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Now a girl on the land / was waving her hand / as happy as can be / Talk of invasion, she wasn’t afraid / She winked her eye at me and murmured “Come on, invade” / When the Lads of the Village Get Cracking… ♫
That’s George Formby and the lads, from the 1943 film Get Cracking.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Two dogs dining.
Frankly, My Dear
Transcript
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Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
New York Times Hosts Panel on Farming, Forgets to Invite Farmers.
There’s One Too Many D’s In That Headline
Aboriginal men murdered at higher rate than aboriginal women
Between 1980 and 2012, 14 per cent of female murder victims with a known ethnicity were aboriginal, far exceeding their 4 per cent share of the female population, according to Statistics Canada.
But 17 per cent of male murder victims were also aboriginal during that time. In total, nearly 2,500 aboriginal people were murdered in the past three decades: 1,750 male, 745 female and one person of unknown gender.
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The RCMP found that 105 aboriginal women were missing for at least 30 days as of last November in cases where the reason for their disappearance was deemed “unknown” or “foul play suspected.” StatsCan does not keep track of missing persons, and the RCMP declined to compile statistics on missing aboriginal men.
Those Moderate Muslims!
There are ‘Twice as Many’ British Muslims Fighting for ISIS Than in UK Armed Forces.
The Sound Of Settled Science
A remarkable new study says European explorers weren’t the first to bring tuberculosis to the Americas, as has long been suggested.
An earlier strain of the disease existed long before Christopher Columbus’s arrival — brought from Africa by seals and sea lions, it says.
“It was a surprise for us, too,” said Anne Stone, professor of human evolution at Arizona State University and a co-author of the study, which was published this week in the journal Nature. “We had not thought about seals.”
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Music is the universal language, and love is the key. Tonight, former West London grime rapper L Jinny keeps it real as he treats us to a couple of krunk tunes from the Warm Up Sessions.
The son of an Egyptian “who was extradited from Britain to the United states on charges of terrorism in 2012″, Mr. Jinny’s def rhymes (“swagger dagger with the sore throat”) have been played on BBC Radio 1, and he is currently a “leading suspect in the…beheading of journalist James Foley.”
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Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
New York Times: What’s worse than ISIS?*
(*not including Israel)
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Heh.
@TondaMacC @OttawaPolice @charlesadler @katewerk @Banks_Todd @primetime: He sure looks like someone's younger brother.
— Mark Mignacca (@mjmignacca) August 23, 2014
Showing Up To Riot
Never apologize, never back down, never explain: Rick Perry Just Released A ‘Wanted’ Shirt With His Mug Shot
It’s Probably Nothing
Last Ebola-free region of Liberia falls to virus. Hospitals shut down.
Operation Empty Chair
Who could have known, after regime change in Libya had gone so swimmingly?
What a difference a year makes. Around this time last year, the West was gearing up for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was accused of carrying out chemical weapons attacks on his own people. That intervention never came to pass, not least because domestic public opinion in countries such as Britain and the United States was opposed to further entanglements in the Middle East.
Now, the U.S. is contemplating extending airstrikes on Islamic State militants operating in Iraq in Syria — fighters belonging to a terrorist organization that is leading the war against Assad. The Islamic State’s territorial gains in Iraq and continued repression and slaughter of religious minorities there and in Syria have rightly triggered global condemnation. “I am no apologist for the Assad regime,” Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, told NPR. “But in terms of our security, [the Islamic State] is by far the greatest threat.”
The irony of the moment is tragic. But to some, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Many cautioned against the earlier insistence of the Obama administration (as well as other governments) that Assad must go, fearing what would take hold in the vacuum.
One of those critics happened to be Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned against U.S. intervention in Syria in a New York Times op-ed last September.
Red Line related: The United States has made the strongest indication to date that Syria may have withheld some of its chemical weapons on 18 August, when it said there are still “serious questions” about its declaration to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Well, all things considered, they might want to give some back.
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Tonight, an edifying and nutritious “sword and salad epic in classic Cinemascope”: The story of Oedipus performed by vegetables.
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Barrel horse vs dirt bike.
How Deep, Señor Maduro?
Venezuelans face shortage of coffins amid scarcity of materials
Told you so.
Great Moments In Democratic Governance
Oakland liquor store workers have fought back against an alleged serial thief after they say police refused to become involved.
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It’s Probably Nothing
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau (Hugh Hewitt Show) 2009;
[W]hen he was at the [Harvard Law Review] you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
A lot of the time he quote/unquote “worked from home”, which was sort of a shorthand – and people would say it sort of wryly – shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn’t around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He’s the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
What is striking now is a growing sense, fairly or unfairly, that Obama is not capable of rising to the occasion, that he just doesn’t like politics, that he’s disengaged, that despite his soaring rhetoric in 2008 he has a passion deficit.
All the criticism about him playing golf and being at Martha’s Vineyard is kind of a code for his supposedly being unplugged from the job.