I can see her uvula from my house

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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, speaking to a women’s group in Wisconsin on September 3rd:

“Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand,” Wasserman Schultz told the audience while wagging her finger. “I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is reality.”

She added –

“What Republican Tea Party extremists like Scott Walker are doing, is they are grabbing us by the hair, and pulling us back.”

And now…

Football in Saskatchewan

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If you’re a football fan in Saskatchewan, game day is awesome. You have not one, but two, radio stations providing multiple hours of pre and post game shows.
So, at about 3 or so…..bye, cause this, um, “horrible human being” is going to be cheering on the Green and White to try and kick some Eskie butt.
There may be beer involved.
@tammyrobert wins twitter.

Refillables overtake cigalikes

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Via Wacked Out Canada, we learn that big tobacco is losing it’s share of the electronic nicotine delivery market.
Every time I post one of these types of posts, there are questions. In an attempt to kick the ball up-field, I’ll just redirect you to Phil Busardo’s TasteYourJuice.com site. It is a gold mine of information. Phil is also a prolific You Tuber. If you want to switch your nicotine delivery, you can do a lot worse than starting at his site and watching a few hours (days?) worth of reviews, tutorials and commentary.

BAMM!

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Emeril Lagasse talks about what gov’t regulation does to entrapaneurs.

“The one thing that I can say is that I’m pretty connected to America — because I’m a good listener, and I think that’s what makes a great restaurateur, is that you’re a good listener,” he said. “I don’t have the solution. If I did, I could run for president. But I don’t have the solution. All I can tell you is that the balance of the economic cycle is out of whack.”

My Editor Hates Me

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This twaddle made me laugh out loud in places.
This, in reference to ISIS:

These young people aren’t monsters and haven’t had their brains or bodies snatched. They’re going through adolescence. It’s dicey.

Are you a bad parent? Have you ever said this? “Now, now, Johnny. No beheading the kids at school!” Don’t you know the first thing Johnny is going to do now is behead little Janie? Rick Salutin told me so.

So what is parents’ role? It’s not telling their kids what to do, since they’ll almost certainly not do it. And even more, not telling them what not to do, since they’ll likely do that, or try it out.

How about this J-school example of ladder logic:

All revoking citizenship does is dehumanize its targets, since citizenship is a human right. Do we really want Stephen Harper or Chris Alexander to decide who counts as human and who to exclude as monsters? This is sheer incitement of more anger and alienation.

So, lemons are purple?
This is an even better example of idiocy when you click on the hyperlink in the article…it goes to this. An article about revoking the Canadian citizenship of…da da dumm…dual citizenship holders. So, relax, Rick, humanity saved, they’re still citizens of Somalia, Lebanon or wherever.
It’s the Toronto Star and wherever Shiny Pony’s mouth leads, they must defend. Maybe it’s satire, right? Right?
It must be satire.

Shivering in the dark

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“I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way.”

Speaking Tuesday at the UN Climate Summit, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was recently appointed as the United Nations’ Messenger of Peace“, said –

“We need to put a price on carbon emissions.”

He can certainly afford higher fuel and heating costs. Three months ago, when DiCaprio decided go to party with 21 friends in Rio de Janeiro during the World Cup, he did so on a $728 million dollar, 147-metre long superyacht, the fifth largest in the world.
Such behemoths aren’t exactly low-emission:

A boat measuring more than 71 meters consumes a staggering 500 liters of diesel an hour, according to Superyachts.com–and that’s only if the engine is on but the boat isn’t moving….Smaller yachts can hold around 5,000 liters of fuel, while the larger ones have capacity for up to 400,000 liters. It can cost in the region of €500,000 to fill the tanks of the largest yachts.

DiCaprio, who was “murdered by an iceberg in a movie once”, borrowed or rented the super-yacht from multi-billionaire Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, who is a member of Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council, and is chairman of the International Petroleum Investment Company.
Since DiCaprio is calling for global policies that would see people of far less means paying more for heating and transportation in order to reduce emissions and save the earth from disaster, shouldn’t he also set an example and be responsible for his own individual choices?

“This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make.”

You gotta love it.

Well Written

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One question though, what if they are that naive?

Our guess is that more than meets the eye is going on here. Surely Trudeau and his team aren’t actually this naïve about how the media world works.
We’ve argued in this space that Trudeau needs to drop the platitudes and start talking about real policies. More people are joining this call. Perhaps the Liberal leader is feeling the heat and is looking for an easy way to avoid hard questions.

You know, it’s a good thing Trudeau doesn’t live in England, their tabloids would destroy a weakling like him.

Renegade Regulator

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Restore CSA;

Lets review. In 2010 the CSA was caught running an eight year-long counterfeiting operation in the sales of fake safety certifications of modular buildings. The CSA was caught falsifying test results, skipping entirely whole ranges of safety tests for consumer products, they have been selling blank product certifications to manufacturers, they’ve even had CSA secretarial staff authoring their engineering reports. This is the context in which the CSA is testing and certifying Canada’s operating room equipment. At the same facility. By the same staff.

Reader Tips

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Longtime SDA reader Bunbury, who is a dreadful invalid, writes “Would you be so kind as to post a video showing a bunch of Russians in cowboy hats riding through a hilly temperate broadleaf forest while singing a song from ‘Oklahoma?'”
Because of his extraordinary bad health, I will do just that: Here are members of the cast of the Moscow Operetta Theatre performing The Farmer And The Cowman.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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