SCOTUS tosses S4 and invalidates S5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Expect a lot of Voter ID laws coming to the US.
Stating the obvious.
I have just been taken off the air on Corus radio. Message: don't criticize management.
— Dave Rutherford (@RutherfordShow) June 25, 2013
I have no clue as to the context, but that isn’t a surprising observation for most of us.
So, planned, all along.
Was giving the info to the ChiComs planned too? Some ‘hero’.
Professional Soccer, this ain’t.
Bergeron had a broken rib, torn cartilage, and a separated shoulder, the last of which happened tonight.
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) June 25, 2013
Gratz Blackhawks.
Reader Tips
I recently had the great pleasure to attend an annual hot-air balloon festival in Tigard, Oregon. Here’s one video I put together from the event and here’s a more humorous time lapse compilation.
Your lofty or more down to earth reader tips are welcome in the comments.
What is a Hundred Year Storm
Anyone reading the comment sections of various media outlets has seen some person using the Calgary flooding of 2005 and the event last as 2 ‘hundred year storms’ within seven years. While not always, the events are generally used to link AGW to the Calgary flood.
This article spells out nicely just what, ‘a hundred year’ event is.
tldr; A one in one hundred chance that a regionally based amount of rainfall/snowfall/flood volume will happen over a specified amount of time every year.
I’ve heard the amount of rainfall in SW Alberta triggering the ‘hundred year storm’ designation was 12″ in 12 hours. I have no idea if that is accurate.
So, the next time you see someone say, “I’ve seen a lot of these hundred years storms! Must be AGW!”, roll your eyes and have sympathy, they are illiterate.
Bureaucracy run amok.
Sigh.
This episode reminds me of the union at Prince Albert Park (I think it was) where the union filled complaints against the seniors that planted flowers.
The media isn’t biased at all.
A satirical example of what the US media would write, if the US was another country.
Via, NewsWatch Canada
Going Rogue
From purple heart to purple face:
The White House quickly distanced itself from both Kerry’s North Korea remarks and has now, since President Barack Obama’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Northern Ireland this past week, seen up close the strength of Moscow’s resistance to Kerry’s Syria strategy.
Hey … maybe John is just doing his best to meet Barack on the wings of love, up and above the clouds.
The Consequences of Having No Consequences
Nothing good can come of it.
On a completely unrelated note, “Worthless” is available in audiobook format for anybody who is interested, but only because it was a fine upstanding Canadian who did the reading.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Always the end result when “Buy High, Sell Low” meets “Running out of other peoples money”. So, instead of just being a huge drain on the public purse, it’s also going to cause another bank run because too many people borrowed against the gov’t subsidies.
Coming to a Province near you whose name may be Ontario.
This quote is classic,
“The current policy is harmful because the sector was maturing and close to becoming competitive without any aid but has suddenly totally collapsed,” Izurzun said.
Reader Tips
“We don’t want other children to lose their parents.”
h/t Jondular Minty
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Out in the Cold
Q: He’ll be prosecuted?
Binney: First tortured, then maybe even rendered and tortured and then incarcerated and then tried and incarcerated or even executed.
[…]
Drake: But see, I am Exhibit No. 1. …You know, I was charged with 10 felony counts. I was facing 35 years in prison. This is how far the state will go to punish you out of retaliation and reprisal and retribution. … My life has been changed. It’s been turned inside, upside down. I lived on the blunt end of the surveillance bubble. … When you are faced essentially with the rest of your life in prison, you really begin to understand and appreciate more so than I ever have — in terms of four times I took the oath to support the Constitution — what those rights and freedoms really mean. …
Believe me, they are going to put everything they have got to get him. I think there really is a risk. There is a risk he will eventually be pulled off the street.
Q: What do you mean?
Drake: Well, fear of rendition. There is going to be a team sent in.
Read it all (beware annoying auto-play vid)
Ha.
I can see Senator McCain’s lips moving.
Maybe try an immigration bill that doesn’t have a 1200 page ‘ammendment’ and will enforce laws and border security before any legalization.
“We’re Calgarians, we help each other out,”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Iowa Jim
Reader Tips
Oh a thousand miles I traveled and a thousand sights I saw, but there ain’t no sight like a moonlight night on the Bam Bam Bammy Shore.. ♫
The comments thread is open for your Reader Tips.
Chooming
… with President Backstreet Boy:
Putin aims to reduce the violence by getting his boy Assad to kill everyone he needs to. Obama aims to reduce the violence by giving a speech about the “intolerance that fuels extremism” — or is it the other way round? The world understands that Putin means it and Obama doesn’t —
[…]
Americans seem not to have noticed that the U.S. has just lost yet another war. But in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, they noticed, and they will act accordingly. On the wings of love, up and above the clouds, Obama wafts ever higher on his own gaseous uplift. Down on solid ground, the rest of the world must occasionally wonder if they haven’t confused the U.S. delegation with the world’s most empty-headed boy band.
Well, that’s it.
Take the latte out of the stadium kiosks, it’ll never sell, now.
If only they hadn’t invented SUV’s
A short history of flooding in Alberta.