Thursday, April 30, 2009
Ignatieff = Harper...
blogging a dead horse: How far will Ignatieff take the Liberals into Harper's camp?
... But hidden beneath his rhetoric, Michael Ignatieff has already moved his party as close to the Conservaitve Party as any leader has in two decades. ...
... But hidden beneath his rhetoric, Michael Ignatieff has already moved his party as close to the Conservaitve Party as any leader has in two decades. ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Global Warming Forces an Alaskan Town to Relocate
Global Warming Forces an Alaska Town to Relocate | 80beats | Discover Magazine
The 340 residents of Newtok, Alaska will soon be among the first “climate refugees” in the United States. Global warming has battered the tiny coastal town: As average yearly temperatures rise, coastal ice shelves melt as does the permafrost on which the town sits. The Ninglick River has overtaken the town as the ground level simultaneously sinks [Backpacker blog]. As a result, the town’s scattered buildings are connected by a network of boardwalks across the mud. ...
The 340 residents of Newtok, Alaska will soon be among the first “climate refugees” in the United States. Global warming has battered the tiny coastal town: As average yearly temperatures rise, coastal ice shelves melt as does the permafrost on which the town sits. The Ninglick River has overtaken the town as the ground level simultaneously sinks [Backpacker blog]. As a result, the town’s scattered buildings are connected by a network of boardwalks across the mud. ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
A great wallpaper search site
This site is great for looking for wallpapers for your desktop.
Click on advanced search to enter your screen resolution (it may already be entered automatically)
Click on advanced search to enter your screen resolution (it may already be entered automatically)
Monday, April 27, 2009
Stephen Harper and the Rule of Law
Impolitical: Stephen Harper and the rule of law
... Harper was prepared to defy the Governor General and challenge her legitimacy if she hadn't permitted prorogation in December. Mind boggling. ...
... Harper was prepared to defy the Governor General and challenge her legitimacy if she hadn't permitted prorogation in December. Mind boggling. ...
The Federal Government and the Economy Today
Don't Blame The CAW for a Crisis It Didn't Create
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Rather than scapegoating the CAW for a crisis it did not cause, the federal government should focus its efforts on combating the pressures of wage-driven deflation, maintaining income and employment, and using public dollars to buy transformation of the auto industry away from gas-guzzlers to the low emission vehicles of the future. Industrial policies like this have been an important part of the development of the auto industry and are needed once again.
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Rather than scapegoating the CAW for a crisis it did not cause, the federal government should focus its efforts on combating the pressures of wage-driven deflation, maintaining income and employment, and using public dollars to buy transformation of the auto industry away from gas-guzzlers to the low emission vehicles of the future. Industrial policies like this have been an important part of the development of the auto industry and are needed once again.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Meat business cards
MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS
I wonder what Patrick Bateman would think of these...
I wonder what Patrick Bateman would think of these...
Richard Simmon's Bad Day
Your Day Can't Possibly Be as Bad as Richard Simmons' Day. - Boing Boing
Watch the video.
WARNING: not for children or polite adults.
Watch the video.
WARNING: not for children or polite adults.
Friday, April 24, 2009
The X-Nerds!
X-Nerds (Greatest Pic Ever)
... one lonely, awkward afternoon in the park at a time. (read the link for a full description of their powers!)
... one lonely, awkward afternoon in the park at a time. (read the link for a full description of their powers!)
Harper Checklist
» Harper’s absolutist, thuggish reign Paul S. Graham: Communications, politics, peace and justice
What do you call a government that ...
What do you call a government that ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Speech at the UN Conference on Racism
Full Text of President Ahmadinejad's Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism | Foreign Policy Journal
After reading many of the news stories in Western MSM about this speech, you may be surprised at what Ahmadinejad actually said.
Click the link for the full speech.
After reading many of the news stories in Western MSM about this speech, you may be surprised at what Ahmadinejad actually said.
Click the link for the full speech.
The UN conference on anti-racism
How many people actually read Ahmadinejad’s speech? « Paulitics
... Why the white, wealthy, European world would be unwilling to talk openly about issues with which they’ve long had a checkered past is obvious. The U.S. has long bristled at even the suggestion that the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are owed reparations. The far-right Italian government is currently in the process of rounding up and “tagging” Gypsies once again and thus obviously does not want to participate in the Durban discussions on Gypsies. The Canadian, Australian, American and New Zealand governments were the only governments in the entire world to reject the UN declaration on the rights of Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples and thus did not want to be a part of Durban’s discussions on Aboriginal peoples. And the Israel government doesn’t want to talk about a whole host of issues on which it has long been in violation of UN declarations and Geneva Convention rights (notably the injunctions against acquiring land through military conquest, the right of refugees to return to their homes, nuclear weapons, the slaughter of refugees and engaging in illegal warfare). ...
... Why the white, wealthy, European world would be unwilling to talk openly about issues with which they’ve long had a checkered past is obvious. The U.S. has long bristled at even the suggestion that the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are owed reparations. The far-right Italian government is currently in the process of rounding up and “tagging” Gypsies once again and thus obviously does not want to participate in the Durban discussions on Gypsies. The Canadian, Australian, American and New Zealand governments were the only governments in the entire world to reject the UN declaration on the rights of Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples and thus did not want to be a part of Durban’s discussions on Aboriginal peoples. And the Israel government doesn’t want to talk about a whole host of issues on which it has long been in violation of UN declarations and Geneva Convention rights (notably the injunctions against acquiring land through military conquest, the right of refugees to return to their homes, nuclear weapons, the slaughter of refugees and engaging in illegal warfare). ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
There is some truth in what Ahmadinejad says
Bill Longstaff: Is Ahmadinejad entirely wrong?
Yes, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does shamelessly grandstand, and yes, once again he has set the cat among the pigeons on the racism front, but is much of what he says not true? In his tirade at the UN anti-racism conference, he is quoted as calling Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime."
Let's parse that phrase in terms of Gaza. Wasn't the slaughter of 400 children during Israel's invasion of the strip earlier this year "cruel"? Is not the continuing blockade of Gaza "repressive"? And is denying the one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza the right to return home simply because of their race and religion not "racist"? So where in that phrase is Ahmadinejad wrong or anti-Semitic? ...
Yes, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does shamelessly grandstand, and yes, once again he has set the cat among the pigeons on the racism front, but is much of what he says not true? In his tirade at the UN anti-racism conference, he is quoted as calling Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime."
Let's parse that phrase in terms of Gaza. Wasn't the slaughter of 400 children during Israel's invasion of the strip earlier this year "cruel"? Is not the continuing blockade of Gaza "repressive"? And is denying the one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza the right to return home simply because of their race and religion not "racist"? So where in that phrase is Ahmadinejad wrong or anti-Semitic? ...
Fraction cells
'Fraction cells' found in human brain
The human brain seems to react directly to fractions and not look at them as ratios. ...
The human brain seems to react directly to fractions and not look at them as ratios. ...
