Author: Blazingcatfur
NHL is all in on trans women
For a league composed of muscular brutes and known primarily for hard-hitting body checks against the glass occasionally relieved by brilliant sticking and puck manipulation, this seems an odd stance. I’m not sure why they even chose to enter the fray, but they did. It began with this tweet.
Colby Cosh: Are 16-year-old voters in Canada’s future?
On Monday, a youth lobby group in New Zealand pulled off a coup of which electoral-reform nerds around the world have long dreamed. Make It 16 Inc. succeeded in convincing New Zealand’s Supreme Court to declare that the voting age in the South Pacific realm should be, you guessed it, 16.
Police Still Have No Suspect 10 Days After Gruesome Idaho Murders
Officials in Moscow, Idaho, have yet to identify a suspect 10 days after the gruesome murder of four University of Idaho students.
On Wednesday, officials with the Moscow Police Department held a press conference to update the public on the ongoing investigation. Police said that they have not yet been able to identify a suspect in the crime.
VEZINA: Government fumbled its way into invoking the Emergencies Act
Either the Canadian government or its national security infrastructure are incompetent.
It could be both. It cannot be neither of them.
Russia can no longer rely on General Winter
Moscow is trying to freeze out civilians, but Ukrainian soldiers will have some advantages fighting through the cold season.
KYIV — He helped beat Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Hitler’s Wehrmacht. General Winter was always supposed to be a good friend to Russian forces.
But this year, his loyalties are less certain.
President Vladimir Putin can no longer count on Russia’s old ally now that the Kremlin’s soldiers in Ukraine are the demoralized invaders, facing rasping sleet and snow, and temperatures that plunge to -20 Celsius, and lower.
#Ukraine: Rather rare footage of Ukrainian ground-launched Brimstone 1 missiles in use.
These were supplied by the UK and have seen use since May at least. pic.twitter.com/RoopPeLDWO
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 15, 2022
Trudeau elaborates on what Chinese ‘interference’ he discussed with Xi Jinping at G20
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his most detailed explanation yet on Wednesday about what kind of “interference” he brought up with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting earlier this month.
At the recent G20 summit in Indonesia, the Prime Minister’s Office told reporters that Trudeau raised serious concerns with Xi about Chinese “interference” in Canada, but offered no specifics.
Freeland’s Office Distributed Blacklist of Trucking Companies Who Participated in Freedom Convoy
A blacklist of 201 trucking companies that took part in the Freedom Convoy protest early this year was distributed by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in February, records show.
“Please find attached an excel sheet detailing which companies whose trucks are participating in Ottawa convoy demonstrations,” wrote an unidentified staffer in an email distributed from Freeland’s office, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
That’s one apple that didn’t fall far from Grandpa’s tree.
Germany rejects Boris Johnson’s claims it said Ukraine should fold to Russia
Germany has angrily dismissed claims by Boris Johnson that in the run-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine it said it would be better for Ukraine to fold than to become embroiled in a long war.
Johnson, interviewed by CNN, also claimed that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, was in denial about the threat of invasion, and that Italy, led at the time by Mario Draghi, said it could not help because it was so dependent on Russian hydrocarbons.
A spokesperson for the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, rejected the claims with a diplomatically phrased dig at Johnson.
#Ukraine: A direct hit on a Russian T-80BV by the Ukrainian 4th Tank Brigade in the East.
The tank received serious damage and was taken out of action. pic.twitter.com/88uDa8gQVa
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 23, 2022
Four Mass Shooting Truths to Shut Down Your Liberal Family Members at Thanksgiving Dinner
The media is shifty when it comes to mass shootings. They decide which shootings we do and do not get to hear about. If a shooting doesn’t jive with the liberal narrative, you’re not likely to hear the gory details.
‘Correct’: Musk agrees with Dinesh D’Souza about ‘one-way’ Twitter censorship
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he agreed with Dinesh D’Souza regarding the social media platform’s history of targeting conservatives.
“We don’t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter. Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place,” D’Souza tweeted, tagging Musk. “Their lies and misinformation simply escaped all scrutiny. Censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives.”
That is hopeful.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s elitist altruism
Billionaires signal virtue to avoid paying tax
Elizabeth Holmes dressed in the same style every day: black turtleneck sweater, black slacks, and black low-slung shoes. This “uniform” underlined her deified status as a busy billionaire dedicated to changing the world, setting her apart from mere mortals with time to choose their clothes. “My mom had me in black turtlenecks when I was, like, eight,” she told one women’s magazine. “I probably have 150 of these. It makes it easy, because every day you put on the same thing and don’t have to think about it — one less thing in your life. All my focus is on the work. I take it so seriously; I’m sure that translates into how I dress.”
The difference between leftist and rightist antisemitism
Jews should be more concerned about leftist antisemitism than rightist antisemitism.
My friend and the co-founder of the Jewish Studies Zionist Network, Professor Jarrod Tanny points out that whereas rightist antisemitism is a fringe element on the right of the North American political spectrum, leftist antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism is steadily advancing into mainstream academic and political discourse. For this reason, he warns that Jewish organizations should be even more concerned and alert about leftist antisemitism than about rightist antisemitism.
Incentives: The Most Powerful Force In The World
By age 35, Akinola Bolaji had already spent two decades scamming people online, posing as an American fisherman to con vulnerable widows into sending him money.
The New York Times asked the Nigerian how he felt about causing so much harm to innocent people. He replied:
“Definitely there is always conscience. But poverty will not make you feel the pain.”
Scamming people is easier to justify in your head when you’re starving.
h/t DS
A sweet goodbye to ‘The Science’
I have always hated goodbyes, whether something so simple as seeing someone off at the airport after an enjoyable visit or a more difficult final goodbye to parents after long, rich lives, and a sibling gone well before his time. I have never found even the smallest bit of joy in a goodbye. Granted, in a long life, there have been a number of good riddances, but I’m not counting those.
So this goodbye was a bit different for me. Today, I heard a goodbye that was music to my ears, even symphonic. Dr. Anthony “Phony Tony” Fauci said goodbye to the nation as White House chief medical adviser.