Did it anyway

With approval from neither the EU, nor the Canadian Parliament, Carney went ahead and declared that yes, Canada would indeed become an associate member of that moribund, useless organization.

Thumbing his nose and giving the finger to all and sundry, he just does whatever he wants on any file.  It is outrageous.  

Who has given Captain Carney permission to do this?!

It is stupefying that our Parliamentary democracy -- and I use that word very loosely -- permits this demagogue to do what he fancies.  And, more importantly, to do what will benefit Brookfield.  

He claims it will add jobs.  It won't, but it will allow millions to flood Canada, with nowhere to put them.

I know I sound hysterical, but Canada is in deep do-do.  Frighteningly, no one seems to get it -- particularly the mainstream media and bamboozled consultants and lobbyists.  

This is the scary image I have of Carney signing us over to the EU.

Smugness personified

Mark Carney thought he was so brilliant, sneaking Canada into the EU by crawling under its hood and snapping a couple of wires.  But it backfired and he has been rebuffed by ruffled feathers around the European table.

So pleased with each other, but which one is the Cheshire Cat?

There was an excellent letter in 'The Globe and Mail' today, which succinctly encapsulates the messy hornet's nest in which we would be unceremoniously chewed up and spat out.  However, I predict Carney will still keep pushing to somehow horn us in.   

This is an excellent analysis of what we hope Canada will avoid.

Carney has maneuvered us as close as he can into the failing EU.  For the moment, we have been rejected, but you can bet he will keep hustling, shoving and squeezing his way in.  His only objective, as far as I can see, is to get himself elected president of the EU when he tires of the boring and tedious task of governing the annoying, lowly serfs of Canada.

For him, it would be business as usual.  Afterall, he ignores Parliament completely, which is exactly what membership does to the countries trapped in it.  It ignores the will of the people, making countries bow to the whims of European states with wildly conflicting objectives.  But, as I said, Carney is doing that anyway.

I pray people will wake up to this destructive egomaniac, but it may already be too late.

 

Tony Perry

When I walked into the kitchen, carrying a few plates after dinner, there she was guzzling a bottle of wine -- not bothering with a glass.

I am talking about Maria Perry, Matthew's grandmother and mother of Tony Perry, his uncle.  I had met Tony when my best friend, Suzanne Langford, married John Perry, Matthew's father, and I was Maid of Honour.  

Suzanne had met John when she moved to New York to model for the Eileen Ford Agency.  They married back in Ottawa and then returned to New York, where Matthew was born.  I was the first person she called from the hospital; I still remember our excited conversation!

Tony and I hit it off when we met at the wedding and became a couple, but not before I had come back from my long-planned trip to Europe with my cousin.

Tony on the right, Matthew on the left beside his father, John and Mr. Perry, centre. 

Tony hailed from Williamstown, Mass., where the wine guzzling took place the Christmas I had returned, but at that time he was living in New York City and was a member of expanded group, The Serendipity Singers, based there.  During that visit, Mr. Perry took us to his club, where we met his mistress and had lunch.  All very civilized, apparently.

While I was swanning around Europe, Tony wrote me dozens of letters, c/o the Canadian Embassy wherever we were.  When I returned, I hopped on a plane to New York, where Tony and I had a ball.

For some reason, I remember his address:  45 West Tenth Street.  He knew so many entertainers.  One night, he took me to a club where Neil Diamond was headlining.  Naturally, Neil joined us after each set.  Neil was a real charmer.  Tony was determined to marry me, even going so far as buying me a ring, below, but we drifted when I moved to Toronto and started climbing the career ladder in journalism.

Can you imagine a more impractical ring?  (I still have it, but never wear it.)

Nevertheless, he was persistent, I'll give him that.  I had mailed back the ring, but one night he knocked on my door in Toronto, where the group was playing, and handed it back.  That was a surprise, to say the least, but I realized I no longer cared for him, even though he was still very keen on getting me back.  

Out of curiosity, I googled him and found a video of Tony and John being interviewed on 'Ojai Valley News' on YouTube.  Man, Tony looked awful!  He apparently died in 2015 at age 78 in Ojai, California.  Tried to find a wife, or widow, but couldn't.  Did he ever marry after I turned him down?  I am sure he must have.

Tony, on the left, with John Perry, Matthew's father.

So, that's a little trip down memory lane.  Man, I am getting very lost in the memory weeds these days!

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This is how broken my old friend Suzanne is now.

The beautiful Suzanne Langford, with Keith Morrison, her husband, before Matthew's death.

    

A little solo lunch

I was getting a little sick of being Florence Nightingale and Julia Child to my bedridden hubby, so I got dressed up, put on the warpaint and headed to The Palliser Hotel in Calgary -- the only nice hotel in the entire region.

While there, I indulged.  It was an Absolute martini, oysters, a glass of house white and a divine hazelnut dessert.  I also did a little people watching and caught a couple of women with hideous hair.  

Here are a few souvenir shots:

If you're going to dye your hair, deal with the roots, please!

This hairdo went out with the sixties.

PEI oysters.  Delicious!

Health dessert -- hazelnut cake and ice cream.

The lovely Fairmont Palliser!

An analysis by an Ottawa city inside employee

Following is an analysis by a close friend at Ottawa City Hall.  Seems reasonable to me:

"Mark Sutcliffe took over the transit system mess left by Jim Watson. I will say, while Watson was a bit of a dictator, apparently Mark at least tries to work with Council as a whole. 

"He made a lot of promises (150+) on the campaign trail. Reporters are saying for the most part, his promises are either met, or on track. The issues that I was concerned about included, for example, keeping kept taxes low at 2.5% for the first 2 years and a little higher at 3.75% in the second;

Sutcliffe stumping.

"On the other hand, while he brags about 1/4 billion in efficiencies, some were simply transferred to owners, like garbage collecting that shot up 10% with more restrictions on what can be put out for collection and now minimum charges for residents at dump sites. 

"He didn't cut recreation fees by 10%. He did add 42 paramedics and 100 police officers. 

"The LRT transit extensions are underway but with no Provincial funding commitment as promised, future work is at risk. There is still no confidence in the LRT system and roads are overwhelmed with the Queensway at a standstill during rush hour. 

"He kept his promise spending $100 million on roads and sidewalk repairs. He added 55 Km of cycling paths. 

"He promised 100,000 new homes. However, even with streamlining the approval process and removing the sales tax for first home buyers, he states that due to the current high cost of ownership, demand has weakened, thus fewer houses are currently being built. He promised and came through on a new landfill site and expanding the one near us.

"Given the record of the previous loser and the candidates Jeff Leiper (a community activist and ward Councillor) plus two unknowns, Neil Saranamuttoo and Alex Lawson, there was not much of a choice. So it's another 4 years to see what Sutcliffe can accomplish."

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So, Ottawans can judge my friend's analysis. As he says, we'll see.

Out of his own mouth

 Mark Carney continues to tell us who he really is, but no one seems to be listening.  Here are three excerpts from 'The National Post', describing his real agenda:

Carney is courting evil left, right and centre.

"New World Order", right there from his own mouth.

There are his words again.  Getting the picture?

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Unpublished letters...........

Here are a few letters which didn't see the light of day:

Letters to the Editor.

 Dear Editor (Globe and Mail):

There's another ubiquitous expression that grates: "Can I grab you guys anything else?"  This is the go-to question when one is asking for the bill in any restaurant.  

Call me old-fashioned, but asking in that way conjures up an unpleasant image of food being grabbed from a kitchen counter and thrown onto a random plate.

"May I get you anything else?" would be preferable.  Sadly, that form of polite speech has also fled.

Nancy Marley-Clarke

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Dear Editor (Globe and Mail):

I remember when there was a federal department called, 'Employment and Immigration', which logically, sensibly and responsibly tied immigration to national and regional Canadian employment requirements. 

Created in 1977, it was abolished in 1996 and hived off into a number of separate and distinct ministries.

Perhaps immigration needs to again be returned to a wider lens to ensure coherence returns to the messy hodgepodge in which this file currently staggers and stumbles.

Nancy Marley-Clarke
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Dear Editor (Globe and Mail):

I'd say Canada has had very deep ties with Africa, if you measure such ties monetarily.  Canada has given -- and continues to give -- billions and billions to Africa over decades, so one wonders how much more this country can contribute, given our own dismal economic reality?

The tragedy appears to be that such billions do not seem to trickle down.  Perhaps African leaders could answer that question.

Nancy Marley-Clarke
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Dear Editor (Calgary Herald):

So, the jewels of Canada, its magnificent parks, are being sacrificed on the altar of international aid.  Canada has committed $26 billion and counting to Ukraine and $3.2 to Africa, to name just two of more than 130 recipients of Canada's largesse.
  
Closer to home, for a measly $80,000 out of a $12 million security contract, Canada's Commissionaires have lost a long-held security contract to a U.S. company. 

 
Now Parks Canada is being gutted and 3,000 staff will lose their jobs.  When are Canada's interests going to be supported?

Something seems terribly out-of-whack.

Nancy Marley-Clarke
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Trouble is, I have been published very recently, so they have to wait for another.  BTW, if any of you want a letter penned, over your own name, I would be only so delighted to help.  I know many people can't put thoughts succinctly on paper so they will be published.  That is a skill I do possess.

Simple agenda

Or, should be.  There will be another First Ministers' meeting shortly, focussing on Indigenous issues.  Naturally, AFN Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak gave the real agenda away when she issued the following statement:

The second paragraph highlights the real purpose of the gathering:  "The budget is the big test," said Nepinak.

Well, of course it is.  In fact, it's the only item she wants to talk about.  She claimed it was to chart a new course for her people, but the only course she will be charting is the one to the nearest bank.  

Let's face it, her headdress, finery and puffery aside, money is the only object on that file.

Chow

And I'm not talking about the Chinese variety.  I refer to the disasterous Olivia, currently running for re-election as mayor of Toronto -- a city she has ruined with her bonkers left-wing agenda.

First it was breakfast programs in schools and now her latest aberration is to expand it to lunches.  Have parents no responsibility to feed their own kids?  And all this while Toronto slides further and further into degradation and chaos!  Drug addicts have taken over parks and streets everywhere, with police unable to do a thing.

Remember when she pushed to re-name Dundas Square to some ridiculous thing called "Sankofa Square"?  Why?!  I blogged it a while ago (see "Sanitary Pads, Dec. 16, 2023.  Just re-read it, it's brilliant).  Under Chow, the city has officially tanked.   

Her Worship in her official Mayoral, Number One dress.  I assumed it was AI; sadly it wasn't.  

Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, after whom Dundas Square was proudly named.

I lived in Toronto in my "salad days" as a journalist working for Maclean Hunter -- the Canadian version of the brilliant "Mad Men" -- and I loved every second of it.  Back then, the "Red Rocket", as the subway was called, was safe, clean and reliable.

Not anymore.

The once proud and glorious Toronto.  Gone.

Were I still a resident, I'd cast my ballot for the sensible Brad Bradford -- he of the back-to-basics agenda.  When you think of it, all city council agendas should be basic -- not the lefty variety we see in Canada everywhere these days -- starting with Carney.  City councils are, by definition, conservative.  Why?  Because they are charged with handling the basics, i.e., garbage collection, road repairs, safety, cleanliness, order -- not communist gobbledygook.    

So, the dour, humourless David Eby was handed a ferocious shellacking yesterday by the B.C. electorate he tried to hoodwink into giving him another four years when he already had two to go with a majority.  It was time to throw the bum out.

Have you ever seen the guy smile?  I haven't.  His brow is always furrowed and his mien morose, glum and sullen.   Looks like his dog has just died.  And that sneaky ten-dollar-a-day daycare scam he deviously enrolled his kids in finally roused a few somnolent voters into realizing what the guy was really about.  I mean his wife's a doctor and he makes, er, made, a ton of money as premier, so how he slipped under the waiting list rope and got his brats that sweetheart deal had to have been a slight-of-hand move.

So, he's gonzo and mercifully monstrous Olivia will be next.  

Canadians have had enough of lefties.  Did you hear that Mark and Diana Carney?  Please Gawd you're next.

Today's thoughts

Reading the morning papers, several photos caught my eye.  Here they are:

Quebec separatist party cabinet.  Still insecure after suffering defeat on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and still planning for a referendum they will lose.  Quite a long time to harbour a grudge.  Get over yourselves.

This is what Carney is doing in Turkey, pushing LGBTQ-RSTUVW-blah-blah rights.  With a trans daughter, is that his agenda?  Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

Canada's precious and much in-demand mineral wealth can't get out of the ground.  Many thanks to the Indigenous.

Bombardier, the recipient of billions from Canadian government, is rushing to expand in the U.S.  Whaaaaat??!! 

These photos perfectly capture what Canada is mired in: Deadlock, insanity and industrial paralysis.

"Well, that's the limit."

When my Mother said that, you knew you were in big trouble.  The other giveaway was when she slowly uttered, "Oh. My. God," in a slow, low voice, a timber she never raised.

For some reason, my algorithm delivers delightful tales of old life in Appalachia and Ireland to my facebook feed.  Although my adoptive family were decidedly Canadian English (I am genetically 100 percent Irish and it shows) from the Ottawa Valley, they used many expressions from these societies, all of which I relate to.  Another favourite was, "If you don't stop whining, I'll give you something to really cry about."  She would not abide whining.

I also relate to the lifestyle of my Grandmother, Mother and Aunts, who cooked like it was the Depression-era thirties.  They canned everything -- even at our cottage in sweltering July, when the woodstove would be cranked up to make raspberry preserves, raspberries my Grandmother had sent us to pick in neighbouring famers' fields.  Never mind half of them never made it back to the cottage, because we'd eat them, there was always enough for a few jars of her delicious nectar.

We also ate a lot of root vegetables in winter.  Salad in February?  Forge that.  And for dessert, always canned unless in season.  We also had bread pudding and fruit cobbler, two dishes I still make regularly.  I also remember dandelion salad and apple crisp, the latter of which I continue to make every Fall.

Whenever my Mother prepared a turkey, she always boiled the innards, called "giblets", and we ate them for lunch with bread and butter.  I loved kidney, heart and neck -- as well as head cheese (look it up, it's not cheese) and tongue.  And there was nothing like turkey soup, made from boiling the carcass, picking it clean, discarding the bones, adding back the meat and throwing in whatever you had handy -- a sort of "clean out the refrigerator" soup.

But before we got to the turkey, I remember my Grandfather taking the live bird my Grandmother had bought at the market into the backyard, ringing its neck and burning off the feathers.  It used to be a ghoulish fascination watching him.  

I burst out laughing when I started to see expensive broth being sold in supermarkets.  Really?!  Broth is something you make yourself; you don't actually buy it.  In fact, made a pot of chicken soup the other day.  My grandchildren love mine because I add tortellinis, very exotic in their world of lentils and quinoa.  One of the dumbest and wasteful sights I have ever witnessed was watching my Texas son-in-law throw out an entire turkey carcass!  "You won't like this, Nancy," my step-daughter said, as I watched in horror and alarm when he tossed it in the bin.  I didn't.

A big ham, bone-in, also makes delicious soup with yellow split peas -- another favourite in our home.

Sundays were always devoted to visiting the family plot to pay respects to my Grandfather and Great grandparents.  Rain or shine, we went after Church.  When I lived in Ottawa as an adult, I used to pack a picnic -- including cocktails -- and the whole family would gather on our plot.  Afterall, we were landlords in Beechwood Cemetery, so why not?! 

Typical of a visit with my Grandmother.  She always dressed up to pay respects to her departed family.

Grandma sewed many of our clothes and knitted some of the most beautiful sweaters I've ever owned.  Yes, my family hails from strong, gentrified stock.  I am very lucky they adopted me.
      

I almost lost my lunch

Watching Carney and his wife arriving in Turkey was just too much for me.  Why is he there?!  Why is she with him?!  And what exactly is he going to do in Turkey?  Seriously, what?!

This is his 27th trip abroad, but he has yet to visit Upper Rubber Boot Saskatchewan!  And to drag that harridan along is just a bridge too far.  I mean, if you're going to tag along, try and look a little less down-at-the-heel and more like a Mila Mulroney.  Don't look as if you just grabbed the first rag in your closet, dragged a comb through your hair and put on the ugliest shoes you could find.  Try and be a little glamorous!

But she can't because she is about the dowdiest, slouched-over woman I have ever seen.  When I first saw her, I actually thought she was his mother!  But then, he too has absolutely no sex appeal whatsoever.  

While I'm at it, what exactly is sex appeal?  It has nothing to do with looks, it's a quality that's difficult to define.  Take Charles Bronson: He was as ugly as sin, but very sexy.  So was James Coburn, ugly, but sexy.  

And then there were gay actors who were sexy, like Dirk Bogarde, for example.  As I said, sexy is hard to figure out.  Carney is passable, but completely bereft of that illusive quality.  And as for his wife, forget about it. 

Mother Carney.  Could she be any more unattractive?

This is a short blog, but I had to get it off my chest.  Please deliver us from this disaster of a prime minister, who acts unilaterally without any regard for the will of Parliament, before it's too late!  

Why is she in the U.S, a country she obviously hates?

 Re-printed from 'The Catholic Register'................

October 19, 2026   Left-wing pundits love inventing new terms to describe their latest cause, and one that has become increasingly popular over the past decade is “intersectionality.” It was coined in 1989 but it went nowhere until the 2010s, getting a big boast in the 2020s when the Black Lives Matter riots took place. It is typically used to describe how different, but related, factors or identities overlap, the result being the creation of a new reality. While it is typically invoked to describe how multiple forms of oppression blend together to produce a new dynamic, the idea that different but related issues yield a new outcome is a useful analytical tool that can be used to explain the behavior of Rep. Ilan Omar. The intersection of her personal and professional foibles produces ugly fruit. Omar is under investigation for financial wrongdoing and lying about her biographical statuses, past and current. To say she is suspected of being a fraud is one thing, but it is quite another when this intersects with her history of bigotry and duplicity. Quite simply, her character is on the line. Trump will deal with her if she is illegal. As we at the Catholic League have demonstrated through the years, Omar is anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and anti-American. In early 2019, I called for House sanctions against the Somali freshman for demonizing innocent Catholic young men associated with the Covington Catholic High School incident following the March for Life in Washington D.C. She falsely accused the students of racist taunts and yelling, “it’s not rape if you enjoy it.” It was later revealed that the boys were innocent of all wrongdoing, but all she did was delete her libelous tweet.  Earlier this year, Omar said, “I think my faith as a Muslim is very important,” but apparently not important enough for her to abide by Islamic teachings on abortion, marriage, the family, sexuality and gender ideology. Also in March, she justified the church invasion that took place at Cities Church in Minnesota: protesters engaged in Nazi-like tactics interrupting the service. She was right to note that there was a “clear violation of the Constitution,” but she misidentified the victimizers and the victims by claiming the arresting officers were the guilty ones. In 2019, Omar showed her hatred of Jews by charging them with showing “allegiance to a foreign country.” This was hardly the first time she sported her anti-Jewish colors. She previously accused a Jewish lobbying group of paying congressmen to be pro-Israel, saying, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.” She also has a history of falsely claiming that Israel is guilty of apartheid. After she left her slaveholding country, Somalia, to come to the U.S., she condemned America for its “unjust” practices. Last year she called the U.S. “one of the worst countries” in the world. Her anti-Americanism is so rabid that in 2019 the best she could say about what happened on 9/11 was that “Some people did something” that day. That’s right: Muslim extremists, just like her, bombed America, killing 3000 innocent men, women and children. It will be up to the courts to decide whether she is guilty of multiple accounts of fraud and other crimes. But the court of public opinion—at least in reasonable circles—has already rendered its verdict: She is guilty of smearing innocent Americans and trashing our country. Indeed, she is a recidivist. The intersection of her personal and professional failings makes for a sick stew.

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And just like that

For anyone complaining about health care in Alberta, here's a bulletin:  I just called SaveOn about flu shots for homebound folks because B had a fall and can't do stairs at the moment.  

"Yes, we can come to you," said the pharmacist.  And in less than 40 minutes, a charming pharmacist (she's also a swim buddy) showed up at the door and gave us both COVID and flu shots.  Just like that!

All done and dusted for this season.

How impressive!!  

I had called Shoppers, because their website advertised this service in big, bold letters, but the pharmacist there had no clue what I was talking about?  I actually had to direct him to the website that advertises it.  "Oh, I didn't know we did that?" he said, adding that they don't offer off-site shots at all.

Duh!  "Well, perhaps you need to let your owner know that it's on your site, but you don't actually offer it," I helpfully suggested.

That's when I called SaveOn and over she came.  As I said, anyone who complains about health care needs to move to Ontario to encounter real health care conundra.  That province is an unholy mess!

So, B and I have had our shots and it took less than an hour from phone call to jab.

p.s.  Don't move here because it'll ruin what we have.    

You never know.....

...who'll turn up on a service call.  My computer wouldn't synch, so I called 'Cochrane Computers' and a guy named Tony popped over.  

As I always do -- it's the old journalist in me -- I started interviewing him.  "I'm from the Tobacco Plains Nation," he told me, a reserve in the East Kootenay valley which abuts onto Montana.  Boy, did he sure know a lot about the Indigenous file -- including all the illegal (just my opinion) actions of chiefs across Canada.

We watched footage I had posted online about the Cowichan reserve, which showed a disgraceful dump with garbage strewn everywhere.  He knew all about it, but then he showed me footage of Tobacco Plains and that was a different story.  It was clean and beautiful.

We started talking money, my favourite subject on this file, and he knew a lot about that too -- including vast corruption, which he acknowledged exists everywhere.  I referenced the 1969 White Paper, written by Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien.  Remember that?  It recommended all Indigenous leave their ghettos (the paper used that word back then) and integrate into Canadian society.  

Well, at that all Hell broke loose!  The chiefs called it "racist" and a move that would make their people the lesser equals of every other Canadian.  The reality was that they refused to give up their perks.  Tony agreed and assured me it was still happening today.  

He also said, however, that he is the only native he knows who will speak honestly about the corruption.  Our old friends Tanya Talaga and the always-hysterical Pam Palmeter, certainly aren't two of them.  I am acquainted with a few status natives out here, who have left the reserve and are very successful, thanks to their moving.  All say they can't say anything.  So until the Indigenous themselves start speaking out, nothing will change.

When the White Paper was trod upon, an angry Pierre Trudeau told the chiefs, “Okay, then stay in your ghetto”. He withdrew the paper and initiated the Indigenous Policy, basically unchanged for the last fifty-plus years, namely: Send money and don't touch the Indian Act.  As I have said, the chiefs claim they want to change the Act, but they don't.

The chiefs turned their backs on real reform.

Pierre Trudeau got one thing wrong when he angrily told the chiefs that they could stay in their ghettos.  The chiefs are not in ghettos at all.  They enjoy generous tax-free-salaries and expense accounts.  Life is good for them and for the many other people who feed off this system -- a system Indigenous leaders like William Wuttunee and Calvin Helin sardonically – but accurately – called “The Indian Industry”.

The question must still be asked: What if those chiefs in 1969 had at least agreed to consider Trudeau’s plan and work with him to address their legitimate concerns? Would we now live in a country where more indigenous people had integrated into the mainstream, while keeping those parts of their Indigenous identity that mattered most to them?

They didn't want any part of it, so we'll never know.  But as I always say, it's all about money.  So when Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak et al start raving about protecting pristine land, don't buy it.  

Interesting look at education in the U.S.

 

Re-printed from 'The Catholic League'............ October 7, 2026   Under President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI labeled mainline Catholics who opposed abortion, gay marriage and gender identity as “domestic terrorists.” Now, in a new document released by the Trump administration’s DOJ, “The New Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against Parents in Schools,” we learn how the Biden administration’s DOJ branded conservative parental rights groups “domestic terrorists.” The nexus is unmistakable: Biden’s DOJ declared war on religious conservatives. Yet the evidence that this Report presents shows that they were never the “domestic terrorists” they were made out to be. Once parents found out during COVID that sexually inappropriate books were being assigned, and racist presentations were being made in the classroom (ala critical race theory), they not only objected, they organized. The privileged elites who stack the school boards were taken aback. They counted on a subdued, obedient crop of parents who took the “Teacher Knows Best” approach. They were startled when the parents proved to be disobedient, showing up at meetings to register their objections. The educrats quickly contacted their allies in the Biden administration, asking them to come to their rescue. They were not disappointed. It didn’t take long before the political elites sided with the education elites against the masses, namely the parents. They were accused of violence, when there was none, and for disrupting meetings, when there was little to none. What got the goat of school board members was having to respond to some uncomfortable questions, effectively putting them on the defensive. That’s called free speech. We now know that the National School Boards Association (NSBA) had been partnering with the DOJ to provide “talking points and push back on critics regarding critical race theory (‘CRT’) and transgender policies that are creating ‘hostile situations for school board members.’” That was in July 2021, and in September it sent a letter to Biden describing these parents as participating in “domestic terrorism.” Once this hit the press, parents pushed back, and within weeks the NSBA’s board of directors apologized. This should have put the brakes on this fascistic response by the elites. It didn’t. Indeed, it escalated. On October 4, 2021, the “Garland Memorandum” was issued. This was the infamous memo by Attorney General Merrick Garland that claimed that a nefarious cadre of parents had emerged—they were objecting to offensive fare in the schools. According to the Report, the memo was draconian. “The Garland Memorandum, and its suggestion that such protests could constitute federal criminal activity, including domestic terrorism, was the product of pressure by the White House and high-ranking Department of Justice officials to find a reason to suggest that such protests could be federal crimes regardless of the initial skepticism.” Fortunately, there were honest attorneys working in Biden’s DOJ, and they dutifully warned their colleagues that in most cases there was nothing going on at these meetings other than robust discussions. They admonished them to back off lest they inspire MAGA-type revolts. Unfortunately, they were in the minority. The Report concludes that the Garland Memorandum disregarded “constitutional precepts,” creating a “chilling effect” on First Amendment rights. Those who wrote the Report cannot be blamed for not inquiring into the religious background of the protesting parents. That was not their charge. But it is the charge of the Catholic League. News reports estimate that Christians constitute 70-80 percent of these conservative parental rights groups. We know from other media stories that Orthodox Jews and practicing Muslims have also been vocal in their opposition to what has been going on in the classrooms. At issue are attempts to sexually engineer our students and to indoctrinate them in racist propaganda. In other words, led by Christians, parents are fighting for their rights against the militant secularists who dominate education, and who work in senior positions in the federal government. They are no more “domestic terrorists” than the man on the moon, and attempts to label them as such are obscene and un-American.

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