At no point in the history of English civilization was error-free pronunciation more important than during the Barrow Poets’ live, on-air performance of the Pheasant Plucker’s Song.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
At no point in the history of English civilization was error-free pronunciation more important than during the Barrow Poets’ live, on-air performance of the Pheasant Plucker’s Song.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Representative Henry “The Heat-Seeking Nose” Waxman (Democrat, California) says Obama should bypass congress and use an executive order to regulate household appliances.
Waxman is also reponsible for this incomprehensible comment on guns: “If someone is so fearful that they are going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have weapons at all.”
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Gah. What an idiot.
Is it wrong that a spoonerism was the first thing to come to mind?
What is this strange “reasonableness” and “dialogue” and “learning” thing?:
Gay activist and prominent anti-Chick-fil-A protest organizer exchanges correspondence with Chick-fil-A president and Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy, then meets him in person at the Chick-fil-A Bowl (football game), and then “comes out” at Huffpo as Cathy’s friend.
I think the words “Super power” have lost a bit of clout under Obama.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kerry-finally-reaches-lavrov-by-phone/475688.html
A bit of an over estimate of those billion+ rounds ordered by the DHS.
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EBD,Kate,please delete my comments at 9:01 and 9:03 under the heading “A Public Response Form Goes Horribly Wrong”. It is important. I sent an e-mail explaining why. Thanks.
Done, wallyj.
Thanks.
Your EPA at work. Watch and weep.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2000862202001/
Columnist at Kentucky’s largest newspaper writes an op-ed criticizing the publication for liberal bias, is promptly fired.
John Kerry, and from the comments, “Lurch”. Some people come up with the most perfect nicknames.
EBD @ 10:05, Henry Waxman suggesting Obama use executive orders, bypass congress and impose more environmental restrictions. Has Obama not already bypassed congress on some other issues? Executive orders, decrees, what is the difference? It seems only dictators use decrees, not? Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and others ruled by decree did they not? Sad that the Republic has degenerated to prominent public leaders advocating ruling by decree. Shades of Rome.
Europe’s socialists want the economic destruction and collapse of Europe to continue.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9877977/Ed-Miliband-visits-Denmark-for-anti-austerity-drive.html
Apparently now the neurotic status quo in the US ARRESTS children for having toy guns –
http://alextimes.com/2013/02/10-year-old-student-arrested-for-possession-of-a-toy-gun/
If this were my kid, I’d put him through private school and Harvard with the money I made suing these reactionary retards.
Who plucks figs with the fig plucker’s daughter, while the fig plucker’s daughter plucks figs?
Because the Sun News/CRTC thread is getting too long, I thought I’d ‘refresh’ things in the Reader Tips section.
Gawd I hate bureaucracies and that CRTC website is bureaucracy at it’s usual worst. Difficult to post to and if you wish to read/review any of the commentary sent to them, you first have to ‘save’ each and every one and then to open and read them individually. Then of course, you have to go into your folders to delete the saved files. Stupid.
Anyhoo, I started looking at comments randomly and in the first couple of pages I was dismayed to find virtually all of them attacking Sun News in a very lock-step, progressive way. IOW, they all had the same meme running through them – almost as if it was choreographed. Hmmph. Who’da thunk it?
However, when you get into the later pages (Feb.14 for example) you begin to see the tenor has changed – almost all of them include large files which indicate persons who have sent snail mail submissions that have been scanned so that you can see the original printed or even hand written submissions. These are much more thoughtful and respectful submissions than the earlier submissions uniformly accusing Sun News of being hateful, misogynist, racist, et al.
I am elated that so many people from across Canada have taken it upon themselves to be pro-active in defence of freedom of thought and speech! This is VERY encouraging.
Footnote: While you have to ‘save’ the electronic (on-line) submissions to the CRTC in order to view them, I found that the personalize (mailed) submissions are cached as .pdf files and that they can be opened directly.
Brilliantly sarcastic responses to completely well-meaning signs.
http://www.happyplace.com/4286/brilliantly-sarcastic-responses-to-completely-well-meaning-signs
Some side splitters there Mamba…the boys thought I finally lost my mind…
CRTC site was a bit disappointing.
No place to comment on CBC licence renewal. I guess their 300,000 viewers will get more of the same,Suzuki et al. Pity.
Ohhh yes. If they get their way they will come for your guns.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
Brilliant tune choice EBD!
Toronto Star, Sunday, Feb. 17. Article by John Millar, described as “expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca and a Clinical Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia”.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/02/17/its_time_for_canadian_governments_to_take_action_on_obesity.html
JM: “… obesity is epidemic in Canada …”
First, the proper use of the word “epidemic” refers to a communicable disease caused by a contagious organism that spreads through the population. Obesity is not caused by an organism, it is caused primarily by individual genetics and/or lifestyle choices.
Second, only capitalism is productive enough to provide more food than people need. It has been noted repeatedly that there are very few fat people in North Korea. Articles like this are usually a collateral attack on capitalism.
Ayn Rand’s quote applies equally to food: “The socialists used to claim that when their system took over, everyone would have shoes. When they discovered the truth, they declared that it was preferable to go barefoot.”
One would think that a person interested in “evidence” would be fully aware of the fact that capitalism is productive and socialism is not.
JM: “[Obesity contributes to] an increased prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic conditions. What you don’t often hear is that as a result, health-care costs keep rising, posing a threat to the sustainability of our publicly funded health-care system.”
Exactly what percentage does it contribute to these conditions? The latest thinking on heart disease, for example, is that inflammation is a major factor, and some people whose arteries have very little cholesterol blockage nonetheless suffer heart attacks.
If our public health-care system is unsustainable because of the lifestyle choices of its citizens, perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea in the first place?
The public health care system is not really about health, it’s about control of the masses.
JM: “Although at the most basic level obesity is the result of an excess of calories consumed over calories expended, the causes and solutions are highly complex involving everything from stress levels to social equality to food production and urban design. But this complexity must not continue to be a reason to do nothing.”
“There is sufficient evidence to guide governmental action — now.”
This translates as: Do something! Anything!! As long as taxpayers’ money is spent!
Nothing causes more stress than a struggle to live day-to-day, and the major contributing factor these days to economic fragility and precariousness is the continual depredations of the leftists via hare-brained regulations and other interventionist measures. All the suggestions Millar makes are of dubious efficacy and require massive wasteful bureaucracy.
I would be really interested to know how “social equality” (presumably referring to a lack thereof) contributes to obesity.
As for urban design, in old cities there is a mixture of land use that enables many people to walk to their workplace. Only when governments started regulating municipal land uses through zoning bylaws, floorspace indexing, etc., did cars become necessary to get around.
JM: (His specific suggestions are) (1) a substantial tax on sugar-sweetened beverages; (2) by regulation limit the marketing and sales of junk food and beverages, particularly to children; (3) implement a salt reduction strategy; (4) introduce a regulatory requirement for better calorie and nutrient information at the point of consumption in restaurants and other food outlets.
“But wait: is this the dreaded “nanny state” we’ve all been warned about?”
Yes, of course it is. Massive bureaucracies waste tax dollars and provide dubious results — thereby causing more stress and (according to his own claims) more obesity.
There is much debate on the effects of salt these days, and the calorie and nutrient information is already provided on most food labels.
Science provides information, often conflicting. It is the right of the individual to decide which information to believe, and to adopt his lifestyle choices accordingly.
JM: “… when the food and beverage industry makes large profits, leaving taxpayers to pick up the costs of providing health care for the victims of obesity-related disease, this is a failure of the market mechanism. It is governments’ role to take corrective measures.”
Taxpayers were not “left to pick up the costs”, the government decided to step in and appropriate the system.
The “market mechanism” is voluntary trade for mutual benefit. This, and only this, leads to a rising standard of living. Governments are not infinitely knowledgeable and wise, nor are they incapable of making mistakes. Many, even most, “corrective measures” governments have taken in the past, in all areas, have been wasteful and destructive. Government is the only institution in society that can use coercion; if government coercion could solve social problems, they would have been solved long ago.
“Public health” = nanny state.
Global Warming. . . .
might or might not be a such big deal after all.
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/allornothing.htm
Did anyone watch Dear Leader on TV this morning. He’s basically warning the American people that Congress is about to bring down the country if they don’t agree with his insane spending spree. The first thing out of his mouth was a lie and its gone down hill from there. He said that Americans don’t deserve the pain that would be brought on by “partisan recklessness”. There’s something particularly creepy about the POTUS this morning. That was an all out attack on Congress.
He also mentioned 2.6 trillion in spending cuts that he implemented. WTF, why doesn’t the media call him on this bullshit? I seriously can’t listen to him speak without getting infuriated.
Yerp.
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“Ford, Peugeot, Toyota lead Europe auto sales to new low”
“Solar panels and Europe rooftop fires a new worry”
“Cold, Storminess Aim for Much of Europe”
(accuweather & canadanewswatch)
Vote Mohammed.
It’s for the children.
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“Ottawa Notebook
Politics Today: Who will be Canada’s first ambassador for religious freedom?”
“World
Syria children among 19 killed in Aleppo missile strike: NGO”
(H/T Al-gm)
Headline in the “news” section of the National Post:
“Canadians trust Google more than Stephen Harper, survey shows.”
Put differently, “Urban, vaguely Liberal, twee marketing-types compare roasted chickens to lawnmowers, find differences in colour, texture, and taste.”
Btw, the opinions of the generic “Canadians” in the headline who trust Google more than Stephen Harper are extrapolated from a small-sample survey taken in just two cities: Toronto and Vancouver.
But it’s important stuff:
And that’s the news..
re. EBD @12:14 – Concerto Marketing Group markets itself thusly: “We are a full service, marketing research firm. We are a valued strategic consultancy. We are an experienced brand communications agency. We are all three.”
Wow! A triple threat!
“Our confidence comes from certainty.” And how do they “pursue certainty”? “with a vengeance”, that’s how! How do we know we can trust this? “definition: Con + Certo = With + Certainty”. My mind = blown! My wallet = open!
Mr. Dawson is a pro. “People trust things based on their relationship with them…”
These guys are good.
(Gotta be The Onion. Gotta be The Onion.)
PET Cemetery Report.
Our Multiculturalism Has Reached a Tipping Point.
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“Witnesses needed to help stop Toronto’s ‘senseless’ bloodshed
Toronto Sun”
“Boy, 15, gunned down in Rexdale
Toronto Sun Staff”
A reminder from Neo-AGW PR: AGW-CO2 kills.
“But winter’s not over yet.”
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“Avalanche kills heli-skier on B.C.’s Jumbo Glacier”
“Stable snowpack”
“The German man’s death was the second in B.C. this season following an avalanche.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/02/19/bc-jumbo-avalanche-skier-killed.html
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