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I think most of us have days where we just don’t give a rat. In Valencia, Spain, though, they have a special day where citizens not only give a rat, they throw them at total strangers. On the street.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
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  3. Ezra:
    “Why didn’t the 32 senators kicked out of the Liberal Party caucus by Justin Trudeau stay kicked out? Why didn’t they embrace their newfound independence — to be free from party discipline? What politician-for-life wouldn’t prefer to have no boss, to be free to say whatever they want, do whatever they want, go wherever they want? Why did the Liberal senators immediately reconstitute themselves as the ‘Senate Liberals,’ and even re-elect the same Senate whip?
    “As with most questions about the Liberal Party, the answer lies in following the money..”
    Read the whole thing.

  4. Sarah Noble at The Independent Sentinal: “Obama Laughs and Lies About Behghazi During O’Reily Interview”.
    Video at the link.
    There is something seriously wrong with the guy.
    RS McCain, on that same O’Reily interview: Obama: “What IRS Scandal?”

    ..when asked whether or mass corruption, was at play, he responded: “Not even mass corruption — not even a smidgen of corruption.” He acknowledged that then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman had been to the White House more than 100 times but said he couldn’t recall speaking to him on any of those occasions.

    McCain: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”

  5. The Daily Caller:
    “WASHINGTON — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann says House conservatives are preparing to sue President Barack Obama for executive overreach in response to his threats of unilateral action on a host of issues.
    “He’s the president of the United States — he’s not a king,” the Republican lawmaker told reporters after Obama’s State of the Union address. “He may think he’s a king, he may declare himself king, but that’s not what he is under our Constitution.”

  6. Things must be really tough in Spain; those rats look like obese mice. Just wait until we start lobbing 5 pound Chicago rats across the Atlantic at Spain with nuclear powered trebuchets… they’ll be crying real tears and hunkering in their basements.

  12. Leave it to the Spaniards to interact with animals in strange and unique ways… Running of the Bulls, Throwing of the Rats, what next? Maybe they should try some good ol’ Canadian ingenuity like Shooting of the Beaver.

  13. Why is it Stephan Maher the one to break this story? He wrote 100 stories on Robo calls while ignoring the Liberal conviction. He is a Liberal hack. The Conservatives would not have leaked this to him. That only leaves EC as the source. EC is playing politics here. They are behaving despicably.

  14. Tipper523:
    Re: Spaniards!
    Don’t forget throwing tomatoes. (La Tomatina.) My brother and I did that after the first frost hit the plains of Saskatchewan–however we never made the papers. (We were 10 years old.) Later on, after we got a driver’s licence, we took our tomatoes to town on Halloween night. Now that was fun. One old guy used to turn us in to the police every time he heard our Thrush mufflers. We colored his house on Halloween night, red was our favorite.

  15. I’ve noticed that the CBC and Radio-Canada have had a constant hate on for Russia and the Sochi games.

  16. Those of us who grew up reading science fiction likely know of John W. Campbell. One of Campbell’s principles was that the human race is sustained by its top 20% and advanced by its top 10%. There were exceptions, but not many. Galton’s Genetic Studies of Genius came to an interesting conclusion: while “Great Men” were far more likely to sire a “Great Man,” most Great Men were not descendants of Great Men. Therefore “the most important resource of a society was the undiscovered potential great men, who might be educated to a level as to allow them to reach their potential.” J. Pournellle
    In a recent column he makes a convincing case that our society “hates the gifted kids who are not descended from the 20% who control 80% of the resources. We do not say that, of course, but were it true it would be hard to show a more efficient system for keeping those upstarts – potential great men and women not born to the rich – down where they belong. We have a system whereby they are sent to inferior schools and kept there since their parents can’t afford to get them out. Once through 12 years of mostly inferior education they are invited to go to universities: but unlike the system that allowed my wife (11th child of a coal miner) and I to get through college, we have devised a system that allows them through only if they owe the establishment a great sum which is unlikely ever to be paid. I do not expect that the children of Bill and Melissa Gates will have any lifelong debts due to the cost of their education – whether they are potentially Great or not.
    The result of the efforts to “equalize” education in the public schools is obvious. No child left behind is easy to accomplish if no child is allowed to get ahead. Of course that does not apply to the children of the 10% wealthiest, and even less to those of the 5%.
    And the rest never catch wise.
    The lights we see in this educational darkness come from technology which makes it possible for the best and brightest to acquire an actual education without incurring a monstrous burden of debt;
    Alas, we also have “equal opportunity” employment laws which make it almost certain that personnel departments – excuse me, Human Resources – will hire only those with credentials, and the credentials are far more important than actual abilities.
    The universities charge heavy sums for those credentials, and those who enforce the bureaucratic credential exercises are very well paid. The credentials don’t mean much but employers must use them. What else do they have? Human judgment which is certain to bring lawsuits? (We have already outlawed the use of IQ tests in employment.) The results would be predictable if they were not already known. Couple this with regulations that make it very difficult to start new businesses – particularly those which require high technology investments – and you will find that the phrase “You can’t keep a good man or woman down” proves to be objectively false.
    The ruling class may repeatedly state that they do not hate bright kids (other than their own) but it would be difficult to prove that from their actions.”
    The dumbing down of a society to make them easier to control and more easily manipulated by marketing will have unintended consequences.

  23. O’s economy.
    …-
    “‘Awful’ US factory orders triggers flight to safety”
    “Steepest fall in factory orders for 33 years and China slowdown sets off a flight to safety as investors dump shares for bonds”
    “Shocking US factory orders and Chinese bank woes trigger global flight to safety”
    ““Absolutely awful” factory figures as new orders suffer worst slump since 1980 recession”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10615733/Shocking-US-factory-orders-and-Chinese-bank-woes-trigger-global-flight-to-safety.html

  26. Science stuff:
    “Researchers are planning to generate a super-cold spot on the International Space Station (ISS) to study the intricacies of quantum mechanics. How cold? It’s going to be the coldest spot in the known universe…The experiment being carried out in the ISS Cold Atom Lab is going to reach temperatures as low as 100 pico-Kelvin above absolute zero (“pico” denotes one-trillionth).”
    Also from Geek.com: The European Space agency has designed a sound horn so loud it can kill you.

  27. Neo-AGW Musical Update: ‘member the Killer, aka Jerry-Lee?
    Music to our triplicate eyes.
    …-
    “Colorado to Maine: Snow to Impact 100 Million”
    “East Coast Weekend Storm May Be Strongest of the Bunch”
    “LIVE: Deadly Winter Storm Eyes Midwest, Snow Buries Plains”
    http://www.accuweather.com/

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