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  5. Went down town today.
    A lot of people everywhere. Then lo and behold, the drama queen. Not the Star Trek guy.
    It was a bizarre sight. Must have been like 20-30 cameras and microphones very tightly in front and around of this character. It was as tight as though they we jellied into one blob. If it was green you could call it green slime.
    It sort of looked as a defense against plebeians, lest they ask an uncomfortable question.
    This was Calgary today.

  8. “as compared to the dire alarmism favored by our media.”
    I find just the opposite. The genuine alarm that should be there is papered over by a media that can’t see the destructive policies that a incompetent POTUS is forcing on a compliant politically correct electorate. The USA still has many things people can be proud of, but they are disappearing at a alarming rate.

  10. If you thought the Air Force’s worst boondoggle in recent memory, the F-35, couldn’t get any more boondogglery, well we’ve got some bad news for you (Reuters)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/04/us-lockheed-fighter-idUSKBN0F901T20140704
    This would be the worst choice for Canada. We don’t need stealth fighters, we need waterbombers, arctic patrol aircraft, SAR aircraft, and more cargo aircraft like the 17 C130J SuperHercs we’ve ordered.
    Stealth fighters are like high performance women and cars. It’s better to rent as needed rather than buy a high maintenance toy.

  12. “Noonan: The Daydream and the Nightmare
    Obama isn’t doing his job. He’s waiting for history to recognize his greatness.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
    …-
    “The Imperial President and the Imperious Idiot”
    “What Roosevelt did was ban the sale of cars. He didn’t say they couldn’t produce cars. He just banned the sale of cars.
    Would you like to see President Obama do that?
    I’d like to see him ban the sale of coal and oil.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/05/the-imperial-president-and-the-imperious-idiot/#more-112535

  13. Today’s Q&A.
    Q: “How many landfills do you talk to that say they need more trash?”
    A: “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” (SofL)
    …-
    “U.S. overtakes Saudi Arabia to become world’s biggest oil producer, report says”
    “America’s shale energy revolution could bode ill for Canada if nation ends its four-decade ban on crude exports” (FP)
    …-
    “How this Michigan landfill is turning Canada’s nasty trash into treasure”
    “A Michigan landfill wants Ontario’s garbage — the smellier and drippier, the better — to turn methane gas into energy, which it then sells for about $800,000”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/04/how-this-michigan-landfill-is-turning-canadas-nasty-trash-into-treasure/

  14. How the hell does cutting health care to refugees violate the freaking Trudeau Charter? Does the Charter cover people from the entire world who step onto our soil? How can we sustain a health care system if we are to pay for all comers as well as our own people who pay for it?

  18. Canada DOES need stealth fighters because you guys are tasked with patrolling and intercepting nuke bombers coming over the north pole, remember? Geeze Louise…

  19. Under the topic of consequences or the observation “Well … YOU Voted for Them!”
    A plea to petition the Ontario Government by:
    Margaret Atwood: “This is a life-wrecking event”
    Change dot org
    And the chickens come home to roost for precious Margaret 🙂

  20. ah, memories. We drank a few beers to this one. “midterm blues”
    “Well I took two beer and went off to my mi-idterm
    la da da da, la da da da
    And I’ve gotta pass it now ’cause I really failed it last term
    la da da da, la da da da
    When I walked into the room, the prof looked up from his desk,
    ‘You’re twenty minutes late, son, so you can’t write the test.’
    Sometimes I wonder, what I’m-a gonna do,
    cause there ain’t no cure for the mi-idterm blues
    la da da da, la da da da…”

  22. Existing aircraft do that job just fine. The US Navy uses the same aircraft. The “nuke bombers” are older than the aircraft we use to intercept them. New single engine stealth fighters are not needed.
    Have a nice day Louise

  23. Science is open to error, misinterpretation and even fraud
    By Joel Achenbach July 3
    Since science is a human enterprise, it is open to error, misinterpretation and, rarely but notoriously, fraud and fakery. Here’s a rundown of a few science mishaps, misapprehensions and debatable interpretations in recent years.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/science-is-open-to-error-misinterpretation-and-even-fraud/2014/07/03/f66b3c2a-02db-11e4-b8ff-89afd3fad6bd_story.html

  24. Capitalism does not “run amok”, although its enemies often do.
    The foundation of the economy is the voluntary trade of goods and services between individuals for mutual benefit based on their respective valuation of the goods and services. This is how the standard of living is raised.
    The political / economic system that respects individual value judgments and voluntary trade is capitalism. It cannot “run amok”. Politicians who interfere with this voluntary trade to the detriment of the standard of living, however, can and frequently do. Then they often try to blame it on capitalism, but it’s the enemies of capitalism who are responsible. Capitalism is still as just and as beneficial as ever.

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