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The outdoor stage at the Ottawa Bluesfest collapsed shortly after Cheap Trick left the stage.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/17/ott-blues-fest-collapse.html

An ironic excerpt:

CBC reporter Stuart Mills said black clouds rolled into the area and the band left the stage moments before the structure collapsed.

"A giant gust of wind picked up a tarp and garbage from across the field and flung it toward the audience and lifted the whole stage — where Cheap Trick had been playing — and almost like a convertible in a car, just folded it backwards in the same direction," he said.

Thousands of people were forced to seek shelter in the Canadian War Museum, the Ottawa Citizen reported.

Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqpXNfywT4&feature=youtu.be

At Ms. Magazine online, a "feminist economist" says: "Deficits are a Grrrl's Best Friend."

Choice excerpts:

"The mantra that 'the budget must be balanced' is a throwback to the 19th century, originating from the same outmoded economic thinking that justifies women's lower wages…"

"Fiscal austerity - aka, reducing the deficit - endangers our lives."

It gets even better:

"Since the U.S. government is both sovereign in its own currency and the sole issuer of dollars, it can never run out of them. How could it? Don’t think printing presses here: Federal debts are paid off by Treasury clerks making a few clicks on computer keyboards—keyboards identical to the one I’m typing on now…"

She concludes:

"In fact decent societies don’t 'cost too much.' The real problem is that our government, held hostage by right-wing extremists, won’t spend enough."

Seriously.

EBD, now I know why I never liked Ms. Magazine. What a pile of absolute feminist garbage. Having once been a feminist, I'm extremely glad I grew up and came to my senses. I'm kind of ashamed that I got sucked into the feminist funnel at university. I know I'm not the only one ...

Vis a vis the "Mosqueteria" in a Toronto public school and posted at Blazing Cat Fur:

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/

Canadian Hindu Advocacy, with Jewish and Christian groups, announces Picket against TDSB (Toronto District School Board).

The Canadian Hindu Advocacy, along with JDL-Canada, Christian Heritage Party, and two Christian ministries, will be holding a press conference to announce a multi faith picket against the Toronto District School Board, to be held next week. The purpose of the protest is to express opposition to TDSB pandering to Islamic interests and allowing sexist Islamist practices into our secular TDSB schools.

The protest will be held within the next two weeks; the precise location, date, and time will be announced at the press conference [to be held at the Toronto Zionist Center (788 Marlee Avenue) on Monday July 18th, 4pm. SECURITY WILL BE IN PLACE, and all interested media are asked to confirm their attendance.] The five organizations will then be available for moderated Q and A. ...

"I'm kind of ashamed that I got sucked into the feminist funnel at university."

Heck, you've atoned for that a thousand times over - and that's just here at SDA.

RT: Here's UK blogger (and Professor of Medicine) Bruce Charlton:

"Leftism can be seen, for most of its history, as a reaction against Christianity; a denial of the reality of God and a compensatory deification of the human. But PC has turned against the human, and is now a deification of the system.

[…]

"In the space of forty years the Leftist Utopia has gone from being a hippy commune of free love, dreamy drugs and idleness to a politically correct society in which every thought, word and deed are monitored and regulated by bureaucracies that are assumed (on the Left) to be intrinsically benign.

"The difference is not subtle: you'd have thought they might have noticed…"

The whole thing here.

'Just atoning for my sins, EBD! ;-)

I was accused of being a "cissexist" today. Well, I did have to google it. I found a blog entry from over two years ago in which a staunch feminist, who is "for choice" BTW, was called one by a twitter follwer, and she did have to research it herself too. I think she repented. Almost 100% sure it's not a joke:

http://feministsforchoice.com/an-accused-cis-sexist-seeks-to-educate-herself-and-others-gives-big-thanks-to-twitter.htm

Obviously if you're in the military you're probably a violent sociopathic thug who wants to assault someone and also are too stupid to figure out that you're not really supposed to do that. Feminists to the rescue! This was or is on the U.S. Navy's Facebook page:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/15/us-navy-poster-advises-dont-assault-people-seriously/

Also, the U.S. Navy has a Facebook page. Stolen from Jim Treacher. Please don't tell Indiana I'm awake.

"Please don't tell Indiana I'm awake."

But of course nobody here would do that.
Um, is it true that cissexists are nocturnal?

"Obviously if you're in the military you're probably a violent sociopathic thug who wants to assault someone and also are too stupid to figure out that you're not really supposed to do that."

Yes, it's just a vicious rumour that the job of a soldier is to kill people and break their things.

ah, speaking of military, what is it SDA? support the troops (including the ones that came back in a box) or your hero rupert murderoch? which one?

rupe's tech people hack the phones of deceased combat personnel for a story. an egregious breach of privacy committed with the full knowledge at the top.

so who is your hero now right wing zealots? care to explain the contradiction?

H/T Syncrodox:

"Thousands of people were forced to seek shelter in the Canadian War Museum, the Ottawa Citizen reported."

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Kenneth McLeod. RIP.

Lest We Forget.

"Hero who sabotaged bridge with termites"

"A WAR hero's medals have revealed the untold story of a Scottish soldier who survived three years of suffering building the notorious Burma Railway.

Kenneth McLeod, who has died aged 92, was captured by the Japanese in the Second World War and was one of the last surviving veterans who worked on the bridge over the River Kwai.

Now his daughter and son are donating his war medals, Glengarry bonnet and sporran to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders museum at Stirling Castle, where he was based more than 70 years ago.

Mr McLeod, of Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, was sent to Singapore as a young officer with the Argylls and was training in jungle warfare in Malaya when Japanese forces landed unexpectedly in the north.

He fought with the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Slim River but was cut off behind enemy lines.

With a group of stragglers and carrying a wounded man for two days, he set off towards Singapore."

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/inverness/Hero-who-sabotaged-bridge-with.6803147.jp

The Bridge on the River Kwai

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--_mBIvYag4k/Tbw3aoLTTxI/AAAAAAAAAUU/G5430cfsf1I/s1600/Thailand+-+The+Bridge+On+the+River+Kwai+3.JPG

Kenneth McLeod: RIP.

"Speaking at a remembrance service in 2005, Mr McLeod, a committed Christian, said it was unsurprising the route was named the Railway of Death.

He recalled: "Many of my friends and colleagues did not survive, but two things helped me to keep going and not give up, and these were faith and hope.

His daughter, Moira Johnston, said yesterday: "As children we would hear the funny stories from the army but not much about anything else. He kept those experiences to himself."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2750002/posts

More cuts to the left-liberal arts/PET's multiculturalism.

Da leftists recoil in horror:

"“It’s a very sharp decline,” said Myer Siemiatycki, professor of politics and public administration at Ryerson University, referring to the visas granted. “It begs the question: What is going on here?

“Has the government decided on the outset that they want fewer admissions? Is the tap being closed tighter?”"

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"Immigration to Canada drops by 25 per cent"

"Canada let 25 per cent fewer immigrants into the country in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2010, raising concerns the Conservative government is embarking on a bold plan to restrict the country’s immigration levels.

The number of permanent resident visas issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada between January and March fell from 84,083 in 2010 to 63,224 this year, according to figures obtained by the Star.

The latest department numbers show a decline across the board, with visas for skilled workers down 28 per cent, family-sponsored relatives down 14 per cent, and refugees dropping by 25 per cent.

The significant drop in visas comes on the eve of public consultations Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is holding on the country’s immigration levels and classes of people that should be allowed in. The first meeting was held in Calgary last week, and another is scheduled in Toronto Wednesday."

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1026232--immigration-to-canada-drops-by-25-per-cent?bn=1

"Unless the typewriter used to type Barack Obama's purported Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" in 1961 was magically capable of producing different size and shaped images with the exact same key..."

It's easy to see the problem, for any of us that picked up our typing skilz in high school and prior to scalable fonts.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=322389

"Wucash says:
July 18, 2011 at 2:53 am

My god… I think you’re on to something…. Climate scientists are reformed pirates!!! The ones that didn’t reform want revenge… It ALL makes sense!"

"H.R. says:
July 18, 2011 at 1:57 am

Note that the last point on the chart is for the year 2000 and there were an estimated 17 pirates. In the past decade, the number of pirates has been increasing (Somalia) and global warming has stalled.

They had better go in there and wipe out those pirates before we plunge into another NH glaciation, eh? ;o)"

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"Climate scientists need protection from pirates"

"From the truth is stranger than fiction department…"

"Scientists ask for escort in Indian Ocean due to pirates

From the Independent By Roger Maynard in Sydney

Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali pirates who are threatening one of the world’s key climate monitoring programmes.

With about a quarter of the Indian Ocean currently off-limits to marine experts, Australian researchers have asked the navies to help them plug a critical gap in their study of international weather patterns."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/18/climate-scientists-need-protection-from-pirates/#more-43655

The Ms Magazine article: My teeth started grinding at the breezy "go-girl" tone and I couldn't get beyond the first paragraph. I'm starting to think that women's studies has become the umbrella for every twit who has a dumb idea to flog. (The peer-review process in women's studies must be something to behold.) If you know nothing and have no desire to learn anything, and you want validation for any crackpot idea that occurs to you, I suppose Women's Studies is a good place to be.

You are a cissexist, eh? You should ask your new friend what the kind of -ist you are if you mercilessly mock this type of lifestyle:

Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are a legally married same-sex couple, having tied the knot in Canada in 2007. But they don't consider lesbianism their primary sexual identity.
First and foremost, they're ecosexuals.

..."We may be alienating," says Sprinkle. "But that's what happens when you're ahead of the times. We're experimental artists, and a lot of people don't understand conceptual, experimental art."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/15/DDVG1K4C95.DTL#ixzz1STLgxLoT

One of the comments is perfect:
"Creates a whole new meaning for, I got a woody."

The left's anti-semitism:

"And he compares the Jewish settler movement to that of Islamic jihadist supremacists."

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"Immigration should be frozen, says Miliband adviser"

"Immigration in to the UK should be frozen altogether, one of Ed Miliband’s most trusted advisers said today."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/8643584/Immigration-should-be-frozen-says-Miliband-adviser.html

Oops, should be "Mosqueteria"....

Kate, the hack whistleblower has been found dead.

"Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.

Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

L.C. Bennett @11:55 - wow, you really saw my crazy and raised it there.

(BTW, in case you're too sober to go to my link @1:16, "“Cis sexist” or “cis gay” is being used, most commonly on Twitter, to describe cis individuals who do not respect or acknowledge the struggle of transgender individuals, or those who muddle gay rights issues and transgender issues together inappropriately."

There's so much evil in the world.

Tired of the beach already? Looking to break summertime monotony? Well James Richardson International Airport has a voluntary cavity search with your name on it!

Something that makes no sense to an American conservative :

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1026580--hudak-admits-to-once-supporting-anti-abortion-petition

Menstruating at the Mosqueteria
"Whaddayaknow?

Margaret Atwood warned us that North America would turn into a theocracy—and she was right!

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2011/07/menstruating-at-mosqueteria.html

Man whipped in Australia for drinking (to save his soul).

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/intruders-whip-silverwater-man-31-for-drinking/story-e6frf7jo-1226097105387

James O'Keefe posts another undercover video, this time as a Russian drug smuggler seeking Medicaid.
http://projectveritas.com/node/51

h/t Ace of Spades
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/318921.php

macd -- Interesting. I did not know about Kenneth McLeod. Thanks for posting.