One of the major risks with a politician avoiding media appearances is that they can get so out of practice that even a simple question can trip them up. Couple that with a friendly media personality looking to help out their candidate with softball questions, and you have a recipe for what happened on Tuesday’s edition of The View; where ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin may have accidently damaged Vice President Kamala Harris by creating a soundbite moment ripe for a Trump campaign ad.
With a rumble and colorful flashes, the last true mob-era casino in Las Vegas, the Tropicana, a landmark hotel and gambling parlor, was reduced to rubble on Wednesday.
The Tropicana, 1957 – 2024. pic.twitter.com/04akctLVgK
— Las Vegas Issues (@VegasIssues) October 9, 2024
Kath and I strolled through the Tropicana, it was falling to seed even then but still retained that Vegas aura.
Canadians normally feel a little frisson of delight when we get mentioned in other countries. We’re so used to being ignored that we bask in any attention at all.
But the kind of attention we’re getting in the British media these days is the kind we could do without. The U.K. Parliament is getting ready to debate a bill on assisted dying, and Canada is making the headlines as the prime example of how not to handle this delicate issue.
Citing conventional wisdom or an “appeal to authority” will reach out and bite you every time. The proverbial “appeal to authority” in an argument only works when the “authority” is credible.
The conventional wisdom that the 2024 presidential race is razor-close is based on polls. Frankly, pollsters themselves are warning us not to trust their work.
“There are a lot of sh***y polls out there,” said John Anzalone, who has done polling work for Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. And, added Greg Strimple, a Republican pollster, many hardcore Donald Trump voters aren’t responding to polls at all, especially online polls.
They are on the losing side
One year after the October 7 massacre by Hamas in Israel, protesters chanting anti-Israel slogans stormed and smashed buildings at McGill, one of Canada’s premier universities. Later that same evening, on the other side of the country in Vancouver, pro-Hamas demonstrators burned Canadian flags on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery in downtown.
I am not optimistic.
An Ipsos poll says 66 percent of Americans support the deportation of illegal migrants, which is a central promise of President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.
The September 20-22 poll of 1,29 adults shows that 90 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of independents support the popular policy of “deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally.” The policy is also favored by 47 percent of Democrats.
Brothers convicted in the United States of helping Iran evade sanctions were allowed to legally adopt new identities in Ontario, records released to Global News show.
Amin and Arash Yousefijam were sentenced in Michigan in the fall of 2021 for using shell companies to illegally export sensitive manufacturing equipment to Iran, where they were born.
Far-right activists are trying to raise funds for people jailed over their roles in the summer riots, describing them as “political prisoners”, in an attempt to generate support by giving money to their families.
More than £14,000 has been raised by a leading group, which has been promoting the start of its “gifting” of funds to families of “political prisoners”.
One of the leaders of Patriotic Alternative (PA) recently met a teenager in HMP Hull who had been jailed for racially aggravated harassment during the disturbances, his wife told supporters.
OMG! Money is being given to families of people involved in riots whom far-right groups are calling ‘political prisoners’
Two tiered policing is not a myth in the UK.
It’s no secret that politicians often cherry-pick statistics instead of telling the full story when the full story doesn’t look great for them. For example, amid concerns of rising auto theft and crime, the federal Liberals recently highlighted that auto theft is down 17% versus last year. But this statement deserves scrutiny.
Americans are revolting against McDonald’s and fast-food chains. That’s hurting french fry suppliers like Lamb Weston.
Lamb Weston, the largest producer of french fries in North America and a major supplier to fast-food chains, restaurants and grocery stores, is closing a production plant in Washington state. The company announced last week that it would lay off nearly 400 employees, or 4% of its workforce, and temporarily cut production lines in response to slowing customer demand.
Customer traffic to fast-food chains dropped 2% last quarter and 3% the previous quarter compared to the same time last year, according to Lamb Weston.
I don’t frequent fast food chains much. The 5 Guys near me closed down, but I noticed Apache burgers have been downsized when I indulged a few weeks ago.
18 bucks USD for a McD’s meal? That’s insane.
I have spent the better part of 30 years in journalism misattributing to Voltaire the idea that I would defend free speech to the death, even if I disapproved of what was being said (it turns out it was a summary of Voltaire’s views by his biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall).
Yet, events since October 7th have revealed that there are, or should be, limits; that people cannot say things that incite real harm to others or society at large.
A demonstrator just lit a Canadian flag on fire… pic.twitter.com/btCfi1hku4
— Jarryd Jäger (@JarrydJaeger) October 8, 2024
Hezbollah backs ceasefire attempts as Israel continues to target its leadership
Hezbollah said it supported efforts to secure a ceasefire with Israel as the IDF continued to target its top leadership and the two armies sharply increased their bombardments.
“After the issue of a ceasefire takes shape, and once diplomacy can achieve it, all of the other details can be discussed and decisions can be taken,” Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said on Tuesday. “If the enemy [Israel] continues its war, then the battlefield will decide.”
h/t Marc
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says it would be a “gift” for Israel to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, a statement he made when asked about American opposition to an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
Outside the House of Commons on Tuesday, Poilievre sidestepped a question about whether an Israeli strike against nuclear facilities in Iran could lead to a direct war between the adversaries. U.S. President Joe Biden, who like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged restraint to prevent the conflict from intensifying further, told reporters last week that he does not support an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
HAPPENING NOW: Mélanie Joly insinuates that Pierre Poilievre is a literal Nazi. pic.twitter.com/lW5F4U5fXa
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) October 8, 2024
An Afghan national allowed into the US shortly after the Harris-Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was charged Tuesday with plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was living in Oklahoma City on a Special Immigrant Visa as he took steps to stockpile AK-47 rifles and ammunition to carry out an attack on US soil “in the name of ISIS,” according to the Justice Department.
h/t kiki9
