To the point and right on!!!

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.

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.

I feel bad for the tax payers and that lady in the pool!

COMMENTARY  2009 G20 meeting:
The cartoon shows a battered Gordon Brown and Barack Obama dressed as Supermen. They’ve clearly been in a fight—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!!!

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.

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]

Region	Member	Leader		Finance Minister		Central Bank Governor	GDP (nominal·PPP) $Million USD		Population
Africa	South Africa	President	Jacob Zuma	Minister of Finance	Pravin Gordhan	Gill Marcus	287,219	492,684	49,320,500
North America	Canada	Prime Minister	Stephen Harper	Minister of Finance	Jim Flaherty	Mark Carney	1,336,427	1,281,064	34,088,000
	Mexico	President	Felipe Calderón	Secretary of Finance	Ernesto Cordero Arroyo	Agustín Carstens	874,903	1,465,726	111,211,789
	United States	President	Barack Obama	Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner	Ben Bernanke	14,256,275	14,256,275	309,173,000
South America	Argentina	President	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	Minister of Economy	Amado Boudou	Mercedes Marcó del Pont	310,065	584,392	40,134,425
	Brazil	President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Minister of Finance	Guido Mantega	Henrique Meirelles	1,574,039	2,013,186	192,859,000
East Asia	China	President	Hu Jintao	Minister of Finance	Xie Xuren	Zhou Xiaochuan	4,326,187	7,903,235	1,338,612,968
	Japan	Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama	Minister of Finance	Naoto Kan	Masaaki Shirakawa	5,068,059	4,159,432	127,390,000
	South Korea	President	Lee Myung-bak	Minister of Strategy and Finance	Yoon Jeung-hyun	Kim Joong-soo	832,512	1,364,148	50,060,000
South Asia	India	Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh	Minister of Finance	Pranab Mukherjee	Duvvuri Subbarao	1,235,975	3,526,124	1,180,251,000
Southeast Asia	Indonesia	President	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Minister of Finance	Agus Martowardojo	Darmin Nasution	539,337	962,471	231,369,500
Southwest Asia	Saudi Arabia	King	Abdullah I	Minister of Finance	Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf	Muhammed Al-jasser	369,671	593,385	25,721,000
Europe	European Union	E. Council President[7] Commission President[7]	Herman Van Rompuy José Manuel Barroso	Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs	Olli Rehn	Jean-Claude Trichet	16,447,259	14,793,979	501,259,840
	France	President	Nicolas Sarkozy	Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment	Christine Lagarde	Christian Noyer	2,675,951	2,108,228	65,447,374
	Germany	Chancellor	Angela Merkel	Minister of Finance	Wolfgang Schäuble	Axel A. Weber	3,352,742	2,806,226	81,757,600
	Italy	Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi	Minister of Economy and Finance	Giulio Tremonti	Mario Draghi	2,118,264	1,740,123	60,325,805
	Russia	President	Dmitry Medvedev	Minister of Finance	Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin	Sergey Mikhaylovich Ignatyev	1,229,227	2,109,551	141,927,297
	Turkey	Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Minister of Finance	Mehmet Şimşek	Durmuş Yılmaz	615,329	880,061	72,561,312
	United Kingdom	Prime Minister	David Cameron	Chancellor of the Exchequer	George Osborne	Mervyn King	2,183,607	2,139,400	62,041,708
Oceania	Australia	Prime Minister	Kevin Rudd	Treasurer	Wayne Swan	Glenn Stevens	997,201	851,170	22,328,632

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]

If you need to spend that much on security, then cancel the meeting.

Why not meet in Yellowknife?

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.

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.”