We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Nobody saw this coming – “China’s push into solar energy was supposed to be a proud example of how the country was advancing into hi-tech manufacturing. But now the whole sector is on the brink of bankruptcy.”
h/t ES
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m being fitted for full body kevlar.
h/t Rita
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
A House panel is calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to turn over all records involving a half-million dollar contract funded through President Obama’s $831 billion stimulus program that paid for more than 100 commercials on MSNBC touting a “green jobs” initiative.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
If so, why?
UN Adds Sudan’s Genocidal Islamist Warlord To Its Human Rights Council…
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Update: Rush weighs in.
The Party That’s Supportive of Women?
The ongoing meme of the Democrat Party is that their political opponents are constantly waging a war on women. The inference is that Democrats, in contrast, are supportive of women.
It’s therefore confusing to read this story:
Five women who worked for Vito J. Lopez, the assemblyman at the center of a broadening sexual harassment scandal, described in interviews an atmosphere of sexual pressure and crude language in his office, with frequent unwanted advances by him and others, requests for provocative dress, personal questions about their boyfriends and fears of reprisals if they complained.
By their accounts, Mr. Lopez, 71, a Brooklyn Democrat, told some women not to wear bras to work. He requested they wear short skirts and high heels. He gave them cash to buy jewelry and complimented them on their figures, giving special attention to those he called “well endowed.”
Reader Tips
They love their milk and honey, but they preach about some other way of living. And when they’re putting down the country that way, they’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of Merle.
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Mitt Romney’s Speech Falls Short of Democratic Expectations
“Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I’d ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had, was the day you voted for him”.
“First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.”
Full transcript HERE
Full Video HERE
Clint Eastwood Speech at RNC HERE
The Bradley Effect + The Shy Tory Effect = Landslide
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Another day, another wind-power let down in Ontario;
Right now, two-thirty p.m. on Wednesday August 29 2012, the provincial wind fleet is letting its hair down, enjoying the productivity equivalent of a glass of vino in the middle of the afternoon. That is to say, the wind fleet is not producing very much at this moment, even though it is continually touted as the energy of the future. […] Though theoretically capable of generating around 1700 megawatts at this moment, the wind fleet is actually generating only 84 MW.
h/t Rob
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“the fact checkers have made a mockery of their own profession by stepping all over their own biases to refute Ryan.”
Saskatchewan Ranked 2nd Best Labour Market in North America
Led by Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada’s Western provinces are among the best-performing labour markets in North America, concludes a new report from the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading public policy think-tank.
Not so fast….
In five provinces—Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia—more than 25 per cent of all workers were employed by various levels of government.
Small wonder Saskatchewan flirts with deficit budgets in a time of economic expansion. Now is the time to fix this. Get ‘er done, Mr. Wall.
The full report (pdf) is here.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
Happy ending: State funeral for late NDP leader Jack Layton cost $368,326.
h/t Manny
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the sun never sets on the Islamic empire: Mohammed the #1 baby name in England
America: 70 Years of “Progress”
Ever wonder what “Progressives” think of as “progress”?
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h/t Linda
Paul Ryan Talks To His Fellow Americans
“Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn’t help to hear from their president that government gets the credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.”
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips the late June Christy treats us to her confident, relaxed, swinging vocal stylings in a 1945 studio performance of Mean To Me.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Paul Ryan
I just got an email from David Axelrod. For $3 my name will be entered in a draw to choose Obama’s new running mate.
#GOP2012#paulryan— katewerk (@katewerk) August 30, 2012
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Amazing artworks done with ballpoint pen.