| Sad. I give it 20 years, and it will look like Detroit.
Tolls are great, drivers whine, yet they do not pay anywhere the real cost, such as my visits to the hospital during smog alert days and medications.
We have solutions, but no one has the balls to implement them because Toronto is full of people who are only happy when they get everything and give nothing in return.
I'd suggest a few more get outside the 401 and visit some real cities with real infrastructure, a world-class city first needs world-class people, and I'm not seeing that on this site. Posted 22/02/08 at 8:23 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Obama: $60M in February?
A couple of notes. First, I wouldn't be surprised to see the $140 average go up this month. People give more as the stakes go up. I'm sure he is also getting some “frontrunner" money he wasn't getting before. I wouldn't be surprised if the total would up being $70 million. Also, thanks to an interesting quirk in the way the Obama website publicly records donations — batch uploading donations from made from the email fundraising link at once — it's possible to separate out donations made from email from those that organically come in on the Web site. Both e-mails I tracked seemed to generate about 36,000 contributions, or somewhere between $3.5 and $4 million. So, even without any momentum-generating primary victories (in fact, there are none left this month), all the Obama campaign would need to do is send 3 or 4 more emails to their list to reach $60 million.
A Family Issues Scorecard - A Useful Innovation
Every year Family Research Council (FRC) Action issues a report card detailing how our elected officials in Congress vote on pro-family issues. Defense/foreign-policy conservatives have had ratings for quite some time, as have economic conservatives. Only recently has there been a ratings-system for family issues. Its most recent scorecard details the first session of the 110th Congress.
FRC Action rated seven votes in the Senate, including those on embryonic stem-cell research, hate crimes, preventing funding for international groups which support coercive abortion and sterilization. Only twenty seven Republicans in the Senate scored 100% on pro-family issues. Only a few states, such as Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming, have two Senators with perfect scores.
Daily Blabber Celebrity Gossip Blog from iVillage Entertainment
They fast-forwarded through their relationship and now they're engaged, expecting and oh so annoying. Naomi Watts rebounded from her heartbreak with Heath Ledger by taking up with Liev Schreiber in May. They're still going strong and recently visited Australia together. Rumor had it Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were dating when they were seen having dinner in February. But things didn't heat up until they wrapped the movie they made this summer. Now they're supposedly together, but they haven't been spotted together in weeks. I'm suspicious. Mischa Barton dumped her millionaire boyfriend, Brandon Davis, for her hairy beast boyfriend, Cisco Adler. I saw them at the U2 show (love ya, Bono!) where she stood next to me while I was in the beer line and she loaded up her hotdog with condiments.
Mitt Out of Luck
Democrats advocate the opposite policy. Then he dinged Congress (by which he means the Democrats who control it) for failing to curb spending, cut earmarks, curb the growth of entitlement spending, and fund programs it has passed. He accused them of endangering American lives by not passing the bill on electronic surveillance, over which the body is bitterly fighting at the moment. The kicker for Democrats was that Bush made it clear that while they may want troops out of Iraq quickly, he's not going to bend to them in the least. For Democratic lawmakers in the audience, perhaps the most irksome item was the president's tough new approach to congressional earmarks, those little projects lawmakers insert not into the text of bills presented to the president but in reports that accompany them.
Swath grazing annual forages can be viable alternative to range
STREETER, N.D. - Swath grazing is one option livestock producers can use to winter beef cows in this region, research at the North Dakota State University Central Grasslands Research Center shows.Kevin Sedivec, NDSU animal scientists, said this type of grazing can be an economical choice for producers as it eliminates some harvesting costs.The costs of swathing, baling, stacking, storing, and feeding baled hay can be reduced by allowing livestock to "swath graze" windrows. Swath grazing is the process of cutting hay, leaving it in windrows, and allowing livestock to graze these windrows in the winter.Another reason producers may want to try swath grazing is that swathed forages keep their nutritional content better than the standing crop, Sedivec said.With a standing crop, nutrition can be lost due to cattle trampling, poor use of the crop, and limited water supplies on annual crop land.
Cis' blog roundup - Friday
A Seattle couple who produced a time-lapse video of its pregnancy now are Google Video superstars as millions have watched the 20-second hit here and video here. 5. Mayor from Starbuck, Wash., arrested attempting to protect property from fire here. 6. IMHO-NW: Randy Stapilus/Ridenbaugh Press (Confessions of a candidate), Idaho Statesman (Housing slowdown bodes ill for tax shift), Brielle Schaeffer/WSU Daily Evergreen (Reading, hearing sexism in English), John Blanchette/Spokesman-Review (Spokane Shock wants to move up), and Brian Murphy/Idaho Statesman (af2 team's name game drags on). Online Poll: 54.5% of 325 respondents to a Seattle PI poll say they wake up before 6 a.m. *DJ Pedro! "Napoleon Dynamite" actor spins records on the side here.
Eons Fitness Survey Shows Boomers Haven't Lost a Step in Their Quest ...
CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD, BOSTON, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Eons(TM), the media company for lovin' life on the flip side of 50, today announced the results of its inaugural Eons Boomer Fitness Survey of the fitness attitudes and behaviors of the most physically active and healthy generation in history. Baby boomers who fueled the aerobics movement and who crowded running paths across the country are now reaping the dividends of their active lifestyles, with more than half saying they are in excellent or above-average condition, according to the survey. "Baby boomers are the generation that made Jane Fonda's aerobics videos best-sellers and they took up Jim Fixx's challenge to become a nation of runners," said Jeff Taylor, founder and CEO of Eons. "They have goals they want to accomplish, whether it's travel, building new relationships, or just living the biggest life possible, and boomers know they can only do that if they keep their chassis in great shape." Scott "Q" Marcus, an Eons fitness advisor whose "Walking the Walk" blog on eons.com inspires readers with practical, powerful and effective fitness and weight-loss advice, said, "The key to fitness is to remember that 'small steps done regularly always generate better results than large steps done intermittently.' In other words, it's better to walk a block - and actually do it - than promise yourself you'll run a mile, but sleep in instead.
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