Well, there’s a fine how-do-you-do.
Joe Oliver on equalization.
An excellent article detailing the problems with equalization and asking important questions about the viability of the program or whether it’s even worth keeping.
However I’m not sure I fully appreciate the veracity of the former Canadian Minister of Finance making arguments meant to shore up Western Canadian conservatism. The same guy who had the power to change the system not 10 months ago.
Between this and Tony Clement calling for the end of the CBC, I get the feeling the Ontario Conservatives are feeling a little heat in the leadership race.
But this is my shooting hand.
Another one gone. I hate 2016.
See, Energy East?
I’m Shocked.
Proving once again what farmers have been saying since the beginning. Biofuel’s inputs are larger than their outputs.
This is my shocked face.
#NotACult Noooonoonoono.
You don’t understand.
A social license means that the enviro-whacko’s call all the shots.
Steven Guilbeault, spokesman for environmental group Equiterre, said he has similar concerns even though his organization, as well as municipal leaders, First Nations representatives and others, also met with commissioners in advance of the hearings.
Read as: We get special access, you don’t.
Huma’s Husband, AGAIN?
At some point you have to ask about the mental health of Wiener.
Update: Weiner gets what he wants, away from her, because that’s the only explanation that makes sense.
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Trolling Skill: 10
Brexit bonanza as 400,000 new jobs created since June the 23rd, up 8% from last year https://t.co/3kYL6FAtgJ pic.twitter.com/icBJGLoAdD
— David Jones (@DavidJo52951945) August 28, 2016
The Sound of Settled Science
Most Scientific Findings are Wrong or Useless:
Why it is a lie? Because it makes “it easy to believe that scientific imagination gives birth to technological progress, when in reality technology sets the agenda for science, guiding it in its most productive directions and providing continual tests of its validity, progress, and value.” He adds, “Technology keeps science honest.” Basically, research detached from trying to solve well-defined problems spins off self-validating, career-enhancing publications like those breast cancer studies that actually were using skin cancer cells. Yet no patients were cured of breast cancer. The “truth test” of technology is the most certain way to tell if the knowledge allegedly being generated by research is valid. “The scientific phenomena must be real or the technologies would not work,” Sarewitz explains.
Busy day
More canning today so don’t expect many posts.
Bearing Down For A Better World
Says one class warrior, “It’s our job for the rich to fear us.” And so, inevitably, radical activism must take new and thrilling forms.
That’s all it ever was.
Emergency Theater for Paris Agreement
But the gala performance may work if enough other countries fall for it — especially the stupidly obedient Anglosphere, and the trapped EU. India, Russia and Brazil will only buy into it they are fed enough pork. But the pork has to come from somewhere, and that’s us — The West. That’s who this show is for — western voters.
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France’s right to ban the burkini.
The Spectator
It isn’t about telling women what they can and can’t wear, it’s about stopping the creeping misogyny of the Islamists who are telling women what they can and can not wear.
Like it or not
Just like the not-even-tiered, no-name, CBC comedians, Kaepernick has the right.
Supporters will laud his ‘controversial stance’, detractors will decry his disrespect.
Unlike the CBC, though, everyone has the choice of whether or not to spend their money on the SF 49’ers.
Obamacare Death Spiral
As any 6 year-old with simple math skills would have predicted, the basic economics behind Obamacare were not sound and thus the main policy initiative of America’s Modern Messiah was doomed to failure. Richard Epstein, of the Hoover Institution, gives the details in this podcast.
Many more facts about this ill conceived program can be found here:
And what the insurers who have left the program have made clear is that they believe that, absent changes, the losses will go on forever. “The vast majority of payers have experienced continued financial stress within their individual public exchange business,” Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said about the decision. In a call with investors last year, a representative from UnitedHealth said the company “saw no indication of anything actually improving” inside the exchanges. “We cannot sustain these losses,” UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said on that call. “We can’t really subsidize a marketplace that doesn’t appear at the moment to be sustaining itself.”
As with all Leftist failures, expect no apologies or mea culpas. They’re incapable of it. With an endless stream of supporters whose memories are shorter than that of a gnat, they will just move on, setting their eyes on the next part of the economy to destroy.
Time To Celebrate Excellence Again
The wonderful performance by our Olympic athletes shines a spotlight on the non-merit based society that has been implemented in Canada. No more blue, red or white ribbons, everybody wins whether they tried or not.
Meanwhile, the German government is warning its people to ‘stockpile’ food, water and cash
I, Napoleon
A transgender bathroom policy goes horribly wrong.
Because Canada Is Back
Ralph Goodale wears his dress wind-breaker to presser about sending CDNs into harms way. pic.twitter.com/Vo9bu24pc0
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) August 26, 2016
