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  2. “With a collective annual GDP of about $1.14 billion (as tabulated by the International Monetary Fund), the entire economies of Denmark ($330.6 billion), Greece ($241.8 billion), Chile ($276.9 billion) and Israel ($290.6 billion) fail to produce enough in a whole year to pay off America’s student debt.”

  7. RE: MSNBC “A lot of liberal hosts are getting the boot from MSNBC because they want to change from ‘left-leaning’ news to more of a ‘straight’ news format.”
    I have noticed that CNN & FOX seem to have swapped sides. CNN is covering more Republican issues and FOX is putting pressure on Republicans in Congress to support the Obama Homeland Security (AKA Islam outreach) funding.
    If FOX starts to champion an Obama PARDON for the killer of Kyle (sniper), we will know they are the new CNN or MSNBC

  8. (HSUS) Humane Society of the United States loses it’s Charity Navigator Rating.
    I saw the story via David Hardy.
    “This comes in the wake of a $15 million payout to settle an extortion and bribery suit, and moving $26 million to offshore accounts.”
    http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2015/02/hsus_loses_char.php
    Go to http://www.charitynavigator.org/
    and search for Humane Society of the United States – DC
    Their rating was replaced by a Donor Advisory.
    “…However, Charity Navigator has determined that the nature of this/these issue(s) warrants making this information available so that donors may determine for themselves whether such information is relevant to their decision whether to contribute to this organization.”

  9. Toronto Star, Monday, Feb. 23.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/22/government-funding-essential-to-spur-innovation.html
    “A new report by the Broadbent Institute says Canadian governments must play a greater direct role in help businesses grow and adapt.”
    “[the iPhone’s personal assistant, Siri] … was actually developed after a U.S. government agency funded the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to create a ‘virtual office assistant’ for military personnel. That morphed into a start-up, which was bought by Apple in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.”
    “… research by American academics Fred Block and Matthew Keller shows that 88 per cent of major innovations in the United States between 1971 and 2006 relied on federal research funding to get their start.”
    “‘Governments are the only the body in our society that can make the big bets on unproven research and unproven technologies,’ says David Wolfe, a political science professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga.”
    Wrong. Research funding came entirely from the profits of the private sector until government horned in on it.
    Even if it were true that 88% of major innovations got some U. S. federal money, that doesn’t say how much federal money went on wild-goose-chase endeavours that didn’t work out. As the saying goes, even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.
    The bottom line is that government, unlike the private sector, is coercive. And coercion doesn’t add anything to the economic equation. It just gets in the way, taking from one pocket and putting into another — with a layer of parasitic government personnel skimming off their take.
    Furthermore, a person don’t suddenly gain automatic perfect knowledge or mystical insight by virtue of working for the state. He is still human, retaining all the positive and negative qualities he had beforehand. Moreover, in the private sector, if an investment is obviously not working out, investors have to put a stop to it at some point and find a better opportunity before they lose too much of their own money. In the government sector, where money can be raised through coercion (i.e., taxation), the temptation is always there to regard the taxpayer’s pocket as infinite, meaning that bad “investments” might carry on much longer, to the detriment of the overall economy and the standard of living.
    The leftists who use cute phrases like “‘tax’ is not a four-letter word” are just trying to protect their own gravy train. Don’t be fooled.

  10. Meneces on the road like Luarie Dadid driving wreclessly harassing SUV drivers from her gas guzzling 11 mpg limo

  12. A question , will Oboma’s Net Neutrality affect the net in Canada.
    Sounds to me like a huge step backwards for the communication high way .
    And expensive for everyone.

  13. We’re not deporting them by the plane load, we’re bringing them in by the plane load and all the baggage that comes with them isn’t in their luggage.

  16. AGW RIP.
    Willie Soon* says, It’s the sun.
    …-
    “Solar eclipse to disrupt power supplies
    Eclipse to block out 95 per cent of sunlight in parts of Europe”
    “Power supplies could drop suddenly next month when the UK is plunged into darkness with an eclipse of the sun.
    Energy experts warned there could be possible blackouts in the biggest solar eclipse since 1999.
    Nearly 90 per cent of the sun’s rays will be blocked out in parts of Europe on March 20.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/11433786/Solar-eclipse-to-disrupt-power-supplies.html
    …-
    *Willie Soon:
    “Guest Essay by Kip Hansen
    I cannot bring myself to quote from this unconscionable piece of journalistic malfeasance:
    Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/23/greenpeace-enlists-justin-gillis-john-schwartz-of-the-ny-times-in-journalistic-terrorist-attack-on-willie-soon-miss-target-hit-smithsonian-instead/

  19. Eco-freaks leave behind big time messes while celebrating their favorite day of stupid EARTHDAY Parading around sressed as Trees,Spotted Owls,Flowers,Monkeys and Fish making funny sounds and acting like the total baffoons they are

  22. “research by American academics Fred Block and Matthew Keller shows that 88 per cent of major innovations in the United States between 1971 and 2006 relied on federal research funding to get their start” NV53
    KEY WORD: “Start” aka weasel word
    If you don’t count University directed (Government funded) research, that number is invalid…HUGE amounts of money are spent on drivel. The University level does not normally provide development. There is an order of research progression. The University provide new ideas, those ideas which have merit, are fleshed out by private R&D
    BTW:They must be counting “Cold Fusion” University of Utah’s as a major Innovation.

  23. AGW RIP.
    “The breakdown of the operating hours of wind power output shows just how pathetic wind energy really is.”
    …-
    “German Black Forest Wind Turbines Yielded Only 11.8% Of Rated Capacity In 2014! … “Frightening Results”
    The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) has a report here analyzing the 2014 wind energy output of the German state of Baden Wurttemberg (BW), home of the world famous Black Forest, which in turn is home to the cuckoo clock.
    Well, it turns out that not only the clocks in BW have gone cuckoo, but so has its energy policy!”
    http://notrickszone.com/2015/02/25/german-black-forest-wind-turbines-yielded-only-11-8-of-rated-capacity-in-2014-frightening-results/#sthash.0zhjQjuP.dpbs

  24. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Frigid February takes toll on Ontario fruit”
    “On the tender-fruit side, I am expecting almost complete wiepe on the west-end for peaches, apricots and plums.”
    “In 2012, a similar situation led to some places only reporting about 20 per cent of their normal crop.”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/frigid-february-takes-toll-on-ontario-fruit/46137/
    …-
    “Toronto deploy ‘SWAT’ team over frozen pipes”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/city-toronto-addresses-homes-without-water-due-to-frozen-pipes/46133/

  27. He’s not wrong, he’s just “ill informed:”
    “(Assembly of First Nations)Bellegarde was reacting to controversial comments made in December by (Minister of Aboriginal Affairs) Valcourt in an interview with the Citizen. At the time, Valcourt rejected calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and also said that ‘part of the problem’ was that when ‘guys grow up believing that women have no rights (on reserves), that’s how they are treated.’ Bellegarde said Valcourt’s comments show that he lacks a proper understanding of what led to the problems in First Nations communities. ‘I think they were ill-informed. We’ve got to do a better job of educating not only the ministers in government, but the general public, about the impacts of this situation – about missing and murdered women and girls and the violence in our communities.’
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/aboriginal-chief-says-minister-ill-informed-on-violence-against-indigenous-women
    Here’s the facts Mr. Valcourt is so “ill-informed” about:
    “Female homicide victims generally know the person who kills them – more than 90% had a previous relationship with them. This is true for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal female victims. Aboriginal female victims were most often murdered by an acquaintance (30% compared to 19%). Breaking this down further, Aboriginal females were more likely to be murdered by a casual acquaintance (17% compared to 9%) or by someone with whom they had a criminal relationship (7% compared to 3%).
    “Another vulnerability factor that is more prevalent in the cases of murdered Aboriginal females is the consumption of drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants by the victim prior to the incident.”
    I know, we need to have an inquiry so we can blame white men and the rape culture. You’re either part of the meme or you’re part of the blame.
    http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/mmaw-faapd-eng.pdf

  28. Screw your allies, submit to your enemies – what could go wrong?
    “Or could pretend to sign his name, then … just when executives at TransCanada were getting all excited … toss the pen in the waste basket and announce he had no intention of completing the signature. Then march off, cackling, to fetch his golf clubs. He golfed away the weekend when Russia was comprehensively violating the ceasefire in Ukraine, after all, so why should he stick around for a stupid veto of a Canadian pipeline?”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/25/kelly-mcparland-obama-may-be-helpless-with-putin-but-draws-a-red-line-with-canada/

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