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Delisle is just down the highway to the right.
… a couple more pics of the same storm.

… is a new tax:

Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world’s leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change.
British economist Nicholas Stern told international climate negotiators Thursday that government regulation and public money also will be needed to create incentives for private investment in industries that emit fewer greenhouse gases.

It now all makes perfect sense … silly me.
Update: Let Them Eat Spinach
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… and Malkin.

I recall watching gobsmacked, when virtually the entire staff of CNBC tittered in childish delight at the election of The One. Kudlow, of course, was stoically unconvinced. Fast forward a little over a year, and it’s hard to miss the cynicism and disappointment. Hardcore democrats like Steve Liesman now take a regular on-air drubbing from fellow journalists.
What’s perhaps most amazing though, is that the Tea Party has made it to CNBC … and that, is a Sea Change:

From a Muslim … a plea for sanity:

I have no grave site to visit, no place to bring my mother her favorite yellow flowers, no spot where I can hold my weary heart close to her. All I have is Ground Zero.
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To the supporters of this new Islamic cultural center, I must ask: Build your ideological monument somewhere else, far from my mother’s grave, and let her rest.

In a related essay … Just Shut Up.
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Flood or famine, heat or snow, AGW does it all:

Over 1 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija. The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures.
Unprecedented: Nothing like this has ever been seen in this magnitude in Bolivia. Inhabitants of riverside communities report the smell is nauseating and can be detected as far as a kilometer away from river banks. River communities, whose livelihoods depend on fishing, fear they’ll run out of food and will have nothing to sell. Authorities are concerned there will be a shortage of fish in markets and are more concerned by possible threats to public health, especially in communities that also use river water for bathing and drinking, but also fear contaminated or decaying fish may end up in market stalls. They’ve begun a campaign to ensure market vendors and the public know how to tell the difference between fresh and unhealthy fish.

… at this point in time only the most stubborn zealot or sad simpleton won’t be getting at least a bit sceptical.
Previous @ Cjunk … a fool’s game.

250 K Per Year:

“I’m at $45 an hour. When I work overtime, I make $90 an hour because it’s double time. We work 12-and-a-half hour shifts so it’s $1,000 per overtime shift,” he said.
“And in our contract, we have consecutive weekends. You have to work four weekends in a row and then per contract all of your regularly scheduled weekends automatically become double time. I never take a weekend off.”
He says people shouldn’t think that the $213,868 he earned in 2009-10 is too much money. The base rate for a registered nurse is $88,000 annually.

… Saskatoon Health Region, not broke … enough.