Doug’s in?

#BREAKING – Rob Ford withdraws from Toronto mayor race: Reports #topoli

— Sun News Network (@SunNewsNetwork) September 12, 2014

Enormous Crowd of Muslims Protest the Deaths of 120,000 Civilians in Syria.

At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:

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The art of dumbing down something as complicated as a university is a tricky one. If you dumb down the engineering program you get falling bridges and dead people. If you dumb down political science, well you just get more NDP voters…

Do read it all.

First this (lots of video):

Vivian Bercovici named Canada’s new ambassador to Israel
Appointment comes as PM Harper’s 1st trip to Israel approaches
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“It won’t be a huge shock to anyone that Canada is a strong supporter of Israel,” Baird answered in response to a question about Bercovici’s perceived bias against the Palestinian leadership.
Baird went on to point out Bercovici will be the representative to Israel exclusively and not the Palestinian Authority.
Later, on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, Baird was asked whether Bercovici’s religious background was a factor in considering her for the post in the volatile region. Bercovici is Jewish. Baird said he didn’t know or ask about her religious background, adding that her named sounded Italian…

Now this: imagine how the Wisdom of Solomon might react to this from St. Obama:

Obama picks ex-Bank of Israel head as No. 2 at Fed
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Fischer, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel…

As far as one knows Ms Bercovici is just Canadian–have at Obama, Evan!

Small Dead Animals has been denounced.

Long time commentor and reader, Joe Molnar, sent us a small packet of pumpkin seeds harvested from his bounty. We planted all five in the same hill this spring. One sprouted and flowered. After the flower turned to fruit we pinched off the remaining flowers. This is the result.

Thank you Joe, however the question raised at the top still stands. What now?

You think?

Live Cam
Via @EdMorrissey

I have just been taken off the air on Corus radio. Message: don't criticize management.

— Dave Rutherford (@RutherfordShow) June 25, 2013

I have no clue as to the context, but that isn’t a surprising observation for most of us.

University!

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One of the student panelists grabbed the microphone out of turn and handed it to a line of protestors who delivered speeches that condemned the “liberal script” in the name of “radical, emancipatory change” and “institutional transformation.” Afterwards, my classmates defended their behavior because they were smashing “hegemonic power structures” and “flipping the power dynamic.”..
All of this is on video, which some classmates have posted online, exulting in the evidence of how they spoke truth to power. Meanwhile, my peers have derided me on blogs and Facebook. One accused me of “pernicious, destructive, far-reaching silencing.”
…The day after disrupting the open board meeting, the protesters insisted on mandatory campus “teach-ins” for all students. Though it was the day before exams at a school that prides itself on its academic rigor, the administration acquiesced and endorsed the teach-ins to heal our “fractured community.”
Each attendee received a list of student “demands,” which included making courses in ethnic studies and gender and sexuality required for graduation…

You know that last fight scene in The Matrix? Neo is fighting Agent Smith and is so much faster that he doesn’t really have to concentrate? Smith tries to lay a hit, but Neo blocks them all with one hand while looking away.
Yeah, The Toronto Star is Agent Smith.

Justin Trudeau receives the endorsement of the Toronto Sun.

In reviewing Justin Trudeau’s run for the Liberal leadership, we have come to realize that he cannot be simply dismissed as a Shiny Pony and, although somewhat vacuous in both policy and substance, scientists tell us that all a vacuum needs to break out of its nothingness is a bit of air.
Let’s give Trudeau that air, for the time has come to forgive the sins of the infamous father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and realize that some genetic apples do fall far enough away from the tree to not be equally rotten.

Related: Steven Crowder talks with some potheads in Ann Arbor, Michigan.