“If the U.S. airplanes had not been here at the right moment, Irbil would have fallen and ISIL would be here,” said Shobhan Kunda. “Everybody knows it,” he added.
Everybody, it seems but Canada’s opposition parties.
Liberanos, part n+1
Former Liberal national director turned in by the company that hired him, via Plainzdrifter as well as maz2.
Snort
Liberals will support Iraqi combat mission after voting against it, Garneau says
Kneejerk Reactions
Breakenridge says the Alberta Health Minister is partaking in a knee-jerk reaction to electronic nicotine delivery.
Related, via via John Galt, which I don’t have an issue with. Kids shouldn’t use electronic nicotine delivery or smoke.
If it was suicide
Only one conclusion can be made.
The ‘medical’ marijuana didn’t work. I hope his family can find peace at this time.
If TorStar could hear me now.
Snicker. Snort. Guffaw. Whimper LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY LOUD.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips the Dinning Sisters, three midwestern belles with an ear for sweet harmony, send us to the tips with their rendition of When The Bloom Is On The Sage.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Death of a Mindless Slogan
Blood? Yes, but not for oil:
If oil were a major factor for prosecuting war in Iraq, it stands to reason the United States would be getting substantial amounts of it. It may come as a shock to (Glen) Greenwald as well as a number of other Americans, but with regard to importing oil, the overwhelming percentage of our imported oil does not come from the Middle East. Canada and Latin America provide the United States with 34.7 percent of our imported oil. Africa provides another 10.3 percent. The entire Persian Gulf, led by Saudi Arabia at 8.1 percent, provides us with a total of 12.9 percent of our imported oil.
As recently as December 2012, Iraq provided the United States with approximately 14.3 million barrels of oil out of a total of about 298 million barrels imported, or 4.8 percent of our total imports. And as this chart indicates, we were importing the highest amount of oil from Iraq before we went to war to oust Saddam Hussein.
Read Arnold Ahlert’s “The War For Oil Myth” here.
h/t Michael Anderson
Well, this is interesting.
Reported explosion near Iranian nuclear site.
Just a comment
You might be liberal if:
The investigation into robo-calls was ineffective and hampered by politics, but
an investigation into missing and murdered aboriginal women will solve all the problems.
Contraction of the market.
This will do nothing to relieve the left of their fear of corporate media.
Quebecor today announced the sale of its English-language operations, consisting of 175 publications including the Sun chain of dailies, its community dailies and weeklies, its Canoe portal in English Canada and its Islington printing plant, to Postmedia Network Canada.
After TorStars abortive Metro experiment, I’m beginning to think that newspapers might be a declining market.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Cause, you know, that worked out so well for the Hapsburgs and Romanovs.
“Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”
SJW 1, Biology 1. The score is under review and likely to be overturned.
Border Security
“Sources in the airlines said the slipping away of the PIA air hostesses highlighted the lack of discipline in the airlines and proper training.”
Men of No Appearance
On academic scandals, policing speech and “black privilege”:
No conspiracy theory is required to explain the silence here. Reporters and editors are nervous about being thought racist, or (worse) having “anti-racist” pressure groups demonstrating on their doorsteps. The easy route to avoiding this is a bit of suppressio veri – not lying, exactly, but not uttering facts that might be thought racially inflammatory. The pattern of suppression is neatly explained by the following premises: Any association of black people with criminality is inflammatory. Any suggestion that black criminals are motivated by racism to prey on white victims is super-inflammatory. And above all, we must not inflame. Better to be silent. I believe this silence is a dangerous mistake with long-term consequences that are bad for everyone, and perhaps worst of all for black people.
Mandatory Insanity
A 59-year-old father with no criminal record has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with no chance of parole after he fired a single warning shot to dissuade a rampaging “youth” in his home.
h/t John Galt
Reader Tips
Do you find yourself plagued by houseguests – perhaps they’re your in-laws – who’ve long overstayed their welcome? Tonight, as a public service, we teach your parakeet to drive them out of the house.
Guaranteed to work or double your money back.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Bad for the goose, great amusement for the gander
After the paroxysms of outrage over Ezra Levant’s dastardly segment on The Source, we came to understand as Canadians that when it comes to the intersection of journalism and politics, family is absolutely, strictly, one-hundred percent off-limits.
Unless, of course, your last name isn’t Trudeau. Then it’s just fun!
Biden is VP
Because of his foreign policy experience. *
Smart Diplomacy.
Somebody got shot down.
In politics, lots can change in 24 hrs: She promoted the party/logo yesterday; now it's all blacked out #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/e2WVfh9xyH
— Richard Madan (@RichardMadan) October 5, 2014
Political Islam
More evidence for the Muslim middle-class.
A key argument in the article is that Muslim societies lack the intellectual infrastructure required for a modern nation-state to evolve among them. Arguing that madrassas cannot produce youth skilled for the modern workforce, Iqbal added: “And more than anything else, the Muslim societies, not just in Pakistan, need to develop an intellectual base to counter extremism, and that does not seem to be happening soon.”
Grab a coffee.