Tonight’s musical selection en route to the tips will have you reaching for your shillelaghs, as Dublin-born uilleann piper Sean McKeown prepares you for a pitched battle with those smelly, cross-eyed invaders scrambling over yonder hill with a medley of The Wild Geese & The Strawberry Blossom.
Don’t be fooled by the pastoral sounding titles.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
What Bill Learned From The Star Wars Trailer
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
IRS accused of sharing 2,500 private taxpayer documents with White House
Net Neutrality
Arab Sprung
An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolt that removed him from power.
The court also cleared Mubarak and a former oil minister of graft charges related to gas exports to Israel.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Via The Register;
“Our surveys indicate that the floes are much thicker and more deformed than reported by most drilling and ship-based measurements of Antarctic sea ice,” the team reported in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday.
“Mean drafts range from 1.4 to 5.5 metres, with maxima up to 16 metres.
“We suggest that thick ice in the near-coastal and interior pack may be under-represented in existing in situ assessments of Antarctic sea ice and hence, on average, Antarctic sea ice may be thicker than previously thought.”
The survey was carried out by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), dubbed SeaBED, which has spent the past four years surveying 500,000 square metres of ice thicknesses in the Weddell, Bellingshausen and Wilkes Land sections of Antarctica for British, US and Australian scientists.
Help Shape The Next Liberal Platform!
Calling all 30-something women! Justin Trudeau needs your help!
*Note – I signed up for an email address at Yahoo.ca for use in these types of surveys. I’d suggest you do the same, to direct the resulting Liberal spam accordingly.
(h/t Brian Gardiner)
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips the Traveling Wilburys offer up a sort of musical absolution for plain old regular folks: here’s End Of The Line.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
What we are witnessing is nothing less than a Gangster uprising. The African American culture is by and large one of idolization and worship of violent criminals, this violent behavior on their part is the inescapable result of a culture that assaults education, honestly, moral, ethical or virtuous behavior and instead glorifies and rewards violent criminal behavior.
But do not make the mistake of thinking that that is all this is about. This my friends, is nothing less than a loaded gun pointed at the head of America with the none to subtle threat, Impeach Barack Obama, and we’ll burn America to the ground. Wake up and smell the burning rubble America. The Fifth Column Treasonous Media, the Whitehouse and the Department of Injustice set these wheels in motion very much on purpose to prevent anyone from even remotely considering Impeaching his Imperial Majesty Barack Hussein Obama the first.
It’s Probably Nothing
Ouch: A barrel of Texas Intermediate crude was at $67.17 Friday afternoon Eastern Time — a whopping 8.9% drop. Related data crunching from Euan Mearns
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
Shawn Parcells became an instant media star in August after assisting in a private autopsy commissioned by the family of slain teen Michael Brown. Parcells showed up constantly on TV news as a forensic pathology expert, and claimed to have testified in court dozens of times in several states over the years. He also claims to be a professor. “But an investigation by CNN that included interviews with attorneys, law enforcement and physicians suggests Parcells isn’t the expert he seems to be.”
Actually, the investigation makes him out to be a “con artist,” “manipulator,” and “fraud,” according to pathology experts interviewed for the piece.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
I don’t think this is parody.
h/t Sean
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Arctic sea ice extent to Nov.28th.
Free Ezra Levant!
Mr. Awan is now a lawyer in Saskatchewan, but in 2007 he was the public face of a campaign to protest the representation of Muslims in Maclean’s magazine. This led to three failed human rights complaints and spurred Canada’s first online culture war over the hate speech section of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
That law has since been repealed by the Harper government and this case was one of the last loose ends in the broader conflict. As a total victory for Mr. Awan, it represents the revenge of the “sock puppet.”
Reader Tips
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Turnstiles.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
The origin of yodeling.
Smackdown
h/t Marc
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Lured by subsidies, [German] power companies went green. But to keep the lights on they have to burn coal. (h/t Kevin B)
Oh, Frack!
“In 2016, when OPEC completes this objective of cleaning up the American marginal market, the oil price will start growing again,” said Fedun, who’s made a fortune of more than $4 billion in the oil business, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “The shale boom is on a par with the dot-com boom. The strong players will remain, the weak ones will vanish.”
Oil futures in New York plunged as much as 3.8 percent to $70.87 a barrel today, the lowest since August 2010.
At the moment, some U.S. producers are surviving because they managed to hedge the prices they get for their oil at about $90 a barrel, Fedun said. When those arrangements expire, life will become much more difficult, he said.
Upon further reflection, I believe it’s time for Canada to institute a “human rights tariff” on foreign oil from corrupt and repressive states – a 25% surcharge on Saudi imports would kick things off nicely.