The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon may be closed. Its value is set to zero. The market for carbon capture and storage is dead according to their CEO.
h/t ron in kelowna
Reader Tips
There ain’t no crooks up there in Washington. Far as I can see, them politicians is a nice bunch of people, and The Country’s In the Very Best of Hands.
Put those Reader Tips in the comments.
How to Destroy a Non-Establishment Candidate
Ever wonder why really good, competent people don’t run for political office? Now you know why.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
The Unfortunate Marriage Between Islamists & Leftists
The Religion of Leftism
Quebec’s Radical Leftists clearly want Christianity exorcised from their province.
Charles Adler asks an important question: Would the same authorities dare mutter a word if the religion in question was Islam?
High Tech Lynching
Someone came ready to play hardball.
Brent Bozell – “Cain is only one contender in the 2012 Republican field. Bill Clinton was president of the United States. But from Monday morning through Thursday morning, ABC, CBS and NBC ran 50 stories on the allegations against Cain. Now compare….“
Priceless – Former Washington Post editor discusses Cain sexual harassment story while pawing Daily Caller reporter.
CWB: Marketing Monopoly
Narrative Advocacy Media is a Toronto-based PR firm (whose clients include the Ontario government and provincial Liberals).
On November 2nd, they issued this news release on behalf of the Canadian Wheat Board. It included this link to print and radio ad files.
The ads were created by Bensimon and Byrne, a Toronto-based ad agency.
This print ad appeared in the Toronto-based Globe and Mail. The newspaper placement alone cost an estimated $72,000.
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The radio ads are running in the Toronto and Ottawa markets only.
All paid for by prairie farmers.
Related – Wheat Growers to launch legal action against the CWB
Those Moderate Muslims!
Spring is in the air: Christian student beaten to death in Egypt – by his teacher. (h/t SDH)
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Because the CBC has refused to attend. For Ottawa area readers;
Please join us for our first self-produced documentary which examines whether the CBC is biased against Israel and biased against conservatives.
After the film, we will have a panel discussion with:
* Mike Fegelman of HonestReporting Canada.
* Stephen Taylor of the NCC.
* Brian Lilley of Sun News.
* Eric Duhaime from the Le Journal de Montreal.
* and David Krayden from the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies.
This event is part of the 2nd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival which runs between November 11-13th, 2011.
More details at the website: Free Thinking Film Society
Reader Tips
In tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips we look at one of the LPC’s sneakier ads from the last federal election, this one targeting a particular ethnic community.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The Children Are Our Future
This young hyper-entitlement nitwit is why I’m going to buy a private island and equip it with a Gatling gun!
Dana Loesch shares her thoughts.
1970s Meets OWS
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Department Of Agriculture
“The ironic thing about this forum is that there’s little science involved. It is, in my view, nothing more than the Department of Agriculture spending taxpayer dollars to provide the Humane Society of the United States a public forum to espouse its anti-agricultural views. […] HSUS is not your local animal shelter. HSUS is a national lobbying organization that spends most of its budget to lobby against farmers and ranchers who provide us with the food and clothing that we enjoy in this country. In fact, tax documents show that HSUS spends less than 1% of its budget on grants to animal shelters. Given these facts, you would have to wonder why the Department of Agriculture is giving this organization this platform and shunning producer organizations.”
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Enjoy this Men’s Wearhouse juxtapose!
Heh
Some aspects of curious Canadian farming regulations…
…and the Conservative government’s response to one of them (but they won’t dare touch the other). Publius gets his hands dirty:
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Back in my undergraduates days I came across an article on the CWB. It was oddly fascinating. I looked upon it as some bizarre aberration, a historical quirk as not yet remedied. In modern day Canada a farmer could go to jail for selling wheat. To my mind it was absurd enough to go to jail for selling marijuana, but wheat? I had images of men in John Deere caps, half-hidden by the shadows of Regina’s back alleys, furtively glancing and quickly whispering: Durum?
From there I was brought into contact with the upside down world of supply management. Having been raised on the notion that food should be cheap, so that the poor would not go wanting, I found myself confronted with a government conspiracy to aide and abet the looting of the ordinary consumer. Here were actual Robber Barons, not the wrongly maligned the industrial titans of Gilded Age America. If there was one single event that drove home to me the inherent madness of statism, supply management was it…
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
The Nation Bemoans Plight of OWS Protester $35K in Debt for Puppetry Degree
It’s Why They Call Them “The Stupid Party”
“Another observation, conservatives.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
What would we do without peer review? Massive Fraud Uncovered in Work by Social Psychologist
… Stapel and a colleague or student came up with a hypothesis, and then designed an experiment to test it. Stapel took responsibility for collecting data through what he said was a network of contacts at other institutions, and several weeks later produced a fictitious data file for his colleague to write up into a paper. On other occasions, Stapel received co-authorship after producing data he claimed to have collected previously that exactly matched the needs of a colleague working on a particular study.
The data were also suspicious, the report says: effects were large; missing data and outliers were rare; and hypotheses were rarely refuted. Journals publishing Stapel’s papers did not question the omission of details about where the data came from. “We see that the scientific checks and balances process has failed at several levels,” Levelt says.