I missed this story whilst I was away but I find it so delicious that I want to bring it up: The Premier of Newfoundland has come to the US for surgery
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.
Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.
“He has gone to a renowned expert in the procedure that he needs to have done,” said Ms. Dunderdale, who will become acting premier while Mr. Williams is away for three to 12 weeks.
How many US Governors have traveled to Canada for surgery? How many supporters of Obamacare have?
…So there you go. Aside from the fact that ESPN is keeping from us vital information about the future — such as, when exactly will the damn dirty apes take over or when and where exactly will our robot overlords land their massive fleet of UFOs — they’ve also just ruined Super Bowl Sunday for all of us by revealing the winner. No need to bother watching the game now. We already know the outcome. Thanks a lot ESPN! Jerks!
Update: As you may have figured out already, ESPN has changed the link and it now directs you to their front page.
Our good friend Dan rightfully demands some *hot* photos from Brazil, so here are some choice beauties
That’s coffee, Dear Readers. Gorgeous, luscious coffee cherries that in but four short months will turn a wondrous shade of red and those full plump ripe berries will be bursting with sweet tongue-tantalizing flavor.
CHICAGO — The US transportation chief’s public rebukes of Toyota’s handling of a massive safety recall have raised eyebrows, given the US government’s major stake in rivals General Motors and Chrysler.
“The optics are terrible because — and this is what happens when a government owns a company – the two companies that are going to gain the most out of this are General Motors and Chrysler,” said Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland’s business school.
…“These reports, which provide a snapshot of the impact of a small portion of funds, are yet another indication that the Recovery Act is on-track to create or save 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010,” Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement.
Charlie Brown, watch your back — a plague of vicious wild beagles has struck Long Island!
These floppy-eared terrors are no lovable Snoopys — they’re abandoned hunting dogs that live in packs and have gone from humble pets to hounds from hell.
Mattituck resident Dot Faszczewski came face to face with the canine menace two weeks ago, when she was set upon by a group of crazed, hungry beagles as she walked her pet dogs near her parents’ Orient Point home.
LaHood’s warning came Wednesday in testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation. LaHood says his advice to owners is to “stop driving it. Take it to a Toyota dealer because they believe they have a fix for it.”
Only…the fix isn’t even AT the dealerships YET, no one’s been trained HOW to install the fix and there’s nothing like a government caused panic (remember, now: the DOT said drive your Toyota cautiously unTIL the fix was ready) to really throw a wrench in things.
There’s also a question (which, to her credit, CNBC’s Michelle Carusa Cabrerra asked) about the fix being IN…for Toyota to crash and burn, gievn the gub’mint owns that hefty, expensive chunk of GM. Coincidentally, Toyota stock is doing exactly that at the moment.
The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth.
Although Reuters has pulled the article, many people are still reading it at various websites, so it is important to note and correct its appalling inaccuracies:
Saints fans won an unlikely battle with the NFL after several small businesses received cease-and-desist orders for unlicensed merchandise.
The NFL apologized to merchants, fans and political figures and claimed the situation was a misunderstanding and not all uses of “Who Dat” need to be licensed.
…For years I’ve been made to feel a pariah for my views on AGW. Chris Booker has had the same experience, as has Richard North, Benny Peiser, Lord Lawson, Philip Stott and those few others of us who recognised early on that the AGW thing stank. Now it’s payback time and I take small satisfaction from seeing so many rats deserting their sinking ship.
I don’t want them on my side.
I want to see them in hell, reliving scenes from Hieronymus Bosch.
Yeah, maybe it isn’t the Christian way. But screw ‘em. It’s not as though they haven’t all been screwing us for long enough.
President unlikely to reach his goals on jobs, deficit
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s new budget sets two major goals: creating jobs and cutting the deficit. But his own budget documents cast serious doubt on whether he’ll make much headway on either.
Two AP schmackdowns in two weeks. Isn’t that some kind of reporting record?
Anybody who has followed the New Orleans Saints for any length of time knows it has always been said that Hell would freeze over before the Saints would make it to the Super Bowl. Now we know why it’s been such a cold winter all over.
But it’s nice to hear someone besides the little people say so.
“We’re going to get ourselves into deep, deep trouble here if we continue to pursue this course of fiscal insanity, in my opinion,” said Gregg, a ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a live interview.
“FISCAL insanity“, he said.
The voices in my head are singing…
It must be the similarities in each chorus of “Burn, Baby, BURN!”.
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