Gun control and blaming racism are no substitute for personal responsibility.
33 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Urban gangland violence like that is what real “mass shootings” look like and finally a Journal of the American Medical Association paper addressed the problem by shifting the blame to something it calls “structural racism”.
The members of the class of 1983 slapped on their 40th reunion name tags and hit the open bar to reminisce. They squeezed into Johnny McGorey’s Pub across from the Massapequa Park train
station on Long Island last weekend, among them former athletes, prom sweethearts and yearbook fixtures.
But the buzz of the reunion was the phantom of Berner High School: Rex Heuermann had suddenly made a name for himself days before, when prosecutors accused him of being a serial killer.
Depending on your outlook, the Net Zero movement could result in anything from the seven horses of the apocalypse riding across the sky to the delivery of some sort of Nirvana for humankind.
No matter what your view, some facts are clear and undisputed.
Fact one. It is going to cost a fortune and you will be paying the bill. Fact two. If investments in intermittent wind and solar didn’t provide significant returns, no one would invest in them. Fact three. Intermittent and unreliable generators will always deliver intermittent and unreliable electricity.
“I am really, really concerned about the escalation of violence in our city, particularly the violent incidents that we have experienced, whether close to the Belvedere LRT station, or the random shooting that took place in the west end.”
That’s how Mayor Amarjeet Sohi summed up his concern two weeks ago after occupants in a luxury car engaged in three separate shootings in our city on July 15 and after 52-year-old Rukinisha Nkundabatware was murdered in a random stabbing at the Belvedere LRT station the previous week on July 9.
Canada must rethink its friendship with Israel
This week, the Israeli parliament approved a controversial law that constrains the Supreme Court’s ability to provide judicial oversight of government actions. According to many critics, this is only the first step in a plan by the coalition government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to concentrate power in the executive branch. The Netanyahu government, which includes Jewish supremacists and is the most extreme in the country’s history, has also taken steps, and will likely take additional ones, toward Israel’s further annexation of the West Bank.
I can’t wait till they conflate Israeli Supremacism with White Supremacism.
Worth reading an opposing opinion on the Judicial flap in Israel which to my view resembles the Canadian public’s dismay with our own unsolicited judicial activism. Well some of the Canadian public’s dismay.
The truth about the Israeli protests
This elitist, anti-democratic movement wants to constrain the power of the Israeli parliament.
On Monday night, amid large-scale protests, the Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed the first part of the government’s judicial-reform package.
The ‘reasonableness’ bill, which passed 64-0, is designed to curb the sweeping powers of Israel’s Supreme Court. As Jeremy Sharon has outlined in Times of Israel, using the tool of ‘reasonableness’, the Israeli Supreme Court has been able to strike down the actions of elected ministers or officials as ‘unreasonable’. It can do this even if those actions ‘do not violate any particular law or contradict other administrative rulings’. If it becomes law – incredibly, the Supreme Court could still declare the reasonableness bill to be ‘unreasonable’ – that will no longer be possible.
Man laughed at when attempting to visit a gynecologist about his smelly mangina. pic.twitter.com/ParObqk8bV
— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) July 28, 2023
In 1909, a new research paper tells us, cars were very much a luxury good, even in the United States. The average car cost roughly $3,000 at a time when per capita income was $317 and average annual wages in manufacturing $518 (all figures in US$). A manufacturing worker “would have to work for almost six years while consuming nothing in order to afford the average car,” write the paper’s economist-authors, Shari Eli from the University of Toronto and Joshua K. Hausman and Paul W. Rhode from the University of Michigan.
How can an article like this fail to mention that the transition from ICE to EV’s will require a huge investment in infrastructure that is likely to fall far short of requirements, especially in Canada, the country of the Sacred Cash Enviro-Review Payout Machine?
Besides electricity demand just where are those necessary rare earths expected to come from and at what cost? One day the Congo is gonna run out of kids.
This guy puts a cringe fake TikTok voice changer over ALL his transplaining videos. Early video for voice comparison. pic.twitter.com/DgI4gbaH8v
— TroonyToons 💜🤍💛 (@troonytoons) July 28, 2023
The International Olympic Committee will reap profits from the 2024 Paris games—but how will Paris fare?
Despite my best intentions, I find myself caught up in the whirlwind of the Olympic Games set to be held in Paris next year. I am a local elected official of the nearby town of Boulogne, which shares three large stadiums with the French capital that will be used throughout the games. The town is also halfway between the Eiffel Tower and the Château de Versailles, along the route for the Olympic marathons. There will be four races in total next year: for men, women, para-Olympians, and the public. One of the three stadiums, originally a rugby ground, has been hired out for the monthlong games by the German delegation, which is hoping to celebrate all its victories there. The German team is made up of 5,000 people, and athletes are accompanied by trainers, massage therapists, doctors, PR agents, fan clubs, family, and all the other hangers-on who now keep the wheels of Sport, Inc., well oiled. The Chinese delegation has just as many people and even asked the Boulogne mayor’s office to hire the entire town. This included all the hotels, restaurants, and public spaces, and would have made it easy to accommodate, assemble, and of course monitor the athletes and their staff. We refused, despite the red envelopes we may have otherwise received.
Scam of scams.
The Biden administration has repeatedly told the public that Hunter’s lucrative consulting business doesn’t matter unless it is directly connected to his father. That’s true. Moreover, they add, that connection is not just unproven, it cannot be proved because it didn’t exist. That’s false, although the mainstream media has repeated it faithfully. But even the most feckless are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain this awkward lip-syncing with the White House press office.
There is no love lost between Joe Rogan and Justin Trudeau.
Joe Rogan calls out Justin Trudeau.. “That’s scary totalitarian shit… it’s a test case for totalitarian government tactics, and they failed that test” pic.twitter.com/SyUjl7ayeV
— Pelham (@Resist_05) July 27, 2023
Up to 450,000 Americans may have been affected by a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by ticks as many doctors remain unaware of what it is or how to treat it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In new reports released on Thursday, the CDC found that between 96,000 and 450,000 Americans since 2010 may have been affected by alpha-gal syndrome. The syndrome, also known as a red meat allergy or tick-bite meat allergy, stems from alpha-gal, a sugar molecule not naturally present in humans. Instead, it is found in meat including pork, beef, rabbit, lamb and venison, as well as products made from mammals including gelatin and milk products.
Traditional Chinese culture, thousands of years old, is filled with beautiful Confucian philosophies, kinship rituals, artistic symbolism, mythologies, and regular devotion to family ancestors. To observe any of these ancient customs in person, however, it is Taiwan — not China — where a visitor must go. When mainland Chinese communists bulldozed over China’s rich heritage and Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution” purged the “Four Olds” — old customs, culture, habits, and ideas — from Chinese society, Taiwan became the de facto last refuge for one of the world’s oldest great civilizations.
Because they just can’t get enough of bashing Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) and his administration that’s promoted the novel concept of involving parents in education, The Washington Post returned to the well Thursday with its editorial board pitching a hissy fit in “Youngkin takes vital resources away from LGBTQ+ youth — again.”
Canadians pay too much tax because politicians and bureaucrats spend too much money on themselves. They know it and we know it.
Two-thirds of Canadians think income taxes are too high, according to a recent Ipsos poll commissioned by the Montreal Economic Institute.
The poll shows more than half of Canadians think the federal government’s spending is too high . And l ess than a quarter of Canadians think the government is spending money on the right priorities.
