Author: Kate

More Pavilions At Folkfest

More Pavilions At Folkfest 63 Comments

But I will say this. Some of the guys who tried to kill us are Carleton students and I recognize who they are. What is this country coming to?”

It’s coming to full Trudeaupian fruition, that’s what.
Update: According to the Ottawa Citizen;

Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for the University [said] “Our job is to make sure that these debates can happen without anyone’s personal safety being threatened.

Excuse me while I go look up the word “debate”. It clearly doesn’t mean what I think it does.
Update 2: ET reminds us that Nick was the “only member of the Carleton Student Council who voted against their inane and juvenile attempt to stop the [Shriner’s] fundraising for cystic fibrosis on campus.”

Blame Bush

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There are a few little-regarded truths that have been buried under the relentlessly spewed pile of lies that were used to demonize George W. Bush and the Republican Congress from the day Al Gore failed to carry his own home State in the 2000 Election until… well… it’s still pretty much a leftist pastime.
The horror of “the last 8 years” has become it’s own self-perpetuating meme. The problem is that it’s a meme without meaning. Two of those eight years – now stretched to three out of the last nine – saw fiscal and regulatory policies determined by the Democrat Congressional majority, elected in 2006. Every economic indicator available shows that this is where America’s recent tribulations began.
The real horror – the years since the Democrat Congress rose to absolute power – hasn’t seen much discussion. It’s “all Bush’s fault”, as they say. But as the last ten years recede into the rear view mirror, we can see them in context. And 20/20 hindsight can often be quite revealing.

Read the whole thing, then pass it along to your friends.
h/t Cal2

Detroit: Not Dead Enough!

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Follow us here. By the same date — 2015 — that the new 35.5 mpg EPA mandate is due to go into effect, oil companies are also mandated by Congress to double the amount of corn ethanol use (from 2007 levels) to 15 billion gallons. The current mandate of a 10 percent ethanol mix in fuel won’t get us there, so the powerful corn lobby is demanding EPA increase the mandate to a 15 percent ethanol mix.
Trouble is, a gallon of ethanol is 30 percent less efficient than a gallon of gas meaning that the more ethanol you mix in, the worse your gas mileage. Department of Energy studies show steadily decreasing fuel economy as ethanol blends rise from so-called E10 (fuel composed of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gas) up through E15 and E20 — with E20 suffering a 7.7 percent fuel efficiency loss.
Yet DOE’s green-zealot-in-chief Steven Chu still favors an increased mix of ethanol. So while automakers are sweating under the federal gun to make increasingly fuel-efficient engines, the government is mandating they do it with less-efficient fuel.

Don’t think of it as hopeless regulatory roadkill. Think of it as a valuable template for Obamacare.

Y2Kyoto: The Greenpeace Militia

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The climate fascists are getting restless…

Emerging battle-bruised from the disaster zone of Copenhagen, but ever-hopeful, a rider on horseback brought news of darkness and light: “The politicians have failed. Now it’s up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It’s not working. We need an army of climate outlaws.”
The proper channels have failed. It’s time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.
If you’re one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let’s talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.
If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
And we be many, but you be few.

Maybe. But I’ll wager we have more ammo.
Update: From the comments – “It’s not like they didn’t warn us…”

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 29 Comments
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Marty Feldman and John Cleese in The Railway Carriage ¤ sketch from the At Last the 1948 Show series in 1967 (7:48).

For those who are celebrating Easter: Христос воскрес.

Also tonight, per Cal2, our SDA Late Nite Radio Cheese Selection (in keeping with our selection of British comedy) is Spenwood, which is a pecorino-style of cheese from Birkshire.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

  

Funny, They Don’t Look Very Panicked To Me

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“I don’t think there is any place in the world panicking as much on the question of debt as Quebec,” said economist Louis Gill. The reason for this, as Quebec prepares to unveil another deficit budget March 30, is simple: it is Canada’s most indebted province.
Its debt is at 94 per cent of its gross domestic product, just ahead of Japan, Italy and Greece, whose debts exceed their GDP, according to numbers calculated by the provincial finance ministry.

Via Mish, who has more.
h/t Rod

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

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The high price of magical thinking;

The Danish study finds that the energy technology sector in Denmark from 1999 to 2006 underperformed the broader manufacturing sector in Denmark by an average of 13% in terms of value added, reducing Danish GDP by approximately $270-million compared to what it would have been if the wind sector workforce was employed elsewhere. The Danish Economic Council concluded in a report in 2006: “The wind power expansion in the 1990s is an example of a policy that was unprofitable from society’s point of view, even taking the economic advantages that the wind business enjoyed into consideration.” The Centre for Policy Studies study concludes: “Denmark needs a proper debate and a thorough reappraisal of the technologies that need to be invented, developed, and costed before forcing the country into a venture that shows a high risk of turning into an economic black hole.”

h/t Manotick

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 33 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our ongoing exploration of their works (previously: Vicious Games, Desire, The Rhythm Divine, Of Course I’m Lying, & Lost Again), here are Dieter Meier and Boris Blank, as the Swiss band Yello, with guest Billy Mackenzie, performing Capri Calling ¤ from their Baby album, in 1991 (audio, 2:52).

It’s the time,
Of April snows.
And how it shows,
In Hannah’s eyes.

Calling she’s calling,
Calling each midnight.
Take me to new heights,
Falling I’m falling.

A secret power,
Sweet with surprises.
Leaves no disguises,
When you feel pure.

   It’s the time,
Of April snows.
And how it shows,
In Hannah’s eyes.

Time and she’s calling,
A pool of thought.
I sometimes call,
In Hannah’s eyes.

I hear her calling,
Calling she’s calling.
I hear her calling,
In Hannah’s eyes.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

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Globe&Mail, March 30 – Hillary Clinton has taken issue with Canada’s signature G8 initiative on maternal mortality, arguing that any effort to improve the health of mothers in poor countries must include access to abortion.
FNC, March 21st – Today, the President announced that he will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion.
You’d think the giant brains in Canadian journalism might have picked up on that. Of couse, it’s not what they pay them for.

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