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NY Mag: "Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously"

Illustrating Venezuela's surreal prices.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is accused by the Daily Mirror of driving in Argentina with a "Falklands War" license plate: H982 FKL.

Huh?

Andy Wilman, Top Gear's executive producer, said: "Top Gear production purchased three cars for a forthcoming programme; to suggest that this car was either chosen for its number plate, or that alternative number plates were substituted for the original is completely untrue."

Clarkson, for his part, delivered a characteristically cautious and measured response to the Daily Mirror.

Hamas puts the FUN in funeral!

h/t

If you want to cleanse your ears from that pro-Olivia Chow dreck, here's some Ella Fitzgerald:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJrTX88Sto

Feds stop funding for Saskatchewan Metis.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/federal-government-to-stop-funding-payments-to-sask-metis-1.2786105

I keep wondering what that much money could have bought in the real world. 1.4 billion spent on absolutely nothing seems like a terrible waste.

http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/SaskPower+unveils+landmark+billion+carbon+capture+project/10256108/story.html

Talk about paranoid weenies. This must be a first and is on par with airport screeners.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/concerned-chinese-officials-search-10000-4364349

The National Post does not like Justin.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/02/matthew-fisher-still-unswayed-about-need-to-fight-isis-justin-trudeau-here-is-why-its-a-no-brainer/

Maine’s autumn wild turkey season is underway.

The fall turkey season begins Thursday and runs until Halloween. Hunting is legal with a bow and arrow or shotgun and possession of valid permits.

Only people 70 years of age or older are allowed to hunt with a crossbow.

I don't need to listen to anything about OC for the same reason I don't need to taste dog s h i t to know not to step in it.

Has anyone else noticed that Ebola has hit the low info crowd? I've seen a couple of low info posts on facebook and talk at work.

SaskPower unveils landmark $1.4 billion carbon-capture project
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/SaskPower+unveils+landmark+billion+carbon+capture+project/10256108/story.html

For that much money they could have planted a lot of trees which would have absorbed more carbon and ultimately make it into lumber, with all sorts of economic spin-offs along the way.

Greenwashed idiocy knows no bounds.

SDA needs to update the url at its link to BCF.

Obama's former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta threw his old boss under the bus in Time Magazine, of all places. He confirmed what others have said, that Obama and his people wanted out of Iraq no matter the cost and didn't even try to get an agreement to leave some forces there. The present bloodbath is all on Obama:

--My fear, as I voiced to the President and others, was that if the country split apart or slid back into the violence that we’d seen in the years immediately following the U.S. invasion, it could become a new haven for terrorists to plot attacks against the U.S. Iraq’s stability was not only in Iraq’s interest but also in ours. I privately and publicly advocated for a residual force that could provide training and security for Iraq’s military.

Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy did her best to press that position, which reflected not just my views but also those of the military commanders in the region and the Joint Chiefs. But the President’s team at the White House pushed back, and the differences occasionally became heated. Flournoy argued our case, and those on our side viewed the White House as so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.--

http://time.com/3453840/leon-panetta-iraqi-troop/

4 deaths linked to non-Ebola respiratory virus that has spread to 40 states

An outbreak of the rare, usually non-lethal enterovirus 68 (EV-D68) has spread to at least 40 states since first appearing at a children's hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The CDC has confirmed 472 infections, but the true number is almost certainly in the thousands. Of those cases, four people died, including a 10-year-old girl in Rhode Island who also reportedly had an infection of the bacteria staphylococcus aureus sepsis.

http://theweek.com/article/index/269146/speedreads-4-deaths-linked-to-non-ebola-respiratory-virus-that-has-spread-to-40-states

EV-D68 4
Ebola 0

“The idea that Ebola will take over the United States is an unfounded fear,” said Dr. Liise-Anne Pirofski, chief of infectious diseases at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Because the incubation period is relatively brief— only 2 to 21 days —Ebola isn’t likely to spread undetected and suddenly emerge in vast numbers, added Dr. Robert Schooley, chief of infectious diseases at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

There are a number of existing organisms that pose an ongoing threat— and that you’re much more likely to catch than Ebola.

Influenza

The flu doesn’t have an exotic, tropical-sounding name— and we are able to vaccine against it with some degree of efficacy. Yet it is still a major killer in the United States. “More people will die this winter from the flu than Ebola,” said Schooley.

MRSA

There are an estimated 75,309 cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infection in the United States, according to CDC tracking data. Compare that to one currently confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S. What exactly is MRSA? Simply put, it’s a strain of staph bacteria that doesn’t respond to the antibiotics traditionally used to treat the infection.

Resistant Gonorrhea

An estimated 820,000 new cases of gonorrhea crop up in the U.S. each year — and now, we’re grappling with a form of the bacteria that doesn’t respond to the treatments we’ve long relied on. ... According to a 2013 CDC report, there are an estimated 246,000 cases of resistant gonorrhea in the U.S. each year.

And alarmingly, many people, particularly women, who are infected don’t show any symptoms (or have only very mild ones), giving resistant gonorrhea the potential to easily spread.

https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/three-infections-you-should-worry-about-more-than-ebola-151915193.html

Wind turbines kill a rather staggering 600,000 to 900,000 bats every year, according to a new study. Dead bats have been found at almost every wind energy facility where someone has looked for them, and researchers have tried to use these numbers to estimate how many bats die every year. Mark Hayes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Denver, analyzed published findings and places the number at more than 600,000. This number is probably conservative, he says in a new paper published in the December issue of the journal BioScience.
http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/wind-turbines-kill-more-600000-bats-year-what-should-we-do

AGW Kills.

There are now people in Canada of voting age who have never seen AGW.

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"It’s official: no global warming for 18 years 1 month"

"The RSS monthly satellite global temperature anomaly for September 2014 is in, and the Great Pause is now two months longer than it was last month. Would this year’s el Niño bite soon enough to stop the psychologically-significant 18-year threshold from being crossed? The official answer is No."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/02/its-official-no-global-warming-for-18-years-1-month/

AGW Kills: Da proof*.

"*A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."

Shawinigan Choker Librano$ Jean Chretien

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"Powerful fall storm to blast Ontario with heavy rain and major snow for the north; Winter storm watch in effect"

"The first significant “classic Fall storm” is headed towards Ontario -- bringing snow to the north and heavy rain to the south.

A winter storm watch was issued for parts of northern Ontario Friday morning, where a large low pressure system will spread heavy rain into the region beginning Friday morning, before transitioning to snow."

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/powerful-fall-storm-to-blast-ontario-with-heavy-rain-and-major-snow-for-the-north-winter-storm-watch-in-effect/37140/

O screener FAIL:

"The Secret Service did its job by screening everyone who attended the dinner, including the man,".

"Bogus Congressman Said to Get Backstage at Obama Event"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-03/bogus-congressman-said-to-get-backstage-at-obama-event.html

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Ebola screener FAIL:

"CDC SPOKESMAN ADMITS SCREENING INADEQUATE, WON'T BAN FLIGHTS FROM LIBERIA"

"despite this admission that airport screening failed in this instance".

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/01/CDC-Spokesman-Admits-Screening-Inadequate-Wont-Ban-Flights-From-Liberia

Ontario taxpayers - here's the priorities of your elementary teachers union

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TORONTO -- The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is offering its members a workshop on "white privilege."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/10/02/21983496.html

Didn't I figure this out yesterday?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/10/03/Boss-Coworkers-of-US-Ebola-Patient-He-Knew-He-Had-Ebola-US-Trip-Was-Desperate-Attempt-to-Survive

Apparently this is how the CDC believes you should clean up possible Ebola infected vomit - hire a couple guys to power wash it... in regular pants and a tee-shirts. Maybe they think the response is similar to an acid spill and trying to dilute it.

http://qpolitical.com/this-is-how-the-cdc-handles-ebola-in-texas/

For $150 you can munch on some stale granola,wilted kale and support the Chow campaign in a live benefit at Hugh's Room,a great place except for the loudmouth CBC types who no doubt will have something more important to talk about than the music being played.In this case I can't blame them.

http://hughsroom.com/2014/10/chowstock-oliver-chow-and-friends/