Update: “How is this not classified?” (h/t MJ)
If You Agree With Us, We Will Complain About It
So, to recap. Forty or so “social justice” protestors disrupt a keynote address at DePauw University, holding signs that scold the audience for being insufficiently deferential to the protestors’ racial fixations and delusions of being oppressed. Being schooled in “privilege and identity,” and therefore suitably cowed and pretentious, the audience starts applauding the disruption, and applauding the scolding being aimed at them.
And then those applauding are promptly scolded for doing so.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Woman who mocked burka goes into hiding after online trolls offer bounty for her murder
Reader Tips
All things considered, this seems an appropriate choice for tonight’s tips thread: the BJ Thomas 1969 hit – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head .
Tips thread open.
A Buzzfeed Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
Update: This poll no longer accurately reflects the opinions of real people. Please remember to vote in the upcoming election.
PM Harper’s Eulogy to Peres
In the Jerusalem Post.
And now we know why he flew commercial.
I need to correct an earlier tweet. @stephenharper was invited to Peres' funeral by the Israeli foreign ministry not by @JustinTrudeau /PMO.
— Althia Raj (@althiaraj) September 29, 2016
When A Clinton Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
The whole thing’s worth watching but especially the bit beginning at 3:30. This is a sequel to Gowdy’s first grilling of Comey before the House Oversight Committee in July, so go watch that clip to prepare yourself for this one. […]
Gowdy’s point is the same now as it was then. Isn’t destroying evidence and then lying about it the best evidence of criminal intent insofar as it reveals a guilty mind? Because that’s what we have here — deleted emails, wiped servers, and then a series of public lies by Hillary about whether she’d ever dealt with classified information on her private system. What more would you need to have seen from her by way of suspicious behavior, he asks Comey, to conclude that she really did know all along that she was mishandling classified information and therefore is guilty even under Comey’s own standard of intent? Comey … has no good answer.
So, How Was Your Day?
I’m sure glad we drove three days for this.
Heh.
Baseload? What’s that?
Via Instapundit.
#NotACult, Nooononoo.
What do the Liberals want?
Electronic Voting!
When do we want it? Never!
Experts told CBS News that the ultimate goal of these hackers is not to necessarily change the outcome of the election; their main objective is to de-legitimize the outcome by sowing doubt, uncertainty and suspicion through a series of cyberattacks.
Successful operation, I’d say.
#Instapunted
But the other problem with Twitter is that it’s the crystal meth of social media: Addictive, but unsatisfying. I’ve been spending a lot of time on it even though it doesn’t make me any money, and even though I kind of doubt it has much of an impact on anything. As I said a while back: “I think Twitter is overrated. It’s a good way to chatter with the chattering classes, but (1) it doesn’t drive traffic; (2) its impact outside the chattering classes is basically nil; and (3) it encourages people to think they’re being ‘activists’ when they’re really just tweeting to a few hundred people.”
I’ve been saying the same since forever: the only people on Twitter for politics are people who want to hurt you.
What is this? Poker?
One hundred and ninety conditions. It was stupid when PM Harper’s gov’t did it on Northern Gateway (how’d that work out for you CPC?) and it’s stupid now.
“Petronas and its partners will study the conditions imposed by the Canadian authorities and conduct a total review of the proposed project prior to deciding on the next steps forward,” Petronas said Wednesday in a statement from Kuala Lumpur.
Muted? You don’t say. Personally, I call it status quo because doubling the cost means it won’t get built.
Hoboken Train Crash
Sounds Like A Plan
The Wall Around Isis: A prediction of sorts.
Red Rose Country
Well, when you’re about to impoverish thousands of families, you don’t brag about it.
Oh, Shiny Pony
Who ya gonna believe? The PMO or a private company?
Michel Bonin, senior vice-president of government relocations at Brookfield Global Relocation Services in Ottawa, told The Globe and Mail that each “transferee,” or person moving, is informed about which benefits and “entitlements” they can claim under a Treasury Board directive and then submits receipts to the third-party company, which seeks reimbursement from the government.
or
The PMO further denies that Mr. Butts and Ms. Telford were briefed about which expenses they were eligible to claim. “There was no briefing to Gerry and Katie in this case,” Kate Purchase, Mr. Trudeau’s director of communications, said in an e-mail.
We Must Clone Him
Human capital is the ability to create the material things that constitute wealth… A classic example: In the 1970s, Uganda decided that the Gujarati population, from India, were just too wealthy and controlled too much of the economy. The Ugandans expelled them and wouldn’t let them take their wealth with them. And so the Gujaratis arrived, mostly in England, destitute. Meanwhile, the Ugandan government had taken over all of this material stuff. A few years later, the Gujaratis were prosperous in England, and the Ugandan economy collapsed. Because they didn’t have people who knew how to do what the Gujaratis were doing. It’s also one of the problems of trying to finance things by confiscating the wealth of the wealthy. All you can confiscate is the material wealth. You cannot confiscate human capital.
Reader Tips
For the generation that grew up toying with Mechanix, Adafruit’s new products. Everyone’s a hacker.
Is it just me
Or is anyone else really leery of sending money to Ottawa to be ‘managed’? I have a feeling that in the end, we’ll deserve the ‘moron’ label.