Thursday digest

- The other day, I heard a Trudeaupian partisan refer to the Prime Minister as "Shrub", as in a little Bush. I wonder what we should call Bill Graham, pictured above with a certain former US Vice-President on a seemingly since removed graphic from the Liberal Party website. For some reason, I don't think the editorial cartoonists are going to be as hard on the Liberals for cozying up to an American politican as they have been with "Steve". (H/T: Bourque.)

- Almost 100 Hollywood stars have taken out an ad condemning Hezbollah and Hamas and placing the blame for civilian casualties in Lebanon squarely on the shoulders of the terrorists. I wonder if the CBC will find time to mention that in between their wall-to-wall coverage of the overly celebritized left-wing love-in happening in Toronto this week, or perhaps the Mother Corp only covers the intersection of fame and politics when it suits their political point of view?

- Speaking of the AIDS conference, today's loony left play of the day goes to these protestors who decided to stop traffic in Toronto yesterday over the lunch hour to demand that taxpayers support heroin addiction. Nice PR strategy there. I'm sure you'll get a lot of support by inconveniencing the public. How come anti-statist activists never resort to such tactics? Oh, that's right - they have jobs.

- Note to terrorists: testimony from the 9/11 commission reveals that the US government has forbidden airlines from sending more than three people of the same demographic profile to secondary screening. Why? Because that would be discrimination. See here. So, the more al-Qaeda you have on board a single flight, the better the chances of success because only three, max, are allowed to be sent to secondary, if the screener even dares to be politically incorrect enough to send even one of them. And, if one of the terrorists at secondary is the one with the bomb, he can just claim torture when he's detained and then Alberto Gonzalez becomes the bad guy with the burden of proof placed on the White House.

Another win for those who would rob law enforcement agencies of a key tool to disrupt terror operations came today, here. Thank God that the Canadian courts recognize the need for authorities to prevent terrorists from communicating with each other as much as possible, not to mention the UK. If Scotland Yard didn't have these tools at their disposal, we'd still be picking up the wreckage of 10 planes somewhere over the Atlantic, or worse yet, out of backyards all along the Eastern Seaboard.

God bless the ACLU’s America.

UPDATE: The controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations was a co-plaintiff in this case. It's probably the only time you'll get Hitch and CAIR on the same side of an issue. I wonder how he'll explain this one.