Thanks Randy
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Canada always ready to help!
Press release. The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeku, met withthe President of the United States and strongly supported the war on terrorism.Prime Minister Trudeau issued the following statement:CANADIANS WILL HELP AMERICA WITH THE WAR ON TERRORISM. WE HAVE PLEDGED 2 WARSHIPS, 600 GROUND TROOPS, AND 6 FIGHTER JETS.AFTER THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE RATE, THEY WILL END UP WITH 2 CANOES, 6 MOUNTIES, AND A BUNCH OF FLYING SQUIRRELS.
Things you may or may not know
· Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!· Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
· Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.· If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.· Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.· Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.· The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.· Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.· Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F.· The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.· Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.· The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.· Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.· The University of Alaska spans four time zones.· The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.· In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.· Warner Communications paid 28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.· Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.· A comet's tail always point away from the sun.· The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.· Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.· The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.· If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.· When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.· In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.· Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.· Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.· The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.· The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.· Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.· Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.· Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.· Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.· For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.· The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Harper and the CPC: Morally Corrupt
Refugee health, and when the story doesn't quite come full circle
The 2012 decision by the former Conservative government in Ottawa to cut public health benefits for refugees was arguably one of the more significant stories of the last few years.
From a humanitarian perspective, the decision was nothing short of scandalous.
The Supreme Court of Canada condemned it as "cruel and unusual." Even senior Ottawa bureaucrats had problems with it and urged the government, unsuccessfully, to reconsider.
There were numerous cases over the years where Stephen Harper's agenda to remake Canada rubbed Canadians the wrong way. Slamming the health care doors on refugees in order to save $20-million a year went even further. It crossed a moral line.
Doctors from coast to coast spoke out, open letters were written, national days of protest were held four years in a row — to no avail. The government responded with strategic retreats but never backed down.
It was a classic conflict.
Issue of balance
Then came last October's federal election. One of the first moves by the new Liberal government was to do what's right and reverse the offensive policy.
End of story? Not quite.
End of story? Not quite.
Dummies on the Hill
A bit of background - yesterday, Bruce Anderson and Erin O'Toole were debating on Twitter on "partisan appointments". Jason Kenney chimed in and made a fool out of himself.
Michael Harris wrote this today.
Conservative picks not partisan?
It is to laugh, Jason Kenney
It is to laugh, Jason Kenney
"When the Harper government was first elected, it started serving up lardoons to its buddies. Remember the Public Appointments Commission Secretariat, which was supposed to take the patronage out of the appointment process? It was a vital part of the CPC’s much-vaunted commitment to “accountability.” It was supposed to ensure that all federal appointments would be merit-based, instead of the old nose-to-bum conga line of patronage payback. A great idea.
There was only one problem. The first commissioner of the new department of government was chosen by Stephen Harper, his personal friend and prominent Conservative Gwyn Morgan. It was a head in toilet bowl moment for anyone who had actually trusted Harper.
Morgan’s appointment was blocked by opposition parties and Harper had a hissy fit. He scrapped the Public Appointments Commission but kept the Secretariat he had created to support it. As Greg Weston reported at the time, the bureaucracy burned through millions of taxpayer dollars — with nothing to do and no one to report to.
Patronage not in the CPC DNA? The Liberals petty and vindictive? Jason, you’re about to discover opposition is a lot harder when you have a dubious record of your own to defend."
Conservative picks not partisan?
It is to laugh, Jason
In The Gutter
"Do you remember first meeting your wife?"
"Sure, I found Jill lying face down
in the gutter. I lifted her to her feet
and promised her that if she agreed
to marry me, she would begin a new
life and I'd never allow her near the
in the gutter. I lifted her to her feet
and promised her that if she agreed
to marry me, she would begin a new
life and I'd never allow her near the
gutter again."
"Wow, what an incredible story! I hope she
appreciates what you did for her."
"Not really. Even though she stunk at it,
Jill hated to give up bowling."
Thanks Kerry
Jewish Modesty...
A Catholic, a Protestant, a Muslim and a Jew were in a discussion
during a dinner.
Catholic: I have a large fortune... I am going to buy Citibank!
Protestant: I am very wealthy and will buy General Motors!
Muslim: I am a fabulously rich Prince... I intend to purchase Microsoft!
They then all wait for the Jew to speak... The Jew stirs his coffee,
places the spoon neatly on the table, takes a sip of his coffee, looks
at them and casually says:
I'm not selling"
Thanks Randy
Bar Taxes
Interesting bit from ''Coolopolis''
I just wondered how many of you might have encountered the 56 year old stipper over the years.
Thanks Ivan
As You Slide Down the Banister of Life In 2016 -- Remember
1.. Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called ...'Ministers Do More Than Lay People'
2.. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary.
3.. The difference between the Pope and your boss, the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.
4.. My mind works like lightning, one brilliant Flash and it is gone.
5.. The only time the world beats a path to Your door is if you're in the bathroom.
6.. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.
7.. It used to be only death and taxes. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.
8. A husband is someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.
9.. My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a large trash can.
10. Definition of a teenager? God's punishment....for enjoying sex.
Thought for the day: Be who you are and say what you feel.... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind....don't matter!
Thanks Shirley
Monday, January 25, 2016
You've heard it from me before
"Together, the moral and fiscal case has never been stronger: Canadians deserve the inefficiencies and equities of a single payer system (compared to the fragmented and capricious U.S. free-for-all); the economies of scale from bulk purchasing; and the real time effectiveness of a co-ordinated “drug card” system that can access prescription histories."
Why Canadian medicare badly lags most countries: Cohn
Despite our self-image, Canada remains an outlier among advanced countries on universal health care.
Kumbaya from the Hate Party of Canada
Have you seen this man? Stephen Harper’s disappearing act
He does not haunt us still.
If it hadn’t been a normal part of an orderly transition of power, the almost complete disappearance of former prime minister Stephen Harper might be a subject of more speculation — or at least curiosity.
Harper stepped down as Conservative party leader on election night in October, made a couple of shadowy entrances and exits on Parliament Hill in December … and then vanished completely from the public eye.
Or almost. This week, CTV’s Power Play host Don Martin shared a photo of Harper at the Fort Myers airport in Florida, keeping a low profile under a baseball hat — the same one he was wearing in a sighting at a Las Vegas Shake Shack in November.
Canada is a country accustomed to changing seasons (occasionally, in some parts of the country, four seasons in one day). So one assumes we can easily adapt to changing prime ministers.
What’s remarkable, though, is how even the Conservatives seemed to have moved on quickly from the Harper decade.
The interim Conservative leader, Rona Ambrose, appears to have forgotten (or is hoping that Canadians have forgotten) some significant features of Harper’s government. Ambrose released a letter this week, for instance, asking for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the economy before he releases his first budget — as though consulting with the opposition was something that happened all the time over the past 10 years. (It was not, and it didn’t.)
Ambrose actually has become a vocal champion of transparency, as surely as Tony Clement, the former Treasury Board president, is now voicing second thoughts about the decision to abolish the mandatory long-form census. And the new, de-Harperized Conservative party is, apparently, now in favour of an inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women — and not so enthusiastic any longer about making arms deals with Saudi Arabia.
On that last item: Clement was demanding details last week on the $15 billion agreement to sell combat vehicles to the Saudis — an agreement his own government signed. He did acknowledge, at least, that these are details his old boss wouldn’t have released.
“So don’t take the signal from the last government. If you want to be true to your principles and values, which the Conservative party under new leadership shares, let’s move forward,” Clement said.
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