Relax, Mark. We have absolutely no interest in your poutine, (or Quebecker putains); Better you should worry about Alberta defecting to the US

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For that matter, we don’t want your Vancouverans either.

Canada PM Mark Carney confirms he’s prepped for US invasion: ‘Would be irresponsible not to’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed in an interview this week that his government had prepared for the possibility of the US launching an invasion of Canada amid ongoing trade tensions.

“I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk,” Carney told the New York Times in an interview Wednesday while in town for the United Nations General Assembly. “That’s just risk management. That’s not a base case, but it would be irresponsible not to.”

Admit it: you see this NYPost report's headline and you just know – you KNOW — it involves an Episcopal priest(ess) (Update)

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Well, okay, could have been a Unitarian one, I suppose, but my instinct always goes to the Episcomplainings first.

NYC priest claims Jesus is trans and God is nonbinary in outlandish sermon

“When God, who – as we have established is nonbinary – was born in human form as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said, ‘Oh look, a baby boy.'”

Klink, who has a spouse and daughter, paused for a second before claiming, “God isn’t a boy, we have established this. God is beyond boy and girl.

“God was assigned a gender at birth, and later on it became clear that that gender wasn’t right.

“So if you’re gonna deny that God is trans, I think you’re going to be denying the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and I have some notes about that,” Klink said.

Update: Mr. (Colonel?) Klink properly uses the honorific “Father” Flourish, but insists that he’s really a girl, and is married to another man. Of course he does, and is.

UPDATE II: Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley (might have) asked Patorette Flourish, “Tell Me What Kind of Man Jesus is?”

“The first rule of child fight club is not to tattletale about child fight club.”

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Texas Montessori (!) Daycare Accused of Running a Fight Club and the Internet Immediately Broke Rule No. 1

A Fort Worth family is suing a daycare for $1 million after alleging that a substitute teacher encouraged 4-year-old children to fight and physically assaulted their son during the incident.

ssori (!)And because the Internet remains undefeated, the phrase 'daycare fight club' has now escaped containment.

For those wondering, Heather and Richard Harris filed suit on September 4 against Arka Risinger Educators LLC, which operates Arka Montessori Academy of Risinger in Fort Worth, TX. The suit alleges a substitute teacher encouraged 4-year-olds to fight during an April 27 incident captured on video. Attorney Russell Button described the alleged setup as a 'child fight club.'

The Twitchy post has some great memes (including the one I stole this headline from, plus the picture) and it’s worth going over there to enjoy them, but the question I have — one of them, anyway — is who was the person in the classroom who stood idly by videotaping it? Surely not one of the 4-year-olds, so …?

I’ve posted that question on Twitchy, and I’ll update this post if I get an answer.

(Afterthought: it occurs to me that maybe there was a fixed camera in the classroom, and that’s what captured the fight; we’ll see if that’s the case.)

This shouldn't be a hard question, even for a Democrat Senate Candidate. And it isn't: his answer is no. (Updated)

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Do you condemn the IRGC?

It’s a straightforward question. It’s not a difficult question. It’s not a question that calls for fancy footwork. And yet Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul “the tool” El-Sayed won’t answer it.

UPDATE: Red State’s Nick Arama provides additional information on this:

Student Who Put El-Sayed on the Spot at Town Hall on IRGC Hits Him Even More in Interview

The student, Iman Dashti, has family in Iran, and he told El-Sayed about some of the horrors they had been through. Dashti asked a couple of simple questions. First, he asked about El-Sayed's statement on holding back on any criticism of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because it might make people in Dearborn sad. Then, secondly, Dashti asked if El-Sayed would condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

El-Sayed didn't do either. Now, Dashti has done an interview with Fox's The Will Cain Show, explaining what he thought of El-Sayed's answer. [He begins speaking at about the one-minute mark.]

What I thought was fascinating was that Dashti admitted that, "in the moment," he thought that El-Sayed had responded well. That's a sign of how slick El-Sayed is, how he can deceive people because of that smoothness. That's a dangerous talent, and when you're a young student, you may not see such slickness. 

But then Dashti realized El-Sayed hadn't actually answered the questions; that it was a "terrible answer." Dashti pointed out to host Will Cain how El-Sayed never condemned the IRGC, didn't answer about Khamenei, and never said he stood with the Persian people, "the one thing I asked him to say." 

"It's unbelievable. You know, you can be charismatic. You can say the right things. You can weave and duck. But he didn't answer the question. And I think it's a huge mask-off moment for Abdul," Iman said. 

As Cain noted, El-Sayed said he stood up for democracy-seeking people around the world, and yet he wouldn't address the specific issue Dashti asked him to: condemning the IRGC. 

Dashti nuked him, "I could not have given him an easier layup. I mean, it's so simple. Just say it. Just say you're against the world's largest sponsor of terror. Just say you're against the government that has killed hundreds of thousands of Persians. And Americans. But he didn't." 

Dashti said he thought it was because a lot of El-Sayed's supporters were supportive of these institutions and the Iranian regime, and "he doesn't want to alienate them." 

Cain said that Dashti was perhaps kind in his analysis, that maybe the other possibility was that El-Sayed doesn't denounce the IRGC. 

In any event, Dashti asked a more revealing question than anything asked by virtually all the media, and El-Sayed's answer should be totally disqualifying for a person who wants to be a United States senator. 

Hmmm. Where have I heard this before?

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Her core promise is to transfer roughly 220,000 apartments owned by private landlords into public ownership and impose rent controls

She also plans to expand local voting rights for non-citizen residents

Her parents were left-wing activists from Turkey

She also plans to

- Force private landlords to offer up to 50% of newly rented units at “affordable” prices

- Talk of putting listing platforms into public hands

- Higher taxes on villas and luxury property 

She wants to reshape the police

- Dissolve the state domestic intelligence service and replacing it with a “documentation office for human rights and democracy.”

- Cut police spending and focusing more on social policy than on enforcement

The Chancellor of Germany has a warning for his country’s Jews:

(There’s a full discussion at HotAir)

I think this is a very nice house; unfortunately, its owner's fear that it will be torn down and replaced by a mega-mansion will probably prove true

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90 Taconic Road, $3.1 million. Built in 1960 by noted architect and Greenwich resident Edwin Paul, it seems bright, airy, and in impeccable condition, but almost all the homes designed by Paul and built in Greenwich have already been torn down, and this one will probably follow those houses into the dustbin of history. Sad.

In a coordinated PR campaign, Greenwich Time published a piece on the house today, and if you can get past the paper’s cashwall (just disable JAVA in your browser’s settings) it provides a good look at the house and its history.

New Listing in Milbrook

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248 Overlook Drive, $7.495 million. It sold new in 2020 for $4.060 million after starting off in 2018 at $5.495 million. Nicely built, top quality, but hampered a bit by the lot having been carved out from the overhanging ledge in back. And now a rather large, 240 new unit expansion project, estimated cost $130 million, is coming to the senior housing complex Quarry Knoll, just atop of the hill. That’ll be a cacophonous scene for a few years, but after construction ends and the old folks return and settle back in, the loudest noise you’ll probably hear will be the clatter of their Strollerator wheels bumping along the sidewalks.