Perhaps she’s talking about the Irish or other European immigrants because slaves as she’s identifying with couldn’t build much more than mud huts at the time. The true slaves were the taxpayers that had to pay. Slaves did help lay the foundation and were paid for their labor but listening to Michelle , she seems to imply that slave labor built the White House. Revisionist history comes easy to the Obama’s. They helped Michelle, that’s all. They helped and were paid for their help like everyone else. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/First-Lady–381799061.html
If you look at what the Harper government did between 2009 and 2015, they followed this plan.
Total government spending in billions:
2015 – 288.9
2014 – 279.2
2013 – 282.6
2012 – 276.1
2011 – 276.0
2010 – 280.5
2009 – 274.2
Essentially no change over 7 years.
During that time, revenue grew from 218 to 290 billion.
And that, folks, is how Flaherty and Harper balanced the budget. They were not fools, and deserve more credit that the article you quote gives them.
From the “Its worse than we thought” department. PNAS sez. . .
This comment has been followed in PNAS by the reply by Strauss, Kulp & Levermann [6] for a perfect agreement on the urgent climate action now in the United States in the form of further prevention and further mitigation because of the agreed prospect of up to 9.9 meters sea level rise by 2,100.
Baltimore, MD – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected.
Wonder when Ann Coulter will get an apology from the nuclear fear mongers. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-isnt-the-real-risk.html?_r=2
This spring, four years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, a small group of scientists met in Tokyo to evaluate the deadly aftermath.
No one has been killed or sickened by the radiation — a point confirmed last month by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even among Fukushima workers, the number of additional cancer cases in coming years is expected to be so low as to be undetectable, a blip impossible to discern against the statistical background noise.
But about 1,600 people died from the stress of the evacuation — one that some scientists believe was not justified by the relatively moderate radiation levels at the Japanese nuclear plant.
It’s easy to criticize the decision to evacuate 5 years after the fact. At the time, though, it was better to be safe than sorry. The power station operators had severe problems getting the reactors under control, largely because of the conditions they were operating under.
The station designers never foresaw that a tsunami would ever be as high as it was, let alone that the backup gensets would be flooded with seawater. As a result, the operators lost auxiliary power, some of which would have been used by cooling pumps, allowing the reactors to be safely shut down.
As well, hydrogen gas was forming inside the reactor buildings, sometimes exploding. From what I understand, the operators were uncertain as to how much and how fast the gas was produced, much like the Three Mile Island operators were. One concern would have been how much damage such an explosion could cause and whether it would breach the building walls.
foobert: Re: Rising seas.
In 2008, I visited Sydney, New South wales, Australia. Bare Island sits near La Perouse, a park and natural attraction since the days when Botany Bay was filled with British sailing ships.
Atop Bare Island sits a British Fort. The Island is solid rock, the Fort was built in the late 1880’s but was made obsolete by 1902. There’s a interesting set of circumstances that surrounded government corruption during the construction. (See story.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_Island_(New_South_Wales)
On the northern edge of the island, an opening was cut in the stone to accommodate small rowboats that were unloaded from nearby ships. The passengers could simply tie the boats and step out from the boat onto the stone and up to the fort. During the tour, I asked the guide, a park warden, if indeed the seas were rising, why it was that the level of the water hadn’t changed from the 1880’s when the makeshift dock was carved in the stone. He didn’t know the answer. (Most likely, because there weren’t any rising seas.) If you enter ”Bare Island, NSW” on google earth, the opening in the stone is beside the boardwalk where it meets the island. Hard to see, but it’s there.
“let alone that the backup gensets would be flooded with seawater. ”
of course not, the idiots should never have changed the original design, sticking them in the basement was for convenience, not to be safe or practical. In the past I’v had to work with some of these idiots called engineers. I always maintain that and engineer should have to work in the field before they are allowed to design any thing.
Official Fukushima Report Blames Japanese Culture, Not Nuclear Power
“nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant was a “profoundly man-made disaster.” The “enormous amount of radioactive material” that was emitted into the environment, the study found, was the result of human negligence, rather than a natural disaster … The Commission …finding that the nuclear meltdown was avoidable. “This was a disaster ‘Made in Japan,'” the report states. “Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with the program’; our groupism; and our insularity.” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/official-fukushima-report-blames-japanese-culture-not-nuclear-power/259665/
Some 2015 Muslim”refugees” plan Paris size/style Islamist jihadi attack in Germany.
This is news? If there were no jihadi plots to attack. Now that would be news.
—————————————————————————— http://www.thelocal.de/20160603/dsseldorf-terror-plot-bigger-than-previously-realized
Düsseldorf terror plot ‘bigger than previously realized’
Published: 03 Jun 2016 15:39 GMT+02:00
The Isis plot to attacks the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia was bigger than previously assumed, with ten terrorists supposed to murder people with bombs and guns, local media report.
Four arrested over Isis plot to attack Düsseldorf (02 Jun 16)
‘Salafist’ Sikh temple bombers were known to police (02 Jun 16)
According to Spiegel, a suspect in police custody has admitted to authorities that ten people were supposed to be involved in the plot.
On Thursday three men were arrested in Düsseldorf, after a fourth plot member had turned himself in to authorities in Paris in February.
Three of the men, all of them Syrian nationals are alleged to have arrived in Germany in 2015 along the Balkan route, the route taken by refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. …
(see link above for the rest of the article)
Come to Ontario/Wynne-tario and get carbonated as it slowly erodes into the abyss with her carbon pricing, cap and trade whatever crap….biggest farce ever and all about grabbing more of our money to cover government waste. It’s not working in California,Ontario has more debt than they do as well.
How long before voters wake up? What’s it going to take?
Well to quote her husband “You didn’t build that” sure is all about race all the time, as she wakes up with 40 personal staff that cater to her every whim.
No wonder poor little Snuffy (Sophie) is jealous.
I don’t know the details about the power station layout or the design decisions that were made. Locating the gensets in the basement was unwise, though it may not have been what the engineers recommended.
Having been an engineer in industry for several years, I had to contend with all manner of requirements and constraints and not all of them logical or rational.
I’ve dealt with clients that insisted on doing things their way–after all they were the ones signing the cheques–even though I recommended a better way of doing them.
I’ve had managers overrule me on certain matters when I suggested better, faster, and cheaper ways of solving the problems. Guess who got blamed when what I predicted would happen actually did? (The reason I was held responsible? I didn’t try hard enough to convince them, of course.) I may have fulfilled my obligations as a professional engineer, but that didn’t prevent those same managers of concocting reasons for having me sacked to pay for their poor decisions.
I’ve also inherited work from other engineers and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why some of them made decisions that didn’t make a lot of sense. And, yes, I did a lot of things that, in hindsight, I could have done better, but I also learned from them.
I agree, though, that many engineers should spend time in the field or on a shop floor. Mind you, I might be biased. Both of my parents were journeymen and I spent 3 undergraduate summers in an oil refinery, one of which was with the maintenance crews. I’m sure I can still cut and thread pipe if I had to.
Liz;
The Ontario Liebels have been re-elected how many times now? Debt now exceeds $300 billion. No serious plan in place to stop the bleeding as Wynn brags about another $50 billion in deficit spending.
I think the West should take a page from the Trump campaign and ban the economic refugees from Ontario and Quebec when the inevitable collapse happens.
I think it will happen if not by design by necessity, the West can’t handle any more and be expected to pay ransom called “Equalization”, another bit of stupidity that is or will soon die of “natural causes”.
CBC’s Ian MacDonald is hosting a school reunion this month, in Ottawa.
No, I will not be attending….. gaaawwd.
Amongst the nostalgia and farewell to Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali – a lesson for Hillary at no charge:
“I was on vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and saw an ad in the local paper. Ali, by then almost a decade into his battle with Parkinson’s disease, was still making about 100 public appearances a year, every one of them for charity, this particular event for the Special Olympics.” http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-muhammad-ali-faced-the-world-with-selflessness-and-bravery
Here in Sask., Premier Wall is doing his level best at belt-tightening largely due to a downturn in revenue and is, predictably being vilified by the usual left-leaning suspects. So Saskatchewan is being responsible economically and Saskatchewanians are being asked to do with less while Ontario and Quebec continue their crazy spending and show not one iota of fiscal restraint. Yet equalization payments continue to flow eastward as the idiots are rewarded for irresponsible behaviour and those trying to live within their means are paying for it. If this doesn’t qualify for the title of the most f*cked-up system in the world, then nothing does.
No doubt about it, the system is as you described and no sign or hope of any political interest in changing it. However, the National Anthem is a great concern for some Liberals,changing the wording at the request of an ailing Liberal is bound to garner more support, that and the sheer stupidity of it is really beyond the pale.
What if Saskatchewan did something different?
Like collecting income tax at the provincial level, on “behalf” of the Feds.
Then held that money in trust, until equalization is fixed.
By fixed I mean just give Rat chel Notley enough time to bankrupt Alberta, so that only BC and Saskatchewan are contributing.
Some scheme, but until Western Canada wakes up to this fraud, Notley is actually a plus.
How does equalization work with most of the nation on the take?
As I explain to people:
Tsunami 50,000
Nuclear reactor 0.
We should call equalization payments what they really are: tribute. After all, those are regular payments made by one region to another, almost as if western Canada is conquered and occupied by you-know-where.
Since there is evidence that this whole thing is absurd, why are there certain parties that maintain and persist with it?
As unpalatable as equalization payments are, they would be much easier to swallow if the recipients would at least make an effort to get their financial houses in order. As it now stands, the so-called “have-nots” continue to operate their lavish social programs and spend money foolishly on pet projects. All the while responsible governments continue to shovel out the cash at the expense of their own citizens.
That’s just it, Equalization can’t work with most provinces on the take. If the concept is sharing the wealth, it can’t be done without robbing it from somewhere. I have no faith in the present government to figure this out without adding to the deficit. They will want to buck up their favs, Ontario and Quebec, they don’t need to worry about the Atlantic provinces, they’re Liberals forever. The Jackasses responsible for working to shut down the hands that feed Equalization in favour of pie in the sky green energy stupidity
are responsible for the problem.
Equalization should be done like dinner, we should demand it be so. Provinces need to be more responsible, no more bailouts for reckless spending knowing they’ll get bailed out by Equalization handouts. Craziest scheme ever. As has been said here many times “we need a famine”.
The have-not regions are like bratty teenagers with credit cards whose parents pay the bills. So long as some other part of the country will cover the costs, those parts of the country have no incentive to stop.
Mind you, there are certain provincial governments that behave the same way.
If we do have a famine, will craggy old whiner Neil Young and some of his like minded twits and half wits come up from his lavish abode(s) in Californ-i-a and do a live aid?
Shamrock – Although I love most of what Christie Blatchford has to say about most things political, she seems incapable of rational thought whenever she sees a man with his shirt off. I found the fact that Ali abandoned his Christian faith so as to get out of doing his time in the draft, to be cowardly, and especially so, considering what faith he chose to become. Besides he was crude, a braggart and obnoxious most of the time, and although many would say he was putting it all on – I myself, am not so sure! Give him credit for what charity he may have supported over the years.
In the more than 40 years I’ve been plying my trade, I’ve seen the most significant changes for the worst in the past decade. The engineering designs are increasingly flawed, and in many cases just don’t work as designed, regardless of how it’s ‘tweaked’. The youngest crop of ‘engineers’ are more arrogant and inexperienced than ever before, and this is particularly true if they’re immigrant, female or Quebec-french.
The quality of equipment has also declined substantially, with more and more cases of equipment not meeting spec. The quality of workmanship for installation and construction is quite variable. The best work is by small local companies with established reputations and a sense of local pride to uphold. The worst work is by bigger contractors from Outside who bring in their own crews and generally leave with the work incomplete or slipshod with ‘corner cutting’.
Now that I’m semi-retired I only take on jobs that are well designed by competent, reasonable engineers I know. The others are not worth the hassle involved.
I have to agree with you.
When I was an undergrad 40 years ago, most of my profs had some industrial experience or were doing research in related areas.
In the early 1980s, a major change took place. Engineering professors were being hired fresh out of graduate school with little or no time in industry. I noticed the difference when I returned to university in the early ’90s to continue my grad studies. Many of the younger profs may have been knowledgeable about the subjects they taught but they clearly lacked a practical insight. I was frequently frustrated at how they taught their material as they often didn’t present it in a way that an experience engineer would do things.
Despite that, I still managed to get my Ph. D.
But I also noticed how many of the engineering students I dealt with were completely clueless about how things worked. When I was a schoolboy, I took things apart just to see what was inside them. Sometimes I managed to put them back together and, if I was lucky, they might have even worked.
I don’t see that any more. I doubt that many of them know how to use even the simplest hand tools, such as a pair of pliers or a wire stripper but they know all about doing fancy-schmancy stuff with their smartphones such as making Youtube videos or some such thing.
Maybe I’m a dinosaur past his prime.
Part and parcel of the cultural Marxist agenda of supplanting the father/mother family unit with the state as father/mother. Has been so since October 1917.
Btw Lance, thanks for the Byzantine history video. Throughout the video you can see the parallels with western liberal democracy and western liberal democracy will end the same way.
I doubt that many of them know how to use even the simplest hand tools, such as a pair of pliers or a wire stripper but they know all about doing fancy-schmancy stuff with their smartphones such as making Youtube videos or some such thing.
Take away their smartphones or laptops and many are dumb as rocks. They can’t think beyond the edges of their computer screens.
If push comes to shove, as it often does, I can still use my slide-rule by candlelight.
Most of them don’t even know what a slide-rule is, much less how to use one for even the most basic calculations.
Ah, another one who knows how to use a slip stick! I started using mine again when I wrote my last amateur radio exam as I wasn’t allowed to use a programmable calculator. A wonderful device!
Two years ago, I offered to volunteer my services to a group of university students working on an amateur radio project. Not only am I an experience ham, I also have a background in the application for that apparatus.
I had some serious questions about what they were doing, thinking that they might appreciate my comments and (legitimate) criticisms. When I was their age, I would have gladly welcomed such advice from a silverback greybeard engineer like I am now. If that person had seen something wrong, I would have greatly appreciated any insights as to how to fix it. I figured someone like that had a lot to teach me and it wasn’t my place to overrule or contradict them. They were older than me, had more experience, possibly more education, and were probably smarter as well.
I had only 3 sessions with them and that was it. I never heard from them again.
They may succeed in building the thing and actually getting it in place, but it won’t be because of my efforts. For all I know, the project’s run aground. If it has, let them figure out how to get it going again.
They had their chance and they blew it.
As I call them ‘f**cking milennials’
Liz, the voters will never wake up. Canadians want something for nothing and most are more than happy to take it from someone else. they figure THEY will never have to repay or pay anything.
Perhaps she’s talking about the Irish or other European immigrants because slaves as she’s identifying with couldn’t build much more than mud huts at the time. The true slaves were the taxpayers that had to pay. Slaves did help lay the foundation and were paid for their labor but listening to Michelle , she seems to imply that slave labor built the White House. Revisionist history comes easy to the Obama’s. They helped Michelle, that’s all. They helped and were paid for their help like everyone else.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/First-Lady–381799061.html
A new strategy for fiscal conservatives…follow these 6 principles in order the win. http://www.poletical.com/a-fiscal-conservative-strategy.php
New strategies for fiscal conservatives…
http://www.poletical.com/a-fiscal-conservative-strategy.php
Seems logical but it still doesn’t give me a lot of confidence that they won’t figure out a way to override it.
https://www.rt.com/viral/345449-google-robot-uprising-kill-switch/
If you look at what the Harper government did between 2009 and 2015, they followed this plan.
Total government spending in billions:
2015 – 288.9
2014 – 279.2
2013 – 282.6
2012 – 276.1
2011 – 276.0
2010 – 280.5
2009 – 274.2
Essentially no change over 7 years.
During that time, revenue grew from 218 to 290 billion.
And that, folks, is how Flaherty and Harper balanced the budget. They were not fools, and deserve more credit that the article you quote gives them.
From the “Its worse than we thought” department.
PNAS sez. . .
Year 2,100 or 2,100 years from now???
And not only that, but:
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovers universe expanding faster than expected
/lookingforwaytoblamethisonglobalwarming
Some interesting comments on electoral reform:
http://www.poletical.com/electoral-reform-canada-maryam-monsef.php
Don’t know what you do with this but depending on how it happens this could be the biggest story of the decade. Most media is ignoring it as it doesn’t fit well with their progressive agenda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-ignore-venezuelas-imminent-implosion-at-our-peril/2016/05/01/f8e33d96-0d50-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html?tid=a_inl
Wonder when Ann Coulter will get an apology from the nuclear fear mongers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-isnt-the-real-risk.html?_r=2
This spring, four years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, a small group of scientists met in Tokyo to evaluate the deadly aftermath.
No one has been killed or sickened by the radiation — a point confirmed last month by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even among Fukushima workers, the number of additional cancer cases in coming years is expected to be so low as to be undetectable, a blip impossible to discern against the statistical background noise.
But about 1,600 people died from the stress of the evacuation — one that some scientists believe was not justified by the relatively moderate radiation levels at the Japanese nuclear plant.
old lori: Re: Harper record.
They didn’t have time to praise the Harper government. The Liberals were too busy working on this story! I didn’t think you could get an award for running Liberal ads!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rtdna-awards-2016-mansbridge-1.3616934
It’s easy to criticize the decision to evacuate 5 years after the fact. At the time, though, it was better to be safe than sorry. The power station operators had severe problems getting the reactors under control, largely because of the conditions they were operating under.
The station designers never foresaw that a tsunami would ever be as high as it was, let alone that the backup gensets would be flooded with seawater. As a result, the operators lost auxiliary power, some of which would have been used by cooling pumps, allowing the reactors to be safely shut down.
As well, hydrogen gas was forming inside the reactor buildings, sometimes exploding. From what I understand, the operators were uncertain as to how much and how fast the gas was produced, much like the Three Mile Island operators were. One concern would have been how much damage such an explosion could cause and whether it would breach the building walls.
foobert: Re: Rising seas.
In 2008, I visited Sydney, New South wales, Australia. Bare Island sits near La Perouse, a park and natural attraction since the days when Botany Bay was filled with British sailing ships.
Atop Bare Island sits a British Fort. The Island is solid rock, the Fort was built in the late 1880’s but was made obsolete by 1902. There’s a interesting set of circumstances that surrounded government corruption during the construction. (See story.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_Island_(New_South_Wales)
On the northern edge of the island, an opening was cut in the stone to accommodate small rowboats that were unloaded from nearby ships. The passengers could simply tie the boats and step out from the boat onto the stone and up to the fort. During the tour, I asked the guide, a park warden, if indeed the seas were rising, why it was that the level of the water hadn’t changed from the 1880’s when the makeshift dock was carved in the stone. He didn’t know the answer. (Most likely, because there weren’t any rising seas.) If you enter ”Bare Island, NSW” on google earth, the opening in the stone is beside the boardwalk where it meets the island. Hard to see, but it’s there.
“let alone that the backup gensets would be flooded with seawater. ”
of course not, the idiots should never have changed the original design, sticking them in the basement was for convenience, not to be safe or practical. In the past I’v had to work with some of these idiots called engineers. I always maintain that and engineer should have to work in the field before they are allowed to design any thing.
Official Fukushima Report Blames Japanese Culture, Not Nuclear Power
“nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant was a “profoundly man-made disaster.” The “enormous amount of radioactive material” that was emitted into the environment, the study found, was the result of human negligence, rather than a natural disaster … The Commission …finding that the nuclear meltdown was avoidable. “This was a disaster ‘Made in Japan,'” the report states. “Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with the program’; our groupism; and our insularity.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/official-fukushima-report-blames-japanese-culture-not-nuclear-power/259665/
Some 2015 Muslim”refugees” plan Paris size/style Islamist jihadi attack in Germany.
This is news? If there were no jihadi plots to attack. Now that would be news.
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http://www.thelocal.de/20160603/dsseldorf-terror-plot-bigger-than-previously-realized
Düsseldorf terror plot ‘bigger than previously realized’
Published: 03 Jun 2016 15:39 GMT+02:00
The Isis plot to attacks the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia was bigger than previously assumed, with ten terrorists supposed to murder people with bombs and guns, local media report.
Four arrested over Isis plot to attack Düsseldorf (02 Jun 16)
‘Salafist’ Sikh temple bombers were known to police (02 Jun 16)
According to Spiegel, a suspect in police custody has admitted to authorities that ten people were supposed to be involved in the plot.
On Thursday three men were arrested in Düsseldorf, after a fourth plot member had turned himself in to authorities in Paris in February.
Three of the men, all of them Syrian nationals are alleged to have arrived in Germany in 2015 along the Balkan route, the route taken by refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. …
(see link above for the rest of the article)
Plainsdrifter
Thanks for that – I haven’t seen it in our Oz discussions on same
And try this for our selection of leaders in the upcoming federal election
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/06/the-three-stooges-not-what-australia-needs-at-the-next-election-thanks-to-reader-td-for-the-photo.html
“Gardiner and Don Valley closed because of the…
“Cyclist ride on the Gardiner Expressway during the a Becel Ride for Heart event.” (insideTO)
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“Eating fat is good for you: Doctors change their minds after 40 years”
“Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra says the obsession with a low-fat diet has “paradoxically increased” the risk of heart disease.”
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/438600/Eating-fat-is-good-for-you-Doctors-change-their-minds-after-40-years
I guess they dont bother fact checking 🙂
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/06/04/islamophobia-runs-deeper-than-failed-tory-election-tactics.html
Come to Ontario/Wynne-tario and get carbonated as it slowly erodes into the abyss with her carbon pricing, cap and trade whatever crap….biggest farce ever and all about grabbing more of our money to cover government waste. It’s not working in California,Ontario has more debt than they do as well.
How long before voters wake up? What’s it going to take?
Well to quote her husband “You didn’t build that” sure is all about race all the time, as she wakes up with 40 personal staff that cater to her every whim.
No wonder poor little Snuffy (Sophie) is jealous.
I don’t know the details about the power station layout or the design decisions that were made. Locating the gensets in the basement was unwise, though it may not have been what the engineers recommended.
Having been an engineer in industry for several years, I had to contend with all manner of requirements and constraints and not all of them logical or rational.
I’ve dealt with clients that insisted on doing things their way–after all they were the ones signing the cheques–even though I recommended a better way of doing them.
I’ve had managers overrule me on certain matters when I suggested better, faster, and cheaper ways of solving the problems. Guess who got blamed when what I predicted would happen actually did? (The reason I was held responsible? I didn’t try hard enough to convince them, of course.) I may have fulfilled my obligations as a professional engineer, but that didn’t prevent those same managers of concocting reasons for having me sacked to pay for their poor decisions.
I’ve also inherited work from other engineers and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why some of them made decisions that didn’t make a lot of sense. And, yes, I did a lot of things that, in hindsight, I could have done better, but I also learned from them.
I agree, though, that many engineers should spend time in the field or on a shop floor. Mind you, I might be biased. Both of my parents were journeymen and I spent 3 undergraduate summers in an oil refinery, one of which was with the maintenance crews. I’m sure I can still cut and thread pipe if I had to.
Liz;
The Ontario Liebels have been re-elected how many times now? Debt now exceeds $300 billion. No serious plan in place to stop the bleeding as Wynn brags about another $50 billion in deficit spending.
I think the West should take a page from the Trump campaign and ban the economic refugees from Ontario and Quebec when the inevitable collapse happens.
I think it will happen if not by design by necessity, the West can’t handle any more and be expected to pay ransom called “Equalization”, another bit of stupidity that is or will soon die of “natural causes”.
CBC’s Ian MacDonald is hosting a school reunion this month, in Ottawa.
No, I will not be attending….. gaaawwd.
Amongst the nostalgia and farewell to Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali – a lesson for Hillary at no charge:
“I was on vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and saw an ad in the local paper. Ali, by then almost a decade into his battle with Parkinson’s disease, was still making about 100 public appearances a year, every one of them for charity, this particular event for the Special Olympics.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-muhammad-ali-faced-the-world-with-selflessness-and-bravery
Here in Sask., Premier Wall is doing his level best at belt-tightening largely due to a downturn in revenue and is, predictably being vilified by the usual left-leaning suspects. So Saskatchewan is being responsible economically and Saskatchewanians are being asked to do with less while Ontario and Quebec continue their crazy spending and show not one iota of fiscal restraint. Yet equalization payments continue to flow eastward as the idiots are rewarded for irresponsible behaviour and those trying to live within their means are paying for it. If this doesn’t qualify for the title of the most f*cked-up system in the world, then nothing does.
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/03/the-duckspeak-of-climate-change
Duckspeak. Good article on how our media and politicians quack.
AGW RIP.
Ich Bin Eine Toast.
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“El Niño ist tot, es lebe La Niña! – ENSO-Update Mai 2016”
“Update 23. Mai 2016: 0,2 K Wochen-SSTA im Niño-Gebiet 3.4 – El Niño 2015/16 ist Geschichte: Say Goodbye to the 2015/16 El Niño.”
https://wobleibtdieglobaleerwaermung.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/el-nino-ist-tot-es-lebe-la-nina-enso-update-mai-2016/
No doubt about it, the system is as you described and no sign or hope of any political interest in changing it. However, the National Anthem is a great concern for some Liberals,changing the wording at the request of an ailing Liberal is bound to garner more support, that and the sheer stupidity of it is really beyond the pale.
What if Saskatchewan did something different?
Like collecting income tax at the provincial level, on “behalf” of the Feds.
Then held that money in trust, until equalization is fixed.
By fixed I mean just give Rat chel Notley enough time to bankrupt Alberta, so that only BC and Saskatchewan are contributing.
Some scheme, but until Western Canada wakes up to this fraud, Notley is actually a plus.
How does equalization work with most of the nation on the take?
The former psychiatrist in chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital is pouring rain on the Bruce Jenner “Call Me Caitlyn” parade that’s sure to have the former Olympic athlete’s cheerleaders steaming.
Not only does Dr. Paul R. McHugh consider changing sexes “biologically impossible,” he thinks being what is popularly called “transgender” these days is actually a “mental disorder.”
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/06/03/former-johns-hopkins-chief-of-psychiatry-being-transgender-is-a-mental-disorder-biologically-impossible-210202?utm_source=BizPac+Review+Email+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ff51456b4c-06_05_166_5_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fbf9323fb3-ff51456b4c-31574469
As I explain to people:
Tsunami 50,000
Nuclear reactor 0.
We should call equalization payments what they really are: tribute. After all, those are regular payments made by one region to another, almost as if western Canada is conquered and occupied by you-know-where.
Since there is evidence that this whole thing is absurd, why are there certain parties that maintain and persist with it?
As unpalatable as equalization payments are, they would be much easier to swallow if the recipients would at least make an effort to get their financial houses in order. As it now stands, the so-called “have-nots” continue to operate their lavish social programs and spend money foolishly on pet projects. All the while responsible governments continue to shovel out the cash at the expense of their own citizens.
That’s just it, Equalization can’t work with most provinces on the take. If the concept is sharing the wealth, it can’t be done without robbing it from somewhere. I have no faith in the present government to figure this out without adding to the deficit. They will want to buck up their favs, Ontario and Quebec, they don’t need to worry about the Atlantic provinces, they’re Liberals forever. The Jackasses responsible for working to shut down the hands that feed Equalization in favour of pie in the sky green energy stupidity
are responsible for the problem.
Equalization should be done like dinner, we should demand it be so. Provinces need to be more responsible, no more bailouts for reckless spending knowing they’ll get bailed out by Equalization handouts. Craziest scheme ever. As has been said here many times “we need a famine”.
The have-not regions are like bratty teenagers with credit cards whose parents pay the bills. So long as some other part of the country will cover the costs, those parts of the country have no incentive to stop.
Mind you, there are certain provincial governments that behave the same way.
If we do have a famine, will craggy old whiner Neil Young and some of his like minded twits and half wits come up from his lavish abode(s) in Californ-i-a and do a live aid?
The greatest national priority for Canada right now:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/canadas-new-progressive-prime-minister-changing-national-anthem-make-gender-neutral/
AGW RIP.
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“CNBC breaks with the climate disaster narrative of MSM”
“Surprising Story Coming From CNBC says Paris Climate Accord is “irrelevant” and cuts would “impoverish the world”
Jack Simmons writes:
When I first started reading this story, I had to do a double take.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/05/cnbc-breaks-with-the-climate-disaster-narrative-of-msm/
Shamrock – Although I love most of what Christie Blatchford has to say about most things political, she seems incapable of rational thought whenever she sees a man with his shirt off. I found the fact that Ali abandoned his Christian faith so as to get out of doing his time in the draft, to be cowardly, and especially so, considering what faith he chose to become. Besides he was crude, a braggart and obnoxious most of the time, and although many would say he was putting it all on – I myself, am not so sure! Give him credit for what charity he may have supported over the years.
In the more than 40 years I’ve been plying my trade, I’ve seen the most significant changes for the worst in the past decade. The engineering designs are increasingly flawed, and in many cases just don’t work as designed, regardless of how it’s ‘tweaked’. The youngest crop of ‘engineers’ are more arrogant and inexperienced than ever before, and this is particularly true if they’re immigrant, female or Quebec-french.
The quality of equipment has also declined substantially, with more and more cases of equipment not meeting spec. The quality of workmanship for installation and construction is quite variable. The best work is by small local companies with established reputations and a sense of local pride to uphold. The worst work is by bigger contractors from Outside who bring in their own crews and generally leave with the work incomplete or slipshod with ‘corner cutting’.
Now that I’m semi-retired I only take on jobs that are well designed by competent, reasonable engineers I know. The others are not worth the hassle involved.
I have to agree with you.
When I was an undergrad 40 years ago, most of my profs had some industrial experience or were doing research in related areas.
In the early 1980s, a major change took place. Engineering professors were being hired fresh out of graduate school with little or no time in industry. I noticed the difference when I returned to university in the early ’90s to continue my grad studies. Many of the younger profs may have been knowledgeable about the subjects they taught but they clearly lacked a practical insight. I was frequently frustrated at how they taught their material as they often didn’t present it in a way that an experience engineer would do things.
Despite that, I still managed to get my Ph. D.
But I also noticed how many of the engineering students I dealt with were completely clueless about how things worked. When I was a schoolboy, I took things apart just to see what was inside them. Sometimes I managed to put them back together and, if I was lucky, they might have even worked.
I don’t see that any more. I doubt that many of them know how to use even the simplest hand tools, such as a pair of pliers or a wire stripper but they know all about doing fancy-schmancy stuff with their smartphones such as making Youtube videos or some such thing.
Maybe I’m a dinosaur past his prime.
Part and parcel of the cultural Marxist agenda of supplanting the father/mother family unit with the state as father/mother. Has been so since October 1917.
Btw Lance, thanks for the Byzantine history video. Throughout the video you can see the parallels with western liberal democracy and western liberal democracy will end the same way.
I doubt that many of them know how to use even the simplest hand tools, such as a pair of pliers or a wire stripper but they know all about doing fancy-schmancy stuff with their smartphones such as making Youtube videos or some such thing.
Take away their smartphones or laptops and many are dumb as rocks. They can’t think beyond the edges of their computer screens.
If push comes to shove, as it often does, I can still use my slide-rule by candlelight.
Most of them don’t even know what a slide-rule is, much less how to use one for even the most basic calculations.
Ah, another one who knows how to use a slip stick! I started using mine again when I wrote my last amateur radio exam as I wasn’t allowed to use a programmable calculator. A wonderful device!
Two years ago, I offered to volunteer my services to a group of university students working on an amateur radio project. Not only am I an experience ham, I also have a background in the application for that apparatus.
I had some serious questions about what they were doing, thinking that they might appreciate my comments and (legitimate) criticisms. When I was their age, I would have gladly welcomed such advice from a silverback greybeard engineer like I am now. If that person had seen something wrong, I would have greatly appreciated any insights as to how to fix it. I figured someone like that had a lot to teach me and it wasn’t my place to overrule or contradict them. They were older than me, had more experience, possibly more education, and were probably smarter as well.
I had only 3 sessions with them and that was it. I never heard from them again.
They may succeed in building the thing and actually getting it in place, but it won’t be because of my efforts. For all I know, the project’s run aground. If it has, let them figure out how to get it going again.
They had their chance and they blew it.
As I call them ‘f**cking milennials’
Liz, the voters will never wake up. Canadians want something for nothing and most are more than happy to take it from someone else. they figure THEY will never have to repay or pay anything.