The 9/12ers are already gathering en masse in Washington. Glenn Beck will be covering the 9/12 gatherings on Fox News between 1pm and 3pm today. Set your PVR’s.
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Aww, The Montreal Ballerinas Needs To Sell Some Fudge
Many of you recall the trimming of a couple of inefficient government programs that helped pay for artists to tour the world. Well I have good news for those of us who pay our own way when we travel. Minister James Moore has stuck to his guns and will not be extending the programs as they are inefficient.
Art groups are upset the government refuses to reinstate two funds — the $7.1-million Trade Routes program and the $4.8-million Arts Promotion program — that helped with international travel and marketing.
The government maintains the programs were inefficient.
Trade Routes spent $5 million paying people to “push paper” and only $2 million went to the artists, said Heritage Minister James Moore’s spokeswoman Deirdra McCracken.
What many people should pay attention to is the addtional fact in this article that the Conservative government is not trimming arts funding. They are in fact spending over $540 million on arts and culture over two years in the middle of a recession to help these areas. What they are NOT doing is blowing cash on wasted paper pushing and free world travel.
Alain Dancyger, the executive director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, said he had to beg donors in Egypt this spring to make up a $250,000 travel budget shortfall for the company’s historic Middle East tour.
“It was embarrassing,” he said. Donors were asking why they should give if the Canadian government was refusing to help, he said.
Newsflash: When my daughter’s volleyball club was looking to raise funds for travel or some new equipment, the girls on the team went door to door selling maple fudge. I wonder if Mr. Dancyger has thought to try this. I am willing to bet he has not. With countless people not even travelling these days because of the recession, I am ecstatic that this boondoggle has been put to rest.
Minister James Moore gets a gold star in my grading book.
Not Political You Say??
Whenever someone tells me we have been in Afghanistan too long, I tend to tell them that it was having our troops in South Korea for decades that finally allowed that country to flourish as a thriving democracy with such global corporate giants as Samsung and Hyundai. Companies that would never have succeeded under the conditions imposed on those living in North Korea.
Well this is a touching story that goes beyond the politics and corporations and war.
The young man in the video below turned 11 in September of 2007. His name is Sungha Jung. He had been watching his father play guitar and picked one up a little over 2 years ago. I urge you to do two things.
1) click the video below once and watch him play the video I have chosen.
and
2) once the video is over, click the link below the video to go find his page on YouTube and watch some of the other videos he has up. He is a remarkable young man and one whom I am positive would not be playing the western rock songs he seems to enjoy if we were not in South Korea for so long.
You can say this is just one young man, but think of all the other talented people that have been allowed to flourish in a free South Korea and how many more would be allowed to flourish in a free Afghanistan.
Link to Sungha Jung’s Channel on YouTube
h/t to Mac
Salt Water To Replace Gas
A must see video.
If this technology is real and viable for running cars then we have something that means we can run our big SUVs and help keep Al Gore at bay on the whole “oceans are rising” crock.
Please share this with anyone you know.
Click the video above once to view. If it does not work, try clicking the link below once.
Thank You For Officially Unscrewing Me Mr. Flaherty
I still say spending on tax credits is not really spending. And because of this, I want to thank the Minister of Finance for his budget because it DID drop my tax burden.
The new $2,000 child tax credit will help my family with $310 more for Cookie and $310 more for T-Bone, my two children. The end of the marriage penalty will help my family with $209 more dollars for TBH, my wife.
Thank you Mr. Flaherty for giving me back $829 every year. This may not seem like much to some people out there, but it’s a month’s groceries to me. It’s the cost of the registration fees for my children’s sports. It’s the cost of two out of town trips when my kids compete in a sport that they excel at. It’s two or three monthly car payments. It’s 14 or 15 gas tank fill ups. It’s the cost of that new computer for my kids. If you’re Scott Reid or John Duffy, it’s 20 cases of beer or 1000 bags of microwave popcorn.
But more than anything, it is just plain appreciated.
Thank you.
Smackdown – We Need More People Like This
Just Watch It!!