Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
RUN! Run for your Lives!
In an “exclusive” piece that ran on that weekend, the Toronto Star reports that, according to information available through the federal gun registries, people in the Greater Toronto Area own guns. Lots of guns. Everyone, please — remain calm. The numbers are admittedly interesting. In the Toronto area, there are 263,000 privately-held non-restricted guns (shotguns and rifles), 62,818 restricted guns (most handguns and some rifles) and 26,315 prohibited guns (snub-nosed pistols and military-grade weapons). That’s at least 352,000 icky firearms, right in the Toronto Star‘s backyard. For a paper still trying to wrap their minds around a Harper majority and a Rob Ford mayoralty, it’s gotta be a tough pill to swallow.Lord have Mercy!
EU Geniuses Have a Sherlock Moment
Bowing to mounting evidence that austerity alone cannot solve the debt crisis, European leaders are expected to conclude this week that what the debt-laden, sclerotic countries of the Continent need is a dose of economic growth.No shit Sherlock!
Canadian Judge Insults Hundreds of Millions
A Canadian judge has insulted a vast swath of humanity with his statement made in court recently. In what can be deemed an insensitive attack on cultural/religious norms, Judge Robert Marange offended the deeply held beliefs of what could be hundreds of millions of individuals:
‘It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime … the apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honor … that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.’It is shocking ... shocking I tell you, to find Islamophobia so entrenched within the Canadian judiciary ;)
F-35: Buck for the Bang
If anything, the F-35 will go down in history as the most expensive piece of ... whatever ... to ever be conceived by a military.
When it comes to bang for the buck, the F-35 has put new meaning into Buck for the Bang.
No program better illustrates the pathologies of the weapons acquisition process as it is currently practiced by the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) than the entirely predictable, and in this case, predicted, problems dragging the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter into a dead man’s spiral. The F-35 in on track to be the most expensive program in the history of the Defense Department, and it has repeated just about every mistake we invented since Robert McNamara concocted the multimission, multi-service TFX — a program conceived with the same kind of fanciful one-shoe fits all imaginings as the F-35.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Blitzkrieg 2012
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| Euro-Slime |
Greece must surrender control of its budget policy to outside institutions if it cannot implement reforms attached to euro zone rescue measures, the German economy minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
This is how the technocrats of the socialist order in Europe work ... they've been salivating at the chance to rule all of Europe. Now the debt crisis is giving them a chance. Once you control the "budget" of a country, you own it.
Frankly though, I think they've gone too far ... too fast ... too recklessly. We just may be witnessing the EU's Barbarossa.
Below we have audio from the opening ceremonies of the Greek debt talks:
The Big Chill
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| Little Ice Age |
Hot spells in global climate have always spelled human as well as species advances ... cold spells the opposite. It appears ever more likely that we are on the cusp of a cold spell ... one that could last decades.
The question ... has civilization advanced enough to prevent a civilizational decline this time around.
Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.
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