Red Ensign Standard

This is actually the second installment of The Red Ensign Standard. The first was a post by John at Castle Argghhh! that in hindsight seems like the most obvious good idea: a roundup of postings from what's become known by some as the Red Ensign Brigade.

As host, I thought I'd start off with a little about why I'm flying the Red Ensign in this little corner of the web. It's not for family history reasons. In fact, I'm quite certain that most if not all of my relatives fought against this banner in both World Wars. But my parents came to Canada looking for a better life from a shattered Europe, and by God they found it. Canada was and still is one of the only countries on this planet where success and security is still an output of how hard you work when you arrive. I truly believe this.

At the time, my country was flying this flag.



So it might seem weird for a blog called Raging Kraut, haunted by a ghostly Otto von Bismarck, to be flying a Red Ensign; to throw in with this group of...well you decide who we are and what we stand for. Presented below is a sampling of writing from our little corner of the blogosphere.











At present we have 17 member Blogs. That number will grow.

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Our fearless leader, the Ghost of a Flea chimes in with a warning about Danes on our borders. He also talks about Paris and Nicole and Daleks and Swagger sticks. The Flea is averaging about 10 posts per day: I thought that I had detected some nefarious pattern in these entries noted, but it's more likely that I'm totally insane.

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Ith from Absinthe & Cookies presents lots of bite-sized morsels. However, my favourite is this one. "The senior staff believes the media is committed to seeing us win this thing, and that the convention inoculated us from these kinds of stories." GRRRR! What media bias?

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Paul Jané of All Agitprop, All the Time talks about a group of loveable mercenaries getting pardoned by the U.S. Military for crimes they didn't commit. I'm told the 80's are coming back in a big way...

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John of Castle Argghhh! goes wading through the past on ebay and scores a piece of history from August 1917. He also notes that Canadians are still fulfilling vital roles in the war on terror in Afghanistan. Too many people seem to have forgotten.

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Jon at Blogulaciousness has two posts regarding Michelle Malkin's new book In Defense of Internment. I think I want to read this book too, if only to be well armed the next time I hear an argument break out over it at the local bookstore.

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Alan at Gen X at 40 notes our Federal Government's collective "up yours" to our veterans may not turn out as they expected.

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Both Huck of Bumfonline and Jaeger of Trudeaupia are commenting on the growing displeasure with the CRTC's decision to shut down CHOI-FM. My favourite sign has to be: Clowns Rule This Country...

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Paul, at Musings of a Canadian Slacker lives up to his blog title by not having a new entry, but commemorates the 60th anniversary of the July 20th von Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler. How many lives on both sides would have been saved if they had succeeded?

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Myrick comments on a study showing how Al-Qaeda ideology is affecting second and third-generation South Asian men, who otherwise would seem to be perfectly integrated into British society. Something our thought-police at the CRTC should take into account since Al-Jazeera may soon be available in Canada.

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Lot's of goodies at Occam's Carbuncle ranging from some classic Bill Clinton, fun with notwithstanding clauses, and taking the guy who likes to blow up people who like to blow us up

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Paul at Ravishing Light also notes the protest against the CRTC at Parliament Hill and also covers The Horror! The Horror! how John Kerry thinks Apocalypse Now was actually his biography. "Reporting for Duty!"

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Chris Taylor has two excellent articles up about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan and the special challenges faced by the men who effectively ended World War Two.

He also points out the similarity with other societies "that encourage their young into war and martyrdom as the purest of accomplishments."

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The Last Amazon notes that Monday was the 30th anniversary of the death of nine Canadian peacekeepers at the hands of Syria. No apologies. No compensation. Nothing. I didn't even know about this.

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The Monger's got lots of good stuff to peruse, however my favourite is about how quick everyone is to judge Iraq's fledgling democracy. Remember our own democracies took a lot of time and a lot of blood to develop.

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The Tiger in Winter discusses Treason as it relates to the rule of law in a thought-provoking post on the subject.

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Well it's been fun ladies and gentlemen...I do hereby hand responsibility for the next issue of the Red Ensign Standard over to The Last Amazon for August 26th.