Posts Tagged “Canada”
- The stock market returned to its wild ride Monday, as news of a global plan for buying directly into banks sent prices surging everywhere–including the US, where the Dow posted a gigantic 932 point gain, it’s biggest one-day bump in history. Brokers everywhere celebrated by taking off their homeless person disguises…
- President Bush said he would announce new plans Tuesday that will use a portion of the $700 billion bailout money for the purchase of stock in major US banks–the same plan adopted in Great Britain and throughout Europe. It must be strange for the president to announce a policy that wasn’t dictated to him while asleep by Karl Rove or Dick Cheney…
- Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney of Florida called for a House Ethics Committee investigation into his own conduct after an ABC News report that he agreed to pay $121,000 to a former mistress and staff worker after being threatened with a sexual harassment suit. He’s either incredibly confident, insane or calculating–in other words, a politician…
 Princeton professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on international trade patterns–making Krugman the best-known American economist to win the award in decades. Krugman has been a relentless critic of the Bush administration’s economic policies, particularly the bailout package–which to much of the world would qualify him as a genius…- Canada is wrapped up in an election campaign as well, with voters going to the polls Tuesday to likely re-elect Conservative Party incumbent prime minister Stephen Harper over Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion. A native of Quebec, Dion’s struggles with the English language have been a campaign issue–you mean like Sarah Palin?
 Wildifres in Southern California are moving into suburban Los Angeles neighborhoods, fanned by the area’s legendary Santa Ana winds, forcing frantic evacuations by homeowners–some given as little as 20 minutes to escape the engulfing flames. There are those trying to put a positive spin on the tragedy–their commute just got a lot shorter…
Tags: ABC, California, Canada, financial bailout, Nobel Prize, President Bush, stock market, wildfire
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- Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain has defended his opposition to a bill providing additional financial aid for veterans serving as little as 3 years, saying it will discourage soldiers from becoming non-comissioned officers. McCain makes a valid argument, only I’m guessing that 3 years in Iraq or Afghanistan is probably worth 20 anyplace else…
- NASA’s Phoenix Lander successfully completed America’s first-ever landing of a probe on the north pole of Mars Sunday, and has begun sending photos of the planet’s surface to help scientists determine if and when there might have been life on the planet. How long do you think it will be before we get some nice shots of Bugs Bunny’s Marvin The Martian?
- With diesel fuel prices rising faster than gasoline, trucking firms are adapting with lighter, more aerodynamic vehicles, using computer programs to map out the most efficient routes–and encouraging drivers to drive slower to increase fuel efficiency. But truckers’ biggest speed problem could be the kind that goes in their nose instead of the tank…
- Canada’s foreign minister, the US equivalent of Secretary Of State, has resigned after leaving classified documents in a non-secure location. This breach of security has led to revealing the nation’s most closely-guarded secret–it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil…
- Researchers are at work on the next generation of mosquito repellants that could work several times longer than the current standard. However, they’re having a few problems finding a safe setting for the Porto-Flame Thrower…
- Hollywood is mourning the passing yesterday of Sydney Pollack, who not only produced and acted in Oscar-winner Michael Clayton last year, but directed The Way We Were, Absence Of Malice, Tootsie, The Firm and Out Of Africa, where he won Best Director and Best Movie Oscars. Having worked with Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and countless others, Pollack’s funeral may have more stars than the Oscars…
Tags: Canada, Gas prices, Hollywood, Iraq, John McCain, Mars, NASA, Oscars, veterans
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- New rules in effect today for US citizens crossing into our borders from land or sea now require proof of citizenship as well as identity. There’s concern along the Canadian border that the new policy will hamper trade because too few will be prepared to provide the proof–and too many have had too many Molson’s to know for sure…
- It was dropout day on the campaign trail yesterday as Democrat John Edwards and Republican Rudy Giuliani both announced they would no longer stay in the race for the presidency. It means both will return to dealing with their private lives–Edwards and his wife’s inoperable cancer, and Rudy’s search for another hot girlfriend…
- NASA’s Messenger probe sent back the first photos of the unseen side of Mercury, revealing an aged and shrinking planet with scars and a spider-shaped birthmark. In other words, Dennis Rodman…
- A study has found that an alternative to surgery for bulging abdominal arteries, the insertion of a fabric sleeve, results in fewer deaths and long-term complications. Frankly, I’d be concerned about them cutting into the wrong blood-filled part of my anatomy…
- Damage to a pair of undersea cables in the Mediterranean disrupted Internet service throughout the Middle East yesterday. It created a lot of havoc–but the upside was that LongLiveOsama.com was offline as well…
- Everything else seems to be in a vending machine, so why not pot? A California man has patented a specialized machine that will vend medical marijuana only to authorized users who provide a fingerprint, payment card and PIN number. I doubt it’s a coincidence that it will always be next to another machine stocked iwth chips and cookies…
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Tags: Canada, Democrat, John Edwards, Mercury, NASA, Osama bin Laden, primary, Republican, Rudy Giuliani
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