Aging gracefully:

Neither Ma Deuce nor the Bofors wants to die…
…and they’re both over 80…

…

5.8 million views, and none of them work in the mainstream media.

h/t Friend of USA

It must have been swell to be a CMT holder: one second your stock is worth $4.12, the next, it is worth $0.0001.

h/t Melinda Romanoff

The conclusion of a post by Adrian MacNair regarding a fellow rock climber–a succcessful refugee claimant from Colombia–and our current boat load of Tamil claimants:

…
Not long after my friend won his bid to stay in Canada, but after he had returned from his Colombian vacation, he moved out to British Columbia where he would find a better selection of rock climbing to suit his interests. This, he had told me in 2002 before his claim was accepted, had been his ultimate goal. While being free from a peripheral threat of violence was a bonus, his real reason for being in Canada was for rock climbing.
It is even less surprising that Tamils would return to Sri Lanka after being granted asylum, since they didn’t move to Canada to find a better selection of rock climbs. They came here for a safe haven to fall back on while they continue to be active in the pursuit of a Tamil homeland.

Update: More from Adrian:

Kontext For Kady
…
Flashback
My first encounter with Kady [Klimate Khange, get that guttural]:

The Globe and Mail…

…continues its relentless effort to outshine the Star as the New Canadian’s best friend (front page, top of the fold, print headline starts in red caps: “HAPPY CAMPERS…”)…

Do we?

With every $100 purchase. (Fireworks excluded.)

1,600. *

via Calculated Risk.

“Doesn’t particularly care about his students unless they are former political prisoners or attractive coeds”

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with “Thanks but no thanks,” remarked Visser, despite BP’s desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer –the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge. Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round. By May 5, the U.S. had not come round. To the contrary, the U.S. had also turned down offers of help from 12 other governments, most of them with superior expertise and equipment –unlike the U.S., Europe has robust fleets of Oil Spill Response Vessels that sail circles around their make-shift U.S. counterparts.
Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly oil-free isn’t good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million — if water isn’t at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico.

An excellent piece by Lawrence Solomon.
h/t Don B.

New from the FCPP;

One of the primary objectives of the AGI is to celebrate examples of good government in Aboriginal communities, and to bring attention to successful First Nations governments so that their best practices can be studied and emulated by leaders elsewhere. The following ten reserves earned the highest overall scores in this year’s AGI. All scores are out of 100 possible points…

“May I remind you that the Red Cross visited inmates in Nazi concentration camps?”

For all the media victory dances claiming widespread public support for enviromarxism, there’s nothing quite like a trip down to the grocery store to restore one’s sense of reality.

Because, so long as consumer demand keeps this Reigning Queen of Supermarket Super-Packaging on the shelves, I contend there’s
little to worry about.

As the numbers show, vehicles with a rating of 30-plus miles per gallon have suffered a dramatic drop in sales. For the first five months of 2010, sales of vehicles with that 30-plus MPG rating have dropped by 10 percent compared to the same period in 2009. Overall, these high-efficiency cars accounted for four percent of the market in 2009, but now only hold a three percent share.

Heh. We’re winning.

From the comments…

“OK, so what’s Essential Humanitarian Products?”
A truck load of abortion, or so says the LPC.

Some sites worth watching daily, should one wish a wider perspective than available in our major media which generally prefer to cover things as a Canadian politics (or dead soldiers) story:
–Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs
–Foreign Policy’s “AfPak Channel”
–CANinKandahar
–Milnet.ca’s “The Sandbox and Areas Reports Thread June 2010″ (different thread each month)
Meanwhile, a broader perspective from yesterday.

Business Insider;

According to Foreign Policy, thirteen entities that had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
The U.S. response – Thank you, but no thank you, we’ve got it.

h/t Paul Sepe
More picture perfect crisis management. (h/t Joe)

More…
Related: “Perhaps she didn’t trust her day care provider(s) to give better care for her child than she could give on flotilla bound for Gaza…”

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

On May 14, 2010, the MV Rachel Corrie – “will join seven other vessels in the Mediterranean and sail to Gaza to deliver vitally needed construction, medical and school supplies to the imprisoned population of Gaza.”
On May 10, 2010, Gaza’s first Olympic-standard swimming pool – “was inaugurated at the As-Sadaka club during a ceremony on Tuesday held by the Islamic Society.”

More: What The Media Won’t Report About Gaza.
SDA Flashback – “This is what water theft looks like in this part of the world.”

I have fond memories of National Geographic magazine. As a child I would wait with growing anticipation to the arrival of the beige envelope containing the yellow magazine. I love to lose myself in the pages of wonderful stories and amazing photos.

That was then…