Continental Breakfast

But Sire, ’tis a Continental Breakfast. ‘Twill only take 20 minutes max.

Slow Joe Biden: The Half-Fast Manchurian Candidate

Slow Joe” Biden—more accurately and precisely described as “Half-Fast” Biden—had his much-hyped “virtual summit” on Monday with his “old friend” Chinese Dada-President-for-Life Xi Jinping.

A “virtual summit,” by the way, is progressive-speak for a Zoom call with translators, aides, and the White House hallucinogenic script suppository producer readying the next briefing for Jen “Circle Back” Psaki, Biden’s shameless redheaded flak who only lies when she moves her lips. Or just moves.

Daniel Greenfield: Biden’s Bank Regulator Lived Out Communist Principles by Stealing Hundreds From T.J. Maxx

Not every Communist lives up to the integrity of their principles that there should be no private property. There were questions about whether Saule Omarova, Biden’s nominee for comptroller of the currency, was really committed to Communist principles.

GBNews Neil Oliver: ‘If the West isn’t careful, it might shortly be all over for the West.

Ten ways to befriend a misanthropic cat

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Continental Breakfast

Quillette⁚ Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement

For more than 20 years, from the mid-’80s to the late-’90s, Morningside, a three-hour daily broadcast that mixed current events with human-interest stories, reigned as the flagship program on CBC Radio. The host of the show during its most successful run was Peter Gzowski, a veteran journalist widely embraced as something very much like Canada’s favourite uncle. On air, Gzowski was affable, chummy, his exchanges with guests routinely punctuated by his signature moist, ingratiating chortle. He was, in fact, that rare man who deserved his very own adjective: avunctuous.

During one broadcast, Gzowski recalled an incident that had occurred at the annual invitational golf tournament he hosted to benefit adult literacy programs across Canada. As one participant, standing next to Gzowski, leaned thoughtfully on his club, another drove a golf cart over his toes. Although it was unclear from the telling whether the cart-driver was American, the first golfer was obviously Canadian, since, shifting gingerly from foot to aching foot, he could only plead, “sorry.” Gzowski shared this anecdote with evident delight, since it struck him as so endearingly, because emblematically, Canadian.

But Gzowski’s soaring contentment with this view of his country and countrymen was no less emblematic. To Canadian nationalists of Gzowski’s era and ilk, the representative Canadian is no hewer of wood or carrier of water, no builder of bridges, roads and railways, no stormer of barricades or keeper of the peace, but a hobbled guest on a verdant fairway, eagerly apologizing for the pleasure of having his toes crushed. “That is what I like about you Canadians,” says Dr. Gunilla Dahl-Soot in Robertson Davies’s novel The Lyre of Orpheus, “you are so ready to admit fault. It is a fine, if dangerous, national characteristic. You are all ashamed.”

The Media, your moral and intellectual superiors (tm)

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Convicted terrorist sent back to prison after threatening residence staff

The RCMP arrested Hersi in 2011 as he was trying to board a plane at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. According to investigators, Hersi was leaving the country to join the Somalian al-Qaeda linked terror cell Al-Shabaab.

No way, universe. You will never trick me into liking him.

Ann Coulter⁚ Get Rittenhouse!

Unreal. Just read it.

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Peter Hitchens: I have just stopped supporting the monarchy. I can’t do it any more.

If this isn’t a sign of the end times…

(P.S. I’m glad somebody else feels this way):

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So let’s all listen to Bill Maher

I’ve never been able to stand Bill Maher and I hate finding myself in agreement with him but he’s right and here we are.

“I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic…”

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This wasn’t the question I was planning on asking, but Dr. Shahab, are you okay?

I’m posting this to see if anyone agrees with me that we are now living in what Bertie Wooster might have described as a different and dreadful world.

Everyone is a hysteric now. It’s all psychodrama. Yes, doctor, since you bring it up, you are behaving very unprofessionally. No, the fact that some pet journalist has given you the cue to start blubbering on TV does not mean that I want you running my life and everyone else’s until the end of time.

I’m not falling for the puppy trick either.

Mark Steyn keeps saying that we may be, civilization-wise, too stupid to survive. I hope he’s wrong. Convince me.

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“I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom”

“I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom”

Says Mitzi Tan, 23, the Philippines. (This is an email I got from Avaaz.)

That’s the heartbreaking story one young person told us about how the climate crisis scares her. And she’s not alone.

Avaaz members just funded the biggest-ever survey on climate anxiety in children and young people — surveying 10,000 people in 10 countries around the world. In every country, it shows that anxiety about the planetary crisis is very high, and it’s not just because we’re witnessing devastating climate disasters, it’s also linked to governments consistently failing to take decisive, meaningful action to stop the crisis.

We can still stop runaway climate change. We know what’s needed, and what governments must do. But it will require bold political will and determination — and that’s been woefully missing. Yet things are moving, there is new momentum, and there’s still tons of space for radical, grounded hope.

Here’s what the study found:

 45%

Nearly half of global youth surveyed (45%) say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives: how they play, eat, study, and sleep.

 75%

More than seven in ten (75%) believe “the future is frightening” — jumping to 81% of youth surveyed in Portugal and 92% in the Philippines.

 58%

58% said governments were “betraying me and/or future generations,” while 64% said their governments are not doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe.

 39%

Almost four in ten youngsters (39%) said they are now hesitant about having children.

These results are scary, but psychologists say it’s not just affecting children. Climate anxiety is being felt by people of all ages, everywhere. (Emphases Avaaz’s.)

It reminds me of that time I told a class full of kindergarteners every day for a year that the Boogy Man was hiding in the closet planning to eat them. Those kids are now very jumpy, which proves that we need to do something about this Boogy Man problem, like yesterday. If we don’t address the Boogy issue soon he’ll eat us before we’ve all had a chance to get our 25th Covid booster shot.

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