Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity.
Canadian Comedian fined $35,000 for joke
A Canadian comedian must pay $35,000 to a disabled man he made fun of in some of his acts.
A Quebec appeals court upheld the decision by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal. It said Mike Ward exceeded the limits of free speech when he told jokes about a disabled man’s performance singing in front of the Pope.
Making fun of a disabled guy is obviously in poor taste.
But it’s a pretty dangerous precedent to set when the courts start telling us that offensive jokes exceed ‘limits’ of free speech.
Click here to read the full story.
Bank of Japan releases report exploring digital currency
We’re pretty happy to see this one–
The Bank of Japan, Japan’s central bank which issues currency, released a report exploring the legal possibilities of the bank issuing a digital currency.
The report says that although the Bank of Japan has no plans to issue a digital currency, it would be crazy not to explore the possibilities, with information technology advancing at such a rapid rate.
Digital currency would give regular people and businesses access to depositing money with the central bank, which is currently only available to financial institutions.
Tokenizing the money supply would also make it possible to hold money, other than cash, outside of the banking system.
We’re not holding our breath to see this become a reality anytime soon, but it’s great to see a major central bank take at least a small step in this direction.
Click here for the full report.
Cops charge man with theft for removing tracking GPS from truck
Suspecting a man of selling drugs, police got a warrant to secretly place a GPS tracker on the man’s car.
But the suspect found and removed the tracker.
When the GPS stopped signaling his location, police checked the car and realized the tracker was missing. So they got a warrant to search the man’s home for the GPS.
They found it, and charged him with theft. But they never did end up charging him with dealing drugs.
The Indiana Supreme Court just heard the case. Now they’ll decide if it’s theft to remove a GPS from your own car.
Click here for the full story.
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Good GAWD Allah Mah Tea!
Wuz this the Hardscrambled Farmer? Is the Admenstruator gonna have ter start beggin’ for donations to settle this fine with Mr. Trudeau for Hardscrambled or are we gonna have to send the Salvation Army to kick the Canadian military’s ass. Cause, if this pack of blog donors have ter listen to Yohimbe for erectile dystemper and Magpie from Cowpie guilt-tripping the lot of ya’ll for money for a syrup farmer who takes his mule cart out and hauls scraps from the butcher and the baker shop to feed his hogs, it’s probably worth it to just pony up a twenty or so right now to nip that sales pitch in the bud.
As for Hardscrambled Farmer having to go back on the road offending people in comedy clubs, well, I for one am glad he didn’t let that chain saw ruin his sense of humor.
But, seriously, ‘scrambled, a comic would have to be some kind of moran ter make a comment like that in canadian goose territory!
Five out of seven Billah’s Wife fans think this version was adequate enough to read the next, but of those five, only two still like the attempt.
Sigh. I really miss Stucky. Day 48.
It was probably the canadian goose thing. To BW, a goose is probably a goose.
I guess Creepy Old Joe will not be giving any speeches in Canada.
https://youtu.be/UWNvry6o-Ww?t=1
It wasn’t a Court , it was a Human Rights Tribunal and it sounds every bit as Orwellian as it is.. It exists to trample on rights not protect them. Freedom of speech exists as whim in Canada.
Ezra Levant was brought before a Tribunal for publishing Mohamed cartoons.. in 2008.
Janice Fiamengo who ran afoul of regularly zealous Feminists
And of course let’s not forget John Yaniv
who took several woman before that “court” because they refused to wax his ballz…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s_AvuaxMd0
He ended up losing that case but not before putting several women outta business and never deterred he now appears to be launching another
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRPI58Ih-E
Stay tuned folks… moar hilarity to follow.
I apologize if I turned a perfectly good opportunity to discuss an important issue into a minefield by inviting a bit of old style trailer trash banter.
Walking with Geneva yesterday (photo provided!) we chatted a bit. Once you’ve walked a mile down a country road and back with someone dozens of times, chatting is optional.
I told her about the odd paradigm shift I think occurred in our government during the 1990s, set in place as “Agenda” during the 1960s. She said “Well, when They killed Kennedy, they changed the direction of everything.”
Now, why would that nice, pleasant lady behind me think multiple people killed Kennedy when we are told again and again and again that there was a lone gunman with his evil solitary plot?
NONE of us believe them.
The entire citizenry has been put under the spotlight of the Star Chamber, where you are not only not allowed to speak, you are not allowed to know your crime. They will tell you what you did when they decide your punishment.
I do apologize for “attracting” BW to this topic, which is just as important as trying to make the HSF laugh against his will.
It isn’t a ZIT… well, it wasn’t until I poked it.
It’s a gawd awful thing the chief shit stirrer ’round here is going through with his dear missus, but at least he don’t have ter carry her to the outhouse like I do Billah’s mother. Tell Stucky I come by ter tell him if he ever does make it here to Appalachia with me and BL, me and Billah can put him and the missus up in the local bed’n’breakfast, which is really just Billah’s mom’s old camper trailer out back. Billah said he’d rent it fer cheap and we won’t say nothing about yer disgusting habit of pleasuring yerself. Breakfast is grits and whatever meat Billah can drag in when he ain’t drunk.
I don’t really know that dentist dude Yohimbe is asking for prayer about but if’n the Hardscrambled farmer does raise enough cash to pay that fine up in Canada, maybe that Kaiser Roll guy can get some of that free medical care on Nova Scotia’s medical card.
Where’s the beaner?
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdxvx8/two-days-in-appalachia-0000687-v22n7
this you bw?
Yikes. Nice find…
is an actual article about appalachia with images…
From Paula’s link, above… the images, I warn you, are shocking.
Every person in Appalachia has a relationship with God, intentionally or otherwise. You could say the same thing about these pictures taken by Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden.
by Bruce Gilden
Jul 7 2015, 11:00pm
Appalachia is beautiful. The mountains and the forests make it so. But the region’s topography has a strange effect on those who call its habitable valleys, crevices, and crannies home. Most of the towns exist, to some extent, in isolation. Sure, roads and technology connect them to the outside world, but when you’re inside, they can feel like landlocked islands. The result is that God is everywhere. That is to say, you encounter religiosity everywhere, not just because of the population’s devotion but because that devotion has nowhere to go. It’s born into the world, only to bounce off the mountains and echo right back to Main Street. The pot has nowhere to overflow, so every person in Appalachia has a relationship with God, intentionally or otherwise. You could say the same thing about these pictures.
I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to scroll through all the pictures, but those of you thinking about moving to Appalachia need to LOOK at Appalachia.
Just sayin’