Christy Clark: Ignorance Kills

Christy Clark, wife of Liberal Party organizer Mark Marrisen and afternoon talk show host on Vancouver's CKNW, is an ignorant . . . well, I'll let you finish that sentence.

This afternoon Clark interviewed a woman from the Canadian Cancer Society who wants "cosmetic" pesticides banned in BC. And she sees that as the first step towards the banning of all pesticide use in Canada. A caller, an older sounding gentleman, strongly supported the use of DDT despite Rachel Carson and, as Clark stated, "99% of scientists". Clark compared this man to global warming skeptics and commiserated with her guest as to the ignorance of this poor sod. Too bad he's right.

If Clark had just a touch of professionalism she might have researched pesticide use in Canada before the show and she just might have found out that DDT is the best hope for millions of African children in the fight against malaria. Or she could have asked her husband what Liberal MP Belinda Stronach is up to these days. Clark's is an example of the utter ignorance behind the resistance to DDT and the indirect cause of death for over 3,000 African children each day.

Maybe the management of CKNW will see fit to remove this moron from the airwaves.

Which story will they tell this time?

What part of no does the BC Human Rights Tribunal not understand? These guys have acccepted a case regarding Sikhs, turbans, and hardhats, despite the ruling of the Supreme Court that bona fide safety concerns trump religious rights. I know that a recent mediation between Sikh longshoremen and the Port of Vancouver allowed a compromise where Sikhs don't work in areas requiring hard hats, but at what point does accommodation become favouritism? We know from several sources that Sikhs can and do wear modified turbans with helmets, that there is no prohibition in the Sikh religion against wearing helmets (despite a lie from another recent complainant), and that the turban is not a symbol of the Sikh religion. How much more clear cut can this be?

Frankly, I do believe that the state imposes too many restrictions on Canadians in the name of safety. If someone wants to do something stupid, well, the Darwin Awards await. But if the State is going to legislate safety, exemptions based on religion and especially falsehoods spread by religious groups to gain special status, should be disallowed.

Death to the Infidels!!

Yeah! Death to the non-believers! How dare they not join in our protest! Death to those who didn't turn off their lights!

I'm not kidding. It appears that the recent Earth Hour debacle has enraged the greenies to the point that they are seriously pissed with anyone who dares not participate in their hour of non-power. Worse, they are showering conservative blogs with a crap-storm of intolerant, bigoted posts displaying a zealotry not seen since Spain took the Auto de fe to new levels.

From Cjunk:
Thanks Paul, you've added one more Christian to the list of people for whom I'll being going out of my way to ruin their Xmas season next year. After all, I don't believe in the baby Jesus, and apparently it's ok to just sh*t all over people when you don't believe what they do. Thanks again, you contemptuous dick!

So, for my poor greenie friends: Get over yourself! We are under no obligation to worship at your altar just because the TV news says we should. We don't have to turn off our lights to appease your wrathful earth god. We do not have to believe as you do. Please, if you feel a temptation to burn us non-believers at the stake, or chop our heads off in a cheesy video, remember that you are supposed to be the enlightened, progressive, tolerant left. Protest is a right, a right the right rarely uses. If we chose to ignore your orgy of self-righteousness and "awareness raising", or protest it with a Christmas display of massive proportion, we do so because we have the absolute right to do so. Forced conversions, though you may be sorely tempted, are just wrong.