A million children groomed is a “curriculum”.
The Tolerant Left
Vancouver native and Calgary Herald columnist Licia Corbella has touched a nerve with the Usual Suspects. After all, how “dare” she criticize Vancouver’s liberal drug policies. Vancouver blogger, Shannon Smart, mouths all of the Leftist talking points in challenging Corbella.
For speaking her mind, Licia Corbella has now:
- Had her life threatened by a recovering heroin addict with a long criminal history. The police paid him a visit.
- Been accused of being a “hardcore conservative”.
- Been accused of being an “out-of-touch wing nut” who “is known for denying the existence of human-caused climate change”.
- Been told to “quit if she has any dignity” and if the Calgary Herald “has any credibility” then “they should fire her”.
But remember folks, Canada is a “progressive” country where we believe in having open & honest discussions. Leftists remind us of this constantly.
Related: David Berner recently wrote an op-ed questioning the statistics used by Insite proponents.
Cold, Wet Hands
Confirming suspicions: RCMP seized secured guns in High River
You Can’t Get Dry If You’re Dead
Where would it be better to have a single vehicle roll-over? Alone on the open highway, or in a supervised drunk driving lane?
Reader Tips
Tonight, to commemorate the birth of the future king, the son of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, we watch a silent newsreel bulletin showing the first images of Princess Elizabeth, who we now know as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, resting peacefully under the gaze of her mother Queen Elizabeth, who after February of 1952 was known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Hope I got most of that right. From 1926, here’s Britain’s Baby Princess.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Death of the “Special Date”
This is why you treat your wife to special dates and not girls you just met. Because they earned it.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Those who like pointing to Tesla’s success as the harbinger of the electrical revolution would be well advised, however, to read Green Car Reports‘ “Honda, Fiat Stick To Minimal Numbers Of Popular Electric Cars,” which basically states that many automakers — Honda and Fiat, at the very least — are only producing the minimum number of EVs to satisfy statutory regulations.
According to author John Voelcker, “Each of these cars [Fiat’s 500e and the Honda Fit EV] is a compliance car — a vehicle built and sold only in California (and a handful of other states) in just enough volume to meet its zero-emission vehicle requirements, which started in 2012.”
More: “Unclean at any speed”.
h/t KevinB
I Amuse Myself
BREAKING: "A name befitting the future of Great Britain" #Royalbaby to be named MOHAMMED.
— katewerk (@katewerk) July 22, 2013
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Rumour has it that NSA agents are jealous:
… despite the fact that navigators will have access to sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and tax returns, there will be no criminal background checks required for them. Indeed, they won’t even have to have high-school diplomas.
Y2Kyoto: Tow, Tow, Tow Your Boat
Vancouver-based Last First expedition hopes to “reveal the shocking effects of climate change on the Arctic.”
The temperature in Tuktoyaktuk is -1 C, and there’s a strong northeasterly wind blowing in the morning. Locals tell us it should be 15-20 C at this time of year.
“The bugs should be bouncing off your head,” explained Eilleen, who came down to the beach to visit with us.
Strange weather has defined the year, we are told. It’s been colder than usual, and the ice has been very slow in going out.
h/t Fred
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starving The Poor”
Global Crop Production Increases Threefold Over The Past 50 Years;
* Global crop production has expanded threefold over the past 50 years, largely through higher yields per unit of land and crop intensification.
* Global per capita food supply rose from about 2 200 kcal/day in the early 1960s to over 2 800 kcal/day by 2009
* Buoyed by high commodity prices, agriculture has demonstrated astonishing resilience during global economic turmoil. In 2010, agricultural value-added at the world level rose by 4 percent, in contrast to a 1 percent increase in overall GDP.
Related: Eric Anderson on Combining potash in Saskatchewan.
But Ayn Rand Was The Crazy One
Starnesville, Michigan.
h/t Fred
“When the Democrats do it, that means that it is not illegal”
Tea Party candidate’s tax records breached:
On March 9, 2010, the day she revealed her plan to run for the Senate in a press release, a tax lien was placed on a house purported to be hers and publicized. The problem was she no longer owned the house. The IRS eventually blamed the lien on a computer glitch and withdrew it.
Now Mr. Martel, a criminal investigator for the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, was telling her that an official in Delaware state government had improperly accessed her records on that very same day.
Beyond that, Ms. O’Donnell and Senate investigators who have tried to help her have run into a wall of silence, leaving more questions than answers about whether abuses of the IRS system extend to private individuals and not just the tax-exempt groups already identified as victims.
Update: IRS chief counsel met with Obama 2 days before writing new targeting criteria
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Arctic Ice Cap
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Journalism: where numeracy goes to die.
Reader Tips
Shoot Him High, Pa. We need his britches, and his shoes.
That’s Rosalie Allen.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Because I Must
Because a hundred of you are going to flood Readers Tips with this: Geraldo Rivera Tweets Semi-Nude Photo of Himself
And because if thousands of you see what I have just seen, my eyes may not hurt so much.
A Speech In Cairo
The tsunami of anti-American rhetoric swamping Egypt has been justified as a legitimate response to Washington’s supposed support for the now-deposed Muslim Brotherhood government. There is no doubt that many Egyptians on both sides are indeed enraged with U.S. policy toward Egypt. Nor is there any doubting the intensity of the anti-Brotherhood fever to which Washington has so effectively been linked. Nor, finally, could anyone really disagree that the United States has failed to effectively engage with or explain itself to the intensely polarized and mobilized new Egyptian public.
Update: I didn’t notice that the link requires (free) signup. My apologies.