Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Canadian Michael Ignatieff – “The Canadian army must never be used outside the country without the authorization of the UN”
American Michael Ignatieff – … new information reveals [Ignatieff] was on the front lines of pre-invasion planning when he worked in the U.S.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and even John Cleese is throwing in the towel.
h/t PiperPaul – “1559 comments and counting…”
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
The Obama administration moved swiftly on Monday to downplay ratings agency S&P’s downgrade of its U.S. credit outlook, calling the decision a political judgment that should not be taken too seriously.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
President Obama hopes to build political momentum for his view of immigration reform today, but a big meeting at the White House this afternoon does not include members of Congress.
Obama meets with what the White House describes as “senior administration officials and stakeholders” to discuss plans for tighter border security border as well as a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already in the U.S.
Among those expected to attend:
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Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Also not invited: Governors of border states. (Via)
Reader Tips
Winter days are short in Sandefjord, Norway, so it’s best to get your skating, swimming, and drinking in in one fell swoop.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Marketing Campaigns Of The Apocalypse
… beginning in April, the Geffen—a satellite of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art—will host what MOCA proudly bills as America’s first major museum survey of “street art,” a euphemism for graffiti.
The First American Prime Minister
One on one with Peter Mansbridge: Battle of the Foreheads.
(Mansbridge does a pretty good job with this one – worth the watch)
Game Changer
The True Finns are an anti-immigration party, wary of the influence of Brussels. A measure of their rise is that at the last election they secured just 4% of the vote. Yesterday they got 19%, which put them in third place. They expect to be invited to talks about joining a coalition.
Unlike other countries in the eurozone, Finland’s parliament has the right to vote on EU requests to bail-out other countries. Potentially the strong showing of the True Finns could delay the rescue plan for Portugal.
“This is a big, big bang in Finish politics,” Jan Sundberg, a professor from Helsinki University, says. “This is a big, big change.”
Take Me, Obama
What to do when he stops returning your calls.
Picking The Losing Side In France’s War For Oil
Brits join ground fight in Libya
Foreign Secretary William Hague said today: “The National Security Council has decided that we will now move quickly to expand the team already in Benghazi to include an additional military liaison advisory team.
“This contingent will be drawn from experienced British military officers.”
Mr Hague said the move was needed to help protect civilians in Libya and was compatible with the United Nations resolution which authorised a no-fly zone.
Get our pilots out of there.
Not Showing Up To Riot Is A Failed Conservative Policy
Looks like folks are beginning to figure that out – “Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ has been destroyed by Christian protesters in Avignon, France, after weeks of protests.”
Y2Kyoto: UnFit For Print
A truth too inconvenient for the New York Times;
…this study also found that for some knowledge questions the Doubtful and Dissmissive [skeptics of man-made global warming] have as good an understanding, and in some cases better, than the Alarmed and Concerned.
Y2Kyoto: Saving The Planet
One actress sequestration at a time.
It’s Probably Nothing
National Unity
SDA commenter max:
April 18th, 2011: The day a whole new stratum of Canadian society learned what it’s like to yell at the TV.
Verily.
The Tolerant Left
And remember!
[A]ll of this occurred before Paul Krugman told these typical New York Times readers that the civility he so publicly insists upon (at least since January) could now safely be discarded.
Reader Tips
It’s an historic day. I gotta do it: Here Comes The Sun.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Scratch A Leftist
Find a misogynist. With spelling issues. And a regular pay cheque from the CBC.
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If You Don’t Believe In Global Warming
Earth Week kicked off in the Midwest with temperatures plunging 20 degrees below normal, record snowfalls in Chicago and two to four inches here in Metro Detroit.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
In all my years working for the U.S. government I have rarely seen anything as mystifying as our outreach to Muslims. Do we really need it? Sure. We need to be reaching out to the Muslim leaders who are working to prevent radicalization, not the ones who are making it happen. But that isn’t what we’re doing.
Instead we’re having countless meetings from the Cabinet level on down with groups and individuals that we know are bad guys and who we’ve repeatedly said in court are actively working to support terrorist groups overseas. We even had [FBI General Counsel] Valerie Caproni meeting regularly with these Hamas guys to get their guidance. What advice do you think they were giving her?
And she knew exactly who she was dealing with. It was the FBI who went into federal court and said that CAIR is Hamas.