Tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips features the story of the unlikely friendship between Suriya the orang-utan and Roscoe the worn-out hound dog.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Canada’s Destructive Teachers’ Unions in 2013: Out of Place, Out of Time
More than a few Canadians have noticed how incredibly backwards and downright unruly public sector teachers’ unions across Canada continue to be. Listening to the rhetoric of their leaders, one should be forgiven for thinking they’ve been transported back to a 1920’s Marxist-Communist rally. Not too long ago Margarete Wente wrote a column about the Ontario Teachers’ Union. A few days ago Jon Ferry did the same about the BC Teachers’ Union.
Today, Roy Green discussed Ferry’s column with him. It’s well worth a listen!
“Children” in the White House Press Corps
More here
The obvious Canadian question is, “When will the media on Parliament Hill be replaced by grown-ups who will hold the Liberal and NDP politicians accountable?” Would asking for this even just once a month be too much?!
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
U.N. REQUESTS FISH BROTH RECIPE
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t “Do”?
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Not only are the Liberals forcing electricity consumers (us) to spend outrageous amounts of cash buying wind power via the 20-year, no-cut contracts they’ve signed with the wind industry, they’ve also stipulated that whenever wind power is produced, it has to be bought before all other forms of energy.
And since we have an energy surplus in Ontario because of our depressed economy, when the province buys wind power, it has to dump cheaper forms of energy like hydro power, or sell it, often at a loss, to Quebec or the U.S.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Chase Power, the parent company behind the $3 billion Las Brisas coal power plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, announced yesterday that it was cancelling the project.
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Freysinger made it very clear who was responsible for the projects death. “The (Las Brisas Energy Center) is a victim of EPA’s concerted effort to stifle solid-fuel energy facilities in the U.S., including EPA’s carbon-permitting requirements and EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for new power plants,” he said.
The Las Brisas power plant had been part of a larger Las Brisas Energy Center project planned for Corpus Christi’s Inner Harbor.Economists had projected that in the first 5 years of construction and operation the project would create as 1,300 direct and 2,600 indirect jobs. Now none of those jobs will exist.
Who’s Your Daddy?
Constitution schmonstitution:
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a setback for President Barack Obama, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that he violated the Constitution in making recess appointments last year, a decision that could severely curtail the president’s ability to bypass the Senate to fill administration vacancies.
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White House press secretary Jay Carney said the administration strongly disagrees with the decision and that the NLRB would continue to conduct business as usual.
Reader Tips
Q: What do you get when you take all those ominous minor chords in The Doors’ original recording of “Riders On The Storm” and digitally transpose them into major chords?
A: A mildly disconcerting exercise in cognitive dissonance called Riders On The Rainbow.
Gotta love those major 7ths.
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Things You’ll Never Hear on the CBC
Toronto’s civic politics seems to be sabotaged at every turn by left-wing “activists” who have perfected the act of pouting better than a 3-year old whose mother took away his lollipop. Roy Green discusses the dysfunctional situation with Toronto City Councillors Doug Ford and Doug Holyday.
Related: In case you missed it, Christie Blatchford provided an hilarious & biting summary of yesterday’s good news for Mayor Rob Ford. h/t bluetech
Honey, I Finished The Internet
America’s Express Elevator to Financial Oblivion
In his most recent column, Charles Krauthammer illustrates in vivid detail how Obama has dramatically increased spending and will continue on that path unabated. Undoubtedly, the “Math is Hard” crowd just yawns.
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Government over the people, by the elitists, for the elitists, shall destroy productive America in 8 short years.” — Anyone with common sense and Grade 6 math skills
This Is Awkward
[The website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission], an independent agency of the judicial branch, was taken over early Saturday and replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago “a line was crossed.”
Update: Much better link here.
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and “use of insulting language will no longer be illegal in cases in which a specific victim cannot be identified”.
In a government climb down, the Public Order Act that covers speech and writing on signs and states: “A person is guilty of an offence if he uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour”, will be changed to remove the word insulting. The move follows a high-profile campaign which united Christian and secular groups and was spearheaded by the comedian Rowan Atkinson, the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the former shadow home secretary David Davis.
The push to change section five of the act followed a series of headline-grabbing arrests and prosecutions ranging from an Oxford student asking a police officer “Do you realise your horse is gay?” which Thames Valley police described as homophobic and “offensive to people passing by”, to a 16 year old holding up a placard that said “Scientology is a dangerous cult”.
God save the Queen.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music Arizona-born Junior Brown – a darn fine “guit-steel” player, as you’ll hear – wonders Where Has All The Money Gone?.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Consent Of The Governed
A Tiananmen Square survivor speaks to the 2nd Amendment.
Related: “From Florida to California, a growing number of the nation’s sheriffs are standing up to gun control measures…”
Be It Ever So Humble, There’s No Place Like Toronto
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Posted Toronto, January 25th
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Leftists Value Their Ideology More Than Themselves
“But when reality (in the horrific form of rape) confronts her ideology, she sacrifices herself so that her ideology may remain in tact. The reason why is deep down inside she knows she, herself, has no value. And without her ideology she is nothing.”
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Those Democrats – always in the line of fire.