Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Tri-State Defender, Feb.10th – Declaring that, “We have a voice,” First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the Let’s Move campaign that she is spearheading to solve the problem of childhood obesity in a generation.
NPR, Feb.13th – The can is a “taller, sassier” version of the traditional can that the company says was made in “celebration of beautiful, confident women.” Some say Pepsi’s approach only reinforces dangerous stereotypes about women and body image.

Then:

Now and more now.
Remember, in Canada, you have the right to request all information a business has on you.

Jan 12, 2011: President Obama issues a call for civility
Jan 19, 2011: Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen compares Republicans to Nazis
                            Disgraced Democrat ex-Congressman Alan Grayson insists that Sarah Palin instigated the Arizona Shootings

Shining a Magnifying Glass onto the Lunacy of Politics in BC
Nov 29, 2010: Hopes & Dreams: I Am NDP video
49 days later . . .
Jan 17, 2011: Reality Bites: Discussion on CKNW (begins at 6:00 but listen to Norman Spector’s thoughts starting at 8:00)
“. . . I think what’s going on is that the NDP are afraid of the kooks that’ll join the race. I mean, there are a lot of kooks on the Left and, you know, we see it on the Internet everyday, we see it on the comment boards, and we’ve seen it in a microcosm in the Cannabis candidate. So I think they’re trying their best to ensure that these kinds of people don’t get into the race. But the downside is that there are all kinds of people on the Left who are potential recruits, and will be available to vote Green because they’ve been shut out of the system. They’ll want to vote anti-system. There’s a huge anti-system vote in this province and the NDP are not mobilizing those people.”

Whole lot of history, including our present:
Russia:

Pre-Soviet (maybe):

That in a message from the estimable Darcey Jerrom (now dusting a broom every Friday), a message that concludes “I got six in 3 days – best week I’ve ever had in my life!”. One here:

Kate earlier:

It’s whitetail season again, so posting will be slow here over the next several days.
For those who find it disturbing to think that I might take the life of an innocent animal in the name of sport, let me assure you right here and now that this year I’ll be hunting with a video camera.
I’ll just have to put it down to take a shot.

Darcey clearly also has a camera and…he has a new rifle.

October 19th, 2010 – In Ontario on Tuesday, Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best suggested it might investigate a new fast-food item. KFC has introduced to Canadians its Double Down – two slabs of seasoned fried chicken sandwiching bacon, cheese and secret sauce.
October 28th, 2010 – [T]he Double Down has become KFC Canada’s best-selling new menu item ever. By Sunday — less than two weeks after the product launched — the company said it will have sold more than 350,000 across the country.
Contact the Minister here to demand she investigate the public health threat posed by Conservative blogs.

How our major media work:
1) Erstwhile Canadian Alliance candidate:

Former ambassador lends support to new anti-immigration group
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Others backing the new group include…Salim Mansur, a University of Western Ontario political scientist, columnist, former federal candidate for the Canadian Alliance party under Stockwell Day’s leadership, and author of Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim…

2) Erstwhile NDP candidate:

Was seizing the flotilla legal?
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Israel justifies the boarding of the ships in international waters basically as an act of self defence. It is Israel’s argument that the naval blockade of Gaza is needed to prevent Hamas in Gaza from attacking Israel.
However, notes Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International law at UBC, the test in international for constituting legal self defence is whether the action taken was “necessary and proportionate.” On the facts, “the action does not appear to have been necessary in that the threat was not imminent,” Prof. Byers said.
“To say that this blockade would be jeopardized by the flotilla and that sometime down the road weapons might come into Gaza as a result, and thereby pose a threat to Israel, is to stretch the definition of self defence way further than anyone ever countenanced.”..

Something missing in 2) I’d say. Lots more here:

One of our greatest and goodest wants immigration limited/Media sliming/Byers Update thought

I think a contribution to a certain leader’s Weltanschauung may be fairly apparent in the juxtaposition:

President Ahmadinejad: At least he did not call them “bacilli”

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CBC Fruit Fly Guy, Aug.28 2009 – The number of sockeye returning from the ocean to the Fraser River this year is one of the lowest in the past 50 and follows two years of dangerously low returns. In fact, we have witnessed decades of decline for diverse sockeye populations from the Fraser Watershed, some of which are now on the brink of extinction.
Vancouver Sun, Aug.26th 2010 (link fixed) – Fishery officials estimated Tuesday that more than 25 million sockeye salmon will return to the Fraser River this year, the largest number since 1913.
h/t Peter M.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Associated Press, May 2010 – Following high level complaints about “imperfections” in international law, Russia announced Tuesday that captured Somali pirates “have all died.”
National Review, August 2010 – Federal judge Raymond A. Jackson has dismissed piracy charges against six Somali men who are alleged to have fired on U.S. naval warships on the Indian Ocean. Why? Because the attacks failed to ravage our vessels …

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
National Geographic, Aug.6, 2010 – Oyster Herpes: Latest Symptom of Global Warming?
Financial Times, Aug.9, 2010 – Reader’s Digest and National Geographic were among the biggest losers as US paid circulation fell 2.3 per cent year-on-year to 313.8m in the first half of 2010 […] according to data from the Audit Bureau of Circulation of 440 titles.

FNC, July 28 – Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts Would Cost Families Thousands in 2011, Study Shows
NYT, July 28 – Iran’s Leader Introduces Plan to Encourage Population Growth by Paying Families
h/t Tim C.

Globe&Mail, June 25th – Canada’s outspoken spy chief has unleashed a political furor by saying that a number of politicians are influenced by foreign states, comments that left his critics wondering whether he will survive as head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
New York Daily News, June 28th – Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday. Eight of 10 were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep cover assignments in the United States on behalf of Russia.
h/t Stephen J.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Bourque Newswatch snarkism, June 21st;

Bourque Newswatch notes, June 7th;

Do Afghan detainees make us stupid?
Earlier:

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,”/Update: “On PowerPoint rangers”
Quite:

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A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.

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Now:

Via Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs.

Pity. And when’s the last time you heard our prime minister support an extension of privately provided and insured health care?

Or one of, er, bits

and pieces?

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
NYT headline, Oct.18th – “Decision on Afghan Troops May Wait “
FoxNews headline, Oct. 19th – “White House Escalates War on Fox News”

Now Is The Time At The Broom When We Juxtapose!