University: Liberal Academia and My Struggle for Survival
h/t EBD
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Desecration of human mammals? It’s a vicar’s duty.
Due to the horrifying scenes, no one admitted without a vomit bag.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Never underestimate the power of mass media to transform a “good story” into “fact”:
…a growing body of scholarship — which the documentary utterly ignored — has impugned the conventional wisdom and has offered a compelling counter narrative: The War of the Worlds program sowed no widespread chaos and alarm. Instead, listeners in overwhelming numbers recognized the program for what it was: A clever radio show that aired in its scheduled Sunday time slot and featured the not-unfamiliar voice of the program’s 23-year-old star, Orson Welles.
More at Slate: Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio program did not touch off nationwide hysteria. Why does the legend persist?
Via
Forward!
Daily Mail: U.S. spies accused of intercepting phone calls during conclave as he was elected head of Catholic church
Lying under O
In this short video, comprised of clips compiled over the last few years, Barrack Obama can be seen serially assuring Americans in forcefully-delivered, entirely unequivocal terms that if they like their current health care plan they can keep it.
We now know that he was not only repeatedly telling a bald-assed lie, but that he knew he was telling a lie.
If you’re a Democrat, of course, there’s no such thing as a lie: Here’s House Democrat whip Steny Hoyer –
“I don’t think (Obama’s) message was wrong. I think the message was accurate. It was not precise enough…”
Actually, he lied in very precisely-stated terms — or, if you prefer Demspeak, he was telling the truth when he lied:
“He didn’t say anything wrong,” Senate majority leader Harry Reid said when asked about Obama’s promise. “That was true.”
In another variant, he just forgot, while delivering his litany of assurances, to add a particular phrase, extemporaneously concocted by another Dem long-after-the fact, that would have un-lied his lie:
According to Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Democrats had only promised that Americans could keep their insurance if it was “good insurance.”
Shameless liars. Or, in “ha-ha” Demspeak, “GET OVER IT.”
Who’s Laughing Now?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Greenpeace, June 2013; – Let’s laugh Harper’s tar sands ads right off the air.
Greenpeace, October 2013; The families of two Canadian Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia under “inhumane conditions” for the past six weeks said Wednesday the federal government needs to ramp up political pressure to secure their release.
“All of modernism is a pit, into which beauty must be eradicated.”
“There is a reason that during the Renaissance you didn’t have celebrated artists making random splatters of paint on a canvas in the Uffizi – that is because it is stupid.”
I Was Sitting By The Phone, Mr. Harper
#graveyardofpoliticians
I'm speaking now at #Obamacare hearing, I want to say to GOP GET OVER IT
— Jan Schakowsky (@janschakowsky) October 30, 2013
The Sound Of Settled Science
…another huge error in the global carbon cycle assumptions used by carbon cycle models such as the highly-flawed IPCC Bern model and as the basis for other models including climate and ocean ‘acidification’ models. The authors “provide estimates of the climate benefits due to CO2 fertilization of the terrestrial biosphere,” finding, “enhanced vegetation growth [from CO2 fertilization] over that period reduced atmospheric CO2 concentration by 85 ppm below what it would have been without that effect, thereby avoiding approximately 0.3°C of warming. This represents a dramatic shift of the carbon budget, by more than 250 billion tons of carbon–more than 30 years of emissions at current rates.”
Bread Crumbs And Circuses
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
While I don’t recommend reading the source article, for the same reason I wouldn’t recommend mailing a dollar bill to the North Korean Government, I’ve chosen to discuss it on TTAC today because it’s important to understand the mentality of people who push for outrageously oppressive anti-automobile regulation and taxation. Every idiotic, short-sighted, reality-averse program that comes from the state and federal governments, from “clunker crushing” to per-mile vehicle tracking, starts off as a vague idea in the head of somebody like Jane Brody. Somebody who hasn’t the faintest fucking idea how the majority of Americans live, somebody who lives in a $2.85 million private home, someone who is as far removed from the everyday cares and concerns of working Americans of any class as a visitor from another star system would be.
Read on. It’s a thing of beauty.
Reader Tips
Tonight, the late Andy Stewart is joined by his hair and his sporran for a performance of the traditional Scottish folk ballad The Road To Dundee.
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This Day In History
Washington Post: “It’s probably nothing”.
“Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things.”
“The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now. – John Kerry, 2009
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
A Speech In Cairo
Head of Russian military intelligence has arrived to Cairo to discuss military and security cooperation with #Egypt.
— Nervana Mahmoud (@Nervana_1) October 29, 2013
This Is Awkward
For Mike Duffy – Woodcock-Duffy email.
More here.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Winnipeg Police Assault Investigation — Public Assistance Required.