In tonight’s musical oddity en route to the Tips, a teenage pop star who would later change his name to Yusef Islam sings a catchy little number about engendering respect through the threat of lethal force: From 1967, here’s a young Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou) singing I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“Buckle up, Riley”. Dogs of Dover.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Oh boy! Justin Trudeau:QC has 24 senators and Alberta/BC only 6 which benefits us lapresse.ca/actualites/pol… #bcpoli #ableg
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) May 25, 2013
“Of course he’s not supposed to do that. “
Virtually all the major financial institutions use Bloomberg terminals. I say virtually all because it’s possible that there may be a hold-out, but Bloomberg is indispensable to the financial world. It now appears that the Bloomberg sales force, the guys at the bottom of the information pyramid, has access to their customer’s usage patterns and could see what they were doing. How much more can the top guy find out about what his customers are doing?
For people who are not in the financial industry an explantion is in order. The Bloomberg system is like Google, Bing, Facebook and the telephone company combined. It’s a vast data base for people who want to look up statistics and financial facts. But it’s also a communications network that allows Bloomberg’s customer to make trades. The people who run the Bloomberg System can monitor this, and Michael Bloomberg is at the top of that system.
Enjoy Them While They’re Still Alive
“Understand once this generation dies off you get to deal with aging boomer hippies, middle aged Gen X’er feminists, and entitled Gen Y’ers and millineals, all of which have to one extent or another been influenced and impaired by feminism. In other words the last true remaining, classy, Sophia Loren-esque women will die off and you will never get to enjoy hanging out with them, leaving you with “empowered women” and “masters in communications” types of females who are only female in gender.”
Look! Over There! A Fat Guy!
Conrad Black on the Bizarroworld of Canadian political reporting:
If the Canada Customs and Revenue Authority had been used to harass and intimidate political and media opponents of the government in the run-up to a general election — as the Internal Revenue Service has done in the United States — it would be the greatest scandal in the country’s history, and would provoke a national crisis of confidence in the integrity of the federal government. The governing party would be out.
And if a Republican was in the White House, the scandals gripping Washington would be unfolding by the hour across the Canadian airwaves. But there isn’t, so they aren’t.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Sweden riots spread beyond Stockholm – “The whole policy of immigration and integration is being questioned”
Nice of them to finally notice. More here.
And here…
The media in Sweden sometimes report on studies in which researchers submit several job applications, some with names that sound Swedish, and some with more foreign-sounding names. Applicants with “Swedish” names are more likely to get called to an interview, something journalists interpret as meaning that immigrants in Sweden have little chance of finding employment.
Young immigrants, particularly those living in economic and social exclusion, get the impression that they might as well give up the idea of succeeding in the Swedish labour market. Journalists communicate this message with the hope that it will sound alarm bells that lead to efforts to reduce discrimination and racism. But it would be much more constructive if the journalists themselves better understood how discrimination works, and instead put forward a more nuanced perspective.
Heh. “They’re not riots, they’re diversity bonfires.”
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is yet another one of those “dance like nobody’s watching and then post it on online to try to get as many people as possible to watch” videos: Here’s Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: LAX baggage-claim version.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“We will not waver.”
Fox News’s Roger Ailes responds to Justice Department investigation.
Update: Obama admin. fought to keep Rosen warrant secret
Y2Toyota
The greenhouse effect, as explained by Dr. Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council:
When you get in your car in summer, your car is hot because it has greenhouse gases in it. That’s why its hot.
This couldn’t possibly be correct… could it?
(London Free Press, May 1990)
When in doubt ask the experts, I say.
The Last American Journalist
Ominous Warning: What CNN’s Jake Tapper Told Obama Supporters
Robocalls: Anatomy of a Scandal, by Glen McGregor
Scientific American Barbie
“Most people believe that they are above average, a statistical impossibility.”
h/t
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the jihadists caper unmolested: Two men arrested over ‘offensive Twitter comments about British soldier’s death’
Reader Tips
Tonight, Patsy Sledd & Warner Mack remind us that Backbone Beats Wishbone Every Time.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
If Obama Had A Son…
“He’d look like Trayvon.“ *
“Looking for Rob Ford look alike/imposter (Toronto)”
Posted at CanadaListed.com, on January 18, 2012;
Description:
Do you look like Mayor Rob Ford? I need someone who looks like Rob Ford to play the mayor in my film. It’s a short shot of the mayor smoking a cigar and chuckling into the camera – as part of a montage. It’s a dark comedy set in Toronto. Please send a photo for consideration and more information.
Location: Toronto
Compensation: 20 bucks and good cigar for 21 minutes of your time
Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Huh.
(I see BCF had this up yesterday.) Screenshot
h/t CERDIP
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Of course! Iran will chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel’s May session…
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Scratch a leftist – A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.
More from Michael Coren.
h/t Adrian
It’s Probably Nothing
Japanese Stocks Halted; Plunge 1500 Points. More.