The pictures (which I assume some ad agency was paid big bucks to create) are comically bad, and the subject matter ridiculous.*
I also tend to think that the sort of people they are aimed at are exactly the sort of people least likely to read them.
That's because they are too busy cleaning their ears with a car key, or scratching their sweaty nuts while standing at the urinal and then borrowing your favorite pen during a meeting.
...it's the cover-up...
The order would have been given during this spring's provincial election, in which questions around Mr. Campbell's involvement in the sale of BC Rail – at the centre of the corruption case – was an issue. Mr. Campbell's Liberal Party easily won the May 12 contest.*
The new information would appear to contradict statements made in court last month by government lawyer George Copley, who said that executive branch e-mails from 2001 to 2005 could not be recovered because backup tapes were kept for only 13 months.
France's national holiday, Bastille Day has been overshadowed by a night of rioting in which more than 300 cars were torched on the streets of Paris and other cities.*
Despite a deployment of 10,000 police officers, the number of cars set alight represents a rise of almost seven percent from the previous year. Youths threw home-made explosives and fireworks to set alight bins and cars, before targeting police officers, 13 of whom were wounded in the riots.
A total of 240 arrests were made -- almost double the number recorded in 2008.
...it's a "re-invention"...
The "Alberta Greens" Green Party of Alberta has been de-registered by Elections Alberta as a political entity in the Province of Alberta. De-registration of the party is an administrative opportunity to re-organize and rebuild the party into a viable political organization.And speaking of "values & principles".
The importance and mainstream acceptance of the Green Party’s values and principles are on the rise, and the Green Party's many supporters can now look forward to a fresh start.
Screw health care... McSlippery's got bigger, greener eggs to fry.
-- July 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Ontario government will offer buyers of electric cars incentives of as much as C$10,000 ($8,852), the Globe and Mail reported, citing unidentified people.Heck... it's not like it comes out of his pocket, huh?
The subsidy will be available to consumers beginning next year, the newspaper said. Canada’s most populous province will also make plug-in or electric vehicles account for as much as 20 percent of its government fleet by 2020, the Globe said.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty will announce the new program at a General Motors Corp. car dealership in Toronto today, the newspaper said.
"Premier Dalton McGuinty says he doesn't regret giving General Motors $250 million of Ontario taxpayers' money, even though the company is closing its Windsor transmission plant."**********
"Why aren't the rich funding my kid's braces instead of us funding their electric cars?"**********
Industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers echoed Mr. Beatty's concern. "A cynic would say this is just government subsidizing a product that is produced by a company they own. I think that is a bit too cynical."*
"I just think it is bad policy from a variety of perspectives."
A German who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Dusseldorf said on Wednesday.*
The 45-year-old man used tire repair solvent to plug a hole in his airbed and left it overnight.
But it blew up when he went to inflate it the next day. “A spark from the electric air pump ignited it,” a fire brigade spokesman said.
Fire fighters evacuated the 12-apartment building and a neighbouring housing block while they checked for structural damage.
...must be Tuesday...
-- TORONTO -- Police are looking for several suspects following a shooting in Toronto's east end in which a gunman lost his firearm in the road when the car he was firing from hit a speed bump.**********
No one was reported injured after residents heard about a dozen gunshots at a townhouse complex on Walpole Ave., near Gerrard St. E. and Greenwood Ave., just after 8 p.m.
"I love you, Mom. You raised a good kid, you know that," Atkins shouted to his mother."Pithiest comment of the week...
I think he meant, "You raised a good shot."*
"Hey Ms. Obama, this man makes me proud to be an American."**********
"How about you?"
And yet again...
There were a dozen other vile trolls that I simply deleted... but you get the idea....is hang all the lawyers...
While the jury knows about the alleged gang activities, it does not know that Mr. Riley also faces trials on two other counts of first-degree murder and two more counts of attempted murder.Why is it that victims of crime get a mere fraction of the societal care & consideration... offered to predators and perpetrators of crime?
Mr. Atkins is also charged with first-degree murder in another shooting and two additional counts of attempted murder.
...martyrdom deal... unlike studying engineering in Minneapolis... is that sometimes Allah really does require his "pound of flesh"...
Omar Jamal, director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Centre in Minneapolis, told Reuters Bana was one of 18 teenagers who ran away to Somalia last November after attending a youth programme at a local mosque.*
C'mon folks... who's zoomin' who?
Since the visa requirement for Czech nationals was lifted in 2007, nearly 3,000 refugee claims have been filed.Don't miss the part where Toronto immigration lawyer Max Berger implies that new visa measures put the federal government on the side of the Nazis.
In 2006, there were five.
“There are many moral lessons we learn growing up, but none is more primordial than knowing that killing is wrong.**********
“If by 15 years old, that basic moral principle has not been learned, and something so transient and fickle as teenage jealousy can elicit murder, as though this were a crime of little consequence, then no amount of maturing or rehabilitation is going to instill that principle.”
"No opportunity for partisan sniping is lost on you Neo."Well, there's certainly no rebutting a well thought out argument like that.
"Surely the Liberals would have killed this child themselves if they could have."
...those poor children... hey, wait a minute...
“They were obviously terrified to jump. They must have been incredibly terrified in that fall and I don’t think it should just be written off as ‘Oh well.’”Way to go, Toronto Sun... let's not clog up anybody's brain bucket with, you know... actual news...
The written answers produced by the minister's own scientific advisers proved so woolly and full of elementary errors that Fielding's team have now published a 50-page, fully-referenced "Due Diligence" paper tearing them apart.(via sda)
In light of the inadequacy of the Government's reply, the Senator has announced that he will be voting against the bill.
The wider significance of this episode is that it is the first time a Western government has allowed itself to be drawn into debating the science behind the global warming scare with expert scientists representing the "counter consensus" – and the "consensus" lost hands down.
