“What sort of Canadians murder for honour?”
Adrian MacNair’s conclusion is that Canada needs…:
…a frank talk about who’s arriving at Pearson International Airport every single day, and what they’re bringing with them.
Not to mention Vancouver International and Montréal-Trudeau.
Thomas Friedman’s Delusions About China vs. Reality
How can any avid news readers forget the constant praise of China provided by the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman. Video
The National Post’s Rebecca MacKinnon has just published a chilling article on one part of life over there. Well worth a read.
Verdict Reached in Kingston
Dirty Jobs: The War On Work
h/t Rolf
Y2Kyoto: Hockey Night On The Thames
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
h/t Bemused
Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose
2011-09-27 – North Carolina Democrat Governor Bev Perdue suggests quite soberly & succinctly that Congressional elections should be suspended for two years.
2012-01-26 – Governor Bev Perdue announces that she will not be seeking a 2nd term because she has been “plagued by low approval ratings“.
Related: A Gaston, NC newspaper has published an editorial stating that Perdue “battled for her beliefs”. Not one word was mentioned of the Democrat politician’s very undemocratic remarks.
h/t ‘Fearless Leader’
Myopic Liberals Don’t Really Care About Canada’s Future
Based on the current rules, the math for the Old Age Security (OAS) benefits just doesn’t add up. There are simply too many people in the coming years who will be claiming these benefits and not enough younger workers to support them. So one might think that now might be the right time to alter the rules sufficiently to make the math work again. Not if you’re a Liberal and insanely desperate to get back into power again.
Related: From Roy Green’s show on Saturday, this discussion on the subject is well worth a listen (beginning at 7:15).
Reader Tips
Tonight, via the twentieth-century technological miracle of Scopitone, we bring you the dancing trousers of multi-million selling accordion stylist André Verchuren, as he and an unidentified chanteuse have a lot of fun, all French-like, in a scorching performance of Papa C’est Ta Java.
When it comes to high-quality weekend musical entertainment, I bring it.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
News Feed History of the World: WWII
h/t John
The Victimized President
Earlier this week Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Barack Obama were photographed having what appeared to be a mildly heated exchange on a tarmac outside of Phoenix shortly after Obama’s arrival on Air Force One. According to Brewer, Obama was expressing his displeasure over her characterization of a meeting at the Whitehouse where, she said, Obama had lectured her “like a little kid in a classroom” for her views on illegal immigration.
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry looks at the snapshot and sees evidence of widespread racism:
The fact is, when I see that still, I cannot help but to be reminded of the still photograph that was captured in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, of the young woman Hazel screaming at a young Elizabeth Eckford on her way trying to get into Little Rock High School…that image captured all of the ugliness, all of the nastiness of the larger political milieu, and I feel that (the Obama/Brewer) picture does as well.
Americans should think twice about electing another black President until this sort of ridiculousness is expunged from the body politic.
Arizona Earlier This Week: An Important Lesson for GOP Leaders
Governor Jan Brewer’s book, Scorpions for Breakfast, has seen a 2.2 Million Percent increase in sales at Amazon.com since her confrontation with El Messiah at the airport.
Bomb, Bomb Iran!
Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn’t yet capable of destroying Iran’s most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful, according to U.S. officials briefed on the plan.
The 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, was specifically designed to take out the hardened fortifications built by Iran and North Korea to cloak their nuclear programs…
Losing The Peace In France’s War For Oil
The war continues to look at best like a diversion, at worst as if the US fell for a cynical French ploy to get oil in a way that damaged our long term strategic interests.
Scattered reports of torture in Libyan jails and unrest in Libyan towns are beginning to coalesce into a picture of the exciting new reality created by last year’s humanitarian war-to-protect. If Amnesty International knows what it is talking about, Libyans are being “tortured to death” by the people we saved from Gaddafi and installed in power. Surprisingly, the Wilsonian hawks who gave us this inspiring policy haven’t yet sent a new barrage of airstrikes to stop the new round of brutality and bloodshed.
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As predicted, the Libyan intervention has strengthened Assad and ensured a longer period of delay and hesitation before any possible intervention in Syria. The tortures taking place in Libyan jails today and the blood flowing in Syrian streets cannot be separated from the humanitarian bombs about which the “duty to protect” crowd rejoiced so naively last spring.
Related – Something’s fishy in Tripoli
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
(h/t Rich)
Adam Carolla Comments on the Current State of America
Adam Carolla isn’t buying into the class warfare schtick of the Democrats. Here’s a snippet from the NRO article about him:
He hates the fact that the rich have to pretend they’re not wealthy. “We’ve turned our world into some kind of prison yard, and if somebody finds out you’ve got a couple of cartons of cigarettes stuffed down your pants, you’re going to get torn apart [on] the handball courts.”
Given the contributions rich families such as the Carnegies and the Rockefellers have made to the arts, Carolla finds it “weird” to equate rich with evil. If the rich are evil, “why are you sitting in their library? Why are you sitting in their hall? Why did I just listen to a whole show on orangutans with no commercials that they paid for?”
When asked about the hullaballoo over Mitt Romney’s tax returns, Carolla adds, “I don’t know who is sending mosquito nets over trying to cure malaria in Africa, but last time I checked it was Bill Gates. Is Bill Gates evil? Are all rich guys evil or just guys with nice hair?”
What Constitutes “Amazing” in the Minds of Young Leftists These Days
If you’re a conservative voter you probably base your electoral decisions on facts & logic. To begin to understand the mindset that the Republican Presidential candidate will be up against in November click on the “Continue Reading” link below. One wonders if the founders of the country ever thought things would devolve to such a banal, unintellectual mentality?!
” In other words, you don’t even have a bubble.”
Reader Tips
Tonight we listen to the tragic tale of an impoverished but indomitable maid who watches her family members give up the wretched ghost, one by one, in a song called simply Irish Ballad.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Because (Outside Of The Ovaries) There’s No Such Thing As “Race”
In an analysis of 250 women aged 18 to 44 years, researchers found that 200 milligrams of caffeine per day elevated estrogen levels in Asian women, but decreased the hormone’s levels in white women. Black women who drank the same amount also demonstrated elevated estrogen levels, but the result was not statistically significant, the authors reported. However, when caffeine sources were examined individually, coffee intake mirrored the original trend but caffeinated soda or green tea consumption was associated with a higher estrogen levels in all three races.