Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Friday, April 1st, 2016
Happy April Fools day! No tricks here, just the usual Friday LinkSwarm:
ObamaCare didn’t do jack to lower costs. (Hat tip Instapundit.)
Indeed, Obamacare is the fail that keeps failing: “As a result of the ACA, between 4 million and 9 million fewer people are projected to have employment-based coverage each year from 2017 through 2026 than would have had such coverage if the ACA had never been enacted.” (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Great news! The Nigerian Army has rescued rescued 800 Boko Haram hostages. That’s compared to the number of those hostages rescued by the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag, which is (stops, counts, carries the one) Zero.
Bad news: They just kidnapped 300 more. (Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.)
Following the Brussels attack, the standard ruling class rituals of aversion are in full bloom.
Donald Trump suggested targeting the families of terrorists. Putin’s Russia does exactly that.
The Obama Administration treats Little Sisters of the Poor worse than Exxon, Visa and Pepsi, all of whom have health plans lacking the abortion mandate. Then again, as Instapundit noted: “To be fair, that was basically because they hate those groups and wanted to punish them.”
Xi Jinping has accumulated more power than any leader since Mao. “He has been fighting dissent with even more ruthlessness than he has been waging war on graft. Not since the dark days after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 has there been such a sweeping crackdown on critics of the party.”
Belgium’s current crises sounds an awful lot like where California is headed: Expensive government that’s congenitally incapable of solving problems.
Canadian bank depositors are now officially at risk of bail-ins.
David Brin says the Amendment that most protects the right of citizens to film interactions with the police is the Sixth.
Rob Ford was more than just a loud-mouth drunk. “Ford was a political pragmatist who simply didn’t give a damn what anyone thought about him other than his constituents. It was that gumption that endeared him to hundreds of thousands of Torontonians.”
Supergenius New Yorker writer thinks Arizona is next to Texas.
(Screen shot has been included because the article has been edited and no notice made of the deleted error.)
Illegal alien rapes 12-year old. (Hat tip: Director Blue.
Lake Travis hits full again.
“Hulk Hogan may have just destroyed Gawker.” Well, we can only hope…
Lunatic hoplophobe associate professor of English calls 911 to report ROTC maneuvers on campus at the University of North Dakota. (Hat tip: Tam.)
Old and Busted: The Suicide Prevention Hotline. The New Hotness: The Suicide Encouragement Hotline. Not an April Fools joke, alas…
Why grackles love supermarket parking lots.
Tags:abortion, Austin, Belgium, Boko Haram, California, Canada, Catholics, China, Communism, David Brin, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Policy, Gawker, Guns, Hulk Hogan, Jihad, John Cassidy, LinkSwarm, Little Sisters of the Poor, Media Watch, Nigeria, North Dakota, ObamaCare, Russia, suicide, terrorism, War on Catholics, Xi Jinping
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Friday, July 25th, 2014
Time for another random roundup of news and links:
“Jimmy Carter looks like frickin’ Bismark next to the feckless dorm-room intellectual currently haunting the golf courses of the greater DC area.”
Even Thomas “What’s The Matter With Kansas” Frank calls Obama “ineffective and gutless.” (Warning: Salon Liberal Whining Ahead.)
Liberal law professor Lawrence Tribe thinks that ObamaCare is probably doomed due to the Halbig decision. “I cannot see how this Court could do anything other than decide the same way as the DC Circuit did. The statue is clear on its face.”
Even “ObamaCare Architect” MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber said the same thing back in 2012: “What’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits.”
Mark Steyn on the Halbig ruling:
As to Mr Earnest’s point on “what Congress intended”, who can say? No Congressman who voted for the bill read it. Presumably, some legislator’s staffer wrote that actual line about “established by the State”. If we could locate him among the vast entourages of the Emirs of Incumbistan, we could ask him what his “intention” was. Until then, calibrating the competing degrees of deference to a corrupt bureaucracy, a contemptuous executive, a politicized judiciary and a feckless hack legislature brings to mind Samuel Johnson’s line about arguing the precedence of a louse and a flea, with a tick and a cockroach thrown in.
Missing from my Gaza roundup: “Shalom, motherf****r.” “I will not apologize for surviving.” (Hat tip: Josh Perry.)
Bill Whittle makes the case for Israel:
Obama won’t help arm Ukraine because he had a key role in disarming them.
Democrats plans for November: All race card, all the time.
50 years of Democratic rule and now Detroit is cutting off people’s water. “Just goes to show that nothing is so expensive as when it is ‘free.'”
“That’s not funny.”
Republicans should stand firm and let the Export/Import Bank corporate welfare boondoggle expire. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Che Guevara, racist:
Maureen Dowd is never so readable as when she’s slamming the Clintons.
“Canadian Candidate Drops Out After Masturbation Video Surfaces.”
Sarah Palin endorses Joe Carr against Lamar Alexander in Tennessee senate primary. I don’t think anyone who watched Alexander’s “Lamar!” flannel flameout in the 1996 Presidential race has ever really trusted him since…
A New York City cupcake truck seems a little unclear on who their clientele might be. (They’ve since deleted both this tweet and the one where they implored people not to “snitch” to cops when they see crimes committed…)
Evidently nobody is actually reading Thomas Piketty’s book.
In praise of Power Girl’s boob window.
Tags:2014 Election, Bill Whittle, Canada, Communism, Democrats, Detroit, Elections, Export-Import Bank, Foreign Policy, Gaza, Israel, Jihad, Joe Carr, Jonathan Gruber, Lamar Alexander, Lawrence Tribe, liberal racism, Mark Steyn, Maureen Dowd, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Power Girl, Sarah Palin, Tennessee, Thomas Frank, Thomas Piketty, Ukraine, victimhood, video
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
All eyes are still on Egypt, but that’s not the only hotspot for jihad:
Suicide bomber prematurely detonates thanks to spam text message. (Via Slashdot)
“Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt.”
The current unrest in Egypt makes makes things look pretty grim for the Copts: “I’ve pored over every news report I can find, and have seen no sign that local Christians are involved in this uprising against Mubarak. This tells me all I need to know about the calls for ‘democracy’ and ‘reform’ in Egypt. They know that Mubarak’s fall would mean to them what Hussein’s fall meant to Iraqi Christians: the end.”
More from JihadWatch’s indefatigable Robert Spencer on the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement in the unrest in Egypt. The amount of writing and analysis keeps up on the topic of jihad is positively dizzying. It’s hard to keep up just summarizing him…
Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey (whom I linked to a few days ago), has been arrested and then released by the Egyptian government. “I am ok. I got out. I was ambushed & beaten by the police, my phone confiscated , my car ripped apar& supplies taken”
While everyone was paying attention to Egypt, Hamas fires rockets into Egypt.
Fifteen-year old Bangladeshi girl whipped to death in Koranic punishment for fornication.
Tell a Muslim their food smells bad and lose your house in Canada. This decision was overturned, but it proves Mark Steyn’s point that all Canadian “Human Rights Tribunals” need to be eliminated as threats to free speech…
Add New York City building code to the list of rules that are no longer applicable to Muslims.
A white Vietnam Veteran jihadi?
More reports of an al Qaeda dirty bomb.
Tags:al Qaeda, Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak, Jihad, New York City, Robert Spencer, Sandmonkey, This Week in Jihad, Wikileaks
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The big Jihad news this week, of course, was the Moscow bombing. But that was hardly the only thing of note:
The Moscow bombers were evidently trained in Pakistan. “An al-Qaeda linked website said that the group Islamic Caucasus Emirate, led by the rebe Doku Umarov, was poised to claim it had staged the attack. It said that Russia’s harsh military measures against independence activists in the Caucasus had provoked the attack. It said: ‘You disbelievers are the firewood of Hell. You will enter it.'” (I’m guessing “rebe” is short for “rebel,” though I have not heretofore heard it used.)
Short, interesting analysis of successes and failures of Russia’s own war on terrorism.
Dokka Umerov has repeatedly made it very clear that he wants nothing to do with al Qaeda, or bin Laden.
The latter point reveals the following about the global War on Terror. First, the US and British efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq have succeeded in destroying al Qaeda’s reputation amongst Islamist organizations. If an Islamist cause as major as the Caucasus Emirate wants to stay clean of al Qaeda, it means that al Qaeda equals trouble. Al Qaeda involvement means interference from the world’s great powers.
Second, Russia’s situation reveals that the US and British efforts have failed to do significant damage to the ideology of Islamism. If a nationalist movement turns itself into a movement with Islamist objectives in order to make itself stronger, then it proves that the ideals to which al Qaeda subscribes have not been significantly damaged.
UK man arrested “on suspicion of using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour,” i.e., burning a Koran.
Pro-Jihadist forces organizing in North Africa. Wait, did I say “North Africa”? I meant “Norway.”
JihadWatch (from whom I regularly steal a very significant fraction of the stories listed in these weekly Jihad roundups) interview Robert Reilly, author of The Closing of the Muslim Mind.
Hezbollah moves closer to control of the Lebanese government.
Lots more on that subject from the invaluable Michael Totten (just keep scrolling).
UK Jihadists evidently don’t like being filmed.
Australian artist receives death threats from left-wingers and islamists for anti-burqua mural. Once again we see the alliance of the left and radical Islam.
Danish Judge to Kurt Westergaard: Don’t you dare call the man who tried to kill you with an axe a terrorist.
U.S. border authorities arrest Jihadi Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago when he tried to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW.
Jihadists kill four in attack on army base in Thailand.
Also in Thailand, nine Buddhist wild pig hunters were killed by a roadside bomb. In other news, there are Buddhist pig hunters.
Jihadists also killed six in Nigeria. With machetes.
Wyoming joins Oklahoma in proposing law outlawing Sharia.
A similar law has been proposed in South Carolina.
New Imam of Ground Zero Mosque says that all apostates from Islam should be jailed. This is a great improvement from the standard clerical opinion that they should be killed…
He also says that most gays were abused as children. Strangely enough, some people have a problem with this.
All you Islamophobes who say Mohammed was a pedophile are way off base. Sure, Mohammed married a 6 year old, but all Islamic experts agree that he refrained from having sex with her until she reached the ripe old age of 9.
Islamic man in Buffalo texts his wife that he can’t live without her. Twenty minutes later he beheaded her.
Batman to get Muslim sidekick. Presumably one that doesn’t murder Muslim girls for daring to date non-Muslim men…
Muslim Minneapolis police officer arrested for assaulting his wife.
Bin Laden threatens France. Insert your own joke here.
Tags:al Qaeda, Batman, Buffalo, Canada, Caucasus Emirate, Denmark, Dokka Umerov, France, Jihad, Kurt Westergaard, Lebanon, Michael Totten, Minneapolis, Moscow, Norway, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, suicide bombing, Thailand, Tunisia, UK
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