The big glowing ball in the sky continues to astonish;
“we highlight that in the Carpathian Region positive and negative sunshine duration anomalies are highly correlated to the corresponding temperature anomalies during the global dimming (1960s and 1970s) and brightening (1990s and 2000s) periods.”
CTV London: Former Liberal Cabinet Minister and London Mayor Joe Fontana found guilty on three counts of fraud, breach of trust & forgery.
And what have they done with our Supreme Court justices?
Internet service providers can’t give customer names, addresses and phone numbers to police without a search warrant, Canada’s top court says in a decision released this morning.
Canadians have a right to anonymity on the Internet, and as a general rule police are not permitted to disrupt that anonymity by asking Internet companies for information on their customers without a judge’s authorization, the Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday.
“Anonymity is an important safeguard for privacy interests online,” Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote for a unanimous court.
[…]
“This is a watershed moment for the right to privacy,” the Criminal Lawyers Association said in a brief to the court.
Indeed it is. Judgement here.
You can just use the water fountain.
It ain’t all fun & games! h/t Marc from Calgary
I figured it was time for a morning-after thread.
It’s a real headscratcher: Tanks, of Unknown Origin, Roll Into Ukraine
Your Ontario election day and results thread is now open. (bumped to top)
Well, early (snort), but it may be a Liberal majority. Bring on the asteroid! -Lance
Update (Kate) – I can’t say I’m surprised. When SDA loyalists were lukewarm to Hudak, there wasn’t much likelihood he would inspire the masses.
Har.
Good news for MB tonight… Some folks from Ontario heading to SK for work might stop for food and gas on the way through. #onpoli #mbpoli
— Mike Waddell (@MikeWaddellbdn) June 13, 2014
Never ever attribute to stupidity, that which can adequately be explained by malice.
The FBI “most wanted” mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut. The $10 million price on his head, meanwhile, suggests that whoever released him from US custody four years ago may now be regretting it.
Taken during his years as a detainee at the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, this is the only known photograph of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. But while he may lack the photogenic qualities of his hero, Osama bin Laden, he is fast becoming the new poster-boy for the global jihadist movement. […]
Why such a ferocious individual was deemed fit for release in 2009 is not known.
Related.
U.S. intelligence official: “#Baghdad is going to be overrun. The Green Zone is going down.” http://t.co/vQxXpAcg4P
— Julie (@MsIntervention) June 13, 2014
SDA reader Duke wrote yesterday: “While I hope I am truly wrong, I can’t help but get the feeling that the stupid here in Ontario is just overwhelming and the Liberals will slither back in. Perhaps it may be appropriate to have Gordon Lightfoot on standby to play Alberta Bound.”
Good call.
Hopefully Liberal/NDP supporters from the rest of the country will now relocate to Upper Canada, where the streets are paved with jobs.
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Prostitution is to “sex work” what cigarette smoking is to “lung exercise”.
The dangers of abandoning such a vital region were always obvious. Those who have not read my 2010 post, The Ten Ships, might take the time to do so now. It’s good for a laugh, not because it is so “brilliant” but because it’s so obvious. It explains how Obama’s political petulance made him ignore fundamental military strategy by ignoring the obvious center of Islamic militant gravity the Middle East in favor of redeploying the ground forces to a PR fantasy campaign in Afghanistan.
There’s nothing in place available to stop al-Qaeda. The forces that might have are locked up in the Southwest Asia, sustained at the mercy of Russia and Pakistan. Obama has been faked out; the AQ have gone around him for a layup to the basket. He may lose Iraq and its border with Syria before the year ends. Afghanistan’s fall will follow almost immediately thereafter, behind the last American troops, whose safe exit from the landlocked country is now by no means guaranteed. The Russians lost more than 500 men going out in 1989 — and they only had to cross a land border a short distance away.
The only way things could be worse is for US troops in Afghanistan find themselves trapped, denied passage by Pakistan or Russia. Of course that could never happen because the press never considers the possibility and it considers Obama too “respected” for that to occur.
But it’s not permafrost-permafrost;
Researchers from McGill and the U.S. Geological Survey, more used to measuring thawing permafrost than its expansion, have made a surprising discovery. There is new permafrost forming around Twelvemile Lake in the interior of Alaska. But they have also quickly concluded that, given the current rate of climate change, it won’t last beyond the end of this century.
Might even be gone before the funding runs out.
Sorry to sound like broken record, but can we talk "public" money, not "taxpayers"? Latter is inadequate term for all citizens. #cdnpoli
— Susan Delacourt (@SusanDelacourt) June 12, 2014
Don’t be too hard on them – the only direction they know is “north”: “They raided the wrong headquarters.”
Iran has sent special forces and a unit of elite troops to Iraq to bolster floundering efforts by the Iraqi government to halt the advance of militants from an al-Qaeda splinter group.
Tonight, a disarmingly affable libertarian-leaning journalist named Michelle Fields talks to participants at an Affirmative Action Rally.
h/t
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Mark Steyn on the southern border surge:
There is no suggestion by anyone – Obama, Republicans, media – that this “government-wide response” might ever include enforcing US sovereignty at the border for which the government is nominally responsible. No, that’s just crazy talk. Instead, the comprehensive “government-wide response” to the invading forces is to house them, feed them, clothe them, school them, and Obamacare them. All at your expense. Which is why under Eric Cantor’s let’s-do-it-for-the-kids plan, the life of your kids and grandkids will be worse. Under the bipartisan “immigration” conspiracy, millions of Americans are downwardly mobile. And Cantor’s only proposal was to accelerate them down the chute.
Down the chute that ends in someone else’s back yard.
The Obama administration is doing its utmost to address the problem.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.