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Tim Worstall, A Judge Just Broke The Internet:

No, it wasn’t done by typing Google into Google: as we all know, that would break the internet. Rather, we now have a ruling that websites are a place of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act…

Problemo:

The place of publication of a website is not where the server is. The place of publication is where the reader is, where the browser through which the site is being viewed. Thus would mean that any foreign website which an American might want to read (say, my personal blog) would become subject to the rules and restrictions of the ADA. And believe me, the 6.7 billion people who are not Americans are not going to put up with that. We might all ignore the law, or we might try and ban access from the US (or more alarmingly, ISPs might be told to do so). Or possibly be subject to the tender ministrations of an ambulance chasing lawyer.

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The virulently pro-freedom blog Babalublog which focuses on Cuba gives a public muchas gracias to Ezra Levant for his interview with Humberto Fontova, author of "Exposing The Real Che Guevara" (and the useful idiots who idolize him). An excellent manual on the murderer emblazoned on so many T-shirts.

http://babalublog.com/2012/07/insufferable-intransigence-on-canadian-tv-today/#comments

It's what good people do, attack the enemies of liberty, and thank publicly those like Ezra Levant, that make a difference.

Back home after visiting in Canada for almost three weeks. It is such a beautiful country.

Now if you could just fix the politics...

See you soon.

T

Yeah, we feel the same way, Tex: beautiful country, too much leftist politics, aided and abetted by the consensus media.

Glad you liked Canada. Y'all come back now!

I'll take Canada's politics over Amerika's any time. Amerika has become the communist totalitarian regime they were warning everyone about in the 50s.

Love this caption under a photo/drawing at the Telegraph:

The aliens keep themselves aloft by means of dangling onion-like buoyancy bags, and communicate with pulses of light according to Dr Maggie Alderin-Pocock

Related (via Maggie's Farm):

There is no evidence that mermaids exist, a US government scientific agency has said. The National Ocean Service made the unusual declaration in response to public inquiries following a TV show on the mythical creatures.

It is thought some viewers may have mistaken the programme for a documentary

I'll take Canada's politics over America's any time. America has become the communist totalitarian regime they were warning everyone about in the 50s.

EBD, if the dangling bags indeed provided buoyancy, would they not dangle up? Or does gravity have a negative sign on Titan?

I've played with helium balloons many times, and I can tell you for a fact, they dangle up.

Now maybe those aliens, so lovingly depicted, have their buoyancy in their central carapace, and those dangling bags are ballast.

Methinks Dr. Maggie needs to review high-school physics.

Careful what you wish for, north_of_60. *65 percent* of Canadians say they would vote for the "the communist totalitarian" Obama, vs. 9 percent for Romney. In the US, Obama's at what, 46 percent, with Romney in the lead?

You have to take it up with Dr. Maggie Alderin-Pocock, gordinkneehill. I was unable to derive an answer to your question by looking at her photo at the link.....although I admit I did try for a minute or two.

To bad we don't have a Law like that with conceal & carry. Than maybe we wouldn't find so many Women's bodies in fields outside the City.

Texas justifiable homicides rise with 'Castle Doctrine'

"I hate that the guy's life was taken, I really do," said Rodrick Batiste, a longshoreman who bolted awake when someone tripped his burglar alarm by kicking in the French doors to his backyard. "I try and tell people with the 'You should have shot him again' attitude, that it is not really what you think. If you haven't been there before, you don't know what type of feelings overtake you.

"It changed me. There is nothing cool about taking somebody's life."

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Killings-deemed-justified-are-on-the-rise-in-Texas-3676412.php#page-2

God--the Stones made a mess of Chuck Berry`s song!!

Check it out!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyp13Q6dQjY

The morally and financially bankrupt denizens of the People's Republic will have a ballot measure to require porn actors to wear condoms.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/04/california-condom-rules-have-porn-industry-ready-to-relocate-to-arizona/

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/05/local/la-me-porn-condoms-20120705

Arizona will be getting the better part of this trade.

My 15 minutes of fame.

Here is another study from the Journal of the Blatantly Obvious:

"Study shows Palin treated differently by media as vice presidential candidate than Biden"
http://www.news.wisc.edu/20852

*65 percent* of Canadians say they would vote for the "the communist totalitarian" Obama

What people say and what they do is often entirely different. Especially with that fickle minded crowd. In any case they can't so it's a moot point.

EBD @10:02 - blogs with wheelchair ramps. Copacetic.

How dare you, Brad Pitt's mom?

"KILL THE BITCH"

EBD 10:02 p.m. --

Extraterritoriality in the Canada-US relationship is an opportunity for the Conservatives. The issue you raise is similar to the one that saw Conrad Black charged with obstruction of justice by US authorities over the videotape non-event at his Toronto office.

It used to be that extraterritoriality was a staple of left-wing Canadian nationalism -- Liberals (when it suited them) and the NDP used to be concerned about the subject. Lately, however, this concern has taken a back seat to slavish adherence to the latest trends in socialist international "thinking" and causes -- hence, Conrad Black is "the British criminal" (vilification of anyone holding a conservative viewpoint), carbon taxes are the way to fight climate change (or whatever they're calling it these days), resource industries are job-killers, and we need to give money to Europe, etc. I would wager that the NDP/Liberal reaction (to the extent that there is one) to the judicial decision you reference will be complete agreement.

One of the pillars of Liberal political success from Laurier to Trudeau was their strategy of "wrapping themselves in the flag" -- their ability to associate their political brand with the national interest -- first against Britain and then against Quebec separatism and American foreign policy. The Kyoto Accord, whether the left believes it or not, represented a real departure from the traditional defence of the Canadian national interest, as did the opposition to NAFTA and other trade agreements.

There are serious implications for Canada on the issues you raise -- and a chance for the Conservatives to re-enforce their role as the party that is standing up for Canada's interests.

Tee-hee Mamba. Now if I only had Brad Pit
t's Mom's phone number I would ask her out.

Stupidest question by a veteran reporter:

"Besides, [the ubiquitous 'other experts'] ask, if American policy was so relentlessly hostile to Canadian interests, how is it that Obama remains so popular on this side of the border?"

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/07/06/andrew-coyne-lets-just-say-it-sometimes-gets-awkward-between-the-u-s-and-canada/

You'd think Andrew Coyne, Liberal briefcase carrier, would know the answer to that one:

* Having been fed a steady diet since Trudeau's time of personality politics in the media -- always favourable to the liberal/Democrat side of the aisle -- many Canadians tend to go for the politically correct, flavour-of-the-month candidate.

* Canadians are woefully ignorant when it comes to real politics and governmental policies. I found that out when backpacking through Europe in the '70s. Canadians were easily the most boring and least knowledgeable travel companions I encountered, so I ditched them as soon as I could for Americans with whom I could have an intelligent conversation about a myriad of issues.

* Having been propagandized in Canadian schools and universities, the default position of too many Canadians -- and, obviously, that would include those polled and mentioned in this article -- is a knee-jerk left/lib one.

Mr. Coyne knows these things, so what's with the fatuous question except to make an obscurantist comparison between PM Harper and POTUS Obama?

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/pentagon-contractor-caught-illegally-selling-military-technology-to-china/259469/ (via Bourque)

The Canadian arm of the aircraft engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney closed a six-year U.S. government probe last week by admitting that it helped China produce its first modern attack helicopter, a serious violation of U.S. export laws that drew a multimillion dollar fine.

Well said batb @ 9:09. Canadians have been brainwashed with the Pinko brand for a lot longer than Americans. Canadians 'value' the 'nocare' brought to them by the notorious T. Douglas (BarryO's idealogical brother); just for starters.

Canadians, east of Sask. are the most 'independent challanged' people in the western hemisphere. Safety issues, nanny state, eco nazism are 'hot button' issues....when has Freedom last been a 'hot button' issue in Canada? Answer:Prior to WWI. The Reform Party fired up some of us and saved what little Liberty we had but even that brief serge of adulthood has been ignored for ten years. Look how fast most Canadians jumped aboard for the seat belt LAW, the bike helmet LAW, the AGW SCAM, the smoker BAN hoax, the Agenda21 trap (voted to Alta's gal Al when there was a terrific alternative), the anti gun LAW...where is the DEMAND for Property Rights, the DEMAND to withdraw from UN...all this is alive and well in the USA but it is not vested in a love fest for GOP or the Romney guy because the GOP and Romney are not on the side of American people. Ron Paul is and for that reason, American Patriots would vote for Ron Paul. Ron Paul would sweep Demos/RINOs off the floors of Congress and the senate. Why is the GOP 'running' the wrong guy? Things that make me go hummm?

Most Canadians, in contrast, are ripe for the picking by the likes of BarryO and his Czars.

Over half of the American people would vote for Ron Paul. Mitt R. is a clone of the 'present' President, he is a jellie fish with a Ken Doll face; the reason that most Americans do not want to vote for Romney is not that they like Obama, the reason is that they don't like Romney. Why did the GOP pick such a loser? Why did the PCs pick Lyin Brian M. over Eric Nielson? Power and $$ - same set up, same answer.

"What people say and what they do is often entirely different. Especially with that fickle minded crowd. In any case they can't so it's a moot point.
Posted by: north_of_60 at July 7, 2012 1:38 AM"

Considering how out-to-lunch poll results were in our last federal election and even more so for the recent provincial election in Alberta, I would not trust surveys before ANY election.

Hey, Black Mamba, maybe Brad Pitt's Mom and Angelina Jolie's Dad can hook up together?

chutzy - gosh, that's right. There is conservatism in that gene pool.

On the other hand, that would make Brad and Angie brother and sister. And then their kids would be horrible freaks, with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand.

Except the adopted ones, I guess. Which is, what, 7/12ths of them?

The irrational electrification exuberance claims another victim

In fairness to Andrew Coyne, batb (9:09), the column is a mostly tongue-in-cheek look at the relationship between the US and Canada in which the "experts" he cited on the matter (i.e. "they") are analogized as gossipy 'relationship' "experts" (e.g., "also, they say, Canada should get out more, maybe take up tennis, meet people"). The question at issue -- "Besides, they ask, if American policy was so relentlessly hostile to Canadian interests, how is it that Obama remains so popular on this side of the border?" -- was imagined as one side's snappy retort within in the context of a back-and-forth, "I'm siding with Brad/Angelina"-type disputation. In other words, Coyne wasn't asking the question to advance his own argument, and in fact he wasn't so much asking the question as pointing out that it's out there.

I must admit that when I read the poll indicating that 65 percent of Canadian (and 51 percent of Conservatives) say they would vote for Obama, my first thought - and second, third, and last thought -- was "how is it that Obama is so popular among Canadians?"

I don't disagree with your suggestion that the lack of Canadian MSM coverage (CTV, CBC, The Globe & Mail, the Star, etc.) of The One's association with known terrorist Ayers, his destructive, almost suicidal spending spree, his abuse of executive powers, his stomping on the constitution, etc. etc. etc. is one possible (or probable) explanation. A couple of weeks ago Kate noted that the CBC had - remarkably - only mentioned the Fast and Furious scandal *once*, and that this sole mention was "buried in the tenth paragraph of an April 15th report on the Roger Clemens trial."

EBD - Do you really believe that Andrew Coyne deserves an 'in fairness to' preamble? IMO, Andy Handy is remarkable only for his twisted efforts to play both sides of the 'coyne', er coin. Reading his rhetoric is bad for a sane person's blood pressure, giving him any credence is not like you or most other posters at SDA. IMO, batb was dead on the coyne er.. money!

I was just pointing out, Jema, that Coyne didn't actually ask the question, which was, in the intendedly humorous column, "asked" by a fictional, 'relationship'-fixated gossip, in the context of "so-and-so says this, and so-and-so rebuts with this, at which point..." etc.

If someone claims that person X, whose political views I completely disagree with, said something he/she didn't say, saying "in fairness, X didn't say that" isn't the same as saying "I agree with and support X's political views".

Leaving that aside, even if Coyne did ask the question, don't *you* ever also wonder how it could even be possible that 65 percent of Canadians -- including 51 percent of Harper/Conservative supporters -- say they would vote for Obama if they had a chance? Or as it was asked in Coyne's column, verbatim, "how is it that Obama remains so popular on this side of the border?"

I certainly asked myself that question when I saw the poll, and I still do. And I doubt that any of us would deem it a self-evidently outrageous question if it was asked by Charles Adler or Brian Lilley instead of Coyne.

This was a sentence in a letter by Roland Kiehne, President CAW local 112 in today's Toronto Sun. He was ranting about how Hudak and the right wing are attacking the worker and his union. This sentence says it all about the arrogance of unions.

"They are vehement in their ideology to put control of the workplace back in the hands of the country's employers."

How dare the owners of businesses and employers think they are entitled to control their own workplaces! Why the absolute nerve of these people. Don't they even realize its actually the unions and employees that allow these owners/employers to employ them.

Thanks, Jema54. I'm an east-of-Saskatchewan type myself -- but I figure I grew up somewhere along the line and, by God's grace, saw the light.

I never thought I'd like the West, but my first exposure to it back in the '90s, because some of my husband's family live in Alberta, totally changed my mind.

I liked the friendliness, the good common sense, the down-to-earthness of most of the Albertans I met. And, I loved the Big Sky; it made me cry.

As for your question: "Why did the PCs pick Lyin Brian M. over Eric Nielson? Power and $$ - same set up, same answer." I agree and would add that Lyin' Brian was from Quebec and Eric Nielsen was from the West (born in Sask, served in the Yukon).

EBD, I don't mind that you're defending Andrew Coyne in this instance but I tend to agree with Jema54. I don't totally trust his tongue-in-cheek, only-in-jest column/question. It's well-known, because he told everyone in a column before the last election, that he was voting Liberal and now, his cousin, Deborah Coyne is running for the Liberal leadership.

Beware a jester in a columnist's clothing -- or a columnist in jester's clothing.

Well, batb, let me ask you the same (non-rhetorical) question I asked Jema: Don't *you* ever wonder how it could be that 65 percent of Canadians -- including 51 percent of Harper/Conservative supporters -- say they would vote for Obama if they had a chance? I sure do.

And (a bonus question, for the 40-piece dinnerware set!) if a bona fide conservative like Ezra, Brian Lilley, Charles Adler, or Kate asked "How is it that Obama remains so popular on this side of the border?", would you still consider the question to be offensive in a self-evident way?

No, I wouldn't consider a question to be offensive in a self-evident way if it was asked me by Ezra, Brian Lilley, Charles Adler, or Kate because I know where the questioners are coming from, EBD.

The same question asked by two different people can mean different, sometimes completely opposite, things. One may be sincere in asking the question, with no ulterior motives, while the other may be asking the question sarcastically or to trip you up.

This happened to Jesus a lot, when the Sadduccees and Pharisees would purposely ask Him an “innocent” question, just lying in wait for Him to fall into their trap.

Look, Andrew Coyne is welcome to ask any question he wants in any way he wants. I just don't happen to think that he has particularly good intentions towards the CPC or PM Harper, something he's made abundantly clear in many of his columns.

(Do I win the 40-piece dinnerware set?) ;-)

Yes, batb you get the dinnerware set, a set of sterling cutlery and lead crystal glasses to go with it - if I'm in charge of the prize! You gave a sterling answer, with crystal clear reasons for your answer, to the question. Andy has no business in the Conservative corner.

Anyone listening, had Barry S, B.Obama, no records (person non grata) 'Present' president's number years ago when Sarah Palin told We, the People all about him and his dirtbag 'pals' three years ago! Why would Andy be asking that question, now becomes The Question, IMO. What was the motivation?

I don't think Andrew Coyne has good intentions towards the Conservatives either. He did publicly throw his support behind the Liberals in the last election, after all.

I think of him as someone who moves nimbly and precisely in the direction of the generalized "middle", wherever it moves.

And yes!, you not only win the 40-piece dinnerware set, but I'll throw in, at no charge, a Dr. Ho's Magic Spine-Twisting Hot-Wax Orthopedic Can-Opener/Pasta-maker/Pet-Massager. You just pay separate shipping and handling.

Oh goody! A Dr. Ho thingy! Fantastic! I've always wanted one.

The 40-piece dinner set with sterling silver and crystal sounds lovely too, Jema54, especially the way you describe it.

'A RED LETTER DAY all around ... ;-)