Shoot, Shovel, And “What Archeologist?”

Roadkill 50 Comments

If this keeps up, the graves they dig in may end up their own;

Allix was required by law to hire an archeology team last year — to dig up the family property — before she was allowed to build a house just outside of Parksville. Bones and aboriginal artifacts were found, but her son said not much has been done with that discovery.
“It’s just a box full of artifacts — that aren’t even on display,” said Tim Allix. “If the B.C. government had to pay $35,000 for this, they wouldn’t do it. They’re saying ‘Ah, let’s just pass this on to the landowner.'”
Under the province’s Heritage Conservation Act, landowners whose property has been designated a heritage site cannot build until archeologists have done an assessment and removed any First Nations artifacts or human remains — at the landowner’s expense.

I’m become relatively immune to outrage over public policy infringements of private property – the sheer volume of abuse makes rage unsustainable. What I can’t wrap my head around is the behavior of free citizens who apparently believe they can exploit government-mandated property abuse without eventual risk to their personal safety.

Many B.C. residents don’t know their land has been designated, because there is no system in place to inform them. The province keeps the database of sites that are reported to them, by First Nations and other interested parties, but that information is not shown on land title documents.
There are now 38,000 registered sites with some 2,000 new ones added every year. The minister responsible, Kevin Krueger, acknowledged that the lack of disclosure has been a long-standing problem.

Canadians are a numbingly tolerant lot, but everyone has their breaking point. If my job description included digging around in someone else’s dirt, I’d be certain to have a freely-offered invitation in hand before setting foot on their property – “Heritage Conservation Act” be damned.
h/t Kevin B

Gained In Translation

What He Said 47 Comments

When the first Trudeau government passed the Official Languages Act in 1969, nearly all fluently bilingual Canadians lived along this ribbon of land. They still do.
[…]
Bill C-232, introduced by New Brunswick NDP MP Yvon Godin, would require all future Supreme Court nominees to be able to hear cases in French or English without the aid of official translators. All three opposition parties voted in favour of this distortion of reason, democracy and unity; only the Tories opposed it.

Where are our talk radio guys? I think the Honourable Member from Filibuster should be invited to explain himself.
h/t to Francesc0, who writes – “I’m hoping it’s a wedge issue with which the Opposition hopes to force an election.”
Yup. You go, go, go with this one, Mr. Ignatieff.

Keith Olbermann Says

Media 42 Comments

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 27 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Del Porter, Marshall Smith, Ray Johnson, & Dwight Snyder, as the Foursome, performing There’ll Be Some Changes Made and When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’ ¤ in 1937 (5:17). The Foursome toured with Glenn Miller and recorded with Bing Crosby & Dick Powell, and were often backed on drums by a young Spike Milligan (which helps explain some of the visual items in the montage accompanying this audio).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

“He spoke against us”

Religion Of Submission 78 Comments

“To let Matt Stone and Tres Parker that the dust will never settle down”.

Saskatoon Star Phoenix: Victim Of Lingenturfing?

Gopher News 6 Comments

Or willing participant?

But Make It Two, For Good Measure

Baiting The Left 28 Comments

“Just one pull of the trigger separates a law-abiding citizen from a law-breaking criminal.”

Another quotable quote from the Land That Logic Forgot;

“The murderer lied on his application.”

h/t Bull

And We Let These People Rent Ryder Trucks?

Media 13 Comments

Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said he asked for the meeting “to clear the air because in my 10-plus years at the White House, rarely have I sensed such a level of anger, which is wide and deep, among members over White House practices and attitude toward the press.”

Keith Olbermann Says

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 23 Comments

Heh.
More related video…

Because Keith Olbermann’s dying father asked his boy Keith to read Thurber to him, Keith thinks this is good television, calling Thurber the best humorist of the 20th century. Do you know what humorist means? It means seriously unfunny. Garrison Keillor is a humorist, and I’ve seen funnier orphanage fires. Perhaps what Keith’s father didn’t tell him is that listening to Thurber might want to make you die faster. And now Keith reads it on the air.

And They Want Us To Register Firearms?

Gopher News 32 Comments

An independent veterinarian has ruled Brittany and Rambo are not pitbulls, which means after 97 days in the pound, the two dogs are finally home.
[…]
Brittany and Rambo were seized from separate homes Jan. 13.
There had been no complaints of running at large, aggression or biting. Brittany was seized when an Animal Control Officer went to the Branco home to renew a dog licence for Tyson and spotted her.
The Brancos complained that the city seized Brittany with the help of Peel Regional Police, but without a warrant. City officials maintained there was “exigent” circumstances surrounding the seizure of Brittany, giving them the right to seize without a warrant, but would not elaborate.

Still a success: Since the Dog Owners Liability Act was enacted in 2005, pit bulls have killed fewer Ontarians than former attorney general Michael Bryant.

Take Me, Obama

Media 25 Comments

The morning after.

Heart risks vary by ethnicity: Ont. study

Baiting The Left 116 Comments

Other findings included:

* Rates of diabetes among the South Asian (8.1 per cent) and black (8.5 per cent) groups were twice as high as among white (4.2 per cent) and Chinese (4.3 per cent).
* Obesity was five times more prevalent among white (14.8 per cent) and blacks (14.1 per cent) than Chinese (2.5 per cent). The prevalence of obesity among South Asians was 8.1 per cent.
* Black women were more likely to be physically inactive and obese than the overall population.
* South Asian and Chinese women were also less likely to participate in daily physical activity than the overall population.

In related racism…

Free Ann Coulter!

Freespeechers 35 Comments

First he came for your property ….

Eh-yuf-yat-ya-look-yutch

Radioactive 18 Comments

Come on you bastards – pronounce it.*

China’s One Child Policy: Unintended Consequence #648

Climate Cult 42 Comments

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 29 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Joe Henderson, Dave Holland, and Al Foster, as the Joe Henderson Trio, performing Monk‘s Ask me Now ¤ in 1993 (9:51).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

“That was Bill Clinton, blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing…”

What He Said 41 Comments

I have a question. We have two more sound bites of the president here specifying right-wing talk radio, but I have a question: How come we’re supposed to draw (on the basis of no evidence), a connection between conservatism and terrorism, conservative ideology and terrorism? Where is that connection? Yet we are told we must reject, despite tons of evidence, the connection between Islamist ideology and terrorism. So we can’t call Islamist fundamentalists “terrorists.” We can’t even use the word. But we can have ex-presidents and current presidents running around trying to associate conservatives with nonexistent terrorism at peaceful tea parties. Somebody needs to explain this to me.

Related: “Calling Tea Partiers ‘stupid’ and ‘losers’ hasn’t worked. Time to start calling them ‘educated’ and ‘privileged’.”

The First American Prime Minister On Crack

The Libranos 43 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Ignatieff, 2010 – “I don’t want to make false accusations but you don’t get cocaine at a corner drug store, right? You have to get it from somewhere, from someone and usually that means organized crime.”
Canadian Press, 2004 – Authorities suggest organized crime is behind an attempt to transport cocaine using the Sheila Ann, a ship operated by Canada Steamship Lines, the company Prime Minister Paul Martin transferred control of to his three sons last year.
h/t Stephen

Calling All Beloved Muslim Women In London

Religion Of Submission 105 Comments

Update: SDA got results. “This survey is currently closed. Please contact the author of this survey for further assistance.”
From the comments;

Your attempt at sabotaging this survey are ironic. But I not even sure if you understand the meaning of the word.
To prove there is no hate crime you had to a) sabotage a survey that was asking the question b) then gloat on here and falsely praise your work as noble and noteworthy.
Pathetic.
Delete my post, and prove my point.
Dont delete it? Good let everyone read how ridiculous your attempts are.

Heh – “All your burka are belong to us.”
(Original post continues below)
Ladies and gentlemen, don your nijabs…

Sample Questions:

I trust you can take it from here.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethanol

Alternative Subsidy 36 Comments

Dan Gardner gets it half right;

By September, if the new law comes into force, an average of five per cent of the fuel content of gasoline will have to come from renewable fuels made from corn or wheat. Long discussed, the government formally announced at the beginning of April that it would go ahead with the regulation.
Why wouldn’t they? Environmentalists love it because it will reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. In combination with other regulatory changes, the reductions will be “up to about four megatonnes per year,” a government press release says, which is “the equivalent of taking one million vehicles off the road.”
Farmers and agri-business love the regulation, too. Mandatory biofuel content means a huge volume of guaranteed sales. That’s big money.
So the Conservative government wins praise from across the political spectrum. And, just as importantly, the Tories get to say they’ve done something big to fight climate change. What’s not to love? Group hug!
But then reality barges in and spoils the moment.
A week after the politicians in charge of the government announced the regulation was going ahead, civil servants working for that same government quietly published the results of a cost-benefit analysis of the regulation. By assigning a reasonable price of $25 per tonne of emissions, the analysts concluded the regulation would deliver $580 million worth of reductions over 25 years. On the cost side, the regulation will not only raise the price of gasoline, but it will also require the construction of new plants and infrastructure. Total bill: $3.2 billion.
So it will deliver $1 in benefits for every $5.50 it costs. Impressive, isn’t it?

And we don’t need no stinking carbon tax, either, Dan.
But that’s not all! Let’s flashback…

Trouble is, a gallon of ethanol is 30 percent less efficient than a gallon of gas meaning that the more ethanol you mix in, the worse your gas mileage. Department of Energy studies show steadily decreasing fuel economy as ethanol blends rise from so-called E10 (fuel composed of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gas) up through E15 and E20 — with E20 suffering a 7.7 percent fuel efficiency loss.
Yet DOE’s green-zealot-in-chief Steven Chu still favors an increased mix of ethanol. So while automakers are sweating under the federal gun to make increasingly fuel-efficient engines, the government is mandating they do it with less-efficient fuel.

Not content with putting car companies out of business? Wait until you find out what our trusty governments are doing to your local auto body repair shop. Or shall we say – the one you used to have. More on that later.