Posted by: agsharma on: May 28, 2009
Jim Flaherty Then : Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was facing a deficit of $5.9-billion in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010, according to the fiscal update he released last fall. To achieve a surplus, Mr. Flaherty pledged to reduce government spending by $4.3-billion and predicted the government would earn $1.6-billion from changes to public [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 27, 2009
Understandably, the seal hunt is horrible. I mean images on this page speaks a thousand words (warning: not for the faint of heart). And of course, the blood spilling on white snow enhances the “goriness” of the kill which further inflames us humans who cannot stand the site of senseless killing. But then you have [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 26, 2009
<Link> NEW DELHI: For those suffering from aviophobia, the fear of flying, divine help will be at hand soon with a grand temple with south Indian architecture coming up just outside the airport here. “We started constructing this temple in August last year. It will be open for public in two-three months,” said Arun Arora, [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 26, 2009
There is bone headed dumb. I can’t stand atheists — but it’s not because they don’t believe in God. It’s because they’re crashing bores. Read Dawkins, or Hitchens, or the works of fellow atheists Sam Harris (“The End of Faith”) and Daniel Dennett (“Breaking the Spell”), or visit an atheist website or blog (there are [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 22, 2009
Apologies for not posting……been a crazy week. Here are a few miscellaneous links. 1) Total bias by the judges in the trial against The Pirate Bay. I have no idea what the procesution expects from shutting down TPB. I mean, shutting down Napster a few years ago did not really block music proliferation on the [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 12, 2009
Link Thousands of Tamil protesters have left Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, after surging onto the highway to call attention to the escalating civilian death toll in Sri Lanka. Around midnight, protesters began making their way down an on-ramp as police monitored the situation. Some told ctvtoronto.ca they planned to take their demonstration to Queen’s Park. Reporters [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 8, 2009
<Link> Following President Obama’s May 5 visit to Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Rush Limbaugh Show guest host Mark Steyn criticized Obama as an elitist because he ordered a burger with “spicy mustard” or “Dijon mustard.” Hannity claimed that Obama ordered a “fancy burger” with a “very special condiment,” [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 6, 2009
Ah, hypocrisy is so simple and beautiful. The directors of the Miss California USA pageant are looking into whether title holder Carrie Prejean violated her contract by working with a national group opposed to gay marriage and by posing semi-nude when she was a teenage model. Pageant spokesman Roger Neal said Tuesday it appears Prejean [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 4, 2009
The brain drain from Canada to the US just kicked into high gear!! One of Canada’s top AIDS researchers is moving to the United States, taking as many as 25 scientists on his team with him. The University of Montreal’s Rafick-Pierre Sékaly says he is leaving in part because of federal cuts in science funding [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: May 1, 2009
<Link> The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey. More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. [...]
