
**
… I wonder what they’d say?
… we know what the barbarians have to say.
Update: More
Who are you?
What’s the point of showing photo ID at the boarding gate…
…when one cannot tell who some other people are (with video)?..
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Who needs windmills when you’ve got pumpjacks?
The tens of thousands of nodding pumpjacks scattered throughout Alberta’s oilfields could soon go green, generating electricity for the power grid while saving firms a cool thousand dollars a month in operating costs for each unit.
Edmonton-based Canada Control Works Inc. has devised a way to harvest gravity on the downstroke of the pumps, using the concept of kinetic energy found in braking systems for electric cars, where energy is fed back into the battery.
I love the smell of enviromarxist head explosions in the morning. And think of the profit potential in subsidy rich Ontario!
h/t Eric Anderson
Reader Tips
It’s Saturday night, it’s hot and muggy – at least where I am – and my biodex is down a quart, so I figure, what better time for a splendidly senseless panoply of fruit hats, monkeys, tambourines, banana xylophones, showgirls, maracas, overhead shots of kaleidoscopic, choreographed arms and limbs, and….did I mention giant technicolor bananas? From Busby Berkeley’s 1943 film The Gang’s All Here, here’s Maria de Carmo Miranda da Cunha, better known as Carmen Miranda, camping her way through The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat.
No, I don’t understand it either, but just look at all those purdy colours and gee-gaws…
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
How Many Football Stadiums* Would It Take To Fill The Gulf Of Mexico?
Time magazine’s nomination for “Most unlikely sentence of 2010”.
“Well, Limbaugh has a point.”
If you can’t get rid of big government…
Maywood: A city that sacked its entire staff
The US city sacked all its staff to stave off bankruptcy – and its citizens think services are now better. Tom Leonard reports.
To the casual eye, nothing about Maywood looks unusual. Police cars patrol the city’s palm-tree lined streets a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, red-shorted lifeguards watch over the public swimming pool and, inside the striking Art Deco city hall, clerks issue yard sale permits. The police cars, however, are from “out of town” and manned by deputies from the county sheriff’s department, while the lifeguards and clerks are on loan from the neighbouring city of Bell.
Maywood – working-class, respectable and 95 per cent Hispanic – has attempted something unheard of anywhere in local government. It sacked its entire workforce and staved off looming bankruptcy by outsourcing everything. More than 70 workers lost their jobs at the end of June. Others were re-employed contractually, losing key benefits. But the newly jobless may be the only people not smiling now…
H/t: Denise.
“But they’re all gonna drown!”
The Globe and Mail…
…continues its relentless effort to outshine the Star as the New Canadian’s best friend (front page, top of the fold, print headline starts in red caps: “HAPPY CAMPERS…”)…
More Dogs of War
A blog of their own.
Simpering Morons
Sounds about Right:
While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists.
Responding to these vile charges, conservative television pundits think it’s a great comeback to say:
“There is the fringe on both sides.”
Both sides? Really? How about: “That’s a complete lie”? Did that occur to you simpering morons as a possible reply to the slanderous claim that conservatives are fiery racists?
A FOX in the Henhouse
Not all things are as they seem:
But at the British end of the Murdoch empire, there have recently been signs that this is far from being the case. For the past two years, for instance, its television arm, Sky, has been teamed up with the world’s richest enviromental lobby group WWF (income £400 million a year), in a bid to “help combat climate change” by saving the CO2-rich Amazon rainforest.
Then a few weeks back there was that curious episode when the Murdoch Sunday Times published a grovelling correction of a story familiar to reader of this blog which soon made headlines round the world as “Amazongate”.
This was the scandalous story, first dug out by the tireless researches of Richard North, of how the IPCC’s latest 2007 report had included a shock-horror claim that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest was under threat from climate change. This had no scientific basis whatever. The only source given for this claim was a WWF propaganda sheet, which in turn had drawn its key sentence from the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group set up by Dr Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center (in turn closely linked to the WWF).
[…]
Rather more shadowy still, however, are the Murdoch family’s links with Bill Clinton’s Climate Change Initiative. The head of strategy and communications for this influential and lavishly funded body is James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn.
The “Climate Initiative” is in turn part of the William J. Clinton Foundation, fast-becoming one of the richest foundations in the world. It is supported to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by the likes of Bill Gates of Microsoft. Thanks not least to its involvement with climate change, it likes to boast that it has recently been named as one of the world’s “Top 10 Green NGOs”.
Both Rupert Murdoch and his son are listed as among the Clinton Foundation’s leading donors. Rupert, along with Barbra Streisand, was one of the three sponsors of a project to reduce the “carbon footprint” of 20 major cities.
Reader Tips
Lieber and Stoller are one of the most prolific, talented and successful songwriting teams in history. Last Saturday’s amusement featured one of their lesser-known songs; tonight’s selection is their most unusual song, a definite singularity for the team that wrote Hound Dog and Stand By Me. Based on Disillusionment, a 19th century short story by German writer Thomas Mann, the song manages to take a narrator’s world-weary, almost apathetic outlook and metamorphose it into something resembling liberation and spiritual emancipation.
A brilliantly audacious song, and an improbable Top 40 hit. From 1969, here’s North Dakota Native Miss Peggy Lee singing Is That All There Is?
The comments are open for Reader Tips.
We don’t need no stinkin’ oil
The thatchy-browed Count vs. the toothless proles
Team Ignatieff (the Liberals) have released a mocking “Voluntary Conservative Census Form” that includes the questions “Are there any rooms in your house where you keep books? If so, why?”, “Have you ever had an independent thought? If so, please describe in details, and say where they/it occurred”, and “Would you agree that giving women the right to vote was a mistake?”
For those who might think that the party of those-who-deserve-to-rule might be mocking the Conservative Party, and not conservative voters, here’s a “senior Ignatieff official,” as quoted by Jane Taber:
“I don’t think they’ll reverse their decision (on the census). Once you throw a bone at Canada’s version of the Tea Party crowd it is hard to take it back.”
Let’s hope they keep it up. Every time our status-seeking, condescending, self-considered betters in the Bureaucrat Party insult millions of Canadians who refuse to acknowledge the Liberals’ innate superiority, they demonstrate precisely why so many voters, including former Liberal voters, have left these vaunted natural rulers parked by the curb.
h/t Louise
Hirsi versus CBC
… it’s a long clip, so save it for when you have time … it is well worth it.
Source
The CAW wants your money
Dogs Of War
Reader Tips
Every year in England during the May Bank Holiday a seven pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese is sent rolling down Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, just outside of Gloucestershire, while dozens of competitors run, leap, roll, flip, and faceplant their way down the steep slope in pursuit of the cheese; whoever crosses the finish line first wins the cheese.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. 33 people were injured in the 1997 running, leading to the cancellation of the following year’s event. Although this year’s event was canceled as well, this time due to concerns about the sheer number of spectators who have come to attend the event, a less-publicized unofficial rolling was held.
There’s nothing like the real thing, though. Said competitor Mike Smith of the cancellation,
“Dreadfully disappointed with the news. As a cheese-roller of many years, I look forward to the chance to really injure myself each year. I have no idea how I’ll hurt myself this year…”
With any luck he’ll get the opportunity next spring. Until then, all we have are memories: here’s video footage of the 2007 Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Y2Kyoto: Hide The Decline!
Robert Werner;
Every day I listen to an excellent 4-hour podcast (minus commercials) of John Batchelor from WABC in NYC. Just heard him talking with Bob Zimmerman about this story. The actual segment can be found here beginning at 18:45. It’s an absolutely beautiful thing to hear Michael Mann squirm!
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
FNC, July 28 – Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts Would Cost Families Thousands in 2011, Study Shows
NYT, July 28 – Iran’s Leader Introduces Plan to Encourage Population Growth by Paying Families
h/t Tim C.


