“Which brings us to today, when we find that China’s credit formation, until now proceeding at a breakneck speed, has suddenly ground to a halt.“
Renegade Regulator
The Moore we ask, the less we know;
You see, if one were to ask the current Minister of Industry whether the [Canadian Standards Association] is a government regulator, the answer would be “no.” But if you asked an agency within Industry Canada, as we once did, the answer would be “yes.” If you were to ask the CSA if they were part of government they would say “no.” Unless you asked one of their foreign offices, in which case the answer would change to “yes.” If Industry Canada asked the CSA the answer would be “no.” If The Competition Bureau asked them, and they did, then the answer changes to “yes.”
See the problem?
Winnipeg: A Page out of Obama’s Playbook
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose:
Mar 24: After a month of frozen pipes at her pet store, Tanya Morgan goes to the media in a desperate plea to save her business.
Mar 25: Pet store owner Tanya Morgan is investigated for animal abuse.
Charles Adler has much more (podcast).
Those Moderate Muslims!
I’s the b’y that chokes the bitch, and I’s the b’y that flails her…
When he testified, Alshaek told the judge such actions are “an acceptable form of discipline” in his country. He insisted he meant no harm, but was trying to prevent his daughter from making a mistake and shaming the family by marrying without their consent.
h/t Conrad
Reader Tips
Bugger the bankers and politicians, bugger the bureaucrats too
Bugger the buggers who make up the rules
And if you’re one of them – bugger you.
Your tips in the comments.
h/t some Randy guy
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Most Respected Name In News: 2 CNN Producers arrested for attempting to break into World Trade Center
Pembina Horse
h/t Jamie
“Party Like It’s 1699”
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
ABC News, January 2012 – President Obama tonight told groups of campaign donors in New York that he is responsible for restoring a “sense of America as the sole, indispensable power” in the world.
Bloomberg, March 2014 – North Korea fired two ballistic missiles capable of reaching both Japan and South Korea as President Barack Obama hosted the first meeting between the leaders of the U.S.’s biggest Asian allies.
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The Gormley Papers “gathers together a series of Gormley’s newspaper columns from recent years. But it doesn’t read like musty old newspaper columns…” By Saskatchewan conservative talk show host and friend of this blog, John Gormley. Check it out. |
The Sound Of Settled Science
Everyone involved understands that the summary of the Working Group 2 section of its new report is going to be re-written. This will happen during four days of a meeting now getting underway in Yokohama, Japan (more info on that strange, nakedly political process here).
Journalists are barred from attending this four-day meeting. Since the IPCC insists it is a transparent organization, this is outrageous. If nothing improper will be going on, why will the doors be locked? If the science is so cut-and-dried, so clear and unequivocal, why all the secrecy?
But now something unprecedented has happened. Another version of the summary – dated today – has leaked. In turns out that last October’s Final Draft won’t actually get discussed in Yokohama. Instead, it has already been extensively manipulated.
Related: “… the debate is about to change radically”
Emphasis mine.
The First Cut Is The Deepest
Harry Reid – call your office.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s selection is the culture appropriating, micro-aggressive, and probably racist Walk like an Egyptian, by the Bangles.
Human Rights commissionaires – you know where to find me. Until then, comments are open.
Let’s Play Cowboys And Indians
The multiculturalist platitude goes like this: Europeans in the past had colonies and aboriginal peoples lost their culture. Now, as retribution, westerners are supposed to disavow their own culture and “accept and respect” other cultures instead.
But countless non-European cultures have had empires. Why doesn’t the p-c crowd demand the same punishment for them?
Further, how many generations must be punished for the sins of their fathers? If you read the academic literature, you’ll see that it is meant to continue until western culture is annihilated(*).
*With the notable exception of western academia.
Australia’s Lizzy May
What do you do if you’re a political hack in the Green Party and election after election the voters increasingly reject your views? Go on the attack, of course, making unsubstantiated allegations against your political enemies. Paul Sheehan explains:
There is nothing more popular on the internet than pornography, and that extends to political pornography, the territory of trolls and zealots. Senator Scott Ludlam knows this, and Ludlam is fighting for his survival. He has only just narrowly averted disaster and now he is appealing to the fringe because he cannot appeal to the majority.
He cannot appeal to the majority because he has a dim view of the great majority of Australians who supported the major parties, especially the millions who voted for the Coalition in recent elections, offering a portrait of a homophobic, xenophobic prime minister manipulating a legion of rednecks, all without bothering to lay out evidence beyond his own opinions.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
I’m a lecturer in biological and human sciences at Oxford university. I trained as a zoologist, I’ve worked as an environmental consultant — conducting impact assessments on projects like the Folkestone-to-London rail link — and I now teach ecology and conservation. Though I started out neutral on renewable energy, I’ve since seen the havoc wreaked on wildlife by wind power, hydro power, biofuels and tidal barrages. The environmentalists who support such projects do so for ideological reasons. What few of them have in their heads, though, is the consolation of science.
My speciality is species extinction. When I was a child, my father used to tell me about all the animals he’d seen growing up in Kent — the grass snakes, the lime hawk moths — and what shocked me when we went looking for them was how few there were left. Species extinction is a serious issue: around the world we’re losing up to 40 a day. Yet environmentalists are urging us to adopt technologies that are hastening this process. Among the most destructive of these is wind power.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
The Tolerant Left
Civility Watch: The University of California-Santa Barbara professor who allegedly assaulted a pro-life student on campus has been charged with criminal battery. (h/t BB)
The Delusion That is ‘Social Justice’
Ask 10 people what is “social justice” and you’ll probably get 10 different definitions? Ask them if it’s a good thing and most will probably say ‘Yes’. Jonah Goldberg dares to disagree:
The next time you encounter a Leftist blethering on about social justice, check that your wallet is still with you and then back away slowly.
In The Mail
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Mann Overboard
So I’m no longer an out-of-control full-bore crazy. Instead, I’m an out-of-control full-bore crazy who’s lawyered up to the hilt. This will leave me free to concentrate on my core activities of insulting judges and mocking Mann’s self-conferred Nobel Prize, while Dan, Mark and Mike do the boring stuff like looking up precedents and knowing what a tort is. It would not have been possible to put this team together without your patronage of the SteynOnline bookstore. I said that I wanted this to be a jurisprudential landmark – the first legal campaign entirely funded by sales of my Christmas disco record. Sadly, there seems to be a certain resistance to my intoxicating rhythms from some readers, so we’re also having to rely on book profits, commemorative mugs and mousepads, attitudinal T-shirts, gift certificates and the full cornucopia of delights at the Steyn store. But we’re keeping our heads above water, and for that, as we prepare to mount the first serious forensic investigation of Mann and his work, I’m enormously grateful.