Update – Youtube spoils all the fun. You can see the video here.
Y2Kyoto: The Sky Is Melting! The Sky Is Melting!
Heavy snow in Britain causes travel chaos … London’s transport system collapses; flights severely delayed or cancelled…
But wait! It gets better!
Related – “Massey-Singh, a Brampton resident, is one of 250 Canadians personally trained by Al Gore in 2008 to spread the message of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s presentation on global climate change.”
h/t Michelle.
The Baby Libranos Hold A Convention
As people were voting, candidate scrutinizers kept track of who voted, and cross referenced their “identified voters”. From this, it was clear that [Ontario Young LIberals] First candidates were not wining. The president elect’s two main campaign manager’s then started to freak out – didn’t want the opposition to get satisfaction they were able to beat them – it was personal, literally. So these campaign managers made fake delegate badges with the names of those who had not yet voted.
President-elect was then commissioned by her managers to find unknown delegates to take the badges and go vote again for the slate. After many questionable badges, and one nervous looking delegate, the fraud-ring was squashed.
In the emergency meeting, president – elect did admit to her role. President-elect should be making some sort of announcement soon, say within 48 hours. Her new exec is not impressed and may very well impeach her if she does not resign. But if that’s where it ends, not all responsible will be held accountable. There is also a strong possibility that the YLC exec will now also be taking disciplinary action against one of their own, who each of my sources say was certainly involved in this. Lesson learned: in politics, friends are not always true friends, if they don’t really have your back or your interests as much as their own in times of such crises. Lesson two: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
More here! and here this one’s so red-faced that he’s dropped the scandal into the memory hole …
Human Rights Watch Reverses Position On Rendition
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do!
“Under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place” for renditions, said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch.
“Limited circumstances include a Democrat in the White House,” he did not need to add.
“Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has
authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and
transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.
Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that the rendition
program might be poised to play an expanded role going forward because it
was the main remaining mechanism — aside from Predator missile strikes —
for taking suspected terrorists off the street.”
The Imagine Generation: Update
via Bourque – Belleisle Elementary School has been ordered to restore the national anthem.
As an encore, Mr. Millett might set aside the activism and focus on academics? (pdf)
previous…
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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 are Itzhak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35, Zubin Mehta conducting, in Russia (10:21). This video, through its end, is beautiful on many levels.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Looks Like I Picked The Wrong Day To Quit Cholesterol
From The Journal Of The Blatantly Obvious
Oh, big whoop. Puppies are brighter than human babies at nine months, for crying out loud.
CHIMPANZEES have long been known for their ability to mimic humans. Now scientists have found that baby chimps’ mental development can even be more advanced than children of the same age.
At nine months, the animals are just as curious and capable of recognising carers and familiar objects as the average baby. When compared with infants kept in isolated conditions in orphanages, the animals are even more advanced.
For one thing, you can house train a puppy in weeks.
Try that with a baby.
FEMA 2.”O”
“Obama Dozed, People Froze!”
Amid reports of storm stranded residents not resorting to cannibalism, Kentucky has
called up entire Army National Guard.
More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained with out electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia, though temperatures creeping into the 40s helped a swarm of utility workers make headway. Finding fuel – heating oil along with gas for cars and generators – was another struggle for those trying to tough it out at home, with hospitals and other essential services getting priority over members of the public.
The addition of 3,000 soldiers and airmen makes 4,600 Guardsmen pressed into service. It’s the largest call-up in Kentucky history, which Beshear called an appropriate response to a storm that cut power to more than 600,000 people, the state’s largest outage on record. Many people in rural areas cannot get out of their driveways due to debris and have no phone service, the governor said.
“With the length of this disaster and what we’re expecting to be a multi-day process here, we’re concerned about the lives and the safety of our people in their own homes,” Beshear said, “and we need the manpower in some of the rural areas to go door-to-door and do a door-to-door canvass … and make sure they’re OK.”
“PS: can I just add at this point — so far, no reports of looting!”
More – “Someone needs to go wake up President Oblivious, because he must be snoozing in that warm Oval Office after his big Wagyu Steak binge not to have noticed, mentioned a word, or taken any emergency actions to this days long debacle.”
At Instapundit – ““What Katrina taught the media was that they could hurt Bush by lying. What 2008 taught them was that they could help Obama by not reporting at all. What will 2009 teach them? I shudder to think.””
Blast From The Future
Tax revolt video from 1995.
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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 James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, presenting his talk: The Double Helix and Today’s DNA Mysteries (2005, 20:55).
In last week’s show David Deutsch took us from the metaphysics and physics of our previous shows toward chemistry, biology, cognitive human beings, and epistemology. In tonight’s talk, James revisits some of the chemistry of the matter, and he recalls his personal involvement with one of the three most important ideas of the twentieth century (which were: Quantum Physics, Computation, and DNA). I particularly like the first paragraph from Watson and Crick’s Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acid (Nature, 1953):
“We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.”
Lastly, James goes on to take a look at how all that effects how different people relate to reality in different ways. People need to understand that it’s not just what we think differently, that is to say: what we disagree on; it’s also how we think differently, such as spatio- temporally, logico- mathematically, musico- kinesthetically, socio- linguistically, &c. You can come up with a good set of these sorts of differences: it is interesting to compare and contrast them with personality types. And the neat thing is that it doesn’t matter why humans are this way, that is to say: whether God made it so or it just is so; what matters about it per se is that it is so.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Name That Scandal!
I started things off with Catgastrogaffe, and our trusty commentors have picked up the torch in the comments…
Cat-aquiddick
CatManDone
Give it your best shot. In the immortal words of “the Phantom” …
K-man has done nothing wrong. Zero. He printed words on the internet. A lame-o joke. That’s nothing.
And because he’s done exactly nothing, he should get NAILED TO THE WALL in exactly the same fashion as others have been nailed to the wall by him and his buddies in the anti-hate industry.
Precisely!
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Amazon Rain Forest
Oh, wait…
“A victory for all the Iraqis”
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has hailed a largely peaceful vote for new provincial councils across the country as a victory for all Iraqis.
Voting was extended by one hour due to a strong turnout, including among Sunni Muslims who boycotted the last polls.
The first nationwide vote in four years is being seen as a test of Iraq’s stability ahead of a general election due later this year.
At the new and improved muslim-reachy-outy-dialoguey White House website… crickets….
Live By The Slur… “Catgastrogaffe”
(bumped) the “Catgastrogaffe” scandal grows… How Ignatieff’s war room handles a crisis”
Seriously, for someone who claims to be an Internet guru, he is exceptionally naïve – like this time, when he seemed to think a Nigerian scam-mail letter was real; or this time, when he bought into an Internet hoax about cell phones – and then deleted his embarrassing responses to same. I wonder if Kinsella has liquid paper all over his computer screen. […]
Is this the template for how Ignatieff will handle other crises in the future? No campaign is error-free; no chatty politician, let alone a team of them, can get through a campaign without making gaffes. A war room cannot stop gaffes from happening, but they can try to defuse them as soon as possible. Kinsella turned a one-day minor story into half a week and counting – and his blamestorming “apology” will only irritate anyone who actually reads it, though I’m not sure the 200,000+ readers of Sing Tao are all clicking their way over to Kinsella’s site right now.
In the interest of fairness and balance – “Lots of people do eat cat.”
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I disagree. Hopefully, he does lose his job.
Heh – first ever “Minister’s Award for Culinary Excellence in Multicultural Cuisine”.
Plus! – “If the free-speech Nazis get their way, Catsmeat will be free to do even more of his sick racist So-this-Chinese-restaurateur-walks-into-the-Humane-Society “jokes”.
Come Get Me Post
(via)
(Why yes, it might be a hoax. Who cares? Every time you commit the middle name of The One to animation, a lefty gets his aneurysm!)
For Whom The Gong Tolls
In this latest Equalization tirade, the whole thing is merely cover for the real story: a year after finishing a string of record surpluses, [Newfoundland] is facing deficits that will run, according to the first townie first minister in this place since the Great Depression, somewhere between $500 million and $1.2 billion in just a single year. No forecast for what may come after that.
A year after finishing a string of record surpluses, Danny Williams’ Provincial Conservatives are set to record deficits the likes of which have not been seen in Newfoundland and Labrador since before 1934.
For those who do not know, 1934 is the year the Newfoundland voted to give up democracy.
Related? Danny shows Iggy who’s boss
Walmart Nation
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America. (link fixed)
And Target.
h/t Michael K.
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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 the The Big Phone Call episode of Dragnet (1952, 26:07).
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Ten Days Out
And they miss him already.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?