214 million eligible voters
93 million voters [44%]decided to sit the 2012 election out
62.1 million [29%] voted for Obama
58.8 million [27%] voted for Romney
a 1.5% difference of the total eligible voters decided the popular vote, or a 2.7% difference in the votes cast.
I rather doubt that the US election computerized voting systems are that accurate, or that infallibly precise, or secure from tampering.
Electoral districts in cities are reporting blatantly unrealistic returns, 100% turnout or more and all votes for the same candidate. Statistically impossible. If this had happened in another third world country with an African leader the US media would be calling for UN observers and police to guarantee fair and honest elections.
Some countries can’t be trusted to self-police election fraud. In those cases send in the UN and go back to paper ballots and ink stained fingers till they can prove to the international community that they can have a democratic form of government. This is disgraceful in a country that purports to be a democracy.
Osumashi’s 12:27 tip should get it’s own post. Here in a food analogy is Americas fiscal doom. And the participants are oblivious.
north of 60 who is to say if the UN wouldn’t be in on the fraud?
Who cops the cops?
The UN is just as corrupt, is all I’m saying.
d
The same Americans who think the UN should oversee elections in other 3rd world countries with African leaders are OK with it happening at home, as long as their guy wins, is all I’m saying.
It wasn’t about UN competence at policing elections.
Why in the world does anyone admire the Rolling Stones?
They sought and acquired a niche market by representing everything that is obnoxious about the classic spoiled teenager.
“Sympathy for the Devil”?
“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”?
The music is blatantly derivative, the lyrics are moronic.
Just look at them, for Christ’s sake.
Walking, smiling, laughing versions of the Portrait of Dorian Grey.
Socialism: the body/the politic.
“Disabled mother auctions off her non vital organs – including kidneys, corneas and chunk of liver – to pay the rent”
“The new tax is also intensely symbolic. It represents the culmination of a two-decade-long process in which the nation’s most populous state, once a prosperous industrial and high-tech powerhouse and magnet for immigrants from elsewhere in the country, has transformed itself into something else: a high-tax, high-spending, highly regulated, and chronically broke welfare state that is fast losing to out-migration both its middle class and the businesses and industries that create jobs.” http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
The State of the Onion.
…-
“Rally in Treasuries Indicates U.S. May Fall Over Fiscal Cliff”
“FBI Searches Home of Woman at Center of Petraeus Departure”
“Bra-Bodysuits Make H&M One Hit Wonder as Zara Prospers” http://www.bloomberg.com/
Nut alert!
Toronto-area soccer mom wants school’s oak trees cut down because her little darlings might be allergic to acorns
===============
A York Region mother is fighting to have oak trees removed near her child’s school, fearing that acorns could pose a deadly threat to students with severe allergies.
Donna Giustizia said the young trees on property owned by the City of Vaughan next to St. Stephen Catholic Elementary School are littering the area with acorns. The school, meanwhile, is nut-free to protect students with potentially life-threatening anaphylactic allergies.
“A false sense of security is putting a sign on the door that says nut-free and there’s nuts all over the place,” said Giustizia, who has two teenage children with anaphylactic food allergies, one of whom attends St. Stephen.
“I’m not a crazy mom, I’m not asking for anything that’s not already there.”
Linky here
So, explain to me again why a, um, “majority of Canadians” wanted Obama and the Democrats for another four years?
Maybe because they love the Stones, or something — Tumbling dice, Under my thumb, Playing with fire, Emotional rescue, Ain’t too proud to beg, Let it bleed, Mother’s little helper…
On the other hand, some of us Canadians have a different view — Shattered, It’s all over now, You can’t always get what you want, Time is on my side, Not Fade away, Start me up, Beast of Burden, Get off of my cloud…
At any rate, have a look at: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Obama%2Benergy%2Badviser%2Bsays%2Btime%2Bserious%2Babout%2Bclimate%2Bchange/7521511/story.html
and http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/08/f-fiscal-cliff-canada.html, particularly these statements (which must have slipped by the censor):
“TD notes that U.S. tax hikes have a bigger impact on Canadian exports than spending cuts, which tend to matter more domestically. “This is because Canadian trade with the U.S. is largely concentrated in consumer goods and business investment – items which will likely be hit harder by an increase in taxes,” says TD deputy chief economist Derek Burleton.”
and
“The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has wanted no part of a solution that would see any tax increases.”
So, let’s start a little checklist thingee about what would have better for Canada if Mitt and the GOP had prevailed:
– Keystone XL (and North American energy independence).
– No tax increases (benefit provided above courtesy of Pravda…)
– End to illegal government procurement policies (“Buy American”).
– Free trade (maybe that “North American Security Perimeter” Barbie Doll would actually have emerged as a real person with real lady parts, instead of this “thinkening of the border” boondoggle, including that passport morass).
– “Stimulus” spending that makes sense — like on real infrastructure projects like that new bridge over the Detroit River at Windsor, as opposed to give-aways to the P/S unions.
– Clean up of the Great Lakes (which Mitt would have had a very personal interest in, considering his family had a cottage at Bayfield ON — not 45 minutes by ground transport from where I sit).
– A real US dollar, which is a pretty critical component of any economic policy, at least in my twisted world-view (we can talk another time about how devaluation of the British Pound sunk Africa into a poverty from which they are just now starting to recover — in no small measure due to the efforts of George W. Bush).
Please feel free to add to the list: I am sort of Waiting on a friend.. (or more).
A must-read, via Instapundit: http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/the-frogmans-prophecies/
Someone from France writes to Americans. It’s too good to excerpt, but here’s a snippet:
“I see cries that “the Republic is dead”, and even claims—shocking claims, for this Americanophile—to burn the flag because “it doesn’t mean anything anymore”.
Old Glory doesn’t mean anything, simply because you woke up last Wednesday to a measly 4 millions popular votes difference? A battle of nearly 121 million voters finds you outnumbered by four and hear, hear: the Republic is dead and the war is lost?
Try and tell that to those Americans who found themselves outnumbered and outgunned by far more disadvantageous enemy ratios, whether in a forest in the Ardennes, a hill in Korea, a valley in Vietnam or a mountain in Afghanistan. Try and tell them you’re considering giving up and burning the flag in despair.
Even though I am just a French, I am quite certain I can predict their reaction.
Once again, you don’t need a lecture from this Frenchman, but it seems to me that some of you, in the emotion of that unexpected electoral defeat, forgot this simple fact: America is always outnumbered.
This unique nation, founded not on feudal or religious fault lines but on a radical philosophy of individual freedom isn’t the norm in this world: it is an anomaly. If you needed a quick and simple reminder on the basis for American exceptionalism, there you go.
America is always outnumbered and, until the rest of the world sees the guiding light and builds shining cities on America’s model—if that day ever comes—America will always be outnumbered.
Yet it doesn’t matter: America’s strength isn’t in numbers, it’s in her soul.
Hear this final prophecy America: only one man can kill the Republic, and it isn’t Barack Obama. The one man who will kill your Republic is the one man who will last give up and renounce it.
Don’t you dare be that man.”
“Revealed: who decides the BBC’s climate change policy”
“Just when you thought the BBC had no more scandals, Guido Fawkes has revealed what the Beeb tried very hard to cover up: the 28 mysterious individuals who have been informing its climate change reporting policy. As a state-funded broadcaster, the BBC has a duty to provide balance. It rejected this on its environmental coverage after taking advice from people in a now-infamous 2006 seminar from people whose identity the BBC was keen to keep secret.
I wrote on Sunday how it had refused FoI requests to reveal those names. But Maurizio Morabito has revealed a list which the BBC cannot describe as a bunch of dispassionate scientists: it’s a veritable who’s who of the green lobby:
Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen”
[…] http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/sebastian-payne/2012/11/revealed-who-decides-the-bbcs-climate-change-policy/
Evidence of voter fraud is very concerning. In both Ohio and Philadelphia, there were precincts with NO votes for Romeny. This is very strange indeed. Here’s more: http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1112/1112electionfraud.htm
I personally am wondering about hacking into the computers collecting results. Those Iranians are very, very smart computer hackers.
PET Cemetery Report: The Librano$.
…-
“Hamilton: Montreal’s ‘business model’ was all about bribery” http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
…-
“Ghosts of Quebec sponsorship scandal still floating around”
“The federal Liberals have yet to sweep away all the Quebec rubble of the sponsorship scandal and now the Charbonneau inquiry is piling on the damage of the Gomery commission.
Because the sponsorship program unravelled on Jean Chrétien’s watch, the 2004 federal inquiry into the spending scandal wreaked havoc in the ranks of his Quebec loyalists.
In time, the fallout did wound Paul Martin’s electoral prospects but ultimately he and his Quebec clan were just the collateral damage of a missile that landed on his predecessor’s faction.
But the tables are turned at the Charbonneau inquiry.
Some of the top municipal figures embroiled in the corruption scandal used to be leading members of Martin’s Quebec coterie. Others served in strategic roles in his palace guard.
Before he became an early casualty of the anti-corruption drive, Benoît Labonté — a former leader of the opposition at Montreal city hall — was a longtime Martin protégé.” http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1283111–hebert-ghosts-of-quebec-sponsorship-scandal-still-floating-around
Try these gyus.
…-
“Globe Editorial
Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals the best choice for Ontario’s challenges
The Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Oct. 02 2011”
…-
“Globe Editorial: First Take
Once again, Mr. McGuinty: Bring back the Legislature
The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 13 2012”
More cuts to the left-liberal arts.
Tickle Me TVO: “TVO says it will put more resources into “digital innovation in children’s educational media””.
…-
“Television
After nearly 40 years, Saturday Night at the Movies falls to TVO cutbacks”
“Ontario’s publicly funded broadcaster is cutting up to 40 positions and cancelling Saturday Night at the Movies after a nearly four-decade run as part of an effort to save $2-million.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/after-nearly-40-years-saturday-night-at-the-movies-falls-to-tvo-cutbacks/article5231077/
Our Enemy, The State.
…-
“Public service costs to outpace Canada’s economic growth: report”
“Governments must be prepared to address a $93-billion shortfall by 2025 if they hope to keep pace with the needs of the country’s rapidly aging population, a report showed Tuesday” (FP)
…-
“How a vicious circle of self-interest pushed San Bernardino into bankruptcy”
“San Bernardino succumbed to a vicious circle of self-interests among city workers, local politicians and state pension overseers.
Little by little, over many years, the salaries and retirement benefits of San Bernardino’s city workers — and especially its police and firemen — grew richer and richer, even as the city lost its major employers and gradually got poorer and poorer.”
“The journey from prosperous, middle-class community to bankrupt, foreclosure-blighted basket case is straightforward — and alarmingly similar to the path travelled by many California cities” http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/13/how-a-vicious-circle-of-self-interest-pushed-san-bernardino-into-bankruptcy/
“Desertec’s Promise of Solar Power for Europe Fades”
“The Desertec project envisions a significant portion of Europe’s energy coming from solar thermal plants like this one.”
“As recently as three years ago, many thought that it was only a matter of time before solar thermal plants in North Africa supplied a significant portion of Europe’s energy needs. But Desertec has hit a road block. Industrial backers are jumping ship, political will is tepid and a key pilot project has suddenly stalled.”
“Supporters hailed the Desertec Industrial Initiative as the most ambitious solar energy project ever when it was founded in 2009. Major industrial backers pledged active involvement, politicians saw a win-win proposition and environmentalists fawned over Europe’s green energy future. For a projected budget of €400 billion ($560 billion), the venture was to pipe clean solar power from the Sahara Desert through a Mediterranean super-grid to energy-hungry European countries.
Today, a scant three years later, there is still little to show for the project but the ambition.
The list of recent setbacks in daunting.” http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-desertec-solar-energy-project-has-run-into-trouble-a-867077.html
Big Suzuki Foundation Next? Revoke Big Suzuki.
…-
“Taxman revokes status of three charities”
“The Animals’ Charity, based in Hamilton, Ont., was cited for issuing more than $9 million in questionable donation receipts, and for operating in conjunction with a private “donation arrangement promoter” for non-charitable purposes, CRA says.
CRA accuses the Markham, Ont.-based Latitude Foundation of issuing receipts totalling more than $15.4 million for cash it received which it then used to buy life insurance policies that named people related to the organization’s directors as beneficiaries.
Universal Community Help, based in Toronto, failed to keep proper books, CRA says, with the result that bank deposits for one particular fiscal year didn’t match the declared revenue and three years’ worth of donation receipts totalling $347,435 weren’t recorded.” http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/11/13/20353451.html
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/breaking-fbi-is-busting-into-paula-broadwells-home/
Odd that it wasn’t until after the election that this story broke… Gonna get more difficult to keep the details under wraps.
I saw this:
http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/hipsters_food_stamps_pinched/
RE: Stones.
Thanx!
214 million eligible voters
93 million voters [44%]decided to sit the 2012 election out
62.1 million [29%] voted for Obama
58.8 million [27%] voted for Romney
a 1.5% difference of the total eligible voters decided the popular vote, or a 2.7% difference in the votes cast.
I rather doubt that the US election computerized voting systems are that accurate, or that infallibly precise, or secure from tampering.
Electoral districts in cities are reporting blatantly unrealistic returns, 100% turnout or more and all votes for the same candidate. Statistically impossible. If this had happened in another third world country with an African leader the US media would be calling for UN observers and police to guarantee fair and honest elections.
Some countries can’t be trusted to self-police election fraud. In those cases send in the UN and go back to paper ballots and ink stained fingers till they can prove to the international community that they can have a democratic form of government. This is disgraceful in a country that purports to be a democracy.
Osumashi’s 12:27 tip should get it’s own post. Here in a food analogy is Americas fiscal doom. And the participants are oblivious.
north of 60 who is to say if the UN wouldn’t be in on the fraud?
Who cops the cops?
The UN is just as corrupt, is all I’m saying.
d
The same Americans who think the UN should oversee elections in other 3rd world countries with African leaders are OK with it happening at home, as long as their guy wins, is all I’m saying.
It wasn’t about UN competence at policing elections.
Why in the world does anyone admire the Rolling Stones?
They sought and acquired a niche market by representing everything that is obnoxious about the classic spoiled teenager.
“Sympathy for the Devil”?
“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”?
The music is blatantly derivative, the lyrics are moronic.
Just look at them, for Christ’s sake.
Walking, smiling, laughing versions of the Portrait of Dorian Grey.
Socialism: the body/the politic.
“Disabled mother auctions off her non vital organs – including kidneys, corneas and chunk of liver – to pay the rent”
“The new tax is also intensely symbolic. It represents the culmination of a two-decade-long process in which the nation’s most populous state, once a prosperous industrial and high-tech powerhouse and magnet for immigrants from elsewhere in the country, has transformed itself into something else: a high-tax, high-spending, highly regulated, and chronically broke welfare state that is fast losing to out-migration both its middle class and the businesses and industries that create jobs.”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
The State of the Onion.
…-
“Rally in Treasuries Indicates U.S. May Fall Over Fiscal Cliff”
“FBI Searches Home of Woman at Center of Petraeus Departure”
“Bra-Bodysuits Make H&M One Hit Wonder as Zara Prospers”
http://www.bloomberg.com/
Nut alert!
Toronto-area soccer mom wants school’s oak trees cut down because her little darlings might be allergic to acorns
===============
A York Region mother is fighting to have oak trees removed near her child’s school, fearing that acorns could pose a deadly threat to students with severe allergies.
Donna Giustizia said the young trees on property owned by the City of Vaughan next to St. Stephen Catholic Elementary School are littering the area with acorns. The school, meanwhile, is nut-free to protect students with potentially life-threatening anaphylactic allergies.
“A false sense of security is putting a sign on the door that says nut-free and there’s nuts all over the place,” said Giustizia, who has two teenage children with anaphylactic food allergies, one of whom attends St. Stephen.
“I’m not a crazy mom, I’m not asking for anything that’s not already there.”
Linky here
In case you ever need something to induce vomiting, (a Harvard professor’s synopsis of the election camaign issues):
http://scotsman.com/news/analysis-campaign-debate-level-in-us-not-worthy-of-a-great-democracy-1-2628322
In case you ever need something to induce vomiting, (a Harvard professor’s synopsis of the election camaign issues):
http://scotsman.com/news/analysis-campaign-debate-level-in-us-not-worthy-of-a-great-democracy-1-2628322
So, explain to me again why a, um, “majority of Canadians” wanted Obama and the Democrats for another four years?
Maybe because they love the Stones, or something — Tumbling dice, Under my thumb, Playing with fire, Emotional rescue, Ain’t too proud to beg, Let it bleed, Mother’s little helper…
On the other hand, some of us Canadians have a different view — Shattered, It’s all over now, You can’t always get what you want, Time is on my side, Not Fade away, Start me up, Beast of Burden, Get off of my cloud…
At any rate, have a look at:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Obama%2Benergy%2Badviser%2Bsays%2Btime%2Bserious%2Babout%2Bclimate%2Bchange/7521511/story.html
and
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/08/f-fiscal-cliff-canada.html, particularly these statements (which must have slipped by the censor):
“TD notes that U.S. tax hikes have a bigger impact on Canadian exports than spending cuts, which tend to matter more domestically. “This is because Canadian trade with the U.S. is largely concentrated in consumer goods and business investment – items which will likely be hit harder by an increase in taxes,” says TD deputy chief economist Derek Burleton.”
and
“The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has wanted no part of a solution that would see any tax increases.”
So, let’s start a little checklist thingee about what would have better for Canada if Mitt and the GOP had prevailed:
– Keystone XL (and North American energy independence).
– No tax increases (benefit provided above courtesy of Pravda…)
– End to illegal government procurement policies (“Buy American”).
– Free trade (maybe that “North American Security Perimeter” Barbie Doll would actually have emerged as a real person with real lady parts, instead of this “thinkening of the border” boondoggle, including that passport morass).
– “Stimulus” spending that makes sense — like on real infrastructure projects like that new bridge over the Detroit River at Windsor, as opposed to give-aways to the P/S unions.
– Clean up of the Great Lakes (which Mitt would have had a very personal interest in, considering his family had a cottage at Bayfield ON — not 45 minutes by ground transport from where I sit).
– A real US dollar, which is a pretty critical component of any economic policy, at least in my twisted world-view (we can talk another time about how devaluation of the British Pound sunk Africa into a poverty from which they are just now starting to recover — in no small measure due to the efforts of George W. Bush).
Please feel free to add to the list: I am sort of Waiting on a friend.. (or more).
A must-read, via Instapundit:
http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/the-frogmans-prophecies/
Someone from France writes to Americans. It’s too good to excerpt, but here’s a snippet:
“I see cries that “the Republic is dead”, and even claims—shocking claims, for this Americanophile—to burn the flag because “it doesn’t mean anything anymore”.
Old Glory doesn’t mean anything, simply because you woke up last Wednesday to a measly 4 millions popular votes difference? A battle of nearly 121 million voters finds you outnumbered by four and hear, hear: the Republic is dead and the war is lost?
Try and tell that to those Americans who found themselves outnumbered and outgunned by far more disadvantageous enemy ratios, whether in a forest in the Ardennes, a hill in Korea, a valley in Vietnam or a mountain in Afghanistan. Try and tell them you’re considering giving up and burning the flag in despair.
Even though I am just a French, I am quite certain I can predict their reaction.
Once again, you don’t need a lecture from this Frenchman, but it seems to me that some of you, in the emotion of that unexpected electoral defeat, forgot this simple fact: America is always outnumbered.
This unique nation, founded not on feudal or religious fault lines but on a radical philosophy of individual freedom isn’t the norm in this world: it is an anomaly. If you needed a quick and simple reminder on the basis for American exceptionalism, there you go.
America is always outnumbered and, until the rest of the world sees the guiding light and builds shining cities on America’s model—if that day ever comes—America will always be outnumbered.
Yet it doesn’t matter: America’s strength isn’t in numbers, it’s in her soul.
Hear this final prophecy America: only one man can kill the Republic, and it isn’t Barack Obama. The one man who will kill your Republic is the one man who will last give up and renounce it.
Don’t you dare be that man.”
“Revealed: who decides the BBC’s climate change policy”
“Just when you thought the BBC had no more scandals, Guido Fawkes has revealed what the Beeb tried very hard to cover up: the 28 mysterious individuals who have been informing its climate change reporting policy. As a state-funded broadcaster, the BBC has a duty to provide balance. It rejected this on its environmental coverage after taking advice from people in a now-infamous 2006 seminar from people whose identity the BBC was keen to keep secret.
I wrote on Sunday how it had refused FoI requests to reveal those names. But Maurizio Morabito has revealed a list which the BBC cannot describe as a bunch of dispassionate scientists: it’s a veritable who’s who of the green lobby:
Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen”
[…]
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/sebastian-payne/2012/11/revealed-who-decides-the-bbcs-climate-change-policy/
Evidence of voter fraud is very concerning. In both Ohio and Philadelphia, there were precincts with NO votes for Romeny. This is very strange indeed. Here’s more: http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1112/1112electionfraud.htm
I personally am wondering about hacking into the computers collecting results. Those Iranians are very, very smart computer hackers.
Youse tired of reading ’bout this?
More here >>> “underscoring the financial strain all print-based organizations continue to face”.
…-
“Quebecor cuts 500 jobs at Sun Media to trim $45-million”
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/13/quebecor-cuts-500-jobs-at-sun-media-to-trim-45-million-of-costs/
PET Cemetery Report: The Librano$.
…-
“Hamilton: Montreal’s ‘business model’ was all about bribery”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
…-
“Ghosts of Quebec sponsorship scandal still floating around”
“The federal Liberals have yet to sweep away all the Quebec rubble of the sponsorship scandal and now the Charbonneau inquiry is piling on the damage of the Gomery commission.
Because the sponsorship program unravelled on Jean Chrétien’s watch, the 2004 federal inquiry into the spending scandal wreaked havoc in the ranks of his Quebec loyalists.
In time, the fallout did wound Paul Martin’s electoral prospects but ultimately he and his Quebec clan were just the collateral damage of a missile that landed on his predecessor’s faction.
But the tables are turned at the Charbonneau inquiry.
Some of the top municipal figures embroiled in the corruption scandal used to be leading members of Martin’s Quebec coterie. Others served in strategic roles in his palace guard.
Before he became an early casualty of the anti-corruption drive, Benoît Labonté — a former leader of the opposition at Montreal city hall — was a longtime Martin protégé.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1283111–hebert-ghosts-of-quebec-sponsorship-scandal-still-floating-around
Surprise! ‘Unexpected’ fall in revenue leads to balanced federal budget being put off a year. For now.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCABRE8AB19U20121113
We are never going to see a balanced budget with these guys.
Try these gyus.
…-
“Globe Editorial
Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals the best choice for Ontario’s challenges
The Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Oct. 02 2011”
…-
“Globe Editorial: First Take
Once again, Mr. McGuinty: Bring back the Legislature
The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 13 2012”
More cuts to the left-liberal arts.
Tickle Me TVO: “TVO says it will put more resources into “digital innovation in children’s educational media””.
…-
“Television
After nearly 40 years, Saturday Night at the Movies falls to TVO cutbacks”
“Ontario’s publicly funded broadcaster is cutting up to 40 positions and cancelling Saturday Night at the Movies after a nearly four-decade run as part of an effort to save $2-million.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/after-nearly-40-years-saturday-night-at-the-movies-falls-to-tvo-cutbacks/article5231077/
So what’s this Patraeus affair about then? Larry Kudlow and John Batchelor have a 4 minutes conversation…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqL3KXuIKEY&list=FLkNf8o-ad2osEl7JtS1_7XA
maz2, not too tired of readin’ ’bout dis.. I’d prefer it was Torstar doe.
Our Enemy, The State.
…-
“Public service costs to outpace Canada’s economic growth: report”
“Governments must be prepared to address a $93-billion shortfall by 2025 if they hope to keep pace with the needs of the country’s rapidly aging population, a report showed Tuesday” (FP)
…-
“How a vicious circle of self-interest pushed San Bernardino into bankruptcy”
“San Bernardino succumbed to a vicious circle of self-interests among city workers, local politicians and state pension overseers.
Little by little, over many years, the salaries and retirement benefits of San Bernardino’s city workers — and especially its police and firemen — grew richer and richer, even as the city lost its major employers and gradually got poorer and poorer.”
“The journey from prosperous, middle-class community to bankrupt, foreclosure-blighted basket case is straightforward — and alarmingly similar to the path travelled by many California cities”
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/13/how-a-vicious-circle-of-self-interest-pushed-san-bernardino-into-bankruptcy/
“Desertec’s Promise of Solar Power for Europe Fades”
“The Desertec project envisions a significant portion of Europe’s energy coming from solar thermal plants like this one.”
“As recently as three years ago, many thought that it was only a matter of time before solar thermal plants in North Africa supplied a significant portion of Europe’s energy needs. But Desertec has hit a road block. Industrial backers are jumping ship, political will is tepid and a key pilot project has suddenly stalled.”
“Supporters hailed the Desertec Industrial Initiative as the most ambitious solar energy project ever when it was founded in 2009. Major industrial backers pledged active involvement, politicians saw a win-win proposition and environmentalists fawned over Europe’s green energy future. For a projected budget of €400 billion ($560 billion), the venture was to pipe clean solar power from the Sahara Desert through a Mediterranean super-grid to energy-hungry European countries.
Today, a scant three years later, there is still little to show for the project but the ambition.
The list of recent setbacks in daunting.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-desertec-solar-energy-project-has-run-into-trouble-a-867077.html
Big Suzuki Foundation Next? Revoke Big Suzuki.
…-
“Taxman revokes status of three charities”
“The Animals’ Charity, based in Hamilton, Ont., was cited for issuing more than $9 million in questionable donation receipts, and for operating in conjunction with a private “donation arrangement promoter” for non-charitable purposes, CRA says.
CRA accuses the Markham, Ont.-based Latitude Foundation of issuing receipts totalling more than $15.4 million for cash it received which it then used to buy life insurance policies that named people related to the organization’s directors as beneficiaries.
Universal Community Help, based in Toronto, failed to keep proper books, CRA says, with the result that bank deposits for one particular fiscal year didn’t match the declared revenue and three years’ worth of donation receipts totalling $347,435 weren’t recorded.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/11/13/20353451.html
“Taxman revokes status of three charities”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/11/13/20353451.html
LAS @ 12:21 p.m.: “We are never going to see a balanced budget with these guys.”
And it’ll still arrive faster than with any of the other guys.