9 Famous Nail Houses. (h/t Bosko)
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m fortifying my bug out shelter;
I then made it my business, when finding an older teacher, to ask if education had been “dumbed down.” To a person, I found that this question unleashed volatile diatribes on how dull children had become since the responders had begun as idealistic young men and women in the field. Algebra teachers informed me that every year they were forced to eliminate problem sets that previous years had mastered. English teachers who once taught Shakespeare and Dante were now reduced to leading seniors through Orwell’s Animal Farm or postmodern novels featuring teens in existential moral dilemmas. Moreover, the analysis of themes in book reports had been deconstructed into not what the author was attempting to portray, but what personal emotions were elicited in the reader.
h/t Marina
Forward!
Of course they do: Obama Staffers Owe $833,970 in Back Taxes
Oh, Shiny Pony!
“At a time when liberal Muslims across the world are fighting rightwing Islamists, it is sad to see the aspiring leader of the Liberal Party of Canada throw his weight behind those who would snuff out liberalism and stifle free speech in the name of Islam,” MCC president Salma Siddiqui said.
The conference, the largest of its kind in Canada, has been held annually for a decade but concerns surfaced after a Quebec blogger noted that one of the event’s sponsors is IRFAN-Canada, which lost its charity status in 2011 over its ties to Hamas.
America’s New Civil War
Dennis Miller has some important things to say to Barack Obama.
Benghazi Survivors Still Secret
More secret than Seal Team 6 – “I don’t know who they are. I don’t know where they live. I don’t know what state they’re from. I don’t even know how many there are. It doesn’t seem right to me.”
Union Transparency Bill Passes
Union members are closer to uncovering how their dues are spent after legislation passed Wednesday night that would force labour bosses to disclose their salaries and bonuses and how much is steered to political activities.
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“It will be thrown down by the courts. I have no doubt about that. And it’s just red meat for the Reform party base. It’s pure demagoguery,” said NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.
“It’s inapplicable. It will never work. It’s going to be a bureaucratic nightmare and this from a government that says it’s against red tape.”
Related: Serenity now!
Weird Or What?
“He handled a horse really well. He was a pretty neat person…I don’t know how many times he’s handled a horse around the track and the horses that he drove for me weren’t the nicest to drive and he got along fine with them. He enjoyed it too and we enjoyed having them there.”
Reader Tips
Oh the Deadwood Stage is a-headin’ on over the hills where the Injun arrows are thicker than porcupine quills. Dangerous land, no time to delay, so whip crack-away, whip crack-away, Whip-Crack Away.
The comments are, as always, open for your Reader Tips.
Speak Softly And Carry A Strongly Worded Letter
“US hesitant in condemning North Korean launch”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Deep Impact
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Scratch a Leftist
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP.
Free Blazing Cat Fur!
A legal defense fundraising drive – details here.
It’s Probably Nothing
The benchmark index, maintained by the London-based Baltic Exchange to track the daily freight market prices for dry bulk transport, fell 8.2 percent to 826 following a near 4 percent decline Tuesday. The index has fallen more than 48 percent so far this year.
h/t Adrian
Is There A Canadian Equivalent For “Birther”?
At this very moment, Frank Graves’ polling results are being presented as evidence in a Federal Court.
In Canada.
I’m not making this up.
Kangaroo Update: As I speculated, it was revealed today that Frank Graves was “checking Twitter notifiications” as he waited outside the courtroom.
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
I’m sure the fact that “Money-Laundering Bank Was Big Obama Donor,” as the Washington Free Beacon noted last week, had nothing to do with the paucity of arrests.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The draft leaked to the newspaper offers a list of “taboo conversation topics” that soldiers should avoid, including “making derogatory comments about the Taliban”…