Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and 11 years of Labour government policy, summed up in three words;
Bomb-proof recycling bins.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Toots Thielemans and the WDR Big Band performing Eyes of Love, Quincy Jones conducting, in Montreaux (1992, 5:49).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Palin Cleared
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“I don’t think that we’re convinced Maher Arar was vindicated or acquitted by your process”
“What you did was re-evaluate the treatment of Maher Arar and decide that procedural mistakes along the way had been made. That didn’t vindicate him from the charge that he was involved in fundraising for terror.
“People in Canada have turned the man into some sort of national hero, but if you expect the next administration to join you in sending him laurels, I think you’re going to be mistaken. Even Barack Obama … is not going to go near that with a 10-foot pole” and Mr. Arar will not have his name removed from the U.S. no-fly list “in my lifetime.”
Via reader Harry, who adds – “This confirms RCMP ex-Commissioner Zacadelli’s observation that other security intel officials around the world were “surprised” at the Arar settlement.”
What Is This Google That You Speak Of?
During the event, Professor John Miller of Ryerson slagged Mark Steyn as a mere ‘polemicist’ and not a responsible journalist. As an example, he used Mark’s quoting of Ayatollah Khomeini from (he said) the now infamous Macleans article. Looks like he’s been trusting the citations of the SockPuppets, because as Steyn himself notes, it’s actually from the Maclean’s article ‘Celebrate tolerance, or you’re dead‘.
Miller asserted that after a thorough Internet search, he found the Khomeini quote only in one comment on one [echh, ptui] blog.
Meanwhile, Ezra was surfing online, and interrupted a minute later to point out he’d just then Googled 100+ references to the quote in question, including one from the eminently liberal Harper’s Magazine, 1985. Public pantsing accomplished.
The point isn’t the fact that Ezra scored a point, but that the new media mindset is different. “Fact? Fact-check. Don’t take old media or other political speech as taken for granted. Dig around; check the sources.” In leading up to this presentation– for which Dr. Miller and others presumably had week and weeks to prepare, why didn’t a journalism professor know how to Google and fact-check on the internet?
(Because everything he knows about journalism, he lurned by reading the New York Times.)
Lots more freespeechy goodness today there and at FFoF, where, if you search the fine print, you’ll discover she has a new book out.
Everything He Knows About Being President
He learned by reading cheap political thrillers.
Not Nearly As Ugly As It Will Get If McCain Wins
“If McCain loses, it may get ugly …”
If the Obamessiah should lose, the rage that will erupt on the left towards
McCain will make the last 8 years of Bush hatred seem like a vague distaste
for cream sauce.
And that is my only prediction for the 2008 Presidential Election.
Update: Others are more bold…
Verasun Energy
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Hans Andre Stamm performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542, on the Trost organ in Waltershausen, Germany (6:28).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Arctic Ice Cap
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Source: Cryosphere Today
Intended Consequences
In order to reduce emissions from diesel engines (PDF)
Environment Canada has established strict new emissions standards for new on-road, heavy-duty diesel vehicles and engines. Starting with the 2007 model year, compliance with these emission standards will effectively require that new heavy-duty diesel engines be equipped with the next generation of advanced emission control systems. These systems are very sensitive to sulphur levels in the diesel fuel, and cannot tolerate the levels of sulphur allowed in the current on-road LSD. Therefore, Environment Canada has established regulations to significantly lower the maximum allowable amount of sulphur in diesel fuel and thereby enable the effective operation of advanced emission control systems.”
Alberta’s diesel supply crunch — expected to continue into next month — could result in a shortage of everything from produce to electronics on store shelves, warns the province’s trucking industry.
Reflecting something I was told about refinery difficulties while in the province’s southeast oil patch last week, where a shortage of diesel is forcing a slow down in activity –
“…low sulphur demands make the [refining] system more fragile to loss of output. Not only in more units but also critical paths.”
But we have a number of industry experts among our readers, so perhaps they can shed more light on this.
Shutting Down The Coal Industry
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
“If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will “bankrupt them”.
Related – “Senator Barack Obama is not only a long time associate of domestic terrorists. He is cribbing his stump speeches from their manifesto.”
The Black
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here are Henry Mancini and the Terry Gibbs Band, featuring Plas Johnson, Gus Bivona, and Frank Capp, performing Mr. Mancini’s Pink Panther Theme (3:07). Sweet.
How much would you pay for that? But wait, there’s more! For special bonus points, here is The Pink Panther himself performing Pink on the Cob (6:19), which I think you may find relevant to the general political tenor here at Small Dead Animals.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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“What could be more American than an Undocumented First Family?”
“I was away for much of the summer and, when I returned, the entire campaign felt like an absurd satire I wasn’t quite up to speed on. But truly, in a world in which the many illegal foreign contributions to the leading candidate’s unprecedented fundraising include his own deportation-ordered aunt, satire is dead.”
Behind Every Successful Man
This Is Not A Hate Crime
Kill The Christian.
You are the one we despise
Day in day out your words compromise lies
I will love watching you die
Soon it will be and by your own demise
Buried in hypocrisy
Lacerate your faith in God
Morally diseased
On the cross of Calvary your body bashed defeated stabbed
Blessing as you hate
Loyal to your enemies
Monetary faith
As him you will pay for the lies of your prophecy
Satan wants you dead
Kill the Christian, kill the Christian
Kill the Christian, kill the Christian
Kill the Christian, kill the Christian, kill the Christian
Armies of darkness unite
Destroy their temples and churches with fire
Where in this world will you hide
Sentenced to death, the anointment of Christ
In due time your path leads to me
Put you out of your misery
The death of prediction
Kill the Christian
Kill the Christian, dead!
Feel free to republish this at will, because, as we all know, no Christian has ever been attacked, killed, or prosecuted on the basis of their faith.
h/t
The Sound Of Settled Science
Was someone glancing out the parliamentary windows?
2 Amendment of 2050 target or baseline year
(1) The Secretary of State may by order —(a) amend the percentage specified in section 1(1);
(b) amend section 1 to provide for a different year to be the baseline year.(2) The power in subsection (1)(a) may only be exercised —
(a) if it appears to the Secretary of State that there have been significant developments in —
(i) scientific knowledge about climate change…