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  2. University of Chicago writes:
    “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-university-of-chicago-safe-spaces-letter-met-20160825-story.html
    Assuming it’s true, my only quibble would be why is this addressed to Class of 2020? Do they have to wait 3 years before implementing?

  4. *
    step one… grab a corona and get out the pressure cooker…
    “The recipe came to us by way of Colonel Harland Sanders’ nephew, Joe Ledington of Kentucky.
    He says he found it in a scrapbook belonging to his late Aunt Claudia, Sanders’ second wife.”
    i’m just glad i was alive to witness this historical event.
    *

  6. Thursday, Aug. 25, Toronto Star. Someone named Craig Damian Smith, a “Ph. D. candidate in political science at the University of Toronto” (what a surprise), objects to the air show at the annual Canadian National Exhibition.
    https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/08/25/air-show-too-traumatic-for-newcomers-who-escaped-war.html
    Smith: “The air show is nothing like a charity bike ride. In a city with a large population of refugee newcomers and people who have experienced the trauma of war it is insulting, invasive, and violent.”
    Did it ever occur to you that maybe some of the refugees escaped because of air power?
    And: “Who is the air show for? Apparently, the organizers ‘understand that some people [ …] may find some of the aircraft loud’ but ask them ‘to consider the benefits of the Canadian International Air Show to its fans.’ Considering the undefined ‘benefits’ accrued to ‘fans’ as somehow comparable to the potential harm to members of our communities is simply indecent.”
    This “harm” is sheer speculation, nothing more.
    Finally: “Glorification of the tools of war is antiquated, regressive, and morally repugnant. It’s something we deride in other countries, and is contrary to everything good about Toronto.”
    And here is the real reason. Buddy, until the day arrives that you are consistently opposed to the initiation of force by one person on another, and you understand that there will be no need for military self-defense only when everyone is working productively toward his own happiness in a capitalist economy, you have nothing worthwhile to say on the subject of war.

  8. “…and is contrary to everything good about Toronto.”
    There is something good about Toronto? Who knew?

  10. That bonehead’s comments reminds me of a bumper sticker that was popular nearly 50 years ago:
    “Don’t like the police? Next time you’re being mugged, call a hippie.”

  13. The multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry — promoted and expanded for more than a decade by the federal government — may be built on a false assumption, according to a University of Michigan study
    …
    Despite their purported advantages, biofuels — created from crops such as corn or soybeans — cause more emissions of climate change-causing carbon dioxide than gasoline, according to the study from U-M Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco.
    …
    The study is the latest salvo in the expanding battle over whether biofuels, and the farmland increasingly devoted to them, are actually providing the environmental and climate benefits many expected.
    …
    Michigan could better combat climate change by another method, DeCicco said.
    “The name of the game is to speed up how much CO2 you remove from the air,” he said. “The best way to begin removing more CO2 from the air is to grow more trees, and leave them. Prior to settlement, Michigan was heavily forested. A state like Michigan could do much more to balance out the tailpipe emissions of CO2 by reforesting than by repurposing the corn and soybeans grown in the state into biofuels. That is just a kind of shell game that’s not working.”

  15. The libtards have been yearning for an excuse to ban crossbows; no doubt this will help their cause.

  18. Given that this was the CBC I suspect the whole point of the story was to remind Canadians of Bernier’s negligence given that he is running for the CPC leadership.

  19. “There is something good about Toronto? Who knew?”
    Well, they still have that air show.

  20. Keeping the air safe.
    –
    Just waiting till they start a class action lawsuit against the biofuel producers for all the small gasoline engines biofuels have destroyed. Motorcycles, Boat motors, Lawnmowers, Weed eaters. etc.
    My lawnmower carburetor-fuel system looked like it had a 20 inch yellow tapeworm tangled in it..

  22. My Dad who wasn’t even that musical told me that little secret many years ago.
    “The drums provide an identical thump thumpa thump with a varied 4 chord progression”
    I’ve always enjoyed pop music just the same. I guess PT Barnum was right.

  24. AP argues there is more than a “sliver of truth” to their influence peddling allegations, in spite of Dem apoplectia, and Hillary refusing to every admit she’s wrong about anything. Imagine Hillary Clinton accusing others of taking a factoid and building false narrative around it.
    Then again, she is an authority on the subject of obfuscation, dishonesty and delay, especially in the use of factoid propaganda.
    “Associated Press won’t bow to Clinton camp’s demand, refuses to alter damning tweet.”
    “They’ve took a small sliver of her tenure as secretary of State, less than half the time, less than a fraction of the meetings she was in,” Benenson said, according to The Hill. “This is a woman who met with over 1,700 world leaders, countless other government officials, public officials in the United States. And they’ve looked at 185 meetings and tried to draw a conclusion from that.”
    Benenson’s complaint was that AP excluded meetings with government officials — including those with foreign governments.”
    Social media, for the most part, supported the news agency.”
    AP should of course correct the story: “Only 54 out of 1700 meetings with Clinton resulted in $154m in contributions to the Clinton Foundation.” That makes it OK right, there’s a “sliver of truth” in that. Maybe to clear this up Hillary could release the remainder of her schedules instead of stonewalling.
    http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/08/25/associated-press-wont-bow-clinton-camps-demand-refuses-alter-damning-tweet-383170

  25. Craig Damian Smith knows nothing of Canada. We have been rather good at making war. Perhaps he would like to join his fellow Buddhists in the Hindu Kush – oh sorry, they were all killed off by Muslims many centuries ago.
    So we are to be governed by the tender feelings of “refugee newcomers” are we? Who knew?

  27. the missing emails all involve the white house.
    petite trudeaue will not reset china.
    the govn’t is corrupt.
    Ontario can’t afford it’self.
    we are living in interesting times!

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