US car dealer in free gun offer

Now i think i have heard it all, getting a free gun when you by a car. Just think as you buy an SUV you can also get a gun. So if you do not think that climate change is going to kill some one fast enough then you can just shoot them yourself. On the bright side a Canadian who shopped there decided to go with the gas card instead of the Gun.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7416120.stm

Indebted America keeps packing on the plastic

Well the good news about the sub-prime market crash is that the Americans are still going into debt. The USA consumers have 1 trillion dollars in debt on their credit cards. Which is quite amazing. I am sure that most of the people in debt can never pay it off. 8 thousand families go into foreclosure every day, that is also an amazing amount.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/macdonald/20080407.html

Google and Yahoo to share web ads

Well it looks like Yahoo is going to give Microsoft the fight of its life. Microsoft really want to buy Yahoo, but Yahoo is going to make Microsoft pay for it. Either lots off money or a publicity battle which both would be interesting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7339864.stm

Falling stocks push oil to $112

Well it looks like it will be an expensive driving season this summer. Oil price is on a rise but OPEC is not going to be producing more, does that mean that they have no more to give. One day we will look back at these days and talk about how cheap the oil was...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7339337.stm

Siberia's black market logging

Well it looks like other boreal forests are under threat, not just Canada's.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7338623.stm

UW Plant Operations Sustainability Initiatives

Well according to their website the University of Waterloo supports public transportation on campus. In fact the university does not make it all that easy to take public transit. There is no one bus stop on campus where you can catch all the buses that come to campus. If you want to transfer buses you have to walk. What I learned in one of my classes this year was that UW refused GRT to build a transit terminal on campus. I do not think that 'public transit is accommodated and encouraged', i think it is just barely accommodated or tolerated.

http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infopo/SustainabilityInitiatives.htm#Trans

$5 coin? 'Ridiculous'

Well it looks like the mint will not be putting a 5 dollar coin in place shortly. The mood may be different after they take the penny out of circulation. Then there would be less coins in our pockets. The federal government did same 487 million dollars when they took the one dollar bill out of circulation. So may be we should get rid of the 5 dollar bill.

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2005/08/22/no_five_dollar_coin_20080822.html