I heard. I just never knew.
Canadian wait times.
Coming Full Circle
In a joint news conference that just finished, Prime Minister Harper announced $86M for the proposed South Bridge in Saskatoon. Premier Brad Wall matched the federal contribution and Mayor Atch announced that Saskatoon will be responsible for $70M.
Good. Driving from west to east in Saskatoon is a horror show at the moment. Completing Circle Drive will dramatically improve that.
Special thanks to MP Carol Skelton and MP Lynne Yelich for pushing the Gov’t on this initiative that will finally allow Saskatoon and area to live up to it’s possibilities.
Now we just have to make sure that NEP II doesn’t happen.
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is an excerpt from Yes Minister on the matter of the (then) European Economic Community (1987, 4:35).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Court Off the Rails
There’s activist judges … then there’s the US Supreme Court:
But now, even aliens get special constitutional privileges merely for being caught on a battlefield trying to kill Americans. I think I prefer Canada’s system of giving preference to non-citizens who have skills and assets.
First They Came for Bush
… then they came for Barry:
Oil Now at All Time Historical and Inflationary Adjusted High
Now paying the most we ever have for a gallon/litre of gas.
Excellent chartage and ht to WTRG Economics.
When you tinker with Risk and Return
Was going to write a book.
But then no traditional publishers would take it.
Then I realized, it would just feel good to expose all these scum bag banker types for what they are, and opted to write it anyway.
Slated for publication in 2-3 weeks, but here’s an sample if you want a little sneak peak or just a good story on the shenanigans going on in banking at the time.
Revenue Reverse
When it comes to equal opportunity slagging regarding financial matters, Andrew Coyne is as non-partisan as it gets.
Coyne says:
Altogether, these actual, honest-to-goodness tax cuts sum to about $9-billion, the bulk of it focused on the bottom tax brackets, where it will do the least good — in terms of raising productivity, I mean. The rest of what the Liberals call “tax cuts” are mostly for tax credits, ie spending programs by another name: $465 million for an “Improved Working Income Tax Benefit,” $397-million for an “Improved Employment Credit and Refundable Disability Credit,” and fully $2.9-billion for an entirely new Universal Child Benefit, on top of all the existing child benefits.
It’s not remotely “revenue neutral,” in other words. The Liberals have used the carbon tax to fund their spending ambitions. The productivity agenda has once again been ignored.
As anyone with a brain had already concluded, it isn’t about carbon, it’s about Canadians paying for a Liberal election platform.
Cheers,
lance
Fat City
Regina, fat city. Fifty percent are overweight with 23% listed as obese.
Diller says obviously inactivity contributes to weight gain as well. So a mix of healthy eating and activity is essential to being fit.. which is hard in today’s world of fast food chains, and hectic lifestyles.
Except it doesn’t seem all that hard for the other half of the population.
When 50% of your sample is going against the environmental conditions for which you lay blame then maybe . . . just maybe, the environmental conditions aren’t to blame.
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the Toots Thielemans Quartet performing C Jam Blues (5:37).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The People Responsible For Your Childrens’ Education
The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was “completely unprofessional” to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused based on a psychic’s perception.
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Leduc said they advised her that Victoria’s educational assistant (EA) had visited a psychic, who said a youngster whose name started with “V” was being sexually abused by a man between 23 and 26 years old. Leduc was also handed a list of recent behaviours exhibited by her daughter.
And why not? For years innocent people have been jailed and families torn apart on the basis of accusations derived from “recovered memory therapy”. A psychic could hardly do worse.
The Planet Has A Fever
Along with a bad case of Nobel Gases;
In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
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In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
From Beautiful Downtown Billings
It’s been a productive trip so far. Second day in and my Can.Ch.Minuteman I Love Lucy scored a major, which brings her to within 3 points of her American Championship title.
I’ve tried to check on things when I can, but as you know, the site has been experiencing some outages, and it’s affected my access as much as yours. Thanks for your patience. I don’t receive any notifications from my hosting company, so I don’t know why – but DOS attack is a possibility.
Oh well – this too shall pass.
Wish us luck, please don’t engage the trolls, and thanks again to the guest bloggers who have been keeping the place together as best they can.
Master of everywhere they hide and cower
So to the idiots at the Globe & Mail: show me where exactly Canadian and Afghan troops can’t go in Arghandab. Because the Taliban can’t be said to control a damned thing otherwise…
…except maybe a Toronto newsroom.
Update: From comments at The Torch, by someone who’s served in Kandahar:
I’d like to hear the source for the reports of ‘hundreds of Taliban’ in the area. I’d bet it’s an Afghan source.
A good rule of thumb that I learned there: When an Afghan tells you a number of Taliban, dividing by 10 will be closer to the truth.
The Real Izzy Money
First, they fleeced us for billions with a gun registry that didn’t save a single life … and now they plan on fleecing us again with a new registry. Their plan may do wonders for the rare Canadian fruitfly, but it certianly won’t save anything else:
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Today, I, Stephane Dion, am proud to unveil the Liberal plan to fight global warming and save Gaia.
To combat this scourge which kills hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year, I, Stephane Dion, and the Liberal party, today propose the creation of a National Climate Registry.
As we all know, people don’t kill people, climates kill people.
And in a civilized country like Canada, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to be walking around our streets armed with an AK-47 Category 5 Hurricane or a Semi-Automatic Tsunami in their back pocket.
Canada is About to Become More Capitalist Than the US
It’s true!
Came up with some surprising research and thought my friendly northern neighbors might like to know.
Lord of the Flies
If you give them the keys too soon …
A while back I explored the notion that Islam and democracy are not compatible; that humanrights supporting institutions must supercede Islamic institutions if democracy is to survive where Muslims dominate. In fact, I suggested that Islam and democracy are an almost impossible fit and that as such, the Canadian mission in Afghanistan has a difficult task …
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Of all the cures commonly proposed for the many ailments afflicting the Middle East, there is one tonic nearly everyone seems to agree on: boosting moderate Islam.
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But this belief is dead wrong. Not only is it impossible to agree on a working definition of the word “moderate,” but there is scant evidence that extremists really do moderate once they assume power.
… read more.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the London Symphony Orchestra performing Sibelius’ Symphony #3, Allegro Moderato, Anthony Collins conducting (1952, 9:30, audio).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
China Set to Exceed US Carbon Emissions in 2009
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2008/06/no-seriously-will-we-blame-china.html
But will the socialists of the world turn their ire towards China or keep it on the big, bad US?
Technical Problems, Please do not adjust your set.
As most will have already noticed, there are some sever issues happening with SDA today. I don’t know if it’s a DOS attack, general internet issues or server issues.
Anyway, I’m sure the ISP will have emailed Kate about it, but as they won’t email us, I guess we’ll just have to live with it for a bit.
From what I’ve see, you can probably expect to time out when commenting, or timing out when loading SDA. I’d suggest copying your comment prior to posting just in case it times out. Then you can reload and repost if necessary.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
lance