One of the biggest advantages to being completely tone-deaf is that it allows you to feel proud of your remarkable multi-octave vocal range..
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“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
“Very senior person” at White House emailed Bob Woodward “you’re going to regret doing this,” says Woodward live now on @cnn.
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) February 27, 2013
Progressive Piggies
After all, some animals are more equal than others–scroll down. At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
…Think of the Canadian Leftist dynasty of David Lewis, Stephen Lewis and Avi Lewis. A family history that charts Leftism’s arc from plausibly misguided idealism to grubby featherbedding quite well.
By viewing the Left as aspiring quasi-hereditary aristocrats, their self-interest becomes perfectly logically. They despise capitalism because it is a threat to their power and influence. They like money because it reinforces their privilege, power and comfort…
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“What was the process for getting dressed?”
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Heh.
“That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time”
The famous investigative journalists are always the last to notice.
CBC Fruit Fly Guy
When we first arrived we were welcomed, asked how long we’d like with the good doctor and where we should set up our shot. When it was revealed we represented Sun News, we were no longer welcome.
David Suzuki didn’t just refuse to speak to us. He refused to appear altogether, sending a handful of hostile event organizers to remove us from the premises. They would, eventually, but not before creating a real drama in front of a real audience that exposed the real nature of David Suzuki.
After much debate and my reiterating I would be staying to ask a question, one of the event-organizers-turned-Suzuki-mandated-attack-dogs turned to the sizable crowd, incensed that I wouldn’t leave quietly, and yelled for someone to call 911 – help! A reporter is trying to do her job!
No one did anything except Green Party leader Elizabeth May (who was at the event as a moderator) who got up, ran across the floor and pleaded for me to be allowed to stay, yelling to the organizer: “Only Rob Ford calls 911 on the media!”
Credit where it’s due. Good for her.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Coping with surplus wind power will cost Ontario electricity ratepayers up to $200 million a year if market rules don’t change, says the power system operator.
Moreover, it says, if it can’t control the flow of wind and solar power onto the Ontario grid, then “reliable and economic operation of the power system is, at best, highly compromised and likely not feasible.”
[…]
When there’s more power than the system can handle, the IESO sells it to neighbouring provinces and states — sometimes at a loss, and sometimes actually paying them to take it.
No worries, there’s plenty of wood in the Greenbelt.
h/t AK
Blue State
“The Illinois Lottery bounced dozens of checks written to winners, many for scratch-off tickets worth $1,000.”
Doug Christie
A free speech champion in the fight of his life: Doug Christie, 66, has been admitted to Royal Jubilee Hospital and in a Monday telephone interview, confirmed doctors have told him he has cancer in his liver and about six months to live.
Audio of his Feb. 26 interview on John Gormley Live here.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
All is unfolding according to plan;
“The thing is, and this isn’t race bating or racism in the least bit, but because African Americans in the 70′s and 80′s were more single parent house holds than their Caucasian counterparts, most African American women today were raised not only without 2 parents around, but are fully convinced they don’t need a man. we kinda like have a 20 year head start on this whole feminism thing.
Black women have been telling black men they aren’t s**t, weren’t s**t and never will be S**T well before their Caucasian counterparts thought it was cool.”
Except for maybe the “fat” part. (h/t EBD)
2013 Bloggies
You cannot make this stuff up…here is the CAPCHA code: ichcock fruitfly
“They want money or they want drugs or they want death”
“You are incredibly judgemental with a total disregard to harm reduction principles.”
So you know it’s good.
Reader Tips
Tonight, the incomparable Edith Piaf, alive as shadows and light, sings La Vie en Rose to a rapt Parisian audience in 1954.
h/t
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If Women Ran The World
“No, after eleven minutes there is, in theory, no life left to save on the other side of the door,” (h/t Kevin B)
A Member Of The Major Media Is On To Something
Inimitable Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail (more here earlier), assisted by pllster Darrell Bricker, sees the multicultural suburban and western light–and David Akin of Sun News approves:
Harper “Birthers” and other Laurentian media conspiracies
…
Many (most?) members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery should read this book if only for Bricker’s demographic analysis which may help those of us in Ottawa understand some of the shifts in thought and temperament in the rest of the country. Mind you, I and my press gallery colleagues will also learn that Ibbitson and Bricker think very little of most of our employers and their Laurentian bias when it comes to the news.
Ibbitson (though he works for a paper that is among the most guilty in terms of providing false comfort for the Laurentian elites — anyone see the Globe’s A1 after Redford won her Alberta premiership?) and Bricker are scathing when it comes to the the hysterics of Harper’s mainstream media critics. Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin and Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick get singled out but there is no shortage of what Ibbitson and Bricker call Laurentian media elites who “believe that any government outside its ideological or geographical frame of reference is not a legitimate government. Its policies are not simply wrong, but destructive. The suburban voters who have detached themselves from their former allies in city centers are deluded. The elections that brought such a government to power had to have been corrupted. The Conservative government is not misguided; it is evil. Stephen Harper is evil.”..
Bit of worm-turning by Mr Ibbitson, I’d say.
The Tolerant Left
Meet Progress Kentucky: “not many know McConnell’s wife is Chinese.”
America’s Debt Problem, Graphically Speaking
A sad reality of modern times is that debts are so huge that most people can’t grasp the extremely large (and long) numbers involved. To help those in the ‘Math is Hard’ crowd better understand why America’s Sequestration Debate has a complete premise problem from the get go, this pair of diagrams clearly illustrates the issue:
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Scratch the New York Times…
To get a full, accurate picture, Times readers have to plow through Rudoren’s article until they finally reach Paragraph No. 11 — in a 13-paragraph article — to discover that the reason Israeli forces used live fire is that they were confronted by Palestinians “who were throwing improvised grenades at worshipers near the tomb.”
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
US military report showing drop in Taliban attacks found to be incorrect
h/t Maz2