For A Tuesday

So it goes....


A very good argument for mothers of young children being able to stay home with them, for freedom to eat what one wishes and for telling people to cram it:

A Manitoba mother is speaking out against a bizarre daycare policy that caused her to receive a $10 fine for not including Ritz crackers in her kids' lunches.

On the day the fine was administered, Kristen Bartkiw of Rossburn, Man. sent her two kids to school with a lunch of homemade roast beef, potatoes, carrots, an orange and milk. But according to The Little Cub's Den daycare, her lunches lacked a grain and therefore violated the province's school lunch policy.

(Sidebar: okay, what kind of baby-minding centre would come up with this mandatory menu and what kind of parent would agree with this lunacy?)

This absurd reach for control will be attempted again. One hopes that this "fine" will not be paid.


Who was helped by the banning of a toy drive?

An elementary school in Cayce is canceling a Christmas toy drive after a threat of legal action.

East Point Academy is a publically-funded charter school under the South Carolina Public Charter School District. About 360 students attend.

For the past three years, the school has participated in “Operation Christmas Child.” Under the program, kids collect toys, pencils and other small items, pack them into shoe boxes, and donate to needy children.

That now has to stop after the school received a letter Monday from the American Humanist Association, a national nonprofit organization with over 20,000 members and 125,000 supporters across the country, according to the letter.

The mission of American Humanist Association’s legal center, according to the letter, is “to protect one of the most fundamental principles of (American) democracy: the Constitutional mandate requiring separation of church and state.”

The letter called the school’s involvement in Operation Christmas Child “unconstitutional.”

"The letter was very explicit that there would be litigation against us if we did not stop," said school East Point Academy’s principal, Renee Mathews.

Mathews said that of the two full years the school has participated, before the practice was stopped with the letter, about 100 families participated each year.

While I'm sure these humanists are patting themselves on the back for halting a charity no one had a problem with for two years, there will be, doubtless, children who have no reason to thank them.

You've made this guy proud, humanists.

One-hundred and fifty years ago, a real president wrote this:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A lesser man excised the mention of God from the Gettysburg Address:

Washington DC talk show host Chris Plante reported today that Barack Obama omitted the words "under God" from the Gettysburg Address when reciting the great speech for a Ken Burns documentary.  

 
What would one expect from someone who thinks he is a god himself?

Not to worry. He is also a prick to his employees:

Dan Bongino, the former Secret Service agent who is running for Congress, said Obamacare has canceled the very health insurance given to federal workers that he converted into a private plan for his family when he left the job.

He's an equal-opportunity jerk.


When the vain and empty-headed are given a platform, who knows what they will say?

Elle magazine has been accused of "deplorable ignorance" for a fashion shoot on the theme of North Korean "military chic."

Wow! People are starving to death under the thumb of a dictator but man, can those soldiers rock a pair of boots before dragging an entire family to a concentration camp!


An ancient city is discovered in Israel:

Archaeologists have unearthed traces of a previously unknown, 14th-century Canaanite city buried underneath the ruins of another city in Israel.

The traces include an Egyptian amulet of Amenhotep III and several pottery vessels from the Late Bronze Age unearthed at the site of Gezer, an ancient Canaanite city.

Gezer was once a major center that sat at the crossroads of trade routes between Asia and Africa, said Steven Ortiz, a co-director of the site's excavations and a biblical scholar at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

The remains of the ancient city suggest the site was used for even longer than previously known.

 (Merci)

Monday Post

Quickly now...


The beleaguered Toronto mayor Rob Ford is stripped of most of his mayoral powers:

Toronto city council voted to strip Mayor Rob Ford of more of his powers Monday evening, following a day of debate that descended into chaos at times and left one councillor with a fat lip.

Councillors voted on each measure included in the motion separately, including a vote of 37-5 to reduce the mayor’s budget, a vote of 36-6 to transfer the remaining mayoral budget to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly and a vote of 30-10 to prevent the mayor from designating key items for council debate.

Mayor Ford abstained from voting on the advice of the city’s integrity commissioner. Ford is now essentially the mayor in name only, with most of his powers transferred to Kelly.

Remember- the Toronto left wanted a known drug user as mayor and would elect in a woman who lived in housing meant for low-income families when she could have afforded to live elsewhere.

Carry on.

(Merci)


Captain Clueless strikes again:

While Trudeau’s comments were made at the Sioux Valley First Nations elementary school, Jillian Austin, a reporter for the Brandon Sun newspaper, said the Liberal leader was speaking to a group of teenage high-school students in the gym.

Trudeau's statement on marijuana was a response to a question from a student, she said.

Austin said Trudeau started by saying that marijuana was dangerous for young people, because their minds are still developing, but that he believes regulating pot will make it safer for children.

The high school students had come to the elementary school for the event, said the school.

MacKay said the comments reflect poorly on Trudeau.

``We have no intention of decriminalizing marijuana. And he can shout this from the hilltops as much as he likes, but going before school children, in my view, crosses the line of appropriate behaviour for a federal leader.''

That's what aboriginal teen-agers need- more drugs. Screw this full citizenship/education/opportunity crap. More drugs mean more Liberal votes.

Doesn't Trudeau ever think before he speaks?


Obama is too proud and stupid to kill his failed legacy:

It's still an extraordinarily remote possibility that Obama would actually sign a bill repealing Obamacare. He may as well resign if he does that because he would be dead politically. But overriding a presidential veto is now a scenario to be considered. It's not likely - at the moment. But if blue state Democratic senators who now seem a safe bet for re-election start feeling the heat, anything is possible.

No, Obama won't sign the ACA's death warrant. But it may die anyway - with or without the help of Democrats.

And now, differences between American "English" and British English.

Mid-Week Post

Where there is fire, smoke will also appear...


We don't have to belong to the UN :

Observers were left wondering whether it was opposite day at the United Nations Tuesday, when the international body elected some of the world's most notorious human-rights abusers to its Human Rights Council.

China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cuba were among the six countries most recently voted in to the UNHRC, where they now join other countries with dubious human-rights records, including Pakistan, the Congo and the United Arab Emirates.

President Guen-Hye Park has been attacked before but this shot across the bow from North Korea's Fattest takes the kimchi:

Park Geun Hye again let loose a whole string of rubbish malignantly slandering the DPRK, urging it to "dismantle its nukes" and settle "human rights issues" during her recent trips to various countries of Europe. ...

What she uttered during her recent European trips clearly proved that "summit talks" and the like touted by her were nothing but sheer hypocrisy and her ulterior motive is to stand in confrontation with the DPRK to the end.


An adage says once you get a bad habit, it will stay with you. Park likes to speak ill of compatriots in foreign countries, forgetful of "presidency." She looks like a meddlesome countrywoman fond of backbiting others, lost to shame.


Moreover, she changed her dress several times a day and made flattery towards others, uttering some words in their languages like a parrot. She was so disgraceful to behave so.

 
She behaved like a stateswoman defending her First World nation with competence and vigor. Perhaps she should spend money on a ski resort while her people starve?

(Kamsahamnida)


Oh wow! Really?

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has changed his tune on mandatory minimum sentences several times this week, most recently settling on the stance that, in general, he favours "less crime" achieved through being "a lot smarter on our approach," though he's a little hazy on the details.

There are douchebags who would vote in the intellectually shallow Trudeau tomorrow were it possible.


Of course he did:

Accused killer Luka Rocco Magnotta entered fresh not-guilty pleas on Wednesday ahead of a highly anticipated trial that is scheduled to begin in 10 months.

Speaking of disgusting people:

A new guide from the government of P.E.I. is telling parents that it is “natural and healthy” for young children to “touch the ‘private parts’ of familiar adults” and to look at “nude pictures on the Internet, videos, magazines”. Parents are also being told that they should not discourage their children from masturbating. 

The grooming of children for perverts starts in the schools. Read the above and tell me I'm wrong.


This wouldn't happen if you paid them well from the beginning:

Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at garment workers who stitch clothes for Western retailers during clashes on Tuesday as demonstrations against low wages intensified, an officer said.

Some 40,000 workers downed tools and took to the streets in the Ashulia export zone on the outskirts of Dhaka for the second day, forcing around 200 factories to suspend production, police and factory owners said.

The workers are demanding a wage hike to $100 per month instead of the rise to $67 approved last week by the Minimum Wage Board after rounds of meetings with industry, unions and government representatives.

I didn't think Jews were allowed to remain alive in Afghanistan:

Zabulon Simintov always removes his kippah, the skullcap worn by Jewish men, before entering his cafe in a dilapidated building that also houses Afghanistan's last synagogue.

"Let me take off my cap, otherwise people will think something bad about me," Simintov said cheerfully as he descended grime-caked stairs to the ground-floor cafe.

In his 50s, Simintov is the last known Afghan Jew to remain in the country. He has become something of a celebrity over the years and his rivalry with the next-to-last Jew, who died in 2005, inspired a play.

Mindful of Afghanistan's extremely conservative Muslim culture, Simintov tries not to advertise his identity to protect the Balkh Bastan or Ancient Balkh kebab cafe he opened four years ago, naming it after a northern Afghan province.

(Sidebar: there's no "conservative" Islamism; there is only Islam as Mohammad wanted it practised making Mr. Simintov's survival astounding).


Some happy news:

One of the strongest Typhoons in recorded history swept through the central Philippines killing at least 10,000 people and dislocating as many as 500,000 people. Amid the widespread despair emerged a rare moment of joy when 21-year old Emily Ortega gave birth to a baby girl. Her birth was miraculous because her mother was in an evacuation centre and had to swim and cling to a post to survive before she found safety at Tacloban airport. “She is my miracle. I had thought I would die with her still inside me when high waves came and took us all away,” Ortega told AFP

On a Monday

Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget. 

("Aftermath", Siegfried Sassoon) 


A day not to forget.


On this day, let us never forget all Canadians who served their country while one prime minister scooted around supporting the Nazis and his son who gave tribute to a country whose human wave tactics were meant to exhaust and wipe out both Canadian and Korean forces.


And what a joke it was!

Various groups in Canada whose members suffered under Chinese Communist policies have denounced Trudeau's statements. But a bizarre CBC panel on Friday night seemed to imply Trudeau was the one wronged.

Maclean's Martin Patriquin was certain Trudeau was joking.

Panelist Kelly Cryderman, from the Globe & Mail, said "you have to wonder if he misheard the question."

It was then mentioned that after Trudeau's weird comment he said "Sun News can now report that I prefer China."

(Sidebar: and how!)


This is why journalists deserve contempt. Helping such a man as Trudeau win an election despite his obvious idiocy is condemning this country to the slow, lingering death the Americans are now dying. It's bad enough there is still a popular press covering for Obama's many, many, many mistakes but that the CBC would have Canada make such a blunder as picking the Fils for leader is unforgivable. Trudeau wasn't joking. He's not even smart enough to tell a dark joke. He was serious, just as his father was when he praised Mao Tse Tung (see: HUMAN WAVE TACTICS, FAMINE, WAR, hell- any of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse).

Starvation in Chinese-backed North Korea- fodder for the CBC/Trudeau joke machine

Related: he's being contrary just for the sake of it:

Trudeau was on Twitter Sunday afternoon answering questions from his followers. Some wanted to know his favourite movie - "probably The Shawshank Redemption" - while others wanted to know his most recent iTunes purchase - the latest album from the U.S. indie pop band Fun.

But Michael Gismondi asked Trudeau: "Would a Trudeau-led federal government reconsider the slew of new mandatory minimum sentences recently rolled out by the (Conservatives)?"

Trudeau responded: "I (and the Liberal party) trust the judiciary to do their jobs well, so yes."

Shallow and willing to further empower activists judges. Douchebag. 


You don't say:

Polio that has crippled at least 13 children in Syria has been confirmed as being caused by a strain of the virus that originated in Pakistan and is spreading across the Middle East, the World Health Organization said.

And now, a song for remembrance.

Friday Post

Quickly now...

Like pere, like fils:

"Which nation, besides Canada, which nation's administration do you most admire, and why?"

It took Trudeau a minute to consider the question.

The marketing of this event had become controversial because it suggested these ladies might want to ask what was in the e-vite like "What's your favourite virtue?" or "Who are your real-life heroes?" Maybe Trudeau was expecting one of those. ...

But the question at hand, sir, which country's government does the Liberal Party's candidate for prime minister in 2015 most admire?

Trudeau's answer: "You know, there's a level of of admiration I actually have for China ..."  ...

"You know, there's a level of of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say 'we need to go green fastest . . . we need to start investing in solar.' I mean there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting."

Oh, how droll!

Does the Shiny Pony admire the one-state dictatorship that mowed down students during the Tienanmen Square demonstrations?

This extraordinary document provides the detailed account of a sourcewho witnessed firsthand the violence at Tiananmen Square on the night ofJune 3-4. The source indicated that the students had believed that the soldiers would be firing rubber bullets and that "he had a sickening feeling when he noticed the bullets striking sparks off the pavement near his feet." His and other eyewitness descriptions represent an effort by diplomatic reporters to gather evidence about the crackdown and get the story straight. Most impressive in the account is the source’s graphic description of a PLA tank crushing 11 students under its wheels on the morning of June 4. Comments at the end of the document indicate that the source’s version dovetails with the comments of other sources, concluding that, "We find his account of that episode credible. His accounts of other incidents are worth recording as other evidence becomes available." 

Does he marvel at China's "green" policies?

The overall air quality index had improved to a measure of 397, or "severely polluted". Earlier on Tuesday, the figure exceeded 500, the highest level on the Chinese scale. 

Residents of the far northeastern city described a smog that began choking people as much as a week ago but worsened considerably on Sunday night. 

**

The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.

Hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes in the city of Baotou, and patrolled by platoons of security guards, lies a five-mile wide ‘tailing’ lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill and put one of China’s key waterways in jeopardy.

**

“At the junction of Ningxia province and Inner Mongolia province, I saw a tall chimney puffing out golden smoke covering the blue sky, large tracts of the grassland have become industrial waste dumps; unbearable foul smell made people want to cough; Surging industrial sewage flowed into the Yellow River…”

Or maybe the ladies' man likes how they treat their women?

It is true, nonetheless, that such tragedies — an inadequate word — usually occur among the poor. A girl, rural people believe, will not be able to burn incense for the ancestors, who will starve without it, her family will not be accorded the little morsel of extra land which is the right of a boy, and if she is lucky enough to marry, she will ‘disappear’ into her husband’s family. The mother’s neighbours will pity her. Better to kill the useless creature.

Hence this deadly statistic, not mentioned by Xinran: while the natural male-female gender ratio should be 103 or 104 males for every 100 females, in China, depending on the region, this varies from 110 to at least 130 males for every 100 females. One catastrophic result is a shortage of wives and the kidnapping of girls to be sold as wives in other parts of China. Chinese women also have the highest suicide rate in the world.

**

According to the Chinese news service Global Times, the woman in the photos is 23-year-old Feng Jianmei from the province of Ankang, who was “forced to the hospital and given an injection to kill her unborn baby on June 2 after her family failed to pay a 40,000-yuan ($6,320) fine, according to her family.”

**

Young North Korean women who manage to slip into neighbouring China, are sometimes sold into marriage by human trafficers posing as brokers. Some of them are raped and beaten by their new Chinese husbands and if they complain, face being sent back to North Korea where they might be thrown in prison. Those who managed to escape to South Korea have shocked many with their harrowing stories.

Yes, the women who attended this event sure know how to pick their leaders.


Omar Khadr, who admitted he killed Americans, wants his convictions overturned:

As Omar Khadr prepares to challenge his war crimes convictions in the United States, Canada's public safety minister is unmoved.

Steven Blaney says he's just glad Khadr, 27, is behind bars at the maximum-security Edmonton Institution serving out his eight-year sentence.

"We live in a society of law," Blaney said Friday. "For our part, we feel that those who commit and plead guilty to heinous crimes should be in a facility that reflects the nature of their crime."

Khadr's American lawyer, Sam Morison, says his client will appeal five war crimes convictions in the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review in Washington, D.C.

No, he's not sorry at all:

On Thursday, President Barack Obama apologized for lying to the American people about whether they could keep their insurance plans under Obamacare. Millions of Americans have received cancellation letters from their insurance companies after the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges went into effect in October. 

He lied and given Iran what it wants:

Well, that price has now, eight months later, been revealed, and it has two components. If I might paraphrase the U.S. position as presented to Israel: “First, sit by quietly as we reach an accord with Tehran that freezes but does not dismantle its nuclear buildup. Second, stop the illegitimate residential construction on the West Bank or the Palestinian Authority will, with American acquiescence, start a third intifada.” 

He's now the global problem we all face.


And now, something about sharks:

A team of scientists working along the coastal waterways of South Carolina have made an amazing discovery — a previously unidentified species of hammerhead shark that was essentially 'hiding' in plain sight.

It's understandable that this new species, now called the Carolina hammerhead or Sphyrna gilberti, went unnoticed until now. They're what's known as a 'cryptic species', since they're virtually indistinguishable from the more common scalloped hammerhead shark. You can't tell them apart from each other just by sight alone.

If you wanted to get close enough (scalloped hammerheads have attacked people in the past), you could count the number of vertebrae they have their spine, and you'll find that the Carolina hammerhead has 10 fewer than the scalloped hammerhead. However, ichthyologist Joe Quattro and his team only found out about the differences in vertebrae after the fact. The first indications of a new species they found was after collecting DNA samples from various hammerheads that were raising pups along the South Carolina coastline. According to the UofSC news release, some of the samples showed a different 'genetic signature' from the others, revealing that they were looking at two different species, even though they physically looked alike.

Thursday Post

Ugh:

What was billed as a cheeky, non-traditional ad to promote a fundraiser Thursday night with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is being denounced as a sexist come-on that demeans the contribution women make to federal politics.

The poster for the ad is a square divided into nine boxes. In four of those boxes, the same portrait Trudeau uses for his Twitter feed is reproduced and each one is given the Andy Warhol treatment with a different colour shade. The box in the middle reads, "Cocktails. Candid conversation. Curiosity-inducing ideas. 

Ladies, you're invited to (really) get to know the future prime minister."

The other boxes contain questions. "What's your favourite virtue?" "Who are your real-life heroes?" "What is the biggest issue facing women?"

The marketing of the event brought quick censure from female NDP and Conservative politicians.

"This isn't just demeaning, it's stupid," NDP MP Megan Leslie said on her Facebook page. "Stupid stupid stupid. All issues are women's issues. And you know what, we can wear pants and drive cars and vote and have jobs and we can have political opinions. The economy is a women's issue, Justin. Health Care is a women's issue, Justin. And you know what? Keystone XL *ahem* is a women's issue."

(Sidebar: shut up, Megan Leslie. Shouldn't you be turn-coating about now?)


This kind of sickening vote-trolling ploy is not just nauseating but it's expected of any member of the Liberal party. It's appalling to any right-thinking individual, particularly women-voters who just find Trudeau fils insufferable. Will it work? Look at the airheads who think Justin's just the dreamiest, the ones who don't mind being patted on the head and told they're just pretty as postcards.

God help us all.


Anti-semitism in Quebec:

Watch as a man is assaulted by two Muslim broads for even daring to discuss the proposed law against religious garb in public buildings. He is called a "filthy Jew", among other things.





Is it still too late to strap Kathleen Wynne to a rocket and fire her into the sun?

Ontario's Liberal government came under fire Thursday after saying it is on track to eliminate an $11.7-billion deficit by 2017-18, but will keep spending if the economy weakens further. ...

The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation said the lack of cuts and the continued spending means Ontario is "abandoning any hope" of a balanced budget.

"Stimulus spending hasn't worked in the past," said CTF Ontario Director Candice Malcolm. "In Ontario, it simply slowed our recovery and left us with a mountain of debt to be paid off by future taxpayers."

The fall economic update put the province's debt figure at a whopping $272 billion, more than double what it was when the Liberals were first elected in 2003.

Oh, look- more misspent money:

A British Columbia aboriginal agency charged with delivering child welfare services to First Nations youth is defending its work despite a damning report by the children's watchdog that it has received millions in funding, but has nothing to show for it.

The province hands out about $90 million each year to 23 delegated aboriginal agencies responsible for child welfare programs. But B.C.'s Children and Youth Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond slammed the government this week for having a dismal record of accounting for how that money is spent.

According to the report, some agencies such as the Nanaimo-based Kw'umut Lelum Child and Family Services has received almost $8 million from the Ministry of Children and Family Development over the past five years. It has 71 cases opened as of March, mostly involving youth in foster care.

In contrast, the Denisiqi Services Society, based in the province's Central Interior, has received nearly $5 million in the same time period, but has yet to open a file to account for a child being served, the report said.

Kate Mulgrew is planning her memoirs for 2015:

Kate Mulgrew has figured out a way to introduce her two great passions, acting and writing, to each other: She's working on a memoir.

Little, Brown and Company announced a deal Thursday with Mulgrew, the actress known for her roles in "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Ryan's Hope." The 58-year-old Mulgrew will tell the story of being an unmarried mother who gave up her daughter for adoption during the start of her career, her reunion with her daughter in 2001 and "the costs and rewards of a passionate life."

The book is untitled and scheduled to come out in May 2015.

Wheee!

I do hope it explains how Voyager could go off the rails.

Mid-Week Post

Inside the work week, one finds its nucleus...


Only three?

The suspension of three former Conservative senators without pay did not stop the opposition parties from keeping up their attacks on Stephen Harper over what his office knew about a plan to repay the inappropriate expenses of senator Mike Duffy.

(Sidebar: I'd like to ask why some MPs can be citizens of France or can take money from schools and charities but that's just me.)


Why did you ask them to do that, Justin?

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau advised his caucus to abstain from the controversial Tuesday night vote to suspend three former Conservative senators.

Maybe this might explain it:

The scandal-plagued Senate has a cheerleader in Justin Trudeau after the Liberal leader said he wouldn't abolish the chamber because it's to Quebec's gain over other provinces to keep the lights on.

Trudeau has to be appalled at the senate scandal but won't abolish it, not unless it serves his purposes to do so, which it doesn't.

Related: Carbon taxes don't work. They don't decrease pollution but they do increase revenue for the government at the expense of taxpayers, some of whom are working-class low-income families. They also kill jobs. So, why would a price on carbon pollution work?

By the way, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

Carry on.


At this time, I would like to point out that the Toronto left wanted to vote for a known drug addict.

Just throwing that out there.


Yeah, they should:

The pacifist group behind a "white poppy" pin campaign is reconsidering whether to hand them out at next week's national Remembrance Day ceremony.

"Certainly we don't want to cause a disruption or offend anybody," Rideau Institute president Steven Staples said Wednesday.

 
But you have offended people.


It's... it's ... beautiful....

No. There’s no sugar-coating it – your votes for Democrats have ensured that you are the first generation in American history that will fail to exceed what their parents attained. Embracing liberalism was a stupid thing to do, done for the stupidest of reasons, and I will now let you subsidize my affluent lifestyle without a shred of guilt.  

I’m a 48 year old trial lawyer living on the coast in California – I should have “Hope and Change” tattooed on my glutes. I’d have an excuse to be lib-curious, but you Millennials? Why do you support an ideology that pillages you to pay-off Democrat constituencies? Your time in the indoctrination factories of academia trained you in a form of “critical thinking” that is neither. Somehow, you came to embrace the bizarre notion that conservatives are psychotic Jesus freaks who want to Footloosisze America into a land of mandatory Sunday school and no dancing. 

But liberals, in contrast, are nice. Obama is cool. You chose petty fascism with a smile. Not a lot of thought went into it. Facts, evidence – these were mere distractions from the feelings-based validation that came from rejecting us wicked conservatives. 

What did you get? The chance to be forced to buy health insurance you don’t want at inflated rates so my rates can be lower. You get to pay more out of your monthly barista take – liberalism ensured that the tanked job market foreclosed a real career – so that I get to pay less out of my lawyer checks. Thanks, suckers....

So feel free to keep voting for the liberals who keep you in chains. I’ll take my cheaper insurance, my future Social Security checks, and the other benefits that come from being established without guilt. The guys who you squander your votes upon certainly won’t change that equation. You’ll tread water in life, but hey, at least those conservatives won’t be in charge! 

Thanks again, suckers. Now get off my lawn.

Feel free to laugh at liberals and leftists. They've earned their poverty and despair.

(Merci)


Pope Francis gives an example of brotherly love:

Pope Francis concluded Wednesday’s general audience in St Peter’s Square in Rome by kissing a man covered in boils and joining him in prayer.

And now, the coolest way to thwart a crime:

A Hemet woman who awoke to find a burglar at her bedside Saturday turned the tables on the intruder by brandishing an ax.

Robyn Irvine said she was asleep in bed with her cat when she heard a clicking sound and awoke to feel a stranger trying to remove the watch from her wrist.

“He was kneeled down right here face-to-face with me,” Irvine said.

The former ax-throwing competitor grabbed the weapon she keeps by her side at all times.

 (Sidebar: yeah, you read that right.)

The World Is Taking Crazy Pills (the Redux-iest)

Apparently, so is Toronto mayor Rob Ford:

Despite his stunning admission that he has smoked crack cocaine, Mayor Rob Ford says he is not stepping down or taking a leave of office.

"I feel like I got 1,000 pounds off my back," Ford told the Toronto Sun. "I felt I had to say it. It is what is. I feel two inches high right now but I needed to deal with it. I am not going to quit or take a leave."

"I am not an addict or an alcoholic. I have work to do and I am moving on. The way I see it now, this is over."

(Sidebar: well, not quite. See: DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, LEFTIST; PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER FORGIVE IMMIGRANTS FOR VOTING FOR ROB FORD IN THE FIRST PLACE)

Disappointed Turtle just doesn't know what to say.

Now that this scandalous confession has been made to see the light, can we get on the case of an unaccomplished son of a former prime minister who not only admitted he smoked pot but wants to legalise it, as well, and the harm-reduction sites that don't reduce harm. And let's not forget the Ontario premier who lied, wasted tax dollars and who, with the help of an accused child pornographer, pushed for an obscene sex ed program for kindergarten students.


Speaking of obscene:

Pedophilia is not a “sexual orientation,” and erroneous use of that phrase will be corrected soon in its new manual on mental illnesses, the American Psychiatric Association said Thursday.

The APA’s statement came in response to media inquiries, including from The Washington Times, about an uproar on the Internet that the APA had designated pedophilia as a sexual orientation in its new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5 or DSM-V.

Or they could just call it a crime and a sin and put these monsters on a rock in Baffin Island in the middle of January.

Moving on...

Brock University had better throw the book at these people:

 

(WARNING: serious douchebaggery ahead)

 

Pro-abortion students at Brock University who disrupted a speech by a pro-life activist on campus are threatening the university with legal action if it does not drop disciplinary charges it filed against two of the students. 

 "Brock Security overreacted and the attention on this matter should be directed at the leadership of the security team at Brock, not at the students who only expressed their rights to peacefully protest,” the group, which calls itself the “The Dark Circle Collective,” stated in a press release. 

(Sidebar: what did I tell you?)

“We demand that the charges be dismissed immediately and without any further action.” 

The group threatened Brock University with legal action if it did not dismiss the charges.

 

The audacity!

 

At this point, this is not freedom of speech on their part. It is about their unwillingness to be sophisticated adults in the face of disagreement and how everyone else should deal with it. They are the apes throwing bones after seeing that black thing in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Why should anyone, whatever their opinions on the matter, be subjected to the kind of Cro-Magnon thuggery these people so gleefully display? Kick their @$$es out of university and let them try that crap in Russia.

Speaking of douchebags...

 

A pacifist campaign to distribute "white poppy" pins in the week leading up to Remembrance Day is getting under the skin of the veterans affairs minister. ...

The University of Ottawa's Celyn Dufay said Monday the pins are meant for those who "don't want to celebrate war."

He also said he and others hoped to distribute the pins at the national Remembrance Day ceremony next week, which also displeases Fantino.

"That's even more inappropriate," said the minister.

 

I think he should be bothered that men who risked their lives so that he can proudly display his willful ignorance would find white poppies offensive.

China tries to extort the world... again!

China will be "flexible" in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

What happened to all the money the world gives China for its slave labour-made products? Are they going to clean Harbin's air with it?


If I was Mitt Romney, I would shoot a commercial outside of the lavish cabin my hard-earned money paid for and remind stupid voters that they willingly believed the pernicious lie that he condemned a woman to die from cancer and are choosing to ignore Obama's clear disregard for human life:

“Perhaps the most important lesson the president, I think, failed to learn was, you have to tell the American people the truth,” Mr. Romney said. “And when he told the American people that you could keep your health insurance if you wanted to keep that plan, period, he said that time and again, he wasn't telling the truth. And I think that fundamental dishonesty has really put in peril the whole foundation of his second term.”

Yeah, the truth. I think Obama is genetically incapable of it.


And now, something with bees:

An overturned tractor-trailer let loose millions of honeybees on Sunday and left a sticky mess on a major highway south of Atlanta, after hitting a guardrail and spilling its cargo of hives and honey.

I Just Saw This

This is pretty awesome:

The Walking Dead Gets Simpsonized in Eerily Good Fan Art

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Quickly now...

There's a reason why it is emotionally gratifying to see hacks lose influence and their positions:

According to the Financial Post, Halliburton Canada vice-president John Gorman served up the stuff in champagne bottles at the Quebec Oil and Gas Association's annual luncheon to demonstrate that the international petroleum-services giant's trademarked CleanStim fracking fluid is not environmentally dangerous.

“We were trying to show that whenever the oil and gas industry is shown a challenge, we view it as an opportunity to find solutions," he said. "And in this case, we only had to replace very few chemicals with some food additives.”

Gorman conceded no company in Canada and just a few in the United States have used this drinkable fracking fluid so far, partly because it's new and costs more, the Post reported. Yes, he and other fracking proponents hope it demonstrates that the industry is serious about allaying fears about the environmental impact of fracking. ...

Hydraulic fracturing  is a method for getting gas kilometers under the ground. As ground water reserves are closer to the ground than the gas reserves, the clearest way for contamination is poor quality of the pipes used. Otherwise:

New research led by UK-based Durham University suggests that a minimum distance of 0.6km from sensitive rock strata is required to undertake safe fracking operations.

The probability of rogue fractures from shale gas fracking operations extending beyond 0.6km from the injection source is very low, while the probability of fractures extending beyond 350m is 1%, according to the study.

Richard Davies, Durham University director of Durham Energy Institute, said: "Based on our observations, we believe that it may be prudent to adopt a minimum vertical separation distance for stimulated fracturing in shale reservoirs."

"Such a distance should be set by regulators; our study shows that for new exploration areas where there is no existing data, it should be significantly in excess of 0.6km," added Davies.

"Minimum vertical separation distances for fracturing operations would help prevent unintentional penetration of shallow rock strata."

The research also concluded that the likelihood of ground water contamination is "negligible" while fracking at shallower depths in aquifers, when there is a separation of more than 1km.

And:

Energy researchers defended fracking - a controversial method of natural gas extraction from underground rocks - at an international meeting Thursday, even though opponents maintain the process pollutes groundwater and causes earthquakes.

Investigators blamed underground water pollution and other environmental problems associated with fracking on improper techniques instead of the hydraulic fracturing extraction process itself.

The bottom line conclusion of our study is that in the states we investigated, we found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing itself had contaminated shallow groundwater, Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas and lead researcher of the study said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Thursday.

The researchers examined four states with major fracking operations: Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and New York. The investigators said they found no evidence that fracking necessarily caused groundwater contamination.

What happens when heavy metals used to make wind turbines get into the water?

On the outskirts of one of China’s most polluted cities, an old farmer stares despairingly out across an immense lake of bubbling toxic waste covered in black dust. He remembers it as fields of wheat and corn.

Yan Man Jia Hong is a dedicated Communist. At 74, he still believes in his revolutionary heroes, but he despises the young local officials and entrepreneurs who have let this happen. 

‘Chairman Mao was a hero and saved us,’ he says. ‘But these people only care about money. They have destroyed our lives.’

Vast fortunes are being amassed here in Inner Mongolia; the region has more than 90 per cent of the world’s legal reserves of rare earth metals, and specifically neodymium, the element needed to make the magnets in the most striking of green energy producers, wind turbines. 

Live has uncovered the distinctly dirty truth about the process used to extract neodymium: it has an appalling environmental impact that raises serious questions over the credibility of so-called green technology. 

The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.

Hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes in the city of Baotou, and patrolled by platoons of security guards, lies a five-mile wide ‘tailing’ lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill and put one of China’s key waterways in jeopardy.

 

(Sidebar: please feel free to comment on how both the communist and green philosophies eat people alive.)

Further:

But opposition has grown with stories of contaminated groundwater and now familiar YouTube videos of people turning their kitchen faucets into Bunsen burners.

Yeah, about that:

Like the Colorado area where Josh Fox took his infamous video and falsely blamed it on hydraulic fracturing, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, for example, has long been known for such shallow methane with as many as 78% of water wells exhibiting methane.  A study entitled “The Impact of Marcellus Gas Drilling on Rural Drinking Water Supplies” was conducted by researchers from the Pennsylvania State University and was funded by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. The research showed there were no major influences from natural gas production, or hydraulic fracturing, on nearby water wells.

And more:

Protests have cropped up in New Brunswick, where First Nations people clashed with police trying to break up a blockade targeting a shale-gas exploration program, and in Nova Scotia, where CTV News reports people are trying to prevent renewal of a fracking operation that ended six years ago.

Tell the story properly, Mr. Mertl, that aboriginal thugs have threatened people, forced them out of their cars, destroyed property and are planning more violence.




Moving on...


Oh no! No one loves the Teflon Don-in-Chief. This might be why:

President Barack Obama, defiant against mounting criticism of his troubled healthcare plan, vowed on Monday to press ahead with the rollout and asked supporters to help as the White House struggled to gain control of the debate over his signature achievement.

Yes, ask the little people not to make you look bad.


Does anybody remember this guy?

The mother of jailed U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae, who is serving a 15-year sentence for state subversion in North Korea, said that her son remained isolated and was desperate for contact to the outside world a year after he was first detained.

Myunghee Bae, in an op-ed published in the Seattle Times, provided details about her October visit to the Pyongyang hospital where her son, who is diabetic, was recovering from health ailments that saw him lose 50 pounds in three months.

"It pained me to see how starved he was for a connection to home and the outside world, alone and ailing in a foreign prison," Bae wrote in the piece, published on Sunday. "I tried to reassure him that he was not forgotten."

"He has been isolated for one year without anybody to talk to other than his guards and doctors. I could not imagine how hard that must have been for Kenneth, who has always been so outgoing and talkative," she wrote.

 

Not a fashionable enough cause?

And now, thirty delicious things to make in November.

 

Halloween Week: Coda

What he said:

Justin Trudeau is only fit to win Canadian Idol and not the next election, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

And he also admitted to smoking pot and his party is morally and financially corrupt. Just throwing it out there.


Oh, look- another crazed individual with a gun:

A man pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot his way past a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing a TSA officer and wounding two other people in an attack that sent terrified travellers running for cover and disrupted flights from coast to coast, authorities said.

This will explode, predictably and melodramatically, into demands for gun control and the circus shall start from there. It should start with the fact that armed guards were removed from LAX months ago.



Shut up, North Korea:

North Korea, one of the world's worst human-rights abusers, used a United Nations committee this week to publicly denounce Canada's rights record.

The incident is another example of a trend that fuels the Harper government's disdain for the UN — despotic, rights-abusing countries using the world body as a podium to bash their democratic critics.

A North Korean diplomat called Canada a land of broken promises, saying Ottawa has no right to criticize others because it has been accused of mistreating immigrants, aboriginal women and children.

The diplomat was responding to earlier criticism of North Korea by Canada and the United States at Wednesday's session of the UN's social, humanitarian cultural affairs committee.

We don't have to be a part of the UN.



Bull:

China plans to end its controversial practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplants by around the middle of next year, a senior official told Reuters on Saturday.

And now, cats stalking. Enjoy.