Labour
Corbyn’s out, but he refuses to go.
The Benghazi Report
“Now, I simply ask the American people to read this report for themselves, look at the evidence we have collected, and reach their own conclusions. You can read this report in less time than our fellow citizens were taking fire and fighting for their lives on the rooftops and in the streets of Benghazi.”
Fredericton’s Schools
Remember, Dad, your daughter is lower on the SJW pyramid of victims than refugees.
You can fix this problem. You just have to have the balls to be heard. Call your school board, call your representatives.
Raise a little hell.
Do not tell me that Generation X, the generation that finally beat the Commies, the generation that took down the Wall, the generation that stopped the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the generation that stopped South African Apartheid, the generation that has been the thorn in the side of Boomers since the day we were born is too weak, too scared, to stand for their daughters. The generation that has lived through and prospered through decline after decline after decline. Do not tell me this.
Screw little. Raise a lot of hell. Somebody please post the business numbers of these numb-nuts bureaucrats in the comments. Lets see if they like being singled out, set on by a mob that doesn’t speak their new-speech, offend no-one, stand for nothing, language.
You do not want the SJW’s saying; she stood too close, she was wearing provocative clothing, she should have been with a male….
“Why should I sell your grain?”
We’ll sell your port, but keep your grubby murdering right-wing extremist hands off my CBC!
/sarc
Balderdash
The wall’s power comes out of its metaphorical affirmation of dark negative emotions rather than from any feasible utility in building it.
The wall’s power is that it is the only thing ever proposed to help fix the bloody problem. And border security has only been ‘promised’ since Reagan.
If Professor Whyte wants to know why ‘mass politics’ are appealing at this time it’s because politics has been ignoring the mass for too long. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Scratch a leftist, find an anti-semite.
Green on the outside, red in the centre.
Black on #Brexit
While I raised an eyebrow at Conrad Black calling out the elites, his take is no less correct.
Yep
We’ve only been saying for years that American oil interests have been behind the useful idiots of Canada’s enviro-whako movement.
Red Rose Country
Always heed lesson three.
Probably won’t solve the Vancouver housing bubble.
Liberals to scrap two-year delay before spouses from overseas win permanent residency
Britain is part of Europe – and always will be
What’s the Opposite of Diversity?
University.
Via, NewsHubNation
When The Communists Show Up To Protest The Nazis
You’re supposed to pray for an asteroid – not pick a favourite!
Let me get this straight.
#Brexit happened because Labour’s traditional voters pushed it over the line.
And Corbyn is facing a coup because….
And documents passed to the BBC suggest Jeremy Corbyn’s office sought to delay and water down the Labour Remain campaign. Sources suggest that they are evidence of “deliberate sabotage”.
Which group isn’t in touch with their voters, again?
Meanwhile:
Sanders has been fighting for a series of progressive proposals and is looking to shape the Democratic party’s platform. His proposals include a $15 minimum wage and a single-payer healthcare system.
Result?
$15/hr-NAY
Carbon tax-NAY
Single payer-NAY
End Palestine occupation-NAY
War in Syria-YEA
Fracking-YEA
TPP -YEA"Progressive"#demplatform
— Stop The Wars (@sickjew) June 25, 2016
Cognitive dissonance
Headline: EU must STOP INTRUDING in our business, says French PM
Last line: He also said Europe must defend its economic interests better, on trade matters but also on financial, social, environmental and cultural issues. “Europe must be firm,” he said.
So, StatsCan.
Have you heard the one about the Obamacare website? You know how the controversial program made a dashing entrance into the world via a totally broken website? How simple mistakes were hushed up and sold as demand for political gain? Then it leaked out and everyone involved was made to look like idiots?
No? Well, it’s quite good.
“Online voting”
As a site that regularity hosts, “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do” pollspotting, I must applaud #Remain’s effort.
Only 350k of the 2 million sigs are British. @Sargon_of_Akkad pic.twitter.com/u4ERXdHjDl
— Sargon of Akkad (@Sargon_of_Akkad) June 25, 2016
Context
A commentator from this ridiculous Globe & Mail Editorial. I’d have just linked the comment, but for some inexplicable reason, G&M’s comment section doesn’t provide links to comments.
Celtthedog 18 hours ago
Sigh. This is written with a sense of correcting a lot of nonsense.
I’m a Briton who lived in Canada for eight years. That doesn’t make me an expert in Canada, but it does mean I know a lot more about Canada than the writer of this editorial knows about the UK. So, here goes:
Back in the 1980s, Canada fought a general election on the basis of free trade with the United States. It was a heated debate, with issues like national sovereignty and national identity raised, along with those of economics.
The free-trading Conservatives won; the deal was done.
That’s the history. Now imagine if, on the basis of this result, subsequent Canadian governments, without putting it their party platforms, slowly but surely ceded more and more political and not economic, sovereignty to the United States. All the while denying they were doing so. As the process went on, it accelerated, and soon Canadians found their Supreme Court overruled by the US Supreme Court and that certain laws passed by the US Congress, lacking support in Canada, nonetheless became applicable to Canada. Pretty soon you’d start to question what the end destiny of this process was, only to be told by your elected representatives not to worry, political union with the United States was not on the cards.
The analogy is imperfect, but the fact is in 1975 the UK held a referendum on remaining in a “common market” (to quote from the actual ballot paper). Since then, successive parliaments have surrendered more and more of our sovereignty to the European Union — mostly in a series of treaties which polls repeatedly showed were overwhelmingly opposed by the majority of Britons (for the past 30 years polls have consistently shown that only around 20% of the British people support political union with Europe).
It’s fine for you to say the British are wrong to hold these views, just as it would be fine for me to tell you that Canada should form a political union with the United States. It’s not fine to deny people their democratic right to reject such union — or to lie about it.
I won’t waste too much time correcting the misconceptions in here about Scotland. I’ll only note that if a leave vote was so beneficial to the Scottish Nationalist Party, you may want to ask why the SNP’s chief ventriloquist, Alexander Salmon, and his dummy, Nicola Sturgeon, campaigned so aggressively for the “remain” side. Trust me, it wasn’t out of any love for Britain.
Frankly, the view of the English towards the Scots Nats is beginning to resemble that of English-speaking Canadians to the Quebec Nationalists — political blackmailers whose bluff needs to be called.
This newspaper has called for Canada to become a republic when Queen Elizabeth II dies. I understand why. Canada wants to cut the final colonial tie and become a completely sovereign nation. I respect that. But how about dropping he hypocrisy? We want to return to being a completely sovereign nation, too.
The Rise and Fall of the Elite
Glenn Greenwald, who I disagree with more often than not, captures it.
