National Post: Ottawa professor facing extradition over anti-Semitic bombing in Paris…
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
This Is Awkward
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Nobody disputes that wind is an intermittent power source. Hatch says that in a typical wind-natural gas hybrid, wind makes up 20% of the generation mix, with natural gas shouldering the other 80%.
If you’re wondering how much less GHG emissions are coming from nuclear power generation than the wind/natural gas duo, Hatch says a lot. In fact, per kilowatt-hour of generation nuclear power emissions are 18.5 grams of GHG, while emissions for wind backed by natural gas are 385 grams of GHGs. That’s 20 times more GHGs for the wind backed by natural gas scenario.
Hatch’s numbers may even be on the conservative side. Because wind comes and goes, backup generating plants have to cycle up and down more often. This stop-and-start cycling burns up more feedstock and increases emissions across the board. Bentek, a Colorado energy analytics firm, found that 1,327 such cycling events happened in Colorado in 2009, which released up to 6.8 million pounds of extra sulfur dioxide (“SO2”), 3.1 million pounds of nitrogen oxide (“NOX”), and 147,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (“CO2”).
h/t Eric A.
Cabela’s The Latest Poppy Free Zone?
A group of cadets volunteering to distribute Remembrance Day poppies were turned away at Cabela’s in North Edmonton, an act one legion representative calls disappointing.
“The management of Cabela’s informed them that, no, they weren’t welcome there,” said Greg Laskey, cadet liaison and poppy fund representative for the Royal Canadian Legion Norwood Branch.
Folks in Regina seeking an alternate source for fishing gear can visit locally-owned Pokey’s. Readers are invited to publish/plug other local alternatives in the comments.
Update: An apology has been posted to their Facebook page. It’s pretty lame, though.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips features one of Kris Kristofferson’s best: here’s The Silver Tongued Devil And I.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Well, it IS the Roadkill Diaries
I know you had just #onejob @SKGovHwyHotline . . . but you could've at least cleared the roadkill! #hwy6 pic.twitter.com/tgTJijJ63L
— Ryan M. (@saskryan) November 2, 2014
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
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“That very night, with [White House spokesman Eric] Schultz, [White House Press Secretary Jay] Carney and company freshly steaming over my Benghazi reporting, I’m home doing final research and crafting questions for the next day’s interview with [Thomas] Pickering. Suddenly data in my computer file begins wiping at hyperspeed before my very eyes. Deleted line by line in a split second: it’s gone, gone, gone,” – Full story at The Blaze. |
I Demand A Royal Commission
My top CBC sources say Ghomeshi abuse known to mgt for 12 years. Lied to protect violent groper and stained CBC brand #cdnpoli #canada
— Ray Heard (@RayHeard) November 2, 2014
It’s the only way to get to the bottom of the institutional rape culture of the CBC.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
An elderly B.C. First Nations chief and his ex-wife, along with one of their sons and a grandson, received more than $4.1-million in remuneration over the past four years.
Shuswap First Nation Chief Paul Sam, 80, gets a tax-free salary that has averaged $264,000 over that period to run a tiny reserve near Invermere, a resort community near the Alberta border.
The Shuswap have 267 members, of whom just 87 live on the reserve.
Reader Tips
How insufferably, craptastically inane can one pop song be? Let’s find out!
The comments are always open, even on evenings and weekends, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
#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