Kaitlin Wainwright, Heritage Toronto Plaques and Markers Program Coordinator;

The majority of projects need someone to come forward and say, “I think this merits a plaque.”

!!!!!

Where the foxes caper unmolested and the “denizens” of “the Westminster village…are increasingly interchangeable.” Mark Steyn assesses…

Nigel vs the Lunatic Mainstream

Emphasis on the “euphoria“, with video of a pint (not 568ml):

Local elections 2013: Nigel Farage’s Ukip surges to best ever showing, winning 150 seats

Earlier from Kate:

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
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@DougSaunders I know exactly who Nigel Farage is. Unlike you, who apparently can’t tell a Nazi salute from your own reflection…

For the first time in history, ANYONE can vote for the next #lpcldr. Just 9 days left to sign-up to vote. bit.ly/JTsupport1tw

— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) February 22, 2013

ANYONE!

I purchased Mark Levin’s latest book at a Costco in Seattle earlier this week:

The looks I received from the pair of hipsters working at the checkout was less than positive when they saw it. So I got to thinking, now that I’m back in Vancouver, what reaction would I get carrying that book wearing my red Canada mittens through the more Lefty infested stomping grounds of Vancouver? I might even opt to read it outside at a Starbucks with the cover prominently shown! 🙂

Via OTB;

German professors Dr Andreas Hahn and Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer […] compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.
They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.
However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.
A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.

This is an actor.

h/t Rob Breakenridge

Here we go again.*

This past weekend, Roy Green had on his show an acquaintance of mine named Amy Alkon:

Do you disagree with Alkon and believe airport security officials have every right to touch you any which way they choose?
If you’ve ever had a similar untoward experience at any airport, please share it.

Whoopee!

Jonathan Player for The New York Times
THROWBACK Charles Morgan in his company’s new 3-Wheeler, which is powered by a 2-cylinder motorcycle engine that produces 120 horsepower. More Photos »
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While the front end’s pair of skinny 19-inch wire wheels, shod with Avon bias-ply tires, visually recall 3-wheelers of the past, a single low-profile car-type radial tire mounted on a modern alloy rim sits hidden beneath a removable rear panel.
A 2-cylinder motorcycle engine — with a whopping 1,990cc displacement — churns out 120 horsepower…power is transmitted to a rubber belt that drives the rear wheel. With a weight of about 1,100 pounds…
Strongly resembling Harley’s classic V-twin, the 3-Wheeler’s X-Wedge engine is a proprietary unit designed and built by S & S Cycle, a Viola, Wis., company with a long standing as a supplier to Harley tuners and the aftermarket. Certified for sale in all 50 states, the new Morgan may upset the neighbors but it ought not confound local mechanics…
As the V-twin buzz becomes a scream and you rocket forward — 60 miles per hour comes in 4.5 seconds — you are transported to another era…

More from Morgan.
Update: Meanwhile President Obama’s labor secretary, er, mis-speaks about where a certain popular vehicle is assembled.

Mark Steyn sticks it to the Gray Lady–and twists:

…On the whole, I prefer an unrespectable reptilian press sticking its foot in the grieving widow’s doorway to, say, a media of portentous over-credentialed unreadable drones with no greater ambition than to serve as court eunuchs to the Obama administration. If the National Enquirer operated to the high-minded standards of the New York Times, John Edwards might now be vice president or attorney general. If Murdoch’s tabloids “destroy lives,” as the Times airily claims, they’re at least equal-opportunity destroyers, as willing to plaster a Tory rent-boy over the front page as a Labour one.
By contrast, the New York Times happily colluded in the destruction of the Duke lacrosse players’ lives for no reason other than ideological predisposition to a politically correct narrative. I would say that, whether through malice or intellectual torpor, that kind of bias is far more damaging to public discourse…

The Times did print this today by Roger Cohen:

In Defense of Murdoch

Related:

One Wonders What Gluey Huey Thinks of Bloggers

Any guesses?

On Question Time last night, Hugh Grant unwittingly revealed the double standards that underpin the anti-Murdoch moral crusade. Grant, who despite his support for those medieval legal writs known as superinjunctions has become a hero of the Twitterati and the liberal media for his criticisms of the Murdoch Empire, said: “I’m not for regulating the proper press, the broadsheet press. But it is insane that the tabloid press is left unregulated.”
And there you have it, in two sentences, the sentiment that is ultimately motoring liberal campaigners’ agitation against low-rent newspapers: a belief that there should be one law for “them” and another law for “us”. They must have a “regulatory body watching them”, as Grant put it, whereas the “proper press” can be trusted to keep its house in order without having the state’s snout poking around…

Given that much of the British “quality press” ain’t exactly over-concerned any longer with serious reporting or journalism (cf. Horrible Heather in The Guardian), this attitude may in reality be close to a distinction without a difference.

As all SDA regulars know, Kate has raised some fine looking dogs over the years. But there’s another dog beauty contest that I don’t think she has any entries in.

British Columbia’s ex-premier, Gordon Campbell, is reportedly going to become the High Commissioner to Great Britain. Not everyone is pleased.

BC Premier Gordon Campbell with an Olympic Volunteer at a Victory Ceremony on 2010-02-15

Further to Kate’s post,

Leaked!

remember Fred’s (the author indeed of those “memos”) fight here:

Iranium: The show will go on

And tomorrow, June 8, in Ottawa (lots of further links at the preceding link):

Bruce Bawer & Hege Storhaug: The Problems of Immigration in Europe.
Wed. June 8, 2011, 7 PM
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington
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Hege Storhaug is the information director of Human Rights Service in Norway and the author of several books on immigration and integration, forced marriage, women in Pakistan, and related subjects.
Bruce Bawer is an internationally-acclaimed author, whose recent book is “Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom”, and here are some short reviews…

Helping make a difference together.
Climate change questions: they want our input!
(Update. Oops. Their server have all died – so go here instead!)

Have a new “supporter survey” up. Fix bayonets!
Update: Survey “complete”! I must say these Friends folks are a quirky troupe – pulling their surveys down in the middle of the night, on a weekend.