I have a couple of busy days ahead with work and other commitments, expect blogging to slow to a trickle — in the meanwhile, the thread is open for your tips.
I have a couple of busy days ahead with work and other commitments, expect blogging to slow to a trickle — in the meanwhile, the thread is open for your tips.
The ”Duchesse” and her hubby are upset because a group of journalists released photographs of ”her grace” going topless in the South of France. I don’t know all the details, howevah,
my view on this is if ”Mme La Duchesse”wants to be respected, she shouldn’t go public while topless, especially not near a highway or in front of hotel staff. I side with the paparazzi for ”exposing” the truth.
I this isn’t a case of royalty abusing the common man, what is?? And while visiting in a foreign country!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/paparazzi-trial-topless-photos-british-royal-kate-47157543
Found this from a commenter on NP (National Post):
Mark Steyn interviews Maxime Bernier (a couple of months ago):
http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2017/03/26/the-mark-steyn-show-with-maxime-bernier/
Scott Adams: ‘Climate scientists probably believe they have convinced about half of the public to their side using their graphs and logic and facts. That’s not the case. They convinced half the public by using fear persuasion disguised as facts and logic.’
I don’t know all the details
That much is obvious.
She was on a private estate far from public space and only the technology of a very high power telephoto lens was able to take her ‘photo’. The laws of France consider this an invasion of privacy, and that’s what the photographers and their employer are being charged with.
Where are the photos? I’ll judge for myself.
AGW RIP.
“The mini ice age crop losses are beginning.”
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“Most significant cold snap in decades for southern Ontario”
“”The cold snap, which is expected to last five days, will be one of the most significant spans of cold weather Toronto has seen in May,”…”
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/most-significant-cold-snap-in-decades-for-southern-ontario/81937/
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“Mini-ice-age crop losses.
Prepare for huge increases in food prices. You may want to watch this video twice.”
““With the massive losses of at least 32% of US Winter wheat over the first week of May 2017, there are other agriculture losses mounting in regional areas, that when seen combined will add to the overall larger picture. Doubling avocado prices, lemon shortages, massive fruit losses across Europe, vineyards up to 50% loss. The mini ice age crop losses are beginning.””
https://www.iceagenow.info/mini-ice-age-conditions-bring-multiple-crop-losses-globally-video/#more-21320
At my place of work, in Toronto, I’m witness every day to the Two Minutes Hate. Somebody will get it going with “did you hear what Trump (or Bannon, Conway etc.) did today?” Or “check out what this stupid American did.”
Its been happening since last summer, ramped up during the campaign, but has reached a fever pitch since inauguration when Obama was no longer the President. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
I find it frightening that we are living in Nineteen Eighty Four.
While I was teaching at a certain post-secondary institution, I was in a comparable situation.
In my department, I incurred the wrath of one of the administrators because I wasn’t a rabid follower of certain conservative politicians and policies. I’m sure he wanted to have me fired because I made jokes about, say, Preston Manning or Stockwell Day.
I was reminded of that when I read about the public mourning that was required when Kim Jong Il died. Anyone not displaying the right amount of grief in the right way could have been arrested for being disloyal.
PET Cemetery Report.
Sajjan voted off the Medusa’s raft.
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said to like Sajjan…”
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“Will Harjit Sajjan survive as Defence Minister?”
“He tried to change the channel Wednesday with a speech that bluntly outlined the problems that the Canadian military and the DND face as far as money and resources.
But most of the questions he faced from journalists were still about his Op Medusa claims.”
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/will-harjit-sajjan-survive-as-defence-minister
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The Raft of the Medusa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa#/media/File:JEAN_LOUIS_TH%C3%89ODORE_G%C3%89RICAULT_-_La_Balsa_de_la_Medusa_(Museo_del_Louvre,_1818-19).jpg
When this matter was first publicized, some of those pictures were available on the Internet.
It was quite obvious that they were staying in a secluded location surrounded by a wooded area, far from public view. Whoever took those photos had to be hiding in the trees in order to get a clear view of the area. Not only was it an invasion of privacy but the photographer may be guilty of trespassing on private property.
Stephen Hawking will test his theory that humans must leave Earth. Let’s hope he’s wrong.
It’s no secret that physicist Stephen Hawking thinks humans are running out of time on planet Earth.
In a new BBC documentary, Hawking will test his theory that humankind must colonize another planet or perish in the next 100 years. The documentary Stephen Hawking: Expedition New Earth, will air this summer as part of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World season and will showcase that Hawking’s aspiration “isn’t as fantastical as it sounds,” according to BBC.
For years, Hawking has warned that humankind faces a slew of threats ranging from climate change to destruction from nuclear war and genetically engineered viruses.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/05/04/stephen-hawking-test-his-theory-humans-must-leave-earth-lets-hope-hes-wrong/310545001/
” Where are the photos? I’ll judge for myself ”
Same here, I would like to google her royal tits as well.
When the Democrats do it, that means it’s not illegal….
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During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
Among those whose names were unmasked in 2016 or early 2017 were campaign or transition associates of President Trump as well as members of Congress and their staffers, according to sources with direct knowledge.
http://circa.com/politics/president-obamas-team-sought-nsa-intel-on-thousands-of-americans-during-the-2016-election
via DrudgeReport
A for Kermit*.
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Mohammed Adam: “Abortion is legal in Canada”.
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/adam-ottawa-should-stop-coddling-anti-abortion-protesters
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*Kermit:
“Doctor Kermit Gosnell found guilty of murdering infants in late-term abortions”
“Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was convicted of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic,…”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/13/jury-split-on-2-counts-in-trial-abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell.html
@Rizwan “his theory that humankind must colonize another planet or perish in the next 100 ”
It would be easier to cull 3 billion people from the planet, you would get the same end result, saving this planet.
Socialism’s natural end result: collapse dancing.
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“VIDEO: Armored Vehicle Drives into Crowd of Protesters in Venezuela”
“Bloomberg notes the contrast between videos of protest violence and a viral video of Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolas Maduro dancing on state TV – a video that actually pans away from the cavorting strongman to show riots boiling through the streets outside:…”
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/05/04/armored-vehicle-runs-protesters-venezuela/
I’m curious about this.
when the elites keep all the seats in the escape pod for themselves, who are they going to exploit on the new Earth?
common concepts of space travel show a very distinct unawareness of the staggeringly incomprehensible distances involved. or the issue of huge increase in radiation or loss of muscle tissue. too much steady diet of ‘star trek’. or is that ‘start wreck’?
AGW RIP.
Update.
https://www.iceagenow.info/
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“English vineyards report ‘catastrophic’ damage”
““English wine crop ruined,” reads headline. Late frosts have caused devastation at British vineyards, warn wine producers.”
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“Hundreds of cows killed or lost in Colorado blizzard”
“More than 2 feet of global warming has killed hundreds – perhaps thousands – of cattle in Southeastern Colorado.”
AGW RIP. Upper date.
“A series of late frosts have wiped out grape crops, hitting wine producers across England and much of the Continent.”
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“After all Charles’s doom-mongering… Camilla says climate change will make British wine better during event celebrating the industry”
“She admitted climate change could be beneficial to the quality of British wine” (dailymail)
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“English wine crop ruined as late frosts bite after warm spell: Vineyards report ‘catastrophic’ damage following colder weather”
“… a sudden sharp fall in ground and air temperatures, taking them down to -6 centigrade over the past week or so, killed off the delicate buds.”
“‘We can normally cope with ground frosts – they can be damaging but nothing like the air frost we experienced.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4471686/English-wine-crop-ruined-frosts-bite-warm-spell.html
$ 62 MILLION in a “transportation infrastructure project” for one CA city
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/05/03/berkeley-officials-approve-62-5m-visionary-bicycle-plan-just-time-bike-work-day/
That is … $ 62 MILLION in Bike Paths … for Berkeley CA. Yep … Berkeley is going to eliminate automobile lanes in favor of bike lanes. $ 62 MILLION (and it will spiral much higher) … to make Berkeley look more like a poverty-stricken 3rd world country.
And if you DARE argue against this in Berkeley … you will be pelted with bicycle padlocks and pepper-sprayed by the “LOVING” leftists.
Canadian gallery cancels indigenous art inspired exhibit because artist is white
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/04/canadian-gallery-cancels-indigenous-art-inspired-exhibit-because-artist-is-white/
Further evidence that the Shiny Potato is an arrogant, pompous ass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcxHlZEblQ
Then again, we, members of the Great Unwashed, are unworthy of proper answers, aren’t we?
Leave it to an SJW to keep it classy:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/gross-new-york-mag-blogger-encourages-men-nyc-urinate-trump-tower-protest/
So, would this be considered appropriate music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ5-FoiBuVc
To put this into perspective, Guildford (near a cited winery) is at 51.23 latitude; Calgary is at 51.04. Kelowna is at 49.89 and is essentially at the northern tip of the Okanagan wine belt; though the BC wine map shows a few wineries up around Salmon Arm which is at 50.70 latitude. So the Brits are attempting to produce wine on the northern edge of the “wine belt” – typically 30 to 50 degrees latitude in both hemispheres. It’s obvious the British vineyards will be the first to feel the effects of a cooling climate. Sorry for the Brits, as the commercial revival has only been the last 50 years or so. The Romans introduced wine grapes; William the Conquerer’s buds revived it (often via monasteries), but climate changes between about 400 AD and 1100 AD, and again from about 1400 AD to 1900 AD made commercial wine production difficult, if not impossible.
“…common concepts of space travel show a very distinct unawareness of the staggeringly incomprehensible distances involved. or the issue of huge increase in radiation or loss of muscle tissue.”
I’m pretty sure that there is a blurring in the minds of many about the actual distances, times, and hardships. But I blame NASA as much as StarTrek. NASA keeps up the hype on alien life and exoplanets or some such nonsense as if they actually had some real insight. They don’t. It’s all pure azz speculation intended to pump up the prols and keep the money coming. (On the other hand, they actually do real science but it’s not glamorous).
Colonize Mars? Right. Get back to me in 50 years and we’ll talk about it.
It’s sad about Hawking. He was brilliant but not so much any more.
The benefits of a Catholic education. The word is spreading.
http://news.nationalpost.com/toronto/ontario-teacher-guilty-of-misconduct-for-talking-about-her-sex-life-and-putting-her-legs-behind-her-head-in-class