“Obama Gets It Wrong on Israel, and Canada’s Harper Gets It Right”
The Sound Of Settled Science
Triceratops removed from extinction list.
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
The Interior Department’s inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear that scientists and experts supported the idea of the administration’s six-month ban on new drilling.
Emphasis mine. But that’s all oil under the bridge… right?
Ensco Offshore claims that since the ban was lifted Oct. 12, the government has not issued a single permit that would allow the resumption of any previously suspended drilling activities.
Saskatchewan’s Smartest Radio Listener
Time to pass the torch. Your hostess will be (briefly) on John Gormley Live in a half hour as this week’s Quizmaster. You can listen live at the link.
And no, SDA readers do not get advance clues.
Upate: looks like we’re going on a few minutes early.
The Question: What Saskatchewan “First” was “absolutely condemned” at the 1975 annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Conference of the United Church?
So far, all the callers remain stumped. I am certfiably evil.
Finally! Daren from Handel had the answer. At the time, John Clark, editor of United Grain Growers’ Grainews wrote;
“things must be different in United Church Sunday Schools today from when I was a kid. In those days, the Kamsack Sunday School teacher (an RCMP constable and hockey coatch) used to threaten benching us the next five hockey games if we didn’t ‘pay attention’ … But I’ll bet kids pay attention nowadays. The threat isn’t Hell. It’s inland terminals.”
What We Really Need Is Anarchy
With a big government to pay for it.
Y2Kyoto: Egg, Meet Sidewalk
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Real Climate, 2004 – There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record […] is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.
University of Rhode Island, 2010 – “We have mile after mile of asphalt pavement around the country, and in the summer it absorbs a great deal of heat, warming the roads up to 140 degrees or more,” said K. Wayne Lee, URI professor of civil and environmental engineering and the leader of the joint project. “If we can harvest that heat, we can use it for our daily use, save on fossil fuels, and reduce global warming.”
Uncivil Union
Via David Thompson;
So why did we marry? Our wedding was in 2003, two years before the legislation for civil partnerships was introduced. Had civil partnerships been available we might have been the first in the queue of heterosexual couples now fighting for the right to become partners.
I remind you all that I saw this coming.
Kaboom
The missile witnessed yesterday off the coast of California appears to have landed in Ireland.
Reader Tips
Every two years in the southern provinces of Spain teams of fifteen or twenty people or more, known as colles castelleres, compete to build human towers up to nine or ten people tall. Here’s a high-def video (do watch it full-screen) showing the colourfully-attired castellers of Tarragona in action. Clearly, it’s not a sport for the obese.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Name That Play
h/t Speedy
Missile Mystery
I’m surprised this isn’t bigger news. Via Drudge.
Bob McCarty;
As a former Air Force public affairs officer who served for nearly two years with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing — think Titan II ICBMs — at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., I can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that officials inside the Pentagon know the exact location from which the large missile was launched, the means via which it was launched and by whom it was launched off the coast of California Monday evening.
I don’t buy the SLBM test as message speculation. Who’s it addressed to – Helen Keller?
Well, so much for that excitement. Here’s your contrail update.
Overheard Outside An Apartheid Wall
First Israeli oppressor: “Wait. There’s a water park in Gaza?”
Second Israeli oppressor: “The riding club next door had to close for three days.”*
h/t Noel
Published This Week In The Journal Of Political Physics
If Dalton McGuinty and Rob Ford were to touch, would Ontario be annihilated?
The Politics Of PotashCorp
A Sigma Analytics poll conducted for the Regina Leader-Post found the NDP had the support of 29.4 per cent of decided voters compared with 57.3 for the Saskatchewan Party. Lingenfelter’s popularity trailed that of his party, with 60 per cent of respondents selecting him as the leader they would least want as premier.
Y2Kyoto: “Amazon Defense Coalition Vs Chevron” Goes Horribly Wrong
I Can Read The WSJ From My House
It would be hard to find two more unlikely intellectual comrades than Robert Zoellick, the World Bank technocrat, and Sarah Palin, the populist conservative politician. But in separate interventions yesterday, the pair roiled the global monetary debate in complementary and timely fashion.
The former Alaskan Governor showed sound political and economic instincts by inveighing forcefully against the Federal Reserve’s latest round of quantitative easing. According to the prepared text of remarks that she released to National Review online, Mrs. Palin also exhibited a more sophisticated knowledge of monetary policy than any major Republican this side of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan.
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
How to Tell If Al-Qaeda Has Sewn a Bomb Inside Your Dog
In what can only be an oversight, “Muslim with dog” is not the first clue.
h/t WC
Reader Tips
The Festival Express was a three stop Canadian tour that featured a who’s-who of then-current rock performers who traveled by private train, at great expense to the promoter, to stops in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. At each stop, the tour – which was a financial wipeout – was met by mini-riots and protests by 60’s-intoxicated youths who felt it was an outrage that they had to pay to get in.
From the documentary movie named after the tour, here’s a performance by blues artist Buddy Guy, who may or may not have been reminding the kids about the necessity of him making a living, and getting paid, with his enthusiastic performance of Money; either way, it’s definitely the best forklift solo ever.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Does Mrs. Lingenfelter Have A Facebook Page?
Just… curious.