further with your superiority?
Your knowledge of multi-lingualism is totally wrong.
People who are articulate in one language will be just as talented in another once they have reached a certain level of competence. Jean Chretien fis an example of the other side of the coin. His English is deplorable but so is his French. Eloquence is not his forte.
And BTW the francophone population in Quebec and/or Canada is not seven million. Nous sommes six millions -il faut se parler was the francophone boosterism slogan doing the rounds not too long ago. If you were a bilingual Anglo Quebecker like me, you might even understand the French.
And finally, don't pontificate on an empty head.

#51

You might want to read this.