The writer seems to think we should bargain with ISIL. Not likely. All negotiations will prove is that beheading Westerners for propaganda work.
Oh, Oops
Today: The Association for Canadian Studies/Leger survey indicates 49% of Canadians agreed that “military strength is the only way to deal with the threat of state terrorism.”
Updated: 64% from I-R.
Prediction tomorrow: The Liberal party holds an un-whipped vote.
“No one in my multi-married family has the same last name.”
You might remember Linda Tirado’s 10/23/2013 Kinja post, “Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts.”
It attracted thousands of comments. Forbes and The Nation and HuffPo picked it up.
I heard about it as it made its way around the internet.
But I didn’t read it then. Because I didn’t have to.
I grew up around poor people who did stupid things.
Accidentally setting herself on fire
A muffled cry for help delivered from the fold-and-smooch position.
h/t exetaz
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, filmed live on Norwegian TV, Michael Winslow plays the Led Zep classic Whole Lotta Love on his…mouth.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
They call conservatives ‘anti-science’
Social justice warrior upset at biology. Science wins.
After learning in March that I might not be able to obtain any passport due to conflicting sex designations on my documentation, I sent Passport Canada a complaint and requested a neutral travel document. I had hoped the government would honour my genderqueer identity, given that I am both male and female, depending on the document.
Future PM Simplistic?
Rex Murphy is not very impressed with the Shiny Pony’s recent utterances:
It wasn’t a slip of the tongue. (Oh, there’s a phrase he could play with.) It was the signature of an unserious mind, not to mention a mindless hit on the pilots of Canada’s military, to paint them so glibly as extensions of some macho ethos.
We should expect more — both in class and thought — from a national leader, especially when he is speaking in the context of the miseries that have been inflicted by one of the most sadistic collection of terrorists the planet has ever offered. How will they be stopped but by force?
Events do not have a single dimension. The daunting complexity of world affairs, and their intertwisted moral ambiguities, is a hallmark of this new wild world of ours. Straight-line answers are available to none. Dealing with those ambiguities, having the maturity and depth to deal with them, is what we in Canada, and elsewhere in the world, want in our leaders.
This is not the first time that the Liberals’ default despisement of the Canadian military has come to the fore. This past gem from them comes to mind.
h/t Harry M. & Mark L.
Update: This comment from SDA regular ‘Occam’ is brilliant:
Rex postulates that MP Zoolander’s gaffes reveal an “unserious” mind. I would quantify that by stating that mini-me Trudough’s mindless juvenile gaffes reveal a political party which is now perpetually “not serious” about the important affairs of the nation or its people – they are so detached from the actual agendas and mechanics of providing good government, they have fielded a litany of inept/naive doofus losers as PM bait in hopes of hoodwinking the public so they can gain power – not to govern, but to plunder the public treasure for themselves and their patronage cartel.
The LPC is not a political party or a government in waiting – they are a kleptocratic brokerage cartel which sell political influence/privilege for personal and organizational gain. Governing responibly and well has been off the Liberal cartel’s radar for generations – it shows in their un-serious policy planks and ass-clown leaders.
“Humanitarian intervention” is nonserious psycho-babble that belongs in preteen encounter group therapy, not federal cabinet foreign policy. This is a Rump paty which survives solely on the low info voter and cannot be taken seriously as a governing alternative.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Wait, what?
MSNBC: “How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse“
Do no harm.
Well, I guess this is one way to reduce gun crime.
The number of mentally ill people who have been killed through euthanasia in the Netherlands has trebled in a single year, according to new figures.
The Biggest Bailout in Canadian History
Mr. Trudeau’s problem.
This twitter thread is very interesting. Rick Roth is Director of Communications to John Baird, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister.
. @althiaraj Last time we offered them a briefing, Mr. Trudeau passed it to the critic, and he hung up half way through.
— Rick Roth (@RickARoth) October 3, 2014
So, ah, yeah, Mr. Trudeau…Maybe you should actually pick up the phone and listen, eh?
At the end of every decision to enter combat is a brave CDN in harm’s way. We owe them clarity. We owe them a plan. We owe them the truth.
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) October 3, 2014
The Honourable Member From Non Sequitur
Justin Trudeau whips out his brain in the HOC:
ISIL is a threat both to the region and to global security. ISIL murders ethnic and religious minorities across Iraq and Syria. They murder innocent civilians, humanitarian workers, and journalists. These awful acts have been fully documented – often by the perpetrators themselves.
This is why the Liberal Party supported a 30-day, non-combat role…
I think he thinks he’s serious.
Reader Tips
Tonight, in a clip from the 1975 documentary Heartworn Highway, the late Townes van Zant, sitting in his trailer in Austin with his girlfriend and a doleful Uncle Seymour Washington, sings the haunting Waitin’ Around To Die.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
At least they make the heads roll on time
From “The case for doing nothing about the Islamic State”, by Rick Salutin:
So imagine being a villager. From high overhead, others are raining Hellfires, literally, on you. You can’t see them but you know they don’t look like you or speak your language, and care only in the most abstract way. Then along come the Islamic State thugs. They look and talk like you. They’re brutal but they create some administrative order…
It’s hard to imagine a more morally bankrupt way of putting it.
A PhD in fly swatting from FU
Ezra brought his timid self to speak at Ryerson University yesterday:
During the opening of Levant’s presentation, SSI president Hadas Hait read the RSU equity statement — which is required to be “read aloud during the opening address of all meetings and events,” according to the union’s policy manual. The statement says that, “hate speech rooted in, but not limited to, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti-Semitic” will not be tolerated, and ends by asking the speaker if they agree.
Levant replied, “no,” prompting laughs from the audience. He went on to describe the statement as an “Orwellian command.”
He should be forced to apologize for both remarks.
h/t
Minister Ambrose, Heart and Stroke are bloviating.
Even without having a dog in the fight, I’m always cautions when an advocacy group “wants the federal government to move quickly”. You know, that’s the true path to success, to move quickly before having any facts.
I hope it’s because they know the results of this will be a reasonably conservative decision.
“We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.” – Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health
What’s a reasonably conservative decision? No banning or laws unless there’s proof of harm. That is kind of the the whole point of being conservative, isn’t it, Min. Ambrose? So, none of that, “We have heard…” crap, please and thank-you.
Hey, come talk to me, no cigarettes since February. Thank you electronic nicotine delivery.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Do Cosmic Rays Spark Lightning? (h/t Stephen J)
Well, that’s new.
Surprised at the @liberal_party . It's 1 thing to play politics prior to vote, another to abandon allies and not fight for right. #Cdnpoli
— Lance Levsen (@LLevsen) October 3, 2014
I totally understand playing politics before a debate and a vote, all parties did it. I did not expect the Liberals to simply flee in the face of any fight. They’re advocating abandoning thousands of Iraqis and Syrians to ISIS? Like, what? I do not understand what Trudeau is thinking. It is supremely disingenuous to compare ISIS to the Iraq war last decade. These two fights are just not comparable.
This isn’t the same Liberal party, they used to be honourable enemies.
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Don Newman, former senior parliamentary editor for the CBC and recipient of the Order of Canada, finds himself highly amused by Justin Trudeau’s juvenile quip about Canada’s contribution to stopping mass atrocities.