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  5. Hehehe! That’s the beauty of passing and having left behind a body of work like RBs. We can always pull out a dog eared and yellow old paperback and he’s still right here.

  7. That is a great mom for that pup to emulate. We must always keep in mind that cats are much better at landing on their feet than dogs. A cat, after all, is not another specie of dog…they are cats. Its kind of like comparing a dog to a horse or any other animal for that matter.
    This from that rare person who loves both dogs and cats.

  9. I like ’em both too, bob. I was always a dog person, but then I was adopted against my will by a barn cat, who I came to be very fond of.
    Like you said, they’re just different.

  12. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/10/senate-mp-expenses-politi_n_3415818.html
    As we get worked up about unreceipted expenses, should we not consider the cost to taxpayers of filing the paperwork on those expenses as well as monitoring receipts for such expenses? You may conclude that allowing MPs and Senators $90 per day for food etc. is too much money; fine, then cut it down to $75 (or whatever figure you like), but please don’t waste my money paying Hill staffers to file receipts for Meghan Leslie’s pomegranate smoothie and Christine Moore’s poutine and even more of it hiring an army of staffers to examine the receipts.
    Why not stick to the serious issues like double-billing, misuse of ministerial authority to exempt MPs from spending limits, billing the government for a variety of inappropriate expenses? Journalists may enjoy ascertaining the cost of an MPs lunch at the Keg, but that’s because they would otherwise have to work on stories that demand serious work and a modicum of knowledge, but it quickly becomes tiresome and distracting for everyone else. We can be pretty certain that even an MP who produces receipts for every expense *and* remains within his or her per diem limit, will wake up to an article by a smart-arsed journalist raising serious “concerns” about an MP who bought an expensive orange juice or who had the steak at Hooters or ordered *both* fries and rice.
    Many businesses and other organizations have found it far more efficient to set a reasonable per diem figure, document the days that the employee could claim it, and pay the money. If the employee gets $50 per day, it shouldn’t occupy that much of our attention if Martin spends it all at Hy’s and Marsha just has soup at Bridgehead spends the rest on hair product.

  13. Yesterday on the CTV show “West Block”, Justin was blathering on about the senate and other topics. It was tough to follow his line of thought. Today the transcript is up.His last sentence here is baffling.
    On senate reform;
    ” Quebec and Ontario have 24 seats each, and BC and Alberta only have six each. And the issue comes that if you abolish the Senate outright like Mr. Mulcair is proposing; you know Eastern provinces are disadvantaged. But if you elect the Senate according to the seat distribution, the Western provinces are disadvantaged. So Mr. Harper is actually going to disadvantage if you suddenly elect the six Alberta senators because the weight and the legitimacy of elected senators from the East will drown out the Senate seats from the West.”
    Nathan Cullen on Justin’s ‘accountability and transparency’;
    ” We’ve got to look at it but Mr. Trudeau has got to be careful because he’s also not answered questions about how he travelled to all these expensive events where he got paid a lot of money for. Did he do it on the taxpayer dime? He won’t tell us.”
    http://globalnews.ca/news/626735/transcript-episode-40-june-9/

  14. Roseberry,I went to the Huffpost link. In their article they mention the “West Block” program and even quote Nathan Cullen. Somehow they overlooked his comment about Justin’s expenses.
    Hmmm,could they be a left-leaning site?

  16. Story on ctv newsnet about private schools and the increase in enrollment.
    Of course they did concentrate on the cost over 12 years, however they couldn’t ignore the main reason parents where taking their kids out of the public system, “less political” they called it, but the truth was apparent when they interviewed the parents. It was about the constant job actions disrupting class time and a curriculum that was inadequate and out of touch.
    I got the gist from the story that the private school wasn’t teaching gender identity.

  18. This morning I found the following rather interesting. Reference to this site may have appeared here before, but if so, I have not noticed it.
    There is a lot of great information here, including the film “The Global Warming Swindle”, and a good CNBC interview.
    THE HOCKEY SCHTICK
    Monday, June 10, 2013
    Climate scientist Dr. Murry Salby explains why man-made CO2 does not drive climate change
    Climate scientist Dr. Murry Salby, Professor and Climate Chair at Macquarie University, Australia explains in a recent, highly-recommended lecture presented at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany, why man-made CO2 is not the driver of atmospheric CO2 or climate change. Dr. Salby demonstrates:
    http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.ca/2013/06/climate-scientist-dr-murry-salby.html?NewsWatchCanada.ca

  20. O’narcissist’s I-SPY Metadata Mother Of All Scandals: Beyond Watergate.
    …-
    “‘Significant revelations’ coming soon from NSA leaks: Journalist who broke the story”
    ““We are going to have a lot more significant revelations that have not yet been heard over the next several weeks and months,” said Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.
    Greenwald told The Associated Press the decision was being made on when to release the next story based on the information provided by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old employee of government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who has been accused by U.S. Senate intelligence chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California of committing an “act of treason” that should be prosecuted.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/11/significant-revelations-coming-soon-from-nsa-leaks-journalist-who-broke-the-story/

  21. “Data Scientists Led by NASA Star Most Sought for Century: Jobs”
    “The jobs all come from her command of statistics,”.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-11/data-scientists-led-by-nasa-star-most-sought-for-century-jobs.html
    …-
    “The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times”
    “Quick Overview
    This is one of Guénon’s most important books. It considers how modern philosophy and science, and their accompanying notions of progress and evolution, have eroded traditional society, placing quantity (e.g., wealth, mass production) above quality (e.g., wisdom, the crafts), and the material above the spiritual.”
    http://www.arktos.com/rene-guenon-the-reign-of-quantity-and-the-signs-of-the-times.html

  22. O’narcissist then and now.
    Ich Bin Ein O’zymandias Der O’Wall Ist Fallen.
    …-
    Then: January 6, 2008.
    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/germanys-got-a-crush-on-obama/
    …-
    Now:
    “Cyber-snooping backlash builds in Berlin before Obama’s JFK trip”
    “Merkel’s spokesman has said she will raise the issue with Obama in talks next Wednesday. That could cast a cloud over the visit, designed to celebrate U.S.-German ties on the 50th anniversary of a famous speech in which President John F. Kennedy declared: “Ich bin ein Berliner”.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2013/06/11/20890596.html

  23. “Tesla is a ‘lemon’ without a cheaper battery: Barron’s”
    “Tesla’s stock was down 2.5% to below $99.33 in the first minutes of trading today. This is well off its closing high of $110.33.
    This comes after Bill Alpert at Barron’s wrote that Tesla’s Model S “owes its better-than-200-mile range to batteries costing tens of thousands of dollars.”
    Tesla needs to drastically cut battery costs by 2016 when it plans to launch a car that is more affordable. “If Tesla’s next-generation car can’t go the distance at half the price, its stock will head much lower,” Alpert wrote.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/10/tesla-is-a-lemon-without-a-cheaper-battery-barrons/
    …-
    Tesla’s Musk: AGW Slayer.
    “he fights planetary threats like global warming by creating spacecraft and zero-emissions cars that shame NASA and the auto giants.”
    http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748703578204578523303280053948.html?mod=BOL_hpp_highlight_top#articleTabs_article%3D1

  25. “Tesla is a ‘lemon’ without a cheaper battery: Barron’s”
    “Tesla’s stock was down 2.5% to below $99.33 in the first minutes of trading today. This is well off its closing high of $110.33.
    This comes after Bill Alpert at Barron’s wrote that Tesla’s Model S “owes its better-than-200-mile range to batteries costing tens of thousands of dollars.”
    Tesla needs to drastically cut battery costs by 2016 when it plans to launch a car that is more affordable. “If Tesla’s next-generation car can’t go the distance at half the price, its stock will head much lower,” Alpert wrote.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/10/tesla-is-a-lemon-without-a-cheaper-battery-barrons/
    …-
    Tesla’s Musk: AGW Slayer.
    “he fights planetary threats like global warming by creating spacecraft and zero-emissions cars that shame NASA and the auto giants.”
    urlm.in/rpkl

  26. Of course they are a left-wing site, but they are regularly quoted by the great and the good in Canada’s mainstream media, and contribute to this prurient interest in how MPs spend every penny of their expenses. If Eve Adams, for example, wanted to scrimp on lunch in order to get her hair and nails done, that would still cost us less than the bureaucracy involved in preventing her from doing so or “exposing” her for doing so. Now if Larry Miller was doing it, I’d want an independent judicial inquiry.

  29. This is a live feed from Turkey. I’m having a bit of problems with it though.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/10114185/Watch-live-clashes-in-Istanbuls-Taksim-Square.html
    The Turkish protesters are taking a beating. Nothing to do with the Islam or plans to build the world’s largest mosque though. If it was Eric Margolis, would have said so in his CBC interview. He says it is just far-right and far-left radicals feeling their oats because it is spring,or something like that.

  30. Of Our Enemy, The State.
    S’course, leftists say. It’s for the children.
    H/T O’bama narcissist.
    …-
    “It Is Past Time To Kill “Just One Child” (But It Is Probably Too Late and You Don’t Have The Guts)”
    “You see, for generations now you have collectively built and nurtured a massive, living, metabolizing creature. From the inanimate, intellectual detritus of “progressivism” and your unending and increasingly all-consuming narcissism you have kneaded it into a shapeless husk, pouring in rank mud like “Save the Planet,” “Global Warming,” “The American Dream of Home Ownership,” “The War on Drugs”, “Mothers Against Drunk Driving”, “The War On Terror”, “Speculators”, “Too Big To Fail”, “The 1%”, and of course the essence and spark of its life, “…if it saves just one child.” In conjunction with (but far more so than the other buckets of intellectual mud) “…if it saves just one child” has created the Golem of Government.”
    “So what if the Golem collects years of data on your household spending, and peeks at credit card and bank records now and then if you get to keep $9,000 more of your hard-earned money every year? No?
    And, really, what do you have to hide? Most of your life is out in the open already, right? Ok, now and again maybe you trip over an unwise photo of yourself on Facebook, or find yourself rushing to delete an errant Tweet or two- but you were just a little bit over-served and who can blame you for that now and again? Your employer? Let them try. You’ll appeal to the Golem, of course. You’ll sue, as is your right. In fact, should anything damaging emerge in the ether you are certain you’ll have recourse. And why not? Otherwise your pride, your reputation, your feelings would mortally wounded, wouldn’t they? And by a thoughtless, malicious third party to boot. Isn’t that precisely what the Golem is there to prevent?”
    http://finemrespice.com/node/128

  31. “NDP wants Trudeau to open his books”
    “NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen introduced a motion Tuesday to counter a Liberal proposal to usher in transparency rules in the Commons by pushing MPs to partially open their books in response to the Senate spending scandal.
    The Grit proposal failed to win unanimous consent, but the NDP motion carried to give the board of internal economy a mandate to snoop.”
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/06/20130611-180228.html?NewsWatchCanada.ca

  32. WOW, Justin may be dirty ?????
    Who would have thought that a close look at a pedigree on a pedestal might reveal a bit of ‘nasty’ attached to its underbelly?
    Thanks maz2,that made my day.

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