First Pyongyang.
Now, Thunder Bay.
You May As Well Get Used To It
“I think what he did is, in order to gain the adoration of the crowd, he denigrated his country in a way that I think is disgraceful.”
Y2Kyoto: I Was Told There’d Be No Math
The science restoring* continues apace;
[United States, Interior Secretary] Salazar said ocean winds along the East Coast can generate 1 million megawatts of power, roughly the equivalent of 3,000 medium-sized coal-fired power plants, or nearly five times the number of coal plants now operating in the United States, according to the Energy Department.
The average offshore windmill stands over 400 feet tall, and generates “up to” 3.6 megawatts.
When the wind blows.
h/t Maz2
QOTW
Mark Steyn, guest hosting for Rush Limbaugh;
“We now know that Barack Obama, who urged us all to learn a second language, does not speak Austrian.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
Click map for link (fixed).
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Associated Press: “Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.” “
CBS News: “The man, who was carrying an Al-Jazeera TV ID card in the name of M.G., confessed after his arrest that he was planning on stabbing the U.S. president with a knife during the Alliance of Civilizations summit held in Istanbul, adding that he had three other accomplices to help him execute his plan.”
“Hearts-and-minds is bad strategy”
A hearts-and-minds approach is predicated on the proposition that we foreign, Western, culturally Christian, invaders can persuade a sizeable proportion of the Pashtun population to cut themselves off from their cultural roots; subject themselves to an equally foreign and incomprehensible form of government resting largely on the customs of the tribes of pre-Roman Germany; and abandon their cultural birthright of unrivalled hegemony over “Pashtunistan”. To do this we offer some new buildings, some cash and more reliable electricity—none of which have been important to them so far in their history.[8] Attendant on these “inducements” of course is the removal of their ability to generate cash by farming poppies and the destruction of cultural mores—the subjection of women and the application of traditional law for example—that define them as a cultural group.
[…]
The twin propositions that “there is no military solution” to insurgencies and that “hearts and minds” approaches are the only the way forward are based mostly on wishful thinking
How to win in Afghanistan – Highly recommended.
h/t Paul D.
Beverly Giesebrecht
Foxnews – Mystery Shrouds Kidnap of Pro-Jihadist Canadian Activist by Pakistani Extremists
Rees dismisses the idea that Qahaar [Giesebrecht] is working with the Taliban and that the kidnapping is a hoax intended to raise money. The videos confirm that Qahaar is in real trouble, he says.”
Kate at SDA;
Who cares?
h/t Vern
More here = She didn’t simply stop being a Baptist and start being a Muslim. She became a nutter, or more precisely, she became even more of a nutter than she already was.”
18) Lefty loosey, righty tighty.
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 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the fourth movement and finale, Allegro con Spirito, of Franz Joseph Haydn‘s Symphony No. 8, delightfully conducted (note the second half) by Mr. Leonard Bernstein (7:33).
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“After 35 years in America, I never thought I would see this.”
I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn’t much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street’s black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back?
My answer: The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell ’em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.
It is not for nothing that rage has been turned on those wicked financiers. The banks are at the core of the administration’s thrust: By managing the money, government can steer the whole economy even more firmly down the left fork in the road.
If the banks are forced to keep TARP cash — which was often forced on them in the first place — the Obama team can work its will on the financial system to unprecedented degree. That’s what’s happening right now.
“A mutation of our nation is in progress.”
“The map below shows the growth of mosques, with the dark green areas indicating more than 30 mosques. The years range from 1985 to 2008. Their growth is amazing.”
An Ambassador’s Warning to the French People
Get Jimmah On The Phone
You know what this means don’t you?
North Korea defied international warnings and sent a rocket hurtling over the Pacific on Sunday, a launch President Barack Obama called an illicit test of the regime’s long-range missile technology that threatened the security of nations “near and far.”
Obama and European Union leaders meeting in Prague condemned the move and said North Korea’s dangerous defiance demanded an international response. Diplomats at the United Nations scheduled an emergency Security Council session for later Sunday to discuss what Obama called a clear violation of U.N. resolutions.
The “international community” will now transition from issuing utterly impotent warnings to devise yet another aid program in exchange for another agreement from the Norks not to do it again.
See? “We believe in dialogue.”
(“Oh no, not the strongly worded letter!”)
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 biophysicist Luca Turin presenting his talk on The Science of Scent (2005, 15:53).
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There Is Something Deeply Disturbing About This
“The world’s most heavily armed and lavished equipped yellow-tape installers”
On January 24, 2002, Jacqueline Watt lost her life trying to prevent a man from stabbing his estranged girlfriend and their two-year-old son, in Langham, Saskatchewan. After the boy’s father broke into her friend’s apartment, Ms. Watt instructed the mother to run for help while she stayed behind to stop the knife-wielding father from getting closer to the child. In doing so, she was stabbed by the attacker and fell to her knees, severely injured. She managed to get up in a desperate effort to reach the child, but was stabbed again by her assailant. Sadly, Ms. Watt succumbed to her wounds but, thanks to her valiant efforts, the toddler survived the brutal attack.
While police surrounded the apartment, determining if it was safe to enter.
“There is a four-second delay before Obama starts speaking”
The British – doing the job the American media won’t do. Transcript from the notoriously right-wing rag known as The Guardian;
Barack Obama: “I, I, would say that, er … pause [I HAVEN’T A CLUE] … if you look at … pause [WHO IS THIS NICK ROBINSON JERK?] … the, the sources of this crisis … pause [JUST KEEP GOING, BUDDY] … the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to . . . pause [I’M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause [I WANT NICK ROBINSON TO DISAPPEAR] … here in Great Britain …
In Other Headlines: Clyde Holds Bonnie Hostage
That And A Submissive Bow To A Saudi King
Will get you a cup of coffee;
Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities. But though he continued to dazzle Europeans on his debut international tour, the Continent’s leaders turned their backs on the US President.
I bet it takes some of you back to the fantabulous oraculator’s dazzling international ally-appreciating touch and go on Canadian tarmack. (And Greg Whats-his-name is declared American Disrespecter In Chief?)
From the comments – “I thought it was called ‘man caused disasters’ now.”
“They are nothing like they are portrayed by these mercenary journalists”
[al-Nafisi],,, “received his doctorate from Churchill College in Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at Exeter University in England.”