Coal and nuke – the runaway winners in sustainable labour costs!

From a mailer by a group of lifetime Saskatchewan anti-nukes currently calling themselves “Renewable Power – the intelligent choice”.

I blame Jon Stewart.

I have an idea. Why not build a really big boat?

Rapid climate change is forcing scientists to consider for the first time whether to help wildlife relocate to places where they are not currently found, says a group of international researchers who have created a tool for evaluating such relocations.

The world is being run by crazy people.
h/t Oz.

It’s like Russian history, written backwards!

President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a “cyber czar,” a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation’s government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.
The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final.

And, not subject to confirmation hearings.
(One assumes the Kossacks will be tickled red.)

Do it for your kids.
h/t Mystery Meat

“Obama revives terror tribunals, dismaying liberals”

Some of them might have grown up to be feminists, so it’s not all bad.

Push back.
h/t Curious

“Why is the left obsessed with it?
(sorry, link fixed)

I keep checking there for developments in Lingenscam, but it seems a curtain of silence has descended … Buckdog updates! SDA gets results!
Meanwhile, Yens Pedersen is calling for Link’s resignation.
Update: A response from the Lingenfelter camp mouthpiece Judy Junor via a call to John Gormley Live. They’re accusing Pedersen of irresponsibility and demagoguery, and warning that this incident could damage the party if candidates insisted on pursuing it… heh.
When Junor was asked why Lingenfelter himself wasn’t answering the charge, she explained he was on his farm near Shaunavon – where apparently, they still lack phone service.
It gets better – Among the names on the list is Clayton Matchee, the former Canadian soldier who last fall saw charges of torture and murder of a Somali youth in 1993 dropped by the military because he was unfit to stand trial due to brain damage. It was unclear whether Matchee had agreed to join the party.

Be still, my beating heart.
If ever there were two more perfect for each other…think Love Story, but with leftist head explosions. Or When Harry Met Sally with real geiger-counters instead fake orgasms. Romeo and Juliet living happily ever after, while David Suzuki raises a poisoned chalice to his own fatal despair.
Saskatchewan, we have seen the future, and it is us: nuclear-powered drilling rigs.
Does it get any better than that?
h/t

NYT;

Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about “our deteriorating atmosphere.” Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up “moving away from the dirty fuels of the past.” Don’t confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like “cap and cash back” or “pollution reduction refund.”

Missing from the article – “When faced with credible arguments, smear your opponents by invoking the Holocaust.” (link fixed)

Just six short decades separate “The Greatest Generation” from the “The President Is Reinvesting In My Dental Insurance Generation”.

So which do you think is next?

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Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian army’s combined.
You also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in just the month of December 2008. Yeah that is right, that is Billion with a “B”. This number takes no accounting of reloading or reloaded ammunition.

Heh.
h/t Shipped Out

The “retard” file grows a few pages thicker.

NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis described the Conservative minister’s gesture as a new experience — “quite a shock, actually.”
(…)
“For a rookie minister, she’s on top of this file and she’s responded very effectively,” said Wasylycia-Leis. “She’s probably one of the better rookie MPs in the House.”
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“My only concern is that the government may not want her to get on top of the file, just keep her very narrowly focused and avoid opening up any kind of possibilities about their responsibilities on national pharmacare, national home care as well as preserving the Canada Health Act.” – CTV

This would be what we call damning with faint praise. In a news item that highlights how our servants are supposed to work during a crisis, we get partisan BS from a hack.

“Oh, NBC, CBS and ABC will also be airing “Lie to Me,” the Obama version.”

Pierre Poilievre says, “I told you so.”
h/t Maz in the Tips.

Just a bad sneeze from the Presidency;

Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.

Somewhere in the world, Al Gore has just opened his fat mouth.
Related – “red-on-red”… *