According to a UNICEF report, Canada ranks dead last when it comes to standards aimed at ensuring children get the best start in life through education and support programs among affluent countries. A UNICEF report says that Canada failed to meet nine of ten benchmarks that are crucial for children in their formative years:

“We over-invest in remedial action down the line when kids reach their teen years and under-invest in the early years when their behaviour, their comportment, their learning can really be set for the rest of their lives,” said Nigel Fisher, head of UNICEF Canada.

This is terrible news, The Mayor sits at his large mahogany desk with a tear forming in his left eye. How do we alleviate this problem, what must we do to correct this terrible imbalance:

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So, yesterday we were pondering the implications of designer vaginas. A bit weird maybe, but one can at least wrap one’s mind around the idea (so to speak). But now we have some huge guy wallowing in his sexy so much that he wants to have people buy calendars of his girth to admire it in erotic awe: (more…)

You know, Keyser has always been vaguely embarrassed that he once voted for a Democrat. This was back in 1990, when the two candidates for governor of Massachusetts were the ostensibly Republican William Weld and the Democrat John Silber, who was president of Boston University. Weld gave off a sort of Thurston Howell III vibe that put Keyser off (as it turns out, he’s married to the great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, ooh). Basically, he thought Weld was one of those snooty upper-crust North Eastern Republicans who are basically Democrats but think that coming out and actually being a Democrat is some form of slumming. Silber, on the other hand, seemed to be made of sterner stuff, and got Keyser’s vote. As usual, the electors of the Commonwealth proved to be wronged headed (who in his right mind would vote for George McGovern?), and Weld became governor.

Well, now we see that Weld, along with a whole gamut of high-brow supposed Republicans, has come out in favor of Obama. Keyser has been too distracted by death threats from Tony’s Troopers to comment on this, but since the threats seem to be dying down, this would appear to be a good moment to animadvert to this phenomenon. Here is Weld’s reasoning:
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The dhimmitude continues.

Europeans, it seems, will do virtually anything if it means they can avoid the possibility of not offending Muslims.

Even Piglet’s pissed off.

The Times: Piggy banks are given the chop as bank tries to attract young Muslims by David Charter

Knorbert the piglet has been dropped as the mascot of Fortis Bank after it decided to stop giving piggy banks to children for fear of offending Muslims.

The decision has been viewed in the Netherlands as the ritual slaughter of a popular pig by political correctness. To some, it is the latest sign of uncertainty in Europe’s most tolerant country about how far it should go to accommodate the sensitivities of minorities. It comes as the country is braced for a backlash against the plans of Geert Wilders, a right-wing politician, to release a critical film about the Koran.

Pigs are considered an unclean animal by Muslims and Jews, and Knorbert was culled after seven years as the Fortis mascot. A spokesman told the Dutch media that “Knorbert does not meet the requirements that the multicultural society imposes on us”. The bank added that there had been “a number of reactions to the pig” and that a new gift and character were being developed that would be “fun for children of any persuasion”. Children who had received a Knorbert piggy bank for opening a EuroKids account will be given a junior encyclopaedia instead.

The “multicultural society” never meant that you abandon all rational thought and subordinate your culture to anyone elses. Nor does multiculturalism claim that one culture is superior to the other. It claims that all cultures and belief systems are equal, which is equally insane. Meanwhile, has history ever seen a civilization so bent on its own destruction as Europe?

~ Sisyphus