Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Garden Gnome Barbie More Pavilions At Folkfest Shiny Pony 22 Comments

April, 2024: In a Friday press release headlined simply “Canada’s Housing Plan,” the Prime Minister’s Office laid out a plan to “unlock 3.87 million new homes by 2031.” … “Canada can and will solve the housing crisis,” read an attached quote by Housing Minister Sean Fraser.

June, 2024; Canadian building permits dropped again in June by 13.9%, continuing the trend of a softening property market despite the government’s attempts to accelerate housing development. According to Statistics Canada, the decline in June was even greater than the previous month, which saw permits drop 12.2% in May and the data is even worse on a year-over-year basis, where the overall value of permits issued in June has dropped by 21.6%.

Thursday On Turtle Island

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Queen Kamala’s America:  Let’s talk about Tim Walz.  The media is trying to start a civil war.  Walz and his imam.

Blackie’s Canada:  A parade in Montreal.  Chickens for KFC in Ottawa.  Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Nova Scotia.  The revision of Canadian history continues.

Woke World:  Paul Joseph Watson on free speech.  The craft beer tossers.  The stupidest climate change essay of all time.

Your morning meme.   A cartoon.  Another cartoon.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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ARS;

On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each other in a parking lot. No one is inside the cars, and they appear to be automatically reacting to each other’s presence.

Videos provided by residents to NBC show Waymo cars filing into the parking lot and attempting to back into spots, which seems to trigger honking from other Waymo vehicles. The automatic nature of these interactions—which seem to peak around 4 am every night—has left neighbors bewildered and sleep-deprived.[…]

The lack of human operators in the vehicles has complicated efforts to address the issue directly since there is no one they can ask to stop honking. That lack of accountability forced residents to report their concerns to Waymo’s corporate headquarters, which had not responded to the incidents until NBC inquired as part of its report.

Government Motors

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Gateway Pundit- Texas Attorney General Sues General Motors for Illegally Harvesting and Selling Drivers’ Private Data to Corporate Giants, Including Insurance Companies

The crux of the lawsuit centers around GM’s use of technology installed in most vehicles manufactured since 2015. This technology allegedly collects, records, analyzes, and transmits detailed driving data every time a driver uses their vehicle, according to the press release.

Today In Canadian Infrastructure

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Blacklock’s- Military No Help On Housing

At least a quarter of Department of National Defence buildings and other infrastructure dates from the 1970s and requires “significant maintenance,” says an internal audit. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had proposed to recycle federal property for housing.

“Approximately 25 percent of existing infrastructure is greater than 50 years old and requires significant maintenance, repair and recapitalization to ensure it remains serviceable and compliant with health, safety and environment regulations,” said an Audit Of Defence Infrastructure.

Democrat Apparatchik Posing as a Journalist

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Something that wasn’t on my 2024 Bingo Card was to witness a “journalist” pleading with Biden’s press secretary to censor free speech. Yet this is exactly what happened earlier this week when WaPo’s Cleve Wootson Jr. asked Karine Jean-Pierre for censorship of the Musk-Trump discussion.

One wonders if he did this voluntarily or was “pressured” to do so? Either way, people are letting him have it here and here.

Related: Here’s why Elon Musk doesn’t treat the media as a special class of people.

Feeding The Addiction

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Global BC- Fraser Health to offer free delivery of harm reduction supplies

BC Conservative Party MLA Eleonore Sturko said it was “concerning” that the harm reduction supplies were being made so easily accessible, while access to treatment remains “difficult.”

“The services should be equal, at least. It should be just as easy to access detox and treatment as it is to order a crack pipe online,” she said.

Place your orders now!

h/t Cameron

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

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Hear my prayer.

San Francisco’s glitzy hotels have been plunged into massive debt following a dramatic drop off in tourism to the Golden Gate City.

The Californian city’s two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Their worth is now $553.8 million.

Meanwhile, the delinquency rate among commercial mortgage-backed security loans for the sector jumped to 41.6 percent in June from 5.7 percent the same time last year, according to data from real estate analytics firm Trepp.

It comes as San Francisco’s tourism industry struggles to recover to its pre-pandemic levels, while other parts of the country bounce back.

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