Obama documentarian Davis Guggenheim “I took a pay cut to make this.”
Via Townhall.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
….as the bird carcasses pile up—two more dead golden eagles were recently found at the Pine Tree wind project in Southern California’s Kern County, bringing the number of eagle carcasses at that site to eight—the wind industry’s unofficial license to kill wildlife is finally getting some serious scrutiny.
Some 77 organizations—led by the American Bird Conservancy, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Endangered Species Coalition and numerous chapters of the Audubon Society—are petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to toughen the rules for the siting, permitting and operation of large-scale wind projects.
It’s about time. Over the past two decades, the federal government has prosecuted hundreds of cases against oil and gas producers and electricity producers for violating some of America’s oldest wildlife-protection laws: the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Eagle Protection Act.
But the Obama administration—like the Bush administration before it—has never prosecuted the wind industry despite myriad examples of widespread, unpermitted bird kills by turbines. A violation of either law can result in a fine of up to $250,000 and imprisonment for two years.
h/t Ed S.
It’s Probably Nothing
THE GREEK private sector involvement (PSI) plan, the process under which banks and other bondholders will take losses, last night claimed sufficient take-up for collective action clauses (CAC) to be triggered, which would force all holders of Greek law bonds into the restructuring plan. If CACs are triggered this morning, where does this leave Greece?
The answer is, unfortunately, not in a much better position.
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[E]ven if the 95 per cent participation rate [in the Greek law bond swap] is met and the banks are returned to some semblance of stability, this is still a terrible deal for both Greece and Eurozone taxpayers. It has sown the seeds of a major political and economic crisis at the heart of Europe, further threatening the stability of the Eurozone.
This would, perhaps, have been acceptable were it not for one nagging detail: this plan will not save Greece.
Via
Update: ISDA Says Greece In Default, CDS Will Trigger (h/t Nick)
Not Watching For The Asteroid
How did [Soledad O’Brien] get the definition? Here’s a clue – near the end of the interview, she couldn’t hear what Joel was saying because “someone was talking in my ear, so I couldn’t hear what you said.”
CBC: Not Safe For Work
SDA gets results!
Call it a victory for common sense. Radio-Canada, CBC’s French wing, has pulled its soft-porn web-TV series, Hard, from its Tou.tv website […]
Radio-Canada always denied the series was pornographic. CBC president and CEO Hubert Lacroix defended Hard, saying it was popular in France, good value for money, and perfectly in line with the CBC’s mandate.
…of screwing the taxpayers.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
‘One of Fisker primary financial backers is venture captital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, of which Gore is a partner. Fisker received a $528.7 million conditional loan from Dept. of Energy’s…That’s a LOT of money to produce only 200-300 thus far, some of which seem to be lemons. This is the same company that caught flak because after it secured US govt financing, started assembling their cars in – Finland. Fisker Automotive seems headed for the same fate as Solyndra’
If Dr. Brian Day Were a Writer on The Simpsons
Dr. Brian Day is a Vancouver based surgeon who is a past president of the Canadian Medical Association. On his YouTube channel he recently published this video:
The Story Behind US Gas Price Pain
There is cheap oil available in the United States. You just have to be able to transport the crude from Cushing to your personal refinery to take advantage of it.
One final element is making matters worse: Refineries are currently starting to shift to producing spring-summer gasoline blends, which are lighter and therefore usually cost about 10¢ more per gallon than fall-winter blends. And this year, the quick refinery shutdowns needed to enact the seasonal shift are creating slight supply gaps because some of the “swing” refineries that usually help bridge the gap are no longer operating. For example, the Hovensa refinery in the US Virgin Islands – a joint venture between Hess Corp. (NYSE.HES) and Petroleos de Venezuela – used to produce extra volume during the seasonal transition, but it was closed down a few weeks ago after losing $1.3 billion over the last three years.
Read it all.
Reader Tips
The late John Wayne, in his starring role as the eponymous hero of the 1952 Warner Bros. feature film Big Jim McLain, provides our vicarious pleasure of the night, as he punches a country club communist in the face.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
“Not Showing Up To Riot” Is A Failed Conservative Policy
Indeed! “I don’t believe in a higher standard for conservatives. I think that’s a trap…”
Not Watching For The Asteroid
(edited March 12)
Soledad O’Brien and her CNN panel manage to stumble into Contessa Brewer territory in this appearance by attempting to paint Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak as a racist for making a point about Barack Obama’s support for a proponent of “critical race theory” during his days at Harvard Law School. Joel ends up in an argument with a woefully unprepared O’Brien on the theory itself, but the actual facepalm moment goes to one of her panelists, who asks Joel why he’s so afraid of black people:
Hot Air provides the punchline.
Update: Bill Whittle Responds to Soledad O’Brien
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
“Left-wing hypocrisy doesn’t stop at the U.S. borders,” Glenn astutely observed before issuing the following stern warning to our Canadian neighbors: “You are dealing with George Soros.”
Yeah, we know.
h/t Syd
A Juxtapose! Say It Isn’t So, Joe
PostMedia, March 2012 – Former Liberal MP Joe Volpe, right, with campaign volunteer Yuri Navarro, complained to Elections Canada about harassing calls his supporters had been receiving.
Orla Hegarty, April 2011 – There is Joe Volpe. His handler is picking up the [Green Party] flyers before Joe gets there. Very handy that handler.
h/t Mike
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave testimony in the Senate yesterday that was just breathtaking: asserting that the Obama administration believes it can go to war against Syria by obtaining permission from an international tribunal — the United Nations and/or NATO — and that no authorization from Congress is needed.
Fighting the Multicultists is an Uphill Battle
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, now trying earnestly to deal with a decades old immigration integration problem, is accused of using “extreme right-wing rhetoric” by his moral superiors on the Left.
If memory serves, wasn’t similar rhetoric used by the Red Star when Jason Kenney decided to ban veils at citizenship ceremonies?
Marketing Campaigns Of The Apocalypse
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music real fine American songwriter John Hiatt performs a song from his 1990 album Stolen Moments called Real Fine Love.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The BC Teachers’ Strike
The public school teachers of British Columbia are not working today, as part of an initial 3-day strike. The Vancouver Sun’s Janet Steffenhagen has published a “Fact vs. Fiction” piece that is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand what this strike is all about. Her blog page is probably the most comprehensive resource on the subject, with new items being added daily.
I have lots of friends who are public school teachers. My heart goes out to them individually. But my head remains resolute that there is only so much money that can be removed from the pockets of the citizenry. So what is a fair wage for a teacher? Is $50K/yr too little? Is $1M/yr too much? Who’s to say what is “fair”?
The bigger question is why so-called “professionals” belong to a union. Other professions, such as engineers, aren’t allowed to belong to a union. Couldn’t many of the current problems be solved by legislation that states that joining the BCTF is optional? Then individual teachers could negotiate individual salaries & benefits just like everyone else in the non-union private sector.
This situation in B.C. seems strangely similar to what happened in Wisconsin last year. Unfortunately, Premier Christy Clark ain’t no Scott Walker!
Correction: It was my understanding that Canadian engineers could not belong to a union. I was misinformed on this point and have deleted the pertinent sentences above.
Breitbart Obama Video Set For Release
Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”
The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright–about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours.
However, the video has been selectively edited–either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama’s allies in the mainstream media and academia.
Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape. The full tape will be released tonight on Fox News’ Hannity.
Via Drudge
It’s Probably Nothing
Known for his grasp of budgetary minutiae, first as a Michigan congressman and then as Reagan’s budget director, Stockman still dazzles with his command of numbers. Ask him about jobs, and he’ll spit out government estimates for non-farm payrolls down to the tenth of a decimal point. Prod him again and, as from a grim pinata, more figures spill out: personal consumption expenditures, credit market debt and the clunky sounding but all-important non-residential fixed investment.
Stockman may seem as exciting as an insurance actuary, but he knows how to tell a good story. And the punch line to this one is gripping. He says the numbers for the U.S. don’t add up to anything but a painful, slow-growing future.
h/t Harry