“America is moving in the libertarians’ direction,” Will wrote in a 2011 review of The Declaration of Independents, “not because they have won an argument but because government and the sectors it dominates have made themselves ludicrous.”
Baby Boomers
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I hear your complaints, and yes, you’re right, we’re long overdue for some mid-70s Hungarian pop music: Here’s György Korda having some lake-district fun with Haver a nökkel jól vigyázz.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
mmmmmmmm…. pumpkin!
Go, Already
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.
“Never Again”
Oh, Shiny Pony!
“But Sun News can now report that I prefer China.”
The young man doesn’t understand why Sun would report on that. Video below the fold.
And yes, this entry is filed under, “Insufferable Twits”.
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”.

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
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.”
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“Please, Grandma and Grandpa, don’t do it. Honestly, it’s just not a good idea. Please? I’m begging you…”
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We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Up in smoke: On Wednesday, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) declined more than 14% to $151.16 per share after the company reported its third quarter financial performance. The news of third Model S fire may drive stock lower.
Quote Of The Day
“Whoever poisoned Yasser Arafat should get his Nobel Peace Prize.” – Frank J. Fleming
THIS WEEK IN POLITICS
“I need f—ing 10 minutes to make sure he’s dead.” – Rob Ford
I’m “really good at killing people” – Barack Obama
The Children Are Our Future
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.
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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…

. . . 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.
(original post edited for results)
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.
I Amuse Myself
Twitter, you magnificent bastard. pic.twitter.com/LF75YMh1Wm
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 7, 2013
Oh, Shiny Pony!
#ObamaCountrySongs
Even if you hate Twitter, you got to love this.
#ObamaCountrySongs Jarrett Take The Wheel
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 7, 2013
Inspired by….
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Tonight, we take an animated tour of 17th century London as it stood before the great fire of 1666.
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