Questions are being asked about why Americans don’t seem very prominent among those exposed in the massive Panama Papers leak. And dark suspicions exist that the leaker is Soros-funded and has deliberately shielded certain parties, in an effort aimed at discrediting Russia in particular.
Generation Entitlement™ Comes Of Age
Reader Tips
In honour of Merle Haggard, who passed yesterday at age 79 – That’s The Way Love Goes.
Tips thread open.
We Need A Famine
The Tolerant Left
USS Prudent
What do they know that we don’t know? “… the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, has just resumed training officers in the lost art of celestial navigation.”
On a related note – despite the thousands of miles I drive each year, I refuse to use a GPS. I don’t like the way the device undermines situational awareness.
“You can run, but you’ll die tired”
“Hands down, the scariest/most intimidating message for the Taliban, at any level, from fighter to Taliban senior leadership, is anything to do with drones or aerial bombings,” the briefing explained, quoting a Taliban leader American troops had detained in Nuristan. “The Taliban has no way to defend against them and they are certain to end in absolute destruction of whatever their target is.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Know your place, infidel. You’re in Europistan now.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Energy policy goes physics-free;
The Scottish supply is now based on nuclear, wind and imports with a little hydro and gas on the side. I think nuclear and wind is likely the worst combination for any grid that no sane power engineer would design. Variable and intermittent wind does not sit well with constant, base load nuclear power. We have reached this point in pursuit of Green dogma.
In this post I examine the policy and politics that led to this event and go on to consider the social and economic consequences of a nation-wide blackout that power engineers now believe is far more likely than before.
Laughter Curve
News for New Jersey: Nobody needs to live in New Jersey
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Justin
Here’s a list of some Liberal candidates, every one of whom lost:
Nadeem Islam. Gulraiz Tariq. Ana Ashraf. Shah Rukh. Ezaz Jaseem. Naveed Anwar. And so on.
In the last census, 0.1% of Saskatchewanians are Muslim.
Which means that at any given time, one in four can be found in a Superstore.
Reader Tips
Colter Wall – Sleeping On The Blacktop. Tips thread open.
Frankly, My Dear
“I’m forever blasting such smug snobs for never exposing themselves to even the mildest of opposing ideas, or to individuals outside their class and cohort, except to mock them. Yet how, I asked myself, was I any better, unless I too occasionally dared to venture beyond my own ideological comfort zone?”
And when you’re finished that, there’s more.
In The Mail
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Afghanistan — A novel by Bill Greenwood (Kindle Edition) A new Cold War has dawned. In London, a government bureaucrat has discovered what might be a Russian plot to destroy the West with a diabolical surprise attack that no one will see coming. Before anyone can act, they must first determine if the plot is real, and who is behind it. It falls upon a British spy, struggling with tragedy, and his old friend from the SAS, himself worn down by his years of service to Queen and Country, to learn what they can of the plot and stop it if they can. |
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Bill’s a long time SDA reader – check it out!
Feed The Ego
Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of Bob.*
More Pavilions At Volkfest
“They seem to be assimilating quite well, no?”
Turkish nationalists in Germany, "With Allah's help, we shall conquer You". Is this vibrant cultural diversity? pic.twitter.com/iE5jzbJN0f
— The Skull (@AusAesthetics) March 31, 2016
h/t Lorrie
Misunderstanding
If Wall stays for this entire term, he eclipses past Saskatchewan premiers Allan Blakeney, Roy Romanow and Grant Devine to become the second-longest-serving premier, behind only Tommy Douglas.
I certainly can’t speak for Premier Wall and I’m certainly flush with the joy of victory, but in my opinion, there would be nothing, nothing better for a conservative Sask boy to do than matching Douglas’s record of election wins in Saskatchewan. Five majorities!
And this is how he’ll do it.
Reader Tips
Thread open.
Election Day: Saskatchewan
It could turn out to be a nailbiter — for NDP leader Cam Broten who, it’s rumoured, is in danger of losing his seat. But stranger things have happened!
Thread open!
8:16pm Update: CTV declares a Saskparty majority government.
Twitter users can follow the #Skvotes tag, until the NDP rank and file come up with something more entertaining.
And it’s all over but the crying — down over 120 votes with only two polls remaining, it looks like Cam Broten has lost his seat. For those who choose not to gloat, I’ll be happy to make up the shortfall.
Premier Brad Wall: You can expect a government that's proud of oil and gas in this province #skvotes https://t.co/2hKl2uTRzD
— Global Saskatoon (@GlobalSaskatoon) April 5, 2016
Asteroid, Take Us Now
Hey, you only live once: Try the ‘death simulator’