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  2. if this blows up one can only imagine the teleprompter president claiming victory for the new “sit on your arse diplomacy”
    at 3AM vote “present”

  3. Many thanks, vitruvius. Ahh..did you notice that the window stayed up all the time without that neat tree branch??

  4. Alan Caruba’s once again written the feature article at Enter Stage Right. This week, he touches on a theme that some of you may be thinking about:
    “As California goes…”
    [No, “so go the businesses to Canada” isn’t in there. Mr. Caruba’s a life-long New Jerseyan.]

  6. Feed the world
    Amid all the doom gloom algal bloom and media zoom spread by professional environmental alarmists — nearly 50 years now of continuous taxpayer-funded eco-socialist hysteria — it is delightful to spot a little heresy.
    http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/

  9. Irish ultra-discount airline Ryanair now is suggesting that it will replace seats with stools on some “commuter” flights. Passengers will still be strapped in, and CEO Mike O’Leary (O’Leery?!) insists it will meet all safety regulations.
    Next, they are eliminating all check-in facilities on all flights, not just short haul. Passengers will carry all their bags through security and the departure lounge to the side of the plane, where they will be loaded into the hold, and then pick them up the same way. Well, at least you’ll know your bag will get there.
    Finally, O’Leary is contemplating adding a one-pound coin slot to the on-plane toilets. He quips “People will have to spend a pound to spend a penny”.

  11. More benefits from Goreacle: No DDT required.
    Goreacle uses Skeeter-Skatter.
    …-
    “Larviciding, cooler temps help slap skeeter numbers”
    urlm.in/crtz

  13. Can’t keep a good Prog Con down….Prentice The Dim has realized that $13 billion of your money isn’t enough when it comes to car companies…they need more….
    Ottawa eyes $3,500 ‘cash-for-clunkers’ program
    Auto industry, U. S. incentives put pressure on Canada to offer trade-in money
    By Renata D’Aliesio, Canwest News ServiceJuly 6, 2009 7:46 AM
    Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Saturday he’s reviewing whether Canada should follow the United States and several European countries in offering consumers a substantial financial incentive to scrap their clunkers and buy new vehicles.
    Prentice said he’s met with a number of auto manufacturers over the past few months to discuss the prospect of giving Canadians $3,500 to trade in their older, polluting vehicles….”
    Keep supporting your closet socialists partisans…the Cons are screwing you…

  14. Sgt. May and its Green Pepper Spray Marching Band.
    Green is also the colour of Islam.
    The Red-Green motto of socialism:
    Let Us Prey.
    …-
    “Environment Agency sets up green police (The UK Green Shirts are Coming)
    The boys in green are coming as the Environment Agency sets up a squad to police companies generating excessive CO2 emissions.
    The agency is creating a unit of about 50 auditors and inspectors, complete with warrant cards and the power to search company premises to enforce the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which comes into effect next year.
    Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses. Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, said the squad would help to bring emissions under control. “Climate change and CO2 are the world’s biggest issues right now. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is one of the ways in which Britain is responding.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286483/posts

  15. Federal government is turning its back on 2010 Olympics
    By Miro Cernetig, Vancouver SunJuly 6, 2009
    …why it’s puzzling Harper’s government has become so tone-deaf regarding the most important event to come to Vancouver in a quarter-century: The 2010 Winter Olympics…..The public investment in this sporting extravaganza is in the billions………Equally egregious is Ottawa’s foot-dragging on building a Canada pavilion during the Olympics.
    An event like this is about branding your country — ask Australia, which is beating Canada in this area hands down. Choosing not to have a showcase for the country is ridiculous.
    ……..Meanwhile………
    Feds spending $58M to wow China
    By CHRISTINA SPENCER, NATIONAL BUREAU
    OTTAWA — Hoping to boost business and strengthen its brand in China, Canada will spend $58 million on an “architecturally exciting” pavilion with a “memorable cultural program” at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
    The six-month project in China’s commercial and financial hub includes a contract of about $13.5 million to Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil to develop the pavilion’s artistic and public programs.

  16. I note that Obama thinks he’s gotten on good grounds with Russia; as usual, he’s befuddled with his own narcissism.
    Russia has agreed to allow US military to flyover Russia to bring supplies to Afghanistan. How is that an achievement for the US? Effectively, it means that the US is dealing with Afghanistan, tranforming it from a hive of fanatical tribes into a democracy. That helps Russia and its borders!
    Oh, and both countries are ‘reducing’ their nuclear stockpiles? Yeah, sure, as if Russia will do a thing about that, while it insists that the US follow the ‘treaty’.
    And, as usual, Obama has to self-define himself as ‘different from Bush’, as the harbinger of a new era. His egoism is boundless. But Russia is an old, old country, and well versed in saying one thing and then doing whatever it pleases. And what pleases Putin is to lull the US into somnabulant indifference to Russia’s new imperial agenda.

  18. Mr. Page forecasts a deficit of $48.6-billion this year, slightly lower than the government’s estimate of $50.2-billion. But he projects a shortfall of $41.3-billion in 2010-11, $27.6-billion in 2011-12, $21.6-billion in 2012-13 and $16.7-billion in 2013-14. He says the deficits from 2012 to 2014 will be structural rather than cyclical, but small nonetheless at less than 1% of GDP.
    Time for another retrospective?
    Feb. 5, 2008. “The way to manage this economy through difficult global times is not—as the Liberal Party would do—to drive us into deficit.”
    Oct. 14, 2008. “We’ll never go back into deficit.”
    Oct. 17, 2008. “I believe, based on everything I’ve seen so far, that there’s no reason why the government of Canada won’t stay in balance, why we can’t maintain a balanced budget this year,” Harper said, speaking after a meeting in Quebec City with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But for future years, he said it would be premature to say if his government will be able to maintain a surplus. “Others are speculating about future years. I don’t think we’re yet in position to know all the information in that regard and I think it would be premature to speculate on that.”
    Nov. 6, 2008. “One message was very clear. Don’t be afraid to run a deficit if the deficit is in the best interests of the economy.”
    Nov. 24, 2008. “The government of Canada today is in surplus,” he said Sunday at the conclusion of the summit. “The government of Canada today is not planning a deficit. But if the government of Canada decides … that we do have to engage in fiscal stimulus, that government spending is essential not just to shore up economic activity but investment markets, that would be the occasion we would go into what would be called a cyclic or a short-term deficit. But we would only do that if we can assure ourselves that we can do that while preserving a structural surplus, that any return to a normal level of economic growth will immediately take us out of deficit. And that’s the only condition under which we would consider that set of actions.”
    Nov. 27, 2008. “Mr. Speaker, as I have said many times, Canada is not currently running a deficit and this is thanks to the good management of the Minister of Finance, who will present his economic and fiscal update later today.”
    Dec. 1, 2008. “If we run a deficit of $30 billion in this country, we are running a structural deficit. It took a long time to get out of that problem. We have taken the long-term view, the view that says we have to help Canadian business with the Bank of Canada, with Bill C-50, with ensuring adequate credit in this country. There are more provisions in that regard in the fall economic statement, all good for the country, not running big deficits.”
    Dec. 16, 2008. “We’re going to have to run a deficit, do some spending measures we hadn’t planned on doing, but I think, if we do those things, we should be able to come out of this (economic downturn) pretty strong in due course.”
    Jan. 23, 2009. “I think we’re in a rare time where you need a deficit.”
    May 14, 2009. “Our deficits will be large, but they will be temporary,” Harper told Quebec municipal leaders gathered for an annual convention. “In fact, in the short term, they will be as large as they have to be to help us weather this recession. As a country, we can afford it. But only if these deficits are temporary and our stimulus spending ends when the recession ends.”
    May 26, 2009. “We will run a substantial short-term deficit this year which I would estimate at more than $50 billion.”
    June 11, 2009. “Our deficit will be significant but is affordable.”
    June 13, 2009. “He’s wrong,” Flaherty told journalists in a conference call from a G8 finance ministers’ meeting in Lecce, Italy. “Because he says growth rates likely will be slower than I had predicted. Now, if you make an assumption with respect to lower growth rates, then you get the results that he postulates. But anybody can do that.”
    June 25, 2009. “If you take out the one-time spending, we have a deficit of only about 1.5% of GDP and we should easily recover from that in the two years following the recession.”
    That’s your Faux-Con PM speaking mostly there. Real genius that one. The single largest governmental expansion in the history of the nation.
    And all the partisan bum-lickers in here can do is criticize Obama. Boy, that’ll show ’em…
    http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/06/put-it-on-our-tab/#more-68857

  19. Raise taxes or cut spending to end deficit: Report
    By David Akin, Canwest News ServiceJuly 6, 2009 4:01 PM
    OTTAWA — The independent Parliamentary Budget Office says the federal government is now running a permanent deficit that can only be eliminated by raising taxes or cutting spending.
    That contradicts the view of the federal government, which believes the deficit will naturally disappear once the economy improves.
    In his latest fiscal projections, to be officially released Wednesday but parts of which were obtained by Canwest News Service, budget officer Kevin Page says the deficit will be nearly $156 billion over the next five years, much deeper than the $103.2 billion cumulative deficit that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s department has predicted….
    http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Raise+taxes+spending+deficit+Report/1764446/story.html

  20. Support for Liberal I-Iggy and the Separatist Coalition from “Toronto criminal lawyer*”:
    *”King of Pop cannot be remembered as a pedophile”.
    *urlm.in/cruh

  21. Someone told me that cbc newsworld is running two tributes to Michael Jackson tonight. I hope that you good Canadians can help me,the rest of the progressive countries
    have abandoned me. Just a simple question. How many records do you have to sell to go from filthy child molesting pervert to eccentric genius with a slightly unusual pastime brought upon by a different childhood? I know it is somewhere between 3 million and 150 million. Please hurry,I’m dying to know the answer.

  22. I would like other people to read this Macleans article and tell me if I read it correctly.
    The guy defrauds DND of $100 million, gets caught, prosecuted and convicted, and his sentence is (all told) 16 months in a townhouse with his family expenses paid by HP. Wuh?
    Article URL: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/02/champagne-wishes/
    Please let me know.

  23. Galloway omitted/left out JFK, aka John Kennedy. Tsktsk
    …-
    “Commentary: Galloway on McNamara: Reading an obit with great pleasure
    “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” —Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) Well, the aptly named Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of Hell. McNamara was the original bean-counter — a man who knew the cost of everything but the worth of nothing.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286862/posts

  24. The Lancet: Hold out your wrist:
    *”“Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions””.
    **”‘You must smash my wrist for me with a piece of wood.’
    I had everything prepared.
    I had hidden a stout piece of wood in the snow.
    Richard asked, ‘How hard shall I hit?’””
    …-
    *”Electing God
    Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is Barack Obama’s “Special Advisor for Health Policy”, is described by the Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US health care system.
    Emanuel and the White House are attempting to reorganize the delivery and reimbursement systems of health care, changing what the types of procedures doctors rely on, making people more aware of disease prevention, encouraging insurance companies to expand coverage, and so on. It is a process rife with sensitivities, trickeries and, of course, the potential for failure. It is not, he insists, impossible.
    “It is a complicated process and we have to try and make the choices clear and give people good reasons for making them,” Emanuel explains. “I don’t think that’s an impossible task and thankfully we have one of the great communicators, Barack Obama, at the helm of this ship of state.”
    Emmanuel recently authored an article in the Lancet describing the various models of non-market health care rationing. Titled “Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions”, its is co-authored with Govind Persad and Alan Wertheimer. In it the authors simply review the pros and cons of the various ways of deciding who gets treated and who doesn’t. The allocation mechanisms they discuss are divided into strategies and substrategies. The pros and cons of each are laid out.
    Treating People Equally
    1. Lottery
    2. First-come, first served
    Prioritarianism
    1. Sickest first
    2. Youngest first
    Utilitarianism
    1. Saving the most lives
    2. Saving the most life-years
    3. Saving the most socially useful”.
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/06/electing-god/#more-4919
    **http://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/days-and-lives/labor/3

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