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.
If BC doesn’t want it, the East does.
What was that saying, again? Oh yeah, Let the East burn brightly in the night.
Shame though, that Bloomberg is sharing this story, but I guess we don’t have any non-blacklisted Canadian media willing to write anything beyond hair styles.
Well, it’s done, and good.
In a vote 157 for and 134 against Canada will once again put our military to task.
In 1990 I was a crewman of HMCS Saskatchewan. The ship was about to go through a refit process and prior to reassignment to HMCS Mackenzie I was assigned to the Saskatchewan’s cleanup crew prior to the docks taking control. Basically I was hauling crap from the boat to where ever it was deemed to go. There was a lot of crap. We were the night crew and started around six in the evening and finished around six the next morning.
One day, while walking into the base, sirens started going off, and kept going.
I walked up to the PO (Petty Officer) in charge of our crew and asked, “What’s going on?” There had been no fire drills, no rushing around the base that would indicate a threat or problem. He replied, “We’re at war.”
This, of course, was Gulf 1.
After my duty was done, and I headed back to the duplex I shared, there were concrete blocks zig-zag’d in front of the base. I turned on the TV. CNN became CNN during this time. The next four months were probably the most stressful period of my life.
They didn’t need volunteers on the boats that went, they were full because many, many of us volunteered.
So we watched. We watched missiles fired on Israel in an attempt to bring them into the war. We watched those civilians donning gas-masks in fear of the chemicals Iraq had poured on Iranian troops. We watched dramatic fireballs behind Peter Arnett and Bernard Shaw.
It was very exhilarating. Except…I couldn’t get over the what-ifs. What if Israel retaliated? What if Iraq used chemical weapons? What if….
Those were my wingers over there.
So, yeah. a vote was held to send our pilots, crews and ground crews over to rain judgment on those who would despoil the gift of life.
But there is no trepidation, no hesitation. They are still my wingers, but they’ll be in far less danger than our ships and pilots during Gulf 1. Far less danger than Afghanistan. Far less danger than Kosovo. And they’ll be on the side of angels.
God speed, men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Nanny and the Inspector
From Kevin D. Williamson’s “They Are Coming for Your Children:
“(Connecticut Governor Dannel) Malloy’s committee on the Newtown shootings is recommending that Connecticut require home-schooling families to present their children to the local authorities periodically for inspection, to see to it that their psychological and social growth is proceeding in the desired direction.
That would be the bureaucrats‘ desired direction, of course, not that of the parents.
Read the whole thing.
Reader Tips
Tonight, English-born comic John Oliver, in his role as host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, takes a look at America’s farcical Civil Forfeiture laws. (h/t)
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Succinct.
“But he’s no more of a statesman than Ben Mulroney – another son of privilege who had the good sense to go into a field of work that suits his talents.
Rabbit Food.
So, I guess Michelle Obama won’t be campaigning for these school boards anytime soon. *
Via Drudge
Vacillation
“If the U.S. airplanes had not been here at the right moment, Irbil would have fallen and ISIL would be here,” said Shobhan Kunda. “Everybody knows it,” he added.
Everybody, it seems but Canada’s opposition parties.
Liberanos, part n+1
Former Liberal national director turned in by the company that hired him, via Plainzdrifter as well as maz2.
Snort
Liberals will support Iraqi combat mission after voting against it, Garneau says
Kneejerk Reactions
Breakenridge says the Alberta Health Minister is partaking in a knee-jerk reaction to electronic nicotine delivery.
Related, via via John Galt, which I don’t have an issue with. Kids shouldn’t use electronic nicotine delivery or smoke.
If it was suicide
Only one conclusion can be made.
The ‘medical’ marijuana didn’t work. I hope his family can find peace at this time.
If TorStar could hear me now.
Snicker. Snort. Guffaw. Whimper LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY LOUD.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips the Dinning Sisters, three midwestern belles with an ear for sweet harmony, send us to the tips with their rendition of When The Bloom Is On The Sage.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Death of a Mindless Slogan
Blood? Yes, but not for oil:
If oil were a major factor for prosecuting war in Iraq, it stands to reason the United States would be getting substantial amounts of it. It may come as a shock to (Glen) Greenwald as well as a number of other Americans, but with regard to importing oil, the overwhelming percentage of our imported oil does not come from the Middle East. Canada and Latin America provide the United States with 34.7 percent of our imported oil. Africa provides another 10.3 percent. The entire Persian Gulf, led by Saudi Arabia at 8.1 percent, provides us with a total of 12.9 percent of our imported oil.
As recently as December 2012, Iraq provided the United States with approximately 14.3 million barrels of oil out of a total of about 298 million barrels imported, or 4.8 percent of our total imports. And as this chart indicates, we were importing the highest amount of oil from Iraq before we went to war to oust Saddam Hussein.
Read Arnold Ahlert’s “The War For Oil Myth” here.
h/t Michael Anderson
Well, this is interesting.
Reported explosion near Iranian nuclear site.
Just a comment
You might be liberal if:
The investigation into robo-calls was ineffective and hampered by politics, but
an investigation into missing and murdered aboriginal women will solve all the problems.
Contraction of the market.
This will do nothing to relieve the left of their fear of corporate media.
Quebecor today announced the sale of its English-language operations, consisting of 175 publications including the Sun chain of dailies, its community dailies and weeklies, its Canoe portal in English Canada and its Islington printing plant, to Postmedia Network Canada.
After TorStars abortive Metro experiment, I’m beginning to think that newspapers might be a declining market.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Cause, you know, that worked out so well for the Hapsburgs and Romanovs.
“Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”
SJW 1, Biology 1. The score is under review and likely to be overturned.