Saskatchewan: Forecasts for frost next week

Canola found some life today as well with the surge in beans, a falling Canadian dollar and forecasts for frost later next week in Northern Saskatchewan all adding fuel to the fire that pushed canola up solidly today.

Surprise, surprise: NWF-sponsored poll finds support for climate bill | Grist

...When asked to provide that information, Grant said it was a “matter of policy” at NWF not to release all demographic data, and that some demographic questions are determined by Zogby “package” polls. Holding on to this information sends a weird signal and could provide fodder to climate skeptics convinced that NWF only released findings it likes. Revealing the full demographic info might only confirm predictable divisions—high climate-bill support among the wealthy and highly-educated, less among Southerners and seniors, for example. But transparency would give more credibility to the whole project.

Lobby Groups to Use Town Hall Tactics to Oppose Climate Bill - Washington Wire - WSJ

Taking a cue from angry protests against the Obama Administration’s health care restructuring, the oil industry is helping organize anti-climate bill rallies around the nation.

Val Kilmer’s New Global Warming Film Is Awful Despite Gratuitous Nudity | GlobalWarming.org

Then again, you reap what you sow. Movies with a message about global warming are either boring (c.f. “An Inconvenient Truth”) or stupid (c.f. “The Day After Tomorrow”). So Val, who produced this film, had his work cut out for himself. Lord knows he tried to spice things up, by centering the film on “six sexy strangers” who get naked, but even that couldn’t overcome the lameness of global warming alarmism as a plotline.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » MICHAEL BARONE: Democrats Flummoxed By Health Care Protests

In the diner where we had breakfast, CNN was showing Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania. The best part was Specter’s body language — defensive, jaw set, clearly unhappy at having to listen to criticism from the Great Unwashed. Criticism that, as best I could tell from the CNN captions, was citing health bill page numbers and CBO estimates. Hey, it’s not fair to expect him to have actually read the bill — he’s just a Senator.