@SketchyTheClown Hi Dave, Josh from the National Post, is there a number I can reach you at? jvisser AT http://t.co/CVCABE7a9K
— Josh Visser (@joshvisser) December 3, 2013
h/t John Groves
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Talk about burying the lede…
Ms. May is a leading proponent of co-operation among the progressive parties. She says she offered the Liberals a deal not to run a candidate in Brandon-Souris, but they weren’t interested.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Via Ed Driscoll;
…big chunks of the system, including the payment mechanism for subsidies, haven’t even been built. So people can go to the [healthcare.gov] site, receive the illusion that they have obtained coverage, only to find that there is no follow-through…
If they can get to the site. Lots more at the link – and here.
It gets better – “No security ever built into Obamacare site”
Related– Jay Carney’s 7 minutes of hell.
Free Ethical Oil!
…when high-profile anti-Keystone and anti-oil sands campaigners need cash, they go where the money is-the big U.S. charitable foundations that have become ATMs for scores of groups and organizations that now earn a living fighting Canada’s oil industry. […]
In all, Ms Krause has uncovered $3.2-million in new money distributed by Tides USA in recent months, tax-free dollars delivered to groups and organizations with specific objectives aimed at disrupting and fomenting opposition to Canadian energy development, including pipelines east and west. The recipients include the usual suspects–Sierra Club, Environmental Defence, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (the list with details can be found at FP Comment’s Web site).
To the unaware it might appear that these groups represent some kind of groundswell of opposition within Canada and abroad to oil sands development and to the Keystone XL pipeline. If these groups are active, they must have a lot of on-the-ground funding and backing. Looking at the Tides grants, however, suggests there is no such groundswell. What we have, on the contrary, is an elaborate taxpayer-subsidized scheme to manufacture dissent.
h/t Rob
Rob Ford Charitable Abuse
Sorry – wrong Mayor!
Nearly seven months after its charitable status was revoked, a foundation for which [London] Mayor Joe Fontana remains a director was still using its federally issued tax registration number on its website.[…]
Trinity Global was established in 2007 and Joe Fontana was brought into it by its founder, his boyhood chum Vince Ciccone, a year later. Donations skyrocketed until it was shut down May 4 with revocation.
The CRA said the foundation had strayed from its charitable purpose and had become overly focused on issuing tax receipts. And an audit found $8 million raised for hungry school kids and to fight HIV/AIDS went into the pockets of Joe Fontana and fellow directors of the charity.
Sorry about the Ford bait and switch, just trying to pull eyeballs. As a former Liberal MP and cabinet minister*, Mayor Fontana’s exploits are a media-party designated unstory.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Sean
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
Al Qaeda in Syria: A Snapshot
Local Syrians call the boss of Da’esh in Tal Abyad “Temsah.” “The Crocodile.”
The Crocodile is Syrian. The name is appropriate for those foreigners who are feeding the crocodiles with money and guns based on the nonsense idea of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Foreigners and some governments are helping radicals so that they will eat the Assad regime, with others–such as the Iranian Quds force–aiding Assad because part of their long game is to eat Israel.
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
With few good choices in dealing with Iran’s push for nuclear weapons, former CIA and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said he’s OK with letting the six-month temporary deal with the country go forward.
But we should be truthful, Hayden told Fox News Sunday. “We have accepted Iranian uranium enrichment.”
Turning to NSA leaker Edward Snowden…
“This is catastrophic for the safety and the security of the American nation,” Hayden said. Still, he doesn’t think the U.S. government should back away from pursuing Snowden.
To do so, he said, would be like “negotiating with terrorists.”
h/t DaninVan
Rest in peace, Cliff
You’ve more than done your duty. Rest in peace.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Forward!
Iran enrichment: “One would have thought the agreement was all about Iran not enriching uranium. But that would be to miss the point.”
Not Showing Up To Riot Is A Failed Conservative Policy
The word is getting out: Driver reportedly runs First Nations protest blockade in Montreal
Cold, Wet Hands
The Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP is sending investigators to High River, Alta. as it looks into complaints that Mounties
illegally seized firearms during June flooding there, QMI Agency has learned.
“Commission investigators will be in High River from December 9th to 13th to speak to persons who may have been impacted,” said Richard Evans, the commission’s senior director of operations, in an email to Sun Media.
The commission is conducting an “expedited” investigation after irate citizens spoke out at a public meeting over the summer, complaining about Mounties taking away rifles and shotguns after bursting into flood-abandoned homes to conduct searches.
Evans says anyone who wants to speak to investigators should call 1-800-267-6637 or send an email to reviews@cpc-cpp.gc.ca.
h/t syncrodox
It’s Probably Nothing
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
...maybe it is just a matter of social media turning our existences as pundits into a sweaty, crowded hearth in which we all sit in a big circle and echo each other all day. I quite enjoy it, but a mind-pummelling stream of "FordSenateFordFordSenateFordNigelWrightFordFord" may not be healthy.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Check your premises: Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.