“I don’t want to go there in this interview.”

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CBC’s Suhana Meharchand comes to the rescue of John McCallum…

“You know, we could digress here and talk about who’s handing over, is it the Canadian soldiers who you’re accusing of war crimes, is it the government, I don’t want to go there in this interview.”

McCallum is a former Minister of National Defence.
A legitimate news network would consider the level of journalistic malpractice exhibited here to be demotion-worthy. But this hasn’t a legitimate news network for a very long time.
Related – Iggy goes “there”.

Y2Kyoto: You Don’t Need No Stinking Coal Generation

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We could have told you… the wind don’t blow when it’s cold.

The cold weather has been accompanied by high pressure and a lack of wind, which meant that only 0.2pc of a possible 5pc of the UK’s energy was generated by wind turbines over the last few days.
Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG), gave warning that this could turn into a crisis when the UK is reliant on 6,400 turbines accounting for a quarter of all UK electricity demand over the next 10 years.
He said the shortfall in power generated by wind during cold snaps seriously undermined the Government’s pledge on Friday to build nine major new wind “super farms” by 2020.
“If we had this 30 gigawatts of wind power, it wouldn’t have contributed anything of any significance this winter,” he said. “The current cold snap is a warning that our power generation and gas supplies are under strain and it is getting worse.”

But nobody bothers listening.
h/t John B.

California: Not Dysfunctional Enough!

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Finally! The root cause of California’s economic malaise has been identified: “not enough drug use”.

The bill, authored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, would essentially treat pot the same way alcohol is treated under the law and would allow adults over 21 to possess, smoke and grow marijuana.
The law would also call for a fee of $50 per ounce sold and would help fund drug eradication and awareness programs. It could help pull California out of debt, supporters say, raising up to $990 million from the fees.

“Pot and prosperity” – they go together like “bag lady and shopping cart”.

‘One wonders why the current media “cover-up” continues…

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…concerning what the Liberal government knew and when they knew it.’ A post at The Torch:

Facts: The previous Liberal government and Afghan detainees
…here is a translation from a friend of a story in La Presse, April 28, 2007; draw your own conclusions over what should be the extent of any enquiry, should one be held. And what happened to those detainees transferred to the Americans? Where is, and was, the outcry?

The Liberals were in the know…

The First American Prime Minister With Selective Amnesia

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Rex reminds the incestuous class why nobody cares;

Both parties — both — seem sublimely uninhibited when it comes to walking around, suspending or flouting parliamentary (or other) conventions when political advantage is at stake. And both, in large and small matters — from the squawks of Question Period to the unfailing partisan intemperance of most parliamentary committees — seem to have little to zero regard for “Parliament’s reputation” when a Parliament is actually in session.

Andrew Coyne…

I had thought the feeling of nausea that washed over me at the news was one of disgust. I now realize it was vertigo. The bottom has fallen out of Canadian politics. There are, quite literally, no rules any more, no boundaries, no limits. We are staring into an abyss, where everything is permissible.

…. in 2005.

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