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  2. Two excerpts/teasers from George Will’s “Obama’s unconstitutional steps worse than Nixon’s.”

    Serving as props in the scripted charade of White House news conferences, journalists did not ask the pertinent question: ‘Where does the Constitution confer upon presidents the “executive authority” to ignore the separation of powers by revising laws?’ The question could have elicited an Obama rarity: brevity. Because there is no such authority.”

    Later,

    Nixon’s claim (that “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal”), although constitutionally grotesque, was less so than the claim implicit in Obama’s actions regarding the (Affordable Care Act). Nixon’s claim was confined to matters of national security or (he said to Frost) “a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude.” Obama’s audacity is more spacious; it encompasses a right to disregard any portion of any law pertaining to any subject at any time when the political “environment” is difficult.

    Read the whole thing here.

  7. True north isn’t I was a a few blocks to the right of you but in the same row of purple just slightly lower!!

  8. God! I’m much further to the right than I had anticipated! Now I know why I hated Trudeau!

  9. Thanks Gunney99 too, I can see Saltspring from my living room, wouldn’t want to live there, the Island Trust needs to get called out, there are some serious issues, similar to a marxist strata council overseeing private property. It’s a recipe for failure, and even elite socialists on a Gulf Island, from elsewhere, will realise one day, a local economy is the only thing that keeps their grossly inflated property values solvent. Maybe they just think they are insulated from all of “that”, a commune for the rich.

  18. As a libertarian I have no problem with alternative lifestyles but I reserve the right to mock. For instance…adult men that dress up like My Little Ponies? The poor ball cutter fish will starve if these guys hold their next convention on a Swedish beach resort.
    The Dread Pony
    “One Brony study​—​yes, there’s some academic to study everything, and most of them seem to be conducting panels at BronyCon​—​says 84 percent of Bronies report being exclusively heterosexual (only 1.7 percent report being gay, while the rest are bisexual or asexual). More tellingly, 22.4 percent have no interest in dating, and 60.9 percent are interested but not dating. (There are some female Bronies, but these are often called “Pegasisters,” giving third-wave feminists a fresh inequality to whinny about.)
    But even if Bronies don’t seem to have an overwhelming interest in breeding, what’s clear is that, like malware, Bronydom is spreading. One terrifying “State of the Herd” survey estimates that there are as many as 12.4 million, which if true would mean that if Bronies had their own state, it would be the seventh most populous in the nation.”
    “During three days of BronyCon, I have occasion to meet all manner of Bronies and their stable-mates. There’s Sam Miller, who teaches communications at the University of North Dakota, and who studies them. He tells a roomful of Bronies, from the dispassionate vantage of academe, that “you guys are doing something powerful. .  .  . You’re pushing the envelope of what gender is supposed to do. That’s awesome.” Then there’s Dr. Katia Perea, who teaches sociology/queer media studies at CUNY Kingsborough. A roomful of pony-ears and manes bob in agreement, as she lectures on the historic sweep of “girl cartoons” which she has extensively studied. She drops academese like “transgressing gender normative coding” and “the master/slave dialectic.” When she finally speaks English, it is to tell the Bronies, “You are a revolutionary movement in popular culture.””
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dread-pony_748495.html?page=2

  19. wow, you’re quite obsessed with ‘bronies’, I’d never hard of them before you posted your rant.

  21. O’s Fall.
    “Spengler says the region is just beginning to fall apart — wait till it gets going.”
    …-
    “America’s Problems in the Middle East Are Just Beginning”
    “It’s 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion of the Jews from Israel. Iran, meanwhile, smuggles shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to terrorist cells in Palestine that can take down civilian airlines at Ben-Gurion Airport. With backing from the Egyptian military, Fatah throws out the elected Hamas government and kills a large number of Hamas supporters. What will Washington do? Given the track record of both the Obama administration and the Republican mainstream, one would expect America to denounce the use of violence against a democratically elected government.
    Such is the absurdity of both parties’ stance towards Egypt:”
    http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/08/15/americas-problems-in-the-middle-east-are-just-beginning/
    …-
    “Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post is thunderstruck by the abstracted, almost unreal atmosphere within the Obama administration:
    Incredibly, some officials close to Kerry were arguing in recent weeks that one reason not to designate Egypt’s coup a coup was to avoid dampening the Mideast “peace process” — whose prospects for success are invisible to all outside the administration, including the Israelis and Palestinians themselves. Never mind the burning city, goes the logic; we’ve got our hands full building this Potemkin village.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/

  22. Rumour says, fish was drunk & slurring its gills.
    “According to the Toronto Sun, which had a reporter on-board the boat, Ms. McCallion hooked the fish, prompting a “loud swoosh and bang”; the rod then bent sharply, pulling the Mississauga mayor toward the edge of the boat.”
    “Mr. Ford quickly leapt into action.”
    …-
    “Rob Ford saves the day after Mississauga’s 92-year-old mayor is almost hauled overboard by huge fish”
    “It took two mayors from the GTA’s two largest municipalities Thursday to reel in the catch of the day: a massive, 16-pound salmon”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/16/rob-ford-hazel-mccallion-go-fishing-hilarity-a-kiss-and-a-massive-salmon-ensue/

  25. Another RCMP shooting in Alberta. This is most likely the person shot.He won’t be raping anymore.
    ” Daniel Charland, 44, was released from the Bowden Institution on May 27 after serving his full 10-year sentence for sexual assault. Charland has a history of sexually abusing adult females within Alberta.”
    http://www.coldlakesun.com/2005/05/31/high-risk-sex-offender-in-community
    http://eedition.coldlakesun.com/doc/Cold-Lake-Sun/clpr_011513/2013011401/2.html#2

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