Scroll to the bottom: Do you support the arrest of the protesters?
Currently “No” is ahead 2,710 to 2,278. This cannot stand.
9:28 am – now just 12 votes behind! 9:31 and we’ve pulled into the lead. SDA gets results!
12:20pm – narrative disturbed. “Commenting is now closed for this story.”
h/t Kevin
Rochester And Strood
"#RochesterAndStrood was our 271st most-winnable seat. If UKIP win here, we can win across the country" Mark Reckless pic.twitter.com/aFWDwdGkkz
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) November 21, 2014
Reader Tips
In tonight’s bouncy entertainment en route to the tips “Whoopie” John Wilfahrt invites you to Come Wet Your Mustache with him.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The true size of Greenland. h/t EBD
Just A Guy Who Rides In His Presidential Jet
Gay rights advocate and top Obama donor, Terry Bean charged with child rape;
A search of the Federal Election Commission’s campaign-finance database turns up thousands in donations every cycle by Bean to the Democratic Party’s most powerful leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Dick Durbin, and Rep. Barney Frank, among others. Photos of Bean posted online show him flying on Air Force One with Obama.
So what is it with liberal politicians and predatory gay activists?
Escape To Guantanamo
Barbed wire, high fences, mine fields, watch towers, ferocious dogs, and sharpshooters firing at unarmed civilians…the tropical version of the Berlin Wall prevents escapees from reaching the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo. Cuba’s distinctive version of the barrier extends into Guantánamo Bay, where border guards fire from patrol boats or throw grenades at anyone trying to swim to the base.
Showing Up To Riot
h/t Meatriarchy
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Linden MacIntyre – and we mean this literally.
The CBC journalist Linden MacIntyre has been barred from appearing on CBC News Network this week after executives there objected to a comment he made during an interview with The Globe and Mail in which he compared the workplace behaviour of Peter Mansbridge to that of Jian Ghomeshi.
We Don’t Need No …
The Appalling Truth About Energy Subsidies
From the useful site Energy Matters. Bookmark it.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Oh no! Who could have seen this coming?
Solar farms will still be reliant on subsidies for up to another 14 years, the trade body for the industry has admitted – despite previously claiming the technology could be subsidy-free by 2020.
Most solar panels installed in the UK to date have been heavily subsidised and new solar farm projects are currently paid more than twice the market price of power for every unit of electricity they generate.
The subsidies, running to tens of millions of pounds each year, are paid for through levies on consumer energy bills.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
By either grand design or ferocious grassroots organization, Toronto’s suburbs are shaping up to be a Mandarin-speaking powerhouse for the federal Liberal Party.
Four ridings around the GTA have Chinese-Canadians candidates, and in sharp contrast to the Conservatives’ top-down ethnic strategy of wooing voters through messaging that appeals to a specific minority, the Mandarin community is fielding its own candidates. In Don Valley North’s nomination contest, scientist Geng Tan upset presumed front-runner Rana Sarkar, a veteran party member and friend of Gerald Butts, Leader Justin Trudeau’s top adviser. Mr. Geng accomplished this by appealing almost solely to a monolithic base of Mandarin-speakers in Mandarin only.
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In the case of Mr. Geng’s campaign, his website was mostly in Mandarin and was changed to English only after a conversation with The Globe and Mail last week. His membership list, which The Globe reviewed, was composed exclusively of Chinese names.
But there’s more!
Sinner Repents
“I’m a white man. I’m a white middle-class man. I’m a white middle-class heterosexual man… This is my fault. I didn’t do anything directly, but this is my fault. My silence makes this my fault.”
Weather Rage
CBC: Listen as one unidentified caller gives us a blast about wind, winter and having to endure it year after year. We picked this message up on our voicemail system.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips perennial welterweight contender Angry Ram prepares for his upcoming 12-round title bout with Connor McGoat.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
This time, it’s serious.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Har: Two men disguised in burkas rob Toronto jewellery store at gunpoint
Here’s a suggestion: Live by the burka, die by the burka
h/t cal2, Dan T.
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
More photos from New York state.
Another dump is forecast for tomorrow.
In The Mail
The Western Awakening Trilogy, Book 3.
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Oh, Shiny Pony!
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
I remember when these experts were too unfashionable for respectable print: Wind farms causing thousands of bats to die of collapsed lungs annually in Alberta.