The Independent has obtained a copy of the warrant to search Mar-a-Lardo. The search warrant, which federal agents obtained on 5 August, directed agents to seize “physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation” of three criminal laws: the Espionage
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Irini Osaeivi et al. study the effects of long COVID and find that it continues to result in vascular damage for 18 months (or more) after infection. – Carly Weeks discusses how the combination of COVID misinformation and increasingly untenable workloads is imposing intolerable
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Faster Than We Imagined.
It’s widely understood that the Arctic has been warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Wrong, we got that wrong. A paper published in Communications Earth & Environment contends that, since 1979, the Arctic has warmed not twice as fast but four times. In recent decades, the warming
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: August 12, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: In 18 months, it will be illegal in Quebec to declaw a cat or dock a dog’s ears or tail #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3Qmmnha – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Who Benefits?
Some time ago, I read an excellent book by Michael Lewis called The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. In it, the author follows a group of dedicated researchers and a public health officer who fearlessly follow the science of the emerging pandemic, frequently facing obstructions and even threats to their
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Going Nuclear
Ain’t we havin’ some fun now? So Garland threw down the gauntlet to Trump – put up or shut up. He told Trump he was applying to the court to release the search warrant and evidence list from Monday’s raid, and dared Trump to oppose it – which I
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : The Tax Credit Con.
This is not exactly a love note to Ontario premier Ford and his pathetic finance minister. The wife and I are seniors on a fixed income and these idiots are offering us tax credits. Typical conservatives, offering tax credits instead of real money. Tax credits are a bonus for people
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Advanced education minister drops demand that 500 Athabasca University employees must move to town of Athabasca
Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides seems to have dropped his threat to cut off some or all of Athabasca University’s $41.2 million annual operating funds if the distance-learning institution fails to come up with a plan by the end of September to move 500 employees to the town of
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Quixotic quest bound to fail
A group of naive people believe that John Horgan’s departure will result in an open contest by which party members will elect a leader. But BC’s New Democratic Party is not democratic. Relatively few insiders control the party’s provincial executive, and they determine how leadership is decided…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Many Lives Is Pierre Poilievre Prepared to Sacrifice?
In my last post I wrote about reports that Pierre Poilievre is slowly but surely losing his marbles. The news that Stephen Harper's endorsement had done him more harm than good has apparently pushed him over the deep end. He can't believe that his Big Daddy could let him down
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Cogent Rebuttal To Privatized Healthcare
Here in Ontario, the newly re-elected Conservatives under Doug Ford are making oblique sounds about private health care as a way to help solve our hospital crises. While we do have private clinics, etc. in this province, it would seem that they are suggesting much more than that. One needn’t
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Festival of Joy present to myself
FORTIS IN ARDUIS. New birthday ink from Passage! pic.twitter.com/5QsqgiT1dg — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 11, 2022
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Quammen writes about the ongoing race between scientific discovery and an evolving coronavirus. And Heidi Sheehan reports on new research showing a similarity between long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome based on the inability of receptors to properly receive calcium. –
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: August 11, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Twitter lawyer: No ‘exit ramp’ for Elon Musk out of takeover deal #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3QyC4S4 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingScripturient: Yesterday’s Laughs
It may be a small conceit to say I was brought up watching the Marx Brothers movies on TV, but there’s some truth in that claim. I remember seeing them on our small, B&W TV set on weekends when my brother and I were allowed to watch the programs of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Queer Theory adn “Cripping Incest Discourse”
Where does the leftist activist set get it’s idea’s from? Sources like this arguing for normalizing incest in society. Strap in folks, this is a bumpy ride.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Singing Singh’s Song.
New democrat leader Jagmeet Singh is certainly not kidding. Justin Trudeau’s liberals will either carry out their end of the deal with Jagmeet’s party for their support or feel the wrath of an enraged Sikh. And Sikhs have a well-earned reputation as warriors. The first part of the deal between
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Taking the Fifth
Tuesday the Mar-A-Lago raid story was all the news. Today Trump refused to answer questions about his businesses, property evaluations and loans 400 times, taking the Fifth for every one of the questions. Thanks, Donnie, for killing the Mar-A-Lago raid story in just one day! After spending days with Trump
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP leadership candidates’ cagey answers at forum sponsored by teachers’ union include promises to delay new curriculum
Hey! Never mind defunding the police. What about defunding public education? Complaining about a call by Public Interest Alberta to phase out funding for independent schools, Danielle Smith once asked: “How about we go the other way? Candidate Daniel Smith not so long ago during the time she worked as
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