When I heard Coulter was coming to Canada I figured attending the event would be worth the entertainment value, if for nothing other than to witness the unhinged reaction that was sure to follow. Ottawa U didn’t disappoint.
When I arrived there was a line of a few hundred, maybe a thousand people outside the Marion building. A few of them were chanting in front of the cameras but the line was otherwise better behaved than for a typical rock concert. The size of the line was no doubt a bit of a problem because the room held no more than 400 (my estimate).
Since I had registered for the event ahead of time I had no trouble elbowing my way to the front, verifying my name was on the list, getting inside and chatting briefly with Ezra Levant.
After a while the fire alarm went off, the obvious false alarm having been dealt with we sat down expecting the event to start.
The Tolerant Left
See? You can yell “fire” in a crowded theatre after all!
Via Rightgirl – “…word is coming out of Ottawa that the Coulter event had to be canceled because volunteers were attacked by “anti-racists”.
Details at the Ottawa Sun. Update: It’s just hit Drudge, making this in all probability, the biggest publicity coup of Ann Coulter’s career.
Congratulations, Ottawa! She couldn’t have done it without you.
QOTW
“As you can see, there are a lot of people drunk today.” – Labrador Innu Nation Grand Chief Mark Nui
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Kinetic Energy Recovery System
Can You Say “Ebay”?
“The actual signing of the bill took some time, as the president used a total of 22 pens to sign the 18 letters of his name.”
“We’ll Go Down In A Subway To The Sea”
As we live a life of ease(life of ease)
Every one of us(every one of us) has all we need,(has all we need)
Sky of blue,(sky of blue) and sea of green,(sea of green)
In our subway (In our subway) to the sea. (to the sea) ( Haha! )*
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Weekly, March 22nd – …Villaraigosa said he’s out of options for patching up the deficit.
Coulter On Campus
“I dunno. A camel?” . Shaidle was there.
I disagree with the majority of right leaning freespeechers on this point – I believe we need more of this. “Either what (Mr. Houle) did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is BS.”
Update: And another poll goes horribly wrong….
The Obamacare Question Of The Day
So you thought it was hard to find foreign doctors, eh?
Just you wait.
“Dennis” nails it (in the comments):
Obamacare contains a critical contradiction that is bound to result in the total collapse of the American health ins. industry. As the Martin Feldstein article in a November Washington Post article points out, if the fines for not buying ins. are set too low, it’s financially advantageous to pay them and forgo ins. altogether.
Since the bill prohibits health ins. providers from denying ins. based on pre-existing conditions, it may be cheaper in many instances to wait until you are sick before getting coverage.
This will set in motion a progressive unbalancing of health ins. whereby the pool of healthy people in an ins. scheme becomes swamped by the sick. Premiums must therefore skyrocket. But since Obamacare also promises to slap price controls on health ins. the system is set to become vastly unprofitable. At some point not too far down the road, the whole health care ins. system in the U.S. will utterly fail like Chrysler and GM.
At that point, there will be increasing calls for the outright nationalization of the whole mess, which was Obama’s goal all along.
Reader Tips
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Y2Kyoto: A Scam By Any Other Name
Every time I start my truck a rose garden dies….
It’s On
Mark Steyn:
I try to be a sunny the-glass-is-one-sixteenth-full kinda guy, but it’s hard to overestimate the magnitude of what the Democrats have accomplished….
Mathew Vadum:
America suffered an atrocity of catastrophic proportions last night and it’s not clear if the nation will ever recover.
David Horowitz:
The President was right about one thing. The vote on Obamacare tonight was a historic one. The Democratic Party has…revealed itself to be an anti-democratic Party and an anti-liberty party. It is a party that has demonstrated its contempt for the Constitutional framework, for the democratic process, and for the expressed will of the American people. Its brazen contempt for the compact that holds the diverse factions of this country together has initiated a political war at home that will extend not only into the next elections but into the next generations….The people of this nation are still sovereign, and their voice will be heard. Tonight’s vote was lost but it is not the end of the battle. It is the beginning.
From the “Idaho Health Freedom Act”, passed last week:
The power to require or regulate a person’s choice in the mode of securing health care services, or to impose a penalty related thereto, is not found in the Constitution of the United States of America, and is therefore a power reserved to the people pursuant to the Ninth Amendment, and to the several states pursuant to the Tenth Amendment. The state of Idaho hereby exercises its sovereign power to declare the public policy of the state of Idaho regarding the right of all persons residing in the state of Idaho in choosing the mode of securing health care services.
It is hereby declared that the public policy of the state of Idaho, consistent with our constitutionally recognized and inalienable rights of liberty, is that every person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty.
The thread is open for your comments, quotes, links, etc.
Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It has been over five months now since we last visited our friend John Scott Whiteley and his videos of pipe organs and their interiors while being played, and so without further ado, tonight, for your delectation, here he is performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Sonata N° 6 ¤, Lente ¤, & Allegro ¤, BWV 530 (12:03), on the Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in the Wenzelskirche in Naumburg, Germany. If you’re short of time right now, the Allegro has the best video (including some of the wind chests, the stops crossbars, and the many thousands of pipes in this organ).
The Wenzelskirche organ was Hildebrandt’s largest, featuring three manuals and pedal, fifty-three stops, and a thirty-two foot Posaunenbass pipe with a principal harmonic frequency of sixteen hertz. It was played by Bach when it was completed, in 1746, and it was restored from 1993 to 2000. For those who are interested, our previous SDA Late Nite Radio shows featuring Mr. Whiteley and his videos were on 2008-07-28, 2008-10-13, 2009-07-14, and 2009-10-19.
Nota Bene: Reader Tips is not a place for chatting about the legislative results in the United States of America on Sunday. If Kate wants to, then she will create an entry thereto here at SDA. If not, not. Regardless: Reader Tips isn’t that place.
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Chariots Of The Gods
“And on this house I shall build my Spaceship Jesus”*
Scratch A Leftist
Today’s Comment Of The Day, featured at the Toronto Sun.
That, and some superbly argued commentary contrasting the brutal apartheid Jewish state with that beacon of Middle East tolerance known as the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(Is the Star’s website down or something?)
I Can See PETA From My House
Say what you want about Sarah Palin, but when she was Alaskan governor nobody got eaten by wolves.
A Globe & Mail Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
Woohoo! Globe readers are 79% pure!
And such a neutral question, too. Poll still open on the main page.
Reader Tips
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Y2Kyoto: It’s Not Easy Getting Green
I admit to being surprised by this;
The Hagars built their 2,700-square-foot house by stacking tire bales—five-foot-wide blocks of compressed tires—to form the exterior walls. They plugged gaps between the bales with cans, bottles, plastic plates, and other junk and moved in toward the end of 2008.
“We lovingly call it the trash house,” Ms. Hagar says. The Hagars covered up all that trash with concrete, clay and stucco and installed south-facing windows to capture light, heat and views of the snowy slopes.
To pay for it, the Hagars in 2007 took out a $240,000 line of credit from Red Rocks Credit Union in suburban Denver. In the old days of easier credit, appraiser Lori Slota couldn’t find another tire-bale home that had recently sold but said the house would be valued at $500,000 when complete, citing the listing of a straw-bale home as well as other houses in the area.
Last year, with the home finally finished and interest rates at record lows, the Hagars started trying to refinance into a long-term, fixed-rate mortgage. But in February 2009, they got the bad news from loan officer Bill Schimel, who wrote in an email, “I think we have really hit a brick wall here.”
I’d always assumed such projects were self-financed.
Scratch A Leftist Student President
…find an anti-Semite. Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
University Of Ottawa student president Seamus Wolfe: –“As difficult as it is to navigate that boundary, Ann Coulter has a history of hate speech and we wouldn’t invite somebody who spreads hate to come to our campus.”
BC Blue – “This is the same student group who organized the Israeli Apartheid Week earlier this month”
Related.