John O’Sullivan: “What’s happening is a Revolt of the Neglected. The metropolitan establishment has no idea of how to deal with it. And it’s gathering steam.”
Because A Four Dollar Shrimp Is Never A Four Dollar Shrimp
It’s not a political party. It’s a crime organization. “I’m not sure what to call this guy. Is he a staffer? Bodyguard? Some jack-of-all-trades policy advisor/goon? Why does Harry Reid have muscle with him when he walks the halls of Congress? And more importantly, per Mattera’s question, how does a humble, longtime public servant like him pay for it?”
Flashback – We had this thing called the “Sponsorship Scandal”.
The Penguins Are Our Future
Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug’ a training manual advises.
Reader Tips
Tonight, the recorded voice of Sir Winston Churchill is paired with the London Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Nimrod from English composer Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
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h/t HK
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And “public art” is the saliva test;
After a sun-singed jacket, some software glitches and more than a year with blue construction fence around a beautification project, city officials have removed a $559,000 art sculpture from in front of a northeast Calgary recreation centre, unsure it can be fixed.
From the comments: “Paint it black”.
Clued Right Out
Naomi Wolf has some “interesting” views of what’s happening in the world these days. Here’s an example:
Her initial posts on ISIS repeatedly stated that confirmation of the authenticity of their beheading videos “has not happened yet.” Wolf said that the media was ignoring “journalistic red flags” in that the sole source of the videos had been “SITE, which is run by an anti-Muslim activist with half a million dollars in US funding in 2004.” (In fact, the videos were widely distributed on open-source jihadist online outlets. Maryland-based nonprofit SITE monitors extremist social media.) She also detailed an alleged incident, which I was not able to confirm, of a website “based in Doha, address registered at a private intelligence firm in the UK” that she said had spread news of a Canadian journalist, who turned out not to exist, taken hostage in Syria.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
KXLA.com: A new study shows that hands free technology designed to keep us safe on the road, may not be any better than using our hands to hold the phone. AAA says the inaccuracies of voice-activated systems in vehicles can even be more distracting to a driver.
Wired.com: Mercedes Is Making a Self-Driving Semi to Change the Future of Shipping
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m launching a new line of kevlar turtlenecks. (h/t Sue)
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “There’s One Born Every Minute”
photo credit: marc in calgary
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Penguins
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Russian #Gazprom buys Europe’s biggest gas storage facility http://t.co/wDN6uXODt6 pic.twitter.com/QMrDcwFZLH
— RT (@RT_com) October 8, 2014
h/t Kevin B
Operation Empty Chair
Obama’s ‘war’ on ISIS remains strangely nameless.
Right now, there is no specific budget request for Obama’s promised long-term effort to “degrade and destroy” ISIS. A tell-tale sign. Given Obama’s record on veracity, this would seem to indicate “long-term” in his mind means at least through Nov. 5.
Funds for this campaign are being borrowed from other Pentagon accounts. Can a president have a serious war with no budget and no name?
Sure he can. If he’s on the other side.
Reader Tips
Tonight the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra helps us celebrate Kate’s long awaited return with a performance from Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major op. 6 no. 1 .
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Drama Queen Studies
It’s not food, it’s violence.
Cigar 1990 – 2014
Taken at the Kentucky Horse Park on this year’s Derby day.
Watch his 1995 Breeders Cup victory.
It’s Probably Nothing
Don’t panic. It’s really, really hard to catch.
The woman, named by Spanish media outlets as Teresa Romero Ramos, told the paper she took the right precautions in helping to care for a Spanish missionary who was infected with Ebola in West Africa and who died after being brought to the hospital where she worked.
Was she worried she might have contracted the disease after helping with his care?
“Well, no, not at all,” she told El Mundo. . . .
Five people were under observation in a hospital Wednesday — the woman’s husband, judged to be at high risk of infection; a nurse from the same hospital admitted Wednesday morning after showing symptoms; another nurse’s assistant who worked on the same team as the infected woman and was admitted late Tuesday with a fever; a nurse who has tested negative for the virus and is expected to be discharged Wednesday; and an engineer who returned from Nigeria, who also has tested negative and is set to be discharged.
Update: Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Exhibiting Ebola Symptoms
Montgomery County 2014
I left the show grounds in Blue Bell, PA at 5pm Eastern on Sunday, and pulled into the driveway here at 7:30pm last night. For our international readers, a map.
It was another successful trip for the Minuteman minis – Ch.Minuteman Toxicology won the MSC of Michigan Specialty and was Award of Merit at Hatboro, while our “Goldikova” daughter, still a puppy, finished her AKC championship title, taking an Award of Merit at the National at Montgomery County Kennel Club to start her “specials” career.
Grand Champion Minuteman Toxicology at Montgomery County.
But there’s big pile of laundry, dog bathing, trips to the airport, and of course, paying work on my plate over the next couple of days. And if I’m lucky, more sleep. Thanks again to the crew here who kept the site rolling along in my absence! Normal blogging should resume by the weekend.
Jogging Didn’t Help
Menfolk, avert your eyes.
Roll on, Roll on, Saskatchewan
If you missed the last couple of nights of Byline with Brian Lilley. (umm, you’re not watching?) then you missed his shows on Sask.
This is home to me. I came back in ’95 and have never regretted it, my sister and her family came home a few years ago, my mother is ecstatic. Some of what Brian talks about in his two shows is why.
This isn’t just home, it’s opportunity.
Tuesday nights Byline:
And yes, Chief Bear is that good.