“Speak to me in French! This is Quebec!”
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5 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
It’s Probably Nothing
“…the IMF recommends confiscating private wealth in an effort to protect the Status Quo in Government”.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Prairie Dog Magazine Hacked By Random Word Generator
No word on when they’ll get it cleaned up.
The Tolerant Left
Reach across the aisle: Dem Rep. Alan Grayson Fundraising Email Features Burning Cross As The “T” In “Tea Party”…
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
I Amuse Myself
@kady Because, this. The real world relevance of media, politicians and public to each other's daily lives. pic.twitter.com/DABUZsJ480
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 21, 2013
Reader Tips
I ain’t got the slightest hankerin’ to be a broker or a banker. No sirree, I want to be Your Mother’s Son In Law… ♫
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
After The Storm
Cattle grazing north of Sturgis, South Dakota. (Taken October 17th.)
Sweet Idiocy
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Can't make this up. Got through 800-number, followed prompts, and got referred to http://t.co/42WSNzdKsg.
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) October 21, 2013
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Potemkin Parliament
Mark Steyn – The least dispiriting moment of another grim week in Washington was the sight of ornery veterans tearing down the Barrycades around the war memorials on the National Mall, dragging them up the street, and dumping them outside the White House. This was, as Kevin Williamson wrote at National Review, “as excellent a gesture of the American spirit as our increasingly docile nation has seen in years.” Indeed. The wounded vet with two artificial legs balancing the Barrycade on his Segway was especially impressive. It would have been even better had these disgruntled citizens neatly lined up the Barrycades across the front of the White House and round the sides, symbolically Barrycading him in as punishment for Barrycading them out. But, in a town where an unarmed woman can be left a bullet-riddled corpse merely for driving too near His Benign Majesty’s palace and nobody seems to care, one appreciates a certain caution.
CETA – Good things all around
CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, has been in negotiations for four years, and it covers much more than fish. It’s expected to take another two years for the deal to be ratified, but when that happens, 98 per cent of EU tariffs will be reduced to zero.
Ninety-nine per cent of EU tariffs will be eliminated on non-agricultural goods, meaning virtually unrestricted access on everything from minerals to forestry products, chemicals and ships.
That, friends, is huge.
Via: NWC
Messaging
She’s trying to inoculate herself from Benghazi associations.
It won’t work, but I expect Libya will be overused early and have no bearing in a campaign.
Two Good Points
Doug Ross on what sitting out means.
For those of you as disgusted as I am with GOP leaders, consider the ramifications of sitting out the midterms. Should Nancy Pelosi regain the Speakership, well, in six words, they’ll be coming for your guns. That’s a guarantee.
Roger Simon with this nugget:
So what should Republicans do? First, as Hippocrates said, do no harm. Stop attacking each other. Follow Ronald Reagan’s prescription about never speaking ill of fellow Republicans. That kind of behavior turns off voters.
That last one goes both ways.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we listen to a track from songwriter/singer and fiddler Sara Watkins’ 2012 solo album Sun Midnight Sun called Take Up Your Spade.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
One talking point ridiculed
That being the world view of Canada in decline under the Harper Gov’t.
Fear? Imagine Trudeau was the one at the helm.
Yeah.
Obama404
If you don’t know tech, then you probably don’t know that this is the death-knell for getting the sites actually running correctly on the back-end before the New Year.