“That can’t be right.”

Little Known Facts 26 Comments


I’ve seen this one mostly from people outside the immediate realm of drug discovery, well-meaning people who just can’t believe that this is how it works. The harm comes when these well-meaning folks decide that the problem is that the industry is just behind the times, and that we wouldn’t have to do it this way if we’d just adopt some modern management techniques – ISO whatever-thousand, umpteem-sigma, Quality Assurance Tiger Team Circle Continuous Improvement Metrics, or what have you. Harm generally ensues.

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Big City Lib Busted

Moonbats 74 Comments

This is what the global warming supporters have been reduced to;

Honor system abuser, BigCityLib, aka Michael J. Murphy of Toronto reports that he in fact did NOT make the [Oregon Petition Project] list. By his own admission he lied about his background and falsified documents to try to have his name added, but apparently the petition screening process found his deception and denied his application.

Perhaps Murphy should try his hand on getting on the IPCC where the standards are lower.

Revisiting Camelot

Little Known Facts 41 Comments

That is, the “Camelot” of a post-assassination exercise in myth creation. Placing the man who brought us the Cuban missile crisis in the context of a new generation who believes he’s worth emulating;

JFK had repeated Chamberlain’s key mistake at Munich. He sent a signal of abject weakness to an aggressor held back only by fear. He walked into shark-infested water bleeding and ringing the dinner bell. And although the US was overwhelmingly stronger than Khruschev’s Soviet Union, the wily old Bolshevik judged it safe to hustle the “very inexperienced, even immature” Leader of the Free World. The Soviet strongman struck while the going seemed good.

Jackie didn’t quite “rescue” him from “the bitter old men who write history”, but she came very close.
h/t Maz2 (and others)

Free Joey

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Great moments in journalism;

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith was quizzed about the [kangaroo] cull’s* possible damage to Australia’s image overseas and whether it would empower the pro-whaling lobby.
“I don’t think it will,” he told reporters.

Because, as the data clearly shows, whales have been hunted to extinction in the Outback, and across large parts of Australia.
(* They employed “military contractors” for the awful deed. Colour me impressed with this new Labour government – that’s better than the hakapic!)

Return Of The Orchard Davidians (Bumped)

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An excited James Curran has the good news;

“Following an extensive period of consultation across the riding, I have decided to put my name forward as a candidate for the Liberal Party nomination in the northern Saskatchewan riding of Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River.” – David Orchard

Canada’s political poltergeist is back!
Update – James replies in the comments;

Turner and Orchard? Belinda and Scottie? See a trend? Most Progressive Conservatives with any real Progressive values have jumped ship from the Alliance/Reform Harpercrites.

To which I reply…. There go the vases!

• And, yes, I am dead Liberal meat. I mean, the evidence is overwhelming. I read just days ago that Stephane Dion had thrown my sorry, misogynistic ass out of the caucus room.
I watched on television as weaselette Jane Taber told a breathless Mike Duffy all about the actual slides I used in my PowerPoint presentation to national caucus on May 14th, the reaction of female colleagues to my “tasteless” display and the whupping I took from Dion himself.

And speaking of broken glass everywhere – Cherniak is spot on in his assessment that Warren Kinsella has less than pure motives in opposing the Dion carbon tax scheme.
After all, this is a man who accuses those who oppose CHRC legal abuses in the pursuit of “hate speech” of being sympathetic to the views of the neo-Nazis and supremacists they target.
Therefore, one has no choice but to assume that Kinsella’s publicly expressed “personal” opinions are utterly and completely informed by his own self interests in keeping his corporate clients happy. Not just on the carbon tax issue, but on any and all matters.
So, Jason – don’t back down on this one. If you’re going to have any hope of one day getting off the porch to run with the big dogs of politics, you’re first going to have to demonstrate that you won’t let go when you’ve collared a little yapper.
Update! – That’s my boy!

Toronto Liberals

Great Moments In Socialism 96 Comments

Our electoral superiors!

JD Wood from Toronto, Canada writes: The last thing we need is an elected senate. There is a reason senators are chosen for their wisdom, education, and experience — not their electability. This so called U.S. idea of “elitism” is absurd… I would RATHER have an “elitist” in the senate than some dolt who might invite you to a pig roast and beer party. The senate exists to protect the electorate from itself when they make major mistakes (e.g. electing Harper). I do not trust the ignorant masses to tie their shoes nevermind elect senators. What is next… soon when I go to the doctor my diagnosis will be determined by the democratic ignorance of the people? How about instead, educated specialists with advanced knowledge continue to treat the cancer that is killing Canada — Harper, the Reform party, and its populism.

h/t to reader Johann.

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