Reader Tips
Tonight we listen to the lovely sound of England’s Cambridge Singers, as they treat us to the Somerset Wassail.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
When you think “Mercedes-Benz”, think “chickens”.
A Person of the Year Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
Well it’s 40 below and I don’t give a f***, got a mask in my truck and it’s off to the rodeo..
You can cast a vote for Tuffy here.
h/t andycanuck
American-Style Politics
What will the progressive left do now? With 100% of the Green caucus being American will Canadians accept them? Will the Council of Canadians issue a press release denouncing this as an American invasion?
It’s Not His Fault
The job description made him do it;
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and top expert on climate change engaged in “crime of massive proportions” by pretending to be working as an undercover agent for the CIA so he could avoid doing his real job for years, according to federal prosecutors and the agency’s top investigator on the case.
In a memorandum filed days before his sentencing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, prosecutors asked that John C. Beale, 65, be sent to federal prison for at least 30 months for bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, and said his “historic” lies are “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
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[His laywer] Kern also said Beale was driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives … ”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
I find the Star a banal, middle-brow newspaper which is the bearer of some interesting traditions of reform advocacy and some lively writing; but in the current crisis of the industry and in the hands of its present and recent leadership it has atrophied, and is now like a decrepit Jurassic monster, with failing sight and palsied limb that yet comes snorting out of the undergrowth occasionally in pursuit of some misconceived or conjured cause. Some of the reporters are competent but most of the columnists are nasty, as dull as dried parsley, and many of them can’t write.
h/t David Southam
Renegade Regulator
….we note that the CSA’s Model publication pointedly adds that “All rights [are] reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the prior permission of the publisher.” That’s a gutsy line, given that CSA doesn’t own what they’re trying to restrict.
Global Test
The world is in the very best of hands.
“Um, this is the nature of this ruthless, horrendous dictatorship and of his insecurities. And — and I think we — we need to factor that into the urgency of getting China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, all of us, uh, to stay on the same page and to put as much effort into the denuclearization as possible. To have a nuclear weapon, potentially, in the hands of somebody like Kim Jong In — Jun — just becomes even more unacceptable.”
The Children Are Our Future
Separation of History and State: 5th grade student won first place after he gave a speech about the history of people using religion to justify murder, but was stripped of his title the same day by a school official.
Forward!
h/t jwkozak91
Go, Already
Francophobia – The most extreme examples cited in the report come from the comment sections of Canadian media websites or from Facebook posts, some which portrayed Quebec Premier Pauline Marois with a Hitler moustache.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we listen to some feel-good gospel music, as the late Delores ‘Honey’ Sykes (her spirit-lifting performance of “Stretch Out” was featured here a few years ago) sings “Good News” before handing the stage to Rosemary Gage for a performance of “If You Need A Miracle.”
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The un-American administration
Serve your country at great personal risk, then get screwed:
For the past four years, the Obama administration has been calling Robert Levinson a “private citizen” taken captive in Iran, but the truth has finally been revealed in a stunning Associate Press report. Robert Levinson was an FBI agent, working with the CIA, now seemingly abandoned by the Obama administration..
Related: John Kerry urges Vietnam to respect human rights.
Peter O’Toole 1932 – 2013
One I will actually miss, may he Rest in Peace.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why you should relocate your children to the east side of Saint San Andreas.
(h/t shipped out)
Update: I done bin hoaxed. Carry on as you were.
Caption Contest – Bumped for Results
With 179 entries, give or take, this was one of our most popular contests ever, and the results are in. Honourable mentions to:
“The day the henhouse fought back.” – Posted by: Ed
“Peter Piper plinked a pack of PETA pups” – Posted by: GR Thompson
“At Least We’re Not Clubbing Seals!” – Posted by: indiana homez
And the winner is….
Congratulations, Clifford. Shoot me an email and we’ll get your prize on its way. (Photo credit).
The Colour of Money
Can you say “biggest scam in the history of the world”?
£3.8 billion of taxpayers’ money funds the new Green Investment Bank, set up by the Department of Business and Skills. One of its biggest deals involved energy giant SSE selling windfarms to one of the new green funds, Greencoat Wind. The Green Investment Bank’s chairman, Lord Smith of Kelvin, is also chairman of SSE..
That’s just one of the numerous examples of the “ecocrats'” financial log-rolling at taxpayers’ expense, as revealed in the Daily Mail’s remarkable exposé.
The tit-suckers/scam-artists are being roundly outed across the pond. Do read.
h/t TrueNorthist
Reader Tips
Tonight the high-quality entertainment keeps rolling as we listen to the Mike Sammes Singers’ recording of Vespa. The audio is augmented by chroma key footage of stunt-y gals on Vespas to even further up the excitement quotient.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.