Last night as I was doing my part to help fill up the local landfill, I spotted this little cute guy, obviously a stray. He was 1-3/4 inches long, and aside from twitching his antennae, wasn’t moving much. Since he was cold, I brought him in to warm up on the kitchen counter.
The missus wasn’t pleased. Bunkarina thought it was cool.
Haven’t seen one of these around in years. It’s a Potato Bug, more commonly known as a Jerusalem Cricket. They don’t prefer potatos, and they’re not native to Jerusalem, they don’t jump and they’re not crickets. They don’t chirp, but they do make mating sounds (listen here) that they “hear” with their feet.
If you spot a Potato Bug, be forewarned… they bite.
Speaking of which, it’s time for us to take a big bite of another hot and juicy Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: insect, jerusalem cricket, LVQ, Open thread, potato bug
Kill it with fire.
FIRRRSSST!!!
@ savages_girl:
OR 2nd…
EEEEWWWW!!! I can’t believe you brought a BUG in the house! I’m with the missus on this one… Geez Bunk, leave the bugs outside – - – where they belong – - -
How can one be cool when its always the new thread.
any how..repost
What will the commies of the U.S. do when the poor commies of China have more stuff than the commies of the U.S.?
I brought a butterfly in the house once. The cats and Mrs. Brick all went berzonkers. Mrs. Brick thought it was a bat flying around and did the Holy Shit hand flippy by the head, screamy dance, and the cats were all like jumping in the air and on the furniture to try to catch it.
It was 3 parts animal trampoline, and one part Friday the 13th juggling at full volume.
Saved by a new thread…
@ taxfreekiller:
raise the taxes higher on the proletariat, so they have more $$ to blow on the more expensive, higher quality, Made in Japan stuff.
Some captioned images of Charlie Rangel I’ve done, which I thought some of you may enjoy…
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Admins — I have a comment awaiting moderation — just a few links to some captioned images of Charlie Rangel I’ve done…
How do You take an open thread off topic?
taxfreekiller wrote:
The poor U.S. commies won’t know they have less stuff then anybody else because their commie masters will keep telling them how good they have it…
They will never be allowed to see beyond the lie…
savages_girl wrote:
If the Mods allow it, I yield my first post to savages_girl without objection?
@ Brick:
I can just picture the scene you described! Hysterical!
@ Brick:
LOL, you’re so funny!
thanks (does a curtsy)
The best of the “late Romantic” period…
Awww man. I missed BTR ’cause of work:(
Brick wrote:
Second
All in favor rise your hand…
@ unclassifiable:
You can listen to a replay… I know, it’s not the same as listening to it “live” where you can call in…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Do I get to vote?
AYE!
savages_girl wrote:
Thank you
savages_girl wrote:
Sure.. Vote early and often…
Some years ago I had an Abyssinian cat who liked to eat spiders. He’d make funny little chittering noises whenever he saw a bug. He was very fastidious about table manners. Every time he finished eating anything, even a little tiny bug or spider, he’d wash his face and paws for the next ten minutes or so.
A very long time ago, I used to live in a Chicago high rise. (Hated it, btw.) One time a large twin-rotor helicopter two blocks away was delivering HVAC eqpt to a rooftop. The cat looked out the window, pawed the window, and made his usual bug-hunting chittering noises.
savages_girl wrote:
It was pretty comical until said butterfly settled and lit on the living room curtains.
Picture 3 cats all jumping simultaneously on and running up a hanging curtain, while the lady of the house segued into a modified one-hand flippy dance, unsure whether to grab the kittehs charging up the curtain to save them from the multi-color monster rabid bat, OR to poke at the offending bat with the halogen lamp in her other hand.
My one piece of advice to guys who like to play jokes on their wives…Make sure you have a comfy day bed.
@ 1389AD:
Something tells me that cats are about to get more dangerous.
Brick wrote:
I can’t figure panicking over a butterfly. Those are generally considered to be beautiful, or at least harmless. Though IMO they belong outdoors, like all insects.
unclassifiable wrote:
That’d be cool!
They’re making an archery “machine gun” on Mythbusters.
@ 1389AD:
Mrs. Brick isn’t a buggy person…but oddly enough, doesn’t mind spiders. In that respect she’s my Knightess in shining armor when she takes em outside, or squishes ‘em.
I think it’s the erratic movement b/c she does the same thing with moths?
1389AD wrote:
Abyssinians are a beautiful breed.
1389AD wrote:
The ancient world may have had one.
OK, off to watch a little tv. good night all!
On a note that might be a bit too serious for the OOT, but what the heck..
If you had control of the Red Pencil in Washington DC which federal programs and/or federal agencies would you defund??
My list would include:
Obamacare
EPA
NPR
TSA
Dept. of Edu.
Dept of Energy
This is not a complete list, it’s not even close to complete…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
The President, congress.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Good start…
would add ATF, and Surface Transportation Board.
The IRS.
IRS
@ Bagua:
Take all thier funding, force them to audit every member of Congress.
My own evil plan for the IRS is that after the repeal of the 16th Amendment turn all of the now unemployed IRS people over to the GAO and have them audit the Federal Government…
Turn the Dogs loose on their OLD Masters….
Dang, I killed the thread.
I’m SORRY.
Please come back.
I will just lurk, honest.
unspecial wrote:
Nothing to worry about.
It’s just that I have a really slow spell checker…
savages_girl wrote:
But he looked so sad! I cheered him up. Named him “Bonnie.” =)
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Spell chicking if for sissys.
unspecial wrote:
Say that again, and I’ll smack you with my purse…
I mean my manbag…
@ Bunk X:
That is a pretty killer bug.
unspecial wrote:
Too checking grammar is.
@ Brick:
Mrs. Rancher will freak if a grasshopper lands on her but will let a tarantula crawl all over her.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I stuff everything in my computer bag, screwdrivers, label maker, cables, liter of diet dew….
Bunk X wrote:
The indignity you inflicted on him is shameful, clearly his name was Ralph….
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!
Bugs are so ugly, ugly, ugly. I hate them.
unspecial wrote:
It’s an insect designed by a congressional subcommittee.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Are you planning to run in the primaries? You got my vote!
Rancher wrote:
Tarantulas are benign unless they get agitated and start flicking their hair at your eyes. Painful temporary blindness results.
@ Bunk X:
Congress has automatic pay raises and waits until the last minute to act on the tax cut expiration. How did so many get re-elected.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
You made me look.
doriangrey wrote:
Odd. That was the last word he spoke when the missus stepped on him.
(BTW– Don’t step on a potato bug. They stink up the place something nasty.)
unspecial wrote:
Kinda transparent, huh.
unspecial wrote:
I rely on water and coffee. Sugary food makes me sick as a dog. I don’t have diabetes per se – probably avoided getting it because I hardly ever eat sweets. But my sister has it. It runs on my father’s side of the family.
Bunk X wrote:
Proper grammar are over rated these days anyways dontchaknow…
@ 1389AD:
Sugar makes me feel strange too.
unspecial wrote:
I have a Mini-9 just to have a lot of room in the old computer bag…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Friends don’t get twisted up over grammer, thats why I like the Blogmocracy.
@ 1389AD:
Sugary snacks do not give you diabetes – just as wet hair outside in cold weather does not give you pneumonia. (for the record)
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Whats a mini-9, uzi?
I just saw a thing how this dog got mistreated by an Iraqi and was stabbed and stuff, and our guys took care of it, and then we had to go 70 miles to the south. The thing actually made the 70 mile trek fighting off wild dogs and surviving the climate.
@ Bunk X:
They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Goodnight ebbybuddy, sleep well.
@ 1389AD:
The Dew belongs to unspecial.
Anything other then black coffee (or beer) doesn’t pass my lips…
@ unspecial:
A Dell netbook with a 9 inch screen.
Rancher wrote:
Bugs I can do…spiders…not so much.
Damn near wrecked my car once on I-81. Flipped down the sun visor and a big-ass spider, about the size of a manhole cover drops down about 6 inches in front of my face and just hangs there swinging ever so slightly on his 200 lb. shock cord, about as thick as my thumb. We were eye-to-eye and even with my sun-glasses on, he had me outnumbered 2 to 1. It was so big it completely blocked my view through the windshield. I think I blacked out for a moment because the next thing I remember I was off the side of the road, trying to get out of my car, with my seat-belt still hooked in.
I noticed my sunroof was open, and off to the side of the road something caught my eye. I saw what I thought looked like a deer being dragged through heavy brush with a similar colored shock cord with 2 big puncture wounds on his neck…and a hairy leg as big around as a telephone pole disappearing into the thickets.
It’s a good thing too, because if I’d have gotten out of my seat belt, that spider would have got a whoopin’ to end all whoopins.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
“Do you herd sheep?” old gramma asked;
Old grampa leapt in fright;
“That grammar’s wrong!” he said, and then,
“‘Do you HEAR sheep,’ is right!”
–Walt Kelly
mjazz wrote:
Add that to the already long list of reasons why I dislike muzzers.
Ugh… Bugs… Spiders… Disgusting, the whole lot of them. Not as disgusting as the ululating head-choppers, but getting up there in noxiousness.
@ PrincessNatasha:
I think it was Eliana who said that in Israel dogs are visibly relieved to hear someone speaking Hebrew. They know.
Debbie Schlussel is attacking the site Bare Naked Islam…
@ Bunk X:
Three older folks (people my age) are walking down the street.
First one says: “It’s windy today.”
Second one says, “No, it’s Thursday.”
Third one says, “So am I. Let’s go get some beers!”
unspecial wrote:
“grammar” … “that’s”… lol
“You can’t even speak your own fucking language.” –Frank Zappa
@ Philip_Daniel:
Brings to mind what Henry Kissinger had to say about the Iraq vs. Iran war:
“Too bad both sides couldn’t lose.”
Calo wrote:
You may be right… but I do have impaired glucose tolerance and get good and sick if I eat much in the way of sweets. If I don’t eat sugary food, which ordinarily I don’t, those symptoms do not happen, and whenever they test my blood sugar it is within the normal range.
@ Brick:
(Why am I laughing? If that happened to me to on I-81, I’d probably run into a truck….just to end my misery.)
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Pasties and a g-string
Beer and a shot
A Dell netbook with a 9 inch screen.
Sorry. Doesn’t work.///
@ Brick:
Damn that’s some nice prose. Can I lift it with credit?
@ Bunk X:
The netbook uses LINUX, does that help any??
@ Bunk X:
Thx. It’s yours for the taking.
Bunk X wrote:
I have a viciously humorous spider story from college. As you know, I was in the SPVA at my college, School of performing and Visual Arts. When Halloween comes around thespian students, well they get into it more than most people.
So About May or so on my way to class on day I found a enormous California Wolf Spider. So I caught it and took it back to my dorm where I set up a 30 gallon aquarium for him and kept him there.
Well along came Halloween, my dorm mates were thespians students, so of course they threw a huge party. On of the guys who showed up was this rather large body builder type actor. He came in full pirate full pirate regalia, He was doing the whole staying in brash bravado character and the whole 9 yards.
I on the other hand had on nothing special with the sole exception, that my California wolf Spider was sitting on my shoulder. Did I mention that this tarantula was huge? by huge, I mean a full 8 to 10 inches across huge. The full size of my hand from little finger tip to thumb at full spread huge.
So there we were, standing in the middle of the dorm living room, with the double windows wide open to let in a nice breeze and drinking beer and just a yakking it up. When Carlie, my spider decides it’s time to move from my shoulder, to half way up my neck, and just as he is curling one of his legs around my ear, this big bad body building super macho actor realizes that Charlie isnt a plastic prop spider and is actually a real live spider.
Just like that in a single blink of an eye, every single ounce of former macho bravado disappeared as this actor proceeded to first squeal like a little five year old girl, then throw his beer across the room utterly totally missing me and charlie by at least 20 feet and then he turns and without a single hesitation jumped out the window.
We were by the way on the first floor, however, we were also on stilts, so the ground was about 6 feet lower than the floor in the dorm. Fortunately their was grass outside because this actor belly flopped on the grass.
What makes the story so utterly hilarious is that this guy had been to my dorm dozens of times and knew that I kept a huge tarantula as a pet, as did pretty much the entire School of Performing and Visual Arts. So no sooner does he jump hysterically out the window screaming about the real spider on my neck, then the 40 or 50 people in my dorm partying crowd to the windows laughing and asking him why he jumped out the window.
And every time he hysterically answered that it was because I was wearing a real spider everyone laughed even harder because they all knew it was a real spider.
Basem Abdallah Alem, March 26th 2009
Hizb ut-Tahrir member Salah al-Din ‘Adhadhda
Hizb ut-Tahrir member Muhammad Ibrahim
Well, I have news for you, Basem Abdallah Alem and Salah al-Din ‘Adhadhda and Muhammad Ibrahim…we in the civilized capitalist West have a similar doctrine — but, unlike yours, not a genocidal and rapine and plunderous one — vis-a-vis what we (rightly) consider the dark slavery and tyranny of Islam (or Communism or Fascism)…
Ayn Rand, “Collectivized ‘Rights,’” The Virtue of Selfishness, p. 104
And, of course, we retain the right to risk our heads by blaspheming against your Shari’ah and committing sedition against Allah by rejecting the notion that al-Hakimiyyah l’illah (“the right to legislate is Allah’s alone”) — in other words, we contend our self-defense against your barbarian doctrine is paramount…
Brick wrote:
You wanna be credited here, or do you have a private blog in the backroom somewhere? I’ll link.
1389AD wrote:
What’s funnier is I wonder if some of the “Kids” don’t get the joke…
@ Brick:
ROTFLMAO… So in other words the spider was about the size of your thumb nail.
@ Bunk X:
Credit’s not necessary. Take it, make it your own.
This is public stuff. The private stuff goes through an agent.
@ doriangrey:
Opp’s damn it, wrong version of that song…
@ doriangrey:
Pretty good story.
I showed up at a Halloween party as a pack of wolves once. Although I was the only one invited, four of us rented werewolf costumes and invaded several parties that night… blast in through the door, howling and barking, and grabbing girls and beer and leaving within minutes. The girls came with us.
We crashed several other parties that night doing the same routine. Fun times.
doriangrey wrote:
It all happened so fast…I remember thinking, If I can get to my 10mm in the glove-box, I think I’d be able to get off a few rounds before I had to go “hands on.”
Looking back, it must’ve been one of those tarantula family spiders you mentioned upthread. I’m thinking he flicked that fur like you said, into my eyes, which would explain why I couldn’t see out of the windshield. But it must’ve been a special tarantula with some kind of special “forget fur” because like I said, the next thing I remembered was trying to bail out of my car, but was still buckled in. (A common occurrence if anyone conceal carries, I might add.)
Yeah, it all makes sense now. It was a special surprise tactical tarantula equipped with the optional forget fur that got flicked in my eyes!
And, it was definitely bigger than my thumbnail. Dinner plate sized at least! In retrospect, I may have passed out due to oxygen depletion from a long, primal scream of terror.
Dorian, I think you may have provided the missing clues, I’ve been searching for. Thank you!
Brick wrote:
Naw. I’ll credit yer post number if nothing else. I won’t take credit.
@ Bunk X:
Fair enough.
Brick wrote:
Quite possible, except for the whole bungee jumping thing… Tarantulas dont bungee jump, but the do jump, they do a mean lunging flying grab you by the throat and drag you off thing though… Tarantulas can jump about 4 or 5 times their body length.
@ doriangrey:
Jerusalem cricket? I suppose to the Muzz it would be an Al-Aqsa cricket.
doriangrey wrote:
Well, that would explain how he jumped though the open sunroof, over the guardrail and neutralized that unsuspecting deer, in the short time it took for me to shrug off the effects of his forget fur.
But that Mission Impossible fast-drop and freeze thing? I’m beginning to think he may have had help ::cue mystery music:: from the inside.
The Osprey wrote:
Qods.
@ Bunk X:
The Osprey wrote:
No. It would be a kafir cricket, as opposed to a kaffir cricket.
@ doriangrey:
Oh, look…more chaos going on in airport security:
Yeah, that’s going to help things…
lobo91 wrote:
OK, who is in charge of the Federal Department of Incredibly Stupid Decisions? Bozo the Clown? Charles Johnson?
@ doriangrey:I refuse to link to a vid on the Utoobage with a Vevo advert, so here’s this. Greatest cover ever.
http://www.mofito.com/music-videos/j.-geils-band/6807970-i-do.htm
@ doriangrey:
What I like is the fact that the Federal Labor Relations Authority apparently has the power to overturn laws passed by Congress.
The law that established the TSA specifically prohibits them from unionizing.
lobo91 wrote:
What the hell, Obama apparently has everyone in Washington believing that the constitution doesnt really matter so this really isnt any surprise.
@ doriangrey:
I’d really like to know how much they’re spending on those stupid scanners, and who’s getting rich as a result.
They seem to have a lot of people fooled on those. I saw some idiot woman on TV yesterday who was apparently the widow of someone who died on 9/11. I’m not quite sure how that makes her a security expert, but she was talking about how important these things are, and how they would have kept the hijackers from getting their boxcutters onto the planes, so her husband would be alive today.
Never mind the fact that the boxcutters were in carryon bags, not hidden on their bodies, or that they were not on the list of prohibited items on planes at the time…
And of course the reason they’re giving for installing the things, the dumbass underwear bomber, is crap, as well.
These scanners can’t detect powders or plastics. They’re basically expensive X-ray machines.
If they want to detect explosives, they should get more dogs, or those sniffer machines.
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lobo91 wrote:
Prior to 911, my carry-on bag was pulled out for additional screening, a wipe down. My 4-year-old daughter asked what they were doing. I responded, “They think we have bombs.”
The bitch doing the wipedown got in my face. “We don’t joke about that, sir.”
Caught me completely offguard, because I was telling the truth to my daughter.
@ Bunk X:
The truth? You can’t handle the truth!
//
@ lobo91:
A couple of years later, my three-year-old’s backpack was searched. They couldn’t identify a small Etch-A-Sketch. Thank God they caught it in time.
Bunk X wrote:
That was a close one…
lobo91 wrote:
You’re telling me. They almost cut open “Baby Annie” to see if there was something hidden inside the doll.
One way to improve security would be to turn the TSA into an actual law enforcement agency, and staff it with competent, properly trained people who are allowed to use independent judgment.
Of course, we’d actually have to have a bunch of people like that, first. For example, a bunch of returning combat veterans.
Too bad there’s nobody like that in the country…
//
@ doriangrey:
Oh – I am so late to the party, but good choice Dorian.
Well, I’m out.
Talk to you all tomorrow
@ lobo91:
Ditto. I slept 8 to 8 yesterday for unknown reasons. Now I have jet lag. Later.
This is kinda amusing. Just showed up in my inzbox from Snarky Bastard as I was signing out. G’nightyall.
@ doriangrey:
Phishy cover on Halloween!
Founders of The Huffington Post sued for ‘stealing website blueprint’
Heh!
Morning all. For all you lurkers and posters that desire decent photography.
@ PaladinPhil:
Mornin’!
Work told me to be at this hotel at 5 AM. So I got up at 3, got my ass here, and now the guy I was supposed to hook up tells me: “Aw, shit! I forgot to call you! We’re changing locations, and I have no idea where to!”
Luckily I ran into another co-worker leaving, and have taken position in his room, rather than go all the way back across town home. If I did that, no doubt I would receive a call juast as soon as I sat down on my sofa.
No worries. I’m charging mileage AND standby hours thanks to the idiot that forgot to call me. AND I’m staying here rent-free.
So whatup?
I haven’t seen the CN Tower since I did the CN Tower/Skydome tour. Amazing building, the Skydome. I don’t see much of it though.
Does it get much use?
@ Bumr50:
The Sky Dome is now the Rogers Center. It’s still heavily used by the Blue Jays and Toronto Argonauts. As well as a few concerts here and there. I think one of my missions in the coming months/year is to go up the CN Tower and take some pictures. A tripod will be key with that too.
@ PaladinPhil:
Be a nice sunset over the lake, eh?
@ Bumr50:
Possibly. It would all depend on the weather at the time. Hmmmm, time to check the bank account and start planning.
Okay, time to get this carcass to work. see you all in a little while.
Video: LSU Professor Mocks, Berates Students for Conservative Views.
And they say UK schools are bad…
Top o’ da mornin’ all! 42 and raining here; friggin nasty. I think that I shall be forlorn ’til April…..
@ lobo91:
Those are dangerous Reich-wingers that need to be watched lest they (in Obama’s wildest wet dream) blow up a Federal building somewhere. You wouldn’t want to let them near security. Maybe we can see if Lousi Farrahkhan can loan us some of the Fruits of Islam. What could go wrong?
Iron Fist wrote:
These are some pictures of pat downs from Denver. I quit working for the airlines earlier this year and it’s just as well, there’s no way I’d put up with that bullshit.
This is how a police state begins; once citizens are comfortable with this type of personal intrusion, what else will we accept? Warrentless searches? Armored personnel carriers patroling the streets?
@ MacDuff:
Police that don’t bother doing anything to stop crime more like. That’s the thing about a police state, it very rarely actually does any policing. They just wander around extracting bribes and menacing random people just because they can.
@ MacDuff:
Mornin’ Mac! Get some of that Irish peat to toss on the fire.
archonix wrote:
Hmmm, sounds like New Orleans. Really, it does.
archonix wrote:
The man is an idiot. As an Astronomy Proffessor was he unaware of the warming of Mars and Triton at the same time it was being noticed on Earth? How the hell does he explain that?
vagabond trader wrote:
African Moondog wrote:
Eh, George W. Bush?
African Moondog wrote:
All those probes and stuff that we were landing there were upsetting the local “ecosystems”. *snerk*
African Moondog wrote:
Them that can’t do, teach.
Welcome to modern campus life….
vagabond trader wrote:
I often think of what a chuckle we would give our forbears of 200 years ago – we pay good money for water in bottles, have firewood delivered to our homes, buy kindling in convenience stores, buy dirt in bags…..and the Irish are actually exporting peat.
No doubt they are looking down at us thinking “My, what a curious lot these people have become!”
@ MacDuff:
Yeah, I’m wondering “Why now?” We’ve made it over nine years without this. Is it because of Abdullah Mutullah (or whatever his name was: the underwear bomber)? If so, ywouldn’t, you know, actually paying attenting to the warnings of his kinfolk and putting him on the “No Fly” list have been sufficient? How about *gasp* watching for suspicious Mohammedans? Oh, that would be profiling! Evil, evil, get thee behind me Satan!
Far better we sexually mollest all travelers, than we profile Mohammednas. Because, who knows, that elderly nun they don’t grope could be a terrorist…
MacDuff wrote:
You can afford a Congressman? Damn, they need to raise your taxes!
@ PaladinPhil:
That is nothing new. In Britain even at the height of the Second World War there were cases of Cambridge academics refusing to stand when the National Anthem was played. Some of them suffered inexplicable injuries immediately after.
@ Iron Fist:
Starting the morn on a roll,are we?
archonix wrote:
This ignorant bastard is a bad stand up comic, not a professor.
He is delivering his own lunacy. What a waste of time and money for students.
No wonder zero took over school loans. He wants to keep up this indoctrination.
Well here is more on our modern campus life here in Canada. Toronto specifically.
Blog post.
Letter one.
Letter two.
Letter three.
@ Iron Fist:
@ MacDuff:
Very disturbing indeed and they want to unionize? Man the new congress is going to be very busy.
Iron Fist wrote:
This is the exact point where “political correctness” becomes less of an annoying, pollyannish notion, and more of a serious assault an liberty and a dangerous threat to national security. While we’re fodling the genitals of businessmenn, the Mohammedans are looking for an alternate way. “Profiling” is such a painfully obvious solution, and the Mohammedans have removed it from our arsenal by using our own laws as a weapon against us.
In our pusuit of security, we have cast common sense and the most basic of liberties asunder.
It was Franklin who said: “Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.”
@ PaladinPhil:
Used to have a moonbat Jewish friend whose kid is at York. Wonder how they feel about this.Knowing her,head firmly planted in sand.The kid might be a different story,he was leaning toward embracing his Judaism last I knew.
Well, zero and holder must be heaving a sigh of relief. That fcking jihadi got acquitted of all but one charge of blowing up our embassies in Africa.
unfckingbelievavle.
@ vagabond trader:
York University used to be a very good university with a large jewish presence. Now though, the jewish student association Hillel, is under constant attack. Ideological, verbal, and at times physical. It’s a crying shame that it’s happening here and now.
@ Iron Fist:
Old time travellers always preferred going by train and boat. I’m beginning to understand why.
@ PaladinPhil:
The way of most universitys it seems. I certainly hope Jewish alumni have put a lock on their wallets.No doubt there is plenty of Saud and other jihadi supporter funding here.
PaladinPhil wrote:
vagabond trader wrote:
Yet there are still those who will claim that liberalism, socialism and fascism are not kindred philosphies that share a common outcome.
@ vagabond trader:
Better than on dry toast…
@ African Moondog:
Hmmm, just checked on a return train trip to the west coast from Toronto. $1500 total, meals included. That’s a single passenger upper berth discount.
@ Iron Fist:
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