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.
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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.”
Reader Tips
Today marks the anniversary of the start of the longest game ever played in the NHL – the 1936 victory of the Detroit Red Wings over the Montreal Maroons. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the game’s end.
Thread open.
Iron And Trough
A company called Iron & Earth is asking the provincial government to help support its Solar Skills campaign, a project that aims to train 1,000 electricians from the oilsands sector to install solar panels on 100 public buildings, making their skills marketable across the energy sector.
“Now is definitely the time to be launching this organization,” said Iron & Earth founder Lliam Hildebrand,
Who is “oilsands worker” Lliam Hildebrand?
Here’s his Youtube channel.
Big tip of the hat to Dan.
Red Rose Country
Did the Notley NDP put thousands of Uber drivers out of work to enrich a party loyalist?
Life taken too soon – Terror attacks and Rob Ford’s death on budget day
The terror attacks in Brussels, cancer in Toronto, both took life too soon. On an already busy news day these events make you take stock. Normally the federal budget is the biggest story, event on Tuesday pushed it to third on Brian’s list.
Listen as Brian talks budget with David Akin, Rob Ford with Joe Warmington and hears from a socialist on how the budget isn’t mean enough to well off Canadians.
Also Brian juxtaposes Stephen Harper on terrorism to Justin Trudeau.
Great Moments In Socialism
Only a fool could ever have imagined that Edmonton or any other large city would “end homelessness,” in 10 years or 20 or 30, except by means of fascist methods or wild, unforeseeable social change. Nevertheless, this sappy utopian vision got a bunch of now-superannuated Alberta politicians celebrated for their heroic vision-y-ness. No one is now eager to point out their humiliating total failure — to point out that an entire professional class collectively promised the public something specific, and came nowhere close to delivering. They did not deliver half of what they promised. Not a quarter. Not a tenth.
There was a man in his 20’s pan-handling just inside the lobby of the Walmart Monday evening. At the doors on the other side of the store was a listing of their job vacancies.
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
