Go, Already
Language Commissioner to keep job despite ridiculous Snowbird recommendation;
After an investigation, the language commissioner’s office wrote the air force and recommended that 431 Squadron’s Snowbirds nickname be changed when a new aircraft fleet was purchased for the team, the military documents pointed out. The language watchdog also recommended the RCAF ensure that the next nickname be bilingual.
It’s The Thought That Counts
2013: One of the worst chemical weapons atrocities in history is committed and the Nobel Peace Prize goes to… http://t.co/AMsgmLFeA7
— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) October 11, 2013
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Got to be cruel to be kind – … consider the notice that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published in the Federal Register on Sept. 27. It seeks public comment on a proposed permit that will allow a wind project to kill up to five golden eagles over a five-year period, despite their protected status under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
h/t Ed S.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s diversion en route to the tips Australian quartet The Seekers, backed by a symphony orchestra, give an open-air performance of their 1966 pop confection Georgy Girl.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Nature Of Things
CBC co-produced Suzuki Foundation film and yet Suzuki demanded CBC pay up, do stories on Suzuki or SF would take film to CTV. CBC paid
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 10, 2013
No Scenic View For You
More from the Shutdown Nazis.
4 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don’t get any water from them.
Instead of saving money, the NPS is expending additional resources to go out of its way to close such locations and to make people miserable.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Atlantic photoshops Boehner’s head onto arrest photo of Irish Republican Army murderer.
Not A Muslim
NOOoonononono… “… say hello again to two of the most appallingly over-promoted and sinister figures involved with the current U.S. government: Mohamed Elibiary and Dalia Mogahed.”
h/t Adrian
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Just glitches.
Reader Tips
A little belatedly, but the thread is open for your tips.
QOTW
Larry F, via email: “To be logically consistent, they should consider white people to be sacred, too.”
“Rabble is not a corporation, it is a labour of love. “
For the last ten months I have served as Quebec Bureau Chief without pay, after being told the site ran out of money to pay my salary. I did so out of a loyalty to Rabble, a loyalty which I now feel was taken advantage of, as I was strung along with promises that as soon as money could be found I would be paid.
h/t Kevin
Take Me, Obama
*Sigh* Newser envy. RT @markknoller: President's news conference ran 1 hour 6 minutes and 12 reporters were called on for questions
— Jennifer Ditchburn (@jenditchburn) October 8, 2013
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and provided to The Daily Caller.
Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information.
Forward!
O’Reilly: The Big Disability Con
Unplugged
Paul Desmarais dead at 86.
*Related.
This Is Awkward
