Hey there, sex addicts – play your cards right, and the Vancouver Health Authority might be persuaded to assign you a free crack whore!
h/t Dan T.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music clean-cut 1960s pop warbler Gene Pitney (“Town Without Pity”) faces Mecca. Ardently. Every day.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Religion of Submission
One has to wonder how much longer it will be before Canadian municipal and provincial governments are petitioned in this manner.
Patches
It’s Probably Nothing
In recent years, these two teams have used engineering and science skills to analyse what they call socio-technical risks, or the dangers that occur whenever complex technological systems proliferate, creating “systems of systems” that nobody understands. In early 2010, well before May 6, they released a brilliantly prescient report that predicted that a systems failure loomed.
Since then, they have continued their research, with sobering conclusions. Most notably, these researchers believe that the flash crash was not an isolated event; on the contrary, it was entirely predictable given how IT systems have proliferated to create a system of systems that is now interacting in unpredictable ways that regulators and investors cannot comprehend, far less control.
“The only thing where Canada seems to be a bit offside on is Israel.”
Via Honest Reporting where their sense of humour knows no bounds!
Given the seriousness of Mr. Fife’s violation of the basic principles of media objectivity, we contacted senior executives at CTV News to bring this matter to their attention and to ask how they will be dealing with this matter. We look forward to providing you with an update on how CTV will be handling this journalistic infraction from one of their senior journalists.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
If you want further evidence that the Mainstream Media’s prime directive in 2012 will be to protect Barack Obama through lies & deception, look no further than this disgraceful screed from the Washington Post: Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs
Iowahawk provides full analysis
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Imam Suleiman Eniceri said it was suspicious that Santa Claus brings presents into a house by climbing down a chimney or through windows. “If he was an honest person he would come through the door as we do,” the imam said. The imam cited a passage in the Koran that calls on the faithful to enter houses through doors.
h/t Bemused
A Primer on America’s Great Divide in 2012
Here’s a most excellent video, full of great facts, that you may want to bookmark:
In a recent column, James Delingpole provided a link to this video and went on to explain how incredibly sad it was that many of the Occupy supporters essentially want the same end results as Tea Party supporters, except that each group is diametrically opposed about how to get there.
Quite frankly, Delingpole is being exceptionally charitable to the Occupy crowd. Most of them appear to be poster boys & girls of the Entitlement Generation or just downright communists. One wonders, if some basic questions about what fiscal conservatives stand for were given to this lot, whether even 1% would have any clue as to what their ideological opponents believe in?
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips video more than 100 clergymen from the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches gather with their brooms in the basilica of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity for the annual cleaning.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The UN Hits a New Low
The United Nations currently has their flag at half-mast:
Wonder why? Just click here. P.S. To those who say, “they had to”, I vehemently disagree.
“That is according to Palestinian witnesses…”
h/t EBD
Those Moderate Muslims!
According to Nasser, the very first demand of the Brotherhood leader was for the hijab to return to Egypt, “for every woman walking in the street to wear a headscarf.”
The audience erupted in laughter at this, then, ludicrous demand; one person hollered “Let him wear it!” eliciting more laughter and applause.
The rest is here.
QOTD
John Himpe, pounding nails of stupidity into guest-hosting John Gormley Live;
“How is private business supposed to make [STC] profitable if the government can’t figure it out?”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
It’s always darkest before the lights go completely out…
With at least seven solar-panel manufacturers filing for bankruptcy or insolvency in the last several months and six of the 10 largest publicly traded companies making solar components reporting losses in the third quarter, public-market investors are punishing the solar sector, sending shares down nearly 57% this year.
Although winners are expected to emerge eventually…
It’s Probably Nothing
Last week, the European Central Bank provided €489 billion ($US633 billion) in three-year loans to cash-strapped European banks, but figures released overnight show that European banks have turned around and deposited a record €452 billion with the ECB. This is stark evidence that the European interbank lending market remains crippled, and that banks would rather earn the meagre 0.25 per cent interest rate that the ECB pays on depots, rather than running the risk of lending to other banks at much higher interest rates.
Related from John Fund;
The 17 nations in the eurozone are now trapped between the unthinkable and the unsellable. Ending the euro is considered so radical a step that there are no backup plans for leaving it behind. But further integration of Europe’s economies is unpalatable because it would have to be sold to populations that, as the Washington Post put it, “were more skeptical about the Eurozone than their leaders to begin with, and have seen their worst fears realized.”
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
h/t Darcy
Related third year college student.
Reader Tips
No one, but no one, knows more about holiday safety than the Russians.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
“Language is the first casualty of politics”
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Repeating certain key words, like “cut”, followed by “Prime Minister Stephen Harper” and the inattentive will begin to think that the PM is advocating a cut. Since it is a common theme in the MSM, as well as the school system, that Conservatives are “cutters” who care more about money than people, it’s a repetitive messaging that dovetails with preconceived notions…
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
The things you’ll never see at the CBC;
Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can’t use these materials if it hopes to survive. Instead, it’s going to use corn, a common source for conventional biofuels. What’s more, most of the product from its first facility will be used for chemicals rather than fuel.