“ALLAHU AKBAR” IS JUST A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC: ‘Nothing whatsoever about ISIL that is related to Islam.’
Insufficiently Feminised
On dictators big and small, riots and media narratives, and the thrilling world of “masculinity studies“:
When Michael Kimmel talks about men and boys – at least ones unreconstructed by feminism – it is often in a tone that ranges from ironic condescension to scolding rebuke and outright antipathy… He waxes enthusiastic about “rape awareness” measures that treat all men as potential rapists – such as “splash guards” on a college’s public urinals with the slogan, “You hold the power to stop rape in your hand.” Tackiness aside, such a stunt directed at any other group would be readily seen as “hate.” Imagine proposing that “You are looking at someone who can stop terrorism” be inscribed on bathroom mirrors at a campus Islamic centre.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Ezra has the emails: Senior executives within the media party hold talks behind closed doors — about manipulating the the news. Guess who they’re conspiring to protect?
137 pages of emails.
Reader Tips
With all the trouble and fighting in the world it’s easy to forget sometimes that we did win life’s lottery by being born in Canada, and that there’s a lot to be thankful for. With that in mind, here’s Mary Chapin Carpenter singing her lovely Thanksgiving Song.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Little Owls, you’re on candid camera.
Walid Shoebat
“Islam is a religion and a state. And it is impossible to separate the two.“
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
NY Post: NBC’s medical correspondent ‘violated Ebola quarantine’
Happy Thanksgiving
Wishing all SDA readers & commenters a Wonderful Canadian Thanksgiving.
Sunset at Candle Lake, Saskatchewan two days ago
Crushed by The Hegemon
The New York Times feels the pain of Laurie Penny:
By all means take a moment to realign your mind with the notion of Ms Penny as a “cyborg” writer and in some way marginalised – “marked as other” – and struggling against the pressures of not being heard. Except of course when she’s on TV, or Five Live, or Radio 4, or when airing her various and bewildering concerns in the pages of the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Independent.
We Don’t Need No…
ESPN
#ChangeALetterRuinATeam ESPN pic.twitter.com/TTPWrEN2kv
— Leg Chair (@FoxLegChair) October 13, 2014
Reader Tips
No, it’s not Ogden Nash, it’s a loverly Joyce Kilmer po-em set to music: here are the dulcet voiced Sons of the Pioneers singing Trees.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Catch and release.
“The best way to get Keystone XL built is to make it irrelevant”
Bloomberg: Canada Finds Oil Route Around Obama
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
According to the St. Louis Fed, food inflation was 22% between January 2006 and June 2013, while core CPI clocked in at only 15% over the same period. This divergence grew following the recession, with food prices (9%) far outpacing core CPI (5.9%) since late 2009.
Certain family staples fared even worse: over the past five years, for example, the average price of meat, poultry, fish and eggs is 16.2% higher.
[…]
Perhaps the biggest offender is the government’s continued support for ethanol, particularly through the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires refiners to add increasing amounts of biofuels to gasoline.
After the RFS became law in 2006, ethanol production capacity — and demand for corn feedstock — exploded, thus creating a domino effect of price increases from corn to other staple crops to meat, poultry and dairy, and finally to Americans’ grocery bills.
The “Come Shoot Me” Sign
Report: 92% Of Mass Shootings Since January 2009 Occurred In Gun-Free Zones
It’s Probably Nothing
Don’t panic. It’s really, really hard to catch.
A Texas health care worker who was in full protective gear while providing hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus and is in stable condition, health officials said Sunday. If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.
Meanwhile, a top federal health official said the health care worker’s Ebola diagnosis shows there was a clear breach of safety protocol and all those who treated Thomas Eric Duncan are now considered to be potentially exposed.
Related: “I get to the kiosk…mark the fact that I’ve been in Nigeria and nobody cares, nobody stopped me,”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
EDIT, killed autoplay crap – lance
h/t Ed S.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Do you think it’s easy for me to accept flag bearers of my religion as my enemy? Do you believe that it’s easy for me to accept the fact that a 16-year-old girl fearlessly took a stand against the biggest threat facing this country while men like me were busy being apologetic on the behalf of the “freedom fighters”?
Do you honestly believe that it’s easy for me to accept that a young girl from our neck of the woods, with all the societal handicaps that one can think of, can singlehandedly orchestrate a global rude awakening? The thought rips the bigoted, discriminatory and misogynistic ideals that I’ve grown up with, into tiny little shreds.
How can I accept Malala to be a hero, when her speeches do not have any Islamic or nationalistic agenda? How can I consider her to be my future leader when nothing she says or does imbues a false sense of superiority in me as a Muslim or a Pakistani? How can I accept that a young girl was able to highlight who our actual enemies are, when grown up men in our parliaments are still hell bent on befriending them?