What I don’t like about Canada is that this is what counts as a healthy breakfast:

It’s the most humongous portion I’ve seen in years.

What I like about Canada is that when I say I from the US, people immediately respond with “Merry Christmas.” It’s really sweet.

Every time I eat poutine, I begin to support Quebec’s indepence.

I actually prefer the regular working class poutine to this fancy one with the hollandaise sauce but the point still stands.

In the meantime, a guy in Tennessee recently murdered an 18-year-old girl because he enjoys shooting at people for no reason. The murderer has a long history of criminal activity, including the 2021 shooting at a mother and two toddlers for which he received no punishment. Here’s a short list of the criminal activity by this criminal:

• 2011: Police seized a .40 caliber handgun from Taylor during an incident when he was a juvenile.
• 2015: Taylor was charged with robbery and given probation
• 2016: Taylor violated that probation when he was charged with aggravated burglary and was sentenced to a year in jail.
• 2021: Taylor was arrested after he and another man fired a gun into a car on Dickerson Pike in East Nashville. He was charged with aggravated assault.
• May 2023: He was released from custody after three court-appointed psychologists deemed him incompetent to stand trial, but also found he didn’t pose an imminent threat to himself or others.
• Sept. 2023: Taylor was charged with auto theft and released on bail, but an arrest warrant was issued for him last Friday when he failed to show up in court.

There are more crimes on his rapsheet but it’s impossible to list them all without turning this into a mile-long post. The guy is the definition of a career criminal.

Now a young woman is dead, and the only reason this bastard might finally get isolated from society is if there’s enough of an outcry. Of course, the people who like to complain about gun violence will stay mum because they aren’t interested in this un-PC kind of gun violence. This is also the majority of gun violence in this country but we aren’t supposed to know that we can get randomly shot while jogging by a guy that is too much of a victim to pay for his crimes.

Shaquille Taylor, the murderer, is only 29 years old. Imagine how many more people he can victimize in his life.

So let’s give even more thanks that we are not the morons who are hiding from these news reports because they contradict a convenient narrative.

It’s a true story. The guy ate people. A veritable Russian Jeffrey Dahmer who was pardoned by the great defender of Christian values Putin.

On this Thanksgiving Day, let’s give thanks that we aren’t the morons who think there’s anything Christian about Russia.

Has anybody on here watched the new movie “Napoleon”? Is it worth seeing?

From the trailer, the actors looked a bit too geriatric for the roles but it seems like a new fad to star actors in their dotage in roles they aged out of decades ago.

The new movie I am looking forward to is the prequel to Hunger Games with a convoluted, forgettable title. The book was seriously better than the Hunger Games series, and the trailer gives hope that the movie will do it justice.

Let’s wait for more details but the pictures from the site are very disturbing.

I always wondered how my midlife crisis would manifest. Unexpectedly, it turned me into a Ukrainian writer, and this will never stop being funny.

God, I wish my father were alive to see it.

What do you, friends, think that the cover of my book Contemporary Spanish Literature for Ukrainians should look like? I have zero ideas.

The absolute cynicism of “inclusive and anti-racist” policies is extraordinary:

Nov. 20, 2023

New York Gives Up on High-School Education

Last Monday, the New York Times reported that an advisory group for New York’s Education Department, under pressure to fix slumping graduation rates at its public schools, would propose not improving the education of the students but making the Regents Examinations, which the state has required since 1876 for a high-school diploma, optional. Other options such as “capstone projects,” presentations, or “performance-based assessments” would also enable graduation.

What offends the most about the proposal to make the Regents Exam optional is that it is understood by all that the children of the ambitious, upwardly mobile, or rich will continue to take standardized tests to distinguish themselves from their competitors for admission to top undergraduate schools. Rather, this is merely a shabby way for New York’s Education Department to help “clear the books” of students whose educational experiences have not prepared them for life. Unstated, but no secret, is the disparate impact this will have on black and Hispanic students who are disproportionately likely to be given a diploma as a substitute for an education. Instead of teaching them properly, New York cynically proposes to choose the path of least resistance: lowering standards to the point of near-indeterminacy, so that undertaught students can be handed a certificate and passed along to the workforce or the undergraduate system as someone else’s problem to fix

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/new-york-gives-up-on-high-school-education/

This isn’t about going or not going to college. Without standardized testing, you can hide the fact that, like already happens in Baltimore, the entirety of the students in inner-city schools lack proficiency in reading and math. You can simply not educate these kids at all.

Folks, remember: anti-racism is austerity. You’ll pay more taxes, get fewer services, and pay out of pocket for what the taxes used to cover. Those who don’t have money to cover additional out of pocket costs will be exceptionally screwed.

Many good people were duped into supporting anti-racism and the BLM. They sincerely thought they were doing good. But look where it led. It’s time to stop before we destroy an entire generation of low-income kids for short-lived joys of acute self-righteousness.