Financial Post, 2009 – “In 12 years we see 30% of all cars being electric.”
Toronto Star, 2005 – “Electricity shortage sees power cut 5 per cent in Ontario”
QOTW
“You know what made me a partisan? The Liberals.” – Mike Duffy
h/t Bourque
Forget About His Inner Muslim
Welcome to the Just-Makes-Shit-Up Presidency.
Doing The Job Our Elected MP’s Won’t Do
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall;
“We just seem to be sort of blithely accepting bailout upon bailout upon bailout and finally you start doing the math and you realize that if this particular company is down to 7,000 jobs nationwide even after all the restructuring is done and taxpayers have forked out billions of dollars, billions of dollars, is that the best policy?” […] “I’m not sure the country is having that kind of rational debate about this because we’re all caught up in the Obama administration bailout and we’re lockstep with that.”
Y2Kyoto: Future Shock
h/t Maz2
Heh. Proposed name for Stronach’s electric car – “Bricklin Bridge”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, and building on last night‘s Leroy Van Dyke show, here are Mr. Van Dyke and the boys performing Walk on By in 1961 (2:05), which some have called the biggest country single of all time, or at least based on various charts and sales numbers, anyway. Unfortunately, I don’t have handy access to Leroy’s unforgettable If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone), or his You May Be Too Much for Memphis, Baby, or even his Who’s Gonna Run the Truck Stop in Tuba City When I’m Gone?, so I guess this will have to do. What’s that you say, the audio and the video are out of sync? Well, yes, of course, that’s part of what makes it so charming. And, besides, check out Leroy’s tie, man. Absolutely brilliant.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
I’ve Seen Worse
No, really.
Picture a forklift, raised to full height.
On the forks is a standard wooden pallet.
Centered over the pallet is a 4′ x 8′ sheet of plywood.
Balanced on the plywood is a 10′ step ladder.
Standing at the top of the ladder, a guy is drilling holes in steel roof beams for the installation of light fixtures.
I didn’t stay to watch.
More construction stupidity. (Note – I didn’t have any problems with pop-up windows on the site linked, but others have.)
h/t mhb
“His response drew laughter from the audience”
Highlights from the Tim Geithner Traveling Roadshow.
Is There Nothing That The Car-Salesman-In-Chief Can’t Do?
… while Obama is busy “not running GM” he still has time to make calls to the mayor of Detroit to assure him that GM’s headquarters won’t be moving to Warren, Mich., as it was offered to, but that it will be staying in Detroit.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Associated Press: “President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy”
Pew Research: “No Decline in Belief That Obama is a Muslim”
Nice timing! “[giving] Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a huge victory just ten days before the Iranian election.”
Y2Kyoto: Safe In The Arms Of Beijing
One mining company president told The Times that governments that had promised a way out of economic turmoil with bold schemes to subsidise green cars, solar panels and other environmental technology had “spoken without understanding the upstream of modern products”.
Don Burbar, the chief executive of Avalon Rare Metals, said: “The crux of the matter is that there are now a lot of technologies that can’t work without rare earths, and China is currently in effective control of the global supply. China has positioned itself to retain control, and meanwhile politicians around the world do not appreciate how the supply side of green technology works.”
h/t Tomax7
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“Unsurprisingly the study of all the favorable coverage received little coverage.”
h/t Robert W.
Canadian News Reader
Check it out here.
Take Me, Obama
A banana! A banana! His network for a banana!
“To be in the hallway when the president walks by with a handful of M&Ms, popping them in his mouth as he goes to visit his chief of staff — it was unbelievable.”
Reader Tips
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the famous agricultural journalist Mr. Leroy van Dyke performing Auctioneer, in 1956 (2:48). Interestingly, perhaps, Auctioneer sold over 2.5 million records. How much would you bid for that? But wait, there’s more. Here, veritably straining your delectation, is footage from the Top Livestock Auctioneers Competition, in 2008 (5:14). Personally, I like Mr. Ty Thompson, from Billings, Montana, best. By the way, that’s called the Auction Chant. What a species 😉
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
What Would We Do Without Pollsters?
This is how Strategic Counsel polls “most Canadians” for CTV…
Results are based on a national sample size of 1,000 voting-age Canadians with an over-sample of 500 respondents from Quebec.
That Peter Donolo, he’s quite the joker.
h/t Orville H.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“You have worked in a newsroom, haven’t you? It shows.”
Army Recruiters Shot In Arkansas
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Getting Screwed Over*
(*But were afraid to ask)
Related: “It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism. But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.” (h’t Kathryn)
Ugh.
“Into” ?
Softest landing ever recorded in the history of Canadian politics: Layton sliding into irrelevance in Quebec