h/t johnnyonline
Those Moderate Muslims!
Operation Empty Chair: In a perverse turn, as violence in Syria has given even more radical groups the chance to seize power, al Qaeda has become the moderate voice among jihadists. But for ISIS, there have been benefits to fanaticism.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
The new chief of Roseau River First Nation has evicted the managers and staff at the Red Sun gas bar, saying revenue from the lucrative operation belongs to the band, not Terry Nelson’s family.
An eviction notice was posted on the door of the gas bar, located on Highway 6 just north of Winnipeg, Wednesday evening. Staff were sent home and security guards now occupy the shop.
At least four RCMP cruisers were there, but the eviction was peaceful. […]
Nelson’s daughter runs much of the operation along with former premier Gary Doer’s brother.
That would be this Terry Nelson.
h/t Allen Lasko
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Aberdeen News – The wreckage was found Monday at the South Dakota Wind Energy Center, a site about 10 miles south of Highmore off of state Highway 47, and a few miles west on 207th Street. The wind center has 27 turbines that are about 213 feet tall, plus the length of the blade.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Free Tom Flanagan!
PERSONA NON GRATA: The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age. A book launch with author Tom Flanagan, Wednesday May 7th in Ottawa. Click here for details.
“As internal CBC documents reveal…”
Whenever I discuss CBC TV, it’s with the same opinion I’ve held my entire career, that they uncontrollably stumble from crisis to crisis, always appearing neither certain of their creative direction nor their mandated priorities while repeatedly “re-imagining” some nebulous brighter future.
But there’s always somebody (often entire movements of somebodies) insisting this is our single most important cultural institution, an essential we must trust to knit the country together. And that has always given me pause.
But now, I know I’ve been right. This week I came across a document that proves beyond any doubt that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is managed by Buffoons.
A Snapshot of the Guardian
The national organ of the British left:
Would you rather hear about how conventional grammar is obviously “right-wing,” according to Harry Ritchie, or would you be more tempted by Nick Baines’ account of eating his wife’s placenta? Both as a garlic taco and liquidised as a smoothie, albeit one that’s grey and with a grim metallic taste. Because apparently eating afterbirth is “a modern obsession.” Perhaps you’d be compelled by Tracy McVeigh’s conviction that “rewards don’t make anyone happy,” and that two-year-olds, the universal yardstick of human selflessness, are being rendered grasping and unfeeling by “post-industrial capitalism.”
A CBC Survey Goes Horribly Wrong
In your opinion, how important is it for Canada to have a national public broadcaster like CBC/Radio-Canada? (h/t Mike In Calgary)
Reader Tips
Well, can I call ’em or can I call ’em?
(Cashed a win ticket on Untapable, too.)
Regular blogging resumes tomorrow.
Well. This will be interesting.
Trey Gowdy tapped for select committee to investigate Benghazi.
Pitbull.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
This reminds me of the scam greenies foisted on gullible people because ‘scientists’ used monthly TMax as the basis for their numbers.
What they forgot to say, the day before 29th November, was flat calm across the UK and we were pretty well 100% dependent upon these old-fashioned fuels – nuclear, coal and gas, so derided by the renewables industry.
Via NWC
Beer Freedom
When I first saw this, I thought it was going to be about cross province barriers.
If at first you don’t succeed.
Try, Try, Try and Try again.
So, 2005, 2009, 2012*, and now 2014. I noted 2012 because while along the same lines as the others, C-51 didn’t really allow warrant-less search and seizure.
h/t, Spinal Tap
In a humour related theme, the 2005 thread contains this nugget.
Let me put it like this, to give some perspective. If anyone down here in the U.S. (land of the much-maligned Patriot Act) proposed this type of legislation, they would never be elected to any political office again. As we say down here, “He couldn’t be elected dog catcher.”
Umm, yeah….
Reader Tips
Eh?
Last month ABBA celebrated 40 years since Waterloo was released.
Blink.
Cheese Sandwiches
Some humor before you start another slaving Monday.
The Sound of Settled Science
Hmmm… "Weather Channel & Climate Central engaged in deceptive & unscrupulous cherry-picking…" http://t.co/e7EnpM3xIM
@ForbesOpinion
— Vivian Krause (@FairQuestions) May 5, 2014
Two Months
Last week I celebrated two months cigarette free. It’s good thing. I’ve previously used drugs, patches, gum, and cold-turkey. Two months ago I ordered my e-Stick from Juicy (an E-Go style).
There isn’t anyone, anywhere that is going to tell me that e-cigs don’t help quit smoking or that it’s as bad for you as smoking.
There are four ingredients in e-cig juice. Propylene glycol (think asthma inhaler), and/or vegetable glycerine, artificial/natural colour and flavourings, and optionally nicotine.
The PG gives you the ‘throat hit’. The irritation on the back of your throat that you get from smoking is replicated with it. The VG adds a sweetness, a mild throat irritation and vapour. Flavour and nicotine is self-explanatory.
All of the above and hundreds more chemicals are in cigarettes or are a by-product of combustion. Vaping is a magnitude safer, by virtue of not inhaling the balance.
Honestly, I love it. I haven’t needed or wanted a cigarette since I started. At all. I’m on my second juice buy and dropped the nicotine level from 18mg to 12mg. I’ve bought from the aforementioned Juicy as well as Flavour Crafters and the local store, Vapor Jedi. Some flavours I like, some are too much. The next buy will go down one more level of nicotine.
I would be very angry at any level of gov’t that takes this quit tool away from me.
This, Mrs. Clinton, is doing something.
Relevant to the last post.
This is the difference between politicians and business leaders. One talks about doing things, the other does.
Stephen Fry boycotts Brunei-owned hotel chain The Dorchester Collection after country passes ‘stone the gays’ law
Via:
No @Virgin employee, nor our family, will stay at Dorchester Hotels until the Sultan abides by basic human rights http://t.co/k1hMHAS5ft
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) May 3, 2014
#LetsPretendWeAreDoingSomething
Remember #kony2012, if you’re on Twitter?
And now the equally useless #bringbackourgirls. All the important people are chattering.
Twits.