Jun

21

Workshop of the World

June 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.
The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China’s growing role in driving man-made global warming…the guardian via instapundit
This may have something to do with the fact that China uses roughly 7 times the energy […]

Jun

20

Liberals Lite II

June 20, 2007 | 12 Comments

Coyne gets it,
So perhaps it is time for conservatives and market liberals to have a little rethink. The strategy of throwing their lot in with the Conservatives has been tried, and failed — failed, not in the sense that Conservative parties have been unable to win power, but that they win power, if they do, […]

Jun

20

Our Guy

June 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

Brooks has a story of a Canadian who has been arrested on his way home from Afghanistan in Dubai. Bert Tatham, apparently, had a dried poppy head and 6/10s of a gram of has stuck to the seam of his pants.
This is where out diplomats and External Affairs wallahs earn their salaries. He’s our […]

Jun

19

Well Done Tony!

June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said the decision to honour the novelist was an orchestrated act of aggression directed against Islamic societies.
He said Rushdie was “one of the most hated figures” in the Islamic world.
“Honouring and commending an apostate and hated figure will definitely put the British officials [in a position] […]

Jun

17

Factory Farmed Kids

June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

KMG and I were having a chat about the way children are raised presently. He sent along an article from the Daily Mail,
When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere.
It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked […]

Jun

14

The Green Taliban

June 14, 2007 | 11 Comments

My sweetie asked me why, if global warming is so preposterous, no one but me seems to think so. Of course there at millions of us out there who a skeptical about the the global warming scam or about the proposed cures, but our voices are muffled by the media/political all green all the time […]

Jun

13

“We’re not Jews”

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Gaza continues its inevitable descent into Hell,
Among yesterday’s dead was a 14-year-old boy and three women, all killed in a Hamas attack on a Fatah security officer’s home.
“They’re firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We’re not Jews,” the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a Fatah commander, pleaded during a live telephone conversation with a […]

Jun

13

Feckless in Gaza

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Hamas and Fatah are shooting it out in Gaza. It is pretty clear that Hamas is willing to put on a full scale civil war. Fatah has its wide boys ready to shoot back.
At this point about the only realistic solution would be for Egypt to send in a several thousand strong security force. It […]

Jun

11

A fine old English tradition

June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

No, not the bodacious tatas featured in a Calgary bar; rather this lovely line from Canada’s newspaper of record,
More recently he (Prince Harry) was photographed there punching a photographer outside a pub. globe and mail
Bertie Wooster and the Drones are gone but not forgotten. Hope he wasn’t wearing a hoodie.

Jun

6

The Right Stuff

June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Hayden’s wife of 42 years, Katie, who was also on the flight, was less impressed. Even as her husband struggled with the agitated passenger, she barely looked up from “The Richest Man in Babylon,” the book she was reading.
“The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could just […]

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