Is the Ottawa River on a fault line?
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And one of them is Rajendra Pachauri.
Reader Tips
Tonight, a little western swing from 1954, as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, along with vocalist Tommy Duncan, play I’ve Got A New Road Under My Wheels.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Single Most Memorable Academy Awards Moment
Tarantino wins Best Screenplay for Django, gets played off the stage by Gone With The Wind.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Snow Biking
Thanks, seismic crew.
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a jihadist thugocracy to vote for;
Obama’s New Libya Update: American and Three Others Arrested in Benghazi for Preaching Christianity
They face the death penalty.
The Forbidden History of Terrible Taxes
h/t Adrian
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Just wait until the New York Times stumbles upon how centuries of increasingly larger oceangoing vessels pulling into the Hudson River has transformed Nieuw Amsterdam beyond all recognition.”
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Oh dear. I think he may have married his sister. (h/t wallyj)
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Thousands of Britain’s wind turbines (link fixed) will create more greenhouse gases than they save…
The finding, which threatens the entire rationale of the onshore wind farm industry, will be made by Scottish government-funded researchers who devised the standard method used by developers to calculate “carbon payback time” for wind farms on peat soils.
h/t Old Lori
Reader Tips
They will interview Nick Cave’s teachers / who’ll say he was one of God’s sorrier creatures / There’ll be informative six-page features / when he goes… ♫
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Upset a Gun Control Advocate – Just Press Print
3-D printing technology could make efforts to curb weapons impossible. Background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print Guns and high-capacity magazines at home. Forbes has recently published an article after Defense Distributed, an open source DIY gunsmith group working to manufacture both guns and their accessories using 3D printing technology, successfully printed and tested a 30-round AR-15 magazine
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
After school board honcho Chris Spence and staff reporter Madhavi Acharya Tom-Yew were both caught plagiarising a few weeks ago, the Toronto Star started using anti-cheating software called iThenticate, to help them with the problem.
In Today’s Broad Strata News
The suspects accused of providing support to the group include: San Diego cab driver Basaaly Saeed Moalin, 36; Anaheim-based cab driver Nasiri Taalil Mohamud, 37; Issa Doreh, 56, an employee at a money transmitting business that was allegedly the conduit for sending the funds to the organization; and Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, 40, the imam at a mosque frequented by San Diego’s immigrant Somali community.
h/t Electric Avenue
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
The Conservative government is formally shutting down its controversial biofuels subsidy program, saying companies producing biodiesel have failed to meet ambitious production targets.
h/t ron in kelowna
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Another day, another “crisis”;
To recap, the sequester was originally supposed to total $109 billion – but lawmakers delayed its onset by two months during the fiscal cliff negotiations. Now U.S. President Barack Obama – who first proposed the sequester as part of the 2011 debt ceiling deal – wants to delay it again.
According to Obama, the sequester would represent “a huge blow to middle-class families and our economy as a whole.” Obama’s White House has also referred to the sequester as “devastating,” saying its cuts would “imperil our economy, our national security (and) vital programs that middle class families depend on.”
Sounds frightening – but is it true? Of course not.
Reader Tips
How does she love her hands? Let her count the ways.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Tolerant Left
Scratch a leftist, find an anti-Semite;
h/t Allan S
It’s Probably Nothing
Moody’s announced on Friday night that it had cut the Government’s bond rating one notch from ‘Aaa’ – the highest possible level – to ‘Aa1’.
The move is a significant setback for Chancellor George Osborne, who has faced criticism that his strategy for dealing with UK’s huge debt burden is failing to deliver.