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h/t subversible
Y2Kyoto: What’s Your Ambulance’s Carbon Footprint?
Raising awareness;
A Vancouver cyclist is recovering after being struck by an electric vehicle during an event to promote an around-the-world carbon-free race.
(Post title courtesy of Speedy)
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Reader Tips
In our Saturday amusement en route to the tips Bjork (upper left here) of the now-defunct Icelandic group The Sugar Cubes is confused and concerned by a startling Motor Crash, so she takes one of the wounded victims home for biscuits and milk.
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Losing ABC News
Is there nothing that … oh nevermind.
Yowza.
If things get any worse, Keith Olbermann will be demanding to see that birth certificate.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
h/t rockyt
Maxime Bernier
Has a new blog.
Losing The Democrats
Reader Tips
The Isles of Scilly are a group of about 140 islands, five of them inhabited, that lie approximately 30 miles off the tip of Cornwall in England. Even though there are only 2,000 or so people on the islands, they manage to put together a very professional local news broadcast whose positive-minded, helpful, even-tempered, and matter-of-fact tone puts the perpetually outraged stealth-activist lemon-suckers at CBC to shame. From Scilly TV, here’s the relaxing and untroubled Scilly Weekly News Roundup. Enjoy.
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Medicine Hat Is Being Run By Crazy People
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Calgary Herald, Nov.10th, 2010 – The City of Medicine Hat is set to announce a $9-million solar power project, believed to be the first commercial-scale facility of its kind in Canada. […] “Private enterprise would be much more reluctant to do something like this because they always look at cost-benefit analysis,” [deputy mayor Ted Clugston]* said.
Australia Institute, Nov.11th, 2010 – Government subsidies for residential solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems are ineffective, costly and unfair, new research published by The Australia Institute shows. […] It found that despite costing the government $1.1 billion, it will only reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by around 0.015 per cent and failed to generate significant domestic economic benefits.
h/t Paul
* quote attribution corrected
How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Responsible For Worldwide?
Join Us In Saving The CBC
Star Entertainment Columnist Martin Knelman explains why it’s more important than ever to turn to Fox News;
“…it could be suicidal for the CBC to continue its single-minded pursuit of ratings.”
Just lie back and think of Trudeau.
Y2Kyoto: Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Brought to the United States by President Obama a year ago to teach the planet-killers at Chrysler how to make fuel-efficient econoboxes like the ones that proper Europeans drive, [Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne] has fallen in love with big, money-making American SUVs. In an announcement that shook the auto world this week, Sergio announced that he wants Chrysler to help make . . . Alfa Romeo and Maserati SUVs.
Mama Mia! Just wait until Papa Obama gets back from Asia!
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Sergio’s got religion all right. He announced November 8 that he wants Chrysler’s Detroit Assembly Plant — the very facility Obama visited last July to crow about his Detroit bailouts – to build SUV platforms for as many as four brands: Chrysler, Dodge, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati.
Reader Tips
Stacy Westfall
I got my first quarter horse yearling when I was 12. I spent the summer breaking him, following the steps in a booklet the King Ranch used to mail out for free to anyone who asked.
If you’ve ever reached forward to slip the bridle off your cutting horse out in a pasture of cattle – just for the fun of it – this’ll bring smile to your face.
And it’ll make you miss your quarter horse.
What Would We Do Without Wide Angle Lenses?
Remembering: An American who died for Canada
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. And for all pilots everywhere:
High Flight
More Pavilions At Folkfest
There will always be an Englandistan;
Islamic protesters sparked fury today after they burned a model of a poppy and deliberately broke the silence at Armistice Day commemorations in central London.
As millions of Britons fell silent to remember those who have died in war, members of a group called Muslims Against Crusades clashed with police during an ’emergency demonstration’ in Kensington, west London.
As the clock struck 11am, the Islamic protesters burned a model of a poppy and chanted ‘British soldiers burn in hell’.
h/t Kevin
We Will Remember
We Need A Famine
This is the first time that GWU has offered a class devoted specifically to Fat Studies, and its diverse enrollment is an important victory for the subject. Fat Studies scholars say their mission is to promote weight awareness and acceptance among populations of all types. The sociological study of obesity has been creeping into academia for over a decade, often as a subtopic of Women’s Studies or Health Sciences. But only recently has weight become a subject of study in its own right. “There would be no Fat Studies if there were no obesity epidemic,” says Esther Rothblum, a lesbian studies professor at the University of California, San Diego, and one of the earliest to research the psychology of weight bias.
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h/t EBD