...and whines that it isn't fair:

TORONTO - An American national guardsman who refused to redeploy to Iraq pleaded with the Canadian government on Wednesday to let him stay here now that immigration officials have ordered him to leave within three weeks.

Sgt. Corey Glass, 25, is said to be the first Iraqi war dodger from the U.S. to face imminent deportation from Canada.

"I don't think it is fair that I should be returned to the United States to face unjust punishment for doing what I felt morally obligated to do," Glass told a news conference.

"I appeal to the Canadian people and the Canadian government to honour their tradition of respect for human rights and support my decision not to participate in this unjust war."

Like other American soldiers who fled to Canada, Glass's claim for refugee status has been turned down on the grounds he faces prosecution in the U.S., not persecution.

A separate federal assessment concluded he might be punished for desertion but that didn't mean he was serious risk of abuse in the U.S.

"The applicant faces no more than a mere possibility of persecution," the immigration officer decided in a decision released Wednesday.

He was given until June 12 to leave or face forced removal.

A note Corey (no I won't use his rank or his last name because he doesn't deserve the respect):  Signing up to join the US military was a voluntary task.  You signed a legally binding contract.  You broke said contract.   No, no the UN is not required to validate your contract.  Deal with it...

With last weeks computer problems, I wasn't able to get these up in a timely manner.

This Friday past, Calgary turned out to salute a fallen hero.  Here are some pics from along the funeral procession route.

Larger images can be found in the image gallery here .  I've got to get my video editor up and running again and when I do, I'll have a video of the procession as it passed us by. 

Update:  A big welcome to readers from Small Dead Animals , Five Feet Of Fury , SteynOnline and Barrel Strength .  Make yourselves at home. 

I captured Dennis Miller interviewing Steve Paikin this morning.  The audio is 8.5 minutes long and it's a good listen if you've been following the HRC complaint against Steyn and Macleans. 

Steve Paikin is a journalist with TVO who made our radar when he moderated an impromptu debate/discussion between Mark Steyn and the "sock puppet three" on TVO's "The Agenda".  You can watch that adventure, in all it's seven parts, in our video gallery .

In other Steyn news, Warren Kinsella is whining that Steyn won't debate him at an event that doesn't exist .  Warren doesn't seem too bright.

...which is something one could say infrequerntly about Mark Steyn, but here goes.

The pompous windbag and country-club bigot has an amusing letter in the new Harper's in response to the 'Islamopocalypse' thing a couple issues back. I'd link to it, but I was only sent some PDFs by a reader; linkage would be welcome.

You can read it yourself. I, meanwhile, continue my hunger strike to push for a debate with the great man.

Maybe Warren didn't get the memo

I just received an email from the Public Policy Forum that the June 3 conference examining the future of human rights commissions has been postponed. No date has been set, but the email said,
it will be rescheduled "likely next spring."

I had a feeling it would be canceled, since as late as last week, there was no word on who would participate on the panel discussion and go head to head with Warren Kinsella that afternoon. It also looked like it was shaping up to be a snore-fest, at least from this former television producer's point of view.

Most interesting.

poor Warren