So… It’s A Buyers Market?
Armstrong Economics- The Stripper Index
The creators of this unconventional gauge believe that June’s data indicates signs of trouble ahead, with all sex worker-related metrics declining. They found that escort pricing across the UK has declined, and Google searches for “escort” are notably down. Sadly, there is an increase in new hires in the industry as well.
For Your Weekend Entertainment
Sweet dreams are made of @CovKyPD as they swiftly clear rioters illegally blocking roads and a bridge. Cross the line from "peaceful protest" to criminal acts, and you’ve earned your time behind bars. Great work, Covington PD! pic.twitter.com/2pBDDuZiwJ
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) July 18, 2025
Things You’ll Never See on CNN or MSNBC
Gradually, Then Suddenly
So Much For Free Trade
National Post- Mark Carney’s Trumpian moment
In “The Art of War,” the Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” By imposing tariffs on Canada’s non-American trade partners, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking that advice one step further — becoming the enemy he was elected to confront.
Fee-fi-fo-fum
I smell the blood of Kenyan-Hawaiian.
The memo accuses the Biden-Harris administration of directly and indirectly funding “radical leftist” organizations behind the 2023 anti-government protests in Israel. “The Committee’s oversight has revealed that the Biden-Harris Administration provided grant funds to groups that contributed directly and indirectly to the judicial reform protests that sought to undermine the Israeli government,”
But wait, there’s more: “According to the memo, the previous U.S. administration also funded NGOs linked to Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and other terrorist groups.”
I Want A New Country
A just released decision that I’m writing about in the Toronto Sun will make it nearly impossible to hand down adult sentences to young offenders.
Most of the judges ruling on this were appointed by Justin Trudeau, but two of those siding with the majority in the 7-2 ruling were appointed by Stephen Harper including Chief Justice Richard Wagner. The appointment of Wagner to the Supreme Court, later elevated to Chief Justice by Trudeau, may have been Harper’s worst appointment ever.[…]
The language passed by Parliament is pretty clear, if the Crown asks for an adult sentence, the legislation states that the court must be “satisfied” that the two part test to rebut the idea that young offenders have a lower moral culpability has been met. Now, thanks to Wagner and Justice Nicholas Kasirer, who wrote the majority decision, the judge doesn’t just need to be “satisfied” but the Crown must prove their case for an adult sentence “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Yes, you can get convictions on such a standard but saying you need this standard for an adult sentence will effectively make it impossible to meet.
This was a political decision by mostly, but not all, Trudeau court appointees.
Saturday On Turtle Island
Lord Carney’s Canada: The post office joins the Canada is evil movement. Whiny Indians walk out of stolen land summit. CBC attacks Alberta.
Woke America: Nothing to see here. Newsom’s farm workers. A jihad mayor.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Diversity is our strength. The Epping protests. Transgender Muslims? This doesn’t end well.
Your morning meme. Another meme. And at the Bee.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
July 19, 2025: Reader Tips
Honey, I Finished The Internet
For some reason I thought this was real until I saw the gorilla
“In The Days Of My Youth…”
Watched this the other day. Good documentary. I recommend a good sound system and turning it to 11.
Burn The Church
Just Wait Until It Starts Doing Your Taxes
Dave Barry- Death by AI
Give Google AI credit for what it got right: That is, in fact, a picture of me, and I did, in fact, win a Pulitzer Prize (trust me, I’m just as shocked as you are). But to the best of my knowledge, I did not pass away last November 20. That is not just my opinion. In recent months I have been examined by two different licensed physicians, and if I had been dead, I’m pretty sure at least one of them would have mentioned it.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the… pic.twitter.com/UQKKZ5c4Op
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
… top national security officials including FBI Dir James Comey, CIA Dir John Brennan and DNI James Clapper gathered at the Obama White House to discuss Russia. Obama directed the IC to create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling, even though it would contradict multiple intelligence assessments released over the previous several months.
Update: Matt Taibbi weighs in (link corrected).
The material is bolstered throughout by explanations of a whistleblower from then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office. Just this handful of documents holds explosive implications, implicating a much bigger pool of White House officials than previously understood, including Obama himself, in what appears to be a top-down effort to create a false narrative about Russia meddling to help Donald Trump. If there’s an analog in American history, I can’t think of it.
Gold Bars Off The Titanic
Armstrong- EU Proposed €2 Trillion Defense and Climate Budget – Another Crack in the Bloc
The “challenges” von der Leyen is referencing are the looming sovereign debt crisis. They are not actually concerned about Russia invading Europe. Militarization is a political too,l and climate initiatives are the most lucrative tax grab. Brussels sees that it is failing amid a rising wave of nationalism. The net-zero climate change agenda has failed, along with the attempted globalization from the World Economic Forum. The people have lost confidence in their government, and as history goes, leaders will arm up before they step aside.
Then again…
Zerohedge- ‘Unacceptable’: Von der Leyen’s €2 Trillion EU Budget Blasted By Germany Amid Botched Rollout
“A comprehensive increase in the EU budget is unacceptable at a time when all member states are making considerable efforts to consolidate their national budgets,” said Stefan Kornelius, spokesperson for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government in Berlin late Wednesday. “We will therefore not be able to accept the Commission’s proposal.”
47: No WHO For You
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just announced the defeat of authoritarian World Health Organization amendments that tended toward an anti-freedom, unhealthful, unscientific dystopia.
Kennedy joined with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to formally reject the amendments. Critics have long warned these modifications would essentially have given the WHO total control to dictate the United States’ national response to anything it arbitrarily labeled a pandemic.
“The proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations open the door to the kind of narrative management, propaganda, and censorship that we saw during the COVID pandemic,” Kennedy said in a Friday press release. “The United States can cooperate with other nations without jeopardizing our civil liberties, without undermining our Constitution, and without ceding away America’s treasured sovereignty.”
Feels Like “Home”
National Post- ‘Canada is the most infiltrated country’: Iranian Canadians fear the regime’s borderless terror
A suspicious Iranian man called from a pay phone, then showed up unannounced at his office in 2019. Zarezadeh notified both the RCMP and FBI. The Americans responded promptly, informing him that his visitor was an Iranian intelligence officer. Zerezadeh says he never heard back from the Mounties.
There Goes The Narrative
Blacklock’s- No Border Rush After Trump
The number of refugee claimants and illegal immigrants attempting to enter Canada has fallen sharply since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, federal data show. The Canada Border Services Agency had feared a surge of cross-border claimants fleeing American enforcement of immigration laws.