Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

**New Year’s wishes
PM Harper blows up the federal Human Rights Commission.
The provinces follow suit with their own HRCs.
CBU will get rid of its Human Rights Office, and reassign the officer.
Montreal Canadiens will get The Next One.
Calgary Stampeders will get a defence.
That my students in first- and second-year courses will learn how to work at their [...]

About that vanishing Arctic ice …
… fuggeddabbowdit.
Kate has the links.

Dear Mr Harper
I would very much like to thank you for these words:
“Human Rights Commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society…It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”
Your words have never been truer than today, at the end [...]

 In full flight.
Here.

By Don Feder
http://www.donfeder.com/
Posted December 26, 2007
 
The Global Warming movement has been compared to a religion – albeit one without God, but with a vision of sin and repentance, damnation and salvation.
 
Not quite.
 
Real religion is about improving the human condition by encouraging moral conduct in obedience to the will of God. The proponents of Global [...]

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MERRY CHRISTMAS
Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at [...]

I would like to take this opportunity to wish to all my comrades on this blog and all my occasional and silent visitors a most wonderful, politically incorrect religious festival known as Christmas. Celebrate the coming of the Christ into human history, and experience the love, the peace, the joy, and the hope that he [...]

I couldn’t believe my ears.
There is Don Cherry, first period, resplendent in red velvet and a Santa Claus tie … and he told the kids of Canada to be sure, on 25 December, to remember the Baby Jesus!
And, for good measure, Suzuki the Left Winger, and telling the truth about Ted Nolan’s failure to get [...]

Teaching truth on the sly

Posted: December 21, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

I must admit to being surprised. I have never been offended by or disagreed with Walter E. Williams’ commentaries before, but this week’s column is unbelievable. Basically, he smeared all teachers with a very broad brush of prejudice and stereotyping. ALL teachers [...]

A “Gay Man” Trapped in a Woman’s Body and Other Nonsense
By J. Matt Barber
Talk radio host Michael Savage doesn’t mince words. He often says that “liberalism is a mental disorder.” He’s right. Liberal ideology and political correctness, infused with public policy, begets social insanity.
Case in point: A recent [...]