He’s on the “cusp of a movement”.
“I’ll never recoup the money,” Leblanc says, only a touch of defeat in his voice. “It’s not for nothing they have those hydro dams.”
Undaunted, the Montreal Gazette’s Andrew Halfnight soldiers on…
h/t Fraser in BC
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
There are other hints, too, that some federal Liberals have become election-averse in recent weeks.
Related: Jay Currie joins Team Kinsella.
Heh.
This Is Your Power Grid On Windoze
ẅĦãŦ ĈΩµЃđ þΦ$§!βſЎ ĢØ ωѓØŋĞ?
(h/t Mike)
Y2Kyoto: We Don’t Need No Stinking Twisty Bulbs
“Government did us in,” says Dwayne Madigan, whose job will terminate when General Electric closes its factory next July.
Madigan makes a product that will soon be illegal to sell in the U.S. – a regular incandescent bulb. Two years ago, his employer, GE, lobbied in favor of the law that will outlaw the bulbs.
Madigan’s colleagues, waiting for their evening shift to begin, all know that GE is replacing the incandescents for now with compact fluorescents bulbs, which GE manufactures in China.
The Regulation of Unintended Consequences
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Washington Post, 2006 – “The California Horse Racing Board last week passed a motion that may portend a radical change in American racing, one that could change the nature of the horse-betting game. The board declared that all major tracks in the state “must install a synthetic surface or Polytrack by Dec. 31, 2007” or else have their racing licenses revoked. “
Thoroughbred Times, 2009 – “The report on the Post-Mortem Program at the University of California-Davis for the calendar year 2008 formally documents for the first time more hind-end catastrophic injuries among Thoroughbred racing on synthetic surfaces when compared with those racing on dirt.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Vladimir Horowitz
performing Joseph Haydn‘s Piano Sonata in E♭ (8:12).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
What Happens In Vegas … Hits The Drudge Report
I think I’m going to sign up for the Las Vegas Review-Journal;
This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas.
We’ve seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling. The first hospital. The first school. The first church. We survived the mob, Howard Hughes, the Great Depression, several recessions, two world wars, dozens of news competitors and any number of two-bit politicians who couldn’t stand scrutiny, much less criticism.
We’re still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.
h/t Joyce
Y2Kyoto: I Smell A Change In The AGW Narrative
Remember the good old days when they meant the same thing?
The story of these seemingly anomalous glaciers underscores the important distinction between the terms “climate change” and “global warming.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
I was sitting around a large table of dog show friends and competitors from across the United States when the topic of global warming came up. Someone argued that the point-zero-whatever degree the earth is said to have warmed over the past few decades was bringing about the collapse of polar ice caps.
I asked how many present had personally experienced -40C temperatures ?
It turned out that I was the only one.
“Well then,” I said, “I can tell you something you probably didn’t know. When the temperature rises from -40C to -35C, nothing melts.”
No, this isn’t exactly the same thing, but it gave me an excuse to tell my little story.
S-C-O-M-B-R-I-D-A-E (Corrected)
h/t Mike
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Burmeister & Wain eight-cylinder double-acting two-cycle Diesel Motor N°2000 ¤, ca. 1932, which for thirty years was the largest diesel engine in the world, in the Diesel House museum at the H. C. Ørsted power plant in Copenhagen, presented by Ole Grone, Senior Vice President, MAN B&W Diesel (9:36).
It is so that your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
As Dead Kennedy Coverage Enters Its 57th Hour…
His legacy is fondly remembered by both American media and the KGB.
Related – the fondly forgotten.
If No Man Has The Right To Tell Me What To Do With My Body
Misoverestimated
…. for Bill Clinton’s speech Saturday at the CNE have been much slower than expected, forcing organizers to reconfigure the stadium layout and offer fairgoers $5 tickets at the door.
About 7,000 advance tickets are sold for the 4 p.m. event, a far cry from the 25,000 people expected when it was announced two weeks ago.
Flashback – “Former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton drew a standing ovation from a packed Toronto convention centre …”
Just saying.
h/t Robert B.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, March 6th;
DCCC Executive Director Brian Wolff released the following statement today on Rush Limbaugh’s outrageous comment that by the time the debate on President Obama’s health care plan is over, “it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill.”
“Rush Limbaugh’s reprehensible remark that, ‘ before it’s all over, it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill’ is truly outrageous. ”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” the statement read.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and following on our previous studio version ¤ of this song, here are Sade Adu, Tony Momrelle, Leroy Osbourne, Karl Vanden Bossche, Pete Lewinson, Ryan Waters, Paul S. Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman performing Smooth Operator ¤ (and Redeye) at their Lover’s Live concert in 2002 (8:18).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Disconnecting The Internet
is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
The Sound Of Settled Science
More whacky researchers are suggesting that the big glowing ball of fire in the sky somehow affects the earth. (Technical note for those following along at home: when it’s the sun, it’s “weather”, when it’s CO2, it’s “climate”)…
A new study in the journal Science by a team of international of researchers led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research have found that the sunspot cycle has a big effect on the earth’s weather. The puzzle has been how fluctuations in the sun’s energy of about 0.1 percent over the course of the 11-year sunspot cycle could affect the weather?
I know, it’s just crazy enough to be true.
Calling John Galt
Heh. This is great, too.
Aqsa Parvez Memorial
Scott Mcleod, via email;
A dedication for the Aqsa Parvez Memorial will be held at 4:30 pm on September 18, 2009, Peace Park, behind the Municipal Building, 20 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill.
The council of the Town of Pelham enacted a resolution on March 6th 2009 to honor the memory of Aqsa Parvez and other immigrants who struggle with conflicts between their past cultures and the values of Canada.
The Council unanimously supported this resolution and the concept of the memorial has been positively received world wide.
Pam Geller has the details.