chchch ...Changes

at the top of Hershey.


How's the plan workin' for you now guys ?? Surprise, surprise :Sales, profits and stocks are down ....

Hershey has faced turbulence in its upper ranks. Chief Executive David West was thrust into his post after Richard Lenny abruptly announced his "retirement" in October.

In November, the Hershey Trust, the company's controlling shareholder, ousted six board members, in part, out of frustration with the company's declining financial performance.

DISMAL: 1 yr chart for HSY




Sez it all, don't it ?

Hillary has a problem, McCain is screwed

and Obama scares the shit outta me.... I really fear he's unbeatable.

After all, he does carry a pretty big stick .... criticize him for anything, you risk being labelled the dreaded RRR word.

So Hillary is definitely right. It’s not a level playing field. Her entire anatomy and character have been dissected and lambasted for years, partly because she’s female but a whole lot more because she’s white and it’s okay to say whatever you want about white folk, as the Beady-Eyed Retard Chimp-in-Chief and the Big-Butted Cackling Witch Hildebeast can attest.

You really think Rush Limbaugh is going to call Michelle some sort of “beast” on his radio show every day?

Sighhh ... If all they wanted was a black, why oh why didn't the Republicans swoon Colin Powell or JC Watts ???

Out with the old ...

in with the new. This newspaper isn't " waiting for the asteroid ".

I'm worried...5 years from now what will I start the wood stove with ?

"The Capital Times will shift from distributing news via piles of papers distributed on trucks that must traverse the snow-clogged streets of our winter wonderland to the information superhighway."

...the urgency of the moment requires that we leave nostalgia to others."


Really makes me wonder what The Record News is thinking. Little known fact: a healthy percentage of google searches that come this way land at this post looking for Smiths Falls This Week. I mean ...from all over the place ... Texas, California, Florida and Vancouver to name a few. PDF publishing makes them not much better than The Reckless.

Bassackward bunch.

A feather in our cap

and one of the best ideas to develop Montague I've heard in a really long time.

....the Russ Beach/Smiths Falls-Montague Airport could easily increase the more than $920,000 in economic activity it generates each year. Town officials hired the firm to examine whether the airport was worth the more than $40,000 taxpayers in Smiths Falls and neighbouring Montague Township invest

"One of the first things a company looks for when deciding whether to relocate to a community is its airport services."

Doesn't this sound really cool ... imagine, pulling your Cessna into the driveway !!

In addition, the town should consider creating a residential airport park with houses constructed at or very near the current airport property.

He shoulda stayed in bed

First he loses his money down the manhole .... then.

The rescue crew's only option was to pull him out using a tow-truck.

via DMB

Horrifying case of child abuse

I can't figure out why this isn't national news ....

Benjamin Sargent died with his eyes open, fists clenched and strapped into a car seat after eight days without food or water...

The 5-month-old was dropped off at his parents' house on Feb. 4, wearing a bright-blue snow suit and strapped into his car seat.

Eight days later, he was found in the same position ... "

What were the parents up to ??? Busy folks, they were ...

"playing video games, watching TV, feeding and caring for themselves,"

Thank God this happened in Illinois ... where the death penalty is a possibility.

I beg to differ ...

Mr. Snow.

CFRA has a news quiz on Friday afternoons ... 10 questions. Caller #1 starts off and goes until he answers incorrectly, or is unable. The person that answers the 10th question correctly wins.

The first caller was hot ... answering 5 in a row. Until this one:

The Massachusetts governor is a good friend of Barack Obama. What is his name ?

Stumped him ... and three more callers.

Listening to WBZ1030 from Boston regularly, this one was easy-pesy pour moi. Not being able to take it any longer, I had to call. I got through and answered:

Deval Patrick.

Rob Snow replies: Well, actually it's Patrick Deval, but since you got both names, we'll give it to you.

I went on to answer the rest of the questions correctly and won.

I wanted sooooo bad to challenge Snow on air ... but resisted the urge.

So, Mr.Snow ... just so you know: I was right, you were dead wrong.

Early last week, the presidential campaign was rocked by the "bombshell" that Barack Obama had borrowed certain rhetorical flourishes from Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

Now, I just gotta figure out how to get downtown to pickup my movie tickets.

Happy Birthday Mr. Magoo

You're off to the can ....



A Manhattan senior celebrated his 72nd birthday by trying to smuggle what cops say was more than $1 million in marijuana down the East Coast - and almost got away with it.

Cole was taking a mindblowing 146.6 pounds of marijuana down South when he stopped for a coffee break at the New Carrollton, Md., convenience store, police said.

A cop who happened to be in the parking lot watched Cole back his silver Toyota Camry into a car, police said.

You'd think if you were hiring a drug mule you'd get someone who doesn't suffer from the worst case of cataracts I've ever seen.

Well... that's mighty

...er... white of ya !

Where did that saying ever come from ? Seems to fit, more and more, with increasing "white guilt" creeping into Canadian lib-tard society. Yep, we are responsible for all that ills everyone.

Anyhow ....

This weeks EMC has a full front page article (section 2) on the new Algonquin band in the Smiths Falls area. Seems the sign erected on the 177 acres of Crown land has caused a bit of a stir .. or as the EMC puts it "a mystery".

Back to the saying: Chief Taillon was quoted "We have no intention of putting a gate on that property or a barricade" and adding "People who have been using it are still going to be able to. We're not going to deter anyone from hunting or fishing. We put that sign up because we wanted the public to know that we are going to be using that land as well."

Again, mighty white of ya ... considering the band has absolutely no title to said property.

Are they entitled to use it ?

Absolutely.

But to walk in, plunk a sign down .... with no approval from the MNR (the Crown caretaker), according to a neighbour that inquired ... well ... it's tantamount to staking it, claiming it for your very own.

At least that's how I see it. How long before we see those notorious flags flying beside the sign ?

Of course, the Record News in their usual "careful ... lets not piss anybody off" style lets the Chief away with his statement without daring to ask a tough question. Typical.

Now, if the band truly wanted to get off on the right foot with the local "colonialists" here's how they should have gone about this .... something like getting proper approval from MNR ... and then inviting MNR reps, maybe the Township Reeve and local residents to a pow-wow.

Just a thought.

Another one ... instead of going after Crown land .. uh, for free, how's about you take up a collection from your members and buy your own land ... you know, like The Fish and Game club ? Or Scouting ... they pay a pretty handsome stipend to the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority yearly for use of the Whispering Pines camp on Otty Lake. I guess Indians are more entitled to the Crowns assets for free than are our children.

In my last post on this topic, an anonymous commenter was wondering if there was any updates. In short, it's winter, nothing will happen. But here's how I see this going down:

This year ... everybody gets along. Natives and colonialists using the property. Government negotiations ensue for the next couple years and progress goes.. uh ... nowhere. Frustrated, the band (and this could be under the leadership of someone not soooo accomodating) decides to "up the ante" and block others access and occupy the land... From there ? God knows.

Sharbot Lake and Deseronto are where the action is gonna be this summer.

I'd sure like to debate some of those who have Googled the issue and landed here ... don't be shy, drop a line in the comments.

Forget Kyoto and GHG

This is the real environmental ... uh ... mess.

Every day, six plants in Miami-Dade, Broward and south Palm Beach counties pump about 300 million gallons of sewage into the Atlantic Ocean.

''In my lifetime, we've pumped enough sewage offshore to fill Lake Okeechobee twice,'' he said. ``It's probably the biggest environmental disaster in Florida, but because nobody sees it, nothing's been done.''

UPDATED: You know what they say about not crapping where you live ?? What is Ol'Dolt waiting for ?

From the London Free Press ....

Environment Minister John Baird visited the community of Merrickville, near Smiths Falls, to announce $2 million in funding to help build a new sewage treatment plant.

Baird says Ontario is the only province that hasn't signed on to the Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund and is missing out on $64 million in funding. He accuses Premier Dalton McGuinty of wasting time and playing politics instead of securing federal funding for his province.