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  3. While hunting, electric eels periodically give off two high-voltage pulses separated by a 2 millisecond pause, causing a massive involuntary twitch in nearby hidden prey… The eels, highly sensitive to water movements, can detect motion caused by the twitch, learning the other fish’s location.
    The eel then delivers a full blast of a longer, high-voltage shock to immobilize the prey through involuntary muscle contraction – much like a Taser – enabling easy capture.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/04/us-science-eels-idUSKCN0JI27W20141204

  9. 1) Please support Friends of Science
    http://www.friendsofscience.org/
    See this article about an FOS dispute with the weenies at the Sierra Club.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/05/kelly-mcparland-big-oil-meet-big-billboard-sierra-club-finds-a-new-enemy-in-global-plot-against-truth/
    2) Northern Hemisphere snow cover this fall highest ever on record
    http://iceagenow.info/2014/12/northern-hemisphere-snow-cover-fall-highest-record/
    http://iceagenow.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Fall-Snow-Cover-2014.png

  11. Gun control won’t solve real gun problem
    BRIAN LILLEY
    So the murder rate is down. Shooting deaths are down, even without the gun registry. Even handgun deaths are down and we know most crimes committed with handguns involve illegal handguns, often ones smuggled in for criminals and gangs from the United States.
    That is the real gun problem in Canada — illegal guns — and it is a tough one for any politician to tackle. So instead of dealing with the difficult problem, Trudeau and Mulcair are promising that if elected next year they will punish law-abiding gun owners for the crimes of those who have no respect for any law.
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/12/20141205-070820.html

  13. Of Jim Crow and His Democrats.
    “Landrieu is the last white Democratic senator from the deep South, the last remaining Democrat holding statewide office in Louisiana”.
    …-
    “End of an Era
    The Last Days of Democratic Politics In Louisiana Are Here”
    “But Mary Landrieu and Edwin Edwards are raging against the dying of the light.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2014-12-05/democratic-politics-is-about-to-go-dark-in-louisiana
    …-
    “DEMOCRATS SHOULD KNOW JIM CROW, THEY CREATED HIM”
    ““There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the voter Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit a franchise that we see today.””
    “Clinton, now 64, in his dotage, probably forgot (or was too embarrassed) to mention to the far-Left crowd of youngsters that his party is the party of segregation.”
    http://humanevents.com/2011/07/10/democrats-should-know-jim-crow-they-created-him/

  14. Poor Little Richard had a tough childhood.
    His father totally rejected him because of shortness, a club foot and his homosexuality.

  16. Why stop at Detroit? Build it all the way to California. The public sector union retirees of both places will be able to visit each other.

  17. Singer Dan Fogelberg, among many other songs…..”Leader of the band”, “Run for the Roses”, and my favourite, “Same Old Lang Syne” died in December 2007 form Prostate Cancer.
    Pity.

  18. It’ll never happen. Various governments have been talking about this for ages. It never gets past the talking stage.

  20. Death of a Liberal Dinosaur.
    …-
    “The Long, Slow Death of The New Republic”
    “Late yesterday, the owner and publisher of TNR, Facebook magnate Chris Hughes, ended the publication as we know it.
    Just weeks after their gala 100th birthday bash held in Washington, D.C., at a cost of over $150,000 — attended by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, chaired by Bill Clinton, and with a performance by Wynton Marsalis — Hughes immediately announced an extensive executive change that spelled the magazine’s quick demise.”
    http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/12/05/the-long-slow-death-of-the-new-republic/

  21. Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
    This from Fox News
    NILES, Mich. – A man wielding a knife stabbed four people aboard a passenger train Friday, including an Amtrak employee, police said.

  23. Peggy Nash, NDP MP says Ontario being economically hurt by PMSH refusing to meet the Ont premier, in “like a year.” It’s Harper’s fault , not crushing electricity prices, not incompetent government, not job killing redundant pension plans, and certainly not because of her “smirking” remarks after their last “private” meeting. Coyne weighs in:
    http://www.canada.com/news/national/Coyne+Perhaps+mystery+Prime+Minister+Stephen+Harper+would+pass/10444900/story.html

  24. Rex Murphy: Has the environmental movement ever seen a collapse it didn’t want to be on the brink of?
    The particulars do not matter. Pipelines, in fact, are not really the issue, nor have they ever been. If oil could be transported from west to east, north to south, in titanium containers with impregnable seals and under Archangelic guard for every inch of the way, it would still be resisted. For it is a law with environmental protest that as soon as one of its objections has been met, there is always another. Nature is always about to lose something. There will be a bug, a plant, a lichen on a lonely rock, or a landlocked seagull that will be lost forever, ripped from the Great Chain of Being, by the wicked incursions of vile man.
    As it was once the seal and the spotted owl, as it was later the polar bear, so now it is the beluga.
    Environmentalism can be defined as a movement that can only exist in a world that has defied its imperatives. There are no flashmobs, no Twitter campaigns, no networking of activists or oil sands tours, no media coverage — except in those countries where the economies have provided the technology, and the leisure, for what is essentially a parasitic endeavour.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/06/rex-murphy-has-the-environmental-movement-ever-seen-a-collapse-it-didnt-want-to-be-on-the-brink-of/

  25. Thinking that gun control will reduce crime is like thinking that drunk driving can be prevented by making it harder for sober people to buy cars.

  26. Liberal Miasma.
    H/T PET Cemetery.
    …-
    “Fourteen women, twenty five years, and zero progress
    Andrew Potter”
    …-
    “Trudeau says ‘expert review’ coming on Andrews sexual harassment …
    The Telegram”
    …-
    “Trudeau appoints human rights lawyer to investigate Andrews sexual harassment case”
    “Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says that political considerations for Newfoundland MP Scott Andrews didn’t really play into the calculation when Trudeau suspended Andrews from caucus for allegedly sexually harassing a female NDP MP.”
    http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2014-12-05/article-3964000/Trudeau-appoints-human-rights-lawyer-to-investigate-Andrews-sexual-harassment-case/1

  27. O’narcissist’s Hope vs Fear.
    “Many have given up hope that President Obama can change anything.”
    …-
    “Photo Gallery: Fear and Desperation”
    “”Black Lives Matter”: A protestor sits in front of a street fire during a demonstration following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown. The grand jury decided last Monday not to indict a white police officers over the fatal August shooting of the unarmed black teenager.”
    “1 of 18”
    http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-fear-and-desperation-fotostrecke-121661.html
    …-
    “Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
    (Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)

  28. Okay.
    Who will be the first gentle soul to supply a graphic like the one of Red-faced Mulcair … sporting horns, like in the video?
    A must-have for any political junky……

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