h/t Joseph
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
“It has been more than 5 years since my car was bombed by radical animal rights fanatics who knew nothing meaningful about my research but were opposed to it anyway. Sometimes, it feels like just yesterday. Sometimes, it feels like a story from another, distant life…”
Y2Kyoto: Weapons Of Melt Destruction
The Pentagon lied, credibility died.
In The Mail
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Steven Crowder interviews Islamo-Nazi Imam Choudary
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
According to unnamed officials, Washington “has given the Iranians 80 percent of what they want” out of the negotiations…
Reader Tips
The love song Plaisir d’amour, written in 1784 by French composer Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, is instantly familiar to people who’ve never even heard it because extended passages of its melody have been filched so often over the years. Tonight we have three renditions of the original, as sung by French actress Brigitte Bardot, Canadian actress/singer Catherine McKinnon, and Nana Mouskouri.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Showing Up To Riot
Jordan has threatened to fast-track the execution of a would-be suicide bomber the Islamic State is trying to free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, it was reported today.
The government has apparently warned that Sajida al-Rishawi and other jailed ISIS commanders would be ‘quickly judged and sentenced’ in revenge for Muath al-Kaseasbeh’s death.
Sacred Spending Ritual
Melissa Ridgen at APTN National News:
An Aboriginal-owned investment group that was supposed to help end poverty on Manitoba First Nations instead blew its money on strippers, booze, fancy food and exotic trips, APTN Investigates has learned.
Corporate credit card statements from Tribal Councils Investment Group show $13,000 spent over two days in 2012 at Sapphire, a high-end Vegas strip club.
Another American Express statement shows $5,300 spent one day at “L.R. Inc Etobicoke.” A profile of strip clubs aimed at businessmen visiting Toronto on the website nowtoronto.com says “The Landing Strip … (is a) high-end club in west Etobicoke… for business discretion, strip chips charged to a client’s credit card appear as D.E. Limited or L.R. Inc.”
As for ending Manitoba First Nations poverty,
Alan Isfeld of First Nations Voice newspaper pointed out (that) in 2013 the dividends being paid to the tribal councils worked out to at most “$8.37 per year” for every man, woman and child.
Embargo Lifted, Fidel Alive!
Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations.
Castro told a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that Cuba and the U.S. are working toward full diplomatic relations but ‘if these problems aren’t resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement wouldn’t make any sense.’
No way, the White House said Thursday.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
A few weeks after the media frenzy died down, it dawned on me – I could have made this whole thing up, and nobody would have been the wiser.
h/t rzr
In The Mail
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Islam Through the Looking Glass: The Collected Essays and Reviews of J. B. Kelly, Vol. 3 |
Supremes Strike Down Essential Services Laws
With CBC Saskatchewan busy celebrating with their socialist friends, I’ll send you on to CTV;
The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down as unconstitutional a Saskatchewan law that prevents public sector employees from striking.
By a 5-2 majority, the high court granted an appeal by the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour of the province’s controversial essential services law that restricts who can strike.
The ruling will affect public service unions in provinces across the country.
On the other hand, a clever government might turn this into opportunity.
Time for Right To Work legislation, @PremierBradWall. If unions can hold us hostage, lets free their members. #skpoli #cdnpoli
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 30, 2015
What Would We Do Without Researchers?
Science rediscovers the Viking.
Y2Kyoto: A Watermelon Speaks
No, it’s not “all in your head”…
Here, resistance to the science is driven by an ideology and an identity called individualism, which centers on the belief that a fair society is one in which a person succeeds on his or her own merits. What does that have to do with the climate, you ask? Well, nothing obvious — except that libertarian individualists think that the climate issue is a way of clamping down on something they hold in very high regard indeed: the free market. Scientists can try to explain the facts here till they’re blue in the face, but if they don’t disarm the concerns rooted in ideology, they’ll never disarm the resistance.
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
The news has finally reached the information highway’s last, lonely outpost;
Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to a new report from a prominent environmental think tank.
Turning plant matter into liquid fuel or electricity is so inefficient that the approach is unlikely ever to supply a substantial fraction of global energy demand, the report found. It added that continuing to pursue this strategy — which has already led to billions of dollars of investment — is likely to use up vast tracts of fertile land that could be devoted to helping feed the world’s growing population.
Reader Tips
On January 30, 1972, British troops opened fire on unarmed civilians in Derry, Ireland during a civil rights march, killing 14. Sunday Bloody Sunday is a tribute to the victims, by U2.
Comments are open for your tips.
(Whoops! This post was written some time ago and scheduled. Sorry for the double RT threads, and for stepping on your toes, EBD).
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips former long-term Senator from North Carolina Sam Ervin delivers a perfunctory homily about friendship before launching into Bridge Over Troubled Water.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Politics Meets Tech
A regular update of my favourite open source text editor revealed something not so regular. The latest update of Notepad++ opened a blank document and started slowly typing these words:
Perhaps techies, many of whom seem to be apolitical but appear to vote left, are slowly waking up to the fact that their preconceived political notions are in error.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
BRAZIL: Investigations are ongoing at utility Eletrobras’s 46MW Cerro Chato IV-VI wind complex in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul following the collapse of eight Impsa turbines.