David Eby is a horrific individual who is running for the NDP in the same riding as BC Premier Christy Clark. He represents everything that is wrong with Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. His views and, in fact, his raison d’être are synonymous with the destructive Occupy Movement. While voters in the upscale Point Grey riding have good reason to dislike Ms. Clark, if they elect Eby, they have clearly lost their minds.
He recently sat down for an interview with David Berner.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Lüdecke, Hempelmann, and Weiss found that the temperature variation can be explained with six superimposed natural cycles. With only six cycles they can closely recreate the 240 year central European thermometer record. There is little “non-cyclical” signal left, suggesting that CO2 has a minor or insignificant effect.
Secretariat
Forty years ago, a big red colt won the Kentucky Derby running every quarter faster than the last, in a record time of 1:59.40 that still stands.
In the 1 1/2 mile Belmont, he covered the Derby distance in 1:59, en route to the most spectacular Triple Crown victory in history.
The 139th running is today. Post time: 7:00 pm Eastern. Meet some of the contenders in these Barbara Livingston photos taken this week.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
h/t bluetech
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
CBC news producer Donna Allen fought doggedly to keep the story under wraps. Allen is named in the October 2010 Human Rights complaint by Stephen Pate for discrimination on the basis of disability and association with a disability advocacy group, PEI Disability Alert.
Also named are Wayne Thibodeau, Teresa Wright and the Press Gallery of the Prince Edward Island Legislature (Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island SIGS 25540). According to sources, Allen never wanted the story to see the light of day.
Related – CBC Issues Correction for Wrongly Claiming Palestinians Haven’t Attacked Israeli Settlers in Past 2 Years
Deep Impact
Reader Tips
In tonight’s swinging weekend Tips music Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, along with vocalist Edythe Wright, do some Jammin’.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
BC Election: Time for a Rethink?
Many BC voters loathe Christy Clark. And for good reason. She’s as phoney as a $3 bill and sincere as a pawn shop owner in Vegas. Voting for her BC Liberal party is not something one would do with any enthusiasm.
But as the May 14th election draws near, the province’s numero uno socialist/communist, Adrian Dix, is getting more brazen with his pronouncements. This and this and this and this, amongst many others, are very disturbing. As the lead architect behind Glen Clark’s failed government, which bankrupted the province, the notion that Dix is openly flaunting similar policies, which are certain to have the same end effect, is revolting.
Update: Ezra Levant discusses BC’s “Energy Election” with Alise Mills.
Anti-EUphoria
Emphasis on the “euphoria“, with video of a pint (not 568ml):
Local elections 2013: Nigel Farage’s Ukip surges to best ever showing, winning 150 seats
Earlier from Kate:
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
…
@DougSaunders I know exactly who Nigel Farage is. Unlike you, who apparently can’t tell a Nazi salute from your own reflection…
They’ve Always Worked Things Out In The Past
A Deep Frost in Franco-German Relations
The Starving Time
Benghazi: “What difference at this point does it make?”
Three Big Developments on Benghazi: “She left Americans to die horrible deaths” is pretty much the worst charge a presidential candidate could possibly face.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Nothing says “In way over his head” quite like…
“…someone is bullying my Justin and that makes me mad”
Related – “Is there some recessive gene in the Turdo family that makes the males parade around topless and the women bottomless?”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Whereas American media have shed mostly darkness on the “apparently” mysterious motivation behind the ruthless, savage, April 15 attack on the Boston Marathon – a Chechen leader offered some valuable insights about these homegrown terrorists:
“[The] Tsarnaevs … were raised in the United States, and their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. It is necessary to seek the roots of this evil in America.”
The man makes a profound point.
h/t Kakola
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Fiskered: Fisker has spent $1.3 billion in taxpayer and venture capital money, or $660,000 for each car it sold
Reader Tips
Tonight’s masterful piece of songwriting, originally released on Leonard Cohen’s 1984 album Various Positions, is a modest prayer, an acknowledgment of our ultimate powerlessness in the hands of the fates, and a humble plea for providence and grace. Here’s a recent, bare-bones live performance of the haunting and beautiful If It Be Your Will.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and and the few remaining British battle back;
David Cameron’s top team have their “tin hats on” tonight as a surge in support for UKIP left them braced for a drubbing in the polls.
The Tories and Lib Dems are both set for a hammering in the by-election for safe Labour seat South Shields while UKIP eyes its best ever Westminster contest performance.
You can follow the action with Nigel Farage.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Against a steady drumbeat of negativity, a glimmer of hope…
Sometime within the next two years, the CBC is almost certainly going to lose its single largest source of advertising revenue, NHL hockey. It will be out-bid for the contract by one of the country’s enormously wealthy commercial broadcasters, probably Bell Media. That will mean a loss of 40 per cent of the corporation’s total annual ad revenue, but also a loss of something close to 400 hours of Canadian content programming – a hole that will have to be filled. Already bled white by decades of funding reductions from successive federal governments, the CBC is in no position to survive this blow.
(h/t Maz2)
It’s Probably Nothing
The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection.
They finally reached their destination and pitched a tent in the barren Depsang Valley in the Ladakh region, a symbolic claim of sovereignty deep inside Indian-held territory. So stealthy was the operation that India did not discover the incursion until a day later, Indian officials said.
China denies any incursion, but Indian officials say that for two weeks, the soldiers have refused to move back over the so-called Line of Actual Control that divides Indian-ruled territory from Chinese-run land, leaving the government on the verge of a crisis with its powerful northeastern neighbor.
Indian officials fear that if they react with force, the face-off could escalate into a battle with the powerful People’s Liberation Army. But doing nothing would leave a Chinese outpost deep in territory India has ruled since independence.”
h/t Maz2
Scratch a Leftist
UN Watch – Top Rights Prize Nominee Supports Killing Israelis