Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Huffington Post, Oct. 2010 – Solar Panels On White House: Obama To Install Solar Panels In 2011
Washington Post, Feb. 2011 – Dozens of [Washington, CD] residents who installed solar panels on their homes under a government grant program promoting renewable energy have been told they will not be reimbursed thousands of dollars as promised…
Flashback! – “Renege on solar power angers farmers, investors”
Think Of It As A Double Take-Out
Holland’s Saskatchewan champs from Kronau ended a three-year win streak for Team Canada’s Jennifer Jones with a stunning 8-7 victory in the final of the Canadian women’s curling championship Sunday.
Bumped for video of skip stones, final end.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Chimpanzee meat is for sale in restaurants and market stalls in Britain, it has emerged.
Fox News Reporter Assaulted By Wisconsin Protesters
Well, they keep comparing themselves to Egypt, so I suppose he’s lucky he didn’t get gang raped.
Related; YOU CAN SEE WHY TEA PARTY PROTESTERS WORRY THE COPS MIGHT TAKE SIDES
Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose
February 22nd, 2011 … Palin:
…Gaddafi is a brutal killer and Libya – not to mention the world – would be better off if he were out of power. Now is the time to speak out. Speak out for the long-suffering Libyan people. Speak out for the victims of Gaddafi’s terror. NATO and our allies should look at establishing a no-fly zone so Libyan air forces cannot continue slaughtering the Libyan people. We should not be afraid of freedom, especially when it comes to people suffering under a brutal enemy of America.
February 28th, 2011 … Cameron:
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced he is working on plans for a no-fly zone over Libya.
February 28th, 2011 … Obama:
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
YNoKyoto: Pique Oil
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Financial Times, Feb.25th – Spain reduces motorway speed limit to save oil
Telegraph, Feb.28th – Speed limits on the [British] motorway could be increased to 80mph in a bid to increase productivity,
February 28, 2001: The Nisqually Earthquake
When the recent earthquake in Christchurch, NZ occurred I immediately contacted a friend of mine whose husband is a Kiwi and still has lots of family down there. At the tail end of our conversation she reminded me of the earthquake that occurred 10 years ago on the West Coast of North America.
The Nisqually Earthquake hit at 10:54am on Feb. 28, 2001. In the minutes before I happened to be in my 12th Floor Vancouver apartment, talking on the phone with one of my colleagues, who was over at our office in Victoria. The shock wave hit there first so I had about 10 seconds to prepare before it arrived in Vancouver. That was the LONGEST 10 SECONDS of my life!!!
Here are some more personal stories from that day, here is what it looked like inside of Microsoft in Redmond, WA when the quake hit, and here’s a fairly comprehensive video about the event and its after effects.
If you’ve ever been in the midst of a large scale natural event, please do share your story!
Reader Tips
Recently a Swedish hotelier named Salka Börjeson Eynon was to live for one week in Rosengard, a district in the city of Malmö, and have her experiences filmed for a popular television show. Alas, her stay had to be cut short for safety reasons.
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When the Left Attacks the Left
Leftist Vancouver politician Kerry Jang, and his family, have been the victims of threatening phone calls from “progressive” social-housing activists.
Prostitutes Incensed with Harry Reid
Nevada prostitutes think Harry Reid is a very, very naughty boy. He has suddenly, and unexpectedly decided that prostitution, which has been legal in assorted parts of Nevada since the 1970’s, should now be outlawed. At the time of this writing there is no word whether any Nevada prostitutes aim on personally disciplining Senator Reid.
Good Thing Al Gore Wasn’t Up For Any Award
Though the irony would have been delightful!
P.S. Not directly related but for those interested, here’s an interesting article subtitled “Building an Oscars Broadcast“.
Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose
The United Nations appears to be a little schizophrenic:
November 9, 2010: UN Human Rights Council praises Libya
February 27, 2011: UN Security Council votes to sanction Libya
A bit odd, no? Clearly a “professional”, “competent” organization like the United Nations must have properly vetted Libya in the first place?!?
The New Green: Biodiversity
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference.We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.
New Zealand Earthquake Appeal
Adrian writes;
I’m sort of out of the loop having been in NZ since the beginning of February, however fortunately in the North Island.
I am really impressed that everything I thought about Kiwis is by and large true, thank goodness for them being like Aussies 40years behind Europe.
I have attached this link as I’m sure most people would like to help but have been or are understandably reluctant to donate via the Red Cross or some of the other “dodgy” NGOs
I know I wouldn’t trust any money to them, not sure about the Salvation Army and Saint John Ambulances they are big on the ground here and have donation sites but not being a native I don’t really know how they work in country, except that St Johns IS the ambulance service.
This site was just announced today on the news by the PM for international donations.
Thankfully the awful Helen Clarke is now relegated to the UN and sanity is returning after years of mismanagement by a coilition of liberals and socailists trying to develop utopia and they have a government that is trying to correct the unliveable excesses of the past.
Learn more here: Christchurch Earthquake Appeal
“My husband just got back from Libya…”
YNoKyoto
What a difference an economic apocalypse makes – Fine Gael took 36.1% of the vote, with Labour coming second with 20.5%. Fianna Fáil support is put at just 15.1%, […] while the Greens are on 2.7%……
Ethical Oil
Let the European bastards freeze in the dark;
What’s new is last week, the very week when Gadhafi and his son told the world they’d fight democracy protesters to the last bullet, was the week the European Union chose to criticize Canada’s oilsands because — get this — they say we have 20 more grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule of oil than Libya does.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
The Rule of Obama: the one-person Supreme Court!
Reader Tips
In our Saturday night Tips music Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans – “Demon” Siemens on guitar, Kurt Ciesla on bass and Brady Valgardson on drums – perform the title track from their 2005 album Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer.
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