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There are very few songs about smugness. Bob Dylan’s Disease of Conceit falls in the general ballpark, but his quiet, spiritual, almost dispassionate look at a widespread societal malaise is more philosophical than biting. Tonight’s Tips music selection, on the other hand, a pithy vignette written satirically in the first-person voice, is a full-on, gorpy wad of insufferable, imperious, in-your-face, elite-level self-absorption fired from a colossal smugness cannon: here’s Randy Newman singing My Life Is Good.
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  2. Here is a real beaut via RCP:
    http://m.startribune.com/?id=218170601
    “Keystone pipeline decision pivotal for Obama”
    Jaw dropping, head shaking logic and arguments throughout. DO read it to its hyperbolic conclusion.
    And the author claims to be a specialist in energy and education.

  5. You’re right! That’s another one.
    Breaking News from Zambia: ‘Invisible sex’ frightens teachers.

    TEACHERS at Nashongo and Makaba primary schools in Siavonga have threatened to abandon the schools for fear of witchcraft. The teachers have packed their belongings in readiness for departure if the wizards and witches continue with their acts….Chief Sinadambwe (of the Tonga-speaking people) called on Government to help resolve the matter

    h/t

  8. To further advance the study of Deep Impact, here is an interesting story about journalists that were and the current “journalists”.
    “THE NUCLEAR OPTION: How Journalism ‘Professionals’ Killed the Washington Post”
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/08/07/The-nuclear-option
    Among other things, it says this:
    “And those writers didn’t go to fancy university “journalism” schools to trade in their instincts, wits, and talents in exchange for a stupid degree.”

  9. REAL stupid women of Canada actually complain about Baird’s criticism of Russia and Uganda’s medieval anti-homosexuality laws. Display typical SoCon victimhood syndrome.

  10. I’ve been half halfheartedly following ‘the four lads’ on their Arctic row job at
    http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/?slide=home
    On July 29th they lost their ground anchor when it wedged between an ice berg and the sea floor; they had to cut the line because the movement of the ice threatened to swamp their boat. Today, August 7th, they talk about deploying their ground anchor twice. They either have found an extra ground anchor lying around up there or their Arctic adventure isn’t quite as self-reliant as the public is led to believe.

  12. “

    The Australians just took in one of Canada’s worst exports. It’s not Alberta oil, Quebec asbestos or Blue Bombers football. It’s Vote Compass, a CBC-sponsored online survey that “aims to advance electoral literacy.”
    Designed by well-meaning political scientists, Vote Compass is a political Happy Meal™ recycled into voter information. The CBC obviously partners with Vote Compass because it draws visitors to the CBC.ca website, and it works.

  13. Saint Suzuki is going after smokers.
    According to his sources,95% of the cigarettes smoked world-wide end up on the ground or in the waterways. They don’t actually say that,but if you compare their numbers to world consumption,that is pretty close. Also,the USA spends $3.5 billion a year cleaning up after smokers.
    Am I one of the few smokers who uses an ashtray,or is David doing the same as always?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/cigarette-litter-canada_b_3715678.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-politics&ir=Canada%20Politics

  14. National Post, Wednesday, Aug. 7. The “human rights” travesties continue:
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/06/montreal-man-to-pay-8000-for-writing-diatribe-against-panhandler-outside-montreal-liquor-store/
    “The Quebec Human Rights Commission has ordered a Montreal man to pay $8,000 in moral and punitive damages to a woman who was begging outside a Montreal liquor store, after he wrote an email to the liquor board suggesting four ways to kill the woman.”
    “In his defence, Robert Delisle argued that it was the liquor board that eventually printed the email and showed it to the woman, and he had never intended for her to read it.”
    To suggest ways to kill a person is not really a good idea. However, if there is perceived to be a direct threat to an individual, a criminal charge relating to making threats can be laid. If not, there is no cause for any involvement by the state.

  16. What dreadful writing:
    “Disregarding a three hour temper tantrum it through around Cape Lyon last night, the wind has been behaving extremely well.”
    “Early in the trip, while camping on a beach, a polar bear leaped on their tent and mauled them” (I wonder how a polar bear camps…)
    &c.

  19. The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to let California delay the release of thousands of inmates from state prisons to relieve crowding.
    In June, a lower court ordered California to release about 10,000 inmates — nearly 8 percent of all state prisoners — by the end of the year to improve medical and mental health treatment. Gov. Jerry Brown last month asked the Supreme Court to delay the order, arguing that it would jeopardize public safety.
    Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, strongly dissented with the high court’s 6-3 one-sentence order Friday,
    predicting a wave of murders and rapes in the streets of California.
    Justice Samuel Alito also disagreed but didn’t join Scalia’s dissent.
    –
    Oh St. Andras please hear our prayers, and provide intercession,
    we live in a gun free zone.
    HELP !!

  20. High River residents still baffled by police actions after RCMP return most of 539 guns seized during flood
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/07/high-river-residents-still-baffled-by-police-actions-after-rcmp-return-most-of-539-guns-seized-during-flood/
    Many High River residents remain flummoxed by police actions during the flood. The gun seizure, in particular, prompted a chastisement from Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Meanwhile, the commission for public complaints against the RCMP is still investigating police actions there and is expected to report in the fall. Wildrose opposition leader Danielle Smith, also the MLA for the town, is slated to hold a meeting with gun owners in the next month to get a better idea of just what happened in High River after flood waters swamped entire neighbourhoods, prompting police to bar residents from their homes for weeks.
    As the town suffered a state of local emergency, police and army personnel entered thousands of homes looking for pets, bodies and stranded flood victims in need of help. In the process, they said, 539 weapons were secured. The RCMP began returning the weapons at the end of June, however owners without a Possession and Acquisition License would have to store their guns with friends who were properly licensed.

  21. Rick Roth, John Baird’s press secretary, seems to imply that Canadians’ legitimate concerns, voiced by REAL Women’s Gwen Landolt, about a sexually explicit and age-inappropriate sex-ed curriculum — instituted in Ontario, BTW, by then Deputy Minister of Education Benjamin Levin who is accused of seven counts of involvement in kiddie porn — constitute “suppression of fundamental rights like freedom of expression and freedom of speech.”
    What John Baird, through his spokesman, seems to be implying is that only gays and advocates of the gay agenda have freedom of expression and freedom of speech rights in Canada– and that those “rights” extend to pushing a gay-friendly agenda onto Canada’s school children. Following this “logic,” Canadians who have legitimate concerns about the “new and improved” sex-ed curricula being introduced into Canadian schools, which highlight same-sex issues and practices, don’t have — nor should they have — freedom of expression and freedom of speech rights; they should just shut up.
    ‘Anyone else recognize the bullying tactics here?
    Roth also suggested in his comments on behalf of John Baird that Gwen Landolt was advocating criminalizing homosexuality in Canada, implying that any discussion by those who disagree with the gay agenda would/could/might lead to “violence” or “the death penalty.” Landolt did no such thing, but this kind of disingenuous, misleading, and polarizing comment is too often employed by the gay lobby to muddy the waters of legitimate discussion.
    Here’s the link to the article in question that LAS failed to provide. I guess he didn’t want readers to witness for themselves the misleading statements made by John Baird via his press secretary, suggesting that legitimate concerns about adult indoctrination of school children into gay issues and practices constitutes “suppression of fundamental rights like freedom of expression and freedom of speech” and that criminalizing homosexuality — never suggested — could lead to violence toward and death to gays ((Where’s John Baird on the record, BTW, speaking out against Muslim countries’ treatment — death by hanging — of gays?):
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/baird-under-fire-from-conservative-womens-group-for-defending-gay-rights/article13652122/

  22. Yet another reason we need to build electrified fences around cities.
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/minimum_wage_laws_are_a_masterful_delusion.html
    “Recently in Seattle, there have been mob protests from the “fast food workers community” demanding a raise to all their wages to the proclaimed “living wage” rate of $15 per hour. One such protest, with imported union activists and assorted progressives, screeched that any deficit in wages below the ‘living wage’ du jour was “Wage Theft” by their cruel employers, as they petulantly blocked city traffic while some were symbolically arrested.”

  24. “Ten years too late, it’s good riddance to wind farms – one of the most dangerous delusions of our age”
    “By Christopher Booker”
    “The significance of yesterday’s shock announce-ment by our Energy Minister John Hayes that the Government plans to put a firm limit on the building of any more onshore windfarms is hard to exaggerate.
    On the face of it, this promises to be the beginning of an end to one of the greatest and most dangerous political delusions of our time.
    For years now, the plan to cover hundreds of square miles of the British countryside with ever more wind turbines has been the centrepiece of Britain’s energy policy — and one supported by all three major political parties.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2225544/Good-riddance-wind-farms–dangerous-delusions-age.html?NewsWatchCanada.ca
    …-
    Ontario Liberal Wynne’s Wind : 226 MW.
    http://www.ieso.ca/

  27. The disaster took place soon after 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) when the runaway freight train with 72 cars and five locomotives hurtled into Lac-Megantic, a lakeside town of about 6,000 in the province of Quebec, and left the tracks.
    –
    Has anyone heard anymore about this disaster?
    Our American lame stream media has buried this story deeper than George Zimmerman.
    Just wondering if they found all the missing?

  28. Everyone has been “accounted for”. Many were vaporized in the explosion.
    The railway company has recently filed an assignment in bankruptcy and the police are treating the issue as a criminal one.

  29. “Baird under fire from conservative women’s group for defending gay rights” (G-M)
    …-
    “Misopaedia and the Insolence of Gay Monarchy”
    “Today’s issue of depreciating childhood dovetails perfectly with my previous installment on infantilizing adults: both are reflecting a loss of the sense of maturity and responsibility in our Western culture. For instance, today every newborn is burdened with a four to six figure number of debt depending on his or her whereabouts ( cf. David Willets; “The Pinch – How the Baby Boomers took their Children’s Future-and why they should give it back”, Atlantic Books London: 2010, p.259, 269). Now the first dramatic example of instrumentalizing childhood was the Bohemian version of the Dreyfus affair. In Prague it was the Jewish cobbler Leopold Hilsener who was falsely accused of ritual murder. A little Christian girl called Anezka Hruzova had been found dead on the 1.4.1899 in Polna. And it was the first Czech president after gaining independence in 1921, Professor T.G. Masaryk, who made is name with the revision of the court indictment finally exonerating Hilsener. Nevertheless since then the West is drifting towards a gradual and not merely symbolical – think of child rape and “pedophilia”- reversal of the Abrahamic abolition of child sacrifice.”
    “Now let’s ask a few questions: Who afforded…”
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/5086

  31. Rick Roth, John Baird’s press secretary, seems to imply that Canadians’ legitimate concerns, voiced by REAL Women’s Gwen Landolt, about a s*xually explicit and age-inappropriate s*x-ed curriculum — instituted in Ontario, BTW, by then Deputy Minister of Education Benjamin Levin who is accused of seven counts of involvement in kiddie porn — constitute “suppression of fundamental rights like freedom of expression and freedom of speech.”
    What John Baird, through his spokesman, seems to be implying is that only gays and advocates of the gay agenda have freedom of expression and freedom of speech rights in Canada– and that those “rights” extend to pushing a gay-friendly agenda onto Canada’s school children. Following this “logic,” Canadians who have legitimate concerns about the “new and improved” s*x-ed curricula being introduced into Canadian schools, which highlight same-s*x issues and practices, don’t have — nor should they have — freedom of expression and freedom of speech rights; they should just shut up.
    ‘Anyone else recognize the bullying tactics here?
    Roth also suggested in his comments on behalf of John Baird that Gwen Landolt was advocating criminalizing homos*xuality in Canada, implying that any discussion by those who disagree with the gay agenda would/could/might lead to “violence” or “the death penalty.” Landolt did no such thing, but this kind of disingenuous, misleading, and polarizing comment is too often employed by the gay lobby to muddy the waters of legitimate discussion.
    Here’s the link to the article in question that LAS failed to provide. I guess he didn’t want readers to witness for themselves the misleading statements made by John Baird via his press secretary, suggesting that legitimate concerns about adult indoctrination of school children into gay issues and practices constitutes “suppression of fundamental rights like freedom of expression and freedom of speech” and that criminalizing homos*xuality — never suggested — could lead to violence toward and death to gays (Where’s John Baird on the record, BTW, speaking out against Muslim countries’ treatment — death by hanging — of gays?):
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/baird-under-fire-from-conservative-womens-group-for-defending-gay-rights/article13652122/

  34. Justin sucks up to the muslim community. Oh listen to this Mohammed,he calls it Eid-al-Fitr,just like the imam down at the mosque.
    ” Ramadan teaches the values of empathy,generosity,and discipline.”
    EMPATHY,are you kidding me????
    http://youtu.be/lGElc13lVx4

  36. Nasty, gloating lyrics. The next time something bad happens to Bob, I hope someone asks “Hey, Bob, how does it FEEEEEEEEEL?!?”

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