The Guess Who — These Eyes. Your tips thread for the evening is open.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Earth Has a New Continent Called ‘Zealandia’, Study Reveals …
When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Read all about the Jimmy Carter transition team's secret 1976 contacts with the USSR: https://t.co/GNJ4hs1qIW pic.twitter.com/vzaoezkGYT
— Seth Ackerman (@SethAckerman) February 15, 2017
If Women Ran The World
Frozen Water Causes Cold
With the Arctic warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, a new scientific paper is proposing a radical scheme to thicken the ice cap: millions upon millions of autonomous ice machines.
Specifically, between 10 and 100 million floating, wind-powered pumps designed to spray water over sea ice during the winter.
Related: “Wet streets cause rain”.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
A man who was removed as chief of The Key First Nation following a six-month conditional sentence for drug trafficking is back in jail awaiting a bail hearing on new charges.
Clarence Papequash, 64, is now a band councillor. Prior to his political career, he worked as a drug councillor.
But in 2014 he was convicted in a sting in which RCMP were cracking down on dealers who fueled a wide-spread opiate problem in the Kamsack, SK area, as revealed by APTN Investigates
Papequash sold a morphine pill to an undercover officer.
Five months later his community voted him back onto council.
Wait, it gets better.
Health Canada has pulled the plug on a methadone doctor who APTN Investigates exposed last year.
Dr. Murray Davies ran the methadone program in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, located on the SK/MB border, 80 kilometres north of Yorkton. In April 2013, APTN Investigates’ episode Questionable Pharma featured Aboriginal patients who claimed they were over-prescribed opiates and once hooked, were shuttled into the same doctor’s methadone program.
Great investigative work by APTN. (Via John Gormley Live)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
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Reader Tips
The McGurk Effect.
Tips thread open.
Chilled Relations
The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) has passed a resolution to oust Maple Creek from the province. (h/t Ken)
Honey, I finished the Internet
Blog Notes
I got in from New York City late last night and still have some work to do before I can pick up blogging for the day. Sorry for the down time!
Reader Tips
Panzer Corps from Matrix/Slitherine is a remake of a classic SSI game, Panzer General, which itself was a remake of their original Panzer Grenadier. I’ve spent too many hours on both. I played a lot of Panzer Grenadier on the old Commodore 64 in the mid-80’s.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Via, NewsHubNation, Barbara Kay, gets it.
Milo for PM.
Shots fired.
NATO warned to start paying its bills.
Well, if Lawrence Martin says it….
Oh. My. What are we CPC members thinking?
Related Nanos and the PDF. The sample sizes are small but in a nutshell: O’Leary is strong in the Prairies and Ontario, Chong beats Raitt in the Atlantic, Bernier is strong in Quebec and sits in second or third everywhere else. An interesting question in the survey asked the likely-hood of voting for or against a non-bilingual candidate. The determinate responses were split 33/33.
Scratch a leftist.
Find an anti-Semite.
h/t, TimR
On “Fragility” And Malice
In the spirit of reciprocity, I’ll attempt an alternative, and perhaps more realistic, definition. “White fragility” is the unremarkable fact that people by and large don’t like being slandered as racists and then assigned with some pretentious collective guilt, the supposed atonement for which requires deference to actual racists and predatory hokum merchants.
Reader Tips
Graviteam Tactics is a completely different beast from last nights war game. Much more difficult.
Stick a soother in, she’ll stop crying.
This is such arrogant twaddle it makes me happy that I didn’t vote for her.
Falsehoods and slander are nothing new to public discourse, but two factors make today’s world different from what we have experienced before: the vast quantities of false information flowing from spurious news sources over the Internet, and the apparent impunity afforded to people in high office to proffer blatant lies that in an earlier time would have been fatal to their legitimacy.
No mention of Romney’s tax returns. No anger over the drug-addled factory worker whose job went to Mexico.
She yearns for a time when “scholarship” and “journalists” ruled the information flow and had no bias….no seriously, that’s what she wrote.
Campbell is still angry that, like her, Clinton was judged and found wanting.
Good News
For those of us who want a phone and not a vulnerability ridden, intrusive, open doorway into our data.
