I purchased Mark Levin’s latest book at a Costco in Seattle earlier this week:
The looks I received from the pair of hipsters working at the checkout was less than positive when they saw it. So I got to thinking, now that I’m back in Vancouver, what reaction would I get carrying that book wearing my red Canada mittens through the more Lefty infested stomping grounds of Vancouver? I might even opt to read it outside at a Starbucks with the cover prominently shown! 🙂
The Sound Of Settled Science
Why do most people today, scientists included, believe that small doses of radiation are harmful to human health when no proof for this theory exists, and when mountains of evidence show the opposite — that small amounts of radiation actually promote health? After years of sleuthing into historical records, a scientist at the University of Massachusetts has found a smoking gun, involving a scientific scam in 1946 at the very highest echelons — the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm.
In an august Nobel hall one year after the end of the Second World War, the scientific world was knowingly misled by Hermann J. Muller, winner that year of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. This is the verdict from a forensic review entitled Muller’s Nobel Prize Lecture: When Ideology Prevailed Over Science, just published by the Society of Toxicology in the Oxford University Press’s Toxicological Sciences. Had Muller spoken the truth and revealed the existence of contradictory research in the world’s most prominent scientific gathering, we might today have an entirely different view of radiation and its effects, preventing immense human suffering and the loss of countless lives.
Hubert Lacroix: How Dare Anyone Criticize Me or the CBC!
Some Workers Are More Equal Than Others
The $474,000 GM job
Update: Plus:
The strange budget priorities of Obama: Subsidizing car purchases for the 1% over poor children and airline safety
Meanwhile non-luxury Euro car makers are in trouble, especially Fiat (the proud owner of Chrysler which is in effect saving the Italian parent); VW–“slightly premium”–is however doing well, Ford is surprisingly not mentioned:
Too many cars, too few buyers
Nice charts. And note that Peugeot…
…is also worryingly dependent on selling cars in kit form to Iran, which account for 13% of Peugeot’s sales (compared with around 6% for Renault), and which would be vulnerable to any conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme…
Great Moments In Socialism
A “living wage” ordinance, far above the federal minimum wage, for all public employees and private contractors. A school system that spends significantly more per pupil than the national average. A powerful school employee union that militantly defends the exceptional pay, benefits and job security it has won for its members. Other government employee unions that do the same A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor and to government bureaucracies.
Bill C-51: An End to Privacy or a Necessary Tool?
The problem with Crying Wolf or, in a modern Canadian context, declaring everything the Harper government does as the End of the World, is that people stop listening to you altogether. This seems to be the case with the Left-of-Centre political & media class in Canada.
Now the Tories are bringing in Bill C-51 aka the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. Its possible infringements into the privacy of Canadians does offer some legitimate pause for concern. Lorrie Goldstein offers a fairly balanced appraisal of the changes.
What say you?
h/t Several SDA commenters
The Occupy Movement: Fact vs. Fiction
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips video, from an old episode of the Outdoor Channel’s program The Huntress, Heidi Wilson shows us – good shot, Justin! – how to fix up some tasty and inexpensive Squirrel Melts.
h/t
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Belt Parkway Community College Medical School
Nothing heals old racial wounds like affirmative action surgery:
For students applying to medical school with slightly below average GPAs of 3.20-3.39 and slightly below average MCAT scores of 24-26 (first column in the table), black applicants were more than 8 times as likely to be admitted as Asians (67.3% vs. 7.7%), and more than 5 times as likely as whites…
$17,000 – $20 = $16,980
You do the math.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Last week I postulated that the El Niño/El Niña effect was not due to solar or atmospheric conditions, but actually caused by underwater volcanic activity along ocean ridges off the West coast of South America. To see whether my theory held water I decided to look into the Argo Float data to see if there it was showing a warm upwelling of water in this region. I apparently was correct.
My initial assessment was that the frigid Humbult Current that comes north from the Antarctic region along the west coast of South America (the mirror image of the current that drops down from the Arctic along the west coast of North America) could not be warmed so drastically in such a short time by sun and air alone. This is due to the physics of ocean currents and the massive amount of heat required to warm tons of cold water moving northward per second…
h/t Melinda Romanoff
QOTW
(What IS in the water in Massachusetts? Besides Mary Jo Kopechne, I mean.)
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Energy Conversion Devices files for bankruptcy as solar energy lags
In the latest setback for the solar energy industry, Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and intends to sell its assets, including its main subsidiary United Solar Ovonic.
h/t Revnant Dream
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Free Melissa Firth!
In overturning the 2010 decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to award $2,000 to each man for “violation of their inherent right to be free from discrimination and for injury to their dignity, feelings and self-respect,” the Divisional Court instead ordered them and the tribunal to pay legal costs of $20,000 to the librarian and to the Peel Law Association, which runs the library.
The three-judge panel found that tribunal vice-chairman Eric Whist unfairly reversed the onus of proof from the complainant to the respondent, and “placed [the librarian] in the difficult position of trying to prove a negative, namely, that her conduct in the performance of her routine duties was not motivated by race and colour.” It also criticized the tribunal’s “misconceived” comparison of the librarian’s conduct to racial profiling by police.
h/t Rita
The Post Hockey Riot Investigation
A whole lot has been going on behind the scenes in the aftermath of last year’s riot in Vancouver, including but not limited to the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) utilizing a special Homeland Security facility in Indianapolis. In this video, David Berner interviews the VPD’s Howard Chow:
In The Mail
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
Remember, these are the same people who hang around schoolyards;
“This is Jessica,” the narrator, Kevin Nealon, says. “She suffers from ‘BWVAKTBOOM,’ ‘Boyfriend Went Vegan and Knocked the Bottom Out of Me,’ a painful condition that occurs when boyfriends go vegan and can suddenly bring it like a tantric porn star.”
h/t Adrian
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music, dedicated to swashbuckling Liberal dreamboat Justin Trudeau, monochromatic chanteuse Gale Garnett, who is perhaps most famous for being just another notch in Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s bedpost, trudges her way through Where Do You Go To Go Away?
I believe she’s referring to a sovereign Quebec, but I’m not completely sure about that.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Justin, Son Of Margaret
Stirring words, by Canada’s best known member of the Lucky Y-Chromosome Club.