Monday, August 20, 2007
Failure of our government
Here’s one Ontario taxpayer who must be questioning those who he pays taxes to.
16 mins to a fire in an urban area? That’s acceptable?Pickering Fire Deputy Chief Simon Almond said the fire department got a call at 7:22 p.m. and were on the scene at 7:36 p.m., with two pumpers, two tankers, a command vehicle, and 18 firefighters in tow.
“That would be our normal response to that type of call,” he said.
What the story doesn’t say, and I can’t find a link online, is that the man was driven to Rochester, NY, 4 hours away - since the local air ambulance was unavailable.
No burn unit bed in Ontario, or for that matter, Quebec. No ambulance to fly him quickly to a bed to recover or even perhaps survive.
Welcome to third world health care.
God forgive if it was a bus full of burned people. Then what?
Saturday, August 11, 2007
lgf: Y2K Bug Drastically Changes US Climate Data
More news you won’t read in your regularly scheduled programming.
According to the DailyTech blog, the NASA temperature data used to estimate the advance of global warming has been shown to be way off the mark, due to a Y2K bug in the graphing software&#xu2;014and the corrected charts tell a very different story: Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data.
Pity the kid
This kid gives new meaning to the phrase you can’t pick your parents. Idiots.
A couple has got over the disappointment of having their choice of 4Real as the name for their baby son turned down by calling him Superman instead.
Buy him a dog house
You thought you had wife problems...check this guy.
Steve Graham might not be in the doghouse over a dispute with his wife, but as far as his neighbors are concerned, he’s not far from it. For the past seven years, Graham, 55, has been living in his car parked in the backyard of a house he and his wife, La Donna Graham, own.
Holey cow!
Are robots digging holes the key to world peace and prosperity?
Scott Adams thinks so.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Two women
2 women arrive at the Pearly Gates and a conversation ensues....
1st woman : Hi! My name is Wanda.
2nd woman : Hi! I’m Kelly. How’d you die?
1st woman : I Froze to Death.
2nd woman : How Horrible!
1st woman : It wasn’t so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm & sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?
2nd woman : I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act. But instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.
1st woman: So, what happened?
2nd woman : I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started! running all over the house looking. I ran up into the attic and searched, and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under all the beds. I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died.
1st woman : Too bad you didn’t look in the freezer---we’d both still be alive.