I had never wanted a son. In fact, I had decidedly not wanted one. I wanted daughters… This seemed altogether to fit in with my feminism better… There were dark moments in the middle of the night (when all those dark thoughts come), when I felt sick at the thought of something male growing inside me.
Former educator Polly Dunning tells us how to do feminist motherhood.
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Trudeau likes the idea of Canada. It’s just Canadians that he largely hates.
More.
Alberta’s Minister of the Entitlement: Walking’s for the little people.
CBC asks did @SPhillipsAB walk/bus to studio? She drove+said "isn't about 1 individual's commute" #abpoli #carbontax pic.twitter.com/BGPRu1I1jO
— Paige T. MacPherson (@paigemacp) December 20, 2016
Full interview here, question comes up at about the 31:00 minute mark. At 32:15 she admits to flying from Lethbridge to Calgary. Followed by a caller frustrated that her solar panels aren’t paying for themselves.
On Fox News’ top-rated Kelly File, Martha MacCallum asked two experts about the market slaughter and both of them instantly pivoted to military strikes against Isis, the need to form an Arab version of Nato, and other grand schemes. I’m all in favor of destroying Isis, but Isis is a mere symptom, not a cause. After Isis is destroyed, it’ll be something else. In many parts of the world, it’s already something else: al-Qa’eda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, al-Shabaab, al-Nusra, al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, al-this, al-that, al-the other…
Neither of Martha’s guests so much as raised the question of why people who want to murder you for attending a Christmas market are in your country in the first place.
To commemorate the passing of Canadian country icon Gordie Tapp, his 2012 performance in Nipawin, SK. at the age of 89.
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What's the dead pool over-under on this kid? https://t.co/CZT6Q4OoLI
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 20, 2016
#BREAKING: one dead, multiple others injured after a Truck plows into the Christmas market in #Berlin pic.twitter.com/zj427xegaQ
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) December 19, 2016
More here.
UPDATE: …according to the German newspaper Die Welt, “indications are gathering that the arrested truck driver is Pakistani.”
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Interesting to see that each of the 20 Pennsylvania electors has been assigned a police officer for protection. Sadly, such is the case when you’re dealing with Leftist hordes who don’t believe in democracy.
Russian ambassador to Turkey dead after being shot in ‘assassination attempt in revenge for Aleppo’
It’s possible that the Democratic National Committee leaks were caused by Russian hackers–but given that the hack took place thanks to John Podesta clicking on a link in a phishing email, displaying all the technological savvy of someone’s aunt extremely excited by the new iPhone she thinks she’s won, it could have been anyone. The “leaked” CIA concerns over Russian meddling were quite clearly leaked deliberately by the CIA itself, an organization not exactly famed for its commitment to the truth; they’re the conclusions of an investigation that hasn’t even happened yet and on which there’s no consensus even among the gang of petty Caligulas that calls itself the intelligence community. Still, it’s possible. Countries sometimes try to exert influence in each other’s internal affairs; it’s part of great-power politics, and it’s been happening for a very long time. When Americans meddled in Russia’s elections, it was by securing victory for Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s very own Donald Trump, a man who had sent in tanks to shell his own parliament. Leaked cables suggest that Hillary Clinton’s own State Department interfered with the political process in Haiti by suppressing a rise in the minimum wage. And American involvement in the politics of Chile, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Iran was mostly through military coups, sponsored by none other than the CIA. There was no question of these countries repeating their elections; anyone the generals didn’t like was tortured to death. Next to the mountain of corpses produced by America’s history of fixing foreign elections, a few hacked emails are entirely insignificant.
A vanishingly rare moment of sanity in an increasingly crazy world.
In a ruling that references butter knives, euthanasia and cats named Slimey and Oinky, a Saskatoon judge made an impassioned defence of the notion that, when it comes to the law, dogs should not be treated as though they were children.
It’s just a matter of time.
Socialism: it’s going to start working any moment now.
Venezuela’s highest denomination banknote has ceased to be legal tender, in a move that has caused cash chaos and long queues at banks.
Protests against the move led to looting in parts of the country, with shops attacked and roads blocked.
Some cash machines on Thursday were still issuing the old 100-bolivar notes, hours before they expired.
President Nicolas Maduro said new higher-denomination bills would be fully distributed in January.
He has closed the borders with Brazil and Colombia until Sunday to stop “mafias” hoarding the currency abroad.
PARIS — Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was found guilty on Monday of criminal charges linked to the misuse of public funds during her time as France’s finance minister, a verdict that could force her out of her post.
Ms. Lagarde, who began her second five-year term at the I.M.F. in February, will not face any jail time, the judge said. The scandal has overshadowed her work at the fund, to which she was appointed in 2011, after Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as managing director when he was accused of having sexually assaulted a maid in a New York City hotel.
