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Just because these schools have been dismal failures doesn't mean anything will change, but every student is worth $7,190 so let's see how many can be dragged in.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130816/SCHOOLS/308160115/Detroit-Public-Schools-volunteers-try-recruit-students-from-nearby-neighborhoods?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

I love a good conspiracy theory.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/princess-diana-death-cops-probe-2179191

Talking about that loved on look. This is the headline on CBC.Ca with regards to a movie that`s the CBC is airing tonight.

''Movie: Daydream Nation.
A teenaged girl gets involved in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a classmate, tonight at 9 p.m./9:30 NT on CBC-TV.''

Like--I thought teachers are supposed to go to jail for that! And to think that last week, they (CBC) took my statement off the air for writing, ''Why am I reading this?''

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/1887578728/

NDP MP Charlie Angus Accused of “Slut Shaming” Maygan Sensenberger!

http://www.genuinewitty.com/2013/08/17/ndp-mp-charlie-angus-acused-of-slut-shaming-maygan-sensenberger/

This is what happens when stupid politically correct people make stupid politically correct laws.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/third-gender-option-to-become-available-on-german-birth-certificates-a-916940.html

If you're a male over 40, this may bring back some good memories: Atari 2600 revisited

As we celebrate the advances in the "science" of fertility, we would do well to consider the collateral damage:

http://www.ruthblog.org/2013/08/17/what-are-the-rights-of-donor-conceived-people/

Neo-AGW Progress Report.

H/T Red-Green Watermelons (outside green, inside red).

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"unseasonably cool temperatures have held strong over these regions dating all the way back to July 24th.

Since then, a dip in the jet stream has allowed for cooler, less humid air from Canada to settle into this portion of the United States."

"Temperature Departures From Normal Since July 24, 2013"

"During this trend of cooler temperatures, Minneapolis and Detroit have only had two days with temperatures above normal.

Not only have temperatures averaged below normal, but new record lows have been set in many towns across the Northeast. A majority of these records were set on Aug. 15th where low temperatures dipped into the upper 30s in some spots."

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/northeast-summer-cool-weekend/16734099

Wait, what?

Margaret Atwood: I grew up w/ enviro as dinner conversation since ’48; “we’re on course for what was predicted." http://t.co/E6KKmrMrSJ

— Norman Spector (@nspector4) August 18, 2013

Wait, what?

Margaret Atwood: I grew up w/ enviro as dinner conversation since ’48; “we’re on course for what was predicted." http://t.co/E6KKmrMrSJ

— Norman Spector (@nspector4) August 18, 2013

Not exactly my first choice on places to go for a drive but Couple gets permission to cross North Korea on 40,000 km motorbike ride from New Zealand to Russia.

http://www.nknews.org/2013/08/new-zealand-couple-to-cross-dmz-on-inter-korean-motorbike-tour/

Atari 2600 revisited reminded me of an old National Lampoon Photo Funnies where O'Rourke is playing Space Invaders and he says "I've smoked so much Jamaican today that these things are moving like tree slugs". In the last panel a real alien invader pops up on the screen and says, "we were about to invade and destroy your planet but have now experienced your vastly superior fire power and have decided to surrender".

Haroon Siddiqui comes up with a primer on the postmodern, anti-colonialist and, by sheer coincidence, Marxist view of the post WW2 period - aka the "Westoxification" of the pastoral Third World where corruption, imperialism and war had NEVER happened; before Whitey showed up that is:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/08/18/canada_should_campaign_for_democracy_in_egypt_siddiqui.html

Just remember the Russians has NOTHING to do with this, just the evil British, er I mean US Satan.

I did enjoy the way he got schooled in the Comments.

Billionaire celebrities and trust fund baby philanthropists, environmental activists, NGOs, QUANGOs, green churches, red-green unions, etc. had a chance to make a real difference and possibly save the world. They chose to pass on the opportunity. Too busy jetting around the world and preaching their self-righteous sermons about middle/working class enviro-heathens to the rich and powerful, I suppose.

In 2010, Ecuador launched a UN-backed scheme to attract donations to forego drilling in the east portion of the park with the aim of raising $3.6 billion US, about half the value of reserves in the park's Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini oil field. But in three years the initiative attracted only $13 million in actual donations.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/08/16/business-ecuador-drilling.html

"Just a few years ago, the science was settled in Germany."

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"Yet, a few skeptical, mainly retired scientists looked into the dissent coming from America and found that the AGW hypothesis was indeed full of holes. They formed into the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), and before too long, more than 60 German scientists signed an open letter rejecting man-made global warming. Eventually some small-scale media outlets, journalists, and blogs joined in. They in turn were followed by skeptical major articles appearing in flagship news magazines such as Spiegel and Bild, see here, here, here, and here for example.

In 2012, one of the fathers of the modern German environmental movement, Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, teamed up with geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and released a best selling skeptic book Die kalte Sonne. That book shook up the German climate establishment. The alarmists put on a full-court press, but failed to contain the book’s spread. Now that book is appearing worldwide in English next month.

Recently, Germany’s leading meteorologists have begun taking note and have used their immense skills to analyze the climate data. They too have concluded that the science is far from convincing, see here, here, here, and here. Many simply had accepted the IPCC findings as truth, but for whatever reason they began taking a closer look just to be sure. And when they did, they too quickly realized that much was rotten with AGW science. Today that fact is so obvious that German meteorologists are now openly ridiculing the once highly respected institutes as opportunist prophets of doom who appear to be scamming for public funding. The German skeptic train is now running away."

"German Meteorologists Ridiculing IPCC – PIK Science: “Climate Hysterics Are Back…Coming Out Of Their Caves”"

http://notrickszone.com/2013/08/18/german-meteorologists-ridiculing-ipcc-pik-science-climate-hysterics-are-back-coming-out-of-their-caves/

"Early Snow Expected in Alaska — ‘UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR MASS’"

http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/08/17/early-snow-expected-in-alaska-unseasonably-cold-air-mass/?NewsWatchCanada.ca

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Ontario Liberal Wynne's Wind Generation:

71 MW.

http://www.ieso.ca/

PET Cemetery Report.

For Hire: Cheap.

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"Egypt Seen as Graveyard of Islamist Ambitions for Power"

"As the army ruthlessly crushes the Muslim Brotherhood on the streets of Cairo, having swept away its elected president, Egypt is being painted as the graveyard of the Arab Spring and of Islamist hopes of shaping the region's future.

This week's bloody drama has sent shockwaves out of Egypt, the political weathervane and cultural heart of the Arab world."

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-egypt-seen-as-graveyard-of-islamist-ambitions-for-power/1732151.html

What could go wrong?. Scientists plan on creating an easier to spread bird flu. They've done it before but this time they plan on using the latest strain that can spread human to human already and is more deadly. What a genius idea!