That dog don't hunt

So, Marie-Josée Hogue has released her big "exposé" on foreign interference in Canadian elections.

Apparently, there isn't any.  She said exactly what Trudeau must have told her to say, which stinks to high heaven.  According to Hogue, we have bad communications, but no actual interference.  In fact, she didn't name any possible suspects because ludicrously, there is a 99 year embargo on releasing the names of MPs and candidates who did engage with foreign entities.  

Really?!  So, what was the point of the whole exercise if no one was identified, if voters will never know who was involved when they go to the polls?  It beggars belief!  This whole thing was not an "inquiry", it was a cover up.  Remember that the National Security and Intelligence Parliamentary Committee released its own report, which explicitly said some MPs were working with China and India to influence elections.  Hogue completely contradicts this.  

Keystone Cops anyone?  Left hand right hand?

Gee, I wonder if Hogue's ties to Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre, had anything to do with her appointment as commissioner?  Didn't they both work for Heenan Blaikie?  Isn't she close to the Trudeau family?  As I always say, pull back the curtain and you'll find the truth.

Her report, coloured as it is by her personal and professional background, is a complete whitewash.  My question is, what is the difference between lobbying and interfering?  There isn't any that I can see.  Lobbyists make their livings trying to interfere in the political process on behalf of their clients.  Those who interfere in the political process do essentially the same thing.

My other question is her claim that we have no actual traitors in the Parliament of Canada.  Huh?  She was not given a mandate to ferret out traitors.  She was given a mandate to determine if foreign interests "interfered" in the election.  Instead, she globed onto the traitor element to the exclusion of who did, or did not, meet the interference issue.

So, all's well in Parliament.  No one is interfering.  No one is a traitor.  Elections are all pristine and above-board.  Whew, great to know!  Except, the real story, as I said, lies in the fact that those involved will not be identified for 99 years.  99 years!!!  That screams serious interference and corruption, so if that doesn't tell you everything, nothing in the redacted report will.

Thank God everything's A-OK, according to Mme. Justice Hogue.

 

The Indigenous myth of colonial settlement

Contrary to what all Indigenous leaders, spokespersons and experts claim, the colonization of Canada, the United States and Australia did not involve the systemic and brutal annihilation of natives.  

It simply didn't. 

Dr. Stephen Chavura

This was the subject of a fascinating YouTube broadcast, hosted by former deputy prime minister of Australia John Anderson, during which he interviewed Dr. Nigel Biggar, below, regis professor at Oxford, and Dr. Stephen Chavura, above, European and Australian history professsor.  Biggar and Chavura outlined the brutality of Indigenous-to-Indigenous wars and violence that was occurring before the White man ever set foot in the new world.

Dr. Nigel Biggar

Entire tribes were regularly wiped out, with women and children brutally tortured, murdered, raped and enslaved.  They were not peaceful hunters and gatherers, as the fairy tale is regularly spun.  As nomadic people, the Indigenous also practiced infanticide because they simply could not move around as they needed to with a multitude of infants in tow.  So they suffocated them at birth.

The tribe-to-tribe violence did not shock me, but I had not read about the infanticide.  However, it makes sense and people like Tanya Talaga should be tied to a chair and forced to watch this broadcast.  She is one of the worst offenders when it comes to perpetrating the myth of the evils of colonization and cultural genocide on innocent, peaceful natives. 

Biggar and Chavura also pointed out that the laws which allowed the British to remove children from their homes applied equally to both Caucasians and Indigenous.  Children were removed because of neglect, violence or starvation -- not because settlers were practicing genocide.  In fact, the natives themselves were lobbying Ottawa to build residential schools so their children could have better lives, free of the diseases and starvation that were killing them on the reserve.

Biggar also talked about the lie of mass murders and burials of native children in Canada, where three years after the story was hatched, not a single grave has been uncovered.  Nevertheless, 85 churches have been burned to the ground by natives in protest.

Yep, all lies.

So, if you want to educate yourselves about the history of colonialism, watch this broadcast.  It should be required viewing for every Canadian minister of Indigenous affairs and every "expert" like Pam Palmeter, Doug Cuthand or Tanya Talaga before they dare put pen to paper, or teach another course.

 

          

True to form

One of my newly-found brothers-in-law just confirmed my opinion of the woke, adolescent, American left mob.  An upper New York State university professor, he is obviously out-of-touch with reality, as are so many cocooned, well-paid profs.  

To test my theory, I sent him a "friend" request on facebook.  What did I get in return?  A harangue about how he had to refuse on principle because of my offensive posts.  I guess he meant the ones about the woke left and the bed-wetters, of which he appears to be a rabid, card-carrying member.

He actually called me out as someone on the cusp of racism, which is wholly untrue.  As you know, my position is that we are all part of one race:  The Human Race; everything else is cultural.

Ah well, if anyone doubts the wise words of Victor Davis Hanson (he's on YouTube), American classicist, military historian, conservative political commentator and professor at California State, Fresno, my brother-in-law's rejection of my positions confirms those of Prof. Hanson.

I know he will keep reading my "offensive" blogs, so I hope he enjoys this one.  I bet he even condones the disgraceful lecture Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde (see previous blog)  had to gall to aim at President Trump during the inauguration prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington.  

Instead of sticking to her job of leading prayers and praising God, this egomaniacal lunatic hammered Trump and called on him to throw law-and-order out the window by showering compassion on illegal migrants and supporting them -- many of them criminals.  

I wonder how many illegals and refugees Budde has invited to live in her $6 million mansion?  Have a look at "America's Untold Stories" with Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley.  Groubert nails her.

The un-American Bishop Budde.

No, Trump was voted in because he vowed to uphold the rule of law.  I was impressed by his restraint.

   

 

William Donohue's take

Re-printed from 'The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.  How did this woman ever get to lead that service?!  She just insulted Trump to his face: 

Open Letter To DC Bishop Who Lectured Trump

Contact her at: mebudde@edow.org

January 22, 2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Episcopal Church House                                    

Mount St. Alban

Washington, D.C. 20016

Dear Bishop Budde:

At the January 21 prayer service at Washington National Cathedral that featured President Trump, you mentioned that “people in our country are scared now.” You singled out people who “may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” as well as LGBTQ persons. These people “fear for their lives.” You then made a plea to “find compassion.”

Your commitment to compassion is noble, but it is misplaced.

I work in New York City, and I witness daily how many New Yorkers are “scared” and “fear for their lives.” They are afraid of being mugged, beaten, raped and killed, often by people who have crashed our borders, people you refer to as lacking “proper documentation.” They, and in some cases their surviving families, are deserving of compassion. More than that, they are deserving of justice, and that means that illegal alien criminals must be apprehended and deported.

You are right to call attention to violence against LGBTQ persons. They have every right to be “scared” and “fear for their lives.” What you don’t mention is that the people who are most likely to victimize them are people just like them. In other words, it is not heterosexual guys who are beating up on gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons—it is people in their own ranks. It is called “intimate partner violence,” and the studies show how prevalent it is among LGBTQ persons.

In 2022, 'Psycom Pro', a psychiatry resource for clinicians, concluded that “More than half of transgender individuals experience partner violence or gender identity abuse.”

In 2020, seven experts published a study in the 'American Journal of Public Health' on this subject and concluded that “Transgender individuals experience a dramatically higher prevalence of IPV [intimate partner violence] victimization compared with cisgender individuals [those who accept their sex identity], regardless of sex assigned at birth.”

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reviewed the literature on this subject and found that “43.8% of lesbian women and 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, as opposed to 35% of cisgender women.” It also found that transgender individuals experienced the highest rate of intimate partner violence.

The Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA Law, reviewed a number of studies on this subject. One of them found that “31.1% of transgender people and 20.4% of cisgender people had ever experienced IPV or dating violence.” It also said that three studies concluded that the lifetime intimate partner sexual violence prevalence among transgender people ranged from “25.0% to 47.0%.”

Even in sympathetic pop culture magazines, such as 'Portland Monthly', it is acknowledged that “statistically speaking, the most common perpetrators of violence against trans women are domestic partners.”

In short, misdirected compassion is not virtuous. You need to make a public statement addressing the fallacies of your remarks.

Sincerely,

William A. Donohue, Ph.D.

President

I have a dream!

Could someone not write a new script for all Black preachers?  Once again, the Black pastor speaking at Trump's inauguration trotted out the old, tired Martin Luther King, jr., trope from the Million Man March on Washington in 1963.

I have a dream!

Frankly, it's wearing a bit thin.  "I have a dream that one day, every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be laid low....." blah blah blah.  He also just had to include the "Let freedom reign" and "Free at Last!  God almighty we're free at last!" part.

As I said, it's getting very old  - 62 years, to be exact.  But King's words can always be counted on to raise a crowd -- especially if the speaker yells them loudly enough.  Has no progress been made in those years?  Has no one been able to pen a few different inspirational words?  Guess not.

I know it was Martin Luther King Day, but still.  Give it a rest.

Trump, however, was impressive.  He spoke extemporaneously and covered a lot of ground -- mostly excoriating the Democrats on every file.  He really let rip on illegal immigration and the ineffective wall that kept out no one on the Mexican border.  Harris squirmed and the Biden gang looked very uncomfortable while he raked all of them over the coals on mess after mess.

Michelle Obama made a bit spectacle of not attending, which only goes to show that Barack has always been a cuckhold.  What a spiteful, immature, self-centred, un-American, rude thing to do.  I mean, who does she think she is?!  She just proved that at her core, she remains a classless broad from the Chicago "hood".  Whatever happened to, "When they go low, we go high"???  Easy to say when you're in the White House; couldn't muster it when it mattered.  

And the fact that Keir Starmer wasn't even invited speaks volumes about the poor and incompetent job he is doing.  Can you imagine?!  The prime minister of Britain not being invited to the inauguration of an American president?!  

As for Biden, he made mess after mess in only four years; Trudeau has more than tripled messes here because he's been allowed to screw things up for nine! 

Trump also let it be known that the ludicrous and destructive "diversity, equity and inclusion" era is over!  Thank G-d for that!  That's what got Los Angeles Karen Bass, the woman who, along with Gavin Newsome, has destroyed that once magnificent city.  That's what got a deputy fire chief like Kristine Larson, who said that if she had to carry a man out of a burning building, he had "got himself in the wrong place".  You could not make that up!

Larson, a DEI hire if ever there were one.

"Woke", that ludicrous reign of terror, is also gone.  What a dumb philosophy.  A completely false approach to life which had nothing to do with reality or competence.  In fact, it was an insult to everyone -- including those it rewarded.    

But, true to form, Trudeau got into Woke and DEI big time when he formed his first cabinet, filled with a lot of incompetent misfits, "because it's 2015".  Canadians paid for those messes too.   

So it's official.  Trump is the new president.  Now, let's wait and see what he does to Canada.  Hold onto your hats because we deserve whatever he throws at us!

 

 

You can thank Trump

Trump's the guy who got the ceasefire done in Gaza.  In spite of all the back-slapping and self congratulating being done by Biden and Blinken, they accomplished nothing.  It was only thanks to Trump's threat of all hell breaking loose if there was no ceasefire by the time he took office.  That scared the livin' bejesus out of Hamas, so they got it done.

I wrote a letter to the editor of 'The Globe and Mail', which, being so aggressively anti-Trump, was not published.  Here's what I wrote:

"Dear Editor,

"If any credit for the deal to halt the fighting in Gaza is to be given, it has to be to Donald Trump.  Although President Biden claims it was thanks to months of U.S. effort, fruitless though they were, it was incoming President Trump's declaration that if a deal wasn't in the works and hostages released by the time he took office, all Hell would break loose.  

"Whatever one thinks of Mr. Trump, there's nothing like a mortal fear of the mighty U.S. military to get everyone rushing to the table looking for the nearest pen."
Frankly, I thought it deserved to get in, but it didn't.  God forbid anyone at 'The Globe' give one ounce of credit to Donald Trump!  Frankly, I think they google me and panic at my blogs.
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If you have YouTube, do yourself a favour and watch 'Plank of the Week' -- a delightfully irreverent podcast featuring leading broadcasters and journalists discussing insane issues in Britain.  It's hilarious!  

At first, I thought they were Monty-Python spoofing, but they are actually covering real life political craziness!  Kier Starmer is a favourite and wins often, thanks to his tone-deaf, automaton "leadership" of Britain.  They have a great time and it's screamingly funny.

They also appear on another podcast entitled 'Clash of the Titans', where they again weekly tear apart politicians -- this time on a Saturday night enjoying a glass or two of grog:

Julia Hartley Brewer and Jeremy Kyle on 'Clash of the Titans'.

    

Julia, Jeremy, Michael Graham and Kevin O'Sullivan.

Why can't the MotherCorp do something like this?  All they offer is 'At Issue', with three boring talking heads, moderated by the odious, silly, giggling (and ever-fattening) Rosemarie Barton.  It's all so uninformative with absolutely no reality whatsoever!

There's turgid Andrew Coyne, banging on about...whatever....along with rabid Separatist Chantal Hébert, flanked by the always boringly, politically-correct and self-important Althea Raj. 

None has an original thought in their egomaniacal heads!

Bring on the Titans!

Death of a Bridesmaid

"Hi Nan, it's Nan."  That was how we greeted each other when we phoned.  We were both Nancy's.

My buddy, Nancy

Now one of us has died.  Born 12 days apart, we met at university and became inseparable during the three glorious and crazy years we spent wreaking havoc throughout those hallowed halls.  Reading in 'The Globe and Mail' she had died shocked me to the core.  How could she be dead?!  She was only 77 -- same age as I.  How could she be dead?!

She was one of my bridesmaids when I married my first husband, but as close as we once were, we lost touch over the years.  We both moved to Toronto after graduation and both worked in the publishing business, but life intervened.  I moved back to Ottawa, she stayed in Toronto.  I did try to re-connect and we got together a couple of times when she visited Ottawa, or I Toronto.  But life intervened again.  

I think I turned her off during one visit to TO when I incredously asked her why she still smoked?!  She and I both smoked up a storm at Carleton, but I quit 50 years ago.  When I asked her, she got testy and after that, I did not hear from her.  I wonder if she continued to smoke until she died?  She was stubborn, so probably.

She opted not to have kids; I had two and two stepchildren.  As I said, life intervened.  But before it did, we caroused around Ottawa and Hull with various boyfriends hitting all the bars, dance halls, dives and dumps we university students frequented.

One of her boyfriends introduced me my first NHL boyfriend, Bryan Watson.  (My other was Brian Smith, the guy who was tragically shot by a lunatic in the parking lot of CJOH.) With a face like a road map, a nose smashed in and many false teeth, Bryan managed to be the most charming of fellas.  My mother adored him.  

One of our favourite haunts was the 'Chamberlain Hotel' in Alymer.  There Nancy, me and various assorted boyfriends would order quarts of beer, or a tray of draft at 10 cents a glass and dance to the 'Hughie Scott Band'.  Those were magical days, my friends, and we (literally) soaked them up until closing time at two a.m.  Then I'd have to get up at six to catch the bus to my summer job at Tunney's Pasture.  How I did that, I have no clue?!  Ah, youth.

I'd stagger home after work and tell my Mother I was definitely not going out that night, as I went upstairs and crashed on my bed.  But Bryan would always show up and charm my Mother.  "Dear, Bryan's downstairs and he said he'd wait for you to have a nap."  So, up I'd get, go out and start all over again.

Rest in peace, Nancy my old friend.  My memories will always be of our 'Glory Days'.