Liars, all liars.
Putin on the blitz
“Oh yeah? You and what army, President Poofter?”
So let me get this straight. The “penalty” for Russia if it keeps its hold on the Ukraine is that it doesn’t get to waste precious summer days in June in the presence of this cowardly little narcissist and his entourage of fluffers and fellators? Well, yes, that would certainly make any leader of Russia give up the security of his fleet’s access to the Crimea, the Black Sea, and from there into the Mediterranean..
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There are a lot of jealous-lover murder ballads in old-style country music, but you rarely hear a song that fleshes out both the grotty details of the unendurable circumstance and the narrator’s absurdly pitiable and unsound thought processes in the moments before the precipitous action — let alone one that details these for (black) humorous effect: Here’s the sublimely funny Robbie Fulks performing I Just Want To Meet The Man in front of a mostly credulous, and therefore perhaps slightly confused, audience.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
White Kids Have Cooler Toys
Or at least that’s what I got out of it, you know, coated in all the blatant racism.
Tina Fey, fool.
Say it with me, liberals.
Sarah Palin was right.
I guess living in a State formerly owned by Russia, sold to the US because the Russians learned their military was completely outclassed during the first Crimean War may have given her a little deeper perspective than her critics. Not that her critics have ever been accused of depth.
Related:
Yes, I could see this one from Alaska. I'm usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate… http://t.co/H3H8t6d8hi
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 28, 2014
Nanny-state follies
Do you remember a time when people in positions of authority made judgements based on common sense?
Your answer will likely depend on how old you are.
h/t
Let not the….
perfect be the enemy of the good.
Meaning, you’ll never find the perfect program, or the perfect execution, or your perfect desires. So you should celebrate good, as good, and you shouldn’t overly rip something because it doesn’t live up to a persons expectations of perfect.
When this whole deficit thing started I vented about Minister Flaherty and PM Harper. I was not impressed, from a fiscal conservatives point of view what they did was tantamount to supporting the NDP budgets for half a decade. Five years or whatever of deficit spending that blew up any debt repayment done previous. All because Harper couldn’t lose gov’t, Dion was a power-hungry fool, Layton wanted a legacy, Gilles Duceppe laughed, and Ignatieff was too weak to say, ‘no’. Such leadership….
Congratulations on playing the politics well enough to stay on. I suppose I can live with my disappointment that the politics necessitated this foolishness. Canada is lucky that some semblance of restraint was signing the cheques. This is especially evident when you examine other countries with the extreme-left in power. (Waves at USA.)
December had a surplus, and we’ll probably continue that trend with some ups and downs. Good work. Good on Harper for pushing it, Flaherty for holding firm, Clement and a multitude of others for hacking away. Please keep on it. Your goal should be to erase the debt pushed on the nation. I’d also request fewer taxes too so that those who follow you have less to be wasteful with.
Can giant walls protect the USA from tornadoes?
Courtesy of peterj in the comments, this bit of idiocy.
The walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, he said. Tao is presenting his research next week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver.
Now, I don’t know if this would work or not (the article offers two opinions that it won’t), but if it does then maybe the scientist can tell us just how it would also effect local weather. It probably wouldn’t be a good idea to turn the mid-west farming country into a dust-bowl.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
It’s Probably Nothing
Eternal city warns it will go bust for the first time since it was destroyed by Nero
Sun News 1, CBC 0
Brian Lilley was right all along.
What Lacroix didn’t answer was how he thought it was ethical to claim living expenses and take a living allowance for the same visits.
Sen. Don Plett, recently the subject of CBC stories on his own expenses, was particularly outraged. Plett pushed for and received a correction to a CBC story that inaccurately claimed high airfare and first-class travel for his wife.
“That seems to be a very important issue for CBC,” Plett said to Lacroix.
Plett pressed Lacroix on why he discovered the mistake in June, paid back in September but the public did not find out until Sun Media reported on the issue in February.
The CBC story is deja vu.
- Paid it back
- Unaware of the rule
- It was checked by others
- Predecessor did it
The only real difference between this and the Senate is that the Gov’t had to go to court to force the release of documents.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Via Instapundit: Not safe to display American flag in American high school.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
A high-ranking official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), who said he was acting at the direction of top lawyers in President Obama’s White House, went to extraordinary and seemingly bizarre lengths to obstruct an Inspector General investigation into illicit lobbying activity at the agency.
Audrey Hepburn Revisited
I recommend not reading any of the text, but immediately going to the video first and THEN reading the article.
Reader Tips
Tonight Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn, Edward G. Robinson and other big names of the day promote the American Brotherhood of Christians & Jews in a 1940 short film called The American Creed.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“It’s not for confiscation”
The Government of Canada was supposed to assist in this with periodic new legislation and Order in Council (OIC).
The RCMP have been doing this unilaterally since 2006. Access to information records show that RCMP have an aggressive firearms reclassification agenda, and that prohibitions will not stop with the Swiss Arms Series Rifles. These rifles were approved for import by the RCMP have been sold in Canada for over a decade. Owners once held registrations for them under the now defunct long gun registry. There has never been a crime or incident of violence committed with one of these rifles.
NFA condemns this RCMP assault on the rights and private property of law abiding Canadians. The RCMP has shown contempt for the rights of Canadians by their actions, and we expect the Government of Canada to take steps and introduce measures to reign in the RCMP and end the assault against the rights, property and freedoms of Canadians.
Add your name to the petition, The RCMP abuses C-68.
Video below the fold.
Those amusing Democrats
Christie’s fault, obviously.
Through her attorneys, Watkins-Brashear said the report wrongly laid blame at her feet and said she acted at all times with the knowledge and approval of then Mayor Cory Booker’s administration.
I’m sure we’ll hear all about it though.
Art Imitates Life
Here’s hoping that Kate and all other dog lovers appreciate this brilliant ad:
In Any Form
Last month Justin Trudeau removed all Liberal senators from the party caucus and vowed to Canadians that “these senators will no longer be Liberal organizers, fundraisers, activists in any form.”
As it turns out, former Liberal senators will no longer act as fundraisers for the LPC unless it’s for the specific purpose of fundraising for the LPC:
Last Saturday (Chrietien appointee) Sen. Mobina Jaffer was the featured speaker at a fundraising potluck dinner in Trenton, Ont., hosted by the Bay of Quinte Federal Liberal Association.
John Brisbois, the president of the local riding association:
“To (the Liberal Party of Canada’s) credit, they realized the motivation for people coming was above political partisanship and would be another reason women would be marginalized if we removed her.”
LPC spokesperson Andrée-Lyne Hallé:
“This is a transition period for senators who no longer are in the Liberal caucus, and riding associations are free to make their choices of who speaks to their members.”
h/t don morris
Nuke ’em from orbit.
Two articles today on CBC’s bias…except they aren’t from the usual suspects.
Now, I doubt that the CBC has an editorial bias in favour of the oil sands, but you know, there’s only one way to be sure.
Via Norman Spector.