“Brace yourselves, dear readers. Colette is positively trembling with feminist rage.”
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Joke’s on you, off-the-gridders;
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new standards for wood stoves that would reduce the maximum amount of fine particulate emissions allowed for new stoves sold in 2015 and 2019. Maximum emissions would be reduced by one-third next year and by 80 percent in five years…
Related: The Cleantech crash
We Don’t Need No Stinking Twisty Bulbs
All the papers were reviewed by panelists from a panel of international experts using a double-blind review methodology.
“Figure 2, which is supposed to give an overview of the AAF algorithm is simply a random image that we downloaded off of Google’s image search using the search string “how to use Facebook”. By now you must be clearly wondering what AAF stands for and how does it work. The full form of AAF is ask a friend, and we do that by posting a status update on Facebook. When someone replies with an answer we simply note that down. If more than one person gives an answer, we take an average.”
Reader Tips
Tonight, to help warm up our fingers and toes, we watch the Red Army Chorus and Band perform Марш артиллеристов (“The Artillerymen’s March”).
Gunners, Stalin gave the order!
Gunners, the Fatherland calls us!
To the hundreds of thousands of batteries
For the tears of our mothers,
For our Motherland: Fire! Fire!
Sorry it’s in Russian, but the only Canadian version I could find had Paul Martin giving the order, and the footage was of a Shriner’s parade.
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Baby Boomers
A young Afghan girl has been detained wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
She was held on Sunday night in Helmand province, as she tried to carry out an attack on border police, an interior ministry spokesman told the BBC.
The girl, reported to be as young as eight and thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander, is said to be in a state of shock and confusion.
We should anticipate a new Sting release any day now.
Update: Heh.
The ‘W’ Word
A date that shall live on in infamy: The latest estimates place the whitening of European skin between 19,000 and 11,000 years ago
Deathers
I doubt that Sheikh Osama has been killed. I believe that he was kidnapped and is still alive. It does not make sense that a big power like the US searches for a man for 11 years and when it finds him, it just shoots him.
Because Obama keeps the Bin Laden death photos in the same place as his college records, that’s why.
I Amuse Myself
I neither confirm or deny my rumoured appointment to the Canadian Senate. @spaikin
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 6, 2014
(Just getting ahead of the story).
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Cheery Snowman
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
It took years in Ventura County to make even the simplest modifications to the campground we ran. For example, it took 7 separate permits from the County (each requiring a substantial payment) just to remove a wooden deck that the County inspector had condemned. In order to allow us to temporarily park a small concession trailer in the parking lot, we had to (among other steps) take a soil sample of the dirt under the asphalt of the parking lot. It took 3 years to permit a simple 500 gallon fuel tank with CARB and the County equivalent. The entire campground desperately needed a major renovation but the smallest change would have triggered millions of dollars of new facility requirements from the County that we simply could not afford.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
It seems Al-Qaeda is everywhere these days, excepting Benghazi, where the NYT assures us that a video was responsible for occasioning the burning of the US consulate there.
Still al-Qaeda’s resurgence is disturbing given the assurances as recently as the last presidential election that Osama bin Laden was dead and Detroit was alive. And what shall one make of Karzai a-fixing to double cross the United States?
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Well nobody said the course toward a world without nuclear weapons ran smooth. Never mind. At least John Kerry’s on track to broker a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is on track. That’s reassuring in the wake of news that “Hezbollah has been transferring its long range missiles out of Syria and into Lebanon, including missiles which could reach the heart of Israel, the New York Times reported on Friday.” Foreign Policy is reporting that in addition, Hezbollah has acquired sophisticated anti-ship missiles that it has smuggled into Lebanon.
Read the whole thing.
The Children Are Our Future
An interview with Glenn Reynolds about his latest book, The New School. Both in audio and transcript.
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the Head of Politics at the University of Manchester has never heard of Preston Manning;
[Telling Fox News] that the comparison between the Tea Party and UKIP is an accurate one, and that he believes that UKIP could take the 2014 elections by storm,
“UKIP will do well in the 2014 European elections. They may even win them in terms of the popular vote. This will increase the pressure on the Conservatives.”
Yet instead of reaching out and finding middle ground, the Tories have snubbed UKIP. In 2006 David Cameron dismissed the newcomers as full of “fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists,” and top Tory Kenneth Clark recently branded them as “a collection of clowns.”
Any relation to Joe, I wonder?
Reader Tips
Uh-oh, There’s Frost on the Moon.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
Via Facebook: How much is that “rescue” in the window?
One of my long-term tenants called me last night. They are a lovely, retired couple with an adult daughter who lives with them that has health issues. None of them are in the best shape.
They lost their beloved Golden Retriever a few months ago and feel it’s time to get another dog. This time they are looking to “rescue” rather than buy a puppy. They found a dog 2 1/2 hours from here and I needed to call the Rescue Group and let them know it was OK for them to get another dog.
I explained to her about how there is a shortage of adoptable dogs up here….she agreed because they’ve been looking locally and all they find are pit bull or pit mixes. As she is telling me about “Tootsie” the dog they are interested in, I have some red flags starting to go off in my head. She tells me the dog was neglected and not socialized, but is making progress. It’s a lab/coonhound mix. I explain about the temperaments of labs & coonhounds and since they are looking for a quiet, medium sized lap dog, this mix was not going to be that.
Operation Empty Chair
Heads Up, Florida
This is a caribou.
This is an arctic fox.
And a tern.
Just so you know what you’re looking at when the time comes.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
…in 2013, the United Nations General Assembly elected China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, countries that have no regard for human rights at all, as members of the UN Human Rights Council; selected Hezbollah (a designated terrorist organization) apologist Jean Ziegler as senior advisor to the Council; and elected Mauritania, a primitive country that tolerates slavery, as Council vice-chair. Meanwhile, Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, blamed the Boston Marathon bombing on “the American global domination project” and “Tel Aviv.” Of the UN General Assembly’s 25 resolutions condemning individual countries in 2013, all but four were against the exemplary democracy, Israel, which only seeks recognition of the basis on which the United Nations founded it: as a Jewish state and homeland for the Jewish people. The United Nations also elected the racist, terrorist-infested charnel house and Iranian proxy of Syria to its Special Committee on Decolonization; appointed Zimbabwe (a regime so odious it has been expelled from the Commonwealth, failing to clear an almost subterranean hurdle) to host its world tourism summit; and elected Iran president of its 2013 Conference on Disarmament, even as that country strove to put the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to the shredder.
h/t Kevin B