Jim Prentice to sell government planes, keep license plates. Because, not Redford.
#Har
@WhiteHouse @Jamie_Merrill NO one in Scotland gives a rats arse what BO thinks as he sits in a nation that broke away from the UK,idiot .
— Ian MacGregor (@macgregor63) September 17, 2014
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Behind the WSJ paywall: Through tight control over airstrikes in Syria and limits on U.S. action in Iraq, Mr. Obama is closely managing the new war in the Middle East in a way he hasn’t done with previous conflicts…
You can find the rest here.
Update: Barack Obama Transformed into Lyndon Johnson So Slowly, I Hardly Even Noticed
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
As Melanie Phillips in a recent talk pointed out, recycling a friend’s analogy, there is a tunneling factor at work on the model of Hamas. The tunnels stretch under the soil of another country and, suddenly, the terrorists “pop up,” seemingly out of nowhere. Phillips is scrupulous to clarify that she is not alluding to Muslim immigration as an overt military scheme carried out by bloodthirsty extremists, but the metaphor of Islam tunneling its way surreptitiously into and under the cultural terrain of Western civilization holds. In the words of Swiss parliamentarian Oskar Freysinger, Islam is “a dogma that is gnawing away at the pillars of our system of laws” — laws, we might add, both written and unspoken.
h/t Paul
Love and Anger
Does the university need to know if I had oral or normal sex in the last three months after I’ve been drinking alcohol or using drugs recreationally, or if I used a condom during? They don’t need to know that for a gender equality questionnaire.
Occupy Wall Street activists sue each other over who owns the movement’s Twitter account.
You Say ISIS, I Say ISIL
Australian police detained 15 people and raided more than a dozen properties across Sydney in the country’s largest counterterrorism operation, saying intelligence indicated an attack was being planned on Australian soil.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had been briefed on Wednesday night about the operation that was prompted by information that an Islamic State movement leader in the Middle East was calling on Australian supporters to kill.
Abbott was asked about reports that the people detained were planning to publicly behead a random person in Sydney.
“That’s the intelligence we received,” he told reporters. “The exhortations — quite direct exhortations — were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country.”
A Horrible History Of Scotland
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Reader Tips
Tonight, as we wait for tomorrow’s ‘aye’ or ‘nae’ Scotland independence vote that could break up the United Kingdom, we listen to a modern version o’ Robbie Burns’ Scots Wha Hae. (Lyrics here.)
Hopefully it won’t affect the vote, because tribal tensions are already running high in the comments:
“…your Fascist Faggotry is only exceeded by your wacky bampot wankery..”
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Mann Down
#AskDrMann goes horribly wrong.
h/t PB
Global Test
Related: This week, Washington Post editors noted that “Though derided by some as a ‘unilateral’ U.S. action, the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq was supported by troops from 39 countries, nine of which deployed more than 1,000 soldiers.” The Post described Obama’s efforts, so far, as “meager” in comparison.
Via Drudge.
Rob Ford
Has been diagnosed with cancer.
Pope On A Rope
All things considered, ridding the world of the Knights Templar may have been premature, yes?
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Obama has come under fire for underestimating the threat of this “jayvee team” wreaking havoc across the Middle East and threatening the western way of life, and yet he continuously refers to them as ISIL.
The Sound Of Settled Science
So how did we end up mistaking a wicked mess for a tame problem? The main problem has been putting the policy cart in front of the scientific horse. The 1992 UNFCCC treaty was signed before the balance of evidence suggested even a discernible human influence on global climate, which was assessed by the IPCC Second Assessment Report in 1995. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was implemented before we had any confidence that most of the warming was caused by humans.
The World Is Being Run By Stupid People
Bomb the damned wells: Struggling to Starve ISIS of Oil Revenue, U.S. Seeks Assistance From Turkey
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Liberals called 4 this "emergency debate" on Iraq deployment. 3 Libs in HoC. Trudeau MIA. Quite the emergency! @lisamwhyte62 @billmilliken
— Jan Johnstone (@janfromthebruce) September 17, 2014
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips English guitarist and songwriter Albert Lee, joined by American guitarist Steve Morse, rips through a live version of his signature song Country Boy.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
‘We rushed outside wondering what on earth had happened,’ recalls Bill. ‘We thought perhaps a plane had crashed it was such a loud noise. ‘We couldn’t see flames or anything burning, even though we peered out in the direction it had come from. There was nothing else though, no more noise or aftershocks.’
Deafeningly loud it might have been, but what the Jarvis family had heard – as they were to discover the following morning – had taken place at Bradworthy, a mile away. It was the noise of a 115ft-high wind turbine crashing to the ground.
h/t Rod