RT @esaoperations: ESA experts confirm *no* link between #meteor incidents in #Russia & #Asteroid #2012DA14 Earth flyby of tonight #SSA #NEO
— ESA (@esa) February 15, 2013
More, everywhere. And for Doomsday Preppers, another good reason to live in Saskatchewan – no “natural choke points”.
Justin Trudeau’s speaking fees:
“I’m not going to talk about this anymore, because I’m setting a new standard for transparency.”
Indeed: “Sir Talks-a-lot as an MP … paid with your taxes. Featured speaker at public institutions, paid by hmmm, err, your taxes again.”
600.000 German Households can no longer afford to pay their energy bills;
…one first has to find out the real costs incurred by the German citizens by looking at the payments to owners of “renewable” energy generation as stipulated in the German EEG law. This law intends to promote “renewables” by guaranteeing the operators fixed electricity prices over a 20-year period. For the consumer, these gross totals are much more meaningful than the seemingly “small” premiums per kWh that he finds on his electricity bill. The trick here is that what he sees on the bill is only a minor portion of the real story. The total cost is ultimately passed on to him not only by his direct energy consumption, but also over his entire other costs of living. Set aside export goods, all electricity costs charged to industry, commerce, trade and the public sector will, by way of higher prices, charges and taxes, end up draining the wallet of the average tax payer.
“[President Obama] didn’t pick up the phone to call any government officials in Libya until Sept. 12, after everyone was dead.”
Via
Taxpayers.com: Crunching the tax dollars obliterated under the Pacific Carbon Trust.
To launch this evening’s tips thread, this Scottish ear worm. Listen at your own risk.
Hear my prayer: “Her career as a civic leader was impressive.”
And that’s why I’m calling for an apartheid wall to run the length of the Ontario border.
Where the foxes caper unmolested… (h/t John N)
European GDP Takes a NoseDive
Related: Hidden Inflation Everywhere, From Watered-Down Bourbon To Horse-Meat Chili
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and police swoop in on the Incredible Shrinking Action Man;
… looking for a mortar after owner posts picture of TOY weapon on Facebook
Related: Ian Thomson was dragged through the legal system for defending his property and his life.
h/t Occam
Fair warning to all my Canadian and SDA-loving colleagues:
This is a LONG video. I did it to address a larger concern I had as I saw how my family and friends get depressed, some even contemplate suicide, because of the direction and future of the country and Western Civilization in general. I did it on a whim with some specific people in mind (thus a little rambling), but it has received a much larger and positive response than I thought it would. I speculate this is because MANY people are depressed about their futures and have a helplessness about them, but nobody has spoken directly about this topic.
If you know somebody who is down, depressed, hopeless, even suicidal over the apparent lack of a future, please send this to them, because life is too short to let a loser like Barack Obama ruin it.
The BBC now has egg on its face. As Leo Hickman at the Guardian explains, a television show narrated by David Attenborough recently claimed that:
Some parts of the [African] continent have become 3.5C hotter in the past 20 years.
Hickman is no climate skeptic, but even his radar went off.
Here’s a sappy little song to kick off Valentine’s Day. Edward Bear – Close your Eyes (1973).
Actually, it’s a great little song. Your tips in the comments.
At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
…Yes, I know Shania Twain is huge. But if Jesus had been born in Timmins I doubt the crowds would have been much larger. Say what you will, but at least Bethlehem is warm…
Much of the Canadian economy is littered with white elephants and grossly inefficient public services. The Shania Twain Centre is a small fiasco in the larger disaster that is the modern Canadian state.
If you’re an old fogie like me then you may have been similarly perplexed over the years as to how high school and university students were able to achieve extremely top marks yet seemed exceptionally ignorant about so-called basic facts. Quiz many of them on basic economics or history or geography or even the Times Tables and more often than not a blank stare is all you get back.
There is now an explanation for this and it lies in a trend called Grade Inflation. Simply put, this is the tendency of student grades to rise over time. There are several possible reasons for this phenomenon. All of them should lead employers to be very suspicious about the veracity of transcripts provided by younger applicants.
Some educators are trying to fight back against it but guaranteed there will be a lot of forces pushing back against them. Too many students now feel entitled to top marks even if they’ve done little to no work to justify them.
This would not be a problem. Just saying.