Soon, there will be whole generations of children born on Venezuela's line for milk/food. pic.twitter.com/xoZqlPIXuE
— Stinkburger w Cheese (@DefendWallSt) April 4, 2014
That’s Not A Waiting Line
That’s “practice”.
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James Taranto: “The first thing we thought of when we saw the pictures was the photos we’ve recently seen on Twitter of Venezuelans waiting in bread lines. Waiting in line to purchase necessities is a characteristic not of a prosperous free society but of command economies under repressive regimes. Closer to home, one doubts even the Transportation Security Administration would be so tone-deaf as to advertise long airport lines as an indication it’s doing a great job.” |
More: “This is why Americans are not popping the cork. Nor should the administration.”
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
And Glenn Beck is the crazy one.
In a press release entitled “FACT SHEET: Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions,” the White House laid out its “all-of-the-above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut carbon pollution” as to ensure “a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations.”
One of the “key steps” formulated by the Obama Administration involves working in partnership with the dairy industry, the USDA, EPA and DOE to release a “Biogas Roadmap” outlining “voluntary strategies to accelerate adoption of methane digesters and other cost-effective technologies to reduce U.S. dairy sector greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.”
Related: In this case, E&E Legal was looking for records regarding the EPA’s veto of an already-granted permit to a coal mine in Logan County, W.V. The EPA vetoed the permit to save the mayfly, an insect that the agency says is harmed by surface mining.
BC’s NDP at a Crossroads
Former BC Premier Mike Harcourt has caused enormous shock waves throughout BC’s NDP by very publicly quitting the party:
In a rare rebuke from an ex-premier to his party, Mr. Harcourt cited several grievances, but pointed to the “astonishingly stupid decision” of leader Adrian Dix in mid campaign last spring to change position on a proposed expansion of a Kinder-Morgan pipeline between Alberta and the Lower Mainland.
Mr. Dix said he would oppose the expansion after saying he would wait until an application for approval was filed to take a position.
“Coming out against Kinder Morgan just finally did it for me. I thought that was so stupid and unnecessary,” Mr. Harcourt said, estimating Mr. Dix’s reversal cost the New Democrats 20 seats and alienated blue-collar workers in resource communities across the province.
Left Coast Dippers now have a decision to make: Will they remain subservient to the whims of the environmental elitists or will they move forward with a more pragmatic approach?
Great Moments In Socialism
French government resigns en masse;
France’s socialist prime minister resigned along with his entire government yesterday following a meltdown in local elections.
Jean-Marc Ayrault admitted that a huge swing to the Right, including to the extremist National Front, was down to him and his Left-wing government.
And last night socialist President Francois Hollande – whose rule has become synonymous with a 75 per cent top rate of income tax – admitted to mistakes and said his priority was now to cut taxes.
The government’s resignation is a huge blow to the president, who was elected to a five-year term in 2012 but whose first two years in power have seen him become the most unpopular head of state in recent history.
Environmentalists The World Over Finally Admit They’ve Made It All Up
Nahhh, not really. Happy April Fools Day!
James Delingpole reports on the never-ending PR campaign where facts don’t matter – here, here, & here.
Green ideologues working for the British government helped “sex up” the latest Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) report in order to make its conclusions sound more scary than the evidence warrants, it emerged today.
The draft version of the report’s Summary For Policymakers made the startling admission that the economic damage caused by “climate change” would be between 0.2 and 2 percent of global GDP – significantly less than the doomsday predictions made in the 2006 Stern report (which estimated the damage at between 5 and 20 percent of global GDP).
Just in time for April Fools’ Day, the MSM was doing a full court propaganda campaign yesterday. Here’s a sampling full of mistruths and outright fiction. Dr. Tim Ball is trying to fight back against the propagandists.
Other Peoples’ Money
Just who exactly are all these taxpayers? (h/t Adrian)
Our Moral Superiors in the Public Sector
The Vancouver Sun’s Daphne Bramham has a stinging column out today revealing more details of the theft questionable spending choices of members of the Portland Hotel Society. Entitled “Sense of entitlement runs rampant among political and community leaders”, here’s a snippet:
There’s a surprising lack of character in evidence these days among our free-spending, entitled-seeming political and community leaders.
Even though many are better paid than ever, it still doesn’t seem to be enough.
Here’s my theory: The people working for the public good are rankled that guys like the wolves on Wall Street are making so much more money and, for what?
So, when some of those who are supposedly working to save the world have the opportunity to pamper themselves at someone else’s expense, they feel entitled to take it. After all, they’re the hard-working good guys.
Winnipeg: A Page out of Obama’s Playbook
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose:
Mar 24: After a month of frozen pipes at her pet store, Tanya Morgan goes to the media in a desperate plea to save her business.
Mar 25: Pet store owner Tanya Morgan is investigated for animal abuse.
Charles Adler has much more (podcast).
Australia’s Lizzy May
What do you do if you’re a political hack in the Green Party and election after election the voters increasingly reject your views? Go on the attack, of course, making unsubstantiated allegations against your political enemies. Paul Sheehan explains:
There is nothing more popular on the internet than pornography, and that extends to political pornography, the territory of trolls and zealots. Senator Scott Ludlam knows this, and Ludlam is fighting for his survival. He has only just narrowly averted disaster and now he is appealing to the fringe because he cannot appeal to the majority.
He cannot appeal to the majority because he has a dim view of the great majority of Australians who supported the major parties, especially the millions who voted for the Coalition in recent elections, offering a portrait of a homophobic, xenophobic prime minister manipulating a legion of rednecks, all without bothering to lay out evidence beyond his own opinions.
Civil Forfeiture & Bruce Montague
Grab a coffee and spend forty minutes with Karen Selick, of the Canadian Constitution Foundation. (h/t Me No Dhimmi)
The Tolerant Left
Thomas Sowell on the “mascots of the self-congratulatory elites.“
High on Spending Other People’s Money
Two audits of Vancouver’s Portland Hotel Society have revealed some interesting expense claims:
The leadership team of the Portland Hotel Society — Mark Townsend, his wife Liz Evans, Dan Small and Kirsten Stuerzbecher — chose to resign after the government gave the team an ultimatum earlier this week. Townsend said they were given “a stark choice” to either step down or fight a legal battle that would put the society into receivership.
Managers and directors expensed more than $69,000 over three years on restaurants, and more than $300,000 on travel to Vienna, Paris, Istanbul, New York City, Los Angeles, Banff and Ottawa, among other locations.
If Townsend’s name sounds familiar, that’s because this is not the first time he has appeared on SDA. He was prominently featured in a CNN International documentary about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
F— you, Mr. President, you piece of sh*t used-car salesman.
From my heart and soul, f— you.
Redford is G-G-Gone ! ! !
Alberta’s premiere CINO has resigned!
Update: Interesting, insightful comments from Gord Tulk and Frances are well worth a read.
First They Came For The Big Mac
White House pastry chef resigns: “I don’t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs,”
I Can See Russia From The 18th Hole
Blast from the past…
I Can See Russia From The 18th Hole
“Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash,” anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly news show on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television.
Kiselyov made the comment to support his argument that the United States and President Barack Obama were living in fear of Russia led by President Vladimir Putin amid the Ukraine crisis.
More: Russia’s Special Ops Invasion of Ukraine Has Begun
Strange Happenings in Quebec Politics
Licia Corbella explains:
What’s even more puzzling than [Pierre Karl Peladeau] running with the PQ is how this 52-year-old union-busting, staff-slashing controlling shareholder of Quebecor Communications hasn’t bothered to study the fiscal books of Quebec. If he had, this fierce businessman would not seek the independence of Quebec from Canada. Why? Because Quebec would be utterly bankrupt were it not for equalization sent there annually from the rest of Canada.
Last year, Quebec received about $8 billion net in equalization from the federal government and hasn’t been a net contributor to the federal coffers for decades.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Whoa: Feinstein says CIA claimed it removed docs from the committee-only network at direction of the White House. WH denied.
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) March 11, 2014