CBC: Not Whitewashed Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
ABC News, Sept 1st – A radical enviornmentalist who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters while wearing what police may be explosives was shot and killed by officers, police said. […] In a rambling manifesto on Lee’s website, believed to have been written by Lee, the writer rails against “disgusting human babies,” “parasitic infants,” and says people should “disassemble civilization.” The manifesto also calls on Discovery to “broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet.”
CBC News, Sept 1st – Police described the gunman as having “concerns” with Discovery’s programming, but would not elaborate. The concerns appear to be of an environmental nature.
“Green” – it’s the new Muslim!
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a cover of a beautiful, melancholy song written in 1945 by French Poet Jacques Prevert and Hungarian-born composer Joseph Kosma. From a 1977 recording made in Milan, Italy, here’s Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker and Ruth Young duetting on a nicely languorous version of Autumn Leaves.
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Y2Kyoto: Angry Green Party Rhetoric Fuels Violence
I hope Diane Francis is happy with herself.
Update! This didn’t take long.
Y2Kyoto: We’re Winning
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Chicago Climate Exchange website;
CCX Members are leaders in greenhouse gas (GHG) management and represent all sectors of the global economy, as well as public sector innovators. Reductions achieved through CCX are the only reductions made in North America through a legally binding compliance regime, providing independent, third party verification by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, formerly NASD). The founder and chairman of CCX is economist and financial innovator Dr. Richard L. Sandor, who was named a Hero of the Planet by Time Magazine in 2002 for founding CCX, and in 2007 as the “father of carbon trading.”
“Miss Me Yet?”
The stuff they won’t tell you on the CBC.
Iraq
Through Through The Looking Glass;
The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in that country. It is too often forgotten that all 23 of the writs for war passed by the Congress in 2002 — from enforcing the Gulf I resolutions and stopping the destruction of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, to preventing the Iraqi state promotion of terrorism, ending suicide bounties on the West Bank, and stopping Iraq from invading or attacking neighbors or trying to acquire WMD — were met and satisfied by the U.S. military. It is also too often forgotten that, as a result, Libya gave up its WMD program; Dr. Khan’s nuclear franchise was shut down; Syria left Lebanon; and American troops in Saudi Arabia, put there as protection against Saddam, were withdrawn.
Remembering Back to School
… when six years ago the peace of Muhammad was unleashed:
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Update: Pam on the raping of little girls. ht Rose
His grandparents are overwhelmingly white
Newsweek magazine’s Ben Adler writes…
(Glenn) Beck says he and his overwhelmingly white followers are the inheritors and protectors of the civil rights movement.
…as if, despite the last 800 years or so, it’s a self-evidently ridiculous thought.
Reader Tips
WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, a gentle, multilingual, well-spoken man with a doctorate in sports science, is a hugely popular public figure in the Ukraine. When he began toying with the idea of running for the office ofUkrainian president, his brother Vladimir, the WBO, IBO and IBF heavyweight champion, and also a Ph.D., warned him that while everybody in the Ukraine adores him now, half of the people in the country will suddenly dislike him at the moment he runs for office.
Vladimir’s advice was sound, for nothing on earth – save certain comments threads on blogs – is a contentious as professional politics. In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips we span the globe to look at contentious moments in parliamentary politics, starring, in no particular order, the parliamentarians of Bolivia, Mexico, Taiwan, Korea, Sri Lanka, Russia, India, and, last but not least, the Ukraine, where Vitali (aka “Dr. Ironfist”) would certainly have tipped the balance of power had he been a parliamentarian.
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Bolt action or lever? Discuss
Darcey’s got a new rifle:
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Come For The Rhinestones, Stay For The Stonings
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Deere said the sale will allow it to get back to what it does best, which is manufacturing farm equipment.
“At its best it was well executed Schadenfreude.”
At its better than best, it was an incestuous little crybaby fishbowl that validated the utter disgust with which millions of Canadians regard the CBC.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“Only when you get to the seventh paragraph do you learn ….”
“Does Canada need the Tea Party movement?”
A poll at Cnews. (On the left of the home page, about a third of the way down.)
Update: Something’s gone horribly wrong. One hour since posting, the poll has moved from a 6 point lead for “no”, into a dead heat.
Update2: Now 4 hours into the poll, the “yes” side has drawn into a 10 point lead. Curious and curiouser….
“It was the Crown’s attempt to tax tea…”
A short history of the Tea Party – and then some – from Mark Levin. (Via)
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Your facility is tasked with the storage of a mountain of gold and you’re not subject to periodic auditing?
How does that work, exactly?
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, the last installment of our summer series of songs about particular cities, celebrate’s Nevada’s desert city of non-stop twenty-four hour excitement, with its black jack, poker, roulette wheels, one-armed bandits and neon lights. From the 1964 movie of the same name, here’s early-Elvis impersonator Elvis Presley nonchalantly hamming his way through the conga-heavy hip-swiveller Viva Las Vegas.
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