In tonight’s Tips music Arizona-born Junior Brown – a darn fine “guit-steel” player, as you’ll hear – wonders Where Has All The Money Gone?.
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In tonight’s Tips music Arizona-born Junior Brown – a darn fine “guit-steel” player, as you’ll hear – wonders Where Has All The Money Gone?.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Via American Digest’s Sidelines, a passage from a post at House of Eratosthenes that serves nicely as the summation of the social/political result of the leftward drift in the modern west:
Gull Bay’s only school closed, reserve ‘basically broke’ after former leader mismanaged band’s finances, new chief says
The Gull Bay First Nations school, which runs from Kindergarten to Grade 8, closed its doors around the same time the former chief is said to have thrown, apparently in his capacity as chief, two Christmas parties and a New Year’s Eve fete that included dinner and live music, one attendee told the National Post.
I pissed my pants I laughed so hard!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=323680737743741&set=a.205844209527395.39460.205838939527922&type=1&ref=nf
Obama seems to have a thing about the American Constitution. He really doesn’t like it, eh?
Apparently he made some appointments at a time when Congress was in session, now deemed ‘unconstitutional’.
I don’t understand the procedural details of the US, but I really like watching Jay Carney squirm.
It is covered by a few contributors at this site:
http://cnsnews.com/node/632220
Via Ann Barnhardt…the real reason Benghazi survivors are being kept under wraps? Because the slugs that were dug out of them could implicate US weapons in the Benghazi attack?
http://conservativereport.org/critical-benghazi-question-what-caliber-ammo/
Tom Flanagan serves an ace…game, set and match…http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/native-talks-with-the-crown-challenge-canadas-very-existence/article7779669/?service=mobile
When every child is a special snowflake and discipline is so yesterday, I guess you get just what was intended by the laws of nature. Strange that the social science degree couldn’t warn you that it was a big mistake.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268492/Rise-violent-primary-pupils-40-teachers-attacked-day–secondary-schools.html
National Post, Friday, Jan. 25. Eight lawyers get in a snit over the possibility that a non-Marxist university might start up a law school:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/24/counterpoint-why-trinity-western-university-should-not-have-a-law-school/
The 8: “The strongest opposition to the TWU proposal to date has issued from the Canadian Council of Law Deans (CCLD), which circulated a letter addressed to the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, describing the TWU Covenant as ‘fundamentally at odds with the core values of all Canadian law schools.’ … The Federation has the responsibility to determine whether graduates of a law program at TWU would be qualified to enter into a provincial or territorial law society articling program. (The Federation does not have the say as to whether TWU can offer a law program. That is the job of the British Columbia government.)”
And: “The crux of the issue is how the discrimination and institutional environment at TWU impacts the ability of the school to teach law. In order to permit entry into a provincial or territorial law society (as determined by the Federation), the law degree program must meet national standards in its curriculum. Those standards require critical thinking about ethical and legal issues. No person can truly think critically from one pre-determined lens, in this case, a lens mandated by TWU.”
The lawyers contradict themselves. Aren’t “the core values of all Canadian law schools” a “pre-determined lens”? And would not this lens be mandated by government at one level or another? Are lawyers allowed to “think critically” about the mandates of the state?
This is one more reason to separate education from the state, just as with church and state.
One suspects that lawyers who contradict themselves would not fare well in a courtroom.
I could probably have tried to write a lot more but along came Barbara Kay, who seems to be Canada’s foremost education critic, to rip them to shreds:
(presumably this will appear in the National Post on Saturday, Jan. 26)
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/25/barbara-kay-law-deans-position-on-trinity-western-would-shut-every-law-school-in-canada/
Kay: “Our law schools may hold certain Christian values in contempt. But that is not to say that they themselves are objective and without a lens ground to suit equally objectionable tenets. ‘Critical race theory’ and ‘feminist jurisprudence’ constitute the ‘predetermined lens’ of most western law school days.”
And: “… the idea that law matters less than ‘social justice’ can be found at the most basic levels as well. For example, during the brouhaha over allegations of Islamophobia levelled at Macleans magazine in 2007, the Ontario Human Rights Commission ruled that it did not have the jurisdiction to hear the complaint. An older, conservative law professor told me that his law students considered this obstacle a vexatious technicality that could be ignored. He could not convince them that jurisdiction is an important legal matter. All they cared about, he said, was the alleged racism; all they wanted was punishment of the alleged offender.”
Related:
National Post, Friday, Jan. 25, letters to the editor.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/25/todays-letters-when-christian-values-sexual-orientation-and-legal-education-collide/
Don Dutton, psychology professor, UBC: “A school that demands faculty believe a certain dogmatic way is incompatible with free inquiry. Not a law school, not a university.”
See excerpts from Barbara Kay article above, regarding dogmatism.
Recall also that a couple of days ago a Carleton student was caught vandalizing a “free speech wall”. Dutton’s letter also states that “Universities in Western tradition support free inquiry”. Perhaps he would support the expulsion of a student who apparently does not believe in free inquiry, and of any professors who may have encouraged his intolerant act?
As I recall, Prof. Dutton had his own run-in with “political correctness” a few years ago, so there may be something of a pot-kettle-black situation here.
Just another way of saying “from each according to his ability to each according to his need” which as I understand is a basic tenet of Marxism. Ayn Rand said that what this means is that ability becomes a liability and need becomes an asset, which completely turns the world upside down. I can’t argue against that logic.
“the flagship project of Europe’s climate policy settled deeper into a lifeless coma.”
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
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“Wake-Up Call: A Disastrous Week for Carbon Trading”
“The European cap-and-trade system has slid into near meaninglessness as Germany bickers on the sidelines. Hopes that the election in Lower Saxony might resolve the high-level bickering were misguided. Now Europe’s carbon market has hit a new low.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/drop-in-carbon-price-underscores-disastrous-week-for-carbon-trading-a-879769.html
A song I find even more apropos than today’s theme is “Badly Bent” by the Tractors:
http://www.artistdirect.com/video/badly-bent/39657
“And: “… the idea that law matters less than ‘social justice’ can be found at the most basic levels as well.”
“An older, conservative law professor told me that his law students considered this obstacle a vexatious technicality that could be ignored. He could not convince them that jurisdiction is an important legal matter. All they cared about, he said, was the alleged racism; all they wanted was punishment of the alleged offender.”
nv53, These are sad statements and ominous for the future. The legal systems that Lenin, Stalin and Hitler installed were based on the premise that certain political results were desired and that is the end game of these law deans.
What is even more worrying are the students mentioned by the older conservative law professor. The law students will someday make perfect Judge Vishinky and Judge Friesler equivalents.
Came across this video on Youtube this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw0vnAo_mjA
From the comments: “This vid is so ridiculous. I can’t stand Rosie ok. However, celebrities and politicians need security guards with guns due to the fact that they constantly have death threats. To compare yourself with them is idiotic.”
Gee. Who could have predicted that trading in nothing could fail. That all those pieces of paper showing you were a proud owner of nothing could drop even further in value is unbelievable.
The fate of smokers and fat people in Ban a Bama’s medicare plan:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_HEALTH_COSTS_REALITY_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-26-10-03-12
IMO,Banning smoking was/is never was about health; it is, and always has been, about control. To think that the emotionally overcharged believe that tobacco smoke can harm another person in the same room but the recyled stale air from thousands of people in a sealed building is fine. Leaps of logic!
This article is not for the rational thinker if he/she is looking for facts but it is stunning in it’s admission of the truth in the final line:
“Emotions are all that really count” he said.
correction:
“Emotions are what really count in this world,” he said.
Remind you that this is anti smoking week. The MSM is all obligated to come up with something. Ignore it. Smoke ’em if you got ’em. Next month they will all pick on the fat people again. Remember that black sheep always stand out in the white flocks and government has always disliked black sheep that have a aversion to brainwashing.
peterj – sorry, I did not know that a whole week is dedicated to slandering people who smoke. I did read in the paper that every Tue is ‘Free tobacco’ or ‘tobacco free’; I phoned to ask where I could pick up my free tobacco. The person answering the phone said it was a miss print – I don’t know a Miss Print and I told her so, and apologized for calling the wrong number for right reasons….it never ends….
As Eric Holder stated:
http://libertarianstandard.com/2013/01/10/eric-holder-says-gun-owners-should-cower-in-shame-like-smokers/
I was a bit taken aback when I viewed this music video by Nick Vujicic this afternoon. I have never heard of him before, but inspiring to say the least. Nick was born without arms or legs due to tetra-amelia syndrome.
If you are interested, watch his video “Something More”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrV_ZvwZRvw
Celebrating no smoking week today by going to the closest Rez and picking up 3 cartons of Putters Lights.
Costs about 4 bucks a deck.Off now to my home “cigar lounge” to have a fag.