The #cancelsanta crowd is here. This is your brain on CRT. pic.twitter.com/QHZXQp9RQZ
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 24, 2021
Author: Blazingcatfur
Philip Cross: A lump of hydrocarbon you really want in your stocking
The importance of low-cost energy to economic growth is seldom acknowledged in trendy calls for a transition from fossil fuels to renewables
Energy is by far Canada’s largest export, accounting for almost 25 per cent of export earnings. Crude oil accounts for the lion’s share of energy exports at 71 per cent, and the oil sands produce 70 per cent of Canada’s oil. Little wonder that over time they have become almost synonymous with Canada’s energy exports. Even in the market glut that saw oil prices fall following 2014, the volume of exports surged 43 per cent, a testimony to the competitiveness of oil sands operations.
Walk Away, Kid
The best thing for Kyle Rittenhouse to do now is to try to build a normal life—largely out of the media spotlight.
Kyle Rittenhouse has recently entered the conservative celebrity circuit. He now should exit it and do his best to get on with a normal life. The benefits of his celebrity status for all parties involved are short-term, and the visuals presented to the public following his acquittal have been at times cringe-inducing.
Canada meets 2021 immigration target with 401,000 new permanent residents – Why?
(Reuters) – Canada met its target of granting 401,000 foreigners permanent residency in 2021 by focusing its efforts on temporary residents already in the country, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said on Thursday.
Canada, which depends on immigration to drive its economy and support an aging population, saw new permanent residents falling over 45% to 185,000 in 2020, when borders were largely closed due to COVID-19.
Our immigration policy is a scam.
What Fresh Hell: California to ‘Fight Climate Change’ With Rotting Banana Peels and Fines
A new year is almost upon us and, according to the left, so is the “climate change crisis.” Put those together and that means California bureaucrats are set to impose a new fresh hell of tyrannical regulations on their citizens. Beginning January 1, 2022, under Senate Bill 1383 and the penalty of stiff fines in most cases, all Californians will be required to separate their excess food waste into bins to be collected by local recycling services.
Justice Department releases three-hour video of violent Capitol riot clashes in tunnel
The Justice Department released the longest video from the government yet showing clashes between rioters and police at a U.S. Capitol tunnel on Jan. 6.
The three hours of footage, released by a judge after news outlets sued for access, do not have sound but offer a vantage from above via a security camera in the Lower West Terrace where officers blocked rioters from entering the building.
8 Reasons China Should Definitely Not Host the Winter Olympics
As the year comes to a close, the Chinese government, broadcaster NBC, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have begun ramping up promotion for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics – held under a regime currently committing genocide and actively persecuting athletes and journalists.
James Webb Telescope launches into space
NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Telescope launched into space successfully on Saturday from French Guiana.
The instrument is expected to help scientists in the search for new planets and traces of extraterrestrial life.
The moment we've all been waiting for… you can now watch again and again as many times as you want! 🤩🚀
📽️ https://t.co/YT3av96SCM#WebbFliesAriane #Webb #WebbSeesFarther
Video credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace pic.twitter.com/4GUzhoSziq
— ESA Webb Telescope (@ESA_Webb) December 25, 2021
Parents of suspected Michigan high school shooter ignored signs he was a threat, prosecutors say
The parents of Ethan Crumbley ignored troubling signs surrounding their 15-year-old son for months before he allegedly opened fire, killing four students and wounding seven others at his Detroit-area high school last month, according to prosecutors.
“[Jennifer and James Crumbley] were in a better position than anyone else in the world to prevent this tragedy, but they failed to do so,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said in a Thursday filing. “The evidence will further show that these Defendants willfully ignored the needs and well-being of their son and the threat he posed to others.”
Millions More People Claiming To Be Native American In Past Decade, According to Census Data
Elizabeth Warren was not Native American. But she played one when it suited her career advancement.
In the past decade, millions more people have started pretending to be Native American, according to Census data.
What you really sing about in the Twelve Days of Christmas
If the coming week or so becomes a rather interminable and indeterminate blur, then perhaps frequent recourse to singing The Twelve Days of Christmas may serve as a reminder of what day it is and when to take the decorations down. It might even bring some spiritual instruction along the way.
This popular and much-parodied song first appeared in 1780, in a children’s book entitled Mirth Without Mischief. It seems originally to have come from France, where earlier versions exist, and it is perhaps significant that the partridge, which appears as the final gift sent by the true love, was introduced into England from there in the 1770s. Although on the face of it a simple memory game for children, scholars have suggested that it may have contained hidden messages, rather like other nursery rhymes — Sing a song of sixpence referring to Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and Ring-a-ring o’ roses to the Great Plague of London in 1665, for example.
Trump threatens to divulge ‘the real facts’ about ‘wacko’ Bette Midler
Former President Donald Trump vowed to spill the beans on actress-singer Bette Midler over her attack on the people of West Virginia.
In a statement Thursday, Mr. Trump called Ms. Midler a “wacko” over her comments that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin wants the rest of the country to be like his home state of West Virginia — “poor, illiterate, and strung out.”
If Canada has more than 107 million COVID rapid tests, why can’t I get one?
As COVID-19 case counts kept soaring this week, booster shots and rapid tests were all many Canadians wanted for Christmas. Given their general scarcity, most were left out of luck. So how, nearly two years into the pandemic, did we get here? When it comes to booster shots, the new Omicron variant emerged and exploded quickly, as Canada’s focus was on vaccinating kids, experts say. Canadians scrambling to get their hands on rapid tests are likely wondering where the 88.8 million tests the federal government says it has distributed to the provinces are. The answer to that question is slightly more complicated.