Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Forget rebuilding?
Does it make any sense at all to rebuild a city on a flood plane below sea level? I don’t think so, and this guy doesn’t think we should pay for it either.
Forget insurance. My next guest says not one taxpayer dollar should go toward rebuilding the city of New Orleans
Fires burning
Toronto is descending in to an American style city, and our gutless politicians can’t stop it.
Look, I’m no expert on crime. But to me that’s like trying to battle a four-alarm blaze with a fire extinguisher. The thugs don’t give a hoot about models or secretariats.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Almost in her pants
The latest Homolka liason was the first in a long line of sick guys who
can’t wait to get into the killer’s pants. What an allure the black widow holds.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Losing out again
More proof that our government just won’t give up on its capitulation to Quebec.
The federal government is ready to ask the CRTC to rescind its decision to license satellite radio, government sources say. “Everything suggests that the cabinet will ask the CRTC to overturn its decision,” an official close to the file said yesterday.
There is no evidence that even if Sirius is allowed in Canada, that we’d get the Stern channels, which is why I am ordering my receiver now directly from the US (to join the already thousands of Canadians who haven’t bothered to wait for Mother Ottawa to sort things out).
Friday, August 26, 2005
Goodbye, lamp post
Any newcomer from Jamaica hoping to get away from daylight, senseless, and brazen daily gun violence will be sad to see that there’s no escaping it in Toronto. Why come here when at least the weather’s warm down there all year round?
A well-known community figure approached by a group of four or five youths was shot to death in the courtyard of a Scarborough apartment complex last night, in an incident witnessed by as many as 20 adults and children.
The group-huggers would do well by going down to Kingston, like former chief Fantino, and getting some tips on how they keep the lid on their 5-a-day murders.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
lgf: No Shari’a in Australia
Can you imagine
such frank talk in this country? Good on ya, mate.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
A matter of time
It’s only a matter of time before the boyfriend is charged with murder in the Ross case.
Police have also interviewed her boyfriend, 29-year-old Sean Hine, more than once.
I suppose they have to wait for a body to be found…
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Supersize this!
Just when you thought McD’s couldn’t get any bigger, take a look at this pix, and then this one.
Anyone seen this movie?
Friday, August 19, 2005
Fund them to death
I remember seeing a follow up doc on CBC news a month of so ago on the plight of the Indians in a new government build town. It was hard to believe what an utter failure this was, and how the story never really made any mainstream press. I missed Mark’s take on the issue last year - as usual, it’s bang on.
Consider the sums of money involved: $152 million for 700 people. That’s $217,142.85 for each man, woman or child. I’ve got a wife and three kids, so, had we been in Davis Inlet, that would have been $1,085,714.20 just for us. Imagine what you could do with that. Build a new house. Start a company. Hire some people. Invest in business opportunities. Get the kid an Ivy League education.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Remember the meaning
It’s so easy to forget why we’re here while we make money to pay bills
that never stop, but every now and then we get a reminder.
A co-worker’s 4 year old daughter finally succombed to cancer, after
fighting it for most of her life. No other co-worker bothered to show
for the funeral. Her father rightly said that one can accept a 60 year
old getting a deadly disease., but not a child.
It’s clear that most people can’t see the trees for the forest any more,
and that’s sad.
Cat’s away
Am I the only one who’s noticed that since Fantino’s gone with his tough
talk that the lid has come off the crime can?
It seems that he wasn’t just talking tough, or all his lieutenants have
gone limp listening to all the community policing crap.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Should we be afraid?
It’s hard not to be when you read this story.
Canada’s most controversial Muslim cleric spent his professional life working around vulnerable nuclear facilities in Canada and the U.S., designing ways to protect them from explosions, tornadoes and plane crashes.
via LGF
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Dose of the south
Jwalk has an entry that most Canadian-US bashers will eat up.
Jonson, at Metafilter, calls this the “greatest video in the history of the internet”.
Oil pinch
It’s difficult to see a golden lining in this new era of high oil prices.
Those who want us less dependent on fossil fuels should find cause to celebrate the discipline which high oil prices impose.
Thanks for the DNA, but
While it’s great that DNA can help solve cold cases, doesn’t it just figure that some who killed two others only 12 years previous is the killer.
The match pointed to MacDonald, who lived within an hour’s drive of the crime scene. At the time, he lived alone and was on parole after serving just 12 years of a life sentence for the 1975 shooting deaths of a police officer and cab driver in Dartmouth, N.S.
More proof we need the DP in Canada - now.
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Ain’t that the truth
I’ve been by the crash site a few times, and have to say it’s quite a miracle that everyone survived with hardly a scratch.
Why, then, do we have to sue? I’ve heard compaints from the bus to pick them up was too cold to they served water instead of coffee.
Clearly, the world has too many lawyers.
Thursday, August 4, 2005
A celebrity makes sense
Never knew Joan Collins had so much sense.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within, said the American historian Will Durrant about ancient Rome. This self-destruction of values is exactly what is happening in England today.
Let the cynicism begin
The increasingly out to lunch government of Mr. Dithers has appointed someone totally unqualified to become GG - providing unlimited fodder for the blogsphere.
Ms Jean fits none of these criteria. It is trivial and irrelevant to divert criticism of this choice to her being ‘ethnic’, ‘non-white’, ‘a woman’, even to her being ‘Quebecois’..blah blah. That’s all trivia and obfuscates and hides what should be the basic criticism of this choice of her as G-G. The criticism? She doesn’t fit what should be a standard for a patronage appointment of this stature; namely, a lifetime work towards the betterment of the well-being of the majority of Canadians.
Perhaps this is the Liberal way to turn Canadians against the monarchy. It just might work.
Pilot’s perspective
An interesting read on a blogging pilot’s view of the Toronto Air France crash.
And indeed in Toronto these guys might have been okay if only they’d been on the 11,000’ runway 23 instead of the 9000’ 24L (the runways are oriented facing magnetic direction 230 and 240, i.e., almost the same, so it is unclear why the Airbus wasn’t assigned the longer runway). They might also have been okay if they hadn’t been in the famously underpowered A340-300 (the newer versions of this plane have almost twice as much power) and therefore requiring more runway remaining before going around.
Put up with it
More useless leadership on our power problem.
Premier Dalton McGuinty offered little hope of a quick fix to hydro challenges, saying Ontarians will have to live with them until more generators are built.
Welcome to the third world of Ontario.
Leatherdale has more.
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Power problem parallels
An interesting piece on Iraq’s power problems - the story is similar to Ontario’s.
In 1991, Iraq generated a total of 9,000 megawatts, while it consumed 5,000.
Sad to hear that the writer was murdered hours later. What a dangerous place.
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Powerless
Now would be a real good time for McSquinty to get on the blower and explain what he’s going to do about this hydro mess.
Today’s projected peak demand was expected to reach 25,400 megawatts, with the province only capable of generating about 23,700 megawatts, he added.
Realism trumps farce
A realistic plan to lower pollution has been reached, but you’d never notice in the left wing media.
This week’s environment agreement between the US and five Asia-Pacific states sets a strong alternative to Kyoto. The surprise deal includes China and India, whose output is largely unaffected by Kyoto. The six countries in the new deal, China, India, South Korea, Japan, Australia and the US account for nearly half of world greenhouse gas emissions.
Maybe Canada should sign on, since it won’t even come close to the Kyoto targets anyway.
Monday, August 1, 2005
Not so easy
More proof that plugging in a car and running off a battery isn’t as simple as it looks.
It has to do with hybrid vehicles, and whether we can achieve the full benefits of “hybrid vigour” by resting on the laurels of existing technologies.
Making it a national security issue may help spur some creative ideas. Odd that it’s occuring in the big old oil hogging US, isn’t it? Not to me.
Fundraising
I don’t hardly ever try and raise money via this web site, since it wouldn’t be enough to buy a hamburger over a year. However, I like to tell people about great programs that I use - and if you decide to as well, I do get a bit of a spiff.