What would we do without “reports”? 70% of children will be overweight adults by 2040: Ontario report
Free Lech Walesa!
My fellow Canadian free speechers, do note:
Describing Bill Whatcott as “a lone nut who nobody pays any attention to” etc. to bolster your arguments (whether you truly believe that or are just using it as a wimpy fig leaf of respectability) now collides with these statements about homosexuality by Lech Walesa, who is neither “lone” nor a universally acknowledged “nut,” and who is certainly capable of getting lots of attention.
Now what do you do?
QOTD
According to his own lawyers, absolutely nothing was preventing Obama from taking out both Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman with a drone strike
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) March 4, 2013
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Given their record, you’d think the UN would have the good sense to lie low on this topic;
UN special rapporteur on the right to food Olivier de Schutter spent 11 days in Canada last year. He went to Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton. He met with federal, provincial and municipal officials, aboriginal representatives, farmers, academics, and other members of civil-society groups.
He presented his final report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on Monday. He claims a “growing number of people” are food-insecure in Canada, quoting estimates that vary between 1.92 million and 4.3 million people. Canada’s population is a little over 34 million.
De Schutter says such food insecurity is due to Conservative government policies, specifically the abolition of the mandatory long-form census and the Canadian Wheat Board…
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Related: Student suspended for disarming gunman.
Pharma Shrugs
Government regulation is stifling America’s vibrant pharmaceutical industry. A recent report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology estimates that it costs an average of $1.2 billion to win FDA approval and bring a new drug to market.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Walter Cronkite’s on-air report from Vietnam — which the president did not see — supposedly elicited his famous lament: ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ Shortly thereafter, Johnson would make his most memorable television appearance, announcing that he would not run for president in 1968.”
Take Me, Obama
He’s Just Not That Into You: Obama Aide Calls Female Journalist ‘Bitch, C-t, A-hole’
Reader Tips
Amor is the Spanish word for love, but it depends to some extent on the context. When Les Alcarson sings it, for example, it means “my pantalones are about to burst, and I need you to understand that.”
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
I Amuse Myself
When do we get to see @justintrudeau debate the chick his dad was banging? #lpcdb8
— katewerk (@katewerk) March 3, 2013
This Is Awkward
A big, meaty bone for our BC readership: Christy Clark calls emergency cabinet meeting in wake of ethnic vote scandal
Old Mann, New Trick
(Quick summary here.)
The Hoover Dam Was Built Without The Aid Of Calculators
“I’m going to build you a barn.”
A horse racing story with a happy ending… (h/t TimR)
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
Nearly two years ago, an LA-based company called Rentech Inc. announced plans to build a biofuels plant four hours north of Sault St. Marie, Ontario. It would use forest waste and “unmerchantable” tree species for making renewable jet fuel and naphtha, a chemical feedstock used to make all sorts of products. That plant was supposed to be operational in 2015. It was supposed to employ up to 1,000 people during peak construction, and keep 83 people directly employed full time in a region of the province that could really use those jobs.
Ain’t gonna happen, it seems.
Rentech is working closely with Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), whose C$500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund (NGBF) offers a significant potential funding source for the Olympiad Project. After a year of discussions with SDTC, Rentech has recently submitted an application for funding to the NGBF, which funds up to 40 per cent to a maximum of C$200 million of eligible project development and construction costs, which would be repaid from a percentage of the project’s cash flows.
h/t Paul K
Reader Tips
♪They smile at your face, but behind your back they hiss / What’s a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this? ♫
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Tolerant Left
Maybe “tolerant” is the wrong word.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Because it’s worked everywhere it’s been tried;
“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”
Free Tom Flanagan!
Context, from a member of the Lethbridge audience.
I have read the rhetorical question in articles published on Flanagan’s child porn remarks, “How Flanagan got onto the child pornography topic from the Indian Act, we’re not sure…” I hope after reading and viewing the above clips you will know now.
The Obama Effect
October 13th, 2012 – “We refuse to let Detroit go bankrupt…”
h/t TimR