Via Kate, here’s some great footage of some dedicated and intensely eager dogs in action.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Via Kate, here’s some great footage of some dedicated and intensely eager dogs in action.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
In the Washington Post, one for the “No, it’s not April 1st” files:
Getting closer to being a truly *classless* society:
“A Eugene woman is speaking out after she and her family accidentally stumbled upon a topless protest outside City Councilor George Poling’s house. The woman says she was taking her six and eight year old boys out to look at Christmas lights when she saw a group of topless women, with bags over their heads and red paint on their bodies…It’s the second protest outside Poling’s house by Occupy Eugene members.
“‘My 6-year-old asked if they had been beaten and why were they bloody… were the masks covering up bloody faces, he didn’t know they were masks, he thought maybe they were bandages,’ said the woman wanting to remain anonymous. ‘They were terrified that they were going to follow us….’
Dogs were awesome!!
Beautiful dogs!Great vid!
Recommended: Jim Goad takes a look at a virtually all-black area of Atlanta known as The Bluff, and asks an honest and highly un-PC question.
Speaking of Dogs (Repeat tip):
5 Of the Most Badass Soldiers Ever (Happened to be Dogs)
.
The Graduate: Why Should Everyone Else Pay for Other People’s Dumb (and Hedonistic) Career Choices
Here’s the secret: He cannot make a living because the market for people with degrees in linguistics and in Oriental philosophy is limited. He should have known that. Someone should have told him that. The calculation of practicality should have been made. It wasn’t.
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/01/02/the-graduate-why-should-everyone-else-pay-for-other-peoples-dumb-and-hedonistic-career-choices-2/
I can practically guarantee that 12 months from now, the referenced post will be one of the most ludicrous of the year…
2012 – Year of Recovery
And a New Year bonus:
10 Most Corrupt American Politicians of 2011
Dogs in all their majesty… (sigh)
If one does not need even a high school degree then simply hire the first guy one sees off the street.
Unbelievable.
Murray Dobbin, hyperventilating in The Tyee, is Exhibit A for the existence of Harper Derangement Syndrome:
“As we enter the new year, the prospects for defeating the Harper government in 2015 seem uncertain at best. And yet if those who care about the country were musing over a new year’s resolution, that would be it, a dedication to this single overarching purpose…”
Inhale deeply, hold your breath for five seconds, then exhale:
“That this is an extraordinary, indeed unprecedented situation facing our democracy can scarcely be doubted, and many commentators normally supportive of the status-quo (like Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail) have identified pieces of the picture, denouncing Harper for particular policies, or outrages against democracy and the rule of law. Yet the true magnitude of the crisis we face is rarely declared. Until we begin to see the country — and talk about it — as if it has been occupied by a foreign power, we will not create the political atmosphere needed to save the nation…”
Like, wow, man.
From one of the like-minded commenters:
““Murray: Thank you for your statesmanlike essay…”
Three days ago North Korea’s National Defense Commission released a statement titled “We will settle accounts with south Korean group of traitors for their thrice-cursed crimes.”
Excerpts:
“(The army and the people of the DPRK’s) sorrow over the loss was so bitter and unbearable that the whole country has plunged into a sea of tears and even the mountains, rivers, plants and trees seemed to wail. This is because our Kim Jong Il was the great leader recognized by the world, iron-willed brilliant commander who defeated even formidable enemies and benevolent father who brought up the service personnel and people under his loving care.
“Not only the Korean people but the whole world will more keenly realize as the days go by what great and distinguished man they lost…”
On the lack of plaudits and condolences coming from the South Korean government:
“Expressing condolences and sending condolatory messages have been good manners and customs and ethical tradition peculiar to the Korean nation from ancient times. It is for this reason that we brand the evil deeds of the traitorous group as treason bereft of elementary human reason and morality….To keep company with them is a disgrace for the clear and honest-minded Korean nation as they are ignorant of politics and vulgar in morals and lack elementary human nature.”
“We will surely settle accounts with the group of traitors for their hideous crimes committed at the time of the great national misfortune.”
From Paul Krugman’s “Nobody Understands Debt“, in the NYT:
I saw awesome dogs in action today as well.
They were making puppies. Lots, lots of puppies.
Monday, 2 Jan 2012, Globe and Mail. Michael Higgins.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/too-many-sociologists-just-enough/article2287669/
“But here’s an idea: a social sciences and humanities education as a corrective to political tyranny.”
“… there are as many sociologists as it takes to keep us free.”
There’s just one problem with that theory: almost every idiotic example of political correctness on campus comes straight from the f**king sociology department.
And the totalitarian destroyers of the modern world – Kant, Hegel and Marx – are a big part of “humanities education”.
George Monbiot:
“That sleighbell winter? It’s all part of climate change denial
The tabloids’ forecast of Siberian weather has been forgotten. Unlike their treatment of the Met Office barbecue summer”
…-
“Travel chaos as storms lash Britain — live updates
“Trains delayed and motorists warned against unnecessary journeys as 85mph winds and heavy rain hit the UK, with severe weather warnings issued for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
the religion of peace shows it’s peacefulness…again
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/03/63323280.html
(Voice of Russia) — In Dushanbe, a young man, dressed as Santa Claus, was killed by a mob of young people, shouting accusations of “infidel,” as a senior source in the Tajik Interior Ministry disclosed.
“The young man had decided to congratulate his relatives dressed up in a Santa Claus outfit. When he approached the door of his house, he was attacked by a mob of about 30 young people, shouting, “Tu kofiri” (“Infidel”), who inflicted on Parviz numerous stab wounds from which he died in the hospital,” — said the source.
The authorities have admitted the fact that 24-year old Parviz Davlatbekov had been murdered, but deny that it was entirely motivated by religious hatred. “We acknowledge the fact of a murder having been committed, but we regard it as a domestic crime,” — Tajik Interior Ministry Chief of Staff, Gen. Tohir Normatov told journalists.
On New Year’s Eve, December 30, the head of the Ulema Council of Tajikistan Saidmukarram Abdukodirzoda told reporters that decoration of Christmas trees, dancing and games around it are alien to the Tajik culture and contrary to the laws of Islam.
“*But westward, look, the land is bright!”
“– if they haven’t done so already –”
…-
“Tories may be new ‘natural’ governing party as west rises”
“If any more evidence were necessary, the results of the last federal election and the addition of more House of Commons seats in the next one have made it clear that the Canadian centre of political gravity has shifted to the point where it will no longer be possible to govern without significant electoral support west of Ontario. This shift has followed the westward movement in Canada’s centre of economic gravity.”
“I’m generally quite skeptical about narratives in which economic trends are used to explain electoral outcomes. But when you combine the fact that the Conservatives’ dominance of the western provinces has remained unchallenged for half a century with the economic trends that contribute to the increased demographic weight of the West, it’s easy to see why so many pundits are expecting that the Conservatives will replace the Liberals — if they haven’t done so already — as Canada’s Natural Governing Party.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/stephen-gordon/tories-may-be-new-natural-governing-party-as-west-rises/article2289603/
“*And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!”
AH Clough
Socialism’s mighty omnipresent propaganda/brain-washing megamachine breaks up.
…-
“Subsidy cuts put Italy’s newspapers at risk”
“Sleeping bags and mattresses are stacked up in the newsroom of Liberazione where journalists are staging a new year occupation to save their communist daily – one of perhaps 100 titles facing closing as Mario Monti’s government of technocrats implements stringent cuts in public subsidies for Italy’s newspaper industry.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/global-exchange/financial-times/subsidy-cuts-put-italys-newspapers-at-risk/article2287446/
well..that’s that then, the US Navy has been told…
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL6E8C30GG20120103
TEHRAN Jan 3 (Reuters) – Iran will take action if a U.S. aircraft carrier which left the area because of Iranian naval exercises returns to the Gulf, the state news agency quoted army chief Ataollah Salehi as saying on Tuesday.
“Iran will not repeat its warning … the enemy’s carrier has been moved to the Sea of Oman because of our drill. I recommend and emphasise to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf,” Salehi told IRNA.
“I advise, recommend and warn them (the Americans) over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Salehi as saying.
if the US Navy flaunt this warning they’ll be in for a furious flurry of photoshopping such as the world has never seen…or they would, but ‘bama will back down and apologize to iran in the process so it doesn’t matter.
Iran Missile Drill Results Exaggerated, Images Photoshopped
Updated: Tuesday, 03 Jan 2012, 9:54 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 03 Jan 2012, 9:36 AM EST
TEHRAN, Iran – At first, Iran claimed it had launched three long range missiles; a pronouncement at the end of ten days of war games in the Strait of Hormuz designed to test the patience of western nations as they weigh how to sanction Iran’s oil exports.
“We are able to announce that our shore-to-sea missile systems are so powerful that we can hit any target, any time, if it’s necessary” announced Habibulah Sayari, Iranian Navy Commander.
Seyyed Mahmoud Moussavi, Iranian Military Drills Spokesman, stated “Both missiles hit the intended targets successfully.”
It turned out the missiles weren’t that long range after all.
The Qhader missile, introduced in September, has a range of just 124 miles. The U.S. Navy’s fifth fleet in Bahrain is 150 miles from Iran. Israel is four times farther.
“We’ve seen that they’ve photoshopped, for example, photographs of missile tests before to make it look more impressive than it actually is, so I would take all this with a grain of salt. I think this is mainly posturing. It’s gamesmanship.
Victor Davis Hanson on Christopher Hitchens:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/286976/goodbye-mr-hitchens-victor-davis-hanson
“I miss talking to Mr. Hitchens and reading him, in a way I don’t miss most others. And I think I’ll feel the same in five or, God willing, ten or fifteen years as I do today about one of the most unusual and disconcerting people I have ever met.”
Libyan Rebel Commander Was Flotilla Terrorist A senior anti-Qaddafi rebel commander says he was among the IHH-terrorists on the Mavi Marmara who attacked IDF navy commandos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/opinion/krugman-nobody-understands-debt.html
I love that Krugman article. The solution is simple you fools! Keep borrowing 2 trillion dollars a year in perpetuity and let inflation take care of the problem! Just raise taxes too! No issue here at all. Everyone will just keep buying bonds from the US. That market can never be flooded. Interest rates will always be this low.
Imagine a world where Krugman is right. Is there a theoritical limit to how much can be blown by the US government? Who sets the limit? Why are taxes even required at all? Why not just borrow the money to pay the interest payments? Make the US government debt a NINJA loan. In his mind this would surely lead to explosive economic growth!
Where’s Da Liberal Ad$cam* book(s)?
…-
“Lawrence Martin Stephen Harper: The hockey prime minister”
“Canada’s hasn’t had many prime ministers who were good at sports or who exhibited unusual interest in athletics. None, for example, has shown Stephen Harper’s passion for hockey – or his smarts in using it to political advantage.”
“World Juniors Canada readies for world junior rematch with Russia”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
*H/Trickers Liberal Ad$cam Chretien/MartinJr/Citoyen Dionky win Bung Trophy.
Time to rev up the mighty Canadian war machine, or launch a petition or something.
http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/03/criminalizing-canada-german-enviromental-chief-wants-canada-on-the-dock-and-germany-to-bully-the-world/
Quote just received from a good friend:
Here is the moral of all human tales,
Tis but the same rehearsal of the past.
First freedom and then glory; when that fails
Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last.
And history, with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.”
– Lord Byron’s Childe Harold
SO, relax, what?
I go for this one more than Santayana’s nonsense about learning from history.
Mao Stlong’s* Expert Smog Blog.
Pulpose? to “massage down public expectations”.
…-
“China’s city dwellers to breathe unhealthy air ‘for another 20-30 years'”
“Despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution dangerous smogs will persist for decades, expert warns”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/03/china-unhealthy-air-pollution
*Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.
Ron Paul’s Soros Defense Plan
“But why would Ron Paul allow George Soros that much power and influence over America’s defense policy? There are a number of possibilities. There is the possibility that Ron Paul just didn’t know and didn’t bother to do his research. Which is not much of a recommendation for the job he’s running for. There’s another possibility that Ron Paul knew and didn’t care, that he had no objection to being part of a left-right alliance against the “American Empire” with Soros. But there’s also a third possibility.
“During the previous election, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) ran an ad praising Ron Paul for his position against the war. AAEI was an umbrella group for MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, SEIU, Americans United For Change, the National Security Network and others in the progressive bestiary. A number of those beasties were Soros groups.”
H/T Robert of Ottawa.
Only word recognizable: “spektakulär”.
From article/link cited:
“Germany’s energy sector is nearing a meltdown of unprecedented dimensions (soon to appear in English).”
(Hans, translation, please.)
“Die Energiewende ist schon gescheitert”
“Man stelle sich vor, daß einem TV-Sender ein Drehbuch über ein politisches Thema angeboten wird, dessen Inhalt sich in Kurzform etwa wie folgt liest:”
[…]
“Für die Deutschen und ihre Nachbarn sind das keine schönen Aussichten.
Eine Prognose ist jedoch zwingend: Die im Energiesektor ausufernde, die Wirtschaft schwer schädigende Plan-Misswirtschaft wird nach einigen Jahren spektakulär scheitern, weil ihre wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Kosten untragbar geworden sind. Die offene Frage ist nur, wie viele Milliarden Euro erst vernichtet werden müssen, bis eine neue Energiepolitik (eine neue Energiewende ?) den Scherbenhaufen zusammenkehrt.”
http://www.science-skeptical.de/blog/die-energiewende-ist-schon-gescheitert/006460/
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Trudeau%2Bwords%2Babout%2Baboriginals%2Bresonate/5938345/story.html
Good article on the “Aboriginal” crisis in Canada,and how it should have been dealt with forty years ago.
SDA’ers won’t like it, but Trudeau was correct in his assessment of the Indian Question.
Our CBC CEO’s pay is ? Our CBC CEO’s perks are ? Will Our CBC’s Community Team investigate Our CBC and report back?
…-
“Are Canada’s highest paid CEOs worth their salaries?
CBC.ca – 16 minutes ago
By Community Team CEOs at Magna International Inc., Research in Motion, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Quebecor and Loblaw Cos. Ltd.”
…-
“Ontario hospital CEO contracts show car, golf perks
CBC.ca – 20 minutes ago
Ontario residents are getting a first look at the contracts of hospital CEOs, revealing a wide range of benefits and retirement packages that include offers of luxury car leases, golf club memberships and even free plastic surgery.”
http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0