“So it is with some regret I come to the floor to discuss this important issue with a total lack of bipartisanship on the part of the administration and, again, express my willingness – in fact, my deep desire – to sit down and try to address, in a bipartisan fashion, this compelling issue, which is endangering the future of this planet and certainly our children’s and grandchildren’s future, and that is the issue of climate change.”
Senator John McCain
What he really said is:
Money is more important than our future.
It’s not our plan, it’s the Democrats, so we wont vote for it.
I want to get elected again so I’d rather be in office than save the planet.
Environmentalists said the decision to delay action on the broad climate legislation marked a serious setback.
“It would seem like the longest of long shots to me because the window for opportunity in the fall before the election season goes into high gear is very small,” said Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, an activist group.
So let’s start over or let’s debate some more, or let’s do nothing. Good work, John.
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Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Kentville Advertiser Newspaper in Kentville , N.S. and bought a mule for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
The next morning the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellers, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.”
Curtis & Leroy replied, “Well, then just give us our money back..”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.”
The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?”
Curtis said, “We gonna raffle him off.”
The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!”
Leroy said, “We shore can! Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!”
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Co-Op grocery store and asked:
“What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”
They said,”We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.”
Leroy said,”Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.”
The farmer said,”My Lord, didn’t anyone complain?”
Curtis said, “Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back.”
Curtis and Leroy now work for the government.
They’re overseeing McGuinty’s Harmonization Sales Tax Plan.
funny emails, funny stuff, stupid
G20 leaders diving into Fake Lake , Toronto, 2010.
I feel bad for the tax payers and that lady in the pool!
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COMMENTARY 2009 G20 meeting:
The cartoon shows a battered Gordon Brown and Barack Obama dressed as Supermen. They’ve clearly been in a fightâ€â€their tunics are torn and Obama has a plaster on his head. Gordon Brown is holding a small piece of paper with ‘Summit’ written on it (the size of the paper suggests that the summit agreement was not a spectacular success). He’s saying “… From nuffink!”
Why?
To show everyone that we are stimulating our economy by spending over a billion dollars on security. Great long lasting program!
To show other countires how to print more money. The US is an expert!
Why not give the money to Greece?
G20 stands for Greedy 20
How to allow the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer!
To show the world how to build an artificial lake (for 2 million dollars).
Just unbelievable!!!
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The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (known as the G-20 and also the G20 or Group of Twenty) is a group offinance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 countries plus the European Union. Recently summits meeting at level ofHeads of government have been introduced. The 2010 chair country of the G-20 is South Korea.[3]
Collectively, the G-20 economies comprise 85%[4] of global gross national product, 80% of world trade (including EU intra-trade) and two-thirds of the world population.[2]
The G-20 is a forum for cooperation and consultation on matters pertaining to the international financial system. It studies, reviews, and promotes discussion (among key industrial and emerging market countries) of policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability, and seeks to address issues that go beyond the responsibilities of any one organization.
With the G-20 growing in stature since the 2008 Washington summit, its leaders announced on September 25, 2009, that the group will replace theG8 as the main economic council of wealthy nations.[5]
Heads of states of G-20 members meet biannually at the G-20 summit. The G-20 summits for 2010 are scheduled to be held in Toronto on June 26–27 and Seoul on November 11–12.
Member countries and organizations
In 2010, there are 20 members of the G-20. These include, at the leaders summits, the leaders of 19 countries and of the European Union and, at the ministerial-level meetings, the finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries and of the European Union :[2][6]
In addition to these 20 members, the following forums and institutions, as represented by their respective chief executive officers, participate in meetings of the G-20:[2]
- the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
- the Chairman of the International Monetary Fund
- the President of the World Bank
- International Monetary and Financial Committee
- the Chairman of the Development Committee
Membership does not reflect exactly the 19 largest national economies of the world in any given year. The organization states:[1]
| “ | In a forum such as the G-20, it is particularly important for the number of countries involved to be restricted and fixed to ensure the effectiveness and continuity of its activity. There are no formal criteria for G-20 membership and the composition of the group has remained unchanged since it was established. In view of the objectives of the G-20, it was considered important that countries and regions of systemic significance for the international financial system be included. Aspects such as geographical balance and population representation also played a major part. |
Could they use teleconferencing? What a waste of money. There are so many more ways to spend the money.
If you need to spend that much on security, then cancel the meeting.
Why not meet in Yellowknife?
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The G8 and G20 summits being held here next month will cost Canada a record $1.1 billion – the most expensive 72 hours in the country’s history.
With these summits become a magnet for anti-globalization protesters, Canada is spending as much as $933 million to provide security for the two summits which together will last three days.
Another $160 million will be spent on logistics and stay arrangements for the world leaders. Food alone for summit leaders will cost more than $1 million.
While the G8 summits will be held June 25-26 at the resort of Huntsville which is more than 200 kilometres from Toronto, the G20 summit will be held in the city June 26-27.
A number of groups, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace, World Vision, and the Canadian Labour Congress and others, are already gearing up to throw the G20 summit out of gear.
In the biggest security operations ever mounted in Canada, security and intelligence agencies are already questioning protest leaders.
Since it lies next door to the venue of the summit in the heart of Toronto, the University of Toronto – the biggest in the country – is shutting down, rescheduling exams and getting hostels vacated during the summit.
While critics have called the summits the most expensive 72 hours in Canadian history, the government says it is not going to compromise on security for world leaders.
Justifying the huge cost, Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday that Canada has an obligation to safeguard world leaders during their stay in the country.
With pitched battles between security forces and protesters on the cards, Toronto hospital officials also said Wednesday that they are making arrangements to deal with emergencies and high volume of injured patients.
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Five Surgeons…Leave it to the Newfie
Five surgeons are talking:
The first, an Ontario surgeon, says: ”I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”
The second, a Quebec surgeon, responds: ”Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour coded.”
The third, a B.C. surgeon, says: ”No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”
The fourth, an Alberta surgeon, chimes in: “You know, I like construction workers… those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.
But the fifth, a Newfie surgeon, shut them all up when he observed: ”You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and rear end are interchangeable.”
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