Reader Tips
“The big plant manufactured, among other things, glue and estrogen.”
George Jonas: Horses can do (almost) anything.
Martin Luther King BLVD
It’s code for “not this exit”.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
“We can see how the dream of the Islamic Caliphate is being realized, Allah willing, by Dr. Muhammad Mursi and his brothers, his supporters, and his political party. We can see how the great dream, shared by us all – that of the United States of the Arabs… The United States of the Arabs will be restored, Allah willing. The United States of the Arabs will be restored by this man and his supporters.
The capital of the Caliphate – the capital of the United States of the Arabs – will be Jerusalem, Allah willing…”
The Sound Of Settled Science
One in six cancers – two million a year globally – are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest.
The Lancet Oncology review, which looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries, found four main infections are responsible. These four – human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses – account for 1.9m cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers.
Most cases are in the developing world.
The team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France says more efforts are needed to tackle these avoidable cases and recognise cancer as a communicable disease.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Still, there remain glimmers of hope;
Tuesday’s recall election was a giant repudiation of Big Labor. It was a huge smackdown of the union bosses by a Wisconsin that is 86.5% non-union and tired of all the whining. Gov. Scott Walker was the real winner last night.
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Here is the shocker: With no reason for Republicans to vote, Gov. Scott Walker darn near got more votes than the four Democrats combined – 626,538 to 665,436. And how many of his supporters went for Falk in a mischief vote is an open question. What’s more, the Democrats managed to attract only two-thirds as many votes as the 900,000 who signed the recall petitions. Why did almost 300,000 people stay home?
Two If By Tea
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
The Week, February 2012 – The Tea Party’s waning influence: 4 theories
NYT, May 2012 – The results of the primary end the career of one of the longest-serving members of the Senate and provide a new trophy for the Tea Party movement. Mr. Lugar, 80, leaves after three decades as one of the chamber’s leading foreign policy experts and with a reputation as a voice of moderation in his party.
Blog Notes
I was under the weather last night, so we’re off to a slow start this morning. Blogging should be back to normal in a few hours. (And no, it was not self-inflicted.)
Reader Tips
Please remove all loose clothing and jewelry, including ties, scarves, and neck chains, as you lean over to take a closer look at The Machine That Eats Everything.
h/t
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How Soon We Forget
Actually we don’t even know now. Publius:
…Our historical amnesia is not the product of an administrative accident. Mistakes like these are never accidental. If people don’t remember what Canada was like before, say, 1963 it becomes much easier to redefine Canadian identity…
…little Johnny Canuck leaves school wondering why people make such a fuss over John A. Didn’t he just stagger around drunk and hang Louis Riel? Once upon a time grandma and grandpa might have corrected Johnny by mumbling something about a railroad and nation building. Unfortunately this “killing” of Canadian history has been going on so long most people don’t remember the other bits…
Deep Impact
More Pavilions At Folkfest
In the footprints of the prophet. (PBUH)
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
Keep flappin’ those gums, Mulcair;
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said on Monday comments made by federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair about the country’s resources sectors are “very, very divisive.” […]
Wall also weighed in via social media, posting on Twitter on Monday morning, “If @ThomasMulcair thinks a strong resource sector is a “disease”, what is his “cure”? Higher resource taxes? NDP needs to explain” and that, “Resources have been the cure not the problem, NDP.” The remarks were in response to comments made by Mulcair on Saturday when he said that, because of the way it raises the value of the Canadian dollar, other parts of the country are paying a price for the prosperity enjoyed by natural resource sectors.
Mulcair pointed to the oilsands in Alberta as a case in point. “It’s by definition the ‘Dutch disease,’ ” Mulcair said Saturday on the CBC Radio show, The House, referring to what happened to the Netherlands economy in the 1960s after vast deposits of natural gas were discovered in the nearby North Sea.
13 Saskatchewan MP’s send their regards!
Update:
You can send Nathan Cullen your regards here.
It’s A Headscratcher
Watch as John Robson and Brian Lilley perplex as to why the “fashion industry” prefers women with the bodies of teenage boys.
“the most deliberate person I ever met in terms of constructing his own identity”
Like I said – sit a normal, American 6 year old down at a plate and tell him it’s dog meat. Watch what happens.
VE Day
Reader Tips
Music and politics generally make for a poor mix, but blogger Lexington Green of Chicago Boyz may have found the perfect theme music for Obama’s campaign kickoff rallies, which the New York Times’ Mark Landler recently described as “having the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star”: here are The Evaporators and their impossibly handsome lead singer Nardwuar the Human Serviette performing Half-Empty Halls.
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The Bin Laden Raid
Newly declassified photos here. (h/t Joe)