In tonight’s tips music, from a Japanese cellphone commercial, J.S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is performed by….gravity. And a wooden ball.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
In tonight’s tips music, from a Japanese cellphone commercial, J.S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is performed by….gravity. And a wooden ball.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
MP Alexandrine Latendresse admits she would probably vote soveriegnty if “it’s interesting” and has the “values of solidarity”. Voted for Francois Legault of the PQ.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/elections-federales/201105/04/01-4395960-alexandrine-latendresse-letudiante-qui-a-battu-la-ministre-verner.php
Confirmed that new NDP MP Pierre-Luc Dassault is probably a separatist (…as long as we’re in Canada…) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/meet-canadas-youngest-mp-in-history/article2009395/
PET Cemetery Report.
Home at last, home at last, my dearest Iggy is home at last.
Come in, Count. We’ve been waiting for you.
Here is your cell: “The former Liberal Party leader’s new office, with a small monastic bedroom, bathroom and a large study with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, will overlook the college’s arboured quadrangle and elegant dining hall and common room.”
We dub Thee: “Dr. Ignatieff”.
P.S. Censorship here ist verboten.
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“Michael Ignatieff jumps to University of Toronto”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/michael-ignatieff-jumps-to-university-of-toronto/article2011390/
bluetech, thanks, and I’m for whatever PMSH wants. If it’s starting Parliament later, that’s fine by me.
What Jack wants is irrelevant, a reality I don’t think he’s yet worked out. It’s going to punch him hard in the nose some day very soon.
Re the Harper family: I have the highest regard for Laureen and wish the very best for all of them. A Conservative majority should be a much more satisfying experience than the five years in minority they’ve just endured. I hope that helps in the stress department. God bless them.
The NDP doesn’t want to rush back too early. They say they want the time to train their newly elected team members.
But I think they need the time to ‘find’ them.
I myself can’t wait for Parliament to resume.
The sight of those newly minted young DIPPER$ with that fantastic salary.
Imagine the hairdo’s we are in for. That goes for the women too. LOL
Bluetech: I received my 2011 Census the day after the election.
I opened it to discover that I am to go to http://www.census2011.gc.ca within the next ten days and enter the 15 digit access code provided in my notice.
The notice gives a toll free number option to receive the paper questionnaire.
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
“Immelt”.
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“Back to basics: “Green Electric” becomes “General Electric” again”
“The president of General Electric slams his previous company green policy as being “too elitist”, vows to get back to “working”. Maybe this will mean no more “green sin week” on GE owned TV networks.
From Reuters: The head of the largest U.S. conglomerate, who in January was named a top adviser on job creation to U.S. President Barack Obama, said on Tuesday that GE’s focus on the environmentally friendly aspects of its wind turbines and high-efficiency appliances might have led his critics to believe he was more interested in saving the planet than growing the company.
His quote is similar to the headfirst smack into reality experienced this week by über greenist George Monbiot:
“If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much about green,” Immelt said at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Even though I believe in global warming and I believe in the science … it just took on a connotation that was too elitist; it was too precious and it let opponents think that if you had a green initiative, you didn’t care about jobs. I’m a businessman. That’s all I care about, is jobs.” […]
“I’m kind of over the stage of arguing for a comprehensive energy policy. I’m back to keeping my head down and working,” Immelt said.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/05/back-to-basics-green-electric-becomes-general-electric-again/
H/T Lizard May, MP.
There is no information in the Census notice or available on the Census 2011 government website as to how many questions are asked, or the nature of the questions asked. However, it is stated on the census website that you will be asked for your name and phone number, and that if the census is not completed within 10 days an enumerator will be contacting you.
Looks like Britan’s much tauted coalition government is running into difficulties: http://tinyurl.com/4xzlrmu
Remember several months back when we were all told (by the media in particular) that coalitions were a fine form of government, and now that Britain had one Canadians should be comfortable with having one also? The British experience makes it clear to me that this is an unstable form of government.
We know now why Dr. Ignatieff did not return to his O’Harvard, USA.
Harvard has “SLABS”; and, it’s contagious.
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“Bad Education”
“The Project On Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 graduated with $24,000 in outstanding loans. Last August, student loans surpassed credit cards as the nation’s single largest source of debt, edging ever closer to $1 trillion. Yet for all the moralizing about American consumer debt by both parties, no one dares call higher education a bad investment. The nearly axiomatic good of a university degree in American society has allowed a higher education bubble to expand to the point of bursting.
Since 1978, the price of tuition at US colleges has increased over 900 percent, 650 points above inflation. To put that number in perspective, housing prices, the bubble that nearly burst the US economy, then the global one, increased only fifty points above the Consumer Price Index during those years. But while college applicants’ faith in the value of higher education has only increased, employers’ has declined. According to Richard Rothstein at The Economic Policy Institute, wages for college-educated workers outside of the inflated finance industry have stagnated or diminished. Unemployment has hit recent graduates especially hard, nearly doubling in the post-2007 recession. The result is that the most indebted generation in history is without the dependable jobs it needs to escape debt.
What kind of incentives motivate lenders to continue awarding six-figure sums to teenagers facing both the worst youth unemployment rate in decades and an increasingly competitive global workforce?
During the expansion of the housing bubble, lenders felt protected because they could repackage risky loans as mortgage-backed securities, which sold briskly to a pious market that believed housing prices could only increase. By combining slices of regionally diverse loans and theoretically spreading the risk of default, lenders were able to convince independent rating agencies that the resulting financial products were safe bets. They weren’t. But since this wouldn’t be America if you couldn’t monetize your children’s futures, the education sector still has its equivalent: the Student Loan Asset-Backed Security (or, as they’re known in the industry, SLABS).”
http://nplusonemag.com/bad-education
We know now why Dr. Ignatieff did not return to his O’Harvard, USA.
http://nplusonemag.com/bad-education
bluetech: “There was something very deep and moving about Laureen’s tears on election night.”
lookout and bluetech, I too have a high regard for the Harper family and know how difficult it is to be in the glare of the public spotlight — in the case of the Harper’s, the klieg lights of the Canadian media.
This election was intense and there was so much at stake, Laureen must have been on tenterhooks the whole time, in addition to the slings and arrows aimed at her husband which, sadly, the Harpers must be growing used to.
I wondered if the tears weren’t from knowing how hard PM Harper works, how much garbage he’s had to take from the Disloyal and the Unelected Opposition, day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year out, and to see him finally achieve his goal must have been overwhelming after all these years. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a huge release of emotions she’d had to hold in as she joined the campaign to support her husband.
God bless Prime Minister Harper, Laureen, Ben, and Rachel. I sincerely hope that the next four years will be much smoother sailing for them than the last five years have been.
(I was really relieved to know that Ben and Rachel would be able to stay in their home of the last five years and that they wouldn’t have to be uprooted.)
Ezra’s just done another fine “rant” about the CBC—but, this time, he’s got the Conservatives in the crosshairs too. (Am I allowed to use this analogy?;-) I agree with Ezra.
Apparently, the day after the election, James Moore, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, voiced the same, sycophantic script the Conservatives mouthed when they were in the minority: “We’re going to continue funding, and even increase it, for the CBC because it’s the core around which Canadian culture . . . blah, blah, blah.”
The Conservatives had better quit with this politically correct claptrap if they want to retain those of us loyalists, who have stuck with them all these years, through thick and thin, and have now contributed substantially to their majority.
I’ve given a large amount of $$ to the Conservatives. If they don’t use their/OUR majority to fundamentally change the cultural landscape of this country, my donations will cease. I’m going to let them know.
Really, the Conservatives had better not go soft on the politically correct “reign of error” that’s plaguing this once strong and free country: lovers scorned are not going to continue to be loyal. If our concerns are treated with the same hauteur that the agenda of the partisans of the left deserves, watch out, Conservatives!
The CBC making sure their poll doesn’t go horribly wrong.
Teachers are asking for a one-year, 12% raise. The offer is 5.5% over 3 years. What do you think?
1. Teachers are asking for way too much.
2. Teachers are underpaid and 12% is not out of line.
3. They should split the difference.
4. Management should stick to the 5.5% offer
Um let’s see would that be 1 or 4 (speaking of splitting the difference.)
TIP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOyaJ2UI7Ss
students like income redistribution, but don’t like grade redistribution.
I look at U grads and wonder. Now I KNOW. Teachers like Iggy. Where to from here? Just an old man’s thoughts.
It’s official now.
Jack Layton was naked.
Jack is Taliban Jack LaytoNDP.
“But the officer’s notes revealed that he was naked in what was a suspected rub-and-tug business on Dundas St. W.”
This is new: “Selwyn Pieters complained to Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and Toronto Police Services Board chairman Alok Mukherjee that an ex-cop’s notes were used to blackmail the leader of a political party.”
Blackmail? Why haven’t criminal charges been laid?
“No charges on release of police notes on Layton massage ”
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/05/no-charges-on-release-of-police-notes-on-layton-massage
It’s official now. Jack Layton was naked.~ maz2
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I won’t believe it until I see the pictures.
Lookout, thanks for that.
I haven’t sent in my cheque to the local office yet and will be sure to add that caveat to my congratulations.
The wife just did the Census online. It has around 80 questions, most of which is none of there damn business. the nature of the questions asked involve names, birthdays, employment, not just status but employers, salaries, hours, education the whole nine yards. If they need to know they should check with the CRA. The wife just capitulated to the invasion of privacy and answered the questions but she did add a very strongly worded and scathing diatribe at the end. I doubt the will even notice.
My questions regarding the Census : What does it take to hack or how much would cost to obtain the data?
The assumption of security is dangerously naive. It is the matter of national security that such database should not exist.
Free – Thank you very much for the heads up re the census questions. I think I may opt for the paper form. I do not think the government has a right to attach names and telephone numbers to information collected. If I recall correctly, there was a time when the census did not ask for this much information. I can at least copy the paper form and keep a record for myself.
FREE – I think you must have got the long form census (no longer mandatory to fill out). The one we got was very short. How many people living here, names and dates of birth, language first spoken and language spoken most now, maybe 1 or 2 others.