In Halloween beclowned costume.
CWB: Loss Of Monopoly May Stress Prairie Infrastructure [1]
“In Western Canada, acreage of CWB crops has been declining for many years, while the acreage of crops outside of CWB control has been steady or rapidly growing. This decline in wheat and barley acreage is broadly inconsistent with yield growth trends, and expected profitability”, says Al Mussell, Senior Research Associate and co-author of the report. “Something else has influenced producers to vote with their feet”.
At the same time, investment has lagged in CWB grains – but has been much more aggressive in non-CWB crops. According to Kate Stiefelmeyer, Research Associate and co-author of the study, “We haven’t seen investment in barley malting facilities in nearly 20 years, and major investments have been lacking in flour milling and durum processing in western Canada”.
Footnotes:
[1] – I’m blogging this Halloween in a CBC headline writer costume.
Related: Henry Vos: ” Why I Stepped Down From The CWB Board of Directors”
Ezra Levant: Funnier than Mary Walsh
From the comments – “Of course Ezra is funnier than Mary. Bubonic plague is funnier than Mary. Being run over by an Abrams tank is funnier than Mary. Being shot and then peed on is funnier than Mary. Getting both feet caught in a bear trap and chewing off your legs to escape is funnier than Mary. Scratching out both eyes so you won’t have to see Mary’s homely visage ever again is funnier than Mary.”
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau, 2009;
[W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
A lot of the time he quote/unquote “worked from home”, which was sort of a shorthand – and people would say it sort of wryly – shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn’t around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He’s the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
So, you know, you see that and you think, gosh, maybe that’s the way the guy operates, hut then you figure ok, obviously he always had his eye on bigger and better things.
“Mr. Bush spoke weekly with Mr. Maliki by video teleconference. Mr. Obama had not spoken with Mr. Maliki for months before calling him in late October to announce the end of negotiations. Mr. Obama and his senior aides did not even bother to meet with Iraqi officials at the United Nations General Assembly in September.”
Canada and “Hemispheric Energy”
Those goldarn Yankees are finally really starting to sit up and take notice, one result of the work of those goldarn oh so inventive capitalists!
Predate:
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors/Fans, or, What Frackin’ Peak Oil?
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Events subsequent to the Senate lame-duck vote on the New START Treaty only serve to reinforce concerns given short shrift at the time – notably, with respect to the inadvisability of cutting and otherwise allowing the further atrophying of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, at a time when every other nuclear power, including Russia, is modernizing its arsenal.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“It took the mainstream media nearly a year to catch up with the John Edwards Affair, but only weeks into Herman Cain’s narrow frontrunner status for the GOP nomination, the goodfellas at Politico are letting the uppity black conservative have it.”
Reader Tips
Entertain and frighten yourself with the interactive Zombie Tabernacle Choir. Seconds, even minutes, of fun.
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Hashtag Of The Lucky Y-Chromosome Club
For The Record
I used to own a body like this.
Climategate 2.0
It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to have shown that the planet has warmed by almost a degree centigrade since 1950 and is warming continually.
Published last week ahead of a major United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, next month, their work was cited around the world as irrefutable evidence that only the most stringent measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can save civilisation as we know it.
It was cited uncritically by, among others, reporters and commentators from the BBC, The Independent, The Guardian, The Economist and numerous media outlets in America.
The Washington Post said the BEST study had ‘settled the climate change debate’ and showed that anyone who remained a sceptic was committing a ‘cynical fraud’.
But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis.
[…]
Prof McKittrick added: ‘The fact is that many of the people who are in a position to provide informed criticism of this work are currently bound by confidentiality agreements.
‘For the Berkeley team to have chosen this particular moment to launch a major international publicity blitz is a highly unethical sabotage of the peer review process.’
In Prof Curry’s view, two of the papers were not ready to be published, in part because they did not properly address the arguments of climate sceptics.
As for the graph disseminated to the media, she said: ‘This is “hide the decline” stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.
(Emphasis mine.) More at WUWT.
Update: Curry responds and clarifies.
Update 2: recommended reading from Charlie Martin
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
… [is] an old secular Euroleftie who thinks he should be able to do the same jokes about Islam as he does about everything else. He came home one evening to find the jihad boys had firebombed his kitchen. As they escaped across the snowy field heady with the thrill of their glorious victory, they noticed that they’d accidentally set their clothes on fire, and, after some effort to extinguish them, were forced to discard their smoking trousers. Unfortunately, in abandoning their pants and scampering off through the icy night in their jihadist BVDs, they neglected to remove the charred driver’s licenses and other identifying documentation, from which police were able easily to track them down. Muslim terrorists are all Yosemite Ahmeds – until one of them succeeds.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
The horse farmer, who lives in Hillsburgh, was bringing a Charter of Rights challenge against the Ontario SPCA, citing illegal searches of a farm he rented on Highway 9 in Adjala-Tosorontio Township in November, 2008 and February, 2010. The searches were used to gather evidence that resulted in seizure of 32 Tennessee Walking Horses and 14 charges that Luckett wasn’t taking proper care of them.
Instead, in the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie, Crown Attorney Carol Mitchell told Justice Grainne Forrest that the Crown was dropping all charges against the horse owner. “You are free to go,” Forrest told Luckett.
“There is no more venue for me to hear your application,” the Justice repeated to a protesting Luckett, who wanted to proceed, adding that she was able to hear a constitutional question only in the context of charges against a defendant. Replying to Luckett’s complaint that he had “incurred costs,” Justice Forrest said: “If it is purely a monetary issue it can go to a civil court.”
Animal rights contagion is spreading to even small town humane societies, into our vet teaching colleges, and creating an increasingly activist veterinary profession. (Leftists in our universities haven’t limited themselves to political science and gender studies.)
Double check and triple check to ensure that the causes and professionals you support aren’t in the business of eroding your rights as an animal owner. (h/t Jamie)
Y2Kyoto: State Of Aneroxia Envirosa
These used to be wealthy resource-based economies, but now many of the towns are drying up, with revenue to local governments evaporating. Unemployment rates are in the 20-percent-and-higher range. Nearly 79 percent of the county’s voters in a recent advisory initiative opposed the dam removal, but that isn’t stopping the authorities from blasting the dams anyway.
These rural folks, living in the shadow of the majestic Mount Shasta, believe that they are being driven away so that their communities can essentially go back to the wild, to conform to a modern environmentalist ethos that puts wildlands above humanity. As the locals told it during the Defend Rural America conference Oct. 22 at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds, environmental officials are treading on their liberties, traipsing unannounced on their properties, confronting ranchers with guns drawn to enforce arcane regulatory rules and destroying their livelihoods in the process.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music British rockers Motörhead and their son-of-a-vicar lead singer Lemmy play a softer, gentler acoustic version of their signature song Ace Of Spades.
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Surviving In Argentina
As the press all over the world talks about the political success of the current administration, and mentions the “flourishing”, prosperous Argentina, a clear minority which I’m part of sees things differently. It makes you wonder and ask yourself a few other things as well. Who writes all these praises? What kind of data do they use to make such positive statements? How can a country be booming economically, yet keeps having shantytowns grow at an accelerating rate, poverty, misery and decadence never backing down one inch, and the 3rd greatest inflation in the planet as the icing on the cake? After reading some of the emails people sent me on the “success” of Argentina, I wonder if its just innocent stupidity, lack of professionalism or if there’s more to it than meets the eye and there are other intentions behind it.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
“I stood with Occupy Wall Street. Until the dudes split with my wallet.”
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Obama’s jobs bill tackles the problem of rape and murder by giving the states $30 billion … for public school teachers.
Only $5 billion is even allotted to the police, but all we keep hearing about are the rapes and murders that Democrats are suddenly against (as long as being “against” rape and murder means funding public school teachers and not imprisoning or executing rapists and murderers).
Finally, did Flint use any money from Obama’s last trillion-dollar stimulus bill to hire more police in order to prevent rape and murder? No, Flint spent its $2.2 million from the first stimulus bill on buying two electric buses.
Even if what Flint really needed was buses and not cops, for $2.2 million, the city could have bought seven brand-new diesel buses and had $100,000 left over for streetlights.
Rather than reducing the rate of rape and murder, blowing money on “green” buses is likely to increase crime, since people will be forced to spend a lot more time waiting at bus stops for those two buses.
It’s going to be a long wait: The “green” buses were never delivered because the company went out of business — despite a $1.6 million loan from the American taxpayer.
h/t dave