Important Questions … The Left Don’t Want Asked
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
The New York Times is always the last to know.
PETA, considered by many to be the highest-profile animal rights group in the country, kills an average of about 2,000 dogs and cats each year at its animal shelter here.
And the shelter does few adoptions — 19 cats and dogs in 2012 and 24 in 2011, according to state records.
Of course they kill them – the ultimate goal of PETA (and HSUS) is the eradication of domestic animals from human society. That’s why “emotional pain” is cited as criteria for euthanasia.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles… Animal Services GM Brenda Barnette Says Shelters Need Puppies to Increase Revenue
Reader Tips
Feeling a bit irritable tonight? Misanthropic to the point of apoplexy? Looking for someone to take it out on, to be a lightning rod for your contempt? Well, imagine sitting around a campfire with a bunch of friends and seeing a 1965-issue Barry McGuire wander over from a neighbouring campsite, grab a beer, affect a wide stance, and start singing Eve of Destruction.
It never happened but I’m still annoyed about it.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Run, Forrest, Run!
Dr. Helen Smith: Six Reasons Why Men Are Avoiding Marriage.
h/t
Not Watching For The Asteroid
The era of television “breaking news” has ended.
I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal… (at @flySFO) [pic] — https://t.co/E6Ur1XEfa4
— David Eun (@Eunner) July 6, 2013
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
SCHIEFFER: “How many lawsuits have been filed on that? Because I must say this is under my radar. I haven’t heard this.”
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Our Crippling Fear Of The Truth
h/t Adrian
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Council of Canadians, June 26th: Council of Canadians opposes the Energy East pipeline
Sun News, July 6: A train transporting crude oil derailed and exploded early Saturday morning in a town three hours east of Montreal, forcing the evacuation of the town’s downtown and flooding a river with crude.
Related.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Marty the Magician and others in the business of pulling a rabbit from a hat are under strict orders from the federal government to develop a “contingency plan” for handling their critters in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. […] Said plan will be evaluated once a year, when enforcers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) make their annual unannounced bunny home inspections. Oh, and all magicians are required to carry a copy of the contingency plan at all times and make it available for inspection while in “travel status.”
The Tolerant Left
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
It’s gas, grass or… (NSFW)
Reader Tips
There’s Nineteen Men a-chasin’ me, and my pony’s gettin’ tired / I killed a man in Laramie fer callin’ me a liar… ♪
Run, Johnny Western, run.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Amen, And Pass The Steak Sauce
What We Really Need Is Democracy
US reporters and commentators today portray this week’s protests as the restoration of the Egyptian revolution. That revolution, they remain convinced, was poised to replace long-time Egyptian leader and US-ally Hosni Mubarak with a liberal democratic government led by people who used Facebook and Twitter.
Subsequently, we were told, that revolution was hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood. But now that Morsi and his government have been overthrown, the Facebook revolution is back on track.
And again, they are wrong.
Related: Who Lost the Middle East?
Y2Kyoto: Death Valley Daze
Because it serves their purposes: “Why does the NPS maintain the electronic sign that shows erroneous readings, such as what was highlighted in an LA Times story during the recent temperature spike?”
Benghazi Colonel Still Secret
Marine Corps Col. George Bristol was in a key position in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) chain of command the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. As such, he’s high on the list of people that some Republican members of Congress want to interview. But they don’t know where he is and the Pentagon isn’t telling.
Maybe when he sees his name in the news, he’ll call them.
The Tolerant Left
So it turns out BC bomber is a race hustling Harper Derangement Syndrome lefty: "F— you Harper you racist Islamophobe." #cdnpoli
— Neil Edmondson (@NeilJEdmondson) July 5, 2013
Big surprise there.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
The technology for building and operating this sort of transmission system in the howling gales of the German Bight is largely untried. And once the cables reach shore they will have to pass through populated areas on their way to connect with Germany’s central power grid. To appease NIMBYs (those who reflexively say “not in my backyard”) some of the lines may have to be buried, at further great expense: perhaps 25 times the cost of stringing the cables on pylons. As the project keeps slipping behind schedule the combined cost of the platforms and cables, most recently put at €8 billion ($10.4 billion), looks like rising further. […]
But there remains a danger that, even if no further technical hitches arise, the enormous project will end up being a white elephant. Investors have gone cool on building windmills in German waters because of their costs and doubts over future electricity rates. A study, commissioned from an independent consultant by TenneT, reckons that less than 6GW of the planned 14GW of turbines are likely to be built by 2023. If so, laments VZBV, a consumer body, Germans will end up paying heavily for a lot of useless transmission gear out at sea.
Related: Mafia turning to wind farms to launder money. Reader Steve emails: “Organized crime meets organized crime”
h/t Mark C, Maz2