A retired priest gets a visit from his old boss.

Wisely, Steven Harper heads for the bathroom*.
And because it’s not fair to beat up on the left during their darkest hour…. a pity link.

Everything seemingly is spinning out of control:“Obesity is becoming more common among poor city dwellers in Africa….

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h/t M.J.

(Note: a reader has emailed to point out that this video was not shot in Copenhagen, but at an earlier date. Though nothing in the post or the video link indicates it was, it’s worth noting that it predates the Copenhagen conflab.)

Hey, laugh at her all you like – it’s working.
h/t

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama’s closely watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin’s little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might cross somewhere in the 40s.
Well, ex-Sen. Obama, meet ex-Gov. Palin.

Via
More – someone’s testy this morning.

h/t Oz

Give today.

They’re paying attention now.

Times of India;

In an unprecedented move, India on Saturday joined China and two other developing countries to prepare for a major offensive on rich nations at the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month.
The four countries, which include Brazil and South Africa, agreed to a strategy that involves jointly walking out of the conference if the developed nations try to force their own terms on the developing world, Jairam Ramesh, the Indian minister for environment and forests (independent charge), said.
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The developing nations will also not accept any pressure from developed countries to establish legally binding emission targets at Copenhagen. Developing countries want to be allowed to reduce emissions voluntarily and take what they consider to be “nationally appropriate actions” he said.

h/t james

The Chief Railroad Engineer for the Intergovernmental Panel On Atmospheric Sucking names a suspect;

Dr Pachauri, speaking to The Times on Saturday before travelling to Paris to brief President Sarkozy, suggested that the fossil fuel lobby could be behind a hacking incident last month that led to the publication of thousands of leaked e-mails between climate scientists. He said that it was entirely possible that “corporate interests” had had a hand in the leak.

In fact, the operation that has become known to the world as “Climategate” was, and is, being carried out as I speak by a vast network of operatives from a shadowy fossil fuel lobby known as SOMEONE IS DOING SEX TO ME! *
We number in the millions.

“At some point we will have to cross over and start sucking some of those gases out of the atmosphere.”

This isn’t a Michael Crichton novel we’re living in after all. It’s a Monty Python skit.

Arrests at the Toronto Humane Society;

Police have arrested the Toronto Humane Society’s president, chief veterinarian and three other senior staff members and charged them with animal cruelty, six months after a Globe and Mail investigation revealed widespread troubles at the shelter.
At the same time, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals executed a search warrant at the shelter’s River Street facility late Thursday afternoon.
Humane Society president Tim Trow is facing Criminal Code charges of animal cruelty, conspiracy to commit cruelty to animals and obstruction of a peace officer. If convicted, Mr. Trow faces a maximum penalty of $2,000 and six months in jail for the animal cruelty charges, and two years in jail for the obstruction charges.
Head veterinarian Steve Sheridan, shelter manager Gary McCracken, manager Romeo Bernadino and shelter supervisor Andy Bechtel have also been arrested and face animal cruelty charges under the criminal code.
All of the above, as well as the Society’s board of directors, are also being charged with five counts of animal cruelty, a provincial offence under the Ontario SPCA Act (as opposed to criminal charges).

Better late than never. But that’s the problem with animal “rights” fronts like this and the
Humane Sociey of the United States. They have no real interest in the welfare of individual animals, beyond those they can exploit for fund raising campaigns. Their true goal is to eliminate animal ownership.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges…

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein

h/t R. Black

An installation we tentatively refer to as “McMillan #6”
(BTW – the trees captured in the background are actually a mirage.)
Previous.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
BBC, Oct.19th – Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”. He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was “no plan B”. World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty.
IBD, Nov.13th – Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close ally of the Obama administration, said today that the U.S. is not likely to have anything substantial to show for itself by the time the president goes to the international climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month.
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The Lesson of the Taliban: an impoverished third world government can nurture and enable an attack on the financial and military centers of the most powerful nation the world has ever known – and emerge victorious.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

“President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday. ”

Via Glenn Reynolds;

Just something that occurred to me today while trying to cross Fifth Ave in Manhattan during the Veteran’s Day Parade:
The towers fell in New York on 9/11/01, Kabul fell to American led forces on 11/14/01. That’s 65 days.
President Obama’s hand-picked replacement commander in Afghanistan, GEN McChrystal, delivered his Afghanistan war plans to President Obama on 8/30/09, and President Obama hasn’t acted on his General’s recommendations as of today, 11/11/09. That’s 73 days, and waiting.

Related: Did he call in the cavalry? More to the point – would you put it past him?