Woke VA officials ban iconic WWII kiss photo over ‘values’ — and are forced to reverse it when boss finds out via tweet

Woke officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs banned the iconic photo of a World War II Times Square kiss from agency buildings last week — claiming it no longer fit the “values” of the VA.

But the move apparently blind-sided their furious boss, VA Secretary Denis McDonough, who very publicly reversed the edict on X on Tuesday morning — after seemingly learning of it through a tweet.

The VA chief had not been made aware of the memo before it was issued and never approved it, sources familiar with the matter added to The Associated Press.

The assholes who did this should be horsewhipped.

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More than 100 Iranian-Canadians call for party probe of Conservative nomination race

More than 100 Iranian-Canadians sent a letter to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday calling for an investigation of the party’s handling of allegations of Iranian regime interference in an Ontario riding nomination race.

Those who signed the letter include academics, physicians and people who lost loved ones on Flight PS752 when it was shot down by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2020.

Kaveh Shahrooz, an outspoken critic of Iran’s regime, announced on social media last month that he was withdrawing from the Conservative nomination contest in the federal riding of Richmond Hill. He said he faced “unprecedented” foreign interference and intimidation during his campaign.

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Online harms bill could spark ‘an absolute tsunami of complaints’

‘By allowing these tribunals to offer cost awards, they’re effectively going to be incentivizing complaints,’ says Aaron Wudrick, of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Aaron Wudrick, the director of the domestic policy program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the government’s new online harms bill.

The bill will attempt to force social-media, user-uploaded adult content and live-streaming services to reduce exposure to online content deemed harmful. That means strengthening the reporting of child pornography and better addressing hate propaganda and providing recourse to victims of hate online.


Hard to believe that something could be worse than Section 13 but here it is.

This is about control not “harm.”

I am certain the worst will come to pass.

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Elon Musk says ‘the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11’ after Biden administration admitted flying 320K unvetted migrants into the US

Elon Musk has bashed the Biden administration after they admitted to flying 320,000 unvetted migrants into the US.

Musk took to his platform X early Tuesday and said the president’s administration is ‘importing voters and creating a national security threat’ for secretly allowing illegal immigrants in the country.

‘It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time,’ Musk said as he reposted a story from DailyMail.com.

h/t Mauser

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Germany: Far-left group claims act of sabotage on Tesla

The Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin was evacuated on Tuesday after a major power outage.

The left-wing extremist “Volcano Group” said it had carried out the assault on the power grid supplying the carmaker.

“We sabotaged Tesla today,” a letter from the Volcano Group said, specifying an “attack on the electricity supply.”

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Hamas supporters to sue Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, alleging Canada’s military exports to Israel are illegal

Help I glued my finger together! Again!!

OTTAWA— A group of Canadian human rights lawyers and Palestinian Canadians who have lost family and friends in Gaza plans to sue Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to block exports of military goods and technology to Israel, arguing the Trudeau government is in breach of Canada’s domestic and international legal obligations.

The lawsuit is to be filed Tuesday in the Federal Court of Canada by Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLIHR), joined by a Palestinian non-governmental organization called the Al-Haq-Law in the Service of Man, and a number of Palestinians living in Canada, including one who is seeking asylum status here.

h/t Mauser

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The cult of castration

The law struggles to respond to consensual violence

If one man asks another if he can cut off his penis, and that other man agrees, whose place is it to say they can’t go through with it? The UK courts faced just this question in the case of Damien Byrnes, found guilty last month of using a kitchen knife to remove the genitals of Marius Gustavson, who consented to the procedure, and paid Byrnes over £1,500 to do it. Byrnes, a male escort, said his motives were financial (he has been sentenced to 5 years in prison). This is not an isolated incident.

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