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Mark Shea has a powerful article up at Catholic Exchange, and I was particularly struck by this paragraph in it.

When we put it that way, we suddenly realize: Knowing that the baby is going to die sooner rather than later is no reason to kill the baby. It is, says Janet, a reason to love the baby for as long as you can while it’s here. That’s very painful, but that is the risk we take every time we choose to love because everything we love in this world is mortal. It may be objected that an anencephalic baby cannot appreciate our love. I would reply that a healthy baby does not appreciate our love either, because a healthy baby has no more mind than a baby born without a brain. The whole point of parenthood, especially in its earliest stages, is radical self-giving (like Christ) to a being who is wholly incapable of giving anything back besides a sucking reflex. It’s an analogy of the grace of God, the great wake-up call, enfleshed, that It’s Not about Me and What I Get from It. A short course in the life of the Blessed Trinity.

I think this hints at exactly what is wrong with abortion, both including and apart from the fact that an innocent life is take. What is seriously wrong is that the entirety of the act is marked by a profound lack of love, of a certain kind. Babies require unconditional, self-giving love from their parents if they are to have any chance of development, formation, and maturation; even a perfectly healthy baby will wither if it is not showered with affection to give it is first ever lessons about the existence of something that exists beyond itself.

Note, O Reader, that what I’m talking about is not the same as an inability to love; all human beings are capable of loving something. Rather like the question of Religion, the issue is not whether we love, but what we love. And in the case of abortion, all we demonstrate the capacity to love is ourself. And in so doing, we effect a most terrible destruction not only on human life in its most fragile and innocent state, but on the world around us as well.

Love is a terrible risk, and love of anything outside the self necessarily leaves us vulnerable to being hurt in a multitude of powerful, shocking, and terrifying ways. But that’s the risk we accept, because to love something outside ourselves is also an act of majesty and beauty that is unparalleled by anything else in this mortal, temporal world.

And love — that ability to love another — is what is truly lacking in the act of abortion and the desire to seek the service out. It is a depravity that is, quite frankly, horrifying. And here’s the rub: this is just as true in the case of a disabled/terminally malformed baby as it is in the case of a pregnancy due to rape. Whatever the deformity, and whatever the trauma, there is an innocent life there which we should only ever love and see brought into the world (if only for a few moments); any other response diminishes and demeans not only that new and innocent life, but us as well.

It speaks volumes about Canada that we saw fit to give a man a medal for his efforts in making such an abhorrent thing legal in this country.

Well, it turns out that in Calgary, at least, white supremacist groups are so strapped for membership that they are trying to entice new members to move to the city by offering to cover their rent payments.

In other words, they have sunk to the point where they have to pay people to join them. This will doubtless be followed by reaching the yet-lower point where they couldn’t pay people to join them if they wanted to.

The last white pride rally in Calgary drew out 25 people; this is not a movement which is any kind of threat. And yet some people insist on using them as justification for the persecutorial operations of the various HRCs in Canada.

Hidden agenda, much?

Easy to see where Jonathan Kay gets his skill with the written word from:

Ayatollah-prescribed fatwas are so pre-9/11. Nowadays, as liberal elites rush prophylactically to ward off charges of tolerating “Islamophobia,” the fatwas (in all but name) against damn good books like Mark Steyn’s America Alone aren’t bruited in mosques; they issue forth from human rights commissioners.

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Many Canadians believe the nation’s human rights commissions (HRCs) are motivated by high ideals and good intentions. But in conspiring to silence what a handful of Muslims deem “hate speech,” these good intentions are paving the way for the hell of global “soft jihad.”

The soft jihad is gradualistic and law-abiding, but no less desirous of Islamic domination of the West than its violent counterpart. Soft jihad strategy exploits liberal discourse and weaknesses in our legal system to induce guilt about a largely mythical “Islamophobia.”

The list of complaint-triggering speech offences is long in all Western countries, and ranges from the trivial to the politically existential: A decoration on a lid of ice cream distributed by Burger King offends because it resembles Allah in Arabic script; Fox Entertainment’s drama 24 portrays South Americans, Bosnians, Germans and Muslims as terrorists, but only Muslims complain; a Turkish lawyer sues an Italian soccer team because the red cross on their jerseys reminds him of the Crusades.

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One way or another we must stop the fatwa industry in its tracks. Begin with removal of speech-regulation from the HRCs’ legal mandate. Build on that with legislation that imposes costs and damages on litigious third parties who seek to chill journalists.

Canada should also pass legislation imitative of the U.S. Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) law, presently active in 24 U.S. states, which disallows harassment of those writing on matters of “public concern,” as well as the Libel Terrorism Protection Act, a New York state initiative that will combat libel tourism.

The HRC crisis is not a tempest in a teapot. Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, says: “I don’t think it’s too strong to say that the [HRC] complaint against Mark Steyn is a totalitarian document.”

It is therefore no exaggeration to say that Levant and Steyn are fighting for the defining ideal of Western civilization which, once lost, would spell the beginning of the end of all our other freedoms.

Freedom of speech/expression is the cornerstone human right in truly free societies — without it, all the other rights we enjoy will crumble. And in their zeal to protect the smaller rights, the HRCs will destroy this most important right unless we are able, somehow, to reverse their course or cast them down.

BCF informs me that apparently I am beginning to make a tiny little name for myself in the wider blogosphere and the political scene in Canada.

A very tiny little name, in fact.

you’re gonna be famous, SCROLL THROUGH THE DOCUMENT YOUR SITE IS LISTED

http://ezralevant.com/Vigna%20fax%20July%2018.pdf

It is true that a link to Time Immortal is listed in a legal notice recently sent to Ezra Levant — full details can be found here. I don’t read French, and so can’t quite understand the context of the appearance of the hyperlink within the document — http://www.timeimmortal.net/tag/giacomo-vigna/ — but I would suspect it is being cited as evidence of the “damages” that Mr. Levant’s various commentaries on a certain Giacomo Vigna (a lawyer for the Canadian Human Rights Commission) have done.

(I should note that the link above will lead the reader to this article here at the site, in which I quote Mr. Levant’s suspicions that several CHRC goons who were for a while harassing his parents may have been sent there to investigate by Mr. Vigna.)

What an odd form it takes, this act of moving up in the world.

Or, as BCF worded it to me in a follow-on message: “…you are not being sued, your site is just listed as working in concert with Ezra and his Neo Nazi cohorts in a plot to defame Vigna.”

Which is certainly good company to keep, I suppose.

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The Order of Canada has been hijacked by the left, in his view.

Jason Kenney, Canada’s Secretary of State for multiculturalism, says the Order of Canada has been “hijacked by a particular political faction that is not even making an effort to be neutral.”

Kenney is one of several MPs, Conservative and Liberal, who have denounced the appointment of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada.

“If any good can come of this, it’s that Canadians will demand that the Order belongs to them and not to a small elite that simply reconfirms its own prejudices,” he said.

Kenney, however, does not see this award as politically partisan, noting that some Liberal MPs have also denounced the award. Manitoba NDP Premier Gary Doer has also come out against it. Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and NDP Leader Jack Layton, however, both praised it.

Prime Minister has publicly distanced himself and his government from the process.

Personally, I think the Conservatives were a bit soft in their reponse to this appointment…but at the same time, what could they do? They don’t control the selection process, after all.

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As predicted*, Pickering, Ontario nuclear power plant worker Shaukat Khawja has responded to my post from yesterday by calling me a Zionist. Dude’s gotta get some new material…

…anyhow, since it seems that Shaukat is the only one who ever really comments on his blog (there was a Jewish guy who posted a few comments here and there, but I haven’t seen any new material from him and can only assume that he’s packed up and moved on rather than attempting to sort through the lies and stupidity — Shaukat’s death threat against him also stands out as a possible reason for the departure), his follow-on commentary concerning what I said yesterday appeared in a comment on his site. Dude must feel lonely and unloved or something…is there any other reason to be your own sole commentator?

Anyhow, this post is certified non-halal, as it is accompanied by a byline picture of pork chops. With that in mind, let’s see what Shaukat has to say, shall we?

The other day I received another comment from Kenneth, the Zionist scum at Time Immortal — whining about my post pointing toward the real thugs behind 9/11 — and his great ignorance about Hizb’Allah — the fool doesn’t know that Israel, the US and Canada are the only three countries in the entire world, which have labeled Hizb’Allah a terrorist organization under Jewish Lobby’s pressure.

Now, the Reader may recall that my comment was specifically that Hezbollah is considered to be a terrorist organization in…Canada. I wasn’t commenting on anywhere else in the world because, well, I wasn’t talking about anywhere else in the world. And to be perfectly frank, I don’t care what any other government in the world thinks at the moment — I live in Canada, and Canada is a country which considers Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization. End of story.

Also, Shaukat really needs to learn a thing or three about the Wordpress blogging platform. As it is, I didn’t leave a comment on his site, but by linking to Rehmatpedia I probably did generate either a trackback or pingback, which is what Shaukat would have seen arrive. These look like comments from an administrative perspective, but are quite different animals indeed.

However, I was surprised Ken did not attach his usual porn link.

Immature playground mentalities aside, does it sound to anyone else as though Shaukat is disappointed by the absence of porn in correspondence directed to him?

Here is a news item for the fool – in which 500 Canadian has questioned the US ‘official story’ of 9/11.

And here, in turn, is news for Shaukat: 500 Canadians is approximately 0.0015% of the country’s population. Quite frankly, I don’t care one iota what 500 Canadians think — I’m sure one can easily find 500 Canadians who believe that they have personally been anal-probed by aliens. I’m sure one can easily find 500 Canadians who believe that Winston Churchill was a myth. I’m even sure that one can easily find 500 Canadians who think that honour killing is a legitimate form of discipline for errant daughters.

The point is, the consensus of a few — or even a few hundred — people does not a truth make; there are many people in the world who will gladly, for one deluded reason or another, buy into even the most absurd of conspiracy theories.

Some of them, as Shaukat points out, are even in government:

New Democratic Party Deputy House Leader Libby Davies delivers a Parliamentary Petition signed by over 500 Canadians demanding a new 9/11 investigation, in Canada’s House of Commons during Routine Proceedings at 1:10 pm on June 10, 2008.

“We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:

THAT, scientific and eyewitness evidence shows that the 9/11 Commission Report is a fraudulent document and that those behind the report are consciously or unconsciously guilty of covering up what happened on 9/11/2001. This evidence overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7 were brought down by demolition explosives and that the official theory of the towers collapsing from the airplanes and the ensuing fires is irrefutably false.

We further believe that elements within the US government were complicit in the murder of thousands of people on 9/11/2001. This event brought Canada into the so-called “War on Terror,” it changed our domestic and foreign policies for the worse, and it will continue to have negative consequences for us all if we refuse to look at the facts.

THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to:

(1) Immediately launch its own investigation into the events of 9/11/2001 on behalf of the 24 Canadian citizens murdered in New York City.

(2) Act lawfully on the findings of its own investigation by helping to pursue the guilty parties in the international courts.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9625

So what does this prove, exactly, apart from the fact that a few people in Canada’s opposition parties might just be conspiracy nutters and “Troofers”? Well…it proves nothing, really. The various 9/11 conspiracies, especially those surrounding the WTC 7 tower, have been debunked — only madmen — or those who will embrace any convenient lie in pursuit of a strictly pacifist agenda — need cling to them.

And Shaukat — being a fan of Hezbollah — doesn’t strike me as a pacifist.

Sleep tight, Pickering. Your nuclear power plant is in good hands.

Interestingly, I notice that Shaukat goes after me on the basis of my comments about Hezbollah and September 11th conspiracy nonsence. But there was a third component to my posting, which was to call out as bunk his comments that Islam was somehow fair to women, that women under Islam somehow enjoyed higher standards of equality than in the West. Strangely, Shaukat has let this point stand uncontested.

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* My prediction was more of a question, to be fair — I wondered how long it would be before Shaukat called me a Zionist again (implication: he was going to call me a Zionist again). The answer, as it turns out, is “about fourteen hours” (assuming that Shaukat’s blog’s timestamps reflect the time-zone difference between Pickering and Edmonton)

I’ve been sitting on this for about a week, as I had hoped to find the time to go through it line-by-line and see if I couldn’t verify the information herein. If true, it’s a potentially interesting analysis of the history of one Henry Morgentaler, who I understand has been in the news of late (something about a snowflake-shaped award-type bauble of some kind). But of course, that’s the first question, isn’t it?

But as I have simply not found the time to do the necessary looking, I submit the following to the near-light-speed fact-checking of the blogosphere. With that in mind, allow me to turn the blog over, for the briefest time, to Reader karol.

Did Dr. Henry Morgentaler assume identity of real survivor of Auschwitz Abraham Morgentaler???

Was Henry Morgentaler ever at Auschwitz??? If not, did he lie to us about his medical education in Germany??? Did he become an abortionist in an effort to cover up his ignorance of medicine that was showing in his general “medical” practice???? Did he become abortion activist just to save his life by staying in a spotlight just so MOSSAD would have a hard time to take him out as an imposter and a parody of real victims of Holocaust??

The “tattooed” number 95077 that Morgentaler remembers so well seems to be way too low. He allegedly arrived at Auschwitz in 1944. Henryk Mandelbaum who arrived at Auschwitz on April 10, 1944 had number 181970.

The only way Morgentaler could get away with his lie would be if Germans were to recycle their numbers. According to this link: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007056, it never happen with Jewish prisoners, and yes numbers were assigned not only in sequential but also in alphabetical order (going by last name of prisoner) in each transport that arrived.

http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/new/index.php?language=PL&tryb=szukaj_adv

Partially salvaged Auschwitz Records show 297 finds of numbers in 95xxx range. Many entries indicate that prisoner died in March or April of 1943. Some were shot dead on 19 of February of 1943, others were shot after an escape attempt on 13 February of 1943

Close numbers

Abelowicz, Chaim
ur.28.10.1910 (Słonim), numer obozowy:95043, zawód:krawiec

Pulchny, Stanislaw
ur.17.4.1915 (Głogoczów), numer obozowy:95103, zawód:rolnik

Anybody out there care to take a stab at vetting (or disproving) this information?

You know, I thought that Hezbollah was classified as a terrorist organization in Canada — is it really such a good thing than an open supporter of said terrorist organization works at a nuclear power generation facility in Pickering, Ontario?

That’s right, ladies and gents: Shaukat Khawja is up to his usual tricks.

Let’s review, shall we?

First, he claims that the September 11th attacks were the work of…Israel! Yes, those evil Joooooos were really behind the towers coming down. Because we all know that choice quotes from less-than-sympathetic Israeli politicians remarking that the attacks would be beneficial to U.S./Israel relations positively proves that the Mossad were behind it all. No Muslims were killed in the making of this terrorist attack!

Next, he sings the praises of Hezbollah and celebrates their latest “victory” over Israel. Remember — this guy works at a nuclear power plant. Sleep tight, Pickering!

For a third entry, he pens an article celebrating the “gender equality” that Islam offers. That would probably come as news to this 10-year old girl whose husband was ordered by a court to wait until she is 15 before he propositions her for sex, to these eight women condemned to death by stoning for the crime of adultery (where are the men?), to the young woman whose brother killed her for being a “bad Muslim girl”, and to the two Christian girls who were kidnapped, “forcibly converted” to Islam, and married off.

(Please note that these four examples are all newsbits from within the last five days.)

The most amusing part of Shaukat’s article on women is, I think, that he claims that Muhammad had only one wife — Khadija. So now Shaukat is lying to us.

I wonder how long it will be before Shaukat calls me a Talmudic Zionist Joooooo hacker again?

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Don’t get me wrong — I’m glad that the Calgary imam who filed a human rights complaint against Ezra Levant has swung his opinion ’round and set it against the HRCs, more or less.

But he still doesn’t get it entirely.

“Is it safe to say you miscalculated the public response?”

Syed:

It was not a miscalculation. I honestly believed at the time that, in Canada, if you felt offended by something that had been said about your religion or identity, this was the way you resolved the issue.

Incredible. 99% of Canadians had never even heard of the HRCs before he brought his complaint against Levant, and most still don’t know what they are. But Syed knew all about them. So where did he get this wacky idea?

Based on what I’d seen in the media and read on the internet, I thought this was a process that brought the parties together to set things right. I had seen, for example, that other groups, including members of the homosexual community, had done it.

Well, thanks again, gay activists, for your absolutely fabulous contributions to Canadian life! This is right up there with amyl nitrate and French bulldogs.

Yeah, gay activists‘ complaints against Christians who dare to publically express their Christian beliefs has brought people together all right — now more straight people hate gays than they did before! Brilliant…

And congratulations to an orthodox Muslim imam for taking a page from the gay agenda manual. I’m sure your co-religionists will be thrilled to learn who inspired you. Will Syed be the token “righteous straight dude” grand marshall at the next Pride Parade?

What a country. Syed, your Order of Canada is on its way.

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Anyway, Syed’s newfound objections to the HRCs has more to do with this kind of elitist snobbery than with Enlightenment principles. He tells Maclean’s:

Basically, it’s a bunch of bureaucrats: some of them are lawyers, but for the most part these are people without a great deal of legal training. They have neither the ability or [sic] the means to deal with these sorts of issues.

And make no mistake — Syed wants “these issues” “dealt with”. Hooooo yeah.

I’ve never been a fan of the old saying “enemy of my enemy is my friend” — I’ve always preferred http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030929.html”>”enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy” myself — and I’m willing to grant that imam Soharwardy is a fair-weather ally at best. It’s good that he’s swung around to set his opinion against the human rights commissions, but it would seem that his transformation is only one of self-interest.

And self-interest is a fickle sail indeed with which to run any ship.

I wasn’t aware that there was a human rights monument in Ottawa. That said, I’m not at all surprised that it seems to be, in BCF’s incomparable turn of phrase, “a product of the ‘Turd in the Plaza School’.”

How very fitting indeed, that a monument to human rights in Canada should look like a confused, uninspired jumble of poorly-considered components, while at the same time invoking the image of tall walls and a dystopia. A more fitting commentary on the human rights commissions would be hard to ask for.

Certainly one of the weirder search strings that have led people to my doorstep:

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The sound of cats having sex? I do hope that’s for a grad project rather than some bizarre fetish.

Ezra Levant was apparently invited to speak at a human rights caucus meeting at the U.S. Congress yesterday. That’s pretty cool, and certainly a much-deserved honour for one of the men who has been at the forefront of the human rights/freedom of expression debate in Canada, and who has himself been made to appear before one of the many HRCs that operate within this once-proud country.

In particular, it is interesting to read his interpretations of the words of the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Pakistan, one Asma Fatima by name, on the nature of the thrust by Islamic elements world-wide to see criminalized any form of “defamation of Islam”…which, as Mr. Levant goes on to explain, basically amounts to an effort to criminalize blasphemy against Islam.

But the single most revealing comment I heard all day about this matter was from a State Department lawyer on the panel (whose name I wish to confirm before publishing it.) She has done meticulous research on the Muslim campaign to ban criticism of Islam, and has helped develop the U.S. response to the idea in international legal forums.

She went deep into the issue: she looked at the Arabic word used by Muslim diplomats when describing the “defamation of Islam” that they sought to illegalize. She consulted scholars of Arabic who confirmed for her that the particular legal phrase had been coined very recently, especially for the international diplomatic campaign — and that, when discussed domestically, Muslim countries used the real Arabic words they mean: the traditional words for blasphemy.

So, I suppose, Fatima was following the old diplomat’s dictum after all. She was very honest about her goals — stopping people (especially other, moderate, Muslims) from criticizing Islam. But her dark art was to re-classify her censorship in the Western legal term of “defamation”, instead of the more honest classification of “blasphemy“.

If Muslim diplomats the world over were to lobby for international and Western laws against blasphemy, that would likely trigger a reaction — not just from those who believe in Christianity, Judaism, etc., but from atheists, too, who might not go quietly into a merger of mosque and state. But calling blasphemy by the word “defamation” (and making up a special new word to mislead the proposed law’s targets), makes sure that fewer alarm bells in the West will ring. It transforms an attempt to Islamicize our entire legal system into merely another lawsuit amongst countless others. That’s the diplomatic sleight-of-hand that Fatima was peddling.

Which is basically what most of us freespeechers have been observing all along: the thrust of e.g. the human rights complaints against Maclean’s, and against Mr. Levant, as well as silly contrivances such as the enterprising individual who claims to hold the copyright on any and all graphical depictions of the (false) prophet Muhammad, are all part of a larger scheme. And that scheme, methinks, is to work within the legal frameworks of Western nations — nations that in the past have resisted the spread of the Ummah — to make any and all criticism of Islam, or of the actions of Muslims, criminal.

Syed Soharwardy would appear to have swung his opinion around to the side of right, at least as far as Canada’s human rights commissions are concerned.

When I initiated my complaint against Mr. Levant, I saw human rights commissions as a non-violent means of resolving differences among Canadians.

I was not aware of the controversies between the commissions and Canada’s faith communities. I am thinking specifically of my friend Fred Henry, the Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary.

Upon learning about the difficulties he and other faith communities have encountered with the commissions, I withdrew my complaint against Mr. Levant.

One of the reasons I chose Canada as my adopted homeland is because of our country’s great respect for religious freedom.

In Canada, I am free to be good Canadian and a good Muslim. There is no contradiction between the two.

In listening to the experiences of Bishop Henry and Pastor [Stephen Boissoin], I realized how precious religious freedom is to our country and how easily freedom is lost.

Strange words to hear from the man who took Ezra Levant to the Alberta HRC over the Muhammed cartoons…but if they are genuine, they are welcome, and it is thus good that he has shifted his thinking.

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Former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Gilbert Finn, has sent notice to the Prime Minister and the Governor General of Canada that he will be returning his Order of Canada in protest over Dr. Henry Morgentaler being inducted into the Order.

Finn was the second person of Acadian descent to be appointed to the office of Lieutenant Governor in New Brunswick, and held the office until 1994. He’s a respected businessman, and was the head of Assumption Mutual Life Assurance; his leadership transformed that business into one of the premiere companies in Eastern Canada.

He is joined in returning his award by the Directors General of Madonna House, a Catholic lay apostolate training foundation, who have personally returned the Order of Canada awarded to their foundress, Cathering Doherty (may she rest in peace), to Rideau Hall.

Now, I am not the occupant of Rideau Hall. Were I that occupant, however, I think I would at this point be questioning — deeply, harsly questioning — the wisdom of bestowing the Order of Canada on a man like Henry Morgentaler. Is it really worth decorating an abortionist when doing so will tarnish the decoration itself so profoundly?

Mind you, were I the resident of Rideau Hall, the closest Morgentaler would ever have gotten to the Order of Canada would have been the distance between him and the exhibit thereof in a museum somewhere. But that is another matter, O Reader.

So it seems that at least some of the intelligence on which the current war in Iraq was initially based was actually true: Saddam Hussein did in fact have nuclear materials — specifically, “yellowcake” uranium stores. Over five hundred tons of yellowcake, in fact.

It’s in Canada now.

There is a happy ending. This stuff is not in the hands of terrorists, thanks to President Bush’s actions for which he has been hammered by the left for 5+ years. Reported AP:

The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth “tens of millions of dollars.” A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.

Maybe we can buy some of that electricity since Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid refuses to allow his precious Yucca Mountain to be used to store spent nuclear rods.

And apparently that wasn’t all that was found.

I suppose the question could be asked why George W. Bush has allowed the Left to lambaste him for “lying” about Iraqi WMDs for the last few years, why the transfer of the relevant materials is only now becoming public. But then, to ask that would be to misunderstand the nature of politics and leadership, especially in America. It would be to misunderstand the principles of security as well, for some things are simply too volatile to make known until long after they have transpired. Sometimes the sacrifice one must make is to hold forth in silence, against all slings and arrows, though one’s very name be tarred and stained forever because of it — many, many lives might well hang in the balance.

Keeping something like yellowcake out of the hands of terrorists, and out of the hands of those with ill intent regarding nuclear materials (e.g. Iran), is something worthy of such silence.