Via Drudge:
A top Senate Democrat says he expects Sen. Al Franken to resign Thursday over allegations of sexual misconduct. Another woman has come forward with accusations against the Minnesota Democrat of sexual misconduct.
An Islamic extremist planned to use an improvised explosive device to blow up the gates of Downing Street before entering No 10 and making an attempt on Theresa May’s life.
Terror attack clues MISSED by MI5 that could have saved 35 lives: Security services were alerted months before Manchester blast, email was lost on London Bridge knifeman and Westminster terrorist scoped out scene days ahead of attack
When Liberal fantasy meets reality, or when boys meet men.
Despite Chinese Premier Li Keqiang describing his country’s relationship with Canada as a “golden era,” Trudeau’s insistence on including his agenda of climate change, gender equality and labor rights in the trade negotiations has soured the preliminary talks, Global News reports.
How does a society become so afraid of being called names that it is willing to sacrifice its own children on the alter of multiculturalism?
The British Empire was the brightest light in Western Culture. The English language alone—with all its variations and nuances rises above and is more beautiful than any other. Think Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantics, the Victorians, and the Moderns in Literature. Ask the Irish about the English language. Arguably, they are among its best purveyors, from Swift all the way through Yeats and C.S. Lewis.
British Common Law, which was hard fought for (see Runnymede), set the standard for freedom in the world. A man’s home became his castle.
Both my grandfathers served in WW1. My father served in WW2. He was awarded an MBE. An old friend’s father was in the RCAF. He flew a Spitfire and was shot down. He was actually in—and survived—the Great Escape. An old girlfriend’s father was 19 at Dieppe. Luckily, he survived, but spent the remainder of the war as a POW. I can only imagine what these young men went through, but both of them, whose strength I admired, managed to raise beautiful families and have successful careers, despite the horrors they had been through. There was never a doubt in their minds that ours was the most advanced culture in the world and they were willing to die for it.
Everything these men fought for has been given away by feckless politicians, but it is not their inheritance to squander. They should be hanged for treason. I have no doubt my forefathers are rolling over in their graves. It breaks my heart.
Think Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Blake, Turner, Rossetti and the PRB in Art.
Musically, think Purcell, Handel, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Britten, all the way to such contemporary greats as Mark Knopfler.
British scientists from Bacon and Newton to Watt, Bell, and Turing brought us into the modern world.
The Anglosphere is the most civilized culture in the history of the world. All first-world countries in the world are descended from the British Empire.
Britain’s freedom, like a sunny day, has attracted all kinds. From the glorious Handel to the dregs of Marx. Hopefully, the latter is burning in hell. His sickness is worse than the plague.
Mid 19th century, before On the Origin of Species, Matthew Arnold wrote Dover Beach. He mourned the loss of faith, which was the inevitable conclusion of the Enlightenment.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Faith is now entirely a personal matter. It is the foundation of, but no longer drives our culture. The relentless wave is now the invasion of lesser cultures. We have opened the door to our own ruination, but even as the facts stare us down, we refuse to close it.
Will the most advanced civilization in the world’s history fall to barbarians? Not wholly, but surely.
Smug, holier-than-though mobs of them take up whole lanes on country roads, and when you kindly toot the horn to let them know your pickup truck is approaching, their response is to give you the finger.
Cycling lanes consume more space than they free up, add to pollution and drain the public purse
High standards from Liberals? Not bloody likely.
It’s hard to believe that, for the second time in as many months, Finance Minister Bill Morneau is at the centre of an ethics controversy. Barely five weeks ago, it was revealed that the minister had used a loophole to avoid placing his substantial assets in a blind trust, despite leading Canadians to believe he had. And he did this while leading the Liberals’ campaign to smear small-business owners and incorporated professionals as scheming rule-dodgers. We wrote then, “How the prime minister chooses to proceed from here will reveal a lot about how seriously he takes his commitment to holding his ministers to the highest standards.”
A Christmas market in the German city of Potsdam has been evacuated after an explosive device, believed to be a nail bomb, was delivered to a pharmacy nearby.
President Trump had the audacity to re-tweet some disturbing videos. Instead of focusing on the content, the establishment shot the messenger.
In an upside-down world, tax cuts actually mean tax increases in Ontari-owe.
Business owners will face higher taxes on retained earnings after Ontario lowers its small business rate, following a similar move in Ottawa that has led to higher taxes on some corporate dividends, according to analysts.
A few months ago, fool that I am, I accepted another invitation to join a Facebook group.Yet another of a multitude of Facebook pages which discuss politics. These have blossomed like algae in the political hot waters since the presidential primaries.
I used to naively think that following one of these Facebook pages was kind of like going over to someone’s place for cocktails. Civil chatter. Usually boring. The occasional dry zinger delivered deadpan over a dry martini: stirred, not shaken. Seldom interesting. Nope: wrong, doofus. It’s like going to the most terrible bar you’ve ever been to and somehow not having alcohol has made people behave even worse. Rudeness abounds. The experience has become like the mob scene at the funeral of Julius Caesar. It’s an inchoate mass of like and dislike which seldom acquires the shape and direction of discourse. Thought and argument are often reduced to that Twitter like medium, the meme, or animated cartoon figures meant to convey some kind of FEELING or EMOTION. Poor Caesar doesn’t get buried and is beginning to stink to High Heavens.
Yesterday in a thread, right out of the blue, a self-identified “dom” and expert on BDSM took it upon himself to explain “consent” as a key principle in the ‘BDSM community.’ What the hell that had to do with the post I’ll never know. That comment soon developed into one of those drive-by opinions. You don’t see them coming. You know, like walking downtown in a foot of grey slush and some asshole whips around the corner and covers you in it.
These opinions spin in ever-increasing velocity around the self-anointed and rise in pitch like someone has been sucking bigly on a helium teat and then some kind of shit flies everywhere.
The SExpert posted a link to what he said “gives him nightmares.” The link was an article about state sponsored terror: torture, murder, bombing, war, etc. The SExpert is very much against these abominations.
With both BDSM and state sponsored terror, APPETITE is unleashed. With BDSM, according to the SExpert, it’s permissible because consent is given.
The SExpert’s Facebook page reveals a male nurse who is “a politically active, highly Liberal progressive” (I’ve figured out what “highly Liberal progressive” means) and that he’s “trying to make a positive difference in the world.” He supports Palestinian independence and has a Palestinian flag posted etc. You can’t make this stuff up. He is “woke.” A Bona Fide Progressive.
Militant Muslims call America the “Great Satan” and believe it’s a decadent society. Many respected academic commentators contend Western society is fallen into a terminal decadent stage, including for example, the late Jacques Barzun.
Remember the SExpert’s nightmare? Here’s another nightmare: It’s the SExpert BDSM “dom” gaining consent from a Palestinian, Syrian, Iranian, Afghani, Yemeni, etc. who has been previously tortured, bombed and terrorized. The now consenting masochist, who formerly experienced the unleashed terror of torture, agrees to be leashed and tortured by the SExpert.
The SExpert does not connect the practice of his peccadilloes with the terror unleashed upon people by various states worldwide. It’s like the SExpert has two different people inhabiting one body with the same APPETITE and each does not know the other is there. The SExpert is a neoliberal faux progressive who is a consenting yet unknowing participant in the rituals of the Culture of Cruelty. He’s part of the disease. Anything goes because everyone is, first and foremost, consuming or being consumed in the Republic of Fun.
It often seems that “progressivism” has deteriorated to simply mean unfettered individualism in a consumer society. The individual chooses which group to identify with in a crude marketplace of desire, likes, dislikes etc. Feelings. Nothing left but feelings. The complex and humane concept of community has been reduced to a marketplace of competing political identities, winners and losers. And the SExpert becomes a priest in a base ritual portraying winners and losers.
This is the real triumph of neoliberalism. It’s the no name brand of political economic philosophies and it’s crept up around us unknown and replaced humanity with an Invasion of the Body Snatchers Pod People APPETITE. And most don’t even know it. We become part of the disease.
This integration thing is working out so well.
Violent attacks against German police have reached epidemic proportions, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door migration policy is to blame, official statistics show.
Brady Yauch: BC Hydro is following Ontario down a road where the price of electricity is political.
Much has been said about the freedom of speech issue at Canadian universities, specifically about Lindsay Shepherd at Sir Wilford Laurier, by commentators such as Conrad Black, Rex Murphy, Christie Blatchford, and even Douglas Murray.
In the real world, Danish-American videographer Michael Hansen’s documentary, Killing Europe, was scheduled to be screened November 25th at the main branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Various groups brought pressure to bear, however, and it was cancelled. I haven’t seen mention of this in either of the Ottawa papers. You can, however, watch the film here.
Free Speech in Canaduh? Not so much.
Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. Well, he was asked the question–repeatedly–but refused to answer.
Poilievre and other Convervative MPs repeatedly asked Morneau to confirm when he sold his shares, but Morneau declined to answer, instead accusing the Conservatives of “trying to create conspiracy theories out of thin air.”
Another of Merkel’s presents to the German people.
It’s the gift that just keeps giving. Talk about covering up the problem.