Now remember, drawing any conclusions about the ethnicity of this driver would be wrong, wrong, wong:
De Minimus
Canadians are many things but free traders we are not.
Commenter Harry Martin summed it up succinctly: “Fleecing Canadian consumers is the Canadian way.”
Rolling back to 2006
The petulant man-boy continues his focus of rolling back every single policy that the CPC put in place, even if ‘officials’ supported it.
I hope every single one of those cheering ‘civil servants’ when Trudeau won have been identified. I’m pretty sure the Alert posting needs a lot more long-term DND and Foreign Affairs staff.
Meanwhile, in Germany
The Gun Control debate heats up.
*Link fixed.
The Conservative movement.
If you were feeling good because you weren’t an Alberta conservative…. 18% and the best you can do is a minority.
Her approval rating, once as high as 40%, now sits at 18%. It’s the lowest Forum has ever measured for an Ontario Liberal premier since it began polling in 2001.
In fact, if a provincial election was held tomorrow, Patrick Brown’s Progressive Conservative Party would capture a minority government, according to a the survey.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Why the lone wolf terrorist is a myth.
Reader Tips
It’s Thirsty Thursday! Tips open.
Sweet & Spicy, my interview with Rona Ambrose
It is the end of the Parliamentary session and so it was time to stand in the kitchen with Rona Ambrose and talk juice and politics.
Think about this as you watch – contrast and compare with Justin Trudeau on style and substance and tell me in the comments on how you think they compare.
Photoblogging: San Francisco
Monday evening there was an incredible sunset in San Francisco. I captured a number of images of it, including some HDR triplets, one of which is shown here. If you’re interested to learn more how the HDR process works, you can download a copy of the original RAW images here. The software I use to create HDR images is HDR Efex Pro, which is available free here.
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
If Skeptics can be Prosecuted for Fraud, So can Alarmists
h/t Dave
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Today’s cloistered creeps utterly missed the anger among normal Americas that led to Trump, but then they don’t think much of normal Americans. Recently, Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post took umbrage at one of my tweets and sneered, “Beginning to understand why you will never #readabook.” Her bio indicates I have more degrees than she does. Nice reporting there, Scoop
No wonder public regard for journalists hovers somewhere between “Raw Sewage” and “Herpes,” yet they still assume they are better than everyone else. I’ll remember that when I toss Karen a quarter out the window of my fine German sedan as she and her pretentious dinosaur media pals stand by the freeway off-ramp with a sign reading, “Will Reinforce the Leftist Narrative for Food (Locally Sourced Only).”
Sure, technology is causing disruption in the industry, but the MSM would be better able to weather the storm if everyone didn’t hate it and want to lock it out of the tornado cellar. The MSM has nothing but contempt for us, and now it’s getting it back in kind. Trump being mean to you? Aw, poor babies. Your newspaper going under? Here, hold this anchor.
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
Kayla McKelvey, an African-American activist “…was sentenced to 90 days in jail, followed by five years probation and an agreement to repay more than $80,000 in damages caused by her fake tweets threatening to kill black students.”
If Women Ran The World
In the last five months, 6 out of 7 female recruits — and 40 out of about 1,500 male recruits — failed to pass the new regimen of pull-ups, ammunition-can lifts, a 3-mile run and combat maneuvers required to move on in training for combat jobs, according to the data.
Operation Empty Chair
U.S. spy drones had no trouble spotting the Taliban fighters. There were more than 20 figures snaking through sparsely wooded hills, trying to outflank the Afghan government commandos in the village below.
In the starry darkness overhead, American helicopters loitered armed with precision-guided missiles, along with a flying gunship capable of drenching the area with cannon-fire. It would have been a hard shot to miss.
But before they could fire, the Americans knew they would have to get past the lawyers.
In the amorphous twilight of the Afghan war, it isn’t enough to draw a bead on the enemy. Before they shoot, U.S. troops have to navigate a tricky legal and political question: When is it OK for them to kill Taliban?
The operation late last month in Elbak, a flyspeck village in Kandahar province, exposed the complexity of implementing President Barack Obama’s Afghan strategy in the mud-brick villages, steep mountains and vast poppy fields where the combat takes place. With their Afghan allies walking into a possible ambush that night, U.S. commanders, monitoring video feeds and radio traffic miles from the front, had to judge whether enemy fighters who weren’t actually fighting constituted an imminent threat.
Mr. Obama, who campaigned on a promise to extract the U.S. from its long wars, has declared an end to the American combat mission in Afghanistan and set guidelines for when the remaining 9,800 U.S. troops, many of them in elite special-operations units, may use lethal force.
He’s on the other side.
For Your Night Owl Listening Pleasure
Latest episode of my humble little podcast.
Reader Tips
If you can listen to this all the way the end, you’re a better person than I. Or worse. Why Wednesday Is The Best. (NSFW)
Tips open.
How Deep, Señor Maduro?
Education is no longer a priority for many poor and middle-class Venezuelans who are swept up in the all-consuming quest for food amid a wave of looting and riots.
Between 30 percent and 40 percent of Venezuelan teachers fail to show up at school each day, mainly because they are standing in lines for food or medicine, their biggest union estimates.
Pupils’ attendance is also dropping because children have not eaten, know there will be no food at school, or must line up and help their parents shop, according to the union.
Frequent power and water cuts are disrupting classes, and schools have been closed on Fridays for about the last two months.
Given the left’s iron grip on modern miseducation, it’s hard to know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Red Rose Country
h/t B
The End Of Western Civilization As We Know It
European proponents of Britain staying are going overboard on their threats of dire consequences while rebellion is on the rise throughout Europe with the 5 Star movement just winning the Rome Elections. Meanwhile the rational way to predict the outcome of the Brexit Vote.
Bill’s Wife
