… and other rainbow colored worlds:

“It would be nice if “Amina Arraf” existed. As niche constituencies go, we could use more hijab-wearing Muslim lesbian militants and fewer fortysomething male Western deadbeat college students. But the latter is a real and pathetically numerous demographic, and the former is a fiction – a fantasy for Western liberals, who think that in the multicultural society the nice gay couple at 27 Rainbow Avenue can live next door to the big bearded imam with four child brides at No. 29 and gambol and frolic in admiration of each other’s diversity. They will proffer cheery greetings over the picket fence, the one admiring the other’s attractive buttock-hugging leather shorts for that day’s Gay Pride parade as he prepares to take his daughter to the clitoridectomy clinic.”

“If the NLRB is allowed to overrule Boeing’s business decision, there are no winners. … The repercussions of this case will ensure that businesses will simply decide to move operations overseas. South Carolina has seen what happens when businesses find better opportunities overseas — the jobs leave and they don’t come back.”
On a related note, I approached the Winnipeg Economic Development council about 3 months ago with a proposal I called “Operation Capital Flight.” In it I proposed I would act as an agent for the council and actively approach and solicit Minnesota-based companies to move their headquarters to Winnipeg in order to take advantage of the lower corporate taxes. On the target list were companies like 3M, Target, General Mills, Polaris, Best Buy and other multi-billion dollar firms.
Got a call back, the guy said he would run it past the council. Never heard back since then.
Makes me wonder when government types and economic development types in Canada are going to realize just what low-hanging fruit there is in the US to simply pluck away.
That is of course unless you don’t want any of that icky yucky gross jobs and investment stuff?

And will not only save you the $250,000 it takes to raise a child, but will prevent you from going to jail.
Men, seriously, get the snippity snip. The legal and financial risks just aren’t worth it. And to show you I was ahead of this game – from early 2009.

When you read this, you can literally feel the endorphins being released from your brain and flow throughout the rest of your body.

At Cjunk we predicted back in September of 2009 that a Sea Change was hitting Afghanistan whose long-term effect might be the collapse of the Taliban:

The fact is, that starting this summer the battle space in Afghanistan, even for Canadians, is changing dramatically. Thousands of US soldiers along with incredible numbers of aircraft and all manner of vehicle are spreading out into the landscape with the single goal of separating Afghan civilians from the murderous Taliban. And isn’t that the point of this whole dirty little war … that Canadian critics of Afghan civilians have such a hard time understanding; that until the civilians can be assured that they have protection, they will not , nay they cannot, take a side nor move their country forward.

As of June 2011, it appears that the blood and sweat of Canadian soldiers and their American and ISAF allies may be paying off. Significant bench-marks are being met and evidence is growing that the endless Taliban cannon fodder may not be that endless after all. (content at this link may be offensive to some)
There are, after all, Afghans who get it and who may eventually hold sway over the king of corruptocrats.

A small — very small — victory for common sense and the right to self-defence was won in Alberta yesterday. Crown prosecutors withdrew assault charges against Joe Singleton, an oilfield consultant from the town of Taber, about two hours south and east of Calgary.

… the details from Gunter.

… deny, deny, deny.

Not all political and economic problems have their roots in the public sector. Sometimes the private sector purposely shoots itself in the foot (repeatedly and with progressively higher caliber rounds). For example credentialism or ISO 9000 (soon to be replaced with ISO 10000!)
But the single biggest private sector threat to Western society is human resources.
I’ve mentioned the threat HR poses to the free world before, but this post is worth reading if you are a male of any persuasion and trying to find a job.
The parallels between the job-seeking world and dating world are uncanny and largely exist because women are at the epicenter of both. Forget a formal, traditional approach. And forget being the “nice guy.” You’ll finish last. Be the bad boy, break the rules and don’t return calls. Go over people’s heads, ignore protocol, and refuse to kiss ass when interviewing.
Your chances are no worse, and at least you’ll still have your pride when you get the same rejection letter you were going to receive anyway.