As only Rex can. Enjoy.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
A Portland-based wind energy company is appealing to a U.S. district court to stop the Department of the Interior from releasing information about birds killed by wind turbines that would, the suit claims, cause “irreparable harm” to Pacificorp, which operates more than a dozen wind farms.
Reader Tips
We got volleyball and ping-pong, and a lot of dandy games. What ain’t we got? We ain’t got dames!
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
This Is Awkward
Saskatoon NDP Councillor Pat Lorje “facing sanctions after leaking confidential documents”.
Don’t Panic
It’s really, really hard to catch.
According to the @CDCgov there's no #Somalia in #Africa pic.twitter.com/WJdHlNoKBk via @Aynte
— The South Face (@TheSouthFaceNGO) November 22, 2014
You Clever Matchmaker, Gaia!
Afton Burton left her parents’ home in Illinois at age 19 to move to California, where she could be closer to Manson, Burton said.
It was Manson’s work as an environmentalist that drew her daughter into him, according to Burton.
“He’s an environmentalist, and she’s involved in his environmentalist program,” Burton said.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The New York Times edited out all mentions of a statement made by secretary of state John Kerry that condemned Palestinian leaders for calling for “days of rage” against Israel and called the synagogue attack “an act of pure terror and senseless brutality and murder.”
An analysis of the New York Times in the Times of Israel shows that parts of this statement that initially appeared in stories regarding the terrorist attack were scrubbed from the stories before the paper went to print.
The Right Stuff
Meet Dillon Hillier.
Last weekend, the 26-year-old infantryman left Calgary and flew to northeastern Iraq to help Kurdish fighters fend off the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham. “I just felt it was the right thing to do since they’re facing some pretty tough times,” he said in an interview.
The first veteran of the Canadian military known to have joined Kurdish forces battling ISIS, Mr. Hillier is part of a growing number of Western volunteers heading to the region to participate in the fight against the armed extremists.
“I look at what I’m doing as no different than when thousands of Canadians went to fight the Germans in World War II,” said Mr. Hillier, who served in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. “And I think ISIS is far more barbaric.”
h/t Jamie
Praised By Faint Damnation
UK Tories slam Tony Abbott on climate policy.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Yes, your media outlet can learn something from the Kardashians“
Reader Tips
In tonight’s hockey-themed amusement en route to the tips, Fox Sports’ Patrick O’Neal interviews someone other than goaltender Ben Scrivens.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
There are bags of puke on the moon.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
… a streetcar named Desire. (h/t Matt)
Wynneing!
We Don’t Need No …
Google Engineers Explain Why They Stopped R&D in Renewable Energy;
“Trying to combat climate change exclusively with today’s renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach,” wrote Google’s Ross Koningstein and David Fork in a piece published yesterday in IEEE’s Spectrum.
It’s a striking admission from a company that has relentlessly supported the growth of renewable energy.
When Google first set out on its mission, the REC team was convinced that existing renewables (or those close to commercialization) could reduce emissions enough to avoid the worst climate change scenarios. But by 2011, when engineers realized that their investments were not playing out as expected, they ditched the program and set out to rethink its goals.
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
Reuters: Ice to close upper Mississippi from November 20, earliest on record. (h/t Jason)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Via email;
My wife is a school teacher in the Oakland School District – OUSD. Yes, she deserves combat pay … and suffers from PTSD every day after work. In today’s email inbox comes a note from the CTA (California Teachers Association – UNION) an URGENT need to Survey Teachers opinions on “sustainability” as drafted by the STRS State Teachers Retirement System.
http://www.calstrs.com/whats-new/your-input-valuable-please-complete-calstrs-sustainability-survey
Seems as though STRS wants … i-n-p-u-t … on “sustainability” issues from Teachers. More specifically, should STRS PLAY with Teachers Retirement Funds in assorted “Green” Schemes (excuse me … I meant “Green” corporations) ? Since CALSTRS is underfunded by approximately $ 40 BILLION dollars at the moment … the geniuses who are running the system (my wife’s retirement checks) into a ditch … can’t think of anything better to do than GAMBLE on … “ethical” … investments that protect gaia. Don’t ask me WHY the Investment “experts” … PAID massive salaries to MAXIMIZE (I hope) the rate of return on Teachers retirement funds … need the advice of a bunch of leftist Teachers (most of them are) on suitable investments. I suppose the survey results will provide political cover for these MORONS when their investments turn into a thousand Solyndra’s. In fact, I suggest that since the Solyndra debacle raised public awareness about Federal Funding of JUNK Green companies, that the leftists in government have found a NEW source of funding for their pet green projects … PENSION FUNDS!!
Yes … lets swindle Teachers out of their retirement pay (ultimately, the CA Taxpayers who will FUND the shortfalls) to keep lining the pockets of our crony greenist-capitalists. I think I’m going to be ILL.
Enjoy your survey, CALSTRS members!