Via SunNews.
Y2Kyoto: Mission Qatar
h/t ES
Peggy Joseph’s America
“After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young, he went to Washington, D.C. and came home with some bacon,” said Watson. “That’s what you do.”
Via Drudge
Reader Tips
In tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips we watch the trailer for Savage Guns, the groundbreaking 1961 film that simultaneously heralded, and ended, a new film genre: the vaguely, ever-so-slightly, almost imperceptibly gay western.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
THIS JUST IN:
This should scare the daylights out of every American. RT @lachlan: Maxine Waters will be the top Dem on the Financial Services Committee.
— Kevin Eder (@keder) December 4, 2012
Yes, that Maxine Waters.
And from our bulging Cloward-Piven conspiracy files: Obama Consults MSNBC’s Maddow, O’Donnell and Sharpton on Tax Rates.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
“…Trudeau then blew his advantage, or most of it anyway, by going wobbly.“
What We Really Need Is Democracy
Lather, rinse, repeat.
(Awkward).
Pension Plans For Koolaid Drinkers
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The Children Are Our Future
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
Every time producers come up with a design for chicken cages the Humane Society of the United States, the animal rights group that wrote and sponsored Proposition 2, says it’s inadequate.
“HSUS is all over the board,” Arnie Riebli, president of the Association of California Egg Farmers, told our reporter. “It depends on what day we talk to them, what the story is for the day.”
“Statutes don’t always come in sizes,” HSUS attorney Jonathan Lovvorn then told our reporter. “We don’t want to tell farmers what kind of cages to use.”
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
The Sound Of Settled Science
When the Atlantic hurricane season starts next June 1, it will have been 2,777 days since the last time an intense (that is a Category 3, 4 or 5) hurricane made landfall along the US coast (Wilma in 2005). Such a prolonged period without an intense hurricane landfall has not been observed since 1900.
Y2Kyoto: Eat Your Greens
Should it come to pass that we must make a choice between food or fuel, it should be noted that there are now enough self-identified “greens” in existence to sustain the remaining human population until the fuel problem has been rectified.
So, turn up the thermostat, and pass the salt.
(h/t andycanuck)
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music longtime Edmonton Folk Music Festival favourites Capercaillie, all the way from Argyll, Scotland, play a tune from their 2000 album Nàdurra called Michael’s Matches.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
In recent years, a University of Oklahoma vice president has declared that no university resources, including e-mail, could be used for “the forwarding of political humor/commentary.” The College at Brockport in New York banned using the Internet to “annoy or otherwise inconvenience” anyone. Rhode Island College prohibited, among many other things, certain “attitudes.” Texas Southern University’s comprehensive proscriptions included “verbal harm” from damaging “assumptions” or “implications.” Texas A&M promised “freedom from indignity of any type.” Davidson banned “patronizing remarks.” Drexel University forbade “inappropriately directed laughter.” Western Michigan University banned “sexism,” including “the perception” of a person “not as an individual, but as a member of a category based on sex.” Banning “perceptions” must provide full employment for the burgeoning ranks of academic administrators.
h/t EBD
‘At What Price?’
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Kitty Holland, the Irish Times reporter who broke the story about the death of Savita Halappanavar that launched a global crusade against Ireland’s pro-life laws, has admitted that the story of Mrs. Halappanavar asking for an abortion may have been a little bit “muddled” in the retelling, and there may have been no such request after all.
h/t Kathy Shaidle
An open letter to Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock
“Honestly, who do the two of you think you are to demand that my blood be shed so that you may preen about what wonderful people you are?”
h/t Viewer from afar
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
This Is Awkward
Now is the time at SDA when we get the rest of the story!
CBC, October 2012…
In November, The U of R maintains …
…both students are in good academic standing and are eligible to enrol for classes.
University spokeswoman Barb Pollock also told the Leader-Post last week the U of R has co-operated in giving immigration officials whatever information it can.
“We have been asking to discuss this issue with the government and we have not been successful,” she said at the time.
Oops.
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The U of R rejected her appeal in a letter dated May 31st, 2011 and there’s no evidence a subsequent appeal was initiated or successful.