“Girl Crush” — Little Big Down. Thread open.
Electronic Nicotine Saves Lives
Via Instapundit we find out that San Francisco is going to ban the sales of flavoured e-liquid.
Yes, the do-gooders are all about killing people. Is it cool to be a fog machine on the bus? No. In the restaurant? No. Should it be restricted to over 18? Yes. Is it a gateway to smoking? No study has ever shown that.
Why is it the same side of the political spectrum calls me a ‘denier’ for questioning the veracity of magic 8-ball computer models and yet gleefully ignores all of the real actual science when it comes to electronic nicotine?
From the link:
Three years, three months smoke free because of vaping.
Road Trip!
A road map to Saskatchewan craft brewers and distillers.
Just don’t drink and drive because not everyone is a former Deputy Premier.
The State of Social Media
Jonathon Kay is entirely correct here.
I quit Twitter in January and it was a good thing. I go on for sports and sports alone because there is nothing quite as fun as sharing a sporting event with other people.
The rest is garbage.
La Diversité Is Their Strength
French police try to enter a Muslim no-go zone.
It's too late, France, your country is lost. pic.twitter.com/BHyv3DwOkG— Jeff Covfefe (@EngageTheRebels) June 22, 2017
Not Showing Up To Riot Is A Failed Conservative Policy
Conservatives are slowly coming over to my point of view.
First, the “If it’s wrong for them to do it to us, then it’s wrong if we do it to them” formulation is less a principle than a tired cliché. This minor disruption was a tactic; shouting was a tool. It is moral for the good guys – and we are the good guys – to use tactics and tools against an enemy that are immoral when they do it. It was immoral for the Nazis to bomb London; it was moral for us to bomb Nazis. Of course every tactic and tool is not acceptable, but the guys who stormed Omaha Beach did not “become what they were fighting” because they used the same tools and tactics as the enemy.
Took them long enough.
Heights of Irony.
Too rich for fisking.
“It’s a bridge too far for most people I know frankly, to support this president. It’s not about Republican and Democrats. It’s sort of about reveling and blowing up everything that was normal,” she told Meyers. “I find being at MSNBC that I am more upset about him than most of the liberal people that work there because he destroyed something that I cared about, the Republican Party.”
Four sentences, three of which are stupid at best. It’s a different world they inhabit. A different world that lives off the labour of their lessers.
Reader Tips
Chris Stapleton – Tennessee Whiskey . Tips thread open.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“It’s outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. There’s no journalism left. What’s happened to The New York Times? What’s happened to the major networks? It’s an outrage.”
Related.
#CFL Season is here!
Finally. The long drought known as the off-season is over. Tonight the Riders are in Montreal in a much-hyped show-down. Durant is now an Al, Carter is now a Rider. Was Chris Jones right? Is it the Ricky Ray trade all over?
My picks for Week 1.
Montreal barely sweats against an inept Saskatchewan D and ineffectual O.
Calgary curb-stomps Ottawa in all phases.
BC’s home crowd beats Edmonton narrowly.
Toronto’s new coach reinvigorates Ray and they win against Hamilton.
I hope I’m wrong about the first.
Is the HR Ditz Finally Extinct?
“I personally could not care less about the plight of these HR ditzes. They proved nothing more than a huge impediment to the labor force, the advancement of the economy, and the advancement of millions of people’s careers. They were predominantly spoiled rotten brats from the suburbs, given undeserved and uncalled for power which they abused and went power-tripping with. And while I certainly know and appreciate some REAL HR professionals (benefits and compensation and employment law ARE real fields), the extinction of “Barbie the Know Nothing HR Ditz” and the idiot employers that used them will not be mourned.”
Silent Majority
Most of this story is post-election fluff. As always, the meat is at the end.
“I’ve had numerous clients where I’ve said, ‘You’re dead even, so you’re up by 3,'” Cahaly recalled Wednesday. “And they said, ‘What do you mean?’ And I said, ‘You’re up by 3.'”
Walk Softly and Carry a C15.
Firearms may be frowned upon in Canada but we know how to train people to shoot the excellent weapons that the Americans make. The C15 is a McMillan Tac-50
A sniper with Canada’s elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,450 metres.
Three and a half kilometres. Wow. Buy that man a beer!
For Your Late Night Listening Pleasure
Or your early morning commute:
Why do country clubs exist???
Not having problems is a problem.
Ex Cons to sit on Oakland Police Board.
Ben and Jerry’s gets attacked by leftists.
Minnesota’s balless male republicans.
and more in this Yank podcast.
Direct MP3 link here.
*LANGUAGE WARNING* – not for pearl cluthers
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister
This is a real headline.
Justin Trudeau Hugs a Puppet Unicorn in a Beautiful Universe Much Like Our Own
Somebody — get it to Drudge.
Showing Up To Riot
A few dozen people were staging a “die-in” early Wednesday afternoon on Seventh Street near Mission Street when the man on a red motorcycle appeared…
Reader Tips
Delisle to Los Angeles in under 2 days … ✔
Roses smelled… ✔
Tips thread open… ✔
Pollspotting!
Help out these science deniers at CTV Calgary: Do you think there are more extreme weather events than there used to be?
Current status:
Yes — 541 (56 %)
No — 433 (44 %)
Nouveau Deplorable
So I gather GA06 has suddenly gone from Enlightened Sunbelt Suburban Panera Voters back to Inbred Reactionary Neo-Confederate Klansmen
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 21, 2017
How Eliminate the Public Schools
“But then the ole Captain got thinking again. Specifically, about the handful of women he knows that home-school their children. They do an infinitely better job than the public schools do. Some of their kids are already learning to program and code at age 12. Another one knows how to inseminate, milk, and tend cows. And all this from stay at home moms who “shockingly” don’t have degrees, certifications, or licenses. So if for the vast majority of families it doesn’t pay to have a two income household, and kids are better educated when home-schooled, would there not be a case for eliminating schools altogether?
This is not only simple logic, nor wishful right-wing thinking. It’s simple economics.”