Are we wishing time away
Its already Monday here …….
Fixed. (It’s still Sunday here).
Mickey Rooney and comedian John Pinette have both died today.
Mickey Rooney, Legendary Actor, Dies at 93
As adept at comedy as drama and an excellent singer and dancer, Rooney was regarded as the consummate entertainer. During a prolific career on stage and screen that spanned eight decades (“I’ve been working all my life, but it seems longer,” he once said), he was nominated for four Academy Awards and received two special Oscars, the Juvenile Award in 1939 (shared with Deanna Durbin) and one in 1983 for his body of work.
Rob, thanks for posting that. I “grabbed two coffees” as advised this morning and read the original review to open the day. This evening I grapped two fingers of scotch and read the retort at the link you posted. A fine day of education once again provided by SDA.
File this one under “The Sound of Settled Science”: Being overweight (and possibly obese) might not be as unhealthy as we’ve been told… http://nypost.com/2014/04/05/america-rejoice-being-fat-may-actually-make-you-healthier/
The money quote: “These findings created an uproar among my colleagues,” Lavie writes. “Unfortunately, the science world wasn’t ready to accept this observation in the early 2000s.”
Because nothing harms science more than facts!
It is difficult to imagine that Kate ever has a “lazy” day or night, whatever the day of the week.
John Robson: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/04/20140407-072919.html
I’d say this is pretty insightful as to observation and analysis, but weaker on conclusions and outcomes.
In the context of a fixed and predictable international political and economic cocoon, along with seemingly unresolved definitional/existential issues here at home (status of Quebec, health care arrangements, “national identity” concerns in light of the dominance of the United States, etc.), the “dilettente” strategy worked, for a time, for Mr. Trudeau, Sr.: some Canadians thought he was a bit refreshing, I suppose, when compared to the anachronistic sixty- or seventy-something-year-old alternatives, and he did seem to have a bit more and different to offer.
I can’t honestly see that approach working for Mr. Trudeau, Jr. though: there’s a good deal more fluidity and uncertainty about in the global environment, and the domestic distempers of the baby-boomer era have pretty much faded to black, quite apart from his not having anything much worth saying. I don’t see climate-change environmentalism or a marijuana tax, complete with the wholesale nationalization of the cannabis industry, to be much in the way of alternatives that Canadians will take any great risk over.
Aside from which, he’s not really up against Bob Stanfield or Joe Clark as is father was. I rather suspect that we’re taking our collective “flight of fancy” now, before the election (not that his lead in the polls at the moment is very formidable). As Robson suggests, he’s running a down-memory-lane tour on the fumes of his father’s time, ’cause that’s all he’s got.
AGW Spring Wind.
“Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator.”
It’s not fair.
“They place the subsidy argument in the context of fairness,…”
…-
“Shale Gas Boom Leaves Wind Companies Seeking More Subsidy”
“Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator.
The $14 billion industry, the world’s second-largest buyer of wind turbines, is reeling from a double blow — cheap natural gas unleashed by the hydraulic fracturing revolution and the death last year of federal subsidies that made wind the most competitive of all renewable energy sources in the U.S.
Without restoration of subsidies, worth $23 per megawatt hour to turbine owners, the industry may not recover, and the U.S. may lose ground in its race to reduce dependence on the fossil fuels driving global warming, say wind-power advocates.
They place the subsidy argument in the context of fairness,…” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-06/shale-gas-boom-leaves-wind-companies-seeking-more-subsidy.html
“Being overweight (and possibly obese) might not be as unhealthy as we’ve been told… ”
Tell that to John Pinette, dead at 50. http://goo.gl/hbol1l
Hubey Presents Our CBC.
At the beginning of the long dash, followed by silence, “and Heather Conway and Louis Lalande, executive vice-presidents of English- and French-language services, respectively, will join him.”
They will “focus” us again.
…-
“CBC expected to make deep cuts in wake of losing Hockey Night in Canada”
“CBC President Hubert Lacroix is set to address a town hall meeting of all CBC and Radio-Canada employees on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. The meeting will be about the broadcaster’s financial pressures and how it will go forward, a spokesperson said.” http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/07/cbc-expected-to-make-deep-cuts-thursday-in-wake-of-losing-hockey-night-in-canada/?__lsa=f46e-3dba
Saturday? Holy lifter. I jumped a day
I don’t necessarily agree with it but the alternate view on HTF is interesting. http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/michael-lewis-shilling-for-the-buyside/
It doesn’t mean he’s wrong, but there’s no question to me that Lewis is a storyteller.
Are we wishing time away
Its already Monday here …….
Fixed. (It’s still Sunday here).
Mickey Rooney and comedian John Pinette have both died today.
Mickey Rooney, Legendary Actor, Dies at 93
As adept at comedy as drama and an excellent singer and dancer, Rooney was regarded as the consummate entertainer. During a prolific career on stage and screen that spanned eight decades (“I’ve been working all my life, but it seems longer,” he once said), he was nominated for four Academy Awards and received two special Oscars, the Juvenile Award in 1939 (shared with Deanna Durbin) and one in 1983 for his body of work.
Rob, thanks for posting that. I “grabbed two coffees” as advised this morning and read the original review to open the day. This evening I grapped two fingers of scotch and read the retort at the link you posted. A fine day of education once again provided by SDA.
File this one under “The Sound of Settled Science”: Being overweight (and possibly obese) might not be as unhealthy as we’ve been told… http://nypost.com/2014/04/05/america-rejoice-being-fat-may-actually-make-you-healthier/
The money quote: “These findings created an uproar among my colleagues,” Lavie writes. “Unfortunately, the science world wasn’t ready to accept this observation in the early 2000s.”
Because nothing harms science more than facts!
Sweden has always been held up as a socialist utopia. Like the rest of Europe they seem to have ignored the impact of Muslim immigration until it was too late. To make it even worse, they have run out of other peoples money.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/April/Soviet-Sweden-Model-Nation-Sliding-to-Third-World/
Now that Putin has been held to account by the heavy weights in American Industry, it’s only a mater of time before he begs for mercy.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/ny-state-restaurant-chain-bans-putin/497591.html
It is difficult to imagine that Kate ever has a “lazy” day or night, whatever the day of the week.
John Robson:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/04/20140407-072919.html
I’d say this is pretty insightful as to observation and analysis, but weaker on conclusions and outcomes.
In the context of a fixed and predictable international political and economic cocoon, along with seemingly unresolved definitional/existential issues here at home (status of Quebec, health care arrangements, “national identity” concerns in light of the dominance of the United States, etc.), the “dilettente” strategy worked, for a time, for Mr. Trudeau, Sr.: some Canadians thought he was a bit refreshing, I suppose, when compared to the anachronistic sixty- or seventy-something-year-old alternatives, and he did seem to have a bit more and different to offer.
I can’t honestly see that approach working for Mr. Trudeau, Jr. though: there’s a good deal more fluidity and uncertainty about in the global environment, and the domestic distempers of the baby-boomer era have pretty much faded to black, quite apart from his not having anything much worth saying. I don’t see climate-change environmentalism or a marijuana tax, complete with the wholesale nationalization of the cannabis industry, to be much in the way of alternatives that Canadians will take any great risk over.
Aside from which, he’s not really up against Bob Stanfield or Joe Clark as is father was. I rather suspect that we’re taking our collective “flight of fancy” now, before the election (not that his lead in the polls at the moment is very formidable). As Robson suggests, he’s running a down-memory-lane tour on the fumes of his father’s time, ’cause that’s all he’s got.
AGW Spring Wind.
“Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator.”
It’s not fair.
“They place the subsidy argument in the context of fairness,…”
…-
“Shale Gas Boom Leaves Wind Companies Seeking More Subsidy”
“Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator.
The $14 billion industry, the world’s second-largest buyer of wind turbines, is reeling from a double blow — cheap natural gas unleashed by the hydraulic fracturing revolution and the death last year of federal subsidies that made wind the most competitive of all renewable energy sources in the U.S.
Without restoration of subsidies, worth $23 per megawatt hour to turbine owners, the industry may not recover, and the U.S. may lose ground in its race to reduce dependence on the fossil fuels driving global warming, say wind-power advocates.
They place the subsidy argument in the context of fairness,…”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-06/shale-gas-boom-leaves-wind-companies-seeking-more-subsidy.html
“Being overweight (and possibly obese) might not be as unhealthy as we’ve been told… ”
Tell that to John Pinette, dead at 50.
http://goo.gl/hbol1l
“Most importantly, he has the ear of the President of the United States, an equally remarkable and perplexing achievement for the former FBI asset known as “CI-7,” the Rev. Al Sharpton.”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/al-sharpton-764312
Peer-Reviewed Paper Encourages Global Warming Proponents To Lie To Further Their Cause…
http://weaselzippers.us/182057-peer-reviewed-paper-encourages-global-warming-proponents-to-lie-to-further-their-cause/
Smart Tipping….
https://autos.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-sport-smart-tipping-cows-passe-152342075.html
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Suspects-Flip-Over-Smart-Cars-in-San-Francisco-254177981.html
Hubey Presents Our CBC.
At the beginning of the long dash, followed by silence, “and Heather Conway and Louis Lalande, executive vice-presidents of English- and French-language services, respectively, will join him.”
They will “focus” us again.
…-
“CBC expected to make deep cuts in wake of losing Hockey Night in Canada”
“CBC President Hubert Lacroix is set to address a town hall meeting of all CBC and Radio-Canada employees on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. The meeting will be about the broadcaster’s financial pressures and how it will go forward, a spokesperson said.”
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/07/cbc-expected-to-make-deep-cuts-thursday-in-wake-of-losing-hockey-night-in-canada/?__lsa=f46e-3dba