“You’re f-ing Zionist, f-ing pricks, get the f-k off our campus” *
Renegade Regulator
The [Canadian Standards Association] has been providing influence over the drafting of Canadian law to a variety of foreign governments, foreign owned companies and to the citizens of foreign countries.
Care to verify that? A partial list of CSA committee members, the folks who draft law, is available here. But its only a partial list, mind you.
The CSA claims that their public list includes “all CSA Corporate Supporters,” but sources inside the CSA have furnished us with an internal membership list, and it doesn’t match the public list. Their internal list is much, much longer. And its crammed with foreigners. […]
We were also surprised to learn that CSA is selling access to, and control of, Canada’s laws from the United States. Right now, if you want permission to read certain Canadian laws, you have to phone to Ohio and make a payment to CSA’s US office. Then you can read the laws that apply to you. Its true, the CSA’s Lisa Eberman runs this operation from an office in Cleveland, OH.
Some Definitions of Marxism
Marxism is, in general, cleverness for stupid people. You get to use words like ‘hegemony’ and analyse the world, albeit in unusually fatuous terms.
Marxism: The belief that if only one could violate the autonomy of enough people, confiscate their earnings and rewire their very nature, the result would somehow be Total Human Contentment™.
Feel free to suggest your own.
Ontariowe
There’s never a fault line around when you need one…
“This is so absolutely insane,” Dunlop said Thursday. “I don’t know how any government could possibly allow this to happen. Compulsory certification of the carpentry industry will cripple the construction industry in Ontario.”
h/t Vic in Ont
Reader Tips
With EBD on a well-deserved break for a few weeks, you’ll have to be content with my low-brow musical tastes. Tonight I bring you this brand new instant earworm by Miranda Lambert – Automatic. Your own “three on the tree” memories and tips in the comments.
The Mystery Of MH370
There’s no ending to the story yet so one of the best places to go for informed speculation on MH370 is PPRUNE, the Professional Pilots Rumor Network, where imagination is tempered with knowledge. For facts without speculation the site most likely to break actual news is the 7th Fleet Twitter account which lists out the activities of the Burke-class destroyer USS Pinckney, it’s two search helicopters and a supporting P3 from US airbases in Japan in 140 characters or less.
We have a few pilots among our readers, I’m sure they’ll have something to add in the comments.
How Blogs Changed Everything
“When a dozen dead tree newspapers determined the agenda, the media’s chief power lay in not reporting a story…”
I Amuse Myself
Is there such a thing as Radio-Canada stock? RT @markdjarvis Be interesting to see what Quebecor stock does Monday morning.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) March 9, 2014
Story here.
The Sound Of Settled Science
INTER-COMPARISON OF THE CLOUD WATER PHASE AMONG GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS
***Spoiler Alert***
All failed.
‘I Do Not Like This Uncle Sam, I Do Not Like His Healthcare Scam’
Reader Tips
In tonight’s diversion en route to the Tips, filmed during the November 2003 Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute Concert, Kris Kristofferson sings Sunday Morning Coming Down.
On a personal note, I’ll be away until sometime early in May. See you on the flip side.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Pussy Manufacturing
The Tolerant Left
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals.
Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don’t fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America.
Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.
The Sound Of Settled Science
New structure discovered in canine eyes;
“It’s incredible that in 2014 we can still make an anatomical discovery in a species that we’ve been looking at for the past 20,000 years and that, in addition, this has high clinical relevance to humans,” said William Beltran, an assistant professor of ophthalmology in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and co-lead author of the study with Artur Cideciyan, research professor of ophthalmology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. […]
“This gives us a structural basis to support the idea that dogs might have a higher visual acuity than has been measured so far,”
Great Moments In Socialism
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t Chris-In-Texas)
Reader Tips
Although they were together for just three or four tumultuous years, The Mamas & the Papas made use of great songwriting and distinctive sounding, brilliantly arranged harmonies to create some lasting, memorable music. From the 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, here’s the enduring classic California Dreamin’.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.
We Don’t Need No…
The European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), the main lobby group for renewable energy in the European Union, has gone into voluntary liquidation. This development will leave the sector without a main co-ordinator for lobbying at a time when the European Commission has proposed to scrap nationally binding renewable energy targets after 2020.
EREC, which operated as a non-profit organisation, had incurred major debts from its lease on the ‘Renewable Energy House’ in Brussels, which also hosted other renewable energy associations.
10 Years Of SDA
And then some. I fully intended to mark the first decade of SDA on February 18th, but eh… I forgot. So, a belated thank you to you all for your continued support of this subversive little corner of the interweb.
We couldn’t have done it without you!