A few funny pieces....

Yesterday I went to the store to pick up my wife's cold medication. After I paid for the drugs, the clerk dutifully read a long monotonic list of methods of consumption of the cold pills - and then she looked me in the eyes and said the following: "Is your wife pregnant.... at all?" Granted, I am not a medical doctor, so my views can be easily ignored - but this question puzzled me. I believe there are only two options - you are either pregnant or not pregnant - but apparently there are different grades of being pregnant in this store.



Canadian government threatens Ann Coulter with criminal prosecution - while declaring innocence of a Nazi sympathiser
Famous American writer and civil rights activist Ann Coulter recently received a bizarre letter from a "senior administrator" of the University of Ottawa - the same university that she had been invited to visit and give a speech to the students. The "senior administrator" warned her that if she dared to say anything controversial, she may face criminal prosecution by the Canadian government. More specifically, he claimed that "Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges." Of course, the actual details on what constitutes "hatred" is not clearly defined by the Canadian Free Speech Commissars. As luck (and tradition) would have it, the Commissars follow their revolutionary conscience in deciding what kind of speech they would persecute. For example, they persecuted Mark Steyn in part for the fact that he accurately quoted an Islamic cleric.

As a result of this strange letter, Ann Coulter was not able to give speech to Canadian students - the left-wing thugs surrounded the university, organized a riot and force the police to cancell her speech. This is extremely outrageous - and I hope Ann Coulter don't let it go and file charges against the Ottaw administrator for hate crime and calls to violence.

In all fairness, I must note that Canadian justice and free speech is far more diverse and multi-cultural than would appear from the passage above. A famous and respected Canadian politician David Ahenakew (who also happened to be an administrator of a native Canadian group) expressed rather peculiar thoughts about different ethnic groups. In general, David pronounced his negative views about "goddamned immigrants, East Indians, Pakistanis, Afghanis, whites and so forth" - but he saved all his aboriginal fury for the - wait for it - the Jews. According to wikipedia, "during a question-and-answer session following his lecture, Ahenakew said that Jews were a disease in Germany and that Hitler was trying to "clean up Europe" when he "fried six million of those guys." He also proclaimed that "The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's why Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany, or even Europe. That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the goddamned world. And look what they're doing now, they're killing people in Arab countries." Later, the leader of Canadian aboriginals justified the slaughter of 6 million Jews as something which was necessary to protect Germany from disease. After some obvious hesitation (after all, David belongs to a "protected" ethnic group), Canadian authorities decided to prosecute him - and surprisingly their efforts were thwarted. The first conviction was over-turned "by the the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench on the grounds that the trial judge failed to properly take into account that the remarks were uttered in the midst of an angry confrontation with a reporter, and therefore may not have constituted a "willful" promotion of hatred." This is in spite of the fact that David continues to openly proclaim that the Jews started WW2 (this was David shared with Hitler and other socialist luminaries). And, as any conservative would expect, David was acquitted in the second trial because the judge did not see how David's claims were intended to incite hatred of the Jews.  


In all fairness, I must concede that I am for the freedom of speech - but if Canadian government can spend millions of dollars in attempt to prosecute civil rights activists like Mark Steyn (and eventually bankrupt the newspaper that he worked for) - why does it let the affirmative action hero David Ahenakew to publicly announce his support for the murder of 6 million Jews?

Are there any liberals on this board to solve this puzzle?