It’s a socialist ambulance.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is the classic, quintessentially American truck drivin’ song: here’s Dave Dudley singing his 1963 smash hit Six Days on the Road.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Ethical Oil
Program note: Ezra Levant will be up shortly on the Charles Adler show to discuss his new book.
Listen live here.
Penalty For Success
Another great video by recyclingfacts.ca
The CBC, Neatly Packaged
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CBC Managing Editor for Manitoba, August 21, 2010 – Complex stories rarely come to us as neat little packages that are immediately ready to broadcast. There is usually evidence to weigh, facts that need confirming, motivations that require questioning and widespread deliberation and investigation to determine what the facts mean. Only after completing that process are we ready to go to air.
Winnipeg Sun, Sept.15th, 2010 – The next time the CBC gets a phone call from a repeat, violent refugee offender who’s been deported to Somalia and who claims he’s being held captive at an airport by armed extremists, they’ll probably think twice before running a story about it. Looks like our public broadcaster got duped this week by convicted criminal and known con artist Mohamed Said Jama.
h/t Mike
Liberal grey cells in, er, action
“Why do these former senior cabinet ministers still live in a world of such apparently impenetrable intellectual fog?”
There’s a responsibility to protect us from Pink Lloyd and Soft Rock
How’s That Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Try As I Might, I Can’t See A Downside
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Wall Street Pit – The Higher Education Bubble: It’s About to Burst
Daily Targum – The report cites campaign finance data from The Huffington Post, which shows that 97 percent of faculty and staff who made donations during the 2008 presidential election donated to Democratic candidates.
Quick – What Does This Image Remind You Of?
*Sigh*
No. Try again….
Bonus: This may be the comments thread of the week.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a bit of a rarity: a song that expresses a conservative viewpoint. It’s a bit corny, but here, by an SDA reader’s request, is Tea Party member and lifelong conservative Ray Stevens (most famous, perhaps, for his 1970 hit Everything Is Beautiful, and for novelty songs like Gitarzan and The Streak) singing Come to the USA.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Those Moderate Muslims!
We don’t need no stinking Mohammed cartoons.
At the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the Seattle-based illustrator and cartoonist whose satirical drawing marking “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” resulted in death threats, global protests and impassioned debate about religion and censorship, has been forced to change her name and abandon her former life as a result of her controversial cartoon.
What we need is an “International Burn Ten Thousand Korans Day”.
I Can See America From My House
The Republicans were warned. Now, they’re being retired. (link fixed)
“That’s the Establishment’s worst nightmare: Irrelevance.”
More headlines at Drudge.
Plus – Bill Buckley’s magazine gets letters.
Maybe it is because of the circles you run in, but I don’t think you understand how angry people are in the country. It was an absolute insult to Republican voters to take someone as awful as Castle and expect the rank and file to vote for him just so Jim DeMint can be majority leader. Republican voters played that game in the 00s. And swallowed their principles and voted for lousy candidates in the name of keeping Democrats out. Well no more. That is the fallout of the 00s. Yeah, people want to get rid of the Democrats. But they are not going to do it if doing so means putting the same garbage that gave us Abramoff and the rest of the 04-06 Congress. And if that offends the delicate sensibilities of NRO and the Republican pundit establishment, well sometimes life is like that. And you better get used to it. Because the days of people like Castle winning in this party are over.
If only there were some sort of technology that could carry political developments in the US to our own Conservative Party headquarters.
Reader Tips
Residents of the prairie provinces, where temperatures have been pretty much autumnal for over a month now, may feel a need to pretend that summer isn’t over yet. Maybe this will help: here’s Andy Williams‘ 1962 recording of A Summer Place.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Jackie Evancho
The Show
In the movie, Bull Durham, Major League Baseball is referred to as, “the show”. Players called up from the farm teams are “going to the show”.
The news today about Layton managing to convince just enough votes to stop Candice Hoeppner’s Bill C-391 is an example of the calibre of the pros in ‘the show’.
For two months now we’ve been inundated with breathless column after angst-ridden opinion berating the NDP for willfully murdering women…or something. Two months the narrative has been how strong Ignatieff is in forcing his will upon the minions and how weak Layton is for standing by the principle of free-vote. The mud-slinging between the Liberals and the NDP became a spectator sport. So hate-filled were the blogs, so driven by rhetoric that for the most part a gun control blog post was unreadable for its unreliable “facts”, stretched statistics and irrelevant anecdotes.
Up until last week.
Last week, a dribble at time, rural NDP MP’s began to release revised intentions regarding their vote.
Today, Layton has the votes, if only just. He resisted pressure from many of his supposed allies. He faced attack after attack from partisan Liberals who think the NDP’s misfortune is their gain. He let them take the lead, set their feet and entrench their positions. He gave them more than enough rope and lo, they’ve hung themselves. At a time when the opposition can’t buy press all anyone talked about was Jack and gun control. When Ignatieff was out trying to convince the outback that he really was a real person, Jack was working.
The NDP have controlled the media focus for two months and have just pulled the rug out from under the red-faced liberals.
Now what, Mr. Ignatieff? Now what? The gun control bogey-man is really a charitable, conciliator, concerned more with persuasion than coercion. You and your entourage have said things, written things, intimated things that can’t be taken back. You’ve been out-foxed by a pro…again.
You had better hope you have that leash tight on those Liberal MP’s you’ve left hanging out. You’d better hope that there are no more NFLD budget revolts, no more blue liberals on abortion when it comes to this vote.
Welcome to the pros, Mr. Ignatieff. Enjoy your time, because if this goes wrong for you, like Bull Durham, you won’t last long in the show.
A George Soros Funded Petition Goes Horribly Wrong
According to the release that just hit my inbox, Avaaz has “formally requested that the Ottawa Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin a criminal investigation to determine the identity of the individual responsible for adding fraudulent signatures from an Ottawa IP address to the organization’s “Stop ‘Fox News North'” petition.”
Why, if such a crime goes unanswered, the very integrity of online petitions – even polls – could be imperiled!
Yet…
I haven’t registered any guns and Heather Mallick is still alive.
I Repeat
“Not showing up to riot” is a failed conservative policy.
Y2Kyoto: Save The Planet
If anthropogenic global warming and sustainability are among the central pillars of environmentalism, one would think there would be unanimous opposition to open borders in the environmental community, but the situation is more complex.
Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, explained that as a key part of the liberal community, many environmentalists –who understand that immigration harms the environment — are afraid to take a stand against it because it is not politically correct to do so and it will upset the liberal political establishment. […]
Many environmentalist groups have their hands tied to do or say anything against prevailing immigration talking points due to their alliances with groups supporting immigration reform and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United States. “None of the national environmental groups want to be the first ones to stick their heads out in this cause,” Beck said. “There is an entire network set up to stifle conversation by calling groups that speak out ‘racist,’ or ‘xenophobic,’ etc. Nobody wants to step out on their own…It shows just how much ideology, political correctness, and fear controls these people.”
Or – if you believe that reducing our carbon footprint is a good thing, but that reducing third world immigration is a bad thing – you might be a liberal!
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