Geez, you know….
I’m beginning to think Huckabee is a fool. Okay, everyone, get an ‘Obama’ haircut.
North American Sensibilities.
While progressives and academics calculate the exact amount of generational grief the Moose Jaw Warriors name creates for First Nations, a town in Spain undertakes similar discussions.
The 60 residents of Castrillo Matajudios – which translates as ‘Castrillo Kill Jews’ – will vote on the name change after Mayor Lorenzo Rodriguez submitted the proposal recently.
Addendum: This was posted before I heard about the shootings in Kansas. It feels a little trite, now.
When It’s Done For The President, That Means It’s Not Illegal
The Dallas office of the Internal Revenue Service has come under federal scrutiny, but not because of anything to do with taxpayers’ money. Instead, it’s over allegations of what employees were wearing or displaying in an office of the Federal Building.
Early in his 2012 re-election bid there was concern that President Obama’s campaign needed all the help it could get; now a federal probe has concluded some help from inside a Dallas IRS office might not have been legal.
According to this Office of Special Counsel document, employees at the Dallas IRS Taxpayer Assistance Office were seen wearing pro-Obama campaign paraphernalia: stickers, buttons, and T-shirts, even putting campaign screen-savers on work computers.
“Scrutiny”. So that’s the word they’re using now.
Treating Cities Like HOA’s
There is more, but the important lesson to take from this is not one of leftists policies turning every major metro into Detroit, but rather one where it pays every potential home owner to step back, clear their eyes and look at cities for what they really are:
Large home owners associations.
You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty
An interview with Dave Barry.
Y2Kyoto: First, Kill All The Communicators
We can start with you: As a communicator myself, I’d like nothing better than if thousands of middle-class white people died in an extreme weather event–preferably one with global warming’s fingerprints on it. Live on cable news. Tomorrow.
Reader Tips
A little Willie, for the road warriors among us – On The Road Again. Your tips in the comments.
Reader Tips
There once was a time when having a shoe thrown at you was a sign of failed leadership.
Oh well, here’s to an even earlier time when a shoe was just a shoe.
Comments are open.
Ed interviews Kathy
Ed Driscoll interviews Kathy Shaidle on her new book, “Confessions of a Failed Slut”.
Sayeth Kathy:
Confessions of a Failed Slut continues to rank surprisingly highly in Amazon’s “Women’s Studies” and “Gender Studies” categories, and under “Books” not “just” in the Kindle Store.
Gratz, Kathy.
“Triggers” – The Latest PC Fabrication
I am amazed at just how thin skinned and weak the youth of western civilization are becoming that “triggers” are required to provide a “safe environment” for college students.
Perhaps a year stint in Iraq or a 3rd world country would re-teach them the real meaning of the word “safe.”
Wow, That Didn’t Take Long
Thomas Walkom is a columnist for the Toronto Star. His fellow Torontonians may want to stay at least 100 metres away from him for the near future because the ground is surely going to open up under his feet to provide him with an express ticket to hell. In his latest column, Walkom compares Jim Flaherty’s unexpected death with … wait for it … budget cuts to the CBC:
The institutional tragedy involved the latest bloodletting at CBC. The national public broadcaster announced it is again engaged in a savage pruning of its radio and television services, in a last-ditch effort to save money.
The two tragedies are related. For it was under Flaherty’s watch as finance minister that the latest cutbacks in federal government funding to CBC occurred.
To point this out is not to deny Flaherty’s virtues as a human being. Those who knew him say he was hard-working, loyal to his family and possessed of an engaging personality.
There is no evidence that I know of to suggest that his motives were anything but public-spirited.
But he was also an integral part of a government determined to smash or cripple much of what makes Canada a livable country.
h/t Blazing Cat Fur
Oh. Shiny Pony!
Trudeau…sigh.
“I’m of the school of international relations that says it’s important to talk to each other and it’s especially important to talk to regimes that you disagree with and which disagree with you,” Trudeau offered, in decrying the closure of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa — the domestic spy palace for a theocratic regime that has been known to torture, rape and murder its own citizens, as well as Canada’s, with impunity.
You know what scares me the most about Trudeau? No context or common dog.
The eviction of the Iranians and the closing of ours in Iran was a big surprise to everyone. It happened in a near vacuum, sure, there was the Iranian nuke program and Iran was supplying Syria, but that was bogged down in rhetoric with the US. Then, April 2013, the VIA Rail bombers are arrested. Surprise, backed by Persion AQ elements.
It’s not like the regime in Iran would have a beef with Canada or anything, or a Trudeau, in particular. I mean, Argo was just a movie, right?
That apple fell a little too far from the tree.
The Enemy of my Enemy
It’s about time certain people started to think about self-interest instead of dictat.
A letter distributed Friday by the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) to the districts of 27 House Democrats calls for union members to make sure their representative “feels the power and the fury of LIUNA this November.”
Oh, Frack!
Oh, no – more good news.
A chemical product designed to kill bacteria in hospitals is gaining traction in the oil and gas industry as a solution for treating hydraulic fracturing water.
Excelyte, which has been successfully tested on flowback water from the Piceance and Marcellus shale basins, is being tested in eastern Utah’s Uintah Basin for use in hydraulic fracturing, well maintenance and treatment of flowback water, said Integrated Environmental Technologies (IET) CEO David LaVance in an interview with Rigzone.
The water treatment solution is similar to bleach in the sense that chlorine is the active ingredient, but unlike bleach, which is caustic with a high alkaline content, Excelyte is Ph-neutral and benign to humans. However, the product is deadly to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in water used in hydraulic fracturing. Excelyte is also effective in killing viruses, and the product has yet been tested on a bacteria it couldn’t kill, including anthrax, said LaVance. Excelyte also is non-toxic and undetectable 90 days after use.
h/t David B.
The Children Are Our Future
Via Jonathan Turley.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
At UC Santa Barbara, the student Senate recently passed a resolution that calls for mandatory “trigger warnings” — cautions from professors, to be added to their course syllabi, specifying which days’ lectures will include readings or films or discussions that might trigger feelings of emotional or physical distress.
h/t Ottawa MJ
Free Ethical Oil!
Greenpeace wants Elections Canada Commissioner Yves Cote to investigate whether EthicalOil.org is just a way for the Conservative Party of Canada to skirt political donation limits.
“It walks like a front group, it talks like a front group,” Greenpeace campaigner Keith Stewart said Tuesday. “(We’re) asking the commissioner: Is this a front group that would violate the elections law act?” […]
He admits, however, everything “could be within the boundaries of the law.”
*snort*
Reader Tips
The Stones, from 1969 – Gimme Shelter. Tips thread open.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The Ninth Circle of Hell
If questions like this are raised on American ‘conservative’ sites, imagine the ideas floating about in the progressive half.
Given that no American political leader favored fighting for Ukraine, the only argument for fighting for a NATO member that is even less strategically important would be a sheet of paper.
Because the worth of man is defined by the value of his word. Because NATO followed you into Afghanistan, rightly interpreting 9/11 as an attack on America. Because you elected a fool we followed again into the mess that Libya turned into. Because without honour, you have no soul.
Is there any doubt that the US is the big stick in NATO’s arsenal? No. Want to talk about the dissolution of NATO, fine, but that isn’t brought up,
Canada, France, and the UK invested heavy political capital in your Syrian red-line, the UK PM to the point where he’s all but a lame-duck. And you let them drift.
And you wonder why Israel is giving your leaders the finger? Why the PA is ignoring Kerry? Why the Euro’s are telling you to shut-up about Russia? Why Iran, Syria, Russia and AQ are running rough-shod over your “smart” foreign policy?
You, America, YOU, have lost your soul, not Obama, Holder, Kerry, Clinton or Bush. You. No one in the world trusts you anymore, we all just hope you wake the hell up, because you built this world we live in and we aren’t strong enough to keep it.