The New Guy
¡Hola! How’s that whole papal outsourcing thing going?
Liberation Theology is taking over the Vatican a quarter of a century after Jean-Paul II systematically sought to stamp out the ‘singular heresy’ in the radical parishes and dioceses of Latin America, a task carried out with dutiful efficiency by Cardinal Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Shift change!
The conservative power of the Papal Curia is being broken. All of a sudden the Vatican is the spearhead of radical economic thinking. The best-known of the Pope’s newly-minted Council of Cardinals is none other than Archbishop Reinhard Marx, the firebrand ‘Rote Kardinal’ of Munich and author of Das Kapital: A Plea for Man.
Y2Kyoto: Hide The Decline
Not just for hockey sticks.
In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences reported 0.5C cooling from 1940 to 1970. @nasa has since "disappeared" it. pic.twitter.com/uGnkaxLdQo
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) January 8, 2014
The 90’s never happened
.@Premier_Redford on who's resume does this look good?! #buildingalberta pic.twitter.com/YAQVGC82xA
— Clint Upham (@clintupham) January 9, 2014
Proactive Disclosure
Oh, Shiny Pony.
h/t http://justinforpm.ca/
A Bridge Too Near
“Private messages between Governor’s Christie’s [sic] deputy chief of staff and two of his top executives at the Port Authority reveal a vindictive effort to create ‘traffic problems in Fort Lee’ by shutting lanes to the George Washington Bridge and apparent pleasure at the resulting gridlock,” the Record of Bergen County reports.
[…]
Worse, the Christie administration’s evident abuse of the Port Authority is reminiscent of the Obama administration’s abuse of the Internal Revenue Service.”
You don’t say.
h/t Joe B.
Edmonton Readers
(Reposting, as Revnant Dream is one of our long time readers as well.)
One of our long time readers is seeking a new place to hang his hat in Edmonton.
He’s a resident, gainfully employed – same place for 28 years. He is a light smoker.
Ideally his new digs will be both quiet and have laundry facilities.
If you or someone you know can assist please drop me a line at blazingcatfur@gmail.com and I will put you in touch.
Thanks!
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In the land of the pale blue snow
Where it’s 99 below
And the polar bears are roaming o’er the plain
In the shadow of the pole
I will clasp her to my soul
We’ll be happy When The Ice Worms Nest Again… ♫
h/t maz2
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
From the comments;
Way back on June 5th, our next and sexiest PM (since papa anyways) announced that his party would put their expenses on-line. The media, and I(?,maybe not), ate it up. Yes, yes, this honesty is what Canada needs.
Justin was a new breed of politician. I really, really, like him. So much that I set up a website devoted to him,his good looks, and his wisdom. See it here; http://justinforpm.ca/
But, dammitall, I can no longer access their proactive disclosures. Seven months later, they have disabled their bold move of doing politics different. I can’t get there any more. Maybe you can, but I can’t.
The Akademik Shokalskiy, Global Warming, and ‘He removed his clothes and began to feel Sajni’s body, caressing her voluptuous breasts.’
Mark Steyn does advise us…
…But don’t worry; every sex scene is peer-reviewed…
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Those moderate Muslims! Federal Court upholds government stopping funding to Canadian Arab Federation over concerns it appears to support terrorist organizations.
From the comments;
Hey, that NP article on the “Canadian” Arab Federation quoted that woman I caught on video yelling “Jewish child, Hamas is going to get you, you’re gonna F-n die”, the one Bernie Farber’s crew downloaded and then claimed as part of their effort to out anti-Semitism in Canada. Cool.
(h/t peterj)
Free Mark Steyn!
…my August column for the paper prefigured all the issues that came into play in the Phil Robertson showdown:
But, putting aside arguments over the nature of marital union, the legalization of gay marriage will empower a lot more “vigilance” from all the right-thinking people over everybody else.
Mr. Mutchnick’s comparison of the word “homosexual” with “Negro” gives the game away: Just as everything any conservative says about anything is racist, so, now, it will also be homophobic.And so it has proved.
The Man Who Almost Became Toronto’s Crazy Mayor
Now, I’m as tired of playing “Imagine If” as anybody else is…
“Duty”
“All too early in the [Obama] administration,” he writes, “suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials — including the president and vice president — became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders.”
Gates offers a catalogue of various meetings, based in part on notes that he and his aides made at the time, including an exchange between Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that he calls “remarkable.”
He writes: “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”
Only man on the planet who needed to be told.
Reader Tips
Tonight, we take a trip down memory lane as we watch Christina and the Smear Jobs performing their classic 2006 hit Harper, Harper, Shame on You!.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The best cop show on television? Nope. The best show, period.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Obamamath – “…after Kathy turns up her thermostat with the money she has left over from her unemployment check, she can then go to the grocery store and buy maybe an additional dozen eggs, or maybe another loaf of bread. And when she does that, the grocery store might hire a new worker, and in fact might even hire Kathy. This is the kind of drivel that we are getting from the president of the United States, and this is the kind of drivel that low-information voters apparently are just scarfing up.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
…completely contrary to the impression in the NYT piece, the vast bulk of my consulting and testifying work has been adverse to Wall Street and commodity trading firms. Virtually none of this work relates to the alleged subject of the NYT story: the impact of speculation on commodity prices. In fact, much of this work relates to market manipulation (which is distinct from speculation) by commodity traders. I have been, and continue to be, on the side of plaintiffs in attempting to hold traders who abuse markets accountable for their conduct.
The failure of David Kocieniewski to point out this salient fact alone betrays his utter unprofessionalism and bias, and is particularly emblematic of the shockingly shoddy excuse for journalism that his piece represents.
Via Huck.
This Is Awkward
