Quote Of The Day

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."

Jean Giraudoux

Daily Derp: These Are Derpy Times

Irvin Leroux is a Canadian hero:

"Irvin Leroux, a 70-year-old former businessman living in Prince George, BC, recently became a hero to the taxpayers of Canada — although few of them know it yet. But among the inner circle of tax practitioners — the lawyers and accountants who fight Canada Revenue Agency every day — his name is quietly circulating. They are blogging about him and referring to him in submissions they make to tax court."

"...I spoke recently to a Toronto tax lawyer, someone who has chosen to make his career litigating against the CRA. Many of his clients have suffered financial disaster like Leroux’s following an audit by the CRA. He chuckled woefully at the judge’s error. If he had been the judge, he said, he would immediately have understood how the large penalties and liens imposed upon Leroux had led to his financial difficulties. “I deal with the CRA daily . . . and I see it on a daily basis,” he said." 

DUTY OF CARE.

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Leadership Houston style:

"Annise Parker ‏@AnniseParker 19h19 hours ago

Annise Parker Retweeted Texan 4 Liberty

No, actually I called you transphobes, but if the shoe fits...-A "

She's the Mayor.

Now that's civil discourse and enlightened leadership we can believe in!

I just want to make an announcement. Because I have a solid sense of everything, if you make my Daily Derp list (I'm working on a Woodchipper Hall of Fame) you need to go back and look in the mirror and ask yourself a few poignant questions.

You may ask yourself, well how did I get here?

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Commies don't understand business. Whaaa?

"Students have run the restaurant, named for Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, for 34 years, but they've steered it into the ground. Boasting of "exorbitantly low" prices, the vegan co-op and concert venue that once hosted an up-and-coming Nirvana has cost the student body nearly $1 million over the years, and isn’t kept up to fire or safety codes. The ragtag band of volunteer staffers, who call themselves a "collective," faced eviction in March, but have persuaded the school to save their beloved stronghold."

Your future hand-out experts.

Or Bombardier exec.

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Watch this firefighter get a complete facial transplant after being burned. Quite incredible.

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Obama says 'political correctness is a recipe for dogmatism'.

Gee, you think?

And Obama made his contribution with Title IX.

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Turkish fans boo through moment of silence for Paris.

And they're the good Muslims.

I read some guy claiming they were booing the Greeks. Maybe but their optics cadence is off if that's the case. The bottom line is we see it as booing the murders in France.

Is Turkey really an EU nation?

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"Hillary Clinton has made her steadfast feminism a cornerstone of her campaign, but apparently that sisterly love don’t extend to the other side of the aisle.

On the campaign trail Tuesday afternoon, Hillary Clinton laughed when a man said he wanted to “strangle” Carly Fiorina.

Clinton was in Derry, New Hampshire, to announce plans to “modernize” the Department of Veterans Affairs when a man who claimed to have been laid off by Fiorina while she was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard addressed her.
“She says she’s a great CEO,” he said. “Every time I see her on TV, I want to reach through and strangle her.”

Clinton burst into laughter. So did some members of the audience."

Only liberals get the benefit of doubts when they make such statements. Okay?

Hillary. Bah. I won't even bother.

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Students aren't as smart as they think they are. At all.  This poor student was exposed for not thinking things through thoroughly on Cavuto (who I can't handle).

From comments:

"-She believes the '1% are hoarding the wealth'. Savings is now hoarding?
-In response to how much is enough she replies. 'enough until...' what is needed. Does she advocate for confiscation beyond this point? Sounds like she is even if she doesn't realize it.
-'Education is innovation'. No, it isn't honey. Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in the West have no formal education - certainly not in things like 'Bi-transgendered, patriarchless Amazon-African societies'. No disrespect but you don't strike me as someone who will go out an 'innovate'. Mobilizing the free-shit mob isn't innovation.
-She's not working class. She's 'incredibly' working class. Her boyfriend is magnificently middle-class.
-And la piece de resistance: 100% taxation is 'on the way to socialism with a different structure' but 90% is not. Got it.
This is what the system is spitting out."

Yup.

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Intolerant forces on colleges are indeed bullying their way.

"First, former Dean Mary Spellman. We are sorry that your career had to end this way, as the email in contention was a clear case of good intentions being overlooked because of poor phrasing. However, we are disappointed in you as well. We are disappointed that you allowed a group of angry students to bully you into resignation. We are disappointed that you taught Claremont students that reacting with emotion and anger will force the administration to act. We are disappointed that when two students chose to go on a hunger strike until you resigned, you didn’t simply say, “so what?” If they want to starve themselves, that’s fine—you don’t owe them your job. We are disappointed that you and President Chodosh put up with students yelling and swearing at you for an hour. You could have made this a productive dialogue, but instead you humored the students and allowed them to get caught up in the furor." 

Too many presidents of colleges and universities are gutless it seems.

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Calais migrant camp on fire following Paris terrorist murders.

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The changing face of Sweden:

"...Now, this country is a night-watchman state -- each man is on his own. When the Minister of Justice, Morgan Johansson, encourages breaking the law, it means opening the gates to anarchy. Mr. and Mrs. Swede have every reason to be worried, with the influx of 190,000 unskilled and unemployed migrants expected this year -- equivalent to 2% of Sweden's current population. The number is as if 6.4 million penniless migrants who did not speak English arrived in U.S. in one year, or 1.3 million in Britain.
 

And the Swedes are preparing: demand for firearms licenses is increasing; more and more Swedes are joining shooting clubs and starting vigilante groups. After a slight dip in 2014, the number of new gun permits has gone up significantly again this year. According to police statistics, there are 1,901,325 licensed guns, owned by 567,733 people, in Sweden. Add to this an unknown number of illegal weapons."  
"Even before the massive influx of migrants in the fall of 2015, Swedes felt a need to protect themselves -- and with good reason. Since the Parliament decided in 1975 that Sweden should be multicultural and not Swedish, crime has exploded. Violent crime has increased by more than 300%, and rapes have increased by an unbelievable 1,472%.

The politicians, however, ignore the people's fear completely. It is never discussed. Instead, the people who express concern about what kind of country Sweden has become are accused of xenophobia and racism. Most likely, that is the reason more and more people are taking matters into their own hands, and protecting themselves and their families to the best of their ability."

This is how government fosters chaos by directly challenging the people they represent.

It won't end well.

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University of Missouri. What a mess of Frankensteinian proportions.

And then we're treated to such nonsense about what's driving all this madness in the WaPo.

All I see are a bunch of loud mouth'd shnooks posing as students.

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Spike Lee reminds me why awards are over rated and meaningless; especially in the arts. Particularly those where actors judge other actors. Yuk.

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It's interesting to note that some of these people out on the streets come from privileged backgrounds like the one who yelled at her Yale professor.

Her short profile at The Yale Globalist describes her as an avid traveler who wants to visit at least 3/4 of the world’s countries, a hobby that’s hardly available to the impoverished.

How do suck people even get into Yale? I'm seeing too many stupid people and not enough smart ones out of the Ivy Leagues in the news.
 
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Is Jihadi John really dead?


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347 million guns in America.

And yes, that's a good thing.

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Selective outrage on campuses.

One can only hope their "anger" will just...dissipate.

Hopefully.

Something tells me we'll see with this generation what we witnessed with the hippies. The old saying is 'yesterday's hippies became tomorrow's yuppies.' Basically, the people who wanted to stick it to the man became the "man" themselves - and learned to love it.

I'm not sure what some of these SJW will go on to be but I'm guessing they'll snap out of their outrage deluge and go on to join the 'privileged ranks'.

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Most transparent and bipartisan post-racial President ever.

Not.

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Disgusting behavior by VA police. Boy do we treat our Veterans poorly in North America. It's a national shame and embarrassment really.

"On April 9, 2014, Lewis called the VA pharmacy to refill his prescriptions. Someone hung up on him twice, the lawsuit claims.

It was the beginning of a battle that resulted in his arrest.

Mabel Dea, a clinical pharmacist, helped him on the phone and made his medications available for pickup the next day. She allowed Lewis to vent his frustrations about the poor service he received from the pharmacy, the lawsuit says.

In an interview, Lewis said he remarked, “This is a bunch of BS. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with you people,” and “I need medication and your operators have hung up on me repeatedly.”
He denied threatening to shoot anybody and described Dea as extremely helpful. Later, however, Dea reported him to VA police officials, saying he threatened to shoot his doctor and VA workers.
The next day, after Lewis returned from picking up his medication, Special Agent Chad Joy and Detective William Mossbrooks, each of whom work for the VA police force, arrived at Lewis’ Lomita home, asked to search for weapons, and questioned him about the call.

Mossbrooks, the lawsuit says, used “epithets, curses and other threatening and demeaning language” to try to intimidate Lewis. Mossbrooks referred to Lewis as a “baby killer” and mocked his military service and religion during three hours of questioning, the lawsuit says.

The men returned the next day, pushed Lewis to the floor and arrested him, booking him into the Twin Towers jail. Without his psychiatric medications for PTSD, Lewis suffered anxiety, nausea and other conditions, the lawsuit says. His sister posted bail.

The District Attorney’s Office charged him with making terrorist threats, but when the case went to Long Beach Superior Court, Judge Arthur Jean Jr. dismissed it after hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing, saying the evidence did not support the charges, the lawsuit said.

As Lewis walked away from court, Mossbrooks told him “This ain’t over. I’m going to (expletive) get you,” the lawsuit says.

The VA police officers obtained another arrest warrant for Lewis the next day and took him to jail on Aug. 28, just before Labor Day weekend, the lawsuit said. Lewis’ sister again posted bail, which was raised by $100,000, the lawsuit said."

This Moobrooks sounds like an uncivilized sociopath dickhead.

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Well, this awkward. /scratches back of head.

Whatever will it do to the climate narrative.

"New studies flip climate-change notions upside down

"The sun will go into "hibernation" mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society's annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it - the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova's model is said to have near-perfect accuracy."

The change that never was. There's nothing to 'flip' because the whole climate-change thing is way overblown thanks to politics and a heavy dose of selective data and heavy manipulation.

What a stupid phrase 'climate-change' is. No fucking shit climate 'changes'. 

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Heard Al Michaels say on Sunday Night Football, 'Joe Flacco whose season ended with an ACL'.

Really? How does one's season end because of an anterior cruciate ligament? It's like stating 'Joe Flacco whose season ended with a leg.'

What he meant to say, of course, Flacco tore his ACL at which point 'with an ACL tear' is the correct way to convey the message.

I know. Nit picking.

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"Carson’s embattled city clerk, former Mayor Jim Dear, was suspended from work this week after an investigation revealed employees fear he could “snap or go postal” and some have even planned escape routes in City Hall."

 M'yeah. That's not good.

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Paul says go Republican if you want less inequality:

"But Paul is right about the concentration of inequality in major urban areas. A 2013 report from Brookings ranked the cities with the most and least inequality; big blue-state cities with Democratic mayors tended to be the most unequal, while somewhat smaller cities in red states with Republican mayors tend to demonstrate less inequality.
 
Rand Paul concluded his response by saying that,

“the bottom line is, if you want less income inequality, move to a city with a Republican mayor or a state with a Republican governor.”

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All I know is if the Washington Redskins give in to the name change that will open the floodgates to all sorts of demands. No one will be safe including the cool Blackhawks name.

And why stop at sports, right?



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“The quote that you pulled there is a very different situation,” Earnest told a reporter. “He [Obama] said he was not prepared to put boots on the ground to take out the Assad regime. That was precisely the mistake the previous administration had made … to take down Saddam Hussein.” 

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Glad to see singing with metal band is what gets you fired from being a cop. Killing someone, not so much.

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/whistling past the grave yard. "Oh look ma. A death cult."

Oh but don't you see? American-Zionist imperial occupation makes us be a death cult!

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This story is probably gonna depress or anger you. Or both.

A Pennsylvania cop - Lisa Mearkle - tased a man five times and then shot him, basically execution style not once but twice killing the man.

His crime? For running away from the officer for...expired inspection stickers.

Yes. The cop murdered a civilian over a FUCKEN STICKER.

It gets better. She was acquitted! 

Nice job Pennsylvania.  Take. A. Bow.

War on cops my ass.

Next time you see cop hero worshiping think of that guy Ludovic in Paris. Now he was a bloody hero.

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Obamacare imploding all by itself?

"...Mind you, UnitedHealth was a huge backer of the 2009 law. One of its top execs, Andrew Slavitt, then joined the administration to run the health exchanges.
What’s going on here? Basically, the long-feared “death spiral”: Not enough young, healthy folks are signing up for these plans, so insurers are losing money despite the hefty federal subsidies for the coverage. They’re raising premiums to even things out — but that drives even more folks away, so that only older, less-healthy customers remain, driving new losses . . ."

"...And the Obama administration itself last month predicted 2016 enrollment would be less than half of what the Congressional Budget Office predicted in March."

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TIME:

Another Ice Age?

Monday, June 24, 1974

I love that.

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The Guardian proves through Zach Stafford there's no such thing as peak derp:

"Men are pretty terrible people. They commit significantly more violent crimes, robberies and assaults each year than women do, according to the Department of Justice. They are more likely to show anger in the workplace and be rewarded for it while women are affected negatively for the same behaviors. They even take up too much space on public transportation when “manspreading”. I could keep going."

No. Don't. You pretty much broke the mold of insidious banality with your opening sentence.

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We're winning the war against coal!

Drink!

So sad how stupid the Gaia cultists have become.

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Mike Rowe for President:

(On Melitha Harrith-Perry being troubled about the word hard worker): "...I dismissed her point because it relied upon a gross generalization. To suggest that “hard worker” has become a “conservative buzzword,” is to paint all conservatives with a very broad brush, in my opinion. MHP stated that all conservatives described single-moms as “lazy” and “failures who suck off the system.” She then walked that back when her guest, quite rightly in my opinion, pointed out that she was generalizing."

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Government set to kill the vape industry - all based on nothing but fear and little else. They'll try and 'scienctify' their bull shit but don't buy into it. But people will because sea levels or cancer or something.

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Tesla, like most subsidized green projects, is a form of 'climate indulgences for the wealthy' as someone put it.

Remove the subsidy and let's see where the chips fall.

This notion we need to subsidize to drive innovations is faulty as it is silly.

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Obama says GOP helping ISIS.

He's some piece of work, no?

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Speaking of which, the monster the Democrats created called Obamacare continues to unleash unintended consequences at the speed of Speedy Gonzalez.

"Obamacare regulations could be brewing up trouble for small breweries wanting to grow.
Beginning next year, restaurant chains with more than 20 locations nationwide will be subject to new rules requiring calorie information on all menus. Restaurants will have to measure menu items made in-house, but when it comes to products such as beer — which are manufactured elsewhere and distributed to chains — the data must be shipped with the product."

Growth, innovation and productivity will slow because of unscientific garbage like calorie counts pimped and pumped the government who know jack shit about food. I wouldn't trust one single 'expert' pushing this nonsense.

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As if that's not enough to point we're in a Dark Age, check this mental decision to cut yoga class at the University of Ottawa. Once again, Canada is importing nutty, left-wing, SJW theories from the U.S. I expect us to surpass them soon enough because, well, the Liberals are in power.

Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities believe that "while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students ... there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice," according to an email from the centre.
The centre is operated by the university's Student Federation, which first approached Scharf seven years ago about offering yoga instruction to students both with and without disabilities.

Weep.

What they pejoratively call 'Cultural appropriation' has been part of humanity for ages dumbasses. We constantly borrow from different cultures. Without it, we don't advance you clowns.

Nothing worse than a presumptuous progressive xenophobe hack.

More at Reason.

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Kathleen Kane scandal.

There are no good people in this story.

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In the 'Bad Ideas' file let's head on over to New Haven, Connecticut.

"Lock your doors or learn your lesson, that’s the message from New Haven police.

Officers in East Rock are starting a pilot program.
“Cars will be checked for visible valuables,” said New Haven City Spokesperson Laurence Grotheer.
If they see a valuable Grotheer says they’ll take it if you car doors are unlocked. They’ll leave a note and you can pick it up at the police station property room.
“I think it might work,” said Audrey who lives in the neighborhood.
“It seems odd,” said Kristen Zalota who lives in East Rock. “It’s an interesting way to combat crime I guess.”
It seems a little invasive, I’m uncomfortable with the idea,” said Corey Hassell.

Audrey is insane I think. She needs to exercise her brain more. I hope Corey is not married to her.

“What they’re doing here is in my judgement is not questionable a 4th amendment violation. They ought to get sued. I hope they do get sued,” said Williams.

He says this pilot program is against search warrant federal laws.

Williams saidm “In effect what they’re doing is stealing these people’s property. They have no right to enter their car at all because just because it’s not locked doesn’t mean it’s not your private property.”

No shit.

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Zoolander continues with his on the job training.

He assured Canadians his government could take in 25 000 refugees in a timely and orderly fashion while ensuring all were properly vetted all without an actual plan I might add -  all by December 31. 

When I first heard this I found it odd as to why he was obsessed by this date. December is a Holiday month so how this was going to be achieved was a mystery to me. But what do I know?

Looks like someone pulled him aside and told him 'na-ah' because Canada will now take in 10 000.

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35 people with E. coli  linked to Holier than thou Chipotle.

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Government mandated calorie counts are doing - surprise - nothing.

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So how's that commie $15 hr 'we're owed a living wage' racket going in Seattle?

Not so good.

“Congress hurt the very workers it intended to help.”

Story of progressive intent, no? They'll never learn. I luckily came out of it soon after high school after some simple, straightforward observances. Not because I was smart but rather I was honest with what I was seeing. I felt it was all misguided experiments intent that led to failure because they worked against basic human laws. Not to mention, the subsequent silliness of added layers of regulations and laws to "fix" what wasn't working.

Again, progressives fail at obeying and taking responsibility for the unintended consequences they unleash as a result of their cemented actions.

The comments are excellent for the record.

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Oh look. Another surprise. The CBC spins Trudeau's inexperience into a virtue.

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Scratch an academic, find a lover of authoritarianism. Simplistic? Sure. But is it that far-fetched? Experts tend to have a bit of a God-complex when it comes to the 'greater good'. And since achieving the greater good is harder with all those pesky notions of individual liberty in the way, it's only natural they admire strongmen and dictators. That's why you see so many on the left write stupid polemics about how they admire people like Fidel and, in this case, one-child policy. It makes them wet with the very idea of being able to pull crap like that here.

The lust for power and control. Except, they delude themselves into thinking they do it for the right reasons. 

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"Milwaukee DA John Chisholm was apparently so unhinged by recent criticism that he actually suggested Saturday that Governor Scott Walker be criminally charged with defamation for criticizing him.

So, no, Chisholm really doesn't get the First Amendment thing, does he?"

No one deserves to be told 'suck my dick' than Chisholm. 

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Here you go. What the students demand. 

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Irony:

"It costs $6 to visit Karl Marx's grave."

Of course, capitalist pigs will probably make up the bulk of the clientele because Marxists will be too busy protesting how unfair it is while demanding the same rich folks subsidize their right to visit his grave.

I jest but would it shock anyone if they did?

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Obama is, to me, right not to get roped into a ground war in Syria.

Problem is, they're slowly sliding into it - and without legal authority. The U.S. will get in there soon enough.

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Iran deal not binding. Seems like Iran forgot to sign it. 

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The Patriots emasculates teams to the point they whine like little bitches.

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There's just too much police abuse going on. From Chicago to Seattle, we're seeing outright murder.

This is where conservatives lose me.

For example, I read David French's explanation defending that cop in Spring Valley who hurled a student across the class room. He could have killed her but there was French - going bad ass derp for law & order. It was shocking.

That she didn't respond doesn't mean it's justified to throw her around like an animal. The guy escalated - and cops seem to excel at this -the situation.

This is where conservatives put on their SJW Retard caps.

War on cops. I don't think so.

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Fall of the great American experiment.

Student told to remove Stars and Stripes t-shirt because...gang related.

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Dutch tell refugees to go to Denmark.

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Well, they're at it again. The Scare Cancer Brigade now and then like to come in and frighten us off a perceived vice we like to consume. 

Like cigarettes, we've been hearing about how bad red meat is for decades. I admit I'm not the biggest meat eater but I'm not a meathead when it comes to buying into this nonsense.

From comments at Reddit:

"2.5% is the lifetime diagnosis number, with median diagnosis age of 69 (which isn't too relevant to me right now). I was talking in terms of annual occurrence rate, so it's more of an annual return.
You can compound that over a mean lifetime (say, 25 years), but then also factor in the 90% survival rate of colorectal cancer. Let's assume based on your stats that having no family history doesn't help much, that's still an annual mortality of 35/100000 * 0.1, which is 0.0035%.


Compounding that for 25 years, you get 0.09% total death risk in a lifetime. 30% of that is negligible. And like my initial post, it certainly isn't compelling on a per year basis.
EDIT: forgot to mention about the 0.016% - 5-year risk is how I typically look at things, so that brings you to 0.014-0.018%. Regardless, I think it's important to look at the effect size closely when faced with correlations.


It's hilarious how much energy is still being poured into these tiny effects when we see things like nearly 10% of Americans being diabetic and another 30% pre-diabetic. Added sugar consumption is at ludicrous levels, multiple times above what the WHO recommends, yet we're still arguing over bacon.


Sure, you should probably limit processed meat, but it should be second in line to limiting added sugar. There are only so many dietary restrictions that are typically sustainable, so people need to prioritize based on effect size."

Meh. No-nitrates is a hoax.

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Toyota has to explain why ISIS uses their products? 

The CEO should ask why American arms always seem to fall into the hands of ISIS.

Funny that.

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Assault with a (potentially deadly)...vegetable.

Man, what do they do when squash is involved?

Reasonable and sensible people may scoff this off and make jokes but there are some seriously deranged people out there. Check these comments out. Notice they're all women for some reason. The equivalent of males chimps who chirp "comply with police and you won't die' stuff:

"Barbara Chasteen Daniels
Finally! A school that cares about the teacher. The student is old enough to be held accountable for her behavior.
 
2 · October 23 at 2:44pm
Barbara Greaves
It may only be a baby carrot today, but tomorrow it may be a stone or heaven forbid a gun. There should be more respect for teachers and it should start in the home. I am not saying the 14 year old should be in prison but strong message should be sent to her and other would-be assailants that teachers and adults should not have to take this treatment without recourse. Whether it is a fine or community service or some other action is up to the teacher and the court system.
 
3 · October 23 at 9:38am
Sylvia Edmonds
Raise your child at home and then they will know how to act in public...where is the joke in a child throwing anything at an adult...
 
4 · October 23 at 6:03am
Priscilla Shadden
Anyone who believes the girl didn't mean to hit the teacher is just stupid. She most certainly meant to do exactly what she did, and the fact it hit the teacher in the forehead tells me she has done stuff like that before. "Baby" carrots are often not baby at all. Most are medium sized ones cut in short lengths, and they are HARD until they're cooked! The girl deserves the assault charge!!!

Nice people. Idiots.

Is it me or do woman have a fetish for authoritarian law & order or what?

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This is so awesome it deserves its own independent post.

No socialist party elected in Poland.

Gee, I wonder why socialism is unpopular in those countries.

Problem is the Law & Justice party - as their name implies - seem really old world conservative.

And that may not be a good thing.

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Tomorrow's future.

These, remember, our political, business and intellectual masters down the road.

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RIP Ken Taylor.
  

Quote Of The Day

“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them."

Okay. More of a paraphrase of Arthus Schopenhauer.

Call It For What It Is: Climate Change Policy Is An Attack On The Middle Class

Nothing more, nothing less.

It's an irrational reaction to specious claims and dubious data. It's hyper nonsense especially considering how politicians want to alter our economies for it.

It won't lead to sustainable development; sustainable retardation maybe, but nothing like they claim.

The only people who will pay the ultimate price is the middle-class; and to a lesser extent the lower-class. The wealthy can afford to dick around with this crap the rest of the population not so much.

Avis Shows How Not To Handle Customer Disputes

This is exactly how not to A) treat customers and B) respond to a dispute.

Holy shit this is stupid.

From Facebook (the Devil's webpage):

 

20 hrs ·

On Friday, a customer seeking to rent a car from Avis Car Rental was not allowed to do so because he failed to provide the required documentation. Visitors to the U.S. From other countries must provide both a valid drivers license from their country of residence as well as a valid International Drivers License or passport in order to rent from Avis. We are aggressively investigating the customer's allegations regarding the handling of this matter, as we do not tolerate any form of discrimination. So far, our ongoing investigation suggests that this customer is unfairly maligning us with unfounded accusations.

Are they fucking insane?  They can't possibly be this incompetent.


I really do hope this has nothing to do with anti-semitism.

Read full story here.

Measuring Harper: (Too) Old Conservatism

As I've discussed through the years, I never saw much wisdom on how the Conservatives handled social policy. In fact, I found it downright grotesque. In an age where law enforcement across the continent have finally figured out there are better ways as Texas discovered (in link), Harper decided to go full blown absurd with 'tough on crime'.  

Economically, the record was marginally better but overall nothing to get riled about since the economy was decent all things considered. Lest we forget he was forced to open the purse strings because of the threat of the Liberals and NDP merging thus somewhat skewing his spending record. I don't expect the Liberals to be marvels of economics.

Le Quebecois Libre:

"By far the most appalling measure introduced by the Harper government is Bill C-24, an odious piece of legislation that empowered the government—without judicial review—to strip certain persons convicted under the Criminal Code’s terrorism provisions of their Canadian citizenship. While treaty obligations prevent Ottawa from rendering people stateless, the list of those at risk is long indeed. It potentially imperils anyone with access to a foreign citizenship, which would cover virtually everyone born abroad, anyone with foreign-born parents or possibly grandparents and even all Jews (given their entitlement to citizenship under Israeli law)."

On economics:  

"...One of Harper’s first actions in office was to roll back an income tax cut enacted by the outgoing Liberals, in order to instead cut the Goods & Services Tax by one point (with another one-point reduction following in 2007). Since raising the cost of a thing causes there to be less of it, if the government must raise funds it makes far more economic sense to tax consumption rather than production. And yet the holder of a postgraduate degree in the field chose to do precisely the opposite."

Piere Trudeau's Real Legacy: Socialism By Other Means

Le Quebecois Libre:

"Pierre Trudeau, le politicien canadien le plus influent des dernières décennies, nous a quitté. La seule pertinence d'un éditorial sur l'ex-premier ministre dans cette publication est de souligner, for the record, que malgré son étrange réputation de « défenseur des droits individuels fondamentaux » et la lutte qu'il a menée contre le nationalisme québécois, il n'a jamais été l'un des nôtres – c'est-à-dire, un partisan de la liberté individuelle. Il laisse plutôt aux Canadiens un héritage marqué par le socialisme, l'interventionnisme économique, la tyrannie administrative, le nationalisme, le collectivisme culturel et identitaire, l'activisme judiciaire, la centralisation fédérale et la désunion au sein du Canada."

"...On oublie souvent que Pierre Trudeau a flirté avec le communisme pendant toute sa carrière (cf. sa fascination pour la Chine et son appui indéfectible au castrisme) et qu'il a d'abord milité au Nouveau Parti démocratique dans les années 1960 avant de se joindre au Parti libéral. Il n'est donc pas étonnant que son héritage sur le plan économique et fiscal soit désastreux. Comme la plupart des gens de sa génération éduqués dans les collèges classiques et férus de belles-lettres – à plus forte raison les jeunes bourgeois privilégiés comme lui qui n'ont jamais vraiment eu à travailler pour gagner leur vie –, Trudeau était un illettré économique et ne savait faire qu'une chose avec l'argent: le dépenser.  
  
 Le Canada à la fin des années 1960 est encore un pays extrêmement prospère, pratiquement sans dette, dont le rythme de croissance et le niveau de vie sont comparables à ceux des États-Unis. Lorsque Trudeau quitte la direction du pays en 1984, c'est devenu un pays essentiellement socialiste qui croule sous les programmes bureaucratiques, avec une devise et un niveau de vie en chute libre. La dette de l'État fédéral a été multipliée par neuf sous son administration libérale...."


"...Parmi les décisions stupides du chef de gouvernement sur le plan économique, notons la décision de combattre l'inflation élevée, en 1975, par l'imposition d'un gel sur les prix et les salaires. Pierre Trudeau avait pourtant ridiculisé son adversaire conservateur Robert Stanfield qui proposait cette mesure pendant la campagne électorale précédente, mais a tout de même adopté l'idée après sa réélection.  

Et c'est sans parler de la multiplication des subventions à la culture et du stupide protectionnisme culturel, qui sont censés « protéger » notre identité canadienne de l'influence américaine et qui font partie de cette manie trudeauiste de créer ou de soutenir bureaucratiquement ce qui n'existe pas pour des raisons symboliques purement nationalistes.   

Pour ses partisans, Pierre Trudeau est celui qui a presque créé de toute pièce le pays qu'est le Canada aujourd'hui. Les nationalistes canadiens, les gauchistes, les centralisateurs, les interventionnistes, vont entretenir son mythe, n'en doutons point, pour des décennies à venir, et feront tout pour poursuivre son oeuvre.  
  
 Pour ceux qui croient au contraire dans la liberté, le Canada ne redeviendra un pays acceptable que lorsque son héritage empoisonné aura été liquidé. La politique canadienne au cours des prochaines décennies sera définie par ce qui arrivera avec cet héritage: consolidation sous d'autres administrations libérales ou démantèlement – espérons-le – sous une autre gouverne.   

"...Les gouvernements conservateur et libéral qui se sont succédé depuis quinze ans ont heureusement quelque peu réparé ce gâchis en abolissant les programmes les plus inutiles, en concluant l'accord de libre-échange avec les États-Unis et en éliminant enfin le déficit. Mais le Canada reste un pays endetté, surtaxé, sur-réglementé et surgouverné en grande partie à cause de l'héritage de Pierre Trudeau.  

On dit que Pierre Trudeau a combattu le nationalisme toute sa vie. En fait, il n'a fait que combattre un type de nationalisme, le québécois, pour en défendre un autre, le canadien. Jacques Parizeau disait que lui et Trudeau s'entendaient sur presque tout, sauf sur l'endroit où placer la capitale nationale. En effet, avec les Lévesque, Bourassa, Bouchard, Chrétien et bien d'autres, Parizeau et Trudeau sont des représentants typiques de la génération de politiciens étatistes et nationalistes qui ont dominé la politique québécoise et canadienne depuis 40 ans." 

Honoring Long Lost WWI Canadian Soldiers

Moving burial ceremony of eight Canadian WWI soldiers finally laid to rest. 

"...In 2006, Fabien Demeusere found the remains buried in his back-garden and from that day onwards a huge search took place to find the identities of the bodies. Police, government and military departments and historians all contributed to the search, with DNA testing and research being at the heart of the hunt."



The soldiers inspired the documentary Forgotten No More.

Hillary's Seedy Campaign Money Source; Russia Bombs ISIS Oil

Terrorists' lawyers fund raise for Hillary?

What? You're actually surprised?

Tsk, tsk.

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Russian airplanes disrupt ISIS oil channels.

Which begs the question: Why didn't any of these power countries do it before?

Quebec Liberals Are Bullies

Their behavior with the teachers is sickening.

And we've all seen what they've done to nurses over the years.

Tough guys with teachers. Not so much with the inept, corporate bums that run Bombardier.

Speaking of which, Caisse Depot (they deserve each other) has kicked in $2 billion bringing Bombardier's bail out (it's not an investment) to roughly $3 billion. The Feds have yet to announce (which I'm betting is a fait accompli) releasing the $2 billion asked of them.

Which would bring the total to $5-$6 billion. Therein lies the truth of the matter, Bombardier probably needed that much liquidity just to keep going. 

The cronyism runs deep because no one in their right mind would give such a company with such a dubious track record that much money.

Meanwhile, these paragons of business tighten the credit screws on small business. Suddenly business metrics like profits, earnings, sound management, sales and so on matter. Just to get a $10 000 loan is an ordeal. In my case, it's better to just pay with VISA, accept the interest and pay it down than go through the bull shit with institutions like Caisse and other banks. With Bombardier it's all based on bull shit projections in a company that continuously misses its targets.

You're off your rocker if you defend this garbage.

It's all so second world. 

The Conquering Of Rational Beings

The statues of emotions have come to life to claim our live common sense now gone.

Gotta love the picture in The Guardian. Implied is runaway industrialism in the capitalist age (a 150 year-old event on an organism billions of years old already accustomed to massive natural and even manufactured upheavals. Mother Nature is an omnipotent and powerful lady that can't be controlled or tamed) is the reason why there's climate change.

The whole cultist movement is filled with so many contradictions and even nonsense it's a wonder people continue to bow before it. Even those who manage to shake and break free from its grips still cling to some elements of it 'just in case'.

Which is doubly nauseating listening to actors read climate change poetry. All they're were missing was a t-shirt of Trudeau on a horse.

A Protected, Sane And Civilized Society Is An Armed One

As Obama insidiously continues to angle for more gun control it's worth bringing what the Secretary General of Interpol said:

"Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Col., if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?" Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. "What I'm saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, 'Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?' This is something that has to be discussed."

"For me it's a profound question," he continued. "People are quick to say 'gun control, people shouldn't be armed,' etc., etc. I think they have to ask themselves: 'Where would you have wanted to be? In a city where there was gun control and no citizens armed if you're in a Westgate mall, or in a place like Denver or Texas?'"

Recall the Detroit police chief (and Minneapolis as noted in the article) suggested people be armed as well. 

Reality is going to get the better of the gun-control side sooner or later. As attacks become more sophisticated and unpredictable, law enforcement may indeed call for an armed citizenry. It will prove to be too costly for already stretched police forces to protect people.

And this alliance will be a good one.

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About the Second Amendment. This nonsense about repealing it doesn't get settled once and for all.

The amendment was written precisely as intended - shall not be infringed. Had it not, I think the Founding Fathers would have written it differently. The argument it was a 'different time' and was for a 'militia' as if there was some sort of nuanced meaning to it is rubbish and has run its course. It's vapid cocktail conversation for progressives; naturals at misinterpreting history.

There's no need to over think what they meant. Notably, they understood a well-armed citizenry was necessary should the system they set up fail and the government turns to tyranny. They understood all too well the lessons of history.

Guess what? Sensible minds get it too and we're seeing more and more people in positions of power speak out.

And this is the cold, hard sober fact.

A Cult Of The Personality Brewing

The CBC doesn't suit this cult of the personality shtick.

Are people asking me to take the Liberals and its supporters seriously after seeing crap like this?

All based on an image this love.

What The Earth Looks Like

Nice video from globetoday.com.

The BBC Loves To Pump The Asshole Angle

Remember when Muslims blamed the Jews for 9/11 but at the same time celebrated it? Sorta like how Western intellectuals on either side, believed Jews to be the authors of both communism and capitalism.

My synopsis?

People are assholes.

Dumb fucken assholes.

Thank God for the Jews because we'd see just how repulsive our intellectualism can get to the point of moral bankruptcy.

Muslims, in the context of terror, believe in 1001 tales. It's a bizarre cognitive dissonance at play.

'Yeah it's bad to kill people in Paris BUT people die in Syria every day'

Such is the best they've got to excuse and justify murder in their name.

And now the media (of course, the BBC those left-wing 'tards) is out looking for monsters. Christian monsters of course.

"In Connecticut, authorities are looking into reports of gunshots fired at a mosque just hours after the Paris attacks. "killed Paris" found etched on an Egyptian student's dormitory door at University of ConnecticutEiffel Tower spray-painted on the wall of the Omaha Islamic Center in Nebraska one man threatened on social media to "shoot up a mosque" in Texas faeces and torn Quran pages found outside another Texas mosque two mosques in Florida received threatening phone calls

Soooo. Let's get this straight. A half dozen incidents which include some vandalism in a nation of 320 million one in which can't be confirmed and two were just empty threats?

Shit. And look at that. NOT ONE FUCKEN MURDER OF MUSLIMS.

What did I say up above?

People are just assholes.

Obamacare: Exercise In Deception

In the early days of Obamacare conservatives warned it was designed to fail in order to get Americans onto single payer. The theory was that Obamacare was not going to deliver what it promised thus leaving policy makers no choice but to scrap it and move onto single payer.

Liberals and progressives, naturally, scoffed it off as the usual conservative 'fear-mongering' because they couldn't handle a black president. In their minds, it all made sense. To the extent, sense as dictated by the state. I don't think, at least not from what I've read over the years. they ever really critically analyzed this 2900 paged monstrosity. I'm almost convinced there are recipes for Hungarian goulash in there somewhere. In any event, it's not like progressive have exhibited any substantial thought on climate change and economics. They just accept 'it's because so'.

I myself wrote Americans were screwed and were on a path to single payer because the mathematics behind Obamacare were incoherent. Stupid terms like 'revenue neutral' were thrown around and people swallowed it like zombies eating flesh and drinking blood to wash it all down.

It wasn't that hard to see folks.

What are you gonna so, right?

Even Democrats lashed out for daring to think this way and was proof conservatives wanted people to die. Or even eat babies.

Alas, here's that awful man Harry Reid on the issue. Basically, as he scratches his ass, he admits it to be true.

From the get-go Obamacare was an unmitigated disaster implemented poorly and clearly without much thought. See health-care exchanges.

And now everyone is seeing what piece of crap Obamacare really is and would rather be fined because they see no value in the cost to coverage.

Of course, progressives will just dismiss this as people being too stupid to understand what's good for them.

Naturally. Because they 'just know' better for everyone.

Now insurance companies are losing patience.

I have no skin in the game, Canada handed over its health independent to the government decades ago, and what we've got is truly a dysfunctional and mediocre universal system. It's, well, decidedly 2nd world.

I can't see how anyone, by now, would conclude otherwise.

So we're cooked. But America was wasn't. And this is why Canadians like me can't comprehend why in the world they'd vote for this garbage.

Premiums have shot up (remember people were supposed to save $2500?) and coverage is sparse (remember people could keep their plans and doctors?) to the point people have determined it's better to just pay the fine.

So in effect, all Obamacare has managed to succeed at is being a coercive collector of people's money through fines.

"The IRS fined more than 7.5 million Americans for not having health insurance in 2014. That was 1.5 million people more than the administration projected."

They knew all along what they were doing.

And it was an exercise in classic state deception.

For the, you know, greater good.

Misapplication Of Precautionary Principle Leads School To Take Walking Cane Away From A Blind Child

I'm working on a massive Daily Derp but in the mean time, enjoy the marvel of derp.

"A blind girl has been banned from bringing her walking cane to school for "health and safety" reasons.

Lily-Grace Hooper, who is seven, suffered a stroke when she was just four days old, which left her virtually blind.

But her school, Hambrook Primary School, has now told the youngster she can no longer use her walking cane, because it could trip up teachers and other pupils at the school.

A risk assessment by Gary Learmonth from Sensory Support Service – done on behalf of the school – said the cane caused a high risk to other people around Lily-Grace, and that she should instead have full adult support "100 per cent" at all times."

Hambrook Primary School's head teacher, Jo Dent, said they would discuss the situation with Kristy.
She said: "The school's mobility officer raised health and safety issues around the new cane following a recent risk assessment.

"We have to consider all of our pupils, so it is important that we have an opportunity to discuss the situation before we make any decisions.

"We are very keen to resolve this issue as soon as possible and have been actively seeking to engage with the parent to bring this to an agreeable conclusion.

"The pupil has not been banned from bringing in their cane, we have simply asked them to not use it around school as a temporary measure, until we have the chance to meet with the parent and discuss the situation."

She said this?

Mehtinks Jo has suspended her humanism for bureaucratic safety bull shit.

 

We live in a time where we look at inanimate object and determine it's dangerous without laying much context and common sense anymore.

 

People have lost their minds.

 

Hang in there Lily-Grace.

But the government organism that regulates safety cited by the school said it's rubbish.

 

"The Government watchdog for health and safety has rubbished a risk assessment which banned a blind girl from taking her walking cane to school.

Seven-year-old Lily-Grace Hooper was told by Hambrook Primary School not to bring her cane to classes because of 'health and safety' reasons...."
 

"Geoff Cox, who heads the HSE's public sector team, also works with schools on safety.

He said: "There is nothing in health and safety regulations that would ban a child using a walking stick in school, or anywhere else for that matter.

"In cases like these people need to sit down and work out sensible and proportionate arrangements that will work in practice. I hope common sense prevails here.

"This is an example of someone using it the wrong way. I've never heard of it before."

Geoff is a sensible guy, Jo. Better listen to him.

Quote Of The Day: Despicable Hillary

"...She did, however, separate herself from the Republicans in one fundamental way: she refused to blame terrorism on Islam itself. "Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism," she said."

Yes. Yes, she did say it.

Yes.

This individual will say anything to get elected and do the opposite when the wind changes.

What's with all this 'leading from behind' crap anyway?

Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

TRIGGER WARNING: SARCASM ON THE DOCKET. 

I dedicate this video to all you poor, poor college/university students fighting their good fights.



Enjoy every sandwich kids.

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Progressive Failure

Quite the alarmist rag this New York Daily News.

Updated. Reason explains why the NYDN is upset with the NRA. Basically because they (rightfully) don't support giving the AG blanket authority.

GRANTING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE AUTHORITY TO DENY THE SALE, DELIVERY, OR TRANSFER OF A FIREARM OR THE ISSUANCE OF A FIREARMS OR EXPLOSIVES LICENSE OR PERMIT TO DANGEROUS TERRORISTS....

“The Attorney General may deny the transfer of a firearm pursuant to section 922(t)(1)(B)(ii) if the Attorney General determines that the transferee is known (or appropriately suspected) to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism, or providing material support thereof, and the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that the prospective transferee may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.”;

Liberty. You have to fight for it.

The only extremists I see here are the jerk offs at the NYDN.

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"Economist Nouriel Roubini said Tuesday the Paris attacks could end up boosting the eurozone economy if the European Central Bank decides to increase its program of monetary stimulus by a larger margin than it would have otherwise. In an interview with CNBC, the founder of Roubini Global Economics said the the impact of the attacks would otherwise be 'modest', unless more follow..."

Ah yes. From the Krugman files where nothing spurs an economy like a war. You have to destroy an economy to save it.

Man, these people.

I wonder if Roubini would volunteer putting into practice this nonsense by, say, destroying his home?

What you say, Roubs?

I know people. They can help demolish your house. How does Friday sound? Your payment to them would go a long way to helping the economy you so care about.

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Hillary is just as nutty (but more sinister and with more baggage) as Sander, Trump and Carson.

"In what appears to be a first for a serious presidential contender, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going after five comedians who made fun of the former Secretary of State in standup skits at a popular Hollywood comedy club.
A video of the short performance, which is less than three minutes, is posted on the website of the renowned club, Laugh Factory, and the Clinton campaign has tried to censor it. Besides demanding that the video be taken down, the Clinton campaign has demanded the personal contact information of the performers that appear in the recording. This is no laughing matter for club owner Jamie Masada, a comedy guru who opened Laugh Factory more than three decades ago and has been instrumental in launching the careers of many famous comics. “They threatened me,” Masada told Judicial Watch. “I have received complains before but never a call like this, threatening to put me out of business if I don’t cut the video.”

A Man Worthy Of Hero Worship

Ludovic Boumbas.

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On the other side...

The sad relativism of a morally bankrupted mindset.

Imagine No Bad Songs After A Tragedy

I don't know what it is with John Lennon's 'Imagine' that has let it become the defacto world's song. The lyrics are childish and the song itself very meh. But that's me.

Personally, if I were to sing it would be 'We're not gonna take it'. In fact, that should be France's war cry.

Too soon?

Climate Change Narrative Loses Its Mind

Smart people of sound mind quit the climate-system change movement once it became apparent it was revealed premises that drove it were faulty; the data heavily manipulated, the process politicized and the immeasurable costs associated with policies that derived from it. Moreover, and equally important, when its supporters like true believers began to invent religious terms like 'deniers' and calling for the arrest of those who, endowed with skepticism, dared question the science as is healthy in any debate - nay essential.

Who stuck around? Well, see below.

The Hill:

“The reason is pretty obvious: If we are going to see an increase in drought and flood and extreme weather disturbances as a result of climate change, what that means is that peoples all over the world are going to be fighting over limited natural resources,” Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“If there is not enough water, if there is not enough land to grow your crops, then you’re going to see migrants of people fighting over land that will sustain them, and that will lead to international conflict,” he added.

The Democratic presidential hopeful raised eyebrows when he made the claim at the second Democratic primary debate on Saturday.

The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist said on Sunday that the attack on Paris is an early example of this phenomenon playing out.

“Well what happens in, say, Syria… is that when you have drought, when people can’t grow their crops, they’re going to migrate into cities,” Sanders said.

“And when people migrate into cities and they don’t have jobs, there’s going to be a lot more instability, a lot more unemployment, and people will be subject to the types of propaganda that al 

Qaeda and ISIS are using right now,” he added.

“So where you have discontent, where you have instability, that’s where problems arise, and certainly, without a doubt, climate change will lead to that.”

 Any questions?

Quote Of The Day

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

C. S. Lewis

Monitoring Montreal's St. Lawrence River Sewage Dump

Montreal sewage update.

Not good.

Mike Rowe For President!

All the best of luck Mike from Canada!

 

Krugman's Vapid Conscience

I accidentally fell upon Paul Krugman's blog. And boy did I regret it. I'd rather read Curious George.

What an insufferable and predictable bore and a snore he is.

Krugman has a knack for the opaque: 

"...Meanwhile, the Democrats had a bizarrely rational and well-informed debate. By today’s standards, that’s positively un-American."



 I thoroughly enjoy watching Democrats talk like Soviet-style commies and populist Marxists about who they're gonna 'go after' this and that.

Hillary is using the passage of time hoping people won't remember to rewrite her own history.

Not only is she a faux-populist she actually had the nerve to pull out the 9/11 card? I don't seem to recall Hillary's face anywhere in the streets of NYC on that day and in the aftermath. 

In fact, she was nowhere to be found. That was GUILIANI'S TOWN. 

It's not a first for such a liar. Recall she claimed to be under 'sniper fire' in Sarajevo which proved to be false.

And for kicks, it was her camp that started the whole Obama birth certificate thing. Funny how Democrats are glossing over this preferring to pretend it's the right-wing who started it.

It started as a rebuttal trying to defend her integrity but it ended with her revealing she has none.