RIP Nathan Frank Cirillo

Cirillo is the solider who was standing on guard at the War Memorial of our Unknown Soldier.

A moment of thought to Patrice Vincent the soldier also killed in a separate incident earlier in the week in Quebec.

Inside Parliament, Kevin Vickers is the Sgt. at Arms hero who took down the killer.

Quote Of The Day

"But if you are an employer, you can afford to provide health insurance, you don’t, your employees get sick, they go to the emergency room or they end up on Medicaid because you're not doing what you're doing—you should be doing—why is it everybody else should be bearing those costs?"

President Obama.

Remember. Greatest communicator ever.

Ottawa Attacked

My country has been attacked.

We barely had time to digest what happened in St. Jean sur-Richelieu before this.

***

As John McClane said, 'welcome to the party pal'.

Sad but true.

***

The media seems fixated on the word 'long-gun'.

Then I remembered. Of course. They're setting it up to go after Harper's decision for abolishing the long-form gun registry and by extension for being a puppet of the USA by committing troops in the fight against ISIS.

Both idiotic and insane notions but this is what's being said on the CBC threads and won't be long will be the main narrative.

Not that we have native citizens being radicalized and that maybe we should be focusing on Wahhibist Imams indoctrinating people on our soil.

No siree.

Gates' Derp

Bill Gates has a solution for income inequality.

Oh, look. More taxes! But not just any tax but a consumption tax!

"Consider a family that spends $10 million a year and is deciding whether to add a $2 million wing to its mansion. If the top marginal tax rate on consumption were 100 percent, the project would cost $4 million. The additional tax payment would reduce the federal deficit by $2 million. Alternatively, the family could scale back, building only a $1 million addition. Then it would pay $1 million in additional tax and could deposit $2 million in savings. The federal deficit would fall by $1 million, and the additional savings would stimulate investment, promoting growth. Either way, the nation would come out ahead with no real sacrifice required of the wealthy family, because when all build larger houses, the result is merely to redefine what constitutes acceptable housing. With a consumption tax in place, most neighbors would also scale back the new wings on their mansions."

If you believe this, then you can't be helped.

It's become tedious listening to people who made a fortune ponder and muse about social issues outside their areas of expertise.

Tiresome. 

Let's get one thing clear. Rich folks like Gates have zero intentions of paying more taxes. They'll make damn sure the system makes you pay.

And why a magazine called 'Entrepreneur' is covering 'income inequality' and such tripe is beyond me.

Sanity Restored In Portland

The Portland Mercury 'gets it'. 

Vermont not so much.

Finally, someone gets the 'bigger picture'. By taking this stance, they may have helped save food from the same fate cigarettes face at the hands of ant-scientists and paternalistic policies.

The people calling for GMO labeling are no different than the people who 'fight' climate change.

They're anti-capitalists who want to uproot the system. What they want to replace it with I don't know, though if I had to guess it would be socialism, nor do I care.

GMO is safe.

Move on.

The Little Evil Town Of Alpine, Texas

Alright, this story about an evil DA, the DEA and the Purple Zone (and its owner Ilana Ipsen) out of Texas is disturbing.

I mean, like, the antagonists (law enforcement) would have no trouble finding a spot in Dante's Inferno.

Oh, but T.C. you being an extremist! Dontcha know we must fight drugs - shadow boxes - to keep our streets safe?

Of course you do. But you don't do it by pulling this crap off.

Worse, it brings out the simmering anti-Semitism so many carry:

"I've received anti-Semitic hate emails. I've been told to 'go back to Jew York.' I've had people come in my store and tell me it was 'fucked up" and that I was poisoning the youth of the town—even though I have a big sign that says '18 and Over' and I have an ID scanner. The bars here in Alpine don't have ID scanners, but I do!" 
 

Think it's restricted to right-wing hicks? Try again. I've heard and read variations of this logic on progressive sites (of course, the left carries a long and distinguished legacy of anti-semitism culminating into, you know, the Holocaust) along the lines of 'she doesn't deserve that but she gets little sympathy from me for supporting Israel".

One can but just wish there was an Anti-idiot Czar.

I can barely digest the stupidity of people anymore.

Anyway.

This is nothing but an exercise in abuse of power (they've raided this establishment four times in five years without ever finding anything as they stretch the law as far as they possibly could. Heck, they probably even broke it as they even entered a neighbor's apartment without the required papers) equipped with its own cast of characters led by a derelict DA in Rod Ponton. There's a story out there he even forced a local paper to write a story in response to a journalist's work the day previous with her name in the byline.

Right. This guy is all for the people. Right.

If America is a civilized society with a conscience, they put an end to the war on drugs. It's creating a cult of over zealous prosecutors and law officials cracking down on people often ruining lives for little if any practical results.

The destruction on countless lives all for nothing.

****

All this in Texas unfolded under Obama's watch. Just saying.

Hope and change. Change and hope. Forward. Backwards.

Don't matter.

These are just words in wonderful magnificent Obama the Light Bringer's arsenal.

Always remember. What happened to Ms. Ipsen can happen to any of us. The government has way too much power over citizens. Simple as that.

THIS is the relevant question everyone - regardless of what you think of her business - should be asking.

Blog Of The Week

A Look At Americans From The View Of A Government Employee:

"It is a crime for you Americans to save what you earn. You must first and foremost pay us what we have decided you owe us. You must hand this money over before you buy food for your children, even before it arrives in your bank account. Your employer will cooperate with us to make sure you never get a chance to handle the money you owe us.
You people like it this way. You voted away your money when we promised you various benefits in return for your money. You never got these promises in writing, and the conditions were such that you had to keep paying us regardless of when, how, or even if the benefits are ever delivered to you. You signed away your right to withhold your tax payments under the above terms over and over again. You cannot even withhold your own money in protest, yet you keep working for us to get that little bit of your own money that we allow you to keep, that little commission we use to motivate you. Peaceful resistance is not possible for you; that’s the way you wanted it."

* I don't know if the author really works for the public sector.

Racists Under The Bed And In The Closet

RACIST!



We're all racists now.

/Pulls blanket over eyes.

Cops Won't Help If They Feel Threatened

You know it's a sad state of affairs in media when Cracked.com has to get to the facts and truth of a story.

In the media, it will be Heroes! Not so much in real life.

And this is why NEW MEDIA including blogs and the Internet is so severely crucial. They can't control things so easily.

Cops won't do anything:

"This rampage might have continued, were it not for Gelman's last victim, Joe Lozito, who enthusiastically disagreed with being stabbed. He fought back and wound up teaching his attacker a lesson with the educational power of fists. We reached out to Lozito to learn what it's like to be a real hero instead of just playing one on Xbox, like the rest of us..."

Read this rest in link. Really good story and further proof Americans who want to protect their 2nd amendment rights are not extremists. 

What Does An Idiot Look Like?

Like this boob who went to North Korea for 'vacation'?

Idiot.

What's next for Jeffrey Fowle?

Yemen? Somalia?

Idiot.

/slaps him off side of head.

You Have One Option

Tammany Hall for Chicago.

Democrat voter fraud?

J'amais!

Tragedy In St. Jean-sur-Richelieu

Welcome to the party Canada.

Heroes!

Sociopath cop shoots 'threatening' puppy.

Notice how he reacts after killing an animal. If that's not a sociopath I don't know what is.

*Warning disturbing.

U.S. Acting Irresponsibly Towards Citizens

In lieu of ebola, calls for travel bans is not the solution.

But there is one way to contain it: Quarantine. Yet, for some reason the U.S. is not doing this. Weren't all immigrants who came through Ellis Island subjected to this prudent, practical and responsible practice?

So why is the Obama administration not following this sensible approach?

Instead, he nominates a person without medical practice to a redundant, if not unnecessary, Ebola czar post and is preparing to let in 100 000 Haitians into the country through executive order.

President Obama is chaos on so many levels.

Heroes Of The Middle East

The Kurds, largely thanklessly, have been fighting derelict and morally bankrupted, violent religious fanatics for decades. One could be excused if they felt good guys never seemed to want to fight on behalf of what is just and honorable in the region leaving it to others.

Now we're beginning to see people mobilize and fight back ISIS in the form of guerrilla groups like White Shroud who claim they've killed as many as 100 militants (terrorists).

"But they're not the only group fighting Islamic State. According to the watchdog, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, White Shroud is one of several small groups that are killing Islamic State fighters whenever the opportunity arises.

Other groups calling themselves "Phantom Brigade" and "The Brigade of the Angel of Death" exist, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory."

Go get 'em.

San Francisco Police Take Safety Seriously

Uh.

"Bicyclist who didn't outfit baby with helmet says cops choked him and forcibly took the boy away"

So. We'll potentially ruin your family, waste all this time and resources, over a helmet?

My look of disgust.

 

Cowardly UK

UK comes for guns just because.

Know when they say the information culled by the government would never be shared or be used against citizens and that we should never worry if we have nothing to hide or follow the law?

Yeah well, if you don't think bull shit on that, you're more naive than you think.

The UK will come for law-abiding Brits and their guns.

Terrorists who live among them, not so much.

The NFL with no gambling?

Man, it would lose a good chunk of its revenue base, no? Just like the Premier League in England.

Or maybe not.

Quote Of The Day

"A welfare state strapped for cash will ignore individual liberty".

Guess who?

Moi! T.C..

Turd Sandwiches And Douchebags

I will NOT stop using the word douchebag.

Know why?

Because some people are just that: Douchebags. Some are even fucken douchebags.

I swear.

People really, really need to thicken their skins and/or get over themselves.

Why, if I didn't know any better I swear there's an epidemic of people getting way too sensitive. You can't go a paragraph without someone clutching their fucking pearls.

The Wrong Mindset Drives Policy

MY STRUGGLE!

And here I am filled with all sorts of old fashioned notions of that part of life is to take care of family members.

What is this nonsense of needing to be compensating -worse demanding society subsidize - for what is the most basic of all actions that maintains our civility? I hadn't realized parents could be seen as economic tools.

If you can't take care of your parents you have bigger problems.

Everyone has a 'my struggle' story these days. Well, mostly on left-wing rags like Salon.

Know what else I think?

People like this - in this domain - tend to defraud the state all the time. Be it through hours they submit or in my industry for home daycare, use it for a chance to 'improve' the house.

Then they have the temerity to complain or strike for more money from taxpayers.

We Told You: Freedom Of Religion Is Just A Title

Still believe the government doesn't own us?

Try this.

It's not like anyone with a 1/3 of a brain couldn't see this coming. When you involve the state, you get coercion. The idea that they now threaten religious organizations with jail time for not wanting to perform duties against their principles is frighening.

What part of 'we own your sorry asses' don't people get? Which is why it always blows my mind watching one set of citizens taking another set of citizens to court to force them to serve them.

For example, a gay couple taking a baker to court because the latter chose to not bake them a cake.

Rather than just go to the next baker they enter the realm of government. And when you do, you unleash all sorts of unintended consequences and sometimes they ironically go against you.

You can't compel someone to do something against their will. Would you like it? These same douchebag slimeballs would pull a scene if they were forced to do something they didn't want to do. 

People are not your personal slaves.

Don't do it.  Simple as that. 

Defending Dictators

I attack - yes attack - the left quite a bit for their legacy of supporting and being sympathetic to dictators and murderous ideologies. The assault on my part, I feel, is justified. History is history and the left can't whitewash this fact. The list of elites, intellectuals, politicians artists and celebrities supporting and gushing over the likes of Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Castro is quite impressive.

That being said, libertarians and conservatives are not without their own skeletons when it comes to acting as apologists for dictators. Nowhere near as offensive as what we see with progressives and liberals but worth noting particularly when it comes to Pinocchet.

And so it was with Hayek. Someone held in high regard in libertarian and classical liberal circles.

Job Opening

Only in the 21st century will you find a job opening for a Farmer at Space X.

Media Going Into Trudeau Over Drive

And it will work.

From comments:

"Gradually returning the Federal Rate of Corporate Taxation to 1960 levels(41%) is worth the effort to return Canada to an egalitarian society your father believed in. Someone, maybe you?, has the courage to return strong controls over Capitalism, as Canada once had. "

My headache has just graduated to a migraine.

Yes because the fucking 21st century economy is exactly like the fucking 1960s. Yes, because capitalism is rampant. Out of control. In Canada. Riiiight.

For the love of God. Left-wingers really do live in a concrete, cemented zero-sum world.

He and Obama should get together and write about empty suits.

America Is In Good Hands

The President never misses a chance to reward unqualified hacks.  Ron Klain's job as Ebola Czar (I thought the CDC was supposed to take care of this) will consist of doing jack shit while doing his best Chip Diller impression of 'all is well'. Did I mention Klain has ZERO qualifications for the job?

Which brings up this quote:

"President Obama said he hugged and kissed some of the nurses in Atlanta who had treated the patients with Ebola. Man, Obama will do anything to get out of that job right now."

- Conan O'Brien, October 16, 2014

As an aside, Lord, I do I hate the term 'Czar'.

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Speaking of hacks and goofballs, Biden's son gets a dishonorable discharge from the Navy for drugs.

Ironic given his father is one of the most notorious faces of legislating draconian drug laws as part of the war on drugs that has destroyed the lives of countless people and done precious little to help, well, anyone let alone communities.

Fall Of The West Reason 39494959966666: Too Much Time On Their Hands Justifying Jobs

Judge in Lenoir City, Tennessee puts woman in prison for...

Not cutting her grass that leads to a messy yard.

Fine. I'm gonna go out and say it.

These people are evil.

My neighbor doesn't keep his yard need at all. It's annoying but I certainly don't feel it's a crime that deserves a fine let alone prison time. The municipal town where I own my business are also pains in the asses mostly because it's a tiny place and they have three or four civil servants driving around in Smart cars maintaining 'order'. If you ask me, the city could save on getting their salaries altogether since most of what they do is utter bull shit that actually graduates into accosting reasonable citizens with threats of fines.

But that's me. I know. I'm in the minority.

We've lost our minds. From taking offense too easily to jokes (the perpetually aggrieved and sour will always stretch the laws of logic to control and even destroy satire and humor), to over reacting to social issues of the day (global warming, rape on campus, ebola etc.) to whatever else you care to insert.

For the children.

FOR. THE. CHILDREN.

Heroes!

The media makes bad cops do bad things.

Problem is....TECHNOLOGY is the great equalizer.

Which is why soon enough apologists could potentially start angling to get it banned. Can't film cops, no cameras on dashboards etc..

Fusion Energy Breakthrough Announced

"Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade."

Promising and interesting.

This is my idea of progress.

Hilary Charges $2500 Per Minute

Must be the most wondrously precious words in the world.

"Hello, I'm Hilary Clinton and I'm here to tell you the evils of debt and that you deserve...what's that? I said $2500 not $25 you fucking idiot! Who bathes you in the morning? Do you even bathe because judging by your scent you don't and another thing..."

/Moderator takes away mic.

Moderator: "Thanks for coming! It's all we can afford"!

Remember. This is the woman who claimed she knows what it's like to live 'poor'.

"'I think our young people deserve a fair shot,' she told about 900 people gathered at the swanky Bellagio resort for the annual UNLV Foundation dinner.

The 1-1/2-hour commitment netted Mrs. Clinton a cool $2,500 per minute.

UNLV student Jordan Mason told MailOnline in June that a nearly quarter-million-dollar payday for Clinton should have been out of the question.

'$225,000? That's obscene!' Mason said. 'And the money is all fungible, right? Even if some CEO is writing the check, that's money that the person probably would have given to the university in some other way.'

'I like Hillary,' the student added, 'but if she's not willing to support us without all that money changing hands, maybe they should book someone else who won't add to the reasons we're paying more for school.'"

Students are such suckers. They can't even connect the dots.

Quote Of The Day

From The New York Post:

What’s changed is the public’s perception of us, created by the reckless reporting by nearly every news outlet very early after the shooting of Michael Brown.

Sha-wing!

Nah. It can't be because heavily armed, trigger happy cops engage in no-knock raids sometimes killing innocent people in some cases attacking the wrong house, or choke hold people to death, or issuing random bull shit jaywalking tickets while beating up old Chinese men, or shooting down family pet dogs or the mentally-challenged. And when they're not shooting at people they gang up and beat down the homeless sometimes resulting in death or stealing from the deceased.

And that's just what's being reported.

Nah. It's gotta be the media.

Don't the police own mirrors?

Sham Marriage Fraud In Oregon

Where there's her first problem. Mrs. Hayes spells Sylvia as Cylvia.

One letter is all it takes sometimes.

When all else fails, furthermore, use the 'I'm sorry I was caught so I will cry' appeal to emotions defense.

Did I mention she's a Democrat?

In any event, some people would consider most marriages a sham so what she did was technically not a sham-sham marriage.

Booya!

Wednesday Funnies: Animal Activists Storm Restaurant

I feel like an omelette.

Central Planning Erosion

Immigration or centralization caused the collapse of Rome asked The Brussels Journal back in 2009.

I didn't realize these were the principle two reasons for its fall - indeed, I thought it was a debate for the ages what caused the fall of the mighty Roman Empire - but if I had to choose I'll go with centralization.

In fact, we're seeing how centralization ravages civilizations right before our very eyes.

We're drunk on government centralization. So much so I don't even think we can extricate ourselves from its grips. It's way too addictive.

Thought Of The Day

Mark Zuckerberg loves giving away so much money to bureaucratic agencies he should nationalize himself.

Question

When will the United States help the Kurds?

It's truly a remarkable mystery that the ONE pro-American, secular people in the Mid-East who are begging for U.S. help are not getting it.

Just mind-boggling.

NDP Proposes Nationalized Daycare; Bad, BAD Idea

I know this typical of the left-wing NDP but, man oh man, this is a bad idea. It's almost as if they're blind to the corruption and fraud that has infested Quebec's subsidized daycare program. And believe you me, everyone in the know is aware of the racket that is subsidized daycare.

So in comes this bozos and want to increase the potential for fraud at the national level.

But not all is crazy in NDP-land. They want to charge $15 a day. Which is way better than the insanity of $7 in Quebec (where increasing it to a negligible $9 is seen as ravaging the middle class with 'austere' measures - I don't make this shit up; it's how they think). 

Yay! People cheer.

Only problem is it will cost waaaayyyyyy more than that to run and operate and with it will come all the usual union and bureaucratic bull shit that festers in such programs.

Jesus. Just let society run that part of the show. Why must the government get involved in all facets of our lives?

Yeah but T.C. it costs $50 a day to go to daycare! $15 would be so much better!

If you think this way you deserve a helmet to go through life in.

The government will TAX you for the difference or if you prefer the deficit they will incur. And remember, while you have two weeks vacation in the private sector, be prepared for daycare workers to go on strike to get six weeks paid vacation ON YOU DIME.

$15 in Federal/Provincial speak will cost you more than $50.

Now. This is where T.C. places you on his lap or knee and explains to you finance. Would you, an ADULT, presumably filled with pride and dignity; accountability and responsibility, want the money in his or her pocket to manage like an independent individual or do you want to hand your money over to Ms. Pencil Pushing Bureaucrat who could care less about your pockets?

Never mind about the silliness of ravaging your pockets. Nationalized daycare will destroy private daycare whom thousands of people earn their livelihoods.

Yes. This is so moral to do.

I still can't believe in this day and age of high corruption and waste and with all that we know about the state of the welfare apparatus and lack of funds to support it we still look to the government to run our daily lives.

No wonder the West is falling.

Heroes!

American police. Thugs with badges?

Sure seems likes it.

They have little professional ethic these days. And it ain't much better up here listening to them talk.

Thanksgiving Gift From Canada

Canada to the rescue.

Ebola vaccine (and turkey, eh) on the way everyone!

Thursday Night Music: Monster Magnet

Poverty Inc. Film Out This Autumn

Look forward to the movie Poverty Inc.

In the excerpts shown and discussed on Stossel, one was about how Haitian subsidized rice production destroyed rice farmers. Before subsidization, Haiti's rice production was normal and functional. After subsidization, Haiti's poverty only hastened.

It's a similar story playing out here in Quebec with daycare or whenever anything is subsidized. It distorts the market making things unequal and unjust.

There was no real reason to subsidize daycare. All it did was put in jeopardy the lives of private day care operators and create a gigantic mess of a bureaucracy rooted in fraud and obscene waste.

As I mentioned in a previous post, subsidization is evil to the extent it ends up costing us and the economy we operate in more in the long-run.

So much more.

World Looks To America On ISIS

Watching nations consider their options in the fight against ISIS is a textbook example of how the world talks but in the end waits for American leadership.

And this is where things usually get messy for America. Their bound to displease allies on whatever course of action they select. We've seen this play out time and again. The world wants America to bud out but they want them to bud in. Meanwhile, domestically the United States is dealing with a war-weary public which is probably why Obama is bypassing Congress because he knows Americans don't want another fight.

In the case of Turkey, they took their concerns to NATO but let's face it, NATO may as well be a mask for the United States. They were really talking to the Americans. Unfortunately, they're talking to an administration that can't even bring itself to admit publicly and conclusively that they're at war.

I'm somewhat surprised if not disappointed by Turkey's position. I thought for sure they would not tolerate ISIS on their borders yet despite their fighting abilities seem to be dithering waiting on joint efforts from other nations. Turkey's position and the general confusion of the Obama administration don't bode well for both.

Meanwhile, the Kurds courageously fight on with so little.

Law Enforcement In North America Sick

Normally, stories like this one out of Georgia sarcastically goes under the banner of 'Heroes' but given its upsetting nature it deserves a different title and consideration.

It's rather disconcerting the frequency of 'no-knock' raids by police in the U.S. often resulting in unnecessary deaths of innocent people.

Something is wrong with law enforcement if a judge signs off and a police chief gives clearance for these raids.

To me it's incompetence leading to criminal acts of trespassing and murder.

Not death in the interest in protecting and serving but plain old murder.

Recall, that according to the article, the police took the word of a criminal and proceeded to attack an innocent man with NO CRIMINAL HISTORY. What does it take to show up at the door and knock?

No wonder people want to keep their guns and cops want to confiscate them.

It makes  little sense that as police forces militarize politicians take dead aim at gun control against law-abiding, free citizens.

The people who fight tooth and nail protecting the 2nd amendment are, to me anyway, 100% in the right.

The police are breeding suspicion among the people. This can't be good for communities across the country.

I ask, given the nature of how these no-knock invasions sometimes go down:

Cui Bono?

Pournelle's Law Of Iron Bureaucracy

Pournelle's Law of Iron Bureuacracy.

"Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions."

We do tend to conflate the hard working dedicated worker in the bureaucracy and the power hungry entitlement seeking minion whenever talk of reducing the bureaucracy comes up.  The latter group is toxic.

I Said For The Children!!!!!

How do these idiots like Fiona Ma get elected? She needs one of those 'smarten up' slaps.

Holy shit I've heard stupid things from politicians but this is possibly one of the worst. You know you're a buffoon when a spokesperson for Ravers is more sensible and understand the bull shit of contemporary public policy. Namely the cynical game of appeals to emotions. And you do that by talking about the children.

I've attended Raves in the 1990s. Other than the concern of sometimes occasionally having them in condemned or abandoned buildings (which stopped pretty quickly),  believe me, there's little to worry about. Not when compared to the real problems that we face.

Be careful of women like that. 

The Time Has Come

To throw cops who act this way (in this case in Indiana) in prison.

Especially with cops who have a history of this. 

Enough already.

I get the safety for officer argument bit...up to a point.

But it's not about that. It's total unaccountable bully behavior. Montreal police use excessive force as well and we have one of the lowest murder rates on the continent.

So, forgive me for thinking if there's something more at work here.

Question

Is there a more under appreciated and valiant group everyone is rooting for than the Kurds?

When Democrats Derp

"In the second debate in 2004 U.S. presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry questioned the size of the coalition participating in the initial invasion, saying, "...when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. We can do better".

Ahem.

Comments relevant.

***

Back during the Bush years everyone - and I mean everyone had something to say about how evil he was. You couldn't turn the TV on, read a paper or even listen to a concert '(I hope the Muslims win'! bellowed Crissie Hynde with the intellectual prowess of a community organizer) without anger pointed towards the Bush administration. Movies and faux-documentaries were made; coffee houses and university campuses pounded their precious tables and chests lamenting the fall of the American Republic and 'democracy'.

Even at a late night stand up show a comedian mocked Bush's 'Coalition of the Willing'. Another prevailing view was the 'unhinged' Bush Doctrine was going to attack Iran and then Syria and so on.

You couldn't escape it. It was everywhere.

Now?

I was in Delaware and shopping in a shop clearly leaning left (judging by the merchandise) and in full display were anti-Bush stickers. Six years after. It's like Obama's worse record isn't even happening.

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What constitutes a 'coalition' anyway? Two, three, 10 countries? 

Silence.

Even as Obama out-attacks Bush, secretly drone kills without due process all while pushing an incoherent foreign policy of 'not war-war'.

Genetically Modified Labeling

Our story - humanity - is but about genetic modification.

Label away if it makes you feel better. Hey, you can even say it's for the future of our children.

Whatever floats your boat.

I just don't think it's necessary. Or even rational.

Quote Of The Day: For The Children

"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”
- Albert Shanker - President, United Federation of Teachers

And the mask falls. Yet, they want OUR money.

Like any of us actually believed it was ever for the children. We've seen this act play out in Quebec and B.C. for years.

Truth is, when push comes to shove - that is, the second their pockets are touched they'll throw the children not just under the bus but hurl them over it as well.

People like Shanker, of which there are way too many, can literally go fuck a tree. 

Self-Entitlement Of The Other Kind

I admit I'm a bit of a sports junkie - not as bad as some I see around me but still rather engaged to a point.

The one thing I hate about sports are the owners.

I know we here at T.C. central rail against left-wing twats and their 'give me free shit because I deserve it and it's good for society because the children and data' deservedly get lampooned and harpooned with words, but corporate bums are no better. They're one and the same in terms of the psychologically behind getting tax payer dollars.

It's probably worse among owners because they literally must feel they're the only ones who truly deserve getting other people's money mostly because they privately have so much of it. Never mind some happened upon the money, or others merely lucked out, they just feel, you know, smarter.

However, there's nothing smart about shaming and strong arming government's into giving them money to build sports stadiums and arenas.

If they're so sure of their project (and honestly, no one know for sure anything will work. Business plans are as useful to me as a used kleenex), then let them plump down the money or make arrangements with their banks to finance their projects.

I sure as hell don't believe any company deserves any taxpayer dollars or subsidies to drive their objectives. Nor do I necessarily buy into it 'creates jobs' argument especially if the money goes into trendy places, say, green companies who more often than not either close up or run major losses.

Put it to you another way. Would you give money to someone who fails spectacularly no matter how smooth they talk? Would you personally invest in a company that shows it has no earnings?

I know I wouldn't. Yet, the government sees wisdom in giving money to proven losers in loser industries.

In the long-run, these losses or interest payments add up negatively on the economy I reckon.

Alas, I'm not a Top Man so how can I possibly understand things like the 'greater good', right?

If you can't stand on your own two feet then you don't deserve the money is all I'm saying.

Quebec Road Etiquette Fail

My informal, anecdotal study regarding common road etiquette in Quebec has led me to giving the province a 'C-'.

It would be a failing grade - that is, 'F' - but I figured there are some conscientious drivers out there who gave me hope but like intelligent and wise voters who are actually informed, they're in the minority.

Worse, Quebecers can barely be bothered to follow simple urban rules like doing a complete stop at a school intersection.

It's bad.

Really bad.

Heck, just my walk to school with my daughter reveals a couple of incidences of people not taking a deep breath to observe it's a school cross walk. I'm not joking, the brigadier chews out two or three people a week.

Worse, the drivers actually argue back!

But Quebec wants more bike paths. Suuurrre. The last thing this place needs is more chances for Quebec drivers to hit their targets.

In my view, this is not a naturally green place. The bikers are all too quick to give the finger and the drivers don't have the patience to let joggers and cyclists cross an intersection.

The concept of pedestrian right of way is a suggestion - nay a nuisance - here.

These are my thoughts having now cycled and jogged over 100 times since March. I've had at least a dozen run ins all of which were not even close to being my fault. Not only that. On the bike/walk paths, we see more Quebec sans politesse as people seem ignorant of the concept of 'keep right'. Or bikers flying down the path sometimes yelling at joggers thus startling them for no reason.

Not impressed.

Come to think of it. I give us a 'D'.

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Quick word on self-centered drivers who drive 25-30km/hr in a one-lane 50 zone either barely doing stops or excessively observing them but speed up as soon as a yellow light comes on. Same with people clogging up the left-lane on highways strolling along at 60 on a 100 zone. There's no excuse. None. It's a passing lane.

Fuck you. Fuck you with a rusty nail especially if you're young and doing it on purpose.

Da Jews

Are you an anti-semite?

The Jewish lobby controls American politics.

Not bad for 14 million Jews, eh?

Freedom Of Speech

NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOESN'T MEAN I NEED TO BE POLITE TO YOU OR PRETEND TO NOT OFFEND YOU.

FUCK OFF.

Thank you.

Quote Of The Day

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

P. J. O'Rourke

Democacacracy!

Salon comes up with a lot infantile, vapid stupidity so it's impossible to link to their articles on a daily basis since I wouldn't be able to keep up. However, I can't let this slide:

Let us close, then, by repeating democracy’s first principle: Government exists to help as many as possible.

It's like they just invent things on the fly.

In all my years in political science and history classes in University, on top of endless lectures, essays, periodicals and observations of great philosophers, I've never encountered anyone argue the same as the quote above.

What Frick and Frack are doing in the article is using 'democracy' to dictate policy they want.

They aren't informing in as much as they're engaging in propaganda (notice the appeals to emotion with scary pictures of Scalia, Zimmerman and Koch as if they're destroying their brand of democracy; of what kind who knows? They never really define democracy in any meaningful way.  They just 'use' the word but don't give a shit about it anymore bureaucrats and politicians care about 'the children'.

In this way, they become useful idiots for the state as they seem to espouse the idea of concentrating more power into one person or party - that is, an appeal to authority. Which also means, on social matters, they represent the enablers of the entitlement class. Because the children.

Which is fine if they're feeding this intellectual tripe to their morbidly remedial vapid band of banal readers. If someone takes issue with it, no problem. You're an extremist. Or racist. Or both.

Why, you're even ignorant of the first principle of democracy!

Not so fine when it enters a room filled with less ideologically driven and informed people.

Welcome to 21st century progressivism.

Where the motto is "We wing things Forward"!

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Speaking of Frick and Frack:

Canada Prepared To Fight

It's not surprising Harper and the Conservative party are willing to take on a combat role in the fight against ISIS.

Book Of The Night

The Last Canadian.

Haven't read but looks interesting.

We Take Because Sales

From Bloomberg:

"The other day, I noted in passing that it is arithmetically impossible, except in some bizarre situation with little bearing on the real world, to make money by paying your employees more and thus enabling them to afford your products."

Oh, yeah I love this. It's the one where progressives in justifying coercive action to increases minimum wages they argue it's good for business since people will have more money to spend.

Aside from the arrogance of know what's good for a business, it's a theory that may sound good but I fear is just not practical.

Read the rest in link.

Anti-War Cherry Picking

Yup.

Climate Change Hijacked By Political Left

Let's get one thing straight. Naomi Klein is not an environmentalist. She's an opportunist. She uses capitalism to spring her pseudo-intellectual anti-capitalism screeds to sell books. Since there are more rubes than wise men among us, she makes money. But people buy into her nonsense.

Ditto for Al Gore, David Sukuki (who will not debate real scientists in public including former founder of Greenpeace Patrick Moore) and the rest of the shrill, left-wing ideologues who have hijacked environmentalism. These people make money playing enviro-compassionism.

This bunch is so arrogant they believe they can dictate energy policy regardless of what others may think.

How the narrative has spun to become one of blaming capitalism for global warming is beyond me to comprehend but not surprising it took this absurd and pathetic route.


Recall, Dante had place in hell reserved for opportunists.

Places To Live

Kowloon Walled City.

Well, once upon a time anyway.

Quotes Of The Day

"Racism is liberal ketchup- they put it on everything."

"Racism, n. a word liberals use when they are losing an argument."

Thomas Sowell.

The 'N' word being nigger of course. 

THEY PUT THAT SHIT ON EVERYTHING!

Ebola Hyperventilation

Conservative circles are getting all weird about needing to shut down, like, everything because of ebola.

This is as ridiculous and shameless as the gun grabbers trying to capitalize on Sandy Hook.

Derp knows no ideology.

Clueless

Remember. These people form gun control policy.

Greenwald: Obama's Fake Terror

I find it interesting that Bush came out and basically gave Obama a life line asking the American public to be patient regarding Iraq.

Interesting considering how many times Obama has publicly blamed Bush for various problems he's trying to 'fix'.

Anyway.

He not only is Bush 2.0, but actually worse:

"As the Obama Administration prepared to bomb Syria without congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long war against ISIS, a group that clearly posed no imminent threat to the “homeland.” A second was the lack of legal justification for launching a new bombing campaign with no viable claim of self-defense or U.N. approval.

The solution to both problems was found in the wholesale concoction of a brand new terror threat that was branded “The Khorasan Group.” After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat — too radical even for Al Qaeda! — administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore."

You will not find people in liberal blogs or Canadians, however, leaving the same type of comments they left for Bush back in the day.

I still have Canadians look at me funny whenever I point out to them Obama's transgressions.

Ebola Hyperbole

The irony of the history of American slavery is that the United States, compared to the Middle-East and Europe, did least harm to Africa of any great power or empire.

Yet, we're still treated to this myth that somehow Americans went to Africa to steal black people from African Kings.

African kingdoms, as we know, had little qualms about selling their own into slavery.

So whenever you hear rappers like MC Hammer go on about how 'ebola is karma' for past American slavery sins, remember where the  tribe of ignorance lies.

No Sympathy Here

So a few firemen (six to be exact) were fired today for their part in the storming of City Hall back in August.

You ain't gonna get me to spare a tear for them.

Look. I'm all for people sticking it to the state but if they're gonna do something like this then they best be prepared to deal with the consequences.

Heard a left-wing ideologue on the radio today mock her conservative counterpart for not being compassionate enough for people losing their jobs.

He responded like any reasonable person would by suggesting if you do the crime, be prepared for the repercussions that follow. They knew their actions were illegal. Did they believe they were above the law? That they were indispensable members of society? Everyone is replaceable. Everyone.

The former socialist NDP candidate spent 30 minutes making one poor excuse after another questioning if they should lose their jobs going as far as to project by saying 'who hasn't made mistakes'?

Listeners were - justifiably - having none of it. In fact, very few people sympathize with them.

I certainly don't react this way.

It was a typical bull shit progressive stance.

Let me rephrase it. If you or I stormed City Hall what do you think would happen?

We'd likely be thrown in prison.

The way I see it, these guys got off light.

Know what else? Enough of this fireman, police hero bull shit. Too many of these guys get off for crimes they commit; crimes that if committed by citizens would result in jail time.

Know what else? I'd have the cops physically remove those stupid protest stickers off of their squad cars. Cars WE the taxpayers paid for.

Quote Of The Day

"Subsidy is for art, for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want! It is for what the people don't want but ought to have!"

Sir Humphrey

What a monster! 

Climate Change Is Hurting My Traffic

List of things (allegedly) caused by global warming.

That's a lot of fear-mongering.

I mean, even acne?

Politically Incorrect Halloween Party Would Be Swell

I suggest everyone go dress as a Redskins football player for Halloween.

Just to piss people - mostly nagging, humorless, self-righteous progressive.

In fact, I would host a politically incorrect party.

Scratch A Left-Wing Greenie Find A Red, Murderous Soul

Check out this article from - sigh - Robert Kennedy jr. in EcoWacth.

It's frightening in its totalitarian message and sad in its tone as far as left-wing screeds go.

The fact they consistently ask to jail 'deniers' and in this case this idiot takes it further by using the word 'execute' should be cause for concern for any decent, intelligent individual who cherishes hard fought ideals like liberty and freedom of expression and speech.

How in the world are Tea Party members constantly tagged as 'extremists' but assholes like Kennedy in their assault on rights are not?

Article's like this one turn me away from the deranged climate system change zealots.

It's not even a fricken religion.

It's a cult.

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Not enough amount of crazy?

Try this green vomit out for measure. Climate change helps ISIS.

"If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather in Afghanistan -- potentially strengthening the Taliban and imperiling Afghan girls who want to attend school -- would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags?"

In the history of collecting brain-dead comments and quotes, this belongs in the Hall of Fame. One has absolutely FUCK ALL to do with the other yet there she is conflating and mixing and playing on people's emotions.

Buy a Prius, send an Afghan girl to school. 

Reminder Of The Day

The campaign slogan for Obama's second term was 'Forward'.

Know who else enjoyed using that word?

Of course, as any student of history knows and was mentioned here at the time, socialists and communists.

Mussolini was the editor of the socialist paper Avanti! which translated into English means...Forward.

Just saying.

Know. Your. History.

Fall Of The West Reason 495866 868686

Gender-neutral bathrooms courtesy of the University of California.

Forward progress!

A's Epic Collapse One For The Books

After a 29 year absence from the playoffs, the Kansas City Royals overcame a 7-3 deficit to beat the Oakland A's 9-8 in 12 innings last night.

I'll chalk this one up to 'winning in spite of' given the errors and strange managerial decisions in the game. The Royals were lucky otherwise they would have been, well, royally screwed.

Regardless, this storyline is less significant than the collapse of the Athletics.

On August 9, the A's were leading the AL west division by four games over the Anaheim Angels (of L.A.!) with a 72-44 record and a staggering +173 run differential.
 
I point out RD because it's an indicator of how dominant a team is. 

They finished the season by going 16-30 from that point on along with a -16 differential barely holding off the Seattle Mariners to make the playoffs.

The reversal of fortune was swift and epic in its collapse.

Quote Of The Day

“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria."

President Obama.

Notice the use of the word 'they'. He does that a lot. Along with 'I' when he wants to take credit for things.

What a leader! What a guy!

“In the beginning of 2014, ISIS fighters had defeated Iraqi forces in Fallujah, leading much of the U.S. intelligence community to assess they would try to take more of Iraq,”

Eli Lake, The Daily Beast.

 “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s lying.”

 A former senior Pentagon official.

The President, for all intents and purposes, is full of it. It's been reported and widely known inside the White House, when present (and this is rare) he barely takes his briefings in person.

He knew. He was debriefed. And if he took his job a tad more like a statesman rather than a politically correct activist, he would not be throwing people under the bus left, right, and center.

Jesus Was A Radical Extreme Libertarian

Not sure what Nate Silver has to do with Jesus but somehow it was mentioned in the threads.

My take on progressives claiming Jesus would be a socialist?

Not in the political sense. I highly doubt he'd consent to millions of people being murdered in the name of 'socialism'. Besides, socialists and communists were godless or atheists. 

It's one of the great logical fallacies of the left. They want to help others just like Jesus. And if you are skeptical or question the state's benevolence, then you're ignorant because that's what Jesus wanted.

Another variant is it's 'not very Christian' to deny people help they seek. No one is saying don't help one another. What we're saying is stop living vicariously through the state and being so dependent on it.

That's what I believe would have been Jesus's message. I think he would call all these social entitlements for what they are: Enabling the meek and weak.





 

How Liberals Suddenly Love War

Remember kids, it's not a 'war-war' if you don't use troops and are trying to fix a problem you didn't create.

It's comical how hard the White House is working to try and convince people they're not at war. It's not a war! We're merely dismantling with no boots on the ground!

You simply can't make this stuff up.

Climate Change Alarmists In A Choke Hold

I would love to see a 'check mate' moment but given how much is at stake (idiots are still 'by this date' predictions that will laughably come and go), this is an unlikely scenario. I'll just have to settle for it disappearing into the night just like the last great climate scare in the 1970s promised natural catastrophe.

From Various Scribblings:

"However, given that the IPCC claims to be a scientific rather than political body, it still ultimately has everything staked on the science. The single most important issue in all of the scientific debate is the expected response of the climate to a doubling of atmospheric CO₂. This is known as the climate sensitivity and if it is high then we are in trouble and if it is low there is no good reason to panic about CO₂. (There are actually two types of climate sensitivity, one for short term effects and one for the longer term, but they are closely related and for reasons of simplicity I’ll treat them as one here.) In AR5 the sensitivity was estimated to lie between 1.5°C and 4.5°C; it is generally agreed that if it is less than 2°C we are pretty much OK and if it is more than 3°C there will be serious trouble.

Curiously, AR5 declined to give a best estimate between these two numbers, despite previous IPCC reports having done so. The SFP however latched onto the fact that the range was closer to catastrophe than safety and advised accordingly.

There the story would normally rest, but in the last few days Nic Lewis (an independent researcher) and Professor Judith Curry (a climatologist) have published a paper that puts the IPCC in one hell of a judo hold. They have taken the IPCC’s own data and methods and calculated what that crucial ‘best estimate’ should have been. To cut to the chase, it comes in at 1.33°C, with a 95% chance it is less than 2.5°C.

Oops. It appears that those of us who think that man-made CO₂ will cause some warming, but almost certainly not anything remotely dangerous, were probably right all along."

"...The most important thing about the paper for me isn’t that it advances our scientific understanding of the climate (for it doesn’t), but that it provides a carrot for both scientists and politicians. I’ve said before that political attitudes to global warming will only change once there is a large enough body of scientific evidence out there for politicians to justify really ditching all the ‘green crap’. And this paper is a milestone in creating just such a body of evidence. It’s a big, fat, juicy carrot, dangling in full view of anyone who needs a reason to moderate their stance on the issue. "

"...That there is movement afoot in the scientific community has recently been shown by an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘Climate Science is not Settled.’ It is written by Steven Koonin, a theoretical physicist who is chairing the American Physical Society’s review of their public policy statement on global warming. Given that the previous APS statement on the topic claimed that “The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring,” the mere title of the new article shows just how much the ground is shifting."

Yes. It's 'settled'. President Obama has said so. Just the guy you want in your corner. By now, it should be pretty obvious to any person with their heads adjusted properly Obama would sell his mother to the Koch brothers if it meant saving his own butt. A guy who can't even be bothered to sit in on intelligence briefings (remember kids: Spies collect, intelligence officers interpret, the President decides. You can't decide if you have no information because you don't show up. And when that happens, you blame it all on faulty intelligence and point the finger elsewhere) because he probably thinks in his head he has all things figured out.

If you are the company you keep, then you are the people you support on issues. And as time goes on, even the great global warming scare will leave many people truly hot and red faced. Now that's human warming I can understand!

*note. I was not paid by big oil to publish this post.

Steyn Cross Checks Mann

Steyn's fight against Michael E. Mann continues.

Mann is a brutish bully. That hockey stick should be used to cross check him.

I agree he's neither for science or freedom of speech. He's just about himself. As are most discredited alarmists.

Canada A Wireless Embarrassment

Go fuck yourself Telus. 

Canadians are royally screwed when it comes to true free market pricing in the wireless industry.

"Canada should heed the lessons learned in Europe about adopting rules intended to keep wireless prices low, the former head of Austria's telecom regulator has told the CRTC.

European companies are now living with the unintended consequences of stimulating increased competition to keep consumers happy, Georg Serentschy said as hearings continued Tuesday into the 
health of Canada's wholesale wireless market.

Forcing lower prices in the short term, he said, has resulted in Europe having among the slowest and least reliable wireless networks in the industrialized world.

"Europe's telecoms industry — and its entire digital ecosystem — is suffering because over the last two decades European telecom regulators have created rules intended to keep wireless prices low by stimulating increased competition," said Serentschy."

Cry me a river.

And? Things are that much better with them gouging consumers?

"I encourage Canada's regulator not to recycle Europe's failed policies, but rather to learn from them," he added.

Read between the lines: Please maintain our monopoly, wink.

I can't believe what I was reading. A bunch of monopolistic businessmen feeding off the regulatory gibberish of the CRTC using scare tactics to maintain their cronyism.

Don't need a 4th carrier? Why? Because they said so? How would we know if we don't let the market decided? I would much rather that than listen to a bunch of top men controlling things like a bunch of commie Dukes.

All they're doing is making sure no one comes in and potentially kicks their ass.

And really. It's the first time I hear of Canada being a 'world leader' in wireless. Europe has always been the leader and suddenly we are #1? Don't buy it. Canada, like most anything we do, is  A LAGGARD in this industry. Mostly because of this crap we read in the article. Monopolies don't provide better service or pricing for consumers. They ensure they keep their piece of the pie. Nothing else.

The arrogance of this folks.

Exchange Of The Day

I love this exchange from The Star Tribune (I lost the link):

wardnjuneSep. 30, 14
1:44 PM
@halfabubble It might make sense to you if you lived in a coastal state. Florida has a huge problem with plastic bags ending up in their waterways, clogging their drainage systems and causing serious back-ups and flooding.

One of the most serious threats to our oceans is plastics pollution. Plastic constitutes approximately 90% of all trash floating on the ocean’s surface, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile. Dwell on that.

moretaxesnowSep. 30, 14
2:50 PM
@wardnjune There are 27,878,400 square feet per square mile. Dwell on that.

Will they? That's a mighty big number for some to grasp. 

Finland Criticizes Moscow Aggression

"Moscow provoking neighbors".

Pic Of The Day

I'm so doing this one day.

Heroes!

It's a vicious cycle. Cops feel threatened by people, they get bigger, better, badder toys to use against the people and then wonder why they don't get respect, or worse, are hated.

Stuff like this should make anyone's blood boil.

Screw that irresponsible and depraved cop.

Is That A Bus?

By now, if that 60 Minutes interview with Obama didn't sway undecided voters away from the Democrats for November nothing will. Man, is there no one this President will not throw under the bus? This time it was the entire intelligence community under the supremely incompetent James Clapper (Clap on, Clap off!).

I'm sorry. Are you NOT the President?

Mister The Buck Stops Here is Mr. I Didn't Do It.

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It's become almost impossible to listen to the President speak.

For example.

Take this gem on the economy. Apparently, the only way to get the economy moving again with a specific focus on getting wages up is to A) increase the minimum wage, B) equal pay (pay equity if you're a snob) for women and C) infrastructure projects.

That's the ticket. Magic! Superficially force it up! Profit margins? What's that?

That's it. That's his idea. Notice all government initiatives with some coercive strong arming for the private sector.

All (cracked or not) roads to success run through the bureaucracy.

Nothing on how real wealth can only be created and generated by the private sector.

The World Ends At Scandinavia

Sweden 'most successful society' in world history?

You know, being a history buff and all (I even have a degree!) and having maintained a keen interest in all things the past, many things have come and gone from this remedial mind but concluding Sweden is what Toynbee claims was never one of them.

It's a ridiculous assertion.

It only works when you accept her (left-wing) criteria (as well as conveniently over looking any negatives) and even then I don't know how you can arrive at that conclusion.

Sandy Hook Advisory Panel Unfairly And Unjustifiably Targets Homeschooling

Let's file this under 'scapegoating'.

And the recommendations are a laughable joke. All they're doing is finally taking advantage of the situation to attack something they don't like or understand.

I understand the bureaucracy and government have a problem with people exercising their free will (and in the case of vouchers, choices) but even by their standards this strikes me as utterly ignorant even by their standards - which isn't very high.

By their logic, we should further scrutinize the public system whenever a shooting takes place because the majority of killers aren't homeschooled at all but come from, you guessed it, the public school system.

Sandy Hook had nothing to do with homeschooling. Even if Lanza went to public school what exactly would have changed? To single it out is most unfortunate and a classic example of a modern day witch hunt.

California Sex Assault Law Will Bring Destructive Unintended Consequences

California, continuing it's slow descent into madness,  basing its sex laws on flimsy evidence and poorly researched data.

I see many lives being ruined for nothing in the future.

The government now in the bedrooms?

The Silence Is Deafening

Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker tweeted, "Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4."

He's just trying to fix Bush's mess.

I don't know what Politifact needed as proof. One needs only to, you know, pay attention to know it's accurate.

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The Nobel Peace Prize winner can't catch a break.

"On CNN’s State of the Union, political commentator LZ Granderson said Obama is losing favor among his base because of his recent foreign policy decisions. In 2008, Obama supporters were tired of the wars started under Bush and were hoping that a new president would bring them to a close.

See related rulings

"They voted for him because he was supposed to end these wars and stop bombing people," Granderson said. "And when you look at the raw numbers, three times as much Special Forces were used than ‘W.’, twice as many strikes (on) countries that are predominantly Muslim. Those were not the numbers that his staunch progressive base voted for."

Yet, he goes on 60 Minutes and tells the American people he under estimated ISIS.

If this isn't the definition of trigger-happy neo-con, I don't know what is.



 

Telling The CRTC To Go Fly A Kite

Google and Netflix flexing muscles against CRTC and winning.

Good.

Absolutely beautiful.

"Though this seems minor, if we don’t handle the minor things, theycan unfortunately escalate into major things down the road," hesaid.

Unfortunately, this is the rule rather than the exception in how bureaucrats and other people in position of power and influence rule.

Even if there is no rational reason to think this way. It's a kind of a grotesque slippery slope line of thinking. It becomes much easier to predict a slippery slope when bad policy is enacted based on flimsy and faulty evidence and thinking.

Again. To me, the classic is the war on cigarettes. It was never supposed to come this far. We assured the government and activists would never attempt to ban it in private spheres. Yet. Here we are.

It will be the same with food. They've already begun their 'war' on sugar and salt.

If you think it will stop at 'sized' drinks and limiting quantities of salt in restaurants you're, once again, mistaken. We're like an abused spouse who can't come to the realization it's no good. 

Stench Of Murder And Misery

Or blood.

Cuban company creates Che Guevera cologne.

As an aside, commie Cuba allows for companies to form?

Porn For The Blind

I love technology.

Mark this down, the only thing that would ever solve any environmental problem is technology innovated in the free-market and nothing else.

It certainly won't be figured out by the system change cult.

Green My Ass

Germany depends on Czech nuclear energy to support its green ambitions.

Tea And Coffee Consumption

More maps.

Couple of quick thoughts. The UK is the only country in Europe where tea prevails. Australia, as part of the Commonwealth also drinks more tea but not so in Canada where coffee rules.

Natural enough I reckon that our diet is closer to the U.S. given our proximity and reality of our intricate and intertwined economies.

In South America, curiously Chile and Bolivia consume more tea.

Autonomous Aspirations

Active separatist movements in Europe in a map.

For what it's worth, I don't believe Padonia or Catalan - when push came to shove - would leave their respective countries as well as those regions in the UK.

Man Versus Nature Fallacy

Man versus Nature black or white, appeal to nature fallacies are really stupid and reached peak stupid during that climate system change rally in New York City.

It's no contest. Little or nothing man does is irreversible or forever. Man is a piece of shit next to Mother Nature. Plants, for example, have shown to be every bit as unique and complex as man building cities and nations.

Nature will always win.

This is part of the reality environmentalists don't seem to want to come to terms with. You can come up with all the inefficient, regressive laws in the world and they would do absolutely jack shit to solve or fix whatever they feel ails nature.



Entropy means little to people.

Earth has been around about 4.5 billion years
 
Complex multicellular life is not even a billion years old and somehow we're the problem?

Quote Of The Day

Ha, ha:

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

Milton Friedman.

Honorable People

I think I'm gonna sarcastically start a segment called 'Honorable People'. It will not discriminate. Whoever I think is a douche will make the cut.

Let's start with this story out of Philadelphia with one Kathryn Knott.