“You know, I very much hope we don’t have a shutdown,” Cruz told reporters. “I will say I’m concerned. I think [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer and the Democrats want a shutdown.”
Here’s a suggestion; get your budget in order.
If it happens, hopefully Republicans learned from the D’s (I realize that this assumes the Republicans in Congress have brains). Shut it all down, except for Veteran monuments and Parks.
What is it with dairy farmers on both sides of the border ignoring the laws of supply and demand? I’m not sure how to read this one as it doesn’t make sense to me. The entire premise of the article boils down to this:
Ontario farmers, frustrated with the arrangement, last April dramatically cut the prices on Canadian ultrafiltered milk. Other provinces plan to follow suit, posing a dire threat to U.S. farms.
This statement proves four things:
1. Canadian milk producers have a lot of play in the price of milk
2. The dairy producers baleful wailing on the need of the cartel are hollow.
3. American producers also benefit from artificially inflated Canadian prices.
4. Consumers are getting shafted.
My confusion with the article is my question, “If Canada relaxes the dairy cartel, there will be more milk producers. It will further enlarge the glut in the milk market. This would help American dairy farmers how?”
Theresa May calls a snap election for June.
Believe what you want, but this is going to be used as a referendum on Brexit regardless of who wins.
Astronautics is the new aeronautics.
The @OrbitalATK #Cygnus launches on time on a four-day trip to the station with over 7,600 pounds of science gear and crew supplies. pic.twitter.com/BrlI61hUR4
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) 18 April 2017
One of the bands I really wish I’d a chance to see.
Not as good and not nearly as smart as his brother.
He’s lucky it wasn’t a Robin Hood product.
Making lives easier for farmers.
Manitoba PC’s cut the red tape for farm buildings.
Mazier said he hopes it reduces the chronic frustration some farmers face when they try to get a contemporary building design approved.
According to an engineer he spoke with, “you can design a barn and get it approved in three months in Alberta, and it took three years in Manitoba, and even then it might not be up to code.”
h/t nold
There is nothing, nothing, that a computer can’t do. Without meaning to sound deflating, retraining isn’t going to cut it. By the time a 40 year old finishes retraining for a new job the next generation of computer will have invalidated that career path. There will be unrest and a lot of it.
We’ll find out, though, that’s for sure.
John Ridsdel and Robert Hall avenged.
Via NWC
Change is in the air, everywhere.
Via, Instapundit
I asked my fellow committee members how we could possibly hire someone to teach writing who… could not write. I also pointed to her application letter, which was similarly awkward and error-laden. My committee colleagues argued that “we do not teach grammar” in our writing classes.
On “diversity” hires and the deskilling of academia.
One of these.
Andrea Bocelli performs Can’t Help Falling In Love, in Vegas in 2006.
Tips open.
Yes, it’s early, but, uhh, Mercedes? In case you’re missing it, you’re losing.
How to create a failed state.
Step 1. Import a populace from failed states.
Risks identified by government officials include:
(….)
A significant increase in bogus asylum claims, concerns that led the former Conservative government to impose the visa requirement in 2009.
Simmer for partisan ideology.
Serve immediately.
Then the barbarians won’t recognize you.
File this under: “When progressive Canadians learn to distinguish common denominators, then I’ll give a damn.”
So, Huma, wants to write a tell-all and only wants $2M for it. Well, that is larger than Sotomayor’s $1.2M, but it pales compared to Obama’s $20M.
After it goes through the fifteen different layers of political staffers and finally gets vetted by Bill’s wife there won’t be much of that $2M left…or the novel.
Book Recommendation: Pass