Canadian Steven Crowder goes looking for trouble with this funny take on the Koran. No one knows how long it will be available on YouTube as the YT/Google folk don’t mind Christian bashing but hey, they don’t wanna mess with Islam. Wonder why? Nope, not that. Way to many Dhimmis at the big YT.

Ya gotta admit, that is wicked fun! Not to be outdone, he takes a roundhouse swing at the Canadian health care system. Keep this in mind the next time you hear someone in the Obama administration say that we need cradle-to-grave, single-payer health care. Of course, if we get a system like Canada’s, that time from the cradle to the grave will be gettin’ a lot shorter!

Many call him the Canadian ‘Zo.

Enjoy!

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The First Amendment gives all of us freedom of speech, right? Well, if you’re employed by the hard-core Liberal Leftists that run the Hollywood entertainment machine, exercising your free-speech rights in the opposite direction of those that pay your salary can put your career on ice. The help aid those of a conservative mindset you would like to have an outlet for meeting with like minds to discuss their political persuasions, actor Gary Sinise had formed what would have to be called a support group — “Friends of Abe“. From yesterday’s Washington Times:

A group of politically conservative and centrist Hollywood figures organized by actor Gary Sinise and others has been meeting quietly in restaurants and private homes, forming a loose-knit network of entertainers who share common beliefs like supporting U.S. troops and traditional American values.

Some of those involved are taking more public steps to counter the entertainment industry’s tilt toward liberalism and Democratic politics, such as campaigning for Republican Sen. John McCain or crafting projects to portray America in a more positive light.

The group, whose members call themselves “Friends of Abe” after Abraham Lincoln, was organized as an underground movement because of fears that prominent industry titans with outspoken liberal views would retaliate, said participants. They often were reluctant to name members of the group in interviews for fear it would hurt their careers.

SPEAKING UP: Conservative singer Pat Boone says that “word is getting out that there’s many of us in this business.” Watch: www.washingtontimes.com/media/video.(PETER LOCKLEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

“It’s a growing movement, and word is getting out that there’s many of us in this business …,” said 1950s singer Pat Boone, one of the few conservatives to talk about the movement publicly. “If certain studio execs – hirers and firers – learn that this is a movement and growing, and that some of these people that they hire are of this inclination, these people could be unemployed.”

Living in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica we have a similar situation here at Okie Manor. I don’t promote ‘Okie’ on my company website nor do I refer my clients to this screed — or else I probably wouldn’t have many, if any. This was brought into the harsh light of a SoCal day in a big way when Doug TenNaple, award winning game designer, graphic novelists, TV animator and producer of Nickelodeon’s Catscratch shut down and scrubbed squeaky clean his pro-life, Christian, conservative, Intelligent-Design-supporting blog a few years ago citing his strong suspicions that he was secretly being blacklisted because of his published views.

I wish all these guys involved with Friends of Abe much luck and a chance to come out into the light and enjoy their freedoms without reprisal. The Times article goes on to quote David Horowitz, “another Hollywood conservative” who remarks:

“There’s a kind of … intellectual terror in this town. People are terrorized; they’re afraid to say what they think. So what Gary is doing to provide aid and comfort to its victims is admirable, and I applaud him for it,” he said. “But my concern is it’s not going to be much more than that.”

This might be the home of the free, but it’s only that way because it’s also the home of the brave. Can’t be no freedom without that last part folks . . .

[Update: See Dubya over at Michelle Malkin's blog is channeling the same energy.

. . . end Update]

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As usual, the Anchoress hits the proverbial nail on its head and drives the sucker home with a single blow! This time its her reaction to the growing sentiment in some legal circles that we here in the United States might need to reevaluate our First Amendment rights to Free Speech and become more like Europe, or Canada — where much of admittedly disgusting and hurtful expression of ideas has become civilly liable, or even criminal, much to their detriment IMHO.

Free speech is part of what makes America great, and singular. It is what leaves America unbent when the rest of the world is cowering. Americans will die for freedom – for the freedom to say what they like, be who they are and to bend the knee only if they choose to do so, and then (usually) before no one but the Creator.

And they’ll die helping to bring that sort of freedom to others.

You don’t surrender your right to speak freely in some misbegotten effort to legislate “niceness.” To do that is to admit you are too frightened to be free.

A lot of disturbing trends in our country (I’m especially thinking of the rise of the Obamessiah!) are the result of too many of our country’s men and women grown boys and grown girls being “too frightened to be free”. What a shameful outcome from those that followed the Greatest Generation, who proved many times over that they were more than brave enough to fight, and die, for freedom. Guess we’re too busy watchin’ Oprah or somethin’ in HD to care, too concerned that we might chip a nail. Pity — pathetic! Yep lady, you’re right.

Wusses.

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