4 … 3 … 2 … 1 … Watch for Leftist Heads to Explode
This testimony from Becky Gerritson is so incredibly important, it deserves top billing. While watching it, remember that this woman is viewed by Leftists in both America and Canada as THE ENEMY. These same people will not criticize the ne’er-do-wells of Occupy, will not criticize union thugs, will not criticize welfare cheats, will not criticize the monster that is Gosnell, will not criticize Radical Islamists, but they have no problem marginalizing and trying to destroy the likes of Mrs. Gerritson. If you ever wanted a reminder of why you should keep on speaking out against the insanity that is Leftist Philosophy the world over, she is it.
“I’m not here as a serf or a vassal. I’m not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born free American woman. Wife, mother, and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for my wellbeing and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty, and you have faltered.”
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Trudeau discovers risk of public news conferences. twitter.com/DonMartinCTV/s…
— Don Martin (@DonMartinCTV) June 5, 2013
Polish An Anti-Semite
Oh, Frack!
FrackNation to air on Sun News Network;
FrackNation follows journalist Phelim McAleer across America as he faces threats, malicious 911 calls and bogus lawsuits for just trying to question green extremists for the truth about fracking.
The film was written and directed by a trio of filmmakers: Husband and wife team Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney and their colleague Magdalena Segieda.
“FrackNation is pro-truth and pro-investigative journalism. It reveals the exaggerations and frauds that are at the heart of the anti-fracking movement and the length activists will go to reach their goal of banning fracking,” said Phelim McAleer, co-director.
The New York Times called FrackNation “meticulously researched” and said that “much of what it reveals is provocative.”
Watch for it June 6, at 8 and 10 p.m. Eastern
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
8-Step Plan on How to Do Climate Science
Australian Global Warming skeptic, Simon Turnill, has just published a funny, yet frightening, piece following up on this revelation. He lays out an 8-step plan of the [modified] Scientific Method purportedly followed by fellow Australians, John Cook & Stephan Lewandowsky.
Read through it and see how many of the same tactics are employed by Suzuki et al on this continent.
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Tonight we watch a mini-documentary produced by the NYT about the incendiary case of Tawana Brawley, the African-American teenager who in 1988 falsely accused three white men, including a local Assistant DA, of raping her, smearing her body with faeces, and writing racist and misogynist words on her torso.
The Reverend Al Sharpton, who first burst into the national spotlight by fanning racial hatred after the “incident”, features prominently in the retro report. Currently the host of his own nightly talk show on MSNBC, Sharpton still refuses to take any responsibility for the racial hatred he incited or admit that Brawley’s story was a lie.
As the great rhetorician himself puts it,
“I think that the lessons of Brawley is (sic) very unstructive (sic) for me and others, but I think that people want to cut off the lessons where they want.”
Exactly.
Without further ado, here’s The Tawana Brawley Case: Retro Report.
Comment we much. We must, and we will much, about that, be committed.*
This Is Awkward
At the end of last week, after a long silence, the video’s owner reached out to the intermediary we have been dealing with. He told him the video is “gone.”
Gawker blames Toronto Star for shoddy journalism and angering the video’s owner. gawker.com/the-rob-ford-c… #TOpoli #crackmayor
— Tom Kott (@TomK0tt) June 4, 2013
Beauty.
Sign of the times
What’s ASL for “grown-ups are stupid“?
The Grand Island (Neb.) school district is forcing a 3-year-old deaf boy to change the way he signs his name, because they say his gestures violate their weapons policy.
The Dying British Weekend
Not quite in the way you might surmise, at The Gods of the Copybook Headings. Canadian provinces, anyone?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring ’97-Percent Consensus’ Claims
Either through idiocy, ignorance, or both, global warming alarmists and the liberal media have been reporting that the Cook study shows a 97 percent consensus that humans are causing a global warming crisis. However, that was clearly not the question surveyed.
Investigative journalists at Popular Technology looked into precisely which papers were classified within Cook’s asserted 97 percent. The investigative journalists found Cook and his colleagues strikingly classified papers by such prominent, vigorous skeptics as Willie Soon, Craig Idso, Nicola Scafetta, Nir Shaviv, Nils-Axel Morner and Alan Carlin as supporting the 97-percent consensus.
Cook and his colleagues, for example, classified a peer-reviewed paper by scientist Craig Idso as explicitly supporting the ‘consensus’ position on global warming “without minimizing” the asserted severity of global warming. When Popular Technology asked Idso whether this was an accurate characterization of his paper, Idso responded, “That is not an accurate representation of my paper. The papers examined how the rise in atmospheric CO2 could be inducing a phase advance in the spring portion of the atmosphere’s seasonal CO2 cycle. Other literature had previously claimed a measured advance was due to rising temperatures, but we showed that it was quite likely the rise in atmospheric CO2 itself was responsible for the lion’s share of the change. It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.”
IRS Victim Testimony
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
The Associated Press has uncovered what may become a vast new scandal for the Obama administration: the possibly widespread use of covert email accounts by political appointees, enabling evasion of sunshine laws designed to protect the public. […]
This looks very bad indeed. Former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has already lost her hob owing to her use of the pseudonym “Richard Windsor” in correspondence with both agency officials and outsiders, including environmental activists. These communications ought to be available through Freedom of Information Act requests, but the use of a covert email account circumvents FOIA search requests.
A practice that extended across multiple branches of government? It’s like it was co-ordinated or something.
Goodale R, Wascana: Travel >>> $ 195,450.82
Reader wallyj in the comments;
There is a gov’t website that lists (but not in detail) the expenses of our MP’s. The latest offering shows us the expenses for the fiscal year that goes from April 1st 2011 through to March 31st 2012…
U.S. Publishes Details Of Secret Israeli Missile Base
It appears, however, that Israeli officials were caught by surprise that details of the facility at Tel Shahar, classified so top secret that Israel’s military won’t officially confirm its location between Jerusalem and Ashdod, would be made so public.
After Stuxnet?
The Children Are Our Future
Mercifully, my graduation ceremony did not feature a commencement speaker, the birthday clown of the academic world. Instead, I stood for an hour in a cold hall and was subjected to an ancient ceremony conducted almost entirely in Latin. This had the welcome effect of making all of the attendees feel extremely small and insignificant, and of reminding us that, while great people had gone through these Oxford halls, we had not yet done anything even close to being of note. It was wonderful.
And then there is Oprah.
It’s Probably Nothing
China redraws map to claim 80% of South China Sea;
Each year, more than half of the world’s annual merchant tonnage passes through the South China Sea as well as a third of the global trade in crude oil and over half of LNG trade.
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Tonight, we cross the Atlantic for a some a cappella Finnish music, as Loituma perform leven Polkka. (If you don’t see the lyrics, turn on the annotations.)
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Journalism as suicide pact: “… the fact that half of Toronto does not believe the video exists, by extension, means that half the city believes Toronto Star journalists are liars.”
Indeed.