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A Canadian humor site I've been meaning to link for a while, The Smew (no, I don't know what it means, either).

TORONTO, ON—A private CBC event celebrating the broadcaster’s 75th anniversary was disrupted on Tuesday when an uninvited Jian Ghomeshi, wearing a party hat and shouting, “Here comes the gravy, bitches!” crashed the event and attempted to mingle with the invited guests.

Despite CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge’s attempt to engage Ghomeshi in conversation and defuse the situation, Ghomeshi reportedly refused to leave “until the CBC [stated] on air that [pop star] Lights is an actual musician,” sources reported. Ghomeshi finally became bored and posted the first of many CBC critical tweets about the events that night: “Crashed better parties during TIFF, take that #CBC” before passing out in a chair at the back of the room drunk on a combination of hair gel and his own hubris.

CBC Head of Security Nate Grendal confirmed that during a lengthy speech by Rex Murphy, Ghomeshi awoke and began chanting, “Moxie Früvous rocks!” while waving a cigarette lighter. “It was at this point I decided that Ghomeshi had gone too far,” Grendal said, “and I escorted him from the room.”

It's very deftly written, much like The Onion, but without the moronic policy they recently put into place of restricting page views to non-U.S. readers, dumping you off to a pay subscription offer once you reach your limit. So I don't link to them now -- if they have something worth reading, I'll just steal the entire article, rather than a paragraph or two with a link to the original. Dumb, dumb move by people who don't seem to get how the Internet works.

One of my last (thank God) songs about politics, at least from a leftist perspective (yes, I was once young and stupid -- not as stupid as, say, an Occupy demonstrator -- but pretty dumb all the same). I was starting to realize that I wasn't likely to be the next Clash, but there was some concern that I was turning into the new Pete Seeger, that cuddly old Commie Stalinist. Fortunately I could never quite master his patented clawhammer(and sickle) banjo stylin'.

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Story.

Michelle Malkin:

Santa Claus doesn’t just drop off presents for kids — he also encourages the soul-crushing of generation after generation of Christmas-reveling children. Or says one author, at least.

Appearing on Fox News, author and special ed professor George Giuliani asserted that St. Nick’s behavior in the classic stop motion cartoon, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is tantamount to bullying, and sends a wrong message to children watching the family favorite. As such, he’s written a new book, “No More Bullies at the North Pole,” which re-tells the story of the triumphant reindeer.

“Santa has ten policies that are very unfair, and Mrs. Claus sets out to correct those policies, and what you just saw, where Rudolph is being treated very very badly, and that should never happen,” Guiliani said.

Via Ace Of Spades HQ

CBC:

Paulson, officially sworn in Thursday as the RCMP's 23rd commissioner, said there will be "no presumption of innocence" in disciplinary proceedings involving abuse.

He said commanding officers can suspend officers engaged in "outrageous conduct" immediately, taking their badges and guns away, before a formal disciplinary process is launched.

Hey, Sluggo! Ever heard of that quaint concept known as "due process?" I can assure you that the ass-biting swamp of lawyers you're about to find yourself in have.

He also pledged to promote more female officers to the senior ranks of the RCMP.

And I'll bet half of them will be in full niqab drag. If the Mounties won't come to Mohammad . . .

Daily Mail:

He's the music producer with a magic touch and years of hits and Grammy Awards under his belt, but Clive Davis had a rare flop yesterday when he appeared to try to cover up his bald patch.

Looking in fine fettle for 79 years of age, Davis need not have gone to the trouble of the attempted camouflage - which appeared to be courtesy of spray on hair.

It was an odd move for a man of his stature, who surely has a huge team of advisors.

Davis is on first name terms with the likes of Sean Combs, Barry Manilow and Bruce Springsteen.

As someone with still some (admittedly, flickering) hopes of a recording contract, I would try to approach this diplomatically. And besides, I speak-a tha ling-o:

"Clive, old Bean! Can't quite put my finger on it (nor do I want to, at least not without haz-mat gloves), but you vigorous, youthful rock-and rollin' rascal, you look MAH-va-lous!"

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Fortunately the poor man had some protection.

CBC:

Quebec has been fighting to hang on to the data, but the federal government has refused to agree to the request.

Dutil said Quebec will take the federal government to court once the legislation has been passed and becomes law, but he refused to specify what kind of legal action that would be.

He said if Quebec wins and is able to get the data from the federal registry, a bill would be introduced in the national assembly to create Quebec's own registry.

I guess that things must be pretty flush in Quebec these days if they can justify squandering taxpayers' dollars on already-obsolete (and none-too-accurate in the first place) data. If they want to clutch that tar-baby of a useless bureaucracy then I suppose that there's no stopping them. Nice that they've got the money to spare -- Alberta can celebrate too, by deducting the costs from their transfer payments.

David Warren:

Suddenly bullying in schools, which has been with us for as long as there have been schools, has been elevated to a "crisis." When this happens, people who were not born yesterday look for the agenda. And we find it written in large capital letters, in a scheme to impose "gay-straight alliances" on unwilling Catholic and private Christian schools, and otherwise extend the reach of "LGBT" propaganda into places where it is especially unwelcome.

This political method is itself a ripe example of bullying. Victimhood status is declared on behalf of a favoured group, emotionally-loaded examples of apparent victimizing are publicized, and the "crisis" is declared. Powers are sought by activists on behalf of such victims.

Those who resist their power grab are demonized. This is the way every "progressive" cause is advanced. It works, because no one could want to be publicly tarred.

Huey Long, the Governor of Louisiana (1928-32), someone often labelled a fascist (but probably more of a corrupt populist of the Boss Tweed variety) is reputed (though this is in considerable dispute) to have once said, "When Fascism comes to America, it will (be in the name of/come under the guise of/be called) anti-Fascism!"

And it's with an increasing sense of dread that I've been watching the rise of this anti-bullying movement. The main backers ("educators," homosexuals, feminists, Islamists, and certain journalists and commentators) strike me as a rather unsavory crowd at best: they seem less guided by the spirit of civility than by the desire to channel the force of the mob for their own dark purposes.

Or as they say in Pittsburgh, Happy Sparkle Season!

I've been running around and I'm travelling tomorrow, so I thought I'd just pop in to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and I'll see you again in the New Year.

And if you're in need of a last-minute stocking stuffer, I'm pleased to inform you that Amazon has finally got this back in stock. You might think it's a joke, but scroll down to read the rapturous reviews, of which this is typical:

After hearing the music of Nickelback and being highly disappointed, I began a quest to find something better. This item fits the bill perfectly.