Spring is in the air: Christian student beaten to death in Egypt – by his teacher. (h/t SDH)
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Because the CBC has refused to attend. For Ottawa area readers;
Please join us for our first self-produced documentary which examines whether the CBC is biased against Israel and biased against conservatives.
After the film, we will have a panel discussion with:
* Mike Fegelman of HonestReporting Canada.
* Stephen Taylor of the NCC.
* Brian Lilley of Sun News.
* Eric Duhaime from the Le Journal de Montreal.
* and David Krayden from the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies.
This event is part of the 2nd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival which runs between November 11-13th, 2011.
More details at the website: Free Thinking Film Society
Reader Tips
In tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips we look at one of the LPC’s sneakier ads from the last federal election, this one targeting a particular ethnic community.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The Children Are Our Future
This young hyper-entitlement nitwit is why I’m going to buy a private island and equip it with a Gatling gun!
Dana Loesch shares her thoughts.
1970s Meets OWS
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Department Of Agriculture
“The ironic thing about this forum is that there’s little science involved. It is, in my view, nothing more than the Department of Agriculture spending taxpayer dollars to provide the Humane Society of the United States a public forum to espouse its anti-agricultural views. […] HSUS is not your local animal shelter. HSUS is a national lobbying organization that spends most of its budget to lobby against farmers and ranchers who provide us with the food and clothing that we enjoy in this country. In fact, tax documents show that HSUS spends less than 1% of its budget on grants to animal shelters. Given these facts, you would have to wonder why the Department of Agriculture is giving this organization this platform and shunning producer organizations.”
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Enjoy this Men’s Wearhouse juxtapose!
Heh
Some aspects of curious Canadian farming regulations…
…and the Conservative government’s response to one of them (but they won’t dare touch the other). Publius gets his hands dirty:
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Back in my undergraduates days I came across an article on the CWB. It was oddly fascinating. I looked upon it as some bizarre aberration, a historical quirk as not yet remedied. In modern day Canada a farmer could go to jail for selling wheat. To my mind it was absurd enough to go to jail for selling marijuana, but wheat? I had images of men in John Deere caps, half-hidden by the shadows of Regina’s back alleys, furtively glancing and quickly whispering: Durum?
From there I was brought into contact with the upside down world of supply management. Having been raised on the notion that food should be cheap, so that the poor would not go wanting, I found myself confronted with a government conspiracy to aide and abet the looting of the ordinary consumer. Here were actual Robber Barons, not the wrongly maligned the industrial titans of Gilded Age America. If there was one single event that drove home to me the inherent madness of statism, supply management was it…
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
The Nation Bemoans Plight of OWS Protester $35K in Debt for Puppetry Degree
It’s Why They Call Them “The Stupid Party”
“Another observation, conservatives.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
What would we do without peer review? Massive Fraud Uncovered in Work by Social Psychologist
… Stapel and a colleague or student came up with a hypothesis, and then designed an experiment to test it. Stapel took responsibility for collecting data through what he said was a network of contacts at other institutions, and several weeks later produced a fictitious data file for his colleague to write up into a paper. On other occasions, Stapel received co-authorship after producing data he claimed to have collected previously that exactly matched the needs of a colleague working on a particular study.
The data were also suspicious, the report says: effects were large; missing data and outliers were rare; and hypotheses were rarely refuted. Journals publishing Stapel’s papers did not question the omission of details about where the data came from. “We see that the scientific checks and balances process has failed at several levels,” Levelt says.
The Afghanistan You Know
… may not exist:
“It’s about our culture as much as it’s about Afghan culture,” he says, “the country that we imagine doesn’t exist in the real world . . . where we mark the beginning of the war in Afghanistan — shortly after Sep 11, 2001 — the overwhelming majority of Afghans mark the beginning of peace.”
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“If you’re standing on a veranda on a Friday as the sun is going down and the muezzin prayers are coming from the minarets and you can hear helicopters in the distance and maybe what you think is the sound of gunfire and an Italian diplomat is whispering in your ear about how horrible things are [while] you’re sipping your cocktail . . . it can feel like you’re looking at Phnom Penh before the Khmer Rouge rolled in.” “But if you’re down in the streets with the people, it doesn’t feel like that at all.”
A Giant Fan Poll
That may go horribly wrong…
Race Based Political Parties
What could possibly go wrong?
An Overview of the Euro Crisis
An entertaining graphic. (Interactive web version here.)
More (link fixed, sorry!) – “Having spent months warning readers about the incompetence of Europe’s political leadership and the incoherence of its institutional structures, I thought I had seen the worst. But for even this hardened and cynical observer who has had years of watching European ineptitude the last 24 hours have been a revelation: the Europeans are totally at sea.”
And pass the tequila, Sheila
At Norman’s Spectator, “fourth batch of today’s tweets”:
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John Crosbie being John Crosbie!
They Asked For It
Leftist “intelligentsia” (excuse the obvious oxymoron) has stooped to a new low with this despicable column by Time’s Bruce Crumley. If you ever had any questions about why Ezra Levant’s Western Standard was the only one to publish the infamous Mohammed cartoons, you will no longer.
Video here
h/t Black Mamba
Update (by Kate)
Reader Tips
On November 3, 1953 a baby boy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After high school he attended Point Park University, graduating in 1976. But his big break didn’t happen until 1985 when Canadian Lorne Michaels cast him as the Weekend Update anchor on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Dennis Miller is married to the beautiful Vancouverite Carolyn Espley who is prominently featured in this 1983 music video. While he has continued on with his stand-up comedy career, about 4.5 years ago he started a weekday radio talk show.
Happy Birthday Dennis! More than a few people think you have some important things to say!
Your Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
They’ve welcomed the Black Panthers and Communist revolutionary thug Angela Davis, and are currently marching to the Port of Oakland.
Various sympathizers and observers are tweeting live. Mother Jones reports that the Oakland Whole Foods store — after being falsely accused of threatening to punish workers who walked out on the job today — has been vandalized.
One person on scene writes: “Straight into window breaking and street furniture smashing at whole foods. #generalstrike #occupyoaklandwindow breaking and street furniture smashing at whole foods.”
Whole Foods is defending itself online. To no avail.
Livestream here.