Here’s a long form article on the day-to-day life of MP Jason Kenney. Well worth a read!
The Sound Of Settled Science
The New York Times Andrew Revkin, via No Tricks Zone;
The climate scientist James Annan sent these thoughts by email:
‘Well, the press release is a bit strange, because it sounds like it is talking about the Aldrin et al paper which was published some time ago, to no great fanfare. I don’t know if they have a further update to that.
Anyway, there have now been several recent papers showing much the same – numerous factors including: the increase in positive forcing (CO2 and the recent work on black carbon), decrease in estimated negative forcing (aerosols), combined with the stubborn refusal of the planet to warm as had been predicted over the last decade, all makes a high climate sensitivity increasingly untenable. A value (slightly) under 2 is certainly looking a whole lot more plausible than anything above 4.5.’
Lots, lots more at WUWT on the fallout.
Big Screen TV QOTW
“Dear Indians: It’s not much of a ‘genocide’ if we can still hear you bitching.”
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
HSUS, CEO Wayne Pacelle, and ex-employee Scotlund Haisley are defendants in a $5 million federal lawsuit stemming from a September 2009 “raid” on a South Dakota hunting dog breeder. A judge later ruled the raid illegal because the search warrant was wrongfully obtained by an animal control officer who had “intentionally misled the issuing court.”
A photo of HSUS clad Scotlund Haisley kicking in a door.
All of the animal cruelty charges against Christensen were dropped. But he didn’t get all of his dogs back. Some died after they were seized; others apparently were adopted out.
Animal rights extremism is not limited to multi-million dollar activist groups like HSUS – even locally run, rural community shelters can be magnets for zealots, and they often operate hand in hand with these powerful groups. I’ve personally talked to a shelter worker from Estevan, Saskatchewan who volunteered that animal welfare would best be served through the eradication of the family pet, so check out the policies and animal welfare positions at your local humane society before giving them so much as a dime.
Those Moderate Muslims!
In a TV interview on the Islamic al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing the veil will protect baby girls. The Sheikh tried to back his assertion with claims of sexual molestation against babies in the kingdom, quoting unnamed medical and security sources.
Plus, They’ve Made Lawyers Illegal
“A militia providing for the security of a free state? In the 21st century? But I was told that was crazy NRA talk.”
The Solution To The West’s Falling Birthrate
Compel women to serve in the military;
…each year, somewhere between 10 and 17 percent of servicewomen become pregnant. In certain locales, the figure is even higher. Former senator James Webb noted that when he was secretary of the Navy in 1988, 51 percent of single Air Force and 48 percent of single Navy women stationed in Iceland were pregnant.
h/t Joe B
Reader Tips
If the health-Nazi bureaucrats have their way you might eventually be forced to go the black-market route to visit a Lipidlegger.
And you just know who’ll be first in line when you get there..
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“Proud to be a Democrat”
If you ever wanted a textbook example of what a “Vote Canceler” is, read this letter to the editor. Here’s one person’s analysis of what’s written. The most hilarious section is this:
The Republicans are just trying to stand in the way, because the president is black. They even dared to question whether he was born in this country. I think all this demonstrates that the Constitution needs to be amended when it comes to the qualifications for being president. Right now, it says that a person has to be 35 years old and be a natural born citizen. Well, that is obviously unfair because there are a great many otherwise qualified people who cannot run for president because their mothers had to have a C-section.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Well, this settles everything.
White House warns: don’t photoshop this…
h/t Carl
Is There Nothing… Oh, Wait…
Obama’s second inauguration speech may be his Queeg moment — an undeniable demonstration that, in an emergency, he is incapable of grappling with reality. For all his unceasing invocation of the word “change,” the outstanding thing about Obama has been his apparent inability to react, even to an imminent crisis. Like Queeg, he stands frozen on the bridge as the waves grow higher, or obsesses over issues like homosexuals and women in the military as the typhoon rises.
Faced with the worst looming fiscal cliff-fall in world history Obama, like Queeg in the typhoon, has done nothing at all, but has, increasingly, resorted to meaningless words. His pseudo-Keynesian fiscal notions and a mantra-like repetition of old and failed ideas, suggest a serious lack on mental versatility.
Economics is not an exact science, but some of its rules are now well-known, and one is that a government cannot spend its way out of a recession.
Maybe. But don’t rule out malice.
Benghazi Survivors Still Secret
Before the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, the department undertook a calculated effort to publicize the agents’ names and faces–presenting them in a State Department promotional magazine posted on the Internet. After the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks, the State Department has treated the names and faces of the DS agents who survived those attacks as if they were classified information.
This remarkable about-face raises two questions: Why can’t the American people know the names–and hear the stories–of the heroic DS agents who fought the terrorists who attacked our mission in Benghazi? Why can’t these courageous survivors deliver their eyewitnesses accounts directly to the U.S. Congress?
Reader Tips
“Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Did you know that the increase in the number of Americans “not in the labor force” during Barack Obama’s first four years in the White House was more than three times greater than the increase in the number of Americans “not in the labor force” during the entire decade of the 1980s? The mainstream media would have us believe that 157,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in January. Based on that news, the Dow broke the 14,000 barrier for the first time since October 2007. But if you actually look at the “non-seasonally adjusted” numbers, the number of Americans with a job actually decreased by 1,446,000 between December and January. But nowhere in the mainstream media did you hear that the U.S. economy lost more than 1.4 million jobs between December and January. It is amazing the things that you can find out when you actually take the time to look at the hard numbers instead of just listening to the media spin. Back in 2007, more than 146 million Americans were employed. Today, only 141.6 million Americans are employed even though our population has grown steadily since then. When the government and the media tell you that we are in a “recovery” and that unemployment is lower than it was a couple of years ago, I encourage you to dig deeper. The truth is that even the government’s own numbers tell us that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed continues to fall and that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession. The Obama administration and the media have been lying to you about unemployment and about the true condition of our economy. After you see the numbers that I have compiled in this article, I think that you will agree with me.”
Brotherhood
It’s a Super Bowl ad for the girls.
It’s Probably Nothing
No, really: Planet Earth Begins Eating Bankrupt City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (h/t Kevin B)
We Need A Famine
“The neighbour walks her girlfriend on a leash. What do I tell my kid?“
The Sound Of Settled Science
This Woman Wants To Control What You Eat
h/t Mississauga Matt
The Girlfriend Trainer
Girlfriend Trainer, which is available in both the App Store and the Android market, lets players slap, electrocute, or mace a virtual girlfriend for what most people would call minor transgressions, including drinking their boyfriend’s drink or leaving her blouse on the floor. “Crack that whip and teach your gal a thing or two about being the Perfect Girlfriend!” reads the game’s description. “When scolding doesn’t work, just zap her, whack her, and train her to be your ideal girlfriend….
“About time she got the message. Slap her silly!”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
“Never mind a million EVs by 2015.”
…the DOE backpedals furiously from a goal set out in a 2011 State of the Union speech, where President Barack Obama announced what he called “Apollo projects of our times.” One of them was the goal for the United States to be “the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.”
“Whether we meet that goal in 2015 or 2016, that’s less important than that we’re on the right path to get many millions of these vehicles on the road,” an unnamed Energy Department official told Reuters.
Reuters notes that “demand for hybrids and electric vehicles has been weaker than expected. Government money was poured into black holes.
Think of the billions that could be saved if governments were to run their ideas by Saskatchewan blogs prior to implementation. For one thing, the advice would be free. (h/t)