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  4. That’s sonar, not radar.
    [You’re right, of course. Thanks. Fixed now – EBD]

  7. From a review of stage production called “The Heretic”, by Richard Bean (“who admits to being something of a climate change sceptic”) currently playing in Auckland, New Zealand:
    “Dr Diane Cassell, a ‘gas-guzzling planet racist’, is a major research science in the earth sciences department of an English university. Her research – measuring the sea levels on the Maldives, which are purported to be sinking – shows that it is not the case.
    “With her findings at odds with her university and one of the department’s major funders she is warned not to submit her paper on the controversial issue.
    “She does and she is fired by her boss, Prof Kevin Maloney, who is a friend and a lover from many years ago. He may also be the father of her anorexic daughter Phoebe (it is never stated, but one never knows with scientists).
    “Cassell is being hounded by the Sacred Earth Militia and is subjected to death threats, and worse than that has an encounter with someone from the university’s HR department.
    “Phoebe is a passionate eco warrior and intellectual snob as she has never been to university. So she knows more than her mother.
    “She falls for one of her mother’s students, a passionate cyclist advocate who hates his father because he owns a Volvo (which doesn’t even run on LPG)…”
    The rest of the review here.
    h/t

  10. That number is pretty violent EBD, and may even be judged as some kind of hate crime! Of course, so was Frankie and Johnnie and Miss Otis Regrets, but not as violent as That Knoxville Girl, which was by the Louvin Bros. I remember humming it during the late ’60’s I believe it was. Eventually the local station decided not to play it after getting complaints.

  12. It’s part of the American song tradition going all the way back to the British Isles in the 17th and 18th century, albeit most of those old ones weren’t jokey like this one. “Banks of the Ohio”, “Delia’s Gone”, “Remember the Alamo”, “Stagger Lee”, the Carter Family’s “John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man” — the list goes on and on.
    I’m sure there will be a Trayvon song, if there isn’t one already..

  13. Should be more careful what they wish for. In the real world, when the people’s outrage is truly unleashed, communists rarely figure out what hit them till they wake up in Gehenna. Salvador Allende and Nicolae Ceausescu, may they burn for all eternity, are two important examples.
    People’s outrage? Bring it on. I’d jump for joy at the chance to spend next Christmas in Bucharest, and next September 11 in Santiago.

  14. RE: Video–Shoot Him High Paw.
    Funny song, but warped reality. Shoot a revenuer, and you`ll hang from a rope. Most moonshiners are burned out alcoholics. When I was a lad, I worked my DWI fines off by doing community service in a publically funded rehab centre. After I was done working there, I quit boozing for good, that was 30 years ago. The Discovery Channel has greatly warped the glory of being a moonshiner. You want to see burned out individuals, check out a rehab centre and talk to a moonshiner with a damaged liver and brain.

  17. Every household in the UK is to have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it,
    David Cameron has announced.
    In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales – in line with Scotland.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076
    Well,
    At least MSNBC and their tampon earrings will blocked,

  19. Liberal WynneGuilty’s Ontario:
    caw…caw…caw…
    “two Crown Royal product lines – specialty products and U.S. bar products – will be relocated to plants in the U.S. and Quebec.”
    …-
    “CAW confirms product loss, possible layoffs at Diageo”
    http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/07/19/caw-confirms-product-loss-possible-layoffs-at-diageo/?NewsWatchCanada.ca
    …-
    “Crown Royal: Diageo moving jobs out of Ontario to U.S. and Quebec due to higher Ontario electricity costs?”
    (newswatchcanada)

  21. Paging Vivien Krauss
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/07/19/pol-save-half-boreal-forest-from-all-industrial-activity.html
    The IBSCP is an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, an American public policy think tank and charity, and is part of Pew’s International Boreal Conservation Campaign (IBCC). Canada’s Boreal Forest stretches from the Yukon border with Alaska in an arc across northern Canada to Newfoundland. It supports billions of songbirds and millions of ducks and caribou. It also holds the largest surface freshwater reserves in the world.

  22. CBC is reporting that a future King of Canada has just been born. God be thanked!

  23. Thank goodness. The local media reports from London had Kate entering hospital this morning showing the first signs of pregnancy!
    Here’s hoping Great-grandma Liz has the sense to skip a generation when handing over the reins.

  25. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    It’s not a pregnant pause.
    It’s the oceans, stoopid: “the Met Office claims that global warming has been disguised in recent years by the oceans, which have absorbed greater amounts of heat and prevented us from noticing the difference at surface level.”
    …-
    “Global warming ‘on pause’ but set to resume”
    “Global warming has been on “pause” for 15 years but will speed up again and is still a real threat, Met Office scientists have warned. ”
    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02398/drought_2398818b.jpg

  26. BBC agrees: It’s the ocaens, tsoopid.
    “Solar energy is absorbed by the oceans”
    “But the key factor – according to all the speakers at the briefing – is that whatever solar energy is making it through to the surface, much is being absorbed by the hidden depths of the oceans.”
    …-
    “Why has global warming stalled?”
    “With Britain’s heatwave reaching a peak, there could be no better moment to talk about why global warming has slowed to a standstill.
    It reminds me of reporting on a drought a few years ago: while filming interviews with people about the impact, the heavens opened and rainwater was soon flowing down my neck.
    So as journalists were invited to the Science Media Centre in London to hear how the worldwide rise in temperatures has stalled, the mercury shot up as if on cue to record the hottest day of the year so far.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23409404

  28. PET Cemetery Report: Files From the Underground.
    …-
    “University of Toronto professor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and former Ontario Deputy-Minister of Education, charged with 7 counts of child exploitation and out on bail, will cease all education duties, university announces, two weeks after charges followed raid on Benjamin Levin’s house”
    http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/

  29. Leftist Grauniad/”Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent” posts Mann’s fraudulent/debunked hockey stick graph/shortens the “pause” to 5 years from 17 years.
    “Temperature in the northern hemisphere since 1000 CE. Natural variation in the climate cycle does not contradict climate scientists’ predictions. Graph: IPCC report”
    http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2010/2/4/1265280195608/Michael-Manns-graph-of-te-002.jpg
    …-
    “Climate change slowdown is due to warming of deep oceans, say scientists”
    “Climate sceptics have seized on a pause in warming over the past five years, but the long-term trend is still upwards”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jul/22/climate-change-slowdown-warming-oceans

  30. I don’t think we have royal blood in our ancestry, except perhaps my uncle Bill who was a drag queen.

  31. Your uncle Bill was not either, he just liked getting dressed up for Fancy Dress Balls. And usually he was truly “The Bill of the Ball”, and they were the prettiest balls in the town’s memory.

  32. We do have some royal ancestry, but I think most of us might have some roots somewhere, but it doesn’t mean anything. We can only admire royal families still sticking to traditions and rulling

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