Bourbon & Bullets

In less than two days America will finally decide who, after a long and bitter election battle, the next president of the United States is. Going into the final weekend however it's anyone's guess what the final result will be. Although, admittedly Clinton does have the edge (the aggregate of polls consistently gives her at least a two point edge). That's not an insurmountable lead, although every presidential nominee since LBG in 1964, who was leading in the polls (no matter how slim the margin) in the last week, won the presidency. I'm not trying to depress you, that's just the cold hard facts. Still, in a close race the 2000 presidential election is instructional. George W. was a three point favourite on the eve of the election (despite the November surprise that he had a DUI conviction from 1976, and ya, I'm really sure the press only just uncovered that tidbit on Nov 2.) The election, as you may remember, ended with Gore up +1 on the popular vote but Geor...

ISIS capo di tutti capi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has given Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign two thumbs up. Rumour has it that Baghdadi recently told members and followers of ISIS that while Clinton refuses to recognize their movement as Islamist that's still no reason not to support the former Secretary of State's  presidential ambitions. "Look guys she may deny our religion, and yes normally that would require a beheading, but let's face it, she's been good to us in the past, and there's no reason to think that won't continue when she's president," was apparently the message to followers of the radical terrorist group. "I mean Trump is definitely not good for our cause, even if he does recognize we're Islamic, but that's a small consolation when he's leading the charge to wipe us off the map, I mean, am I right?" Baghdadi admitted Clinton is also close to the Iranians and supports their takeover of Mosul and sou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wVagQ_LVd4 There was a very funny (and very politically incorrect) line in the Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. movie Tropical Thunder, when Downey's character (who had turned himself black to get a role) advises Stiller, "Never go full retard." I bring it up because recently Time Magazine published an oped blaming Hillary's FBI investigation on, that's right, sexism. This would be a good example of going full SJW (which is remarkably similar to going full retard, in case you missed the connection). Most left wing publications like the NY Times, USA Today, etc. Try to avoid full on SJW (Social Justice Warrior) ranting, and couch their left/liberal bias in more subtle opinion pieces and skewed reporting. But Time maintains Hillary's woes are entirely due to her sex, because the media wouldn't be bothered with a presidential candidate being investigated by the FBI (twice) if she was male. Uh, gee Time, have you ever ...

Here we are a little over a week out from election day, the end to one of the most contentious U.S presidential elections ever, and the polls tell us that... well we're not entirely sure what the polls tell us? If we believe Nate Silver of 538 fame, it's been over since Sept, the Donald has at best, a 1/5 chance at winning the presidency. And we were to believe the NY Times the election was over in August, no reason for Trump to even bother campaigning. A week ago an ABC poll gave Clinton a 12 point lead nationally over Trump, a good six points above the next highest poll estimating Hillary's lead. Today (Oct 31) that poll is down to Clinton +1, a pretty major swing, and not all of it was due to the new FBI investigation  of Hillary's emails, Trump was showing momentum in all polls even previous to that. All except one. The IDP poll has consistently, for weeks, only shown at most a three point spread between Clinton and Trump, the same day of the ABC poll showing +12...

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The biggest question from the predictable liberal media yesterday (Oct 28) was not what had Hillary done now, but why would Comey reopen the investigation now? Before it was confirmed the new emails of interest came from an unrelated investigation into the sexual antics of Anthony 'Can't Keep it in his Pants' Weiner, most observers felt the renewed investigation was the result of an internal revolt at the FBI. Dozens and dozens of agents spent over a year investigating Hillary's private (and illegal) email server, confirmed that she was in violation of U.S. national security laws, the same laws that saw (as just one example) General Petraeus convicted of offences regarding the leaking of classified information to a girlfriend. Obviously it was without the intent to commit treason, but the law is the law... unless you are Hillary Clinton. With that in mind (the General Petraeus part) one can imagine the outrage from aforementioned dozens and dozens of FBI agents, when...

Canada is not seen by the wider world as a corrupt place to do business. It is in fact probably one of the most corrupt of the western industrialized democracies, and all the more so because no one doing business with Canadian companies or government expect it. Sweetheart deals for local companies at the local government level is perhaps par for the course wherever you are in the world, at any rate it is certainly the norm, from what I've seen, in Canada. I have also witnessed the illegal collusion of business and government at the provincial level (state level for U.S readers) and therefore see no reason to believe this magically stops at the federal level. In fact it is all too clear such corruption is rampant in Ottawa. The National Shipbuilding Strategy is a prime example. Shipbuilding companies the world over scratch their heads at Canada's approach to procuring new naval vessels, the head of French shipbuilding giant DCNS going so far to say publicly that Canada ...