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This blog entry brings up an interesting argument, the GOP doesn't have to move towards the centre, but make the centre move towards them. But I'm not sure what it would take to make voters more conservative, as we all know being liberal is a bad thing... but then again I've voted for the Canadian Liberals before, so I too must be a bad person...

Some people think bacon is too expensive...

Thieves caught with 12 pigs stuffed in minivan

What Do these Men Have In Common?

They were both Democratic Presidents When Canada has a Conservative Prime Minister.

• Joe Clark served as Canada's 16th Prime Minister from 1979-1980
• Stephen Harper is the current and 22nd Prime Minister
• Jimmy Carter was the 38th President of the USA, from 1977-1981
• Barack Obama will be the 44th President and is the President Elect

There has been exactly 6 prime ministers and 6 presidents since the last time this political anomaly occurred. Coincidence, I think Not :)

Yes He Could!!!

The BBB Says it all

Blue day for Americans

The Democrats will win the Presidency and control the House and the Senate.

Coffee Part III

Go to the following link to read how this magical bean How Coffee Changed the World

Canadian Wins World Series!!

Isn't it exciting, a Canadian has won the World Series again. Matt Stairs, the only Canadian in the World Series was on the Philapelphia Phillies team. I wonder how many maple leafs were being waved in the stadium. My guess would be the number that come before zero.

Hot Coffee (Part 2)

After my discourse on hot coffee, one humorous application can be applied to my daily life. While driving later in the evening, I had to have a hot cup of Tim Horton's finest black coffee (to stay partially awake). Anyways I also found out that coffee not only warms you up inside but also works on the outside as well.
It happens to every hard core coffee drinker, it is inevitable and may even bring a tear to your eye as some of the previous valuable liquid is spilled. But not to worry I only cried for a short while, well maybe it was 2 hours :)

Hot Coffee

As I sit here eating my lunch, I am so glad for the warm privilege of being able to consume hot coffee. The heats not on in the building just yet, and its slightly, kind of, sort of cold. Its about 10 degrees so I can live with it. Its just uncomfortable being 10 degrees below room temperature. Anyways if it wasn't for a nice cup of Tim Horton's coffee, I probably would be shivering right now, or at the very least my tooth would be chattering, (which might be OK if I was talking, but since I'm typing and am not in the habit of talking to myself, that result appears unlikely)

According to Coffee Facts, the optimum temperature to brew coffee is 92-96 degrees Celsius. No wonder it warms a person up.

An I was hoping for a new team to cheer for...

Reports of second NHL team in Toronto 'nonsense'
NHL executive says idea has never been considered

If Toronto got a second NHL team their greatest ambition should be to at least tie eachother in the standings

To Drink or Not to Drink

The initial trial for an Ontario farmer attempting to sell raw milk to his shareholders is over, and the farmer awaits his sentencing. The Crown is asking for 53,000 in legal fees, and 5000 penalty. I'm not sure what the big issue is, if people want to drink milk straight from the cow let them, its a consumer choice.

Gun Owener Released after 3 months in prison

A 66-year-old Arizona man arrested at the border with an arsenal of loaded handguns in his vehicle was released from Sarnia jail Thursday after spending three months behind bars.

I'm a Bloc Supporter

There's a quiz on the Toronto Star website that has various questions, and depending how you answer them, it matchs up against one of the main political parties. The first party on the list is the Bloc followed by the Conservatives. If only I lived in Quebec and could vote for the party that I evidently agree with. But since I don't I'll have to settle on the Conservatives.

Lonnie Falls

Dollar suffers record one-day drop

The dollar fell more than 3 cents yesterday. Its nice to know that out dollars is tied to the oil index's on the major stock exchanges.

Hockey Starts Tonight!!!

Its the start of a short season for the Maple Leafs. A lot of sports columists say its going to be a long season, but I don't think so. When your season is finished in early April how can it be long?

My prediction for tonight

Detroit- 5
Toronto-2

And Toronto will make Kaberle Capitin before the end of the season.

Winning isn't Important

The new Maple Leaf headcoach is a man after my own heart when he said winning isn't important. Afterall there's is always a chance for a tie.

Merry Christmas

There is now only 81 days until Christmas. Today in Sunday School, I lead a Christmas song, and even wore my Christmas/Winter tie.

As I look at the calender I am content and realize I have 80 days before I have to worry about going shopping :)

Blessed Assurance

When we serve Christ we can have the assurance that He is ours, and we can be His. I am so thankful that we can leave everything in God's hands and live in His blessed presence.

(If you click on the link don't forget to have your sound on and you can here the hymn playing. Also there is a good story that talks about the song on the attached web page.)

Polls Mean Nothing

Remember polls in Canada mean nothing. Popular vote in not relevant for determining how a party is polling. Canada operates on first past the post system were only the seats or riding won matter not necessarily the percentage of voters who supported a given party.

Harper's lead in the poll means very little when he can't hope of winning some of the key urban riding's in Ontario. As it is always the case a majority government will be won or lost in the Province of Ontario. Harper will not win any Toronto riding's which will offset his lead in the opinion polls. Sure he's polling way up in the rural Ontario riding's but that means little since we do not operate our Federal elections on an American model.

Remember Canada is a Federal Constitutional Democratic Monarchy or something like that and is vastly different from a Federalist Republic.

Well its not $700 billion at least, well not yet anyways...

Bank of Canada pumps $12B more into markets

Economy Sound: Harper

“We have not been following the same policies of the United States. The economic and financial mess in the United States is disastrous,” said Harper. “The policies have been irresponsible. We’ve made very different choices in Canada.”


I thinks its safe to say that no one won the debate. Harper was too busy defending a platform that he may not have, Dion was busy trying to pronounce his english words, Layton was wondering what the Bloc guy meant that three of them knew they would not win... and May was busy trying to convince her audience that there is more to the Green Party than Green Ideas. In a tie I would have to give the edge to Harper who seemed to defend himself ok.

Election Prediction

Like My Brother, I too will give an election prediction, and just like my dear twin brother I won't give an explanation of my choices :)

Conservatives- 135 (35%)
Liberals- 96 (28%)
NDP- 27 (18%)
Bloc- 38 (9%)
Greens- 5 (9%)
Independents- 0 (1%)


A slightly stronger minority but still a minority for Harper's Conservaties, I can't go as far as to predict a conservative majority like the Canadian Perspective

Who really understands the credit crunch in the USA?

In church this morning the Pastor made a good point, well I mean all his points were good, I meant in reference to his comment asking how many people really understand whats going on with the 700 billion TARP payments in the USA.

I have to admit I really don't understand why the American government would provide long term loans interest free to corporations operating in a state of true capitalism. Why should the corporations that made poor business decisions be essentially given such a large amount of money. In one sense it will keep the American economy afloat for at least the next five years assuming the money is spent wisely, but sense its the government handing out this money, I have very little faith that it will be spent wisely.


I suppose in once sense I'm glad its not us Canadians that have to pay an extra 19,000 a head or what ever the 700 billion works out to.

I'll I can think of is the country of Canada represented by a sail boat in the midst of the Great American Ocean that is beginning to dry up and its only a matter of time before the Canadian economy represented figuratively by the sail boat will run aground.

DOWN IN THE VALLEY

Section 85 Rollovers

As I eat lunch I am reminded of the things that I studied last, night, which is a good thing since I should retain something.

Of course the main thing I can remember about Section 85 rollovers is that it gave me a headache :)

Of course everyone else knows that using the provisions of the income tax act (section 85) one can rollover the assets of a proprietorship, partnership, corporation to a new corporation. I wish the fun ended there, but then you have to consider the nature of the assets and liabilities transferred, the share and none share consideration received, how this impacts PUC, and the ACB of the share and non-share consideration received by the transferor.

Now I know why more and more computers are doing the work of analyzing the different scenarios and combinations of NSC and share consideration. It must save a lot of time, rather that computing the different scenarios manually, although is you've been doing it for a couple decades I suppose the information would eventually sink in :)

As I read the comment i feel i should point out i'm not really an accountant yet, so if using 85 when pod excceed the fmv, i suppose you don't have to second guess yourself, i was just commenting on my studies

Also although i aspire to be a CGA some day the letters in the blog link do not stand for the accounting designation but an acronym for something completely different

Yankees Play Last Game In Stadium

Well the last baseball game was played in Yankee Stadium. Its nice to here that the price for front row season tickets for a family of four are going to be so cheap, in the new Yankee Stadium. The price is about $2500 per game or $850,000 for a family of four to have season tickets. Now granted these are suppose to be the best seats in the house. I started to wonder who would even want these tickets. Well, Someone must because there already sold. Rats and thats what I was saving my money for :)

A Charge to Keep I Have, By Charles Wesley

The lyrics are based on Mat­thew Hen­ry’s com­ment­a­ry on Le­vit­i­cus:
"We have ev­ery one of us a charge to keep, an eter­nal God to glor­i­fy, an im­mor­tal soul to pro­vide for, need­ful du­ty to be done, our gen­er­a­tion to serve; and it must be our dai­ly care to keep this charge, for it is the charge of the Lord our Master, who will short­ly call us ac­count about it, and it is our ut­most per­il if we ne­glect it. Keep it “that ye die not”; it is death, eternal death, to be­tray the trust that we are charged with; by the con­sid­er­a­tion of this we must be kept in awe."

Taxation with Representation

As an exciting new Federal election approaches, we can take great pride in exercising our constitutional right of voting for our respective representatives. One may not like all of the decisions our respective leaders make, especially in regards to Federal spending, but with a 120 billion dollar budget, mismanagement is a fact of life, not necessarily an error. I know I sure wouldn't want the responsibility of operating such a large budget, thats why we should be glad the Stephen Harper wants to be Prime Minister again after all the media has had to say about him over the years, I suppose some people are a glutton for punishment. :)

An interesting Question

As summer approaches and the heat increases in my cubical, I am seriously pondering this question; should I wear short sleeves or long sleeves?

I'm sure everyone would agree that modesty comes before comfort, but then again does the sleeve length make you more holy or modest? The ideal answer to that question would be "no comment". I'm sure everyone would agree that the discussion of sleeve length would make a good topic discussion on myholiness, but then again its been so long since i visted that website, it probably has been. :)

JK

Happy Victoria Day

Its been many months sense I last posted.

I'm still enrolled in the CGA program of professional studies and passed my second exam "Advanced External Auditing". So now I have 2 to 3 years left in my professional studies before I can truthfully say that I am an accountant.

Right now I'm up in Kingston visting Joe and Clarissa, with Mom and Dad.

I guess I'll I have left to say is have a blessed Victoria Day, and God save her majesty, and long may she reign over us and defend our laws.

JC