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  2. Hey we all need something to laugh about.
    Load of mashed potato shuts down English highway
    A section of a highway in North Yorkshire, England, was closed in both directions Saturday after a truck shed its load of instant mashed potato.
    The Press, a newspaper in York, quoted a police spokeswoman as saying, “Instant mash is covering the road and cars have skidded as a result of the mash swelling up.”
    The paper reported that police closed the A 64 in both directions to so that the overturned vehicle could be recovered while the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service cleared the road of mash.
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2014/06/20140621-135433.html

  4. No problem, just learn to do the Mashed Potato
    Changing the topic a bit, has anyone else experienced some pop-up ads starting to appear when on this site in the last few days? I have been regularly getting a pop-up that slides in from the bottom right. Have run CCleaner and Spybot, but they continue to occur.

  5. A funny thing happened on the way to Trinity-spadina.
    Seems one of the shiny pony’s star candidates couldn’t find his voice when asked about his bosses support for Keystone.

  10. Friday, June 20, Toronto Star. Wynne strategist Tim Murphy in a furious battle with reality:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/06/19/wynnes_activist_centre_a_recipe_for_liberal_success.html
    “For much of the last 30 years, the notion that government could be a force for good was in retreat.”
    The purpose of government is to protect individual rights. In order to do this, it has a monopoly on coercion. If a citizen becomes violent, government’s role is to step in and deal with the situation. The initiation of force, for any reason, including by government, is not and can never be “good”.
    “In the face of uncertain economic growth across the industrialized world, increasing pressure on the middle class and growing worries that our children will not do better than we have, the 2014 Ontario election offered a clear choice between those who wanted to bet big on a market first solution and those who believed that we ought to use government as a tool to help. Wynne’s ‘activist centre’ provided a clear governing thesis that should help Wynne’s government knit together a coherent plan for her majority.”
    The cause of that uncertain economic growth and middle class worries is the ongoing massive government waste, which has not in fact been in retreat for 30 years. What Ontarians voted for was an even larger dose of the poison that is killing them.
    “Whether it is support for ‘new economy’ initiatives such as Cisco, agri-business ventures like Dr. Oetker or the automobile sector, Wynne vanquished those who say the only role of government in the economy should be to get out of the way.”
    Government should have no role in the economy. The economy should be run by consumer decisions, not government decisions. Every penny of subsidy comes out of someone else’s pocket.
    One thing Kathleen Wynne said during the campaign is that “actions have consequences”. They certainly do. And the consequences of coercive, interventionist government will be the further destruction of the economy of Ontario, while the overseers continue to loot the productive. This is the reality, and as Ayn Rand said, reality always avenges itself. It really doesn’t matter how many people did or did not vote for it.
    When the supposed new “activist centre” realizes that everybody ripping off everybody else is not a principle upon which to run a province, it will be seen as the mirage that it really is.

  13. Friday, June 20, Globe and Mail. Further to my previous post, Todd Hirsch rather unwittingly demonstrates the probable future for Ontario under Kathleen Wynne:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/a-spanish-lesson-in-economics/article19247160/
    “The spectacular City of Arts and Sciences is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in Valencia constructed on the site of the old port. Seven strikingly modern buildings house an opera house, an aquarium, a planetarium and a science museum. Built to put Valencia on the map of major global tourist destinations, it was a bold vision of a municipal government to invest in public space and cultural institutions.”
    “… most news articles suggest the €1-billion ($1.5-billion) price tag is approximately four times the original estimate. And now, not even a decade old, it’s falling into serious disrepair and aging prematurely. Some buildings are completely empty”
    “Saddest of all is what the complex is lacking: people.”
    “The lesson here is that public infrastructure projects are necessary to promote arts and culture, but they need to be considered carefully in terms of size, scope and cost. They should be beautiful and inspiring, but they cannot become the ego-driven projects of mayors or architects.”
    No, perhaps the lesson here is that “public infrastructure projects” are not necessary to promote arts and culture. Wasteful projects like this have an opportunity cost that impinges on every other area of life, thereby reducing the possibility of cultural advancement.
    And everyone still wonders why Spain’s economy is in the dumper? Multiply this by ten thousand.
    As for “bold visions”, anyone who is plagued by such things ought to put together a business plan and try to take out a bank loan, just like everyone else, rather than just assuming everyone’s incomes are theirs for the taking. Coercive government spending and taxation are not “bold”, they are cowardly and criminal.

  15. Speaking of wannabe PM’s and other politicians, today was day two of our ridings advance polls for a federal byelection. Fort McMurray/Lac La Biche.
    A scrutineer informed me the local resident, running for the GREEN PARTY, tried to vote with no ID, and no voter card. He was not successful, after being told he had to come back with ID.

  16. Tuesday, June 16, National Post, Terence Corcoran fires off a zinger:
    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/16/welcome-to-junk-science-week-xvi/
    Even learned academics fall into line behind the idea of climate “consensus”, he writes.
    Top historian Margaret MacMillan told a Toronto audience recently that a consensus is not likely to occur regarding the origins of World War 1. “The past is not settled”, she said.
    … but …
    About fifteen minutes earlier, she had said there was 90% agreement among scientists regarding global warming, and as a result she was willing to accept that climate change would bring a crisis one hundred years from now.
    Corcoran: “We can have no consensus on the past, but the future is settled.”

  17. I have a program called Ghost, that shows how many pop ups or other sites try to inject themselves into a site. Kate’s site is bar none the cleanest I have seen online.I’m not even exaggerating. She only has the site meter & Twitter button running. Most sites have from 5 to 25 programs running like Double click, google ad sense (lot of google malware or spy ware),eye return marketing,ad zerk,GDn notice,ad supply,open x. In fact there endless.
    This site is clean as a whistle. Do a malware check for pop ups. It ain’t coming from here I can guarantee you. Sounds like you have a pup virus or a tool bar ad on.

  18. PS this is just a list from Drudge , it changes all the time.:
    AdFrontiers
    ADTECH
    Amazon Associates
    AppNexus
    Audience Science
    BlueKai
    CPX Interactive
    Criteo
    DoubleClick
    eProof
    eXelate
    GDN Notice
    Genome
    Ghostery Privacy Notice
    Google Adsense
    Intermarkets
    Lotame
    OpenX
    PubMatic
    Quantcast
    Rubicon
    ScoreCard Research Beacon
    TradeDesk
    Turn
    Twitter Advertising
    VoiceFive

  19. Robert,
    Did you by chance do a Skype update lately? I cleaned two computers this week, both with fake Skype updates . My 80 year old mom bought vitamins from the scammers.
    Malewarebytes fixed them both.
    Also big fan of Ghostary. White listed this site.
    Cheers

  22. Kate’s site has no PUPs. Suggest you install AdBlock Plus, Ghostery and TMN (TrackMeNot.) These add-ons work very well with FireFox; though with IE your mileage may vary. EmsiSoft has a special on their latest anti-malware release – $9.99 for the first year’s subscription. Valid until 2014-06-27

  25. Read my post again. No where do I imply she has any Pups, I would have seen with another program I have. You pick those up at Free TV, movie torrents or porn sites usually.Though I did get 4 from Origin Games. I figure he got an update with an add on tool bar that directs pop ups to him/her. Easy to disable using the tools taskbar . Than going into tool bar & seeing if something does not fit.Than click disable.
    I will say it again. SDA is the cleanest site online. Its a relief actually to come to her blog knowing there are no traps. NONE

  26. Read my post again. No where do I imply she has any Pups, I would have seen with another program I have. You pick those up at Free TV, movie torrents or bad sites usually.Though I did get 4 from Origin Games. I figure he got an update with an add on tool bar that directs pop ups to him/her. Easy to disable using the tools taskbar . Than going into tool bar & seeing if something does not fit.Than click disable.
    I will say it again. SDA is the cleanest site online. Its a relief actually to come to her blog knowing there are no traps. NONE

  28. O’narcissist’s Vietnam/Saigon.
    Al-Mohammed’s Fear; No O’Hope.
    …-
    “Baghdad gripped by fear as ISIS terrorists advance and Iraqis prepare for war
    Montreal Gazette”
    …-
    “Khamenei: Iran opposes US intervention in Iraq
    Obama: Iraq military action futile” (grauniad)

  30. “Europe faces ‘greatest terror threat ever’ from jihadists in Iraq and Syria”
    “A European counter-terrorism official told CNN up to 300 veterans of the Syrian Jihad have already come back to Europe.
    “The threat of attacks has never been greater — not at the time of 9/11, not after the war in Iraq — never,” the European counter-terrorism official told CNN. He envisaged a flood of small-scale but effective and chilling attacks.”
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/19/world/europe/lister-european-jihadists/
    …-
    “Spanish newspaper: Europe got Muslims for Jews”
    “The truth must be told! All European life died in Auschwitz
    By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez*
    I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz.
    We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.
    In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531607/posts

  31. Escalation is the word. Dangerous is the modifier.
    …-
    “IDF strikes nine Syrian targets in response to missile attack”
    “The 14 year-old-boy killed in the original attack was Muhammad Karaka, of the lower Galilee village of Arrabe, whose father Fahmi, a contractor, was wounded in the attack. Karaka had been accompanying his father on his first day off school for the summer vacation.”
    http://www.jpost.com/Defense/IAF-strikes-targets-in-Syria-in-response-to-cross-border-missile-attack-360222

  32. Mao* Strong Report.
    “Around 2,000 dogs were thought to have been consumed on Saturday.”
    …-
    “Dog-Eating Festival Goes Ahead Despite Heavy Protests”
    “Animal activists swooped in and bought as many dogs as possible before they were eaten at a controversial festival in China.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3171038/posts
    *Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.

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