Speaking of which, do you remember the middle-aged white man with the mustache who said that Justice Clarence Thomas should be put “back in the fields,” that Justice Samuel Alito “should go back to Sicily,” and that Fox News chief Roger Ailes “should be strung up and–but, ah, I don’t know. Kill the bastard”? Breitbart has now identified him as Don Wallace, a former president of a public-sector union, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles.
Related – “You are a bad Jew!”
FYI–will be broadcast delayed on CPAC, also online, at 1100 ET (note appearance by Commander, U.S. Cyber Command):
Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security
The Conference of Defence Associations and the CDA Institute hold their annual conference. Day two’s theme will be “The Canadian Forces Post-Combat Mission in Afghanistan”.
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11am ET / 8am PT
Peter MacKay – Canadian Defence Minister
11:45am ET / 8:45am PT
Gen. Walter Natynczyk – Canadian Chief of Defence Staff
12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT
Gen. Mieczyslaw Bieniek – NATO Deputy Commander
1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT
Gen. Keith Alexander – Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
2pm ET / 11am PT
Armed Forces Update
Lt. Gen (ret’d) Michel Maisonneuve – CDA Institute
Lt. Gen. André Deschamps – Chief of Air Staff
Lt. Gen. Peter Devlin – Chief of Land Staff
Vice-Adm. Dean McFadden – Chief of Maritime Staff
3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT
Future Challenges for the Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence
Brig.-Gen. (ret’d) Don MacNamara – CDA Institute
Philippe Lagassé – University of Ottawa
Lt. Gen. Andrew Leslie – Chief of Transformation, Canadian Forces
Dan Ross – assistant deputy minister of defence
Mankind would still be living in caves, but with really, really fancy curtains.*
You want the recession to end? You want unemployment back to 4%? You want oil back below $2 a gallon? You want the US back on the road to supreme economic and military dominance and security? You want a world where your precious little children actually have a future?
Kinda interesting:
A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing – trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves – kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.
Watch it here.
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Scratch a leftist, find a homophobe.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CNN Money, Feb.21th – A federal court ordered the Obama administration Thursday to act on five deep water drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico within 30 days, calling the delays in issuing new decisions “unreasonable, unacceptable, and unjustified.”
Dow Jones Newswires, Feb. 24th – In a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee joined two other lawmakers in urging the president to consider opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease pressure on oil and gas prices in advance of the summer driving season.
The Humane Society of the United States quest for an egg-free America;
If Washington voters were to approve it, this measure would make it illegal for Washington farmers to raise egg-laying hens in cages. Additionally, regular eggs would be banned from grocery stores.
[…] HSUS is the only cash contributor to the campaign so far—putting $150,000 of its donors’ money into the campaign in January.
The board holds farmers’ grain and money in trust for them. It is not Mr. Oberg’s or the CWB’s money to do with as they please. To spend it in this way is an abuse of trust, an abuse of power, and goes well beyond the board’s mandate of marketing grain.
Others have pointed out farmers have not been consulted about this purchase. Many feel blindsided by the announcement, and rightly so. In the recent wheat board director elections, for instance, none of the incumbent directors campaigned on the issue of buying ships, even though they had to have known about the plan to purchase them.
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Federal wheat board minister Gerry Ritz was clearly not happy with this decision. When asked about it in question period, his response was, “I have constantly told the wheat board that farmers’ money in the pool accounts is off-limits to it. It should not be misappropriated like this.” But we have yet to hear what the minister responsible for the CWB intends to do about this misappropriation of growers’ funds. To do nothing should not be an option.
Previous: An Adrian Measner connection.
The overwhelming veto-proof, bipartisan vote today means that New Hampshire is now on a path to doing something that looked impossible just a couple years ago — repeal a cap-and-trade program. In the process, it could deal the death blow to cap and trade both regionally and nationally.
Related: “No, thank you, I would like one for free.”
h/t Maz2
Seafloor sediment composed of ground up shells and coral also contains a significant amount of fish poop according to new research published on February 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In tonight’s amusement, a straightforward love song about two lovers and their legendary love, Billy Love & the Lovers sing Legend of Love.
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An SEIU comments thread goes terribly wrong
Elections Canada Liberal would never make a mistake like this; “Do not put ‘investigations/settlement’ on actual cheque; only put invoice number.”
Flashback!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Real Clear Politics, February 23rd – “This is a scheduling issue. The president will meet with Secretary of State Clinton this afternoon [re Libya]. We will have something to say out of that meeting. If possible, the President will speak this afternoon or tomorrow,”
Politico, February 23rd – Soon after Emanuel was projected the winner of the race with more than 55 percent of the vote, Obama also released this statement: “I want to extend my congratulations to Rahm Emanuel on a well-deserved victory tonight. As a Chicagoan and a friend, I couldn’t be prouder. Rahm will be a terrific mayor for all the people of Chicago.”
Well, when the President does it that means that it is not illegal.
And now is the time at SDA when he juxtaposes!
“You know, the world is real. And “The Daily Show” is fake.”
“This is beyond insane,” Providence Teachers Union President Steve Smith said Tuesday night. “Let’s create the most chaos and the highest level of anxiety in a district where teachers are already under unbelievable stress. Now I know how the United States State Department felt on Dec. 7 , 1941.”
With another successful weekend behind us (this time in Denver), blogging should return to normal for a couple of weeks, before we return stateside to inflict yet more punishment on hapless American Miniature Schnauzer exhibitors. Shown only one weekend in Canada and three in the US, “Venus” is already ranked nationally in both countries. And while I lack the time and financial resources to pursue those goals for a full year, it’s been fun upsetting the best laid early plans of those who do.
Many thanks to the guest bloggers for helping make it all possible! It’s been many years since I’ve had a dog with both the quality and the willingness to compete at the highest levels – your assistance in keeping SDA rolling so that I can “enjoy the moment” is deeply appreciated.
