The End Is Nigh
Sooner and sooner:
Who had the worst week in Washington? BlackBerrys
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Capitol Hill, the center of the BlackBerry universe and a symbolic Alamo standing against an overwhelming iPhone army, ground to a halt…
…perhaps most impactfully, for many BlackBerry users, those of us who have long fought the good fight against the cultural coolness of all things Apple, the outage amounted to a final indignity. That, and the fact the new iPhone 4s came out on Friday [Oct. 14], of course…
Why the Berry’s Future May be Black
Occupy Canada: Return of the Primitives
Open thread on the assorted “occupy” events across Canada today.
To start things off, here’s a video clip from Occupy Toronto – h/t Stephen
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Poster Boys of the Hyper-Entitlement Generation
Do you think the parents of these two bozos ever told them no? Ever told them, “that’s wrong”? Ever told them, “you must wait”? Ever told them, “you’re going to have to work to earn that”? Ever told them, “your future depends on what you make of it”? Probably not. 🙁
Update: The blonde haired fellow in the 2nd video is none other than Edward T. Hall, III, a trust fund child whose parents are “two politically active lawyers”. – h/t Oz
Addicted To Government
A new Saskatchewan blog with some discouraging statistics.
Caillin Langmann on the Dave Rutherford Show
Langmann, C. “Canadian Firearms Legislation and Effects on Homicide 1974 to 2008.” Read the Abstract.
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Nic Jones was an acclaimed English folk singer and guitarist, part of the late 1960s British folk revival, whose career came to an abrupt end in 1982 as the result of car accident that left him with severe coordination problems. From his 1980 album Penguin Eggs, here is is singing the early 19th century traditional ballad Canadee-i-o.
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We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
I’m a Chevrolet dealer… we have a Chevy Volt on the lot, it’s been there now for four weeks. We’ve had one person come in to look at it, just to see what it actually looks like… Here’s a car that costs $45,763. I can stock that car for probably a year and then have to sell it at some ridiculous price. By the way, I just received some additional information from Chevrolet: in addition to the $7,500 [federal] tax credit, Pennsylvania is going to throw another $3,500 to anybody foolish enough to buy one of these cars, somehow giving them $11,000 of taxpayer money to buy this Volt.
When you look at this, it makes absolutely no sense. I can stock a Chevy Cruze, which is about a $17,500 car and turns every 30 to 40 days out of inventory… or I can have a Volt, which never turns and creates nothing for me on the lot except interest costs… So a lot of these things that we’re seeing going on have a tremendous economic impact on people who are being asked to stock them and sell them. There is no market for this car. I do have some friends who have sold them, and they’re mostly to people who have an academic interest in it, or municipalities who are asking to buy these cars.
h/t
Related! You’ll get a charge out of this.
War Number Four
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces….
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
It’s Probably Nothing
In Long Beach, the second-busiest container port by volume, August imports fell by 14.2 percent from August 2010. While the port has not yet released September volumes, a spokesman, Art Wong, said it expected about a 15 percent drop from September 2010.
The reports from the remaining container ports in the top five were equally gloomy. In New York-New Jersey, the number of incoming containers in August was about flat with last year. In Savannah, Ga., imports in August fell by 4 percent. Oakland reported that August imports were down 0.9 percent from a year earlier. And Los Angeles, the nation’s highest-volume container port, counted 5.75 percent fewer containers in August than a year earlier.
The Victim Died Before They Could Grab The Loot
Never before was it so easy to spot individuals damaged by drugs
Stopgormley.ca
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Last month an amateur rocket enthusiast named Derek Deville launched a rocket, dubbed Qu8k, from a Desert in Nevada; 90 seconds later, it had reached an altitude of over 120,000 feet. Here’s a 17-minute video of the enterprise, including footage from two onboard video cameras. (Shorter version here).
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In Conversation With Tom Friedman’s House, A Continuing Series ….
4600 Miles Later…
And we’re home from the annual Michigan – Montgomery County suicide run. We have some major successes to report, but I’ll just narrow it down to the “big ones”.
We began at the Michigan Terrier Ass’n, in Mornoe, where Am.Can.Ch.Minuteman Goldikova won the schnauzer specialty and went on to place in a huge terrier group, defeating 251 dogs in the cold and driving wind.
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| Minuteman Metropolis scored both of the major wins required for his American title with a Best of Breed win in Michigan and Best of Winners at the American Miniature Schnauzer Club national specialty at Montgomery County. (pictured here with my friend, Karen). |  |
Over the four days that make up the most important weekend for terriers on the planet – “Montgomery County” – Venus took home “select” and “Award of Merit” wins, as did Golda, who was also “best female” at Hatboro, while our young male, Am.Can.Ch.Minuteman Underworld was Best of Breed at Devon – the most prestigious win of the trip.
(Underworld congratulates his cousin new Am.Ch. Mystique Runway to a Legacy on finishing her title at Hatboro.)
In all, dogs with Minuteman breeding in their immediate pedigrees (represented by a variety of US kennels) made up about 25% of the entry, and took home 75% of the major awards over the weekend.
(After “the cut”. Part of the final lineup at the National. Golda and I are at the front where we would go on to win “Select”.)
We have one more short jaunt to South Dakota in a week, and after that (I think) we’ll be drawing the campaign to a close. According to my records, Am.GCh.Can.Ch. Minuteman Venus Flytrap is currently the number one female in the breed in the US, all systems. Thanks to everyone for making this “once in a lifetime” year possible!
(Click on the photos to view in larger format.)
Saskatchewan’s Rolling Canvas Revitalization Project
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Saskatchewan’s NDP gov’t puts tax dollars to work in 2007;
Work on the $1 million dollar project will be complete by July 31, 2007. The tender for painting the [100 government owned] hopper cars has been awarded to GE Railcar Repair Service Company of Regina and the contract for the decals has been awarded to Arco Graphics Inc. of Saskatoon.
Your tax dollars, still at work four years later;
Just one of 5 similarly redecorated redecorated government hopper cars spotted yesterday at Aylesbury, SK.
OWS
Made in Canada:
Soros and the protesters deny any connection. But Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground.
A Day in The Hood
Since September of this year, I am no longer involved with any organization as I have found the City of Winnipeg is in no way interested in making the North End a better place. The organizations seem to be in place to placate the masses, spend tax payers money, and turn community volunteers into unpaid social workers. And we seem to just keep feeding people. Events seem to always include giving food to whoever shows up. We have become another level of soup kitchens in the city.
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Right now, many people are crying victim, staying on social assistance, pulling themselves down, carrying on the alcoholic lifestyle of their parents, and contributing to criminal behaviour that is pulling the North End down, and nobody is calling them on it. They can ride the victim train the rest of their lives because anyone who questions it would be called racist. And the social services agencies give power to the victimization label, protecting the rights of those who are labeled, or label themselves as victims.
People need to be held accountable for their actions, and they need to learn to make correct decisions. They need to learn to live within Societies norms and they need to respect the laws of the land. People will never be accountable for their actions if they are given the option of being a victim.
h/t Mike