Remember the now infamous Nathan Kotylak? He issued a public apology today:

Open Questions:
1) Do you believe he’s sincere?
2) Do you sense that him coming forward like this was his own idea?
3) Does this change your views on what punishment he should face?
4) If your answer to #3 is ‘Yes’, what do you think would be a fair punishment for him?

Ultimately, nothing is more important than agriculture. – Dennis Gartman

The recent blockbuster announcement reports that solar activity is dropping off a cliff and we may be headed into a little Ice Age. Basically, some of the most prestigious solar scientists have published a study saying that sunspot activity has dropped so low that the next 11 year solar cycle (Cycle 21) may not even happen. The last time that this happened was the Dalton Minimum – a period of unprecedentedly cold winters around 1800 AD that included “The Year Without A Summer”.
This would be very bad news – many more people die in cold events than in hot ones. Most of those deaths have historically been from starvation, and there’s really nothing to suggest that anything is fundamentally different today. Sure, world wide transport is easy, but world food stocks are the lowest they’ve been in decades.

… and other rainbow colored worlds:

“It would be nice if “Amina Arraf” existed. As niche constituencies go, we could use more hijab-wearing Muslim lesbian militants and fewer fortysomething male Western deadbeat college students. But the latter is a real and pathetically numerous demographic, and the former is a fiction – a fantasy for Western liberals, who think that in the multicultural society the nice gay couple at 27 Rainbow Avenue can live next door to the big bearded imam with four child brides at No. 29 and gambol and frolic in admiration of each other’s diversity. They will proffer cheery greetings over the picket fence, the one admiring the other’s attractive buttock-hugging leather shorts for that day’s Gay Pride parade as he prepares to take his daughter to the clitoridectomy clinic.”

“If the NLRB is allowed to overrule Boeing’s business decision, there are no winners. … The repercussions of this case will ensure that businesses will simply decide to move operations overseas. South Carolina has seen what happens when businesses find better opportunities overseas — the jobs leave and they don’t come back.”
On a related note, I approached the Winnipeg Economic Development council about 3 months ago with a proposal I called “Operation Capital Flight.” In it I proposed I would act as an agent for the council and actively approach and solicit Minnesota-based companies to move their headquarters to Winnipeg in order to take advantage of the lower corporate taxes. On the target list were companies like 3M, Target, General Mills, Polaris, Best Buy and other multi-billion dollar firms.
Got a call back, the guy said he would run it past the council. Never heard back since then.
Makes me wonder when government types and economic development types in Canada are going to realize just what low-hanging fruit there is in the US to simply pluck away.
That is of course unless you don’t want any of that icky yucky gross jobs and investment stuff?

And will not only save you the $250,000 it takes to raise a child, but will prevent you from going to jail.
Men, seriously, get the snippity snip. The legal and financial risks just aren’t worth it. And to show you I was ahead of this game – from early 2009.

When you read this, you can literally feel the endorphins being released from your brain and flow throughout the rest of your body.

At Cjunk we predicted back in September of 2009 that a Sea Change was hitting Afghanistan whose long-term effect might be the collapse of the Taliban:

The fact is, that starting this summer the battle space in Afghanistan, even for Canadians, is changing dramatically. Thousands of US soldiers along with incredible numbers of aircraft and all manner of vehicle are spreading out into the landscape with the single goal of separating Afghan civilians from the murderous Taliban. And isn’t that the point of this whole dirty little war … that Canadian critics of Afghan civilians have such a hard time understanding; that until the civilians can be assured that they have protection, they will not , nay they cannot, take a side nor move their country forward.

As of June 2011, it appears that the blood and sweat of Canadian soldiers and their American and ISAF allies may be paying off. Significant bench-marks are being met and evidence is growing that the endless Taliban cannon fodder may not be that endless after all. (content at this link may be offensive to some)
There are, after all, Afghans who get it and who may eventually hold sway over the king of corruptocrats.

A small — very small — victory for common sense and the right to self-defence was won in Alberta yesterday. Crown prosecutors withdrew assault charges against Joe Singleton, an oilfield consultant from the town of Taber, about two hours south and east of Calgary.

… the details from Gunter.

… deny, deny, deny.