An interesting, yet vexing, perplexing article I just read. What sayeth thou.
Category: Unbelievable
Happy New Year To All My Friends
This is the 2011 fireworks display from London, UK. Spectacular. The Brits definitely did it right. I really wish I was there watching this. I would love to have posted the 2012 version, but am doing a scheduled post (Life has its own commitments), and really wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year. I suggest hooking up your machine to the closest 80 inch TV and crank the volume.
Japan Tsunami Footage
Amazing video from a few months ago. I hadn’t seen it and figured others hadn’t either. The power is incredible. The guy who took this is one lucky man.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong
Interesting article about China’s scientific community. They are planning to pull an asteroid into earth orbit, mine it, research it, then send it on its way. I am thinking, what an excellent idea, there is probably no chance that this plan could screw up at all.
In related news, a major satellite the size of a school bus is due to reenter the atmosphere on the 23rd or 24th. I remember the fear that Skylab wrought when it fell many years ago. I can still hear the shrieks of “The skylab is falling, the skylab is falling”.
http://www.space.com/12982-dead-nasa-satellite-falling-earth-sept-24.html
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- Falling Space Satellite May Hit Earth Early (abcnews.go.com)
Things That Ticked Me Off This Week – September 14
Lots of crazy stuff this week. Let’s start with the stupid this week.
Some idiot from Jordan decided that the classic Moorish architecture of the Alhambra in Spain was missing that certain something, his name carved into the stone work. So the fool decided to do this using an amazing writing tool, a coin. More at the link.
http://news.yahoo.com/tourist-carves-initials-spains-alhambra-105110369.html
Now we will move to the downright dangerous and arrogant. Striking longshoremen in Washington state stormed a port in Longview (a union port), taking hostages and destroying equipment and rail cars. Their reason, these jobs are ours. No recognition at all that the owners have the right to run their business however they wish, including hiring workers from OTHER unions to perform the work. I love this, no arrests have been made, so taking hostages is cool if you are doing it on union time. More at the link’
http://news.yahoo.com/longshoremen-storm-wash-state-port-damage-rr-144921214.html
Speaking of arrogant, did you catch Obama’s speech. Pass this bill right away, even though there was no bill in existence. The best response to the speech was by Republican presidential primary candidate, Herman Cain. I won’t ruin the surprise, read it on your own, if you have 5 seconds that is.
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?NKRH–9hB4-eH60S6
And the final note for the week, an absolutely unbelievable post by New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman. This ASSHOLE published the attached commentary on the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks. I, for one will never forget this callous abomination. I only wish I had a subscription to the NYT so I could cancel it.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
That’s it for this week. I feel better now.
The Money Hole – John Stossel’s Take on Government Spending
Very long video (42 minutes) but very, very enlightening. If you missed this on Fox, then do yourself a favour and spend the time to watch and listen. John Stossel makes many valid points, some alarmist, but most are logical and, frankly, frightening. The comments by the uninformed and unrealistic are troubling as it brings out what many people really think of government spending. It’s not tax money, it was a grant. LOL.
Things That Ticked Me Off This Week
As a rule, I sit and read, then seethed over some really crazy (to me) stuff. The ironic, the pompous, the ridiculous, the downright stupid, I ingest it and just basically get angry. Some of this is not anger worthy to you, Doesn’t matter, it is foolish to me. In this vein, I intend to do a weekly post of stuff that just plain pisses me off. Nothing fancy, an article or 2 and a comment or 2. You’ll either get pissed at me or you’ll join me at laughing in the face of the foolish.
Lets get started shall we.
The pompous. Al Gore compares climate change to the Civil Rights fight.* I am sure Al is well-meaning, but, come on. the science is loose at best, his personal reputation on the subject is crumbling. I wouldn’t be surprised if his Oscar gets yanked on him for that horrendous “Inconvenient Truth” bafflegab. Ridiculous comment by a spent force.
The ridiculous. Christine St-Pierre, Quebec’s Culture Minister has come up with a beautiful plan to control the press* (and bloggers). She floated a plan to, get this, license journalists. Needless to say, journalists were somewhat unanimous in condemning this dumbass idea. The best part, Christine St-Pierre was once a CBC employee. LOL.
The Crazy. A professor at the University of Manitoba lost his bid to rescind a student’s PhD* awarded despite the student failing the course. the student claimed a disability, which the university agreed with. The disability? “EXTREME EXAM ANXIETY”. I am enrolling at the U of M tomorrow. I’ll be a surgeon in a couple of years.
The foolish. My favourite for the NDP leadership. Libby Davies, came out in support of eliminating the 10 year rule* that immigrants are required to wait to be able to claim Old Age Security. Her thinking is that if you come to Canada and promptly retire, we should pay that person OAS and GIS, no questions asked. The bill was promptly pulled by the NDP for obvious optical reasons.
That is all.
North Korea is in Charge of World Disarmament – Part 3
With righteous indignation, the peace loving government of North Korea lambastes Canada for it’s decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament for the duration of North Korea’s chairmanship. In response, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird said that Canada would wear the criticism as a badge of honour.
Simply put, this is a major oxymoron and another reason that the United Nations is becoming more and irrelevant on issues such as this. Another reason to be proud to be Canadian. We are the only country to protest this decision to allow the North Koreans the chair.
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- North Korea criticizes Canada for boycott (sunnewsnetwork.ca)
Bob Rae – I’m "Super Elite" – and a Fool
There are leaders and then there are people who think they are. Bob Rae thinks he is. Canada’s Liberal Party leader (for now) has a rather warped sense of self importance. Imagine the situation as described in this link and then think “sense of entitlement” The taxpayer foots the bill for most, if not all, of his air fare. He uses (I assume) his Aeroplan to amass vast amounts of frequent flyer miles, ramping himself to “Super Elite” status. Then he uses this taxpayer fed status to worm his way on to a flight ahead of several people who had just been told there were no seats. Lack of class, perhaps. Lacl of common sense, definitely. The optics are brutal and heighten the public’s current perception of both him and the party he represents as both elitist and entitlement driven.
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- Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat (theglobeandmail.com)
I Love the CBC
A Happy Canada Day from what may be the dumbest news organization on the planet. A poll, conducted by an Ontario University (funded by my tax dollar I assume) lists Canadian cities in order of their Canuckiness. Guess how many are West of Sudbury. If you said none, you would be correct. Apparently true Canadians only live in eastern Canada, as in Ontario. The measurements used are interesting as well. They used the number of breweries, the number of Tim Hortons outlets and the number of maple syrup producers per 100,000 residents and included a measurement for hockey teams (all) and,of course, bilingualism. I love the comments as well. By the way, thank you CBC for pointing out what poor Canadians we are out here in the West by not creating maple syrup and not having enough bilingual people.