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  1. Speaking of white rabbits, the ones in my neighbourhood here in Edmonton have nearly changed colour. The only problem is that there’s no snow, and none forecast for the next week.

  2. So you want a revolution?
    Well you know, we all could use some target practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQYgkZydWxY
    See around 1:15 they really are forgetting which side has all the guns. Ogabe better puts his ghetto rats on the leash, and explains to them that time to “get in their forces” is over…

  3. Google Richard Starke, leadership candiate for the Alberta PCs and the first hit is a glowing article at Rabble.ca here: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2016/09/meet-alberta-pc-leadership-candidate-richard-starke-thoughtful-c.
    Then you get Rick Bell of the Calgary Sun cheering about his identity group credentials here: http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/11/06/lloydminsters-own-richard-starke-shines-in-alberta-progressive-conservative-leadership-gabfest .
    Has Starke laid the groundwork for the left-wing institutional support that got Redford elected by bragging about his socially ‘progressive’ bona fides?

  4. SNL was bizarre tonight. Highly politicized and not terribly funny. The opening sequence was “Hillary Clinton” (Kate McKinnon) singing Cohen’s Hallelujah. Touching perhaps, but not exactly a knee slapper. And the musical guest “A Tribe Called Quest” only poured gasoline onto the political bonfire.

  5. I’ll gladly sacrifice missing the odd funny snippet to avoid the blatant political leanings of such shows. In the old days, the network would cancel a show when the viewers were getting turned off from politics (Smothers Brothers). Perhaps SNL has enough viewers within the progressive bubble to ensure no such thing happens today.

  6. Climate Change is political science, not earth science. Of course that doesn’t prevent some earth scientists from including the phrase ‘climate change’ to improve the chances of a successful grant application. Anyone who has worked in academia knows how the grant scam works.

  7. I never figured out why SNL was popular.
    I heard about it while I was an undergrad in the 1970s and finally got to watch it after I started working after I got my B. Sc. I was left unimpressed and bewildered about its appeal.
    I watched it once again over 25 years ago and my opinion of the show hadn’t changed.
    On the other hand, I have a hard time keeping a straight face while watching Monty Python.

  8. Anyone who has worked in academia knows how the grant scam works.
    Yup. I noticed that while I was a grad student. There’s very little originality and imagination, but lots of groupthink. It’s as if everyone’s afraid to comment about the monarch’s new apparel, if you get my meaning.
    To get funding, one must know which topics are popular and, then, liberally use (no pun intended) the associated buzzwords and jargon. One’s application is sure to be noticed that way.
    The movie Contact nicely shows how the system works.

  9. “Families warned to flee New Zealand coast ‘immediately’ over tsunami sparked by 7.8-magnitude earthquake” (mirror)
    …-
    “After Canada, Americans Now Consider Moving to New Zealand”
    “What started as puns and jokes of leaving the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave when Trump gets elected as president is now a living nightmare to the supporters of the Democratic party. After news on Canada’s immigration website crash trended, Americans now eye on migrating to New Zealand.
    Even prominent individuals did not miss out being engrossed by the idea of moving out of the country. According to The Washing Post, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is among those who joked, or maybe even really meant, saying they would move to New Zealand in the event of a Trump presidency.”
    http://www.newseveryday.com/articles/53104/20161112/after-canada-americans-now-consider-moving-to-new-zealand-australia.htm

  10. Socialism’s natural end result: “salty white cheese”.
    …-
    “EU voices support for Modi’s decision of demonetisation 500 and 1000 rupee bills even as country suffers chaos”
    “Modi announced demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee bills in the country on the night of November 8, which resulted in a chaos among the masses.
    People have been standing in long queues at the banks to get their old currency exchanged with only a marginal number of ATMs being functional while some remain out of cash or are shut.”
    “Modi said,” “If someone faces problem, I also feel the pain.”
    http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/249364107/eu-voices-support-for-modis-decision-of-demonetisation-500-and-1000-rupee-bills-even-as-country-suffers-chaos
    …-
    “Tired of Counting Piles of Worthless Cash, Venezuelans Start Weighing Them”
    “At a delicatessen counter in eastern Caracas, Humberto Gonzalez removes slices of salty white cheese from his scale and replaces them with a stack of bolivar notes handed over by his customer.
    The currency is so devalued and each purchase requires so many bills that instead of counting, he weighs them.
    “It’s sad,” Gonzalez says. “At this point, I think the cheese is worth more.”
    http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/venezuela-cash-weigh-counting/2016/10/31/id/756120/

  11. Paul Kantner (along with Robbie Krieger of the Doors) really had the psychedelic guitar sound perfected. These riffs make me feel young again! Even though I was never a dirty hippie … free love guru – yes … smelly hippie following the Grateful Dead – no.

  12. Thank goodness I’m not the only one! I’ve periodically watched SNL skits and simply haven’t found any of them very funny.

  13. If you want a god laugh just watch Craig Oliver and Robert Fife profonicating on what Canadians want. They appear to be soiling their underwire over Donald Trump and are continuing the diatrade on the EvilRacist KELLY Leitch. They haven’t learned a dam thing.

  14. Victorious Kenji:
    Jorma Kaukonen was the lead guitarist of JA, Kantner was the rhythm guitarist. His political rantings made latter JA unlistenable. Jack Casady is an excellent bassist and probably the coolest.
    In regards to psychedelic, the 2 you mentioned were years behind Beck and Hendrix.

  15. “How will America recover from the political shock that is Donald Trump?
    November 8, 2016 may be remembered as the day conventional wisdom in politics perished once and for all.” (newstalk106)
    …-
    “Trump Spells End of Normality for Europe
    Donald Trump’s election has put establishment politicians in Europe in a state of panic. In Berlin, nobody knows what the US president-elect intends to do. In Brussels, fears are growing he will put wind into the sails of the growing anti-EU populist movement” (spiegel)
    …-
    “Marine Le Pen, Beppe Grillo, Geert Wilders, Frauke Petry: has their big moment arrived?
    With elections due across Europe and a referendum in Italy, the establishment fears political tremors”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/12/elections-eu-donald-trump-brexit-italy-referendum

  16. President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration stance was a central part of his campaign message in 2016 — and he said in an interview airing Sunday that he plans to immediately deport approximately two to three million undocumented immigrants.
    “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-elect-trump-says-how-many-immigrants-hell-deport/

  17. President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration stance was a central part of his campaign message in 2016 — and he said in an interview airing Sunday that he plans to immediately deport approximately two to three million undocumented immigrants.
    “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”

  18. While Dave Chappelle can be both insightful and funny, last night’s SNL was just horrible. I note that the network had no problem with Chappelle letting loose with not one but two utterances of the ‘n-word’ – you know, the one I dare not actually say.
    Very progressive.
    There was also a very disgusting ‘skit’ of Chappelle slurping away at the enormous lactating apparatus of the unfunny Leslie Jones, she of the unsuccessful Ghostbusters remake. This was followed by another unfunny skit of Chappelle and McKinnon being two losers in a dive bar at closing time. The wayyyy to long tight camera shots of them slathering tongues together was pointless and gross.
    SNL. So Not Laughable.

  19. What in the name of God are there idiots in Canada protesting the result of the US election?
    It’s rather a scary situation to have people paying these fools to protesting democracy, which is what they are doing.

  20. B.O’narcissist: USA’s first ever “black” lame-duck president.
    …-
    “The First Major Blow To Barack Obama’s Legacy Has Been Dealt, And Donald Trump Hasn’t Even Taken Office Yet”
    “… the Obama administration has given up on trying to pass the sweeping Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal,…”
    “Obama had hoped the TPP would become part of his legacy before he leaves office in January, but Democratic and Republican leaders have both announced they will not bring the trade deal forward during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress.”
    https://www.bustle.com/articles/194914-the-first-major-blow-to-barack-obamas-legacy-has-been-dealt-and-donald-trump-hasnt-even

  21. They’re doing a slow, silent burn, at least here in Edmonton.
    I encountered two of them in a grocery store lineup the other day. When I brought up the election results in our conversation, one of the first things each of them said was “Trump is a pig”.
    One was an anybody-but-Trump sort and the other was a hard-core liberal as she openly supported Prince Potato Head and his daddy.

  22. The any-but-Trump progressive wanted to see a woman in the White House. When I asked her if she wanted to have a criminal living there, she quickly changed course and wanted O’Bummer back.
    Once lefties have an idea in their heads, no amount of fact, logic, or reason will shift them.

  23. A North Carolina Republican legislator is censored by his fellow Republicans.
    A North Carolina state lawmaker is under fire from his fellow Republican legislators after emailing them a fake newspaper headline that said “TRUMP FORCES BLACK FAMILY FROM HOME” and showed a picture of the White House. (Fox News)
    You decide, over the top?.

  24. What’s the deal. My comment held. No bad words, no links, not very lengthy. I’m starting to think I’m unwelcome.

  25. What in the name of God are there idiots in Canada protesting the result of the US election?
    In case you haven’t noticed these are the same people who protest at any perceived affront to their progressive beliefs. They love to protest and are always looking for an excuse. For them it’s a social event like going to a concert or sports game.

  26. In case you haven’t noticed these are the same people who protest at any perceived affront to their progressive beliefs.
    They’re like Marlon Brando’s character in the movie The Wild One. In one classic scene, his character is asked: “What are you rebelling against?” and he answers: “What have you got?”

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