Can’t We Just Sue Them Both?
Meth addict sues dealer and wins;
She suffered a heart attack from an overdose of crystal meth. She says the man who supplied the drugs wasn’t held responsible so Bergen filed a lawsuit.
| Because he didn’t provide the |  |
Heart Healthy meth she ordered, one presumes. |
Mo Strong’s Republican Mole
He’s always rubbed me the wrong way. Now I know why.
Sound analysis – watch the races within the race. This is your thread for discussion of the NH primary, if you’re so inclined.
Blog Talk Radio
At 1pm EST, I should be on “air” with Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief of PoliGazette . Why he’s interested in my worthless opinions is anyone’s guess. (Look for the “Blogtalkradio” icon at the right of the page or click here.)
Tax Emissions Or Miss Targets
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have to accept carbon taxes or other charges on greenhouse gases if his government is to have any hope of meeting its climate-change targets.
[…] Introducing a new charge on fossil fuels is the only way to ensure Canada succeeds in cutting its emissions, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy said in a report yesterday.
The new charge would mean Canadians would face higher costs to heat and light their homes and to pump gas into their cars, the panel says.
I don’t recall them asking you or me, so I will.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and silence infidel!
Religious groups have demanded the resignation of the Bishop of Rochester after he claimed that Islamic radicals had turned parts of Britain into “no-go” areas for non-Muslims.
[…] Mohammed Shafiq, from the Ramadhan Foundation, said: “Mr Nazir-Ali is promoting hatred towards Muslims and should resign.”
Ajmal Masroor, of the Islamic Society of Great Britain, said: “It’s a distortion of reality. Our communities are far more integrated than they were 10 years ago.
“If the Church of England had an iota of fairness they would take serious action.”
Strong reaction in the comments.
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Y2Kyoto: Postmarked Henhouse
“Furedi should get his facts straight before telling us the sky won’t fall.”
(Full credit to Irwin Daisy.)
Jetstream
Filmed in 2006 at CFB Cold Lake, Jetstream chronicles the experiences of seven students – one woman, six men – who reckon with rigorous and exhausting training in the 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron. Their day-to-day activities include intense flying missions in the military’s $35 million CF-18 Hornet, simulator flights and ground school. The workload is intense, the geometry is mind-numbing, and the day is never done.
The eight-part documentary begins 10 pm ET, Tuesday, Jan. 8.
The Sound Of Settled Science
And “unsettling” climate model results;
Steve, here’s my conjecture about what this means. The references to Senior and Mitchell in the TAR were written by person A who had read them a while back and thought they fit into the big picture in such-and-such a way. The portion of TAR text you quoted was written by Person A late one tiring day, rushing to meet a deadline before he had to finish grading some term papers then pick up his son from track and field. He never figured what he was writing was the last word on anything in particular. Whether or not the text was commented on by busy reviewers, they ended up in the final text more or less in the form they were first jotted down.
The portion quoted from the AR4 was written by Person B late one tiring day, rushing to meet a deadline before he had to finish grading some term papers then pick up his daughter from volleyball. He never figured what he was writing was the last word on anything in particular. Whether or not they were commented on by busy reviewers, they ended up in the final text more or less in the form they were first jotted down.
The problem in each case is that text originating as the current opinions of Persons A and B, and therefore subject not only to revision but simple error, gets promoted by the IPCC as if it were the Last Word, the Authoritative, the Most-Stringently-Peer-Reviewed-In-History Dictation of the Angels. The fact that parts contradict each other within the same report, let alone across different reports, is only a problem for those naive enough to believe the hype from the IPCC leaders about the nature of the assessment reports.
Drudge
Twists the knife.
The dramatic reversal of fortunes has left the media establishment stunned and racing to keep up with fast-moving changes.
In its final poll before Iowa, CNN showed Clinton with a two-point lead over Obama. Editorial decisions were being made based on an understanding the Democratic primary race would be close, explained a network executive.
Update! Prepare to be nauseated: “Clinton Gets Emotional on Campaign Trail”. But the comments are where the real action is.
Croc. tears. Big saltwater croc.
And here’s a prediction;
Because Hillary can never be President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton has no further use for her. The Clinton’s will divorce within 2 years and it will come as a surprise to no one.
Number 1, With A Bullet
Now, after Barack Obama’s tremendous surge,
… the ugly assassination theme has quickly resurfaced, although this time it’s being expressed as concern over the candidate’s safety rather than as active wishing for his demise, which is at least an improvement, but this fixation on assassination is still interesting. In Obama’s case, the issue is being raised by a writer at The Huffington Post who – for reasons I cannot discern – seems to think Halliburton or Blackwater or someone connected somehow with the Bush White House will try to kill Obama. I can’t figure out the reasoning, but to people for whom every evil in the world begins and ends with George W. Bush, on whom all bad things must be blamed, I guess it makes some sort of sense.
I don’t know if some folks have yet figured out that George W. Bush is not running for president in ‘08, but eventually they’re going to find themselves deprived of their Hate Doll. Where they’ll put all that energy when he is off the world stage is anyone’s guess. It will have to go somewhere.
Related – The more things change…
“But isn’t it a bit odd that the leading candidate for ‘change’ is a Chicago Democrat? […] Not only is Sen. Barack Obama a Chicago Democrat, but he started his career by having all of his Democratic primary opponents — including the incumbent — thrown off the ballot in a race for an Illinois Senate seat in 1996.“
Reader Tips
Tips thread for Monday.
Yes, Doctor
How Nancy Pelosi Single-Handedly Defeated Al Qaeda In Iraq
I welcome the genuine reductions of violence that have taken place, although I would point out that much of that violence has been reduced because there was an agreement with tribes in Anbar province — Sunni tribes — who started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what, the Americans may be leaving soon, and we are going to be left very vulnerable to the Shi’as.
More commentary here and video
I would like to hear Obama’s timetable to invasion of Pakistan after Bhutto’s assassination… is it more necessary now? How far would he push to ‘get that done’ under his administration?
Why do people read blogs? Because that’s a question you’ll never hear cross the lips of a CTV “political analyst”.
“I owe you nothing”
Via Newsbusters;
HOLT: It’s a fair point you make; you don’t engage in it. But you were the victim of some rumors on this subject of your viability and questions if you would drop out. How much did that hurt you?
THOMPSON: Well let’s think about that. It did hurt me, and the media lapped it up. It was put out by another campaign; made no sense at all.
HOLT: Which campaign?
THOMPSON: A few days before the election and made no sense at all, and I was coming strong, and the media took it up, and spread the rumor, and probably cost me two or three points in Iowa. So the lesson there is not, you know, politicians being politicians. The lesson there is that the news media really ought to check these stories out and come to me, and ask me, and take my word for it.
HOLT: Senator, fair shot against the news media, but what candidate were you mentioning that put that out there?
THOMPSON: I’m not gonna. I owe you nothing, frankly, in that regard and I’m not going to say anything more about it right now.
Reader Tips
A book that conservatives and environmentalists alike can rejoice in!
Rex Murphy on Mark Steyn. Some of the reader comments can only be described as “fit for the CBC”.
An exemption may be granted those who distribute the crack pipes during services.
Add yours in the comments.
Legalized Plunder
Frontier Centre: Why should Manitobans and maybe even Canadians be concerned about this Fouillard expropriation case?
Antoine Hacault: Because it’s a dangerous precedent as to what municipalities do. Up until now generally, they’ve been able to encourage projects. Now they are actually undertaking a project and saying they’re going to be in this business and take it away from somebody.
FC: So the precedent setting nature of this is the government actually expropriating land for the purposes of engaging in business?
AH: That’s right. And if they can do that then they can do what’s happening in the States. In the States, if they don’t like a particular area and they want to put a Walgreen’s in they’ll hire a developer to do some development. In fact, one of the cases a developer in the States went and blackmailed the owner and said “If you don’t agree to sell it to me and pay me $800,000 to avoid the expropriation I’ve got the backing of the government and I’m going to expropriate you and a Walgreen’s is going to go here.”
The Long Awaited Reversed-Polarity Sunspot
(click for original image)
And the Official Start of Solar Cycle 24.
I have no idea what this means, but the pic is too cool to pass up.
More – Read The Sunspots
h/t to reader Rod.
Obama, Obama, (Hucksomebody), Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
Oh, that liberal Canadian media. It’s a compilation of gush reporting that should cause editorial faces to flush red from one end of the country to the other.
(So be sure to forward it to your favourite news department or columnist.)
Update: On CTV National News tonight, the coverage of the New Hampshire debates was summed up in this way (paraphrased): “Pundits declared Obama as having come out on top in the Democrat debate and Romney as the big loser in the Republican side.” Now, that’s balance.
But wait! It gets better! – “And on cbc news Sunday, they turn to Susan Sarandon for her analysis of the US election.”