If we utilized train tankers daily for our oil we would require 4200/day, and transport trucks would be 15000 pic.twitter.com/WteRUNpcaf
— A_OZ (@_MetisRelations) October 19, 2013
“Put Me In Charge”
Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.
Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.
Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.
The Children are our Future
College students and their WWII history.
Funny, eh?
Don’t get so conceited.
In 2015, a ceremony in Turkey will mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in which the Newfoundland Regiment – Newfoundlanders then, not yet Canadians – played a major role holding the Turkish Army at bay, and was almost wiped out.
#StopKickingTheCan
Reader Tips
Tonight, we watch a Senior News Editor at one of the big three networks in a command performance at a recent White House dinner.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Do It For The Children
A Globe And Mail Poll that deserves to go horribly wrong.
Scratch A Leftist
The claims go beyond being absurd – in one case, a professor asked me if I knew how many Palestinians have been raped by IDF forces. I answered that as far as I knew, none. She triumphantly responded that I was right, because, she said, “You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are so racist and disgusted by them that you won’t touch them.”
So rape is respect, murder is birth, red is blue, leftists are logical.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
“Arriving officers are then seen hitting Vanhagen with an electric shock from a Taser and taking the knife from him.”
What? They didn’t wait outside watching him eat an ear?
What’s The Problem, Comrades?
You have your global warming to keep you warm…
Friday marked 30 days since Russian coastguards descended from helicopters to take the Arctic Sunrise by storm during Greenpeace’s protest against the Prirazlomnaya oil rig.
The environmentalists were brought to the Arctic port city of Murmansk and have been charged with “piracy as part of an organised group” – an offence which carries a jail sentence of 10-15 years.
Throughout the week, activists have been brought one by one from the detention centre to courtrooms in central Murmansk, asking to be released on bail ahead of the pending trials.
[…]
Harris said in court that her cell is heated but when the wind blows it is freezing, as there are many gaps in the windows.
Already, the temperature is well below zero in this forbidding Arctic town of prefabricated apartment blocks and decaying industrial infrastructure; from now on it will only get colder and darker, as the days become shorter and the round-the-clock blackness of the polar winter draws closer.
h/t Maz2
Pro tip: Media is inviolate
How not to win friends and influence enemies.
So. I'm the only one that got out with a car. Native protesters forced CTV & Global News out of their trucks in Rexton NB. Threatened all.
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) October 19, 2013
My car has been seized by "warriors", along with the CTV sat truck. We're now with a Sun News reporter going to #RCMP @Global_NB
— Laura Brown (@01LBrown) October 19, 2013
72 Hours
The transition between apparent normalcy and desperation is abrupt because, as Mike Adams writing in Natural News explains, welfare dependents have no financial or logistical reserves to speak of. Poor people live from welfare check to welfare check. The system has to keep on going. If money runs out then government has to borrow. Anything is possible except stopping the flow. Once the trickle halts then there’s literally nothing to eat, not even the possibility of foraging or growing supplementary food, a fallback which was long mankind’s strategy when facing hard times.
Today’s urban welfare recipient lives in a concrete jungle and the only place to get comestibles is the Store. They live in high rise buildings where the only way up or down for the weak is electrically powered elevators. They exist in concrete boxes where the only lifeline is the Obamaphone. In some ways urban welfare America is less resilient than the rural Third World. Adams says there are 50 million holders of EBT cards. Imagine their predicament if the EBT system went suddenly dark.
h/t Maz2
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
In his 2011 “State of the Union” address, President Obama predicted that the U.S. would “become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015,” and backed up his prediction with $2.4 billion in federal grants to companies that produce lithium-ion batteries to power them.
But with 14 months to go, sales of the two top-selling plug-in cars are running far behind the president’s expectations. And despite receiving $99.8 million in stimulus funds, electric charging station manufacturer Ecotality filed for bankruptcy last month.
h/t peterj
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Fosun International, China’s largest private-owned conglomerate which invests in commodities, properties and pharmaceuticals also known as “Shanghai’s Hutchison Whampoa”, announced in a statement filed just as quietly with the Hong Kong stock exchange, that it had purchased JPM’s iconic former headquarters, the tower built by none other than David Rockefeller, at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza for a measly $725 million.
[…] the very same former JPM HQ at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza is also the building that houses the firm’s commercial gold vault: incidentally, the largest in the world.
h/t Adrian
It Could Have Been “Senator McMillan”
And there’d be only two photos on this page. Just saying…
h/t batb
Reader Tips
Tonight, Icelandic indie-folk group Árstíðir forgo their instruments and gather in a train station to sing an a cappella version of an old Icelandic hymn, the lyrics of which were written in the 13th Century, called Heyr himna smiður (“Hear Heaven’s Carpenter”).
h/t batb
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
I Feel The Same Way About The Tooth Fairy
Warmist seeking suggestions: “How do you get people to give a damn about climate change?”
What do you know, the system worked.
On The March
Roger Kimball, describing his lunch with an old-fashioned, pro-America Democrat:
Witnessing the unedifying spectacle put on by our masters in Washington this last week or so, we could only shake our heads sadly. And when we contemplated the action of ordinary citizens — those vets who disassembled the “Barrycades” erected in front of national monuments by a punitive Obama administration — we couldn’t help wondering whether the country was teetering towards a pre-revolutionary state.
A petition at George Soros-backed MoveOn.Org, a 7-million member liberal group who teamed up with the AFL-CIO to aid Obama in his 2012 reelection campaign:
I call on the Justice Department of the United States of America to arrest Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Speaker of the House John Boehner and other decision-making House Republican leaders for the crime of seditious conspiracy against the United States of America…Arrest the perpetrators in Congress immediately and bring them to justice.
This after Boehner and the Republicans completely acceded to Obama’s demands.
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