“There are Nazis all over Canada??!!”

Freespeechers 41 Comments

Heh.

News to me. Quick, Dawg, grab your gun and join me in fighting them today. You and I will fight the Nazi menace the only way that works: through physical force. In 48 hours, I can get a dozen people with guns, who each know another dozen people with guns, who will happily do an Inglorious Basterds on their asses.
I’m (deadly) serious.
Are you…?
Oh wait: you don’t believe in private gun ownership, which leaves you pretty dickless in this fight.
Unless there’s no need to have such a fight.
Because you and I both know you’re just talking smack about “Nazis all over Canada.”
You can’t have it both ways. If they’re real, let’s get ‘em. They’ve got to be destroyed. I’m ready. Call me. I’m in the phone book.
But they aren’t real. This fake Nazi menace is as real as those “mass graves” you keep looking for, and “fire doesn’t melt steel”, and Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t a communist, and that “DDT kills babies” shit and all the other self-aggrandizing BS you people have been foisting on us for the last century.
You’re just a moral exhibitionist with way too much time on his hands.
All that said: the minute you get in HRC shit, I, like Jay, will be there to help you out too.
Gee, we seem to be doing all the heavy lifting on our side, huh?

“We simply must accept the fact that Captain Kirk is no longer alive”*

Roadkill 24 Comments

G&M;

Another celebrity has thrown his Hollywood clout behind animal-rights activists who want the Edmonton Valley Zoo to move Lucy, a 33-year-old ailing Asian elephant, to a sanctuary.
Canadian-born actor William Shatner, best known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk on Star Trek , sent a letter to Mayor Stephen Mandel requesting that the beloved pachyderm be retired to “better circumstances.”

Via Sean, who suggests – “I’m thinking that we should let the elephant go if Shatner agrees to take her place. It’s not like anyone will notice much of a switch, except for the fact that the new elephant eats nothing but All Bran cereal and takes bigger dumps.”
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What Would We Do Without Thomas Friedman?

Great Moments In Socialism 37 Comments

Guy who lives in this house;

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power.

China’s leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.

Y2Kyoto: If It Rots Like A Duck

Climate Cult 25 Comments

BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban Ki-moon…

…standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, “100 billion tons” of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be “ice-free”. This was supported by a WWF claim that the ice is melting so fast that, by 2100, sea-levels could rise by 1.2 metres (four feet), which would lead to “floods affecting a quarter of the world”.
Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more.
[…]
Why are they all going off their heads like this, in emulation of the “projector” that Gulliver met on his travels, in the Academy of Lagado, who had designed a scheme for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers? It is because they are desperately trying to whip up alarm over global warming before December’s planned “climate treaty” in Copenhagen, when all evidence suggests that they are not going to get the successor to the Kyoto Protocol they want.

Less Carrot, More Stick

Military 7 Comments

…only recently “officials” have admitted that the new Afghanistan ROE have opened up new space for the insurgents. Now it has cost the lives of four more U.S. Marines. How many more Marines will have to die before this issue is addressed? The new ROE should have been dealt with as a classified memorandum of encouragement and understanding to consider holistic consequences of actions rather than a change to formal rules by which our Marines and Soldiers are prosecuted by courts. Yet the damage has been and continues to be done by poor decisions at the highest levels of leadership.

Via

California: Not Dysfunctional Enough!

Great Moments In Socialism 33 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Times;

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would permanently put hundreds of thousands of acres of desert land off limits to energy projects. The territory would be designated California’s newest national monument.

LA Times:

With two weeks left in the legislative session, California Democrats are hustling to fulfill a commitment they made to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pass a law to require all utilities to get a third of their power from “green” sources by 2020. […] . The main argument now is over how much of the new green power must be generated within California’s borders.

h/t Tim

Redux, Reuse, Recycle

Political Animal 40 Comments

First it was Yes We Can Do Better!
Now it’s Hope And Change You Can Believe In!

From: Brad Lavigne, NDP
Subject: Change YOU can believe in
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 3:21 PM
Change YOU can believe in
Change YOU can believe in By now you’ve heard – an election may be
called in the next 30 days. The campaign to defeat Stephen Harper starts
today.
[…]

Meanwhile, Olivia Chow is working on her biceps…
h/t Trent

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