It’s why you’re drawn here each and every evening: tap your toes to the Degelman 80ft & 51ft Landroller.
Tips open.
Frankly, My Dear
So Don’t Do It.
Demand to "denounce" is tactic to coerce political opponent to acknowledge membership in the identity group being "othered". @jaketapper https://t.co/zJSUYjR84I
— Katewerk (@katewerk) August 13, 2017
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Click over to Yon’s page and read his other posts. He makes useful observations.
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Indoctrination Ain’t Cheap
A $9,000 security door. Oh, and a $700,000 security fence to keep the agitated Mao-lings out of the home of former Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks. Enabling and excusing all that leftist psychodrama sure is expensive.
Here.
Blowout 189
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world.
How Far Left Can The Democrats Go?
In America, if one remains in the echo chamber of the “Progressive” Left, one would be absolutely convinced that the Republicans will get decimated in the 2018 and 2020 elections. However, if the reporting of the Washington Examiner is any indication, they may need to lose a few more elections before they see the light.
It didn’t help that Clinton failed to show up in a part of the country where showing up matters. Barack Obama had to campaign hard and in-person to win Iowa twice. Clinton campaigned in Iowa cities such as Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, while ignoring rural Iowa.
But Clinton aversion only partially explains how a county that voted for Obama by 21 points in 2012 then voted for Trump by 21 points four years later.
Even a first year political science student knows that a 42% swing in one election cycle is a strong indication that the voters aren’t buying what the losing party has been selling. But the Democrats are being run by a Far Left elite, with Antifa foot soldiers on the streets, and legions of online social justice warriors who seem to get triggered if one asserts that 2 + 2 = 4. It doesn’t seem likely that such extremists can accept Americans who believe in meritocracy, gun ownership, and other traditional American values.
John Batchelor interviews the Washington Examiner journalist here.
Reader Tips
Tonight we feature Elton John’s catchy Philadelphia Freedom for your listening pleasure. Your tips are welcome, as always!
War Of The Hyphens
The long sought-after goal of diversity has been attained and it is not what many imagined.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Swamp, Draining
Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead.
A series of emails obtained by the Guardian between staff at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a USDA unit that oversees farmers’ land conservation, show that the incoming Trump administration has had a stark impact on the language used by some federal employees around climate change.
A missive from Bianca Moebius-Clune, director of soil health, lists terms that should be avoided by staff and those that should replace them. “Climate change” is in the “avoid” category, to be replaced by “weather extremes”. Instead of “climate change adaption”, staff are asked to use “resilience to weather extremes”.
The primary cause of human-driven climate change is also targeted, with the term “reduce greenhouse gases” blacklisted in favor of “build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency”. Meanwhile, “sequester carbon” is ruled out and replaced by “build soil organic matter”.
The Department of Agriculture employing the language of …agriculture. Do tell.
Via
Embrace Hollywood
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
Reader Tips
We’ll kick off this evenings RT thread with Road 122 – and the catchy Cities Of Nations. Looks new.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
$147,000 for a One-Year Master’s? In Journalism? To their credit, even some journalists think it’s stupid.
They So Ronrey
Fire and Fury: Trump’s message to North Korea was in a language that China can also understand.
If Women Ran The World
Until the age of 26, I was employed as a technology consultant by a small firm that served the financial industry. I built servers and workstations, mostly for banks, and in a happy foreshadowing of my future writing for Bloomberg View, I installed some of the first PC-based Bloomberg terminals for a Japanese firm’s office in New York.
Finance back then was heavily male, as it is now. And technology, the same. At the intersection of the two … well, I can count on one hand all the women I worked with directly during almost four years of consulting.
It was very male-centric. I heard about client outings, involving strippers, to which I was obviously not invited. And the sexual harassment (entirely from clients, not colleagues), could be spectacular.
Which has nothing to do with why I left. This will make me sound a bit dim, but at the time, it never occurred to me that being a female in this bro ecosystem might impinge my ultimate career prospects. Nor did I miss having women in the room. I liked working with the bros just fine. And the sexual harassment, while annoying, was just that: annoying. I cannot recall that it ever affected my work, nor that I lost any sleep over it.
No, the reason I left is that I came into work one Monday morning and joined the guys at our work table, and one of them said “What did you do this weekend?”
Cold, Canuck Hands
We, the undersigned, residents of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: That given that the Minister of Public Safety’s unelected Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee will shape the future of firearm regulation in our country, its members must adequately understand and represent the very people affected by its recommendations, being Canada’s shooting community. Therefore, your petitioners, call upon the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to require individuals appointed to the Canadian Firearms Advisory Committee to have earned their Possession and Acquisition License (PAL), without which they lack a baseline understanding of the activities they are tasked with regulating.
You can sign at the link.
“How much money are we talking about?”
[Manitoba Hydro conceded to the Public Utilities Board] that it undertook a massive expansion program— involving three (it was once four) new dams and two new major powerlines (one in the United States)—which it could not afford.
Bipole III, the outrageously expensive power line ($5 billion and counting) that was built to bring electricity from the new dams south to customers in the United States, will be hooked up and operating in July, 2018. That’s when Manitoba Hydro is supposed to start paying back the money it borrowed to build the line and the accumulated interest.
The problem is that Hydro doesn’t have the money to pay for Bipole III !
We’ll repeat that slowly in case you still don’t understand:
Manitoba Hydro
doesn’t have
the money
to pay
for
Bipole III.
Three years later, in 2021, the even more expensive Keeyask dam ($8.7 billion and counting) will go into service. You guessed it…
Manitoba Hydro
doesn’t have
the money
to pay
for
Keeyask
either.
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“Some truth can be told only in the form of fiction. That is why I chose to write these stories.” – Theodore Dalrymple The Proper Procedure and Other Stories by Theodore Dalrymple In time for Christmas! |
Reader Tips
Another Glen Campbell performance I happened across in my travels — Amazing Grace
And via WalterF – Alice Cooper interviewed on passing of his friend.
Thread open.
CFL Picks Week 8
Thur: Edmonton beats Ottawa. Until the Esks lose, they win.
Fri: Montreal wins over Toronto. Toronto has no QB now with Ray hurt.
Sat: Hamilton takes Winnipeg. Hamilton can beat the Bombers at home
Sun: BC over Saskatchewan. Until Saskatchewan wins against the West, they lose.