Reader Tips
Cover up your mint tea, bring your lambs inside the house, put a keffiyeh over your nose and mouth, and start chattering excitedly in Arabic: you’re about to be hit by a Kuwaiti Sandstorm.
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The First American Prime Minister, Beclowning Himself
Tiipz.com
A new polling tool. Update – Jason from Tiipz writes;
Also, I would love your readers to know that we are happy to set up a Tiipz page for anyone who wants to post election stuff.
Email them here.
“You, Me, — and Two Podiums”
Yes, he really said that.
We did not make this up*.
Choose your parody.
Reader Tips
Courtesy of Robert W., here’s a lovely time-lapse video, shot from the deck of a cruise ship, showing various scenic locations around the world. It’s hi-def, so do yourself a favour and watch it full-screen.
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Any Time, Jack’s Place
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Ignatieff, Apr.1 – “Canadians truly deserve to see us go face to face in a contest of ideas, values and very different visions for our country. That is what democracy is all about.”
Montreal Gazette, Apr.1 – If Canadians find themselves being governed by a Liberal-NDP-Bloc Québécois coalition following the May election […] Only 27 per cent of the poll’s respondents said they’d want Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to be top dog, compared with …. 59 per cent who said Layton.
h/t Orville
Free Andrew Bolt!
Here we go again.
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has been dragged before a judge and accused of thought crimes against the high church of political correctness. He’s being prosecuted and persecuted for the lese-majesty of challenging the cult of victimhood that dominates racial discourse in Australia.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Aneroxia Envirosa
In 2005 Enstrom authored an extensive study that found no relationship between diesel particulates and premature deaths. He says his study, as well as other evidence that agrees with it, have been ignored by an agency bent on passing ever more stringent regulations regardless of their effect on California’s economy.
Enstrom blew the whistle on CARB for, among other things, failing to publicize that the lead author of the study that was used to justify the new regulations falsified his education history (he purchased his PhD from an online diploma mill).
But UCLA didn’t come to Enstrom’s defense. In fact, officials informed him that, after 34 years at the university, he was out of a job.
h/t Mike
Exit Strategy
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Libyan rebels called for a cease- fire as forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi drove them back for a third day after sandstorms and clouds hindered NATO air strikes and the U.S. said it’s withdrawing all warplanes.
Well, France was involved.
Take Me, Obama
Love hurts.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Canadian scientists have discovered that
identical twins do not have identical genes, a common assumption by researchers for more than a century, and a development that could have implications into the study of medicine and human behaviour.
Deep Impact
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Luberal.ca
Vote Compass Roundup
A ragtag sample of media coverage of CBC’s “vote this way” tool:
United Press International:
Online quiz makes everyone a Liberal.
Chris Selley, writing in the National Post, says he took the test and came up Conservative, but –
That said, the Vote Compass is certainly a bit crap.
The Sun’s Brian Lilley:
In one video promotion, show host George Stroumboulopoulous tells viewers to take the test, “In about five minutes you will know who represents you the best. You might actually be surprised.”
Some participants are very surprised, mostly to find out they are Liberal.
After noting that the “director of analytics” for Vote Compass was a policy advisor for Ignatieff’s Liberal leadership campaign, and that a member of Vote Compass’s advisory board “savaged Stephen Harper in the press, claiming he was destroying the ‘integrity’ of government”, Ezra Levant observes:
It’s possible that cadre of diehard Liberals can be neutral. But there’s only one way to be sure: The formula that Vote Compass uses must be disclosed publicly.
Why wouldn’t they, really? Just to assuage the toothless proles.
QOTD goes to Lilley:
CBC has defended the Vote Compass. A spokesperson for the CBC said they had nothing to do with the methodology.
We have no clue about the methodology – we’re an arms-length news organization – but we’re positive it’s on the up-and-up.
Insert Gallic shrug here.
Eat The Rich
Survival Of The Leftist
Their secrets revealed.
L’ Aristocracy de CWB
Reader Tips
Got potatoes? Take them down to be mashed.
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Good Luck With That Strathcona Seat, Jack
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Jack Layton, March 26th – “Because here in Edmonton, everybody knows, only New Democrats defeat Conservatives,”
Jack Layton, March 31st – “Under Stephen Harper, every single Quebecker is sending roughly $75 a year to subsidize dirty fossil fuel producers”.
I’ve got an email in to Grant McMurray to ask him what he meant by that.
A reply!
I have forwarded your request to our campaign team. I am busy with other aspects of the campaign and not with following the media.
Hope that helps,
Grant