Why Canada?
With Canada’s 147th Birthday in mind, Charles Adler hosts an interesting conversation with new immigrants about why they moved to Canada. You can listen to it here.
The Hillary Tapes: Parts 1 & 2
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
“Olivia Chow will bring dignity back to Cty Hall.” (NSFW)
Danger: Patriarchal Space!
The Guardian’s Laurie Penny is unhappy about… something:
As so often in Laurie’s mental landscape, dark forces are at work although the evidence has been lost in a mysterious warehouse fire. We are, however, pointed to the “front pages of celebrity magazines,” on which, obviously, all sane people model their own, actual lives. We’re told that “Successful women on the verge of mental and physical collapse… is a myth that pleases the powerful,” though who the powerful might be is also far from clear. Can she mean the overwhelmingly female readership of Heat magazine?
The Tolerant Left
It’s increasingly ridiculous to use the word “liberal” to describe the modern American collectivist. There’s nothing liberal about them at all. They’re shooting for the ultimate subversion of liberty, by re-defining “liberty” as a form of compulsion. In other words, they’re saying you are being oppressed unless a wise and virtuous dictatorial authority can force other people to give you what the authoritarians have decided you “deserve.” You aren’t “free” as long as you must provide for yourself. Liberty becomes a term used to describe its exact opposite: a set of active obligations placed upon other people. It’s right up there with any perversion of language and thought described by George Orwell in “1984.” Actually, it is one of the perversions he laid at Big Brother’s feet: “Freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.”
h/t EBD
Hobby Lobby – 1, Sandra Fluke – 0
President Obama suffered two final defeats in the Supreme Court on Monday, capping a 2013-2014 term in which the justices delivered several judicial hits to the White House while taking a firm stand against the unchecked power of the state.
The administration’s losses on Obamacare rules and compulsory union dues served as a rebuke on the Supreme Court’s final day after months of judicial decisions to rein in big government on issues such as snooping without a warrant, campaign finance restrictions and Mr. Obama’s recess appointment powers.
More: The left loses its mind.
Reader Tips
When you’re flying on a commercial jetliner the general rule of thumb is four engines = good, and zero engines = not good.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
An Unorthodox Landing
We Don’t Need No…
“A few years ago the renewable sector was the job miracle in Germany; now nothing is left of all of that.“
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m certain they’ll come for the school administrators first.
The Sound Of Settled Science
“We’ve had a rebound that we haven’t seen in many, many years,” said Gene Clark, a coastal engineer with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute in Superior, Wis. “We’ve been historically below average, and now we are finally back to above-average water levels.
[…]
The International Joint Commission, a group with members from the United States and Canada that advises on water resources, completed a five-year study in April 2013 concluding that water levels in the lakes were likely to drop even farther, in part because of the lack of precipitation in recent years brought on by climate change.
A good news story at odds with climate alarmist predictions? That’s what page A16 is for!
h/t Don
Climategate: Tortured Temperatures
From this dataset, I picked the one at the top of the list, (which appears to be totally random), Station number 415429, which is Luling, Texas. […]
…. according to the USHCN dataset, all ten months from March to December are “Estimated”. Why, when there is full data available?
But it gets worse. The table below compares the actual station data with what USHCN describe as “the bias-adjusted temperature”. The results are shocking.
In other words, the adjustments have added an astonishing 1.35C to the annual temperature for 2013. Note also that I have included the same figures for 1934, which show that the adjustment has reduced temperatures that year by 0.91C. So, the net effect of the adjustments between 1934 and 2013 has been to add 2.26C of warming.
Note as well, that the largest adjustments are for the estimated months of March – December. This is something that Steve Goddard has been emphasising.
It is plain that these adjustments made are not justifiable in any way. It is also clear that the number of “Estimated” measurements made are not justified either, as the real data is there, present and correct.
Via Judith Curry – “is Steve Goddard right?”. (read the whole thing)
The Tolerant Left
Heads should roll. I keep tellin’ ya, Christians…
Reader Tips
Tonight’s music selection was published here about three years ago, but since it’s my favourite song of all time I’m going to let it lift off once again: Here are the Rev. F.W. McGee and the blind-but-that-won’t-stop-me sanctified singer and piano player Arizona Dranes belting out their wholehearted, transcendent rendition of Fifty Miles of Elbow Room.
Might play it again in a couple of years.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Inte…arghh……..
The Leading Causes Of Death In 1900 Compared To 2010. (h/t north of 60)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
On day when Antarctica breaks their sea ice anomaly record – geniuses at the @Independent say penguins are doomed http://t.co/v8AIZmDXw1
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) June 29, 2014
The New Yorker’s Vital Economic Questions
….take poll HERE
Bread & Circuses in Obamamerica
The U.S. Congress has many pressing issues before them. IRSgate and the Benghazi fiasco are but two that top a long list. So one might think they’d be preoccupied with a lot of important things to investigate. Why bother with those though if you can keep the Media Party lapdogs primarily focused on . . . a daytime TV show host named Dr. Oz!
On their latest podcast, Adam Carolla and Drew Pinsky discuss this issue at length, beginning at 6:15. Language warning but well worth a listen.
Great Moments In Democratic Governance
“It’s frightening, because you think this is something that only happens somewhere like Africa,” said Hill, a single mother who is studying homeland security at a local college. “But now I know what they’re going through — when I get somewhere there’s a water faucet, I drink until my stomach hurts.”