I have it on fairly good authority that John Baglow was recently spotted purchasing kerosene and chicken wire*…

Dr. Dawg’s beclowning himself so bad he’s starting to look like John Wayne Gacy.
Not long after being spanked by Mark Steyn in the pages of Maclean’s for falling for a faked Ernst Zundel photo, Dawg launched a failed blogburst about a mythical “Indian burial ground” hoax.

About that residential school mass graves story that had the leftosphere whipped into a frenzy and the media in curious lockdown mode…

But if you do believe these things, I’m afraid there are quite a few more things you are going to have to believe, because you can’t have it both ways. If Kevin Annett really is prize-worthy and courageous, you will also have to believe this:
-One of Canada’s most respected First Nations’ leaders is trafficking in children from Northern British Columbia in a profitable pedophilia ring that’s run out of the West Hastings Street premises of the swish Vancouver Club. His clients are Vancouver judges, politicians, and church leaders.
-Back in the 1930s, a team of German doctors arrived at the Kuper Island Indian residential school and began conducting strange medical experiments on the children. Employing large hypodermic needles, they injected some sort of toxin directly into the chests of the school’s young inmates, and several were killed as a result.
-As recently as the 1950s and 1960s, aboriginal children at a Vancouver Island medical research facility were tortured with electrodes implanted in their skulls. At least one child was beaten to death with a whip fitted with razors.

OMG! It’s like living the ritual abuse in Saskatchewan daycare nightmare all over again!
h/t

Canada’s best-selling mystery dinner party game, you and your guests assume the roles of humorous suspects – each with a motive and opportunity to contravene Section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights code – in a light-hearted human rights mystery.

Lorrie Goldstein;

Dear Globe and Mail and Toronto Star:
For 15 months, I’ve been saving your respective front pages from the glorious weekend of January 27-28, 2007, when you simultaneously declared your mutual jihads against man-made global warming.
I knew they’d come in handy some day and now, they have.

Heh.

Just look out your window.

Via Newsbusters;

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Al Gore’s 2006 documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,” makes the same point with actual video of ice shelves calving. Which shots have more impact?
AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)
And if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you’d see it’s 700 feet tall. They are so majestic.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of “The Day After Tomorrow.”

James Joyner;

Barack Obama said of people in small town American that, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Brooks observes, correctly I think, that we really don’t know what Obama meant by that but that many people undoubtedly hold the view that gun owners are poor, ignorant hicks.

By “many”, he means people who don’t actually own guns.

It turns out they have the same level of formal education as nongun owners, on average. Furthermore, they earn 32% more per year than nonowners. Americans with guns are neither a small nor downtrodden group.

The study found that we’re better looking, too.

(Vancouver bus shelter, photo courtesy reader “Loki”)

Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World War II.

“[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.’ I don’t understand why they don’t do that.”

He does realize the Manhattan Project culminated in the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
(*post title amended, courtesy commentor Garth Wood.)

While this story may yet turn out a hoax, the following isn’t.
Warning. This is an extremely disturbing link. Costa Rican artist Guillermo Vargas Habacuc starves a dog to death in a gallery exhibition of “installation art”.
He has been asked to recreate the installation for the prestigious Biennial of Central America. Information here, but this really requires more action than a petition.

And some poor bastard who promptly hung himself upon realizing just what it was he’d done.

Michael Ledeen on a “huge, perhaps historic, victory;

It’s considerably worse than AP lets on. Berlusconi defeated Walter Veltroni’s “Democratic Party” by a full 9 points in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. And since the Italian electoral system gives a bonus to the winning side, the margins are very big and stable: 340 to 241 in the Chamber (with another 36 for a couple of small parties), and 167 to 137 in the Senate (with 5 to three little parties), which was expected to be a photo finish. Eighty percent voted, down about three percent from last time.
The big news is that the Communists are gone, for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Really gone. They didn’t win a single seat in either chamber. A lot of famous faces will vanish from Parliament, and it is even possible, although unlikely, that some of the comrades will be forced to join the working class. The Greens are also gone..
[…]
Berlusconi is an outspoken, even passionate admirer of George W. Bush and the United States of America. Reminds one of the elections that brought Sarkozy to the Elysee, doesn’t it? Best to keep that quiet, or somebody might notice that hatred of America doesn’t seem to affect the voters in Italy, France or Germany.

What is amazing…

“… is the fact that all those “free-speechers” who have gathered around the likes of Steyn, Ezra Levant and even one high-profile Neo-Nazi/anti-Semite never raised a stink about that case – and that one was an actual attack on freedom of speech. But since it involved a Liberal, and a non-white person to boot, those “free-speechers” did not much care about the case.”

No – what is “amazing” is that leftie bloggers would simply assume that we read them, and that we follow every twitch in that corner of the sphere. (Do they not know their traffic stats?) For the record, the first time I heard of the Mark Francis case(link fixed) was about 2 days ago. Whose fault is that?
So, what is “amazing” is that his fellow travellers on the left lifted not a hand to help him, expended no effort to get the word out. Even in this post, Patels neglected to provide a name or a source link.
For all the left’s faith in the power of the collective, it rather failed to kick start when needed, no?
Perhaps they were waiting for the government to do it.

A stunned Germany awakens to a shocking truth – predators like to kill stuff for fun.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine news website reports that Knut “senselessly murdered the carp”, fishing them out, playing with them and then leaving the remains.

I say give him a seal!
(Think of the wisdom that could be bestowed upon the world if only every citizen was required to raise a flock of 50 chickens in weasel country before being declared an adult?)
More reaction here…
Previous.

Churchill should have thrown you to the wolves;

Passengers are having to change bus partway through their journeys to comply with an EU directive.
The legislation stops drivers clocking up more than 31 miles behind the wheel without a rest.

31 miles? They must mean 31 hours. We have trucks here that crap longer than 31 miles.

If a journey is any longer, the driver must pull over and wait for a replacement. To comply with the directive, some operators are dividing routes into two or even three sections.
Drivers are allowed to undertake journeys of more than 31 miles – provided they get two straight days off. […] This legislation – aimed at lorry drivers – superseded British law limiting drivers to 60 hours a week.
[…]
“We have had a number of discussions with UK ministers on this and they’ve made sympathetic noises.

Though some things are universal.

“Not doing it will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”

Indeed. I’ll start with the organically fed cable news network mogul and a side of fries, please.

(via Drudgereport)

Front page of the Independent, titled with a straight face – USA 2008: The Great Depression; Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis.

Oh, that innumerate media…

… 4th grade mathematics that would imply there might be a “poverty rate.” That 4th grade logic would imply you would acknowledge the population is growing and a more proper measure of poverty would be the percentage of the population under the poverty line.
[…]
Additionally, to point out the hypocrisy of the “food-stamps-are-at-an-all-time-high-Bush-must-die” camp, the food stamp rate reached an all-time high under Bill Clinton, yet we did not clamor for his death nor claim the US was in the next “Great Depression” (because frankly those of us on the right couldn’t even think of something so stupid as to point to food stamps as a means by which to incriminate an administration).

As I wrote to the Captain last evening;
BTW – how do you suppose Americans will be able to spot a recession?
I mean, we Canadians been very well informed of the crisis you were plunged
into early in 2000, known as the “inauguration of a Republican” and that
since then, matters have become increasingly dire as the US economy unceasingly
“lags”, “slows”, “stumbles”, “falters”, and suffers “hits”.
I don’t know how you carry on. You must be the bravest people in the world.
(Either that, or your unceasing thirst for war renders you incapable of caring about your
fellow man.)
If not for our superior… well, everything… I’m sure our Canadian economy
might have been somewhat affected by the drag south of the border. But we’re
lucky because of our socialism. We have universal health care and you don’t. That must be our secret.

The Earth Hour post-mortem continues!

At the city of Regina’s request, SaskPower compared power consumption in Regina during Earth Hour, with the same hour in past Saturdays. It turns out Reginans actually used MORE power: three megawatts more, not a huge amount. Asked why, SaskPower’s Larry Christie says only consumers can really answer that. But he suggests that a cold night may have had something to do with it.

Or, maybe not.
Environment Canada temperature data for REGINA A, SASKATCHEWAN for 20:00 – 21:00.
Mar 22, 2008: -4.3C dropping to -4.7C (windchill -9C)
Mar 29, 2008: -1.0C dropping to -1.6C (windchill -9C)
In fact, it seems that the closer an Earth Hour observance location was to Earth Hour Offset Project Central, the more likely that a provider was to see a net increase in electrical usage.
The data is in, the science is settled, so let the SDA deniers hurl their insults, and lash out in impotent rage.
For tonight, when the sun sets over the horizon and the clock inches once again to the magic hour of 8 o’clock, we shall gather in solidarity, inhale the sweet exhaust of diesel duallie, and raise our glasses to the Christmas Lights Of Victory!

Mock the difference they won’t make – increase your impact on our earth’s resources.
For my part, I plan to head out to the garage, install the spark plugs, and kick.

So here’s your chance! Share how your family plans to nullify any and all Earth Hour generated CO2 reductions in the comments. And should you capture the special moment to Youtube or digital still, pass it along, and I’ll update with a feature post on the weekend.
Update… And while we wait, the Earth Hour polls go horribly wrong…