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May
31
Meowwww
May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Complete with Debbie Harry headline. Three gals, one of whom apparently owes her name to Hemmingway, have at it: art criticism, Lord Black, floral tributes, yoga pants…It’s the new Dynasty.
May
30
Real Rebutal
May 30, 2007 | 1 Comment
“They say I’m a tyrant,” Chavez said today. “Who accuses me? Serpents.” Hugo Chavez
One can hear the red diaper babies and the deeper pink lefties chanting, “Serpents have no right to speak.”
Which with the closure of one private television station and the threat to close others may very well be Chavez’s intention.
May
29
The Pander Option
May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Most troubling, though, I think the Harper Conservatives have become Mulroney-ized. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney seems to have too much influence over policy and strategy.
That’s where the current Tories’ Quebec pandering comes from, as well as their ludicrous green plan. Mulroney, who this spring was honoured as Canada’s “greenest” prime minister, is firmly convinced […]
May
29
Re Handguns
May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Edward Michael George makes a rather telling point in the wake of the kid on kid shooting in Toronto and the predictable demand for the immediate elimination of hand guns:
In response to the accumulation of evidence provided the citizens of France since November 2005 of serious societal decline, President Nicholas Sarkozy condemns as responsible–get this–the […]
May
29
Modest Predictions
May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
One of my main objections to GW hysteria is how little certainty there is or, in a basic sense, can be about the predictions of the IPCC and the various alarmists. Just how bad the predictions have been is outline in this rather exhaustive prediction scorecard created by Warwick Hughes. It’s results do not inspire […]
May
26
If you like your “golbal warming” science straight head over to icecap.us…
A goracle free zone.
May
26
I am always amused by the call for more immigration else we lose Canada. It tends to be made by people who see Canada as a set of transfer payments between regions, generations and classes. An accountants’ Canada. And to prop it up we need to import tax serfs who are prepared to support the […]
May
25
The Liar Kinsella whines some more
May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
May 22, 2007 - A couple folks have asked me why I don’t ever show up in this.
Just a hunch, but I’d say it’s not unrelated to
this.
Adam’s certainly hired some interesting people!
liar via saint (to whom I still owe a discussion of Augustine)
One of the links goes to Tart Cider where Chris Shelly […]
May
24
Hee, hee
May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Papers seized by two investigating magistrates from General Philippe Rondot, a former head of the DGSE, France’s intelligence service, show Mr Chirac opened an account in the mid-1990s at Tokyo Sowa Bank, credited with the equivalent of £30 million. It is not known where the money came from, nor whether it is connected to various […]
May
22
Thank God for Kyoto
May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
the average growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions increased from 1.1 per cent a year in the 1990s to a three per cent increase per year in the 2000s.
Lead author of the paper, Dr Mike Raupach from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and the Global Carbon Project, says that nearly eight billion tonnes of carbon […]