Wrong Turn At Al Buquerque
Probably nothing: Quebec license plates found in a jihadist rebel cache in Syria amid equipment used to make homemade bombs…
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
And one more Ontario family has learned the great lesson of Caledonia: You are your own police force.
h/t Kevin B
Folkways
The Times of Israel: “Romanian state TV airs Christmas carol about burning Jews“.
Sung by the Dor Transilvan ensemble, it featured the lyrics: “The kikes, damn kikes, Holy God would not leave the kike alive, neither in heaven nor on earth, only in the chimney as smoke, this is what the kike is good for, to make kike smoke through the chimney on the street.”
Oooh, look at those costumes!
In a statement, TVR3…(said) it did not select the carol but only broadcast songs that were chosen and compiled by the Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture..
h/t Judith
Reader Tips
Tonight we watch Anti-Capitalist Aerobics, “a new performance by Ellie Harrison commissioned by Invisible Dust for the ‘Ways of Seeing Climate Change’ conference in Manchester on 30 October 2013 as part of the ‘Invisible Heat’ programme supported by the Wellcome Trust.”
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
More Pavilions At Folkfest
This could never happen here: Sexist dress codes and other behaviours are being spread and pushed in British universities by retrograde Islamic societies and individuals, most of them men – though there are always willing maidens who say “yes, yes, yes” to such diktats. UUK upholds this apartheid and offers up nauseating justifications. It’s done in the name of free speech. Yes, really.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
David Lynn Painter “teaches in the new media journalism and public relations master of arts programs at Full Sail University…”
Falls for fake story on satire site.
Sarah Palin Arrives in South Korea for Mandela Memorial http://t.co/MpK0wfmmAG
— David Lynn Painter (@davpaint) December 11, 2013
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
There have been 34 question periods in the House of Commons since the throne speech on Oct. 16 […] All told, Trudeau skipped 22 question periods — or about one in three.
Tip o’ the hat to expert tom.
UPDATE! SDA gets results! “All told, Trudeau skipped 22 question periods — or about two in three missed.”
Broken Trust – The High River Gun Grab
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Emperor Penguins have to march an extra 35 km, due to Antarctic sea ice expansion.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
If Radwanski or any other Globe writer had bothered to attend any other the hundreds of public meetings across [Ontario] discussing and rejecting industrial wind turbines, he would have heard vitriol unprecedented in this province. Stories of fraud, bribery and near-extortion were heard at meeting after meeting. The $1.1 billion wasted on moving gas plants to where they aren’t needed is only the tip of the iceberg.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
From part-time teacher to part-time parliamentarian: “there wasn’t a single instance over the past nearly two months in which Trudeau was present for more than two question periods in the same week.”
(h/t foobert)
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Related.
h/t EBD
Reader Tips
Tonight, Grammy Award-winning artist Jody Miller covers The Crystals’ 1962 Phil Spector-produced single He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss).
Co-written by Carole King, who later expressed her regrets.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Protests In Ukraine
Riot police have begun to move in. Via Ustream.
Live streaming video by Ustream
More live video (from the police line at ground level) here. You can also follow on Twitter – #euromaidan
Above The Law
Why halfway houses need to be relocated to gated communities;
Judges in several provinces are rebelling against the Conservative government’s attempt to make all convicted criminals pay a surcharge to fund victim services.
The mandatory charge is a new flashpoint between the judiciary and the federal government. Two years ago, an Ontario Court judge opposed to The Truth in Sentencing Act – which ended two-for-one credit for pretrial detention – called on other judges to give shorter sentences to make up for harsh jailhouse conditions.
h/t nv53
Bin Laden Is Dead And The American Taxpayer Is Dead
US government sells remaining stake in General Motors “recovering $39 billion of the $49.5 billion it spent”
And the beat goes on…
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Mediaite: A “presidential selfie” featuring President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service …
Much hilarity ensued…
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Creeping sharia; “Canada split over hijab-style Muslim police uniform”