In 24 hrs those non-consensual subsidies forcing voters to support political parties w/tax$ are finally gone.Parties must fend 4 themselves
— Stockwell Day (@Stockwell_Day) December 31, 2014
We Need A Famine
h/t peterj
Peel Appeal
Kingdom of the Courts – Through this appeal, the government is seeking clarity that the democratically elected Yukon government retains the authority to make final decisions on public lands.
(I amuse myself)
UH OH. Democracy warrior @ElizabethMay will be VERY DISPLEASED with #Yukon appeal to restore democratic authority. http://t.co/zhOBvMuznQ
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 31, 2014
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
The new regulatory revenue stream is now up and running:
PacifiCorp Energy, a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wyoming to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act in connection with the deaths of protected birds, including golden eagles, at two of the company’s wind projects in Wyoming.
As a result, PacifiCorp will pay $2.5 million in fines and will take measures at the company’s Wyoming wind farms to increase eagle populations.
Under a plea agreement with the government, the company was sentenced to pay fines, restitution and community service, and was placed on probation for five years, during which it must implement an environmental compliance plan aimed at preventing bird deaths at the company’s four commercial wind projects in the state.
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the charges stem from the discovery of the carcasses of 38 golden eagles and 336 other protected birds, including hawks, blackbirds, larks, wrens and sparrows, by the company at its Seven Mile Hill and Glenrock/Rolling Hills wind projects, located in Wyoming’s Carbon and Converse counties between 2009 and the present.
h/t Mike
Reader Tips
In tonight’s seasonal entertainment en route to the tips the Pražští barokní sólisté, under the direction of Adam Viktora, perform Agnus Dei I from Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s 1740 opus Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Amazon Customer Reviews: Samsung UN105S9 Curved 105-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED TV
(h/t Adrian).
Well, she looks Korean to me.
No?
LinkedIn Profile
Why the FBI felt it necessary to make an “International Spectacle” of themselves instead of just blaming it on “Anonymous” (cough, front, cough), is beyond me…
Unless you think it might have something to do with the proposed laws on Internet regulations….
For every action,
Don’t Bring A Dog To A Gun Fight
When the two dogs — and their walkers — encountered each other on Friday on opposite sides of a narrow pedestrian bridge in Glen Burnie, Md., the difference between the canines must have been obvious.
One was a 180-pound Great Dane. The miniature Schnauzer weighed just 15 pounds…
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Nannystate Scolds Into Your Car
‘Manspreading’ and other transit misbehaviours we could all do without
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
Read the whole thing: To put it in perspective, in order to provide power for the factories and electric cars in Europe, Canadian and US forests are being cut down, often at an unsustainable rate, resulting in the destruction of valuable habitat and loss of ecosystem diversity. What is most ironic is that the power used by Greenpeace in Europe to fight the “tar sand’s” theoretical destruction of boreal forests is provided by the cutting down and grinding up of actual Canadian boreal forests.
h/t Kevin B
Reader Tips
Tonight the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge warms up your evening with a performance of Once in Royal David’s City.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Make a batch of metal muffins.
The never-ending apology tour.
“He apologized and congratulated them,” McCarthy said, adding that it was a “wonderful talk.” It isn’t that this is bad, stuff happens. It’s that no one thought to call and find out if they were disturbing anything the plebeians might have planned.
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
Burn this bitch down: Ferguson’s Media Darling Flames Out
Regular season football is over.
If I hear another media type talk about how the CFL should have a unified playoff format, I’m just going to point the the 2014 NFL season.
NFC South Carolina Panthers 7-9 in the playoffs,
NFC West SF 49’ers, 8-8 out.
All year long we were being told how ‘bush-league’ the CFL was because of the refs. Well….
Both leagues cracked down on Roughing the Passer and Interference style calls. Both leagues managed to confuse the heck out of pretty much every ref, player, coach and fan. With more and more cameras tracking every player of the game in HD, fans are always going to have 20-20 (unless your team got the penalty) when it comes to penalties and the refs live or die with what they see during live action. The refs call what they see and usually see what they call.
The CFL tested interference video reviews, I don’t expect the NFL to pick it up and I hope the CFL will drop it. Both leagues implemented mandatory turn-over and scoring reviews, that worked well.
He was fired, but I think Marc Trestman and his staff are going to be seen as the fall guys for a useless QB who management backed. I think he’ll end up somewhere in the NFL rather than go back to the CFL, sorry Montreal.
I think the CFL’s challenge in 2015 is going to be, “What do we do about Toronto?” New owner, new home? They have to get out of the cemetery they play in now. Get them into a 30k stadium and suddenly they look like they have fans, 20-30k in the Skydome provides no atmosphere.
For the playoffs, I’m hoping for Seattle vs. Green Bay then Seattle vs. Pittsburgh with Seattle winning.
Embrace Hollywood!
TechDirt: For years, we’ve pointed out that the giant “settlements” that the MPAA likes to announce with companies it declares illegal are little more than Hollywood-style fabrications. […] TorrentFreak has been combing through the emails and found that the Hotfile settlement was really just for $4 million, and the $80 million was just a bogus number agreed to for the sake of a press release that the [Motion Picture Association of America] could use to intimidate others.
It’s an Awful Lot of Dumb for Just Twelve Months
From rent-seeking “creative” people and racist furniture to hegemonic beards, the sin of buying peas, and some decidedly unerotic feminist pornography. The year reheated.
Reader Tips
Tonight, from the 1965 EP Prop Del Bressol (“Near the Crib”), Catalonian choir Orfeó Enric Morera keeps Christmas up and running with a few traditional Czech, German, and Italian songs.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Newsbusters: In LA, CBS Station Pretends There Was a Real Kwanzaa Parade Yesterday