Non-Person, Or, The Central Committee…
…of the CPSU Republican Party decides Ron Paul does not exist:
…
As the roll call of states commenced [and continued], several states listed votes for both Romney and Paul. When repeating back the count, those at the podium cited only the Romney votes.
Voice-brushing.
Embrace Hollywood
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Moore, 2004 – “Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.”
Twitter, 2012 – A window into the mind of the aging celebrity
The Libranos: What Ever Happened To Senator Joyce?
Is it not surreal — and perhaps even creepy and unethical — that a man counting votes has on his personal staff a person who has legal responsibility for a mentally incapacitated human being who holds such a vote?
Leave her alone! It’s just practice!
My Three Sons
Remington, Colt and Luger;
A Nebraska preschool is asking a three-year-old deaf boy to change his name because it violates the school board’s weapons policy.
We need a famine.
It’s Probably Nothing
Consumer confidence falls in August. Unexpectedly.
The Emery Effect
Teens who smoke marijuana regularly may suffer long-term damage to their brains, new research suggests.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
h/t Mike
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
You can think of the Volt as the ultimate in flex-fuel. It runs 30% on coal, 40% on natural gas, 9% each for nuclear and hydropower. Of course, the overhead losses in generation, distribution, conversion, and storage are immense.
It is also worth noting that the current Administration is against coal, natural gas, nuclear power and dams.
h/t Maz2
The World Still Has Too Many Reporters
Justin Trudeau on 10 of his favourite swims. (h/t john g)
Internship at the Sun News Network
Yesterday the following appeared on the Sun Network’s Facebook page:
WANTED! A intern for The Source with Ezra Levant. Tired of doing coffee runs and filing at a dead-end internship?
Join Ezra and the producers as they fight for freedom in the fast-paced television production environment at Sun News Network. Interested applicants can email thesource@sunmedia.ca.
Anarchists at the Gates
Here’s an example of one of the protesters that Nancy Pelosi is so fond of:
Reader Tips
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.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
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.