“No matter how many slides he shows you, it is too warming!”
Y2Kyoto: The Ice Cube Tray State
More innocent victims of planetary fever…
KARE-TV reported that ice is unusually thick in Minnesota this winter, and it is killing the fish.
On some lakes, that thick ice sheet, and snow cover have proved to be a double-whammy for the fish population. The DNR says that blocks sunlight, affects photosynthesis, and robs fish of oxygen. So-called winterkill can then occur.
So, rather than leave the fish to die, the DNR temporarily lifted the limits on more than 30 lakes this winter. Anglers can catch as many fish as they want. “They would die anyway, might as well have an ability to use these fish,” said Roy Johannes, DNR Fisheries Program Consultant.
Too Frank
For France:
[A] place with a passion for all things—vintage wine, aged cheese and enduring hypocrisy.
Case in point: Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s magnificent proposal that will allow French children to learn about the Holocaust in a way that could be called, “tres Ann Frank.” The young Dutch victim of Nazi inhumanity has demonstrated a perpetual draw for teenage girls and boys. All over the world, in scores of translations, young readers have absorbed the diary of this teenager, someone with whom they can identify, a regular young person just like the reader.
Unsurprisingly, the French are against this.
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A hard-core green ‘n whiter weighs in on the KJtrade.
“My Faith in American Justice” – Conrad Black in the NY Sun.
Y2Kyoto: Chill me Kangaroo down, sport.‘
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Chapter XIV if the Censurous Exploits of Richard Warman.
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Now They Know How The Cowboys Feel
“But why does [Minnesota Democrat] Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”?”
A Fine Liberal Newspaper “Rapes” The Black Guy
For the first time in recent editorial memory, the Toronto Star forgets that African Americans are disproportionately represented in the racist, draconian US prison system.
It must have been the glee.
h/t
Update: In the comments Andycanuck fact checks Gardner’s conservative bashing column – “A complete list of American conservatives who have made jokes about prison rape would fill this page. The latest is the son of the governor of Kansas, who is marketing a prison-based board game cleverly called Don’t Drop the Soap.”
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebeliusis is past chair of the Democratic Governors Association and currently serves on their Executive Committee.
QOTW
“If you speak out against Guantanamo Bay, that doesn’t mean you’re promoting terrorism. But if you speak out against the human-rights prosecution of Marc Lemire, you’re “promoting” him and his views. Funny how that works, isn’t it?” – Damian Penny
Related: Mike Brock on the dishonesty of those attempting to play the most threadworn card in the deck.
Do You Tink It’s Izzy To Wear A Chicken Zuit In Parliament?
Is the Liberal Party going to buy this line, or will the caucus tell Stephane Dion publicly condemning opposition parties for opposing is going too far?
From The Amazing Kreskin School Of Journalism, Con’t
REWARD
Lost: One puppy, answers to the name “Voters’ Desire For Change”
Where: Alberta
When: Election Night, Monday, March 3, shortly after 8 p.m., Mountain Standard Time
Owners: Canadian Media Punditocracy
Ward’s comment-turned-post gets a shout out today in the Toronto Sun, in this
Lorrie Goldstein column.
Fidel Castro: Not Dead Enough
Well,
quite a chat on the air(link fixed) Wednesday night with Sandy Rheaume, the VP of Health Services International – I was speaking to him about his company offering medical tourism in Cuba, and whether there’s any concern about doing business with the oppressive Castro regime. After angrily defending the Cuban regime, and declaring the only political prisoners in Cuba are at Guantanamo Bay, Mr. Rheaume hang up on me.
You can pick up the audio file at the link. (If someone captures it to Youtube, let me know).
CTV News: Dishonesty Or Stupidity?
It’s a toss-up;
There was a piece that was supposed to be about the Conservatives extending the amnesty on rifles and shotguns… you know… the Liberals infamous and totally ineffectual 2 billion dollar “Farmer Bob Rifle Registry.”
In the midst of a slow montage of various pictures of rifles and shotguns sitting in racks… CTV suddenly cuts to a jarring clip of a man firing an MP5 submachinegun… a restricted weapon used primarily by SWAT Teams around the world.
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Going where no calculator has gone before – correcting the Globe and Mail’s math.
Inspired by Hamas, Reuters best headline ever.
Remember – it’s not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel.
C-10, censorship, Liberal outrage and double standards.
Oh, and by the way? Removing government funding for “provocative” films is not “censorship”. It’s called “grow up and make movies people will pay money to see.”
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Back In My Day All They Got Was “Create Class Projects Using An Old Cat’s Head”
A teacher writes;
It’s teachers convention this week and I’m wading through the 2 day session catalogue and I’m trying to decide whether or not to go to the session entitled “Enhancing Literacy Through Creative Dance” or “Ladies and Mens Competition Styling Techniques”. Hair styling, that is. They don’t have the usual hip hop sessions any more, which is probably for the best because I’m aging and my neck isn’t up to the jarring.
Kill Section 13(1)
Liberal MP Dan McTeague has stepped up to support Keith Martin’s motion M-446. You can send your thanks to him here.
Related: The Battle for the Blogosphere.
“All these errors tended to give the story an anti-Summerlind tone”
Which appears to be the original intent of the Las Vegas Sun;
Correction (March 4, 2008): The following story had several reporting and editing problems as well as some factual errors. The premise of the story was that even affluent and normally peaceful Summerlin, where a Palo Verde High School student was shot to death by another youth while walking home from school, was not immune from the crime that occurs in other parts of the Las Vegas Valley.
The story quoted two of many racist-tinged comments from a Web site to support the thesis that some people in Summerlin held racist views. (The victim, who lived in Summerlin and did not know his assailant, was white; the alleged shooter, who did not live in Summerlin, was black.) The problem was that the quotes were anonymous and, because of the way the Web works, could have come from anywhere in the world. Although some people in Summerlin may hold racist views, these quotes, because of the lack of identity of the writers, in no way proved that possibility.
It is the Sun’s policy not to run anonymous letters to the editor and in the future the Sun will not run anonymous comments from Web sites.
And that’s just for starters. The full details are here.
(h/t JimmyF)
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and oh, my aching head….
Britain’s first ‘Safe Text’ street has been created complete with padded lampposts to protect millions of mobile phone users from getting hurt in street accidents while walking and texting.
Around one in ten careless Brits has suffered a “walk ‘n text” street injury in the past year through collisions with lampposts, bins and other pedestrians.
[…]
Given the apparent dangers of “unprotected text”, over a quarter of Brits – 27 per cent – are in favour of creating a ‘mobile motorway’ on Britain’s pavements.
Texters could follow a brightly coloured line, which which would act like a cycle lane, steering them away from obstacles.
I checked the date of the article twice. It appears to be the real deal.
It Ain’t Over
TEXAS
Clinton 1,140,944 50%
Obama 1,087,161 48%
And Ohio.
Does anyone else get the impression that had the Clintons redirected even a fragment of the red hot burning lust they exhibit for the acquisition of personal political power to the task of protecting their nation’s interests, there might well be a pair of towers still standing in New York CIty today?
Related! A victory for Clinton or a victory for the VRWC?
Fun For The Whole Geeky Family
Captain Capitalism’s 2008 Annual Chart Contest!
Last year the chart I submitted illustrated the direct (dare I say causitive?) relationship between Muslim population density and statistical risk of death due to seismic activity. For reasons that were never explained to my complete satisfaction, I was not rewarded with a prize.
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Open for Wednesday.
What Was The Last Tory “Scandal” Again?
Joe Six Pack: “The Greek thing.”
Me; “No, that’s not what I was thinking of”.
JSP: “The Tory staffer who supposedly set up a meeting with some Greeks …”
Me: “No, I don’t mean that – hardly qualified as a scandal.”
JSP: “uhhh…”
Me: “It was bigger than that.”
JSP: “Oh! The Afghan detainee thing!”
Me: “Yes! That’s the one… isn’t it amazing what one dead independent MP can do to clear* the media memory banks?”