“Thus do semi-literate attention-seekers believe that their humorless indignation is representative of social change and not of what happens when you combine scolding self-importance and a collection of sad and lonely people who are longing for public catharsis.”
A More Perfect Requisition Order
Via email;
In my capacity as Director of a Manufacturing firm I received the following from one of our US customers.
I’ve removed any info that could indicate my, or their, company.
The depths that the Obama administration has gone to for diversity, is Orwellian.
The interference into private businesses personal lives is unbelievable.
It’s clearly stated that failure to give them this highly personal info would cost us any
further business.
We did not comply.
Self-crunching data
The stats don’t lie: If the US stopped importing oil from Norway, and passed a law forcing ski resorts to reduce the price of ski passes, it would save lives.
The science is settled. We must act now.
Reader Tips
Morgan Freeman is known for his resonant baritone speaking voice, but that’s only because our atmosphere doesn’t contain enough (insert inhalation sound here) helium.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“It’s one heck of a scapegoat”
A journalist has been spotted in the wild.
I see things like Gov. Jerry Brown’s dog-and-pony show Monday in Sacramento and think more about his motivation than I do about his message. Brown spoke at a conference about climate change, and the media in attendance relayed his concern that global warming threatens our state.
He said California is at the “epicenter” of global climate change. He said the state must prepare for longer fire seasons, for rising oceans and for extended droughts. And he had charts and graphs to prove his points, so it must be true.
If I wasn’t on the downhill side of my journey up and over the hill, I’d be very worried …
Y2Kyoto: Ice In Their Veins
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Government of Manitoba: While climate change is predicted to result in fewer deaths related to extreme cold events during the winter, warmer summer temperatures will likely increase the occurrence of heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods can lead to higher incidences of sickness and loss of life.
Winnipeg, Manitoba: On this warm spring day, 461 Winnipeg properties still struggle with frozen pipes. Two Winnipeg city councillors were hoping for help from some western neighbours, but Regina and Brandon won’t be committing any resources to help thaw Winnipeg out.
QOTW
“Rachel Carson was to DDT what Jenny McCarthy is to measles vaccine“.– David Burge
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Tune into Sun News on June 4th:
DOWN WIND is a tell-all film that deals head on with how Ontario politicians rammed through green energy laws and dashed forward with the installation of thousands of wind turbines across the province’s farmland and countryside.
The film exposes how the lights of liberty went out for Ontario citizens deeply opposed to wind turbine projects. It tells the stories of communities torn apart, and the rural warriors now fighting for their rights, health and happiness.
Sun News Network host and contributor Rebecca Thompson joined Surge Media Productions to create this passionate, yet alarming story of a flawed attempt to green Ontario’s electricity grid.
Scratch A Leftist
Leaked messages from an internal listserv of university professors involved in the debate surrounding an effort to boycott Israel have revealed a deep bias against the Jewish state and anti-Semitic accusations that Zionists and Jewish people control academia.
The highly charged rhetoric about Israel, revealed last week on a leaked listserv, show that some professors involved in the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) resolution to boycott Israel are motivated by the belief that Jewish people are nefariously pulling the strings in American academia.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Guess what word the BBC is banning because they find it offensive?
The “W” Word
The Caucasian made him do it: “…the Santa Barbara shooter is described as “a disgruntled, well-off white boy.”
Y2Kyoto: The Big Rink They Call “Gitche Gumee”
Reader Tips
Some men glance first at a woman’s lips. Other might look at her shoes, or her…collarbone. Tonight, in a case of content over style, The Contours (“Do You Love Me”) Look At The Purse.
The comments thread is unzipped for your Reader Tips.
Viva la opulencia!
Limousine Liberals? Think bigger. How about yachting communists:
Fidel Castro once claimed that he lived a life of exemplary revolutionary frugality on a salary of merely $36 per month. “Lies,” said Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, 65, who served as a bodyguard for the former Cuban leader for 17 years and has published a book of memoirs portraying Castro as a sort of feudal lord who ran the island like it was a personal fiefdom.
Castro controlled about 20 luxury homes, a Caribbean island getaway with a pool and dolphins, the 88-foot yacht Aquarama II…
YNoKyoto
Merkel Snubs UN Climate Conference: Merkel’s decision to snub the event is likely another sign that efforts to forge a climate agreement are already dead in water.
h/t Maz2
The Sound Of Settled Science
Via Science Daily;
“All along, we presumed that the code or vocabulary used by organisms was universal, applying to all branches of the tree of life, with vanishingly few exceptions,” said DOE JGI Director Eddy Rubin, and senior author on the Science paper. “We have now confirmed that this just isn’t so. There is a significant portion of life that uses different vocabularies where the same word means different things in different organisms.”
[…]
Phage infect bacteria, injecting their DNA into the cell and exploiting the translational machinery of the cell to create more of themselves, to the point when the bacterial cell explodes, releasing more progeny phage particles to spread to neighboring bacteria and run amok.
“To make this all happen, the established dogma was that phage needed to employ the exact genetic code that the host cell uses, otherwise, whatever DNA they inject wouldn’t be properly translated,” Rubin said. “But we observed phage with codon vocabularies that did not match any we found in their bacterial hosts. We scratched our heads at this result, because we wondered about what was up with the host. The dogma tells us that the phage to need to share the same code as the host, but we saw no Amber in bacteria. So what were these phage doing?”
The punch line, Rubin said, is that the dogma is wrong.
Wynneing!
…the Revision History of Levin’s Wiki page reveals that on at least three occasions someone tried to change the entry to include the criminal charges relating to Levin’s alleged involvement in kiddie porn. Each times the revision, though reliably sourced, was rejected because of–and flagged for–“possible BLP issue or vandalism” or “vandalism” alone.
Y2Kyoto: Gaia Is Angry
Uh Oh.
Bad news for Scooter Libby.
Tremble, Ye Patriarchs
Ms Lierre Keith, a former radical vegan turned radical advocate of a return to subsistence farming, has long been a vocal champion of vandalism, harassment and “militant action,” and taken at their own words, she and her colleagues would like to see those they deem “associated” with environmental accidents being killed by the state. They also like the idea of “sabotaging infrastructure” and cutting power lines, thereby leaving tens of thousands of people without light and heat, as this would somehow encourage “class consciousness.” Elderly people in remote locations would presumably embrace the finer points of revolutionary eco-socialism as they shivered in the dark and the feeling left their limbs.
Now a self-described radical feminist, Ms Keith’s latest target is maleness, which must be abolished.