Government regulation is stifling America’s vibrant pharmaceutical industry. A recent report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology estimates that it costs an average of $1.2 billion to win FDA approval and bring a new drug to market.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Walter Cronkite’s on-air report from Vietnam — which the president did not see — supposedly elicited his famous lament: ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ Shortly thereafter, Johnson would make his most memorable television appearance, announcing that he would not run for president in 1968.”
Take Me, Obama
He’s Just Not That Into You: Obama Aide Calls Female Journalist ‘Bitch, C-t, A-hole’
Reader Tips
Amor is the Spanish word for love, but it depends to some extent on the context. When Les Alcarson sings it, for example, it means “my pantalones are about to burst, and I need you to understand that.”
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
I Amuse Myself
When do we get to see @justintrudeau debate the chick his dad was banging? #lpcdb8
— katewerk (@katewerk) March 3, 2013
This Is Awkward
A big, meaty bone for our BC readership: Christy Clark calls emergency cabinet meeting in wake of ethnic vote scandal
Old Mann, New Trick
(Quick summary here.)
The Hoover Dam Was Built Without The Aid Of Calculators
“I’m going to build you a barn.”
A horse racing story with a happy ending… (h/t TimR)
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
Nearly two years ago, an LA-based company called Rentech Inc. announced plans to build a biofuels plant four hours north of Sault St. Marie, Ontario. It would use forest waste and “unmerchantable” tree species for making renewable jet fuel and naphtha, a chemical feedstock used to make all sorts of products. That plant was supposed to be operational in 2015. It was supposed to employ up to 1,000 people during peak construction, and keep 83 people directly employed full time in a region of the province that could really use those jobs.
Ain’t gonna happen, it seems.
Rentech is working closely with Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), whose C$500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund (NGBF) offers a significant potential funding source for the Olympiad Project. After a year of discussions with SDTC, Rentech has recently submitted an application for funding to the NGBF, which funds up to 40 per cent to a maximum of C$200 million of eligible project development and construction costs, which would be repaid from a percentage of the project’s cash flows.
h/t Paul K
Reader Tips
♪They smile at your face, but behind your back they hiss / What’s a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this? ♫
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Tolerant Left
Maybe “tolerant” is the wrong word.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Because it’s worked everywhere it’s been tried;
“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”
Free Tom Flanagan!
Context, from a member of the Lethbridge audience.
I have read the rhetorical question in articles published on Flanagan’s child porn remarks, “How Flanagan got onto the child pornography topic from the Indian Act, we’re not sure…” I hope after reading and viewing the above clips you will know now.
The Obama Effect
October 13th, 2012 – “We refuse to let Detroit go bankrupt…”
h/t TimR
It’s Probably Nothing
Tacos made with horsemeat, meat pies stuffed with vegetable. Kind of makes you wonder what’s in a weiner these days.
Reader Tips
“And don’t forget to tune in next time, kiddies, for a special musical performance by Napalm Death..”
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Bye, Bye, Green Blog
The New York Times throws in the towel.
The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas.
Meanwhile, there’s trouble down at the Bloggies;
“Reflecting such concern, I have learned that Skeptical Science, who have never lobbied to be nominated and are the only non-climate sceptic blog on the Science shortlist, has now asked to be withdrawn from the shortlist due to its concerns about the legitimacy of the voting process.”
I blame the climate.
Free Ethical Oil!
Sun News BREAKING: US State Department has approved the Keystone XL pipeline plan as being environmentally sound.
Full (draft) report here.