Accompanied by images from Ukraine, here’s English folk band Mumford & Sons’ stirring After the Storm.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Hey, Bobby (you don’t mind if I call you that, do you?), all your side had to do was pass a couple of budgets. You know, like the Law states they were supposed to.
I realized just how depressing last October, when Congress voted on legislation that would raise the debt ceiling — allowing the Treasury to pay the debts Congress had already incurred — and keep the government open. This was exciting, but perversely so. On Oct. 16, 162 members of Congress, 144 in the House and 18 in the Senate, voted “no,” votes meant explicitly to drive their government into bankruptcy, when there was a real chance that their view might prevail. Here was an entirely new style of public service, and it turned my stomach.
Well, at least he called the Democrats stupid.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Leftistan
Where there’s no difference between educating and grooming:
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE)-which received more than $2.75 million in government funding in 2012-has produced and posted online a video specifically aimed at teenagers that promotes bondage and sadomasochism (BDSM) and proposes “rules” to follow when engaging in these activities.
“People sometimes think that those who practice BDSM are emotionally scarred or were once abused–not true, it’s a total myth,” the host of the video, Laci Green, informs its intended audience of teens.
“BDSM relies upon and creates trust,” she says.
The Bubble
We blame this in part on the absence of true intellectual and ideological diversity in so much of the academy, the policy world and the mainstream media. Most college kids at good schools today know many more people from different races and cultural groups than their grandparents did, but they are much less exposed to people who think outside the left-liberal box.
When the Economy Builds a Tolerance to Keynesianism
But what’s worse is when the intention of Keynesian spending goes from “noble” to “political.” And your buddy Obama has gotten rid of all pretenses about using Keynesian economic policies to “boost the economy” as he blatantly abuses it to steal from the productive to bribe his parasitic constituents.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Renewable Energy in Decline. A well written synopsis of the renewable rent-seekers and their decline.
The greenies always claim that as the price of oil increases the economics of renewables become more palatable. They forget that it also spurs development in oil extraction.
Oops.
Via Maz2
HMCS Protecteur
Twenty crew members who were on board a Canadian navy ship when a fire broke out in its engine room Friday night have been treated and have returned to regular duties.
Jimmy Carter, Have You No Shame?
The American Left thinks that Jimmy Carter is a fine old boy. Not everyone in Venezuela is as supportive:
Please, desist from your trip: you have absolutely no credibility in Venezuela.
Your last actions in Venezuela have had disastrous results for the democracy here. When these became obvious you remained strangely silent for years, and only suddenly you wake up again.
I can assure you that half of the country has no respect nor credibility for you and the other half thinks you are a mere fool that they can use and discard as needed.
I think that not only you should desist from your trip, but should never mention us again. You have cursed us enough as it is. We will appreciate your future silence since nothing good ever comes from your statements on Venezuela. Worry not, I am sure we will find more worthy mediators.
” I’m surprised that anyone is surprised.”
Michael Totten: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Was Easy to Predict
Crisis in the Ukraine
Full text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement here.
Reader Tips
So: you’ve been hired to be the MC at a sales awards presentation for a local fireplace company, but the security guards at the country club venue refuse to open the remote-control gate because you’d insulted them a few days earlier, and then, when you’re trying to get in by climbing over the wrought-iron fence, you impale your foot on a spike, losing several pints of blood, and then…
I’m sure we’ve all had days like that.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
It’s A Dry Cold
Taken south of Rosetown, SK a few days ago.
Photoblogging from Chicago
A trio of fans from Regina in town for the big game at Soldier Field:
More here.
Look at us! You’re not looking!
NYC Police Commission Bill Bratton is going to participate in the upcoming St. Patrick’s day parade!
Why is this news? Because by doing so he’ll be hurting other people’s feelings:
“To have someone who is in charge of the safety of this city march in a parade that is breathing hate…is an extremely giant step in the wrong direction,” said Eunic Ortiz, president of Stonewall Democrats.
In what conceivable sense, you might wonder, is the St. Patrick’s Day Parade “breathing hate”?
The parade does not allow groups bearing signs or banners identifying them as gay or lesbian to march.
Maybe that’s because it’s not the “St. Patrick’s Day Gay Pride Parade.” New York City already has an annual Gay Pride Parade, one that runs down the same street — Fifth Avenue — as the St. Paddy’s parade, and draws millions of spectators.
I’m no fan of Putin
But this makes me want to see Putin gotch-pull Obama. Has CNN checked if the sharp corners at the Whitehouse have rounded and rubberized corners?
NEVER change, CNN. Don't ever g**damn change –> pic.twitter.com/6FVL7SGgPm
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) March 1, 2014
The End of the Sentence
Premier Wall at the Manning Conference.
Al Qaeda’s Grand Strategy
Since al Qaeda’s vision is fundamentally about transforming other Muslims and Islam, much of the group’s identity is based on seeing themselves as people who are renewing the religion. How precisely they would act to transform the religion led to two separate views of their role: before 9/11, the leadership of the group talked about themselves as a vanguard, as a group that was going to charge ahead and others would follow. They would show other Muslims what Islam should be and the community would imitate them. But since 9/11, the leadership of al Qaeda has changed the way they talk about themselves. They are no longer depending on others to follow them. Rather, they are going to command others, to order people to do what they want and to have forces on the ground that they call branches who will do their bidding and act as their hands and feet out in the world.
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Al Qaeda’s assumptions about the current war are also quite telling. The organization believes that this is an existential fight, not a limited conflict or a war of choice. They believe the war is about the very existence of Islam and they have made strenuous efforts to convince ordinary Muslims that the U.S. is waging a war on Islam. In this total war there can be no bystanders–“you are either with us or against us”–and any means are justified. This view of the war can be contrasted with the opinion of our government that this is indeed a limited conflict: one where we have the choice to engage or to disengage; to stay in Afghanistan or to withdraw and end that war; to arm rebels in Syria or to refrain from doing so; and choosing to withdraw will not harm our national security.
It’s long, so grab a coffee.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Very true: "it is inherently unsatisfying to find model-data agreement only with the benefit of hindsight" http://t.co/GOUcai9CKj
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) February 27, 2014
Harry Reid’s America
Liars, all liars.