Or, “A measure of public interest in the census debate diversion, in one easy graph“.
Whoops.
“This world-class organization that runs on its image and its supposed professionalism had four different numbers within the same half-hour,” he said.
(While the Toronto Star is busy asking questions: what’s the compliance rate with Canada Revenue Agency?)
“A cautious politician does not ride a bicycle, when there is a risk of falling off and landing on the front page of the newspaper.”
Of course, a press release like this can mean only one thing… the Mole is back!
EBD sees campaign slogan gold!
A cautious politician doesn’t stand on a footstool. A cautious politician doesn’t throw a baseball. A cautious politician doesn’t cross the street at an uncontrolled intersection. A cautious politician doesn’t go out after dark. A cautious politician doesn’t ride a bike. A cautious p…
I dub thee “Mike Danger.”
h/t Iceman
In the 1950s and ’60s the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller wrote a remarkable number of hit songs, including Stand By Me, Is That All There Is, On Broadway (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil), Save The Last Dance For Me, Spanish Harlem, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Hound Dog, and many others.
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a live performance of one of their lesser-known songs. From a recording made at a 1966 acid test (note the tempo difficulties) at the Filmore Auditorium in San Francisco, here are the newly-minted Grateful Dead (formerly The Warlocks) performing Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s I’m A Hog For You Baby.
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You should have seen the newsrooms the other day when you got out on bail. Senior journalists were wandering around in a daze, smacking their heads in disbelief and calling up their libel lawyers for the first time in years.
Your Conrad Black thread.
With every $100 purchase. (Fireworks excluded.)
In 2004 Ray Davies, former frontman for The Kinks, was shot in the leg by a mugger in New Orleans. He fully recovered (a doctor reassured him that New Orleans is “the best place to get shot” because ER staff “had plenty of practice” treating gunshot wounds) and wrote tonight’s selection, a wry take on the uneasy relationship between restless, low-income locals and cash-waving, well lubricated tourists. From 2005, here’s Ray Davies performing The Tourist.
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Haunted as we are by a record of slavelessness.
[BCAA spokesman Trace Acres] said a Honda Civic hybrid cost only $290 more to operate over five years compared to its gas equivalent, whereas the Toyota Prius cost $1,718 more to operate than its gas equivalent, the Toyota Matrix. Over a five-year period, the cost to own and operate a Honda Insight was $38,326, a Toyota Prius cost $40,324 and the Honda Civic Hybrid cost $42,664.
Still, signs of progress. One model (out of 16 tested] has been found to produce actual cost savings over its gasoline powered equivalent!
The [Mercedes-Benz S400] cost $145,262 to buy and drive over five years, compared to the S450 gasoline model, which cost $150,622.
Because they sell it for less.
Now that context finally matters, prepare for the apology floodgates to open;
And while we’re at it, how about some apologies for all the false allegations by Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Charles Blow and numerous left-wing bloggers claiming that health care protesters were violent, and falsely linking the Tea Parties to the Amy Bishop shooting, the IRS Plane Crasher, the Fort Hood attack, and the Pentagon shooter.
They can start with Rush Limbaugh.
“Finally, in a third vote taken Wednesday evening, Ann Arbor City Council appointed a horse to office of City Controller.”
Years ago it was common for comedians and comedic actors to portray stereotyped ethnic characters for laughs. Buddy Hackett’s surly Chinese waiter (“Your brother’s a liar!”) was a standout, as was Peter Sellers’ guileless Hrundi V. Bakshi in Blake Edwards’ comedy film The Party. Tonight’s featured amusement en route to the Tips is a comedy skit about a laconic, hapless Mexican-American who has been chosen – ordered – to be the first man in space. From a 1960 recording, here’s actor/comedian Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez the Astronaut.
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BREAKING: Ku Klux Klan buys land adjacent to Martin Luther King center in Atlanta…
If you believe that decriminalizing the census is a bad thing, but that decriminalizing drugs is a good thing – you might be a liberal.*
There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense. The idea that taxes cause scarcity, and subsidy abundance is a foreign concept. The notion that entitlements create dependency is considered Neanderthal. Tough penalties supposedly do not deter crime. Abroad, military preparedness or deterrence pales in comparison to “soft” diplomatic power and clever talking. Borrowing trillions is “stimulus” and need not quite be paid back. In other words, take a deep breath and imagine the opposite of everything you know by experience to be true, and you have mostly the worldview of the sheltered cultural elite, who navigate in rather protected channels and not in the open seas of the real world.
If you missed it on the weekend, be sure to also read this essay: America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution, by Angelo M. Codevilla. It’s since gone viral, helped in large part by Rush Limbaugh’s massive audience.
h/t EBD
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“Poll based on the responses of 1,177 Canadians. Results are considered accurate within 2.99 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.”
Related…
I believe we’ve stumbled upon a medical mystery. How does he grow those big hairy eyebrows with all that estrogen coursing through his veins?
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h/t EBD
