“Seriously, it’s like the pope admitting Catholicism is all wrong, yet your commoner Catholics, who never read the bible, would argue that it’s still ‘all right.'”
Direct link to audio file.
“On Friday, the authorities stripped security badges from several workers “
The investigation into this week’s deadly attacks in Brussels has prompted worries that the Islamic State is seeking to attack, infiltrate or sabotage nuclear installations or obtain nuclear or radioactive material. This is especially worrying in a country with a history of security lapses at its nuclear facilities, a weak intelligence apparatus and a deeply rooted terrorist network.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Safe spaces for scientists: In a sign that the nutrition space is as defensive as ever, Nina Teicholz, an author who has publicly criticized the science behind the government’s low-fat dietary advice, was recently bumped from a nutrition science panel after being confirmed by the National Food Policy Conference. […] Teicholz said she was disinvited after other panelists said they wouldn’t participate with her.
The Tolerant Left
h/t Colonialista
Reader Tips
Remembering Garry Shandling, who passed away Thursday, at age 66. I loved that show.
The Children Are Our Future
Have a few minutes? Head over to Ryerson.ca and voice your support for Dan Petz.
It’s Probably Nothing
The Canadian Federal Government workers pension alone has a massive 244 Billion dollar shortfall. Massive political and social unrest? Just wait until organized unionized Government workers stop getting their full checks.
It doesn’t matter what party is in power or how anyone feels about it. It’s cold, hard, black and white mathematics. That’s why politicians and the media simply don’t want to talk about any of the 3 possible ways the problem might, just possibly, get solved.
theuglytruth.mp3
We Don’t Need No…
Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me
My own dim and politically gentrified country is no exception to the anti-Trump animus. In a March 21, 2016 cover article, Canada’s weekly current affairs magazine, the soft-socialist Maclean’s, snidely refers to Trump as “Trumputin” with its Putin-Rasputin implications, denouncing Trump as a “bullying Reality-TV star who breaks every rule of American political life” and condemning his promise to deport illegals, his refusal to coddle terrorists (“torture,” a “war crime”), and his picking Twitter fights with the pope — a liberation theologian whose white vestments might as well be communist red. So far as I can see, these are pretty sturdy planks from which to build a viable political platform.
But read it all, supplemented with this commentary from Ed Driscoll.
Bring On Those Self Driving Cars
Microsoft deletes ‘teen girl’ AI after it became a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours.
Reader Tips
A message from Charlie Daniels. He’s a simple man. (h/t Lee)
Tips thread open.
Ghomeshi verdict, do we still believe in innocent until proven guilty?
The mob is angry after Jian Ghomeshi was found not guilty of sexual assault. I’m not a fan of the guy, I find him creepy, likely a bad date, but what did the evidence say or don’t we care anymore? Are we giving up on innocent until proven guilty in favour of a mob mentality?
Plus Ezra Levant on all things Trudeau, John Robson on Britain’s union more than 300 years ago on this day and Christian Elia on what nurses may be forced to do in Ontario.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Trigger Warning
Recently a fair number of college students have been complaining that various symbols and words (often false flagged) are making them feel ‘unsafe’. I am reminded of something Jim Chapin said: He felt ‘unsafe’ when a couple of 16-year old Irish kids had him down in the gutter and were trying to kick his ribs in. That’s pretty close to my personal definition, although there were three of them in the case I’m remembering….
The more I think about it, the more I suspect that a lot of our present and future ‘elites’ would develop some valuable perspective from having someone beat the living crap out of them. Certainly worth a try.
More here.
Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me
This week’s horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign. Candidates of both parties were instantly measured against voter expectations of how a president could and should behave in a similar crisis. Meanwhile, it was jarring to see a beaming President Obama relaxing at a Cuban baseball game, while grisly photos of the wrecked terminal and dazed, bloodied victims in Belgium were on steady media feed all over the world.
QOTD
Interesting how the same people who savaged Harper's "tough on crime" agenda now want the criminal burden of proof lowered. #Ghomeshi
— Damian Penny (@damianpenny) March 24, 2016
It’s Probably Nothing
DOJ: Seven Iranians Working for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Affiliated Entities Charged
In addition, Firoozi is charged with obtaining unauthorized access into the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems of the Bowman Dam, located in Rye, New York, in August and September of 2013.
Hey, let’s get our critical infrastructure hooked up to the net. What could go wrong?
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Hates Israel, hates the west — he has all the right qualifications:
Pro-Palestinian legal expert Canadian Michael Lynk is the UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) new nominee to the post of special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories. [...] He will then be tasked with examining allegations of Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinians.
h/t Adrian
More Pavilions At Folkfest
#JeSuisYourTownHere!
Taste our hot tears of abstract cartoon sadness, genocidal lunatics pic.twitter.com/yGmm97hTCE
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 22, 2016
h/t Sid Vicious
The Sound Of Settled Science
…there’s probably no field of journalism that’s less skeptical, less critical, less given to investigative work, and less independent of its sources than science reporting. At even the most respected publications, science journalists tend to position themselves as translators, churning the technical language of scientific papers into summaries that are accessible to the public. The assumption is that the source text they’re translating–the original scientific research–comes to them as unimpeachable fact.
Flashback: “Kevin, Gavin, Mike, It’s Seth again.”