Star Phoenix, October 26th – [T]he first bill an NDP government would table in office would be the introduction of rent control, he said.
(h/t Dan T)
Reader Tips
Say what you will about the French, but even their road mishaps have a certain ordered, unflappable élégance.
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The Tolerant Left
Dem strategist: “… he’s a black man who knows his place”.
Via Drudge
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
“The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending.”
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
“I stood with Occupy Wall Street. Until I got the dry cleaning bill.”
Lies, Damned Lies, And Michael Bryant
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Bryant, attorney-general of Ontario (2003-2007);
Suicides. Suicides dropped dramatically in Canada thanks to the federal gun registry. Not only do statistics prove as much, it stands to reason that with improved gun safety comes decreased gun fatalities; with fewer tools-of-choice for suicides available, fewer suicides occur. It just makes sense.
Statistics Canada; (LGR became mandatory in ’03).
Related Michael Bryant statistic: Since the pit bull ban was enacted in 2005, pit bulls have killed fewer Ontarians than former attorney general Michael Bryant.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Operation Fast and Furious
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is investigating to what extent the White House was aware of — or involved in — the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal.
The committee recently requested to speak with former White House National Security Staffer Kevin O’Reilly….
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Security was heavy as the jury for the canal murder trial was taken this morning to the Kingston Mills lock where the bodies of four Montreal women were discovered in a submerged car on June 30, 2009.
As a police dog sniffed the bushes on land yesterday, an Ontario Provincial Police boat with two officers navigated just offshore, battling the high winds coming off Colonel By Lake.
Why the paranoia? It’s just an honour killing case. (h/t Larry)
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tippity amusement singing Welshman Eric Whitley, backed by Caroll Gibbons and his band, asks Are You Havin’ Any Fun?
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Let’s Strum A Tune At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
Grab a tissue.
h/t Marc, who writes; In Raffi’s defence, I suppose that “Letter to a Nation” is considerably more succinct than “Letter to a Barely Legal Asian Hooker of Questionable Immigration Status.”
The Remembered Few
A Polish World War II airman, believed to be the last surviving Polish pilot from the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 97 in a Canadian nursing home. […]
Historian Adam Zamoyski — author of “The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War” — told The Associated Press that if Sawicz was the last surviving pilot from the 1940 battle it would close an important chapter in the war’s and Poland’s history.
He added that proving he is the last could be difficult, as there is no exact record of the pilots, who emigrated around the world after the war. Sawicz moved to Canada in 1957 where he worked in aviation.
At the start of World War II in 1939, Sawicz fought in Poland’s air defense against the invading German Nazis. At one point, he flew under German fire to carry orders to troops defending Warsaw.
Following the collapse of the city’s defense on Sept. 17, he joined Polish pilots fighting in France, but after Paris’ surrender in July he made his way — with tens of thousands of Polish airmen, soldiers and sailors — to Britain, making up the largest foreign military force in the country. Zamoyski said that some 17,000 Poles — pilots, mechanics and ground staff — served in the Polish air force in Britain at the time.
In the summer of 1940, Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski — the head of Poland’s Government in Exile in London — signed an agreement with the British Government to form a Polish Air Force in Britain, of which Sawicz was to play his part.
h/t Syd B.
Something Fat, Stupid And Ugly
Found lying on Rob Ford’s driveway.
Operation Fast and Furious
Finally, someone’s saying it out loud;
Your Department has made an enormous error in judgment. It instructed federally-licensed firearms dealers to illegally sell at least 2,000 guns that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to be trafficked to drug cartels in Mexico. The results of this error in judgment have implicated the United States in well over one hundred deadly crimes and the deaths of two federal agents.
This not only raises serious questions about your ability to serve as the head of the Justice Department, but also begs the question of why an anti-gun Administration would knowingly force licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to violent criminals. I raise this because Operation Fast and Furious — if the facts of this case had not come to light — would have been used by this Administration as another false argument to attack law-abiding American gun owners.
The American people deserve to know if your Department had any intent to link the legal purchase of firearms here in the U.S. to crimes committed near our southern border. Operation Fast and Furious funneled firearms legally purchased at gun shops in the U.S. to known criminal syndicates to prove these syndicates have access to legal purchased weapons. This is a deliberate attempt to vilify and attack the millions of gun owners in America who value our Second Amendment and have never broken the law.
h/t G
Breaking….
Reader Tips
When the smell of burning tires fills the air, and bitter socialists pound heavy objects against your door, there’s only one thing to do: haul out the old turntable and slow dance with your spouse to the sweet sounds of Herb Oscar Anderson.
The comments are open, once again, for your Reader Tips.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
“Recovering from amoebic dysentery will be part of your education.”
h/t
CTV: The Sound Of Silent Science
An inventive solution to an old problem: how to silence an inconvenient study?
After initially playing the wrong video under the heading, CTV replaced it with the correct version – without audio.
But there’s agenda journalism, and then there’s flat out scumbag.
Civilizations Are Not Murdered
They commit suicide. (h/t Lee M)
CWB: The “Don’t Try Anything Cute” Order Of 2011
His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, pursuant to subsection 18(1) of the Canadian Wheat Board Act, hereby directs The Canadian Wheat Board to conduct its operations under that Act, while the Bill entitled Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act is being considered by Parliament, in the following manner:
(a) it shall avoid extraordinary actions or commitments that would be contrary to the best interests of The Canadian Wheat Board if that Bill is passed by Parliament and receives royal assent; and
(b) it shall credit profits or gains referred to in sections 8, 33.01 and 39.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act to the contingency fund established under paragraph 6(1)(c.3) of that Act, unless a different disposition of those profits or gains is required under that Act.
Related: Facts, Lies and the House Debate – I am utterly amazed that Mr. Goodale, the author and architect of the current CWB Act, would actually take the position that an Act that he wrote was meant to bind future governments to this policy, which would mean they can’t repeal the Act. Are we really supposed to believe that was his intent?
UPDATE – Open letter from Henry Vos who has just quit as a CWB director.
The CWB’s decision this week to launch a legal challenge against the Federal Government over the proposed changes to the CWB ACT, when it is clear to everyone that it will not change the outcome and would not change the timing of the government action, is simply wrong.