Are you atwitterin' and shakin' just waiting for Iggy?
A couple of bits of local stuff first. This is all we have to show for a promise of $29 million - a drawing. But we can have more. On Thursday at Vic Hall the consultants and, presumably, the full Council will be there to present another prep session for the yokels with a presentation from the consultants. Hopefully they have more than a Power Point presentation and are prepared to face the first full session of questions from a yet to be convinced population.
One of the stimulus programmes is called the "Community Adjustment programme" and is based on the level of unemployment in any area. The premise being that if there are unemployed people there should be a programme to put them back to work. Well in its wisdom the County of Northumberland has discovered this programme (I guess that's why we pay Bill Payett the big bucks) and has decided to apply for some funds and hopefully use them to put people back to work. But in an obscene corruption of the guidelines the County has applied for funds to build a new landfill cell at the Brighton Dump. How many people will be put back to work by doing this, it a highly mechanised project and all of the heavy equipment operators and sewer workers are already back to work, so how many unemployed workers will benefit from this application?
Decision day for Iggy. Today is the day that opposition leader Michael Ignattief will declare if the Libs will vote non-confidence. He has backed himself into a corner and twisted himself around more than a ripe pretzel [enough enough - ed]. Locally no signs of heated campaign emails. the dippers all received an email from the party prez saying that an election could be coming send us more money but no serious stuff yet. Pundits figure Iggy on backing down, my money is on Bloc MPs not being around for the vote and Iggy not getting his numbers. National News Watch has put up the first of many stories to come about Iggy's moves, this one (in French) says that 'reliable sources' say no election!
A stimulating essay bound to be dismissed by the blockheads who will first read who wrote it! here An essay by Ian Brown of the G&M about the relevance of traditional Marxism in todays reality.
"Democracy isn't voting it's the counting!" Tom Stoppard from the play "Jumpers" Iran has certainly played up to that quote. All week the West has been trumpeting how close the election is and now the 'official' results claim that the incumbent has won by a thumping majority. Here's the first commentary on the numbers in the Iran election,
And the experts said it would not happen. In this era of biometrics and enhanced passport identification all was supposed to go smoothly at the border. But this story tells of a woman who was pulled aside and asked to strip because of her name. Canadian Border Officials will not explain the case or issue an apology but does admit that the woman was mixed up by an identical birthdate of a criminal in the system. So much for the enhanced stuff when the bullies at the border still rely on old technology!
Well worth the wait. Rented, in what must be the bargain of the year - $3.99 for two nights from Blockbuster, "Gran Torino" Clint Eastwood's latest movie. Nominated for an Oscar but not arriving anywhere near the podium, this movie is a traditional bad guy redeems himself to good guy. I enjoyed it but then I always enjoy the hokey complete tale.
Decision day for Iggy. Today is the day that opposition leader Michael Ignattief will declare if the Libs will vote non-confidence. He has backed himself into a corner and twisted himself around more than a ripe pretzel [enough enough - ed]. Locally no signs of heated campaign emails. the dippers all received an email from the party prez saying that an election could be coming send us more money but no serious stuff yet. Pundits figure Iggy on backing down, my money is on Bloc MPs not being around for the vote and Iggy not getting his numbers. National News Watch has put up the first of many stories to come about Iggy's moves, this one (in French) says that 'reliable sources' say no election!
A stimulating essay bound to be dismissed by the blockheads who will first read who wrote it! here An essay by Ian Brown of the G&M about the relevance of traditional Marxism in todays reality.
"Democracy isn't voting it's the counting!" Tom Stoppard from the play "Jumpers" Iran has certainly played up to that quote. All week the West has been trumpeting how close the election is and now the 'official' results claim that the incumbent has won by a thumping majority. Here's the first commentary on the numbers in the Iran election,
And the experts said it would not happen. In this era of biometrics and enhanced passport identification all was supposed to go smoothly at the border. But this story tells of a woman who was pulled aside and asked to strip because of her name. Canadian Border Officials will not explain the case or issue an apology but does admit that the woman was mixed up by an identical birthdate of a criminal in the system. So much for the enhanced stuff when the bullies at the border still rely on old technology!
Well worth the wait. Rented, in what must be the bargain of the year - $3.99 for two nights from Blockbuster, "Gran Torino" Clint Eastwood's latest movie. Nominated for an Oscar but not arriving anywhere near the podium, this movie is a traditional bad guy redeems himself to good guy. I enjoyed it but then I always enjoy the hokey complete tale.
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I think that the Town of Cobourg deserves credit for getting about $20 million in federal and provincial grants for the proposed community (?) centre, but it makes me wonder about the whole stimulus program.
For example: If the City of Toronto had received the same pro-rata allocation of stimulus funds they would have got over $2 billion for the new streetcars that they requested, but they did not receive anything. Perhaps Cobourg is lucky that we have an MP and MPP from the respective ruling parties, but I cannot see how building the community (?) centre is going to provide much economic stimulus or job creation. In the case of TO the city really needs transportation improvements, and building such an amount of transportation vehicles and related infrastructure would have had a much greater positive economic and employment effects that would also extended to other parts of Ontario.
Watch the news from Iran. The black ragheads rule; the white ragheads are subservient.
The black ragheads are not Persian. The real rulers of Iran are not Persian; they are Arab, and they are not just any Arab, the are special Arabs that have a proven line to Big Mo, the founder of a lethal religion. Islam, the ideology of Islamaniacs.
Iran is populated by Persians. The situation is worse than South African apartheid, and stupid Westerns don't notice. The Ummah has been so brainwashed, that they shrug their shoulders in acceptance.
Pathetic.
(BTW, the gand swarmers -whine slime- of Gordon Gilchrist can report my comments above to the local repressionary of the Cdn Human Rights Commission.)
$2,000,000,000 worth of streetcars chugin' around the city don't garner the same level of recognition as a building complex lasting 30 or 40 years with a big plaque out front pronouncing government largesse. Priorities, Greg, priorities!
Speaking of stimulus money, I have just come across an article talking about how Michigan is trying to stave off road disaster in the face of vanishing cash reserves.
When it's time to make road repairs, they are converting them back to gravel. Apparently it only costs $10,000 to convert a mile of paved road into a gravel road, compared to $100,000 to re-pave it.
Interesting. When our own County Councillors start to contemplate that, we'll know we're in big trouble here too.
The GTA has received literally billions in new funding dollars over the last year and half from both senior levels of government for infrastructure projects even before stimulous funds were distributed.
The GTA also swallows the majority of immigrants and it takes billions to settle them. Federal policy determines the quantity of immigrants entering Canada. However, the federal government does not provide any funding for all the immigrants to set home -- that is borne by the GTA.
The residents of the Greater Cobourg Area (CTA) get a free ride in this regard, except for a group of whiners upset about immigrants busing down from the GTA to enjoy the parks of CTA.
Back at ya Anonymouse
PS. I see that you provided not a single reference for your unfounded idiot remarks. My name is Wally Keeler.
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