A Vietnamese bride left her husband, Kamloops lawyer Rod McLeod, 7 days after arriving in Canada. Assuming he wasn’t mistreating her, should she be immediately kicked out of the country for fraud?
Time to Clean Out the Current GOP Leadership?
Mark Levin thinks so.
Nice Work If You Can Get It
The chief of a British Columbia First Nation with 81 residents earned nearly $1 million last year:
Reader Tips
In tonight’s musical selection a talented young Texan named Sarah Jarosz performs an in-studio cover of Bob Dylan’s Ring Them Bells.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
I accidentally started a Wikipedia hoax: There it was, five and a half years later, being tweeted as fact by relatively well-known members of the New York City media establishment.
Scratch A Leftist
“How, as a socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?” Adolf Hitler asked his party members in 1920. No one thought it an odd question.
Why American Jews Keep Voting Left
An interesting explanation:
The Sound Of Settled Science
WUWT: An updated list of at least 29 excuses for the 18 year ‘pause’ in global warming
Most Women Don’t Care About Ant-Man’s Pym Particles
Men (well, those of a nerdly bent) tend to be interested in trivia and obscura; women tend to not be, or at least not so much… So the real [feminist] complaint boils down to this: The ten percent of Wikipedia which could reflect the cultural preferences of its unpaid volunteers does in fact reflect the cultural preferences of its unpaid volunteers, and yes, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine does get a more exhaustive, nerdishly-loving treatment than Sex & the City.
The federal government needs to pay people to study this and propose “solutions”? It occurs to me that we’ve spent $202,000 for a “study” which deliberately avoids a very simple explanation: Women just aren’t as interested in this type of crap as men. You don’t have to believe that to at least agree: This should have been one of the explanations scientifically studied, if we’re going to have a scientific study at all.
Reader Tips
Most people who aren’t hardcore music fans probably haven’t heard of husband and wife songwriting duo Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, but just about everyone is familiar with one or more of their songs, which include “Bye Bye, Love”, “Wake Up, Little Susie”, “All I Have to Do Is Dream”, “Love Hurts“, and tonight’s selection, as performed by the Osborne Brothers: Here’s Rocky Top.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Ever again
From Douglas Murray’s “And Now… Europe’s Kristallnacht“:
Most disturbing of all, perhaps, have been events in Germany. During pro-Palestinian protests in Berlin and other German cities, there were chants of “Death to the Jews” and “Gas the Jews.” The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, described some of the demonstrations as “an explosion of evil and violence-prone hatred of Jews. Never in our lives did we believe it possible that antisemitism of the nastiest and most primitive kind would be chanted on the streets of Germany.”
Maybe it’s just a different Weltanshauung.
Read Murray’s bellwether piece in it’s entirety here.
Forward!
The BC NDP’s Ferry Scandal Redux?
In the late 1990’s, BC NDP Premier Glen Clark spearheaded a disastrous “fast ferry” shipbuilding initiative that ended up wasting the taxpayers of the province almost half a billion dollars.
Fast forward to 2014 and we find BC NDP MLA Claire Trevena insisting that new ferries be built by the province’s dysfunctional shipbuilding industry:
In May, I introduced the provincial shipbuilding act in the legislature. This legislation allows for the development of a provincial shipbuilding strategy. It would ensure vessels built with public money are built in Canada, and it would assist in building a highly skilled strong workforce through apprenticeships. Unfortunately, the B.C. Liberals have blocked this legislation.
What Ms. Trevena fails to mention is that BC’s shipbuilding industry is plagued with oppressive unions which ensure that few projects can be completed on time and on budget. It would be interesting to see a non-union shipbuilding company emerge but the NDP and their comrades will forever do their best to prevent that from happening.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Did you see this? Hollywood actor Gerard Butler, somehow he got shot by IDF in Gaza #Pallywood #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/FOdWnZIkyd
— shazak (@_shakauff) July 21, 2014
If Women Ran The World
Alison Grimes, Democratic candidate for the US Senate;
“Obviously, Israel is one of our strongest allies in the Middle East, and she has the right to defend herself,” Grimes said. “But the loss of life, especially the innocent civilians in Gaza, is a tragedy. The Iron Dome has been a big reason why Israel has been able to withstand the terrorists that have tried to tunnel their way in.
An Interview With Ryan Crocker, Former US Ambassador to Iraq
Q) And the consequences are? How dangerous a situation is it?
This is analogous to Afghanistan, say, in August 2001. And this time, it is Al Qaeda version 6.0. They make bin Laden’s 2011 Al Qaeda look like Boy Scouts.
They are far stronger; they are far more numerous. They have thousands who hold foreign passports and require no visas to get into the United States or other Western countries.
They are well funded, they are battle-hardened, and they are well armed. And they now control far more territory exclusively than bin Laden ever did. They have the security; they have the safety to plan their next set of operations; and they are a messianic movement.
Believe me, they are planning those operations. That’s why the Saudis moved 30,000 troops up to their border. They know that ISIS wants Mecca and Medina.
They also want to come after us. And I can tell you, as we sit here today in Washington, they’re sitting in Mosul figuring out how they’re going to get at us next.
Trudeau’s Multiculturalism On Display
The underlying principle of Official Multiculturalism is that all cultures are equal and thus it is wholly inappropriate to criticize any aspect of any other culture. The next time you talk with a Liberal or NDP politician, ask them if they support views such as these:
Update: On a related subject, George Jonas decimates the Israel-Hamas moral equivalency argument. h/t Jamie MacMaster
We Should Be Thanking Them For Their Brilliance
If further proof of aesthetic genius is needed, I’ve managed to track down video of Ms Wang collaborating with Shizu Homma on a “guerrilla performance piece” on a bridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The length of said recording, a mighty 24 minutes, is necessary to convey the magnitude and seriousness of the work in question. Brace yourselves.
Scratch A Leftist
Green Party delegates went into their July 19-20 convention in Fredericton with a leadership-endorsed motion that was specifically intended to lure these disaffected “anti-Zionist” New Democrats.
Big mistake.