Archive for August, 2010


Busy Morning

I’m about to rush out the door for a meeting, and then have a heap of work to get done this afternoon. Yes, I’ll write another post or two later today (I promise), but in the meantime, you should head on over to Blazing Cat Fur for all the latest jihadi dirt. There’s also an [...]

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Sharif El-Gamal doesn’t like paying taxes

Interesting… Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes $224,270.77 in back property tax on the site, city records show. El-Gamal’s company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department. The delinquency is a possible violation [...]

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I need a gub’mint job

A worker was paid for 12 years without ever showing up for work at a Norfolk, Virginia, agency funded by federal, state and local money, officials say. Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim told CNN on Friday that when a new director took over at Norfolk Community Services Board recently, she was “doing her due diligence” when [...]

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About those “death panels”

Publicly funded hospitals are understaffed and over-stretched. Add to that the fact that people no longer care for their elderly parents the way it was done in previous generations, and you get this: Many hospitals across the UK are not doing enough to spot elderly people at risk from malnutrition, says a charity. A poll [...]

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I’m gonna have to vote for Rob Ford

He may be a buffoon, but I just don’t see another choice. You see, I had planned on voting in the Toronto mayoral election for Rocco Rossi – a liberal, with good conservative fiscal policy. His ideas were very good, and he was running a clean campaign. But today, Rocco Rossi unequivocally proved that his decision-making [...]

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