capricorn Posted March 19, 2009 Report Posted March 19, 2009 On Tuesday, Liberal science critic Marc Garneau said that believing in evolution is not a job requirement for the science minister.βIt is a personal matter. It is a matter of faith.β¦ I don't think it prevents someone from being a good minister,β http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/politics/home Quote "We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs." Will Rogers
August1991 Posted March 19, 2009 Author Report Posted March 19, 2009 Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC answers questions of Ellen Pollock of Business Week: βWeβre going through tremendous changes. Iβm sure BusinessWeek is constantly trying to decide how much to put online and how much to put in print. Newspapers didnβt ask themselves about the changes, neither did Detroit. We all wish we could put our heads down and wish it were 1987. But technology has changed the way people watch video. NBC primetime has had a difficult time the past three or four years. Sometimes, you see the world more clearly when youβre flat on your back. Weβve had the same model for 50 years. We have to question that, especially in this economy.β Link Quote
capricorn Posted March 23, 2009 Report Posted March 23, 2009 Michael Ignatieff, speaking at the Liberal Quebec wing general council conference. "You can be proud to be Quebecois and Canadian at the same time," he declared, "in the order you want." http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/606502 "Quebecers do not deserve to be in a permanent opposition in Ottawa. Their place is in power," Ignatieff said."I am so proud to be a Liberal; I am so proud to be Canadian. The time has come for Quebecers to get their place back in Ottawa," he later added. http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CT...ub=MontrealHome Quote "We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs." Will Rogers
jbg Posted March 23, 2009 Report Posted March 23, 2009 A proof is a proof. What is a proof? It's a proof. And when a proof is proven it is a very good proof. Jean Chretien, Septebmer 2003. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
August1991 Posted March 24, 2009 Author Report Posted March 24, 2009 (edited) Zhou Xiaochuan, 61, Governor, People's Bank of China: When a national currency is used in pricing primary commodities, trade settlements and is adopted as a reserve currency globally, efforts of the monetary authority issuing such a currency to address its economic imbalances by adjusting exchange rate would be made in vain, as its currency serves as a benchmark for many other currencies..... The desirable goal of reforming the international monetary system, therefore, is to create an international reserve currency that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies. People's Bank of China Edited March 24, 2009 by August1991 Quote
Riverwind Posted March 24, 2009 Report Posted March 24, 2009 Zhou Xiaochuan, 61, Governor, People's Bank of ChinaA strange comment from a country that seeks to manipulate the foreign exchange market in order to favour their exporters. Quote To fly a plane, you need both a left wing and a right wing.
August1991 Posted March 28, 2009 Author Report Posted March 28, 2009 Jason Kenney, 40, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism: "My job is in part to ensure that we successfully integrate newcomers into Canadian society and that our particular Canadian model of pluralism remains a success. There's always a danger that political correctness can dissuade us from making clear distinctions between what constitutes legitimate political debate, and on the other hand, extremism and the promotion of hatred and violence. We cannot allow political correctness to cloud our ability to make those basic distinctions." National Post Quote
jbg Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Jason Kenney, 40, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism:National Post Great quote. Thanks. Back in the day, the first thing an immigrant to my country did was learn English, change their name to one not obvioulsy foreign, and do everything they could to fit in. Maybe changing a name is a bit extreme, but newcomers to a country should recognize that they're going to a new country, not bringing the old country's hatreds to the U.S. or Canada. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
August1991 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Posted March 30, 2009 Alan Greenspan, ex-Chairman of the US Fed: "I find it useful to think of the world economyβs equity capital in the context of the global consolidated balance sheet. All debt (public and private) and derivatives cancel out, leaving intellectual and physical assets at market value on the left-hand side of the balance sheet and the market value of equity on the right-hand side. Changes in equity values result in equal changes on both sides of the balance sheet. Debt and derivatives are best seen as a grossing up, reflecting the degree of intermediation or leverage."The consolidated global equity is also, by construction, the sum of the separate but additive equities of all individual corporations, other businesses, households and governments." FT Quote
Pliny Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Alan Greenspan, ex-Chairman of the US Fed:FT Do you understand that? Quote I want to be in the class that ensures the classless society remains classless.
jbg Posted March 30, 2009 Report Posted March 30, 2009 Do you understand that? He makes some very telling points. The only trouble with his analysis is that though stocks are likely to partially recover, real estate may not be in as good a mood. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
August1991 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Posted March 30, 2009 (edited) US President Barack Obama, 30 March 2009: βIf you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than itβs ever been, because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty.β NYTCharles E. Wilson, CEO of GM, 1946-53: "For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." (Given the way things are going, I wonder whether Obama's declaration is an improvement on GM's or Chrysler's guarantee.) ---- Do you understand that?Greenspan's quote is really the only way to understand (long-run) macroeconomics. We have physical and intellectual wealth and then we have claims on that wealth (equity). Debt and contingency claims (derivatives) cancel out. This also explains why government debt largely doesn't matter. Edited March 30, 2009 by August1991 Quote
Pliny Posted March 31, 2009 Report Posted March 31, 2009 Greenspan's quote is really the only way to understand (long-run) macroeconomics. We have physical and intellectual wealth and then we have claims on that wealth (equity). Debt and contingency claims (derivatives) cancel out. This also explains why government debt largely doesn't matter. He says, "Changes in equity values result in equal changes on both sides of the balance sheet." He doesn't say how equity values change but I assume it is through manipulation of the money and credit supply. Smoke and mirrors. There will of course be a readjustment of value on the left side if equity values change. But equity values are only a measure of physical and intellectual (real) wealth. If one cup of water (the physical wealth) is by name (Equity) changed to two cups of water, the water has doubled in value but it is still the same amount of water. The apparency is that both sides have doubled but equity "value" has in fact been halved and only claimed to have doubled. Government debt does matter. Quote I want to be in the class that ensures the classless society remains classless.
August1991 Posted April 1, 2009 Author Report Posted April 1, 2009 Baitullah Mehsud, about 35, leader of the Pakistan Taliban: βSoon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world ... The maximum they can do is martyr me. But we will exact our revenge on them from inside America.β The Times Quote
jbg Posted April 1, 2009 Report Posted April 1, 2009 Baitullah Mehsud, about 35, leader of the Pakistan Taliban:The Times These are peaceful, reasonable people we should be providing foreign aid to and negotiating with? They need to die. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
Pliny Posted April 1, 2009 Report Posted April 1, 2009 These are peaceful, reasonable people we should be providing foreign aid to and negotiating with? They need to die. I'm not so cruel, Allah just needs to tell them they are on their own. Quote I want to be in the class that ensures the classless society remains classless.
jbg Posted April 2, 2009 Report Posted April 2, 2009 I'm not so cruel, Allah just needs to tell them they are on their own. Same difference. They thrive on shakedowns weather as the predators on the Silk Road, the Barbary Pirates, the Arab oil embargo organizers or Al Quaeda. Threaten or undertake violence, get money to be quiet. It would be better if they worked. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
August1991 Posted April 4, 2009 Author Report Posted April 4, 2009 Michelle Obama, wife of the US president, speaking at a school in Islington, London, England: "If you want to know the reason why I am standing here, it's because of education. I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. ... I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American first lady. I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of. I was raised on the South Side of Chicago -- that's the real part of Chicago." UPI Quote
Riverwind Posted April 4, 2009 Report Posted April 4, 2009 Michelle Obama, wife of the US president, speaking at a school in Islington, London, EnglandAlthough the sentiment is wonderful it is not clear to me how she can attribute her current position to anything other than the ancient tradition of marrying the right man. Quote To fly a plane, you need both a left wing and a right wing.
Pliny Posted April 5, 2009 Report Posted April 5, 2009 Although the sentiment is wonderful it is not clear to me how she can attribute her current position to anything other than the ancient tradition of marrying the right man. She did have to remove herself from where she was and be in the right place at the right time. Quote I want to be in the class that ensures the classless society remains classless.
Riverwind Posted April 5, 2009 Report Posted April 5, 2009 She did have to remove herself from where she was and be in the right place at the right time.So the message is: study hard so you can get into an ivy league school and increase your chances of marrying someone who will become the president of the US?I don't mean to dismiss her accomplishments as an individual but it is quite ridiculous for her to point to her position as First Lady as an example of what can be accomplished with an education. Quote To fly a plane, you need both a left wing and a right wing.
jbg Posted April 5, 2009 Report Posted April 5, 2009 Although the sentiment is wonderful it is not clear to me how she can attribute her current position to anything other than the ancient tradition of marrying the right man. Responding in part to your post as originally worded, I disagree. I think educated people with agendas in life tend to marry educated people with agendas in life. I see nothing wrong with a First Lady using her "bully pulpit" to inculcate worthwhile values. In fact, I see that about the best thing that can come from Obama's election is the message that race and racism aren't good excuses for slacking off. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
Pliny Posted April 7, 2009 Report Posted April 7, 2009 (edited) I don't mean to dismiss her accomplishments as an individual but it is quite ridiculous for her to point to her position as First Lady as an example of what can be accomplished with an education. I see your point. Without an education she most probably would never be where she is. Education should not be primarily connected with the achievement of social status or position. They are simply incidental to an education. In other words her education was not directly responsible for her achievement of position, it is her marriage that wins her the title of "First Lady". jb makes a good point as well. There is no doubt an education will improve one's life and value to society but it is wrong headed to seek education for the prime purpose of achieving social status. I think this is a concept of the previous generation who thought that without a university degree you were nobody and everybody had to go to college. The result was education purely for the sake of education and it became for quite a few people a useless waste of time and to those who wanted an education the system has become almost insulting. Edited April 7, 2009 by Pliny Quote I want to be in the class that ensures the classless society remains classless.
August1991 Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Posted April 8, 2009 (edited) Eric Schmidt, 53, Chairman and CEO of Google, speaking at the Newspaper Association of America's (NAA) conference in San Diego: "We at Google have a multimillion-dollar deal with the Associated Press not only to distribute their content but also to host it on our servers.... I was a little confused by all of the excitement in the news in the last 24 hours. I'm not sure what they were referring to. We have a very, very successful deal with AP and hope that will continue for many, many years...."From our perspective, we look at this pretty thoroughly and there is always a tension around fair use. I would encourage everybody, think in terms of what your reader wants. These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more." Washington Post Edited April 8, 2009 by August1991 Quote
Wilber Posted April 10, 2009 Report Posted April 10, 2009 "Those that forget history are bound to repeat it." "History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme". Mark Twain Quote "Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice". WSC
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