Quick hits

43%. As it says on my MSN, take THAT, Dithers. I suppose it just goes to show that when you stand for something, even when people don't agree with that for which you stand, you garner support.

So whatever happened to the sky falling and the country falling into great social peril with us being ruled over by goose-stepping theocrats?

Thought so.

And really, this is one of the biggest non-stories I've ever read. If the media and the Dippers are grasping at straws like this and Harper's belly size, well, what does that say?

Responding to a comment

I usually respond to these in the comments section itself, but the questions raised are good enough that I think I'll share my answers here.

Guttergirl asked: "I want to hear your opinion about the lowering of the flag and ending speeches with God Bless Canada."

Glad you asked, guttergirl.

As for lowering the flag, I'll defer to the keepers of the traditions, the military people who know better. Lowering the flag on the Peace Tower (which I finally visited just over a month ago) was a partisan feel-good exercise started during the Chretien era. Tradition says that we should fly our flags (save possibly for the home base flags of the fallen soldiers) high during times of war--not to do so is tantamount to surrender. And believe me, we're in a time of war. The time to lower the flags, nationwide, for the fallen soldiers is on Remembrance Day.

On to "God bless Canada". I'm a Catholic, but want to look at this from as neutral point of view as I can.

It's an invocation, or a hope, or a greeting. Nothing more. Let me put it this way: when someone says to me at Christmas, "Merry Christmas", I don't get upset. Nor should I, as I celebrate Christmas. But what about the occasions when someone says "Happy Hanukkah" to me? Do I make like The Champ and lose it? Do I snap? Of course not. It's meant in a friendly way, as a gesture of goodwill. Does Harper say "God bless Canada" to infuriate people? No, he means "may good things come upon our great country".

Next time he says it, people, chill out. Don't say that he's being "too American". Don't say that he's blurring the lines between the famous "separation of church and state" (which was originally meant to protect the church from state persecution, as well as the opposite. And American, to boot). Remember that he's just wishing well upon Canada.

A parade

Today I was at work and there was a commotion outside.

Turns out there was a parade going on. I'm not completely sure what it was about, but I know it was run by moonbats. How do I know?

Signs:

"President Bush, President Harper"
"Bring home our troops"
"Stop weaponizing space"
"No integration"
"No soldiers on our streets"

Yes, because Harper is just Bush's puppet.
Yes, because our troops are doing no good and have no prode in what they're doing abroad.
Yes, because we have no threat to our sovereignty or, for that matter, our very lives.
Yes, because we define ourselves simply by our being Not American.
Yes, because soldiers are all crazed gun freaks who will make us into a military dictatorship.

Moonbat asshats.