Crack-Up of the Canadian Media Party – Example #53,429

Baiting The Left 52 Comments

The Globe and Mail’s Lawrence Martin has convinced himself that the 24/7 news cycle is the reason why the Canadian public is not listening to him and his fellow Harper-hating Media Party members. Here’s a sampling:

Much wonderment has been expressed recently on why stories of abuse of power don’t seem to hurt Stephen Harper’s government. The stories don’t stick, it is said. The reason may well be, to cite Mr. Thomson’s cautionary words, because we in the media don’t stick to them. It’s episodic journalism. We report one story, then move on. We don’t probe deeply. If a Watergate was happening, the public would never know it.

Chris Selley has a somewhat different idea.

70 Years Ago Today: The Sinking of the HMS Hood

Little Known Facts 33 Comments

The HMS Hood was a battlecruiser of the British Royal Navy that was sunk in a battle with the German battleship Bismarck on May 24, 1941. The ship split in half and of the 1,418 lives onboard, only 3 survived. The loss of the Hood had a profound effect on the British people and invigorated the determination or Prime Minister Winston Churchill to have the Royal Navy sink the Bismarck, which did occur 3 days later.

Is College/University Always a Good Investment?

Baiting The Left 68 Comments

For many generations now high school guidance counselors and the media have been telling students that one absolutely key ingredient for success is to go onto college or university. But is this good advice for everyone? When does it make sense and when does it not?

The NY Times recently published a fairly detailed article on the subject. Michael Graham dedicated a lot of time to it on on his radio program earlier today.
If a niece or a nephew in Grade 12 approached you, seeking your advice, what would you tell them? More specifically, what criteria would you use to decide what advice to give them?

Anything But Success

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A Hydraulic Fracture, which has been used since 1949, is formed by forcing enormous quantities of water, sand and chemicals into deep shale rock under high pressure to free trapped Oil & Gas. . The Prolific Bakken Formation occupying about 200,000 square miles of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and containing 3-5 billion barrels of oil is under threat by the Greens.
The broader questions on the negative consequences of shale exploitation regarding the depletion of water supply, particularly in times of drought, as well as the resulting methane leaks arising from the entire process that, according to a recent Cornell University study, could cause greenhouse gases even dirtier than coal-fired fuel.

Putting Our Own Problems in Perspective

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SDA commenter ‘BB’ posted a link to the following video. There’s not much to see but a whole lot can be visualized from the audio. Makes one appreciate how relatively unimportant the every day foibles in our lives really are!

Update: Several commenters speculated on what was happening over at CBC News on this story. Many of the “progressive” commenters have wasted no time ignoring the plight of their American neighbours and instead gone into long rants about how this was caused by Climate Change. It also appears the CBC Comment Moderator has had to shift into high gear to remove the even uglier comments. Lovely 🙁

The Downfall of the Elitist

You Might Be A Liberal 94 Comments

In a recent posting on SDA, regular commenter ‘ET’ shared some most astute bits of wisdom. This prompted me to engage in an e-mail exchange with her. Out of that came a longer essay of sorts from her, which I am publishing with her permission. The primary editing I did was to put all of it in a more general context:
The two-tiered socialist system is, actually, the most basic sociopolitical system on Earth. It’s essentially tribal, set up to ensure stability. To prevent the disruption of change it moves its authority into an essentially hereditary mode. You have the ‘Anointed’ (upper tier) . . . and the ‘Unanointed’ (the vast majority in the lower tier).
There’s no means of movement between these two groups. One class, the anointed, are deemed by birth, education etc. to be Guardians, Rulers, Wise Men. These ‘Noblesse oblige‘ feel they have a duty and a right to govern the unanointed lesser people.
In days past it would be the tribal elders of one clan that ruled over the other clans. In the feudal period it would be the nobles and the church. The elite prevented the lower class from gaining power; kept them uneducated, dependent on the financial and ‘saviour’ powers of the nobles/church who owned all the means of production (the land), owned all means of hope and salvation from your supposed sins (the church), all knowledge.
Keeping the unanointed peasantry down became difficult only when the population increased beyond the ‘organizing capacity’ of such a two-tiered system. After all, you have to enforce a system where the peasantry can’t become educated, can’t get enough knowledge or fiscal power to control their own lives, can’t own land, aren’t allowed to read, can’t own businesses, etc.

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This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism 35 Comments

Every Sparrow That Falls: Understanding Animal Rights Activism as Functional Religion (pdf)

ABSTRACT
This article reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the finding that activism functioned in activists’ and elites’ lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.Various articles and activists have identified both latent and manifest quasi-religious components in the contemporary movement. Hence, the research followed upon these data and anecdotes and tested the role of activism in adherents’ lives. Using extensive interviews, the research discovered that activists and elites conform to the five necessary components of Yinger’s definition of functional religion: intense and memorable conversion experiences, newfound communities of meaning, normative creeds, elaborate and well-deŽned codes of behavior, and cult formation. The ar ticle elaborates on that schema in the context of animal rights belief, elucidates the deeply meaningful role of activism within a filigree of meaning, and concludes that the movement is facing schismatic forces not dissimilar to redemptive and religious movements.

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Reader Tips 44 Comments

Red Shadow: The Economics Rock & Roll Band were a musical group founded in the 1970s by three western communists with PhDs in Economics (one of whom, Ev Ehrlich, served as Under Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration, and later as an economics commentator on NPR) who used hip-and-groovy-sounding music in an attempt to educate young people about the merits of Marxism and Leninism. Here they are performing a tune called Understanding Marx.
What is that funky smell?
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Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

I Miss W. 87 Comments

Continued…

The Harper government is refusing to join the United States in calling for a return to 1967 borders as a starting point for Mideast peace, a position that has drawn sharp criticism from Canada’s staunch ally Israel.

As usual, the best part of the Globe article is in the comments. Surely, there is some type of opportunity just waiting to be exploited with so many leftist anti-Semites gathering in one place?
h/t Revnant Dream

Another cost of Canada’s immigration policy, or, breaking piggy banks

Chinada 37 Comments

Further to this from Adrian MacNair on the recent Fraser Institute immigration study,

Family Reunification is Breaking the Canadian Piggy Bank

a lot of individuals’ piggy banks are being broken too:

Housing costs soar in Vancouver
Surging real estate prices in Vancouver are pushing ownership costs into uncharted territory, putting it in the top ranks of the world’s most expensive cities and triggering fears the market is poised for a fall…

Funny that the Globe and Mail story not once mentions immigrants–but see this:

Vancouver Housing Prices Pass New York and London as Chinese ‘Move’ In

Well worth a look:

The Centre for Immigration Policy Reform

Talk about climate change

Little Known Facts 41 Comments

Not raining on his parade, as it were:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe ‘stealing Iran’s rain’
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of plotting to “cause drought” in Iran by using high tech equipment to drain the clouds of raindrops.
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Mr Ahmadinejad says that European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to ‘dump’ Iran’s water on their own continent Photo: EPA…

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