NYTimes Editorial Board ruthlessly attacks some guy named “Mr. Scott” who they claim is the governor of Wisconsin
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It might be hard for today’s yoots to believe, but there was a time not so very long ago when helicopter parents were in the minority and nanny-state busybody fascists had yet to fully sink their hooks in. Tonight, we have moving pictures to prove it: From 1933, here’s Toddlers’ Punch Up in Palm Springs. What a ducky spectacle! Hit her again, Tommy!
That’s the sort of thing parents would say back then.
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Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta
2015 marks the 800th Anniversary of The Great Charter, aka Magna Carta. The British public is becoming aware of how important it was to change society into a representative democracy governed by elected individuals. Here is an interesting article that provides 15 key facts about the document and how it helped change Anglosphere society forever.
Back in Canada, Professor John Robson and his wife, Brigitte Pellerin, are working hard to raise money to create a documentary which will put Magna Carta in a Canadian context. They were interviewed by Charles Adler earlier this week and made other media appearances as well.
A few years ago Robson met with a Libertarian group in an informal setting and talked about the significance of Magna Carta:
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
People with grievous and irremediable medical conditions should have the right to ask a doctor to help them die, Canada’s highest court says in a unanimous ruling..
Gordie Howe will be feted in Saskatoon Friday at the Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner. The town’s Kinsmen Arena will be renamed Gordie Howe Kinsmen Arena.
It’s going to be quite the day for Mr. Hockey. Mark Howe just hopes it’s a good day for his father.
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
Anti-science left wing culture…
… from hippies to Whole Foods shoppers, is enamored of health-care pseudoscience — despite an overwhelming lack of scientific evidence for its effectiveness. Given that “with acupuncture the outcome does not depend on needle location or even needle insertion,” wrote David Colquhoun and Steven Novella in 2013 in Anesthesia and Analgesia, the journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society, “the only sensible conclusion is that acupuncture does not work.” They note that by 1822 Chinese emperor Dao Guang had forbidden the practice from the Imperial Medical Academy; it was revived under Mao Zedong in the 1960s to promote Chinese nationalism, and to compensate for the scarcity of trained doctors in the country — hardly evidence for its healing properties. But a practitioner is available on nearly every Bay Area block.
It’s not entirely their fault.
A New Death Dawns
Well, yay for us.
Doctor-assisted suicide allowed by Supreme Court in specific cases. #cdnpoli
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) February 6, 2015
Demonstrating yet again, that our judges believe Parliament to be largely decorative.
So the #SCC says that I can get a doctor to help kill me but #SUMA wants to force me to wear a bicycle helmet…
— Kevin Sinclair ن (@unclemeat80) February 6, 2015
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Open the floodgates: But the French Quarter, the original high ground of New Orleans, was not impacted by the floodwaters that overwhelmed the vast majority of the city.
Operation Nero
Critics accuse the administration of being too slow to act in Syria and Russia. In a new strategy document, the White House will say that was the plan all along.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
But it’s really, really hard to catch.
Aboard a No. 6 local train in Manhattan, Weill Cornell researcher Christopher Mason patiently rubbed a nylon swab back and forth along a metal handrail, collecting DNA in an effort to identify the bacteria in the New York City subway.
In 18 months of scouring the entire system, he has found germs that can cause bubonic plague uptown, meningitis in midtown, stomach trouble in the financial district and antibiotic-resistant infections throughout the boroughs.
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Tonight we’re treated to a spellbinding tale of courage under fire, as told by Brian Williams’ great-grandfather Commander McBragg.
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Amish buggy burning donuts.
This Is Awkward
We don’t know how Sabrina got this picture, or whether she did what she’s claiming to have done with Julian Edelman, but she did say “no lie.”
Y2Kyoto: Vancouver Goes Back To The Dark Ages
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Don’t attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.
Pop Culture
Mischief Is Important
An insipid Coca-Cola campaign goes horribly wrong;
According to Adweek, Coke has now had to pull an online campaign that it launched alongside the commercial because it resulted in the company’s main Twitter account spitting out images that included the text of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
They didn’t start the fire: Jesus did.
“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
"Our religion" – Hmm, interesting
MT @markknoller: Obama "we are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion…"
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) February 5, 2015
We Knew
The Oregonian says their Democratic Governor “must resign”: Who knew following the trail of “clean energy” money could make you feel so dirty?”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
UK electricity demand hit its highest level this winter on Monday – while wind turbines generated their lowest output, official figures show.
Cold weather saw UK demand hit 52.54 gigawatts (GW) between 5pm and 5.30pm, according to National Grid.
At the same time, low wind speeds meant the UK’s wind turbines were producing just 573 megawatts of power, enough to meet only one per cent of demand – the lowest of any peak period this winter, Telegraph analysis of official data shows.
Earlier on Monday wind output had dropped even lower, generating just 354 megawatts at 2pm, or 0.75 per cent of Britain’s needs – the lowest seen during any period this winter.