Pierre Poilievre says, “I told you so.”
h/t Maz in the Tips.
Repeat After Me
“Biosecure pork production is a good thing.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
I’ve always said that 100,000 years was too long for extinction by asteroid.
“We found that not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact,” said Gerta Keller, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, in a release distributed by the Geological Society of London. “These are astonishing results.”
100,000 years may be a “heartbeat” in geological time, but it’s still an eternity in dinosaur time.
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 Paul Desmond |
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 Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello performing Take Five in Berlin, in 1966 (5:22).
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Never before has fire melted steel
Obama’s Proof of Concept delights the base.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Politico; Robert Gibbs gave White House reporters a “strong A” Friday for their work over the first 100 days of the new administration.
Editor & Publisher: New FAS-FAX Shows (More) Steep Circulation Losses
Blog Notes
Things are going to be unusually busy work wise here over the next couple of days, so blogging is likely to be slow. Check out the links on the sidebar!
Who Is That Headline Writer?
And why is he trying to bury Ezra’s exposé ?
Y2Kyoto: As The Poles Evaporate And Tundra Clouds Darken The Skies
The climate’s in the very best of hands…
“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap..”
Now, there’s a question for our AGW true believers – is airborne tundra entered into the climate models as earth warming “insulation” or earth cooling particulates? (Please show your math.)
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough
Obama is about to find out socialized health care’s dirty little secret.
Nobody needs to be a doctor.
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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 Luciano Pavarotti performing Celeste Aida, from Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera Aida, with the Vienna State Opera, in 1984 (3:06).
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Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the Ministry Of Silly Walks puts its foot down;
Larry Dewitt, Health and Safety adviser to the circus, believes that wearing clown shoes is “stupid” — especially in light of a Moscow State Circus clown who fell down and hurt his foot. The practice is therefore forbidden.
h/t Peter G.
Lights Out
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Land Of No Smiles
Renowned documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he took arresting photographs of Pyongyang and its people—images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West. They show stark glimmers of everyday life in the world’s last gulag.
h/t EBD, Via David Thompson
Joe Biden
Just a bad sneeze from the Presidency;
Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is my favourite episode from the Engineering an Empire documentary series: Britain: Blood & Steel, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, & Part 5.
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“Morale at the CIA has been shaken to its foundation.”
Former CIA director Porter J. Goss
Since leaving my post as CIA director almost three years ago, I have remained largely silent on the public stage. I am speaking out now because I feel our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan political advantage. We can’t have a secret intelligence service if we keep giving away all the secrets. Americans have to decide now.
Eric Margolis, Is That You?
“For no apparent reason I’m starting another paragraph. Finally, the political and social climate of Canada will begin to transform into that of Iran if the RCMP gets away with this. What keeps the Iranian regime solvent? Hatred and fear. Hatred of people who step out of line. Hatred of people who don’t conform to the most “conservative” standards of their society. Hatred of “traitors” who protest against the government while the country is surrounded on all sides by ruthless, vicious enemies. Hatred of those who would “abuse” their rights in order to “attack” the society that raised them. All those hatreds are felt by a sizeable minority in every country. In the USA it was the 30% that supported bush II through all his crimes and blundering. In Canada its the “small dead animals,” “Free Dominion,” “dust my broom” crowd and the much larger group of mindless, deluded harpercon voters. For everyone else, there’s fear. Fear of poverty. Fear of prison. Fear of torture. Fear of death. Fear of the unaccountable goons who roam about enforcing compliance to a hateful, failed system. As the system fails it becomes more paranoid, more violent.”
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is Thomas Hyland presenting the story of Jesse James in the Death Of A Picture Hanger episode of Crime Classics (1953, 29:41). This one’s a bit different from our usual SDA LNR OTR CDS, you may like it 😉
According to the Free Old-Time Radio Shows web site: “Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docu-drama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was basically a historical true crime series, examining crimes, and especially murders, from the past. It grew out of Lewis’s personal interest in famous murder cases, and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages, and feel of the time period. Comparatively little dramatic license was taken with the facts and events, but the tragedy was leavened with humor, expressed largely through the narration.”
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
February 2009: Budgetary Surplus Of $0.8 billion
That’ll be your “least read” Canadian news story for April 24th, 2009 . Why do I say “least”? Because this is the only place you’ll find it.
The Fiscal Monitor for February 2009 was released today.
h/t Allan