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It’s the end of the month, and, of course, the A-listers are begging for money. Again. They ought to get out of mama’s basement and get a job.
“Incessant and morally bereft financial predation at [the] global level and [the] emergence of hollow nation-states that serve merely as vehicles for the enrichment of these predators.” ~ John Robb, commenting on Matt Taibi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine.” (Rolling Stone).
The History Channel was really rather interesting yesterday afternoon – first a three hour comparison of today’s (The Greatest) Depression (Since) the Last (Great Depression) followed by two hours documenting the crumbling of “America”‘s infrastructure. We already know how far down the sewer our health care system is. Welcome to the Third World.
Re-reading Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, 1492 to Present today. Pretty amazing how little things have changed.
Taxes in Canada are extremely high, mostly because of national health care.
In actuality, taxes are nearly equal on both sides of the border. Overall, Canada’s taxes are slightly higher than those in the U.S. However, Canadians are afforded many benefits for their tax dollars, even beyond health care (e.g., tax credits, family allowance, cheaper higher education), so the end result is a wash. At the end of the day, the average after-tax income of Canadian workers is equal to about 82 percent of their gross pay. In the U.S., that average is 81.9 percent.
Denver Post: Debunking Canadian health care myths
RoguePundit brings to our attention that Vancouver BC, in order to clean up its shit as host of the 2010 Olympics, plans to ship over 600,000 tons of garbage per year for at least the next five years – the contract extends to sixteen years – to the Waste Management Inc Colombia Ridge landfill facility near Arlington (Rock Creek), about 55 miles east of The Dalles.
This is not a good thing.
Temperature is a time series, if you pick and choose the dates over any short term you can make whatever case you want. Which is why graphic data makes lairs out of the lying sacks of shit climate change deniers are. Above represents the average annual global temperature since 1880, shown as .01 degree Celsius deviation from the 1951-80 average.
Change is coming faster than even our models predicted, soon deniers will be learning the difference between pray, and prey.
turns twenty-one today. I first went in there, still wearing hickory shirts, suspenders and bobbed off Lees, to mock the place – “what kinda’ foofoo joint you opening up in my old hometown?” As I recall, he wasn’t sure it “would fly”. Haven’t drank a Budweiser since.
I’ve written a couple of shout-outs over the years, mostly though on the thought that with the not altogether unforeseen demise of the timber industry Gary and his compatriots saved this state. Not economically (though it seems the sin taxers think so), but everyone today – even old loggers – is as fiercely loyal to their local brewpub as we ever were for our local football teams.
Thanks Gary, see you in a few minutes.
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The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa — Boycott, Divest and Sanction.
