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  4. 1. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “At the end of the day most of those people who are having their plans transitioned will have better benefits for lower cost…”
    2. “The Manhattan Institute just published an analysis of the Obamacare individual policy insurance rates which demonstrates that the average cost will rise by 41% next year…”

  7. Conservative white guy wins after leading voters to believe he’s black
    “I’d always said it was a long shot,” Wilson says. “No, I didn’t expect to win.”
    Still, he figured he’d have fun running, because he was fed up with what he called “all the shenanigans” at the Houston Community College System. As a conservative white Republican running in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, the odds seemed overwhelmingly against him.
    http://www.khou.com/news/local/White-guy-wins-after-leading-voters-to-believe-hes-black-231222981.html
    via Pat Dollard

  11. American school buses have long run on diesel, pumping out toxic exhaust around children who are particularly at risk from such fumes. They also burn up costly, carbon-emitting fuel as they cruise around a limited area, often idling while kids get on and off.
    All this makes school buses ideal candidates for electric motors, since they tend to idle and would rarely need to drive very far from a central charging station. … two U.S. companies … have teamed up to make an electric bus for Kings Canyon Unified School District in central California.
    “An electric bus can save a school district about 16 gallons of fuel a day, or around $11,000 in fuel savings over a year, not to mention maintenance savings,”
    http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/is-this-americas-first-electric-school-bus

  12. Well, first-time commenter Hotkari, I suppose that by some people’s definition of “getting better and better” an OPG media report that’s ostensibly about the Conservatives but is really just another example of the OPG media revealing its unrelenting anti-Conservative reporting qualifies as such. As you well know, LPC media strategy continues to be selflessly administered and protected and promoted at all costs by the OPG media.
    Look: A former member of the OPG, appointed to the senate by the Conservatives, is caught fraudulently trying to gobble up his own share of pork, all Liberal-style-like. When the Conservatives completely and publicly reversed the traditional Liberal/OPG protocol by publicly upbraiding the portly one, chucking him out on his porky ass, removing his (“hu-hu”) entitlements, and in effect humiliating him for his porkiness, he subsequently squealed to the OPG about the sheer affront of having been given more pork (non-taxpayer-funded pork, i.e. party funds, in this case) to ease him out of his post.
    Now, though, having been given an apple and roadmap instead of more fat porky entitlements, he is squealing to his all-ears compatriots in the OPG about how he’s been given – gasp – scandalous advice about how to make him look less porky, and less of an embarrassment to the party.
    In the Liberal era, such reporting of behind-the-scenes public/media strategy would have been forbidden as being gauche. This double-standard wherein a non-prog party taking action against porkers is cause for investigation, and as a scandal as described by the de-porked, is just another example of tribal warfare against the Conservatives, whose treatment of the “comfy fur”-types is so at odds with that of both the Liberal party and the OPG, who were always in favour of comfy fur – hectares of it – provided it was worn by the right kind of people. The Conservatives don’t tolerate an inch of it, so now it’s a huge “issue”.
    FU and your ilk. The Conervatives did the right thing by chucking the pork-hounds out on their sorry asses. The fact that the they are enduring “breaking news” opprobrium for the minutiae of the quotidian details of their very un-Liberal approach says more about the OPG, and the Globe and Mail in this case, than it does about the Conservatives.

  13. Electric school buses would be just great for Canadian rural school bus routes. The kids would get plenty of exercise walking the rest of the way home in -30 weather.

  15. Another # goes horribly wrong. #RealPriorities keeps showing up in my twitter as a paid ad by the pony himself. Check out the backlash!

  16. Harper appointed Duffy and Wallin for the sole purpose of fundraising for the Conservative party, but this fundraising was under the guise of doing “senate business” so that in fact, the taxpayer was paying for Duffy and Wallin to go out and raise money for the Conservatives. Harper fraudulently appointed them as representatives of provinces that they did not reside in. Harper was completely ok with the fake housing expense claims, until the public found out. He then tried to have it covered up, but when the public found out about all the back room deals going on to bury this issue, he tried to distance himself and started throwing people under the bus.
    Harper is a micro manager and it is impossible that did not know what was going on. Duffy and Wallin may be going down, but they will sink him too, because there is more and more evidence turning up that ties Harper to this coverup. He will share the same fate as Nixon. It’s too late for right wing lies and distractions to save him.

  18. It’s applying appropriate technology.
    That’s why they’re doing it for California not Saskatchewan.
    Did you miss the part about designing them for an application to “cruise around a limited area, often idling while kids get on and off.” ?
    Don’t worry, it’s an engineering thing that won’t affect you.

  19. Another post bites the dust. Captcha is a Socialist plot.
    Its the only program censor China officially approves of.

  20. “Harper appointed Duffy and Wallin for the sole purpose of fundraising…”

    “Harper fraudulently appointed them…”

    “Harper was completely okay with fake housing expense claims…”

    These partisan, almost pruriently breathless accusations which so excite your circle are obviously the propellants of the “reporting”; the question is, where’s your *evidence* for these libelous allegations?
    Everybody and their dog knows that the Liberals “fundraised” by fraudulently funneling Canadian taxpayers’ money to the LPC; now that you don’t have access to general revenue, you’re accusing the Conservatives of acting and thinking like Liberals.
    You’re desperately projecting, in other words. It won’t work.

  21. It’s not working now.
    You neglected to mention two other unsubstantiated assertions from the commenter in question: “Harper is a micro manager and it is impossible that [he?] did not know what was going on.”
    While we have heard, over the years, the first part of that statement repeatedly from the media (which certainly doesn’t make it true, either by dint of repetition or in light of the source), the commenter in question is not in a position to draw conclusions about its veracity. He sounds a lot like the commenter John, who regularly premises his claims by trying to pass off his convenient assumptions as fact.
    As for the second part of the statement, it is indicative of a general duplicity that is going on among Mr. Harper’s critics. That duplicity comes down to this, inter alia: “even if Mr. Harper didn’t know about Mr. Wright’s actions, he still has to accept responsibility and resign (see, for example, Mr. Mulcair); oh, and there’s no way he didn’t know.”
    If Mr. Harper did not know of Mr. Wright’s actions, he has fulfilled the requirements of ministerial responsibility, and is not required by convention to resign — see Dawson and Ward, The Government of Canada, 5th edition (University of Toronto Press, 1970), p. 176 for a concise and authoritative statement on the subject. As far as Mr. Harper’s knowledge of Mr. Wright’s actions is concerned, quite apart from its circumstantial implausibility, which I touched on the other day, Mr. Harper has stated before the media and numerous times on the record in the House of Commons that he did not know. By any objective measure, that would be a very high risk approach, indeed, if he were not being honest.

  26. Toronto needs more, not less, of [common sense] in a mayor. Few Toronto politicians have the personal gumption to point out the dead-obvious wonkiness of using taxpayer money to jam so-called “affordable housing” into a $1-billion prime real estate development — as opposed to collecting taxes on high-end waterfront condos to pay for affordable housing somewhere else. For his comments, Mr. Ford was branded heartless for attempting to preserve big views of Lake Ontario “just for the rich.” He was also accused of being ignorant of the fine-points of the latest social engineering theories that dominate urban planning at city hall.
    Such ignorance, willful or not, is what makes Mayor Ford such a great contributor to the Toronto political scene. City hall is a factory for bad ideas against which Ford can continue to serve as a bulwark: plastic bag taxes, smoking in public, taxes on alcohol, coffee cups (emphasis mine).
    For all of his personal foibles — for which I say, God bless him — Mayor Ford works for hard-working Torontonians against the entitled, socialist-engineer, Leftard, statists on City Council.
    In U.S. cities, mayors and local governments have more power to spend and innovate social policy, which is why many U.S. cities from Chicago to Detroit are fiscal basket cases. Take Chicago: On the very days this past week when Rob Ford’s crack use created news headlines around the world, the Chicago Tribune ran a major series on the city’s vast sinking fiscal ship. Wanna see real city crackups? Read the Trib’s stories, editorials and columns, including columnist John Kass, who compares local politicians to gangsters, only worse . As for Ford and Toronto, Kass wrote Friday: “Our mayors have another hobby besides crack and drinking and talking about poking people’s eyes out. Our mayors occupy themselves by running the city into the ground, loading billions of dollars of debt on future taxpayers, putting their friends and relatives at the public trough”(emphasis mine).

  27. Natural gas would be a far cheaper option with the same benefits. EV buses are eco-vanity exercises.
    And the idling diesel issue is a picayune issue that only fools low information readers.

  28. Everybody knows that Chretin masterminded the Adscam business to line his own pockets. everybody knows that the Chretin brought in the long gun registry in order to put all Canadians in concentration camps. Everybody knows that Turdeau brought in the Canadian Energy Plan in order to turn Alberta into a French speaking province. Everybody knows that Peersom introduced the Canada Pension Plan in order to control all the pensioners in their later lives and to steal all their money.
    Enjoy those? I have lots more if you like to see baseless accusations thrown around.

  29. Especially considering that all new Diesel powered vehicles have particulate filters on their exhaust systems, the claimed health benefits of electric buses are negated.
    Look, electric buses are great, as long as they are trolley buses. I grew up in Vancouver, and rode the buses there as a kid, and the trolley buses had far better acceleration than did the Diesel jobs, and were far quieter. Appropriate technology indeed. And powered by water falling through turbines, not by fossil fuel at all.
    And, as a kid, I never once rode a school bus. Walked or cycled. Nowadays, they make kids ride the damn bus even if they have only a few blocks to go. That and the practice of sending kids to some school on the other side of town, when there is a perfectly good one 3 blocks away, but it’s been converted to damn sharia school or suchlike.

  30. Abbotsford school district bought a hydrid Electric school bus. It cost them a 1/4 million and they had so many problems with the electric, and the bill to replace the batteries was so high, they now run the bus on just straight diesel.

  31. Before I die I need to have Debbie Wasserman Schultz wipe my DNA from her blue eyes. I wonder if this is a common dream…

  33. diesels
    Not to mention that today’s efficient direct-injection diesels are far more efficient and cleaner than the carbon belching 70s and 80s era models that are still in service with school districts.
    Sorry, the huge premium to go electric for mass transportation just doesn’t pay. Even the Natgas models have proven to be problematic for BCtransit, and are parked in favour of the diesels. That after spending/wasting millions on buses that aren’t reliable.
    Nice, that’s gubermint inaction.

  34. The idiots on Edmonton city council removed the electric trolley bus system in 2009 and replaced it with diesel. They were around for 70 years and regardless of your politics were environmental sound. Mind you, these are the same idiots who closed the municipal airport when every other city in the world would kill for a centrally situated airport.

  35. Cringe inducing this am,when on This Week with George Stephanopolous,he brings on ‘Canada’s Jon Stewart’ to speak about the Rob Ford story.And who is OUR Jon? George Strombo of CBC ‘fame!’

  38. Nope…hotkarl is just using bullying tactics by accusing without evidence…it’a a typical lefty method.
    Thanks Ben Shapiro!

  39. That’s what I figured. 🙂
    Reader Tip:
    CARACAS — Thousands of Venezuelans lined up outside the country’s equivalent of Best Buy, a chain of electronics stores known as Daka, hoping for a bargain after the socialist government forced the company to charge customers “fair” prices.
    President Nicolás Maduro ordered a military “occupation” of the company’s five stores as he continues the government’s crackdown on an “economic war” it says is being waged against the country, with the help of Washington.
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/09/venezuela-seizes-stores/3486581/

  40. Proof? Harper keeps changing his story and won’t answer direct questions. I’m looking forward to the Duffy emails and the RCMP investigation.

  42. From the CBC report that David Southam linked to @ 7:49 AM (emphasis mine):

    “..the vast majority of people still want (Ford) to step down. About two-thirds of those polled said they want him to resign or seek rehab.”

    Parse that carefully if you will.

  44. “Harper keeps changing his story and won’t answer direct questions.”
    Links, Hotkarl, links please.

  45. Thanks, batb! It’s interesting to me to see how myopic most media outlets are and how little their reporters care about truth. They’re the original bandwagon hangers on.

  46. I hope Justin the Dummy has lost the Asian-Canadian vote, to whatever extent he might have had it.

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