RIP, Adam West.
Smash! Bam! KaPOW! Tips thread’s up.
Killing Comey
Via Common Cents
Holy Bull
Euthanized yesterday at the age of 26. “As game as a racehorse could be.”
50% RE in the UK – the Ugly Facts
I imagine that the RE generators will be breaking out the Champagne. While if you are a hard-pressed, energy poor pensioner, you are probably wishing you’d bought another blanket.
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Blog Notes
We’re spending most of the weekend with family, and so blogging will be slow. Push back from the computer and go enjoy it. The lousy politicians will still be here when we get back.
Well, maybe not Theresa May.
And That’s Why You Never Hire Liberal Arts Grads
“There is, however, one determining factor that separates the wheat from the chaff. And that is whether you majored in STEM or the liberal arts.
Now, I know, I know. Some of you have taken offense. Some of you have liberal arts degrees and have “successful careers.” And no doubt I’m sure you know “this one liberal arts grad who was a ‘great’ employee.”
Take your umbrage and shove it. My pocket book and my company are too important to entertain your statistical outliers and anecdotes. The employee talent pool is already poor enough as it is that I’m not going to risk my livelihood and the livelihood of what employees I do have, all in a magnanimous effort to spare the feelings of America’s most educated, yet most worthless labor class.”
Almost As Good As Election Night
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British Election
Snatching defeat from the jaws of governing.
A SHAKEN Theresa May hinted tonight she may be forced to form a coalition Government after a disastrous night at the polls sent Britain spiralling towards a hung Parliament.
Live results of May’s “snap election” gamble at Sky News.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Premier Daniel Andrews says he’s “very troubled” by the Islamic Council of Victoria’s suggestion for safe spaces where Muslim youth “could be radical”.
The council made a submission asking for taxpayer-funded “safe spaces” where young Muslims can express themselves openly, even if those views are “inflammatory”.
Mr Andrews says he is very concerned about their proposal and the council’s state funding will be reviewed.
“There is no safe way to rail against the West. There is no safe way to rail against the values that we hold dear,” Mr Andrews told reporters.
“I am very troubled by the suggestion that we might have a space where people could be radical as part of a deradicalisation program. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.”
That’s ok. It makes sense to them.
There Is No Joy At CNN
Mighty Comey has struck out.
James Comey confirms President Trump was not under investigation while he was FBI director https://t.co/8NNYhQvBr8 https://t.co/tU8OzqJjph
— CNN (@CNN) June 8, 2017
“Everyone in Washington knows how this game is played.”
Not until after he was fired did Comey suddenly decide to inform the public of all these interactions that he said made him so uncomfortable. Comey’s similar refusal during his tenure to inform the public that the president was not being investigated is also clear evidence of the keep-my-job-at-all-costs game he was playing (if this game looks familiar, it’s the exact same one he played when he took the fall for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s refusal to prosecute Clinton in 2016). What better way to insure yourself against being fired than to give the impression that you are overseeing a grave investigation of potential wrongdoing by your boss?
The public impression that Trump was being criminally investigated, amplified by the president’s critics in the media, was effectively Comey’s get-out-of-jail-free card. The former FBI director likely assumed that no president would be crazy enough to fire a man whom the public believed to be investigating the president. Only a madman would fire that guy, right?
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We Regret The CNN
Mr. Comey also confirms that on at least three occasions he told Mr. Trump that he was not a personal target of the Russia probe. But Mr. Comey wouldn’t make a public statement to the same effect, “most importantly because it would create a duty to correct” if Mr. Trump were implicated. This is odd because the real obligation is to keep quiet until an investigation is complete.
More interesting is that Mr. Trump’s frustration at Mr. Comey’s refusal raises the possibility that the source of Mr. Trump’s self-destructive behavior isn’t a coverup or a bid to obstruct the investigation. The source could simply be Mr. Trump’s wounded pride.
The most troubling part of Mr. Comey’s statement is his belief in what he calls “the FBI’s traditionally independent status in the executive branch,” which he invokes more than once. Independent? This is a false and dangerous view of law enforcement in the American system.
Make Canada Great Again
June is #WorthlessDegreeAwareness Month
“Understand that from a child’s perspective the ONLY thing he or she has in her life is college. K-12 is so horrendously boring, inefficient, and mentally stifling, it resembles a prison more than it does a school. Increasingly apathetic parents drop their children off with increasingly apathetic teachers, where the true purpose of K-12 education is more baby sitting than it is education. Alas, most kids are just biding their time, waiting out a mental prison sentence, chomping at the bit to get out. But the biggest lie we feed them is not “follow your heart and the money will follow,” or “you can’t put a price on education,” but the canard
“It will all get better in college.””
Wildrose Country?
Via email;
Over the weekend I learned from a good source that all our Alta. teachers are taking out memberships in the Wildrose Party so they can vote in favor of retaining the party as is, and thereby keeping the right split, as has been the case for the past 10 years, thereby giving the Dippers a better shot at another mandate.
Furthermore, the individual teacher will not be out of pocket for the cost, needless to say they’ll be buying memberships like crazy. Their union or some other outside interest is covering their cost.
Can anyone out to the west of me confirm or shoot this one down?
Update in the comments from a reliable source: “Wildrose is monitoring this carefully but so far there is no indication this rumour is correct.”
It’s Their Nature
He’s not heavy, he’s my scorpion.
Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iran’s parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran on Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people in a twin assault at the heart of the Islamic Republic, Iranian officials and media said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility and released a video purporting to show gunmen inside the parliament building and one body, apparently dead, on the floor.
Drain The Swamp
Any question as to what the face of the Deep State looks like? What is this guy doing in the U.S. embassy in London, and who put him there?