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Tips thread open. If you’re in the mood for a tune, here’s the Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
“We never fired a shot”
A Morning’s Hunt. When you’re done, just keep scrolling.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Frog, meet scorpion.
Operation Empty Chair
Always back the winning side: CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria
Those Moderate Muslims!
Peaceful Majority Watch: Belgium’s ‘March against Fear’ cancelled due to security concerns.
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Yesterday in Meydan, California Chrome overcame a wide trip and a slipping saddle to win the Dubai World Cup, becoming the richest North American horse in racing history. As I said back in April of 2014, when I introduced him to you all: “My, oh my” – California Chrome is back.
Gates open for your tips.
What Leftists Can Learn from Khrushchev
“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
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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.
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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.