The Tolerant Left
Maybe telling people that they can’t work in some field because they have the wrong color or ancestry would be … rats, I don’t know what to call it. If only there were an adjective that could be used to mean “telling people that they mustn’t do something, because of their race or ethnic origin.”
Rex Murphy: Putin and Obama
If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Go Back To The Kitchen
My attitude toward this “bullying” is more in line with Julie Burchill’s, who responded to Charlotte Dawson’s death by celebrating the “joy of online hatred.”
Those Moderate Muslims
A gang of militant Muslims massacred 29 people at a Chinese railway station after they were unable to leave the country to wage holy war, it has been claimed.
Chinese state media said militants from Xinjiang, home to a large Muslim Uighur minority, carried out the ‘terrorist’ attack last Saturday in the southwestern city of Kunming, killing at least 29 people and wounding about 140.
Related – “Everyone like him will have the same end…” (Caution – graphic images)
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Probably nothing.
No govt or mystery bailout this time. Chaori Solar officially defaults, first onshore corporate bond default ever on China.
— Deirdre Wang Morris (@deeCNBC) March 7, 2014
Reader Tips
When it comes to listening to French music you either want to, or you don’t. Tonight you have the option of listening to Marcel Zanini, or heading straight to the Tips: From 1970, here’s Tu veux ou Tu veux pas.
For non-French speakers, the video has helpful French subtitles.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
We Don’t Need No…
“Wind has less than 1/10th the energy density of wood, wood half the density of coal and coal half the density of octane.”*
The largest coal generation plant in the UK is transforming itself by converting half of its coal burning generation units into biomass (wood pellets) by 2016.
By that time Drax Group PLC will have three of their six, 660 MW units, converted to biomass and will require 7 million tons of wood pellets annually for fuel. To put a context around the latter number, the information available through research on the Internet indicates it takes approximately 2 ½ tons of forest to produce one ton of wood pellets. One acre of mature forest contains approximately 4 tons of wood, meaning to produce 7 million tons would require about 4,375,000 acres or 6,800 square miles of forest. That amount is equal to clear cutting mature forests 10 times the size of Toronto each year.
h/t James Mac.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Neil Macdonald Uses Crisis in Ukraine to Attack Israel…
Pity the Vassals of Moscow
Russia has long been a paranoid land power. It’s huge, mostly flat, and wide open to invasion. Just to name a few examples, it was invaded by the Mongols in the 13th century, Napoleon in the 19th, Nazi Germany in the 20th, and has been recently squeezed by NATO expansion in the former Soviet bloc. These events seared themselves into the Russian psyche. They breathe better with buffer states.
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
Pretty much everything is ignored – history, speech and religious rights, economic consequences – when they come into conflict with the left’s agenda, so why should science expect to be treated any differently?
What We Really Need Is Democracy
Austrian oil and gas group OMV said on Wednesday its fourth-quarter operating profit more than halved as production and sales in Libya dropped to almost nothing due to repeated disruption from oil-field protests and port blockades. Production is now running at about 70 percent of pre-civil war levels…
h/t Adrian
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
CRTC says there is not enough Canadian content in our porn. Discuss.
— John Moore (@MooreintheAM) March 6, 2014
Story here.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Before their hour-long interview with Glenn Beck on Monday, Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen made some comments that Beck thinks will “drive the left out of their mind.”
Speaking about Beck’s move from traditional media to building his own network, TheBlaze, Schmidt said people in his industry are “shocked at how successfully he navigated this transition.”
h/t Kathy Shaidle
Global Test
Peace for Our Time – “President Obama and I want to make it clear to Russia and to everybody in the world, that we are not seeking confrontation.”
Socialism
When “democracy” comes knocking at your door in #Venezuela, it tends to look like this: pic.twitter.com/lUfqig45vi
— #ResistenciaVzla (@pettybooshwah) March 5, 2014
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
…alienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.’
Reader Tips
Tonight we move our chairs a bit closer to the equator for a few minutes, as Byron Lee & The Dragonaires cover fellow Jamaican Eric Donaldson’s 1971 composition Cherry Oh Baby.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Get out the vote!
WUWT’s selections endorsed by Kate. Now, having said that, I did vote for SDA in the Best Group or Community group, because…you know…guest blogger.
The 2014 Bloggies
I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME CRY!
Tears, go with the tears, because, saps.
Redford, who became emotional at times, said it was about trying to balance the demands of parenthood with premiership.
“I’m the premier of Alberta, but I’m also the mother to a daughter who I love to spend time with,” she said. “I think many mothers can relate to that, and I don’t always get to do that.”
Feminism fail.
RTWT, especially the last four paragraphs.