Po’ like me

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She’s down with the peeps:

“Million Student March” Organizer (and Marxist) Keely Mullen told Neil Cavuto at Fox Business News Thursday that she comes from an “incredibly working class family” who are “already on numerous forms of government assistance and is basically scraping by in order to get me through college…

Whoops.

99 Luftballons

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And let’s not forget the magic-wand of Liberal ideals, an evidenced based policy.
Either feathering the bed for as gentle a let down as can be for Trudeau’s supporters or a not-so-subtle smack up the head for the Liberal leadership.
Add in Rona Ambrose today telling Justin to grow up and play ball…yeah, Ottawa is going to be interesting in the next few weeks.

Détente

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If France goes all-in against ISIS it may prove to be an ice-breaker in East/West relations. I should say that by ‘all-in’ I mean troops in theatre and not just the air force, DGSE officers/agents and drone strikes.
France and Russia have had a more positive than negative relationship for a long time; before WWI, through the Communist era, and currently.
The Paris bombings change the channel on the actions taking place in Iraq and Syria. If, as President Hollande said, it’s war, then the strategic mission changes for the French. It moves from regime change and stability, as the US led mission is focused on, to eradication of ISIS. A goal the Russians share.
But can the West (read: Obama, Kerry), in supporting France, work with Russia in the near term to focus on ISIS?

That doesn’t sound “badass” to me

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Our newly minted defence minister and military and police veteran Harjit Sajjan gave an interview to CBC the other day suggesting the West should have dealt with ISIS diplomatically.
In the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris this seems even more dubious than it did before. Here are some of the questions I ask in my latest column at The Rebel, give it a read and share it on social media if you agree.

The leaders of ISIS have declared the return of the caliphate and are working hard to bring that about. That means taking back lands throughout the Middle East, across North Africa and into Spain, France and other parts of Europe that the leaders of ISIS believe belong under their control with all submitting to their view of Islam.
I’d like to know how you deal diplomatically with an organization that holds these beliefs, that has used rape, slavery and genocide to achieve their goals.
How do you negotiate with people whose opening and closing positions are submit or die?

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

Terrorism 57 Comments

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…

Read it all…

Running numbers.

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Following the Paris attacks and prior to Trudeau’s remarks, I fully expect him to double down on his promise of 25 thousand refugees before Christmas.
So, the numbers. 25,000 refugees that we’re promised by Mr. Goodale will be properly vetted. (interview at 20:00 mark) Now, I’m no doctor or security professional so these are made-up assumptions, but they probably aren’t -too- far out.
Medical check, let’s call it two hours per refugee for a somewhat detailed exam.
Security check, I’m going to guess at eight hours per refugee.
25k * 2 hours / 24 hours (24/7 baby) = 2,083 days
25k * 8 hours / 24 hours = 8,333 days
So in order to get the checks done before Christmas (42 days) CSIS will need 200 people working 24/7 (no sleep) on security checks and 40 doctors to check health.
Good luck with that.

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