Manitoba creates heritage tree program: if it’s only crown lands, why would they “consider any landowner concerns”?
Reader Tips
Do you know where the finger of suspicion is pointing tonight? Do you? Do you know who is the “guilty who”?
Yes, that’s right. I’m sorry.
The comments remain open, nonetheless, for your Reader Tips.
Comrade, I Finished The Internet
This Is Awkward
The show was staffed up and set to launch with great fanfare Monday morning on 94.1 FM. That frequency already is licensed and used by the CBC for simultaneous broadcast in Saskatoon of the network’s provincewide AM signal, with the morning show out of Regina. The plan was to use that place on the FM dial, at least in the mornings, for live local broadcasting. As of Monday, Saskatoon no longer would be the biggest city in Canada without a local morning show on CBC radio.
The plan went sideways this week because the network forgot to apply for the requisite federal broadcast license.
h/t Rob
Oh, Shiny Pony!
He’s not a real teacher – he just plays one on CTV.
It’s Probably Nothing
Mischa Popoff Will Not Be Bullied
Atlas Shrugged: The Lost Chapter
The Federal Railroad Administration has placed Illinois in charge of buying 35 new, “next generation” locomotives to serve the to-be built high-speed rail lines in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, California and Washington, even though the locomotives do not yet exist.
Reminder: A $4 shrimp is never just a $4 shrimp.
I Wish I Owned All The Oil Companies In The World
So I could start my morning by pulling the plug;
New York City’s pension funds, among the largest in the country, have brought a suit against BP PLC claiming their members lost $39 million as a result of BP’s actions before and after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
In a 237-page complaint, the pension funds allege their investments in BP were made at “artificially inflated” prices because the company exaggerated its ability to work safely in the Gulf.
h/t Adrian
Sushi, She Wrote
The world is being run by crazy people: Police, coroner called to scene of dead fish.
America’s Broken Immigration System
Forward!
A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.
[…]
The case raise questions about whether in 2008, then candidate Obama actually submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the primary ballot.
Reader Tips
Through the twilight I can hear the humming of a melancholy coon, and Tubas in the Moonlight. ♫
h/t Missy T
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
In the Minds of Many BC Voters: “ABCD”
The following occurred on the doorstep of a household in Christy Clark’s Vancouver Point-Grey riding this afternoon:
(Paraphrasing)
BC Liberal Campaign Worker: “Hi! I’m here to see if we can count on your vote for Premier Christy Clark in the upcoming election?”
Resident: “Ummm, I’m not so sure about that.”
Worker: “Do you really want to see the NDP get in again and hurt our province’s economy?”
Resident: “No, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for Christy Clark.”
A few minutes later . . .
Worker, in a hushed tone: “Look, can I be honest with you? We already know we’re going to lose the election but can’t you help Christy Clark from suffering the embarrassment of losing her own seat?”
Resident: “I’ll think about it.”
Let me reassert what I’ve said before: No centrist or right-of-centre BC voter with a conscience can possibly walk into the voting booth on May 14th and be happy about the choices. Based on numerous conversations I’ve had, I’m convinced that the majority of such people have a common mindset: “ABCD” = “Anybody But Clark or Dix”
If the NDP & Dix get into power, the province is almost certain to be in much worse financial shape 4 years from now. But voting for the Liberals isn’t much of a viable choice either. Unlike when Gordon Campbell ran it, it is now infested with federal Liberals, some of whom have moved here from Ottawa. Canadians rejected them wholeheartedly yet common sense British Columbians are supposed to give them a warm embrace?! They keep on burdening citizens with an endless series of ridiculous taxes that make no sense to most anyone.
To better understand our predicament, think about voting in a hypothetical future federal election when your only two choices are Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau. Not such an easy decision then, is it?
Powering America: Uranium Mining and Milling
Filmed at Cameco’s McArthur River and Key Lake mines.
If Women Ran The World
More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said. The officers were charged Tuesday in a federal racketeering indictment.
The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers became pregnant by one inmate. Two of them got tattoos of the inmate’s first name, Tavon — one on her neck, the other on a wrist.
h/t EBD
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Mary Nichols, of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), is chiding automakers for petitioning for a relaxation of the state’s requirements that 1.4 million electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles be sold by 2025. “Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot, or maybe I could say, tripping over your own halo,” CARB’s chairwoman told the Society of Automotive Engineers’ International World Congress. “Rather than rehashing the same, tired legal battles of our past, why not work together to collectively support and develop this market?”
Indeed, according to Automotive News, California is requiring General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Nissan and Toyota to sell a combined 60,000 plug-in, battery-electric and fuel-cell cars through 2014 and by 2018, the state’s zero-emissions-vehicles (ZEV) mandate will extend to BMW, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen.
h/t Kevin B
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
john g, in the comments;
2009: CBC Refuses to run CPC anti-Ignatieff attack ads. “We’ll only accept political advertising like that when there is an election campaign on,” he told Canwest. “We have generally pretty strict guidelines.”
2013: Justin Trudeau’s “teacher” ad aired on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada during the Ottawa/Philadelphia broadcast tonight, at least once. I must have missed Stephen Harper’s visit to Rideau Hall earlier today.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Eric Holder, April 24th – “The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented – by creating a mechanism for them to earn citizenship and move out of the shadows – transcends the issue of immigration status. This is a matter of civil and human rights.”
CBS, April 25th – “I am an informant and all I can tell you is that Talibans are walking freely right here in the soil of America right now, right now.”
h/t Frank
