A terrorist attack carried out by a radical Islamist took place on the weekend and then another Islamist group executed a Canadian, but hey, let’s talk about gun control, or Donald Trump or anything but radical Islam.
Brian bursts the many bubbles around the Orlando attack plus tackles why this isn’t about gun control with Faith Goldy, chats with intelligence analyst Phil Gurski and even takes a pause to discuss the F-35 with fighter pilot Billie Flynn.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
Foiled again! Study claiming psychotic traits linked to conservatism gets reversed…
We Don’t Need No …
Not A Lot Of People Know That…
Germany, the ‘high priest of this movement, had installed the equivalent of a million barrels of oil a day of renewable capacity, between solar and onshore wind.
“Solar is working at 50,000 a barrels a day and 10 per cent utilisation, wind is at 70,000 barrels a day – 17 per cent utilisation – so that million barrel a day field is working at a 130,000 barrels a day. You cannot replace baseload with intermittent and promise the people it’s going to work.”
“The Germans were promised this would all be worthwhile because it would reduce carbon dramatically. Yet their carbon emissions per capita are 40 per cent above the UK, France and Italy.”
More – Renewables “Surge” From 1.2% To 1.4%!!
h/t Don
“Everyone says don’t go public or you’ll get blacklisted.”
Postcard from Trudeaupia;
How long can a person be without pay before someone with clout can make a difference?
Everyone says don’t go public or you’ll get blacklisted.
But I can’t live on air.
Local managers have been great about trying to help, but the problem seems to not be a priority higher up and people are having trouble getting heard in a way that gets anything done.
I started in the beginning April and I got one part payment for my first pay period and nothing else since.
I don’t get how the government can continue not paying some people at all. I’m just afraid it’s going to take many more months after my contract is done. Or worse.
I just have had no regular pay at all since the first week of April. And I’m only one small case. There are many more!
When you call the pay centre, you get a busy signal and then they hang up. It just goes in circles.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
From retail rescue to retail rabies…
It’s estimated, in fact, that tens of thousands of winsome canine refugees enter the country every year — while many others are shipped vast distances inside Canada.
But the growing, humanitarian-motivated trend is inadvertently creating a major public-health headache, fuelling a rebound in the deadly rabies problem and importing other nasty diseases, public health officials warn.
A federal-government journal has just documented three recent cases of stray puppies being taken from Nunavut or northern Quebec — where the deadly disease is endemic among Arctic foxes — to new homes in southern Canada, only for the owners to discover they had acquired rabid animals.
h/t Bob
Renegade Regulator
Shakedown: So, CSA was doing their usual shakedown, promising to harm the man if he didn’t pay whatever CSA wanted, and it’s protection money that they wanted. The CSA disregarded Queen’s Printer laws, the Statutory Instruments Act, and Federal contract law, all in one magical meeting. We got the same treatment, but it was by phone. Face to face threat-making is so much friendlier.
What Man (Or Woman) Could Resist?
I am quite content with the fact that my work, my politics, my community and my books are just as important to me as anyone I happen to be dating… I live in a commune, I date multiple people, and I’m focused on my career.
Potential suitors please take note. You are but one of many, and no more important to Laurie Penny than her books.
We Don’t Need No…
If Tasmania had a sensible backup strategy, involving adequate fossil fuel backup, or a zero emissions nuclear power plant, or if they hadn’t allegedly burned out their connector cable to the mainland through their alleged greed to cash in on premium renewable sales, they wouldn’t be in this sorry mess.
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Terrorism In Orlando
Links at Drudge. (bumped)
ISIS ANNOUNCED FLORIDA THREAT 3 DAYS AGO…
Gunman Identified As OMAR MIR SEDDIQUE MATEEN; Born To Afghan Parents…
At least 50 dead.
Motivated by ideology…
@ScottAdamsSays Killary asleep again pic.twitter.com/PUEk2Be5SD
— Mister-Plow (@MeesterPlow) June 12, 2016
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Hamilton man in custody after bomb threat on GO bus (h/t Frank Q).
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Bill’s Wife
Michael Ledeen: What is Hillary hiding?
Reader Tips
From the 2006 Country Music Awards: Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats. Tips are welcome in the comments.
Operation Empty Chair
Obama’s strategy to thwart China in South China Sea showdown ‘almost entirely meaningless’
I, Napoleon
The Case For Brexit
The critical thing is not to get bound up in a further exercise of that stultifying doctrine of paralysis known as the ‘precautionary principle’ so beloved of the Khmer Vert eco-(in)activists. If we had never acted in any different fashion until we were absolutely certain of the outcome, we’d still be swinging from branches in the primaeval forest canopy.
Yes, there are risks – some calculable, many not – but there are also opportunities aplenty. That is why it is so shrewdly disingenuous of Project Fear to play up all the things that might go wrong and to try to paint the Leave camp’s case as insubstantial simply because the latter are being honest enough not to offer an entirely bogus prospectus of what they will do, once they’re out.
For the record, I don’t see Brexit as a panacea, but merely the chance to manage one’s own affairs and to conduct one’s own debates over what should or should not be done by the state in one’s name. As in all things, I hew to the principle that politics should be as parochial as possible, that we should be able to grab a delinquent politician by his lapels at any moment and set him to rights, as well as to clap a diligent one on the back in acclamation when he pops in the local pub for a pint.
Related: polling carried out for ‘The Independent’ shows that 55 per cent of UK voters intend to vote for Britain to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum
h/t Harry
Wynning!
Shhhh…..
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Garth Brooks is playing Saskatoon this week to sell out crowds, so it seems appropriate to follow suit. The Thunder Rolls.


