“There can be a surplus of any given thing at any given time. But a chronic surplus of the same thing, year after year, means that somebody is preventing the price from falling.”
Thomas Sowell in Western Standard July 19, 2004
In my latest National Post column I say Andrew Scheer picked a terrible time to go mushy on deficits.
“[T]o be praised by fools, that is the real dishonour.”
A “Buddhist saying” according to a letter from Judy Girard of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 27, 2004
In BOE Report I say satellite measurements of actual warming in the Earth’s atmosphere, or lack of it, are one more reason to be skeptical about apocalyptic computer models.
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde (quoted on www.goodreads.com/quotes/390576-the-basis-of-optimism-is-sheer-terror-we-think-that)
“If you will not obey the Tao, or else commit suicide, obedience to impulse (and therefore, in the long run, to mere ‘nature’) is the only course left open.”
C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man
“’Our prospects in Alberta look as good as they have in a long time.”
Liberal MP for Edmonton West Anne McLellan, quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 16, 2003 (the party subsequently won just 2 seats as they had in 2000 and 1997, but McLellan seemed oblivious to the double meaning of her words)