To Our Northern Friends and Allies

Happy Canada Day, eh?

Thanks for Alanis Morissette. She's emotionally damaged enough to be appealing (okay, I shared too much, I know).

But Justin Beiber was a bit much, okay?

UPDATE: Not everybody was in a celebratory mood:

Canadian police yesterday announced they had foiled a Boston-marathon-like bomb attack on the British Colombian legislature earlier this week by a Canadian couple “inspired by Al Qaeda ideology.” But experts say that the connection to Al Qaeda is dubious, and that the pair likely have nothing to do with that or any other terrorist group.

In a press conference on Tuesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police described in brief the alleged plot by John Stewart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody of Surrey, B.C., near Vancouver. The pair allegedly planned to set off pressure cooker bombs at Canada Day celebrations on July 1 at the legislature in Victoria, where thousands had gathered to celebrate the country's founding.

And not every "expert" has a functioning brain stem:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation notes that although the RCMP said the pair were "inspired by Al Qaeda" and "took steps to educate themselves," experts are doubtful that Nuttall and Korody had a real connection to the terrorist group or any other radical Islamic organization.

What is inconsistent about disturbed new converts to Islam being "inspired by al Qaeda" with not having any real connection to al Qaeda? "Inspired" is not a synonym for "ordered." The couple clearly saw the Boston bombers and al Qaeda jihadis as their friends, allies, and role models.

The strange desire to look away from the threat is just amazing. It really does take an expert to come up with the convoluted reasoning needed to deny an Islamist motivation for pressure cooker bombs.

Oh, Canada ...