It’ll just be a lot…different:
In Britain, a man was arrested, questioned for eight hours, had his computer confiscated for investigation and was DNA tested and fingerprinted. His crime? He made a joke about how his laptop took so long to shut down he should call it Nelson Mandela.
FIVE YEARS AGO YESTERDAY… Al Gore Predicted the North Pole Will Be Ice Free in 5 Years
Sorry, Cairo.
The sooner they can tear them down: Britain’s wind farms are wearing out far more rapidly than previously thought, making them more expensive as a result, according to an authoritative new study.
Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists.
“I’m for it,” she said. “But what is the reality of it?”
President Jacob Zuma sings at ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012.
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The sign language interpreter who gestured meaninglessly at the Nelson Mandela memorial in South Africa on Tuesday has faced charges of murder, rape, theft, breaking and entering, malicious damage to property and kidnapping, according to eNCA.com.
The South African news site said the outcome of the murder charge against Thamsanqa Jantjie, brought in 2003, was unknown because the court case file is “mysteriously empty.”
Beneath Yellowstone, an extremely very massive volcano…
A team from the University of Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco that Yellowstone’s magama chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought.
It is an underground cavern measuring some 55 miles by 20 miles and containing between 125 and 185 billion cubic miles of molten rock.
If it blows it will wipe out America – and have enormous impacts on the rest of the world.
Massive.
h/t north of 60
As we all know, Tories are Bertie Woosters, while Labour casts its nets far and wide to find its leadership in the coal mines and other proletarian places. For example, the current Labour leader is Ed Miliband, whose father was a famous Marxist college professor. In contrast to the inbred Tories who all come from the same social background, Ed’s chief rival for party leadership was David Miliband, whose father was also a famous Marxist college professor. In fact, he was the same famous Marxist college professor.
It’s not quite time for our main course of Christmas music, but tonight we’ll give you a seasonal appetizer in the form of SDA reader, commenter, and occasional blogger Sean McCormick’s delightfully festive entry in Consort, Alberta’s scheduled 2013 Light Parade.
The event had to be cancelled due to extreme cold, unfortunately, but what a beauty!
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“Just because the Wichita suspect says he was was inspired by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki doesn’t mean we know his motives.”
Good ol’ BBC: “… does not appear to have been affiliated with any religious group”
RCMP have charged former Liberal organizer Jacques Corriveau in the federal sponsorship scandal. …more to come.
A BLADE that flew off a wind turbine into a field earmarked for development could have killed someone, says a Copeland councillor.
The high winds were so strong last Thursday that an arm of the turbine at Seascale School flew off and landed 200 yards away in a field.
Concerned councillor David Moore said it was “potentially harmful” particularly as outline permission was granted six weeks ago by Copeland Council for 14 houses to be built on the site where the blade landed.
Related: Collapsed wind turbine at Loughderry windfarm.
So, it appears it would not be unusual for Joe’s dad to drink with one of his buddies along his route at 8:00 a.m. – awe, isn’t that nostalgic – I can almost picture the Norman Rockwell painting just thinking about it.
Denial ain’t just a snowstorm in Egypt.
Related.
The founding of Earth First! was reportedly to create a group more extreme to draw fire away from other environmental groups. “The people that are easily named extreme make the people who were extreme seem suddenly reasonable,” said a former Sierra Club executive director.
That’s what groups like PETA do for HSUS. As Michael Spector wrote in The New Yorker in 2003, “It has been argued many times that in any social movement there has to be somebody radical enough to alienate the mainstream-and to permit more moderate influences to prevail. For every Malcolm X there is a Martin Luther King, Jr., and for every Andrea Dworkin there is a Gloria Steinem. Newkirk and PETA provide a similar dynamic for groups like the Humane Society of the United States.”
I mean, just, just, just one day.
…the U.S. foundations include multi-billion dollar activist organizations, built of fortunes from the Fords and Rockefellers, the Hewletts and Packards, that dwarf anything that exists in Canada. As if that didn’t provide them enough advantage, the U.S. foundations act in concert, deciding among themselves what the priorities for the nation and beyond should be, the better to concentrate pressure. There is no two-way street – U.S. foundations can and do routinely influence Canadian policy; Canadian foundations can’t and don’t influence U.S. policy. The U.S. influence, moreover, is all the more powerful because most Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests, to further a U.S. agenda.
Tonight Czech singer, bandleader, composer, and movie star Rudolf Antonín Dvorský, backed by The Melody Boys, croons Věřím vám (“I Believe You”).
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Compilation Of Scaredy Dogs Terrified Of Walking Past Cats.
h/t John Groves
Media Malpractice: “With the full support of the Star, I will stay on the city hall beat while pursuing this action.”
The US embassy in Ankara said on Wednesday it had suspended “all non-lethal assistance” into northern Syria after members of the newly formed Islamic Front took over premises belonging to the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council, which is aligned to the anti-Assad opposition National Coalition. […]
The Islamic Front, which comprises six rebel brigades, seized warehouses reportedly containing dozens of anti-aircraft weapons and anti-tank rockets at the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkish border last weekend. The group is backed by Saudi Arabia.
Imagine a Canada in which Ed Thorne and Mary-Lou Dryden contest Party Leadership – and you have today's #LPC pic.twitter.com/EZVivDLN4u
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 12, 2013