h/t Dave
Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers needs to fire every single one of their high-priced communications help.
Earlier this week, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) voluntarily pulled a commercial from its latest campaign featuring individual oil sands workers talking about their contribution to mitigating environmental damage.
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Times, December 2009 – Sarah Palin’s ‘death panel’ charge voted biggest lie of 2009
Montreal Gazette, December 2010 – Hundreds of cancer patients across Quebec are being denied essential anti-cancer drugs by the provincial government, charge two of the city’s top oncologists.
Reader Tips
Here’s a short look at the romance between Danny and Annie Perasa of Brooklyn, New York.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Oh my: Pink Floyd ~ The Pulse Concert, 1994
The Problem With The Two Word Solution
What do Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinker and Louise Arbour have in common?
Give your answer (there are two correct ones) and then see here:
The world needs more Canada? Hardly
Part 2) of the post might also elicit some comment, cf. Kate’s post immediately below.
Meet the Liberal Elite
h/t Shawn
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The First American Prime Minister, On Section 92A
“It’s not an Alberta industry, it’s a national industry.”
h/t Rich
Y2Kyoto: True Believers
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Tom Burke of the climate change think tank E3G, March 2010 – “Climate change becomes a question of reason against unreason, and the use of the religious labels — propagated by lazy journalism — is all about controlling the agenda through language. It is a classic right-wing ploy,” he added. “The deniers who call themselves agnostics are obfuscating. It is a lie and should be exposed as such.”
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, December 2010 – “Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads. I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel.”
Related! “Norway got over a hundred new records in November.”
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
If you donate to the Humane Society of the United States for supporting the homeless doggies and kitties in your local animal shelter, you’ve likely been suckered by one of Big Green’s most notorious propaganda mills.
HSUS is a radical no-meat, anti-hunting, anti-gun octopus that spends millions swallowing other animal groups whole, but habitually gives less than 1 percent of its annual revenue to a few selected local shelters. It’s not that they can’t afford it — they raked in $101.6 million last year alone.
HSUS got so big because of CEO Wayne Pacelle’s takeovers of the extremist Fund for Animals and the respectable Doris Day Animal League, in what he calls “corporate combinations.”
That, and his ability to create high-profile projects like disaster relief crews that swoop stranded cats and dogs from flooded housetops while the TV cameras watch — then quietly dump them on nearby shelters without so much as a dime’s worth of support.
Pacelle gets the credit, the grunts get the critters.
Distinguished Symposia
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. In 2003 the British ITV ran a series known as The Adventure of English, based on a companion book written by the Right Honourable Lord Melvyn Bragg, Baron of Wigton in the County of Cumbria, FRSL, FRTS, FRS, FBA. This week, for your delectation, we have the eight fifty-minute episodes of The Adventure of English, narrated by Lord Bragg.
Reader Tips
In 1942 America composer Aaron Copland wrote a timeless musical expression of the perpetually reborn human spirit that is America. Supremely forceful yet utterly dignified, elegiac yet triumphal, the work is by now part of the lexicon of American music. From Avery Fisher Hall in the Lincoln Center in New York City, here is the New York Philharmonic, under the conductorship of James Levine, playing Aaron Copland’s Fanfare For The Common Man.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.
YNoKyoto
Japan refuses to extend Kyoto treaty at Cancun
The brief statement, made by Jun Arima, an official in the government’s economics trade and industry department, in an open session, was the strongest yet made against the protocol by one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
He said: “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances.”
The move came out of the blue for other delegations at the conference.
European reaction postponed due to snow.
CBC News; “More cowbell!”
We’re winning.
War Gaming
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
GamePolitics.com – Dovetailing nicely with recent news that the U.S. military is planning a larger role for videogames in training, GameTech 2010 takes place in Orlando, Florida from March 29-31 and focuses on “gaming technologies that enhance warfighter training.”
NPR blog – Army Steps Up Efforts to Get New Troops Fit
Those Wacky Iranians
Always blaming the jooos….
h/t
The $ound Of $ettled $cience
The federal funding that supported most university-based weather and climate research for the past decade has almost run out, and there is no sign it will be renewed.
The Ottawa-based Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, launched under prime minister Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government in 2000, will have given out $118 million in research grants by the time it runs dry at the end of 2011.
More good news! Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of climate change,Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m stocking up on ammo.
In a story out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, a PhD student is at the centre of a controversy about graduation requirements and exam anxiety. The doctoral math candidate was granted a PhD from the University of Manitoba without having to complete comprehensive examinations because of a severe case of exam anxiety.
A professor at the university, Gabor Lukacs, has since taken the matter to court claiming it to be a breach of academic standards. As a result of his actions, Lukacs was suspended by the university for harassment, insubordination and violation of the student’s privacy.
It seems to be a communicable disorder.
A reader emails – “parse the fallout for Dean of Graduate Studies Jay Doring’s name. He’s the guy that needs the biggest kick in the ass.”