The Righteous Hypocrites in UBC’s Ivory Towers
Interested to know how UBC’s well paid professors spend YOUR tax dollars? Writing up idiotic documents like this one. One wonders what percentage of them have divested themselves of ALL fossil fuels in their own lives?!? How does one pronounce “zero” in Academic-Gobbledegook?!?
Thankfully some out there have retained their common sense.
“The nets go straight out of the bag into the sea”
Mosquito nets are now a billion-dollar industry, with hundreds of millions of insecticide-treated nets passed out in recent years, and many more on their way.
They arrive by the truckload in poor, waterside communities where people have been trying to scrape by with substandard fishing gear for as long as anyone can remember. All of a sudden, there are light, soft, surprisingly strong nets — for free. Many people said it would be foolish not to use them for fishing.
Rachel Carson kills again.
I Amuse Myself
Plan for convincing world Cda&AB are serious about climatechange:
1) BUY PRIVATE JETS
2) FLY TO DAVOS @tingeyd @MichelleRempel @globeandmail
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 25, 2015
Reader Tips
Tonight, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Sir Winston Churchill, we watch archival footage of the public outpouring of grief and respect, as a nation mourns.
Also, a very good Telegraph video: How Britain honoured its wartime leader.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Y2Kyoto: Mess’n With Texas
Andromeda
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
Two women who run an animal rescue operation are facing aggravated animal cruelty charges after cops caught them with more than 100 dogs and one cat stuffed in the back of a U-Haul truck without food, water, or adequate air, police said.
Bonnie Sheehan, 55, and Pamela A. King-McCracken, 59, were busted in Fayette County, Tennessee, on Tuesday when a cop making a traffic stop noticed a rank smell and discovered 128 dogs and a lone cat suffering in squalid conditions in the back of the truck and an attached van, the Commercial Appeal reported.
Dozens of cages were stacked on top of each other in the truck, some holding four or five dogs smeared with their own feces, while other pooches were caged inside dog houses secured with wired grates, the Appeal reported.
One of the dogs was dead, police said.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Full interview here.
Update! The conspiracy theories have already begun.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Then 38, I had just written an essay for The Washington Post’s Outlook section arguing that women should be allowed to pray in the main halls of mosques, rather than in segregated spaces, as most mosques in America are arranged. An American Muslim born in India, I grew up in a tolerant but conservative family. In my hometown mosque, I had disobeyed the rules and prayed in the men’s area, about 20 feet behind the men gathered for Ramadan prayers.
Later, an all-male tribunal tried to ban me. An elder suggested having men surround me at the mosque so that I would be “scared off.” Now the man across the table was telling me to shut up.
“I won’t stop writing,” I said.
h/t Dave S.
Saving the World with a Bag of Hammers
Peter Wood on leftist academics who find violence titillating:
Eric Linsker, an adjunct professor of English composition at [the City University of New York], was arrested on December 13, after he had carried a large garbage can onto a walkway on the Brooklyn Bridge, apparently in an effort to drop it on the heads of police officers below. Linsker was ordered by the police to put it down but fled the scene, dropping his backpack, with two hammers inside, and, among others things, his CUNY ID. Cindy Gorn and Zachary Campbell were among the academics arrested for assaulting police on the Brooklyn Bridge in an effort to help Linsker escape. Gorn is a graduate student at Columbia University… Her “areas of work” are “geography from the perspective of Marxist philosophy, social movements, autonomous labour movements, health, and the environment.”
Atlas Shrugs
With Atlas Shrugs down under a DDoS attack, Pam Geller is currently blogging at at this temporary address. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly.
Bin Laden Is Dead And King Abdullah Is Dead
Abdullah is Dead. ISIS has an opportunity to flip the Kingdom. Here’s how. (h/t John)
Free Bill Whatcott!
CBC to pay Bill Whatcott for defamation;
Whatcott argued that the CBC defamed him when they showed the lyrics of the parody song, but did not show the statement on the next page, thereby making his view seem more extreme than they are.
Imagine that! (h/t Larry)
Reader Tips
If earnestly political anti-war folksongs are at one end of the musical spectrum, The Pipkins’ 1970 earworm Gimme Dat Ding is on the other. So it does have that going for it.
h/t Kate
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
We Don’t Need No …
A bill that would repeal a 2009 law that mandates utility companies get 25 percent of their production materials from sources other than coal by 2025 was passed by the West Virginia State Senate unanimously Wednesday, with debate only on an amendment to the bill.
Senate Democrats attempted to amend the bill to include a study by the legislative auditor on the repeal’s net effect on jobs and utility rates. […]
A similar push for the act’s repeal in the House of Delegates is likely to mirror the Senate action.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
h/t Larry
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
London, January 20th – Southwestern Ontario must “transition away” from a manufacturing-based economy and develop more technology and economic innovation, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
Windsor, January 22nd – “We talked about the need for the federal government to step up on manufacturing and give support to local jobs and prosperity,” Trudeau said. “
h/t RLP
It’s Probably Nothing
IRAN – PHOTO: New long-range 27 meter missile on a launch pad outside Tehran, that "can reach far beyond Europe” pic.twitter.com/EL359jgFJv
— Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) January 22, 2015
YNoKyoto
Via WUWT;
In a critical year for action to prevent runaway climate change, one would hope the issue would rank high on chief executives’ list of business risks to worry about.
So it comes as a shock to discover that climate change appears so low on their list of concerns that professional services group Price Waterhouse Coopers did not even bother to include it in its global survey of business leaders.
The bottle genie still works her magic.