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In 1934 American songwriter Cole Porter’s stage musical Anything Goes made it’s official debut in New York City. The production had a long and successful run, and several of the songs, including I Get A Kick Out Of You, remain well-known standards to this day. Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a recording of Cole Porter himself singing the title song, Anything Goes. (Lyrics here.)
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World Wheat Shortage Looms
Bad weather?
If what I’ve seen out my windshield in the past 10 days is any indication, we’ve just plain stopped growing the stuff.
Nuts!
What, me worry?
NY Times editorialists point their extended pinkies at Arizona from a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan:
“Arizona’s law is not a case of a state helping the federal government do a job it neglected.”
Is the NYT saying that the federal government has or has not been neglecting it’s job? Hard to tell.
“It is a radical upending of immigration priorities, part of a spiteful crusade to force a mass exodus of illegal immigrants…”
Okay, so Arizona is trying to kick out illegal immigrants, as part of a “spiteful crusade.” But what specific “immigration priority”, exactly, is Arizona “radically upending?” The immigration priority of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration?
“Arizona still has a governor, legislators and law officers determined to pursue immigration enforcement at any cost…”
Is there a cost, or a risk, to not enforcing immigration law? Yes – but only for the noble ruler class:
“President Obama took a big risk when he filed suit against the Arizona law and deserves credit for that. We hope he goes on to make clear to all the states that the Arizona way is not the American way.”
Securing the borders and enforcing federal immigration law is, all of a sudden, “not the American way.”
I Miss Laura Lane
Mo and Babby-Daddy … “are not that far removed from what most Americans are going through.”
I miss Laura Lane.
David Cameron’s Britain
Next on the agenda: school uniforms.
h/t chip
QOTW
“Yeah, there’s a long history of fans using explosives as a way to welcome a visiting popular president.” – Charles Krauthammer
Related – More cheering!
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a short educational film about woodpeckers. Did you know that when a woodpecker is foraging for bugs it pecks just once or twice, but when it hammers loudly in rhythmic bursts, it’s not looking for food?
“By far the most often-heard drumming and pecking by woodpeckers has to do with communication, not feeding. Each species has a distinctive rhythmic pattern that it hammers out, often choosing hollow spaces that act as amplification chambers, broadcasting territorial claims far and wide. If a woodpecker drums repeatedly on your house, it’s likely using your dwelling as an amplifier, not as a grocery store.”
That explains a lot. Incidentally, anyone who has ever been awoken early in the morning by what sounds like either a brass door-knocker or an old-fashioned typewriter might be interested to hear the territory-claiming sound made by the yellow-bellied Sapsucker at 3:07.
From the people behind Peterson Field Guides, here’s a brief introduction to our feathered friends, the Woodpeckers.
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Russian Tow Truck
… ahhh, the practiced hand of a professional.
“Misogynist violence is unacceptable, but…”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Hospital Rules: No smoking, turn off your cell phone, and observe Sharia law.
A couple is facing a $750 hospital bill after they had to leave a ward in Kingston General Hospital’s maternity ward because a Muslim woman was breastfeeding her newborn.
John Kennedy said he and another man were also forbidden from using the sink in the shared bathroom to dampen cloths so they could clean their babies.
He and his wife and the other couple were moved out of the room on religious grounds that were made clear to him by medical staff on the floor, who said unrelated men are forbidden from being in the room while the Muslim woman was breastfeeding.
720 Virgins Reporting for Service
“Basically, we took care of them rather quickly and efficiently. They really only succeeded in blowing up a very small section of fence.”
… back story.
ht: Dave in the comments @ Cjunk.
Why Do They Call it a Justice System?
During that violent struggle, the woman said she slashed Pickton’s jugular vein and was able to escape, flagging down a passing car for help.
She had lost three litres of blood and had no pulse when she arrived at Royal Columbian Hospital with stab wounds to the upper chest, the abdomen, hands and arms. The woman, who was then 30, remained unconscious in hospital for four days.
Pickton, who also lost three litres of blood that evening, drove himself to Eagle Ridge Hospital, and was then transferred to Royal Columbian. The two stabbing victims were in separate operating rooms when a handcuff key was found in the pocket of Pickton’s pants. It was taken to the woman’s room and used to unlock the cuffs dangling from her wrist.
Pickton was charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon and forcible confinement following the incident, but the charges were eventually stayed because the Crown considered the woman too unstable to testify in court at the time.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
In raising several questions about this issue and the economics of nuclear power, the article failed to point out, as it should have, that the study was prepared for an environmental advocacy group, which, according to its Web site, is committed to ‘‘tackling the accelerating crisis posed by climate change — along with the various risks of nuclear power.’’ The article also failed to take account of other studies that have come to contrasting conclusions, or to include in the mix of authorities quoted any who elaborated on differing analyses of the economics of energy production.
h/t huck
Who’d a thunk it?
Pipe me down, Tony:
Oil’s well that ends well?
Where On Earth Is Greg Selinger’s Thesis?
As Predicted
Six Months On, Haiti Remains Covered in Rubble”
A half a year after a devastating earthquake claimed at least 222,570 lives, the work of rebuilding Haiti is still in the early stages. Helpers have traveled to the country from around the world, but reconstruction has barely progressed. In many parts of the country, people have simply moved on with their lives amidst the rubble.
Indeed.
h/t Maz2
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips sees Chico Marx taking his fingers out for a lighthearted stroll on the piano – note his distinctive right hand technique – before handing over the stool to a mayhem-making Harpo, who then switches to his harp, in this musical vignette from the 1935 Marx Brothers film A Night At The Opera.
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Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
North Pole, 1959:
“the Skate found open water both in the summer and following winter. We surfaced near the North Pole in the winter through thin ice less than 2 feet thick.”
NYT, 2000:
The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate.