Toronto Star- Being tired of Justin Trudeau is not a good reason to vote him out
The other day I walked into my favourite bagel bakery and made a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy an everything bagel instead of my usual double poppyseed. I guess I was tired of double poppyseed.
Buying a bagel has insignificant consequences, so trying something different for the sake of change was a low-risk choice.
But would you choose a prime minister in the same way?
CTV- No more porta-potties at B.C. construction sites starting Oct. 1
Starting Oct. 1, construction sites with 25 workers or more will be required to have flushing toilets and hand-washing facilities, ending the reign of unsavory porta-potties.
Anyone else notice Nina Jankowicz (disgraced would be Minister of Truth) pop up in the Tenet Media / Lauren Chen story?
Curiouser and curiouser…
Cenovus donates $2.5 million to Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Maybe they want to shape hearts and minds to, I don’t know, provide for their society and keep homes warm and transportation out of the days of horse and wagon?
Sorry, Springfield. It’s just part of the replacement process, nothing personal.
"Haitians are in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them"
Springfield resident to City Council: pic.twitter.com/aZLsOT8v2b
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 8, 2024
It’s not unreasonable to assume that government statisticians routinely “massage” unemployment numbers in order to allow their political bosses to claim that the economy is in better shape than it actually is. Economist Ryan McMaken delves into the mechanics of this smoke and mirrors game.
The establishment survey report shows that total jobs—a total that includes both part-time and full-time jobs—increased, month over month, in August by 142,000. The establishment survey measures only total jobs, however, and does not measure the number of employed persons. That means that even when job growth comes mostly from people working multiple part-time jobs, the establishment survey shows increases while the total number of employed persons does not. In fact, total employed persons can fall while total jobs increases. For instance, the total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. This is in contrast to a gain of 2.3 million “jobs” in the establishment survey over the same period.
Given the evidence, Republicans should assume Penzey’s Spices contain rat feces.
Nate Silver Douses Operation Demoralize: Harris ‘on the Decline’ in ‘Key Swing State’ Polls
The Harris bounce, blown:
NEW NYT/Siena poll:
Trump 48
Harris 47The results are "largely unchanged from a Times/Siena poll taken in late July just after President Biden dropped his re-election bid."https://t.co/GU2iUWDVsB
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) September 8, 2024
Julie Kelly digs deeper.
Well, this should help turn things around.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the British Broadcasting Corporation has an Arabic language channel;
The BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war, a damning report has found.
The report revealed a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel, according to its authors who analysed four months of the BBC’s output across television, radio, online news, podcasts and social media. […]
It also found that the BBC repeatedly downplayed Hamas terrorism while presenting Israel as a militaristic and aggressive nation.
It claimed that some journalists used by the BBC in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict have previously shown sympathy for Hamas and even celebrated its acts of terror.
The report claims that a number of BBC reporters have shown extreme hostility to Israel, including BBC Arabic contributor Mayssaa Abdul Khalek, who is said to have called for “death to Israel” and defended a journalist who tweeted: “Sir Hitler, rise, there are a few people that need to be burned.”
It also accuses Marie-Jose Al Azzi, a Lebanese reporter, of being anti-Israel after she reportedly described the country as a “terrorist apartheid state” in a post that was subsequently deleted.
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, is accused of excusing Hamas’s terrorist activities and comparing Israel to Putin’s Russia, while Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent, is also cited for allegedly “downplaying” the October 7 attacks on Israel.
The report singles out the BBC’s Arabic channel, saying that it is one of the most biased of all global media outlets in its treatment of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Unexpectedly.
Well, if someone’s view of crime and antisocial behaviour is informed only by abstractions – convenient abstractions – they’re not getting the full picture, or anything like the full picture.
Some immediacy and vividness would, I think, correct that.
From the comments following this, in which I pitch an idea for some late-night viewing.
Today In Islam: This week in Jihad. Muslim rape gangs.
Comrade Kamala’s America: Childless cat ladies suffering from climate grief. A one party state. Did communism really fall?
Woke World: Woke weather. Horrible history.
The Sunday Hymn.
To help you slow down and prepare for sleep, we return to July 14, 1949 and present a radio drama entitled Dragnet: The Red Light Bandit.
But before you start dreaming, feel free to share some news tips!
Bonus: This video meme was recently released: Gigglin’s Island
“Go back to your Islamist shitholes”
Canadians fight back. This is awesome
H/T @neveragainlive1 pic.twitter.com/AkGsqEtNiH
— Cheryl E ️ (@CherylWroteIt) September 7, 2024
Beauty. (language advisory)
Ezra Levant reports from the huge free speech rally in Brazil;
As you may have heard, a crusading Brazilian judge named Alexandre de Moraes has been waging a secret war against Elon Musk’s social media platform, Twitter. Moraes would routinely order Twitter to suspend political opponents of the ruling president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, usually just called “Lula”.
It wasn’t just that the judge was silencing Lula’s critics, including elected political opponents and journalists. Moraes often went further, demanding that Twitter make those suspensions but ordering Twitter to keep the judge’s role a secret. A secret trial with a secret punishment. That’s against Brazilian law, but that didn’t seem to bother this judge.
And since Musk refused to comply, Moraes simply banned the entire social media platform from Brazil, silencing millions of citizens. When Musk made a fuss about it, the government went even further, seizing property belonging to other companies owned by Musk, including the Internet service, Starlink.
A thoroughly enjoyable conversation. Transcript available for those who prefer to read along.
West Texas Intermediate is at its lowest point in over a year. This, despite the Ukraine war still going on, and supertankers being targeted in the Red Sea.
