Apr

30

Cutting the Middle East Down to Size

April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Now the Mussolini syndrome is at work over Iran. All the symptoms are present, including tabulated lists of Iran’s warships, despite the fact that most are over 30 years old; of combat aircraft, many of which (F-4s, Mirages, F-5s, F-14s) have not flown in years for lack of spare parts; and of divisions and brigades […]

Apr

30

Attacking GW head-on

April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nice to see that the CPC’s embrace of greenie logic drills down to the heart of the problem:

Ban those bulbs! Because obviously that will solve the CO2 emissions problem post haste.
It is not the dishonesty I mind, it it the dimwittedness.

Apr

29

Now, Edward, tell us what you really think

April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Am I supposed to be impressed by their willingness to fight fire with fire? By their adeptness with the tools of realpolitik? For God’s sake, you assholes, this is precisely the kind of contumely that saw the last government into its current, richly deserved, state!
A pox on you weasels! You’ve cuckolded me and everyone else […]

Apr

26

Where are those candles?

April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The federal government has joined the crusade against old-style incandescent light bulbs as part of its environment plan that vows to phase out power-hungry lighting by 2012, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut air pollution. globe and mail
A lot of the distopias Hollywood invents are lighted by fluorescent bulbs. I merely hate them and the […]

Apr

22

My Kyoto…

April 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

The economic costs of signing the Kyoto Protocol in its current form could result in as much as a 37 percent drop in Turkey’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which was $148 billion in 2006, reported a paper prepared by the state agency responsible for charting the progress and possible repercussions of projects.
According to […]

Apr

21

WMDs…Don’t Want to Know

April 21, 2007 | 5 Comments

Go read Melanie Phillips.
Dave Gaubatz, however, says that you could not be more wrong. Saddam’s WMD did exist. He should know, because he found the sites where he is certain they were stored. And the reason you don’t know about this is that the American administration failed to act on his information, ‘lost’ his classified […]

Apr

21

Virginia Tech

April 21, 2007 | 1 Comment

I’ve been commenting around on Canadian blogs on the assorted commentaries about the slaughter at Virgina Tech.
A few general points:
- deadbolts - good deadbolts would have saved dozens of lives
- metal doors - a locked metal door keeps the people behind it safe
- escape methods - a roll up rope ladder would have saved lives. […]

Apr

21

What blogging does

April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Blogging has also been a boon to democratic participation as one can participate in formative policy based debate with other citizens as frequently or an infrequently as they wish. Democratically, a citizen is not simply reduced to a voter anymore. steve taylor via gen-x at 40
Steve writes well and reflectively on the question of whether […]

Apr

18

Posting and such like

April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Or the lack thereof.
I’ve been busy. But I have also been thinking.
I’ve been watching the dance of the Canadian politicians round the Maypole of global warming. I’ve been watching the silence which greeted the CPC budget with its vast expenditures. I’ve been enjoying the inability of the NDP to string two sentences together and the […]

Apr

8

Happy Easter

April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

From the Lethbridge Herald. Algore is not due until next week but Alberta and Saskatchewan are snowing and freezing already. My Sask based inlaws are stocking up on thermal underwear . Meanwhile, Instapundit points out that the Goreburator is spending the weekend in his “home” state of Tennessee: temperatures plunged throughout the region.
Is […]

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