Drilling activity is down a bit in Saskatchewan, as the only rig working in the southwest is actually drilling for helium, not oil.

In 1834, Commodore Uriah Levy bought Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello for $2,700. In the 1880s, the Harmony Borax Works paid Chinese immigrants $1.30 per day to mine borax in the often-brutal heat of Death Valley, California. In 1961, Ray Kroc strong-armed Mac and Dick McDonald into selling their restaurant chain, later worth billions, for $2.7 million.

The shock-and-awe these isolated facts elicit are off-kilter, thanks to the perceptual distortions of inflation and altered standards of well-being. The effect is to generate spurious narratives of villains and victims.

You people all look the same to us.

CBC- Moncton RCMP issue public apology after telling wrong family their loved one was dead

Something that I find really helps is weighing yourself first thing every morning and then recording it on one of the free apps available on your phone.

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Live coverage of rescue efforts here. Updated feed as rescue efforts get serious.

Update: Both pilot and passenger are safe on the ground.

Smart and incredible pic.twitter.com/hfjmQ0Lxwo

— Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen) November 25, 2022

*Not a breed for beginners.

Here are forty-four of my favorites to punctuate the long Thanksgiving weekend. They’re a mix of economics, medicine, science, and philosophy.

Ostrich on the loose in taber alberta. 20+ ostriches escaped from a farm just outside of town pic.twitter.com/DThNnC7HYs

— Davis Wozniak (@Dgtalwrld) November 24, 2022

All is forgiven.

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Another.

The Harvard Study of Adult Development began tracking the lives of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938.

“It wasn’t their cholesterol levels that predicted how they were going to grow old. It was how satisfied they were in their relationships. The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80.”

h/t Scott

30 SHOCKING TRICKS ADVERTISERS USE TO MAKE FOOD LOOK DELICIOUS

A review:

November 7th: Global News breaks story – Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates

November 15th: Trudeau sets up Xi in an unscheduled private conversation, then leaks ass-covering story to Canadian media – Trudeau expresses concerns to China’s Xi over ‘interference’

November 16th: Xi spanks Trudeau for his duplicity.

That’s what you were watching.

Good point: The leaked “ass-covering story” can never be independently verified since no reporter witnessed or recorded their first conservation. We will never know what the Dear Leader actually said to Xi, and Xi has stated Justin’s version “was not an accurate reflection of their conversation”. The so-called “story” was crafted by Justin’s handlers and “leaked” to the media. Even the CBC is now calling Justin’s version of the first meeting a “readout” of what was discussed…

If you guessed “winning wars”, you’d be wrong. 

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Let’s definitely take direction from Ms. Anand. 

Here’s your chance. 400 private jets show up for the COP27 climate conference, and you could buy one of them!

Via Ed Driscoll

Ugh.

Two vintage warplanes collided in midair Saturday afternoon during the Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Dallas show at Dallas Executive Airport.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra crashed about 1:20 p.m. Dozens of Dallas Fire-Rescue vehicles responded to the airport in the 5300 block of Challenger Drive, near U.S. Highway 67 in Red Bird.

The Commemorative Air Force said both planes were based out of Houston.

It was unclear how many people were aboard the aircraft, but Hank Coates, CEO of Commemorative Air Force, said a B-17 usually has a crew of four to five people, while a P-63 is a single-pilot aircraft. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, the number of causalities was unknown as of 4:15 p.m., but the department confirmed that no injuries were reported among people on the ground.

There’s video up on Twitter, from a variety of angles. They didn’t have a chance.

More at TMZ.

Is it window dressing? Is it constitutional? Aleana Young wants to know.