Cold, Caffienated Hands
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
USA Today, August 21st: An advocacy group has called for “Skip Starbucks Saturday” this weekend – a nationwide boycott on Aug. 24, to pressure the coffee giant to amend its current policy, which allows customers to carry loaded guns into Starbucks stores where permitted by state law.
King5 News, August 24th: “As a barista at Starbucks this was one of the busiest mornings I have ever experienced! Pretty awesome! One customer came through THREE times all before noon just to show support! I love Starbucks customers!”
h/t Lee M.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Man shoots and wounds two passengers on train – then himself – after becoming enraged when woman says he can’t fall asleep on her shoulder (h/t mid island mike)
The W Word
Way back in February, the Black Rod uncovered the fact that one of the founders of Idle No More, Sheelah McLean, is an academic who specializes in the study of Whiteness.
You read that right. Whiteness.
Whiteness is an actual field of study into—well, being white.
That’s a bad thing, according to the specialists of Whiteness. You see, white people are privileged because they’re white and they benefit from the fact that whites make the rules of society. So even if they claim to be “do gooders”, they’re bad because they’re whites and they don’t even realize they’re actually racists.
But let’s back up a little … “Manitoba deputy premier sorry for ‘white people’ remark”. Apology not accepted.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
When Glenn Beck tweets Zerohedge, you know it’s a good one.
The Obama administration is reportedly proposing Cass Sunstein as a member of a panel to review the surveillance practices of the National Security Agency (NSA), among other former White House and intelligence staffers. Sunstein was the head of the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs until last year, when he returned to teaching at Harvard Law School.
While at Harvard in 2008, Sunstein co-authored a working paper that suggests government agents or their allies “cognitively infiltrate” conspiracy theorist groups by joining “chat rooms, online social networks or even real-space groups” and influencing the conversation.
The paper also suggests that the government “formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech.” That sounds an awful lot like the 50 Cent Party of online commentators who are paid per comment by the Chinese communist party to sway public opinion.
Whoops. That’s the Washington Post part.
Run Run, Baby, Run
Because it’s Monday or will soon be:
“The EU is becoming the Soviet Union with a human face”
Translation provided by a long time reader of SDA;
What Broder describes could be applied to the pathologies we see here, especially since we have devolved into a single, ruling-party state, with no opposition worthy of the name or that current circumstance demands.
– Joe
Out of the European idea, a totalitarian idea has emerged with a dangerous inclination toward all-encompassing bullying. There are many reasons for concern and optimism
By Henryk M. Broder
There is something in the air. The wind rustles in the tops of the trees, the ferrets withdraw to their beds, and people look anxiously toward the heavens, even though the meteorologists have issued no warnings. It is the quiet before the storm. The election (ed. September 22, 2013) battles have begun slowly. It is about social justice, about a fair distribution [of wealth], day care facilities for all children, protection of the private sector against data theft.
There is one subject that rarely is discussed: Europe. It is avoided, even though the last Europe-crisis is a few weeks back, and the signs multiply indicating the need for another aid package for Greece of several billion [Euros]. Of course, like the previous aid package, it is intended for the banks, not the suffering Greeks, to whom the banks have extended credit that now appears to be in a precarious position.
All parties avoid the topic of “alternatives for Germany,” although all parties in their various programs profess to support “Europe” with the goal of European integration so that one day, the “United States of Europe” can become the political counterpoint and economic counterweight to the United States
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Top ten inventions you didn’t know were Canadian
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose
1) NY Times story:
……Mr. Schrier’s interrogations resumed. He was brought before three young men in masks who spoke perfect English, and who he suspected were Canadian…
Canadians hurrying to Syria in record numbers to join rebels
At least 100 young Canadians have left for Syria in the past year, joining a steady march of jihadists, security sources say.
Truth will out.
“Shut up”, they explained
In the six months since its formation, members of Alternative für Deutschland, a Euro-sceptic political party that also questions the veracity of climate science and the Merkel government’s greenhouse gas initiatives, have been assaulted at campaign rallies in Berlin, Lübeck, and Nuremberg by environment activists. Last week in Göttingen members of the youth wing of the Green party launched an attack that required 40 policemen to subsequently keep the peace.
No Tricks Zone has coverage (including video) of the most recent incident, this one a relatively minor hit-and-run attack at a campaign event in Bremen that left one AFD campaigner cut by a knife and two kids aged 7 and 11 injured by pepper spray.
Amen, Brotherhood
“If Obama actually is the manchurian candidate placed in power by radical Islamists, what would he do different than what he’s already doing?
It’s Probably Nothing
BREAKING. @CBSNews has learned that the Pentagon is making the initial preparations for a Cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) August 23, 2013
Russia may reinforce naval grouping in Mediterranean in response to U.S. buildup – expert http://t.co/gtOai0LqqU #Russia #interfax #news
— Interfax News (IFAX) (@IFAXnews) August 24, 2013
More from Ezra Levant: Obama’s Middle East meltdown
Cam Broten Caption Contest – Results
We were treated to a plethora of quality submissions. Honourable Mentions go to the following;
“We regret to announce the cancellation of tonight’s speech by Mr. Broten, due to an unfortunate encounter with Nemesis.”
Posted by: Alyric on August 21, 2013 8:46 PM | Reply
“Now that’s a beautiful poster. If only we had enough donations to print another.”
Posted by: scf on August 21, 2013 11:23 PM | Reply
“Before I decide, let me see the one without the shirt again…”
Posted by: Rob Huck on August 22, 2013 1:25 AM | Reply
“Gee, my idea of using disappearing ink for the NDP on the sign worked out well!”
Posted by: Larry on August 22, 2013 1:46 AM | Reply
And the official Runner-Up and recipient of the book of their choice from the SDA Recycled Review Copy Library….
“So that’s what an “unwanted” poster looks like, eh?
Send me an email Gord, and I’ll get you fixed up with a book.
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It’s Not Unusual
AATCSA (Anti-Semites Against a Tiny Country Surrounded by Anti-Semites), more commonly known as the BDS movement, says “No singing to Jews“:
British crooner Sir Tom Jones has become the latest target of an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to pressure the popular singer into cancelling his scheduled October 27 concert in the Jewish state.
It’s full of Jews, eh?
Earlier this week, former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, who features a Jewish star painted on a giant inflatable pig at his concerts and is a seven-year member of the international BDS movement, called on other musicians and performers to join him in a new boycott of Israel.”
As always in such cases, “join” isn’t exactly the right word.
Hollywood Rewriting History . . . Once Again
The new movie, The Butler, is getting rave reviews. Too bad it’s not remotely historically accurate. But why bother with facts when you can rewrite history and take cheap shots at folks on the right?!
As Mona Charen points out in her latest column, The Butler is full of fiction, specifically designed to embrace The Left’s ongoing narrative that conservative white folks are all racists who only treat blacks as token citizens. Here’s a snippet:
The press resolutely ignores these figures, while the propaganda arm of the Democratic party in Hollywood serves up distorted history to distract and pacify the public. The latest entry appears to be The Butler, which misrepresents President Reagan (as I gather from those who’ve seen it) as, at best, insensitive to blacks, and at worst as racist. Eugene Allen, the actual White House butler on whom the film is supposedly based, kept signed photos of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in his living room (pictures of the other presidents he had served hung in the basement).
According to a 2008 Washington Post profile, Allen served eight presidents for 34 years until his retirement. He did not, as the movie portrays, resign to protest Reagan’s policies on civil rights or South Africa. His wife happily reminisced to the Post about the time the couple were invited by the Reagans to attend a state dinner in honor of the West German chancellor. “Drank champagne that night,” Mrs. Allen recalled with pleasure. The film apparently depicts the invitation as tokenism. The filmmakers also insert a horrific childhood “memory” for Allen — his mother being raped and his father shot by a white landlord. Didn’t happen.
The Tolerant Left
One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter of President Barack Obama, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Dylan Bleier, one of the two students, organized a voter registration drive on behalf of Obama before the 2008 election. That voter drive is still listed on the website for Organizing for Action, the non-profit group whose mission is to advance Obama’s agenda.
An Uncomfortable Truth for the Modern Left
Yesterday marked the 24th Anniversary of an historic event called The Baltic Way. In the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania, human beings held hands along an unbroken chain of 600 km. They did this to protest the oppressive force that is Communism. Legal Insurrection has more.
Great Moments in Socialism
At a football game, a father asks his 15 year-old son to hold beer and is escorted out of stadium by undercover officers. Big Government supporters must be so proud!
Perhaps all public sectors should be forced into “sensitivity classes” where they must repeatedly watch The Lives of Others.