Canada finally stands up at the UN

The UN Human Rights council in the past few days had a few items on their agenda. Of course being the UN, most of the items addressed had to do with Israel and how it is the source of all the worlds evil. The UN Human Rights council comprises of 47 members, including Canada, and over half the citizens in these member countries have little or no freedoms. These moral authorities proposed to make Israel's "atrocities" a permanent item on their agenda, and the only voice that opposed this was Canada. The custom dictates that you must have an unanimous vote for these issues to go through, but of course since it deals with Israel these rules can be ignored. The council also has taken away actual observers of human rights violations in such countries as Cuba and Belarus, and now they will more easily be able to break human rights codes.

It is obvious to see that the UN is perhaps the most corrupt institution in the world. When the voices on the Human Rights council are actually the ones breaking human rights so severely you know there's a problem. Instead of trying to stop the genocide in Darfur, the situation in Burma, and many other things, they instead only focus on Israel.

The only good thing that came out of this vote was that Canada refused to vote for this anti-Semitic agreement. After years of voting with the majority, Canada has finally taken a stand. I'm proud that our country refuses to agree to these biased motions, and in my opinion all countries with any moral fiber should pack up and leave the UN.

What's up with Condy?

What's going on in Condoleeza Rice's head? It seems that in the past couple of weeks she disagrees with seemingly everybody else in the higher echelons of the government. First Dick Cheney and George Bush say that under no circumstances should Iran get a nuclear weapon. Since the attack on Syria they have very good reason to be even more suspicious of Iran and its nuclear program, but Rice disagrees. She thinks that the government needs to take a soft approach on Iran, and ask the U.N for sanctions. If it was April i would check to see if its April Fools Day, but since its October i don't know what to think. I'm sure she's privy to lots of information that would make her want to take a tough line on Iran, but instead she wants to commit to the weaker agenda.

Not to mention that she's pushing for a new peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis at the Annapolis peace conference. She wants to push for final-status agreements between Abbas and Olmert, though even a toddler could see that this is one of the most idiotic plans concocted in the last few years. Not only does it go against Bush's road map proposal, and many other words he has said in public, it seems to serve no American interests. How does Condy see a weaker Israel and a win for terrorism as good for U.S interests. Abbas doesn't even own half of the country, and probably in 5 years Hamas will take over the West Bank and then they'll have the state???

It looks like Condy is trying to pull a Bill Clinton, meaning that you try to save your legacy by making peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Just because you have done a bad job in your position Condy, it doesn't mean you should screw up a whole country, and your own country's interests. The Palestinians are not Blacks in the South during the Civil Rights movement, so stop making that comparison. I would suggest holding a conference on Iran's genocidal leader instead of holding one that serves nobody's interest, except for Islamo-Fascists.

The Nobel Committee sure knows how to pick them

A few days after presenting Doris Lessing the Nobel prize for literature for her, "skepticism, fire and visionary power." , the seemingly harmless 86 year old, had very harsh words for some. Firstly Lessing had to say this about 9/11,"Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They're a very naive people, or they pretend to be," Ouch that hurts. She goes on to say that 9/11 wasn't as bad as IRA attacks that plagued England for man years. She then serves up a few choice words for former P.M Ton Blair, ""Many of us hated Tony Blair, I think he has been a disaster for Britain and we have suffered him for many years. I said it when he was elected: This man is a little showman who is going to cause us problems and he did." Lessing then continues with her America bashing by attacking "Dubya" ,"As for Bush, he's a world calamity.Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars." Don't get me wrong now. Lessing also has some things to say about Iran, "I hate Iran, I hate the Iranian government, it's a cruel and evil government.Look what happened to its president in New York, they called him evil and cruel in Columbia University. Marvelous! They should have said more to him! Nobody criticizes him, because of oil."

I just have a few questions for the Nobel committee.
Where do they get these people? Don't they do some sort of background check before they hand out these awards?
Maybe next year the Nobel committee will do some research before they hand out awards to people who make very controversial statements, and will hand out awards to decent people who deserve it.

Thanks to Yahoo News

Family Day

Fresh off his election day win Dalton says that he will provide a holiday for Ontarians in February so families can spend a day together. Although his idea seems heartwarming, economists predict the day will cost between 500 million to 2 billion dollars in lost money. I seem to remember that Tory's faith based funding plan would only cost 400 million. I guess though that spending one day with your family in February is more important to Dalton McGuinty than providing 53000 students with funding.

The Nobel Peace Prize- A Joke

With the news that Al Gore has just won the nobel peace prize one should take a look back at some of the past winners and Al Gore himself.
2007-Al Gore- how does an inconvenient truth have anything to do with promoting peace?
2005-Mohamed El Baradei- the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency for trying to stop all nucler development for non peaceful reasons. He sure is doing a great job with Iran.
2002- Jimmy Carter- I didn't know promoting anti-semitic sentiment helps peace?
2001-U.N+Kofi Annan- see Jimmy Carter
1993-Yasser Arafat-see Jimmy Carter+U.N
Shimon Peres- trading away Israel apparently is a peaceful endeavor for him

It seems to me that today the Nobel Peace Prize means absolutely jack and has become a political prize(mainly for extreme left wing ideologues), and doesn't actually find the person who best promotes peace in the world.

Free Speech

In the aftermath of Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia University it is interesting to see Stanford University's response to Donald Rumsfeld being invited to become part of a campus think tank. Thousands of protesters have decried this appointment and have started a petition to rescind this offer. The petitioners state that Rumsfeld should not be allowed on the the think tank because,"We view the appointment as fundamentally incompatible with the ethical values of truthfulness, tolerance, disinterested inquiry, respect for national and international laws, and care for the opinions, property and lives of others to which Stanford is inalienably committed." Others have stated that Rumsfeld is a war criminal and should not get this appointment. These people are of course talking about the former U.S secretary of defence who patriotically served his country, although his policies might be controversial. I'm sure that many of these same protesters were fighting for Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia, but then show disdain for a former secretary of defence. I personally am speechless at the hypocrisy of these people and wonder what freedom of speech and academic freedom even mean any more.

Thanks to CNN

In defence of faith based funding

1) Everybody says that if all children go to public school together they'll all be tolerant of one another. To all who say this I wonder what their reactions are to the gang violence and racial tension seen at public school taking the forms of stabbings and shootings. Sir Dalton the great himself went to a "segregated" school and look how dandy his life turned out. Another thing to consider is that anyone can go to catholic school so there is diversity in that system, and john torys plan would only help 3% of kids going to school.
2)Others suggest that this plan would funnel away money from the school system, but this isn't necessarily all that correct. Its not as if JT is coming to my house and giving my parents a 16000 dollar check and taking it away from my neighbour. The school system already supports so many students its not as if adding 50000 extra ones will take away that much money. Also you can raise money for it to ensure that other parts of the education system dont suffer.
3) "if school is faith based then kids will learn creationism" All of were taught creationism at Hebrew school yet 99% of the kids at our school believe in the theory of evolution.
4) School also wont be able to teach hate literature because there will be inspectors making sure that students and teachers follow the curriculum. These schools that do this now cant get caught because the gov. cant do anything to them.

Personally i don't see how so many left wingers can call for multiculturalism and freedom of speech and tolerance and then say that religion is stupid, if the bible is taught to students then the world will go to hell, if muslims have their own schools they'll become terrorist and kill us all. Is not funding these diverse religious views tolerance and stifling them oppression?

Quebec Bye-Elections

The Liberals suffered a stunning loss yesterday in 3 bye-elections, but especially in the Liberal stronghold of Outremont. The Liberal candidate had alienated many members of his riding by his controversial remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This and a popular NDP candidate led to this crushing defeat. I personally am thrilled about the Liberals downfall in such an imporntant battleground, and seems to suggest that the Conservative party has momentum in Quebec coming into the next election. This is not only a blow to the Liberal party, but is also a reflection of how the public views Stephan Dion and his leadership abilities. If Dion doesn't step up his game he might follow the John Turner route.