And, if that’s not enough to cheer you up – “I’d say we are in the eye of the deflationary storm.” Enjoy!
Preceded By A Swift Execution
French president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed that leaders of nations that transfer nuclear material to terrorist groups should face trial in an international court under UN authority.
Related – “You know we’re in trouble when the president of France makes more sense on national security than the president of the United States.”
“Are you unhappy to see me…”
“…or is that just a Lula wet spot on your pocket?”
Alternate: “Scold all you like, but…”
By popular request, your caption contest, VRWC Edition.
Gained In Translation
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose! – Revisited…
The rate of unilingualism among francophones is 58 per cent. Among anglophones, it was 90.6 per cent. Among allophones, 87.9 per cent.
Thus, according to the conventional wisdom as enunciated by Graham Fraser, the overwhelming majority of Canadians should never be considered for any of Canada’s top jobs.
h/t John D.
Y2Kyoto: An Inconvenient Ambush
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
More people have been killed by Oregon’s windmills than died at Three Mile Island;
Today, 20 percent of America’s electricity, and 69 percent of its carbon-free generation of electricity, is from nuclear plants. But it has been 30 years since America began construction on a new nuclear reactor.
France gets 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear power; China is starting construction of a new reactor every three months. Meanwhile, America, which pioneered nuclear power, is squandering money on wind power, which provides 1.3 percent of the nation’s electricity: it is slurping up $30 billion of tax breaks and other subsidies amounting to $18.82 per megawatt-hour, 25 times as much per megawatt-hour as the combined subsidies for all other forms of electricity production.
Wind power involves gargantuan “energy sprawl.” To produce 20 percent of America’s power by wind, which the Obama administration dreamily proposes, would require 186,000 tall turbines—40 stories tall, their flashing lights can be seen for 20 miles—covering an area the size of West Virginia. The amount of electricity that would be produced by wind turbines extending the entire 2,178 miles of the Appalachian Trail can be produced by four reactors occupying four square miles of land.
An Ounce Of Google
Is worth a pound of cure.
h/t Glengarrian
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello performing Billy Strayhorn‘s Take The ‘A’ Train ¤ §, in 1966 (9:50).
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Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“[The] Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, TX, dismantled a months-old pay wall after its traffic collapsed by some 40%.”
Proving yet again that Marshall McLuhan was an idiot.
The medium is not the message.
The message is the message.
Les Party Des Tea!
Faster, s’il vous plaît!
I’ve been waiting for this for a year, and now it’s here: the Tea Party has come to Canada! If 50,000 Quebecers are marching in the street against big government tax-and-spend policies, then there’s hope for the free world. PM Harper, I hope you’re listening: Canadians want change, Canadians want smaller government.
“Beached B.C. whale given traditional native funeral”
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
The Times article reported on Obama’s March 1983 article “Breaking the war mentality.” The Times noted that in the article Obama railed against discussions of “first-versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
In his article Obama praised the nuclear freeze movement and celebrated the work of two groups: Arms Race Alternatives and Students Against Militarism. By Obama’s description of them, the groups were among the “useful idiots” promoting the Soviet line on Reagan’s build-up: “These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are shifting their weight into throwing America off the dead-end track.”
Obama expressed and dismissed a possible reservation regarding the “narrow focus” of the groups, citing the deep wisdom of Peter Tosh that “everybody’s asking for peace, but nobody’s asking for justice.” Heavy, man.
Reader ET spots a pattern;
He uses an IF-THEN apocalyptic framework. If you don’t do what he wants, THEN, an terrible apocalpyse will result. He’s quite successful in this.
IF you don’t pass his stimulus bill, THEN, the US and even the world economy will collapse.
He got Congress to pass this – without reading or debating it..and we now find it’s nothing but a pork filled patronage mess that’s irrelevant to jobs.
IF you don’t pass his health care bill, THEN, 40 million Americans will die.
He got Congress to pass this…by using backroom bribes, pay-offs, and political deals…and it has nothing to do with providing better health care.
Now, he’s..into another one:
IF you don’t pass his nuclear weapons reduction, THEN, the terrorists will steal these weapons and use them against you.
Related – “Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) said conversations with Senate colleagues have left him unsure that there are the required 67 votes to ratify the new START treaty signed by President Obama last week in Prague.”
(Via)
SDA Gets Results!
“As I evolved politically, I stopped watching political TV shows because of their bias….”
Y2Kyoto: We’re Winning
First comment:“Go to hell, David.” (Well, it was the first comment. It’s since been “disappeared”.)
The new-vehicle regulations are good for the environment and the economy – but people who don’t plan to buy new cars can also reduce their driving-related impact on the environment. Maintaining and driving a vehicle efficiently can make a big difference. Of course, the best way to reduce fuel consumption is to get out of your car. Walking, cycling, or using public transit mean fewer cars spewing emissions and less gridlock, which causes pollution as cars waste fuel while idling.
Perhaps he’s heard about David Suzuki’s real estate footprint?
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the oldest symphony orchestra in the world, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, performing Johannes Brahms‘ Symphony N° 3, II, III, & IV, in F Major, Op. 90, Kurt Masur conducting, from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, in 1991 (33:30). This is, I think, overall, an excellent performance and presentation: audio, video, & production. (It’s also nice to see an audience that knows how to wait for a tune to properly end before applauding.) If you’re short of time, you might like to start reception of this transmission at the beginning of part III, and then, of course, things really take off in part IV.
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Whose “Cide” Are You On, Whitegirl?
Chinamen
What could possibly go wrong?
The right stuff
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about who should be appointed as our next governor-general. Rick Hansen would be terrific, in my opinion, but L. Ian MacDonald has come up with an inspired suggestion: Clara Hughes.
Assuming she’d be willing to take on the role, I think she’d be an absolutely brilliant choice. She’s a real light in this world, and she exemplifies Canadians’ best historic qualities: decency, hard work, courage, kindness, integrity, spirit, and a thoroughgoing modesty.
What do you think? Who else would be a good pick?
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Harvesting the taxpayer;
What hasn’t received national attention is the stunning taxpayer subsidized profits the developer is expecting to reap from the [Cape Cod] project. A study by the Massachusetts based Beacon Hill Institute found that the proposed $1 billion dollars in subsidies from the project would contribute to a nearly 25% return on equity by investors – more than twice the average historical for return for all corporations. Add taxpayers to that list of groups opposed to the project.
h/t Manotick
Reader Tips
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Stewart Francis performing his Stand-Up Comedy ¤ on For One Night Only (8:24). |
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