Who is Yasmina Haifi? She’s an official at the Dutch Ministry of Justice who serves as project leader at the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Center. And she thinks Isis is a Zionist plot to make Islam look bad.
There are Olympic venues in states of disrepair all over the world.
It’s time to stop wasting money on this two week sports party, which hobbles cities with debt that lasts for decades.
But she’d be pink slipped (har har) for tweeting that marriage is between a man and a woman.
A big ‘robocall’ story today.
No,no, no, not the one that the CBC has put up about tomorrow’s court decision on Michael Sona. The other one.
The Alberta Federation of Labour has been fined $50,000 for their ‘robocalls’ slamming the Wild Rose party during the 2012 election.
These likely helped Alison win.
Somehow the CBC has missed that story.
FIRE.THEM.ALL. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/CRTC+fines+Alberta+Federation+Labour+robocalls+violation/10115245/story.html
It would make sense to have the Olympics in the same place every four years. There are a lot of specialized facilities like velodromes or bobsled runs that will not be used that often.
But it would cut the graft opportunities of the International Olympic Committee to nothing. So you know the IOC is not going to take the money out of their own pockets.
I stopped watching when it all became tear jerker soap operas stories about the athletes occasionally interspersed with actual athletic performances.
Re: Rubber Legs Al.
His name was Al Norman, he starred in a rare 1930 color movie named King Of Jazz. The music was by Paul Whiteman and the Rythm Boys. Bing Crosby was in the movie.
Enjoy the clip!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1V_nsBaX8
The Adventures of Capt Gombert and Lt. Cmdr. Destiny Savage on the USS Cowpens
A Navy investigation finds the ailing skipper of a San Diego-based Navy cruiser retreated to his cabin for several weeks in the middle of a deployment, leaving the 330-member crew leaderless.
The probe also revealed that the skipper of the USS Cowpens, Capt. Gregory W. Gombert, was having an improper and “unduly familiar” relationship with the cruiser’s acting executive officer, whom the newspaper identified in a Navy photo from March as Lt. Cmdr. Destiny Savage. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/08/08/navy-deployed-skipper-retreated-to-cabin-for-weeks.html?ESRC=navy.nl
Globe and Mail, Wed., Aug. 13. Editorial: Religion should be an elective course. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/religion-should-be-an-elective-course/article20022653/
G & M: “At one time Ontario’s Catholic schools served a clear and narrow purpose: Their mission was to teach Catholic students a curriculum steeped in church doctrine … the trouble is that Ontario’s Catholic schools appear reluctant to fully accept that their mission has changed in the more than a century that has passed.”
According to whom? Shouldn’t school policy, including its “mission”, be decided by the taxpaying parents who pay the freight, rather than windy newspaper editorials?
G & M: “The primary purpose of a publicly funded school is to teach academics, not faith.”
Personally I would agree that “academics” is preferable to “faith”, but it’s not my call or anyone else’s except those who are paying for it.
One tactic the left uses to further its agenda is to pose as the supposedly high-minded voice of “public” institutions. That way, public broadcasting and public education appear to be something more than what they really are: merely broadcasting and education systems run by government. And individuals who do not share in the left’s goals will still have their resources plundered and used against their interests.
The “the public, c’est moi” attitude demonstrated by advocates of public education, etc., is profoundly undemocratic and antithetical to freedom. Freedom of speech, expression, and other rights include, by definition, the right to utilize one’s own resources in their exercise and the right not to have them used against one’s own interests by those with whom one disagrees.
Globe and Mail, Wed., Aug. 13. Letters to the editor regarding Catholic schools. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/aug-13-catholic-school-funding-and-more-letters-to-the-editor/article20020173/
Letter 1: “The more significant question that needs to be addressed is not what public Roman Catholic schools can and cannot force their students to study, but rather why, in 2014, we still have publicly funded Catholic schools at all.”
Because Catholics are members of the public too.
And: “If we truly are a country that values the separation of church and state, and holds all religious beliefs as equal, then why does Ontario continue to fund Catholic schools? The best long-term solution would be to put an end to this anachronistic funding once and for all.”
There is much to be said for the separation of church and state, but exactly the same principles apply to the separation of school and state.
Most religious individuals probably would not agree that all religious beliefs are equal, and they have the right to believe their own is true and others are false, as well as the right to utilize their own resources to worship in their own way.
The only long-term solution would be to put an end to the anachronistic institution called public education.
Letter 2: “I’m appalled that Ontario continues to cling to a divisive, expensive system of taxpayer-funded public and Catholic schools.”
It’s no more expensive, and only divisive to those who don’t regard Catholic taxpayers as members of the public.
And: “It’s time for Ontario to let churches, mosques and synagogues promote their religions with their own funds while making a high quality, secular public school system available to all.”
The first half of this sentence is fine, but the second half contradicts it. If one has the right to fund one’s own school system, one has the right not to fund someone else’s, including a “public” one.
And, as with the issue of child care: When does government provide “high quality” anything?
Given the ongoing uprisings and ongoing turmoil that is the Middle East and it’s extension in West, as we’ve seen in our street “protests”, we have to be very concerned for this country. Should the Media Party convince enough dummies to vote for Boy Trudeau we will be in a dangerous situation. While he looks for root causes of why the poor terrorists are terrorists we’ll pay a big price in safety and security. They’ll feel emboldened to have such a pismire as front man for the Liberal Party posing as the leader.
How will China react, Trudeau admires that Commie state, he calls Fidel Castro “uncle”. How do we get an informed public when the Media is an arm of the Liberal party? Can Ezra Levant save the country from this incompetent twit? Is he all we’ve got to save us from becoming a patsy to all the dregs of the world?
Oh what a savage destiny!
Maybe Obama can be court martialed for going AWOL as well?
Always enjoy reading your comments nv53. Thanks.
Keystone Pipeline 2.0
Oil production from the burgeoning Permian Basin of West Texas is outpacing pipelines’ ability to transport oil to the Gulf Coast, causing coastal refiners to pay an additional premium to acquire oil. On Monday, that bottleneck caused oil for delivery at Midland, Texas WTC-WTM to trade at nearly $20 a barrel less than Gulf Coast benchmark Light Louisiana Sweet WTC-LLS, the deepest discount in 17 months. http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL2N0QH1XQ20140812
Western Canada Select $86.98 C$
Synthetic Crude $101.57 C$
Cushing, OKLA WTI $97.59 US$
Brent $104.28 US$ http://www.psac.ca/firstenergy/
Cicero “Qui Bono?”
From Wiki
Western Canadian Select is one of North America’s largest heavy crude oil streams. It is a heavy blended crude oil composed mostly of bitumens blended with sweet synthetic and condensate diluents from 19 existing Canadian heavy conventional and bitumen crude oils at the Husky terminal in Hardisty.
Synthetic crude is the output from a bitumen/extra heavy oil upgrader facility used in connection with oil sand production. It may also refer to shale oil, an output from an oil shale pyrolysis. The properties of the synthetic crude depend on the processes used in the upgrading. Typically, it is low in sulfur and has an API gravity of around 30. It is also known as “upgraded crude”.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI), also known as Texas light sweet, is a grade of crude oil used as a benchmark in oil pricing. This grade is described as light because of its relatively low density, and sweet because of its low sulfur content. It is the underlying commodity of Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s oil futures contracts.
Brent Crude is a major trading classification of sweet light crude oil that serves as a major benchmark price for purchases of oil worldwide. Brent Crude is extracted from the North Sea, and comprises Brent Blend, Forties Blend, Oseberg and Ekofisk crudes (also known as the BFOE Quotation). The Brent Crude oil marker is also known as Brent Blend, London Brent and Brent petroleum. Petroleum production from Europe, Africa and the Middle East flowing West tends to be priced relative to this oil, i.e. it forms a benchmark. However, large parts of Europe now receive their oil from Russia.
Heh.
“Dying Japanese Villages Court City Folk with Craft Beer for Taxes”
(Bloomberg)
…-
“Abandoned Japan”
“Documenting the not so beautiful forgotten and abandoned places of Japan before nature reclaims them forever. All original content.” http://abandonedjapan.tumblr.com/
Tweet from a woman named Yasmina Haifi:
Mark Steyn:
Your moral and intellectual superiors.
http://t.co/7S2J37nDzU
Athens Olympic venues in various states of disrepair, only 10 years after the games. In the meantime, bondholders assumed the cost of the games when they took a haircut in the Greek default negotiations.
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2014/08/athens-olympic-venues-in-ruins-ten-years-after-the-games/#1
There are Olympic venues in states of disrepair all over the world.
It’s time to stop wasting money on this two week sports party, which hobbles cities with debt that lasts for decades.
But she’d be pink slipped (har har) for tweeting that marriage is between a man and a woman.
A big ‘robocall’ story today.
No,no, no, not the one that the CBC has put up about tomorrow’s court decision on Michael Sona. The other one.
The Alberta Federation of Labour has been fined $50,000 for their ‘robocalls’ slamming the Wild Rose party during the 2012 election.
These likely helped Alison win.
Somehow the CBC has missed that story.
FIRE.THEM.ALL.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/CRTC+fines+Alberta+Federation+Labour+robocalls+violation/10115245/story.html
Hilarious editorial cartoon my Graeme Mackay
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/yahoo-canada-news-editorial-cartoons-august-2014-slideshow/editorial-cartoon-for-aug-13-2014-by-graeme-mackay-artizans-photo-1407934822583.html
It would make sense to have the Olympics in the same place every four years. There are a lot of specialized facilities like velodromes or bobsled runs that will not be used that often.
But it would cut the graft opportunities of the International Olympic Committee to nothing. So you know the IOC is not going to take the money out of their own pockets.
I stopped watching when it all became tear jerker soap operas stories about the athletes occasionally interspersed with actual athletic performances.
Re: Rubber Legs Al.
His name was Al Norman, he starred in a rare 1930 color movie named King Of Jazz. The music was by Paul Whiteman and the Rythm Boys. Bing Crosby was in the movie.
Enjoy the clip!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1V_nsBaX8
The Adventures of Capt Gombert and Lt. Cmdr. Destiny Savage on the USS Cowpens
A Navy investigation finds the ailing skipper of a San Diego-based Navy cruiser retreated to his cabin for several weeks in the middle of a deployment, leaving the 330-member crew leaderless.
The probe also revealed that the skipper of the USS Cowpens, Capt. Gregory W. Gombert, was having an improper and “unduly familiar” relationship with the cruiser’s acting executive officer, whom the newspaper identified in a Navy photo from March as Lt. Cmdr. Destiny Savage.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/08/08/navy-deployed-skipper-retreated-to-cabin-for-weeks.html?ESRC=navy.nl
I wonder why Al Sharpton never has this guy on his show:
http://weaselzippers.us/196380-black-man-goes-on-rant-against-rioting-in-ferguson/
Achtung Ontario. Some lessons to be learned if only politicians could get past the brainwashing when it comes to renewables.
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/08/12/achtung-ontario-renewables-are-a-money-pit/
Remember cash for clunkers ? Not the brightest idea.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/09/obamas-economy-in-action-data-shows-cash-for-clunkers-was-an-epic-debacle/
Your moral and intellectual and legal superiors: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/13/mic-editor-reporters-rights-rise-above-average-citizens-tweet-deleted/
Globe and Mail, Wed., Aug. 13. Editorial: Religion should be an elective course.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/religion-should-be-an-elective-course/article20022653/
G & M: “At one time Ontario’s Catholic schools served a clear and narrow purpose: Their mission was to teach Catholic students a curriculum steeped in church doctrine … the trouble is that Ontario’s Catholic schools appear reluctant to fully accept that their mission has changed in the more than a century that has passed.”
According to whom? Shouldn’t school policy, including its “mission”, be decided by the taxpaying parents who pay the freight, rather than windy newspaper editorials?
G & M: “The primary purpose of a publicly funded school is to teach academics, not faith.”
Personally I would agree that “academics” is preferable to “faith”, but it’s not my call or anyone else’s except those who are paying for it.
One tactic the left uses to further its agenda is to pose as the supposedly high-minded voice of “public” institutions. That way, public broadcasting and public education appear to be something more than what they really are: merely broadcasting and education systems run by government. And individuals who do not share in the left’s goals will still have their resources plundered and used against their interests.
The “the public, c’est moi” attitude demonstrated by advocates of public education, etc., is profoundly undemocratic and antithetical to freedom. Freedom of speech, expression, and other rights include, by definition, the right to utilize one’s own resources in their exercise and the right not to have them used against one’s own interests by those with whom one disagrees.
Globe and Mail, Wed., Aug. 13. Letters to the editor regarding Catholic schools.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/aug-13-catholic-school-funding-and-more-letters-to-the-editor/article20020173/
Letter 1: “The more significant question that needs to be addressed is not what public Roman Catholic schools can and cannot force their students to study, but rather why, in 2014, we still have publicly funded Catholic schools at all.”
Because Catholics are members of the public too.
And: “If we truly are a country that values the separation of church and state, and holds all religious beliefs as equal, then why does Ontario continue to fund Catholic schools? The best long-term solution would be to put an end to this anachronistic funding once and for all.”
There is much to be said for the separation of church and state, but exactly the same principles apply to the separation of school and state.
Most religious individuals probably would not agree that all religious beliefs are equal, and they have the right to believe their own is true and others are false, as well as the right to utilize their own resources to worship in their own way.
The only long-term solution would be to put an end to the anachronistic institution called public education.
Letter 2: “I’m appalled that Ontario continues to cling to a divisive, expensive system of taxpayer-funded public and Catholic schools.”
It’s no more expensive, and only divisive to those who don’t regard Catholic taxpayers as members of the public.
And: “It’s time for Ontario to let churches, mosques and synagogues promote their religions with their own funds while making a high quality, secular public school system available to all.”
The first half of this sentence is fine, but the second half contradicts it. If one has the right to fund one’s own school system, one has the right not to fund someone else’s, including a “public” one.
And, as with the issue of child care: When does government provide “high quality” anything?
Given the ongoing uprisings and ongoing turmoil that is the Middle East and it’s extension in West, as we’ve seen in our street “protests”, we have to be very concerned for this country. Should the Media Party convince enough dummies to vote for Boy Trudeau we will be in a dangerous situation. While he looks for root causes of why the poor terrorists are terrorists we’ll pay a big price in safety and security. They’ll feel emboldened to have such a pismire as front man for the Liberal Party posing as the leader.
How will China react, Trudeau admires that Commie state, he calls Fidel Castro “uncle”. How do we get an informed public when the Media is an arm of the Liberal party? Can Ezra Levant save the country from this incompetent twit? Is he all we’ve got to save us from becoming a patsy to all the dregs of the world?
Oh what a savage destiny!
Maybe Obama can be court martialed for going AWOL as well?
Had Romney been elected the media coverage of partying while the world burns would be quite different
http://thewilderness.me/rough-start/
Always enjoy reading your comments nv53. Thanks.
Keystone Pipeline 2.0
Oil production from the burgeoning Permian Basin of West Texas is outpacing pipelines’ ability to transport oil to the Gulf Coast, causing coastal refiners to pay an additional premium to acquire oil. On Monday, that bottleneck caused oil for delivery at Midland, Texas WTC-WTM to trade at nearly $20 a barrel less than Gulf Coast benchmark Light Louisiana Sweet WTC-LLS, the deepest discount in 17 months.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL2N0QH1XQ20140812
Western Canada Select $86.98 C$
Synthetic Crude $101.57 C$
Cushing, OKLA WTI $97.59 US$
Brent $104.28 US$
http://www.psac.ca/firstenergy/
Cicero “Qui Bono?”
From Wiki
Western Canadian Select is one of North America’s largest heavy crude oil streams. It is a heavy blended crude oil composed mostly of bitumens blended with sweet synthetic and condensate diluents from 19 existing Canadian heavy conventional and bitumen crude oils at the Husky terminal in Hardisty.
Synthetic crude is the output from a bitumen/extra heavy oil upgrader facility used in connection with oil sand production. It may also refer to shale oil, an output from an oil shale pyrolysis. The properties of the synthetic crude depend on the processes used in the upgrading. Typically, it is low in sulfur and has an API gravity of around 30. It is also known as “upgraded crude”.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI), also known as Texas light sweet, is a grade of crude oil used as a benchmark in oil pricing. This grade is described as light because of its relatively low density, and sweet because of its low sulfur content. It is the underlying commodity of Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s oil futures contracts.
Brent Crude is a major trading classification of sweet light crude oil that serves as a major benchmark price for purchases of oil worldwide. Brent Crude is extracted from the North Sea, and comprises Brent Blend, Forties Blend, Oseberg and Ekofisk crudes (also known as the BFOE Quotation). The Brent Crude oil marker is also known as Brent Blend, London Brent and Brent petroleum. Petroleum production from Europe, Africa and the Middle East flowing West tends to be priced relative to this oil, i.e. it forms a benchmark. However, large parts of Europe now receive their oil from Russia.
Heh.
“Wynne doesn’t have debt to pay to unions: ETFO”
“TORONTO – Elementary teachers union president Sam Hammond says Premier Kathleen Wynne doesn’t owe the labour movement anything for its role in the crushing election defeat of Tory leader Tim Hudak.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/11/ontario-elementary-teachers-meet-ahead-of-contract-talks
…-
“Chicago Teachers Union Prez, Who Rails Against ‘The Rich,’ Owns Three Homes — Including One In Hawaii”
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/08/13/chicago-teachers-union-prez-who-rails-against-the-rich-owns-three-homes-including-one-in-hawaii/
Global Salting Science.
…-
“1.7 million deaths due to too much salt in diet: Study
Times of India”
…-
“Lower salt intake may be a bad thing: study”
http://www.macleans.ca/news/lower-salt-intake-may-be-a-bad-thing-study/
“Dying Japanese Villages Court City Folk with Craft Beer for Taxes”
(Bloomberg)
…-
“Abandoned Japan”
“Documenting the not so beautiful forgotten and abandoned places of Japan before nature reclaims them forever. All original content.”
http://abandonedjapan.tumblr.com/