Here’s an example of one of the protesters that Nancy Pelosi is so fond of:
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If you pour a Scotsman a wee stiff dram or two he’ll bend your ear at length, and if you keep pouring he will probably break into song at some point. Tonight, Scottish music hall performer Harry Lauder tells the tale of how he and polar explorer Ernest Shackleton came this close to discovering the South Pole: from 1910, here’s The Bounding Bounder.
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It’s Probably Nothing
Telegraph – Unilever will adopt marketing strategies used in developing countries in order to drive future growth in Europe…
If Women Ran The World
“…American feminists have gotten themselves in the business of pimping out young women… for the cause.” (h/t Michael)
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Terror in Copenhagen…
… about 70 men, some armed with “cudgels,” invaded the Odense University Hospital emergency ward, looking to further harm, even possibly kill, a man who had just been admitted in critical condition with a gunshot wound.
Probably Irish.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
From the comments – “Stock photo, no less, from Tumblr. They used it 4 months ago.”
Via
Take Me, Obama
The eighth stage is derangement.
The Sound Of Settled Science
More evidence that the big, glowing ball in the sky may affect Earth’s climate;
A study published in the journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) shows an association between the freezing of the Rhine River in Central Europe and variation in sunspots. The study examined records of the Rhine going back to 1780 and noted that it froze in places 14 times from that period to 1963. It has not frozen since. Ten of the 14 times it froze were periods of a quiet sun (few sunspots). The suggested link is that a dormant sun emits less ultraviolet energy, which heats the upper atmosphere, thus changing the atmospheric circulation patterns and weather patterns for various regions of Europe. The study suggests that the unusually cold winters in Central Europe in 2010 and 2011 were the result of low solar activity, contradicting those who are claiming these are the result of declining Arctic sea ice. Of course, the study is not definitive, but suggests further investigation is needed.
Those Moderate Muslims!
The Taliban beheaded seventeen party-goers, including two women dancers, in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province as punishment, recalling the darkest days of rule by the ultra-conservative Islamist insurgents before their ouster in 2001.
They’re always “conservative” Islamists. More here.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Or anywhere else – Armed Citizen Stops Violent Attack on Cop
Update – apparently, the wait has been going on six years. Not sure how this story got resurrected!
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The New York Times public editor, on fleeing the hive….
Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.
As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.
And the sniffy response.
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Tonight we watch some amateur film-footage, shot 75 years ago in the summer of 1937, showing summer vacationers on the beaches and dunes on the sometimes stormy German island of Sylt in the North Sea.
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The Tolerant Left
RNC protestor arrested with machete strapped to his leg.
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian theocracy to vote for;
In Zlitan, witnesses said that an armed group, claiming to be Salafis, carried out the assault on the Sufi shrine, the tomb of Abdel Salam al-Asmar, a 15th-century Muslim scholar…The attackers also set fire to a historic library, reducing years of academic and religious writing to ash. While the official line from the government is condemnation, there are reports security forces stood by and just let this destruction go ahead.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
The federal New Democrats returned more than $340,000 in advertising revenue received over six years following a Conservative party complaint to Elections Canada about union logos at a Vancouver policy convention, the Star has learned.
The Star obtained internal party documents showing the federal NDP returned a total of $344,468 — including GST — in advertising revenues from eight unions and seven other organizations, received at three separate policy conventions. The funds were returned in April and May.
The amount includes $40,860 at the 2006 convention in Quebec City, $102,500 from the 2009 convention in Halifax and $201,108 at the Vancouver convention last year.
Elections Canada said earlier this year the NDP had violated political financing laws by accepting an unspecified amount in sponsorships from unions at the Vancouver convention in June 2011, saying those sponsorships fall under the rules that ban donations from unions and corporations.
Of course, the Star headline blames the Conservatives.
h/t wallyj
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I just placed an order for a 3 Piece CDV Radiation Detector/Geiger Counter Set.
h/t Black Mamba
Light In Slow Motion
h/t jg
“I was wrong about the Robocalls Scandal”
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Tonight, we watch an assortment of strangers as they learn about their country and its history on a coast-to-coast Greyhound bus trip across America: here’s the highly patriotic 1956 film Freedom Highway.
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Hey, Rubes!
