Those Moderate Muslims!
Springtime for Mohammed;
Accusing the nuns of building a church at the site, the throng on March 4 chanted Islamic slogans as they surrounded the guesthouse of a privately run, public school in the village of Abu Al-Reesh, in Aswan Province. Two nuns, volunteer teachers at Notre Dame Language Schools, barricaded themselves into the school’s guesthouse for about eight hours.
I’m Majoring in Jennifer Aniston
Just can’t make it up.
Free Ethical Oil!
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
…it will be Thursday, when Obama is scheduled to appear in Cushing, Okla., known as the pipeline capital of the world, to take credit for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project announced weeks ago by TransCanada, the Keystone builder.
It’s the section that doesn’t need presidential or State Department approval since it does not cross an international boundary.
It’s Probably Nothing
He offered nothing further but the implication was that big players believed that the one stable and solvent European nation, the nation that was supposed to bail out the others was sitting on a time bomb of its own. Which would mean that Germany, the nation that liked to lecture others about lying, was lying. Lying about a potential trillion euro hole in its banks.
h/t Melinda Romanoff
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
The Americans are with the Islamists. They support Ennahda in Tunisia and the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.
I’ve heard this complaint from every single secular person I’ve interviewed in this country without exception, from academics and democratic activists to journalists and teachers. They seem to be unanimously shocked and dismayed and appalled. The subject comes up again and again in conversation even when I ask about other things. It’s impossible to spend any time here whatsoever without hearing about it.
These people are not part of a marginal fringe movement like their Egyptian counterparts. Politically secular Tunisians make up half the country or more. And they’re depressed about what is happening now. Rami Sghayier, a young activist who does volunteer work with Amnesty International, seems to speak for most when he says, “We made the revolution and they got the power.”
They, of course, are the dour men and women of Ennahda, Tunisia’s version of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Reader Tips
Tonight we take a trip back in time as we look at one of the products of a fascinating international initiative, developed under project director Bernard Fischer of the University of Virginia, called Rome Reborn:
Since 1997, the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory of the University of Virginia, the UCLA Experiential Technology Center, the Reverse Engineering (INDACO) Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, the Ausonius Institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux-3, and the University of Caen have collaborated on a project to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in late antiquity.
Even seasoned travellers who’ve been pinched on the Via Veneto have never seen The Eternal City quite like this: here’s Rome Reborn: A Tour of Ancient Rome in 320 CE.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
What Google Street View saw.
Saskatchewan Budget
The Golden Age of Liberal Misogyny
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
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Just Another Chip In The Wall
Dan Tappin;
My dad has worked at the Ex in Regina for many years and ran Buffalo Days the year [Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming] shut down the aerobics demo because it was adjacent to the beer gardens.
It’s going to take many terms of Brad Wall government to turn this around…
Free Ethical Oil!
In 2010, CNPC signed a deal to help Venezuela develop a major Orinoco oil field known as Junin 4, which includes the construction of a facility to convert heavy oil to a lighter crude that could be shipped to a refinery in Guangdong, China.
“Although the contract was signed in December 2010, not one barrel of oil has yet been produced, much less upgraded,” said Gustavo Coronel, a former PDVSA board member.
“So far, nothing much seems to be happening, except for the arrival of a large group of Chinese staff to the CNPC’s Caracas office,” he added, referring to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
“Apart from money, there seems to be little that China can offer Venezuela in the oil industry,” he said, adding that a “culture gap will make working with China very difficult for Venezuelan oil people, who were mostly trained in the U.S.”
h/t Adrian
The “French Breivik”
“French Spree Shooter is a Muslim Named Mohammed Who Fought With the Taliban in Afghanistan Other Than That He Fits The Media’s ‘Far-Right’ Profile Perfectly.”
Let’s Install A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
“The Conservatives loved Layton; they loved his tireless impotence.”
30 Knee Slapping Bernanke Quotes
“Letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate”
Jan. 10, 2008 – “The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.” “the economy “won’t” be too far from its full employment path, though.”
March 28, 2007 – “The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.”
Huh? – “It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve – nor would it be appropriate – to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their financial decisions”
….more HERE
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we watch a dramatic slideshow of photos from Alberta photographer Sean McCormick’s upcoming book Neutral HIlls: Vision Quest.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
CBC Fruit Fly Guy Form Letter
Goes horribly wrong….
At time of posting, the letter can still be successfully edited – despite the message that appears on the website, the cc I received in my email confirms that my words were the ones sent.
Let me know when that changes. Heh.
Update: Sen. Nicole C. Eaton responds.
Today David Suzuki launched a form-letter style write-in campaign against my Senate Inquiry into the interference of foreign foundation in Canada’s domestic affairs and their abuse of Canada’s existing Revenue Canada charitable status. Ironically, he even made it possible for foreigners to participate by providing a “Not in Canada” option.
You can thank her here.
