Don't Think Of It As A "Party"

Think of it as a celebration of the life of Charles Darwin.

Or a damned good argument for bringing back mandatory quarantines.

Or forced sterilization of stupid people.

This Isn't Your Grandma's Humane Society

If you donate to a "humane" organization that engages in activism, you need to stop.

The Humane Society of Canada is asking Canada's broadcasting regulator to phase out the airing of Calgary Stampede events.

The animal-welfare group believes rodeo events during the 10 days of Stampede violate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) code by glamourizing cruelty to animals during programming.

And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

The Humane Society of Canada does not run shelters - these are not the people who take in lost pets. This is hard left animal rights fund-raising media centric activism in the tradition of Greenpeace. (Until 1995, they were directly controlled by the Humane Society of the United States.)

In the meanwhile, the HSoC website is offering a poll (link fixed) that's asking to go horribly wrong. To get a sense of the level of real world public support this organization has, note that the poll has received just 355 votes in the nearly two months it's been up.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are three of the funniest minutes of slap-stick comedy ever preformed: the inimitable Mr. Tim Conway's Dentist Sketch ¤, on the Carol Burnett Show (which we previously visited here ¤ at SDA LNR).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Peggy Joseph - "I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage."

GOP.gov - "The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or "energy stamps", to low-income households for their estimated "loss in their purchasing power" resulting from the Democrats' national energy tax. The bill establishes a national standard of eligibility (covering everyone under 150% of the poverty line). Energy stamps would reach an estimated 65 million individuals (about 20 percent of all US residents) - making it a larger program than welfare, food stamps, or even Medicaid. (H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Sec. 431, p. 1193)"

So, How's That Working For You?

h/t

Do you suppose anyone in Ottawa has bothered to check? And by "anyone", I mean those Keynesian worshiping idiots in every party.

Actually, I'd like to take that part about "Keynesian worshiping idiots" back. Canadian "recovery" spending is more apt to be the product of last week's polling twitch than last century's economic theory.

Besides, "ignorant servile scum!" has a much better ring to it.

Not Waiting For The Asteroid

"For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors."

As California Goes

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

June 29, 2009 - "While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation's economy - California."

July 1, 2009 - "GM to Stop Making Cars in California"

Honduras Defiant

The Chavez wannabe remains persona non grata;

Enrique Ortez, interim foreign minister, said Zelaya would be arrested if he came home and that the interim authorities were sure Zelaya had been removed in a legal process.

"We are not negotiating national sovereignty or the presidency," he told Reuters in an interview. "There is no chance at all" of Zelaya coming back to power.

William A. Jacobson;

Poor and tiny Honduras faces the full wrath of the United States, United Nations, and much of the rest of the world, while nothing is done about Iran. On Iran, Obama and the world acted with the utmost
deference, and there were no efforts by the Obama administration at international action. None.

But Honduras, enforcing its own laws against a renegade wannabe President-for-life, for some reason warrants the full force of the United States government and international community. Honduras gets condemnation from Obama, while Chavez gets hugs and Ahmadinejad gets deference. Wonderful. No, horrible.

"And to think that there are rumors circulating that Obama has a law degree."

And yes, this is embarrassing - Canada's "Made in America" foreign policy finally gets off the ground for real. You'd think the left would be livid.

More at Faustas Blog.

Losing Helen Thomas

Is there nothing that Obama can't do?

Transcript

More - "What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio.

What would happen if a group of all-time gospel greats casually assembled in one room and then broke into song? Tonight we find out, as the late Rev. Donald Vails, on piano, is joined by a who's who of inspirational singers spanning several generations including Jessy Dixon, Walter Hawkins, the Barrett Sisters, Bishop Richard White (aka Mr. Clean), former Chicago Duncanaire Delores Sykes, and surviving members of The Caravans, including Albertina Walker. Fans of the Beatles and Rolling Stones may also recognize the organ player in the red sweater as Billy Preston.

Here then, without further ado, the aforementioned join in an emotionally cathartic performance of Thomas Whitfield's Only A Look.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Happy What The Hell's Happened To Our Dominion? Day

When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant "more pavilions at Folkfest";

As the rest of Canada celebrates the nation’s 142nd birthday today, a Vice President of the Canadian Arab Federation has labelled the country a “genocidal state” and the described its national day as “F**k Canada Day.”

Omar Shaban, who lives in Vancouver, BC made these comments on his Facebook page, declaring, “It’s finally Canada Day ... Couldn't be more ashamed to be Canadian.”

Yesterday, the Facebook status of the CAF vice president welcomed July 1, 2009 with the slogan, “Happy Genocide Day Canada.”

Tarek Fatah has the details.

Via BCF

The First American Prime Minister In Waiting

"the west has always been french, never forget that"

Not to be confused with Quebec...

"Canada has to be out of the asbestos business. We should not export it and we should not produce it".

(Plus a "he was quick to add" bonus link!)

The Sound Of Suppressed Science

Canada's top authority on polar bears is barred from ....

......an international meeting on polar bears, of course!

Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.

Dr Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years. But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 – as is dictated by the computer models of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues – but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific and the effect of winds blowing in from the Bering Sea.

He has also observed, however, how the melting of Arctic ice, supposedly threatening the survival of the bears, has rocketed to the top of the warmists' agenda as their most iconic single cause. The famous photograph of two bears standing forlornly on a melting iceberg was produced thousands of times by Al Gore, the WWF and others as an emblem of how the bears faced extinction – until last year the photographer, Amanda Byrd, revealed that the bears, just off the Alaska coast, were in no danger. Her picture had nothing to do with global warming and was only taken because the wind-sculpted ice they were standing on made such a striking image.

Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week's meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor's, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: "it was the position you've taken on global warming that brought opposition".

Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful".

By the way, the average temperature in the arctic this year is still below zero, "the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping".

But don't expect our Canadian mainstream fact-filterers to notice.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in honour of Canada Day, and the flag our Canadian Forces salute, and for those of us who celebrate it, Dominion Day, and the history of Her Majesty's Canadian Navy, here, for your delectation, is The Maple Leaf Forever ¤ §.

"We call upon all Muslims to confront this hostility with greater hostility"

When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant "more pavilions at Folkfest";

Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to take revenge on France for its opposition to the burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country, the US monitoring service SITE Intelligence reported.

[...]

"We will take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters against France and against its interests by every means at our disposal."

The group also called on Muslims to retaliate for what it called French "hostility" against the community and its attempt to obstruct Islam's practice on its territory.

"For us, the mujahedeen ... we will not remain silent to such provocations and injustices," Abdul Wadud said without elaborating, according to SITE.

"We call upon all Muslims to confront this hostility with greater hostility, and to counter France's efforts to divide male and female believers from their faith with a greater effort ... (by) adherence to the teachings of their Islamic sharia."

I told you so.

Is "He's Too Lazy* To Bother With His Homework" On The List Of Answers?

Can someone explain to me how it is that Obama is willingly giving $900M to Hamastan (i.e., the jihadist-controlled Gaza strip) but would pull back a comparative pittance of aid in order to penalize [the Honduras] for trying to preserve its democracy against a would-be left-wing dictator?

Or too busy golfing. I remember the days when that was a bad thing.

* Flashback: "You would think this is the time he'd really knuckle down and get to work "

Update - Lots more Honduran analysis today at The Corner for those who can't find it in the Dead Freak Media.

Y2Kyoto: Better Living Through Rent Seeking*

Lawrence Solomon;

DuPont made a killing in the battle over CFC regulation. Now it’s poised to do it all over again with carbon dioxide.

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The Sound Of Suppressed Science

What began in the comments section at Watts Up With That, has made its way to the US Senate;

A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming.

The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

"He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it."

The Carlin report is here. (pdf)

It's A Start

If they're beginning to laugh at him, can actual reporting be far behind?

Via

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here, courtesy of a related recommendation from SDA LNR listener batb, are Erroll Garner, Eddie Calhoun, and Kelly Martin performing My Silent Love ¤, in Amsterdam, in 1962 (4:42). Baby, it's good to be alive. By the way, we have a new SDA LNR Public Complaints line available now, so if you're not happy about this thing or that, or if you're just not quite rum tum, 'te puckety, you can now Officially Complain to our Help-Desk manager, Mr. Fry ;-)

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Y2Kyoto: Nobel Winning Economist Slams Climate Traitors

In related news: New York Times still going broke.

Y2Kyoto: Where The Grass Is Greener

The water is bluer, too!

".... look at Toronto Island. Notice how much greener the trees are compared to the grass in 2009 vs. 1984."

Photos, Please

"Not to be outdone, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and Toronto Centre MP Bob Rae walked the parade route alongside a Liberal float, from which a drag queen in a lime green dress swivelled her hips."

Long-Term Budget Outlook

Federal Debt Held by the Public Under CBO's Two Budget Scenarios (As a percentage of GDP)

From the Congressional Budget Office;

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path—meaning that federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the U.S. population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any plausible scenario. Unless tax revenues increase just as rapidly, the rise in spending will produce growing budget deficits and accumulating debt. Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress income growth in the United States."

PDF

WaPo offers the understatement of the decade: "Like his predecessors, Mr. Obama is aware of this issue. Like them, he has promised a plan to deal with it. And like them, he has not come up with anything credible yet. It's time for that to change."

Who Is This "John Galt"?

Is there nothing that Obama can't do?

Tim Hortons to fold U.S. business into Canadian entity

The company has filed a notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it wants to reorganize itself as a "Canadian public company" in order to take advantage of decreasing Canadian corporate tax rates.

The reorganization would regroup the company's U.S. and Canadian business units under a single entity incorporated under Canada's federal company statute, the Canada Business Corporations Act.

Good News

Tim Hudak, the new PC leader in Ontario;

“For too long, individual rights have been trampled and ignored by an increasingly dysfunctional Human Rights bureaucracy. The McGuinty government’s system has advanced nuisance claims and denied justice and legitimate complaints, costing individuals and businesses thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs and clogging the system.”

Stephen Taylor has a line up of Youtube interviews from the convention.

Sotomayer For Supremes

What could possibly go wrong?

The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide, potentially limiting the circumstances in which employers can be held liable for decisions when there is no evidence of intentional discrimination against minorities.

More here.

California: Not Broke Enough!

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

Business Week, June 26th - California regulators expanded a state car-scrapping program Friday to provide incentives of as much as $4,000 to motorists who surrender high-polluting vehicles and replace them with cleaner cars..

Associated Press, June 26th - State Controller John Chiang said he will have to start issuing IOUs as soon as Thursday without a budget revision because California will lack enough incoming tax revenue to meet all its payment obligations..

h/t Mike, in the comments.

Coal Eating Bugs

Times Online;

Craig Venter, the controversial American scientist who helped decode the human genome, has announced the discovery of ancient bacteria that can turn coal into methane, suggesting they may help to solve the world’s energy crisis.

The bugs, discovered a mile underground by one of Venter’s microbial prospecting teams, are said to have unique enzymes that can break down coal. Venter said he was already working with BP on how to exploit the find.

Venter even suggested the discovery could open up the world’s coalfields to an entirely new form of mining, where coal is infected with the bacteria, allowing methane to be harvested “without even digging up the coal”.

Venter, speaking at the recent La Jolla research and innovation summit, in La Jolla, California, told an audience of researchers and technology investors how he had harvested 20m new genes by analysing the DNA of micro-organisms collected underwater or deep underground.

He said: “We have found a huge number of microbes a mile or so deep in the earth. In fact, there is more diversity under the surface of the earth than in the ocean. It is absolutely stunning.

h/t Ed S.