A Senate committee voted Tuesday to delete a so-called escalator tax on alcohol from the federal government’s budget, defying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s insistence that only the elected House of Commons has authority over budgetary matters.
Good. The Senate doing the job they’re paid to do for the betterment of the country with a less partisan and ideological focus. Let’s hope the Senate as a block approves this amendment because no gov’t should be allowed to have this type of perpetually increasing tax.
Now, if only the Senate could do something about the out-of-control spending by the Liberal gov’t. I guess we have to get them to actually vote first.
Oh, and PM Trudeau? Get stuffed, you’re temporary and the Senate is not.
Marketing to the Religiously Indoctrinated Leftist Sheep
Understand Ben and Jerry’s isn’t doing this because they care about gay rights.
They’re doing it to market to the 70% of young people who had leftism installed on their otherwise completely blank hard drives.
Cold, Veiled Hands
Graphs Galore
The BP Statistical Review of World Energy was published last week updating global oil, gas, coal, and nuclear production and consumption etc to 2016. At Energy Matters we have a feature called Global Energy Graphed where the hundreds of graphs based on BP data have all now been updated. Post here and BP graphs here. WARNING do not click on either link if you do not like graphs.
United Nations of Canada
Lebanese air-lift act II will continue after this short intermission.
New act: This provision is repealed. Applicants are no longer required to intend to continue to live in Canada once granted citizenship. This provides more flexibility to Canadians who may need to live outside of Canada for work or personal reasons.
The Sound Of “Social Justice”
A professor at Connecticut’s Trinity College seemingly endorsed the idea that first responders to last week’s congressional shooting should have let the victims “fucking die” because they are white.
They care so much, you see. One of these.
GA6
Republican hold.
Last election the GOP won it by 24pts. This time the Dems tried very hard to take it. They failed but it was a lot closer than it should have been. Good job GOP on getting out the vote.
Reader Tips
Darrell Scott “Candle For A Cowboy”. Tips welcome in the comments.
Leftist men tell women to shut up on domestic violence…
I’m sure you are shocked. Watch and please share.
No, No. No No NO. Absolutely NOT!
Could politicians be this stupid?
Hosting the 2026 Olympic Winter Games would require more than $2 billion in public funding and risks running a massive operating deficit, Calgary city council learned Monday.
When Leftists Try to Run Businesses
Find your favorite and most comfy couch.
Pour yourself a nice cup of coffee (or something stronger)
Charge up your cell phone or MP3 player
and listen to a charming story of a libertarian protagonist who has a run in with a leftist who wants a “grand opening” for his new theater and is completely delusional about the cost of hiring trapeze artists, stilt walkers, and musicians in the bathrooms.
*Language warning.
The Sound Of Settled Science
New research published this week in the journal Nature Physics reveals that light can behave in an even stranger “superliquid” state, in which light particles flow around objects with no friction or viscosity at all. In this state, light exhibits the dramatic effect of “frictionless flow,” bending around obstacles with no ripples or swirls whatsoever. Interestingly, this effect can be observed at room temperature and ambient pressure.
The Left’s War On Free Speech
[W]e’ve experienced over the past eight years a profound shift in our political culture, a shift that has resulted in a significant portion of our body politic holding a five-year-old’s view of free speech. What makes this shift notable is that unlike most changes in politics, you can trace it back to one day: January 21, 2010, the day the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United ruling and restored free speech rights to millions of Americans.
For nearly 100 years up to that point, both sides of the political aisle had used campaign finance laws–I call them speech laws–to muzzle their political opponents. The Right used them to push unions out of elections. The Left used them to push corporations out of elections. These speech laws kept building and building until we got the mack daddy of them all–McCain-Feingold. It was at this point the Supreme Court said, “Enough.” A five-judge majority ruled that Congress had gone way too far in violating the Constitution’s free speech protections.
The Citizens United ruling was viewed as a blow for freedom by most on the Right, which had in recent years gotten some free speech religion, but as an unmitigated disaster by the Left. Over the decades, the Left had found it harder and harder to win policy arguments, and had come to rely more and more on these laws to muzzle political opponents. And here was the Supreme Court knocking back those laws, reopening the floodgates for non-profits and corporations to speak freely again in the public arena.
Don’t be Fooled by Solar
Is cheap 24/7/365 solar power on its way? Roger Andrews takes a look at recent claims made on the Motley Fool.
But It’s Scary Out There And We’d Have To Get Jobs
When your student occupation lasts longer than expected. Say, 17 years.
Reader Tips
Steve`n`Seagulls – You Shook Me All Night Long. Thread open.
1812, revisited, Sabres and Smoke
A Western student is making a somewhat non-traditional (in that you overlay terrain onto the map, creating a variable board) hex-grid board-game based on the War of 1812.
If you’re interested, Sabres and Smoke just launched the Kickstarter campaign.
Meanwhile in my war-gaming efforts I’m stalled on the Battle of Chickamauga in Ultimate General: Civil War. I need to do more research on the battle because right now the damned Rebs are kicking my arse.
Oh Look! A Poll!!!
The Tolerant Left
He had it coming.
Scholarships and Parent’s Money Driving Tuition Up
“So while visiting this planet, you volunteer to work at the Rumpleminze factory, earn some Clarey Bucks and buy some Rumpleminze because…well…there’s literally nothing else to do in this lovely planet. After a while you get bored and decide to fly back to Earth and spread the good word of Clarey World. You also sing the praises of the galactic quality of Clarey World’s Rumpleminze, and soon people also want to fly to Clarey World to sample its Rumpleminze.
But oh no. There’s a problem.”