Left vs. Right

Allan's Perspective

                                                           

Folks I don’t know what it is with left wing fanatics, but they seem to be a little un-hinged at the best of times!
Speaking at a town hall in Nanaimo, B.C. on April 13, Elizabeth May, the federal Green Party leader and MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands called the Prime Ministers Office “a $10-million-a-year partisan operation filled with ruthless, cutthroat psychopaths.”
AND SHE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE KIDS!
A friend of my wife is a schoolteacher, (and ardent NDP supporter, as all teachers are) AND SHE IS CONVINCED THAT HARPER IS OUTRIGHT “EVIL!“

Now a don’t mean she thinks Harper is a bad boy, or up to mischief and no-good bunky!
NO SIR!

I mean she would like to see Harper thrown in jail, or given twenty lashes, castrated, or put in a stockade, folks!

(Her disposition is also the reason why this broad has never been married kids!)
THE STRANGE THING ABOUT ALL THIS IS THAT HARPER SEEMS TO EVOKE A MUCH STRONGER REACTION FROM THE LADIES. THAN HE DOES THE MEN!
(Could it be some sort of love/hate thing?)
BUT!
The left winger really making the news is this guy:

Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer (see photo at top) plans to spend big money making an impact in the 2014 midterm elections. Like $100 million big, according to a report. But in an interview Tuesday, Steyer suggested that elevating the most crucial climate and environmental issues of the day in the eyes of the public might require even more money.
“If you said to me, how much would I be willing to spend, to make this what I believe it is, the most important issue in the minds of Americans, then I would think 100 million bucks would be very low, honestly,” he said in an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” that will air Sunday.

MEANWHILE: Republican billionaire Koch brothers are said to be jumping into the fray for the other side ….., in a game of high stakes political poker!

Democrats aren’t just up against Republican candidates this fall, they’re up against the Kochs’ bank accounts, and based on how the Democrats are acting, they’re worried about the damage the brothers can do.
Koch Industries is one of the largest privately held companies in the U.S. It doesn’t release financial data publicly, but it’s thought to rake in annual revenues in the neighbourhood of $115 billion. The massive company, started by their father, Fred Koch, has its tentacles in the oil sector, consumer products, minerals, commodity trading, and much more.
If you’ve ever drank out of a Dixie cup, mopped up a mess with a Brawny paper towel, worn workout attire with Lycra in it, or walked upon a Stainmaster carpet then you’ve experienced the vast reach of Koch Industries and the many companies it invests in or owns.
The brothers are majority stakeholders, which makes them very, very rich. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index puts their net worth at $100 billion and calls them the fifth and sixth richest people on planet Earth.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/koch-brothers-why-democrats-hate-them-093411364.html
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Drones are everywhere kids, and this one was controlled by either a rich and sophisticated B.C. hobbyist, or someone with nefarious intentions from south of the border!
It was seen flying the vicinity of Vancouver International Airport to spy on us!
Whatever the case, Transport Canada and the R.C.M.Poo were not amused ………, and are now investigating!

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I was reading a science journal today and this raised the question: “Have you ever wondered how a ‘Sloth’ can swallow food when it hangs upside down all the time?”
No?
(Me either!)

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ANOTHER STRANGE HEADLINE: “Watching PORN with your parents is weird!”
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When 8-year-old Olivia McConnell proposed that her state, South Carolina, adopt a state fossil, she may not have expected her request to prompt a drawn-out fight with creationists in the state legislature.

 

Drawing of a woolly mammoth. These beasts were bigger than mastodons and and curved rather than straight tusks.

They died off around 10,000 years ago, and scientists aren t yet sure if climate change was to blame — as the Ice Age ended — or if human hunting pressure played the larger role.

Some even think a comet did them in.

Credit: Stephan Shuster Lab, Penn State

In letters to her local representatives, Olivia asked that the woolly mammoth be made the official state fossil, because mammoth teeth dug up by slaves in a South Carolina swamp in 1725 were among the first vertebrate fossils discovered in North America.
Her senator, Kevin Johnson, told CBS News this week that he thought a bill honoring the request “would just fly through the House and through the Senate.” But the bill is currently languishing in the House, months after it was proposed in January, because some lawmakers with creationist beliefs have objected on religious grounds.
GEE FOLKS, I DON’T REMEMBER THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH EVER BEING MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE!
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A Kansas judge granted a request Wednesday to formally change the name of the soldier convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks from Bradley Edward Manning to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.
LOOK BOYS AND GIRLS, I DON’T KNOW WHAT MANNING IS THINKING………., BUT THIS WILL IN NO WAY HELP HIM ESCAPE FROM PRISON!
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Asteroid Strikes (Even Big Ones) Are More Common Than We Thought!



Asteroid researchers revealed that 26 asteroids hit earth over a span of 13 years, a figure that is uncomfortably high and serves as a chilling reminder that asteroid impacts are a real thing.
The data was compiled by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) which operates sensors that detect atom bomb explosions. The group identified 26 explosions not caused by bombs, and determined that these were actually blasts resulting from asteroid impacts.
B612 Foundation, an organization that tracks and studies asteroids (not to be confused with B6-13, which is fictional) explains:
Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons – all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts…. To put this data in perspective, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 exploded with an energy impact of 15 kilotons.
In a video, B612 notes that “our current strategy for dealing with asteroid impacts is blind luck.”

Ed Lu, the CEO of B612, told the BBC that we should be thinking about asteroids the way we think about earthquakes:

In the cities that have a major danger — Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco — they know the odds of big earthquakes by observing how many small earthquakes there are. Because there’s a known distribution of earthquakes, meaning that earthquakes come in all sizes, small to large – if I can measure the small ones, I know how many big ones they’re going to be. And you can do this with asteroids.

He added that “these asteroid impacts in the last decade have been ones that we haven’t had much data on until recently, and they tell us that in fact asteroid impacts are more common than we thought.”
The scientists explain that while the 26 recorded asteroids did not cause serious damage, their prevalence suggests that a larger asteroid could very well hit the earth. They say that one large enough to destroy a city hits the earth every 100 years. But, they say in the video, there is a way for us to protect ourselves against the threat:
An early warning infrared space telescope for tracking asteroids would give us many years to deflect an asteroid when it’s still millions of miles away.
B612′s Sentinel Mission is trying to do just that, with the help of civilian funding. NASA has also appealed to citizen scientists to take the threat of asteroids seriously and support the mission, announcing an asteroid data hunter contest at this year’s SXSW.
Just last year, a meteor injured nearly 1,000 people when it slammed into the Ural Mountains in Central Russia.

So it seems reasonable that we figure out a better method that “blind faith” to deal with the threat of asteroids.
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/04/asteroids-more-common-than-we-thought/361094/

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