Everything Proves Global Warming

Warm weather proves that global warming is occurring. And so does cold weather!:

…the fact we’re getting the biggest snowstorm in many years in Eastern Canada doesn’t give you climate-change deniers any ammo into saying this proves its a false problem. Scientists and climatologists will tell you Global Warming involves more then just warming of the planet – it will bring increased periods of extreme weather conditions to certain parts of the globe

That crazy weather!

Do any of these scientists know what the word “falsifiable” means? If the earth turned into an enormous icicle tomorrow morning, would they still claim that global warming was a problem?

“The Power is Yours!”

Okay Liberals and “progressives”, I’m waiting for it: “Well, you know, Canada didn’t actually help at Bali by refusing to sign on until the US, China and India were on board…”

I guess Canada’s say in the matter in the matter isn’t that important any more either now that the US has agreed to sign onto something, unlike, you know, the rest of this week when Dion et al were convinced that the human race would survive or smolder based on John Baird’s decisions.

The Mulroney Impeachment Proceedings – Part II

I just had to do it.

I’ve been surfing through the comment pages, videos and miscellaney at Andrew Coyne’s website, looking for a cogent explanation as to why everyone is so desirous of a cogent explanation by the Blarnmeister and current father of Canadian Idol host, Ben Mulroney (historians may yet get you for that one, Mr. Former Prime Minister). While patroling for said evidence, I happened to watch the At Issue panel video — featuring Allan “the ad tested well in the focus groups”Gregg, Andrew Coyne, Chantal Hebert, and some other guy who made some silly points so I can’t  remember his name due to a cognitive impairment.

Chantal Hebert had the best quote of the evening:

“I think we’re drilling hard rock here.” The Hard Rock Cafe. Not bad.

Allan Gregg sounded dyspeptic and with the goatee and peculiar striped jacket, like a disgruntled Record Company exec complaining about one of his former recording artists who struck out on his own for cash and can’t sing the tunes like he used to.

Andrew Coyne sounded much more reasonable than he does on his blog, but give it another couple of weeks, a few more Maclean’s issues, and I think he and Chantal Hebert could be duking it out on Pay Per View. (My money’s on Chantal).

But the Oprah Award goes to Kirk Lapointe for this howler:

“Brian Mulroney had an opportunity to show that he had faith in Canadian’s judgment and ask for their forgiveness…”

That one screeched like my old phonograph when playing 78′s. Do these people not read? Allow me to submit, for the defense, Exhibit A — The Secret Mulroney Tapes:

“For a man who had once complained that “even f—— Hitler” got better press than he, Mulroney gave Newman wide latitude for his book. ”

…..

And, Exhibit B, A Needy Man:

People tend to see Mr. Mulroney in absolute terms, as they do Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Chretien: all good, or all bad. Both interpretations are surely wrong. As Prime Minister, his record was mixed, as it is for most. He will be celebrated, and rightly so, for his economic accomplishments, notably the free trade agreement and the GST. (I would include the conquest of inflation in that group, since without the government’s support John Crow could never have persevered as he did.) But he cannot erase the stain left by his government’s many ethical lapses, the patronage, the pork-barrelling, or what is truly unforgiveable, forcing the country through the Meech and Charlottetown ordeals, of which his foul personal attacks on Clyde Wells, caught on Mr. Newman’s tape, are an unpleasant reminder.

Was he unjustly reviled? Yes, indisputably. Could he be justly reviled? Oh yes.

So, there you have it. Mulroney isn’t being reviled for his deal with Schreiber; he’s being reviled for Meech Lake.

I’m just sayin’.

The Mulroney Impeachment Proceedings – Part I

Its been mildly entertaining to watch the Canadian counterpart to BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome): MDS (Mulroney Derangement Syndrome) on full display by various members of the Canadian media. Andrew Coyne, in his latest foam flecked blog post, waxes histrionic as he loads his Herman Melville harpoon to confront his chin whale:

To be told that Schreiber is a liar and a perjurer does nothing to explain why Mulroney took cash from Schreiber after he left office, or any of the rest of the story. It is, for the most part, beside the point. To be sure, it would be interesting to know whether they agreed to do business together before or after Mulroney stepped down as prime minister. But the relationship between them is troubling either way. It’s troubling even if you accept Mulroney’s version on every issue on which they disagree. All Mulroney needed to do was explain his side of it.

And that is really the nub of it. Reread that first sentence: “To be told that Schreiber is a liar and a perjurer.” Blowing over that issue, is why the Mulroney Impeachment Proceedings will continue to be a media driven farce. But, of course, that won’t prevent various commentators from having a whale of a time screaming about it. Its a sign of the Times New Roman, I suppose.

Do the Climate a Favour – Don’t get Divorced or Stop Breathing

This is old news, but funny nonetheless…

More everything causes global warming silliness. This time the globe is threatened by broken marriages:

Soaring divorce rates around the globe are taking a toll on the environment, American researchers suggested in a study released Monday.

Michigan State University researcher Jianguo “Jack” Liu and his assistant Eunice Yu said the increasing number of divorces leads to more households with fewer people and greater consumption of water and energy. They said housing units require space, construction materials and fuel to heat and cool, regardless of the number of inhabitants.

Fans of Al Gore have a great solution, stop breathing…

The Poppy is Offensive – BAN IT!

Hat tip to the magical small dead animal – Judge bans the poppy from her courtroom.

“However much you may think that’s a totally acceptable symbol, and that is totally neutral, that might not be entirely the case for everybody who comes to court,” Woolcott told the Waterloo regional police officer.

You must not wear the poppy.  The poppy represents the remembrance of sacrifice.  That sacrifice was for freedom.  Some people in Canada do not like freedom.  In fact, they oppose it.  We, as a free society, do not wish to offend anyone – especially those who oppose freedom.  We must not wear flowers representing freedom in their presence.

Lest they be offended.

Catchy.

Canada as a Secular State: Never was, Never will be

How does one even begin to respond to this? In a nation founded as a joint project between Catholics and Protestants and where class has never counted for much in politics or anywhere else (see the permanently second-rate status of the NDP), workers unions are now demanding that crosses be banned from public view in response to a new set of immigrants and their “burqas, niqabs and chadors.”

The secular state? Give me a break. Let us hope that Canada will eventually muster the courage to ship both burqas and these quaint notions of a secular state back to the foreign lands from which they came.

h/t

Who Hearts Huckabee?

Ugh:

Two new polls yesterday showed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has fallen into a statistical tie with a surging Mike Huckabee…The polls suggest social conservatives, uneasy about Giuliani’s moderate stances all year, are deciding that Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister who opposes abortion, deserves their vote.

In a race when even Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudy Guiliani, the manner in which Huckabee is improving his fortunes (by, for example, saying that gays lead unhealthy life styles) is positively retro. And perhaps the last gasp of the American Christian Right, at least in a Republican primary contest. After all, supporting an unelectable Huckabee is all fun and games until he succeeds in sufficiently damaging Guiliani and Hilary Clinton becomes president as a result. Then the fun ends.

Huckabee’s surge also appears to be the end of the fascinating story that was Mitt Romney’s candidacy. Since his campaign commenced, people who know nothing about conservatives and even less about Christians have speculated that the American Christian right could never support a Mormon as president. They were wrong, as always. It is Romney’s flip-flopping on social issues rather than his mormonism that has done him in. Once Huckabee became competitive, the option of supporting an “ersatz social conservative” was rendered somewhat unsavoury for the Christian Right. Too bad, but can you blame them?

Well, yes, actually, I can. Guiliani has always been vulnerable, and rightly so. Given time, I think Romney could have built upon a strongly religious base to have eventually beaten Guiliani. But Huckabee can’t. He can only help elect Hilary Clinton.

And: Isn’t this reader email to Kathy Shaidle from almost two months ago strangely depressing. Huckabee can’t win, but the Christian Right hearts him anyway:

They [the Christian Right] don’t want Romney because Mormons are evil. They don’t want Giuliani because Catholics are evil. They don’t want Thompson because he tells them to go screw themselves, so they’re left with McCain who hates them and Huckabee who can’t win. Their strategy is to hold the party hostage to Huckabee, but they’re already breaking down.”

God Bless Jeanne Assam

Thank goodness New Life Church wasn’t a gun free zone (and how sad that Virginia Tech was):

Jeanne Assam, a church member who volunteers as a security guard, shot and killed Murray, who was found with a rifle and two handguns, police said. The pastor called her “a real hero.”

“When the shots were fired, she rushed toward the scene and encountered the attacker there in a hallway. He never got more than 50 feet inside our building,” he said. “There could have been a great loss of life yesterday, and she probably saved over 100 lives.”

The Golden Compass: Film-Going For the Retarded

It is a rare thing to find a movie that unites both critics (43% on the tomatometer) and movie-goers. A particularly perceptive example of the former:

The newest entry in the “what the fuck” hall of fame is Chris Weitz’s deplorable, dull, nonsensical, unwatchable The Golden Compass, which comes packed to the gills with meaningless terms, arcane concepts, stupid names, and a narrative patchwork that plays like a game of “make-up” improvised by a hyperactive child…The worst crime of a film like The Golden Compass is that not only is it retarded, it expects its audience to be retarded as well.

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