Mid-Week Post

There is a hidden eagle somewhere in that picture.


Fire Kathleen Wynne out of a cannon:

A senior member of former premier Dalton McGuinty's staff was dispatched to have a talk with the "member from Brant" last September, shortly after Levac ruled that there was a prima facie finding of contempt in withholding of gas plant documents, according to new internal e-mails.

Levac issued a statement Tuesday that did not deny he met with Dave Gene, of McGuinty's office, but that he did not feel political pressure and did not change his ruling.

Wynne said she sees no problem with premier's staff meeting with the Speaker.

"People talk to the Speaker all the time, you know, the Speaker needs to talk to all parties about the workings of the house," she said.

Yes but they don't attempt to erase e-mails that put them squarely in discussions about money-wasting gas plants.


At the Fur: the former American ambassador to Canada worries that Obama is ruining Canada-US relations, how to beat one's wife and it's just ham.


I blame it on the guy who occupied the White House for the past four years:

In fact, real average annual economic growth has been nearly cut in half so far this century compared to the last two decades of the last century; and specifically during President Obama’s time in office it has dropped to an average of just over 1 percent. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/1-average-annual-economic-growth-under-obama#sthash.hdG1ZZxO.dpuf

In fact, real average annual economic growth has been nearly cut in half so far this century compared to the last two decades of the last century; and specifically during President Obama’s time in office it has dropped to an average of just over 1 percent. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/1-average-annual-economic-growth-under-obama#sthash.hdG1ZZxO.dpuf

In fact, real average annual economic growth has been nearly cut in half so far this century compared to the last two decades of the last century; and specifically during President Obama’s time in office it has dropped to an average of just over 1 percent.

Your wise words, sir, are wasted on one such as him:

Speaking over the weekend to The New York Times, President Obama said "the most realistic estimates are this might create about 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline, which might take a year or two, and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people." On that basis, he claimed Keystone’s jobs creation would be “a blip relative to the need.”

 Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, responds to those comments.

 "The truth of the matter is, there is going to be direct employment and then a huge number of jobs because they have to make the steel, they have to buy the equipment, they have to do all the other things,” he explains.

“In an economy where so many millions of people are unemployed and underemployed, the idea that the president of the United States would scoff at any jobs – especially these kinds of jobs, these family-raising wage jobs – is troublesome."

 

Speaking over the weekend to The New York Times, President Obama said "the most realistic estimates are this might create about 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline, which might take a year or two, and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people." On that basis, he claimed Keystone’s jobs creation would be “a blip relative to the need.” - See more at: http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2013/07/30/keystone-related-jobs-a-%E2%80%98blip%E2%80%99-really-mr-president#.UfnKGax3uRR

There is no hidden eagle in that picture.



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