Tastefully done, Deputy Premier. #MaybeIAmAnAss
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
Death panels? What death panels?
QOTD
…the former world No. 1, was asked if had purchased any Olympic tickets or planned to attend any of the ceremonies.
“I’m going to miss the mayhem and be out of the country, so I won’t be available for security duties[with video]…”
The Sound Of Settled Science
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement saying it had “complete[d] the process of implementation of a set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), the group created by the world’s science academies to provide advice to international bodies.”
Hidden behind this seemingly routine update on bureaucratic processes is an astonishing and entirely unreported story. […]
The IAC reported that IPCC lead authors fail to give “due consideration … to properly documented alternative views” (p. 20), fail to “provide detailed written responses to the most significant review issues identified by the Review Editors” (p. 21), and are not “consider[ing] review comments carefully and document[ing] their responses” (p. 22). In plain English: the IPCC reports are not peer-reviewed.
The IAC found that “the IPCC has no formal process or criteria for selecting authors” and “the selection criteria seemed arbitrary to many respondents” (p. 18). Government officials appoint scientists from their countries and “do not always nominate the best scientists from among those who volunteer, either because they do not know who these scientists are or because political considerations are given more weight than scientific qualifications” (p. 18). In other words: authors are selected from a “club” of scientists and nonscientists who agree with the alarmist perspective favored by politicians.
h/t Robert, and others
Because the Left Believes in Democracy
The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address.
Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.
A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults.
But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, non-citizens and people already registered to vote.
It’s Probably Nothing
The World’s Agricultural Problems Are Much Bigger Than The Drought In The US
h/t Xiat
Gentleman Mitt vs. the street fighter
In a perfect world we’d be hearing this from Mitt Romney instead of John Sununu:
“It’s amazing to me that this president would introduce the word felon into the discourse. This is a president who wallowed in Chicago in the murky soup of politics and felons, a region where the politicians quite often end up as felons in jail. This is a president who cut a very snarky real estate deal with Tony Rezko, who is now in prison for trying to extort some money on a political basis. Why would the president want to give people an opportunity to raise his wallowing with felons in the past by raising that question?”
Reader Tips
Nashville native Kitty Wells, aka The Queen of Country Music, has passed away at the age of 92. Her old-timey, squarish phrasing and unglamorous, modest, everywoman voice sounds rather unhip compared to some the gaudier starlets of today’s country music, but she did have a slew of Top Ten hits: here’s one from 1955 called Making Believe.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Having finished with Mulcair….
Updated with Premier Wall’s speech, below.
Brad Wall stands up for Canada.
Speech:
Press scrum afterwards:
Instalanch. Thanks Glenn.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Tips for not appearing crazy on the internet.
“The EU Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”
Reader Tips
“The big plant manufactured, among other things, glue and estrogen.”
George Jonas: Horses can do (almost) anything.
Martin Luther King BLVD
It’s code for “not this exit”.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
“We can see how the dream of the Islamic Caliphate is being realized, Allah willing, by Dr. Muhammad Mursi and his brothers, his supporters, and his political party. We can see how the great dream, shared by us all – that of the United States of the Arabs… The United States of the Arabs will be restored, Allah willing. The United States of the Arabs will be restored by this man and his supporters.
The capital of the Caliphate – the capital of the United States of the Arabs – will be Jerusalem, Allah willing…”
The Sound Of Settled Science
One in six cancers – two million a year globally – are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest.
The Lancet Oncology review, which looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries, found four main infections are responsible. These four – human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses – account for 1.9m cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers.
Most cases are in the developing world.
The team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France says more efforts are needed to tackle these avoidable cases and recognise cancer as a communicable disease.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Still, there remain glimmers of hope;
Tuesday’s recall election was a giant repudiation of Big Labor. It was a huge smackdown of the union bosses by a Wisconsin that is 86.5% non-union and tired of all the whining. Gov. Scott Walker was the real winner last night.
[…]
Here is the shocker: With no reason for Republicans to vote, Gov. Scott Walker darn near got more votes than the four Democrats combined – 626,538 to 665,436. And how many of his supporters went for Falk in a mischief vote is an open question. What’s more, the Democrats managed to attract only two-thirds as many votes as the 900,000 who signed the recall petitions. Why did almost 300,000 people stay home?
Two If By Tea
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
The Week, February 2012 – The Tea Party’s waning influence: 4 theories
NYT, May 2012 – The results of the primary end the career of one of the longest-serving members of the Senate and provide a new trophy for the Tea Party movement. Mr. Lugar, 80, leaves after three decades as one of the chamber’s leading foreign policy experts and with a reputation as a voice of moderation in his party.
Blog Notes
I was under the weather last night, so we’re off to a slow start this morning. Blogging should be back to normal in a few hours. (And no, it was not self-inflicted.)