“Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.”
h/t TimR

Via Darcey;

[Sandie] Rinaldo: So, you know, here we have Hamed Karzai in Washington talking about hopeful (sic) of peaceful future—how realistic is that given the threat of escalating attacks by the Taliban?
Hillier: Well, first of all I go back to the supposed threat of escalating attacks by the Taliban. It’s kind of interesting we have a report from a supposed Taliban commander who clearly is not going to be identified. And whatever he spouts, people put it on the front page of the newspaper— act as his vehicle to deliver it around the world no matter if there’s any truth or basis to it whatsoever and put him on TV, in fact, and show…
I think it’s actually appalling. I think if it was a Canadian commander or American saying things the dissection that would go on before that report was put out would be incredible. That has not occurred in this case. So on the case of the Taliban, you know, they can feel free to say what they want. They are unconstrained by the Geneva Convention; they are unconstrained by truth. And as a result they can say what they want.
For all we know, the reporters might have been talking to the village idiot.

(The Black Rod provided the transcript.)

h/t Sean

“Biosecure pork production is a good thing.”

“Spend! Spend! Spend!”

More from Delonas…
h/t

(Ignore the “steakandcheese” link advertised unless you’re into XXX sites.)

I say mankind should never intervene to thwart the forces of natural selection in these cases, but that’s just me.

First Pyongyang.
Now, Thunder Bay.

On January 24, 2002, Jacqueline Watt lost her life trying to prevent a man from stabbing his estranged girlfriend and their two-year-old son, in Langham, Saskatchewan. After the boy’s father broke into her friend’s apartment, Ms. Watt instructed the mother to run for help while she stayed behind to stop the knife-wielding father from getting closer to the child. In doing so, she was stabbed by the attacker and fell to her knees, severely injured. She managed to get up in a desperate effort to reach the child, but was stabbed again by her assailant. Sadly, Ms. Watt succumbed to her wounds but, thanks to her valiant efforts, the toddler survived the brutal attack.

While police surrounded the apartment, determining if it was safe to enter.

Why General Motors and Chrysler Need to Declare Bankruptcy Immediately

Hear my prayer.
h/t Carl

Budget shortfall victims at CBC have begun eating corpses to survive.
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“We don’t need no stinkin’ giant fans…”

Royal Dutch Shell provoked a furious backlash from campaigners yesterday when it announced plans to scale back its renewable energy business and focus purely on oil, gas and biofuels.
Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the world’s second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogen energy.
“I don’t expect them to grow much at Shell from here, due to portfolio fit and the returns outlook compared to other opportunities,” he said, speaking at the Anglo-Dutch group’s annual strategy briefing.
He said that instead Shell would focus its remaining renewable energy investments on biofuels, where it is conducting research into “second generation” fuels, so far with little commercial success.
Linda Cook, who heads Shell’s gas and power business, said that wind and solar power “struggle to compete with the other investment opportunities we have in our portfolio”.

Green groups are furious! Furious! How dare Shell place economic viability ahead of the promise of complete and utter pointlessness? Related – Sales slump for gas-electric hybrids and other unicorns.
More at Legal Insurrection.

“Last night I tried to post an image of Detroit, but it didn’t work too well, and I deleted it. But, go to Google earth or one of those satellite dealos, and put in Detroit. And then scan in close. Those blocks and blocks of empty space used to be neighborhoods filled with houses. A city that used to have over two million citizens now has eight-hundred thousand and change. The city is broke, and mired in scandals. Yet, the city council feels the need to address Jay Leno’s charitable gesture. ”

More – Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline, a Time photo series.

I thought it was “culture”.

The abused always kick downwards.
You know, it probably doesn’t need to be suggested, but it seems to me that the video linked has the potential to provide raw footage for years’ worth of Youtube creativity…