Like they’re not making enough money already….
Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel.
The network confirmed that Ms. Palin will appear on the network’s programming on a regular basis as part of a multi-year deal. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Most of the time, they can’t tell you a damned thing about what they’re doing on your behalf. And in this case, they were modest enough that a whole month went by before the information went public. But Canadian Special Operations Forces Command’s commander, Mike Day, was recently promoted to Brigadier General.
Here’s why that’s important.
And who says I never bring you the good news?
Rex reminds the incestuous class why nobody cares;
Both parties — both — seem sublimely uninhibited when it comes to walking around, suspending or flouting parliamentary (or other) conventions when political advantage is at stake. And both, in large and small matters — from the squawks of Question Period to the unfailing partisan intemperance of most parliamentary committees — seem to have little to zero regard for “Parliament’s reputation” when a Parliament is actually in session.
I had thought the feeling of nausea that washed over me at the news was one of disgust. I now realize it was vertigo. The bottom has fallen out of Canadian politics. There are, quite literally, no rules any more, no boundaries, no limits. We are staring into an abyss, where everything is permissible.
…. in 2005.
What would we do without pundits? A full three days into the controversy, someone finally stumbles across the fact that Harry “light skinned” Reid wasn’t talking about Obama.
Don’t bring an arrow to a harpoon fight…
And while two wrongs don’t make a right, three wrongs break a tie!
And there’s more where he came from.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a short little ditty featuring the delightful Dutch musician André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing Hava Nagila ¤ § (Let’s Rejoice and be Happy; Let’s Sing and be Happy) in the Royal Albert Hall (2:22).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
December, 2009…
Climate science faces a new controversy after the Met Office denounced research from the Copenhagen summit which suggested that global warming could raise sea levels by 6ft by 2100…
Just as accuracy improves with increased distance from the target;
The obvious response to these claims is that if we cannot predict weather features such as the Arctic oscillation or an El Niño under current climate, how can anyone credibly claim we have predictive skill decades into the future from both natural and human caused climate forcings? The short answer is that they cannot.
CAVUTO: You`re okay with, in this case, profiling?
KOCH: Absolutely. All I care about is that, when I get on that plane, I want to have a reasonable assurance that I`m going to land safely….
CAVUTO: And you also mentioned about the message we`re sending the world when we try to step back from calling this for what it is-
KOCH: Right.
CAVUTO: -a war. Now, the administration`s tried to avoid that to have better relations and to reach out–
KOCH: Has it helped?
CAVUTO–to those 1.4 billion Muslims.
KOCH: Has it helped?
CAVUTO: Well, his approval and America`s regard has gone up in those countries. He says and they say–
KOCH: Isn`t that nice? Did they stop trying to kill us?
Related – your security is in the very best of hands.
Via Eric Anderson
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a series of three advertisements, from Volkswagen, entitled Unpimp Your Ride ¤, II ¤, and III ¤. Watch them twice: first to experience the intended impact, and then again, preferably at full- screen size, stopping and starting them over & over to produce freeze- frame effects. Notice the backgrounds & the foregrounds, the staging, and the actions you missed the first time. Notice the production values. What a species! And to be so rich as a civilization to be able to spend our massive intelligence on such details: That’s the real luxury.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
It’s not a profession. It’s a tribe.
So, “climate change denial” is widely rumored to have been the last straw. Perhaps sensing the loquacious Newfoundlander would prompt unneeded bad PR if sacked; I’m told [Globe and Mail Editor in Chief John] Stackhouse offered to move him to Mondays. As evidenced by the quick decampment to the National Post, it seems that went over like a tonne of bricks with Murphy.
The move was announced this past Thursday by Peter Mansbridge on CBC’s the National, where Murphy still resides as one of the few opinion columnists left on television.
I was going to write something about how the mainstream media were once in the business of investigating cover-ups, while today they’re unindicted co-conspirators, or some other blah-blah-nonsense like that.
But to tell you the truth – that’s not entirely correct. The media powers of decades past were just as dedicated to the complete and utter concealment of inconvenient truth as they are today.
Ask yourself – if Nixon had been a Democrat, would East Anglia have a “gate”?
I don’t think so, either. The only thing that’s really changed is their success at pulling it off – along with their success at selling the product.
I call that progress on two fronts.
(h/t Gord Tulk)
Bringing a monthly status report to a Semtex fight.
“Would you believe that at this very moment, this Climate Research Center is being surrounded by one hundred cops with Doberman pinschers. Would you believe it? A hundred cops with Doberman pinschers.”*
(Via)
“Hey, Al, how’s all that global warming working out for you?”
