Who would’ve thunk?!

The Beeb:

Imagine that: the BBC is more secretive than anybody

Mother Corpse:

CBC secrecy hurts its own cause

No worries! Clinton's sacrificing a virgin to Mount Kelud volcano. Afterwards, he'll buy her lunch. #climatechange @tan123 @mlhagood @Revkin

— Katewerk (@katewerk) February 18, 2014

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And still the sexiest man in Rock n Roll.

Fruits and vegetables are way more expensive than meat and poultry.
That, generally speaking, the poor is more obese than the rich.
A lot of couples adopt children, sometimes in spite of having their own, and treat them exactly like their own. (To me, this alone is a marker of a great people)
President doesn’t automatically become the richest person in the country.

1) Ontario.
A symptom:

Canada’s eroding auto industry

A cause:

Ontario drives manufacturers away with overpriced electricity [almost all the real news in the paper is in the business section]

2) The West:

Shale Storm Hits Canadian Gas
U.S. Gas Production Threatens Its Neighbor to the North

More from the WSJ this April.

China wants the space arm technology and the Swiss want a launch and recovery site.
Both to do exactly the same thing.

They have a bit of trouble over their own debts.
Just one more reason to grant the Senate and WH a debt limit increase.
Via, Drudge

Well, forget most of what you were told…

…the standard accounts also omit to mention that the decision to use the hazardous chemical MIC was the Indian government’s, not Union Carbide’s; that government directives also required the building of larger rather smaller facilities; that the Indian government was also pursuing an affirmative action programme, replacing Union Carbide’s foreign experts in engineering and agricultural chemistry with locals; and, finally, that the decision to situate the chemical plant in the middle of a residential community was the Indian government’s, not Union Carbide’s, exacerbated by a re-zoning policy that included giving thousands of construction loans to encourage Indians to build their homes near the chemical plant…

h/t Adrian

Can you spot the #IDF soldiers in this photo? (Hint: there are 9!) twitter.com/IDFSpokesperso…

— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 9, 2013

Just remember he’s one of those one percent too–at least for now.

The world according to Sir Alfred:

Hitchcock’s iconic horror film Psycho was supposed to be a comedy

I rather suspect it was the master being tongue-in-double-cheek. Just consider the course of the flick until one gets to the motel. Any tee hees?
Now “North by Northwest” does have that cheek fully puffed out.

Literally too. Foreign Policy’s “100 Top Global Thinkers 2012” (for quite a few of whom the word “thinker” would not first spring to mind). The world did not need more Canada this year–though maybe Mark Carney next.

The rest of the world is not just like us–and isn’t going to be.

The common theme about the US Embassy attacks are that they were based on an insult to Islam from a movie. I’m having some difficulty believing that.
Point a: Both attacks happened on September 11th.
Point b: It was a Tuesday
Point c: Al Qaeda flag at the Cairo embassy.
Point d: Libya and Egypt are volatile, but not hostile to the US.
I don’t think anyone can claim the September 11th date as an unhappy coincidence. The entire world knows the significance of it. For two attacks to happen on that date seems a little too organized for two different mobs to spontaneously generate.
Muslims riot on Fridays. Friday is the day they go to the mosque and get inflamed over the insult of the week as dictated by their spiritual leaders. Danish cartoon riots…3 Feb 2006…a Friday. For these to have happened on a Tuesday means that the organization for them was separate from religion.
Al Qaeda flag at the Cairo embassy. Very inflammatory and reinforces a link outside of the political or religious leadership in Egypt. This doesn’t implicate Al Qaeda though, there are other actors in the M.E. that would have no bones about implicating a vastly diminished Al Qaeda.
Libya, in general, has moved away from the dictatorship and away from religious fundamentalism. The Muslim Brotherhood lost the election in Libya. The majority of the populace supports the US. For the murders to have happened there go against the grain of the population. Egypt’s gov’t understands the importance to them of US support even if they are the Muslim Brotherhood. I can’t speak to the general population as I don’t know their feelings. I see these points as further proof that external factors contributed more to the events yesterday.
So, to me, the only question that remains is, what entity wants to diminish US influence on the Arab Street. There are only really three possible answers and one makes no sense: Iran, non-Iranian backed terrorists, and Israel. The last being the one that makes no sense.

I saw this from CAPP last night. It impressed. More, please.

But no longer one made in Russia:

At least your iPad is not part of the farce:
…

Reed Saxon, via Associated Press (Vita)
The T.S.A. doesn’t ask for a special look at devices like smartphones, tablets and netbooks that work much like a laptop computer but are smaller.
…“Excuse me, does the iPad come out too?” I asked.
“Not here,” she said. “Other airports might be different.”..
…I happened upon a security expert who asked that he not be identified because he has worked on related issues with the Department of Homeland Security. He said that the laptop rule is about appearances, giving people a sense that something is being done to protect them. “Security theater,” he called it…

“Letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate”
Jan. 10, 2008 – “The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.” “the economy “won’t” be too far from its full employment path, though.”
March 28, 2007 – “The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.”
Huh? – “It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve – nor would it be appropriate – to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their financial decisions”
….more HERE