“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.”
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
[W]hen Local Grocer owner Heather Chase put together a class on how to ethically raise and process chickens (naturally, including information on how to slaughter them), and became the target of an animal rights campaign, it probably seemed odd to some onlookers. After all, aren’t the animal rights folks always campaigning against people who don’t ethically raise animals? Why on Earth target a “sustainable,” “beyond organic” operation? Well, for the answer to that, simply refer back to paragraph one: because it’s not about the level of care; in there eyes there is no such thing as “ethical meat.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Ugly, inefficient – and noisy;
Michigan’s 51st Circuit Court has ruled that Mason County was justified in determining that wind turbines at the Lake Winds Industrial Wind Plant near Ludington are too noisy.
In his June 16 decision, Judge Richard Cooper denied Consumer Energy’s appeal to have the court overturn the county’s finding that the wind plant was exceeding the county’s established decibel level limits.
In a highly technical explanation, Judge Cooper said it was reasonable for the county to take into account the impact of maximum wind speeds that are not outside the norm. He also rejected the argument that excessive noise levels occurring only during certain periods of time should be allowed.
Reader Tips
A few years ago a British Dolly Parton fan played a 45 rpm vinyl single of Dolly Parton’s Jolene at 33 rpm and posted the results on the interweb. The video (since removed) became a viral hit, not because it was funny but because the slowed-down version sounded good, and was a bit of a revelation; at the very least, it exposed the incredible rhythmic precision and soulfulness of Parton’s phrasing, which can’t always be limned when she’s trilling and warbling at breakneck speed. Without further ado, here’s a recently posted version, with improved audio, of Jolene at 73.3%.
If there are any offended Dolly fans out there, I’ll half-unoffend you with a slowed-down version that’s been electronically corrected to normal pitch, and make further reparations with the original version here.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The pedestrians are the best part: The intersection with no stop lights. h/t Adrian
Meanwhile, on Planet Bizarro . . .
The Sound Of Settled Science
New research published today (Friday 27th June 2014) in the journal Nature Scientific Reports has provided a major new theory on the cause of the ice age that covered large parts of the Northern Hemisphere 2.6 million years ago.
Wake-up Call for Media “Professionals” Everywhere
How much further can members of the media fall?
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Video! Woman lighting bus passenger’s hair on fire.
h/t Brian W.
Free Marc Lemire!
[June 26, 2014] At midnight tonight, Canadians can breathe a little easier and speak their minds online, thanks to Bill C-304, which officially comes into ‘force’ on June 27, 2014 and repeals Section 13 of the Canadian “Human Rights” Act. Bill C-304 stripped the censorship powers from the ravenous censors at the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission who dragged hundreds of Canadian’s through a rigged Tribunal process – success guaranteed; a complete 100% conviction rate!
Reader Tips
In tonight’s diversion en route to the tips Alvin Robinson whets his appetite for a Down Home Girl.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
I Amuse Myself
As the Supreme Court of Canada seems intent on ruling over us, let's just elect the bastards and be done with it. #SCC #cdnpoli
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 27, 2014
“Perhaps World War One isn’t over”
Austin Bay makes the case.
We Need A Famine
And we need to pledge to one another that, when it finally comes, we will eat the “environmentalists” first.
In February 2014, Fortune Minerals was given Ministerial Approval by Saskatchewan’s Minister of Environment, to build a minerals processing plant near Langham, SK. However, since that time, environmental groups have been posing unregulated questions – sometimes hurling inaccurate claims at the project ranging from misguided to deceptive – which may lead to the project not proceeding.
The RM of Corman Park will soon be requested to grant rezoning approval to Fortune Minerals for the plant to be built – by a vote of the councillors – and should the environmentalists have their way, this will not happen. And given the councillors answer to their constituents and the constituents have been fed a barrage of misinformation by those same environmentalists, the vote may not support Fortune Minerals.
The council vote could – in effect – overrule the Provincial permitting process.
After roasting them over the dried husks of weak-kneed politicians who have forgotten that functioning democracies do not subvert themselves to the demands of the unelected fringe.
Asthma Inhalers are next.
The Allison Redford, nanny-land of Alberta strikes again. Red Deer bans e-cigs in public places.
They’re calling it smoking and I imagine this will be challenged at some point, as it isn’t smoking. The basis for banning smoking from public places was always sold as a safety move, second-hand smoke is a danger. Vaping doesn’t hold that danger. No one even knows if it’s dangerous for the primary user.
So, Red Deer is banning something they know nothing about except that it’s a nicotine delivery system, that hurts no one. Banning it on the basis that when I exhale, it looks like smoke…for about two seconds.
I still haven’t smoked since I started vaping in February, and I’m down to an 8mg nicotine blend from 24mg when I started.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The myth of the crusading investigative reporter is not only dead, it’s decomposed. In the disintegration of the Obama administration, the end of the mainstream media is not collateral damage, it is the core damage.
That is already evident in the response to the IRS scandal. It is metastasizing rapidly despite the near blackout by the MSM. In one recent poll 63 percent of Democrats think the IRS intentionally destroyed the emails. Democrats. How’d they find that out? Not from the New York Times.
Related.
h/t EBD
The Sound Of Settled Science
New solar model predicts imminent global cooling;
As we head to the UNFCCC meeting in Paris 2015 where global bureaucracy beckons, a sharp cooling change appears to be developing and set to hit in the next five years. Yet consortia of five-star politicans are not preparing for climate change, only for global warming. Around the world a billion dollars a day is invested in renewable energy, largely with the hope of changing the weather.
Operation Empty Chair
Iraq has bought used fighter jets from Russia and Belarus to battle Islamist militants after long delays in the delivery of F-16 planes from the U.S. left troops without air support, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said.
The jets “should arrive in Iraq in two or three days,” Al-Maliki said.
Meanwhile… Obama Proposes $500 Million to Aid Syrian Rebels
h/t Dan T.
Free Ethical Oil!
A John Gormley Live interview with Vivian Krause on the Tides campaign that landlocks Canadian oil.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Related! Waterfront Toronto spent more than $500,000 on two painted rocks and $11,565 on 36 pink umbrellas at Sugar Beach, a councillor has learned.