Gilles Surprenant, a retired Montreal city engineer, has admitted to taking over $700,000 in kickbacks.
“I don’t think it was my role, as a simple functionary, to call the police about it.”
“I’m not a villain. I am a civil servant who has been corrupted.”
Ugh.
How deep is the economic hole? The Greek statistics agency EL.STAT is reporting that the 2011 deficit stood at 9.4 percent of GDP and the public debt at a staggering 170.6 percent. Greece is begging the EU and IMF to release the latest tranche of aid—a staggering 31.2 billion euros ($39.7 billion). Forget trite talk of Greeks losing only their feather-bedded pensions and early retirement. The cuts are deep, the pain real, and the anger white-hot.
A complaint about broadcaster Ezra Levant’s rant that likened Gypsies to “swindlers” has prompted a Toronto police investigation.
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Plenty more from Kathy Shaidle.
The rest of the world is not just like us–and isn’t going to be.
The court case that changed everything.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the hum of the intellectuals grows ever louder…
2012-08-22 – Team Obama won’t come out and say it, but it believes the race is in the bag
2012-10-22 – The Face of Desperation
New York Times still blames YouTube video for Libyan ‘riots’
Related: A montage of Obama administration statements.
h/t Kevin B
Ensure you have a soft pillow underneath your chin before watching this video … otherwise your jaw may get hurt when it drops and hits the ground with a thud. Original video here.
“72% of consumers know little or nothing about farming and ranching. Yet, 70% say purchase decisions are affected by how food is grown and raised.”
Long love this land.
Your tips in the comments. (h/t Wayne)
Sitting here waiting to board my flight to Amsterdam, and they’re still calling “Osama” and “Mohammed” to the desk for “documentation”.
When I was asked in Saskatoon if I had anything in my pockets, I replied “just gum”. The security screener guy said “You’ll have to take that out.”.
Odd, I thought, but I pulled it out and showed it to him.
“Oh”, he said. “That’s fine”.
I looked at him for a second.
“I said ‘Gum’. With an ‘M’” ….
Oh, wait….
h/t Terry O’Neill
Notorious climate scientist Michael Mann is going to proceed with his lawsuit against National Review Online, Mark Steyn, and a few others. Steyn shares a few preliminary thoughts.
Here’s a prescient question: Does Prof. Mann fully understand the concept of “discovery” under American law? During this phase of his lawsuit he will be required to release any & all documents that the lawyers of the defendants demand of him. The public release of those will be beyond fascinating!
In contrast with best industry practices ….
Germany’s gold reserves do not seem to be independently verified by a third party.
Philipp Missfelder, a politician from Merkel’s own party, has asked the Bundesbank for the right to view the gold bars in Paris and London, but the central bank has denied the request, citing the lack of visitor rooms in those facilities, German’s daily Bild reported. The Bundesbank won’t let German parliament members inspect the German gold vaulted abroad because the central bank vaulting facilities supposedly lack “visiting rooms.” And yet one of those vaults, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, offers the public tours that include “an exclusive visit to the gold vault”.
h/t Adrian
Interviewer: You’re a criminal.
Black: No, I’m not.
Interviewer: Yes you are, you’ve been convicted. You’re a criminal.
Black: No. You’re a gullible fool. You’re a priggish, gullible British fool.
h/t R Black
“…the NY Times incoming CEO, Mark Thompson, is embroiled in one of the largest scandals ever to rock the BBC.”
Without an endless supply of other people’s money, Leftists never seem to pay their bills.
I will never be in favour of electronic or Internet enabled voting.
On Monday, several voters complained that their electronic ballot machine cast the wrong vote. All the complaints were made by people who voted at the Bur-Mil Park polling location.
One of the voters, Sher Coromalis, says she cast her ballot for Governor Mitt Romney, but every time she entered her vote the machine defaulted to President Obama.
In other news, Saskatchewan civic elections are today. Voter ID is required….obviously racist towards our First Nations communities.