Comes fully equipped with seating for eight, weapons storage, flashing lights, sirens, and stylish UN decal package. Unfortunately not IAF proof, but does come with a small dead body for AP/Reuters photo ops when hit.
Civilians Die As Military Invades Extremist Enclave
Western leftists take to the streets.
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(Related).
Also related – Axis of Idiots (h/t Nancy)
Faster, Please
When Fatah shows up to protest Hamas, you’re supposed to pray for an air strike, not pick a favourite;
The Hamas official said that his security forces had launched a massive “preemptive” campaign aimed at thwarting Fatah’s attempts to “spread anarchy and chaos.” He confirmed that many Fatah operatives had been shot in the legs over the past few days by Hamas “to make sure that they don’t help Israel.”
January 3, Yonge/Dundas Square, Toronto
When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”…
Courtesy Right Girl
(A well-known publisher of swastika imagery taking photographs at the scene denied he was acting in any official capacity for the Liberal party.)
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to the last chance we’ll have here in the SDA LNR studios to post a two-hour video under the guise of the free time some of us have been fortunate enough to enjoy during this holiday season, here is geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells presenting his Journey of Man documentary (1:53:21).
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“Granted, the KKK hoods had a better point”
What Would We Do Without Crisis?
NYT: April 1, 2008 – “Rice crisis fuels tensions – Shortages, rising prices for staple sparks fears of civil unrest…”
CTV: January 3, 2009 – Rice crisis to persist as stock rises, prices fall
I Think She Just Might
“Would I lie to you?
Would I lie to you honey?
Now would I say something that wasnt true?
Im asking you sugar
Would I lie to you?”
The Eurythmics – Would I Lie To You
Y2Kyoto: The Weather Outside Is Frightful
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(Snow Water Equivalent)
More where that one came from at National Snow Analysis – “The ultimate source for snow information.”
h/t Todd B.
The Liberals Look Forward: Brand New Year, Brand New Leader
The Lucky-X-Chromosome Senator For New York
In a fit of pique that bordered on the bizarre, she shaved off one eyebrow. “My face,” she offered by way of explanation, “is too symmetrical.”
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
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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 show, here is Mr. Benny Goodman with his Instrumental Trio & Guests hosting the Camel Caravan Swing School (1937, 5.6 MB, MP3, 24:30), including one of the earliest available complete recordings of Mr. Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing, with Mr. Gene Krupa on drums (starting at 18:30).
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Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and would the last plate of fish and chips to leave Britain please turn off the lights?
[Health Minister Ben Bradshaw] promised that the Government would not shy away from bringing in new rules to force food companies to play a part in changing the country’s eating habits. Limits could be imposed on the amount of fat and salt in certain products.
The Sound Of Settled Science
That big burning ball in the sky affects the earth in some way? How can that be?
…geographer Robert Baker of the University of New England, Armidale, in Australia, has linked solar magnetic activity to Earth’s climate–at least regionally. Using sunspot counts and Australian meteorological data, as well as NASA satellite data for more recent years, he tracked sunspots and rainfall in Australia from 1876 to 2006. In this month’s issue of Geographical Research, Baker reports that the amount of rainfall in most regions of the country tracked the 22-year magnetic cycle almost exactly. “It was unbelievable,” Baker says. At the height of magnetic activity, rainfall across most of the country was plentiful. At the other end of the cycle, many of those same regions experienced severe droughts. The findings are particularly compelling, Baker says, because even though the lengths of the magnetic cycles are not precise and can vary by several years, the rainfall patterns followed them.
So what’s behind the connection? Baker thinks it has to do with the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation hitting Earth. When the reversing of polarity approaches, he explains, the sun’s magnetic field weakens, allowing more UV energy to reach our planet. More UV radiation kills off some of the oceans’ plankton, which produce dimethyl sulfide, one of the primary atmospheric chemicals involved in cloud formation, and fewer clouds mean less rainfall.
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“This could be an important paper,” says climatologist John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He explains that current climate models don’t give the solar effect much weight in general, because scientists think it is overwhelmed by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But if there’s a mechanism by which the sun’s variations are tied directly to weather patterns, such as the effect of UV radiation on cloud formation, he says, the sun may have a greater impact than the models are showing. As a result, the models might not be creating an accurate picture for the future.
Man, just when you think you’ve heard everything…
“Palestinians are, if we were to believe their fancifully posed pictures”
“… the only people on earth whose immediate urge, when their friends and fellows are injured, is to grab them and try to twist them into cruel and dangerous positions. “
Y2Kyoto: The Problem With The Built-In Solution
Climate injustice hits the big time – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees wants “victims” of climate change to be designated “environmental refugees.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that there will be 150 million environmental refugees by 2050. The Institute for Environment and Human Security, affiliated with United Nations University, estimated the number of environmental refugees at 20 million in 2005 and predicted the number could be 50 million as early as 2010.
In spite of millions in danger of becoming refugees, at present there is no international law to protect their rights. UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency, does not recognise climate or environment refugees as these categories are not included in the list of legal refugees under the UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention. The Convention currently defines a legal refugee as a person who has fled his or her country due to persecution by the state for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Anthony Simms, head of the climate change programme at UK-based New Economic Foundation, and the author of a book titled “Environmental Refugees: The Case for Recognition” argues that environmental refugees should be given UN refugee status as environmental displacement of people amounts to “environmental persecution”. Simms argues that developed nations should take responsibility as climate change comes a result of their policies.
Presumably, the developed nations receiving these dampened masses will take steps to ensure their environmentally persecuted arrivals from the third world are kept in the manner to which they’ve become accustomed. That is, without fossil fuel fired amenities like central heating, refrigeration, and sports utility vehicles.
Otherwise, every human plucked from a submerged beach and deposited to higher, richer shores will simply move up a carbon footprint bracket and exacerbate the warming problem, no?
But hold on! Or should I say – Holden!
In a speech at Harvard last November, Harvard physicist John Holden, President-elect Obama’s choice to be his science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, presented a “top 10” list of warming solutions.
Topping the list was “limiting population”.
Well, that solves that little problem. (Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?)
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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 Peruvian soprano Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, better known as Yma Sumac, performing Tumpa (Earthquake), from her Voice of the Xtaby album (1955, 3:16). Why yes, we do have an original copy of this album here in the SDA LNR studios; why do you ask? Oh yeah? Well I’d like to see you sing five octaves !-)
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All quiet in France
France mobilized 35,000 police and 50,000 firefighters for the traditional new year’s eve Car-B-Q. And the evening was “rather calm without major incident”.
And about 1,147 cars were torched, which no longer qualifies as a major incident, apparently.
And They Say I’m Not Socially “Progressive”
Today’s New Years dinner – “special needs” turkey