“Why do the Liberals constantly tell me what I can and can’t do with my body? For Pete sake I want my sugar and salt!” – Paul

Ambitious…not the word I would have used.

Ambitious! @JustinTrudeau at UWO: "thinking that got us to this place no longer holds..have to rethink elements as basic as space & time."

— David Akin (@davidakin) September 11, 2014

Ben Carson – What Could Happen If Another Liberal President Is Elected

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Just returned from the Kiev.
Walked on the streets where many of you walked, maybe we had fun and ate ice crème at that time.
Today without tears you can’t walk there, and may be think of new perfume, or nice vocations.
In some places near basically every tree, there are pictures of killed, usually young people.
They knew, that they may not return. And many of them didn’t return. New history of Ukraine in painful.
Today we learned about new heroes. Our soldiers in there tank were surrounded by rebels. They decided to explode themselves, and did it, not to give equipment and there life’s in the hands of aggressors. Young boys gave their life for the freedom, and that I can kiss my kids before they go to bad. Unbelievable.
Divorcé with Russia cost us a lot.
If you still have strength to pray for our country, please pray, and ask others.
God bless Ukraine.
Andrei.

More here.

Now is the time at SDA when we review: Perception is not reality. Reality is reality. Everything else is just seven second delay.

“Thus do semi-literate attention-seekers believe that their humorless indignation is representative of social change and not of what happens when you combine scolding self-importance and a collection of sad and lonely people who are longing for public catharsis.”

“Rachel Carson was to DDT what Jenny McCarthy is to measles vaccine“.– David Burge

Grab a coffee: Ed Driscoll interviews the “world’s wittiest obit writer”.

“GSI financed further seismic exploration by licensing the data they had previously collected to energy companies who used the research in their resource exploration efforts. But now, the Newfoundland and Nova Scotia governments have begun releasing GSI’s seismic data to the general public for free on their government websites. The data was originally submitted to the governments as part of standard regulatory rules used to ensure the province’s resources were developed in a responsible manner…”
From the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

Grab a coffee.

So in the context of the early 1770′s, what would the Founders think about the government secretly and illegally trafficking thousands of military-grade arms to criminals, brigands, and pirates, knowing full well that those criminals will kill thousands of innocent people with said arms, as a ploy to disarm their own citizenry… and when caught red-handed in this criminal and despicable act, the governmental appointee responsible for executing this disgraceful policy lies, dissembles, and stonewalls, and suffers no sanction or penalty?
What would they think of the government reading, and oftentimes copying and warehousing, every single letter of their correspondence, their diaries, their conversations, their most private and intimate of communications?
What would they think of government agents standing on rooftops and street corners, monitoring and documenting the comings and goings of every citizen every day of his life, whom they speak with and associate with, and what they purchase and from whom?
What would they think about their government spying on journalists, town criers, and pamphleteers, and swearing out false oaths to judges to have them surveilled?
What would they think about government tax agents given specific orders to harass, intimidate, penalize, and obstruct any person who speaks for peaceful, legislative reform of the government or is critical of the government, even demanding that they document the content of their prayers?

It’s long, it’s depressing, and it absolutely demands to be read to the end.
h/t Ed Minchau

An interview with Dave Barry.

“The end of war really meant the beginning of a self-righteous appeasement in which decadent states besotted with their own moral high ground sacrificed the weak to the strong in exchange for maintaining the moral illusion of their peacemaking.” – Daniel Greenfield, The End of International Law
h/t Adrian

Indeed.

How the weak colonize the strong.