In tonight’s Tips music we transport you to the deepest, darkest heart of Africa: first, to the banks of the mighty Zambesi, then to Zimbabwe for the traditional song Skokiaan.
Stay safe.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
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“Look at me! I’m the captain! Whoo-whoo!” This Telegraph story describes how Manrico Gimpaetroni, the captain of the cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy, steered the ship perilously close to the island of Giglio (200 yards or so, according to locals, instead of the usual distance of up to five miles) in order to toot his horn, as it were, to one of his friends, a former merchant marine, who was on the island. That’s when the ship struck a reef, tearing a huge gash in the hull.
Giampetroni is also accused of abandoning the ship while there were passengers still on board…
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/01/13/19241676.html
How can a system be so screwed up to accept that this man could walk free one day. Now that he is “healed” he should be transferred to a prison where he can serve 2 life sentences for killing his own children. Finding anyone “not guilty by reason of insanity” is insane.
Strikes me as illogical. 5 miles is a long way off course just to toot the horn and annoy the townfolk. I’ll wait for the official report.
Cross posted from last night’s Reader Tips.
I just purchased the movie “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1”, which is now available on Amazon.ca at a price of $20.99.
CBC reports that he was on course and some one moved the island.
Thanks EBD for that blast from the past. I remember it well.
Another one that came out that same year and really shook up the status quo was this one: Rock Around The Clock
Andrew Coyne’s article is the first objective piece I’ve seen on this ‘non-story’ that was blown all out of proportion by the leftist media. Oh well, most of the MSM is selling an entertainment product to lieberal urban twits, so the bias is to be expected given the metrosexual audience they play to.
PBS’ Bill Moyers: It Was The Wealthy Who Started The “Class War”…
It almost sounds like he’s campaigning for Obama reelection. http://weaselzippers.us/
When PBS is translated from the American language to Canadian English is spells CBC. It’s not surprising that he’s got it in for the wealthy and “it’s all their fault”.
Canadian Pot Board (CPB) Report.
PET Cemetery now has a pot to hiss in.
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“Liberals vote to legalize pot to renew party in the West
Vancouver Sun – 38 minutes ago
OTTAWA – A new spirit of openness and a policy in favour of legalizing and regulating pot will help breathe life into the Liberal party in Western Canada, party members said Sunday after Liberals launched a new process for the selection of a Canadian”
Stolen from Ace of Spades HQ. Some question as to whether this can possibly be real. What I wonder is, why hasn’t poor Andrew Sullivan been committed yet?
I’m with Peterj. Command of a ship of that size is not regularly given to folks prone to doing stupid things.
Mistakes happen on board ocean going ships, but rarely because someone is off on a lark.
I found a novel article about the future of the North American energy market. It starts out with fairly typical, but usually ignored, arguments about the benefits of low energy prices and the importance of the Keystone XL. To me, the most interesting part was about the possibility of turning shale gas (fracking) into methanol as an alternative to gasoline. From the too-good-to-be-true-file: Is this real or, like all other alternative energy (ethanol, bio-diesel), more crony capitalism via government regulations that has little to no benefits for customers and taxpayers?
“Natural gas can, however, be readily and cheaply converted to methanol, which in turn can be used in flex-fuel cars. This is a much faster and cheaper way to get natural gas into the vehicle-fuel market than converting cars to run on natural gas directly, as no high-pressure vehicle fuel tanks or costly compressor filling stations (which would require massive subsidies) are needed. Rather, the large majority of cars sold in the U.S. today (and for at least the past five years), including all GM and Ford vehicles, have been equipped with computers and chromated fuel lines that make them capable of flex-fuel operation. If provided with the right software, and methanol-impervious Buna-N plastic seals (costing less than 50 cents per vehicle) for their fuel systems, every new car sold in the U.S. could be fully flex-fuel, capable of running equally well on methanol, ethanol, or gasoline.”
[…]
“At our current 6 percent per year rate of increase of natural-gas production, the entirety of the needed expansion of natural-gas capacity could be developed from American sources inside of five years. The result would be the effective elimination of oil as a significant factor in our balance-of-trade deficit, the marginalization of the Islamist and other petroleum-financed tyrannies, and a worldwide advanced-sector economic boom driven by cheap oil.
We have here in North America all the resources needed to break the cartel-rigged restrictions on humanity’s liquid-fuel supply, and by so doing lead the world back to prosperity and on to freedom.” http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288115/how-reduce-oil-prices-robert-zubrin
LC Bennett:
Sure you can make methanol from natural gas. But methanol is very toxic. Being an alcohol, it’s water-soluble, so it can very easily enter the tissues of the body. You can be poisoned by ingesting it, breathing the vapours, or by skin contact.
Methanol might be OK for the very few flex-fuel vehicles on the road, but what about the vast majority of the vehicle fleet?
I’d say either use the methane as-is, in CNG vehicles, which are already running around, or find a way to link CH4 molecules into longer chains to make liquid fuels that are directly compatible with the existing vehicle fleet, and which would get more MPG than a vehicle on straight methanol.
“The behind the scenes bumbling of the hockey stick
Posted on January 16, 2012 by Anthony Watts
Mann oh Mann. Tom Nelson continues to wade through the 5000+ Climategate 2 emails. I’ve selected a few he’s highlighted in the vein of behind the scenes discussion of Dr. Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” which claimed we were living in a period of unprecedented warmth.
It seems though, that the stick isn’t nearly as robust as we have been led to believe, such as it isn’t consistently replicable by the team itself and Briffa admits the trees are more precipitation sensitive (told ya so), and besides, Mann says it all big oil’s fault anyway.
Continue reading →” http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/16/the-behind-the-scenes-bumbling-of-the-hockey-stick/#more-54804
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“Email 4993, May 2003, Michael Mann rants against unbelievers Soon/Baliunas/C. Idso/S. Idso; claims to know their motivations; somehow also knows that “NYT, Scientific American, and a few other journalists are working on exposes of Baliunas and co., and those should appear soon”
Email 4993
[Michael Mann] This is crap of the worst kind–it was written explicitly for political purposes; there is no science there at all–the mainstream media completely ignored it, having figured that out, but various right-wing groups (such as “Western Fuels Association”) have continued to try to promote this in fringe media circles and through political channels within washington DC (so the story continued to appear on web sites like “Techcentralstation” and Murdoch-supported newspapers).
I’ll forward a whole bunch of emails (in confidence) that should clarify the situation. We’ve all decided that this is so bad a direct response cannot even be made. Phil Jones and I, and Ray Bradley, Henry Diaz, and Malcolm Hughes are writing two review papers which will dismiss much of what they’ve said….
p.s. NYT, Scientific American, and a few other journalists are working on exposes of Baliunas and co., and those should appear soon. It looks like Chris Defrietas, the editor at “Climate Research” responsible for publishing the Baliunas et al piece, and numerous other dubious other awful articles by “skeptics” over the past couple years, will be dismissed as a result of this latest act.” http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/
On Sunday Jan-15-2012 at 8:00 PM CST, I read the results of Liberal Convention on CBC.CA. I posted a simple comment:
“I wonder if they discussed the aftershock of Sponsorgate.”
Does that sound offensive or abusive?
Needless to say–my comment wasn’t published.
It is now 11:25 CST. I’m going to try once more.
My Liberal friends tell me that I`m in LaLa land when I say that the CBC is the propaganda machine for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Plainzdrifter – what the world needs is ‘shadow web pages’. A CBC shadow page, for example, would allow and show all the comments that the CBC censures/deletes. Our beloved media would then have their agenda exposed big time.
Speaking of “banks of the Mighty Zambesi”, those assh*les are sending me e-mails again!
Thanks, Gord. Toxicity is an issue but since we already use it commercial products like anti-freeze it may not be a insurmountable problem. What it does shows is how all alternatives will have risks so CO2 “pollution” should never be the only consideration.
Gnarly dude!
Hey get this:
Ambassador Penn…. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ron in Kelowna!!
Thanks! They never did publish it. Imagine the nerve of those Western redneks! Mentioning Sponsorgate!!
I’ve been thinking about that for years. A lot of it (unpublished comments) does end up on here or in the Toronto Sun, etc. But I do believe we could make it fly!!
LC Bennett – Around 15 years ago, the city of Medicine Hat switched their transit buses to methanol. There’s a methanol plant in the city, and it seemed like a great idea. Trouble was, the mechanics who worked on those buses were poisoned by exposure to methanol, and because the city refused to recognise the problem, a huge lawsuit ensued. The workers were so badly brain-damaged, they never worked again. The city abandoned the project, and went back to diesel buses.
Methanol is one of the most tightly controlled substances in the oilpatch. It has to be stored in air-tight, locked containers, and you can’t even park a pickup truck in a residential area, if it has a vented tank of methanol. It’s referred to as the “sweet poison”, because of its sweet smell. It will never be a viable consumer fuel.
More cuts to the left-liberal arts. Chop! Chop!
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“As listeria scare fades, Canada cutting food safety inspections
Toronto Star – 33 minutes ago
OTTAWA—The Conservative government is planning cuts to food safety spending that the union representing federal meat inspectors warns could expose Canadians to another outbreak of food-borne illness.”
“Harper nixes premiers’ call for health innovation fund
CBC.ca – 27 minutes ago
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rejecting a separate health fund for innovation, an idea that has been floated by some of the premiers meeting Monday in Victoria.”
(goo-news)
Yikes, that’s awful, coach. We used methanol in the lab so I realize that it needs to be handled with care. Of course, we used latex gloves and fume-hoods for most of our concoctions and instructed other workers on safety procedures for the toxic/explosive chemicals. I am surprised that methanol fuel got to the commercial level without these risks being properly evaluated.
Plainsdrifter and Ron in Kelowna(so warm Kelowna),you may be onto something. I’ve been thinking of tracking my comments that I submit.They have been much better lately (cbc,not me)but still very biased.
I commented yesterday on their coverage of the lib confab. It is on the article ” Liberals choose renewal in electing Crawley” and is posted at 8:23 p.M. 2012/01/15.
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This is odd
I used the cbc search engine and typed in “conservative convention” and came up with 83 responses.
I then typed in ” liberal convention” and got 2800 responses. That is so weird,esp when you consider that the libs hold 3rd. party status.
Hmmm. Can anyone explain why that is?
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They posted it,likely because they know me,not like me, but know me. That comment received 10 replies,mainly telling me that I was wrong. I’m not .I did it twice before posting,and again today after reading the comments. “liberal convention” gets 2,780 hits,the steady “conservative convention” is still at 83.
Some of this can be explained by the fact that the libs love to get together with other liberals (think “under the rainbow”),but the cbc’s bias is evident.
“Look at me! I’m the captain! Whoo-whoo!”
This Telegraph story describes how Manrico Gimpaetroni, the captain of the cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy, steered the ship perilously close to the island of Giglio (200 yards or so, according to locals, instead of the usual distance of up to five miles) in order to toot his horn, as it were, to one of his friends, a former merchant marine, who was on the island. That’s when the ship struck a reef, tearing a huge gash in the hull.
Giampetroni is also accused of abandoning the ship while there were passengers still on board…
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/01/13/19241676.html
How can a system be so screwed up to accept that this man could walk free one day. Now that he is “healed” he should be transferred to a prison where he can serve 2 life sentences for killing his own children. Finding anyone “not guilty by reason of insanity” is insane.
Strikes me as illogical. 5 miles is a long way off course just to toot the horn and annoy the townfolk. I’ll wait for the official report.
Cross posted from last night’s Reader Tips.
I just purchased the movie “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1”, which is now available on Amazon.ca at a price of $20.99.
CBC reports that he was on course and some one moved the island.
Thanks EBD for that blast from the past. I remember it well.
Another one that came out that same year and really shook up the status quo was this one:
Rock Around The Clock
Prime Minister Harper was hit by a media mugging and a savvy lawyer.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/Andrew+Coyne+marriage+furor+divorced+from+facts/5996022/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
Andrew Coyne’s article is the first objective piece I’ve seen on this ‘non-story’ that was blown all out of proportion by the leftist media. Oh well, most of the MSM is selling an entertainment product to lieberal urban twits, so the bias is to be expected given the metrosexual audience they play to.
PBS’ Bill Moyers: It Was The Wealthy Who Started The “Class War”…
It almost sounds like he’s campaigning for Obama reelection.
http://weaselzippers.us/
When PBS is translated from the American language to Canadian English is spells CBC. It’s not surprising that he’s got it in for the wealthy and “it’s all their fault”.
Just because.
I need some Ipanema…it’s -25C outside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA
Canadian Pot Board (CPB) Report.
PET Cemetery now has a pot to hiss in.
…-
“Liberals vote to legalize pot to renew party in the West
Vancouver Sun – 38 minutes ago
OTTAWA – A new spirit of openness and a policy in favour of legalizing and regulating pot will help breathe life into the Liberal party in Western Canada, party members said Sunday after Liberals launched a new process for the selection of a Canadian”
Stolen from Ace of Spades HQ. Some question as to whether this can possibly be real. What I wonder is, why hasn’t poor Andrew Sullivan been committed yet?
I’m with Peterj. Command of a ship of that size is not regularly given to folks prone to doing stupid things.
Mistakes happen on board ocean going ships, but rarely because someone is off on a lark.
I found a novel article about the future of the North American energy market. It starts out with fairly typical, but usually ignored, arguments about the benefits of low energy prices and the importance of the Keystone XL. To me, the most interesting part was about the possibility of turning shale gas (fracking) into methanol as an alternative to gasoline. From the too-good-to-be-true-file: Is this real or, like all other alternative energy (ethanol, bio-diesel), more crony capitalism via government regulations that has little to no benefits for customers and taxpayers?
“Natural gas can, however, be readily and cheaply converted to methanol, which in turn can be used in flex-fuel cars. This is a much faster and cheaper way to get natural gas into the vehicle-fuel market than converting cars to run on natural gas directly, as no high-pressure vehicle fuel tanks or costly compressor filling stations (which would require massive subsidies) are needed. Rather, the large majority of cars sold in the U.S. today (and for at least the past five years), including all GM and Ford vehicles, have been equipped with computers and chromated fuel lines that make them capable of flex-fuel operation. If provided with the right software, and methanol-impervious Buna-N plastic seals (costing less than 50 cents per vehicle) for their fuel systems, every new car sold in the U.S. could be fully flex-fuel, capable of running equally well on methanol, ethanol, or gasoline.”
[…]
“At our current 6 percent per year rate of increase of natural-gas production, the entirety of the needed expansion of natural-gas capacity could be developed from American sources inside of five years. The result would be the effective elimination of oil as a significant factor in our balance-of-trade deficit, the marginalization of the Islamist and other petroleum-financed tyrannies, and a worldwide advanced-sector economic boom driven by cheap oil.
We have here in North America all the resources needed to break the cartel-rigged restrictions on humanity’s liquid-fuel supply, and by so doing lead the world back to prosperity and on to freedom.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288115/how-reduce-oil-prices-robert-zubrin
LC Bennett:
Sure you can make methanol from natural gas. But methanol is very toxic. Being an alcohol, it’s water-soluble, so it can very easily enter the tissues of the body. You can be poisoned by ingesting it, breathing the vapours, or by skin contact.
Methanol might be OK for the very few flex-fuel vehicles on the road, but what about the vast majority of the vehicle fleet?
I’d say either use the methane as-is, in CNG vehicles, which are already running around, or find a way to link CH4 molecules into longer chains to make liquid fuels that are directly compatible with the existing vehicle fleet, and which would get more MPG than a vehicle on straight methanol.
It would not be because they are full of it, would it..?
Mainly leftard future propaganda workers struck:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/More+than+students+infected+norovirus+outbreak+Victoria+conference/5999273/story.html
“The behind the scenes bumbling of the hockey stick
Posted on January 16, 2012 by Anthony Watts
Mann oh Mann. Tom Nelson continues to wade through the 5000+ Climategate 2 emails. I’ve selected a few he’s highlighted in the vein of behind the scenes discussion of Dr. Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” which claimed we were living in a period of unprecedented warmth.
It seems though, that the stick isn’t nearly as robust as we have been led to believe, such as it isn’t consistently replicable by the team itself and Briffa admits the trees are more precipitation sensitive (told ya so), and besides, Mann says it all big oil’s fault anyway.
Continue reading →”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/16/the-behind-the-scenes-bumbling-of-the-hockey-stick/#more-54804
…-
“Email 4993, May 2003, Michael Mann rants against unbelievers Soon/Baliunas/C. Idso/S. Idso; claims to know their motivations; somehow also knows that “NYT, Scientific American, and a few other journalists are working on exposes of Baliunas and co., and those should appear soon”
Email 4993
[Michael Mann] This is crap of the worst kind–it was written explicitly for political purposes; there is no science there at all–the mainstream media completely ignored it, having figured that out, but various right-wing groups (such as “Western Fuels Association”) have continued to try to promote this in fringe media circles and through political channels within washington DC (so the story continued to appear on web sites like “Techcentralstation” and Murdoch-supported newspapers).
I’ll forward a whole bunch of emails (in confidence) that should clarify the situation. We’ve all decided that this is so bad a direct response cannot even be made. Phil Jones and I, and Ray Bradley, Henry Diaz, and Malcolm Hughes are writing two review papers which will dismiss much of what they’ve said….
p.s. NYT, Scientific American, and a few other journalists are working on exposes of Baliunas and co., and those should appear soon. It looks like Chris Defrietas, the editor at “Climate Research” responsible for publishing the Baliunas et al piece, and numerous other dubious other awful articles by “skeptics” over the past couple years, will be dismissed as a result of this latest act.”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
Of Jimmy: stuck on stupid with the warmista Grauniad.
“Nasa scientist James Hansen says if the oil sands were exploited as projected it would be “game over for the climate”.”
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/jan/16/oil-tar-sands-canada-europe-netherlands-uk-fuel
Pretty good column in Wpg Free Press yesterday,on the angst suffered by parents of the occupy morons:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/hard-landing-for-helicopter-parents-137371238.html
(written by Petula Dvorak)
On Sunday Jan-15-2012 at 8:00 PM CST, I read the results of Liberal Convention on CBC.CA. I posted a simple comment:
“I wonder if they discussed the aftershock of Sponsorgate.”
Does that sound offensive or abusive?
Needless to say–my comment wasn’t published.
It is now 11:25 CST. I’m going to try once more.
My Liberal friends tell me that I`m in LaLa land when I say that the CBC is the propaganda machine for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Plainzdrifter – what the world needs is ‘shadow web pages’. A CBC shadow page, for example, would allow and show all the comments that the CBC censures/deletes. Our beloved media would then have their agenda exposed big time.
More obvious junk science…reveiled…or another lefty essay….?
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2012/01/16/junk_science_study_soaktherich_taxes_create_happier_nations
Speaking of “banks of the Mighty Zambesi”, those assh*les are sending me e-mails again!
Thanks, Gord. Toxicity is an issue but since we already use it commercial products like anti-freeze it may not be a insurmountable problem. What it does shows is how all alternatives will have risks so CO2 “pollution” should never be the only consideration.
and why is Haiti the poorest country in the western hemisphere. constant good decisions?
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20120116/sean-penn-accepts-haiti-ambassador-at-large-position-120116/
must be rivers of chocolate flowing here as well.
Gnarly dude!
Hey get this:
Ambassador Penn…. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ron in Kelowna!!
Thanks! They never did publish it. Imagine the nerve of those Western redneks! Mentioning Sponsorgate!!
I’ve been thinking about that for years. A lot of it (unpublished comments) does end up on here or in the Toronto Sun, etc. But I do believe we could make it fly!!
Q. What’s the difference between a womans right to choose and feticide?
A. A penis of course!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/01/13/female-feticide-editorial.html
LC Bennett – Around 15 years ago, the city of Medicine Hat switched their transit buses to methanol. There’s a methanol plant in the city, and it seemed like a great idea. Trouble was, the mechanics who worked on those buses were poisoned by exposure to methanol, and because the city refused to recognise the problem, a huge lawsuit ensued. The workers were so badly brain-damaged, they never worked again. The city abandoned the project, and went back to diesel buses.
Methanol is one of the most tightly controlled substances in the oilpatch. It has to be stored in air-tight, locked containers, and you can’t even park a pickup truck in a residential area, if it has a vented tank of methanol. It’s referred to as the “sweet poison”, because of its sweet smell. It will never be a viable consumer fuel.
More cuts to the left-liberal arts. Chop! Chop!
…-
“As listeria scare fades, Canada cutting food safety inspections
Toronto Star – 33 minutes ago
OTTAWA—The Conservative government is planning cuts to food safety spending that the union representing federal meat inspectors warns could expose Canadians to another outbreak of food-borne illness.”
“Harper nixes premiers’ call for health innovation fund
CBC.ca – 27 minutes ago
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rejecting a separate health fund for innovation, an idea that has been floated by some of the premiers meeting Monday in Victoria.”
(goo-news)
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, could be paid $40 million for PR consultancy in $18 billion judgment from an Ecuadoran court against Chevron.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/16/kerry-kennedys-undisclosed-interest-in-a-court-crusade-against-chevron/
Monte Solberg is a gifted writer. If any of you tried to get some sensible interpretation on why the Quebec Dipper crossed over, you’ll love his take on it:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/13/st-denis-jumps-ship-serenity-now
Yikes, that’s awful, coach. We used methanol in the lab so I realize that it needs to be handled with care. Of course, we used latex gloves and fume-hoods for most of our concoctions and instructed other workers on safety procedures for the toxic/explosive chemicals. I am surprised that methanol fuel got to the commercial level without these risks being properly evaluated.
Plainsdrifter and Ron in Kelowna(so warm Kelowna),you may be onto something. I’ve been thinking of tracking my comments that I submit.They have been much better lately (cbc,not me)but still very biased.
I commented yesterday on their coverage of the lib confab. It is on the article ” Liberals choose renewal in electing Crawley” and is posted at 8:23 p.M. 2012/01/15.
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This is odd
I used the cbc search engine and typed in “conservative convention” and came up with 83 responses.
I then typed in ” liberal convention” and got 2800 responses. That is so weird,esp when you consider that the libs hold 3rd. party status.
Hmmm. Can anyone explain why that is?
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They posted it,likely because they know me,not like me, but know me. That comment received 10 replies,mainly telling me that I was wrong. I’m not .I did it twice before posting,and again today after reading the comments. “liberal convention” gets 2,780 hits,the steady “conservative convention” is still at 83.
Some of this can be explained by the fact that the libs love to get together with other liberals (think “under the rainbow”),but the cbc’s bias is evident.