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CBC:

Attawapiskat's chief, Teresa Spence, told CBC's Sudbury station that the positive decision shocked her, because she said the media portrayed her community in such a negative light that she had almost given up hope that it would win in court.

Ah, yes, those hard-bitten newshounds who still haven't asked any questions about where those millions did go. Or if that's too much work for our cynical guardians of the public trust, they could at least publish a picture of the chief's digs (Hint: It'll be that A-framed mini-mansion with the satellite dishes and the forty-foot boat and the three brand-new SUVs parked out front).

No hurry. I'll just wait here.

Indifferent Cats In Amateur Porn

Or as some call it, "Purrrrrn."

NSFW, needless to say unless you happen to work for cats, who seem remarkably blasé about the whole business.

Cold Fury:

One more time: this ain’t about chicken. It isn’t even about gay marriage. It’s about straws, and camels’ backs, and being absolutely fed to the gills with being lectured, hectored, harassed, shouted down, mocked, and ignored. It’s about being used as an unwilling national ATM by people doing things we do not in any way approve of, indeed are strongly opposed to and offended by. It’s about being disrespected, taken for granted, and coerced.

It’s about the ongoing attempt to remake us into a more docile, dependent people, very much against our will. It’s about being lied to so obviously even a small child wouldn’t be fooled by it. It’s about being condescended to by people who aren’t even smart enough to see that their way of doing things has been a miserable, oppressive failure every single time it’s been tried, and are so deluded they can’t see that it’s failing yet again all around them, before their very eyes.

It’s about having a bellyful of being misled and misruled by the patently misguided. It’s about not sitting back and quietly taking it anymore.

CBC:

Should B.C. Premier Christy Clark follow through her promise to block the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline if her conditions for the project aren't met, Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod says he would be prepared to step in and support a "northern route" that would see bitumen shipped from Alberta north to the N.W.T. and out to Asia.

That's because the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, a $16.2-billion project intended to transport natural gas from the Beaufort Sea through the Northwest Territories, south to a hub in northwestern Alberta and out to North American markets, has been put on hold after its investors suspended the funding.

In an interview that aired Saturday on CBC Radio's The House, McLeod said his preference is to see the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project go ahead but if the project is dead then he is prepared to look at "all the possibilities."

There's more than one way to skin a Clark, it seems. As I predicted, we'll build North. The premiers (and Alaska, if needbe) will be on board with this; and as Ezra Levant pointed out a month or so ago, the native land claims are all settled and the First Nations are almost like a different breed from their spoiled southern cousins -- entrepreneurial and eager to buy in. And they haven't forgotten or forgiven the roles played by Greenpeace et. al. in destroying the seal and fur industries.

As a bonus, when it comes to sabotage, it'll be very entertaining watching all those Starbucks warriors stumbling around in the muskeg, being eaten alive by mosquitoes and black flies. ( For the al-Qaida types who decide [and they will, count on it] to tag along, a more merciful fate -- Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up.)

Marquette Magazine

First, our feet and hands are our interface to the world. As such, they are highly innervated with nerve endings that provide sensory feedback to our central nervous system, which uses this information to guide our actions. With our toes and feet, this is as simple as sensing the shape of the ground, the incline, the pressure that our shoes create on our feet, or the slipperiness of the surface we are standing on — all very important information if we are to successfully navigate our world.

A review of the second book in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy (the others are linked at the top and bottom of the page) which probably won't be denting sales too much, though I think I'll be giving it a pass.

Warning: Language.

Goodreads:

The tiresomely redundant writing would probably be a little easier to deal with if not for the fact that the majority of it is used to express the thoughts of what is unquestionably the dumbest character in the history of literature. Ana is a mental midget. This is not about her choices, it's about her inability to comprehend even the simplest of concepts. I think my favorite demonstration was during a charity auction Christian's parents were hosting. One of Christian's "ex-subs" (that's ex-submissive for those who aren't in the know *wink wink*) is wandering around, apparently armed and gunning for Ana. Or Christian. We never really know for sure, but anyway, because of this threat, Christian has hired more security. Taylor, Christian's chief bodyguard, now has three guys under his command, and all four of them are cruising the party, keeping an eye out for Ms. Small, Dark, and Nutsy.

John Fund:

Drygalla’s former teammates in her Rostock rowing club are bitter. They say the treatment she received recalls the practice of sippenhaft, which means “kin liability.” It was used by the Nazi regime to justify the arrest and torture of the relatives of dissidents and suspects.

People who want to root out everyone accused of holding objectionable views from Olympic teams — or anyone who is related to someone who has objectionable views — would be wise to remember something: The Olympics is about sports, not politics. Every country in the world, no matter how odious, is allowed to compete. That includes North Korea, which starves its own people and maintains sadistic gulags for dissidents. It includes Cuba and Uganda, which persecute gays. It includes Saudi Arabia and Iran, where female adulterers can be stoned to death.

Mark Steyn:

But where was that much-vaunted British sense of irony on opening night? The overhead camera settled on robotic formations of grateful apple-cheeked urchins in a giant children’s ward spelling out the letters N-H-S like a Busby Berkeley chorus in Gold Diggers of 1935 — and, horrifyingly, they seemed to mean it. Had the pageant been truer to life, the patients would have left their hospital beds riddled with C. difficile, MRSA, septicemia, and the other parting gifts that attend a stay in an NHS hospital. But no; when the state religion of government medicine comes up, the dark irony of Danny Boyle, the epitome of Blair-era Cool Britannia, withers and dies like a geriatric waiting for her hip replacement. And all this in the week that the nation’s doctors are going on strike.

Big Government:

The most terrifying danger Americans face from a second Barack Obama term isn’t the economy, which is scary enough.

The most harrowing prospect is the Obama Administration’s passivity in the face of attempts to introduce aspects of sharia law into our legal system. Now there is strong and open evidence of the Obama administration collaborating with Islamist activists to ensure the path toward sharia law is accelerated.

Just last week, Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, was asked this question by Trent Franks (R-AZ), a member of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution: "Will you tell us here today that this Administration's Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?"

Perez refused to answer. Four times.

And why would Franks target Perez?

Here’s why:

David Thompson:

The journal’s current gems include Media Studies lecturer Dr Hillegonda Rietveld’s Disco’s Revenge: House Music’s Nomadic Memory, an article rendered lofty by obligatory references to Deleuze, Guattari and de Sade, and which “addresses the role of house music as a nomadic archival institution,” one that is “keeping disco alive through a rhizomic assemblage of its affective memory in the third record of the DJ mix.”

de Sade would certainly appreciate the shout-out, because you'd have to be profoundly masochistic to read any more than I've quoted.

The Smew:

EDMONTON, AB—Attempts to alert his owner, Lenora Claret, to his general disgust over his treatment via carefully-planned vomiting seem to have completely backfired on Marco the cat today.

"The plan should have come off flawlessly," Marco told reporters. "I made sure to vomit in front of her, so she couldn't assume that she'd simply missed an old hairball, and always on items she seemed to love, like the afghan the late husband use to sleep under, or inside the only shoes she ever seems to wear. Places that would scream 'screw you, bitch, two can play this game' to anyone with eyes in her head, or who would prefer not to be covered in vomit."

The New Yorker:

For one thing, Ryan has no significant private-sector experience. Besides summer jobs working at McDonald’s or at his family’s construction company, or waiting tables as a young Washington staffer, Ryan has none of the business-world experience Romney frequently touts as essential for governing. In the run-up to his first campaign for Congress, in 1998, that gap was enough of a concern for Ryan that he briefly became a “marketing consultant” at the family business, an obvious bit of résumé puffing.

But Ryan’s Washington experience is also light, at least for a potential President—which, after all, is the main job description of a Vice-President. Ryan has worked as a think-tank staffer and Congressman, but he’s never been in charge of a large organization, and he has little experience with foreign policy. Given how Sarah Palin was criticized for her lack of such experience, I’m surprised that Romney would pick someone whose ability to immediately step into the top job is open to question.

Blogger Ryan Lizza is taking a pasting in the comments re: Barack Obama's sketchy (ahem!) employment credentials, not to mention his VP, who has spent his entire adult life being a moron, as far as I can determine.

Mississauga.com:

Nabeel Khan, the founder and CEO of the popular Chick-Felays chain, couldn't understand why his suddenly angry customers were taking his restaurant staff to task.

“We had one guy come into one of our restaurants, ordered his food, and then refused it, asking us how we could be so discriminating,” said Khan, who has restaurants in Mississauga, Listowel, Brampton and Oakville, with locations set to open in Milton, Scarborough and Markham by the end of the year.

Eventually Khan learned that the president of U.S. chain Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, had made public statements in June and July declaring his opposition to same-sex marriage, sparking a firestorm of controversy south of the border.

Khan then realized customers were mistakenly linking his two-year-old chain to the American company.

“It shocks me that people would ask ‘How can you discriminate?’ How could you think that? We’re brown people,” Khan said with a chuckle.

To which I reply (with a chuckle): Did our intrepid reporter somehow fail to enquire as to Mr. Khan's opinion of same-sex marriage? Just a guess, it's quite a bit like Mr. Cathy's, but with more hangings.

or Shakespeare, for that matter.

Angus Croll:

function theSeriesOfFIBONACCI(theSize) {

//a CALCKULATION in two acts.
//employ'ng the humourous logick of JAVA-SCRIPTE

//Dramatis Personae
var theResult; //an ARRAY to contain THE NUMBERS
var theCounter; //a NUMBER, serv'nt to the FOR LOOP

//ACT I: in which a ZERO is added for INITIATION

//[ENTER: theResult]

//Upon the noble list bestow a zero
var theResult = [0];

//ACT II: a LOOP in which the final TWO NUMBERS are QUEREED and SUMM'D

//[ENTER: theCounter]

//Commence at one and venture o'er the numbers
for (theCounter = 1; theCounter < theSize; theCounter++) {
//By divination set adjoining members
theResult[theCounter] = (theResult[theCounter-1]||1) + theResult[Math.max(0, theCounter-2)];
}

//'Tis done, and here's the answer.
return theResult;

//[Exuent]
}

to get anything past these folks. I figure that by the crack of noon should do it, just in time for a celebratory martini or three.

The American Interest:

But where the United Nations envisioned environmental reform, some manufacturers of gases used in air-conditioning and refrigeration saw a lucrative business opportunity.

They quickly figured out that they could earn one carbon credit by eliminating one ton of carbon dioxide, but could earn more than 11,000 credits by simply destroying a ton of an obscure waste gas normally released in the manufacturing of a widely used coolant gas. That is because that byproduct has a huge global warming effect. The credits could be sold on international markets, earning tens of millions of dollars a year.

That incentive has driven plants in the developing world not only to increase production of the coolant gas but also to keep it high — a huge problem because the coolant itself contributes to global warming and depletes the ozone layer.

The Daily Mail:

Others have made matters worse by including other people in their pictures, with one man's mother visible in the mirror taking a picture of him flexing, and another dressing his baby in matching shades.

Plenty of photos taken in public toilets have accidentally literally caught people with their trousers down.

Some even proudly show off angry-looking sunburn and bottoms covered in cellulite.

The website reads: 'The internet is filled with mirror pics, and they’re all ridiculous: people contorting their bodies into awkward poses that they think look flattering.

'NEWS FLASH: TAKING A PICTURE IN A BATHROOM MIRROR DOES NOT MAKE YOU HOTTER. It makes you look like an idiot, and it screams "I don’t have any real friends who could take a picture of me."

Warning: NSFL(unch)

It was the first day of the school year and the shop teacher was surprised to see a rather "princess-like" young lady sitting in the front row of the classroom.

Her name was Judy and she was the only girl to sign up for the woodworking shop class that term. The shop teacher asked her if she was sure she was in the right class, and Judy assured him that she was.

The teacher then said, "This course may be a bit out of your league. Do you have any experience at all working with tools?"

"What exactly do you mean?" replied Judy.

"Well, what's the difference between a nail, a screw and a bolt?" the shop teacher asked.

Big Government:

Some moments deserve a monument. Some do not. This point is apparently lost on the owners of a Hyde Park shopping mall, which just installed a ton-and-a-half stone marker to commemorate the spot where Barack Obama first kissed his future wife, Michelle. The plaque, which features a picture of the couple dancing – Obama looks like he’s grimacing, and Michelle looks strangely pleased – states:

“On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate.”

-- President Barack Obama from an interview in O, The Oprah Magazine, Feb. 2007; Image Courtesy of BlackPast.org

On this site, President Barack Obama first kissed Michelle Obama.

It is a good thing that admirers of Bill Clinton did not attempt the same publicity stunt. We might have a three thousand pound boulder in the middle of the Oval Office to cover the rug stains.

Or at least let us in on what kind of stylin' gel you use to get that bitchin' hairmet.

Daniel Greenfield:

Historical suffering transmuted into guilt is the gold standard of liberalism, but suffering is relative. In our wonderful multi-everything society, there are so many groups with so many claims to pain. Everyone agrees that the Heteronormative Caucasian Patriarchy of Doom is to blame for all of it, but that still leaves the question of dividing up the spoils of the system and all the privileges to be gained from denouncing privilege. A caste system doesn't work without priority, and calculating the priority of privilege claims by the perpetually underprivileged is complicated.

Without the Victim Value Index, understanding how these priorities work can be confusing, even for liberals. It's particularly confusing for conservatives and libertarians who don't understand the system and dismiss it as liberal insanity. It is insane, the way all cultural taboos are, but there is a method to the madness.

The first thing to understand is the dirty little secret of the Victim Value Index. While loud vocal assertions of suffering are very important, the substance of such suffering is unimportant when moving up the ladder of the Victim Value Index.

If historical justice for suffering were the barometer, American Indians would be at the head of the line. While conceptually they are, progressives respond to praises of America by bringing them up, in practice they are somewhere near the back end of the middle. The group currently at the head of the line, Muslims, have the least claim on historical justice, but are at the center of civil rights activism.

Via David Thompson

Slate

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” -- George Orwell

Even though the benefits outweigh the risks, the idea of nationalizing Facebook is probably a nonstarter. At the very least, though, it is a great thought experiment and way of putting the privacy and data-mining issues front and center. It is not Facebook’s fault that the U.S. government has no national privacy standards, centralized privacy commissioner, or regulations about making good use of social data. For several years now, privacy advocates have tried to work with Facebook to improve its record, and academics have begged for better data access. Forcing regulators—and the company itself—to think about the ways in which its organizational behavior might serve the public interest should make it a better company.

Post-IPO, Facebook should serve its shareholders’ interests, and as a firm the company’s priority is making profit. Yet we should also work on ways to prompt the company to become a good player on privacy issues, help solve important social problems, and still turn a profit. Facebook is now public infrastructure, and it should be treated as such.

The article inspired numerous comments, of which this was not atypical

BlueEyes_Austin This is, straight up, the most asinine article ever posted by Slate. It makes Monkey Fishing look like Anna Karinina. It makes Marcotte look like one of the Bronte sisters.

Via Ace Of Spades HQ

The Smew:

Paramedics immediately declared the 72-year-old Mr. Mason dead at the scene. Veteran ambulance driver Arthur Bailey said he hadn’t witnessed such stomach-turning ruthlessness committed against another human being in all his 25 years on the job.

“I could handle the gruesome scene,” said Bailey. “But some of the younger guys lost their lunch as soon as they walked through the door. Pretty disturbing.”

Henry’s older brother Daniel Mason watched the slow slaughter of his younger sibling and tried to warn him away from his wife’s never-ending discourse on canning, macramé, and unfair judging during the Episcopal church’s slow cooker competition.

“I knew it would eventually kill him,” Daniel said. “And sure enough, it did. Sounds like she even kept at it 30 minutes after his death, that sick bitch.”

Newsbusters:

The network morning shows on Tuesday devoted an enormous 20 minutes and 53 seconds to obsessing over a gaffe by a Republican congressman, hyping Todd Akin's comments for nine separate segments. NBC, CBS and ABC touted Democratic efforts to link the gaffe-prone representative to the GOP presidential ticket.

Former Democratic operative turned Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos zeroed in on Akin's comments what constitutes a "legitimate rape." He breathlessly wondered, "We saw the President pounce in the White House briefing room yesterday. How are the Democrats going to try to capitalize on this today?"

After Jake Tapper pointed out that vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan and Akin both supported pro-life legislation, Stephanopoulos continued his focus on the national ticket: "But just to clarify, though, right now at least now, both Romney and Ryan are saying that they would accept abortion in the cases of rape?"

A pity they couldn't find the time to interview the world's foremost expert on whether this counts as "rape squared" or "something else." (Needless to say, the latter is a defence only available to those with impeccable liberal credentials, e.g. Bill Clinton or Julian Assange.)

Actually, pregnancy resulting from rape is comparatively rare; some of this is due to lack of arousal on the part of the woman (thus inhibiting sperm motility), but the rapist's equipment also fails surprisingly often. From the Rape Investigation Handbook (a manual used by many police forces and sex crimes detectives):

Metafilter:

The award for the best jokes at this year's Edinburgh Fringe has been given to Canadian comic Stewart Francis for this joke: "You know who really gives kids a bad name?..

.. Posh and Becks.

(This might need some explanation. He's referring to soccer star David Beckham, married to Victoria ["Posh Spice"]), who have conferred many "interesting" names on their children, such as their daughter "Harper Seven.")

The rest of 2012's best one liners are:

2. Tim Vine - "Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly. "
3. Will Marsh - "I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister."
4. Rob Beckett - "You know you're working class when your TV is bigger than your book case."
5. Chris Turner - "I'm good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet… I don't know Y."
6. Tim Vine - "I took part in the sun tanning Olympics - I just got Bronze."
7. George Ryegold - "Pornography is often frowned upon, but that's only because I'm concentrating."
8. Stewart Francis - "I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!"
9. Lou Sanders - "I waited an hour for my starter so I complained: 'It's not rocket salad."
10. Nish Kumar - "My mum's so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism… she wouldn't fancy her chances."

Links to earlier years' winners at the Metafilter link.

Nerve:

I knew this was coming when the cashier in Barnes and Nobles saw me looking at Fifty Shades of Grey and stage-whispered: "I bought that for my mom, and now I’m just terrified that I’m going to go home and find my dad. In a cage. Bleeding or dead." BDSM is like soccer and socialized medicine; fascinating, but hard for a lot of Americans to understand. Cosmo's trying to help with their August issue, which features a twist on their usual bouquet of sex tips: this time, all their tips are inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey.

Now, say what you will about Grey, but it is about BDSM. It cannot (and must not!) be forgiven for introducing millions of Americans to lines like "My inner goddess is doing the merengue, with some salsa moves," but there’s some pretty kinky shit in there. And it's nice to see a national women’s magazine with a feature purportedly dedicated to BDSM. But I've got to tell you: Cosmo's BDSM tips make Fifty Shades of Grey look like The Story of O.

Robert Spencer:

The overall thrust of the entire “TownHall Issues Conference,” as is clear from its stated agenda, is to portray Muslims as the innocent victims of a bigoted, racist and “Islamophobic” government and law enforcement establishment that is unfairly scapegoating Muslims as a whole for the misguided deeds of a few on September 11, 2001. It will include no discussion of the many attempted jihad attacks against the U.S. since then, or of the successful ones, such as Nidal Malik Hasan’s massacre at Fort Hood or Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad’s murders outside a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Any and all scrutiny of the Muslim community in the U.S. will be portrayed as gratuitous and unwarranted. The assembled Democrats, meanwhile, will be falling all over themselves to promise that whatever domestic counter-terror apparatus the Obama administration has failed to dismantle during its first term will go under the knife during its second.

But the most disturbing aspect of the entire “Jumah at the DNC” is not the obvious victimhood-mongering of its agenda, but the people involved. The Democrats are playing host to an unsavory gang of Islamic supremacists with numerous ties to jihad groups. Even this is not surprising, but it should be a matter of concern to any Americans who are more aware of the jihad threat than the average politically correct Democrat pol.

Daniel Greenfield:

Biden's ego has made it impossible for him to understand the uses he has been put to. And that is part of the joke. Joe Biden wasn't selected despite his penchant for saying stupid things in public. He was selected because of it. He is there to project incompetence in order to make Obama look better. He is there to make the idea of white male leadership look like a joke. That is his one and only job and he has succeeded at it.

Biden is the successor of every dumb white male father figure on TV gawping at the screen, tumbling over chairs and down the stairs, scratching his head cluelessly at the wiser new generation around him. He is every man in a commercial who can't figure out how to start a car, make coffee or clean the house until his wife or a helpful minority figure shows up and explains it to him.

Stephen Brown:

It is a very dark, but little known, underside to the multicultural nightmare that western European societies are fast becoming. Hospitals, among the most respected institutions in Western societies due to their compassion and care of the sick and vulnerable, are turning more and more into places of immigrant violence.

The latest incident of such inexcusable savagery within the walls of a European public medical facility occurred last week in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Danish newspapers report that about 70 men, some armed with “cudgels,” invaded the Odense University Hospital emergency ward, looking to further harm, even possibly kill, a man who had just been admitted in critical condition with a gunshot wound. Luckily, no hospital staff member was injured, and it was most likely the heroics of the police officers present that prevented the intruders from reaching the injured patient.

Via Blazing Cat Fur

Coincidence . . . or prophesy?

Mark Steyn:

To win the "war on women," the party's general staff are planning their own Normandy invasion, adding to their convention lineup a host of stellar "pro-choice" speakers, including Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria, Planned Parenthood's head honchette Cecile Richards, NARAL Pro-Choice America abortion supremo Nancy Keenan, and Georgetown Law's contraceptive coed Sandra Fluke. President Obama's lavishly remunerated strategists have presumably run the focus groups and crunched the numbers, but, if I were a moderate, centrist, eternally indecisive swing-voter in a critical state, and I switched on the Democratic convention to find a bunch of speakers warning about the threat to your abortion rights I would find it a very curious priority in the summer of 2012.

The First Poem Written for Computers

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For you somewhat cybernetically challenged, it goes something like this (using the proper cyber-names):

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And much more fun (maybe not for the dogs, though).

The good news is that these people seem to be breaking for Romney:

What I learned: Americans are worried. About a lot of things. It was a two-and-a-half-hour session, but I’ll give you a for instance. Americans are really worried about education: about cost and competition from abroad, about kids who mortgage their futures by forgoing college to work, about kids who are too lazy to work and hide away in college. They think we need better teachers. They think we need better parents (“There should be parenting courses!”). They think we need to hold educators more accountable. They think we need to leave educators be. They think critical- and creative-thinking skills are the most important. They think we should stick to the three Rs. We should learn from Asia. We should reject the Asian model. There was agreement, at least, that we should do more of the things that work and less of the things that don’t. That, above all, things should be better, and everyone needs to do everything to make them so. And the children, always the children.

The bad news is that I seem to be losing the will to live.

(I have no idea where or what "Arbic" is.)

This was featured on the front page today.

National Post:

It took just a handful of nuts to pry wide open discussion about the GOP’s so-called problem with race at this week’s Republican National Convention.

Outrage, mainly from Democrats and liberal-leaning media outlets, flowed forth after two unruly convention goers tossed peanuts at a black CNN camerawoman during the pageantry and jeered, “This is how we feed animals.”

Mitt Romney’s team took pains to vehemently denounce it telling the National Post, “The incident was extremely inappropriate, it was ugly and despicable and has no place whatsoever within the Republican party and should not be a part of our political discourse.”

So cut-and pasteth our journalette, who finds it slots neatly into her world view. And where did it come from?

PJMedia:

Two incidents happened yesterday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida:

1. Mia Love, an African-American Republican woman, gave a speech and received loud cheers and a standing ovation from almost every single one of the thousands of white Republicans in attendance.

2. Two bozos, of unknown identity, “threw peanuts” at an African-American woman camera operator for CNN, while purportedly saying “This is how we feed animals,” and were ejected from the convention.

Furthermore, there is video proof that the first incident (the standing ovation) happened; while the only evidence we have for the damning details of the second purported incident (at least as of the time of this writing) is the word of a partisan left-wing blog.

Just think of it: Thousands of people there, with thousands of cameras and smart phones, and nobody thought to record it for posterity, not even the alleged "camera operator." What are the odds?

Andrew Breitbart offered to donate $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund for anyone who could provide video or audio evidence of similar slurs directed at members of the Congressional Black Caucus who decided to crash a (Tea Party?) demonstation in Washington about a year and a half ago. The offer still stands, as far as I know.

Shame on the National Post for printing this. Even the CBC had the sense to leave it to one of their bloggers (about midway down the page.)