National Post: Conservative MP’s private member’s bill could be used against pipeline protesters, critics say
Green Melts Steel
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
Somewhere in the Middle Ages:
They live in some of the nicest neighbourhoods on Earth – places like Marin County, Napa and Malibu. But they believe that vaccines cause autism or worse. Immunization rates in some of the more fashionable California schools resemble those in the more backward parts of Africa. At the Valley Waldorf City School in Lake Balboa, for example, 88 per cent of students don’t have the standard vaccinations.
h/t Don B.
Who are the Burnaby protesters?
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
I’m Done with fearing food and done with A&W;
Yes, there are hormones in your food, but are they something to fear? A&W certainly thinks so, with a new campaign promoting their beef burgers produced with “no added hormones or steroids”. It is good to know a company that says, “Being a leader isn’t always easy – but doing the right thing rarely is,” is clearly only interested in selling a few more hamburgers because of fear, rather than educating a skeptical customer.
First point: You have hormones in you right now, and whether you eat a Teen Burger or not isn’t going to change that. In fact, you may even be taking additional hormones to help keep you from getting pregnant, lessen the effects of menopause, or an incredible host of other concerns and issues. Hormones also are natural in every other living thing from a soybean plant to a duck. It is why A&W has to promote there are not ‘added’ hormones, and can’t get away with saying hormone-free.
DeSmog Of War
DeSmogBlog’s Cheap Tricks Against Vivian Krause;
When one takes on the oligarchs it should naturally be expected that there will be some kickback. That’s not to say that Soros, Buffett and Mr Burns are behind the curtains pulling strings (though perhaps Newell is). Successful oligarchs are too busy playing real-life Railroad Tycoon and crashing the British Pound to worry about the likes of Vivian Krause. Besides, there’s no need for damage control, the foundations have built a self-healing system – the magic ingredient is greed.
h/t Bluetech
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Solar bike path generates enough electricity for three households: Due to be officially launched on 12 November, the project has so far cost €1.5 million euros, though will ultimately cost up to €3 million once finalised.
h/t Regan T
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
@Canadabuster @Big_Wilkie @katewerk No. I am encouraged China will stop rising emissions. This is essential.
— Elizabeth May MP (@ElizabethMay) November 12, 2014
Obama Climate Deal To Triple CO2 Emissions By 2030 http://t.co/t5VKPxbGGr via @wordpressdotcom
— Barrowice (@Barrowice) November 13, 2014
Mann Overboard
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Mann: #SarahPalin jumps a #PodOfWhaleSharks, compares climate change ‘Hysteria’ To Eugenics…
The Atlantic: How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change
Y2Kyoto: Get Your Affairs In Order
Just 37 days to go.
Only 4?
Features bonus angry hippie commenters! 4 Ways Hippies Are (Still) Trying to Kill Us.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
70 cents a pound to cut and wrap: New York town spends $2,984 per deer in sterilization program.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
Justice Gethin Edward of the Ontario Court of Justice suggested physicians essentially want to “impose our world view on First Nation culture.” The idea of a cancer treatment being judged on the basis of statistics that quantify patients’ five-year survival rate is “completely foreign” to aboriginal ways, he said.
“Even if we say there is not one child who has been cured of acute lymphoblastic leukemia by traditional methods, is that a reason to invoke child protection?” asked Justice Edward, noting that the girl’s mother believes she is doing what is best for her daughter.
“Are we to second guess her and say ‘You know what, we don’t care?’ … Maybe First Nations culture doesn’t require every child to be treated with chemotherapy and to survive for that culture to have value.”
More from Jonathan Kay.
h/t Kevin B
There Are People Who Believe They’re Napoleon, Too
Heh. “At least my twat is real, Mister”
If TorStar could hear me now.
Snicker. Snort. Guffaw. Whimper LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY LOUD.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Third Rails
Apropos of nothing in particular….
The ABC can afford to cut its budget by as much as $200m and still maintain a quality service, according to the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
The Australian Broadcast Company has a budget of around a Billion.
Developing the middle class
Long time commentator, ET, used to wax eloquently on the necessity of developing the middle class as a solution to problems within the Islamic sphere. I tended to agree with her premises.
It would seem there is another prominent Conservative who used a different soap-box to espouse similar ideals.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Peter