Author: Kate

Gaza Strip: Not Dry Enough!

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

On May 14, 2010, the MV Rachel Corrie“will join seven other vessels in the Mediterranean and sail to Gaza to deliver vitally needed construction, medical and school supplies to the imprisoned population of Gaza.” rachel_corrie.jpg
On May 10, 2010, Gaza’s first Olympic-standard swimming pool“was inaugurated at the As-Sadaka club during a ceremony on Tuesday held by the Islamic Society.”

More: What The Media Won’t Report About Gaza.
SDA Flashback“This is what water theft looks like in this part of the world.”

Y2Kyoto: When Data Collection Just Isn’t Getting The Job Done

Until now,

… most studies measuring polar bear survival have relied on a method called “mark and recapture”.
This involves repeatedly catching polar bears in a population over several years, which is cost and time-intensive.
Because of that, the information scientists have gathered on polar bear populations varies greatly: for example, datasets span up to four decades in the best studied populations in Western Hudson Bay and Southern Beaufort Sea, but are almost non-existent for bears in some parts of Russia.
[…]
However, these projections are essentially educated guesses

So, Dr Peter Molnar, Professor Andrew Derocher and colleagues from the University of Alberta and York University, Toronto came up with a solution that avoids the persistent problem referred to in scientific circles as “their own lyin’ eyes…”

“We developed a model…”

You can probably figure out how that one ends.
Meanwhile, in related “lyin’ eyes” developments: Watch the arctic sea ice melt for month of May.

South pole, too.
And there are frost warnings here for later this week.
A suggestion, if I may. When the “tipping point” finally arrives, and the left are preoccupied with chasing oil company and banking executives through the streets — we sneak quietly out our back doors and head to the universities.
But first, I say we shoot Tom Friedman and save the Chinese the trouble. (I hasten to add – after a fair trial and organ recipients have been arranged.)

Y2Kyoto: Hide The Decline!

Uh oh…

A survey in February by the BBC found that only 26 percent of Britons believed that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely manmade,” down from 41 percent in November 2009. A poll conducted for the German magazine Der Spiegel found that 42 percent of Germans feared global warming, down from 62 percent four years earlier.
[…]
“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,” Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, said at the meeting of environmentalists here. “This is happening in the context of overwhelming scientific agreement that climate change is real and a threat. But the poll figures are going through the floor.”

Relax, It’s The Teamsters

Via NDP Watch;

Last year, the Teamsters Union, a labour group that represents blue-collar and professional workers, launched a full-scale campaign to organize Canadian FedEx employees.
Local FedEx employees were soon being approached by union representatives about joining, but many weren’t interested, Gibson said.
Soon after, employees noticed union representatives writing down employee licence plate numbers in the parking lot, Gibson said. They then began receiving mail at home from the union addressed to the owner of the vehicle, which in many cases wasn’t the FedEx employee, Gibson said.
Gibson, 37, and five other employees asked SGI to investigate what they suspected was a privacy breach. They were contacted last month by SGI’s chief privacy officer with a letter confirming suspicions their personal information was given out inappropriately.
SGI spokesperson Kim Hambleton said the privacy breach was traced to the Ministry of Justice, where it was discovered an employee had given the information to the union.

An employee who reportedly, is still employed. I’d sure like to have that name and address – a little retributive protesting could go a long way.

It’s Not A Secret

Via Kathy Shaidle;

There’s an ugly secret of global poverty, one rarely acknowledged by aid groups or U.N. reports. It’s a blunt truth that is politically incorrect, heartbreaking, frustrating and ubiquitous:
It’s that if the poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes, their children’s prospects would be transformed. Much suffering is caused not only by low incomes, but also by shortsighted private spending decisions by heads of households.

It’s not an “unacknowledged truth”, either.
The poverty racket is an intentional lie, refined and perpetuated by that certain political class and their enablers in the gated-community community.
It’s why those of us who live modest lifestyles, who rub shoulders with the dysfunctional poor, have so little sympathy for them. They’re not victims of circumstance. They’re creatures of entitlement.
You see – this is what I love about blogging. You don’t need to write for the New York Times to get blunt truths into the newspaper.

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