Saskatchewan author (and long time SDA reader and advertiser) Terry Anderson has run into a rough spot, health wise. If you have a spot on your bookshelf that’s itching for a new novel, you might check out his work. The price is certainly right.
Merry Christmas, Terry – and to all our loyal readers who are facing challenges this season.
The Fate of America’s Entitlement Generation
Here’s the true reality of the generation that overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama.
By the way, aren’t these the same people who loathe the one percenters? So why are any of them concerned that they’re now destined to spend the rest of their days as lower-middle class serfs?!
Reader Tips
Tonight, a little brotherly harmony as the Louvin Brothers sing It’s Christmas Time.
Honey, I Finished The Civilization
2012: The Year in Bans.
Gun Ban Laws: Important Lessons from Australia
Everyone in America screaming for gun ban laws should watch this video … carefully.
Related: Lee Doren critiques the Leftist argument supporting far-reaching gun control.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
With Congress and the White House currently concentrating their laser-like focus on averting (or not averting, as the case may be) the fiscal cliff, the fate of various tax extenders is still very much up in the air, including the wind industry’s precious production tax credit (which covers about 30 percent of wind power’s costs — no wonder they’re so keen on keeping it around). The wind lobby is working overtime to convince Congress to pass an extension before the clock runs out on December 31st, but most lawmakers’ concerns are about the bigger fish we still need to fry before the end of the year.
4 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
When you total up all working age Americans that do not have a job in America today, it comes to more than 100 million.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
After a 25-year ban, California sea otters are now free to float along the entire coast without being captured and hauled back to Northern California.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ended its “Southern Sea Otter Translocation Program” on Tuesday, Dec. 18, which forbid otters from paddling south of Point Conception — where the Santa Barbara Channel meets the Pacific Ocean — to the Mexican border.
h/t TimR
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
“But enough about Sen. Inouye, let’s talk about me.”
h/t Black Mamba
More Pavilions At Folkfest
The national census for England and Wales is out…
By any measure, what it reveals is a country undergoing seismic change. Over the course of a decade up to four million more people have entered the country to live. In the capital, London, people identifying themselves as “white British” have for the first time become a minority. Perhaps most strikingly, the national Muslim population has doubled.
h/t Adrian
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National Rifle Association: Not Clintonian Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Jonathan Kay, 2012– The NRA’s monstrously stupid plan to put gun-toting guards in every school
LA Times, 2000 – Marking the first anniversary of the shooting deaths at Columbine High School, President Clinton announced $120 million in new federal grants Saturday to place more police officers in schools …
More at PJ Tattler.
The Left’s View: Political Choice is Not an Option for Minorities
Update: Greg Gutfeld chimes in.
Vic Toews, Pizza Nazi
Cold, Wet Hands
Jeff Goldstein makes a sad announcement.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: Chevron moving 800 Bay Area jobs to Texas
“…while they smugly stand with their Secret Service and Police, armed to the teeth”
Some animals are more equal than others.
Mayor Bloomberg has a small cadre of hired hands who are near and with him literally 24 hours a day. They are armed, all the time, and they are paid to worry about these things so he doesn’t have to.
Likewise, President Obama has a literal army of trained, armed soldiers in the form of parts of the military and an entire division of officers (The Secret Service) who’s job it is, once again, to make this not his problem for both him and his entire family. Michelle and his children do not have to concern themselves about these issues because there are literally over a thousand others who are paid to take that responsibility — up to and including eating a bullet in their place.
Neither of these people is proposing to rely on what they claim you should rely on — a “law.” A piece of paper, which today doesn’t even get printed on real paper; it’s a ghost in a machine that glows at you in the dark.
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Up until all of these people in political office disband their police forces, their Secret Service details, throw down their own arms, armored cars, body armor and other defensive means of interdicting assault they have nothing — not even a moral argument — behind them in their demand that you disarm and become an intentional victim — no matter who you are.
Read it all. (Via)
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11:25am Update – things went very late last night, so this is still a rough draft. There’s lots of tweaking to do, and we’re just getting started on that. Thanks for the feedback!
– Okay. I’ve made a few changes based on Kate’s requirements. A few things though, captcha stays. It will help eliminate the 20/hour spam comments that SDA got on a regular basis. When we have that many spams, we don’t even look at the spam comments to decide if batb’s (as an example) is clean because the url had the word ‘ban’ in it. We just delete them all. So, the captcha will help you too.
See below the fold for up to date changes.
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
Tonight the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, along with the Tenebrae Choir, perform For unto us a child is born from Handel’s Messiah.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.