Big City Lib a Big City Pornographer?

The rather distasteful Big City Liberal once again shows us just how big a tent the Liberal Party of Canada has. Aside from anti-semitic posts that drove Warren Kinsella to out BCL's identity, we can now add child pornogrpaher (warning - under age male, naked)

The Case:

Daniel Radcliffe - Born July 23, 1989

From Wikipedia:

Canada

Under the Criminal Code provisions in Canada, material that shows someone who is or is "depicted as being" under 18, and is engaged or "depicted as engaged" in explicit sexual activity, is classified as "child pornography". Photographs of the genitals or anal region of someone under 18, "for a sexual purpose", are illegal, as are written texts that advocate sex with a child.

The penalty for making or distributing child pornography is up to 10 years in prison. Possession or "accessing" carries a potential sentence of up to 5 years.

And BCL comments:

Warner Brothers is worried about his movie career, but with an ass like that he can always do porn.

And so we can add Child Pornographer to the list of distasteful things BCL does. You can't claim artistic merit when you are commenting on Radcliffe's ass in a sexual manner. Where are those conservative judges when you need them?

Whatever Happened to Y2K??

The more I read of the crisis caused by global warming, the more I feel like I’ve seen this all before. Recently. When I started out in the IT biz it was just in time to partake of the hysteria and profits from the terrible Millenium Bug. I worked diligently to update my company’s computers one hot August weekend, where soon I discovered office buildings turn the air conditioning off on weekends. Nice. Soon after, the company sold me to Ministry of Health to do some of their Y2K remediation. That was a sweet contract. I got paid well, and my company charged my time at almost $100/hr (remember, I was a know nothing noob! ) I got to travel across the province, stay in nice hotels, and all I had to do was look at computers and research if they, or their apps, were certified Y2K-compliant. Many weren’t. Then I set-up the new equipment and waited for midnight, December 31st, 1999. You see, I couldn’t party, drink, or even go out that night, I had to wait by my phone, on call, in case the world really ended. It didn’t.

At least it didn’t take the media long to find the next earth shattering threat to human survival. I wouldn’t want anyone to be bored.

Dion - Does he speak English or . . .
Jason Cherniak has a problem on his hands. Today he proudly posts Stephane Dion's latest speech on Canada's relationship to Israel. Frankly, it's more of the same say nothing crap that has lost the Liberals significant support in the last year. But Dion, in his speech, brought up the firebombing of the United Talmud Torah school in his riding.

Here in Canada, when the United Talmud Torah school is attacked in my riding of St. Laurent-Cartierville in Montreal - its windows broken, its library burned - it is an attack on the values of every Canadian. When even one Canadian child is threatened because of her religion, we all feel the cold breath of intimidation. We can only imagine the insecurity that Israelis feel day after day.

At the time of the incident Dion made a major gaffe, implying it was acceptable to attack Jews if they supported Israel or Ariel Sharon:

Stephane Dion, MP for St. Laurent-Cartierville, also present, later found himself having to backpedal on a comment attributed to him in the Globe and Mail April 6, in which he said it was regrettable that this happened when not all Jews support the policies of Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

In a letter to the Globe and Mail April 7, Dion wrote: "No matter what one's opinion of the Sharon government's actions, violence is never an acceptable response. When I said, 'Why link all Canadian Jews with the policy of a government?' it was in the context of expressing my admiration for the pluralism of opinions among Jews of Canada and elsewhere."

From that story it appears Dion's troops went into immediate Spin Mode and tried to say he was misunderstood. But Michael Coren was given a different spin:

Dion publicly condemned the outrage but said it was wrong "because not all Jews support Sharon's policies."

The logic of the statement, of course, was that the firebombing would have been acceptable if all Jews did in fact support Sharon.

Dion and his people went into a political spin and explained it was all a language issue and he had not meant to say that at all. Firebombing schools was, it seemed, never a good idea. He was, we were told, lost in translation.

That really tweaked me because Cherniak and a whole slew of other Libloggers have been beating the drum for Dion, denying he has any difficulties in English.

Well, if that is true, why claim Dion's gaffe was just an issue of translation? If Dion speaks solid English one can only assume he meant what he said when he implied Jews who support Israel are valid targets. Given the terrible record the Liberals have displayed on the Israeli question, the outright anti-Semetism of a number of Liberal blog commenters, the smearing of Bob Rae at the convention, and the exodus of prominent Jews from the Liberal party, I think I will believe the bloggers who say Dion's English is solid.