It seems odd that in the orgy of recrimination, faux solemnity and glycerine tears of the past few days on the issue of “What can we do?” no one has mentioned something that is A.) Immediate, B) Cheap and C) Bound to be effective and at the least, D) Certainly worth trying.
It’s been mentioned plenty, actually, just not much by our betters in media. They have soap to sell, after all.
But when it comes to things that haven’t been mentioned…
2008 – 2011 “Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board” predict a disaster for farmers if the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) monopoly is ever dissolved.
2012-12-18: Farmers freed from the CWB are doing great!
Let Freedom Reign!
Dostoevsky’s 6 Nightmare Prophecies That Came True in the 20th Century
The commotion sent horrified restaurant patrons into the movie theater lobby, but the gunman followed. He again attempted to open fire, and this time his gun didn’t jam. Garcia reportedly shot one man in the chest before Antu says an off-duty sheriff’s deputy working security the theater shot him once, dropping him to the floor.
Flashback: Michael Moore’s Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge
h/t CL
In email from chief campaign advisor David Axelrod that urges supporters to watch President Obama’s moving address to the community of Newtown, Conn., there are two links that open a page with a video player featuring the president’s speech and two donate buttons asking for $15-$1,000 for his campaign.
“The next chapter begins today. Stand with President Obama for the next four years,” headlines the donation page.
A gun found at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and soldiers where a beauty queen died was part of the botched “Fast and Furious” operation, CBS News reports.
Authorities had said that Maria Susana Flores Gamez was likely used as a human shield and that an automatic rifle had been found near her body after the Nov. 23 shootout.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, tells CBS News that the Justice Department did not notify Congress that a Fast and Furious firearm was found at the scene in Sinaloa.
When the attorney general does it, that means it is not illegal.
The car with the $23,000 battery;
When the new plug-in sales share of the total market is only a pathetic 0.65%, this is hardly shocking:
Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf Prove Tough Resells – Used EV Market Less Than Booming […]
Of course all new cars lose roughly 20% of their value the moment they roll off the lot. But there are a lot of used plug-in-specific problems.
You don’t get the $7,500 federal bribe on the used ones.
In my case, nothing got done until I threatened to sue. Not Wikipedia – the lowly “volunteer” who kept restoring the page. I tracked down his real name, his address, where he went to school.
That’s when I got their attention.
And a US-armed Muslim Brotherhood: US sending 20 more F-16s to Egypt
We’re going to kick off this year’s Christmas music selections with our annual presentation – let’s call it a tradition – of a surprising musical performance that raises the spirits by all but erasing, for a magical moment, the distance between quotidian reality and the transcendent.
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With a totalitarian theocracy to vote for!
The sharia constitution is not winning by a slim margin. It is winning in a landslide.
‘Cause you can see her face on the driver passenger license: Women Without Hijabs Were Prevented From Voting In Egypt
The rules are different when it’s one of their own;
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has gone missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. The reports also say that Aziz Akyavaş, a Turkish journalist working with Engel, is unaccounted for. NBC News has been successfully keeping Engel’s status subject to a news blackout—one to which Gawker agreed until now—for at least the past 24 hours.
Here’s hoping he’s found safe and sound.
The NDP government, which has long sung the praises of northern hydro development, has asked the province’s Public Utilities Board to review two proposed projects with a price tag of $13.4 billion to determine if there is a better alternative, such as electricity generated from natural gas.
The board will do a review, though it has already said Manitoba Hydro, the government-owned public utility, could build a natural gas-fired plant to supply Manitobans with power cheaper than that from the two northern dams.
The NDP is still saying publicly the Keeyask and Conawapa projects represent a major economic-development opportunity, one that could propel the province’s economy for decades to come.
But the review has the feel of political cover for a government looking for a way out of a difficult situation. The NDP is in a tough spot, which could become a politician’s nightmare — rising electricity prices at home while Manitoba Hydro is financing expensive projects to generate power for consumers elsewhere who no longer want to buy it.
On this infrared video taken at night, one can see bats “investigating” the moving blades of a wind turbine. Strikes are also recorded.
In the America as defined by American media, you know more about Sarah Palin’s uterus than you do the Attorney General’s criminal background;
As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.
Ed Driscoll: A president supported by an ex-Weatherman and the New Black Panthers might as well have a Winter Soldier in his cabinet for the complete Radical Chic Meets Geritol experience. If only Leonard Bernstein was still around to savor the moment.
Joe Scarborough, who claims to be a “proud NRA member” just said there is no reason to allow someone to have an “assault weapon” that shoots “30 rounds a second.”
Related: Obama Showcases the Magical Thinking of Gun Controllers
Has the Polish PM lost control of his senses?
