Federal Teddy Winner: Chief Roger Redman, Standing Buffalo First Nation
When band members gathered to impeach him, the Chief padlocked the band office and confiscated the chequebook. For leading the Standing Buffalo reserve, home to 443 people, Chief Redman took home more after-tax income than the Prime Minister, and each of his councillors out-earned Saskatchewan’s premier.
The full list of award winners at the link.
During a panel discussion a couple of years ago in which I was critical of wind projects, someone cited conventional wisdom that the Saskatchewan government should be on the “leading edge” on renewable energy research.
I said it should not, that our strength is conventional energy and the focus should be there. Solar and wind should be left to those with the incentive to get their gadgets to actually work – like the Japanese. Let them spend the billions to figure it out. We’re better off paying retail after the fact;
“Let CNN buy the new stuff and test it out, and when the technology is right I’ll come in like a ton of bricks,” he says. “You spend a million dollars on some innovation and it turns out that nobody in the department knows how to use the damn thing. So they need something else to make it work. It never stops. When I see that the Framistan is working, we’ll get one. Hell, we’ll get two. But in the meantime, let CNN waste their money.” Framistan, it turns out, is a word Ailes loves. It became popular after it was used on an episode of I Love Lucy–it stands for unnecessary gear. “Framistans always need an additional Framistan. And this network isn’t going to run in the red.”
Remember that.
h/t BCF
Greenpeace at the pumps.
Last December, economist Laurence Kotlikoff was interviewed by RealClearPolicy;
Cox and Archer argue that the U.S.’s underlying debt is much higher than the officially stated debt of $16 trillion. They argue that if you add up the unfunded obligations the government has — to Social Security, Medicare, federal workers’ pensions, and so on — the real debt is about $87 trillion. Can that be right?
h/t Kevin B
Just don’t ask for a photo ID: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
h/t RFB
Why, it’s the asteroid Schadenfreude!
Yes, it’s true: Tommy Christian and His Orchestra really hate Bulgarians, what with their big Bulgarian eyes.
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Watch a Chinese military hacker launch a successful attack
“This is not to offend those of you who sent me “Linkedin” requests and like to have that fancy “badge” or “linkedin pictograph” made larger and more ornate signifying you’re “linkedin-ness.” I just hands down refuse to do it because after joining it I realized what it was. Another form of that hated and loathed and ULTIMATELY zero-economic-production value activity – networking.”
(h/t Phil)
Joseph Stalin, who died 60 years ago today, was one of the vilest mass murderers in human history, but in the same way that other communist dictators receive effusive praise from progressives (including Justin Trudeau’s “senior advisor“) Stalin has been, and continues to be, adored and venerated by many on the left, not just in Russia and the former Soviet Republics, but by prominent western darlings of the left such as Paul Robeson.
These communists and communist sympathizers, whether open or sly, never die out, even in the most prosperous and free western countries. Here, for example, is Knutna Nävar (“Clenched Fists“), a 1970s musical group from Göteborg, Sweden, praising the “great man” with their Song of Stalin.
The revolution is scorned and mocked, but cannot be stopped
It reaches all countries despite being hated by the bourgeoisie
We send this tribute to the memory of Stalin!
The steely stern warrior, our friend and Comrade!
Do you feel hate when you hear those voices?
Good. Because if you’re even vaguely aware of the events of the 20th Century and you don’t despise communists, there’s something wrong with you.
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What would we do without “reports”? 70% of children will be overweight adults by 2040: Ontario report
My fellow Canadian free speechers, do note:
Describing Bill Whatcott as “a lone nut who nobody pays any attention to” etc. to bolster your arguments (whether you truly believe that or are just using it as a wimpy fig leaf of respectability) now collides with these statements about homosexuality by Lech Walesa, who is neither “lone” nor a universally acknowledged “nut,” and who is certainly capable of getting lots of attention.
Now what do you do?
According to his own lawyers, absolutely nothing was preventing Obama from taking out both Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman with a drone strike
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) March 4, 2013
Given their record, you’d think the UN would have the good sense to lie low on this topic;
UN special rapporteur on the right to food Olivier de Schutter spent 11 days in Canada last year. He went to Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton. He met with federal, provincial and municipal officials, aboriginal representatives, farmers, academics, and other members of civil-society groups.
He presented his final report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on Monday. He claims a “growing number of people” are food-insecure in Canada, quoting estimates that vary between 1.92 million and 4.3 million people. Canada’s population is a little over 34 million.
De Schutter says such food insecurity is due to Conservative government policies, specifically the abolition of the mandatory long-form census and the Canadian Wheat Board…
Related: Student suspended for disarming gunman.