People think I exaggerate when I predict mass graves.
Related: Caracas’ notorious Tower of David
The Surprising Weakness of Invincible Institutions
Unsustainable bureaucratic behemoths turn out to be what Churchill described: “a cut flower in a vase, fair to see yet bound to die.”
Deep Impact
Here, Tell These People Something They Don’t Know About Me
Politico: Donald Trump said last night after winning each of the five Acela Primary states by 29 or more points: “As far as I am concerned, it’s over. … I consider myself the presumptive nominee – absolutely.” He’s right about both. To the pundits who’ll try to infuse next week’s Indiana primary – Ted Cruz’s last stand — with melodrama and cosmic significance: Good luck. Trump won Connecticut by 29, Delaware by 40, Maryland by 31, Pennsylvania by 35, Rhode Island by 39. I think the voters are trying to tell us something.
Related.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
CVS recalls organic herbal tea for salmonella risk https://t.co/6EoZpZC2Ts via @foxnewshealth pic.twitter.com/9mmvTKFTrP
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 26, 2016
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Tonight’s selection comes via a scene from the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now – Ride of the Valkyries..
You may now open your Rorschach Tests.
Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors
Where is the old, cynical media of the Harper era?
It would be cartoonish to say that Stephen Harper avoided the media at all cost. But what he did attempt was discipline toward consistent messaging from his government – a discipline that often created an impression of secrecy. Looking back now, that approach was salutary for both sides. It protected the government from the bane of contradictory messaging that has already occurred under the new administration. And it allowed the media to do their job and scrutinize government policy.
I’m just waiting for the national media to be more like the Saskatchewan media and realize the self-appointed role of ‘Official Opposition’ should actually come into play when the real Opposition parties are in disarray and rudderless.
Before SSI, After SSI
The Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative has dramatically cut surgical wait times.
In developing the SSI, Saskatchewan worked with, and learned from, other prov-inces–belying the image of a fragmented health-care system in which leadership must come from the federal government–and built upon previous Saskatchewan initiatives to reduce waiting lists. The SSI changed the way waiting lists were managed and organized, but it also fundamentally changed the culture and decision-making process in health care.
I thought it was from the heart out.
‘Deliverology’ guru schools Trudeau government for 2nd time at cabinet retreat.
But, don’t jump to conclusions, the title may be wonky, but it’s just another organizational conference.
Peak Electricity?
If the question is, “Does the financial community see a trend to higher levels of kWh sales growth?”, a dominant majority answered no.
I should note, SaskPower is projecting growth up to 33,000 Gwh/yr in 2034 from 23,000 Gwh/yr in 2014. That’s based on a 300k population increase, so SaskPower must be thinking that we’re going to pick up a pile of manufacturing from areas where that is discouraged, like Provinces west and further east.
Via Josh
Because You Need To Be Told These Things
“Masculinity is a decorative feature that is essentially counter-productive.“
What, you didn’t know?
Responding to terrorists, electing judges and heroin shooting galleries
zAnother Canadian killed by Islamist terrorists. This time in the Philippines. Forget the nice words to be said, Brian says it is time for a real response, let’s send in JTF2 and hunt these bastards down.
Also on the show, Dan McTeague on the political response, the need to elect judges or reign in their power, Trump fights against the Cruz-Kasich alliance and plenty of calls on Ottawa’s push for heroin shooting galleries – AKA “safe injection sites.”
Red Rose Country
And then there were four.
NEW – @MoodysInvSvc downgrades #Alberta rating to Aa1; outlook remains 'negative' #cdnpoli #cdnecon #abpoli pic.twitter.com/CQBuqwP2jC
— Richard Madan (@RichardMadan) April 25, 2016
The South China Sea
This is a interesting article on the politics, economic and military realities regarding the nations in and around the South China Sea.
Grab a coffee.
Tree Leaves
Rise in CO2 has greened Earth.
Naturally, being the BBC, we’re all still doomed to die in an oven, because, theories.
Mostly unrelated to the story, but worth repeating:
And Judith Curry, the former professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, added: “It is inappropriate to dismiss the arguments of the so-called contrarians, since their disagreement with the consensus reflects conflicts of values and a preference for the empirical (i.e. what has been observed) versus the hypothetical (i.e. what is projected from climate models).
Scratch a Progressive, find a Totalitarian
Authoritarianism, always latent in progressivism, is becoming explicit.
Progressivism is already enforced on campuses by restrictions on speech that might produce what progressives consider retrograde intellectual diversity. Now, from the so-called party of science, a.k.a. Democrats, comes a campaign to criminalize debate about science.
Trial Balloons
Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline may get a new lease on life as the Canadian government wavers on a planned tanker moratorium that was previously thought to spell the end for the project.
Electronic Nicotine Saves Lives
Course it won’t stop the nannies from trying hard to look after you for your own good.
Levy and his colleagues report research in the U.S., Canada and England, that shows cigarette smoking rates have fallen more in the last two years than they have in the previous four or five years and that this trend has coincided with the increase in e-cigarette use. “While e-cigarettes may act as a gateway to smoking, much of the evidence indicates that e-cigarette use encourages cessation from cigarettes by those people who would have otherwise smoked with or without e-cigarettes,” Levy says.
A Sudden Fever Of The Brain
The arrest of serial vandal and race-baiter Denzel McDonald has apparently caused uproar and searing mental trauma across campus, or at least among other pernicious little clowns in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Afro-American Studies. Because when the police calmly and politely arrest a thug who’s wanted for threatening behaviour and 11 counts of vandalism, causing thousands of dollars of damage – specifically, spraying deranged anti-white racist graffiti on campus walls – this arrest constitutes “white supremacy.” And the real victims here, apparently, are professors of Afro-American Studies – who, along with their students, are supposedly experiencing “a version of post-traumatic stress syndrome” and “a mental health crisis as serious as those following campus shootings or natural disasters.”
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The Spanish Armada.