In China, there are twice as many people aged 40-49 than aged 0-9. #oops #PopulationControlIsTricky
https://t.co/SBtVnCiifo
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 29, 2015
China has decided to end its decades-long one-child policy, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports.
.@CNN interviews #Ferguson interim police chief just as shots are fired – @sarasidnerCNN pic.twitter.com/1YrkqxjHAP
— Conflict News (@rConflictNews) August 10, 2015
Canadian Natural’s Chief Financial Officer, Corey Bieber, continued, “The Company has proactively reduced its development programs in the context of lower commodity prices and lower cash flow. Liquidity remains strong at $3.3 billion. During the second quarter, absent the impact of the $579 million charge due to the 20% increase in Alberta corporate income tax rates, our earnings would have been $174 million. This charge effectively translates into lower future cash flows and therefore, lowers reinvestment in the business. Based upon third party research, this lower future capital reinvestment likely equates to about 4,100 fewer person years of direct, indirect and induced employment, with follow-on impact of higher income taxes on future income streams.
Anybody got a calculator handy?
Alberta has just been put on a credit watch.
Two recent stories — one bit of idiocy by reporters on social media, and the other a self-indulgent, arrogant whine in The New York Times–have made me both thankful for my early, awful work experience and convinced that everyone, no matter who you are or where you are in life, needs to work a crap job.
First, let us look at the social media fail of reporters that have seemingly never worked in food service. They have been mocking pictures of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eating ribs while wearing latex gloves[…]
h/t Pullthepocket
A quick primer on Greece. (h/t peterj)
Hey, why not.
Doctors in Belgium have granted a medically depressed woman the right to die because she is suffering from “suicidal thoughts”.
The 24-year-old woman, named only as ‘Laura’, has been given the go-ahead by doctors to be euthanized by lethal injection, despite not having a terminal illness.
Next up: “Doctor, caring for Grandmama has me so depressed…”
The Law of Unintended Consequences appears to be in full effect in Britain:
At the current rate of Muslim immigration to the west, gay marriage is just a temporary condition. Poligamy, on the other hand…
Greece: We voted for you to give us more money
Germany: sorry
Greece: WHY DO YOU HATE DEMOCRACY
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 28, 2015
Foxnews: Greek banks will not open Monday
Update: Greek Banks And Stock Exchange In Shutdown
WSJ Blog;
It now looks almost inevitable that Greece will default on a €1.54 billion ($1.69 billion) payment due to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday. Much is at stake beyond the IMF’s balance sheet. What happens to Greece itself? What happens to the euro, a purportedly unbreakable currency union, and the Continent’s attempt to recreate itself as a global economic superpower? What happens in the capital markets, which have feasted on cheap debt and assumed all risks were contained?
Love among the ruins.
Update: the link seems to jumping back and forth behind the paywall, so I’ve republished it in the extended entry.
Via Drudge, A coffee clerk who wants free stuff but doesn’t want to give free stuff.
Europe coughed up every other time. Greece has had no incentive laid on them to cut up the credit card.
President of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, outed as white.
However, investigators later noticed important marks missing from the package.
It was delivered to a post office box. But it did not have a date stamp or barcode according to an on-going police report by SPD.
Postal officials told SPD officers that a letter or package would never be put in a mail box purposefully without those things even if it was hand delivered to the post office. Postal workers said it is possible that the letter could have gotten stuck to another letter and thus missed the scanner and postal marking. But they said the chances of this happening were extremely low.
I hadn’t the strength for this one. So, over to Ezra.
The late Nobel Prize winning Harvard economist Wassily Leontief noted that if horses could vote the government would never have allowed the rise of the motor car industry in the early years of the 20th century. One place where horses don’t vote is China, maybe because people don’t vote there either.
Richard Fernandez at his best.
Violent protests in the UK, in wake of David Cameron victory. Because democracy!
Maybe, if the left, didn’t selectively edit everything conservatives in the public ever said there wouldn’t be a need to release full video of speeches.