The summer that never was, will be ending soon.
Over 40cm of Snow accumulated in Highwood Pass, Alberta via Team Member @Washed_Up #Kananaskis #Canada #abstorm pic.twitter.com/cOWjUXFco9
— Prairie StormChasers (@PrairieChasers) September 3, 2014
Related: “Cold year: 2014 USA temperature record lows outpace record highs nearly 2-1” via Maz2.
I actually agree with much of what General Andrew Leslie, CF Ret. says about the latest Israel/Hamas conflict.
I do disagree with this part though.
Up until the moment the Israeli ground forces launch their invasion there had been three fatalities after 2,700 rockets have been fired at Israel, because they have a system to knock them down. So, tunnels [in Gaza] were not an issue at the time. They go in, they obviously get involved in the street fighting.
I think it’s quite obvious that Israel knew about the tunnels. I think Hamas kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teens was the spark.
As Gen. Leslie states, Israel had been rained on with missiles and did nothing, but as soon as the tunnels were used for terror against Israeli citizens, that’s when the fighting started.
Contrary to the General’s assumption that the missiles were Israels strategic objective, I think it is safe to say it was destruction of the tunnels. Once they were gone, Israel disengaged.
On the General’s point regarding ME backlash against Israel…The Saudi King, the Palestinian Authority and Eygpt beg to differ.
“Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat,” said Joanne Liu, MSF’s international president.
“Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered,” she said, calling on international community to fund more beds for a regional network of field hospitals. She also urged countries with biological disaster response capacity to dispatch trained medical personnel to the hardest-hit areas.
Close the borders. Now.
h/t Kevin B
And this gets to the truly disgusting, criminal, even outright evil aspect of these “appreciation months” – It destroys and murders the individual by replacing individual accomplishment and achievement with a trait you were born with.
Its not just that CSA leadership is living large while the little people’s paycheques are getting smaller. Its how the leaders are getting their money.
A lot of “mostly long term mid level Canadian CSA staff are in the process of being whacked over last 2 weeks […] and not with the generous packages that were once the norm when Rob Griffin was in charge […] and I’m sure they have stories to tell you”. Indeed they do.
It turns out that getting more money means shifting CSA jobs to other countries. China now has a large CSA staff, of locals of course, not Canadians. And the CSA has a new facility in India. The Calcutta Standards Association? Then there’s the expansive CSA operation in Cleveland, and the CSA is moving even more jobs south later this year. Consumer product safety certifications for all of Canada are already handled out of Ohio. The Cleveland Standards Association? There sure are a lot of foreigners running Canada’s standards regulator.
On fake hate crimes, protesting artists and the honest use of words:
One would not say of a man who passed from smoking sixty cigarettes a day to fifty that he had given up smoking, or that he had exercised great self-denial. And one would not, or rather should not, say of an organisation that had balanced its budget once in fifty years (the British government) that it was practicing austerity merely because it had to borrow a slightly lower percentage of what it spent than it did the year before. This is to deprive words of their meaning… If reducing the rate at which you overspend and accumulate debt is called austerity, no one will dare go any further in that direction, though it were the right direction in which to go.
Can depression and feelings of resignation about mortality be ethereal? Well, yes, at least musically: Tonight we get a young-Bob photo combined with the wise-old-Bob perspective in a track from his 1997 album Time Out of Mind called Not Dark Yet.
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He and I corresponded by email and planned to meet in Libya last year, though it didn’t work out. He had to leave and I had to cancel my trip and re-route myself to Lebanon, so we never actually met.
Ever since the story about the horrific and widespread sex abuse in Rotherham broke, pundits have scrambled for an explanation as to how crimes on that scale could continue unchecked for so long. Yesterday the NYT released a story on Rotherham that at least reached for an explanation. But though the NYT notes both the ethnicity of the abusers and British officials’ “fear of being accused of racism,” as Dawn Eden points out on the Get Religion site, the article conspicuously fails to mention religion.
Pay no attention to that redneck in Alaska: ObamaCare could pay doctors to push end-of-life care as soon as next year
Canadian jihadist loving the way cbc covered him, hopes it inspires others. pic.twitter.com/OPQVy3uFp0
— Stewart Bell (@StewartBellNP) September 1, 2014
Perplexed: No one CBC News spoke with can explain how exactly Collin went from sports, hip hop and tweets about wanting to marry American rapper Nicki Minaj in early 2012, to becoming one among thousands of foreign fighters trying to establish an Islamic state in the Middle East.
Related: Will Canada revoke the citizenship of Tahir-ul-Qadri now that he is charged with terrorism and murder?
“We’re going to punish our enemies and reward our friends”.
The Word Police expand their reach;
A 23-year-old teacher at a Cambridge, Md. middle school has been placed on leave and — in the words of a local news report — “taken in for an emergency medical evaluation” for publishing, under a pseudonym, a novel about a school shooting. The novelist, Patrick McLaw, an eighth-grade language-arts teacher at the Mace’s Lane Middle School, was placed on leave by the Dorchester County Board of Education, and is being investigated by the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office, according to news reports from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The novel, by the way, is set 900 years in the future. . . .
Imagine that–a novelist who didn’t store bombs and guns at the school at which he taught. How improbable! Especially considering that he uses an “alias,” which is apparently the law-enforcement term for “nom de plume.” (Here is the Amazon page for The Insurrectionist, by the way. Please note that the book was published in 2011, before McLaw was hired.)
Be careful what you check out of the library.
h/t
‘We’ve never had sightings to this magnitude,’ said Joe Costales, a chairman with Transport Workers Union Local 100.
The Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic climate change.
Let’s go ahead and walk through that sentence again. The Cook et al 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic climate change.
This one’s a stunner.
h/t Douglas
“We’re going to punish our enemies and reward our friends” – Email Reveals Lois Lerner Ignored Political Expenditures By Unions
Via Weekly Standard.
Tonight, Bruce and Sheila, we take a look at some Aussieoddities, including an eleven-foot worm. Fair dinkum!
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The One Thing Daniel Radcliffe Knows about Harry Potter That No One Else Does
Korean riot police utilizing Roman techniques.