“The top 3 best selling vehicles in America are pick-ups. Question to reporters: do you personally know someone that owns one?”
h/t Paul
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Schadenfreude!
Ian Buruma, Oct 6, 2016 – “Hillary Clinton, the Democratic US presidential nominee, recently described supporters of her opponent, Donald Trump, as a ‘basket of deplorables.’ Although she later apologized for her remark, which was neither tactful nor elegant, she was more right than wrong.”
Ian Buruma, September 19, 2018 – Ian Buruma Is Out At The New York Review Of Books After Justifying The Decision To Publish Jian Ghomeshi’s Essay
Getting Woke
| Going . . . | Going . . . | Gone! |
The Heart of the New American Civil War
If you ever doubted that there was a class system in the United States (and in Canada), the latest chapter of Peter Strzok provides great insight into how truly horrific the elites are.
The Deplorables
A surprisingly smart take.
Scheer’s ad may seem to some too weird and too poorly executed to be calculating. But I think every awkward pause and quirk therein is painstakingly deliberate. The Conservative leader is positioning himself as the only unapologetically unsophisticated, un-slick future candidate in the race for PM — in the way he dresses, carries himself and even in the company he keeps: neighbourhood moms who aren’t intimidated to interrupt his official campaign message to say hello (the implication being that nothing, not even a rolling camera, can stop Scheer from greeting an ordinary Canadian on the street). And then of course, there are the kids scaling the jungle gym behind him.
When I first saw it, I was unimpressed. This hardly seemed like a professional ad. It could have been filmed at the park by the Post Office here in town, where we all stop to talk about how cold November has been. Maybe over by the school playground. The place where all the parents gravitate together and gossip about who’s dog it was that was found on facebook last night. Maybe in the rink, where we all buy the 50-50’s, know the kids on the hockey team and talk to parents about their teens driving too fast.
It just didn’t feel like a good ad from the big agencies in Toronto.
Then the establishment pile-on happened and the first thing that came to mind after that was, “Oh, look. Those sunz-a-b’s in Toronto and Ottawa are making fun of me again.”
Black Men Can’t Cipher
Algebra Is a ‘Civil Rights’ Issue. Get Rid Of It.
This is Priceless!
When Gov’t gets out of the way.
Great things can happen and entrepreneurs will flourish.
1200 sq.ft is a little smaller than our place minus the basement. Seems like the perfect opportunity for parents who have trouble kicking the nestlings out or for kids who have been given the chance to fly. I wonder how well it holds heat in the winter?
h/t, Knight 99
The “W” Word
White People Time: Grades, Showing Up On Time Are A Form Of White Supremacy
(h/t Colonialista)
We Need A Famine
How the widening urban-rural divide threatens America
A comparison between how California used to confront environmental challenges and how the state deals with them now illustrates the dangers of having a clueless urban population call the shots.
Not just America.
Mulcaring: “Here’s some money, you ignorant old rednecks.”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Toronto Star, September 13th: Thomas Mulcair promised the NDP, if elected, would spend $1.8 billion over four years on Canada’s seniors.
Grande Prairie-McKenzie NDP Facebook Page, September 14th: “…some folks in the Peace will forever be trapped in the ignorance of their parents and grandparents and they actually think they are thinking for themselves … Folks have been afraid to speak up against ignorant rednecks for far too long up here.”
h/t Kevin B
Follow Your Passion
The Hierarchy of Victimhood
Canadians with a modicum of common sense have learned to extend an extra bit of tolerance to their fellow citizens on the Far Left. But everyone has limits and beyond that, an outburst of severe mockery is in order. Comedy Gold audio discussion of the same here.
The Unresolved Debate on Vancouver’s ‘Insite’ Facility
Yesterday morning, CKNW’s Bill Good, a longtime proponent of Vancouver’s ‘Insite’ program, had a discussion/debate with the Calgary Herald’s Licia Corbella. Corbella held her own very well but as the callers to the show proved, if you “dare” disagree with the official line about ‘Insite’ then many supporters of it will try to destroy your career or even threaten you with violence. You can listen to the entire discussion here or here.
Corbella is not alone in her belief that ‘Insite’ makes it all too easy for people to start using drugs or stay addicted to them. David Berner, a well known addictions counselor in Vancouver, very much agrees with her. The first part of the “Streets of Plenty” documentary that Corbella referred to can be viewed here.
Guess Who’s First And Second
Help!
Toronto Makes it to No. 3 (Ahead of Paris) in Global City Rankings
Victims: “the judge has decided to punish Sam Gualtieri again for the crime of being non-aboriginal”
As Publius puts it:
…
There is certainly racism in modern Canada, it is mostly directed at those of European descent. It is a racism that has been devised and implemented overwhelmingly by people of European descent. White people hampering other white people to help non-whites. Think of it as a collectivism where one collective abnegates itself in favour of another collective. Altruistic collectivism in its purest form.
I use the word “help” in a relative way. At some level the self-hating white folks do think they are helping various minorities. Altruism, however, is not their primary motivation. As is often the case altruism is the justification for an irrational psychological need. In this case it is a desire to feel morally superior…
Trust the Globe and Mail…
…to come up with this comparison:
…
“There’s still a lot of people who regard at least Kim Il-sung as a god figure, even if they are less happy about Kim Jong-il and the new guy,” he [Canadian North Korea watcher and former Pyongyang resident Erich Weingartner] said.
In that, they’re not as silly as they may seem, according to Prof. [Paul] Evans [director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia]. “We’ve just gone through a Christmas season of virgin births and stars travelling across the sky,” he said…“That hyper-religiosity is built into the philosophy of the ruling elite in North Korea,” he said.
Do the North Korean people actually believe it?
“Do people in the West believe in transubstantiation?” Prof. Evans asked in reply. “Do they believe in the devil?”..
The Suburbs are Far from Dwindling
Here’s an interesting discussion between Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds and Joel Kotkin of New Geography.
Open Questions: Do you currently live in an urban setting, suburb or rural area? If you won $50 Million tomorrow would you move to one of the other two types of areas?
No Wonder They Don’t Get “Casablanca”
Mark Steyn, all daggers drawn:
…Mr Naumetz doesn’t disappoint. Thus, his key piece of evidence for the new militarism stalking the land:
The Harper government singlehandedly made Vichy a household name in Canada.
Brian Lilley comments:
That’s right, the Harper government has spent years playing up Canada’s role in the French Vichy regime that collaborated with Nazi Germany.
As Lilley points out, it was the Liberal Defence Minister John McCallum who made Vichy “a household name” in Canadian history when he confused France’s Second World War collaborationists with Canada’s greatest First World War battle: Vimy, Vichy, what’s the diff? (The Defence Minister made his error in seeking to explain an earlier confession that he’d never heard of the Dieppe Raid.) After blog-mockery from Lilley and others, Mr Naumetz and/or his somnolent editors have belatedly corrected his piece, although without acknowledging the error, never mind addressing the broader question of the cultural void in which he’s operating. I mean, it’s not even a particularly Canadian question: If you don’t know what Vichy is, it’s hard to figure out Casablanca…[for example]