“Attempting to mediate relations between free people and Islam will not work. Islam either has to get on board with the whole freedom of speech thing or it cannot participate in pluralistic western democracies. It’s as simple as that.” – Mark Steyn on Charlie Hebdo.
Attack Of The Superhero Pencils
Get back to us when the big, brave pencils are flying at Mohammed (pbuh). #CharlieHebdo @garyjoelclement https://t.co/4ZZT3sJOlS
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 8, 2015
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Beautiful.
Just beautiful.
Let’s Play “Find The Headscarves”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Utterly shameful. @CTVNews #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/brDfhGyXYJ
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 8, 2015
(h/t EBD)
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New York Times: Infidels murdered, Muslims hardest hit.
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Vive la liberté.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
The world’s biggest statues.
A Public Engagement Goes Horribly Wrong
Via email;
Gord Miller, The Environmental Commissioner for Ontario – land of alternative energy, debt, taxes, and corrupt government – feels that “Governments should honestly advise the public about the risks they face, and the responsibilities they will bear, in a changing climate.”
He thoughtfully provided a spot for feedback at the bottom…
Update: so far the moderator seems … unengaged.
It’s Probably Nothing
45 signs That China Is Colonizing America.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Deadbeats Into Your Car
TransLink bus drivers pressed a special button in their coaches to record a “fare not paid” more than 2.76 million times in 2013, according to documents released today by the No TransLink Tax campaign. The information was obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) yesterday through a Freedom of Information request. […]
The 2,762,363 “fare not paid” button pushes do not include fare evasion on SkyTrain, West Coast Express, SeaBus, or the West Vancouver blue bus network. Further, many bus drivers have previously told media outlets they have stopped pressing the button as “there are so many freeloaders and TransLink doesn’t do anything about it.” The buttons were pushed 2.5 million times in 2011.
Terror In Paris
12 dead in an attack on a satirical magazine;
Two masked gunmen stormed the offices of the controversial publication, which has previously been attacked over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.
They were armed with Kalashnikov rifles and are also believed to have had a rocket-propelled grenade.[…]
It is reported both the publication’s editor and lead cartoonist were among those killed, as well as two police officers.
Some 20 people have also been injured, at least four seriously.
A manhunt is under way for the gunmen, who escaped after a shootout in the street with police.
Shocking footage has emerged of a wounded police officer being shot in the head as he lies on the ground, holding his hands up.
The killers then calmly return to their getaway car, which was later found abandoned.
Probably mental illness.
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
Predictions of increased ship traffic in the wake of diminished sea ice in Arctic waters may have been premature, said Malte Humpert, executive director of the Arctic Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank .
“I think 2014 kind of shows that development and Arctic shipping may be further off than we might have thought a few years ago, that the ice is not melting as quickly as previously predicted,” Humpert said. […]
Joel Plouffe, a Montreal-based managing editor of the journal Arctic Yearbook, said access remains limited and development is expensive in the Arctic.
“This is the reality. The boom is not there. And whatever will happen will take years and years and years,” he said.
h/t Orville
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Show your math. MT @EconSciTech IN THE next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food than in the previous 10,000 put together.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 6, 2015
Y2Kyoto: The Big Rink They Call “Gitche Gumee”
The seemingly glacial ice that brought shipping on the Great Lakes to a virtual standstill last winter cost the economy more than $700 million and nearly 4,000 jobs, the Lake Carriers’ Association (LCA) reported, promting the group to to call for construction of a second heavy icebreaker to partner with the U.S. Coast Guard’s MACKINAW to keep the shipping lanes open in the harshest of conditions.
According to LCA, the winter of 2013/2014 was so brutal that U.S.-flag cargo movement between December 1, 2013 and May 30, 2014, plummeted nearly 7 million tons compared the same period in 2012/2013. At least two steelmakers had to curtail production and some powerplants were extremely low on coal. The limestone trade did not resume in earnest until well into April, and U.S.-flag lakers suffered nearly $6 million in damage trying to resupply customers. Eventually three vessels that had not been scheduled to operate last year were fit out to help overcome the shortfall in deliveries during the ice season, but the industry played catch-up the rest of the year.
h/t Mark
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Tonight, a short primer on a survival skill that might come in handy some day if you’re not too damned cold to remember it.
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Nicotine Fatwa Meets Nicotine Fit
Isis chief executioner found beheaded with cigarette in his mouth.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
These people are not outliers. They’ve captured humane organizations, veterinary associations, and are drafting law on behalf of legislators.
Forward!
Just now @GloriaBorger reports @SenatorShaheen told her POTUS will veto keystone. First bill likely to hit his desk
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) January 6, 2015