We just got rid of the registry.
Why on earth would PMSH think we need another?
CALGARY — The feds say they’re also examining possible further uses for DNA, as Calgary’s top cop pushes for permission to collect DNA samples upon suspects’ arrests.
On Wednesday, Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson said he’d like to see legislation amended to allow police to collect DNA samples upon a person’s arrest in order to clear cases faster.
Worlds Smallest Violin
“I had never considered leaving federal service,” she told The Huffington Post. “But I have student loans to pay back. I want to buy a house. I want a life that doesn’t include biannual panic attacks over arbitrarily losing my job. So you asked if I’m considering leaving public service. In this climate, I ask you: How could I consider staying?”
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
In sharp contrast to all of the fear mongering, “I want parents to be equipped with facts so that they can form decisions about whether they want to allow their kid to play football or not,” Flynn tells me. “I think right now they’re being guilt-tripped out of signing their kid up for football because of this national hysteria.”
No one saw this coming
When a company, whose core business is gaming, has problems rolling out their online server based products.
What on earth made healthcare.gov.us think they could do better for 360 Million people?
Wynne looks for revenue
Wynne said Liberals know it will be a tough sell, but that money must be found for transit and other infrastructure projects.
Maybe start with not subsidizing the bird choppers?
He was right.
John McCain was right about one thing.
Elections do have consequences.
“The first amendment delays the president’s health care law by one year. And the second permanently repeals ObamaCare’s medical device tax that is sending jobs overseas.
Let’s see what 2014 says.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
In this hypothetical place, you cannot easily own an intact animal. In order to qualify, you must show your dog in competition, belong to a breed club with an enforced code of ethics, and pay a hefty fee. Breeding is out of the question because government requires you to qualify for an expensive breeding permit before you can ever consider the possibility. Any pet that is “adopted” through a shelter or rescue MUST be sterilized BY LAW. There are limits on how many pets you can own. All the while, you hear grumblings on the street that there aren’t enough homes to absorb the strays. Well, that last part about not enough homes for the strays is a lie, but you have heard so many lies told so often, that you now just accept those lies at face value and believe them as truth.
Now imagine that you don’t care too much about any of that, because you don’t have any plans to be a dog breeder. You are happy to own an occasional pet or two. None of those problems affect you, right?
Let’s see about that.
Believe it or not, our hypothetical state actually exists. It’s called CALIFORNIA.
The Sound Of Settled Science
The drive to bring about “sweeping,” sharp reductions in salt consumption is based more on zealotry than science, and should be halted until there’s better evidence, one of Canada’s foremost heart researchers charges in a provocative new commentary.
Reducing ingestion of sodium has been a major focus of public-health advocates in recent years, and generated widespread, sometimes-alarming media coverage.
But there is only modest evidence that cutting back on salt radically will reduce high blood pressure, and little or none that it would actually prevent heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems, argues Dr. Salim Yusuf in a journal article.
Michelle Obama, Call Your Office
In Germany, it looks like the Radical Leftists in the Green Party went one step too far:
In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to tweak Americans’ diets, Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated “Veggie Day” each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals. Borrowing colorfully from English, German newspaper Bild described public reaction to the idea as a “shitstorm.”
At her party’s final campaign rally on Saturday, Merkel joined in, slamming the Green proposal.
“You will never hear from the Christian Democratic Union party when you should eat meat and when you shouldn’t,” Merkel said to loud applause from her supporters and campaign workers in the Tempodrom theater.
“I grew up in a Christian house. We didn’t eat meat on Fridays. I think every restaurant should have a vegetarian dish, but we are a party confident people can manage their own lives,” the German prime minister added. “We are confident people will live a reasonable life and we don’t want to deprive them of this opportunity.”
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
It turns out that people are not always rational. They don’t always do what’s in their own best interests, even when the benefits are completely clear to a development economist.
Or to put it another way – they’re not poor because they’re poor. They’re poor because they’re embedded in a culture of stupid.
h/t Bob
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
BC’s Daily Physical Activity Requirement
A parent in Coquitlam, BC received this letter from his child’s School Board. The Daily Physical Requirement is explained here. While exercise is a good thing, one wonders if the education bureaucrats should be intruding into a family’s life outside of school hours? It’s unclear what would happen if a parent refused to fill out the form.
h/t ‘Pongo’
When It’s Done for Barack Obama, Then It’s Not Illegal
The continuing scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups provides an interesting juxtaposition with a recent Climate Change Rally in Washington, DC where no one showed up. What precisely is the BarackObama.com website that organized this and other rallies? A visit to the site’s About page provided this explanation:
Organizing for Action
Statement of PurposeOrganizing for Action is a nonprofit organization established to support President Obama in achieving enactment of the national agenda Americans voted for on Election Day 2012. OFA will advocate for these policies throughout the country and will mobilize citizens of all parties and diverse points to speak out for speedy passage and effective implementation of this program, including gun violence prevention, sensible environmental policies to address climate change and immigration reform. In addition, OFA will encourage the formation of chapters that will be dedicated at the grassroots level to this program, but also committed to identifying and working progressive change on a range of issues at the state and local level. In carrying its work, OFA will operate as a “social welfare” organization within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
So what precisely constitutes a “Section 501(c)(4)” group devoted to “Social Welfare”? The IRS’s website provides a long explanation. A portion of the last paragraph is key:
The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. However, a section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization may engage in some political activities, so long as that is not its primary activity.
Interesting. One wonders how an organization devoted to promoting the objectives of one political party, purporting to be a grassroots group specifically for one politician, does not violate everything stated in the IRS’s own rules?!? Perhaps there’s an unwritten exemption from any & all rules if the work you’re doing is for Barack Obama PBUH.
Get That Guy Who Road-Raged A Cyclist Into The Next World On The Phone
Sun News: Ontario Premier says patchwork laws for exotic pets need to be reviewed.
On Closed Embassies, the Worldwide Travel Alert, and Wimpitude
Don’t know about you, but I find this pre-emptive cringing unworthy of a great country, even humiliating. Why do we allow a bunch of extremist thugs to close us down, rather than the reverse? For what purpose do we pay for the world’s best military and largest intelligence services if not to protect ourselves from this sort of threat?
Via Wretchard – “This is global “shelter in place”. If they can’t use the interval to catch the perps the AQ can create a tremendous amount of economic damage simply by being a threat-in-being.”
I question the timing.
Tommy Douglas, not dead enough
The single biggest misconception about Canada’s Healthcare system.
“I just think with the amount of shortage of doctors in this town, and that it’s a government provided service, I don’t really feel that they should be able to deny,” she said.
You Can Imagine My Relief
Chambliss said he recently spent time with NSA officials and was assured that the programs Greenwald describes have been exaggerated.
“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”
After all, a couple of hours with Nanny ought to be enough to sooth anyone.
“Culture trumps economics”
Read all about it at The Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Free Big Meany!
Sun News: Manitoba PC MLA Kelvin Goertzen debates the merit of his cyber bullying legislation with Ezra Levant.