“The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding that a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity, or criticism about Annise Parker.” “Any failure to reply to the subpoenas could mean that the ministers will be held in contempt of court.” It must be noted that Annise Parker is the city’s first openly lesbian mayor.
QOTW
I sense that there's been a great disturbance in the narrative. As if a million voices cried out "Bush lied" and were suddenly silenced.
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) October 15, 2014
Where the NYT plays the Get Hillary Out Of The Iraq War Vote card: The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
(That phrase… it’s like I’ve heard it somewhere before.)
Reader Tips
Tonight Nina Simone sings a spare, ethereal version of a song first written and recorded by the late Sandy Denny: here’s Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
How genetic modification brought us the tomato.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Corn Belt
Via email;
Source: Climateimpactcompany.com report for Oct.14
The Real Causes for Deficit Spending
My apologies in advance and did not mean to butt in here, but I believe these data will prove vital for anybody out there debating the left about the cause of the West’s chronic deficits/debts.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Dr. Lynne M. Saddler is “district director of health for the Northern Kentucky Health Department”. She argues that a seasonal respiratory virus with a death rate of under 1% is a greater threat than Ebola. Yes, she actually does this;
Last year, more than 1,300 Northern Kentucky residents had this illness, and, sadly, five of them died. Nationwide, about 200,000 are hospitalized and up to 49,000 people die each year.
Sound scary? The illness I’ve just described is not Ebola.
Well, no shit.
Related: The Centers for Disease Control Loses Its Grip
Just In Time For Halloween
Today, @ElizabethMay endorsed @oliviachow for Toronto Mayor! @CBCToronto @CTVToronto @CP24 @Global_TV #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/gIHqBmy629
— Green Party Canada (@CanadianGreens) October 14, 2014
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
November, 2009: “I think that we’ve restored America’s standing in the world, and that’s confirmed by polls”
October, 2014: Turkish officials categorically denied that they’d agreed to allow their bases to be used against the terror group.
Global Test
“ALLAHU AKBAR” IS JUST A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC: ‘Nothing whatsoever about ISIL that is related to Islam.’
Insufficiently Feminised
On dictators big and small, riots and media narratives, and the thrilling world of “masculinity studies“:
When Michael Kimmel talks about men and boys – at least ones unreconstructed by feminism – it is often in a tone that ranges from ironic condescension to scolding rebuke and outright antipathy… He waxes enthusiastic about “rape awareness” measures that treat all men as potential rapists – such as “splash guards” on a college’s public urinals with the slogan, “You hold the power to stop rape in your hand.” Tackiness aside, such a stunt directed at any other group would be readily seen as “hate.” Imagine proposing that “You are looking at someone who can stop terrorism” be inscribed on bathroom mirrors at a campus Islamic centre.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Ezra has the emails: Senior executives within the media party hold talks behind closed doors — about manipulating the the news. Guess who they’re conspiring to protect?
137 pages of emails.
Reader Tips
With all the trouble and fighting in the world it’s easy to forget sometimes that we did win life’s lottery by being born in Canada, and that there’s a lot to be thankful for. With that in mind, here’s Mary Chapin Carpenter singing her lovely Thanksgiving Song.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Little Owls, you’re on candid camera.
Walid Shoebat
“Islam is a religion and a state. And it is impossible to separate the two.“
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
NY Post: NBC’s medical correspondent ‘violated Ebola quarantine’
Happy Thanksgiving
Wishing all SDA readers & commenters a Wonderful Canadian Thanksgiving.
Sunset at Candle Lake, Saskatchewan two days ago
Crushed by The Hegemon
The New York Times feels the pain of Laurie Penny:
By all means take a moment to realign your mind with the notion of Ms Penny as a “cyborg” writer and in some way marginalised – “marked as other” – and struggling against the pressures of not being heard. Except of course when she’s on TV, or Five Live, or Radio 4, or when airing her various and bewildering concerns in the pages of the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Independent.
We Don’t Need No…
ESPN
#ChangeALetterRuinATeam ESPN pic.twitter.com/TTPWrEN2kv
— Leg Chair (@FoxLegChair) October 13, 2014