Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“You stay classy, AP.” Frankly, you could write one of these every day.
“George Will Is A Haughty Dipshit”
God help me, I’m gonna defend Donald Trump here, because he has won more than a mere plurality of his party’s moron voters. In fact, he’s on the verge of breaking the all-time record for primary votes in that party. HMMPH! ‘TIS A MERE PIFFLE! As if having a protracted process somehow invalidates the whole thing. WHOA, HEY, THESE PEOPLE VOTED IN CAREFULLY SCHEDULED STAGES IN WHICH THEY HAD AMPLE TIME TO VET EACH CANDIDATE! We can’t have that! By God, some of these voters wear JEANS, Martha!
‘Tis a thing of beauty. (Language advisory).
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Glaciers
They’re being disappeared before our eyes.
Strange Definitions
If a survey suggests that the rate of serious sexual assault on the typical American campus is higher than the rate of rape, murder, armed robbery and assault combined in Detroit, the U.S. city with the highest murder rate, and higher than in war-torn areas of the Congo where rape is used as a weapon, and at a time when the rate of rape in general is in marked decline, then there’s probably something wrong with the methodology. And if someone’s definitions of rape and serious sexual assault include inept and unwanted flirtation, intoxicated consensual coupling and post-coital embarrassment, and refers to people who are pretty sure they hadn’t in fact been raped, then there may be something wrong with the person using that definition.
Death By GPS
“Something is happening to us.”
Most death-by-GPS incidents do not involve actual deaths–or even serious injuries. They are accidents or accidental journeys brought about by an uncritical acceptance of turn-by-turn commands: the Japanese tourists in Australia who drove their car into the ocean while attempting to reach North Stradbroke Island from the mainland; the man who drove his BMW down a narrow path in a village in Yorkshire, England, and nearly over a cliff; the woman in Bellevue, Washington, who drove her car into a lake that their GPS said was a road; the Swedish couple who asked GPS to guide them to the Mediterranean island of Capri, but instead arrived at the Italian industrial town of Carpi; the elderly woman in Belgium who tried to use GPS to guide her to her home, 90 miles away, but instead drove hundreds of miles to Zagreb, only realizing her mistake when she noticed the street signs were in Croatian.
You, maybe. I won’t own one. .
McMurray Fires
More evacuations this evening — the evacuation center at Anzac (southeast of Fort Mac) is now under threat.
Why Anzac is being evac'd & why @BrianJeanWRP & @TanyYao broke camp. Looking north from Anzac. #ymm #ymmfires pic.twitter.com/1AlDz1NyHm
— Vitor Marciano (@Vitormarciano) May 5, 2016
School buses heading east towards Anzac to help with evacuations. Go guys go! @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/Jh9FfzYXIW
— Mark Robinson (@StormhunterTWN) May 5, 2016
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Special Edition – Fort Mac Fires
A devastating fire, 80,000 people evacuated, thousands of homes and buildings destroyed.
On a special edition of Beyond the News, Brian Lilley brings you the latest political reaction to the fires plus brings you the stories of those evacuated, stories of journalists on the scene and the fundraising push to help those in need.
Interviews with Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn Reid, MP Chris Warkentin, Lorne Gunter, CTV’s Bill Fortier, evacuees Glen Stromquist and Odette Legault plus Brian Jones an all around good samaritan.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“Meet John. He’s ticklish,” (h/t Bob)
Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me
Somebody has a brand new leg tingle coming on.
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!
Don't worry Fort Mac. Justin is hosting a photo-op w/Alex Trebek tomorrow. I'll take moron for $50 pic.twitter.com/07nYFu7QJy
— Bill Brasky (@Polkameister) May 4, 2016
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
It gets cold in New England, doesn’t it? Good.
Bill’s Wife
It’s probably nothing.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
How in the Hell did Chief Albert Naquin’s ancestors cope with the Holocene transgression without welfare payments from the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
McMurray Fires
Colby Cosh: In a redoubt north of Fort McMurray, a city’s people await a battle
“We’re going to put a lot of eagles out of business”.
SDA Gets Results!
We made a mistake. It was wrong to move away from #CanadianBeef. pic.twitter.com/RfZOklQvKQ
— Earls Restaurants (@earlsrestaurant) May 4, 2016
Earls said it “is committed to sourcing as much beef as possible from Alberta and will work to build more of the supply they need” but did not provide numbers in terms of what percentage of of beef it purchases will now come from Alberta again.
Keep the pressure on.
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Dissent will not be tolerated.
The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents.
In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker demanded from Exxon Mobil copies of communications between the oil company and 90 different political and policy organizations “and any other organizations engaged in research or advocacy concerning Climate Change or policies.”
They’re just following orders: Big Green’s Dirty Power
h/t Adrian, Bob
Wynneing!
Despite 18 months of problems associated with the software responsible for tracking Ontarians on social assistance, the Ontario government has awarded a two-year $32-million IT contract aimed at servicing the software to the same company that created it. […]
“It should be fixed under warranty,” said Smokey Thomas, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents caseworkers who deliver services to social assistance recipients across the province.
“So they hire IBM, and pay them even more money to fix the problems that they created with the system they sold.”
h/t Bob