Okay, so you're not into the World Cup. Your only knowledge of a red card is either a heart or a diamond. Well, fear not. This summer, your friendly neighborhood TV  on broadcast and cable, will make sure you don't die of boredom. They've got new seasons of reality shows, dramas and other fare that'll have you reaching for the remote (or the Scotch) in a flash. Let's take a peek.

ICE ROAD TRUCKERS. Steamy temperatures outside will melt away if you watch this reality series on History TV Canada Wednesdays at 9. Imagine in freezing and below freezing cold, it's your job to drive a big rig across vast frozen-over bodies of water. Now imagine summer's about to hit and you have to do it before the ice melts. That's just one life-or-death challenge facing these guys. No, it is not a game show.

SCOUNDRELS, Starting June 20 on ABC and CTV, brings back Brandon Walsh of the original 90210 (a.k.a. Jason Priestly) as a hunky dude who's part of a family nastier than Dynasty's Carringtons and Dallas' Ewings combined. (Kosher) family values abound in the new century.

Already running on Fox and Global (and not doing well) is The Good Guys. Mondays at 9 (it switches to Fridays in September — maybe, read on:) This show plays like a 70's cop show parody with an Odd-Couple modeled pair of detectives who handle shoplifters and burglaries. parlaying each case into a major big crime. Oh, yeah, Tom Hanks' kid Colin is one of the stars. Matt Nix, creator of the US cable hit Burn Notice, dreamed this one up, and Zack Estin and Mike Bondensen produce it. It has been announced as part of Fox's fall schedule, but unless its ratings rise soon, it may well be the first "new show" to be yanked.

If you though Richard Simmons was a pain in the ass, check out BREAKTHROUGH with Tony Robbins, coming to NBC on July 27. It's another self-appointed-expert-out-to-straighten-out your-screwed-up-life reality outing.

ROOKIE BLUE comes from ABC and Michael Koch's E1 Entertainment. Take the old Leonard Spelling cop show The Rookies, make them gals, now subtract two. Oh, and film it in Canada, like that Showcase TV '80s cop drama Sirens. and today's Flashpoint on CTV and CBS.

BILLY THE EXTERMINATOR, from David Gurin and Sheldon Lazarus' September Films (A&E) is pretty much what it is — a young guy in an mullet (does he need a makeover advisor) and his buddy who trap snakes, bugs and other beasties. Not for the squeamish, but what you'd expect from the network that went from ballet and symphony concerts to Intervention and Dog The Bounty Hunter?

And, coming soon, there's also THE GATES, produced by Fox TV and created by one Grant Scharbo, to run starting June 20 on ABC. This drama the latest to cash in on the monster/vampire craze begun by the Twilight novels and films, all about a creepy community consisting of a suspicious sheriff and as bunch of vampires.

Add to this more of Dating in the Dark, So You Think You Can Dance (produced by Simon Cowell), and a new season of Wipeout (Matt Kunitz, producer), and Wipeout Canada (Global, TV-Tropolis) and well, you'll have plenty to keep you occupied until September and (gulp) The New Fall Season.

So, how 'bout those demos, huh?

At least 2,000 demonstrators as I write these words, are venting their anger in Toronto over the Israeli military's shooting of nine members of an aid group in a flotilla in Gaza. Among those killed was a 19-year-old who was shot in the back of the head four times, indicating that there may have been multiple shooters of the Israel Defense Forces who fired the fatal shots.

Since that ugly incident, Israel has been on arrogant defense mode. Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to the world that Israel had every right to use that level of deadly force, and rejected any and all calls for an international probe of the incident. Later, the vessel Rachel Corrie was turned back and members of its crew detained and released without a shot fired, but the damage was done. And notably, the media began to stutter like Porky Pig and sputter like Daffy Duck over what should be the right spin. It was all over the radio talk shows and the TV newscasts, the Zionist meanness there for the world to see. Even Glenn Beck of Fox News broke his usual "we're-doomed, America" marathon to "remind" America about how important it was for the USA to stand with Israel. Judging by how they treat what they called "hateful terrorists" it's a lot safer than getting in front of them.

I suppose those in charge of ABC, CBS, CNN, et al, can thank their lucky stars for the environmental disaster spilling crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico — it gives them another crisis to focus on beside the danger Israel brought on itself through its bellicose relations with its neighbors.

As is the custom, the talk shows were able to find Jews who supported and opposed Israel's action in Gaza. In the Toronto demonstration, there was focus on an elderly Jew who declared, "I am a Jew, and I am carrying a Palestinian flag," an expression of opposition "Not-in-my-name." Hey, there are fair Jews who don't like what happened, either.

But in the end, every head of every state under the sway of Zionism will give Israel a pass. Though Hillary Clinton gave the "chosen ones" a half-hearted tsk-tsk, it wasn't long before her boss Obama (along with Canada's Stephen Harper) voiced their "displeasure" but still were rock-solid behind that nation as the round-the-world demonstrations raged.

The suddenness and range of the outrage from the Left and from Muslims is something we haven't seen for a while, and though it will eventually die down (as did the anger over the Sabra and Shatila murders years ago), Israel and those running the place are going to have to do some serious soul-searching. They need to climb down off their high-horse and the attitude that as "God's chosen" entitles them to do anything they please without consequence or questioning — before they get knocked down. For Israel, the flotilla atrocity is the latest in a series of arrogant missteps for that land. They do not enjoy the same level of respect they could once either bask in or force just by invoking the specter of "the Holocaust."

Israel, created by the dream of Zionists and the guile of its Diaspora, is a young country stolen from the Palestinians and occupied with iron boots and cruelty for over half a century while the world's head was turned the other way. Now, finally, there are those Jews inside and outside of Israel who are feeling that with the flotilla shootings, "We went too far." There are no sunny images of former President Jimmy Carter forcing a handshake between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat.

Today, Israel is not just surrounded by those they have angered and alienated, but fearing serious harm to its land and its Jew citizens from Hamas rockets. Its biggest weapon — the media it owns and/or controls — is in confused mode, throwing every bit of mud (and the kitchen sink) in the hope some of it sticks, and that non-Jews will understand with the help of the media pretzel logic that the best way to protect Israel ("the only democratic state in the Middle East") is by pumping lead into the heads of foreign aid relief workers and claim them as "terrorists."

Israel is again at a crossroads — they have been there before and made all the right moves that allowed them to survive with their ill-gotten gain. But this time, in a move that they could not hide from the world or spin as a defense — they've played a crappy poker hand with the rest of world opinion and gambled with the very existence of their credibility and their perpetual victim status, and are losing badly.

Good gamblers know when to fold 'em. It's time for Israel and its gung-ho supporters not to just fold their hand, but to quit the game. We all know what happens to gamblers who tick off the wrong poker player. In any case, Israel's (and Zionists') only hope may just be to join the racists they have been trying to destroy for decades. Dumb moves by arrogant people may just back them into that one option as their one and only option. And if they decide to be a little more humble and apologetic , there had better be some sign of it in their media for us all to see.

It's going to be a very interesting summer.
 

J. R. Ewing must be spinning in his grave.

What began as a breaking news story over forty days ago has evolved into what is not only an oil spill disaster that has eclipsed that of the Exxon-Valdez spill, but has the potential to kill millions of people.

Bear with me. For weeks now the eyes of the world have been fixed on those ugly brown plumes coming from that broken British Petroleum pipeline and now endangering animals, aquatic life and the livelihoods of millions along the US Gulf Coast. You can touch the anger with a knife — coming from environmentalists, U.S. politicians from coast-to-coast, and understandably, the people of the Gulf Coast whose jobs and families depend on the fishing and related industries (including tourism) that have been all but wiped out. It's scary, because living right on one of the Great Lakes, a good hurricane or two in time could make the Gulf Oil Spill Canada's problem, too. Already, the Bluefin, which spawn in the Gulf, are endangered, and Environment Canada has no plans at all to deal with any similar blowouts in our Arctic waters where there is drilling; Canada is A-okay with that; remember, we have a Crown corporation (owned by our government, Petro-Canada. )

Let's start with the oil that's going into the waterways now — an ancient, gooey sludge of organic matter that no one can predict in terms of how old it was in the ocean floor before being released in that explosion. It's liquefied compost being released in water whose purity we still don't know and haven't found out how polluted it is already, now having chemical dispersants used in it — a double poison stew that BP unleashed.

Right now, with hurricane season starting and those hurricanes ready to make the spill an even bigger disaster, there are reports coming in that it is raining oil in Florida. A good spate of hurricanes, even one big one in the Gulf of Mexico, where atmospheric pressure and the heat of condensation occurs and water carried upward with the heat being distributed vertically around the storm. It's like a hot syrup, only this one is lethal with oil and chemicals. With the thousands of gallons of oil there already, it doesn't take a genius to see what the immediate effect will be on the Gulf states, or to predict where that untrapped massive continuous flow of oil will go.

Now imagine all that oil that they can't catch, floating north, up the Eastern seaboard of the United States towards our Maritimes, including our fisheries. Now, add the poisoned particles of that oil that are already making cleanup workers sick, drifting towards the Great Lakes — and Toronto. The final result could be worse than the damage done by a volcano as oil-poisoned water molecules could end up in the Great Lakes, mixed with that dispersant BP uses to try to break up the oil adding more poison. We could have our own Sargasso Sea just like in the Caribbean (and don't think they're not worried in that part of the world as Obama and BP drag their feet). Remember Hurricane Hazel? Yeah, it can happen here. And don't forget the damage oil can do on the ground and airborne, to electrical lines, roads — why, we could witness a "sea fire" if an oil spill is ignited. It could even flow to Europe, as if they haven't had enough trouble with an Icelandic volcano, how about a man-made disaster?

It's a grim picture. And there is more. BP, defying US government orders to stop using chemical dispersants to break up the oil, is using one called Corexit 9500, which, according to an article in the online EU Times, has a toxicity that grows in hot water —the kind of hot water that exists in the Gulf and gets hotter in hurricanes.

BP has committed a shameless crime against the nature of potentially all of North America. It has lied and avoided media questions, and even put on a dog-and-pony show when President Obama visited the spill site by having "cleanup people" there for the cameras who left the area after Obama departed. Almost fifty days now and they've gone through one failed plan after another, blaming the US government for interference and delays. Actually there's blame enough to go around, from years of chummy relations between BP and other oil companies. Capitalism and Obama's socialism sure are snuggling bedfellows.

If there are lessons to be learned, first, the trillions being spent and soldiers deployed to keep our feet on the necks of Muslims and others perceived as a "threat" could have been and should be used to withdraw our troops now and get them ready for an environmental nightmare unlike any we have ever faced.

And second, the capitalist system that makes it fine and dandy for oil companies to destroy oceans, wildlife, livelihoods and sicken and kill human beings is a system that needs to be tossed out. No more government winking or slaps on the wrist for oil company-caused oil catastrophes, like the USA did with Exxon Mobil over the Valdez spill years ago, And now, we need — on both sides of the border — to beef up laws at state, provincial and international levels and heavily punish energy concern companies who flout the rules, are negligent to the point where these disasters happen. Never mind worrying about those oh-my-god Muslim fanatics. We need to deal with the fanatical greed for profits by oil companies that created this spill, deal with them with super-heavy fines and jail CEOs for murder.

I'm not holding my breath for any massive change. But down the road, don't say I didn't warn you next time you're out for a day of sailing and see a glob of oil or a dead animal float by. Good luck, North America; we'll need it.

It's something to think about next time you fill up your car.

Time to go over what ABC, CW, NBC, CBS, and Fox have in store for us this autumn. There's wild women, superheroes and wall-to-wall police shows old and new. Remember, once they premiere, catch 'em fast; most of the new ones won't be around long.

ABC will bring back its big hits Dancing With the Stars (or rather, race-mixing with the Stars) and dramas like Castle, V (mmm, humans, that's what happens when you introduce cute aliens to Earth,) Steve Levitan's Modern Family, and Shonda Rhimes' Gray's Anatomy and Private Practice (you know, with those women doctors who are so god-like!) New on the schedule are:

DETROIT 1-8-7. This Tuesday drama will teach you (like The Shield did) that cops can do no wrong, even when they do wrong, especially in black crime-infested Detroit. Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos takes his tough guy act to network primetime. Yeah, this white guy will wipe out all those gangstas.

No Ordinary Family: Family crash-lands in South America and acquires super-powers. Along with NBC's new The Cape, one of two superhero shows this season. Hey, how'd you like a next-door neighbor who can settle an argument with you with superhuman abilities? Hollywood loves its Golems (they're the famous super-strong monsters created to smite the Jews' enemies) and these two new shows are variations on that theme.

Shana Goldberg-Meehan is the brains behind Better Together, a new sitcom about relationships, as seen through three couples.
 

ABC already has one just like this, Modern Family. This one, however, is created and produced by a Jewish woman.

MY GENERATION: Just before Dancing With the Stars, see how a bunch of kids raised by Reds and hippies deal with the real world.
It'll remind you of that whiny hit Thirtysomething. Modern family values (in reality, no tradition, respect, morals) are here in abundance, and there's plenty of neurotic behavior reflective of guess which ethnic group (see above for clue).

Secret Millionaire: And if whiny Reds aren't your thing, how about a capitalist who's a philanthropist — come on, they can't all by like Milliken, can they? This one flunked in its brief run on Fox, now it's on ABC. Go figure.

Body Of Proof: More gory crime stuff here, with China Beach's Dana Delaney as a medical examiner. ABC's version of Bones (that show has a know-it-all broad, too).

Happy Endings: The other side of relationships, feminist style. Nothing serves the commie agenda better than sexes mad at each other and too alienated to raise normal families. As the title hinted, it's a comedy. I'm not laughing.

Mr. Sunshine (midseason) centers on an immature man (former "Friends" star Matthew Perry) who's forced to suddenly grow up — at middle age.

The Whole Truth: Another nice Jewish boy Rob Morrow (Numbers) heads the cast of this new legal drama, supposedly showing us legal angles of both defense and prosecuting lawyers.

CBS: Hawaii Five-O: That's The New Hawaii Five-O, based on the Leonard Freeman-created 70's actioner with Alex O'Loughlin taking over as Steve McGarrett. They'll probably dump the theme music but expect a 21st century CSI-ish look to it. CBS has high hopes for this replacement for CSI Miami (which moves to Sunday at 10).
Also on the sked:

Blue Bloods: This new Friday drama is about a family of cops. TV loves police shows (remember, they always know what's best for all of us). Move along, sir, nothing to see here.

$#*! My Dad Says: Yep, that's the title of this new comedy, with William (Capt. Kirk) Shatner as a dad whose tweets are exploited by his kid. Hopefully, the dunderheads at CBS will change the title by fall.

Criminal Minds II: More gore from Mark Gordon, with serial killers being hunted by a different team of feds. Coming in midseason.

Mike and Molly is a new Monday comedy, all about two over-eaters who become each others' "Comfort Food."

Back are all the CSI's (Jerry Bruckheimer, producer,) The Mentalist, Survivor, Big Bang Theory, 2 1/2 Men, and Rules of Engagement. Say bye-bye to Cold Case, Old Christine and (yay!) Ghost Whisperer.
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NBC: New on the peacock web are: Outsourced — you guessed it, a series about a company who boots its jobs over to India. Unemployment and a wrecked US economy, just the formula for non-stop laughs.

Also: Law & Order : Los Angeles: Dick Wolf lost the original L&O to cancellation, but this new offering should fill the void to join the still-on L&O: Special Victims (gory sex crimes) and L&O: Criminal Intent (returning to the MyNetwork TV service). Paul Resier, a nice Jewish boy who starred in Mad About You will star in and created Next, a sitcom about a confused middle-ager. You'll see that new sitcom if any of the NBC rookie comedies fall early.
 

And there's J.J. Abrams' Undercovers, about hubby-and-wife spies, along with Chase, Jerry Bruckheimer's new one about cops pursuing fugitives.

FOX: Joining Fringe, Bones, Idol and other Fox faves will be:

Lonestar: Remember all them evil whites on Dallas? This one's a sort of update with Jon Voigt. There's also Running Wilde, a comedy about a jerk (Will Arnett) who chases an ecology-minded young woman, and Raising Hope, about a man who raises a girl after her wild mom is sent to prison.

CW: Back on will be Smallville, Gossip Girl. One Tree Hill, Vampire Diaries and Life Unexpected. New on the netlet will be:
Hellcats. Love the Bring It On movies? You'll love this one, it's like Glee, without the annoying singing (it's about cheerleaders) and here, everyone is nasty. The perverts will love it.

Nikita, the latest version of the femme fatale spy of movies and TV fame (wow, how many cute gals do you know who will take on Asian/black gangs and other various thugs — unless the government pays them to?) Sorry, but Melrose Place: the Reboot is kaput.

And for you MyNetwork TV fans (all six of you), the cable hit Burn Notice (spy on the run) gets a double run on Wednesdays, joining additions Monk (Fridays), Without A Trace (Thursdays), and new episodes of Don't Forget The Lyrics, joining Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader on Tuesdays.

Enjoy! And if you hate any of the new offerings, don't e-mail me. Express your anger at the networks.

Let the buyer beware. That's good advice, whether you're shopping for kumquats or picking your next mayor. And the "Big Six" media-approved candidates whose faces and names are all you hear in the local news, well — it's not enough for you to hear or read in their on-the-way pamphlets about all the great things they will do for Toronto. You need to know about the others who are serious enough about the Office of Mayor to have invested the money and gone through the bureaucracy in order to have their say.

Don't just get blinded by the media's chosen ones this year. Start by check out the other candidates, and those who have invested in websites to help you to get to know them better. This time, It's Bob's Web-Guide to The "Other" Mayoralty Candidates' Sites. Note: You can also find these web addresses on the Don Andrews election page,
www.natparty.com/DA4mayor.htm.

Also note: all sites below are of the so-called "fringe candidates" that the media have deliberately ignored. There's only a few at this writing, but all have been tested for accessibility, and you should have little trouble accessing them.

Rocco Achampong: http://www.roccoformayor.com

Rocco's site is very navigable, similar in design to the NPC site's main page, You can check out the other Rocco's background (he's from Ghana, and was a former student president at the University of Toronto as well as headings its Black Students' Union in 2001. Born on Christmas Day, he wants to freeze transit fares and is in favour of a transit city with subways as an important component. and also dedicated bike lanes and doubling arts grants and tourism to promote "diversity" and multiculturalism.

George Babula: http://parkdaleparty.com

A fun site. George's "Parkdale Party" has some interesting platform policies, among them, and I quote directly on this first one: Being Virgins is OK. He's against more studies of civic problems ("We've been studied enough") and declaring Toronto's EMS (and nothing else) an essential service.

Wendell Brereton: http://www.wendellbrereton.com 

Wendell is a guy who is pretty future-minded; his neat and well-organized site outlines his "vision for the 22nd century," featuring as tax amnesty (Don Andrews is asking for $20 billion from Ottawa to offset the damage done by mandated multiculturalism). He's against career politicians, especially those without any integrity; he's for "newcomer associations" to help immigrants become "educated and employable" and wants 905 drivers to pay "their fair share" for road tolls.

Howard Gomberg:
http://howardformayor.blogspot.com/

"Howard Is Running for Mayor. Slowly," is the first thing you see on his blogspot, and his folksy-styled website is more like a Twitter page than a serious discussion of issues. His concern for the environment is summed up by the word "wholeness," describing how man and his environment are interdependent on each other. Note to Howard, or whoever is editing his text: There's no "a" in the word "interdependent."

Mark State:

http://www.markstate.wetpint.com

Mark's site is simple and his picture looks good, but his platform is long, muddled and not simply stated (the Spartans were onto something when they said, few words best. He's added the word "stuckness" to the political debate (read the page to find out what it refers to, as well as his "reform" solution to City Hall. I think he's been watching too much Colbert Report. For some reason, he has a picture of a locale in Arizona on the site.

Joseph Pampena: http://www.jpformayor.blogspot.com

Joseph Pampena's site is basically a blogspot. he's another "Man with a Vision." He's very pro-Toronto police, he's big on fiscal responsibility and wants to put flags on Nathan Phillips Square honoring Toronto's many cultures. He wants to groom city parks, which is in line with Don Andrews' position of beautifying and re-greening Toronto. It needs more — more color, more warmth and maybe a picture of Mr. Pampena would help.

Sonnny Yeung: http://www.sonnyyeung.com

Sonny Yeung's site looks kind of bare and amateurish. he's against guns and gun violence, pro-advocacy for newcomers, and an item on his site bemoans the lack of Asians in politics (Ever hear of Bev Oda or Adrienne Clarkson, Sonny?) It's at least up-to-date, with Sonny's campaign looking to be in high gear.

All in all, there's an interesting assortment of people who now have websites and want your vote. Check them out and get informed, then compare them to the Don Andrews platform. And keep looking, there'll be more of them likely between now and the election candidate registration deadline in September. Get to know all your candidates, not just the ones the media hypes. Read their literature and visit all their sites, not just the glossy, slick and paid-for candidates.

If you want a better Toronto, I think you'll make the right choice.

Unless you read the Toronto Sun, you've likely never heard of Brandy Crocker, a woman who has had to put up with the results of the Toronto Police Services' approach (or rather, non-approach to crime prevention. She lives in Toronto's Keele-Lawrence Avenue area, a hotbed of black gangs who have carried on there for years killing, shooting, drug-dealing, and operating like they own the area. She has been forced to wear a mask in her own apartment — to filter out the fumes of cocaine that are apparently coming from an apartment below her. According to the May 8 Sun article by Mark Bonokoski, she has decided to move out.

The gangs win another one, as the cops and the politicians make excuses.

Toronto is a major crime city, largely due to the non-white criminals that the federal policies of multiculturalism and "diversity" have wrought, and there's been plenty of examples of that over the years. One current item involves a father arrested for allegedly stabbing the boyfriend of his missing daughter, Mariam Makhniashvili. It's another tragedy brought to our shores by Trudeau's Liberals and sustained today by the Harper Tories.

The other major factor is the fact that instead of taking a hands-on, in-your-face approach to violent crime. Toronto's cops' approach is almost seeming to enjoy their "work." At all levels, there's no admonishment, no angry police chiefs or officials steaming at the media about the governments at all levels contributing to the rise of crime by the toleration of the non-white elements who are committing it, just empty lies, statistics that crime is going down and half-baked excuses for inaction at all levels.

Crime prevention is not a priority for Toronto's police. Getting speeders, car idlers and, oh, yeah, keeping tabs on white racists is something they do well these days, doing the dirty work enforcing not so much the law as the commie/globalist politically-correct agendas of all three levels of government.

Morality is at the heart of effective crime prevention. Teaching it, or at least, reflecting the importance of morality, is nowhere to be seen, not among police, not among the politicians anywhere, and not among the clergy (in the latter's case, they are apparently occupied with their own sex scandal-bungling and tolerance of sex-abuser priests).

I've gone on until I'm purple about the media's role in de-sensitizing the public over violent crime.

I'm sure you remember how fast the anger died down about the hideous Greyhound bus beheading a couple of years ago by Vince Li, another blessing of diversity in Canada. Once he was put away, the attention died down really fast, until the next atrocity popped up. The same pattern happened after the last killer was "put away" in the Jane Creba Boxing Day murder in Toronto years ago. The media doesn't want to be put in the position of defending a multicult cesspool it loves to promote (The Toronto Red Star is notorious for hiding the race and descriptions of non-whites busted or hunted or suspected of serious crime; that taboo has already been broken as the very black faces of gangstas begin to appear in pictures after raids). That, plus the use of phrases like "gang-bangers" and "gunplay," which trivialize, and de-sensitize us to the horror of this imported mayhem, hurt the cause of crime prevention by not showing us its bloody horror and romanticizing it with language that lessens its violence and seriousness.

And crime-stopping — real crime stopping — is not a big federal priority these days in Ottawa, unless you count federal and provincial efforts to chase down "haters," while non-white gangs shoot and kill and turn our major cities into hell-towns. So you have to start at the local level, with the local police and the local non-white criminals.
"Diversity" has penetrated into the police, so you know that in certain ways they're only going to be so effective vis-à-vis non-white crime and gangs. It's up to the citizen to do his or her part by getting involved by informing police on crime that has been witnessed. We're past the point where being a bystander is not enough. Getting involved is mandatory in crime information, otherwise, we turn over street after street of our towns to chaos and criminal anarchy.

So what to do?

For starters, we have to get the cops out of their nice insulated cruisers and get them on the beat (do you know the name of any constable who patrols your area?) Police need to shake off this shrugged-shoulders attitude and remember why they have a badge and why their cars carry the motto "To protect and serve" (and not just their politically-correct masters, either).

Secondly, police need to start asking for help in violent crime cases. They were sloppy in the Mariam Makhniashvili stabbing case. She is still missing and the father has been jailed. And that goes for shootings and gang killings: go into the black communities and tell them it's their duty to help police find violent criminals, and blunt this dangerous new "Don't snitch" attitude that has pervaded cities all over North America, not just Toronto.

The media has to stop glamorizing and trivializing bloody violent crime with terms like "gunplay" and do its job to the full, which includes complete physical and racial descriptions, drawings and pictures of wanted suspects along with their names.

Toronto Police, it's time to show some real courage, from your rank and file on the street and over at your College Street headquarters. Do your jobs, stop the violent crime. Then you can thump your chests, and start becoming the kind of police force we can all be proud of, and I mean all of us.

Oh, yes, and ask your municipal mayor and councilor candidates where they stand on violent crime, its real causes and real solutions.

It starts with you. Make noise, if you want a safe city, and vote for politicians (like Don Andrews as Mayor) who will really work for a safer Toronto.

As Margo Timmins would say, where have all the cowboys gone?
Really, where are the real men on TV? Or the movies? (Don't even mention the theatre)

Many of us guys spent our youth learning how to be men from two sources: the male side of our families, and from TV and movies. Those who learned how to be men solely from the media were in for the mixed-message barrage of our lives: Men were brutes, effeminate, confused, troubled, angry, moody, whiny, neurotic, and in some frightening more contemporary versions, not even men at all. They engaged in every sort of vice from smoking like chimneys, boozing, criminality (big and petty), defiance of order, selfishness, and of course, the other direction — ready and willing to please "the mate" or the girl they lusted for, and more than happy to lower their dignity for a few hours, or even minutes, of bare-naked yee-HAW!

Hollywood has given us a plethora of "icons" at various stages of the above-mentioned, from Woody Allen to Humphrey Bogart to even John Wayne, to even today's (ugh) male "role models" that our sons and brothers are seeing on screen and the TV (Matt Damon, Patrick Dempsey, Jim Carrey, ad nauseam). Let's take a look.

TONY CURTIS (real name, Bernard Schwartz): Here's guy who could play a lecher, a gambler, a conniver, a cross-dresser (Some Like it Hot) and in The Defiant Ones, a bigoted fugitive. Curtis did it all on film and on TV in two series, The Persuaders and McCoy. The women loved him, even during his chilling 1960's portrayal of serial killer The Boston Strangler.

WOODY ALLEN (real name, Allen Koningsberg) had the manly screen presence of Lemon Pledge. Whether he played variations of his neurotic Jew mensch in flicks like Broadway Danny Rose (his best film), or tried to go serious as star and/or director in films like Crimes and Misdemeanors and Interiors, he managed to pass on his portrait of the modern American male — flawed, "sensitive," amoral and at times, offensive and repulsive.

JOHN WAYNE (real name, Marion Morrison): An "American legend." For his bluster, fighting and shooting and his legendary battles on screen with the likes of Katherine Hepburn, Maureen O'Hara and Lauren Bacall,he ended up lettin' the "little missy" have her way. His last film, The Shootist, wherein he played a dying gunfighter, had him contend with a bitch on the range (Bacall ) and a bratty punk (Ron Howard), was a sad, poignant end to a career so may fools revered.

ROY ROGERS (real name, Leonard Slye) What gal can resist a singing cowboy? Especially one like Roy, with his confusing aw-shucks persona in some of his oaters and a real mean streak in others. It doesn't help that after he hung up his spurs he had his co-star Trigger stuffed and went on to put his name on a series of Marriott Hotel-owned restaurants that specialized in roast beef sandwiches that tasted like they were made from Trigger's family.

CARY GRANT (real name, Archie Leech) This insufferable jerk spent so much of his film career as a shameless skirt-chaser, an arrogant buffoon who in so many of his flicks (good case, Father Goose) made a total ass of himself and spent most of his face-time on screen irritated or befuddled.

ROCK HUDSON (real name Roy Scherer Jr. ) another guy who let the l'il woman take charge, whether it was in his many romance comedies like Pillow Talk, or on TV (on McMillan and Wife, he was a rookie police commissioner whose only way of solving the mystery was allowing his wife Sally to put herself in harm's way. His screen career was legend, as was his debilitating death from AIDS, and even that awful spectacle was one that the Hollywood Jews and gay community used to launch a worldwide campaign of "tolerance" of degeneracy.

These were the guys who were the prototypes of the "metrosexual" — the "non-threatening" unmanly wimp easier to boss around, with not a trace of anger or criminality (you couldn't have scene like Jimmy Cagney pushing a grapefruit into a gal's face nowadays). These are the sad and dangerous "role models" that too many "moms" want their kids to emulate. And what about Dad? Too late, he's domesticated, courtesy of wifey.

It's little wonder young men are confused about gender these days. It's bad enough they're getting dangerous. effeminizing messages and pro-gay propaganda from the media and even in schools nowadays (there's a brouhaha brewing here in Ontario where schools want to teach young kids about sexual education (including politically-correct commie propaganda like "gender confusion"). The public anger over that forced Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to think twice about letting our male kids alone early on in life and letting them "discover" maleness can only lead to tragedy.
Real men need to start being real fathers — that means teaching, by communication and by example, what it means to be strong and moral men to our sons, and not let TV and movies teach them.

Time to teach our sons well about real manhood, fellas. There's no better time than now.

Once upon a time (actually, 1964) in the city of Everett, Washington, a soon to be self-created demagogue was born, name of Glenn Lee Beck. A bright young lad, he was about to enter a life well-mixed with deep personal tragedy and amazing success as one of cable TV's most popular hosts. It would be an odyssey of divorce, revelation, an alcoholic mom who drowned in Puget Sound. Mormonism, and success finally as a radio and TV host, author and false-flag ideologist.

Beck, who went from national prominence as a host of a show on HLN (a division of CNN) into mega-prominence with his own weekday 5-PM (Eastern time) show on Fox News Channel, may well be as many on the left say, the most dangerous man in America. Kosher conservatives and reactionary tea partyers love him. And why not? He projects this aw-shucks small-town guy next door image with the fashion sense of The Joker. His daily show mostly consists of one-hour, drawn-out sermons constructed with the help of blackboards and magnetic pictures, in which he seems constantly on the edge of a breakdown as he explains how the US of A is about to turn into the new Soviet Union. On many Fridays, he has a live studio audience there to stroke his ego and flap their flippers like seals — on the Glenn Beck Program, they don't even need an applause sign.

One of Glenn Beck's master strokes was a one-hour special titled The Revolutionary Holocaust (How dare he use the "H" word in that manner without securing B'nai Brith's permission?) where he took great pains to equate and associate Nazism with communism. He took quite the conniption when a recent Newsweek magazine ran a
photo spread article on "Hate in America," graphically linking him with the late radio priest Father Charles Coughlin (Note here that Father Coughlin had the courage to name the Jews on radio, while neither the J-word or the Z-word (Zionism) gets so much as a mention from the Beckster. Beck, deliberately, never is as direct and to-the-point with his sermons as Father Coughlin. His ramblings go back and forth in time and event, from Paul Revere to Van Jones, back to the" idea" that America had in its early days to one day be Lord and Master of the world, to today, where Beck belts out another oh-my-God-the-Reds are on our shores(!) Paul Revere warning for all, typical of his all-over-the-place ant-trail logic he bamboozles people with daily.

By his words, you will know him. He claimed on a recent diatribe the following: "We're not an Empire, we're a Republic" (that explains why the US of A has its foot on so many necks in globalist wars where its influence and raw, naked terrible power of bombs, and killer nerd drones hold so many in terror — how else do you keep an empire in power?) Then there's his belief that America should be numero uno of tough bully-boys "not intentionally," but because "that's the way it was designed." That is the kind of "manifest destiny" crap many kids started to get soused on in US history class years ago, that America has some kind of God-given right to force its degeneracy on the world and wipe out any and all opposition to it. And, Glenn feels that if Americans "Change themselves" to "not be dependent on each other, that others will come rushing to one's self" (his bad semantics, not mine). Does this guy need some Remedial English or what?

Locally, we have a variation of Beck in Toronto Councilor Rob Ford, who in a certain light, resembles a fatter version of him. But Glenn Beck is a man who worries many more in America, not just leftists. The reactionary right have elevated to him to near demigod status, and as we've learned from the leftists' media gods like Oprah, that's not good at all.

But don't take my word for it. Tune in to his show weekdays at five on Fox News Channel, before he gets bounced back to radio. You'll see. And try not to bust a gut laughing; you will see just how funny and dangerous at the same time one man can be.
 

Ever yawned at a golf game? I have. And I have to say that I outgrew my boyish fascination with golf. I only became interested in it thanks to a 196 0's Sunday afternoon series called Shell's Wonderful World of Golf, which I watched mostly for the scenery (that, and the fact that my dad once worked in a Shell gas station).

Today, golf both bores and offends me, and one of the biggest reasons is Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods, one of the richest race-mixed "athletes" now playing professional sports (frankly, I don't consider golf a sport anymore — it's just a pastime for the rich and the frequent flyers). Despite his "scandal" Woods remains well-respected, covered to the hilt, and not just on sports networks and channels. And. unlike so many "athletes" who have to break a sweat running round bases or getting guys piled on top of them on football fields, he has makes billions swinging a metal stick and enjoying sunny weather and, of course, getting lucrative endorsements from Gatorade, insurance companies and of course, Nike.

He is probably the highest paid golfer in history and much of it he earned by flogging fame (including his race-mixed marriage) and the fact that he is a one-man United Nations: His father Earl is of African, Chinese and Native American blood, and his mom Kutilda is of mixed African, Thai and Chinese stock. Woods' choosing as his bride a Norwegian blonde shows his flaunting arrogance and reveals his inside sneer at the white suckers who lap him up like a cat laps up milk. When this year's Masters Tournament began, Woods, "forgot" his famous mea culpa press conference (held before it began) and had a little tantrum.

Then there was that bizarre Nike commercial featuring his stern black-and-white face staring at the camera as we hear (supposedly) the voice of his late father Earl: "Did you learn anything?"

("Yeah, dad, I learned Whitey's a forgiving fool") Somehow, I don't think Tiger has spent enough time wearing the old sackcloth as penance. Well, what can you expect from a shoe company that the left has accused for years of using slave labor to make its shoes and who almost got targeted for holy war after one of their shoe styles was alleged to offend Islam? Just Do It, indeed.

No shame here from either Woods or Nike.

Once, athletes were true personalities. Roger Bannister, Nancy Green, Jean-Claude Killy, (all whites, I might add), at least showed the rest of us that if you worked hard and tried to keep your nose clean, you too could achieve higher. Then came the Jewish takeover of pro sports and the criminal behavior of the non-whites (and a few "whites" who acted like spoiled children, to the delight of "raceless whites" and do many young blacks who wanted to be "players" like their heroes.

Sports stars are basically in the same category as minstrels. The more we think of them, the less we think about the economy, non-white crime, police states and the bastards who run them, the important things we all need to pay more attention to. These "stars" all earn way too much money, and many of their sports (especially black-dominated sports like football and basketball) are rife with drug-users, animal abusers and gangsta wannabes who earn billions and love to flog the bling. And so many whites love them! Just watch an NFL or NBA game and see how many white suckers are in the crowd with foam rubber fingers and support signs and stupid hats, and that's after they've paid their hundred or so for the good tickets. And, except when he has the occasional outburst or temporary career scandal, Tiger Woods has remained at the top of his game, and I don't just mean his golf game. I mean the one where he still takes the dough and mugs his way like all athletes through the "sorrow" "regret" and "please-forgive-me" stages of his disgraces.

Tiger Woods is still worth oodles. His shenanigans are already forgiven by the "raceless" boobs who adore professional sports. Never mind that his family is damaged and the race issue is being skirted around by the media. He will always be around, as a pro golfing "legend" or maybe wind up doing commentary on TV. Already his endorsement drought is over and he'll be a major contributor to the profits of ESPN, The Golf Channel, CNN and Sports Illustrated, to name a few. And sadly, his arrogant indiscretions and his arrogance and phoniness in their aftermath will cause no more of a stir than do former president Bill Clinton's pantless antics do now. All the world loves a lover.
 

Here we go again: My Top 10 (no apologies to Letterman) picks for a current (and currently running series, including the new-to-DVD The Blind Side, which you need a TV to see anyway). There's a lot on that is just plain stupid, yet so devoid of reality (but heavy on the Jewish anti-male propaganda,) plunging whites (and especially white
women) into suburban/fantasy worlds where they're always the smartest, the toughest and the last word in the house on all matters (including non-white flirtations). In the real world, 'Burb whites avoid ghetto blacks like the plague, unlike in The Blind Side (see below:)

1. FLY GIRLS (CW, Wednesdays at 9): Reality (ha, ha) TV again, as a bunch of stewardess-in-training do the Top Model schtick, except this time the prize is a job in the (wince) tail spinning airline industry. Lotsa "bitches" here, with catfights aplenty, smiles only for the passengers, and lust in the air. Produced for Time-Warner owned CW network.

2. THE BLIND SIDE (2009, Produced by Andrew Kosove and written by Michael Lewis): Sandra Bullock is a trendy kinda Christian mom/wife who takes in a big black galoot football player who finds himself homeless. The hubby is a white wimp, perfectly okay with this ghetto bruiser lounging around his house. and wifey even helps the Jim Brown wannabe become a major leaguer "winner." Wild white women as coaches, wow, they'll be showing this one every Super Bowl Sunday...

3. PRIVATE PRACTICE (ABC, Thursdays at 10, also on A- Channel stations) Enjoy Sleepless in Seattle? This one is Sleeping Around in Seattle; here the wild white women are doctors running a trendy clinic in this hit spinoff of Gray's Anatomy. From Bob Iger's ABC and Mark Gordon (Criminal Minds).

4. THE KING OF QUEENS (OMNI TV Canada, Peachtree TV, Atlanta, syndicated). Michael Weithorn created and produced this fat-dumb-guy-marries-curvy-smart-assed-babe formula sitcom. All the guys on this one are either obese, dumb, and, as sitcoms always have 'em, a soul brother to play poker or help Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) scheme. Jerry Stiller (who was unbelievable as an Italian dad on Seinfeld) can't do any other kind of dad, either (and I thought Jews could play anything).

5. THE GEORGE LOPEZ SHOW (SUN-TV Toronto, weeknights, syndicated): I have never seen a Latino man who took any guff from his screeching Latina wife, but in this one, Lopez (one of many stand-up comics who got suckered into sitcoms — then got rich) is a blue-collar factory worker (just like white dads!) whose wife runs the show and whose kids are disrespectful and scheming behind his back (just like whites!). Oh, yeah, his TV mom has a sharper tongue than the missus, yet he still manages to smile — just like whites! He is no Ricky Ricardo of I Love Lucy, except for the fact that in both shows, the l'il woman is the power behind the drone. No religion or overly-racial overtones here, just the story of wannabe-white Cubans who ran from Castro's revolution and hit the jackpot in America. Sandra Bullock (see above) and Bruce Helford produce for Warner Brothers TV.

6. ONE DAY AT A TIME (Deja View/TVTropolis Canada, syndicated) A dizzy dame, divorced (and still chummy with her ex while still sleeping around) somehow makes people laugh. One of this show's stars, Mackenzie Phillips, was raised by her dad John Phillips, sundry rock star from The Mamas and the Papas, and ended up in rehab (Phillips was a great '70's role model). Alan Mannings, a nice Jewish boy from Canada, created and produced this one along with Norman Lear, the man behind Jewish propaganda icon Archie Bunker...

7. THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE (A-Channel Canada, Tuesdays, CBS, Wednesdays 8 pm) A Kari Lizer Production. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, who played whiny Hungarian Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, is a also libber mom, and divorced (she too, is chummy with her ex and playing around, while sharing her home with her wimpy kid and lay-about brother). Her business partner is black lesbian comic Wanda Sykes, whose character "Christine" helps to keep from deportation via a fake lesbian wedding. Old Christine's ex, by the way, is easily intimidated by his current flame "New" Christine, who torments and bosses him around like a dog. "Family viewing at its finest."

8. HICCUPS (CTV, Mondays at 8, Comedy Network Canada, Saturdays at 8) A dimwitted, though slightly smarter Brent (Corner Gas) Butt scratches his head trying to deal with the women's whims of his mercurial kiddie-book writer client. "Bi-polar" is a great modern excuse for bad behavior. Big bully types who are wusses for the missus will find a kindred soul in his Stan character married to a Latina who is okay with him hanging out with a blonde bimbo. Perhaps casting a Latina as his TV wife is Butt's Third World mail-order bride fantasy/secret peccadillo?

9. THE CLOSER (TNT, USA) Kyra Sedgwick (real name Kyra Rosenwald) is a Georgia cop who's a real you-know-what breaker among a squad room/police department full of "tough guys" You never saw a Georgia cop-shop so multicultural in your life. it's as rare as — oh how about blind and black spaceship engineers like Star Trek's Geordie LaForge.

10. THE VIEW (ABC, Star! Channel Canada , weekdays) Jewess Barbara Walters hosts and produces this top-rated daily hen party. This "hosebag" has probably done the dirty with every male guest she ever interviewed (remember her Oscar special sexy dance with the late Patrick Swayze a few years back?) . The show's probably best-known panelist is Whoopi Goldberg (with a name derived from a term for passing wind and a face like hers, it's little wonder she started off as a comic, only to later crash and burn in movies and end up producing Hollywood Squares along with appearing here). The only guys you'll see here are hunky actor gal-fantasy boys or straw men set up to be knocked down by the ice queen panel.

and for good measure, one more....

THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW (CTV, syndicated) The Aunt Jemima queen of daytime has already announced she is pulling the plug on her syndicated show and moving it next year to her new OWN Network. Hey don't whites in movies love getting advice from their black maids (They must know stuff!), and this gal has made a private fortune dispensing advice as though she were Hera's boss. Hollywood Hunks and boy-toys still show up here, but mostly it's pablum, where whites get negro-ized and most of the tearful "abuse victims" end up going back to their boyfriends. She will be gone soon from regular TV (good riddance) but her influence remains as the discoverer/producer of such "non-threatening" TV shows and personalities as Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. Wonder if she ever thanked TV syndicator Roger King (King World TV) for her success?

Ready to haul the set into Best Buy yet?

The people responsible for the creation of the United States must be spinning in their graves. An unpopular president is now shoving an even more Health Care mandate down the necks of Americans and the marathon phone callers and switchboard blowers are out in force. And so are the rest of the snakes, from neo-con Rush Limbaugh to false-flagger Glenn Beck, to all those broken-snake flag-wavers of the new Tea Party movement, now answered by — what else? The Coffee Party.

The Coffee Party was founded by a nice young lady of Korean ancestry named Annabelle Park and a descendant of Chinese Americans named Eric Byler. The Tea Party doesn't claim any real founders of up front stature (willing to act as a permanent spokesman), but has the support of kosher conservatives across the USA. Ostensibly, they oppose big government and the tax-and-spend "official" policy of the Democrats. The Tea Party's birth, growth and activities have received blanket coverage on the ultra-kosher conservative Fox News Channel, and both outfits have tapped into the deep chasm of divide that exists in America today, as so many of the poor fools who swayed along to the 2009 Obama election lullaby of "Change We Can Believe In" have seen not much improvement, or in some cases, gone ashen in horror at what has transpired since the inauguration of America's first black President.

The Coffee Party is a reaction to the koshers of the "right": they don't like the rallies, the anger and the all-of-a-sudden in-the-streets activism of the others, and neither side
knows or cares that they are all part of a beautifully crafted Punch and Judy marionette show.

Jews know better than anyone the value of a steam valve, especially since the last big financial meltdown, the rescue of the big banks and the increasing number of faces and names of those like Bernie Madoff, who almost sent the nation into chaos to line their pockets. And because that growing anger was so palpable, two valves are better than one. Thus, one for the good 'ol boys and small town Americans who saw their communities gutted, and another valve for the liberals who saw their big hopes for a renewed America dashed when their New Age hero Barack Obama turned out to be just another Jesse Jackson hustler.

It's been quite a while since the USA voters were so polarized; even Democrats are fighting supposedly among themselves as Obama and his poodle Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are pulling every trick out of the hat to force this health care on people (which people in Britain and Canada have had for years). It's both sad and downright hilarious.

On one side, you have those who say The recession isn't over! Paying for health care will drain so much dough that we may as well sign ourselves over to China! On the other, you have those who believe that every hypochondriac and hangnail sufferer should have every taxpayer pick up the bill (there are a lot of more controversial parts to his legislation, including funding for abortion and governmental control over access to doctors, "death panels" for elderly and terminal patients and too much to go into detail here). Doctors are threatening to quit or leave America in droves if Obamacare is passed, and even then, states have threatened to have the bill knocked out as unconstitutional through litigation. That will take years and all the while it will be free health care (Omigod! SOCIALISM!) for all; they are big time against tax waste, but just ask the Tea cuppers if they back stopping the billions spent on warmongering and leveling towns, drone murder, and forcing US "values" on simple primitive people. They'll mouth of lots about "protecting American heritage" but it makes you wonder if their love of that heritage includes sticking up for torture and water boarding.

The whole Tea and Coffee con job is just a new way to divide and conquer, pure and simple, a charade acted out by patriot posers and over-aged swingers. A Tea Party darling, Fox's Glenn Beck. even mouthed off against Father Charles Coughlin in one of his almost-daily hour-long sermons to "prove" that communism and capitalism are the same. Hypocrisy has many faces, and these are two of them.

it's two sides of the same coin here at work, not unlike the Tories and Liberals in Canada. While there is no visible Jewish organizational backing of the US Tea and Coffee Parties, the media is doing its usual stellar job of manipulation

At least it's great fun watching all this going on with the possibility that this tempest just might cost the Democrats the power they thirsted for during the Dubya Bush era.
 

Aren't you glad our biggest headache is a Prime Minister who can shut down our government any old time he wants?

Just for the record, I take my coffee regular, sometimes sans sugar. And I don't drink tea.

In case this week's TV Tips Page doesn't quite fill your cup, here's a few more tube trophies (and tummy-turners) to take a peek at:

MINUTE TO WIN IT (NBC, City TV) Hate 60 Minutes? Check out this Beat The Clock rip-off from Survivor creator Mark Burnett. The title pretty much says it all for this stunt show.

PARKING WARS: (Sunday nights, A&E) It's Cops in Philly. with bad parkers and worse excuses and the occasional boot-and-tow job. Funny, too.

SCRUBS (Wednesday, ABC. 8 pm) This offbeat comedy wraps its season up this week; catch it soon — it's a candidate for the axe at ABC.

QUANTUM LEAP (Vision TV Canada, 9 pm weeknights) Scott Bakula is back as the scientist whose botched experiment has him zooming through time and in and out of troubled people's bodies.

THE MAD DASH (Game TV, Fridays at 8) Remember the 70's and all those disco clothes? Enjoy this Montreal-produced game show that's so cheap and hokey it's hilarious.

CLASH OF THE DINOSAURS (Discovery Canada, 8 pm). No. dinosaurs weren't pets in the Stone Age and pelicans weren't used for The Flintstones' garbage.

ST. PATRICK'S MOVIE MARATHON (TCM, Wednesday, starts at 8 am). Enjoy a green-themed movie classic day before you head out to the pub, including flicks like The Flying Irishman, and Three Cheers for the Irish.

W-5 (CTV, Saturday 7 pm) Hard to believe this news-magazine show's been around since 1966. Bet you can't name its first host (answer below)*

ENTOURAGE (Spike TV, 10 pm) Is this hoary old testament to fame and posers still on the air? At least they didn't make a theatrical version like they did with Sex and The City.

BATMAN AND ROBIN (Family Channel Canada, Saturday at 11 pm) George Clooney — worst Batman ever. As in 1989's Batman, the baddies' acting (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman) outshines both Clooney's and Chris O'Donnell's. and even they're terrible. Alicia Silverstone is goofy as Batgirl, but nice on the eyes.

Have a safe and happy Saint Patrick's Day — don't drink and drive.

*(Trivia answer: Ken Cavanaugh was the first host of CTV's W-5)

It isn't often I get to congratulate people, but this week, it gives me the greatest pleasure to send out an 'Atta boy" to Ernst Zündel, who is finally free after years of imprisonment.

Last week, I read about a man who was convicted in Canada of murder and was sentenced to five years. That's less time than the time-frame of "legal" Zionist persecution against Ernst Zündel took, from when it began until the time he emerged a free man from Germany's Mannheim prison. And all this, all this fear of him and terror launched at him by Canada, the USA, the government of Germany and hate-hearted Jews like Sabina Citron (more on her in a bit), and the entire news media worldwide, for two little tracts. Two essays on paper, no violent acts, no graffiti — just two unique looks at history and foreign affairs and war.

Ernst Zündel had a colorful life here in Canada. A talented painter, he set up a commercial design a business in Toronto's downtown. He was a productive member of Canada, and for many years, like many white European immigrants, saw Canada as a great land that loved, defended and respected not just freedom, but its meaning, too. His love of Canada, unfortunately, would not last.

By the time he had written his autobiography For My People, he had already made a bid for the leadership of the federal Liberal party. But it wasn't until, sick and frustrated with the constant maligning of the German people in movies, TV and on stage, did he become an activist as founder of Concerned Parents of German Descent, which sought to fight the slanderous, hackneyed and truly hateful Hollywood Nazi images being peddled since during World War II by the likes of Daryl Zanuck, the Warner Brothers, Lew Wasserman, Samuel Goldwyn, the Bronfmans, and the many other Jews who then, as now, have their hands tightly held on the entertainment industries' levers.

Ernst was a keen student of history and human nature. Few people I know had the grasp and context of history than did Ernst. Unlike some phony egghead or arrogant creep like Harvard blowhard Michael Ignatieff or biased "historians" like Canada's David Bercuson, Ernst lived through history. He saw first-hand the glory that Man could aspire to, and the slimy depths he could descend to. And it was his love of history and skill at communication that would catapult him to centre stage and the front news page almost every day in Canada for a year. for a small tract on the Middle East, and an illustrated alternative view of what had been dubbed as the greatest crime ever perpetrated in human history.

The West, War and Islam was an interesting opus, but it didn't get Ernst as much of Jewish groups' ire up as did his well-researched and detailed historical booklet Did Six Million Really Die? Nowadays, historical revisionism is getting some notice and respect, thanks in part to the 9/11 put-up job. But long before that fateful day in New York, there was a man who had. among other passions, a thirst for truth, and before his quest was over he would endure financial drain, threats against his life and his property, persecution, and foreign imprisonment . On the up side, Ernst Zündel became a household name as a historical revisionist and would force the Jews' hands in Canada to fundamentally use and get away with the tyranny of a new gag law — the deliberate dissemination of "false news." He would fundamentally change Canadian law to see it being against its own citizens, and all but warned them that criticizing Jews or Israel's legitimacy or the numbers and circumstances of the Holocaust, would make them an enemy of the state.

Before a private Canadian Jewess named Sabina Citron charged Ernst with this obscure law, the only "anti-hate" laws that were on the books in Canada were the sections against "hate literature" and jailing and/or fining individuals under them was no picnic, though that didn't stop yours truly and Nationalist Party of Canada Leader Don Andrews from being jailed for them. That was part of the horrific legacy of the tyrant Pierre Trudeau, and of the Cohen Commission on Hate Literature that led to the coward Liberal Parliament passing the hate statutes in the last 1960's.

The epic battle between Canada and Ernst Zündel cost us all: the money, manpower and labor and facilities used to process the case, not to mention the international coverage given to what the wags termed "The Holocaust On Trial." Yet, Ernst and his followers rose to the challenge as every day we trudged in he snow to the courthouse in Toronto. Members of the Jewish Defense League were there in force to block our path every day during the opening stages and I took a lump or two shoving my way past these refugees from On The Waterfront as part of the supporters (along with Don Andrews) of this brave man. Let no one say that Jews are just a group of feeble shopkeepers. These thugs were big, mean, blood-thirsty, and a few could've used some mouthwash and a shower. The Toronto police, needless to say, did little if anything to hold them back. In the latter stages of the trial, the security used in the courthouse was not unlike that now in airports. Canada had a real celebrity they were trying and were taking no chances some hothead would get some revenge on Zündel before they got their licks in.

The meals ready for us when court broke up at the "Zündelhaus" were great; never, even at wedding receptions, have I seen a better spread of meats, cheeses, bread, soup and delectable European food, as Ernst recapped the day for us. And always, he was optimistic, upbeat and cheerful with that confident grin of his.

In court, Doug Christie, the battling barrister, had the savvy of a TV lawyer in his defense, but as trial neared the end, although Ernst had single-handedly shattered the myth of the "approved" version of the Holocaust, you just knew he was at the tender mercy of a Canadian justice system bought and paid for, with all the integrity of a Mafia-owned casino. Ernst was found guilty, but, like the cunning fox he was, refused to whimper and surrender.

In exile in America, he was still the target for the Jews' never-ending vengeance. After 911, he was arrested in February 2003 and deported to Canada and held for two years on a "Security Certificate," a Draconian commie measure, pending a court decision on the certificate's validity. He was then railroaded to Germany and imprisoned in 2007, sentenced to five years for denying the Holocaust. The cowardly bastards in charge of the Weimar Republic II threw Ernst Zündel into their dungeons in yet another shameless spectacle. These days they truly deserve being run by that contemptible Angela Merkel; it is illegal there to so much as show a swastika, even in a history play, in today's women-run former "Fatherland."

When Ernst entered Germany's Mannheim jail for Revenge Part II, he kept his spirits up. With the help of his wife Ingrid, he kept his supporters' spirits up with letters, his Zundelsite and his Power Newsletter. He emerged from jail this month still unflappable, his head unbowed, his spirit indomitable. He refused to kow-tow. He taught me many lessons on the real meaning of courage under fire, both during and in the events leading up to his trial.

A wise man once said that cowardice sometimes wears the mask of the arrogant nobleman. I saw that look on former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall as she stood with her trendy bike near Ernst's home when it was firebombed in an obvious arson attack. That bitch, who went on in 2005 to run the Ontario Human "Rights" Commission, for a three-year term, all but commented to the lickspittle press that Ernst got what he deserved.
In a round of supreme irony, the press caught a lot of holy hell (not to mention the squabbling among various sectors of the Jew Community in Canada), that publicizing Ernst through a trial that was sure to get maximum coverage by the press, was a bad mistake for them strategically. And it was: The spectacle of men weeping over the fact that in a Canadian courtroom, others debated in a legal case over the use and existence of poison gas, the nature of crematoriums, the figures of those killed, the living conditions of camp residents (think any US president will go to trial for the abuses in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and elsewhere against Muslims, or if that will be disputed?) was unprecedented. To this day Jews here and abroad are still licking their wounds and cursing themselves on a plan that badly backfired in their faces. Today, people are finally criticizing Jews and the horror they are inflicting upon the Palestinians (and more recently, the Dubai assassination) in defense of their bandit murder state.

Ernst, we all can learn from you and your experience: about guts, perseverance, and just plain old outwitting the enemy. The milestones you etched into legal history (and Canada's history as well) are indelible, and each of us who to this day continue to keep the flame of truth and freedom burning, owe you a great debt.

It was great joining you on your legal adventure. May your life's path be clear and your remaining days filled with peace and freedom. Truly, your triumph can be summed up in the words of persecuted poet Ezra Pound: "I have beaten the storm, I have weathered my exile."