Hershey’s fans chanted “Almond Chocolate Bar” as they wound their way down Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen this past week. It’s believed that the use of Almonds in biofuels has made the Danish favorite scarce:

cross posted @ Cjunk
Update: Is Denmark going to be the first Western country to grow some.

We may be able to breath a sigh of relief, now that the horror of Global Warming induced extended growing seasons may be on hold.
Kenneth Tapping, National Research Council (Solar “Expert“):

It is the opinion of scientists, including me, that global warming is a major issue, and that it might be too late to do anything about it already. If there is a cooling due to the solar activity cycle laying off for a bit, then the a period of solar cooling could be a much-needed respite giving us more time to attack the problem of greenhouse gases, with the caveat that if we do not, things will be far worse when things turn on again after a few decades.

I feel so much better; I can hardly wait for the North American and European crop failures:

No wonder there is so much talk recently about global cooling. I certainly hope that’s wrong, because a Dalton type solar minimum would be very bad for our world economy and agriculture. NASA GISS published a release back in 2003 that agrees with the commonly accepted idea that long period trends in solar activity do affect our climate by changing the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI).

“We generally look upon it as a backward moment when the Catholic Church put the bridle on Galileo, subjected him to house arrest and the tender rebukes of the Inquisition. So it’s at least mildly disconcerting to hear of a celebrated son of the Enlightenment, in the person of one of Canada’s star communicators, urging a university audience no less, to seek to ‘jail’ those whom he perceives as ‘ignoring science.'”

In August 2006, Kate, myself and other bloggers initiated a blogburst against the tax-payer supported, perpetual grievance machine known as Status of Women Canada.

“In September the same year, the Tories announced they had cut $5 million over two years out of the agency’s $23 million annual budget. In December, Heritage Minister Bev Oda said 12 of the agency’s 16 offices were going to be shut down across the country, after a re-evaluation of the program showed it was not offering concrete help directly to women. According to the Public Service Alliance of Canada, 61 of the 131 jobs at the Status of Women were cut.”

But that was then…

“Subsequently, however, the Tories renewed federal funding of the organization. A Parliamentary review of the cuts took place in February 2007. REAL Women told LifeSiteNews.com that the House Committee was stacked with witnesses who opposed the cuts. The 27 witnesses opposed to the cuts were all funded directly by Status of Women and according to their testimony, said they regarded the government grants as their ‘entitlements.'”

(…)

“Verner said the total [2008] budget for the federal organization was $29.9 million, ‘a record for Status of Women Canada’. Under the government’s new Women’s Partnership Fund, the government provided $10 million to the agency in 2007 and has no plans to stop.”

Audio here.
He talks to Rob Breakenridge about his pro-free speech, private members bill (M-446) to remove 13(1) from the Canada Human Rights Act (that notorious “likely” clause which essentially enshrines “future crime” into Canadian law.)

wrote Illinois University rampage killer, a social work major who also listed “peace” and “political violence” among his interests.
(Note that word “feel.”)
Ah yes, “social justice”: the forced application of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.
So: answer as if you had to bet your life on it — did this guy vote Democrat or Republican?
Unpack to your hearts’ content in the comments.

Let’s pretend for a moment, gentle reader, that you’re a reporter. Don’t look at me like that, I said we’re just pretending…
You learn of a psychological study that indicates four of six Canadian Forces members with “mental disorders and problems like alcoholism” didn’t seek professional treatment for their supposed problems.
Quiz time!
Do you: a) look up the comparable rate for the general Canadian population on Google to see if this is really a news story; or b) write a piece to be carried in newspapers across the country that makes it seem as if the “stiff-upper-lip military culture” is turning our men and women in uniform into mental health victims?
I know which option I’d go with, gentle reader. Unfortunately – surprise, surprise – the real reporter in question chose differently.

Can you spot the missing side of the political spectrum?
Perhaps we should jail any scientist that denies there is a political motive behind climate change…