Torontonians – Doing The Jobs The Homeless Won’t Do

Great Moments In Socialism 59 Comments

I’ve read this thing three times and I still don’t get it. The only part that “fits” is that it’s happening in Toronto;

The city is giving $100 pre-paid Visa cards to people who agree to pretend they’re homeless when Toronto conducts its needs assessment of those without shelter.
In an e-mail sent out last week to different social agencies and individuals, city employee Monica Waldman said they are looking for “tons” of people to sign up to be “decoys” on April 15, the night scheduled for the city’s second homeless head count.
“Decoys are essentially ‘faux’ homeless people for quality assurance purposes in this research,” she wrote. “As a decoy, you would need to come to a 30-minute training session and then be deployed to various sites throughout the city where you will wait to be approached by the research volunteers.”

h/t Russell H.

I’ll Care About What’s Said On “Red Eye”

Not Quite News 172 Comments

When I care what’s said on The Daily Show. Or for that matter, when I care about photos like this…

… making the email rounds.
Get a grip, people.
(BTW – if US “respect” for our military is your hot button, then this is a hell of a lot more concerning.)
The last word on this comes from Alex,in the comments;

I don’t find their comments particularly offensive, and I’m a serving member who’s lost personal friends in this war. They’re right – it’s pathetic that we have to consider pulling out just so we can recuperate. We should have never allowed the military to degrade that far.
The thing that infuriates me is the smug hypocrisy of the idiots who are most loudly complaining about this. They’re the same people who will will take any opportunity to make insulting jokes about Americans. They’re the same clowns who would gladly vote for a funding cut to the CF so that they can plant more trees in downtown Toronto. Yet they have the nerve to bitch and complain when some Fox talking-heads make a crack at our expense? It’s mind-blowingly asinine.

Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Maldives

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Hey, Chronicle Herald news staff – your psychic called. She wants her job back.

“This is an artist’s impression of what the Halifax waterfront could look like at high tide if sea levels were to rise by about six metres, a plausible result if global warming accelerates the melting of the Earth’s icecaps. In this scenario, Lower Water Street would have to be renamed Under Wa­ter Street.”

That’s right, Halifax could soon go the way of the Maldives. You remember the Maldives? The island nation that was swept from existence by our SUV-driven rising oceans as Al Gore’s film crew watched helplessly?
Coincidentally enough, over at Watts Up With That – ” Perhaps the next IPCC conference can be in the Maldives instead of Bali.”
maldives_fraud.jpg
Check it out. Expecially if you happen to “report” for the Chronicle Herald.
h/t AtlanticJim and Ed S.
Several commentors have also noted that “staff reporter” Kelly Shiers “has no idea where Rome is.”
Or how old.

Reader Tips

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Wilhelm Kempff performing the First, Second, and Third movements of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, “Quasi Una Fantasia”, Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata (15:39). Oh yeah? Well let me ask you this: when, exactly, was the last time you celebrated all three movements thereof? See what I mean! And Kempff’s facial expressions are delightful, they’re magnificent, they’re uplifting, even, already 😉

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Fargo Braces For Record Flooding

More Money Than Brains 54 Comments

For those who wonder why the Red River “Valley” is so prone to flooding, I suggest the following experiment ;
1) Place a cookie sheet on a level surface.

2) Pour a gallon of water on it.

Friday morning construction began on a massive temporary dike between the Red River and downtown Fargo, after the city was told an approaching weather system could drop between one and – worst case — three inches of rain.
Under that worst case scenario forecasters say the Red River at Fargo would crest at 40 feet. That’s roughly half-a-foot higher than the historic flood of 1997.

But this won’t be like the flood of ’97. Since then, all the really low spots have been filled with new home construction.
Wish them luck.
Courtesy reader Ron F., aerial photos of the 1997 flooding. The town in the foreground is Brunkild, the lighted one is Rosenort.

ACORN Victory Lap

The One 73 Comments

Busload of Crazies to Tour Homes of AIG Executives This Weekend*

The Connecticut Working Families Party this weekend has organized a bus store that will make stops at Wilton, Connecticut, AIG office as well as the security-patrolled homes of AIG execs who are fearing for their lives.

And why shouldn’t they? Their President has compared them to suicide bombers.

“We’re going to be peaceful and lawful in everything we do,” said Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families. “I know there’s a lot of anger and a lot of rage about what’s happened. We’re not looking to foment that unnecessarily, but what we want to do is give folks in Bridgeport and Hartford and other parts of Connecticut who are struggling and losing their homes and their jobs and their health insurance an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy.”
Right, they’re not fomenting rage, they’re just encouraging it. So if you happen to record someone’s address so you can return in the dead of night, it’s not like Working Families told you to!

Who are Connecticut Working Families? Just a front group for ACORN – America’s leading force in voter fraud. (link fixed)

… Obama trained its local leaders, represented the organization in court, and worked to funnel funds to the organization. The Obama campaign also donated $800,000 this year to an ACORN affiliate.

The same Barack Obama who helped ACORN fuel the subprime mortgage mess by suing banks for “rejecting loan applications of minority applicants”. (And the same Barack Obama whose US Census Bureau is about to name ACORN an “official partner”. )
It’s not a “populist rage bus”. It’s an ACORN victory lap.
Related: “Sold out” at at AIG
*h/t Maz2
Update, and a number to call for our US readers – “If this passes, its death knell. If Congress suddenly discovers that it can take away money that they decide that someone doesn’t deserve, if we let them get away with that, there’ll be no stopping them.”
You know, we don’t have property rights in Canada. A couple of swell guys named Roy Romanow and PIerre Trudeau made sure of that. Don’t let them do it to you. As much as you may despise AIG, make your legislators understand that you despise them even more.

From Hugo’s Lips To Obama’s Ear

The One 32 Comments

March 6th : CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
Drudge Report:

Obama will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of ‘sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation’, NY TIMES reporting Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE… Developing…

Providing there’s anyone left to regulate. Or anything left to pay them with.
Update – the Drudge sources were dead on;

The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.
The outlines of the plan are expected to be unveiled this week in preparation for President Obama’s first foreign summit meeting in early April.
Increasing oversight of executive pay has been under consideration for some time, but the decision was made in recent days as public fury over bonuses has spilled into the regulatory effort.
The officials said that the administration was still debating the details of its plan, including how broadly it should be applied and how far it could range beyond simple reporting requirements. Depending on the outcome of the discussions, the administration could seek to put the changes into effect through regulations rather than through legislation.
One proposal could impose greater requirements on the boards of companies to tie executive compensation more closely to corporate performance and to take other steps to assure that outsize bonuses are not paid before meeting financial goals.
The new rules will cover all financial institutions, including those not now covered by any pay rules because they are not receiving federal bailout money. Officials say the rules could also be applied more broadly to publicly traded companies, which already report about some executive pay practices to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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