#graveyardofeverything
I used to have to hack Blackberries to get this stuff: Twitter turns reporters rude, insulting to politicians they once respected.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
CBC: A Kelowna, B.C., man bled to death after he was stabbed in the neck in an apparent random attack on a busy bus yesterday evening. (h/t Terry O)
Because You Can’t Get Enough of that Performance Art
There’s also this intensely cerebral performance from 2012, in which Ms Arsem spends three hours lying face down in a gallery window while passers-by pass by, somehow ungripped by the profundity of the work.
Give Fists A Chance
Two “Stop the Violence” organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition.
Reader Tips
Tonight, a Halloween two-fer: first, put on your 3-D glasses for Dr. Tongue’s Evil House of Pancakes, and then brace yourself for the absolutely terrifying Gastro Ghouls n’ Fear Fritters. Aah-oooo!
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
It’s like Riverdance, except for everything: Dancing bats.
Justin Bourque, Social Justice Warrior
The judge said Bourque showed little remorse for the crimes until the end of the sentencing hearing when he addressed the families.
The courtroom where Smith delivered his sentence was full. He spent the first part of his decision going over Bourque’s past.
He described Bourque as being obsessed with guns, video games, heavy metal music and dependent on marijuana. He said Bourque felt oppressed by the police even though he had no criminal record.
And “the rich”.
The things you never see on the CBC.
h/t Kevin B.
World’s Worst Economist
This is just a small sampling, yet the man who said and wrote these words is Paul Krugman, professor of economics at Princeton, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
(When you recall that the Nobel committee also gave its peace prize to Yasser Arafat, a man who spent much of his life committing acts of terror, you may find this less puzzling.)
h/t Michael in Ottawa
Hoping It’s Nothing
#SpaceShipTwo has experienced an in-flight anomaly. Additional info and statement forthcoming.
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) October 31, 2014
Background here.
Ugh.
Checking the hashtag #SpaceShipTwo, there is speculation surrounding parachute sighting and disintegration per @Morgann_Grace and @jlangdale
— Skyler Shaw (@skylerwshaw) October 31, 2014
Local news is reporting fire department movement in connection with #SpaceShipTwo flight anomaly. =\
— Matthew Dockrey (@gfish) October 31, 2014
Latest unconfirmed reports – One pilot found with minor injuries, the other missing deceased.
Update: LA Times reporting.
Pay To Play At Brookings
That would be “liberal-leaning” Brookings;
Brookings had co-hosted one seminar on marijuana legalization before Boyd’s visit. Soon after the meeting, Brookings emerged as a hub of research that supported the views of the legalization movement — with prominent scholars offering at least 20 seminars, papers or op-ed pieces since early 2013 considering the idea. Before his death last year, Lewis donated $500,000 to Brookings, according to officials at the think tank. Two of the scholars working on the issue said they knew Lewis was their benefactor.
[…]
Over the past decade, a new business model has taken hold at Brookings. The Washington institution renowned for impeccable research and its clout as an independent policy architect has in recent years placed an emphasis on expansion and fundraising — giving scholars a bigger role in seeking money from donors and giving donors a voice in Brookings’s research agenda.
The shift has been powered by a new era of corporate influence in Washington, in which wealthy interests outside government are looking for new avenues to reach policymakers on the inside. Lobbyists are increasingly encouraging clients to donate to Brookings and other think tanks as a way of getting researchers to spend time on the issues that donors care about.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Sexual assault on disabled woman on Winnipeg bus;
CBC News has learned the woman, who requires 24 hour care, was with a support worker at the time.
But the support worker, sitting two rows ahead of her with her back to the victim, didn’t notice her client was being assaulted until more than 10 minutes into the attack.
h/t Raymond
Omar Albach TV
Washington Post: Watch Canadians stand up to an ‘anti-Muslim bigot’
“We wanted to see how Canadians really felt about Muslims,” says Albach in an interview with WorldViews. He posted the video on his YouTube channel on Monday. It already had nearly 200,000 hits by Tuesday afternoon.
Someone should ask Albach if he’d do the same for an Israeli.
h/t loonie beaver
Reader Tips
Tonight, singer Amanda Palmer (“sometimes known as Amanda ****ing Palmer“), one of Jian Ghomeshi’s first supporters after “the CBC finally created an interesting drama“, sings Oasis.
Progressive language/images/values/cliches warning.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Good.
So, those who’ve subjected us to massive power rate increases, eye-sore windmills, rising fuel prices, dogmatic school programs, bad science, stacked review panels and alarmist advocacy are feeling bad.
“I could imagine that if scientists start to talk about how they’re feeling about the issue and how emotional they’re feeling about the issue, those who are critical about climate change would seize that information and use it in any way they could to say that we should reject their science,” he says.
Darn right. Too bad for you.
James O’Keefe Strikes Again
They Have Seen The Enemy And It Is Us
At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
…We as a nation deserve whatever a random Islamist or organized Jihadist group decides to serve up. After all we bombed their countries why should we be exempt from the price of war? Except that the murderer in question, I don’t intend on using his name, was a native born Canadian of partial Quebecois descent. He is not a foreigner he is one of us. His homeland was not attacked, his country was not bombed and his immediate family was not killed by the Canadian military. The only relationship was one of religion. Some of his coreligionists on the other side of the world, some violent and some peaceful, have been killed in a war by Canadian forces.
It is exceedingly odd that people who otherwise scoff at religion should be so sympathetic to such deep, albeit perverse, religious sensibilities…
These contradictions exist only if you miss the one consistent element. It does not matter what, when, how or why, all that matters is the who. The Western nations are always villians and all others must be victims…
The Sound Of Settled Science
A debate among scientists over climate change and conflict has turned ugly. At issue is the question of whether the hotter temperatures and chaotic weather produced by climate change are causing higher rates of violence. A new analysis refutes earlier research that found a link, and the two lead researchers are exchanging some pointed remarks.
I Amuse Myself
Media lecture when mentally ill murder: "Don't fear mentally ill".
Media lecture when muslims murder: "They're mentally ill".
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 30, 2014
“Did you know it takes a Victoria’s Secret model five hours to unload one box off a truck?”
Well, this is a surprise;
During Isaac, Red Cross supervisors ordered dozens of trucks usually deployed to deliver aid to be driven around nearly empty instead, “just to be seen,” one of the drivers, Jim Dunham, recalls.
“We were sent way down on the Gulf with nothing to give,” Dunham says. The Red Cross’ relief effort was “worse than the storm.”
During Sandy, emergency vehicles were taken away from relief work and assigned to serve as backdrops for press conferences, angering disaster responders on the ground.
I’d have thought they’d be busy training looters.