This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
How much is that moral superiority in the window?
In reality, many shelters and rescue groups have become unregulated pet shops, and yet in many states like my own, “overpopulation” shelter numbers are going up because dogs are being brought in from out of state.
The general public doesn’t know any of this.
Related: Thousands of international strays are finding a new home in Canada
ObamaCare Roll-Up
The Washington Examiner:
An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state’s Obamacare health insurance exchange and won’t participate, the head of the state’s largest medical association said..
Hey, who needs doctors when you’ve got ObamaCare?
Related: ObamaCare’s Massachusetts exchange has signed up zero people.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips is a Movietone Divertissement from 1928 in which vaudevillian and Ukulele Hall of Fame member Johnny Marvin showcases his ukulele and crooning skills before whipping out a different instrument – it’s more of a tool, really – to make sweet music, and eye contact, in a performance of I Still Love You.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Sound Of Settled Science
German Scientists Show Climate Driven By Natural Cycles
The present “stagnation” of global temperature (Fig. 5) is essentially due to the AMO/PDO: the solar de Vries cycle is presently at its maximum. Around this maximum it changes negligibly. The AMO/PDO is presently beyond its maximum, corresponding to the small decrease of global temperature. Its next minimum will be 2035. The temperature can expected to be then similar to the last AMO/PDO minimum of 1940. Due to the de Vries cycle, the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the “little ice age” of 1870.
It’s Probably Nothing
Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
The Media Party Empowerment Act of 2013
Solon’s laws for Athens, the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation, all key milestones in the history of democracy which pale into insignificance when compared to Conservative MP Michael Chong’s Great Reform Act of 2013.
Or so says the hype emanating from that alternate reality dimension known as the “Ottawa Bubble”.
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But even if the pro-Reform Act enthusiasts are correct, even if this bill would empower MPs and reduce the leader’s clout, I’d still ask that most important of all questions: “So what?”
Because it shifts power into the hands of the Media Party – that’s what. Instead of just weakening party unity through their efforts, the Reform Act provides media the tools to exploit it.
Update:
Today's #ReformAct preview: MT @dgardner "If Anders isn't tossed from caucus, I hope newspapers run a profile of him…" #MediapartyAct
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 7, 2013
“The depiction of him as fanatical, reactionary and bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false”.
Trusting Khomeini – Richard Falk in the New York Times, February 1979.
Accusations that the current governing class could be equally insane in their negotiations with Iran seem certainly and happily false.
Via Hillel Neuer
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Reader Tips
Tonight we do our level best to ramp up the level of pointless, monkey-brain name-calling in the comments by listening to Astrud Gilberto’s provocative and inflammatory Gentle Rain.
Godspeed.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Friday night funnies. Well, maybe terribly little–sort of reminds one of Being and Nothingness, as it were:
1) Low-Information Leadership
2) Those Who Can’t, Govern
3) Obama’s self conception vs. Obama’s reality
All rather existential, eh? Or, hopey changey, what? I’m a Camus man myself. More on Jean-Paul:
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
#graveyardofpolitics
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Justin Trudeau, November 2013
“You know, there’s a level of of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest . . . we need to start investing in solar.’
Long Walk to Photo Op
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Related: “… while Mandela was richly deserving of his Nobel Prize and earned the overused appellation “great man,” he wasn’t a saint.”
David Horowitz: Liberated South Africa is one of those epic messes the Left created and promptly forgot about.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
“Sucks to be you, Eagles”. Signed, Ducks.
It Does Match Her Description
As you can see, the penis doodle just so happens to be on a secret White House document about former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević, which makes it even funnier — as does the simple fact that it’s Bill Clinton drawing a penis, possibly before the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
John Baird in Independence Square
I mean, let's be honest: he's basically pissing on Putin's rug.
— David Mader (@DavidMader) December 6, 2013
Reader Tips
Tonight we watch a 1945 production from Australia’s National Film Board which briefly explains the history of the formation of six states of the Commonwealth of Australia en route to showcasing the planned city of Canberra, the National Capital.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Our ancestors and the bi-modal sleep pattern. Actually, I could buy into this.