Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
BBC, Oct.19th – Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”. He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was “no plan B”. World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty.
IBD, Nov.13th – Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close ally of the Obama administration, said today that the U.S. is not likely to have anything substantial to show for itself by the time the president goes to the international climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month.
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World Rabbit Shortage Narrowly Averted
Related: As winter approaches, new hope for a nervous Sweden.
(Next on the research horizon: wings for flies)
Triggered memories in the comments:
I’m having a PTSD moment.
When I was in high school, my sister had a pet bunny called Hershey. He would ambush me every morning as I stumbled, half-asleep, blurry-visioned and vulnerable, down the hall to the bathroom to have a pee, and, despite my increasingly frantic and determined evasive maneuvers, he far too often succeeded in locking his little paws around my ankle and lightning-humping one or the other of my bare and defenseless feet, leaving me to start the day feeling violated, defiled, and mildly disturbed, with warm bunny sploo between my toes.
Why didn’t you just wear slippers, you might ask. Well, I tried wearing slippers, but found that the shameful effluent was easier to fully rinse from a naked foot than to remove from a fabric or sheepskin slipper. Further, the bunny gunk had a distinctive and lingering odour which I found strident and unpleasant – might merely have been associative, but the aversive quality of the smell was, for me, very real – and I always felt that a phantom whiff of it hovered around even the most scrupulously cleaned slipper, and so many otherwise perfectly good slippers were discarded for a perceived rabbit-jack miasma during that trying time.
To this day, whenever I smell rabbit semen, I am transported back to that dimly-lit hallway and the confusing and stressful period during which I was treated as a masturbation aid by that predatory, conscienceless, nasty little lagomorph.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
ACORN Volunteer Community Organizer:
So the main thing what happened is when Obama ran we did a, we didn’t never say who we were going to run for but it sort of undercover that we were going to put Obama in … We never declared because we have to be non-partisan our national organization. But, it was sort of like under the grapevine we knew we were going to put in Obama.
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Fort Hood shrinkwrapped…
…and Krauthammered. More.
Update thought: Imagine a doctor, of German origin, in the Canadian Army in 1944 speaking favourably of the Herrenvolk and the Reich’s need for Lebensraum.
Chicago Didn’t Get The Olympics …
But New York City gets the circus!
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described [*!] mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early Friday.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
* Alleged!
Speaking of Sheikh Jihadi Extreme Makeover….
I knew I’d seen that face before!
Y2Kyoto: A Lie Gets Halfway Around The World
Before the College of Physicians and Surgeons have a chance to get their pants on;
The investigator discovered, instead, that Dr. O’Connor’s public statements about the health of Fort Chipewyan’s residents contained “mistruths, inaccuracies and unconfirmed information.”
He had reported five cases of a rare bile duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma in the community of 1,200. There were two. The doctor had told reporters of a man who had died of colon cancer at the young age of 33. It was fiction. “No patient died at age 33 from colon cancer as reported by Dr. O’Connor,” says the report.
“These weren’t misdiagnoses; they were diagnoses that never occurred,” says Hakique Virani, one of the three Health Canada physicians who lodged the original complaint with the college. “Our concern was, this is a guy who is saying there are a huge number — five in a community that small is a huge number — of rare cancers and there were outward associations being drawn between environmental concerns and cancers.
“Basically you’re telling a group of people that you’re likely to get these rare cancers and there’s nothing you can do about it because of the place you live, the water that you drink and the food that you eat. If it’s true, you’re darn-straight to advocate. If not, you’re really abusing the trust of an entire community.”
CPSA Investigation Report (pdf)
h/t Mario
They Miss W.
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
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“We live in strange, strange times indeed.”
h/t Robert W.
Related – What Bush Inherited
Columbia Journalism Snafu
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:33:57 -0500
From: mike hoyt
Reply-To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
Subject: Fort Hood and secondhand information/CJR
Dear reader,
We have some good stuff today on CJR.org, the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review:
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The Fort Hood Massacre: Be first or be right? Greg Marx measures the ripples of a story that a Texas paper ran with secondhand info that turns out to be wrong
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/when_is_news_fit_to_print.php
Oops…
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:05:30 -0500
From: mike hoyt
Reply-To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
Subject: Fort Hood/error
Dear reader,
Our earlier e-mail message about this story said that the secondhand information in question turned out to be wrong. That is not accurate.
Apologies,
The editors
The Fort Hood Massacre: Be first or be right? Greg Marx measures the ripples of a story that a Texas paper ran with secondhand info
Lots of heat in the CJR comments.
The First American Prime Minister In Retreat
I bet Boston is looking better by the day.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Johnny Cymbal and the boys performing Mr. Bass Man, with Ronnie Bright (from The Valentines) on bass, in 1963 (2:39). Johnny was born in Scotland, he was adopted by Nikolas Cymbal (who was a Polish national and a member of the Free Polish Forces stationed in Scotland during World War II), they emigrated to Canada, and then Johnny moved to Cleveland, where he first worked with Sid Lawrence at the age of 13. And the rest, as they say, is history. |
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Dinka Dinka Canuckistan!
It’s time for the Infidel Blogger Awards, recognizing “the very best in Non-“Canadian Human Rights Commission” approved blogging & punditry and of course further our goal of offending the Kommissars of the Human Rights Kult and their politically correct enablers in the MSM, Judiciary, NGO community & Government.”
Des Redondance Redundancy
Great moments in unilingualism.
(taken on my way to Minot yesterday.)
I Miss W.
The Lesson of the Taliban: an impoverished third world government can nurture and enable an attack on the financial and military centers of the most powerful nation the world has ever known – and emerge victorious.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
“President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday. ”
Just something that occurred to me today while trying to cross Fifth Ave in Manhattan during the Veteran’s Day Parade:
The towers fell in New York on 9/11/01, Kabul fell to American led forces on 11/14/01. That’s 65 days.
President Obama’s hand-picked replacement commander in Afghanistan, GEN McChrystal, delivered his Afghanistan war plans to President Obama on 8/30/09, and President Obama hasn’t acted on his General’s recommendations as of today, 11/11/09. That’s 73 days, and waiting.
Related: Did he call in the cavalry? More to the point – would you put it past him?
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Washington Post, 2005 – “[Bush’s] comments drew sharp criticism yesterday from opponents of the theory, who said there is no scientific evidence to support it and no educational basis for teaching it. Much of the scientific establishment says that intelligent design is not a tested scientific theory but a cleverly marketed effort to introduce religious — especially Christian — thinking to students. Opponents say that church groups and other interest groups are pursuing political channels instead of first building support through traditional scientific review.”
TIME, 2009 – While most scientists would write off the [Large Hadron Collider] event as a freak accident, two esteemed physicists have formulated a theory that suggests an alternative explanation: perhaps a time-traveling bird was sent from the future to sabotage the experiment. Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have published several papers over the past year arguing that the CERN experiment may be the latest in a series of physics research projects whose purposes are so unacceptable to the universe that they are doomed to fail, subverted by the future. […] The theory as to why the universe rejects the creation of Higgs bosons is based on complex mathematics, but, Nielsen tells TIME, “you could explain it [simply] by saying that God, in inverted commas, or nature, hates the Higgs and tries to avoid them.”
h/t Revnant Dream
Don’t Go Giving Them Ideas
“What if I directed my firefighters to smash in the door of a residence in Pelham and confiscate all the matches, lighters, candles and the four liters of gasoline kept for the lawn mower, then displayed these items on a table for maximum effect, and called a press conference at which I explained that the community was safer because we had removed items that could be used to start fires?”
Published This Month In The Journal Of We’ve Run Out Of Stuff To Study
But not out of taxpayers’ money!
Researchers from University College London reviewed all the existing studies on cosmetic labial surgery – which generally involves reducing the amount of tissue that protrudes from the lips which cover the vagina….
Cries For Help: A Brief History
When Padraic O’Brian bombed a restaurant in London with massive loss of life, the media was puzzled. “True, he used to go to IRA rallies,” said a cousin, “and he would rant for hours about how the British invaders should be wiped out” but the media reported that this had nothing to do with this attack which was caused by his psychological problems. As he fired at pursuing police, O’Brian yelled: “Up the republic!”
The Guardian reported: “His Irish identity and political views had nothing to do with the motives for this tragic act.” The newspaper urged that the main lesson coming out of this event was the need to fight more firmly to ensure that Northern Ireland was handed over to the Irish Republic and that Israel be wiped off the map.
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It’s been hard not to notice in the last few years that women are disproportionately represented among the group of conservatives who take courageous stands and give no quarter to useful idiots. For some reason, conservative women like Sarah Palin, Kate, Kathy Shaidle, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter and many others – and even Democrats like Camille Paglia – are more likely than the men-folk to step to the front lines, and less likely to waffle and beat around the bush and pointlessly split hairs when important issues are being addressed.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in tribute to the women who continue to change the terms of the debate, we present a song about a strong woman who takes control of her own life by changing – to an invigoratingly epic degree – that which needs to be changed. Here’s Lucinda Williams in a live performance of Changed The Locks. Turn it up.
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