TV Show: “You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”
Obamaland, 2012: “There is no such thing as a self-made man. Every businessman has used the vast American infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make his money. He did not make his money alone. He used taxpayer infrastructure. He got rich on what other taxpayers had paid for: the banking system, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and Commerce Departments, and the judicial system, where nine-tenths of cases involve corporate law. These taxpayer investments support companies and wealthy investors. There are no self-made men! The wealthy have gotten rich using what previous taxpayers have paid for. They owe the taxpayers of this country a great deal and should be paying it back.”

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One of America’s “leaders” 🙁

“@RealJamesConrad: To all right wing trolls: You have been asked nicely to stop disrupting #occuchat! NOW GO AWAY! ”
Hardee Har Har! I remember well all the OWS bums leaving when asked to.

Lawrence Solomon;

Earlier this week at a Pennsylvania rally sponsored by Jewish Americans for Obama and headlined by Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the 1,000 Jews in attendance in a synagogue auditorium heard one speaker portray the Republican Party as theocratic anti-Semites who didn’t believe in the separation of church and state; another Democrat described his experiences with anti-Semites in Arizona.
The message — that Republicans and their ilk are anti-Semites — is a familiar one. Jews have long believed that right-wingers tend to be anti-Semites, whether they identify as Nazis, members of the Ku Klux Klan, John Birchers, conservatives, evangelicals, or Republicans. At the height of the Tea Party movement, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi characterized the protesters as Nazis, saying “You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.” On an earlier Bill Maher show, New York’s Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer joked that most anti-Semites vote Republican.
But today, many Jews are no longer laughing along. The anti-Semite card that Democrats have played so deftly over the years — the single-biggest reason Jews provide Democrats with more than 50% of their campaign funding — looks phony to many Jews. When Schultz got up to speak in praise of Obama, the normally sedate Jewish audience heckled her, leaving her visibly rattled.

Related – Understanding How Anti-Western Biases Related to Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism (pdf)

An NDP MP doesn’t like patronage appointments….
So he wants the government to revive a commission, made up of appointed members. To oversee the appointment of other folks, a commission that his party voted against when the Conservative government worked to start said commission?
Perhaps, Mr. Angus you shouldn’t have abused your power when we were in a minority gov’t, eh?
h/t: Mike

It ain’t easy.

The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address.
Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.
A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults.
But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, non-citizens and people already registered to vote.

for those San Francisco;

…. who will read the printed version before election day, they’ll be reminded to consider taking an HIV test and learning their sero-status.

Via Ed Driscoll

The voters of France have elected a devout socialist by the name of Francois Hollande to lead them … perhaps on a direct path to where Greece is today.
When economic realities meet socialist delusions, we’ve all seen which one wins:

Paris has a strange atmosphere right now. It is hard to get a table at the bistros of Saint-Germain, yet people have a sense of foreboding.
They know austerity has hardly begun. The press is full of stories that the biggest property bubble ever known in France has begun to deflate. Yet the party goes on. Perhaps this is what it felt like in May 1931, avant le déluge.
Germany took its medicine with the Hartz IV labour reforms eight years ago – under a Social Democrat, nota bene – when the world was humming and EMU competitors were merrily inflating their way into varying degrees of fixed exchange rate Hell.
France will have to take its medicine in less propitious times, somehow clawing back 20pc in unit labour competitiveness against an austere Germany.
It is not easy to see how France can pull this off. Little has been done so far beyond repeal of the infamous 35-hour week. Labour rigidities – employment protection, high tax wedge and minimum wage (SMIC), etc – are among the most entrenched in the OECD club. The unreformed French state takes 55pc of GDP.

May every one of these bastards freeze in the dark.

About a dozen protesters, including one of Canada’s leading energy-environment economists, were arrested Saturday after setting up a blockade on train tracks in White Rock, B.C., aimed at stopping U.S. coal trains from reaching local ports.

h/t Edward

We are the world….

Thanks to a massive $105-million campaign by the U.S. government, with money from Canada and dozens of other nations, the effort to produce clean cooking stoves has suddenly become the most fashionable cause in foreign aid.
[…]
But now there are hard questions about whether the campaign is actually benefiting poor people. […] The randomized trial in India found little benefit from the new stoves, no reduction in air pollution, and no improvement in the health of their users.

Emphasis on “we”.

Despite the new study, the U.S. campaigners are determined to push ahead.

(Related pointless feely goodness. )
h/t Anthony

All programs of the left follow the same trajectory;

Sterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.
Court documents filed in India earlier this month claim that many victims have been left in pain, with little or no aftercare. Across the country, there have been numerous reports of deaths and of pregnant women suffering miscarriages after being selected for sterilisation without being warned that they would lose their unborn babies.
Yet a working paper published by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes. The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases, although it warned that there were “complex human rights and ethical issues” involved in forced population control.

All of them.
h/t Bemused

Find an anti-Semite; (link fixed!)

Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist nicknamed the “father of peace studies,” made anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli remarks while lecturing at the University of Oslo, in an article published afterward in the Norwegian press and in an interview with Haaretz that followed.
Among other statements, Galtung claimed that a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control U.S. media, and divert for the sake of Israel,” wrote Galtung in an article published in Norway.

Related.
h/t EBD

National Post;

Bruce Hyer has quit the New Democrats, electing instead to sit as an Independent member of Parliament, weeks after being at odds with his party about the end of the long-gun registry.
Hyer was one of two New Democrat MPs to vote with the government on the end of the long-gun registry, a move for which he was disciplined.

You can send him a thank you note here.

Economist Walter Williams explains the beauty of capitalism in very straightforward language. Though his words are likely impenetrable to the Leftist mind, the video should be enjoyable to everyone else.

The NRA’s proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit: the Democrats.

This should be good: Crazy Indian kills gay activist

Kelly McParland sheds light on a disturbing trend of B.C. South Asian (aka East Indian) families using a U.S. fertility clinic to determine the sex of their unborn babies and then often opting to abort if said babies are girls.
One might think that a hardcore feminist would object to such a practice? Perhaps if this were happening amongst White Christian families but the trump card of Multiculturalism has a magical effect of creating a deafening silence amongst Leftist vocal chords. One can only wonder why a taxpayer funded, peer-reviewed study hasn’t been launched to investigate.

ForestEthics, an environmental group with offices in San Francisco, CA, Bellingham, WA, and Vancouver, BC, is splitting into two parts:

• ForestEthics Advocacy
• ForestEthics Solutions

According to their press release, they are doing this “to strike back against the government’s crackdown on charitable environmental groups”.
An examination of the main website of ForestEthics’ “Ways To Give” page reveals this:

Section 6.2 of the Canada Revenue Agency’s 2003-09-02 policy is well worth a read. There was no mention in the ForestEthics press release whether the cumulative portion of past donations which was used by donors to reduce their taxes will be refunded to the Government of Canada.
h/t Maz2