Queer goings on ...

As I mentioned before (Item #6 on this page), Antonia Zerbisias (Columnist and Blogger at the Toronto Star) has been getting a rough time from Bernie Farber who represents the Canadian Jewish Congress (which not incidentally is seen less and less as representing Jewish Canadians).

Zerbisias took it like a lady, but then Farber showed up at the recent Gay Pride parade in Toronto waving an Israeli flag to counter Queers against Israeli Apartheid. Well, it was her duty to report that and it was her right to say she didn't know Bernie was gay.

Farber should have had a good chuckle over her feigned bemusement, but instead he hastened to deny he was gay, "not that there's anything wrong with that". Ask Seinfeld.

Fine and dandy. Farber had his say. That could have been the end of it had the Star's Public Editor not felt called upon to publicly kiss Farber's hiney at the expense of one of her own colleagues. In doing so, she has made laughing stocks of both the Star and the CJC.

You gotta read this:

Gay Panic at the CJC and the Star

Let's hope the Star can redeem itself somehow so its columnists can take some pride in the organization they work for.

Below is my own letter to the Star. I hope you also will take the time to write a short note of support for Zerbisias. She's one of the few truth tellers left in the mainstream.

To the Editor,
The Toronto Star
Re: 'Gay' blog post was just not fair - July 11, 2009

"Just not fair." You hear that a lot when raising adolescents. And there's only one response to that: "Get used to it; life's not fair." Zerbisias' popularity obviously rankles, but there's a reason for it. She assumes her readers have mature levels of acuity.

Gay Pride is one huge multi-layered exercise in hilarious nuance and Zerbisias gets that. Too bad Farber couldn't foresee that he was making himself into entertainment by inserting himself into the parade, but he doesn't need the Star's public editor to put a bandaid on his imaginary boo-boo; he needs to stop throwing tantrums and shop for a sense of humour.

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Other Important Stuff

Further to this blog entry, thanks to John in Manitoba for the following link:

VACCINE HORROR From Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.

... a new, more horrifying event is soon to take place that will potentially kill thousands and cripple tens of millions more ... a new vaccine has been created using an immune adjuvant called squaline, that has been shown to produce devastating neurological injuries in animals and has been strongly linked to the Gulf War syndrome and the 200% increase in the fatal disease ALS in soldiers receiving the anthrax vaccine.

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Thanks to Greg Felton for sending a link to his latest article in which he gives his view of the cause of the civil unrest in Iran:

Preconceptions hobble understanding of Iran

Speaking of Iran, I recently came across an informative feature length film on Iran's history and its current situation with the US. You can watch it on Google:

Iran is not the problem