Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The World Still Has Too Many Reporters
If the best you can offer is the parsing of a Fathers’ Day greeting – it’s time to downsize the newsroom.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
The GWPF: Between 2012 and 2013, demand for solar panels has dropped by 60% as German government plans to introduce a tax on solar energy
I Amuse Myself
So who was the genius who settled on a word synonymous with Marxist ideology? #Forward @TeamWildrose https://t.co/zPsTlWxEYq
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 24, 2014
The Tolerant Left
Serve and Project: A town police chief in western Wisconsin is accused of retaliating against a tea party activist by creating accounts in his name on pornographic and dating websites.
Heads Should Roll
No, really Christians. It’s time to pick up your game.
Just Visited
Canada: Not worth living in unless they’ll make you Prime Minister.
h/t Rob H
Because You Need To Know These Things
The question on everyone’s lips:
Is it anti-feminist to watch the World Cup?
Renegade Regulator
You see, the [Canadian Standards Association] had an informal policy in its testing facility that every new product should fail the first test, that way the CSA can charge twice for the same certification. So by this standard, the first test didn’t need any actual testing per se, the product was predetermined to fail for financial reasons.
Manufacturers are generally aware of these practices but there’s not much they can do about them. Its just a cost of doing business. Safety certification is mandatory, the CSA is unavoidable, so double charging is a sort of tax that everyone grumbles about but eventually it gets paid.
But wait! It gets better.
Y2Kyoto: Pining For The Fjords
Global Warming, not dead.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Enjoy!
Reader Tips
In tonight’s diversion en route to the tips Alan Partridge has a nice chat with a boxing promoter from London’s East End.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Walmart fact-checks the New York Times.
Whitefish
Only you can stop the hate.
Air Greenpeace
One of Greenpeace’s most senior executives commutes 250 miles to work by plane, despite the environmental group’s campaign to curb air travel, it has emerged.
Pascal Husting, Greenpeace International’s international programme director, said he began “commuting between Luxembourg and Amsterdam” when he took the job in 2012 and currently made the round trip about twice a month.
The flights, at 250 euros for a round trip, are funded by Greenpeace…
Operation Empty Chair
It’s hard not to conclude that the administration’s Syria policy is a sub-set of its Iran policy. Many people were baffled for a long time, including me, that the president didn’t seem to see Syria strategically, as a way to weaken Iran. Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis said that toppling Bashar al-Assad would constitute the most severe blow against the Iranian regime in 25 years. A number of administration officials seemed to recognize the same thing–from former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and ex-CIA director David Petraeus. Only the president seemed to not recognize that or to see Syria in a strategic framework. What we now realize is that the president does see Syria in a strategic framework. He sees that the Syrian regime is an important ally of the Iranians and doesn’t want to be seen toppling the regime for fear of angering the Iranians.
He’s on the other side.
It’s Probably Nothing
Supreme Court Limits EPA On Greenhouse Gases
How quaint. They’re issuing “rulings”.