In my latest Loonie Politics column I lament that far too many voters still believe politicians can shower them with free money and not germinating a nasty crop of debt and inflation instead of wealth and social services.
“It is not possible that assessment of the President’s performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at Harvard in 1978 (www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978)
“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”
David Starr Jordan (emailed by a friend and widely quoted online).
“This positions us as a grand city where grand things happen.”
Alejandro Rojas Diaz, Mexico City’s tourism secretary, “who organized an event at which 12,937 people danced to Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller’ in pursuit of a world record”, as the “Quotation of the Day” in “Today’s Headlines” e-mail from New York Times September 8 2009
“The difference between a successful career and a mediocre one sometimes consists of leaving about four or five things a day unsaid.”
“Bits & Pieces” “Quote from Quotez for 20/1/04” (from www.quotations.co.uk)
Dr. Tammy Nemeth, of the “Nemeth Report” on international activists’ campaign against Alberta oil, interviewed me for her podcast on the Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation of western concerns about climate to further its sinister geopolitical ambitions.
In my latest National Post column I call for environmental action at the yard level, allowing a micro “rewilding” return of nature to our cities in the form of flowers, bugs, birds and healthy soil.
“Does your garage door put the ugh in ugly?”
Crawford Door Sales ad on NBC 14/4/90