Ed Driscoll, on how American elites went insane:“Apologies for the length of this post, but it’s merely a partial list of 1968′s horror stories.”
The Beginning of the End
My own naïve optimism was dashed on the rocks in Lebanon and Iraq and hasn’t recovered. I never even bothered with optimism in Egypt. There’s nothing there to be optimistic about.
And I rarely meet anybody who actually lives over there who isn’t a pessimist. Expecting the best while everyone around you is expecting the worst is a difficult thing to pull off. It probably isn’t advisable even to try.
But I’m finding a bit of homegrown optimism in some quarters of Lebanon now, despite the fact that the economy is on its back and the Syrian war threatens to blow the country to pieces again, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t report it.
The Zombie Feminist
“In other words, I fear there will come the point (if we’re not there already) that trying to reason with anybody on the left will not only be impossible, but they are so indoctrinated to hate the right (or anybody who disagrees with them), they will become violent and dangerous.”
It’s Probably Nothing
Netherlands on Edge of Economic Crisis; Unemployment Surges as Home Prices Collapse
h/t Kevin B
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
Alberta health-care insiders go outside for personal care: Steward
Senior Alberta health-care official travelled to Mayo clinic for checkup and billed the province.
They Need To Get That Hiroshima Team Back
IAEA: Japan nuke cleanup may take more than 40 yrs
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The NRA must be thanking its lucky stars that a bumbling amateur like Barack Obama is in the White House instead of the arch-politician Maureen Dowd…
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“How confident was the Sydney Morning Herald that the Boston bombers were associated with the Tea Party?”
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
According to White House visitor log records, Obama’s chief fundraiser Matthew Barzun was among those in attendance at the Dec. 5 White House meeting that also included Shawn Reilly, the Kentucky politico who is accused of secretly bugging a campaign meeting held by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, a scene from the 1964 Austrian film “Unsere tollen Tanten in der Südsee”, German actress/singer Trude Herr, in character as the zestful Aglaia Schultz, goes to energetic lengths to ensure that no one feels completely excluded from her Hula Twist.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Dateline Iraq, 2004: There were no weapons of mass destruction
Dateline Boston, 2013: Marathon bomb suspect charged with using weapon of mass destruction
Canadian Excluded Peoples Attack “Thwarted”
Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, arresting suspects in Ontario and Quebec, CBC News has learned.
Highly placed sources tell CBC News the alleged plotters have been under surveillance for more than a year in Quebec and southern Ontario.
Broad Strata Update: Muslim community leaders and imams gathering at Toronto RCMP airport detachment for briefing on terror plot arrests
Update: RCMP news release here.
Ontario RCMP: “This is the first time the #RCMP has laid charges related to an Al-Qaeda supported attack on Canadian soil.”
@StewartBellNP Toronto terror suspects are not Canadians, suspects were getting support from ‘al Qaeda elements in Iran’: RCMP
Because “Bush”: CDN reporter on terrorist plot “this was Iran.. not Iraq?”#via
— katewerk (@katewerk) April 22, 2013
Most recent from @JustinTrudeau:
RT @carolyn_bennett: Why being a camp counsellor is great training for becoming a PM m.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting… #cdnpoli#leadership
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) April 22, 2013
Y2Kyoto: Earth Day
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Wired – “Luckily, our science writers of the 1990s were wrong about almost everything.”
h/t Kelley
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving rentseeker;
General Electric Co warned of slowing profit growth in its industrial businesses due to weakness in Europe and sliding turbine sales, unnerving Wall Street and pushing its stock down.
War On Literacy
Huge implications for “bate”;
A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found that six no longer use the term “master” in their floor plans to describe the largest bedroom in the house. They have replaced it with “owner’s suite” or “owner’s bedroom” or, in one case, “mastre bedroom.”
Why? In large part for exactly the reason you would think: “Master” has connotation problems, in gender (it skews toward male) and race (the slave-master).
h/t Charles
Y2Kyoto: Uff-da
Minnesota “lowest temperature ever reported in the state in the second half of April”; breaks statewide cold record for April 20 by 14 degrees
Reader Tips
Tonight, some 75-year-old footage of the 1938 Boston Marathon.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, has been providing some interesting videos in space: