Somebody’s planning on being President for a long, long time….
Let the parodies begin.
More – “Who is Julia and why am I paying for all her sh*t?”
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Tonight, via the technological miracle of Scopitone, we enjoy the mellow, family-friendly French sounds of Le Groupe J.M.S., as they reprise for the cameras their 1960 release Papa Aime Maman.
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Forward!
That is what “Forward” really means. The “Forwardism” of that future which never seems to work, but is on the edge of working, with enough money, enough laws and enough marching orders, mankind will finally set foot into that mechanical state where leaders look upon us from their balloons and tell us how to live and how to die.
h/t Me No Dhimmi
In 1992, NBC Stuck Explosives To A GM Truck And Blew It Up
In 2012, they stuck em to a guy named George Zimmerman.
A third NBC employee has been fired from the network after yet another misleadingly edited George Zimmerman 911 tape surfaced from the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based correspondent, “is no longer working for the network,” TVNewser reports. Her firing follows the axing of an NBC producer who edited the original 911 call that caused so much controversy as well as a local NBC reporter, Jeff Burnside, who was found to have used a similarly-edited recording
The Tolerant Left
A Corner Brook, Nfld., mother who wanted to lay a wreath at a workers memorial was prevented by a local labour group because she’s a city councillor, and the city recently laid off four firefighters.
(h/t DrD)
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Just because the Cleveland 5 are all Occupiers, spout Occupy rhetoric, and used an Occupy camp to plan their attempted bombing, that doesn’t mean Occupy has anything to do with it. How were the peace-loving, violence-abhoring Occupiers supposed to know that these solid citizens were plotting a bombing right in their midst? The Occupiers are completely blameless. Just like the Tea Parties would be blameless if they spawned something like this, right?
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Read the whole Plain Dealer piece for more about these winners’ rap sheets. Suicide threats, felonious assault, inciting violence, vandalism, theft, trespassing, drug charges, fraud, receiving stolen property, harassment, breaking and entering… No wonder they fit right in with the rest of the Occupiers.
Operation Fast and Furious
Laws are for the little people;
Congressional Republicans Thursday took the first formal steps toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, issuing a draft of their complaint against him for his handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.
The 44-page complaint, issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asks the full House to hold Holder in contempt for “failure to comply with a congressional subpoena.”
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Today the Obama administration brags about its “all of the above” energy policy, but two years ago it temporarily banned oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill, a move that cut oil output and cost thousands of jobs.
At the time, the Interior Department report called its recommendations “peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.” But that was not true. None of the seven advised a drilling ban then.
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Interior’s estimate was that well closures temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs and $1.2 billion in economic activity. Mason put job losses at 13,000-19,000, lost wages at $800 million and lost tax revenue at $200 million.
When Interior said the engineers backed the ban, the engineers were shocked. The idea of a moratorium never came up in their sessions and was not recommended, five of the seven told IBD. There was no need to stop other wells, they said.
Y2Kyoto: Ve Haf Vays Of Making You Varm
The number of in-orbit and planned Earth observation missions by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projected to drop “precipitously” from 23 this year to only six by 2020
That means the number of instruments monitoring Earth’s activity is expected to decline from a peak of about 110 last year to fewer than 30 by the end of the decade.
First they came for the thermometers….
h/t Bemused
The Caldwell Folk Music and Art Society
Dance taxpayer, dance!
In March of last year, the [Brandon Folk Music and Art Society] submitted a 200-page funding application to the federal Department of Canadian Heritage, seeking a contribution of $2,088,066 from the Harper government toward the projected cost of the project. The balance would come from the provincial government ($1,114,065), the City of Brandon ($474,000) and from society fundraising ($500,000)
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In addition to a copy of the society’s articles of incorporation, which show that BFMAS was incorporated by [Brandon East NDP MLA Drew Caldwell] and others several years ago, the application also contains a feasibility study which identifies Caldwell’s taxpayer-funded constituency office as a committed tenant of office space in the building.
Also in the application is a copy of a letter (on “Manitoba Legislative Assembly” letterhead) signed by Caldwell, in his capacity as MLA for Brandon East, in which he strongly endorses the project. It does not disclose that his wife is chair of BFMAS.
In NDP Manitoba, there’s a word for these schemes – “Thursday”.
Related: “Winnipeg Free Press reporters making an access to information request to the provincial government are told it will cost 1.9 million dollars to fulfill.”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
It’s Probably Nothing
The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a further 16 reserve battalions if necessary, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
h/t mike
QOTW
“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.
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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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More Pavilions At Folkfest
Life in Dearbornisbad..
Via
Les Enfants Terribles
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.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Bears
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
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
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.
Forward!
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?
The Rise Of One World Trade Center
h/t marc in calgary