I really need to churn these things faster. I know. Not timely but here we go.
Honoring forgotten Canadian war hero Wilf DeMarco.
DeMarco bombed Hitler's retreat in Austria.
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"Joe Oliver addressed critics of his decision to nearly double the limit for Tax Free Savings Accounts in a speech today at the Canadian Club in Toronto, saying it would be good for the economy for the government to have less and Canadians to have more.
The finance minister shrugged off the potential cost of increasing the TFSA limit from $5,500 to $10,000, which its own estimates put at $85 million in this tax year and more than $1.1 billion over five years."
It's always refreshing to hear this from politicians. I just don't understand folks who criticize such a move. It's good for us.
***
Blast from the past. May, 2007 to be specific:
"Governments are running out of time to address climate change and to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday.
Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon dioxide underground can all help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the experts said. But there could be as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2C or more."
Looks at watch. Hm.
Hey!
One of these predictions, I swear, will pan out.
***
Fall of Britain. Liam Byrne and Tom Watson are a pair of political numbskulls.
Oh. They're Labour. Figures.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said the event, which was attended by Liam Byrne and Tom Watson, was rejecting “a century and more of advancement for women’s rights”.
No wonder UKIP is doing so well. Other than that, Brits were to invested in the Royal couple (what's their names) and the name of their new baby to care.
***
Sweden sucks Ikea (meat) balls.
"However, the new logo has not sat well with all fans and it stirred up a debate in Sweden this week after a self-proclaimed Native American reported the team to the Swedish Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO).
He wrote: “I want to report their logo to you and I want to demand that it is changed because it is offensive to all Indians and it uses a stereotypical image of Indians.”
Oh shut up you idiot. What the fuck do you know?
I tell ya, people like this dink are really getting on my nerves.
Equality Ombudsman. Get the fuck out of here!
***
The Detroit Red Wings name and its roots in Montreal.
"Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, a sporting club with cycling roots. The MAAA's teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City and on October 5, 1932 the club was renamed the Red Wings."
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As an aside, this chick is a winner.
Provocative enough honey?
It still hasn't hit slow-witted progressives - mostly because they have a fetish for state power - that provocation is in the eye of the beholder.
I somehow doubt she gives a shit whenever Christians and Jews are mocked and attacked.
I don't understand why people - especially women - insist on dropping to the level of Muslims when it comes to freedom of speech and liberty. They have no clue what it's all about.
And for fuck sakes you idiots, IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK. How they've spun this to make those two dead assholes the victims is beyond me.
Then again. We shouldn't be surprised. They're progressive.
***
Speaking of which...
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But it's Pam Gellar the 'problem' in the media.
Yeah. She's a real 'mental case'.
***
Free speech under fire.
***
Watched on the news the other day a report on a father who was asking the city to rescind a parking ticket given to his recently deceased son.
When asked if he could intervene on humanitarian grounds by a reporter, Mayor Coderre cynically responded he 'could do nothing.'
Bull shit. He's the fucking Mayor in a thoroughly corrupt city infamous for being run by megalomaniacal dictators.
Trust me, if he had to bail out a pal, some crony or family member he'd do it in a flash.
Way to go Denis. Go pave another bike path.
***
Derps to the left of me, and derps to the right and I'm stuck in the middle.
Swift in particular has been conflicted for some time over the curious situation that arises when a parent wants to do the best for her child but in the process makes the playing field for others even more lopsided.
‘I got interested in this question because I was interested in equality of opportunity,’ he says.
What's this guy philosophizing about?
Apparently being part of a loving family is an unfair advantage.
These people are unhinged. Read at your own risk. I barely made it through it without being tempted to smash a kiwi.
And fuck Plato.
***
"My area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, explicating how Whiteness is reproduced in everyday discourse.
“I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism. In so doing, I have been able to address in greater depth my multiple locations and how they function together to hold racism in place. I now make the distinction that I grew up poor and white, for my experience of poverty would have been different had I not been white”
Ah.
***
Poof! Goes the narrative.
Half the cops charged with the murder of Freddy are black. Never mind the police chief is black.
But hey. Why look in the mirror when you got Republican whitey to blame, right?
Liberals weep.
***
Please note. I can't verify the source for this nor the site it originally appeared. With apologies. If anyone knows please let me know and I will be glad to link it.
Other than that, wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is accurate.
***
STOP GETTING IN THE WAY OF THE NARRATIVE WITH YOUR FACTS!
"What glass ceiling? The gender gap appears to be closed: At least when it comes to CEO pay.
So far, 21 of the 22 current female CEOs in the Standard & Poor’s 500 have reported their latest compensation, including Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer, defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s (LMT) Marillyn Hewson and CEO Carol Meyrowitz of retailer TJX (TJX), and they were paid an average of $18.8 million during their latest fiscal years, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Capital IQ and Bespoke Investment Group. That far exceeds the average $12.7 million paid to the 455 current male CEOs in the S&P 500 that have reported compensation data for the same time period."
***
More on the Clinton slush fund.
Here's a chart of how the money got distributed. Similar to the image above.
What difference does it make at this point?
***
Alex Ovechkin is the coolest thing since sliced raisin bread.
He's having a great post season but still has time for the more important humanist side of life.
***
For Baltimore:
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So. Is Tanya Cohen real or satire?
If she's satire, she must take a bow. Now. Come out and say it already!
She had this guy fooled.
Then again, it may not be satire.
***
George Soros faces a big tax bill.
And liberals everyhwere weep. Wonder where roads will come from.
***
Denmark's withering and weakening welfare state.
A single mother can get up to $2700 a month on welfare. That's a small salary!
That's not helping; that's enabling.
No wonder the Law of Jante prevails over there.
***
Oregon has lost its fucking mind.
Judge orders $135 000 fine to be paid by bakery who refused to serve gay couple.
".Rachel Bowman-Cryer should collect $75,000 and her wife, Laurel Bowman-Cryer, $60,000 from the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, an administrative law judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a proposed order released Friday, April 24."
These two clowns should receive jack shit. I guess the judge isn't worried want kind of precedent this can set. If I'm an unscrupulous gay couple (and I'm pretty sure they exist) I'm ambulance chasing this to the bank. Why not? Pieces of shits like Sharpton and Jackson have made cynical, opportunistic and evil careers out of it.
The judge, furthermore, and this goes for people who support this crap of demanding people act against their conscience, is fine with destroying a family's source of income. When you ruin a business, you take away a family's ability to live and when you do this you weaken your community.
So in this way, the judge can go rot in a hole somewhere.
“emotional, mental, and physical suffering” and claiming they felt “mentally raped” when the Kleins refused to bake them a wedding cake."
My never have I felt so compelled to tell two people to go fuck themselves.
Wait. The story gets worse. When people tried to raise the money to pay this outrageous fine on GofundMe, the website apparently had changed its policies (and I paraphrase) not permitting raising of funds for companies or person who promote hate.
Swell. Just fucken swell.
GoFundMe has thrown its hat into the madness.
These sorts of stories piss me off soooo fucken much.
***
Why the forces of good are losing:
"A senior United Nations aid worker has been suspended for disclosing to prosecutors an internal report on the sexual abuse of children by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic. "
The United Nations. Man, now there's an organization that has jumped the shark.
A little too comfortable with evil regimes if you ask me.
***
Sadly this isn't satire:
I don't like what you say so you must be fired!
And censored!
"Katie claims she 'doesn't care if migrants die' which is an opinion she is entitled to, despite it being a sad and selfish one. I am not attacking her right to an opinion, however I do not believe The Sun newspaper should encourage these poisonous opinions. Presenting these extreme views as normal is dangerous and only encourages further demonisation of immigrants in our own country"
Yes, you are ATTACKING her right to her opinion you fucken dolt.
Yes. I'm swearing a lot in this post. But it's deserved.
***
Unique names of Canadian places.
Always laughed at St. Louis du Ha-ha in a ha-ha way.
***
The U.S. under Kissinger supported the Kurds? This scholar seems to think so.
"...In his forthcoming book, Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War, Gibson rejects claims that the US backed Iraq’s 1963 coup and says the US was more supportive of Kurd forces in their 1970s battles with Baghdad than was previously thought.
“...It was previously thought that the US had willfully sold the Kurds out, but declassified documents suggest that the US, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in particular, was actually more committed to the Kurds than previously believed,” Gibson said."
"...There is no question that parts of the US government were opposed to the Kurdish intervention, but Kissinger showed no interest in scaling back US support for the Kurds and, on more than one occasion, increased US assistance to the Kurds despite resistance from the CIA,” Gibson said."
***
I found this baseball meme referencing the Orioles playing in front of no fans and starring Brian Williams hilarious.
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Office sex parties?
Why don't I ever get invited to these things?
***
A tale of two recoveries:
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Mother of the year. All is not lost in Baltimore.
***
All these stories attacking free speech and expression got me thinking about witch hunt movies.
Saw Mark of the Devil at Fantasia back in the 1990s.
***
RIP Jim Fanning. Fanning was a key figure in bringing baseball to Montreal. He is an undeniably important figure in the annals of this city's sports landscape.
Fanning lived minutes from my house in the 1980s.
I've said it before and will say it again. When the Expos skipped town, Montreal ceased being a major sports town.
***
Baltimore isn't rising any more there was an Arab Spring you left-wing ding bat and your lame moral equivalency.
And since when does looting your own community equate to justice?
***
The House of Clinton by Victor Davis Hanson.
***
"The de Blasio administration is set to fork over more than $1 billion to resolve a handful of budget-busting court cases, according to internal government documents obtained exclusively by The Post.
Looming payouts include a $300 million to plaintiffs in a long-running civil-rights suit against the Department of Education, $80 million to Nissan if the city fails to roll out the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” and $20 million to victims of the NYPD’s infamous “Mafia Cops.”
***
I'll just leave this here.
Mattress Girl quotes.
Behold the voice of...something.
***
"At Johns Hopkins University this week, capitalism was trumped by political correctness.
The Student Government Association there approved a resolution that called on administrators to put to a halt any discussions or plans to bring a Chick-fil-A to campus, citing the company’s support of traditional marriage and saying the restaurant, if allowed at Johns Hopkins, would be a campus “microaggression.”
Fucken losers. Microaggression. The evil word of our times.
We look forward to going there every year while vacationing in Delaware.
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More tyranny by PC zealots on college campuses:
"...Leaders with the Student Government Association at Youngstown State University said they decided to act quickly this week when posters showed up on campus promoting “Straight Pride” week next month.
The posters contained profanity, which our station has blurred for viewers. The posters promote the event as a way of not showing the differences between students.
Campus leaders said while they believe the posters were meant more as satire, especially since no names were associated with them, they determined the flyers went too far with their message.
“When you are talking about minority activism, it is very easy that if you are in the majority to say ‘well, this sort of activism is not necessary. This sort of zeal in your activism is over the top.’ For minorities who experience discrimination, that is not the case,” Student Government Vice President Jacob Schriner-Biggs said.
After consulting with the Vice President of Student Life, it was decided to take the posters down, not necessarily because of its topic but because of the coarse language."
I weep because some of these idiots will manage to somehow be in positions of real power taking decisions.
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But at least The Onion gets it.
Pop culture likes to mock stuff from the right but there isn't a greater source of material to spoof and parody than what exists on the left. And few capitalize on it like The Onion.
"College Encourages Lively Exchange Of Idea
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Laws are for the commoners:
"Republican congressmen are no strangers to fighting for gun rights, but did a Colorado representative break the law by bringing his AR-15 to a Capitol Hill office?
Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado is causing controversy after tweeting a photo of himself and South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy holding an AR-15 rifle on Capitol Hill."
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Places that fluoridate in Quebec.
Not many do.
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This guy is priceless.
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These religious nutbars really are annoying in their woe is me smugness. They just don't get or don't want to grasp what freedom of speech means. The guy was awesome though. He basically told them to fuck off.
I think the comments are pretty good as far as youtube goes.
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Freedom once upon a time meant 'freedom from debt'. The concept of 'freedom of speech' is a relatively young concept.
Hence, all the fucking idiots who attack it. You know, the 'what are the limits?' crowd.
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The forgotten racial attitudes of Woodrow Wilson.
"...Wilson is widely and correctly remembered — and represented in our history books — as a progressive Democrat who introduced many liberal reforms at home and fought for the extension of democratic liberties and human rights abroad. But on the issue of race his legacy was, in fact, regressive and has been largely forgotten.
Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, Wilson was a loyal son of the old South who regretted the outcome of the Civil War. He used his high office to reverse some of its consequences. When he entered the White House a hundred years ago today, Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African-Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service.
Cabinet heads — such as his son-in-law, Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo of Tennessee – re-segregated facilities such as restrooms and cafeterias in their buildings. In some federal offices, screens were set up to separate white and black workers. African-Americans found it difficult to secure high-level civil service positions, which some had held under previous Republican administrations.
A delegation of black professionals led by Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard and Boston newspaper editor, appeared at the White House to protest the new policies. But Wilson treated them rudely and declared that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
How in the world did African-Americans come to support Democrats?
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Scumbag unions. They're the lowest of the low. Them and their degenerate tactics.
Honoring forgotten Canadian war hero Wilf DeMarco.
DeMarco bombed Hitler's retreat in Austria.
***
"Joe Oliver addressed critics of his decision to nearly double the limit for Tax Free Savings Accounts in a speech today at the Canadian Club in Toronto, saying it would be good for the economy for the government to have less and Canadians to have more.
The finance minister shrugged off the potential cost of increasing the TFSA limit from $5,500 to $10,000, which its own estimates put at $85 million in this tax year and more than $1.1 billion over five years."
It's always refreshing to hear this from politicians. I just don't understand folks who criticize such a move. It's good for us.
***
Blast from the past. May, 2007 to be specific:
"Governments are running out of time to address climate change and to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday.
Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon dioxide underground can all help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the experts said. But there could be as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2C or more."
Looks at watch. Hm.
Hey!
One of these predictions, I swear, will pan out.
***
Fall of Britain. Liam Byrne and Tom Watson are a pair of political numbskulls.
Oh. They're Labour. Figures.
"Senior Labour politicians attended a rally where Asian men and women were apparently separated along gender lines.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said the event, which was attended by Liam Byrne and Tom Watson, was rejecting “a century and more of advancement for women’s rights”.
No wonder UKIP is doing so well. Other than that, Brits were to invested in the Royal couple (what's their names) and the name of their new baby to care.
***
Sweden sucks Ikea (meat) balls.
"However, the new logo has not sat well with all fans and it stirred up a debate in Sweden this week after a self-proclaimed Native American reported the team to the Swedish Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO).
He wrote: “I want to report their logo to you and I want to demand that it is changed because it is offensive to all Indians and it uses a stereotypical image of Indians.”
Oh shut up you idiot. What the fuck do you know?
I tell ya, people like this dink are really getting on my nerves.
Equality Ombudsman. Get the fuck out of here!
***
The Detroit Red Wings name and its roots in Montreal.
"Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, a sporting club with cycling roots. The MAAA's teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City and on October 5, 1932 the club was renamed the Red Wings."
***
Rukmini Callimachi
Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a "Muhammad drawing contest"?
As an aside, this chick is a winner.
Provocative enough honey?
It still hasn't hit slow-witted progressives - mostly because they have a fetish for state power - that provocation is in the eye of the beholder.
I somehow doubt she gives a shit whenever Christians and Jews are mocked and attacked.
I don't understand why people - especially women - insist on dropping to the level of Muslims when it comes to freedom of speech and liberty. They have no clue what it's all about.
And for fuck sakes you idiots, IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK. How they've spun this to make those two dead assholes the victims is beyond me.
Then again. We shouldn't be surprised. They're progressive.
***
Speaking of which...
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But it's Pam Gellar the 'problem' in the media.
Yeah. She's a real 'mental case'.
***
Free speech under fire.
***
Watched on the news the other day a report on a father who was asking the city to rescind a parking ticket given to his recently deceased son.
When asked if he could intervene on humanitarian grounds by a reporter, Mayor Coderre cynically responded he 'could do nothing.'
Bull shit. He's the fucking Mayor in a thoroughly corrupt city infamous for being run by megalomaniacal dictators.
Trust me, if he had to bail out a pal, some crony or family member he'd do it in a flash.
Way to go Denis. Go pave another bike path.
***
Derps to the left of me, and derps to the right and I'm stuck in the middle.
Swift in particular has been conflicted for some time over the curious situation that arises when a parent wants to do the best for her child but in the process makes the playing field for others even more lopsided.
‘I got interested in this question because I was interested in equality of opportunity,’ he says.
What's this guy philosophizing about?
Apparently being part of a loving family is an unfair advantage.
These people are unhinged. Read at your own risk. I barely made it through it without being tempted to smash a kiwi.
And fuck Plato.
***
"My area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, explicating how Whiteness is reproduced in everyday discourse.
“I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism. In so doing, I have been able to address in greater depth my multiple locations and how they function together to hold racism in place. I now make the distinction that I grew up poor and white, for my experience of poverty would have been different had I not been white”
Ah.
***
Poof! Goes the narrative.
Half the cops charged with the murder of Freddy are black. Never mind the police chief is black.
But hey. Why look in the mirror when you got Republican whitey to blame, right?
Liberals weep.
***
Please note. I can't verify the source for this nor the site it originally appeared. With apologies. If anyone knows please let me know and I will be glad to link it.
Other than that, wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is accurate.
***
STOP GETTING IN THE WAY OF THE NARRATIVE WITH YOUR FACTS!
"What glass ceiling? The gender gap appears to be closed: At least when it comes to CEO pay.
So far, 21 of the 22 current female CEOs in the Standard & Poor’s 500 have reported their latest compensation, including Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer, defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s (LMT) Marillyn Hewson and CEO Carol Meyrowitz of retailer TJX (TJX), and they were paid an average of $18.8 million during their latest fiscal years, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Capital IQ and Bespoke Investment Group. That far exceeds the average $12.7 million paid to the 455 current male CEOs in the S&P 500 that have reported compensation data for the same time period."
***
More on the Clinton slush fund.
Here's a chart of how the money got distributed. Similar to the image above.
What difference does it make at this point?
***
Alex Ovechkin is the coolest thing since sliced raisin bread.
He's having a great post season but still has time for the more important humanist side of life.
***
For Baltimore:
***
So. Is Tanya Cohen real or satire?
If she's satire, she must take a bow. Now. Come out and say it already!
She had this guy fooled.
Then again, it may not be satire.
***
George Soros faces a big tax bill.
And liberals everyhwere weep. Wonder where roads will come from.
***
Denmark's withering and weakening welfare state.
A single mother can get up to $2700 a month on welfare. That's a small salary!
That's not helping; that's enabling.
No wonder the Law of Jante prevails over there.
***
Oregon has lost its fucking mind.
Judge orders $135 000 fine to be paid by bakery who refused to serve gay couple.
".Rachel Bowman-Cryer should collect $75,000 and her wife, Laurel Bowman-Cryer, $60,000 from the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, an administrative law judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a proposed order released Friday, April 24."
These two clowns should receive jack shit. I guess the judge isn't worried want kind of precedent this can set. If I'm an unscrupulous gay couple (and I'm pretty sure they exist) I'm ambulance chasing this to the bank. Why not? Pieces of shits like Sharpton and Jackson have made cynical, opportunistic and evil careers out of it.
The judge, furthermore, and this goes for people who support this crap of demanding people act against their conscience, is fine with destroying a family's source of income. When you ruin a business, you take away a family's ability to live and when you do this you weaken your community.
So in this way, the judge can go rot in a hole somewhere.
“emotional, mental, and physical suffering” and claiming they felt “mentally raped” when the Kleins refused to bake them a wedding cake."
My never have I felt so compelled to tell two people to go fuck themselves.
Wait. The story gets worse. When people tried to raise the money to pay this outrageous fine on GofundMe, the website apparently had changed its policies (and I paraphrase) not permitting raising of funds for companies or person who promote hate.
Swell. Just fucken swell.
GoFundMe has thrown its hat into the madness.
These sorts of stories piss me off soooo fucken much.
***
Why the forces of good are losing:
"A senior United Nations aid worker has been suspended for disclosing to prosecutors an internal report on the sexual abuse of children by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic. "
The United Nations. Man, now there's an organization that has jumped the shark.
A little too comfortable with evil regimes if you ask me.
***
Sadly this isn't satire:
I don't like what you say so you must be fired!
And censored!
"Katie claims she 'doesn't care if migrants die' which is an opinion she is entitled to, despite it being a sad and selfish one. I am not attacking her right to an opinion, however I do not believe The Sun newspaper should encourage these poisonous opinions. Presenting these extreme views as normal is dangerous and only encourages further demonisation of immigrants in our own country"
Yes, you are ATTACKING her right to her opinion you fucken dolt.
Yes. I'm swearing a lot in this post. But it's deserved.
***
Unique names of Canadian places.
Always laughed at St. Louis du Ha-ha in a ha-ha way.
***
The U.S. under Kissinger supported the Kurds? This scholar seems to think so.
"...In his forthcoming book, Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War, Gibson rejects claims that the US backed Iraq’s 1963 coup and says the US was more supportive of Kurd forces in their 1970s battles with Baghdad than was previously thought.
“From 1958-75, US foreign
policy in Iraq was designed to prevent it becoming a Soviet satellite,”
Gibson told Rudaw. “This led to a series of covert operations to support
groups inside Iraq that were opposed to Moscow’s imperial designs, like
the Baath Party in the early 1960s and the Kurds in the 1970s.”
According to Gibson, the CIA
and President John F Kennedy’s administration are widely-viewed to have
backed the February 1963 Baath Party coup that toppled Iraqi Prime
Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim and paved the way for Saddam Hussein’s
eventual rise to power.
“Declassified documents and
interviews with former CIA officials, who had been involved in plotting
against the Qasim regime, raise questions about the extent of US
involvement in the 1963 coup,” said Gibson, a former London School of
Economics scholar..."
“...It was previously thought that the US had willfully sold the Kurds out, but declassified documents suggest that the US, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in particular, was actually more committed to the Kurds than previously believed,” Gibson said."
"...There is no question that parts of the US government were opposed to the Kurdish intervention, but Kissinger showed no interest in scaling back US support for the Kurds and, on more than one occasion, increased US assistance to the Kurds despite resistance from the CIA,” Gibson said."
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With the advent of European Central Bank quantitative easing, what
began four months ago when 10-year Swiss yields turned negative for the
first time has snowballed into a veritable avalanche of negative rates
across European government bond markets. In the hunt for apparently
“safe assets”, investors have thrown caution to the wind, and
collectively determined to pay governments for the privilege of lending
to them.
On a country by country basis, the statistics are even more startling. According to investment bank Jefferies, some 70pc of all German bunds now trade on a negative yield. In France, it's 50pc, and even in Spain, which was widely thought insolvent only a few years ago, it's 17pc."
Germany isn't exactly in great shape either.
On a country by country basis, the statistics are even more startling. According to investment bank Jefferies, some 70pc of all German bunds now trade on a negative yield. In France, it's 50pc, and even in Spain, which was widely thought insolvent only a few years ago, it's 17pc."
Germany isn't exactly in great shape either.
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Office sex parties?
Why don't I ever get invited to these things?
***
A tale of two recoveries:
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Mother of the year. All is not lost in Baltimore.
***
All these stories attacking free speech and expression got me thinking about witch hunt movies.
Saw Mark of the Devil at Fantasia back in the 1990s.
***
RIP Jim Fanning. Fanning was a key figure in bringing baseball to Montreal. He is an undeniably important figure in the annals of this city's sports landscape.
Fanning lived minutes from my house in the 1980s.
I've said it before and will say it again. When the Expos skipped town, Montreal ceased being a major sports town.
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Looting a real shame. But FAR MORE shameful is pattern of police violence against black community! Perspective, people. #BaltimoreRising
Baltimore isn't rising any more there was an Arab Spring you left-wing ding bat and your lame moral equivalency.
And since when does looting your own community equate to justice?
Progressive sure love to make violence into a virtue don't they?
Equally disturbing in the prosecutor who arrested the cops so as to appease the violent mob. Not a precedent you want to be setting I reckon.
Equally disturbing in the prosecutor who arrested the cops so as to appease the violent mob. Not a precedent you want to be setting I reckon.
***
The House of Clinton by Victor Davis Hanson.
***
"The de Blasio administration is set to fork over more than $1 billion to resolve a handful of budget-busting court cases, according to internal government documents obtained exclusively by The Post.
Looming payouts include a $300 million to plaintiffs in a long-running civil-rights suit against the Department of Education, $80 million to Nissan if the city fails to roll out the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” and $20 million to victims of the NYPD’s infamous “Mafia Cops.”
***
I'll just leave this here.
Mattress Girl quotes.
Behold the voice of...something.
***
"At Johns Hopkins University this week, capitalism was trumped by political correctness.
The Student Government Association there approved a resolution that called on administrators to put to a halt any discussions or plans to bring a Chick-fil-A to campus, citing the company’s support of traditional marriage and saying the restaurant, if allowed at Johns Hopkins, would be a campus “microaggression.”
Fucken losers. Microaggression. The evil word of our times.
We look forward to going there every year while vacationing in Delaware.
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More tyranny by PC zealots on college campuses:
"...Leaders with the Student Government Association at Youngstown State University said they decided to act quickly this week when posters showed up on campus promoting “Straight Pride” week next month.
The posters contained profanity, which our station has blurred for viewers. The posters promote the event as a way of not showing the differences between students.
Campus leaders said while they believe the posters were meant more as satire, especially since no names were associated with them, they determined the flyers went too far with their message.
“When you are talking about minority activism, it is very easy that if you are in the majority to say ‘well, this sort of activism is not necessary. This sort of zeal in your activism is over the top.’ For minorities who experience discrimination, that is not the case,” Student Government Vice President Jacob Schriner-Biggs said.
After consulting with the Vice President of Student Life, it was decided to take the posters down, not necessarily because of its topic but because of the coarse language."
I weep because some of these idiots will manage to somehow be in positions of real power taking decisions.
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But at least The Onion gets it.
Pop culture likes to mock stuff from the right but there isn't a greater source of material to spoof and parody than what exists on the left. And few capitalize on it like The Onion.
Students, Faculty Invited To Freely Express Single Viewpoint"
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Laws are for the commoners:
"Republican congressmen are no strangers to fighting for gun rights, but did a Colorado representative break the law by bringing his AR-15 to a Capitol Hill office?
Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado is causing controversy after tweeting a photo of himself and South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy holding an AR-15 rifle on Capitol Hill."
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Places that fluoridate in Quebec.
Not many do.
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This guy is priceless.
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These religious nutbars really are annoying in their woe is me smugness. They just don't get or don't want to grasp what freedom of speech means. The guy was awesome though. He basically told them to fuck off.
I think the comments are pretty good as far as youtube goes.
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Freedom once upon a time meant 'freedom from debt'. The concept of 'freedom of speech' is a relatively young concept.
Hence, all the fucking idiots who attack it. You know, the 'what are the limits?' crowd.
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The forgotten racial attitudes of Woodrow Wilson.
"...Wilson is widely and correctly remembered — and represented in our history books — as a progressive Democrat who introduced many liberal reforms at home and fought for the extension of democratic liberties and human rights abroad. But on the issue of race his legacy was, in fact, regressive and has been largely forgotten.
Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, Wilson was a loyal son of the old South who regretted the outcome of the Civil War. He used his high office to reverse some of its consequences. When he entered the White House a hundred years ago today, Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African-Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service.
Cabinet heads — such as his son-in-law, Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo of Tennessee – re-segregated facilities such as restrooms and cafeterias in their buildings. In some federal offices, screens were set up to separate white and black workers. African-Americans found it difficult to secure high-level civil service positions, which some had held under previous Republican administrations.
A delegation of black professionals led by Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard and Boston newspaper editor, appeared at the White House to protest the new policies. But Wilson treated them rudely and declared that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
How in the world did African-Americans come to support Democrats?
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Scumbag unions. They're the lowest of the low. Them and their degenerate tactics.
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