Just five of the scores of pumpjacks that have sprouted up between Stoughton and Forget in the last few months.
Y2Kyoto: T. Boone Pickens
Self-made millionaire, through wind energy.
Is There Nothing That Obamessiah Can’t Do?
original link at the very funny The Nose on Your Face.
Once Upon A Time
There was a man and a hockey stick…
The story is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cyncism that is rife among climate scientists, and I’m going to try to tell it in layman’s language so that the average blog reader can understand it. As far as I know it’s the first time the whole story has been set out in a single posting. It’s a long tale – and the longest posting I think I’ve ever written and piecing it together from the individual [Climate Audit] postings has been a long, hard but fascinating struggle. You may want to get a long drink before starting, and those who suffer from heart disorders may wish to take their beta blockers first.
h/t to “Shippedout”
I Remember When I Was Little
… my mother never left for church without her best Sunday cleaver tucked into her handbag;
Four people were injured and three arrested in a fight at a West Valley City Mosque on Friday that drew about 100 people leaving midday prayers. [….] The fight started with a conflict between a 26-year-old man and a juvenile, as the crowded parking lot emptied. The 26-year-old had a box cutter, and another man drew a knife to defend the juvenile, starting the fight.
Frankly, My Dear
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here are Hot Butter performing Popcorn (1972, 2:31), which we were reminded of here in the SDA LNR studios by listenter EBD ~ thanks for the tip 😉
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Fire. Them. All.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
August 10, 2008
Dear Mr. Lemire:
This letter is to report the results of our investigation of your Privacy Act complaint against the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). You stated in a letter received in our office on July 8, 2008, that the CHRC failed to grant you access to personal information you sought to obtain under the Act.
Our investigation confirmed that the CHRC received your request for access to your personal information on April 18, 2008. … On May 15, 2008, the CHRC refused you access to the requested information …
… The investigation confirmed that the transcribed transcripts of this hearing was under the control of the CHRC at the time of your request and, as such, the CHRC was required to process it and provide you with your personal information where it exists, subject to exemptions.
Under the circumstances, I am of the view that your complaint that the CHRC denied you access to personal information is well-founded and the CHRC has been so informed….
Section 41 of the Privacy Act provides a right to apply to the Federal Court of Canada for review of the decision of a government institution to refuse to provide access to personal information. (goes on to describe the Federal Court Appeal process, etc)
Yours sincerely,
(signed)
Joyce McLean
Acting Director General
Investigations and Inquiries Branch
This is the same trial transcript the Canadian Human Rights Commission claimed didn’t exist but then “doctored” and shopped around to journalists in an attempt to cover their lies.
Michael Coren
The only reason he will never be hauled before a Human Rights Commission is that they are fully aware that he’d reach across the interrogators’ table, pull off their heads, and yank their lungs out through the hole.
All the while, quoting Leviticus.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is The Case of the Persistent Beggars episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective (1947, 24:54), brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser. (If you like this sort of stuff, this one is a classic welfare protection racket case, fronted by supposedly legitimate citizens. Sound familiar?)
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
David Orchard Wins Liberal Nomination In Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River
(Related – it’s been quite the month for Liberal candidates!) h/t
CTV And The Case Of The Disappearing Headline
I Try To Use My Power Only For Good
I have been blogging since May 2004 and in that time I have been linked to by a number of prominent bloggers. I have even been Insta-lanced by Instapundit when I hosted the Red Ensign Bloggers, I have been linked to by Time Magazine and the NY Times on their websites, but in all that time, I have never experienced anything like the last 24 hours after Kate McMillan linked to me on her blog Small Dead Animals.
Have You Seen This Painting?
Going through some old photos this morning, I came upon this snapshot of an oil painting that was “borrowed” from the art department wall of a now defunct sign company in Saskatoon at around the time I ended work there… (The name of the company was A.G. Neon Art.)
I did the piece as a teenager (from a magazine photo), and while it has no actual value, I’d still like it back. If one of you in this relatively large audience has spotted it in your travels, please send me an email (or mail to the address here). It’s a longshot, but you never know.
I’m not interested in anything more than the painting’s return – so no questions asked.
Give Us The Child For 12 Years And They Will Be A Socialist Forever*
(h/t to KS for the photo)
*
“Note that there is no reference to this on key pages on the College’s website”
Forwarded via email;
The Ontario College of Physicians and surgeons has posted a draft policy that has the potential to have a serious adverse impact on the exercise of freedom of conscience by physicians. It appears that this policy was posted on 26 June, 2008, without a news release to announce it. The deadline for responses is 15 August, 2008. I learned of this today as a result of a call from a concerned physician.
I will be e-mailing and faxing the College to ask that the deadline be extended, as most of the people most likely to be affected are probably unaware of this. It is unreasonable to post such an important document at the beginning of summer, without an announcement, and allow only six weeks for responses. The College could not have been unaware that groups like Canadian Physicians for Life would want to review and comment on the document.
From the news release;
The document responds to legislative changes, which, according to the Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, will see a twenty-fold increase in hearings before the Tribunal – from 150 to 3,000 cases per year.
According to the College, the Tribunal may take action against a physician who refuses to provide or refer for procedures that he finds morally objectionable. The College strongly suggests that the physician’s freedom of conscience and religion will be ignored because “there is no defence for refusing to provide a service” in such circumstances.
In addition to the possibility of prosecution by the Human Rights Tribunal, the College states that it will consider the Human Rights Code in adjudicating complaints of professional misconduct, even though the College admits that it lacks the expertise and authority in human rights.
This Is Our Moment
“…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
More!
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is Judy Coder performing her Yodeling Medley that won her the Western Music Association’s International Yodeling Champion award (3:09).
For those of you who enjoy yodelling, our previous SDA LNR features thereto included: Franzl Lang (Einen Jodler hör i gern), Bobbejaan Schoepen (The Cannonball Yodel), and, of course, Johnny Cash & Louis Armstrong (Blue Yodel No. 9).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
I Miss Him Already
“We’ll see your Georgia and raise you Poland.”
In Washington, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the purpose of the system “is to protect our European allies from any rogue threats such as a missile from Iran” and “in no way is the missile defense aimed at Russia.”
Perino said she “couldn’t say” whether Russia’s attacks in Georgia spurred today’s final action on the agreement.
Fire. Them. All.
A year ago, this August 7, 2008 letter from Paul Fromm (which better explains what I have written above) would probably have had no significant impact on a CHRT hearing, but today it is causing amazing reactions.
As a start, for the first time in its history, the CHRC is backing off a Section 13 that they have taken all the way to a scheduled hearing. The CHRC responded to the Paul Fromm letter with two letters of their own to the CHRT informing the tribunal that it (the CHRC) would no longer be prosecuting this case and that they would not be attending the August 18 hearing in Hamilton.
But the hearing chairman, Athanasios Hajis, is not going to let them off the hook so easily. In a reply letter Mr. Hajis told the CHRC that he expects them to appear at the hearing and he expects them to explain exactly why they are backing out at this last possible hour.
[see pdf’s at the link]