And this is a headscratcher – “…according to new tri-national polls released yesterday by Angus Read, the people of Canada, the Unites States and Britain are rapidly losing confidence in the whole enterprise.”

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Al’s Journal, April 2009 – When climate crisis deniers and their allies argue that cap-and-trade and other legislation costs too much, they always seem to ignore the price of inaction.
Wall Street Journal, Dec 2009 – Paying for Future Storms Worries Officials After Blizzards Squeeze Cash-Strapped Budgets in Midwest, East

Check out this masterpiece of editorial drive-by;

Note that our taxpayer funded broadcaster chose (at the 1:38 mark) to grace the interview with Saskatchewan Environment Minister Nancy Heppner with split screen film of oil sands mining and melting arctic ice, neither of which are located in Saskatchewan.
If they’re going to editorialize, would not lines of unemployed potash and oil field workers, stalled projects, and capped wells be more relevant to the interview?
Where are the real estate signs in communities hit by a regulatory induced downturn in the western Canadian economy? The farms forced into bankruptcy by skyrocketing fuel and fertilizer costs?
You can address your complaints to Vince Carlin here: ombudsman@cbc.ca
h/t Derek

Mock all you want, silly deniers – it’s working!

Winner will be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Gulfstreams cry
“Why, oh why?”
Submit your entries today!

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Telegraph UK – The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found that during past periods of high carbon dioxide, temperatures in Antarctica were up to 6C above current levels. This could cause a sea level rise of up six metres, threatening coastal cities like London, New York and San Francisco.
Al Gore’s multi-million $$$ condo …

America’s still not ready for a Rocky Horror Picture Show Revival.
I told you so.

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Does anyone else get the sense that a certain someone was deeply unpopular in grade school?

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the 2010 Nobel Prize Winner in Geology.
“The interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees….”

Via WUWT
h/t Larry T.

Quite a few people are now saying that al Qaeda are the real AfPak threat, and the Taliban are just nasties with a local focus (see below). Those people should read this, by a NY Times reporter held captive for seven months. And that “local threat” includes nuclear-armed Pakistan (again, see below). What, me worry?

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Over those months, I came to a simple realization. After seven years of reporting in the region, I did not fully understand how extreme many of the Taliban had become. Before the kidnapping, I viewed the organization as a form of “Al Qaeda lite,” a religiously motivated movement primarily focused on controlling Afghanistan.
Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers [more here and here], I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world…

Much more…

h/t Maz2

Darcey is pissed off with Mickey I. (language alert):

The other day Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff stood up in the House of Commons and rallied his Liberal troops to bring down the Harper Conservative government while there was still some Canada to save – the Tories could “change Canada beyond recognition.”
My first problem with this is what kind of old Canada is Michael Ignatieff referring to because from various accounts he was out of the country for the last thirty years…
I was gone five years and I’m still trying to adjust and my mind can’t even begin to fathom thirty. Michael Ignatieff has done so and talks like he knows and sees everything. What is best for Canada and what is best for you and I but I’m not buying it and I’m thinking not many ordinary Canadians are. I don’t even believe that he is even talking to us at all, just soundbites for the media and feel good sentiments for the head nodding crew who rub…

More on the Mickster’s time in places abroad:

Mike P. vs. Mickey I.

One has sympathized with Sen. Colin Kenny’s desire that our politicians would discuss the Afghan situation seriously for the benefit of the public. The problem is that they just won’t. Brian Platt at The Canada-Afghanistan Blog:

CKNW, Afghanistan, And Our Terrible Politicians

I attended a CKNW radio show today at the Afghan Horsemen restaurant, where they were doing a live town hall discussion on Canada and Afghanistan. Their interviews included a Canadian soldier, an Afghan-Canadian, and a poli-sci prof at SFU–but also Terry Glavin, who closed the show with a magnificent spiel that cut through all the bullshit and left us in speechless awe. The fact that Terry only got three minutes to speak out of a 2-hour show is criminal.

You can hear hour 1 of the show here. Hour 2 here. Yours truly has a short time at the mike at the 32:40 mark of the first hour. But if nothing else, make sure you hear the last five minutes of hour 2.

The bulk of the show was taken up by a panel discussion with three MPs: Andrew Saxton from the Tories, Ujjal Dosanjh from the Liberals, and Peter Julian from the NDP. The segment was mostly useless, with the MPs spouting their talking points and trying to score points off each other. Why on earth would CKNW think that was the best use of the show’s time? Beats the hell out of me…

Update:

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milnews.ca said…

P.S. – You were right about Terry’s bit. Here’s an .mp3 of his summation as a stand-alone – great radio! Well done TGG

Mark
Ottawa

1963: End of Camelot.
1994: End of Camelot?
1999: End of Camelot!
2009: End of Camelot…
(Flashback: Camelot, the Beginning).

David Suzuki,

““We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they’re going to sit.”

David Suzuki,

“I love Kitsilano and Vancouver, but there are too many people and too many cars. I think we can have greater density if we made the city much more hostile to cars. The cars have made our city unattractive, and thus I like to spend more of my time in a smaller place at Quanta [ed, Quadra] Island where we also have a home.”

… and David Suzuki!

“One of my favourite summer activities is picking wild blueberries with my family at our cabin in northern B.C“

h/t Mike W, who notes – “Last time I checked Quadra Island did not qualify as Northern BC”

“Because whenever Sasha and Malia sit on his knee, it takes six Secret Service guys to pry them off!”

See? That’s funny, isn’t it?

Specter says he’s switching from GOP to Democrats.
Adding Franken to the mix makes it a sweep in Washington.
h/t: Drudge

Obama’s Proof of Concept delights the base.

h/t Drudge