"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Addendum To The Last Post

Another morsel of info for the pot just garnered. Probably ninety-nine per cent of all snow that falls is plowed back onto boulevards and left to melt where it sits. The remainder, in the narrow streets of the central core, depending upon how much, is scooped into dump trucks and transported to the disused parking lot that serves as storage until it melts. Manpower and vehicles add to the cost of "treating" melting snow. Hourly rates for both are a matter of record. It appears a stationery snow melting machine might cost as much or as little. depending on one's perspective, as $200,000. A mobile machine maybe as much as $400,000. We are probably talking as short a period of service as four months a year. The option has never been presented in detail to Council. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly I don't know why

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Darnation. I thought this boondoggle had been deal with months ago. They are doing that Omnibus thing by tying everything together so you can't pull out any items.

Anonymous said...

Pamela is Not going quietly. /She is claiming that the former head of the Senate Interior Economy Committee told her to redact those items. I think I might actually believe that as she removed a charge for a fund-riaser involving him.
Why did they have such a committee in the first place? What did it ever do?

Anonymous said...

Bundle up well. It's cold out there already & that wind is nasty.

Anonymous said...

@1601
Any comments on the condemned home claimed as a primary residence by Mac Harb?

Anonymous said...

20:46
Plenty of them but don't you usually grumble when there is a off-topic venture?

On Topic said...

Hey, 08:33, I'm over here! 20:46 ain't me!

Anonymous said...

@ 20:46
Mr Harb's residence is really fuzzy. But accepting a loan from a businessman who does business with the government looks downright suicidal.
And that leads to the question of how neither he nor Mr. Duffy have managed to live within their means. They have racked up some money in the past.