But Sire, ’tis a Continental Breakfast. ‘Twill only take 20 minutes max.
Slow Joe Biden: The Half-Fast Manchurian Candidate
Slow Joe” Biden—more accurately and precisely described as “Half-Fast” Biden—had his much-hyped “virtual summit” on Monday with his “old friend” Chinese Dada-President-for-Life Xi Jinping.
A “virtual summit,” by the way, is progressive-speak for a Zoom call with translators, aides, and the White House hallucinogenic script suppository producer readying the next briefing for Jen “Circle Back” Psaki, Biden’s shameless redheaded flak who only lies when she moves her lips. Or just moves.
Daniel Greenfield: Biden’s Bank Regulator Lived Out Communist Principles by Stealing Hundreds From T.J. Maxx
Not every Communist lives up to the integrity of their principles that there should be no private property. There were questions about whether Saule Omarova, Biden’s nominee for comptroller of the currency, was really committed to Communist principles.
GBNews Neil Oliver: ‘If the West isn’t careful, it might shortly be all over for the West.
Quillette⁚ Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement
For more than 20 years, from the mid-’80s to the late-’90s, Morningside, a three-hour daily broadcast that mixed current events with human-interest stories, reigned as the flagship program on CBC Radio. The host of the show during its most successful run was Peter Gzowski, a veteran journalist widely embraced as something very much like Canada’s favourite uncle. On air, Gzowski was affable, chummy, his exchanges with guests routinely punctuated by his signature moist, ingratiating chortle. He was, in fact, that rare man who deserved his very own adjective: avunctuous.
During one broadcast, Gzowski recalled an incident that had occurred at the annual invitational golf tournament he hosted to benefit adult literacy programs across Canada. As one participant, standing next to Gzowski, leaned thoughtfully on his club, another drove a golf cart over his toes. Although it was unclear from the telling whether the cart-driver was American, the first golfer was obviously Canadian, since, shifting gingerly from foot to aching foot, he could only plead, “sorry.” Gzowski shared this anecdote with evident delight, since it struck him as so endearingly, because emblematically, Canadian.
But Gzowski’s soaring contentment with this view of his country and countrymen was no less emblematic. To Canadian nationalists of Gzowski’s era and ilk, the representative Canadian is no hewer of wood or carrier of water, no builder of bridges, roads and railways, no stormer of barricades or keeper of the peace, but a hobbled guest on a verdant fairway, eagerly apologizing for the pleasure of having his toes crushed. “That is what I like about you Canadians,” says Dr. Gunilla Dahl-Soot in Robertson Davies’s novel The Lyre of Orpheus, “you are so ready to admit fault. It is a fine, if dangerous, national characteristic. You are all ashamed.”
The Media, your moral and intellectual superiors (tm)
Virtually everyone who ends up having first-hand experience with the national media realizes they're amoral liars and smear artists with no scruples, who publish and broadcast things constantly that have no relationship to the truth. And the public knows this, too 🤷♂️. https://t.co/VaseIM89jV
@StephenBottrill Personally I'm a Richard III partisan and have grave doubts about the Tudor usurpation (see Josephine Tey's wonderful book 'The Daughter of Time'). But it's a bit late to bother about such things. Now off to see 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg Gotha'. https://t.co/JTLX6B1j3N
I’ve never been able to stand Bill Maher and I hate finding myself in agreement with him but he’s right and here we are.
“I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic…”
"I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It's over…You shouldn't have to wear masks…vaxx, mask, pick one! You can't make me mask if I've had the vaxx… the red states are a joy and the blue states are a pain in the ass." pic.twitter.com/NIHnJgkDoy
I’m posting this to see if anyone agrees with me that we are now living in what Bertie Wooster might have described as a different and dreadful world.
Everyone is a hysteric now. It’s all psychodrama. Yes, doctor, since you bring it up, you are behaving very unprofessionally. No, the fact that some pet journalist has given you the cue to start blubbering on TV does not mean that I want you running my life and everyone else’s until the end of time.
I’m not falling for the puppy trick either.
Mark Steyn keeps saying that we may be, civilization-wise, too stupid to survive. I hope he’s wrong. Convince me.
Says Mitzi Tan, 23, the Philippines. (This is an email I got from Avaaz.)
That’s the heartbreaking story one young person told us about how the climate crisis scares her. And she’s not alone.
Avaaz members just funded the biggest-ever survey on climate anxiety in children and young people — surveying 10,000 people in 10 countries around the world. In every country, it shows that anxiety about the planetary crisis is very high, and it’s not just because we’re witnessing devastating climate disasters, it’s also linked to governments consistently failing to take decisive, meaningful action to stop the crisis.
We can still stop runaway climate change. We know what’s needed, and what governments must do. But it will require bold political will and determination — and that’s been woefully missing. Yet things are moving, there is new momentum, and there’s still tons of space for radical, grounded hope.
Here’s what the study found:
45%
Nearly half of global youth surveyed (45%) say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives: how they play, eat, study, and sleep.
75%
More than seven in ten (75%) believe “the future is frightening” — jumping to 81% of youth surveyed in Portugal and 92% in the Philippines.
58%
58% said governments were “betraying me and/or future generations,” while 64% said their governments are not doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe.
39%
Almost four in ten youngsters (39%) said they are now hesitant about having children.
These results are scary, but psychologists say it’s not just affecting children. Climate anxiety is being felt by people of all ages, everywhere. (Emphases Avaaz’s.)
It reminds me of that time I told a class full of kindergarteners every day for a year that the Boogy Man was hiding in the closet planning to eat them. Those kids are now very jumpy, which proves that we need to do something about this Boogy Man problem, like yesterday. If we don’t address the Boogy issue soon he’ll eat us before we’ve all had a chance to get our 25th Covid booster shot.
📚The book, to be released late next year, will share the “definitive account” of the Duke of Sussex's “experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons”https://t.co/Ip1ArGigei
When Sarah Hamilton was in high school, Hillary Clinton was running for president, and it made a big impression. Her candidacy made Ms. Hamilton want to become a leader someday too, she said, and maybe even run for office.
Four years later, Ms. Hamilton, 21, is no longer interested in leadership. Even though it felt exciting to see Kamala Harris become vice president, she said, the sexism she thought that Ms. Harris and the other female candidates faced was too much. Ms. Hamilton, a graphic designer in San Francisco, would rather help people in a more personal way, like mentoring.
Six women have been killed in just five weeks in Sweden, reigniting debates about domestic violence in a country usually praised for its gender equality.
…In Flemingsberg, a low-income Stockholm suburb packed with tower blocks clad in primary colours, a woman was stabbed in the apartment she shared with four young children. The man arrested on suspicion of her murder is someone she reportedly knew well.
…One major political sticking point is whether the recent violence should be connected to Sweden’s recent wave of immigration. Swedish police don’t register criminal suspects according to ethnicity, but prosecutors say several of the men facing trial have non-Swedish backgrounds, and that’s been used as ammunition by anti-immigration parties.
In a televised party leader debate last week, the leader of the nationalist Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson called for a crackdown on what he described as “imported values” that sanction violence against women.
Sweden’s Gender Equality Minister Märta Stenevi says that Sweden does have a problem with so-called “honour crimes”, which are committed to protect or defend the supposed reputation of a family or extended community. But she believes labelling violence towards women as an “immigrant issue” is “really, really diminishing the problem”, describing violence against women as “deeply, deeply rooted” throughout Swedish society.
….Opinions are strongly divided in Flemingsberg, where Swedish pine forests intersect with a heaving, concrete, shopping precinct.
“People who live here, they don’t want to accept like Swedish laws,” says one 25-year-old woman who asks not to be named. (Emphases mine – Ed.)
