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  2. Open Question:
    Someone told me this evening that it’s the law in Canada that if a child never moves out of their parents’ home then the parents can never kick them out … no matter how old they become – 18, 25, 30, whatever.
    This can’t possibly be true, can it?

  4. Interesting,
    Two Obamas, one in the White House, one in a tin house. With pictures.
    A study in contrast.
    “Obama’s slumdog brother: Meet the hopeless drunk from a Nairobi shanty town who is the U.S. President’s BROTHER”
    “Whilst the President inhabits the luxurious surroundings of the Oval Office and flies aboard Air Force One, his half-brother George Obama lives in a notorious African slum”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186782/Obamas-slumdog-brother-Meet-hopeless-drunk-Nairobi-shanty-town-U-S-Presidents-BROTHER.html#ixzz23ChhOIrV
    Maybe that is the way it should be as far as some people think.
    Would you not help your brother?
    Apparently the current president of the US got no time………got not time.

  5. Earlier, some disputed my take on nuclear. I want to re-inforce the suckiness of nuclear power.
    It’s worse than wind.
    http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/25/no-to-nukes
    A 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study led by physicist Ernest J. Moniz and engineer Mujid S. Kazimi showed that nuclear energy costs 14 percent more than gas and 30 percent more than coal. And that’s after taking into account a baked-in taxpayer subsidy that artificially lowers nuclear plants’ operating costs.
    But producing nuclear energy in France is not magically cheaper than elsewhere. French citizens are forced to pay inflated costs to support grand government schemes, such as the decision made 30 years ago to go nuclear at any cost after the first oil shock in 1974.
    In a 2010 paper published by the Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School economist Mark Cooper found that the overall cost of generating nuclear power in France is similar to that in the United States. The price range for the two countries (after adjusting for purchasing power) overlap, despite the fact that the U.S. has a relatively strict regulatory regime and France has a relatively loose one: France’s estimated cost for a kilowatt of power is between $4,500 and $5,000; the estimated cost in the U.S. is between $4,000 and $6,000. Those figures remain stubbornly high, despite decades of efforts to get them down to manageable levels.

  9. LAS,
    the construction cost put ‘suckiness’ into nuclear power.
    Had the stupid environmental greenie wienies Jane Fondants let us build nuke 30 years ago the costs would have been millions instead of billions..
    –
    Report says “Duke Energy’s” rate method will impose most of the costs of building $20 billion-plus in new power plants on Duke’s captive residential and small-business customers,
    http://www.ncwarn.org/2012/05/duke-energy-rigs-rates-against-small-businesses-and-families/

  10. Robert it is absolutely not true !!! At the age of 18 you are an adult and can be literally kicked/ thrown out of your parents home regardless!!! Exactly how it should be!!!

  11. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate,
    according to a Republican with knowledge of the development.
    (Republican with knowledge)
    Hard to believe a journalist wrote that?
    –
    Now Oblamer can sleep,
    he swore it would be General David(betrayus)Petraeus
    Romney by +7

  13. Lev @1:08 – in *shudder* Obama’s defense (I feel dirty), his brother does sound horribly screwed up. Hard to know how you could help someone like that. I guess they must have VIP detox centres in Nairobi, but those things don’t really seem to work.

  15. Robert W.2012 12:54 AM
    Not true.
    You only have a legal duty to provide the *necessaries of life* to your own children under the age of sixteen(16) years or to your legal/common law spouse or invalids in your care in Canada.
    *necessaries being food, shelter, clothing etc.

  19. O’narcissist*: “the sudden reversal of sentiment.”
    “*… in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, the narcissist strives to explain away the sudden reversal of sentiment. “The people are being duped by (the media, big industry, the military, the elite, etc.)”, “they don’t really know what they are doing”, “following a rude awakening, they will revert to form”, etc.”
    …-
    “Obama Complains: The Press Hates Me!”
    “Most of us outside the bubble think that the mainstream media is pretty pro-Obama. We remember all those comparisons to Lincoln and FDR in the heady early days of the administration.
    But apparently that’s not how it looks from the Oval Office; the president thinks he’s not getting a fair shot from the press.”
    http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/08/08/obama-vs-the-press/
    *O’narcissist:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  20. IMO, Walter Russell Mead always has interesting perspectives and links on politics (US and international), energy and education.
    Regarding China, it looks like both China-loving progressives and China-fearing conservatives may be mistaken.
    Peak Oil or Peak China??
    “According to The Diplomat, the long term outlook is even more depressing. China will have to confront a series of structural challenges if it is to continue to achieve the kind of dynamic growth that lifted the country from economic backwater to emerging great power in just three decades.
    The most obvious challenge is demographics. A RAND study observed that the proportion of the Chinese population of working age peaked in 2011 and began slowing this year. The share of the elderly population is rising. Healthcare and pension costs will soar as a result. So will labor costs. Investment and savings will diminish. In short, China may face the prospect, unknown in human history, of growing old before it gets rich.”
    http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/#post-35815
    From The Diplomat:
    “Little did we know that China paid a huge price for a misguided and wasteful stimulus program. The bulk of its stimulus package, roughly $1.5 trillion (with two-thirds in the form of loans from state-owned banks), was squandered on fixed-asset investments, such as infrastructure, factories, and commercial real estate. As a result, many of these projects are not economically viable and will saddle the banking system with a mountain of non-performing loans. ”
    Could this be part of the reason for China’s new push for resource investments in Canada and buying up assets in the EU?

  21. WHAT???
    A leftist facebook page that will stand for no opposing opinions? Never say so…
    Good Dog, Bad Romney
    has dutifully (daily) erased my rather tame observation that we should at least be grateful that Mr. Romney didn’t eat his dog…

  22. Minister Baird burns our tax dollars; feeds Mohammed’s cannibals.
    …-
    “Baird pledges new financial aid for war-stricken Syrians”
    (G-M)

  25. A billion dollars doesn’t get you much these days,but an occasional riveting story like this;
    ” Toronto Mayor Rob Ford takes U.S. approach to health privacy”
    Huh.I don’t get it.Oh…
    ” One prominent political figure recently made headlines for adopting the American-style approach to health disclosure.”
    … But,you just wrote the headline that you are referring to…
    Never mind,it ain’t journalism,it’s the cbc.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/08/11/toronto-rob-ford-health-disclosrue.html

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