Tonight we take a look back at the early days of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Based on the stated population of Edmonton at the time, the film probably dates from around 1965 or ’66.
h/t David M.
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Oh, Shiny Pony!
I Miss The Canadian Wheat Board
“Did you know you can get paid to store grain on farm? And it doesn’t interfere with other strategies.”
And still the Black Knights battle on…
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Finally, a success story!
The Corvette-powered Destino sedan unveiled at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show by Detroit startup VL Automotive is a Fisker Karma that’s had its plug-in hybrid powertrain replaced with the V8 from a Chevrolet Corvette.
[…] VL Automotive will also offer conversions of existing Karma’s for around $100,000, with the choice of a 450 hp Corvette Stingray V8 or the 638 hp supercharged V8 from the Corvette ZR1.
Beauty. They’re confident they’ll be able to secure more “donor” Karmas.
h/t Gord
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Virtually all the truths about preventing heart attacks that physicians and patients have held dear for more than a generation are wrong and need to be abandoned, [British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra] writes. He musters a passel of recent research that suggests that the “obsession” with lowering a patients’ total cholesterol with statins, and a public health message that has made all sources of saturated fat verboten to the health-conscious, have failed to reduce heart disease.
Indeed, he writes, they have set off market forces that have put people at greater risk.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Celebrate Naturopathic Medicine Week
Lines Of Code In Healthcare.Gov
Reader Tips
Transatlantic Sessions is a long-running television program – the first series began 18 years ago – in which highly-adept performers of mostly traditional/country/folk music from both sides of the Atlantic join together in Scotland to play music in intimate settings. In tonight’s Tips music, from the sixth series, England’s Teddy Thompson, the son of British folk-rock legends Richard and Linda Thompson, is backed by a house band including the series’ musical co-directors, Shetland Island fiddler Aly Bain and legendary American lap steel player Jerry Douglas, along with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Aoife O’Donovan, Julie Fowlis, and Karen Matheson on background vocals, as he beautifully interprets George Jones’ classic She Thinks I Still Care.
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I Amuse Myself
But I thought legalizing porn reduced crime. RT @SunNewsNetwork Quebec pornographer arrested in alleged drug run http://t.co/edV03Sr0x3
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 23, 2013
The Sound Of Settled Science
… that the severity and locations of tornadoes is strongly influenced by the natural Pacific Decadal Oscillation, with more severe tornadoes occurring during the warm phase and fewer during the cold phase. The cold phase of the ~60-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO] started in the year 2000, and would explain why the US is currently experiencing the fewest tornadoes on record, and why higher CO2 is correlated with fewer severe tornadoes.
The Tolerant Left
“There he is! Can we get some music to go along with that, some Mexican music maybe?”
President Empty Chair
Now is the time at SDA when we told you so.
Carol Platt Liebau, 2009;
A lot of the time he quote/unquote “worked from home”, which was sort of a shorthand – and people would say it sort of wryly – shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn’t around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He’s the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
This is a president who set up a system in which he imagines he is relieved of responsibility. Someone else’s job. Not his problem. Didn’t know. Doesn’t matter why.
Much more at Instapundit.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
“You know, we don’t have 10 laws in this country,” he said. “We have one law. And people have to obey the law.”
Wrong on both counts. We have two laws.
Some People Work For A Living
A Speech In Cairo
Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Multiculturalism: A system in which every culture is equal except yours.
This Is Awkward
Weaselzippers: Lack of Security At Healthcare.gov Exposes Private Info Of Healthcare Navigators.
The list is here. It’s a long list of community health centers, progressive leaning groups, and includes one James Barnett, who lives at 4728 Rainbow Curve, Montgomery, Alabama in a neat little bungalow. He uses a Hotmail address.
I wonder what a Obamacare navigator contract is worth? I mean, outside of its value in looting the taxpayer and spreading the spoils among progressive friendlies.
Least Surprising Update Of The Day: Healthcare.gov Refers Users To Uncertified Navigators and Assisters
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But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Reader Tips
Tonight, with the help of the fine folks at the Goethe-Institut, we do our best to understand the Germans.
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