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Just A Pretty Face: New PM of Canada is an Idiot.

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When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, building on his presence at the historic Paris Conclave a few weeks ago (which saved the world) and presenting at the Davos summit this week (which will merely improve our rescued world), offered this rhetorical crackerjack: “My predecessor wanted you to know Canada for its resources. I want you to know Canadians for our resourcefulness.” (The Trudeau years are going to be great for the T-shirt and bumper-sticker scribes.)

So, does having great natural resources mean we do not need to use our powers of ingenuity, inventiveness and creativity in the development of those resources? No, the possession of natural resources does not contradict or suspend, as Trudeau’s semantic maneuvering would have it, the powers of resourcefulness in the people – engineers, farmers, loggers, miners, fishermen and oil workers — who exploit those resources.

Minerals do not just pop out of the ground on a wish, refine themselves and then walk to the nearest subsidized GM plant in southern Ontario. And — surprise, surprise — even windmills do not collect their own materials and build themselves. All require the resourcefulness of the people working in that particular industry.

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Christianity Caught in the Wake Turbulence of Progressive Dictation

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Whilst Islam increasingly looks backwards to the hell on earth of the Dark Ages, Western Christianity is caught in the wake turbulence caused by the ceaseless march of progressive liberal dictation.

The Bishop of London has suggested that Anglican priests connect with Muslims by growing a beard. Read Full Article Here  

We should not need to point out that the differences are much greater than that, and constantly playing catch up with the progressive zeitgeist, or engaging in the insecure need to impress a 7th Century death cult, robs you of any integrity or respect. But if the Anglican church can be relied upon for one thing, it is this.

 

Milo vs. Bill Nye

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Breitbart’s fabulously flippant Milo Yiannopoulos lambasts Bill Nye the “Science” Guy and his descent from science edutainment for kiddies into leftist propagandizing:

Let’s get this out of the way at once. Bill Nye’s primary qualification for being “The Science Guy” is that his last name rhymes with the phrase. I like to imagine some brilliant scientist named Phil Frye drunkenly ranting in a bar: “It should have been me!”

Nye is also famous for playing to a number of other pet liberal causes. Surprising no-one, Bill Nye on abortion reads like an engineering undergraduate trying to explain biology. When it comes to abortion, the only thing Nye is qualified to do is manufacture the coat hangers, and even then he’d probably fuck it up by trying to make them out of sustainable “green plastic.”

We love Milo. Next time Comedy Central does a celebrity roast, they should get Milo to MC it.

Mind you, that would probably result in the roastee crying instead of laughing along, but still.

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The Libya Mystery Solved

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For years now it has been an almost constant source of puzzlement. It’s a question that no doubt has kept Benedict Cumberbatch awake at night: Just why did NATO overthrow Col. Gaddafi in 2011 and turn an otherwise stable nation into a Jihadi playground?

Gaddafi had been brought in from the cold after years of isolation and was not only selling his oil to the E.U., but also stemming the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean whilst keeping a heavy lid on radical Islam. He was nothing short of essential to regional security.

I mean, it has never made any sense: Why would they want to destroy a friendly nation who shared and aided its interests?

Well, thanks to documents posted on the U.S. State Department website from recently disclosed  e-mails from Hillary Clinton, it turns out that the real reason for regime change in Libya was to prevent Gaddafi’s plan to launch a gold backed pan-African currency and confiscate Libya’s vast $7 billion reserves of gold and silver.

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Islamic State: A New Dark Age for Mankind

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Like Tuberculosis, which was all but eradicated during the 20th Century, public executions for witchcraft are making a comeback in Libya under the Islamic State. Two men, one a homeopath & acupuncturist, were recently publicly beheaded for ‘Sorcery’ by the Islamic State in the city of Sirte.

It’s almost 400 years since Europe closed the doors on a bleak period of history that saw people executed for witchcraft; under puritanical Islam it’s making a 21st Century comeback on Mediterranean shores.

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The death of one is a tragedy, the death of millions is a pizza discount code

Apparently if you went to Papa John’s Pizza’s Russian website this past weekend and wanted a discount, the magic words were “Josef Stalin.”

Papa John’s has since clarified that the offer was part of a promotional tie-in with the computer game World of Tanks – Stalin lent his name to a series of Soviet tanks produced in the 1940s which are featured in the game, along with several others.

Now, if only Domino’s would do the same with Mussolini…

More at the Independent.

Media Not Interested in Brown Victims of Islam

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The Islamic attacks that took place in Jakarta & Burkina Faso this week were not as newsworthy for mainstream or social media as the recent Paris or Tunisian attacks, because many of the victims were ‘kind of brown’ and it didn’t happen where people could imagine themselves going on holiday.

From virtually ignoring the wiping off the map of two towns in Nigeria by Boko Haram and massacre of 2000, to the unwillingness to criticize or condemn the actions of terrorists because they are a different colour, no one does this brand of progressive racism better.

 

You mean HGTV lied to us?

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The Globe and Mail’s Erin Anderssen on the whole “tiny home” movement and how quickly its proponents tend to move on up to larger homes again… which I don’t seem to have seen covered in the HGTV tiny home propaganda:

Remember that couple featured in the documentary Tiny, which depicted their tiny home’s construction and extolled the minimalist lifestyle? They parked the end result in a field in Colorado and never lived in it together full-time. (In a blog, they explained that they left this out of the movie “so as not to spoil the experience of seeing that story unfold on screen.”) You may also recall Carrie and Shane Caverly, who were featured on TV shows and in newspaper articles for “bonding” in their tiny home? They lasted 18 months before they decided it was “too small” and moved into an apartment. Many more owners rent out their tiny homes or use them only as weekend getaways, and it’s not easy to find a tiny-home builder actually dwelling full-time in the product they’re selling, at least in Canada.

Gee, next they’ll be telling us the world won’t come to an end if you don’t get the stainless steel appliances and granite countertops…

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Sharia Incompatible With Western Democracy

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Those within Western democracies who seek or advocate for Sharia law are incompatible with the values of that society. It is, and should be, as simple as that. Those who seek Sharia law are extremists by definition.

That the Home Office should have to seek legislation to protect members of the armed services from abuse and threats tells you how woeful the situation is in Britain in regards to the active enemy within.

Islamic extremists who publicly demand that Sharia law replaces British legislation or try to enforce rules through their own courts could face prosecution under plans being worked on by the Home Office.   

It is understood that the long-awaited counter extremism bill, which is expected to be brought forward shortly, will also seek to ban people from launching abusive social media attacks or making public protests against members of the armed forces.

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