“Cultures are not museum-pieces.”

Frankly, My Dear Great Moments In Socialism 54 Comments

Not PC;

The narrative of the Aboriginals’ 45,000-year history is given some majesty in popular opinion pieces. Why, I don’t know, unless stagnation is your thing. Wandering about for 45,000 years while advancing as a culture not one iota: no writing, no buildings, no structures, no technological advancements of any note. In short: Nothing, aside from some rock painting, superstition, and subsistence. This is nothing about which today’s Aboriginals need to feel either pride or humility, since today’s individuals have no responsibility for what others did in the past, only what they themselves do today and in the future. But this 45,000-year story of stagnation does not seem to me what constitutes the natural state of man, or any sort of grounds for future success should one attempt to find lessons in it for today.

Occasional bad word advisory. (h/t Adrian)

Censor and Bury Corporation

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Just another story about questionable use of public funds?

Quebec’s Health Minister Gaétan Barrette says hiring an expensive public relations firm is no way to fix the image of the McGill University Health Centre.

Barrette spoke to CBC News Friday morning about an order he gave the MUHC earlier this week to cancel the remainder of its $600,000 contract with the Montreal PR firm Jonathan Goldbloom and Associates, or JGA.

The CBC report quotes Barrette as saying “We don’t see why a hospital, which already has the manpower to do that, why they have to go outside and spend that kind of money. This is double usage of public money”, and that the amount of money paid was “extremely high for a contract of this nature.”
It took Dean Skoreyko of BC Blue just a couple of minutes to discover a little detail that the CBC somehow forgot to include in their news report: The owner of the PR firm that received the “extremely high” value contract is a current candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Nothing to see here, folks: Public money, PR firms, large contracts, Quebec, federal Liberals…

Yet Another “Honourable” Government Employee

Baiting The Left 13 Comments

The latest scandal from Obamanation comes from Atlanta, Georgia:

The inspector didn’t ask for money, but according to a law department investigation, the woman expected to eat for free all of the time.
The document says Cynthia Burch demanded free food in order to make sure the tavern maintained clean marks with regulators.
Brian Maloof offered Burch an initial complimentary meal as she checked equipment used to separate out grease in the kitchen, but that turned into constant requests for meals at no charge.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Unsettled Science 14 Comments

The consensus biz takes another hit;

El Fin del Mundo is one of the oldest and southernmost Clovis sites ever discovered, according to University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, a co-author of the study announcing the find, released Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Far from the famous Bering land bridge, the location has researchers questioning the origin of our early ancestors.
“I think sites like El Fin del Mundo really force us to rethink the process of the colonization of the Americas,” says archaeologist Thomas Jennings of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, who was not part of the discovery team.
For a long time, Clovis culture was believed to have originated in the North American Southwest, south of the glaciers and Bering land bridge area. But the discovery of older Clovis sites in Texas and at El Fin del Mundo, which yielded nearly identical radiocarbon dates (13,400 years old), has cast doubts on that theory.

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”

Political Animal The One 5 Comments

Via Universal Spectator;

The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.
The twist is that Sands also worked under Lois Lerner when the ex-IRS agent — who is currently embroiled in a scandal over the targeting of conservative political groups — worked at the FEC’s enforcement division.

h/t Marc in Calgary

Renegade Regulator

CSA 17 Comments

Dear Minister Moore;

We have not received your response to our letter of 04 December 2013 regarding the above noted matter. Likewise, we have not received your response to our letter of 21 January, 2014 reminding you of our December letter. Neither have we received your response from our letter of 15 April, 2014 reminding you of our previous two letters. In the twenty-eight weeks since our first correspondence we have received no answers to any of the six questions that we have submitted to your Department on the above noted matter.

You can contact him here. I just did.

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