Author: Kate

“It was a stunning moment of moral clarity.”

Baiting The Left 22 Comments

As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaganda and fake calls for peace stood silent.
As Pol Pot, the “progressive” dictator tortured and murdered a third of his people in Cambodia, the leftists “peace” activists in the US and Europe who never saw a US military operation that was justified, turned a blind eye.
The silence of the likes of Susan Sontag, Jane Fonda, Noam Chomsky and their fellow travelers came to mind last week when the Western media and intellectual elites averted their gaze as Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the long exiled spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood spoke before a crowd of millions at Cairo’s Tahrir Square. (link updated for improved readability)

h/t Adrian

World Oil Prices: Not High Enough!

The One 13 Comments

Ken Salazar blinks?

Interior Secretary Salazar cracks under pressure and begins issuing Gulf of Mexico drilling permits

More like a wink.

Initial drilling on this well began April 16, 2010, in 6,500 feet water depth, and the activities were suspended June 12, 2010, under the temporary drilling moratorium, issued in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

h/t Adrian
Update:

More – “… it took a truly insane amount of pressure just to squeeze that one permit from the White House”

Y2Kyoto: They Won’t Be Satisfied Until We’re All Driving In Sleeping Bags*

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The Chevy Freeze;

The magazine has put about 2,500 miles on its Volt. It paid $48,700, including a $5,000 markup by a Chevy dealer.
Champion noted the Volt is about twice as expensive as a Prius.
He was said the five hour time to recharge the Volt was “annoying” and was also critical of the power of the Volt heating system.
“You have seat heaters, which keep your body warm, but your feet get cold and your hands get cold,” Champion said.

In related news…
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* Those who have attempted a 300 mile trip in a ’65 Mustang at -30 know what I’m talking about.

The Tolerant Left

The Tolerant Left 72 Comments

Language advisory.

h/t Shawn
From an Undisclosed Motel 6 in Illinois;

It’s been my job to coach our brave renegades on how best to stick it to the Man, to present their most reasonable, more-in-sorrow, woeful countenances to the television cameras while our public-employee-union supporters contort their faces in purple rage back home in Madison and Topeka and Bismarck, or whatever those other state capitals are called.
In other words, it’s the perfect leftist two-step in the Age of Obama: Say one thing, do the exact opposite. Pretend to be reasonable and then sucker-punch your opponent. Preach civility (come on — you knew that was a joke, right?) and break out the Hitler mustaches. Swear to faithfully execute the laws of the United States and then pull the rug out from under the Defense of Marriage Act. Genius!
As I’ve explained elsewhere, it’s all a part of our allegiance to a Higher Power — which is ourselves and our own base appetites. You Judeo-Christian creeps often accuse us of having no moral center, no guiding philosophy, no soaring, overarching ethos, but that’s a dirty lie. Of course we do, and here it is:
By any means necessary.

How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Responsible For Worldwide?

Roadkill 28 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Cape Bretoner, Feb. 2010 – The latest numbers from the Saskatchewan Coyote Control Program indicate that residents have removed nearly 18,000 coyotes since the program was introduced in November. […] The [Nova Scotia] Department of Natural Resources is adamant that a bounty would not be effective and have no intention of initiating one.
Halifiax Chronicle Herald, Feb. 2011 – Coyote attacks man on farm in Hants County
I encountered several coyotes while hunting last fall – all of them running hard in the opposite direction before I had a chance to raise my gun. Memo to Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources: shooting coyotes is less about population control than it is “attitude adjustment”.
h/t Larry

Carried away

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I forget — what does the word “flush” mean?
Oh, right:

San Francisco’s big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink.

You mean…

Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.

Paging Rube Goldberg:

Now officials are stocking up on a $14 million, three-year supply of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite – better known as bleach – to act as an odor eater…

h/t Gord

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 22 Comments

Tonight, in the interests of bringing you the sort of thing you would otherwise never see, or ever miss if you didn’t see it, German actor and singer Fred Bertelmann reprises one of his hit songs in the opening credits of a 1958 movie named after, and loosely based on, that very hit song: Der lachende Vagabund (The Laughing Vagabond).
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

Hopenchangen

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Huffington Post, Oct. 2010 – Solar Panels On White House: Obama To Install Solar Panels In 2011
Washington Post, Feb. 2011 – Dozens of [Washington, CD] residents who installed solar panels on their homes under a government grant program promoting renewable energy have been told they will not be reimbursed thousands of dollars as promised…
Flashback! – “Renege on solar power angers farmers, investors”

Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose

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February 22nd, 2011 … Palin:

…Gaddafi is a brutal killer and Libya – not to mention the world – would be better off if he were out of power. Now is the time to speak out. Speak out for the long-suffering Libyan people. Speak out for the victims of Gaddafi’s terror. NATO and our allies should look at establishing a no-fly zone so Libyan air forces cannot continue slaughtering the Libyan people. We should not be afraid of freedom, especially when it comes to people suffering under a brutal enemy of America.

February 28th, 2011 … Cameron:

British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced he is working on plans for a no-fly zone over Libya.

February 28th, 2011 … Obama:

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