No one, but no one, knows more about holiday safety than the Russians.
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“Language is the first casualty of politics”
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Repeating certain key words, like “cut”, followed by “Prime Minister Stephen Harper” and the inattentive will begin to think that the PM is advocating a cut. Since it is a common theme in the MSM, as well as the school system, that Conservatives are “cutters” who care more about money than people, it’s a repetitive messaging that dovetails with preconceived notions…
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
The things you’ll never see at the CBC;
Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can’t use these materials if it hopes to survive. Instead, it’s going to use corn, a common source for conventional biofuels. What’s more, most of the product from its first facility will be used for chemicals rather than fuel.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
h/t Greg
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t John.
Climategate 2.0: The BBC As Warmists’ Best Friend
“No journalism here, only obedience…”
Roger Harrabin and Joe Smith write to UEA warmist Mike Hulme, ask: “What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc?”
Related – I’ll let others psychoanalyze the bizarre opposition to such news, and I’ll let the scientists explain the science and the actual number of people on each side of the issue. What I am able to do is show what the mainstream media buries, namely all the red flags surrounding accusations against skeptic scientists.
h/t Russell
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
[T]he New York Times itself did not report the Pentagon’s vindication until Christmas Day, when most people are occupied with family and fun, and buried it on page A20 under the headline “Pentagon Finds No Fault In Ties to TV Analysts.”
Reader Tips
Tonight, a little light seasonal Schlager musik from Sweden, as Towa Carlson entertains us with the half-familiar strains of Bjällerklang.
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They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum
Giant House of Death on the Prairie;
There is something perverse about building a “human rights” monument in the same country where one human rights commission prosecuted a publisher for reprinting the “Muhammad cartoons” and another banned a preacher for life from quoting “homophobic” Bible verses, even in private correspondence—to cite two of the most egregious cases.
Furthermore, there’s the obvious deduction that Asper really wanted another Holocaust museum to rival Yad Vashem and its Washington, DC counterpart. But Canada being “diverse” and “multicultural,” that simply wouldn’t do, so the project devolved into a more “inclusive” atrocity exhibition.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
USA Today, Dec.27th 2011 – The portion of federal workers earning $100,000 or more grew from 12% in 2006 to 22% in 2011.
Reuters, Dec.27th 2011 – President Barack Obama is expected to ask for authority to increase the borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion, part of the spending authority that was negotiated between Congress and the White House this summer.
What Possibly Went Wrong
David Brooks in the NY Times:
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One hundred years ago, we had libertarian economics but conservative values. Today we have oligarchic economics and libertarian moral values — a bad combination…
Meanwhile, taking advantage of things gone wrong across the pond:
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The Australian navy plans to recruit up to 1,000 Royal Navy sailors facing redundancy under the Government’s defence cuts.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’ve taken up biathlon;
“Increasingly, undergraduates are not prepared adequately in any academic area but often arrive with strong convictions about their abilities. So college professors routinely encounter students who have never written anything more than short answers on exams, who do not read much at all, who lack foundational skills in math and science, yet are completely convinced of their abilities and resist any criticism of their work, to the point of tears and tantrums: ‘But I earned nothing but A’s in high school,’ and ‘Your demands are unreasonable.’ Such a combination makes some students nearly unteachable.”
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
The former minister of state for antiquities affairs, Zahi Hawass, campaigned for the return of the country’s treasures. I vote against that. Better they be safe where they are than exposed to the fury of modern-day Egyptians, especially given that Egypt’s mufti recently ruled against the private display of statues, a possible first step toward a state-sanctioned destruction of Egyptian antiquities. In addition, observers rightly worry that the imcomparable Egyptian Museum may be targeted next.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
“It may sound hokey to non-partisan ears, but it works.”
BREAKING NEWS: Bruce Cheadle casts aside the last pretense of objectivity.
They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum
On Friday, the biggest boosters of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights threw in the towel.
Like a punch-drunk fighter, the CMHR is still swinging, refusing to give up. But the Winnipeg Free Press, the propaganda arm of the museum, admitted in an editorial that the cost overruns of the CMHR are beyond the ability of the private sector to pay. The charade is over.
The numbers are so grim that the FP refuses to publish them.
So we’ll do it for them.
Reader Tips
Has a grueling day of hand-to-hand combat with your fellow shoppers over the few remaining pairs of Air Jordans left you battered, stressed, and sore? Well, put those shiny sneakers up and unwind to the soothing sounds of Dutch ensemble Musica Amphion, as they play the 4th and 5th movements from Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto in G Minor.
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Great Moments In Presidential Self Assessment
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
This Was The Moment
That the rise of the oceans began to slow and the re-election coffers began to fill…
Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal e-mails. Political considerations were raised repeatedly by company investors, Energy Department bureaucrats and White House officials.
The records, some previously unreported, show that when warned that financial disaster might lie ahead, the administration remained steadfast in its support for Solyndra.
The documents reviewed by The Post, which began examining the clean-technology program a year ago, provide a detailed look inside the day-to-day workings of the upper levels of the Obama administration. They also give an unprecedented glimpse into high-level maneuvering by politically connected clean-technology investors.