Via Counting Cats;
Will you or won’t you turn off your lights at 8.30pm on Saturday, and why?
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Heh.
And “the scapegoating mechanism.”
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet
You call that recoil? I’ll show you recoil…
h/t Joe B.
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You can’t make this stuff up. GM replacing almost all Chevrolet Volt power cords
Bumped for update: You can listen to the audio here.
From the comments;
I’m in Alberta where an election was called this morning, and I just sat through the most offensive robocall “poll” you can imagine.
As soon as I pressed “2” to indicate that I was planning to vote Wildrose, the questions changed to a personal attack: “Press 1 if you are opposed to proper health care, Press 2 if you think students don’t deserve to go to kindergarten, Press 3 if you think that people should be allowed to drive drunk up to the legal limit without consequence, etc., etc.
If anyone else has received calls like this, let me know.
Watch for this story to go away now: The individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting is a registered Democrat.
Case-Shiller falls in January;
Home prices in the U.S. fell for the fifth month in a row in January to the lowest level since early 2003, a closely followed index showed on Tuesday. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite index fell 0.8%. The three-month rolling index includes transactions that took place from November to January…
Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up.
It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.
A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica – which means that the Earth has already experience global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions.
Related – Frustrated by the lack of computer-predicted warming over the past decade, some IPCC supporters have been claiming that “extreme weather” has become more common because of more CO2. But there is no hard evidence this is true. […] Weather conditions similar to 2012 occurred in the winter of 1942, when the U.S. Midwest was unusually warm, and when the Wehrmacht encountered the formidable forces of “General Frost” in a Russian winter not unlike the one Russians just had.
In tonight’s Tips music, from the 1957 album ‘Round About Midnight, trumpeter Miles Davis plays a cool, swinging version of
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Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
And that’s why I carry a waterproof tin of survival food tablets.
With a totalitarian party to vote for;
Egyptian Islamists, who control the recently elected parliament, are on track to consolidate their hold over politics after the selection of a panel that will draft the country’s new constitution.
They will have a large majority on the panel according to a final list published on Sunday, a day after parliament elected its members during a session which witnessed the withdrawal of parliamentarians representing liberal and leftist forces.
A tragedy of epic proportions has just broken out in our home & native land: Transgendered Beauty Queen will not be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada competition.
Though there’s absolutely no proof yet, this surely must be a Human Rights violation on the level of RoboCalls-gate and clearly Stephen Harper’s fault! 🙂
The mother of Trayvon Martin has filed two applications to secure trademarks containing her late son’s name, records show.
Update – according to Daily Caller, she might also lock down rights to @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA
To get rid of your new NDP premier. Don’t blow it.
Related: An Ipsos poll taken the week before Monday’s election call shows the Progressive Conservatives and the Wildrose party tied with the support of 38 per cent of decided voters.
Smitherman elephant herd grows;
We have an excess of electricity. You can’t store it, so the only way to get rid of it is to spill water that could be used to generate electricity for two cents a kilowatt-hour at Niagara.
Instead, until now we paid more than 80 cents a kw/h for solar and 13.5 cents for wind. Bentley announced Thursday those prices are going down–to 54.9 cents for solar and 11.5 for wind.
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.
Good question – “Obama won’t share these plans with the American people. However, he’ll share them with the Russians, and ask for their help in influencing the election. . . . What other nations has Obama asked for ‘space’ on American foreign and national-security policy so that he can win a second term? And what American interests is Obama willing to trade for that ‘space’?”
Via Drudge.
Guy defending welfare for arts community cites long list of government subsidized failures to support argument. @JohnGormleyLive #genius
— katewerk (@katewerk) March 26, 2012