Put on your crash helmet, strap on your seat-belts, and brace yourself for a thrilling musical ride with Danyel Gérard, as he performs Youpi Ya Tamoure.
Please remain seated during the performance.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
In a nutshell
California Gov. Jerry Brown, dismissing Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s radio ads inviting California business owners to avoid California’s high taxes and punitive regulations by moving to Texas:
“Everybody with half a brain is coming to California.”
Ripped From A Law And Order Script
According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on November 30, 2012, Llaneza met with a man who led him to believe he was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan. In reality, this man was an undercover FBI agent. At this initial meeting, Llaneza proposed conducting a car-bomb attack against a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area. He proposed structuring the attack to make it appear that the responsible party was an umbrella organization for a loose collection of anti-government militias and their sympathizers. Llaneza’s stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war.
I trust they ruled out any connections to Homeland Security.
“Progressives” vs. The Success of Boys
Interesting Saturday listening: The War Against Boys
Employment Advice
From the Left: A Liberal Academic
From the Right: Captain Capitalism
One wonders what percentage of people between 18 – 25 have ever heard the advice given in the second video?
So special it hurts
Another round of smug self-congratulations, liberal activist style:
Administrators at Northwestern University near Chicago are considering giving reparations to relatives of Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples for a massacre which occurred near the current state of Colorado about 150-years ago.
In November, a group of student activists circulated a petition demanding administrators find a way to compensate the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes for the Sandy Creek Massacre, which took place November 29, 1864.
So, to recap: some students are demanding that their university administrators pony up reparations for an historic incident that happened three states west of them – more than a thousand miles away – 148 years ago.
Is there even a word for that?
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips British comedy duo Flanders and Swann perform three songs — A Song of the Weather, The Reluctant Cannibal, and Design for Living — from their musical revue At The Drop Of A Hat.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Shergar
On the thirtieth anniversary of Shergar’s disappearance and destruction at the hands of the IRA.
Schooling ‘The One’
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Clare v. Cukier
Sheldon Clare of the NFA is debating Wendy Cukier of Coalition for Gun Control on the CBC fifth estate Webinar tonight.
Welcome to our live chat. Tonight’s fifth estate – Crossfire – takes aim at the furious fight over guns in America. Tune in on CBC Television this evening at 9 PM local time (9:30 NT) and share your thoughts on where you stand. We will be joined by guests on both sides of the firing line starting at 8 PM ET.
I wonder if they’ll take questions from the online audience…assuming there is an audience.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau (Harvard Law Review), February 2009 – “[Tom Pirelli] did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.”
Benghazi Hearings, February 2013 – Under questioning from South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta could not explain why President Barack Obama spoke with him only once on Sept. 11, 2012 during the Benghazi terrorist attack, and never called back for any updates for over seven hours.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The not-so stupid party?
I’m not convinced yet. I also find the last sentence questionable.
…Barack Obama will have to accept that reality and get serious about budget reform on the other side of the ledger.
I don’t believe that Obama is mentally capable enough to get serious about anything except how many rabbits he can get out of his genetic lottery win.
h/t, Instapundit
How dry is it?
So incredibly dry that the truth turns to dust and blows away:
“Climate experts tell us that the current drought is the worst ever. Except for all the other ones which were worse.”
Rallying the SDA troops!
You know who you are.
TrueNorthist in the comments:
I sent my letter to the CRTC today, asking that Sun News be given equal treatment in broadcasting. First time I have written a letter in years but I was very motivated. Every letter the CRTC receive carries the weight of hundreds of emails, so if you haven’t yet done so, please do. You can bet the left and it’s fellow travellers in media will be sending thousands of emails but I’d like to think we can beat them at what used to be their game. Sun News needs this application to go through and they need our help to do it. If they manage to kill the Sun we will never see another like it.
If you don’t want to go back to the days of CTV and CBC being the only available Canadian news channels, here’s what you need to do.
Reader Tips
Tonight, we take a slow ride around the streets of Vancouver, B.C….in 1907.
h/t Judith
One of the commenters under the video:
Starts on Granville where City Centre Canada Line Stn. is today. @1:18 turn onto W.Hastings and head east past Carrall. @3:21 now heading south on Carrall + turn right onto Cordova heading west. @4:18 turn left and go south on Cambie to Hastings. @4:32 skip to heading west on Robson around Burrard. @4:43 mark see “The Manhattan” Apts. under construction at Robson and Thurlow + continue along Robson to Broughton. @5:13 now on Davie past Bidwell heading east. Ride ends on Davie around Bute.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
In The Mail from America
Robert, we’ve been Facebook friends for a few years now. As you live in Canada, I wanted to ask you a few things. My son and his wife are very seriously thinking about leaving the U.S. and moving to Canada. I would appreciate it very much if you could tell me what it’s like to live there? Especially for someone leaving the U.S.? Would it be very difficult to assimilate? Are there very many Americans that have moved there? And if so, how are they accepted by Canadians? What is the job market like there? My son has a college degree in accounting and computer information systems. His wife has worked for a bankruptcy law firm. I would appreciate any information you could give me that I could pass on to my son. Thank you in advance.
So, he was AWOL….
when people were dying.
And so was she.
Remember, “We had no assets in place”. Apparently they divined that from the tea leaves because they certainly didn’t ask anyone.
Awesome leadership you have there, America, just bloody awesome. You must be so proud you managed to break the race-barrier, still working on competency, mind you, but baby-steps, eh?
