The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.
h/t syncrodox
“Ay,yi.”
Looks like I picked a good time to live in Saskatchewan, where the words “global economic collapse” translate to “12 month hunting season”.
Meanwhile…
(I know, I know. Lots of new boats. So, it’s probably nothing.)
Reader Tips
Just what every police department needs in the fight against crime – an 80 lb cat that can read. Your tips in the comments.
I like the sound of these folks.
Isn’t this what the ACLU is supposed to do?
More Pavilions At Folkfest
I was at Yonge-Dundas Square with my nine-year-old son. We ate pizza. We drank bubble tea. And I used my new Canon camera to take photos of this neon shrine.
Suddenly, a woman wearing a hijab ran toward me. She was part of a group that included two women wearing full face-covering burkas. She was screaming: “We are Muslim! You do not take pictures of us!” (Odd. I can’t find the “no photos” rule in the Qur’an.)
I informed the lady I was in a public square in a democracy. I can actually take pictures of whomever I please.
Whoops – wrong answer!
Update: Smile, honey – you’re gonna be famous now!
(h/t Larry)
Kinda Sucks When Your Messiah Turns out Just to be a Socialist Zealot
A most informative segment was aired on John Batchelor’s show last night, illustrating the stark contrast between Canada and the U.S. these days. It featured guest Jason Clemens, of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, who recently wrote this column. Lorne Gunter has an equally interesting follow-up piece.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
We’re not running out of oil.
Why No Real Turmel Turmoil?
Publius on the pitiful state of the RoC, the people previously known as English Canadians:
Traitors Among Us and Them
Oh, Jack. I thought you were smarter than that:Nycole Turmel vowed to cut off her remaining ties to the Quebec sovereigntist movement after revelations about her recent affiliation to the federal Bloc Québécois raised a furor over her ability to defend national unity as the interim leader of the NDP…
By “we” I mean English speaking Canada. The fault is entirely ours. It is we, or more accurately the WASPs who still hold most of the levers of power, that have lead Canada to where we are now. It was not immigrants who foisted multiculturalism upon Canada. Indeed a great many of those who came here did so with the intention of leaving the evils of the old world behind, not importing them in cold weather clothing. Nor can it be blamed wholly on Pierre Trudeau. He did not elect himself.
This self-effacement has not only lead to seemingly irreducible ethnic ghettos in our major cities, as opposed to the more fluid immigrant neighbourhoods of generations past, but to the half century long appeasement of Quebec nationalism. That remains, as always, the greatest threat to the future of the country…
English speaking Canada compromised, conferred and conciliated until eventually it gave up trying. We would go beyond biculturalism to multiculturalism…
I rehearse this ancient history, told more than once even here, because it explains the Turmel Disaster. A nation confident of itself would never have produced a party leader, even an interim one, so willfully indifferent to the nation she professes to serve…
There is a great difference between most immigrants and most Quebecois. Most of the former want to be Canadian, if we will let them. Most of the latter have no interest in Canada, no matter how hard we try.
Do read it all.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
And to think we laughed at Peggy Joseph.
(h/t R. Black)
I Prefer The Term “Freedom Fighters”, Myself
The Giffords shooting sent the media elite in this country into a bout of St. Vitus’s dance that would have warranted an army of exorcists in previous ages. Sarah Palin’s Facebook map was an evil totem that forced some guy to go on a shooting spree. The New York Times, the Washington Post, all three broadcast networks — particularly NBC whose senior foreign-affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, devotes, by my rough reckoning, ten times as much air time to whining about Sarah Palin as she does about anything having to do with foreign affairs — flooded the zone with “Have you no shame” finger wagging. A memo went forth demanding that everyone at MSNBC get their dresses over their heads about the evil “tone” from the right. Media Matters went into overdrive working the interns 24/7 to “prove” that Republicans deliberately foment violence with their evil targets on their evil congressional maps.
Everyone “knew” the shooter was a tea partier. Except he wasn’t. He wasn’t even a conservative. He was a sick, demented, nutball. And it still didn’t matter! More bleating and caterwauling about the “tone” followed. More chin stroking and tut-tutting from Meet the Press roundtables and “very special segments” on the Today Show. More pizzas were ordered for the Media Matters galley slaves.
On the other hand, I thought from the Black Panthers having tea and finger sandwiches on Park Ave. to the rehabilitation of Bill Ayers, to Sen. Patty Murray’s embrace of Osama bin Laden in 2003 to Michael Moore’s declaration the following year that anti-American terrorists in Iraq were the new Minutemen, the left was all about exploring the root causes of terrorism, and seeking a common understanding to make peace and progress forward together.
“Understanding never runs out for Islamist killers, but there are limits to how much tolerance they can gin up for American Taliban,” Ace writes of today’s Democratic party. Though as Jonah Goldberg adds via Twitter, “Obama’s Arizona ‘civility speech’ is meaningless if his VP can call opponents terrorists.”
Sarah Palin’s ultimate smackdown – If Tea Partiers Were Terrorists, Obama Would Pal Around With Us
Hmm. If the Tea Partier’s are “terrorists”, I wonder what names they’ll call the Chinese?
“It is the wild, electronic, and nanosecond west out there.”
Nanex caught arguably the most berserk HFT algorithm yet captured on film, or jpeg as the case may be, in the trading of Earthlink stock shortly after hours. What happened next is one for the ages… Because it certainly will not make it to the regulators. In essence, we had our first spotted appearance of the Whack-A-Mole algorithm, which allowed one, if one is fast enough, and incidentally one isn’t, as all the bids would be cancelled at the same time as they were sent out, to make free money on a 10% trading spread between the bid and ask. Gone is any pretense of an NBBO, gone is any pretense of an orderly market…
h/t Melinda Romanoff
VRWC: Program Notes
Mark Steyn will be on Ezra’s show on Sun TV later today to discuss his new book, After America.
If you enjoyed Mark’s last apocalyptic blockbuster, you’ll appreciate this one even more. From budgets to the border, diversity to disease, manufacturing to manhood, Steyn looks at the American undreaming, and provides a glimpse of the post-American world. There’s laughs along the way, and a few suggestions as to how total civilizational collapse might be avoided.
To Drive or to Fly?
Peter Cheney has written a most interesting column in which he proffers that he’d rather drive up to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) than fly. He discusses his thoughts with Charles Adler here.
What’s the maximum distance or time that you’d rather drive than fly?
Reader Tips
After a very long day I needed a laugh. Here are several, courtesy of Jerry Seinfeld and his friends.
Your Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
SDA Gets Results!
A vote for Canada’s Best Political Book of the Past 25 Years goes horribly wrong.
Well, done SDA Nation. Well done.
National Post has more.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Those Right Wingers Are Everywhere
Horst Mahler was a leader of the German radical left in the 1960s and ’70s. Now he’s a member of the radical right, sitting in jail for denying the Holocaust. But he’s reportedly verified reports that he informed for Communist spies in the ’60s.
That would be the “right” as in neo-national socialist party “right”.
Update: More from Ed Driscoll
h/t Maz2
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for!
Egyptian forces swinging electrified batons and shouting the battle cry “God is great” swiftly chased off dozens of activists Monday…
(h/t WallyJ)
Spain vs. Poland
“Spain vs. Poland” could alternatively have been written as “A bloated, inefficient public sector vs. A thriving, efficient private sector”. The BBC’s Peter Day explores the differences in this most excellent podcast. More info here.
It’s so brutally and blatantly obvious, yet socialists the world over will never understand.
Portraits Of Honour
Phil writes from Ottawa;
I met a gentleman in the Calgary airport yesterday who mentioned the
Portraits of Honour project now touring Canada. Essentially it’s a
large 50′ mural with painted portraits of our fallen soldiers with
a goal to raise funds for troop support.
Afterwards I thought about you and SDA nation.
It has already received plenty of media attention and their website
http://www.portraitsofhonour.com/ with a 9 minute video at the bottom
clearly explains the background and the goal of the project.
There are four stops scheduled for Saskatchewan in August. Check it out.