Guinty & Smithy are just running wild now. One boondoggle after another. There seems to be no way to stop them.

The latest stupidity project is taking shape in Almonte. Mr. eHealth Scandal himself, George Smitherman, was on-hand to unveil the latest proof of incompetence: Two-hundred acres of prime, fertile farm land has been leased to a French company, that, for the lovely sum of $100,000,000 of Ontario taxpayer dollars, will erect a “solar wonder of the world” and, get this, will be paid $0.42 per kW/h to generate electricity. We currently pay, say, 0.06 per kW/h for coal/hydro/nuclear, so that will be an increase of seven hundred percent to the cost of electricity. AND we have to pay them to build it. On top of that, read more

The federal government, in conjunction with the Alberta government, have invested $779M for an underground plant food storage unit. The unit will capture plant food (also known as CO2) from industries and store it underground in a holding facility (much like as in Ghostbusters), to be released into the atmosphere by some crazy scientist (again, much like as in Ghostbusters) sometime into the future, creating havoc for everybody on Earth. Or something.

At least it is some $220M less than Ontario’s recent M2W (Money To Waste, or, McGuinty To Waste) program.

Together, they could have bought 1800 MRI machines, or 100,000 nurses, saving MANY, MANY more lives than electronic health records or stopping Global Warming could ever hope to do.

Called “Canada’s biggest white-collar fraud“, Lacroix has been sentenced to 13 years in jail (of course, counting time served, and eligible for early parole after 1/6th of that time, Lacroix could be out in 18 months).

“Biggest”? A mere $100 million? I can think of a number of people who scammed us for much more than that: hmm, for say, $1 billion, people like McGuinty, Smitherman, Caplan, Kramer. They scammed millions of people out of 1 billion dollars.

How much jail time will they get for that?

Not one day, I’m sure.

Turns out, the “controversial” body bags that were sent to a Manitoba reserve, and created so much uproar in the media and opposition parties last month, were ORDERED by a NURSE on the reserve!

http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=2081144

I’m waiting for them. Yessir. Let them apologies fly. Global TV, CTV, Ottawa Citizen, Iffy Ignatieff, Jackie Layton. I’m waiting….

But I’m not holding my breath.

h/t Jen on Blue like You comments

Biggest story yesterday was, without a doubt, the eHealth auditor’s report on a $1B WASTE of OUR MONEY. That was, in fact, the biggest news story this week. On Wednesday morning, the Ottawa Citizen (a CanWest newspaper) reported on David Caplan’s weasley resignation over eHealth on PAGE 4 in a sub-sub column type story, buried far away from the front page. I thought: OK, it’s a CanWest paper. They don’t like to talk dirty about ANY liberal.  Strike one.

So then came on Global TV News (CanWest again) with Kevin Newman, live from Toronto, on Thursday evening. Lead story? How the CONSERVATIVES are NOT ACCOUNTABLE for the stimulus program with their ‘vague’ Action Plan website with only ballpark numbers, and how in the States read more

It appears Iggy is getting frustrated with all the good news coming out of Canada these days: Canada’s Action Plan is working, and commercials and websites point out this fact. He is complaining that the Action Plan commercials and website are too… conservative. What, with pictures of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of all things. Imagine that. He is complaining the commercial and website talk about “The Harper Government” and “Conservative Government” and should say “Canada’s Government”.

Hmm… I seem to recall a certain “conservative deficit” and “conservative budget” being mentioned, oh, say, last fall and Christmas (remember the Coalition of the Idiots?)… Just as this Liberal press release has numerous references to “Conservative Budget” and “Harper Government” and even read more

So they sent some body bags up to Northern Manitoba. Body bags that were a part of a “flu kit” of some sort, that included (besides the body bags) face masks, gloves, hand lotion, etc. First Nations had been screaming for hand lotion for months now, they finally got it, but all they mentioned on the news were the body bags. Body bags this, body bags that. Insulting. Whatever.

Look. The H1N1 flu is deadly. Numerous people have died over the past 6 months, including first nations. It is very prudent to send up medicine, barrier clothing and, indeed, body bags, should the person die of H1N1. The body bag is there to protect the rest of the population. It is not insulting, read more

After years of supporting campaigns to conserve water in the City of Ottawa, the city has now run into a problem: water consumption is down so much, that the city is looking at a $7M deficit in revenues, and in return will have to increase the rates on everything (including your water bill) to make up for it.

So, first they ask us to consume less, we do what they ask, and then as a thank you, they hit us over the head with an increase on the very bill they asked us to reduce.

I think the brains at city hall are made of 100% water, as opposed to the regular 70%.

And don’t get me started on exactly WHY we should read more

Ontario’s summer, so far, has been so cold and damp that it is now very hospitable to Heracleum mantegazzianum, also known as the Giant Hogweed, which is native to Russia, and thrived in the early 1970s in (also) damp and cold Britain. Ontario’s summer has been so cold and wet that it closely resembles Britain’s, and as such, the Giant Hogweed is quickly spreading.

The Giant Hogweed is a plant that can grow up to 7 meters tall, and it’s 3 cm thick stems have a clear liquid that, combined with sunlight, can make your skin boil. It was introduced to Britain by a victorian explorer, planted in the Royal Gardens at Kew, and quickly took over the countryside, prompting my read more

This is McGuinty’s Ontario: take money from those who don’t have it, give it to those who don’t need it, to buy cars with that are not made in Ontario and create no Ontario jobs, that run on power we can’t generate. All for a questionable claim that those cars are “green”.

Randall Denley’s got a great column in the Ottawa Citizen today: Why pay Ontarians to buy U.S.-built cars? Highlights include:

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s announcement this week of $10,000 government handouts for buyers of Chevrolet Volts is wrong on so many levels that one has to wonder if the premier is still firing on all cylinders.

he continues:

The batteries of the Volt are expected to last five to eight years, which might read more