Visiting my local Costco in Vancouver the other day, I happened upon several drivers & passengers who were either walking to or walking away from cars with handicapped parking passes hanging from their rearview mirrors. Of this select group that I observed, every single one of them seemed spry, with no slowness or awkwardness to their gait. I realize that a key tenet of Leftism is to never judge but since I don’t belong to that cult, it doesn’t apply to me. It just seemed “curious” as to why seemingly able-bodied people were parking in spots designated for truly handicapped people. One wonders if a person in a wheelchair or on crutches drove up and had to park further away, would any of these other folks feel bad for taking the closer spaces.
Turns out that I’m not the only one thinking that some fraud might be occurring. Yet another government program infested with abuse. Shocking!
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
Indianapolis Business Journal;
Charges included allegations of conspiracy, wire fraud, false tax claims, false statements under the Clean Air Act, obstruction of justice, money laundering and securities fraud.
Prosecutors allege that E-biofuels actually wasn’t producing biofuel. Instead, it was purchasing fuel and selling it to customers as its own product for a profit.
E-biofuels also fraudulently collected on about $35 million in federal tax breaks reserved for biofuel producers, according to charging documents.
Brothers Chad and Craig Ducey launched E-biofuels in 2007. The plant was supposed to produce 10 million gallons of biodiesel per year. Lawsuits against the company indicate that it did not reach that mark.
It’s a cautionary tale for the alternative energy folks – limit your activities to the government approved fraud schemes.
A Mind-Numbingly Stupid Climate Change Survey Goes Horribly Wrong
It’s long, it’s New Zealand centric, but stick with it. Once you’re a few pages in, you’ll be offered some decidedly unwarmist responses to choose from.
Do it for science.
h/t Adrian
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m investing in the New! ACME® Child-Proof Chastity Diaper.
Small World
The Washington Free Beacon reports that a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until fairly recently, was employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation, was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday and charged with inciting violence.
[…]
How did the Clinton Foundation come to select El-Haddad to be its man in Cairo? We can only speculate. But we know that Huma Abedin (wife of Anthony Weiner) is one of Hillary Clinton’s most trusted advisers. We also know that both of Abedin’s parents have been major figures in the Muslim Brotherhood. The same is true of El-Hassad’s father — a top foreign policy adviser for ousted president Morsi, according to the Free Beacon.
It’s a small world, about which Andy McCarthy has more to say.”
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O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t Iowa Jim)
False notes and the Suzuki Method
CBC Fruit Fly Guy: Even the Aussies are onto him now;
If Fairfax retained even a shred of journalistic integrity, Suzuki’s screed would have been fact-checked, spiked and his submission returned with editors comments, just to let him know that a pronounced sense of moral superiority doesn’t grant permission to make stuff up – or leave inconvenient stuff out.
h/t wallyj
Oh Shiny Pony
Following in the footsteps of PSY’s Gangnam Style phenomenon, Justin Trudeau has come up with his own “Manhattan Style” PR campaign, pitching economic illiterate Chrystia Freeland as one of him main economic advisers. Ezra Levant explains:
In democracies, citizens deserve the politicians they elect. Such will be the case for Canadians if they succumb to the Media Party’s narrative and elect the Shiny Pony and his fellow “stars” in 2015.
YNoKyoto
Delingpole: Australia shows us all the way by sacking its useless, pointless Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery
So what, exactly, were his qualifications for taking on this supremely well-paid gig?
We-e-ll, Flannery is that most dangerous of things – an English literature graduate. Yes, I know I’m an English literature graduate too, but I’m the exception to the rule: on the whole, it would not be unfair to say, English literature graduates have done more to promote the cause of climate alarmism than any other category with the possible exception of “University” of East Anglia environmental “science” graduates.
“I can see Russia from my knees”
Quote of the Week.
Related: …the State Department indicates that Syria might miss its first deadline
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
A Republican exonerated;
A Texas Court of Appeals has ruled the evidence against former House majority leader Tom DeLay was “legally insufficient” to sustain the conviction. A three-judge panel voted 2 to 1 to formally acquit DeLay on Thursday morning.
Decision here.
Forward!
Organizing for Action sent out emails under the subject “Navy Yard” asking people to go to BarackObama.com. When there, after filling in and submitting the “ask Congress to take action” information (name, email address), the user is then taken to an OFA donations page…
It’s Probably Nothing
Scientists, unsettled: “Solar activity drops to 100-year low…”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Air Canada says it is capable of checking identification in a private room away from the check-in counter, but said the real responsibility for security measures lies with CATSA, the Canadian Air Transport Security Agency. Not so, says CATSA. Greg MacDougall, a spokesman for CATSA, tells QMI that their guards are primarily looking for metal, weapons or other banned material, not ensuring that veiled faces match passport photos.
h/t EBD
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Via email;
Today on John Gormley’s show, I heard that the University of Regina is adding foot baths to their washrooms and having a Muslim prayer room to “accommodate” their 800 Muslim students.
Via a grapevine, though it isn’t a secret apparently, a Muslim company has just won the contract to provide housekeeping and dietary services to Saskatoon District Health. The current 450 people so employed with the previous company lose their jobs and may apply to the new company.
The District will also add prayer rooms.
Rumour has it that there will be a mosque membership subsidy of $10.00/hr for the Muslim workers. If that is true, it would indicate the kind of Middle-East oil wealth buying influence as it has in Europe and Britain.
From following the goings on in Europe and Britain, my first question is how long before pork is no longer offered on the menus prepared by this group?
If they deliver home care services, what about going into homes that have pet dogs? I’m not sure what the contract covers in full.
Or maybe, for a time they’ll have some kuffar workers who’ll do that.
I could see how this would facilitate a claim of needing to import “workers” from abroad to fill some of the positions. a way around the new federal guidelines.
The M.B. may have a major setback in Egypt but their going like gangbusters here.
I thought things would be quiet until their new mosque is completed and they took over the new neighbourhood surrounding it. Evidently, I was mistaken.
As you may be aware there are two large mosques planned for Saskatoon. One is the Amahdi, who are peaceable, modern to some degree, and persecuted badly in the M.E. and Pakistan. The others hide behind them to deflect away from discussion about issues.
The other mosque is, I believe a M.B. affiliate. I noticed their web page is scrubbed very clean, hard to tell, but they do mandate that grade 7-8 girls wear the Saudi abaya. To me that is a give away clue.
Canada may be 10-15 yrs. behind Europe and the U.K. but we’re catching up fast.
Since the present government in Regina seems complacent in allowing aboriginal children to taken over by totally some incompetent tribal run Child Services, (Amnesty International could do a press release on the torture of that recent case), so I doubt they’ll deal with this issue in Education or Health or anywhere controlled by the politically correct bureaucracy.
If they won’t safeguard aboriginal children’s lives and health due to the risk of being called “racist”, I doubt if there is much they would stand up for.
Just sharing some observations.
I can’t verify if any or all of these observations/rumours have merit. The comments are open for feedback, corrections, clarification, whathaveyou.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Florida Man Denies Repeatedly Masturbating On Bus, Says He Was Rubbing Himself To Stop Erections | http://t.co/ZL2gqP5PXR
— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) September 16, 2013
h/t John G
DON’T EAT THE CANNED FOOD!!!!!!
Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer. (So did Britain’s BBC network) This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled Northwest Passage.
As a former sailboat owner I can understand their excitement, but my heart aches for the agonies they now face. The Arctic sea ice suddenly expanded 60 percent this fall, after the coldest summer in the modern Alaska temperature record. The passage is now impassable. More than a dozen of the boats are trapped, apparently even including a group of tiny American jet-ski “personal watercraft” that were attempting to cross from the east coast of Russia to the North Atlantic. Arctic observers are now warning that even Canadian icebreakers might not be able to rescue them.
Heh.
(h/t Rita)
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Who can give a bailout / tell us to behave / and make the Founding Fathers roll over in the graves? The Government Can..♫
h/t Larry
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