Of an apparent heart attack.
(Update: link now indicates cause of death was “sudden coronary thrombosis”.)
We Take These Truths To Be Self Evident
Not selectively bestowed by pandering politicians and underachieving bureaucrats.
So said Eleanor Roosevelt, a champion for universal human rights back in the day when the left still believed in the idea, believed such rights were innate, were morally superior to cruelty and ignorance and barbarism, were worth fighting and dying to preserve, protect and extend to every man, woman and child on earth. Today she is quoted by free people sneered at as racists for refusing to endorse the submission of women made evident in sexual-mutilation and child “marriage”, refusing to accept apartheid law in place of common law, refusing to accept medieval sumptuary law in place of self-expression or blasphemy law for freedom of speech. Most grotesque of all, dismissed as racists by neo-Nazis and their allies and their apologists for the new crime of opposing genocidal anti-Semitism; this in living memory of the Holocaust.
Y2Kyoto: Everything Cold Is Warm Again
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No!
Ireland votes on Lisbon Treaty;
Ireland has voted No to the Lisbon Treaty, plunging the European Union into a new crisis.
With results coming in from across the country, a final result of 52 per cent against and 48 per cent in favour of the treaty was rapidly hardening. A final declaration is not expected until after 4 pm.
The Lisbon Treaty, the reworked successor to the formal constitutional pact dumped by voters in France and the Netherlands in 2005, officially needs the approval of all 27 EU member states. But only in Ireland has it been put to a popular vote, meaning today’s result may have far-reaching consequences for the entire bloc.
Barely two hours after the count began today, the No camp had already started celebrating, while senior Fianna Fail strategists privately and glumly conceded their defeat.
A prediction: “What will the evil Eurocrats do now? I predict they will try to pass a law saying that EU treaties cannot be subjected to popular referenda.”
Related: the UN Human Rights Council directs Britain to abolish the monarchy.
NDP MP for the British Columbia Riding Of Vancouver Moonbat
h/t Wallyj
Why Is It?
That you never have a can of red ants when you need them?
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Tears for Fears performing Everybody Wants To Rule The World (1985, 4:48).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“Imagine if an anti-gay bureaucrat…”
“… had ordered a gay activist to apologize to a Catholic priest, and then to write a public renunciation of his gay lifestyle in a newspaper. It’s unthinkable.”
Related: I’ve been thinking for a while that the time has come to give a heads-up to Tony Merchant. (All you politically incorrect would-be HRC complainants – keep those rejection slips!)
Welcome To Revenue Racetrack
“On average, police are seizing 22 cars and 22 drivers licences every day. “
Blog Notes
My apologies for the slow posting of the past few days. Since Friday I’ve been alternating between the paint booth and the vet clinic. So far, the count is up to one race car, one race helmet, two hard hats, a goalie mask, and a dog recuperating from cancer surgery. It’s been a hard, long week.
Kill Bill 17
The Watermelons – strangling economies one industry at a time;
It was 2:30 am when I finally got my ten minutes to tell the provincial NDP government of Manitoba what I thought about Bill 17 the anti-hog, anti-farming, anti- business bill. It was the second time I was at the legislature this week and I think I waited 14 hours in total for my name to be called. This is what I said…
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and who turned out the lights?
Thanks to decades of neglect and wishful thinking by successive governments – and now the devastating impact of a directive from Brussels – we are about to see 17 of our major power stations forced to close, leaving us with a massive shortfall.
Even after 2010, the experts say our power stations cannot be guaranteed to provide us with a continuous supply, meaning that we face the possibility of power cuts far worse than those which recently – largely unreported – blacked out half-a-million homes.
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Scaremongering? Just look at the hard facts. At the moment, to meet Britain’s peak electricity demand, our power stations need to provide a minimum 56 gigawatts (GW) of capacity.
Ten gigawatts, nearly a fifth, comes from our ageing nuclear power stations, all but one of which are so old that over the next few years they will have reached the end of their useful working life.
On top of that, however, we shall also have to shut down nine more major power stations – six coal-fired, three oil-fired – forced to close by the crippling cost of complying with an EU anti-pollution law, the so- called Large Combustion Plants directive.
This will take out another 13GW of capacity, bringing the total shortfall to 22GW – a staggering 40 per cent of the 56GW we have today.
It gets worse.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Louis Armstrong singing Dixie Music Man (1947, 3:29). The last four seconds of this video are interesting too, in a meta-musical sense.
Shortly before his death, Satchmo said, “I think I had a beautiful life. I didn’t wish for anything that I couldn’t get and I got pretty near everything I wanted because I worked for it”. We’ll be visiting Mr. Armstrong’s great works again here at SDA LNR, as we have before; he is surely an artist to be celebrated.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
It’s A Small World
With a very large Canadian Forces Grievance Board.
June 12 update from Connie Fournier: – Muriel Korngold-Wexler “said that she has no connection to Richard Warman, however she has chosen to withdraw from the case.”
Y2Kyoto: Every Time You Roast A Marshmallow
According to a memo to the park board from the staff released Thursday, “The overall policy question for the Board is whether it is good policy for Seattle Parks to continue public beach fires when the carbon … emissions produced by thousands of beach fires per year contributes to global warming.”
Cartoon Of The Week
Heh.
Next, the Letter of the Week, addressed to the MacKenzie Institute from a Canadian apparently offended by the stereotyping of Muslims;
Your lifetime is over. September 11th is the beginning of you death. You have extended the mission in Afghanistan until 2011. You men will definitely return home after three years, but not alive, but in coffins. You don’t need to worry about the military wife if her husband dies because she will cry for two days, but the third day; she will marry another man. This is the life here. You have given a name to everybody such as: Dirty Arabs for us, Negro for Africans, Parki for South Asians. How about you? We give you a name from now on as SHIT because you don’t wash your ass after you shit. When you call other people by those dirty names, you remember the word SHIT, OK
SHIT
Alah is the only God in the Earth. He is the GREATEST. WE WILL DESTROY YOU VERY SOON. NOBODY HAS DEFEATED A FREEDOM STRUGGLE SO FAR IN THE WORLD HISTORY. WE WILL PREVAIL.
By reprinting that, I have surely exposed at least some people to a little hatred and contempt.
And finally, the Roadkill Of The Week – a private investigator reportedly sent by Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer Giacomo “Serenity Now” Vigna has been harrassing Ezra Levant’s parents;
Vigna has been sending a private investigator to my parents’ house again and again, demanding to see me. My parents, who are far more polite than I am, keep telling Vigna’s hired tough guy that I don’t live there anymore. I did when I was a teenager. But that was in 1990.
The last time Vigna’s hired muscle came to my parents’ house, he refused to leave. My parents said he had a Bluetooth phone device in his ear, and seemed to be taking instructions from someone — Vigna himself? — who told him not to go until he had found me. In the end, Vigna’s enforcer must have lost his serenity, too, because he threw some papers down at my parents feet, and stormed off.
Classy.
Nice people, these.
Fire. Them. All.
The Psychic Friends Universe
Everything I know about our planet, I lurned* from a science magazine;
“…solar physicists aren’t like weather forecasters; They can’t predict the future.”
Hey, you can’t change what you can’t predict!
(*And timely, too.)
Spend!
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Obama oversees a team of 700 people–more than twice as many as Bush in 2004–the biggest, most bloated campaign in the history of presidential elections…
Here’s a tidbit they won’t tell you on the MSNBC: “McCain/RNC combined fundraising is more than the Obama/DNC fundraising for April and I don’t know if the totals are in yet, but McCain/RNC fundraising was on pace to beat them in May as well.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Gene Kelly performing Singing In The Rain (1952, 4:07).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
A few random links (from Kate)
An all-round nice guy. When he’s not eating babies.
“Kukhris rule”
Free Dominion is giving 50% of their pixel fundraiser proceeds to help Rev. Stephen Boissoin in his appeal. “The prospect of living in a country where an ordained minister is forced by the government to publicly renounce his beliefs is just too frightening!”
We Are All Treaty People
They were carelessly fishing on the target range;
Police have released the name of a man charged with careless use of a firearm after three men were shot at while fishing last month.
RCMP said Monday that Victor Nanatakapo, 55, from the Big River area, is charged in connection with the incident.
On May 18, a father, son and grandfather said they were fishing on Delaronde Lake, 190 kilometres north of Saskatoon, when a shot rang out, and a bullet splashed into the water near them. They said a man standing on a nearby hill yelled, “Get the hell off my lake.”
If people just had the sense to restrict their fishing to places like schoolyards where guns are prohibited, these accidents wouldn’t happen.