“I SAID, LOOK AT MY BOLLOCKS RIGHT NOW, YOU UPTIGHT CONSERVATIVE PRUDES!”
In the Soviet Union, Didn’t the Government Run All the Car Companies?
It appears that Barack Obama isn’t content with owning just GM. Can you say Solyndra 2?
Related: More “Green” money down the drain?
Seen in Calgary Today
The Crisis of the European Union: Causes and Significance
Unlike you, I am neither a visitor to Europe nor an uninvolved observer of it. I live here, and I do not see any reason to describe the current Europe in a propagandistic way, using rosy colors or glasses. Many of us in Europe are aware of the fact that it faces a serious problem, which is not a short- or medium-term business cycle-like phenomenon. Nor is it a consequence of the recent financial and economic crisis. This crisis only made it more visible. As an economist, I would call it a structural problem, which will not, by itself, wither away. We will not simply outgrow it, as some hope or believe.
Taxi Corruption in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee permits just 321 taxicabs on its streets, almost half of which are owned by Milwaukee County Supervisor Joe Sanfelippo. Amy Alkon has much more on this story.
Does Being a Leftist Entail Having a Poor Memory?
Remember how Barack Obama implored his fellow Americans to stop using violent rhetoric in the aftermath of the shooting in Tucson? Recent events in the U.S. indicate that his devout followers had forgotten everything he said.
It now appears that in Canada Leftist MPs have so quickly forgotten everything Jack Layton said earlier this year about improving decorum in the House of Commons.
Perhaps we all should contribute funds to pay for medical research to help our Leftist brethren with their severe memory problems?
Those Moderate Muslims!
Every jet you take
Goalpost-moving eco-hypocrite Sting:
“I’m assuming you didn’t come here on a donkey, right? Tomorrow, I’m going to get on a plane and go to another city and admittedly my carbon footprint is massive. At the same time, I say we shouldn’t rip up the forest because if you read the Stern report, all of us could stop traveling tomorrow, industry could stop tomorrow, but the largest contribution to global warming is deforestation – by a huge, huge amount. So until we do that, we might as well just carry on.”
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music, recommended by SDA commenter Rita, Swedish tenor Jussi Björling and American baritone Robert Merill, along with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra under the conductorship of Renato Cellini, perform the duet Au fond du temple saint from Georges Bizet’s 1863 opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers).
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Thank you for inviting us into your home
Eine kleine Muslim hutzpah:
An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag….Ivica Petrusic, the vice president of Second@s Plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland says the group will launch a nationwide campaign in October to ask Swiss citizens to consider adopting a flag that is less offensive to Muslim immigrants.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Somewhere around 1985 in California I noticed that my students were hoping for a state job first, a federal job second, a municipal job third — and a private one last. Around 1990, suddenly two sorts of commercials were aired everywhere: how to join a law suit by calling a law firm’s 1-800 number or how to get a free power chair, scooter, or some other device by calling the 1-800 number of a health care company that would do the paper work for Social Security on your behalf.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Good question! Why California Democrats would be creditor to a company that received more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans to build a solar-panel plant isn’t clear. Even party officials say they’re not sure.
More here and here on the Solyndra scandal.
h/t Fred
Alberta’s Conservative [In Name Only] Party
Hanging out in Calgary these days, I’m getting a first hand look at Alberta politics. In this morning’s Calgary Herald was this story by Lorne Gunter. A fellow named Ken Boessenkool has formed the Alberta Blue Committee as a grassroots effort to ensure that some semblance of conservative policies remain in the province. Given that a CINO Party has been running Alberta for many years now, things don’t look too hopeful at this time.
However, there is hope! I trust (and pray) that the voters of Alberta won’t be as stupid as those back in my home province of B.C. and take things to a point where there are only two choices: Centre-Left and Far-Left (aka Tweedledee and Tweedledum), each with absolutely no clue about fiscal responsibility.
A Most Uncomfortable Gaffe
Question: If George Bush or Rick Perry or Mitt Romney or Stephen Harper had uttered the same words, how many days/weeks would this have been in the news?
h/t Blazing Cat Fur
Talking Points Fail
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, Sept.12, 2011 – “And when you look at what independent economists are saying about the American Jobs Act, my jobs plan, uniformly what they are saying is this buys us insurance against a double-dip recession.”
Barack Obama, Sept.26, 2011 – “Obviously, it is never fun to lose your job. And it’s always hard in this kind of really deep recession.”
Related – another missed memo.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’ve got an old tobacco tin with cash and a ticket to Singapore buried in my backyard;
…Cecilia Reynolds, the dean of education at the University of Saskatchewan, said the college is currently considering making the math education course an elective.
Related, from the Frontier Centre.
h/t LC Bennett
Not Watching For The Asteroid
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The Sound Of Settled Science
You don’t have to look far to see that impeccable scientific standards can go hand-in-hand with skepticism about global warming. Ivar Giaever, a 1973 Nobel laureate in physics , resigned this month as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) to protest the organization’s official position that evidence of manmade climate change is “incontrovertible’’ and cause for alarm. In an e-mail explaining his resignation , Giaever challenged the view that any scientific assertion is so sacred that it cannot be contested.
“In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves,’’ Giaever wrote, incredulous, “but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?’’
Nor does Giaever share the society’s view that carbon emissions threaten “significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security, and human health.’’ In fact, the very concept of a “global’’ temperature is one he questions. . .
Reader Tips
Everybody knows that carefully crafted optical illusions can cause us to misperceive what’s real – the relative straightness of a line, for example, or the relative size of objects – but what’s less commonly known is that visual cues can cause you to hear – to clearly hear – a different vocal sound than the one actually being made: Check out the remarkable and strange McGurk effect. If you don’t believe what you’re hearing, wait for the split-screen bit.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
I’d embed it if I could: Harry Koza on BNN on the European debt crisis – “Enough already, stop the madness”. Related – watch jaws drop at the BBC.