(Pot Exports Excluded)

Leader Post;

Thanks to strong demand for resources, Saskatchewan’s export sales are expected to pass those of more-populous B.C. this year, the head of the Prairie province’s export agency says.
Lionel LaBelle, president-CEO of the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP) says recently released figures collected by Statistics Canada indicate the province’s farms, mines and industries had sold $16.035 billion of products to foreign buyers by the end of June, compared with B.C.’s $15.6 billion.

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

To protect ethanol, Obama seeks to inflate meat prices

President Obama announced yet another government spending program — this time designed to inflate meat prices in Midwest swing states. “Today the Department of Agriculture announced that it will buy up to $100 million worth of pork products, $50 million worth of chicken, and $20 million worth of lamb and farm-raised catfish,” Obama explained to reporters in front of a drought-stricken cornfield.
“Prices are low, farmers and ranchers need help, so it makes sense,” Obama explained. “It makes sense for farmers who get to sell more of their product, and it makes sense for taxpayers who will save money because we’re getting food we would have bought anyway at a better price.”

Related – Pressure Grows on EPA to Suspend Ethanol Mandate

Reader Tips

In tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips, D.C.-based performer Joey B the VeePee, free for the moment from his chains, shows off his mad skilz during an impromptu solo musical performance in Florida.
Now, someone call the cops.
h/t Robert
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Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

A don’t miss, by Daniel Greenfield;

There is not a single Obama voter anywhere in the land who believes that another four years of him will make this country better. Not a single one from coast to coast. No, what they believe is that he will make the country a worse place for those people that they hate. That he will have four more years to sink their ideas deeper in the earth, regardless of how many families go hungry and how many fathers kill themselves because they can no longer take care of their families. What they believe is that Obama will grant their group more special privileges and the rest of the country can go to hell.

h/t EBD

The War of 1812 Redux?

For the past 3 weeks, a war of words has been occurring on Facebook over . . . too many Canadian shoppers at the Costco in Bellingham, Washington, located about 30 km south of the U.S. / Canada border.
Video here and CBC coverage here.
Update: The original Facebook page appears to have been pulled down. Another one, requesting Thursday shopping at the Bellingham Costco to be just for Americans, was up for awhile but has been pulled down too.

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The Children Are Our Future

It began when the two women in the queue ahead of me paid for their groceries. Collecting $115.00 in cash, the cashier – a pretty girl of around 20 – hesitated, then set the bills down across the open register drawer.
She’d spotted something wrong with the receipt.
She picked the cash up a couple of times and put it down. She looked at the tape, then the money, then the tape.
The line waited patiently as the minutes dragged on. The man behind me picked up a magazine. The young women waiting chatted. I stood and watched.
Finally, the young cashier picked up the internal phone to summon help. After she hung up the receiver, she pulled out a cell phone and tapped at it in her right hand, glancing occasionally at the white strip of paper still in her left.
(That’s odd, I thought…. texting at work?)
Just as the supervisor arrived, she announced, “It’s ok, I got it”, and the woman departed. But she hadn’t “got it”. She hesitated. She fumbled with the receipt.
Out came the cell phone again.
Finally, she accepted defeat. After a second call, the supervisor returned, surveyed the problem tape … and then took out her cell phone.
Together, they consulted over the device.
After a few moments the supervisor announced “$2.79”, and walked away.
The cashier placed the two $50’s and three $5’s in their compartments, and withdrew a few coins for the women still waiting to leave. Over ten minutes had passed.
As she began to ring my stuff through, I asked, “Were you just trying to make change?”
She replied, “yes”.
I looked her in the eye. “Whoever your teachers were in school, you need to hunt them down and kick them to death.”
“It’s been a long time since I did math”.
“That isn’t ‘math’. That is ‘life’. You need to learn how to make change”.
And I left to resume work on the fallout shelter.

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