I’ve been by the crash site a few times, and have to say it’s quite a miracle that everyone survived with hardly a scratch.
Why, then, do we have to sue? I’ve heard compaints from the bus to pick them up was too cold to they served water instead of coffee.
Clearly, the world has too many lawyers.
Never knew Joan Collins had so much sense.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within, said the American historian Will Durrant about ancient Rome. This self-destruction of values is exactly what is happening in England today.
The increasingly out to lunch government of Mr. Dithers has appointed someone totally unqualified to become GG – providing unlimited fodder for the blogsphere.
Ms Jean fits none of these criteria. It is trivial and irrelevant to divert criticism of this choice to her being ‘ethnic’, ‘non-white’, ‘a woman’, even to her being ‘Quebecois’..blah blah. That’s all trivia and obfuscates and hides what should be the basic criticism of this choice of her as G-G. The criticism? She doesn’t fit what should be a standard for a patronage appointment of this stature; namely, a lifetime work towards the betterment of the well-being of the majority of Canadians.
Perhaps this is the Liberal way to turn Canadians against the monarchy. It just might work.
An interesting read on a blogging pilot’s view of the Toronto Air France crash.
And indeed in Toronto these guys might have been okay if only they’d been on the 11,000’ runway 23 instead of the 9000’ 24L (the runways are oriented facing magnetic direction 230 and 240, i.e., almost the same, so it is unclear why the Airbus wasn’t assigned the longer runway). They might also have been okay if they hadn’t been in the famously underpowered A340-300 (the newer versions of this plane have almost twice as much power) and therefore requiring more runway remaining before going around.
More useless leadership on our power problem.
Premier Dalton McGuinty offered little hope of a quick fix to hydro challenges, saying Ontarians will have to live with them until more generators are built.
Welcome to the third world of Ontario.
Leatherdale has more.
An interesting piece on Iraq’s power problems – the story is similar to Ontario’s.
In 1991, Iraq generated a total of 9,000 megawatts, while it consumed 5,000.
Sad to hear that the writer was murdered hours later. What a dangerous place.
Now would be a real good time for McSquinty to get on the blower and explain what he’s going to do about this hydro mess.
Today’s projected peak demand was expected to reach 25,400 megawatts, with the province only capable of generating about 23,700 megawatts, he added.
A realistic plan to lower pollution has been reached, but you’d never notice in the left wing media.
This week’s environment agreement between the US and five Asia-Pacific states sets a strong alternative to Kyoto. The surprise deal includes China and India, whose output is largely unaffected by Kyoto. The six countries in the new deal, China, India, South Korea, Japan, Australia and the US account for nearly half of world greenhouse gas emissions.
Maybe Canada should sign on, since it won’t even come close to the Kyoto targets anyway.
More proof that plugging in a car and running off a battery isn’t as simple as it looks.
It has to do with hybrid vehicles, and whether we can achieve the full benefits of “hybrid vigour” by resting on the laurels of existing technologies.
Making it a national security issue may help spur some creative ideas. Odd that it’s occuring in the big old oil hogging US, isn’t it? Not to me.
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