Tonight fellow Australians Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue sing Cave’s 1996 composition Where the Wild Roses Grow.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Wildrose begone
The Alberta Government has announced its intention to remove the wild rose from Alberta’s license plate and add the Government of Alberta website address.
Doug Griffiths, Minister of Service Alberta:
“Our current licence plate…lacks features to help make our roads and communities safer.”
h/t Jamie MacMaster
Those Moderate Muslims!
At least four Canadian MPs and possibly some senators appear to have been forced to huddle in a bomb shelter in Jerusalem Tuesday after Israeli Defence Forces sounded the alarm because of fears Hamas terrorists would send rockets into the capital.
B.C. Conservative Bob Zimmer, B.C. New Democrat Jasbir Sandhu, Manitoba Conservative Ted Falk and Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Yvonne Jones were in Israel as guests of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). It wasn’t immediately clear which Canadian senators were on the trip.
“America: Imagine the World Without Her”
On his latest podcast, Adam Carolla remarked about the great divide of the reviews of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, “America: Imagine the World Without Her”. At the moment they currently are as follows:
That’s a pretty wide gap between “top critics” and the public. It would make for an enlightening article to interview those professional film reviewers to get a sense of their lifelong voting patterns and their feelings about their country and its history. If the same questions were honestly answered by American journalists, would the results be very different?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Although the underlying technical material in the IPCC’s fifth major report was widely agreed upon and published intact, “heated negotiations among scientific authors and diplomats led to substantial deletion of figures and text from the influential ‘Summary for Policy-makers,'” writes Brad Wible, an editor at the journal Science […]
A chart removed from the IPCC summary but published in Science shows that much of the growth in recent greenhouse gas emissions comes from Asia, with smaller contributions from the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Emissions in developed countries have continued to rise, but at a much slower rate.
In other words, business as usual.
h/t Maz2
Global Test
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Howard Dean, 2003: Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor running for president, has told an audience in New Hampshire that the United States “won’t always have the strongest military,” an assertion that drew a strong rebuke today from [Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts].
China, 2003; The People’s Republic of China now believes it can successfully prevent the United States from intervening in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan or some other military assault by Beijing.
Forward!
Health and Human Services officials will allow reporters to visit a military facility housing some of the immigrant children who have arrived at the southern border in recent weeks, but only if the media promises not to record anything, not to ask any questions during the tour, and not to talk to any of the staff members or children.
They’re much too busy being registered as Democrats to talk to the press.
Reader Tips
The world seems tipped on it’s side in recent years, which has rendered the silly season a lot less silly than it used to be. Tonight we get slightly silly for a couple of minutes with Donna Loren’s reasonably mindless cover of the oft-covered Shakin’ All Over. No assembly required.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
President Facepalm
America adores him:
A new poll reveals that the majority of Americans want illegals deported as soon as possible, with the added suggestion that Mexico foot the bill for transportation costs, the Washington Examiner reports.
Not breaking on CBS, ABC, CNN, NBC, CBC, Global, MSNBC, CTV…
Most Americans also blamed the president for poor handling of the border situation, a situation which 75 percent of Americans are closely following in the news. Not only did a significant number of Americans think the situation was the president’s fault, they also held the view that the Obama administration actively “encouraged this wave of illegal immigration.”
Perhaps they shouldn’t think of it as encouraging illegal immigration, but as giving a helping hand to the downtrodden.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
How to catch a train in China.
It’s Probably Nothing
“Reach for yield? Rational exuberance? Call it what you want…”
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Arsonist ignites flammable liquid inside bus
Oh, Shiny Pony!
All it needs is a snappy name, like “national energy program”.
Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau confirms he would put a price on carbon emissions regardless of whether other countries do.
The comment came Friday at the Calgary Stampede when Sun News Network’s Rob Gibson asked the Grit chief if he’d take action on carbon emissions if major emitters like China and the United States did not.
Trudeau said Canada’s role is to be “an example,” adding “we need to show that we are taking this seriously.”
“Your TD service charges at work”.
David Southern emails (somewhat edited);
You’ll need to go to the fully interactive element of this article to confirm, but by my check, the Toronto-Dominion Bank and its affiliates (mostly in eastern North America, the exception being Abu Dhabi), paid Mr. Clinton the following sums for speaking engagements while his wife was Secretary of State of the United States (USD):
2009: $800,000
2010: $350,000
2011: $480,000
Total: $1,630,000 for nine speaking engagements.
TD and its affiliates, apparently, were the only Schedule 1 bank-related financial institutions to pay him anything in the period. (There are lots of other outrages, such as the City of Surrey, BC — $175,000 to Bill on October 20, 2011, the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, etc., etc., etc.)
And prior to that…
… you may be interested to also know that Bill Clinton was paid the following sums by the TD Bank and/or its affiliates for speaking engagements:
$175,000 — Montreal QC, November 25, 2008
$175,000 — Moncton ON, November 25, 2008
$175,000 — London ON, November 26, 2008
So, Bill was paid $525,000 by the TD Bank and/or its affiliates in a, more or less, 24-hour period. I’m guessing, of course, but I would expect that that would not include, you know, expenses, Secret Service costs, etc., which I’m guessing were reimbursed (as would have been all of the similar expenses in the previous engagements in my previous correspondence) by TD and/or its affiliates.
At first, I assumed that Moncton actually meant Moncton, NB, but it actually makes more sense, from a moving-around-the-country perspective to go from Montreal,QC to Moncton,ON to London, ON considering that Moncton,ON (a police village of under 500 people) about ten miles north-west of Stratford, here in deepest darkest Harperland, is only about 50 miles from London.
Funny that none of us red-necks ’round heard about it at all. Everybody knows that Bill’s disclosures, as reported by WAPO, couldn’t possibly untruthful, could they?
But that’s just the teaser. Here’s a spreadsheet: Bill Clinton in Canada, 2008-2011.xlsx
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The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
We've now lost Iraq and experts believe that, under Obama's policies, by year's end we'll also lose Afghanistan and Texas.
— WH Press Secretary (@weknowwhatsbest) July 7, 2014
Don’t attribute to stupidty that which can be adequately explained by malice:
America’s porous southern border and the recent surge in illegal immigration is more than just a “humanitarian crisis,” claims the top U.S. general in charge of Central and South America, it’s a threat to the United States’ very existence.
Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly is commander of the U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, charged with responsibility for the Caribbean Sea and all lands south of Mexico.
Particularly in regards to the drug trade, murder rates and terrorist activity brewing in Central America, Kelly says, the waves of Latin Americans sweeping through Mexico and illegally into Texas presents a threat to the U.S. every bit as serious as Iran or North Korea.
Not the northern border, though. There America stands firm to repel lamb-based dog food and contraband oranges.
More here.
Rollin’ Coal
How did I miss this?
In small towns across America, manly men are customizing their jacked-up diesel trucks to intentionally emit giant plumes of toxic smoke every time they rev their engines. They call it “rollin’ coal,” and it’s something they do for fun.
And irritating environmentalists is a lot of fun. (h/t north of 60)
Reader Tips
Tonight we learn how to keep spiders and insects out of our homes the humane way.
h/t peterj
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Frankly, My Dear
(language advisory) h/t
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Take a ride on the Smoky Mountain Alpine Coaster.
Greek Recipes For Survival
Step 1. Make a lot of pastries.
Step 2. Get out of Greece.