Now that the front-runners are more clear, the map shifts blue.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
China Stops Building Wind Turbines Because Most Of The Energy Is Wasted.
“Even though China will not approve new projects, the scale of existing wind power installations is huge, leaving the grid struggling to cope with it,” Xie Guohui, an analyst at a Chinese think tank, told the environmental blog InsideClimate News Monday. “In the best-case scenario, this policy will help China’s wind power curtailment maintain the same level as it was last year.”
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The End – The Doors. Your thread is open.
The Great Green Ponzie scheme
If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures — they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.
Freedom = Economic Growth
The study may be a bit dry, but I cannot emphasize the results enough. In plain English, I’ve proven capitalism, free markets, and a smaller state correlates with higher economic growth.
We may philosophically or logically understand this, but rarely do we have the charts and the data to conveniently prove it, especially when we’re debating those on the left. Of course, not that charts, data, reality, truth, or empiricism work on leftist religious zealots, but this simple chart will at least force them to resort to their “I don’t believe the figures” or “correlation is not causation” type of cowardly, retreating tactics.
Let them eat cake
More in the ‘From the mouths of babes’ file.
Trudeau said in an interview with Global Calgary that people in Edmonton and Saskatchewan who complain of being left out of changes to the program should feel fortunate their areas have not been harder hit by the downturn in energy prices.
Selfish dolts, if you’re unemployed should be happy that you’re not, umm, unemployed.
Pay to Play
In BC and Ontario is finally raising the hackles of some.
About time.
Oh Woe Is She
I’m inclined to suggest that getting into further debt for a grad school degree in Women and Gender Studies is possibly not an ideal way to help one’s family economically.
Katherine Garcia, a feminist “creative” and self-appointed enlightener on “social justice” issues, feels severely undervalued.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
The culture of death known as “the left” has your pet in their target zone;
The RSPCA has been accused of acting unlawfully after seizing a family’s pet cat – which was then put down against the owners’ wishes – in an official review which described the charity’s actions as a “travesty”.
The 16-year-old Turkish Van, named Claude, was taken away from Richard and Samantha Byrnes by RSPCA inspectors after a neighbour raised concerns about the animal’s appearance.
It was destroyed even though Mrs Byrnes tearfully begged animal inspectors to wait until her children, aged 12 and 14, could say goodbye to the animal they had known all their lives.
Now an official review conducted by Stephen Wooler, the former HM Chief Inspector to the Crown Prosecution Service, found the RSPCA had failed to disclose material to the Byrnes in a subsequent animal cruelty prosecution, The Times (£) reported.
The RSPCA’s actions also provoked a hate campaign against the family, the unpublished report found.
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MPs are currently holding an inquiry into the charity’s role in prosecuting 80 per cent of animal welfare cases in England and Wales.
That’s right – “prosecuting”. These animal welfare organizations have been granted quasi-police powers in many jurisdictions. “Licensing and inspecting” is how they get their foot in the legislative door.
h/t Rick
Jean Lapierre’s passing, Dion’s revisionist history and Wynne changing political finance rules
Brian shares his personal memories of Jean Lapierre and how the man could speak to anyone. We need more of that.
Also, Anthony Furey on the new effort to counter radicalization. The retired Senator Marjory Lebreton on the fake new system appoint to the Red Chamber joins Brian for a frank talk. Warren Kinsella on Ontario’s new fundraising rules and Brian’s head explodes that’s to Stephane Dion’s revisionist history and lies.
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RIP Jean Lapierre
He was killed in a plane crash today along with his wife, brothers and sister.
Learning is good.
A correlation study on earthquakes, fracking and waste-water injection.
That doesn’t mean that a lot of wells cause earthquakes. Eaton calculates that about 0.3 per cent of fracked wells create problems.
But there are enough wells drilled for even that tiny fraction to be a concern.
This study, of course, will soon be cited by the same people that say a six percent Muslim population is perfectly safe.
When you’re below the thermocline
with women, what’s a little battery?
I remember the day after Fields accused Lewandowski of grabbing her arm the refrain from Trump fans on Twitter was “Prove it! File a police report or you’re lying.” So she filed a police report. Then the refrain was “It was the other guy standing behind Trump, not Lewandowski!” Then new video came out showing, no, it was Lewandowski. Then the refrain was “He barely touched her. No one could seriously believe this is battery.” So now he’s been charged with battery.
That whole “Never Apologize” thing went stupid, real fast. A quick five minute statement by Lewandowski apologizing and explaining that he was just trying to keep up with Trump would have made the whole thing go away.
Going stupid fast seems to be in the air this season.
It’s Probably Nothing
To say nothing about the signal to world.
“We understand this is disruptive to our military families, but we must keep them safe and ensure the combat effectiveness of our forces to support our strong Ally Turkey in the fight against terrorism.”
Terrorism? Russia? Syria? Silly me, those are all the same thing.
The overreach
The FBI’s fishing expedition for precedent ends just like tech-minded people thought it would. It did turn out to be an effective lesson in outing the right as much in favour of rights infringement as the left.
The end of this legal standoff also means that no legal precedent gets set for the scope of government’s power to compel an unwilling company to cooperate in an investigation, for instance by writing special new software as in Apple’s case.
The final score? Apple and Google increased their public profile, and Microsoft looked like gov’t hacks. The battle for and against private encryption remains in status quo. Way to go, FBI. /sarc
Those Moderate Muslims!
Peaceful Majority Watch: France has ‘at least 100 neighbourhoods’ as bad as Belgium’s jihadi hotspot Molenbeek
For Your “Can’t Sleep” Listening Pleasure
May I present this song that was definitely not inspired by your new prime minister:
Expired Goods
Heather Mac Donald pokes at the ongoing rot of academia:
Earlier this week, several dozen Emory students barged into the school’s administration building to demand protection from “Trump 2016” slogans that had been written in chalk on campus walkways. Acting out a by-now standardized psychodrama of oppression and vulnerability, the students claimed that seeing Trump’s name on the sidewalk confirmed that they were “unsafe” at Emory. College sophomore Jonathan Peraza led the allegedly traumatised students in a chant: “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” … As the Emory protesters entered the administration building, they drew on the Communist Manifesto to express their pitiable plight: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
A memo to media pondering the palpable anger of the American masses toward “the establishment”: you’re the establishment.