November 20, 2011
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
We are the 97.15% ! An Occupy Calgary poll goes horribly wrong.
Gruppenführer Van Rompuy
Conquest without firing a shot:
Lost on these incredibly dangerous folks is the fact that they are simply trying to accomplish what every other European imperial power attempted in the past ... only this time they are attempting to do the deed without war.
Uncomfortable Questions for Leftists About Wealth
Folks on the Left often accuse conservatives of not being able to engage in complex or nuanced arguments. Truth be told, this is more likely a mirror into their own inadequacies about debating ... pretty much anything.
Case in point is the whole discussion of wealth in America. According to the Occupy Leftists, they represent 99% of the population whilst rich people represent only 1%. While it's undoubtedly true that 99% of the population earns less than a certain income and 1% earns more than that income, much larger, more complex questions need to be asked.
This column by NRO's Veronique de Rugy starts the discussion. Well worth reading in full.
Related: Roy Green discusses "Big Government Anarchists" with several National Post columnists.
"Same sex adoption is not a game"
The views presented here are based on extensive social science research and scholarship, on my clinical experience as a psychiatrist that includes consulting with adoptive and foster children for several years, treating adoptive children for almost 35 years, writing about their treatment in a textbook for the American Psychological Association (1) and as the father of three adopted daughters.
The intolerance is in the comments.
Reader Tips
We go to AkitaRescue.org for tonight's Canine Service Announcement: Symptoms of Bloat. If you own a large breed dog, you owe it to him to watch it.
Your reader tips in the comments.
November 19, 2011
Nickelback To Unite Country’s Hatred at Grey Cup Half Time Show
A new issue of Saskabush is out.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
German professors Dr Andreas Hahn and Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer [...] compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.
However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.
A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
Now the EFSA verdict has been turned into an EU directive which was issued on Wednesday.
You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day?
R. French Transport truck, southwest of Oungre, SK. yesterday.
(Related suggestion by Texas Canuck.)
How's That Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice;
h/t EBDInept bumblers or cunning destroyers? I believe the latter. Their "audacity" has allowed them to "fundamentally change" America, shred The Constitution, and start a class and race war that threatens the peace of cities across the country. Their destruction of the bedrock beliefs and institutions that make America exceptional is without parallel in our history. Their open and arrogant pillage of public and private treasure is a felony, an ongoing criminal conspiracy. This fascist crowd has gained power, has a plan to take away individual liberties, and has critically wounded The Republic. The hands of thousands of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrns have guided the Marxist brainwashing of America's children for several decades, making them useful tools for "hope and change". Moral decay has been swallowed as entertainment, and has been used to promote hatred of our nation, our laws, our morality. What passes for news reaches for ever-lower levels of degradation and preaches a mind-warping leftist dogma. The future looks pretty bleak for those who love their freedom, rather than the soft enslavement of a government dependent. Recovery will require fierce, aggressive patriotic Americans with the will, moral certainty, and strength of character to bring The Republic back to health. Those patriots are not to be found in any of the three branches of government. Throw them all out.
Canadian Journalist Thinks Toronto Is A "Country"
“Like it or not, the Liberals have long been our political gods, turning this awkwardly giant land mass into a field of realizable dreams. But the gods have changed. No smaller concept can encompass what happened to Canada in the spring of 2011 — when for the very first time voters handed a clear majority to a government run by a politician whose ideals and goals seemed antithetical to the country I thought I knew.”
Reader Tips
Is there such a thing as a right-wing folksinger? You betcha! In tonight's Tippity twofer, 1960s-era Anti-communist performer Janet Greene warns us to careful of those Commie Lies, because communism is the real Fascist Threat.
Word.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
November 18, 2011
5 Simple Lessons
Related - Spending’s ascending... (link fixed, sorry!)
Ann Coulter Declares
Instead of sitting on our thumbs, wishing Ronald Reagan were around, or chasing the latest mechanical rabbit flashed by the media, conservatives ought to start rallying around Romney as the only Republican who has a shot at beating Obama.
The Leftist Way: Classists to the Bitter End
From the Daily Show no less:
Oh Oh. "Regulated" Derivative Markets About To Blow Up?
Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management,
It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse.
I have learned over the last week that MF Global is almost certainly the mere tip of the iceberg.
Sixty Symbols
SIXTΨ SγMBΦLS is a collection of (currently) 143 videos on a number of
physics topics, from cosmology to quantum mechanics, from the University of
Nottingham. Each video is typically five to ten minutes long, and features one
to a half-dozen professors discussing the topic at hand. The project is called
SIXTΨ SγMBΦLS because it started out based on discussions of sixty of the
mathematical symbols, variables, and constants used by physicists.
Notable participants include Amanda Bauer, Roger Bowley, Ed Copeland,
Laurence Eaves, Meghan Gray, Philip Moriarty, and a dozen other professors
and scientists at the University of Nottingham. I have collected all the available
links and presented them in a simple linear historic layout, for your ease of
access, at my new Sixty Symbols page.
Former Green Party Candidate Victim Of Scam
Who could believe such a thing was possible?
Canadians to Soon Regain Free Speech Rights?
Ezra Levant is on fire, speaking about the lack of free speech rights in Canada:
The National Post has a great editorial on the same.
h/t and thanks to Mississauga Matt for posting & referring the video
Reader Tips
Crisis? What looming crisis? Rearrange the deck chairs to the soothing sounds of Werner Von Overheidt. Oooh, look at the pretty colours!
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
November 17, 2011
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
New Italian government does not include a single elected politician....made up of bankers, lawyers and university professors
h/t Adrian
Bumped! Nigel Farage, with both barrels.
h/t reil deil
Supply & Demand
The immense power of the law of supply & demand is being demonstrated in a big way these days in Western Australia where many uneducated young men are making big $$$$:
One of the fastest-growing costs in the global mining industry are workers like James Dinnison: the 25-year-old high-school dropout from Western Australia makes $200,000 a year running drills in underground mines to extract gold and other minerals.A precious commodity himself, Mr. Dinnison belongs to a class of nouveau riche rising in remote and mineral-rich parts of the world, such as Western Australia state, where mining companies are investing heavily to develop and expand iron-ore mines. Demand for those willing to work 12-hour days in sometimes dangerous conditions, while living for weeks in dusty small towns, is huge.
Y2Kyoto: The Power of Words
Government by Harry Potter;
Washington’s press corps this afternoon dutifully parroted the White House announcement that by 2025, cars must get 54.5 mpg. And we’ll put humans on Neptune.The EPA said the new 900-page regulation will require a 5 percent gain in fuel efficiency per year, will save consumers $1.7 trillion at the pump, and will provide “net societal benefits of $420 billion,” whatever that means. These are carnival-barker numbers. “Drink our serum and you’ll be a foot taller!”
But for harder numbers, how are the automakers doing on the more immediate EPA mandate of 35.5 mpg by 2015? They’re not even close.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Gradually going mainstream: Occupy San Diego holds moment of silence/solidarity for White House shooter.
As does the media - the silence part, anyway.
It's Probably Nothing
"As the size of the Fed's balance sheet ballooned," continues Mr. Pento, "the dollar amount of capital held at the Fed has remained fairly constant. Today, the Fed has $52.5 billion of capital backing a $2.7 trillion balance sheet."Prior to the bursting of the credit bubble, the public was shocked to learn that our biggest investment banks were levered 30-to-1. When asset values fell, those banks were quickly wiped out. But now the Fed is holding many of the same types of assets and is levered 51-to-1! If the value of their portfolio were to fall by just 2%, the Fed itself would be wiped out."
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
A Toronto elementary school has banned most balls from its playground, citing the need to protect staff and students after a parent got hit in the head with a soccer ball.
Related: Free range kids.
h/t Dan T.
Reader Tips
This week's municipal theme song: Move Along You Lazy Cattle.
Herd your Reader Tips into the comments.
November 16, 2011
Hashtag of the Entitlement Generation
Trying so, so hard to find historic importance in their utterly useless lives:
For those not familiar with what Rosa Parks did, please watch this.
Michael Moore: America's Big, Fat Hypocrite
Devout Leftists tend to be hypocrites but Michael Moore really takes the cake. Charles Adler shares his thoughts.
Cornell's Greatest Moment
By a 26-1 vote the Student Assembly of Cornell University in upstate New York passed a resolution earlier this month calling for the conversion of every single-stall bathroom on campus to a gender-neutral facility and prescribing the inclusion of gender-neutral bathrooms in all future University buildings. Why? So as to deal with transgender issues.
Open Question: What do you think their next bathroom related resolution will entail?
Natasha Lennard: America's Kai Nagata
Remember Kai Nagata? It appears that America has discovered its very own Journo-Activist in the persona of one Natasha Lennard. Like Nagata, she wrote her own version of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina".
Not everyone is so quick to let her off the hook though. Are J-Schools actually able to churn out unbiased journalists anymore or is every graduate predestined to be a far left "social activist"?!
Here's Lennard helping organize a group of fellow comrades:
"As the money dwindles..."
“No taxation without representation”. The cry is familiar, except in this case it is s the Redcoats that are saying it as Germany sends the taxman to collect money from Britain to bail out the EU.
Employment Opportunity for the Occupy Protesters
Many of the Urban Camping Aficionados have stated over & over again that there's no work for them. Well, one division of the U.S. Government has just posted a new job ad that might very well be perfect for them.
There are a few restrictions though:
- Height between 5'2" and 6'3"
- 20/20 vision or correctable to the same
- Blood pressure not to exceed 140/90 measured in a sitting position
- Regular drug-testing will be required
While the last item may knock out of contention many of the Occupy crowd, surely there must be some who would pass. Interested Occupy participants and/or SDA trolls can check out a few other requirements here.
CBC: Focus On The Farmers!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Canadian Wheat Board protest, CBC lens...
Canadian Wheat Board protest, wide angle lens...
(h/t Rolf)
Forget the Ombudsman. Here's a list of CBC addresses, for those who want to indulge in a little mockery.
This Is Awkward
The BBC has owned up to a “nominal fee” programming scandal in which viewers of 15 editorial programmes were hoodwinked by “serious” conflicts of interest of programme makers and a failure to declare that documentaries had outside sponsors.[...]
An audit of BBC World programmes uncovered a series of current affairs programmes that – in breach of guidelines – had been funded by corporate sponsorship, which was often not declared.
One of the programmes in breach of guidelines was “Taking the Credit” made by for BBC World on the subject of Africa and climate change by the award-winning British production company Rockhopper television. The Trust found that the programme had effectively been sponsored by the Envirotrade organisation, despite the fact that current affairs programmes are prohibited from using sponsorship. Envirotrade was featured in a positive light in the programme but “viewers were unaware that there was a funding arrangement in place,” said the Trust report.
h/t Robert of Ottawa
Reader Tips
Sometimes, if you're in the right place at the right time, magnificent spectacles of nature unfold before your eyes and take your breath away: here's Sophie Windsor Clive's Murmuration.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
November 15, 2011
The Children Are Our Future
And that's why the family compound is patrolled by hyenas..
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Live coverage at the recently evicted Zuccottibots on Loservision now.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Occupy Wall Street is just like the Tea Party, except for:
