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Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

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Much to the dismay of the narcissists attending Yale University, their incessant whining has mostly been pushed out of the headlines by real tragedies. However, a postscript juxtaposition is clearly in order:
From an adult named Rex Murphy: University Administrators and real professors should take note: every brain needs a spine
From a child posing as an adult named David Rossler: Hurt at Home – Letter from the Editor
Be sure to read the comments of the latter editorial. They’re not letting Rossler off the hook one little bit. Many are priceless, such as this one:

Yale University is not charged with protecting you from the world, but rather, preparing you for it. It would seem that too many students at the University have been living in a hermetically sealed echo chamber , in which they only hear opinions with which they are comfortable , and they become hysterical when confronted with an opinion that dares to differ from their own . Please don’t confuse the role of master in the Yale College with that of Nanny in the nursery . If you are not prepared to grapple with intellectual challenge, woe betide you when you enter the adult world.

Prying Westerners Out of Their Delusional Safe Spaces

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Trigger Warning: If your birth certificate suggests you’re an adult but you actually prefer living in a bubble wrap type existence, constantly on the lookout for micro-aggressions which might cause you to wimper like an infant at the slightest discomfort, then best that you stop reading this now and have your third Purell cleanse of the day.
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Everyone else will likely find it highly informative to listen to this podcast from Friday evening’s John Batchelor Show, in the wake of the multi-pronged attack on Paris. The 40-minute episode starts out with host, John Batchelor, interviewing Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn, and Sebastian Gorka. A more informative analysis of what’s going on in the world you will not find anywhere. Hour #2 can be heard here.

Mark Steyn: The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates

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As I write, Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre, a delightful bit of 19th century Chinoiserie on the boulevard Voltaire. The last time I was there, if memory serves, was to see Julie Pietri. I’m so bloody sick of these savages shooting and bombing and killing and blowing up everything I like – whether it’s the town where my little girl’s favorite fondue restaurant is or my favorite hotel in Amman or the brave freespeecher who hosted me in Copenhagen …or a music hall where I liked to go to hear a little jazz and pop and get away from the cares of the world for a couple of hours. But look at the photographs from Paris: there’s nowhere to get away from it; the barbarians who yell “Allahu Akbar!” are there waiting for you …when you go to a soccer match, you go to a concert, you go for a drink on a Friday night. They’re there on the train… at the magazine office… in the Kosher supermarket… at the museum in Brussels… outside the barracks in Woolwich…

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This Week in American Academia

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Mona Charen has written a stellar piece entitled “Snowflakes or Fascists“:

In light of recent episodes of mob action on American campuses, the quote needs updating: When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in “diversity” and demanding “safe spaces.”
…though it is couched in the language of safety, what these little snowflakes want is repression. Brenda Smith-Lezama, for example, is vice president of the Missouri Students Association. Asked about efforts on the Missouri campus to “muscle” student journalists away from a public event, she offered a view that would make Castro proud: “I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here,” she told MSNBC.
Congratulations, Yale, and Missouri, and American academia in general, you’ve succeeded in undermining the ethic of free inquiry, disinterested scholarship, and certainly anything like decent manners.

Interesting Revelations from a Left-of-Centre Albertan

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I have a friend in Alberta who has always been left-of-centre politically. He was not happy with Harper nor the PC party in his own province. So I wrote him recently, seeking confirmation that he must be overjoyed with the elections of both Rachel Notley’s NDP provincially and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals federally. The message I received back was quite unexpected:

Not entirely happy is a bit of an understatement. I’m livid.
I think we’re pretty much on the same page here.
We are mortgaging our kids futures. And balancing the books by 2020. Please!!!!!!
It will indeed be a different Alberta and Canada 4 years from now.

Reading through this I now understand why he’s so upset:

She will increase spending on necessary infrastructure by $4.5 billion over five years.
And to pay for it all, she will borrow.
The budget predicts that Alberta’s provincial deficit will total $6 billion this year alone and $18 billion over the next four years.
For Alberta, all of this is unusually bold.

The Convenient Memory Lapses of a Liberal

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Though Charles Adler left his radio gig in Winnipeg to move to Vancouver, he has a new show on satellite radio, from which a podcast is published as well. In the most recent episode he interviews Warren & Lisa Kinsella. Much of the talk was about the Canadian Senate. Mrs. Kinsella has a “unique” perspective starting around 19:00 into the podcast:

“Because Stephen Harper first, of course, stacked the Senate. So we have an imbalance in the Senate. We have Conservatives dominating it.”

Her comment necessitated a quick check of Senate appointments:

Stephen Harper: 59 Tories
Jean Chretien: 72 Liberals + 3 Independents

It’s most interesting that such a prominent Liberal made such a comment, considering that her husband was one of Chretien’s BFF’s during his tenure as PM. Conveniently short memories.

Get Out the Popcorn and Watch Britain’s Left Eat Their Own

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While right-of-centre North Americans have legitimate reasons to be concerned with the policies of Trudeau and Obama, one must remember that there are different degrees of Leftism, ranging from centre-left to far-left to … something verging on insanity. The latter seems to be in play amongst Britain’s Labour Party these days.
Janet Daley reports on the recent hiring of Seumas Milne, a militantly left rich boy with apparent daddy issues:

Mr Milne’s views are way, way beyond what is regarded as Left-wing in the North London circles where endless hours are spent talking half-baked anti-capitalist rubbish. He is a supporter of terrorist organisations, an undaunted apologist for the defunct Soviet system and a declared enemy of governments that support free markets.

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Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

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Apologies to all SDA readers for this posting being prematurely published. Personal events got in the way of it being properly completed. Those issues are now resolved and here is the full posting, as intended.
2011: Stephen Harper’s Tories win majority government with 39.62% of popular vote –
The reaction to this victory was a resounding refrain that 60% of Canadians don’t support Harper and what an unfair & undemocratic process the current Canadian voting system is:

2015: Justin Trudeau’s Liberals win majority government with 39.47% of popular vote – The reaction to this victory “mysteriously” was absent of the fact that 60% of Canadians didn’t vote for Trudeau and the Liberals:

It is quite astounding how the so-called principles and convictions of some people change depending on which team loses.
Now that the bogeyman of Stephen Harper is gone, Rex Murphy asks some important questions about who the Left in Canada will now focus their barbs of hate on. While Leftists across the nation insist that they don’t want “American style” politics in Canada, the rampant HDS evidence of the past 9 years strongly suggests that they LOVE, and even NEED, a figurehead to hate upon. Here’s what Murphy had to say:

Speaking of Mr. Harper — now that he is, effectively, no longer prime minister, who or what shall fill the void? He was the lightning rod of our every discontent. He was a monster bent on destroying our democracy, a fascist who worked on a secret agenda for a full nine years in office and of which even now, with his leaving office, we remain still in darkness, innocent of its terrors. For you see it was far more important to keep it secret than to execute it.
He was, variously Machiavelli, Mussolini, Mao and Hitler. Harper Canada’s image in the forums of the world, and purged all our “Canadian values” here at home. He was the Sauron of Mount Doom-on-the-Rideau waving his terrible arms from the towers of fear and hate. He was tepid on global warming and down on selfies. He liked hockey.
Well, who can fill that vital role? Who can be the magnet of our great discontent now that he is going and soon to be gone? Can we abide a country that is now all sunshine and butterflies, all summer holidays and hootenanys? I predict a Canada invective-deprived, all honey and harmony. Post-Harper, all is calm, all is bright. Can we live with that? Can Twitter survive? Will Raffi hang up the mandolin?

Ted Cruz vs. a Leftist Regurgitator

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Aaron Mair is the president of the Sierra Club in America. He’s not a scientist but a politician & social justice warrior. Here’s his LinkedIn summary:

Aaron Mair is a 31 year veteran urban environmental activist; regional and national Environmental Justice organizer and strategist from the State of New York.; Current National Board of Director of the Sierra Club (750,000 members); Former Atlantic Chapter Chair of 41,000-member NYS Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter; New Your State Pinbush Preserve Commissioner; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Justice Advisory Group; Environmental Protection Agency Region Two, Year 2000 Citizen Environmentalist Activist Award recipient. Won a $1.6 million federal RCRA settlement with New York State for the community of Arbor Hill in Albany, New York and used it to create two nonprofit community service organizations.; 1990, 2000, & 2010 Reapportionment GIS technical expert to the Albany NAACP that won the creation of four majority Minority legislative seats in Albany County.

Senator Ted Cruz recently had some straightforward questions which Mr. Mair found very uncomfortable:

Note: The Sierra Club has some interesting preferences when it comes to political donations.

A Glimpse Behind the Curtain of the #HateHarper SJWs

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A tour around the Internet today uncovered some interesting finds:

Both are “interesting” reads on their own, if only to see how deranged some Leftist Canadians have become, being out of national power for so long.
While the views of the Red Star are well known to all SDA regulars, those of the National Observer are likely not. A quick search revealed that the editor is one Linda Solomon Wood, who turns out to be the sister of Joel Solomon, the “brains” behind Vancouver’s repugnant mayor, Gregor “Aren’t I fabulous” Robertson. Both Solomon siblings are Americans who transplanted themselves to Canada to inject their version of “progressive” politics into our country. One wonders how many Canadians realize how deeply they’re being manipulated by these foreign propagandists?

The Left’s Latest Flirtation: Islamism

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First there was Fascism: 50,000,000 Dead
Then there was Communism: 100,000,000+ Dead
Now there is Islamism. How many millions will have to die before Leftists throughout the West wake up to the fact that these folks are not just “misunderstood? Until that future tipping point, Leftists will continue engaging in their never ending culture wars with anyone who dares disagree with them on even the slightest point. When the death tolls do start stacking up, do you think any Leftist will reflect for a moment to look at the blood on their own hands caused by their continual efforts to stop politicians from putting an end to Islamism? Highly doubtful.

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