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  4. Blame Climate Change
    Authorities are holding a news conference Tuesday afternoon to discuss results from forensic testing on human remains found last September in an upside down Studebaker pulled from a creek. Record flooding followed by a drought brought the vehicle into view. Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, of Vermillion, were last seen in the car on their way to a party in May 1971.
    http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/missing-girls-case-update-on-tuesday/?id=163101

  5. Contrary to appearances, the crisis in Ukraine might be on the verge of resolution. The potentially crucial move came today when interim President Oleksandr Turchynov said that he would be open to changing the country’s political system from a republic, with power centered in the capital Kiev, to a federation with considerable autonomy for the regional districts.
    That has been one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s key demands. It would weaken the political leaders in Kiev, many of whom want a stronger alliance with the West, including membership in the European Union—and it would strengthen those in southern and eastern Ukraine, many of them ethnic Russians who want to preserve and tighten their ties to Moscow.
    If Putin can win this demand—and the political, economic, and cultural inroads it would provide—an invasion would be not just be unnecessary, it’d be loony. War is politics by other means, and a revamping of Ukraine’s power structure would accomplish Putin’s political aims by less costly means.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/04/15/fred-kaplan-ukraine-may-have-just-given-putin-exactly-what-he-wanted/

  7. NYT:
    The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped, the department said.
    The decision by the nation’s largest police force to shutter the controversial surveillance program represents the first sign that William J. Bratton, the department’s new commissioner, is backing away from some of the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering practices of his predecessor.
    …
    To many Muslims, the squad, known as the Demographics Unit, was a sign that the police viewed their every action with suspicion. The police mapped communities inside and outside the city, logging where customers in traditional Islamic clothes ate meals and documenting their lunch-counter conversations.
    …
    After years of collecting information, however, the police acknowledged that it never generated a lead.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/police-unit-that-spied-on-muslims-is-disbanded.html?_r=0

  9. Would that be the ny,ny that some know Muslim causes an air crash ? Not surprised at following, more surprised at no leads at all

  11. Best article I’ve read yet on the rancher-vs-feds issue in Nevada – Kevin D. Williamson in the National Review … he makes a great case against selective rule of law (border defense and illegal immigration, for e.g.:). Quote: “I have the strangest feeling that a great many residents of Washington would not fare especially well under any robust interpretation of the rule of law.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/375851/rule-lawless-kevin-d-williamson

  13. Very entertaining video. It induced me to then seek out Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”.

  14. AGW Spring Progress Report.
    ““It looks like it may very well have been the coldest winter on record in the Parry Sound-Muskoka area,” Peter Kimbell, Environment Canada”
    …-
    “Hydro One looking into cause of Tuesday’s widespread power outage
    As of Wednesday morning, Hydro One says the cause of a power outage that put a large portion of Toronto in the dark on Tuesday night is still under investigation” (newstalk)
    Our CBC:
    “Cold weather records broken across Manitoba”
    “Spring chill in Hamilton breaks two cold weather records”
    “17 cold-weather records set in Sask.”
    “Say it ain’t snow: Record-breaking cold hits Central New York” (CNY)

  16. Liberalism is a mental disorder*.
    …-
    “Ontario Liberals’ alleged plan to cover up gas plant scandal derided as ‘criminally stupid'” (NP)
    …-
    “David Rounthwaite, brother of Wynne’s wife, Jane, was appointed to the $210,000-a-year job effective March 7.”
    “On his blog, UCC Moderator Gary Paterson shared some thoughts about the two-week trip he and his partner Tim Stevenson embarked upon in Cuba.”
    http://eyecrazy.blogspot.ca
    *Michael Savage.

  17. No doubt Obama will demand that Studebaker recall all 1959 Larks to fit them with water wings.

  19. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
    Required reading/study for all: a classic report from Reevely beyond noble cause corruption.
    H/T Our Enemy, The State.
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    “Reevely: Gas-plant cancellation put public servants in impossible bind, cabinet secretary testifies”
    “The McGuinty government’s decision to cancel two power stations outside Toronto put Ontario’s public servants in a painful bind, the province’s most senior bureaucrat told a Queen’s Park committee Tuesday afternoon.
    Nothing in the gas-plants affair worked the way it was supposed to, and that put people like cabinet secretary Peter Wallace in a position where they could serve their political masters or serve the public interest, but not both at the same time. In careful, precise testimony to the justice committee, which is investigating the affair, the 30-year public servant damned McGuinty’s people for making him choose.”
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Reevely+plant+cancellation+public+servants+impossible+bind+cabinet+secretary+testifies/9741702/story.html

  24. PET Cemetery Report.
    POT imbiber Justine say, It’s for the children.
    …-
    “Changes in the brain signal possible future problems for casual pot smokers”
    http://www.theprovince.com/life/Changes+brain+signal+possible+future+problems+casual+smokers/9744927/story.html
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    “Trudeau makes headlines for calls to legalize marijuana”
    “Trudeau has done an about-face on his stance on marijuana, saying legalizing the drug could protect children.”
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-makes-headlines-for-calls-to-legalize-marijuana-1.1383738

  25. Trying to BUY his way into heaven:
    “Michael Bloomberg is spending $50 million to beat the NRA in November. The money is directed toward creating a grassroots campaign that will get out voters who support gun control candidates.
    Bloomberg will do so through the auspices of groups he funds like Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Everytown for Gun Safety.
    According to The New York Times, Bloomberg wants politicians to fear such groups the same way they fear the NRA.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Michael-Bloomberg-I-Have-Earned-My-Place-In-Heaven-It-s-Not-Even-Close

  26. The CBC can’t leave Mr. Wright alone.
    Today’s ‘Ballot Box’ question;
    ” Does a lack of charges against Nigel Wright change your opinion of the Wright/Duffy affair? ”
    I’m sure no one will be surprised that the rabid CBC crowd are overwhelmingly saying that it won’t.
    But of course not. They convicted him months ago and are upset that the lynching isn’t going as planned.
    http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2014/04/power-politics-ballot-box-question-430.html

  27. PET Cemetery report.
    Liberal Justine Da Bully.
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    “Liberals to appoint two ombudsmen to resolve nomination disputes”
    “In a week when one nomination fight got so ugly, it embroiled Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in a lawsuit, the Liberal Party is preparing to create two new ombudsman positions for its nomination races in a bid to head off nasty fights, iPolitics has learned.
    However, the new ombudsmen won’t have the power to intervene in cases involving decisions made by Trudeau or by green light committees set up to vet candidates. Nor will they have the power to discipline or disqualify candidates for their actions. Instead, they can recommend that be done by other party officials.”
    http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/04/16/liberals-to-appoint-two-ombudsmen-to-resolve-nomination-disputes/
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    “Justin Trudeau target of $1.5M defamation suit by Christine Innes”
    “Christine Innes seeking $1.5 million, alleges Justin Trudeau, David MacNaughton of the Liberal party accused her of bullying.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/04/14/justin_trudeau_being_sued_for_15m_in_defamation_suit.html

  28. AGW Spring’s Record Breaking Springs.
    Ontario’s Two Springs: Many Cold Records Frozen/Smashed.
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    “Brrr…Record-breaking cold descends on northern Ontario”
    “It’s April, but that doesn’t mean that it feels like spring, especially if you live in northern Ontario.
    On Wednesday morning, several record lows were broken across the region as cold Arctic temperatures descended.
    In Sault Ste. Marie, residents woke up to a temperature of -16.1 C, shattering the previous record of -8.9 C set in 1947.”
    http://globalnews.ca/news/1274552/record-breaking-cold-across-northern-ontario/
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    “Record breaking cold grips southern Ontario: What’s next?”
    “Record-breaking cold gripped southern Ontario Wednesday morning just one day after a blast of snow made a mess of roadways.
    Multiple communities dipped well below the freezing mark, breaking records from as far back as the 1930s.”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/record-breaking-cold-grips-southern-ontario-whats-next/25417/

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