I say mankind should never intervene to thwart the forces of natural selection in these cases, but that’s just me.
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 are the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra performing Vitava from Bedřich Smetana‘s Má Vlast ~ Part 1 & Part 2 ~ Rafael Kubelik conducting (1990).
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Hearts And Minds
“The British in Afghanistan are using an artillery piece so accurate we may have to redefine the word sniper.”
Wild Kingdom
In one of nature’s classic confrontations, a lion and jackal face off over a carcass.
In another, wilder, kingdom, Minuteman Madrid went hunting for her championship title this weekend and attained that, along with two group first wins.
I hope you enjoyed your weekend away from the computer as much as I did. Normal blogging will resume tomorrow.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is molecular biologist Dr. Bonnie Bassler presenting her talk on The Secret, Social Lives of Bacteria (2009, 18:59). What, you didn’t know how much of humans are actually bacteria that talk to each other, already?
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SDA Gets Results
Kate is at a dog show today and said to post this;
Apparently The Economist is holding a poll as to whether you want socialism or capitalism. Of course it only seems leftist faux intellectuals have taken part and normal, everyday Joe’s have not been consulted. That may be changed.
Standard south of the border economic analysis found here.
Not Waiting For The Drowning Seas
Reader Tips
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 Inspector Hearthstone of the Deathsquad in The Terrifying Letter Murder Case (1952, 26:36, 6.1MB, MP3), with supporting roles from Ottawa and Montreal.
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Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“The past eight years have shown a failure to appreciate the historic role of these noble seafarers.”
Obama reaches out to moderate pirates.
Blog Notes
It’s a long weekend, it’s spring,and we’re finally being promised temperatures in the double digits.
I plan to get out and enjoy it, so things will be very slow here until Monday. I advise you do the same!
Y2Kyoto: “YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO CHECK THEIR NUMBERS!”
Franklin Expedition – The Next Generation, continued… “A pioneering scientific expedition to help determine the lifespan of the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover”
Hot on the heels of the discovery that “live from the ice” biotelemetry data hosted on the Catlin Arctic Survey website was entirely fraudulent – a fact that wasn’t admitted until they were caught red-handed, this enlightening update from the official AGW cheerleaders at the BBC;
After enduring ferocious weather, it has emerged that British explorers studying the Arctic are struggling with a series of technical problems.
A portable radar device, known as Sprite, designed to make millions of measurements of the ice thickness has been dogged by breakdowns and uncertainties.
The problem hasn’t stopped NASA from publishing their “data”.
Another instrument, SeaCat, meant to measure the temperature and salinity of the water beneath the ice-cap, has malfunctioned as well.
The expedition’s organisers insist that other research – such as regular drilling through the ice – has meanwhile been carried out successfully.
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So with the team’s early progress anyway hampered by the weather, the Sprite only gathered data over a total period of seven hours of trekking in the expedition’s first 18 days.
These equipment failures remained unmentioned on the Catlin Ice Survey website until just a few hours ago. It was edited in real time as the crew at Watts Up With That were digging through their files.
But you have to admire their resolve. If you’ve ever gone camping at even near freezing temperatures, you know how cold it is trying to get into stiff clothes in the morning. So cold you can see your breath.
So, imagine how you’d fog over standing in an ice field, in the dark, with the bright light of a camera shining on every word…
No, I don’t know what that means. It’s just damned interesting.
Here’s something else that’s interesting. Recall the side by side polar ice photos I display here from time to time, showing the arctic cap much larger in relation to last year –
Well, no longer. Cryosphere Today “can’t” provide new images for 2009.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is the inimitable Mr. Pat Paulsen‘s stand-up performance on the Merv Griffin Show in 1974 (4:57).
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Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Rusty Shackleford emails – “Our moral superiors in the media. I mean, they went to journalism school and all I did was spend years earning a Ph.D. They are so much better than we lowly bloggers. I work my ass off to get terrorist websites taken down. My work gives them an idea for a story, and they can’t even mention who this mysterious blogger is? WTF? Oh, but it gets better as some of the basic facts of the story are wrong!”
Original article “Extremist Web Sites Are Using U.S. Hosts” (free registration required)
Liberals And Conservatives Arguing Over Mulroney
Blog Notes: I’ll resume coverage on Canadian federal politics if and when it emerges from the current time warp.
Until then, I’ll leave that job to the Rip Van Wrinkle media.
Thank you.
What Would We Do Without Pollsters?
Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
h/t TMH
Nice Economy You Have There, Saskatchewan
Be a shame if anything happened to it.
“In the Blakeney government, we set up SaskOil, we nationalized the potash industry. What I regret in many ways is that we didn’t fight harder the privatization of some of those things that we did in the Blakeney era, ie. allowing the potash corporation to be privatized was a big mistake for the province and a big mistake for the party. We fought it but I think there is a question of whether we fought it hard enough. We allowed the privatization of SaskOil which I think was a big mistake for the province as well. And we should get back to the point of setting up an energy company that does our own drilling and exploration for gas in this province. I’m committed to do that if I’m the Premier.”
So said former deputy premier and current NDP leadership candidate Dwain Lingenfelter, at an April 2nd candidate forum in Moose Jaw.
There’s more…
“Obviously you know why the glaciers are melting, because of the vast quantities of fossil fuels that we use that are heating up the atmosphere of the earth,. We really need to be concerned about those issues that we’ve been creating, not the ones that we might create going out, but burning oil and coal as our major supply of fuel without cleaning it is a major disaster waiting to happen.”
In 2000, Lingenfelter left for Alberta, where he’s been serving as vice-president for the same oil company that bought a portion of SaskOil assets from the then NDP government.
Small world.
Update: “That’s not even wrong. That’s crazy talk.”
“Team America” Is Not A Documentary
(language advisory)
Is it?
North Korea warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday it would take “strong steps” if the 15-nation body took any action in response to the launch. On Wednesday, the Communist-ruled country gathered its top party and military officials for a celebration of the launch broadcast on its state TV and monitored in Seoul.
The reclusive state has threatened to boycott six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium. It also warned on Wednesday of military action if anyone tried to retrieve debris from the rocket.
[…]
The North’s KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Japan’s attempt to find booster stages off its coasts was “an intolerable military provocative act of infringing upon its (North Korea’s) sovereignty” and would prompt a response.
What’s Going On
…with McGuinty these days?