On a deaths per gigawatt-year basis, nuclear is safer than wind power.
How to Hang an Ape
Canadian Human Rights Commission Ruling Gives OK To “Exterminate The Gays”
Convert to Islam, receive your “Get Out Of Thought Gulag Free” card;
“Translation: when a radical Muslim says gays should be killed, Buddhists should be killed, women may be treated like slaves, etc., those victims are not legally considered to be “identifiable groups” — they have no human rights.”
Background – “Why I filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against a Montreal Salafi imam…”
Y2Kyoto: I Too, Am Embarrassed That She’s A Canadian
Lizzy,
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Will someone please stop these people before we all freeze to death?
Temperatures were 20 below zero and lower across the northern Plains, and a band of snow, freezing rain and sleet stretched from Kansas along the Ohio Valley to Maine.
Dozens of schools closed in Kentucky and Tennessee because of slippery roads and salt truck crews started working before dawn. Up to a half-foot of snow had fallen in parts of Kentucky.
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Some of the sharpest cold Tuesday was in northern Minnesota, where Hibbing bottomed out at 32 below zero and International Falls dropped to 28 below. In the middle of the state, St. Cloud fell to 24 below, breaking its old record of 21 below set in 1963.
In Vancouver, global warming’s latest cooling trend threatens lives…
The arctic front that has the whole of British Columbia in its grip has caused road chaos, left thousands without power and is especially tough on the homeless. […] In Vancouver it has been a frantic rush to get vulnerable homeless people off the streets.
Northeast Siberia braces for extreme cold of -60C.
“However, this is not the limit – in the next few days weather in the town of Krestyakh could drop below minus 58 degrees Celsius (minus 72.4 degrees Fahrenheit),” the meteorological service spokesman said.
While here, in Saskatchewan, we continue our patient vigil, waiting and watching for the long promised tropical warmth and ocean beach fronts…
(Related – “By far the most terrifying blog you will ever read.”)
Quick Links
Things are pretty busy around here, what with deadline work and a large signage order to get out before Christmas. The inbox is brimming with your tips and links, unfortunately time doesn’t allow me to follow them up, but here are a few that caught my eye –
Let them fail. “Auto Industry Bailout Would Reward Irrational Business Behaviour”
Be sure they take the UAW with them. Black Lake Golf Course
A NP Flashback – Rethinking the Reserve
In Afghanistan, an air of hope.
Good material in them all, and little of it covered by the Doomsday Shoe Media.
“Unlike many of my more tolerant fellow citizens…”
“… I possess no confidence in the ability of the American electorate to make sensible decisions. I have reached this conclusion based on an incontrovertible truth: You people will believe anything.“
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Y2Kyoto: The New European Math
A 20% emissions reduction as calculated in poodle years.
Reader Tips
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is Mr. Andy Williams performing Christmas is a Feeling in Your Heart (2:41). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Dean Martin performing Silver Bells (2:27).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Merry Winter Lights
And a Happy New Year, from the city of Brampton, Ontario…
h/t Alex.
The Lucky-X-Chromosome Senator For New York
Donald McNowski (scroll past Michael Daly’s heavy breathing to the comments section)
I think it’s great that the son of Basil Paterson gets to choose between the daughter of JFK or the son of Mario Cuomo in order to replace the wife of Bill Clinton in the Senate. Thank God for democracy.
(Yeah – why not Chelsea?)
The “post-democracy which rules the EU”
…which has been recounted and discussed with shock across formerly Communist eastern Europe, confirms the inability of the Euro-elite to accept that anyone holds different views from their own, on Lisbon, global warming or anything else. As we see from the way our own political parties are run, when it comes to “Europe”, the system has no place for opposition. Everything must be decided by “consensus”, directed from the top. There is only one approved “party line”. Apart from a few little powerless dissidents round the edges, the EU is thus in essence a one-party state.
h/t Ural
Just A Chief Of Staff From My Neighborhood
“We’ve reviewed the evidence and declare ourselves exonerated.” Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Barack Obama said Monday an internal review has concluded members of his transition team were “not involved in inappropriate discussions” with Rod Blagojevich even as questions swirled over reports his chief of staff gave the Illinois Governor a list of preferred candidates to fill the president-elect’s U.S. Senate seat.
Meanwhile, over at the Chicago Sun Times…
Sneed hears rumbles President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations by the feds — dealing with his boss’ vacant Senate seat!
A lot of chit-chat?
Hot air?
Or trouble?
via
Related – Obama’s “My Pet Goat” moment. If past performance is any indication, expect to see more of these.
Nancy Greene And Chief Clarence Louie
As possible Senate appointments?
One can hear the howls of outrage at this bullying display of non-partisan hackery already – Judy Leesawalaleesawissaleesa-Lees will lead with the pointy end of the flabbergast. Scott Reid will pen an op-ed for the Globe & Mail, calling for summary executions. Michael Ignatieff will take a few days to determine wind direction, then declare that when he is Prime Minister, it will be “appointments if necessary, but not necessarily appointments!”
And alone somewhere in a darkened room, Peter Mansbridge will sit waiting… waiting… for the phone call that he knows will never come.
As for my reaction, I’ve got fingers crossed that Chief Louie has been placed on the list to pave the way for a cabinet appointment, just for the head explosion entertainment value alone!
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is Mr. Nat King Cole performing The Christmas Song (1961, 1:54). And for tonight’s flip-side, here are Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds performing White Christmas, from Irving Berlin‘s Holiday Inn movie (1942, 3:07).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“…a century-long effort”
MIchael Yon is back from Afghanistan.
The Chicago Candidate
“Unless we understand the prolific criminal legacy of Alderman Roti, we can’t understand how today,in 2008,Alderman Roti along with his friends,relatives,and associates have turned Chicago’s city government into a racketeering enterprise…”
The article includes a helpful family tree…
Related – the Blagojevich point of view.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Every time I’m tempted to write the phrase “never ceases to amaze”, I’m forced to stop myself.
The accounts of western governments (from the local to the federal) kneecapping the very infrastructure upon which modern metropolitan life depends – including reliable electricity, food production, and the transport of essential goods – are so routine now, one can hardly keep track;
Friday eight appointed members of the [California] air board voted to adopt the so called ‘Truck Rule’, which mandates that nearly a million diesel trucks and busses be equipped with a smog filtering device or replaced outright.
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State officials say they have loan programs available to help companies replace their trucks, but Mike Kubar says it’s a racket. He says the state program offers about 50 thousand dollars for trucks that cost upwards of 125k.
And that means a trip to the bank for a huge loan.
“Once you’re in debt, once you sign that piece of paper, and if I don’t have business, then we are deep trouble, he said.
The new regulations start going into effect in 2010 and will phase in over a period of 13 years.
The sweeping new law also applies to trucks registered in other states that drive into California
The day may not be long off when interstate truckers just drop their goods at the border
and let Californians pack them in by mule. The one I’d suggest is January 1, 2010.
h/t Shaken
Israel Denies Entry To UN Human Rights “Special Representative”
Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the situation of Palestinian human rights in the West Bank and Gaza, was denied entry to Israel, it emerged Monday.
Falk, an American Jew, arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday with his entourage for his first visit since assuming his role in order to compile a report on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, which he plans to submit to the UN in March 2009.
Simona Halperin, the director of the Foreign Ministry’s International Organization and Human Rights department, said that Falk was turned back since as rapporteur he was “illegitimate.
Falk’s resume seems to meet all the usual UN job requirements – professor emeritus of international law at Princeton, and a 9-11 conspiracy theorist who once compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
What’s not to like?
h/t Mel W. and UN Watch.
“How The West Was Lost”
Calling out Liberal pillow-talkers posing as political pundits;
The continuing disregard the Liberals have for the West was illustrated perfectly by their now-defunct leader Stephane Dion’s back room deal with the NDP, supported by the Bloc Quebecois, to defeat the Harper government — post election — without having to fight another one.
Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a Liberal caucus with any significant representation from Western Canada, or even one truly concerned about national unity, agreeing to such a deal, knowing the fury it would set off in the West.
Much of the Ottawa media — who constantly adopt the Liberal narrative of Canada as their own — joined the Liberals in blasting Harper for saying what was accurate: That the Liberal/NDP/Bloc accord is an unprecedented deal with Quebec separatists, giving them more power than they have ever had before, and one which, if implemented, would weaken Canada.
This Liberal/media complaint was based on their insistence calling separatists, separatists is forbidden, because it offends Quebecers, unless, of course, Liberals are doing it, in which case it’s OK.
Precisely.