Lebanese citizens in that region are already killing each other. The only reason their part of the country hasn’t yet turned into a war zone is because they’re killing each other on the other side of the border, which lies a mere handful of miles from where they reside. They’re crossing into Syria to shoot at each other before hunkering down in an unnerving balance of terror when they return home.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
“But for those who do own an electric car, at least there is the consolation that it’s truly green, right?”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Now you’ve got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That’s [snip] near a third….You can’t take 30, you can’t take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can’t do it! It’s impossible!”
h/t EBD
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
h/t Maz2
This Is Awkward
Gabby Giffords’s Husband Buys AR-15 (h/t Syd B)
Reader Tips
Honza Bláha is a remarkable, gifted Czech horseman who controls his trusting charges without the use of any bridles, halters, reins, or lead ropes. Tonight we watch him at work in a short video called Open Borders.
h/t peterj
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Let The Sun Shine In
Three Koch foundations made a total of 181 grants worth $25,405,525 in 2010 (most recent available records). The one Tides Foundation made a total of 2,627 grants worth $143,529,590 in 2010.
Put otherwise, for every one grant made by a Koch foundation, Tides made more than five grants.
If My Canadian Friends Would Be So Kind
Howdy All,
Some of you have asked me about “Kobo” (Canada’s answer to Kindle) and whether I would put my books on that format and I just literally finished doing so. I “believe” I have succeeded in formatting and uploading them correctly. If you were one of those interested people, and you end up downloading one of those books, I’d appreciate it if you’d inform me of any errors or problems. I have uploaded:
Behind the Housing Crash
and
Worthless
as trial runs (besides, I have an exclusivity agreement with Amazon for Enjoy the Decline until May).
If anybody is willing to play “Kobo Beta Test Puppy” I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
Cpt.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Still, I blame the storm more than I blame the computer models. The models are pretty good. It’s Nature that messed this up.
h/t pkuster
Honey, I Finished The Internet
h/t peterj
Canada Refugee Numbers Drop Sharply
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
The accomplishments of Hugo Chavez
h/t RFB
Reader Tips
It’s been way too long since we’ve had a Saturday night SDA singalong, so please, everybody, hoist a cup of the potation of your choice and join together in a rousing version of the old classic Spotty Muldoon.
He really is unbelievably spotty.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Free Greg Gutfeld!
Great Moments In Socialism
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Car makers are going back to the drawing board in the hunt for fuel-saving technologies as hopes that electric vehicles will be the silver bullet for CO2 emissions look increasingly forlorn.
h/t Kevin B
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last;
HSUS singled the egg industry and spent millions of dollars on propaganda and ballot campaigns to try to ban common hen houses.
[United Egg Producers] decided to cut a deal with HSUS to pursue federal litigation that would create a mandate for farmers to move from conventional cages to roomier furnished cages over a variable timeframe.
One of the supposed benefits is that the UEP got HSUS, which previously had only advocated for “cage-free” eggs, to agree to take a cage system as acceptable enough.
Oops.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Nasa warns ‘something unexpected is happening to the Sun’!
Sunspot numbers are well below their values from 2011, and strong solar flares have been infrequent,’ the space agency says.
Of course, none of this is news – the “quiet” sun has a topic of discussion for the past several years. That NASA has decided to “warn” us now can mean only one thing – someone finally figured out a way to tax us for it.
Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Dr. Eric Fleegler: Conclusions and Relevance – A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually.
John Hinderaker: Conclusions and Relevance – [N]ote that Fleegler’s study covers all 50 states, but leaves out the District of Columbia. Why do you suppose he chose to do that? …. Now let’s redo Fleegler’s math, with the District counted as one of the ten strictest jurisdictions. We now have an average rate of 4.0 gun homicides per 100,000 in the ten most anti-gun jurisdictions, and a gun homicide rate of 3.5 per 100,000 in the ten jurisdictions with the fewest gun regulations, even if we include the outlier, Louisiana.
But that’s just tasting the icing of Dr. Fleegler’s statistical upside-down cake.
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Reader Tips
Long before he was prancing around in chiffon blouses singing schmaltzy ballads and ersatz disco songs, Rod Stewart was a full-throttle rocker. In tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the Tips, we see him in his prime as the frontman for Faces (featuring guitarist Ron Wood in his pre-Stones days) as they perform a song from their 1971 Album A Nod Is as Good as a Wink called Miss Judy’s Farm.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.