Author: Kate

No Pressure

Go ahead … believe what you want. After all, this is an institution of higher learning:

Meanwhile, faculty member Todd Palmer notified four-year Ph.D. student Bethany Robinson (OSU grade point average 3.89) that he was terminating her thesis work and taking all of her work in progress for himself.

Posing Time

The Alberta Ardvark:

Brant Liberal candidate Lloyd St. Amand joined the long list of failed Liberal Party photo ops the other day when he and Liberal trade critic Willowdale MP Martha Hall-Findlay stopped off outside a supposedly closed factory in an effort to highlight ‘job losses’ allegedly caused by the Conservative business tax reductions.

Only in the collective Liberal imagination does cutting business taxes result in job losses. As for the photo-op in front of a “closed factory”,

One small problem: The factory wasn’t closed at all, and the company’s Vice President was not happy to have been used as a prop in this Liberal deception:

(The Liberals’) attempt at disparaging the Conservatives…was a disaster… Ironically, we had looked into locating our finishing and distribution facility in Michigan. The corporate tax cuts and programs provided by the Conservative government were the deciding factor to expand in Canada.”

So much for that photo op.

“Anti-American Muslim dictators from North Africa were thought to be pretty freakin’ cool when Bush was president.”

Via the Virginian;

But now that President Obama has decided that it’s time to officially condemn Qaddafi, the message has been sent like the Bat Signal to everyday fashionable Gen X, Gen Y and Millennial liberals — hipsters, SWPL, single city girls, college students, Bikhram yoga instructors, NYT readers, AOLHuffington Post readers, DJ’s, bartenders, news reporters, advertising executives, entertainment professionals, etc. — that Quaddafi is a BAD GUY. If President Obama says you’re bad, then you’re bad. And now that the President has decided it’s time to call Qaddafi bad, everybody knows that Qaddafi is indeed bad. You know, like Mubarak and the Governor of Wisconsin.
So it’s a little harsh to rake Nelly Furtado over the coals for being a hypocrite. She’s probably very sincerely trying to do the right thing. She just lives in a world in which Left Wing and low-information liberal narratives are the rule. And in that world, al-Qaddafi (like Hosni Mubarak) only recently became a villain.

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If you’ve been searching fruitlessly for some quality gospel trumpet music, you’re in luck: here are Trumpets of Jericho (I could find no information on them, other than that the track was released in 1969) playing the quietly inspirational Steal Away.
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YNoKyoto

Oh, darn.

A plan by Saskatchewan and Montana to clean up the air by pumping carbon dioxide emissions underground has been buried.
Saskatchewan Innovation Minister Rob Norris admitted Thursday that talks on the proposed $270-million carbon capture and storage project quietly ended late last fall.
“That chapter has come to a close. Those talks have been discontinued,” Norris said at the provincial legislature in Regina.”
[…]
Saskatchewan was prepared to provide up to $50 million for the project and asked the Canadian government to pitch in $100 million. Montana wanted about $100 million from a U.S. federal stimulus package.
But federal money never came in either country.

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