We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
I remember when these experts were too unfashionable for respectable print: Wind farms causing thousands of bats to die of collapsed lungs annually in Alberta.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Organic Almonds Recalled From Whole Foods For Containing High Levels Of Cyanide h/t Glenn
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
Beauty.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Waylon Jennings and Anita Carter (the youngest daughter of original Carter Family member Mother Maybelle) sing a very early Kris Kristofferson song called No One’s Gonna Miss Me.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Party Of No
Keystone fails in the Senate. So long Mary Landrieu;
It could also determine the fate of embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who is pushing the legislation in an uphill battle to fend off a GOP challenger in a runoff election next month.
@DanaPerino – “Dems are in organizational free fall. NEVER should’ve taken vote. Why go through the pain & draw so much attention to issue while losing?”
More: How Kabuki Theater Explains Keystone Vote
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Just because there weren’t a lot of votes doesn’t mean you can’t do a graphic.“

h/t Joseph F
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Heh.
What's @katewerk say? Riding public transit is like inviting 20 random hitchhikers into your car? http://t.co/BxmjHysScC #ttcfail #ttc #yyz
— Kevin Libin (@kevinlibin) November 18, 2014
Deadly Attack On Jerusalem Synagogue
Palestinians hardest hit.

Related.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Presented without comment: Justin Trudeau’s Whitby-Oshawa victory speech. (The clip should have started at about 1 hr, 27 minutes in. Sorry!)
The Sound Of Settled Science
The most recent mtDNA study we stumbled across, is from our perspective the final nail in the coffin of the Out-of-Africa theory. Once, twice and a third time over, separate genetic studies of Homo sapien sapiens, dingoes and now song birds, stand united in ascribing the same place of origin: Australia.
The genetic facts in these equations are incontestable, the distinctive and unique nature of the mitochondrial DNA of both the dingo and Mungo Man (WLH 3) cannot be matched to any like species on this planet.
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The insurmountable problem these genetic studies creates is obvious, if both Australian dingo and human are unique, the question that demands to be answered relates to how can it be that there is common belief that Original Australians came from Africa and the ancestor of the dingo lived in Southern India? What is puzzling is that despite the imposing evidence to the contrary, every text, university and lecturer will earnestly claim that the Out-of-Africa theory is an unquestionable fact. Equally, from the same department their books assure us that all dogs, canines and wolves share the same ancestry, but that is not true in the dingoes’ case. All of this smells like bad science and lazy thinking, but it gets worse, there are birds in the air to reconsider and reposition.
His Beard is Oppressing Me
Attention, lumbersexual hipsters. Your beard, plaid and skinny jeans are “glorifying behaviours typical of people in white hegemonies.” So stop it at once.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do!
All 50 States (yes, even Hawaii) drop below freezing tonight. Here are some of the extremes. pic.twitter.com/bp0yeFVJMb
— Grant Gilmore (@grant_gilmore) November 18, 2014
Reader Tips
Fans of twerking will be sorely disappointed by tonight’s selection, as Steeleye Span and vocalist Maddy Prior face the audience while standing upright during their performance of All Around My Hat.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Whitby-Oshawa And Yellowhead By-Elections
Look to both be CPC holds.
You know the real winners tonight? The voters! Actually, no. The Tories are the real winners. Two holds.
— Stephen Maher (@stphnmaher) November 18, 2014
Trudeau’s election night defeat Speech From Bizarroland… voters of “Whitby-Oshawa showed they want change”…
Caesar-Chanvannes just said the liberal machine is unconquerable. I'm just gonna leave that there. #WhitbyOshawa
— Nathan MacKinnon (@NathanMackinnon) November 18, 2014
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
January, 2013; How Obama Won the Social Media Battle in the 2012 Presidential Campaign
November, 2014: 60% of Obamacare Facebook comments posted by fewer than 100 profiles
It doesn’t matter if you “win” the social media battle. What matters is that you convince an incurious, supportive media that you’ve won. That’s why they spend so much effort on faking it.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
The girl was at a bus stop near the corner of Taradale Drive and Taracove Road N.E. at 11:30 p.m. Friday, when the men — unknown to her — attacked her and dragged her to a nearby alley before sexually assaulting her, Oncescu said.
The men later walked the teenager by force to a home in a nearby community, which police have not identified, where she was repeatedly sexually assaulted for hours. She was also beaten with a weapon.
Related.
h/t Sean
Renegade Regulator
The Canadian Standards Association…
…recently hired a new lawyer, joining the half dozen or so lawyers already engaged on RestoreCSA issues. But this new lawyer is unlike the others.
The CSA’s new counsel is Mr. Glen Jennings. He’s a criminal defence attorney.
Y2Kyoto: Germany Abandons CO2 Targets
Through the magic of Google Translate;
Hamburg – The grand coalition is planning a departure from their previous climate protection goals. Notwithstanding any other public protestations Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) abandoned the requirement for an internal round, saving at least 40 percent of CO2 emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2020.
“It’s clear that the goal is not to keep,” the Vice Chancellor said to information obtained by SPIEGEL, adding: “We can not from now on regardless of the coal out.”
Maxed Out Mama (whose blog you should bookmark): The Germans can either shut down their nuclear plants or coal, but not both. And due to the high investments in wind and solar, in order to keep the grid voltages stable they have had to issue orders to keep coal plants that were due to be shut down open, plus pay the companies to do so. So they are not in a good position to further cut CO2 emissions – increasing dependence on coal won’t permit it. They are due to shut down more nuclear plants within the decade, and when that happens the excrement really hits the fan.

