Like Cleverness, But Less So

In the nightmare, I’m held at gunpoint and for 24 hours am forced to read aloud works of “queer theory.” I begin with W. Benjamin Myers’ thoughts on “straight and white teeth as a metaphor for a straight and White identity” – and which allegedly reveal the “uninterrogated Whiteness” of routine dental hygiene and its role in maintaining “arrogant and ignorant straight and White identities.”

While you marvel at the naff, strained metaphor – teeth-brushing as an expression of “Whiteness,” an allegedly pathological state – and the irrelevant, space-filling anecdotal rambling, and the unearned, predetermined conclusion, and the invocation of Judith Butler – this Judith Butler – do spare a thought for your gracious host. As I poke at the smouldering wreckage of academia.

On “queer theory” and other wonders of Dumb Academia.

An Organized Crime Racket With A Tax Base

Remember last week when Gretchen Whitmer’s best friend was indicted on 16 felony charges for allegedly stealing $20 million from the state??

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approved a $20 million grant benefiting one of her campaign donors, and a prominent businessman tied to the project told the House speaker there will be “no negotiations” about it, according to a text message released Wednesday in court records.

That revelation, along with others about the Whitmer administration’s handling of the 2022 state taxpayer funding awarded to Fay Beydoun’s Global Link International, came in a 41-page affidavit from Kyle Kolka, a special agent in Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office.

Nessel’s team is bringing 16 criminal charges against Beydon for misusing the $20 million grant that was meant to establish a business accelerator, according to the court records released Wednesday.

Brotherhood is not comrades with NDP these days

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers respond to NDP coal position: “A deliberate misrepresentation of costs”

It turns out if the NDP wants your job to disappear, they don’t get your support. Imagine that? As in, if they want your house to lose half or more of its value, you to lose your job, and would rather spend money on gas from Alberta or wind and solar, what would you think?

Wait, isn’t this how it was done before?

Feds want pipeline projects reviewed by energy regulator instead of impact agency

Also

Pipeline company Enbridge unfazed by rival oil shipping projects

Is Our Diversities Learing?

His president’s salary a tidy $601,684 in 2025, he was the highest paid in Ontario;

When John Tibbits abruptly resigned as president of Conestoga College on Jan. 14, he walked away with an exit package worth more than $3 million.

Details of that exit package have been kept secret from the public — even members of the board who voted to grant it to him. […]

Between 2019 and 2024, Tibbits guided Conestoga on a massive expansion of their international student program. They went from 13,000 international students in 2019 to more than 38,000 international students by the end of 2023.

Conestoga wasn’t just the school with the most international students in Ontario, according to federal records — they were the school with the most international students in all of Canada. With international students paying significantly more in tuition, Conestoga was able to rack up a surplus in the 2023-24 fiscal year of more than $250 million.

The Ford government has fired the board and installed an administrator. Curious.

Monday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Troops in Germany.    The gathering storm.    No problem.

China Carney’s Canada:    Fined for being old fashioned.    Unable or unwilling.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    A cunning plan.    Migrants and animal abuse.    Marriage in Islamic Britain.    Israel’s struggle.    Paul Joseph Watson – This is funny.    Moderate Muslims.    The Islamic colonization of Christianity.

China Is Asshole

Fake Chinese airbags;

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed it is investigating seven crashes, including five deaths, tied to aftermarket airbags that violently ruptured during deployment—the Wall Street Journal reports. The culprit is Jilin Province Detiannuo Safety Technology, also known as DTN Airbag, a Chinese manufacturer being accused of producing inflators that contain volatile chemicals.

Remember the Takata saga—the faulty inflaters caused the largest automotive recall in history, and accounted for 28 U.S. deaths.

Like Takata’s defective inflators, DTN’s counterfeits are alleged to explode with grenade-like force, spraying shrapnel into vehicle cabins during otherwise survivable crashes.[…]

It’s impossible to know how many cars are fitted with counterfeit DTN inflators—the fake airbags are often sold online, sometimes for as little as $100, a fraction of the price compared to $1,000 or more for genuine, manufacturer-certified parts. The construction and packaging mimic genuine OEM components closely enough that even repair shops can be fooled. Although you would think that a degree of scepticism would creep in when you’re literally paying a mere fraction of the price.

Diversity Was Their Strength

He pandered like a champion

A rain-soaked defeated Liberal MP walking along trash filled streets with the pride flag flying in the distance as he grapples with the consequences of his own party’s decisions.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

The Liberal Party spent 10 years importing voters.

Today those voters showed up.

And voted against the Liberal they were supposed to support.

Federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, endorsed by Mark Carney himself, just lost a provincial nomination race in Scarborough.

He lost to Ahsanul Hafiz.

A Bangladeshi-born business owner who owns 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises. […]

The Liberals flooded ridings with new Canadians.

Those new Canadians just picked their own guy.

Import the third world, get third world elections.

LOL: Former Trudeau staffer attacks OLP nominee for hiring TFWs and suppressing wages. Can’t make this up.

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