A Society of Whiners

entitlement generation 26 Comments

The image of Americans was once one of cowboys in the Wild West or soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima. That has all been replaced by the Brian Kellys of the United States of Whiners:

Brian Kelly, a passenger on the flight, said he sat on the plane for nearly four hours before the flight was ultimately canceled for the night.
During his wait, Kelly said he saw members of the flight crew climbing into the plane’s engine, while one of the pilots snapped photos.
NBC 5 DFW confirmed the person snapping the photos was the flight’s captain. We’re told a flight attendant asked for the photos to be taken because she is close to retirement and she wanted a keepsake for one of her last trips to Costa Rica.
Kelly began snapping photos of the crew from his window seat. He says, “They’re having fun to me. That seemed like an enjoyable time, and I’m stuck in a plane and can’t go anywhere. It just didn’t seem right.”

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 34 Comments

This evening we gaze upon some solemn black & white images of some of the thousands of volunteers cleaning up the Bowness neighbourhood in NW Calgary. Taken by photographer Shaun Robinson, they provide a wonderful example of how effective the lack of colour in photographs can be in certain circumstances. Recommended background music while viewing the photos is provided by Canadian artist, Loreena McKennitt. Attentive viewers will notice that one of the volunteers is an Olympic class speed skater who was born in Romania but now is very much a proud Albertan.
Your solemn or witty reader tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.

“The fallout from the Prism leak continues.”

nannystate 11 Comments

Telegraph;

As people digest what the leaks mean, ripples are going out into the business community. Firms were moving towards free, American, reliable cloud-based services; now things are screeching to a halt, as they think “do we want the NSA having access to this?”
[…]
Perhaps the hardest hit is Canadian phone manufacturer RIM, who make the Blackberry phone. One of the last things going for the struggling firm was the perceived security of the Blackberry handset, and particularly the BBM instant messaging system. However, following on from the allegation last week in the Guardian that British intelligence was regularly “Penetrating the security on [G20] delegates’ BlackBerrys to monitor their messages and phone calls”, rivals to Blackberry in the secure messaging market have seen sales surge.

Via

Those Moderate Muslims!

Religion Of Submission 38 Comments

Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque;

The desire to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque is not about Muslims wanting a place to pray — as of 2010, there were 3,000 active mosques in Istanbul alone. Rather, it’s about their reveling, and trying to revivify, the glory days of Islamic jihad and conquest: Reuters added that Muslims “staged the prayers ahead of celebrations next week marking the 559th anniversary of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet’s conquest of Byzantine Constantinople.” According to Salih Turhan, a spokesman quoted by Reuters, “As the grandchildren of Mehmet the Conqueror, seeking the re-opening Hagia Sophia as a mosque is our legitimate right.”

h/t peterj

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