Find an anti-Semite.
Update: UN Official Admits Publishing
Planet Entitlement
Even Vancouver media personality & pundit, David Berner, who generally considers himself a man of the Left, can’t believe the insanity, greed, & selfishness coming out of the mouths of the leaders of the public school teachers in British Columbia.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
The Toronto District School Board says it is meeting its obligation to accommodate students’ religious beliefs by allowing an imam to lead students in prayer on school property.
The board came under fire this week when a Hindu group that regularly criticizes Islam raised objections to Friday Muslim prayer sessions, which have been held inside a cafeteria at Valley Park Middle School in Flemingdon Park for about three years.
h/t rita
Your Tax Dollars At Work
“It looks exactly like a giant dried bulls penis.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones.
Unless they’re members of a cult.
Wanna Buy A Dam?
The facts tell the story. The [Manitoba] NDP has been selling off pieces of Hydro for years and nobody has uttered a peep.
They’ve sold off 33 percent of the Wuskwatim dam.
They’ve signed a deal to sell 25 percent of the Keeyask dam, which will be almost five times as large as Wuskwatim.
And they’re planning to sell of pieces of the still-larger Conawapa dam when its time to build it.
At that point they will run out of new dams to sell. So they will turn to selling off pieces of the old dams. Then the power lines and transmission towers. Eventually they’ll be left with only the rivers and streams, and they’ll start selling them.
What? You haven’t heard?
Green Energy
h/t Ron in Kelowna
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and there are new sentencing guidelines on the horizon for goat thieves;
Under the heading ‘Muslims should set up Islamic emirates in the UK’, MAC says: ‘We suggest it is time that areas with large Muslim populations declare an emirate delineating that Muslims trying to live within this area are trying to live by the sharia as much as possible with their own courts and community watch and schools and even self sufficient trade.
‘Likely areas for these projects might be Dewsbury or Bradford or Tower Hamlets to begin with.
‘In time we can envisage that the whole of the sharia might one day be implemented starting with these enclaves.’
It’s probably nothing.
h/t Shawn
Questions For The Gaza Flotilla “Activists”
Reader Tips
57 years ago, on July 5, 1954, Elvis Presley recorded That’s All Right. This was the first single of his ever released and started a musical revolution of sorts. Here he is performing the same song in 1970.
Your Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
El Rushbo In Joplin, Missouri
The Tolerant Left
Welcome to the UK, Where Everything is a “Human Right”
Does the second half of the first story presented here seem too far-fetched to occur in Canuckistan?
Charles Adler shares his thoughts.
Celebrity Corpse Network
And the Casey Anthony comment of the day;
An Orlando TV station declares that the trial “captivated the nation.” Which is, I suppose, a way of saying that TV ran wall-to-wall coverage for the benefit of idiots who were “captivated,” which no sane person could have been. Some postgraduate student of communication theory will undoubtedly write his Ph.D. dissertation on what the Casey Anthony saga tells us about the process by which network TV producers decide which crimes to turn into media circuses.
Via Drudge – Anthony Defense Team Slams Media
Government Motors
Here we go again? (Remember the Canadian and Ontario governments still own some nine per cent of the company.) It’s tough relying on older pick-up trucks when gas prices go, er, north.
It’s Time To Put Aside The Rhetoric
Professional leftist interviewed by a professional journalist. Watch and learn…
Via
Y2Kyoto: Those Dirty Chinese
They admit the non-warming when they can lay blame for the non-warming;
Smoke belching from Asia’s rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur’s cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
Tweaking computer models like this proves nothing. The real test is in the real world data. The temperature hasn’t increased for over a decade. For there to be any faith in the underlying scientific assumptions the world has to start warming soon, at an enhanced rate to compensate for it being held back for a decade.
Despite what the authors of this paper state after their tinkering with an out of date climate computer model, there is as yet no convincing explanation for the global temperature standstill of the past decade.
Either man-made and natural climatic effects have conspired to completely offset the warming that should have occurred due to greenhouse gasses in the past decade, or our estimation of the ‘climate sensitivity’ to greenhouse gasses is too large.
PDF of the study is here. Save this one for the entertainment value of warning your friends and family that Recent Extreme Weather EventsTM are due to… oh wait!
The Master Manual
“It shouldn’t have been this way,” he said while piling sandbags in front of his neighbor’s house. “For most of the spring there were sandbars over the whole damn river.”
The period between March 20 and May 6 has been difficult for the Army Corps of Engineers to explain. During that span, the Corps’ water managers kept river levels low and stockpiled near-record amounts of water behind the three upper basin dams on the Missouri River, despite evidence that the Rocky Mountains were holding a lot more snow than normal.
The reservoirs were so full by early May that they couldn’t contain the late-spring rainfall that pounded Montana and the Dakotas.
h/t Gary M.
Related – The purposeful flooding of America’s heartland;
But after about thirty years of operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout the seventies and eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure to include some specific environmental concerns into their MWCM (Master Water Control Manual, the “bible” for the operation of the dam system). Preservation of habitat for at-risk bird and fish populations soon became a hot issue among the burgeoning environmental lobby. The pressure to satisfy the demands of these groups grew exponentially as politicians eagerly traded their common sense for “green” political support.
Things turned absurd from there.
(h/t Ron in Kelowna)
Blog Notes
Well, I’m back! I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable long weekend. We had a great trip, with all the dogs in the truck taking nice wins. Many thanks to the guest bloggers for holding down the fort while I traipsed across America.
Update, via my friend Tania who took this photo of our view from the show ring in Long Beach. I’ll post a later update with more photos when I find time to get them together.
I filmed the fireworks over Broadus, Montana last night on the final leg of my trip. (I’m not sure what happened to corrupt the first few seconds of the video, but it clears up quickly.)
Normal blogging will resume later today.
Reader Tips
Please climb aboard and buckle up. We’re going to take a plane ride to Hawaii. And while there you can take in a show … or two.
Your international or domestic Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.