. . . we cannot at this time conclusively identify anthropogenic signals in past tropical cyclone data.
Update: Kevin, Gavin, Mike,
It’s Seth again! Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes!!!
That’s right. Same study.
Tommy Douglas: Our Health Is A Political Football
Their health* is important.
Y2Kyoto: Each Serving Comes Individually Wrapped
The World Still Has Too Many Pediatricians
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 Flaccid finger of death. |
Clearly, the word “eminent” doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
Is There Nothing That The Car-Salesman-In-Chief Can’t Do?
Let the circus begin. Or more accurately, the blood-letting at the Colosseum. After all, Toyota’s federal judges in this theater are also major shareholders in Toyota’s competition, GM and Chrysler.
Flashback! – “Those didn’t strike us as business criteria at all”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Dr. Sándor Benkó (band leader, clarinetist & electrical engineer), Béla Zoltán (trumpet), Iván Nagy (trombone), Vilmos Halmos (piano), Jenő Nagy (banjo), Zsolt Kelemen (contrabass), and Gábor Kovacsevics (drums), as the Benkó Dixieland Band (who President Ronald Regan in 1987 said are: “One of the Best Bands in the World”), with special guest Mr. Joe Muranyi on clarinet and solo vocals, performing Body & Soul ¤, in Budapest, in 2005 (8:25).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
In Conversation With Tom Friedman’s House, A Continuing Series ….
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h/t Dale
CBC’s Civilian Casualties: Not Obama’s Fault!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Bush president headline: U.S.-led coalition air strikes left 76 civilians dead…
Obama president headline: NATO airstrike kills 27 civilians…
Related;
The Left’s silence on Mullah Baradar is convenient. Gone are the hysterical cries of torture. Missing in action are the opponents of rendition. One searches in vain for impassioned denunciations of Obama’s outsourcing of interrogations to countries with long histories of torture. What happened to the sputtering self-righteousness of yesteryear, when Bush and Cheney were routinely compared to Hitler and Pol Pot? To the Left, it would appear, it’s totally cool as long we’re not the ones doing it.
h/t Maple Stump
How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Kyoto Responsible For Worldwide?
Mmmmmm…. tastes like seal meat!
h/t the Greek
Amen
“We are now coming after you…”
Y2Kyoto: Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
June 2008 – “…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…”
February 2010 – Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
The US Economy: Not Crippled Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
The Missoulan – Grazing by far is the most common use of the West’s public lands and Marvel said that makes ranching the biggest threat to sage grouse. Deibert, however, said no one really knows that scientifically because no one knows how sage grouse existed before cattle and sheep became common in their habitat.
Hinterland Who’s Who – Two hundred years ago, anywhere from 30 to 70 million bison roamed free in North America.
2002 Flashback: Plan to Kill Predators of Sage Grouse Throughout Southern Idaho Put on Hold (h/t ∞²)
“Allowing us to do what we’ve trained for for years”
I recently had the great pleasure to chat via Skype with LCol Jeff Smyth in Kandahar. Not only is he the CO of 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron in Edmonton, but he’s also currently Commanding Officer of the Canadian Helicopter Force (Afghanistan). Anyone interested in what our Tactical Helicopter crews flying Griffons and Chinooks are up to will find the three videos I’ve put up of interest.
The videos are about twenty-two minutes long in total, and touch on everything from the type of training and missions Smyth’s Griffon and Chinook crews are flying, to little known Air Force interactions with the fledgling ANA Air Corps, to the reliability of the helicopters under his command – a couple of which might have flown in Vietnam!
I also think it’s notable that Smyth’s choppers have moved, on average, 2800 troops and 170,000 lbs of cargo – or over 300 trucks’ worth – per month this past year. That’s a lot of personnel and materiel put out of the reach of the insurgency’s biggest weapon: IEDs.
Reader Tips
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the London Symphony Orchestra performing the second movement, Andante moderato, of Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony N° 6 in A minor ¤ §, Valery Gergiev conducting, in 2007 (4:03). |
Nota Bene: This is Reader Tips. This is not let’s talk about what I want to talk about because Kate hasn’t posted an entry on it somewhere else yet. Kate has made this policy abundantly clear in the past. Comments that are not reader tips or comments on reader tips, or that violate the other rules stated above the comment box, will be unpublished.
Updates: from Vitruvius and from Kate.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
He Was Going To Drive, But Ran Out Of Cord
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CNN, November 2008 – “There is a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hand, saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses,” Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York, told the chief executive officers of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
Washington Examiner, February 2010 – Electric vehicle maker used private jet to lobby in D.C. a dozen times
“I wrote my thesis on the Benefits Of War”
…and nearly got thrown out of college.
His argument is vaguely familiar.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Sign of the times.
They Had Their Chance
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
48dumas: February 2010 – Now they’ll be complaining about the rodents and other little beasties that coyotes control.
CBC: April, 2002 – The derby is sponsored by the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation. Its goal is to make a dent in the rapidly expanding gopher population.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is The Singing Mountie, II & III episode of F Troop, in 1966 (ca. ½ hour). I think this is hilarious. Especially the run-on Banf-f shtick. And there is a brilliant surprise twist ~ I love it when Lucky Pierre tears up at the happy ending. Still, your mileage may vary 😉
Update: from RMGK in the comments: Tom Brokaw
explains Canada to Americans, on NBC, a week ago.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“Let’s get the Bastards”
A summary of the terrorism situation around the world.