“Similarly, the dog he ate was a composite too. It wasn’t one dog, it was an amalgam of many breeds, like casserole.”
Related: “It was striking to me that when Genevieve met Obama he was a 22-year-old college graduate, but hadn’t yet figured out what his name was.”
Don’t blame Obama. Blame the author.
Everyone has heard Elvis Presley’s 1960 version of “Are You Lonesome Tonight” but not many people realize that the song was already an older-than-oldie at the time he recorded it. Tonight, we listen to one of the earlier versions, delivered in a bracing Presbyterian burr that makes the old-timey melody that much more persuasive: From 1927, here’s Canadian tenor Henry Burr singing Are You Lonesome Tonight?
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Life in Dearbornisbad..
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Here’s a 19 minute audio essay by Charles Adler that brilliantly mocks today’s Occupy Entitlement generation. It’s a follow-up of sorts to Margaret Wente’s recent column about the rioting Quebec students.
When did they learn to do this!
The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, tracked 52 female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska. Between 2004 and 2009, a period of extreme summer-ice retreat, about a third of those bears made swims exceeding 48 kilometres in distance, according to the study results.
The 50 recorded ultra-marathon swims averaged 155 kilometres, and one bear was able to swim nearly 354 kilometres, according to the study results. The duration of the long-distance swims lasted from most of a day to nearly 10 days.
I blame the overcrowding.
h/t Mike
Mulcair compared Black’s case to that of Gary Freeman, an American-born man who has been denied re-entry into Canada because of a criminal record. The 63-year-old was involved with the Black Panthers, and was extradited to the U.S. in 2008 and pleaded guilty to shooting a police officer in 1969.
Why would GM cut R & D, the source of its future growth, in order to show profits in the short run? Is something happening in, say, November, for which the 26%-government-owned entity might want its balance sheet to look artificially rosy?
h/t marc in calgary
Hey, did Corb Lund ever tell you the one about the time the Truck Got Stuck?
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“Congratulations on another stunning public-relations victory, Occupy.”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Rich Lowry, April 6th – Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.
Virginian-Pilot, May 1st – “Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton.”
(Editors Note – the top quote was originally attributed to the wrong author. Post has been corrected.)
All programs of the left follow the same trajectory;
Sterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.
Court documents filed in India earlier this month claim that many victims have been left in pain, with little or no aftercare. Across the country, there have been numerous reports of deaths and of pregnant women suffering miscarriages after being selected for sterilisation without being warned that they would lose their unborn babies.
Yet a working paper published by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes. The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases, although it warned that there were “complex human rights and ethical issues” involved in forced population control.
All of them.
h/t Bemused
“Ontario is telling sellers of shotguns and rifles to keep paper records of all the people who buy long guns at their stores… “
Oh, the humanity!
Fiscal restraint is rippling through Canada’s national statistical agency, prompting it to start slicing surveys and warn staff of cost cuts and impending layoffs in what it calls a “year of sacrifice” at the organization.
Not only is Statistics Canada facing reductions from the federal budget of about 8 per cent, it is also grappling with an “unprecedented” drop in revenue from other government departments that fund surveys, its chief statistician says.
h/t Maz2
Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.B-N and Iogen Corp. have killed a plan to build a next-generation biofuel plant in Canada, and the Ottawa-based technology company is laying off 150 people.
Imagine that, in a country floating on conventional? But not all is lost – where there’s government mandate, there’s hope!
In a release Monday, the two partners said they will continue with a smaller-scale research project to development cellulosic ethanol from agricultural waste.
h/t Maz2
Find an anti-Semite; (link fixed!)
Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist nicknamed the “father of peace studies,” made anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli remarks while lecturing at the University of Oslo, in an article published afterward in the Norwegian press and in an interview with Haaretz that followed.
Among other statements, Galtung claimed that a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control U.S. media, and divert for the sake of Israel,” wrote Galtung in an article published in Norway.
Related.
h/t EBD
Super Smart Left Wing Academic – Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study
Super Duper Smart Left Wing Academic – “Once all the writing competition submissions have been graded, these scores, as well as the law school transcripts of all those who have chosen to release the, are submitted to a Selection Committee made up of the President ad two other Review editors who have been elected by their fellow editors.”
h/t FFoF
In tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the Tips Bob and Alf Pearson (Alf recently celebrated his 100th birthday) sing a medley of Family Favourites From the Great Depression, including “Why Worry?” and “There’s Always Room At Our House.”
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h/t Drained Brain
