Author: Blazingcatfur

Lawmaker in Washington state calls for Stars and Stripes to be replaced with PRIDE flag because it feels ‘more relatable’

Lawmaker in Washington state calls for Stars and Stripes to be replaced with PRIDE flag because it feels ‘more relatable’

A city councilwoman in the state of Washington suggested that the LGBTQ pride flag should replace the American flag in one of her city’s public parks because it is ‘more relatable’.

Since 2025, Isabel Mata has been a progressive member on the city council in Lynnwood, a small city about 17 miles north of Seattle. She describes herself as ‘a queer, neurodivergent writer, advocate, and mindfulness meditation teacher’.

During Monday’s council meeting, Mata made her comments about the pride flag following a lengthy discussion about amending Lynnwood’s policy on how to decide which flags are flown at Wilcox Park, known affectionately by locals as ‘Flag Park’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

NEMETH: Carney’s European embrace — sovereignty for sale, red tape for all

NEMETH: Carney’s European embrace — sovereignty for sale, red tape for all

Prime Minister Mark Carney made history last week as the first non-European leader invited to the European Political Community summit. His remarks were a familiar rehash of the bromides he delivered at Davos earlier this year: a world in “rupture,” the need to rebuild the international order “out of Europe,” and solemn warnings against a “transactional, insular, and brutal world.” He pushed for deeper integration in critical minerals, supply chains, and defence, as well as a new strategic partnership. Yet behind the lofty rhetoric lies a troubling reality. Carney claims to be guided by “pragmatism,” but his enthusiastic pursuit of deeper European Union (EU) alignment risks selling out Canadian sovereignty for a mountain of red tape and romantic symbolism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Culture Wars: When National Culture Is Viewed as a Threat

Culture Wars: When National Culture Is Viewed as a Threat

The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt has announced a ‘new patriotic cultural policy’ should it take power. The state’s cultural foundations … warn against a development that fundamentally calls into question the freedom of art, the openness of cultural institutions, and the democratically enshrined culture of remembrance.”

Thus begins a joint press release from the major state-funded cultural institutions of Saxony-Anhalt.

Saxony-Anhalt is the state in which the right-populist AfD is on course to win September’s election (it is currently polling at 38%, well ahead of all other parties, with a comfortable 13% lead over the incumbent conservative CDU).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

Adam Zivo: Desperately seeking an energized Conservative revival

Adam Zivo: Desperately seeking an energized Conservative revival

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had an opportunity to reinvigorate his party this week at one of Canada’s most important political networking conferences. Unfortunately for the most part, he delivered an underwhelming speech that lacked vision, energy and real answers to the challenges facing Canada’s conservative movement.

The Canada Strong and Free Network’s (CSFN) annual Ottawa conference is among the most significant conservative gatherings in Canada, and typically brings together the best and brightest of the movement’s thinkers, leaders and influencers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?

Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?

In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inObama

Liberals restore bill containing incoming Uber Woke GG’s recommendation for Canada’s military

Liberals restore bill containing incoming Uber Woke GG’s recommendation for Canada’s military

On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation to move ahead with Arbour’s key recommendation for the country’s military.

The bill before parliament would put into law Arbour’s 2022 recommendation to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences, leaving that to civilian authorities instead.

The Liberals voted on Tuesday to drop a Conservative amendment to the bill that would have given victims of sexual offences the right to choose whether their cases are tried by the military or civilian judicial system.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

WTF?

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Muslim voters and the statement of the bleedin’ obvious

Muslim voters and the statement of the bleedin’ obvious

THE Henry Jackson Society is one of today’s more worthy British institutions, defending as it does liberal democracy and what it terms ‘real’ human rights – presumably as opposed to a 6ft 3in bearded confused-dot-com’s imagined right to hike up his skirt in a ladies’ loo. It’s no surprise then that one of HSJ’s latest studies focuses on ‘Forecasting the Muslim Sectarian Wave’. It’s particularly topical as the nation heads to the polling booths today. Or not, in too many cases.

This is a very interesting piece and I recommend you pry yourself away from today’s UFO disclosure to read it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Pierre Poilievre says he’s still the right leader to take on Mark Carney

Pierre Poilievre says he’s still the right leader to take on Mark Carney

OTTAWA — Portraying himself as the “fighter” the country needs, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made the case Thursday that he is still the right person to take on Prime Minister Mark Carney and bring his party back to power — and that he doesn’t need to change to get it done.

Addressing a packed room of ideological faithful at the annual Canada Strong and Free Network conference, Poilievre portrayed Carney as the “illusion” of a moderate politician, and claimed the Liberal government is really part of a self-interested “club” of special interests that is failing to improve the lives of regular Canadians.

The old message remains potent. Be patient, even the MSM can’t hide forever that the LPC is the same old clowns at the same old circus.

Carney’s pseudo-patriotism can’t outlast reality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

May Day Madness with the Chicago Teachers Union

May Day Madness with the Chicago Teachers Union

In American civics classes, children once learned the timeless principles of the Founding and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Starting in the 1960s, schools shifted away from civics and history, with troubling consequences: today, only 36 percent of Americans can pass the citizenship test required of immigrants.

There’s no such thing as a good teacher’s union is there.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

Keir Starmer is under pressure to set out a timeline for his departure after a crushing defeat in elections across Britain prompted senior Labour MPs to call for him to step down within a year.

In a disastrous set of results, Labour had lost control of more than 25 councils and almost 1,000 council seats in England by Friday evening, many to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which made large gains across the Midlands and the north as well as taking seats from the Tories in the south.

After more than a century of domination, Labour has faced near-wipeout in Wales, where the party’s first minister, Eluned Morgan, lost her seat. Labour could slump to third place in Scotland behind the SNP and Reform. In London, a Green surge meant Labour lost control of councils it had dominated, including Hackney and Waltham Forest.

Labour loses Wales for the first time ever as mutinous MPs blame Starmer for once-in-a-generation elections disaster – with Greens racking up seats and Reform rampant

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Sentence hiked for man who cut off woman’s finger and forced her to eat it

Sentence hiked for man who cut off woman’s finger and forced her to eat it

An appeal court in Alberta has nearly doubled the sentence for a man who cut off a woman’s finger and then forced her to eat her own severed digit, saying in a ruling that the original judge downplayed the victim’s suffering and terror.

Stephen Ralph Potts was convicted of aggravated assault after inviting an Indigenous woman to his home in the northern community of Chateh and attacking her in April 2024.

Court heard during trial that Potts, who is also Indigenous, punched the woman repeatedly in the face without warning or provocation, breaking bones. He then ordered her to splay out her fingers, saying he was going to cut off her finger.

Still seems light to me.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime