Post ’em if ya got ’em.
This time, finish the job.
Clinton email scandal back and raring to go.
Then, last Sunday evening, during the NFL playoff game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers, the FBI posted on its website more than 300 emails that Clinton had sent to an unnamed colleague not in the government — no doubt her adviser Sid Blumenthal — that had fallen into the hands of foreign powers. It turns out — and the Sunday night release proves this — that Blumenthal was hacked by intelligence agents from at least three foreign governments and that they obtained the emails Clinton had sent to him that contained state secrets. Sources believe that the hostile hackers were the Russians and the Chinese and the friendly hackers were the Israelis.
As Seen On TV
“But we’re trying to do what’s right,” Fuller said. “We’re trying to provide products that really make a difference in people’s lives and this is one of them so if they had a different spokesperson maybe that would be better for us but I guess that’s David’s choice to do that and I took a chance on it and here we are.”
Well, it sure made a difference in at least one persons life.
Class.
A letter from some very good people.
#Libranos
Libs need an ethics advisor -at all times, holding their hand. They quite sincerely require 24/7 reminders of sep btwn gov & partisan biz.
— Alise Mills (@graciestyle) January 12, 2017
“I am very surprised,” Anglin said. “There are red flags all over it. Whether those red flags can be explained away or dealt with is a different matter. But there’s enough red flags there that he’d want to have the ethics commissioner’s blessing (before travelling).”
Odd, I am not very surprised.
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the “Multiplier Effect”
“Buying rims doesn’t lead to long term economic growth. Paying for day care for your bastard baby daddy children does not increase the economy’s economic growth potential. But building a new plant or creating a new business DOES create jobs, DOES increase our economic growth capacity, and DOES improve long term, sustainable economic standards of living. But in the world of Keynesians they do not differentiate. Blowing $400 on grills for your teeth or tattoo sleeves for your arms is just as viable economic “growth” as investing in a new semiconductor plant.”
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Back in the day
Gov’t by referendum always seemed to hover around the fringes of the Reform Party. Pretty much all and sundry decided it was a bad idea and moved on.
Gov’t by focus-group is worse.
CPC Leadership
Five candidates playing to win. The rest…not so much. Not that being a bright light of economic liberty, the rear-guard of social beliefs, representing the NDP wing, or a sober second thought about immigration will mean much if those ideas don’t enthuse the voters of certain electoral district rich provinces.
10.10 The election of the Leader shall be by way of a direct vote of members in every electoral
district, as follows.
10.10.1 Each member of the Party will have one vote.
10.10.2 Each electoral district will be allocated 100 points.
10.10.3 Leadership candidates will be assigned a point total based on their percentage of
the vote in each electoral district.
10.10.4 To win the leadership, a candidate must obtain a majority of points from across
the country.
10.10.5 Voting will be by preferential vote (single transferable ballot).
I don’t know how many candidates we’ll have on our ballot, I think last time was two, but I can’t remember.
My Skin Tone Speaks Volumes
It should be obvious that this brand of politics is profoundly poisonous. Instead of seeking to level an unjust hierarchy and foster cross-group solidarity, intersectionality merely flips the hierarchy on its head, placing the least “privileged” in the most powerful position and requiring everyone else to clamour for relative advantage in the new upside-down ranking. Those who come out on top in the struggle win their own counter-status, earning the special privilege of getting to demand that those lower in the pecking order “check their privilege.” This is a sure-fire spur to division, dissension, and resentment.
On race hustling, the different types of rich person, and the crab-bucket world of identity politics.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Breaking: video of Trump pissing on prostituteshttps://t.co/YI0QJ3hEMS
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 11, 2017
Reader Tips
On Jan 11th, 1995 the Birmingham Barracudas were granted a CFL franchise. It didn’t end well.
Here’s a clip of two teams that no longer exist. About the only thing worthy of mention is who I am pretty sure is Warren Moon doing colour commentary with that CBC guy, a job Moon now does for the Seattle Seahawks radio broadcast. (Which I never miss.)
Solid science built this house of cards.
But the whole does not equal the value of the pieces. Kinda what we’ve been saying for a decade or more.
The paper discusses the phenomenal amount of adjustment that has been applied to the models in order to get them to produce what the scientists called an “anticipated acceptable range” of future warming. Among modelers, this is known as “tuning” an experiment in order to get a desired answer.
Climate religion has for too long relied on models guesstimating the known unknowns and hypothesizing unknown unknowns.
In the various mailing lists that make up the forums of debate in the computer world in order to express displeasure with anothers work we usually just write something like, “Your solution sucks because a,b,c.” Apparently the American Meteorological Society needs 45 pages to do the same thing. Abstract with a link to the preliminary draft PDF on that page.
Fracking contaminates well-water
Proof from SW Ontario.
Your Own Lyin’ Eyes
h/t B Deplorable
The Interesting History of Chimneys…and Entrepreneurship
“Surprisingly, chimney technology would not advance seriously for another 500 years until various 18th century philosophers, scientists, and tinkerers (Benjamin Franklin prominently among them) would finally hunker down, put pen to paper, and start to experiment with various forms of heating, ventilation, and flame ultimately resulting in the two modern forms of chimneys we have today – the brick chimney and the wood burning stove. So it wasn’t until a short 200 years ago (out of the 2 MILLION years of human existence) did we have effective and efficient chimneys.
My question was, “Why the hell did it take so damn long for humans to develop this basic and NECESSARY thing?“”
A History Lesson For Political Radicals
Next it’ll turn out to be a caucus retreat.
Liberal MP, party president joined Trudeau for his controversial Bahamas vacation with the Aga Khan.
But, “O’Regan said in a telephone interview Tuesday that no Canadian government business was discussed during his time on the island.”
How’s the sobriety going, Seamus?
Of Showers and stuff.
Instapundit has the sordid details. You can read all about it there. I’m laughing because it appears that Trump is as effective at taking over the news cycle from Obama as he was at taking it away from Clinton and in the same fashion.
Personally, I think it’s all bumpkis.
Critical Thinking From the Left?
Catherine Little has published an interesting op-ed in the Toronto Star, urging teachers and parents to encourage children how to think critically. While one has no reason to disbelieve the sincerity of this writer, the notion that one of the most Left leaning newspapers in the country supports the idea of encouraging mostly Left leaning academics to teach critical thinking is like … fill in your own joke. For years now we’ve seen countless news stories of the rampant group think in the media and in schools. Ms. Little should be applauded for trying but her message will clearly fall onto deaf ears and severely closed minds.
Reader Tips (And Blog Notes)
I’ll be hitting the road early tomorrow morning for Seattle-Portland dog shows, and will be offline for much of the next two weeks. Lance and company will hold down the fort as best they can, and I should be checking in from time to time, but expect posting to slow down.
It’s supposed to be -31C (windchill -43C) tomorrow at 4am when I finish loading up the van. I’m told we do this because it’s fun.
The selection for the evening — Life is a Highway, (Rascal Flatts version).