Go, Already

National Post;

Parliament’s language watchdog is concerned that the Harper government’s plans to celebrate upcoming anniversaries of Confederation and military events from the two world wars may spark some “ugly” linguistic wars.
In his latest annual report to Parliament, Graham Fraser, the commissioner of official languages, said the anniversaries should serve as an opportunity for public education, while recognizing conflicting narratives in Canadian history.
“Events like the First World War stimulate different recollections, with memories of heroic sacrifice coexisting uneasily with stories of conscription, anti-French-Canadian insults and soldiers shooting on anti-conscription rioters in Quebec City,” Fraser wrote in the report, tabled on Thursday.

The Children Are Our Future

This takes me back to my high school economics classes, where we learned about the superiority of the “co-operative”.
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The Common Core State Standards Initiative was devised by an association of the nation’s governors and backed by the Obama administration in 2009 with the goal of setting a uniform standard for grades K-12 nationwide.

Hugo Chavez, Not Dead Enough


The End Game.

Almost everything needed to mend and heal is in critically short supply: needles, syringes and paraffin used in biopsies to diagnose cancer; drugs to treat it; operating room equipment; X-ray film and imaging paper; blood and the reagents needed so it can be used for transfusions.
Last month, the government suspended organ donations and transplants. At least 70 percent of radiotherapy machines, precisely what Gonzalez will need once her tumor is removed, are now inoperable in a country with 19,000 cancer patients — meaning fewer than 5,000 can be treated, said Dr. Douglas Natera, president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation.
“Two months ago we asked the government to declare an emergency,” said Natera, whose doctors group is the country’s largest. “We got no response.”

The Children Are Our Future

So, thanks children!

I have been told that being hard on you Millennials will turn you against conservatism, that I should offer you a positive, hopeful message that avoids the touchy problem of your manifest stupidity.
No. There’s no sugar-coating it – your votes for Democrats have ensured that you are the first generation in American history that will fail to exceed what their parents attained. Embracing liberalism was a stupid thing to do, done for the stupidest of reasons, and I will now let you subsidize my affluent lifestyle without a shred of guilt.

Highly related.
h/t Black Mamba

Oh, Shiny Pony! – Caption Contest Winners

First, the runners-up.
– Brenda in BC

SHINY PONY: First thing we gotta do when I am PM is round up Ezra Levant and send him to re-education camp. I’m thinking of also forcing him to go vegan and take yoga classes! Some manscaping may also be in order.
SUZUKI: Hahahahahahaha! That gets my vote!

– Rufusrastasjohnsonbrown

“Gotta help me out here Dave,it was OK when Elizabeth May was a groupie, but now she wants to be a bodyguard.”

– Bestman

So I sez to the orphanage, “Why should I take your lousy $10,000 for a speech when I can get $20,000 from the homeless shelter down the street?”

And the winner…

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. . . and then I told them that we needed a carbon tax, get this…
‘to get Keystone XL approved.’

Send me an email and we’ll get you set up with a book, Mr. Stricker.
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We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

The French can fight, afterall;

Judges in Montpellier ruled that the turbines’ location blighted the countryside, causing the “total disfigurement of a bucolic and rustic landscape”. Besides the turbines “spoiling the view”, the judges also cited the “groaning and whistling” and “unsightliness of white and red flashing lights”.
The company was ordered to pay the Wallecans €37,500 (£31,500) in damages and to remove the wind farm within four months or face a fine of €500 per day per turbine.

Related: The regressive economic impact of these skyrocketing prices and fees is getting so unavoidably huge that it’s actually becoming politically advantageous to advocate for the reduction of these once-holy green subsides and taxes, if you can believe it, and politicians are started to make promises about rolling back all of these mandates en masse.

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