As a more pleasant visual offering than in yesterday's Reader Tips, here's a great video from Dan Bălan, a Moldovan-Romanian musician. h/t Oz
Wishing each & every one of of you a great start to the last week in June and the mid-point of 2011. Your Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.











лёгкий
Remember Nathan Kotylak, the 17-year old water polo rioter, and his public apology?
Here's a must-see parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSsh_PjUnKI
Brilliant.
Is that Scandi? It looks Scandi.
I don't know ANYONE who gets up in the morning and looks that good ;-)
@mamba: it's in cyrillic and is pronounced roughly 'leeyogkee' meaning 'light' or 'easy' .. if that's what you were asking about. No, not Scandi unfortunately...damn dirty Scandies.
Black Mamba, it is from our past overlords: Russkie!
For our future overlords, we will need to spell it: كول
Wildrose Party members vote to abolish Alberta Human Rights Tribunal.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/06/26/cgy-wildrose-meeting.html
Happy 3 weeks!
Tax Freedom Day in Canada 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ZRhPosqI0
Don't trust anyone that is a Scandi (or has Scandi relatives), hates bacon, and loves cats.
I'm building a model (1/5 scale) of the Eiffel Tower using only bacon. Please make a generous donation of bacon or cash (cash preferred).
I need extra thick strips for the base. Do it for the children.
A ton and a half of bacon at 1/5 scale.
How much would a slab of that man-pig Gore be worth?
Errr, silly me, it would only slide away. Probably cause another tsunami, to add to the mayhem!
Oh, the humanity!
I don't hate bacon, I exercise restraint regarding my passionate desire for bacon, because pigs are cute, like cats. As for the Swede, he's only an in-law, thank Jeebuz. And since when do Russkies do umlauts and little dippy lines? I say it's Finnish, and I say they're Scandis (whom I love).
I'd better include a link to something. Tom Friedman is not only a massively hypocritical China-loving enviro-whore, he's also apparently very anti-Israeli. I'm as shocked as you are. Here is a pretty funny Israeli comedy show where he sings a love-song (I like anything that flogs a horse this mercilessly. I mean, not a real horsie, obviously.)
Link.
Oops! That should be 8 tons of bacon. Anyone that doesn't bite into that can get the full grope in the airport security line.
max beat me to it.
большевистский rule was anything but лёгкий!
World joy bringers had it backwards.
Go Wild Rose! Sic em!
Hired trolls?
http://1389blog.com/2011/05/25/obamas-new-minister-of-propaganda/
WalterF: "That should be 8 tons of bacon."
Wow. That means the average person eats slightly more than a 1/5 scale model of the Eiffel Tower worth of bacon by the time they retire.
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/3700/3758/eiffel-tower_1_lg.gif
Speaking of Scandis, why doesn't EBD love us anymore?
I do appreciate you, Robert. In fact I'm worried about you. First Vίtruvius, then EBD... gonded. *sniff*
infinitysquared, I don't approve, but I found a website for you. (Did you know that pigs are highly intelligent and make great pets? It is a fact that the average adult pig scores higher in IQ tests than a member of the Toronto Star's editorial staff. That's science.)
http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/21-things-made-out-tasty-bacon
Excellent Cartoon by Chris Muir on project Gun Walker. :O)
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2011/06/26/#006148
EBD has other commitments for a few weeks, and will be back. :)
The terrorists have won
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A Florida woman is crying foul after she says her 95-year-old mother, who is in a wheelchair and suffers from cancer, was subjected to a pat-down and made to remove her adult diaper when going through security at a Florida airport.
[...]
On Sunday, the TSA released a statement standing by its officers.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/06/27/18339261.html
There may be a few people that didn't know that John Baird was gay because he never flaunted it to appear "special".
The NationalNewsWatch is running a headline story about him,questioning if he is a security risk.
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
More cuts to the left-liberal arts.
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"Ottawa cancels funding for Toronto theatre festival that presented terrorist play"
"George Soros: ‘We are on the verge of an economic collapse’"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
O's art's artless.
"It’s no fun any more beating up on President Obama."
Even O's seat was sold by Blagojevich (sic) as MSM denies that.
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"It’s no fun any more beating up on President Obama. All the guy can do now is make some speeches.
That’s because the key blunders have already been made. The momentum is there and all we’re waiting for it the impact."
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/06/27/long-hot-summer/#more-15427
"Blagojevich convicted of trying to sell Obama's Senate seat"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
I hope someone like KATE sees this.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1027440058001
it is titled 'This union is corrupt'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/nuclearpower/8601594/France-to-invest-one-billion-euros-in-nuclear-power.html
France to invest one billion Euros in nuclear power.
I guess they don't have much faith in windmills.
MSM/AGW has gutted the word farm and defamed farmers.
The "windfarms" are swamps/bogs/fens/quagmires/mires of quicksand into which the Red-Green warmistas are sinking.
"Bad news: Energy Department warned lights could go out when wind dies down"
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"Energy giants want billions for back-up to windfarms"
"Britain's richest energy companies want homeowners to subsidise billions of pounds worth of gas-powered stations that will stand idle for most of the time.
Talks have taken place between the Government, Centrica, owner of British Gas, and other energy companies on incentives to build the power stations needed as back-ups for the wind farms now being built around the country.
It is understood 17 gas-fired plants worth about £10 billion will be needed by 2020."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-2008055/Energy-giants-want-billions-windfarms.html
A joint PR release by The Friends of MaryJane, Bigg Coke, and HeroOne. Cancer Industry declined to joint in citing possible adverse publicity by MSM.
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"Chronically ill baby boomers clogging doctors' offices: study
Globe and Mail - 6 minutes ago
A survey of 12000 doctors shows they are having a hard time dealing with aging baby boomers and their increasing caseload of chronic illness."
http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0
China eyes Canada oil, US's energy nest egg
CALGARY, Alberta – In the northern reaches of Alberta lies a vast reserve of oil that the U.S. views as a pillar of its future energy needs.
China, with a growing appetite for oil that may one day surpass that of the U.S., is ready to spend the dollars for a big piece of it.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110626/ap_on_bi_ge/cn_canada_oil_rush
And, now for something completely different:
Lift the City: Eucharistic flash mob
http://godzdogz.op.org/2011/06/eucharistic-flash-mob.html
Theodore Dalrymple
Clientelism on the Defensive: In France and England, high-profile stories suggest weariness with state-run education systems.
27 June 2011
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0627td.html
Charles Adler is an idiot: we decided to give him another try tonight. He did a hatchet job on Michele Bachmann. Yes, she made a mistake re John Wayne and his birthplace. Adler made a federal case of this. Any balance, re Obama’s gargantuan and frequent gaffes? Nope.
Yes, Mrs. Bachmann should be sure not to make even the most picayune mistake. But that Charles Adler would attack her the way Jon Stewart would . . . what’s up with Adler? We switched to Fox right away—that’s IT for Mr. Adler as far as we’re concerned. Brit Hume just happened to be giving his opinion on this matter: while rightly opining that she should fact check very carefully, he gave Michele Bachmann the credit she’s due.
Charles Adler is a shallow, tabloid journalist (who does smarmy ads on his own show: how unprofessional). What’s this self-important hack doing on SNN?
"Walt
Blagojevich was convicted of fraud for attempting to sell Obama’s Senate seat because there was nothing in the seat.
Behold the seat! the Blago cried
So hardly ever used
The Senator in question voted
Present or Excused
The Senate seat for Illinois
Is mine, and it’s for sale
And don’t you fret your little head
I’ll never go to jail
And ‘cause that nerdy guy Hussein
Was never there to vote
The bidding starts and closes at
A clean, crisp five pound note"
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/06/27/the-end-of-blagojevich/2/
"The End of Blagojevich"