I live in a country where a Prime Ministr’s son is contesting his mistress for leadership of political party – and it’s not Italy. #lpcldr
— katewerk (@katewerk) January 20, 2013
“Armstrong, Te ‘o And Obama Walk Into A Bar”
Bin Laden is Dead And An “Unknown Number” Of Hostages Are Dead
The death toll from the bloody terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed to at least 81 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the complex for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured they could not immediately be identified, a security official said.
An account from a survivor.
Is it just me who thinks this story being massively underplayed in the news cycle?
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Dead Parrot Motor Company: “Electric car is not dead”
Y2Kyoto: Quote Of The Week
“I would like to improve the world a bit. I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
h/t soundofmusak
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
*Disturbing Video* Woman Thrown On Subway Tracks During Violent Attack. Police keep incident secret.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“The editors were unable to find the Chipman family.“ (h/t Rick McGinnis)
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
The tolerant left.
More on the police intervention here.
Reader Tips
A gun can be a .22 or a .38, and it will silence you. But if you should see a lady who….dum-dum, dooby dumb-dumb, etc., etc.
Hey, c’mon, it’s Saturday night.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader TIps.
Helicopter Parents Buzzing Around Every Aspect of their Children’s Lives
Interesting times in Canada’s business world these days:
Walking into a job interview with a Canadian architectural firm, a young candidate brings something unexpected: mom. An employee with the British Columbia company says it was the first time she had seen a parent shadow the hiring process, describing what ensued as “a bit of an awkward situation.” But she adds that there have been at least five or six recent occasions in which a mother or father sat with their grown child in the waiting room before an interview. According to experts, this could soon become commonplace.
Discussion here (audio podcast).
Actual Conversation between a management official at a prominent Canadian business school and a senior HR businesswoman:
Business school manager: “We see these parents all the time. They do their kids no favours.”
HR businesswoman: “You’d think the kids would be absolutely mortified?!”
Business school manager: “Believe it or not, the kids aren’t mortified at all. They get their parents to complain about their grades, push for interviews and attend coaching sessions. I don’t get it. At that age, I wanted to be independent more than anything. These kids just want to be coddled. Doesn’t say a lot for our next generation of leaders!”
The Sound Of Settled Science
Video Lecture: Solar vs. Anthropogenic–Better Understanding of 20th Century Climate Change
Rightfully Mocking the Inhabitants of Canada’s Left Coast
On The Range With Jessie Duff
With Sean Hannity.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
Just Imagine . . .
Just imagine a far-away, magical place in the distant future where everyone is treated the same way regardless of their skin colour, ethnicity, or cultural heritage. Impossible, you say? Welcome to Saskatchewan in 2013!
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
With energy costs escalating, more Germans are turning to wood burning stoves for heat. That, though, has also led to a rise in tree theft in the country’s forests. Woodsmen have become more watchful.
With snow blanketing the ground, it’s the perfect time of year to snuggle up in front of a fireplace. That, though, makes German foresters nervous. When the mercury falls, the theft of wood in the country’s woodlands goes up as people turn to cheaper ways to heat their homes.
Germans have wind power to keep them warm.
Reader Tips
Press a conch to your ear, close your eyes, and listen to Lani McIntire and His Hawaiians’s rendition of Sweet Leilani.
Later, Der Bingle cuts in.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Take Me, Obama
CNN “journalist” has been writing letters to Obama every day of his first term.
Blame It On Bush
Shocking, shocking development;
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on charges that he used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The charges against Mr. Nagin are the outgrowth of a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen and a prison sentence for a former city vendor.
Didn’t the Government Build It?
Last night Charles Adler and Ezra Levant’s producer, Rikki Ratliff, had an in-depth discussion about why so many Americans are disenchanted with their federal government.
According to the Chorus on the Left, the government and all of its public sector workers are the key reason for America’s prosperity and everything good in it. Is it possible that this is not true?!