“If That Fence Wasn’t There I Would Tear You Apart“.
You Might Be a Leftist
Vancouver’s Mayor Moonbeam (and his hair) wants the city to purchase the extremely successful Granville Island from the federal government. Why? No one is entirely sure. The only thing that is certain is that the actual price doesn’t appear to matter. Why should it? It’s not their money they’d be spending.
The Sound Of Settled Science
A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the radiative imbalance from greenhouse gases at the top of the atmosphere has increased over the past 27 years while the rate of global warming has unexpectedly decreased or ‘paused’ over the past 15+ years.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Opel Dropping Amera, The European Chevy Volt, Because Of Weak Sales.
First They Came For The Light Bulbs
Kevin, Gavin, Mike – it’s Seth again! *
Raising beef for the American dinner table does far more damage to the environment than producing pork, poultry, eggs or dairy, a new study says.
Compared with the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out six times as much water-polluting nitrogen, takes 11 times more water for irrigation and uses 28 times the land, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Eshel calculates that the average American who switches from beef to pork would reduce the equivalent of 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, which is about nine days’ worth of the nation’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA calculates that it is the same as the emissions from 61 gallons of gas or what comes out of the smokestack from burning 580 pounds of coal.
“It doesn’t work”
“Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist.” (h/t Rudy)
Imagine a World Without Miley Ray Cyrus
I miss the early 60’s jazz scene…of course I wasn’t there, but I miss it. Anyway, for your late night listening pleasure.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s instalment of Artists Who Perform in Israel Week, it’s a Manhattan Transfer two-fer: First, a charmingly schmaltzy vintage TV performance of Chanson D’Amour, then a more recent performance, a vocalized version of Corner Pocket (a Count Basie Orchestra song written by Basie’s guitarist Freddie Green) called Until I Met You.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The War on Work
Blood Feud
Ed Driscoll interviews author Ed Klein;
In addition to his portraits of the Clintons and the Obamas, Klein’s Blood Feud sheds new light on one of the most mysterious members of Barack and Michelle’s inner circle, Valerie Jarrett. As Klein describes Jarrett, she’s the distaff equivalent of Tom Hagen, the dangerous consigliere pulling the strings behind the scenes of The Godfather.
The Feckless Poseurs of the European Union
Stories like this and this should be prefaced with a warning that reads: “This is Pure Fiction and Provided Solely for Entertainment Purposes”. Michael Graham elaborates more here, beginning at 2:30.
The notion that the EU is going to enact any meaningful sanctions against Russia is much like a homeowner stating that they’re going to impose sanctions against their local electricity company. Are they going to cast insults against the meter reader?!?
Kim Kardashian’s Dress
David Warren on the silence of the mainstream media regarding the genocide against Iraqi Christians:
Here is a “thought experiment” for my remaining journalistic friends. It is an attempt to cast light by means of analogy. (“Now is the time when we juxtapose,” as the adored Kate Macmillan likes to write at Small Dead Animals.) And let me remind the journalist-entertainers of the mainstream, that they do indeed have influence, in the aggregate, over the tenor of our society.
The area and population of the territory the “Caliphate” now controls in Syria and Iraq being currently roughly equal to that controlled by the government of Israel, let us imagine what the “coverage” would be, had the Israelis told all Muslims to run for their lives; had they announced that everything Muslims owned now belonged to the Israeli government; and that any Muslim still found within Israel’s de facto borders after twenty-four hours would be put to the sword. Questions:
Do you think this story might make the front page?
Do you think the media would seek more information?
Do you think the matter might remain news for more than one day?
Racism Detected
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.
The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner’s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens.
Renegade Regulator
Notes from the Enron School of Accounting;
We don’t know the travel expense breakdowns, as between airfares and hotels for instance, because the CSA is exempted from the Freedom of Information Act as well as the transparency and accountability requirements standard to other government entities. So we ran the numbers we did have. It turned out that the CSA’s 2013 travel budget would cover 74,256 return airfares from CSA’s Toronto office to Ottawa each year. That’s 297 return airfares to Ottawa per workday or, if you prefer, its 12 return trips per hour, every hour, on a 24 hour day, each workday, for a full year.
6 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
Industrial renaissance: How surprised [Atlantic] readers must have been, then, to see last week’s news that GE was again moving (quietly) to sell Appliances and Lighting.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
An independent journalist says he’s found a way around the so-called “ag-gag” laws by flying drones over large livestock operations to document animal welfare problems and pollution.
Will Potter, a Washington D.C.-based author and blogger, recently raised $75,000 on Kickstarter to buy the drones and other equipment to investigate animal agriculture in the U.S.
Reader Tips
Tonight is the second instalment in our weeklong series dedicated to performers who give the brushoff to the BDS goons.
Earlier this year anti-Semitic pinhead Roger Waters — one of his concert props was a giant inflatable pig with the Star of David on it, while the special effects on “The Wall” tour included images of Stars of David morphing into dollar signs — called for the Rolling Stones to cancel their upcoming concert in Israel, saying that “crossing the picket line” would only help the “racist” Israeli regime.
A month later, on June 4th, the Stones played to a delighted audience of 50,000 in Tel Aviv. From that concert, here’s some fan-cam-quality footage of Midnight Rambler.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
“A courtesy note ahead of publication for Risbey et al. 2014″