Maxine Waters is top Democrat on the House Financial Service Committee.
h/t betacamsp
Free Bill Whatcott!
If the Court is inclined to wink at the state’s traditional need to prove its case, it is not so indulgent of the defendant. As anyone who follows the workings of human rights tribunals can attest, they are a strange parody of ordinary criminal courts. Not only is it no defence that the accused had an honest belief in what he said: it is not even a defence that it is factually true. Here, too, the Court is at peace. As the decision primly advises, “truth may be used for widely disparate ends.” I cannot quite believe I am reading these words, even now.
Consider this your open thread on the “decision”.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: Between 2000 and 2010, the [California Teachers Association] spent more than $211 million to influence California voters and elected officials. That is more money than the oil, tobacco and hospital industries combined. . . .
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Say what you want about Nixon – at least he was man enough to do his own dirty work.
More here: Yeah, I Got the Abusive Treatment From the WH and the Same ‘You Will Regret This’ Threat
It’s Probably Nothing
This morning’s news has been brought to you by John Maynard Keynes;
Greece is facing a serious shortage of medicines amid claims that pharmaceutical multinationals have halted shipments to the country because of the economic crisis and concerns that the drugs will be exported by middlemen because prices are higher in other European countries.
Hundreds of drugs are in short supply and the situation is getting worse, according to the Greek drug regulator. The government has drawn up a list of more than 50 pharmaceutical companies it accuses of halting or planning to halt supplies because of low prices in the country.
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Separately, it was announced on Tuesday that the Swiss Red Cross was slashing its supply of donor blood to Greece because it had not paid its bills on time.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
The battle to remove Redman – paid $194,737 in tax-free remuneration in 2011, including $174,862 from Standing Buffalo, $13,375 from the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) and $6,500 from the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs Inc. – has already been an arduous and nasty one for the senators.
Their efforts to impeach Redman and five other band council members – whose total remuneration was close to a million dollars in 2011 – have been now been abandoned in favour of a plan to hold a March 16 election for chief and council. Nominations occurred on the weekend, but had to be held outside in the cold. Someone had placed chained padlocks on the community centre, bingo hall and school.
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Questions by the senators as to why it was necessary for the chief and council members to claim per diems for 700 to 800 meetings that significantly padded their remuneration remain unanswered.
I Amuse Myself
And named it “Washington” MT @mpoppel Astronomers find sphere 2 million miles across, spinning near speed of light tinyurl.com/bph8t3u
— katewerk (@katewerk) February 27, 2013
Y2Kyoto: If You Don’t Believe In Global Warming
Just look out your window: Northern Hemisphere Sets New, All-Time Record Cold Temperature: -96.1°F In Oymyakon Siberia…
Reader Tips
One of the biggest advantages to being completely tone-deaf is that it allows you to feel proud of your remarkable multi-octave vocal range..
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
“Very senior person” at White House emailed Bob Woodward “you’re going to regret doing this,” says Woodward live now on @cnn.
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) February 27, 2013
Progressive Piggies
After all, some animals are more equal than others–scroll down. At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
…Think of the Canadian Leftist dynasty of David Lewis, Stephen Lewis and Avi Lewis. A family history that charts Leftism’s arc from plausibly misguided idealism to grubby featherbedding quite well.
By viewing the Left as aspiring quasi-hereditary aristocrats, their self-interest becomes perfectly logically. They despise capitalism because it is a threat to their power and influence. They like money because it reinforces their privilege, power and comfort…
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“What was the process for getting dressed?”
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Heh.
“That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time”
The famous investigative journalists are always the last to notice.
CBC Fruit Fly Guy
When we first arrived we were welcomed, asked how long we’d like with the good doctor and where we should set up our shot. When it was revealed we represented Sun News, we were no longer welcome.
David Suzuki didn’t just refuse to speak to us. He refused to appear altogether, sending a handful of hostile event organizers to remove us from the premises. They would, eventually, but not before creating a real drama in front of a real audience that exposed the real nature of David Suzuki.
After much debate and my reiterating I would be staying to ask a question, one of the event-organizers-turned-Suzuki-mandated-attack-dogs turned to the sizable crowd, incensed that I wouldn’t leave quietly, and yelled for someone to call 911 – help! A reporter is trying to do her job!
No one did anything except Green Party leader Elizabeth May (who was at the event as a moderator) who got up, ran across the floor and pleaded for me to be allowed to stay, yelling to the organizer: “Only Rob Ford calls 911 on the media!”
Credit where it’s due. Good for her.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Coping with surplus wind power will cost Ontario electricity ratepayers up to $200 million a year if market rules don’t change, says the power system operator.
Moreover, it says, if it can’t control the flow of wind and solar power onto the Ontario grid, then “reliable and economic operation of the power system is, at best, highly compromised and likely not feasible.”
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When there’s more power than the system can handle, the IESO sells it to neighbouring provinces and states — sometimes at a loss, and sometimes actually paying them to take it.
No worries, there’s plenty of wood in the Greenbelt.
h/t AK
Blue State
“The Illinois Lottery bounced dozens of checks written to winners, many for scratch-off tickets worth $1,000.”
Doug Christie
A free speech champion in the fight of his life: Doug Christie, 66, has been admitted to Royal Jubilee Hospital and in a Monday telephone interview, confirmed doctors have told him he has cancer in his liver and about six months to live.
Audio of his Feb. 26 interview on John Gormley Live here.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
All is unfolding according to plan;
“The thing is, and this isn’t race bating or racism in the least bit, but because African Americans in the 70′s and 80′s were more single parent house holds than their Caucasian counterparts, most African American women today were raised not only without 2 parents around, but are fully convinced they don’t need a man. we kinda like have a 20 year head start on this whole feminism thing.
Black women have been telling black men they aren’t s**t, weren’t s**t and never will be S**T well before their Caucasian counterparts thought it was cool.”
Except for maybe the “fat” part. (h/t EBD)