GreenPeace founder loses in Sudden-Death Final to McMuffin inventor.

As captured by court artist.

I did not gather with twenty-four of my closest friends in Calgary today. I was at the Saskatoon Co-op Home Centre, where I purchased electrical box cover plates, lime scale remover, and a new door knob, and I have the receipts to prove it.
Though admittedly, I and the tan work shirts exchanged knowing glances.
More – photographic evidence of my non-gathering.

And I thought it was a fake!

This sounds less like a security breach than it does a case for the “smell test”…

Plans showing the layout of a new building for a Canadian Forces counter-terrorism unit based in Trenton, Ont., have been found in a pile of garbage on Bank Street.
The 26 blueprints, stamped with Department of National Defence markings, show everything from the location of the security fence to the floor plan of the new home of the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit at CFB Trenton.
The unit is the military’s main responder to a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction.
[…]
The blueprints were found March 13 by the spouse of Anthony Salloum, an analyst with the Rideau Institute, the left-leaning Ottawa think-tank. As the couple were on their way to dinner, Mr. Salloum’s spouse noticed a large pile of garbage bags on the sidewalk, on top of which sat seven large rolled tubes of paper stamped with Defence Department markings.
“I thought they looked interesting, but we were headed to dinner, so I figured I’d pick one up on the way back if they were still there,” said Mr. Salloum.

Reader Bob McLeod echoes the suspicions of a number of commentors;

This is just too coincidental to even sound legitimate.

Salloum just happens to work for a left leaning think tank opposed to the military.

He and his companion check garbage along their route to dinner.Doesn’t everyone?

There are seven(they counted, right?) rolls of documents on the bagged garbage.

The documents just happen to appear along his route to dinner.

He happens to a have a “partner” with him who can corroborate the find.

He doesn’t go back for the other rolls of documents, even after seeing DND markings and “briefly” examining the documents.

Neither he, nor the others in the “think tank” knew what they had…..kinda a dumb bunch of deep thinkers.

On suddenly realizing what they had, instead of calling the authorities, they call the media. Good citizens, not!

Having a very cynical mind, I suspect that the documents were obtained through less than legitimate means, and this is the chosen method of revealing them to the public. Want to bet that this “scandal” surfaces in the next question period? Makes you wonder who has orchestrated the whole thing.

Darcey considers his own pile of trash bound blueprints;

In my garage I have a number of rolls that are heading out to the garbage and I couldn’t imagine anyone rooting through them other then maybe some curious kids.
My gut feeling is that the story by the program director of the Rideau Institute stinks. Do Anthony Salloum and his wife routinely look thru garbage they find on the street and pick it up?

More on what appears to be a non-story. Neither the blueprints nor the construction site were considered sensitive;

But he downplayed the significance of the what the abandoned blueprints reveal and noted that anyone is free to enter the base and many areas are unrestricted.
“There’s nothing in the building that I know of that is security-related. It’s a steel building, its got concrete floors and some cooling and heating system and some electrical system. There’s nothing (else) in there. Now, what fit-up the army may do with it, well that’s a different story.”

Gabriel Thomas Mondragon, 29 years old, who recently arrived from New Mexico, explained to Sheriff’s Deputies that in an attempt to make the people on Orcas “suffer just like the whales and trees”, he attempted to use a tree limbing saw -on a metal pole- to cut through a 69,000 volt power line. […] Being well informed on the power of high voltage power lines, Mondragon cleverly put on several pair of latex dishwashing gloves to isolate him from electrocution, and proceeded to touch saw to power line.

Ezra Levant takes another look into the inner workings of the Human Rights Commissions. The closer you look at these things the uglier they get.

Lower the volume on the top video, and then play simultaneously.

For the first time in recent editorial memory, the Toronto Star forgets that African Americans are disproportionately represented in the racist, draconian US prison system.

It must have been the glee.
h/t
Update: In the comments Andycanuck fact checks Gardner’s conservative bashing column – “A complete list of American conservatives who have made jokes about prison rape would fill this page. The latest is the son of the governor of Kansas, who is marketing a prison-based board game cleverly called Don’t Drop the Soap.”
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebeliusis is past chair of the Democratic Governors Association and currently serves on their Executive Committee.

… forces CHRC senior Investigator and internet spy, Dean Steacy to return to the witness stand to answer questions under oath on his internet spying operations against Marc Lemire and the popular conservative website – FreeDominion.

Ezra Levant comments – “If I’m reading this order correctly, March 25th may become known as Black Tuesday at the Canadian Human Rights Commission.”

They warned us that if we didn’t do something to stop global warming, we would reap the inferno – and they were right!

Pre-dawn fires destroyed four new homes in an upscale Seattle suburb Monday, local officials said, with environmental extremists reportedly suspected of arson.
“There were no reported injuries in the three-alarm blaze that started around 4:00 am local time Monday,” Snohomish County fire department official Rick Eastman told AFP.
“Some of the houses were still under construction.”
The multi-million-dollar homes went up in flames in the “Street of Dreams” development near Woodinville, in northwest Washington state.

When contacted by the SDA news desk for comment, the Bananas With A Conscience did not return our calls.

photo courtesy reader Peter G.
UPDATE: Because “arson” is so 90’s – New York Times labels eco-terrorists who set homes on fire in WA “anti-sprawl activists”.

They’ll pry my ashes out of my cold, dead… oh, wait…

Since it takes two to four hours at temperatures ranging from 1,400 and 2,100 F, or 760 and 1,150 C, the estimated energy required to cremate one body is roughly equal to the amount of fuel required to drive 4,800 miles, or 7,725 kilometers.
Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide are spewed in large volume, along with carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, particulate matter, heavy metals, dioxins and furans.
There is also release of cadmium and lead from pacemakers and mercury from dental amalgams. Total mercury emissions from cremation in Canada for 2004 were between 240 and 907 pounds, or 109 and 411.6 kilograms.

!!! Think of all that toxic mercury going to waste, when it could be captured and recycled into environmentally-friendly compact fluorescents!

Meanwhile, some funeral providers are providing natural burials — the body is not embalmed or cremated, but instead buried in a simple casket or shroud in protected green space.

There’s a real opportunity here to dovetail the assisted suicide movement into the carbon footprint reduction trade – “Be Your Own Carbon Credit”.
Spend as much time flying the friendly skies as you like, so long as you show up a few years early for your scheduled topple into the moist, warm pit of fellow travellers.
(Flashback – Or carbon-sequester a friend!)
The great recycling ideas keep pouring in From the comments “Here’s an idea — instead of wasting valuable resources throwing eco-criminals in jail, as Doktor Suzuki advises, why don’t we turn them into something useful, like soap, or lamp shades?”
Let your death brighten a room and provide the warm ambience, too!

Time for caring conservatives to gather up your old whale song tapes and send them to those who need them most.
(Whale… yum!)

Maxwell Smart: It’s funny you should ask, because as we speak this building is being surrounded by one hundred security agents with one hundred Doberman pinschers. Would you believe it? One hundred agents and one hundred Doberman pinschers!
Nicholas Dimente: No, I don’t believe that.
Maxwell Smart: Er… would you believe fifty security guards and a bloodhound?
Nicholas Dimente: I don’t think so.
Maxwell Smart: How about a rabid Boy Scout?

I have a confession. I couldn’t quite recall ever having heard of Avi Lewis prior to this interview in which Ayaan Hirsi Ali reduced him to tender little bite-sized pieces.
But then I remembered this;

For reference, Avi Lewis is the son of the image former you’ve got to be kidding party’s Stephen Lewis, who sounds very much like a communist to me. Stephen Lewis is the son of Federal NDP Leader David Lewis, who similarly sounds very much like a communist to me. Stephen Lewis is married to Michele Landsberg, a feminist activist and former writer for the leftist Toronto Star, which is perhaps the most left-wing mainstream newspaper in North America, and the liberals’ Globe and Mail. She sounds very much like a communist to me. Not to be outdone, young Avi Lewis is married to far-left-wing feminist activist and Bush-hater Naomi Klein, daughter of an American draft dodger; and her brother is a director of the far left-wing Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (the “alternative” they speak of being global socialism and an end to capitalism as we know it, which sounds very much like communism to me). Naomi Klein was also a Toronto Star writer. She sounds very much like a communist to me.

The boy’s a product of the ideological equivalent of the first-cousin marriage. I think he’ll do well there.
UPDATE – “How do you say “sucker” in Farsi?”

Quotable exerpts from two good Sun columns, both with harsh and deserved criticism for a media that seems more brain-dead by the week. Angelo Persichilli;

[Politicians] should tell us not to use our cars (and tell GM workers to prepare for even more pink slips), tell our children to dump their TVs, stereos, and iPods, tell us and store owners to lower the heat in winter, keep the air conditioning off in summer and stop killing trees to make paper we just throw in the garbage.
They should tell Canadians until we do all this, and more, we can’t stop the oil sands project in Alberta, nor can we stop throwing paper in the garbage, because if we do, we’ll kill the oil and paper industry.
They should also tell Canadians the environment is not a “Canadian” issue, it’s a global issue and that even if we were to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from all our industries, there will be no noticeable impact on global warming, although we will cripple our economy, sending more jobs to China, India, Brazil and the United States, countries responsible for almost 50% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, none of which any of them are reducing under the Kyoto accord.

Lorrie Goldstein;

* In B.C., where charging people more for gas and heat by Premier Gordon Campbell’s government, part of a tax shell game we’re assured will be “revenue neutral” (no comment), is praised by the politician doing it as courageous and revolutionary, while mesmerized media pundits, having forgotten the story about the emperor having no clothes, mindlessly repeat the mantra.
* In Ontario, where Premier Dalton McGuinty is paying outrageously high prices, using tax money, for very little solar power, instead of doing something that would help the environment — cleaning up the air pollution spewing out of the province’s coal-fired energy plants, the same ones he promised five years ago to close by last year, and now won’t close, or even clean up, for six more.
* In Quebec, where consumers are being told by their government, with a straight face, that there’s nothing it can do to stop a new “green” tax intended to target oil and gas industry profits, from being passed along to them. Gee, how about not imposing the !@$@?! tax in the first place?
* And finally in crazytown … Ottawa … where, amongst so many other absurdities on the environmental front, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, a man who can’t control his caucus, has a plan to control the climate.

(via National Newswatch)
I’m going to assume, for a moment, that the major voices in Canadian news media have spent the time required to read and digest all points of view on the claims and counterclaims, the data and the models, and the critics of those models, the history and qualifications of those behind the IPCC reports, and have decided. after weighing the evidence, that the theory of man-made global warming is legitimate and that the warnings and predictions are sound.
This means, among other things, that these individuals accept the assertion that we are approaching no less than “the end of civilzation as we know it” if something is not done to reverse the process.
Fine.
Very well.
So, then – how does one explain their avoidance of the solution equation, the hard facts of just what would be required for this country to meet the objectives laid out by the environmental gurus and climate modelling experts? Why do they fail, with near uniformity, to inform their viewers and readers that even if we gut every major industry in the nation and go back to horseback – it will make no difference at all?
These same individuals (and David Akin, I include you in this) who present this information on our nightly news with utter conviction, must have also studied with equal determination the question of how to achieve these targets, and what price Canadians must pay to do so.
And yet, it seems they haven’t, for it is mentioned only by a few scattered skeptics in media, most of them opinion columnists.
Why is that?
But let’s back up a little, for this is the end of civilization as we know it, and they’re apparently convinced of that. A planetary emergency, no less.
How does one convinced of impending planetary doom get up in the morning to work in the industry they do – an industry that employs vast numbers of people to travel the country via commercial jet and automobile, that sustains huge media complexes clogged to the ceilings with electricity consuming CO2-belching technology, that hauls tons of satellite equipment to produce on-the-scene reporting?
That indulges in the broadcasting of sporting events? And entertainment “news”?
“We interrupt this report on the last remaining meter of Arctic sea ice to bring you live footage of Britney Spears’ entourage leaving the hospital … John, you’re in the helicoptor, what can you tell us?”
When it comes to curtailing wasteful practices and excessive C02 emissions, shouldn’t they be among the first to go?
It’s beyond absurdity, beyond hypocrisy. It’s nothing less than blatant dishonesty, gross laziness, professional malpractice – or most likely, all of the above. Every one of these so called “journalists” would, if they belonged to any other profession, be called before an industry ethics board to explain their conduct – if their industry entertained such notions, or bothered itself with abstract concepts like “ethics”.

I swear, this boy trolls alt.watersports looking for used diving gear.
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After all, they’ve been around since 1798;

California is moving towards a mandate for zero net energy for residential new construction by 2020. Zero net energy means the home cannot consume more net energy than it generates.
Generates?
Yup. California homes are going to have to generate as much energy as they consume by 2020. The next question is, how?

Loose lips sink a Jewish conspiracy.

“Mommy, can I wear your bra to school?”