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Urbie bought that particular piece of kimberlite at the PDAC in Toronto from a collector. The kimberlite was from the Udachnaya pipe in Yakutia.
http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/49/4/823
Deo gratias
Regina businessman charged with securities fraud in the U.S.
By Bruce Johnstone, Leader-Post
July 3, 2009 10:13 AM
A Regina businessman and former Regina businessman have been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with securities fraud for "dissemination of materially false and misleading press releases.''
Troy K. Metz of Regina and Dallas L. Robinson, formerly of Regina, were named in a civil fraud action filed by the SEC in U.S. district court in Florida June 25.
The SEC complaint alleges that Metz and Robinson, along with Johnny Ray Arnold, who were senior officers of Prime Time Group, "participated in the dissemination of false and misleading press releases" from February 2006 to November 2007.
The press releases were concerning Prime Time's purported acquisition of a Puerto Rico convenience store franchise, a wireless communications business and other businesses.
Arnold and John A. Mattera, one of Prime Time's major shareholders, are also charged with securities fraud for their alleged "participation in fraudulent scheme" to avoid securities registration requirements.
Arnold and Mattera are alleged to have taken part in a "fraudulent scheme involving the issuance of bogus promissory notes,'' which allowed Mattera to fraudulently obtain millions of Prime Time shares that Mattera sold on the market in 2007.
The SEC also alleges that Mattera and Arnold also participated in "gypsy swaps'' in which Mattera traded unrestricted shares for restricted shares, which circumvented securities regulations preventing Prime Time from issuing securities without registration.
While Metz and Robinson are not charged with the more serious of the securities fraud allegations facing Arnold and Mattera, the SEC is seeking "permanent injunctions and civil penalties against all the defendants'' and "penny stock bans'' against Arnold, Robinson, Metz and Mattera.
Contacted Tuesday, Metz said he hadn't read the 16-page complaint filed by the SEC, nor any of the stories that appeared in the financial press about the SEC civil fraud charges against him.
But Metz, who until May was president of General Bio Energy of Regina, which produces biodiesel fuel and other products from off-grade canola, said he was aware that Prime Time Group was under investigation by the SEC for alleged securities violations.
"We were issued what's called a Wells notice,'' Metz said an interview with the Leader-Post. A Wells notice is a letter that the SEC sends to people or firms when it is planning to bring an enforcement action against them.
Metz, who was chief operating officer of Prime Time Group, claimed that "any of the press releases we issued were truthful . . . We were dealing . . . with these guys in Florida that appeared to have scammed the system,'' Metz said, referring to Arnold and Mattera.
"We just got totally caught in that,'' Metz said, referring to Robinson, who worked with Metz at Robinson Wireless in 2006 in Regina.
Metz said his involvement with Prime Time was as the operating officer in charge of rolling out Virgin Mobile's wireless service across Western Canada.
"It was our first time in the public markets. And we were connected to these folks in Florida who had a shell (publicly listed company) they were willing to put us into."
But Metz said Arnold and the Florida partners didn't live up to their end of the bargain. "It was a very big lesson for us in what not to do when you're looking to raise capital for a company and who to avoid and what signs to watch for.''
Metz said he has legal counsel in the U.S. and will be defending himself against the SEC charges. "Of course, we'll fight this."
He added that he hoped his legal troubles with the SEC didn't affect his relationship with General Bio Energy of Regina, which operates a biodiesel plant at 1620 McAra St.
Metz was the former business development officer with General Bio Energy until October 2008 when he was appointed president. In May, Metz stepped down as president and assumed the role of consultant responsible for business development.
But on Wednesday, Mike Shenher, president of General Bio Energy, announced that Metz had been suspended pending the outcome of the SEC investigation.
"Mr. Metz's departure did not, does not and will not impact the day-to-day operations — nor the vision set forward in 2005 — for General Bio Energy Inc.," Shenher said in the press release.
bjohnstone@leaderpost.canwest.com
http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Regina+businessman+charged+with+securities+fraud/1753760/story.html
Jimmy saw a DHL truck and chased it down the street in his pajamas like an excited stray dog.
The bright side to him doing this is his cholesterol is way down and he is in better shape than Charles Atlas.
LOL!!!
PALIN QUOTES
1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)
2. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008
3. "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)
4. "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)
5. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)
6. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008
7. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)
8. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it
9. "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008
10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council
It was staged. Urbie should have been as clever.
Did you notice a lot of Masonic symbols in their logos?
Urban and Emmerson were both way up there in the Masonic order of the Moose Jaw lodge.
Mizpah Chapter #1 Order of the Eastern Star, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, York Rite.
http://www.inmoosejaw.com/community_groups.htm
Is Don Cherry trying out to be a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers? I swear he gets weirder every year.
Why athletes can't have regular jobs
1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I wan' all
dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate
me."
2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:
"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say: "I'd run over my own
mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win, I'd
run over Joe's Mom, too."
4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996: "Nobody in
football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman
Einstein."
6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh : "I'm going to
graduate on time, no matter how long i t takes." (now that is beautiful)
7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up
alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, and
then line up in a circle."
8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison: "Why would anyone
expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not
Princeton ."
9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a
color photo of himself above is locker: "That's so when I forget how to
spell my name, I can still find my clothes."
10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of
heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the
morning, regardless of what time it is."
11. Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to
Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice: "My sister's
expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)
12. Frank Layden , Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him,
'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I
don't know and I don't care.'"
13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a
player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like you're
spending too much time on one subject."
14. Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob
Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded:
"Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye."
15. Bobby Bowden , Florida States football coach, when ask why he didn't
invest in Condos, Bobby said, I am too old to use them now.
There are so many great fights here it is worth going to see the games. I was in Moose Jaw a few years ago and both teams stopped playing to watch a fight in the stands.
Another time at a junior game in Regina this lady made the mistake of saying "go home you bums" and the woman in front ploughed her right in the kisser. The security came and chucked both ladies outside where they continued their fight.
Hockey is just our way of relaxing.
You guys needed this guy not Roger Glenn and Mahue... you can probably hire him on contingency to go after Urbie et al...
Ex-lawyer gets 7 years for $30-million fraud
Updated: Tue Jun. 09 2009 17:05:15
ctvbc.ca
A former Vancouver lawyer guilty of one of the largest real estate frauds in Canadian history has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Martin Wirick, 54, has also been ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to the Law Society of B.C., which has reimbursed victims of the fraud. More than $40 million has been paid out to victims, including cases that aren't included in Wirick's guilty plea.
In handing down sentencing Tuesday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Patrick Dohm said Wirick had brought shame to his profession.
Wirick pleaded guilty to two counts each of forgery and fraud in connection with more than 100 fraudulent transactions between 1999 and 2002 that left property owners, organizations and financial institutions on the hook for millions of dollars.
Wirick sold and refinanced properties but didn't use the money to pay off existing mortgages, leaving property owners with debt they believed had already been paid off.
He was disbarred in 2002.
When Wirick confessed to the fraud in a letter to the Law Society of B.C. in 2002, the group launched its own investigation, took over Wirick's practice and dipped into a special lawyer-financed fund designed to help victims of legal fraud.
Some of the victims were facing foreclosures on their homes.
"We recognized as soon as the Wirick matter come to our attention that we had to restore public confidence," Gordon Turriff, president of the law society, said in an interview Tuesday.
"We feel it was necessary in order to ensure that everybody who lost money as a result of this fraud was made whole," the B.C. Law Society's communications manager, Michael Bernard, said.
"It was important for the lawyers of B.C. to step up to the plate and do the right thing by paying extra over the last five years."
Since 2002, lawyers in B.C. have put their own cash into the Law Society's compensation fund. The lawyers' annual fees for the fund jumped from $250 to $600 in 2003 and have remained high ever since.
"This year is the last year that extra fee will be charged," Bernard said. "After 2009, we will return to more normal fee levels."
James Bond, vice-president of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association, said the case threatened to damage the reputation of the entire legal profession.
"When news was out there, there's no question that many of us felt that Mr. Wirick's actions had tarred the profession," Bond said.
Lawyers felt a duty to step up and right the wrong, he said.
The law society also introduced new rules designed to prevent such fraud from happening again, specifically requiring stricter reporting of trust accounts and mortgage discharges.
Wirick, who has since filed for bankruptcy, claims he never benefited financially and that most of the money went to his co-accused, Tarsem Singh Gill.
Gill's case has yet to go to trial and he has not entered a plea.
With files from the Canadian Press
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090609/bc_wirick_090609/20090609?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
It is the sabbath and not one mention of the lord, just bickering over hockey and stocks.
Do I need to remind thee of what happened in the old days?
NUMBERS 15:32-36 “…they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day…Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘The man must surely be put to death”…So as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.”
Actually they all died, there was a cold snap that night and it dipped down to minus 20 and they froze. Seems the guy they killed was told by the lord to build a big fire.
A lot of horses did not think it was fair when tax deductions for hobby farms were eliminated and instead of going to the fair they went to market.
The options issue arose after the Nortel meltdown, after the Nasdaq meltdown in 2000, etc. If people exercised their options right away and sold the stock, they would get the cash. But people hang on to their options, with a view to speculative gains.
I have little sympathy for their "plight", and as a taxpayer, I have little interest in underwriting their speculation failings.
"Thousands of Canadians taxed on 'phantom income'
Employees who lost on stock options face bankruptcy over huge tax bills
By Kathy Tomlinson, CBC News
Shannon McLeod had to pay a $100,000 tax bill on 'phantom income' from worthless stock options. (CBC)
Thousands of Canadian workers who purchased stock options from their employers before the market downturn are expected to pay millions of dollars in taxes on income they haven't received because the shares have lost their value.
"I had to take out over a hundred thousand dollars in loans, plus interest, in order to pay off taxes," said marketing manager Shannon McLeod, a tech-industry worker in Vancouver who faced the same situation several years ago.
"I was a good little Canadian taxpayer and I paid it off, but it had a huge effect on me."
The income tax is applied to stock options, a benefit many Canadian employees are given as part of their remuneration. Employees at various levels of companies in high tech, mining, banking and other industries are allowed to buy stock in their firm at a significantly reduced price.
"Companies give out stock options to their employees thinking it is a huge benefit, and it's actually a huge liability," McLeod said.
Because of a little-known loophole in Canada's tax law, people are expected to pay income tax on the market value of the stocks when they are issued — not on their lesser value if they are later sold at a lower price. Those affected call it a tax on "phantom income."
Tax experts estimate many Canadians have been hit since the latest stock market downturn. The national group Canadians for Fair and Equitable Taxation says it's hearing about dozens of new cases from people who have just received their assessments for the 2008 tax year.
Taxpayers going bankrupt, losing homes
"I have colleagues at many different companies I've worked at since that have actually lost their homes," McLeod said. "They've gone bankrupt. It's a huge catastrophe — and it's something that the government can easily fix."
Tax lawyer William Cooper thinks Ottawa should allow people to claim their losses against the 'income.' (CBC)
For example, if an employee bought $100,000 worth of stock for the employee price tag of $25,000 early in 2008, they would be taxed on $75,000 worth of "income" for that year. If the employee held on to their stock, as many do, they would still have to pay tax on the $75,000 — even if the stock's value drops to mere pennies. Employees can defer remitting the tax until they sell the stock or the company is sold, but the tax bill doesn't change.
Thousands of tech-industry employees like McLeod have been hit since 2000.
McLeod bought 10,000 shares in Burnaby, B.C.-based digital-imaging company Creo — with money borrowed against the stock — for $17 each. At the time, the stock was trading at $53. She was assessed income tax on $360,000 — the difference between what she paid and the market value of the shares at that time. She was 27 years old and earning a modest salary of less than six figures.
"On the advice of my financial planner and my accountant, I held on to the shares. And then the market crashed," she said
Ottawa taxed McLeod $100,000 on the stock options, even though by the time the tax was assessed, the shares were worth less than she bought them for. Creo stock didn't recover and McLeod said she didn't make a penny. The company was eventually sold, and McLeod had to use a line of credit to pay the $100,000 bill.
"If I had again gone into the stock option plan with the company I am with now, right before the 2008 crash, I would again be in the exact same situation," McLeod said.
Thousands more potentially hit by downturn
"People just don't want to talk about it, and they certainly don't want to say I owe the government a quarter of a million dollars and I can't pay it," Vancouver tax lawyer William Cooper said.
"Right now there are probably thousands of people under water. And how many know about this tax before they get the bill? Not a lot. I would say very few."
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty indicated Ottawa has no plan to help affected taxpayers.
'I won't hold out any hope of any tax exemptions'
—Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
"The tax laws apply to all of us equally," Flaherty said. "There are some remedies that are available through hardship cases, but the reality is that those stock option situations are not uncommon and apply to a large number of Canadians. So, I can't and I won't hold out any hope of any tax exemptions in respect to that."
When Flaherty mentioned "hardship" cases, he was likely referring to JDS Uniphase employees from Victoria. After lobbying by their MP, Gary Lunn, 35 employees with the optical-equipment company were granted exemptions from paying the tax last year.
Nortel employees are another example, but they haven't received any exemptions. Many are still holding on to stock they bought at the employee rate years ago, when the market value was over $100 per share.
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says no exemptions will be granted. (CBC)
If Nortel's bankruptcy proceedings force the shares to be sold, their huge tax bills on those shares — worth approximately 25 cents each now — will come due. Former Nortel executive Ragui Kamel, an Ontario resident, said he has already paid $300,000 in taxes on stock he sold and could be hit with another bill soon.
"If Nortel collapses, through no action or desire of my own, I will be deemed to have sold the [remaining] shares I still hold in Nortel. That will trigger a tax of over $500,000 — wiping out the bulk of my savings in 30 years of work," Kamel said.
Former Nortel employee contemplates suicide
Another former Nortel manager from Toronto, who was let go in 1999, said he will get hit with a $204,000 tax bill on stock he still owns, which is worth $250.00 now. The man, who didn't want his name used, is 69 years old and said he has seriously contemplated suicide to avoid being forced to sell his house.
"I've been living an nightmare, not sleeping at nights. It's affecting my marriage," he said.
Tax lawyer Cooper said that, in his experience with tax policy makers in Ottawa, the effects of unfair rules are often not taken into consideration.
"Sometimes I think they are just in this bubble. All the technicians are saying, 'Well, this is how the rules work and this is how they are supposed to work and it all fits within the scheme of the Income Tax Act, so what is the problem?' "
"I think that the country needs to pull together and talk to their MPs and voice their opinion and let the government know that this isn't acceptable," McLeod said.
The United States had a similar tax policy until 2008, when the law was changed to essentially fix the problem for American employees who lost money through stock options.
"The fact that we are the only G7 country to do this still is kind of embarrassing. It's pretty archaic," McLeod added."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/25/bc-phantomincome.html
Allegations of killings, thefts in Zimbabwe diamond mining
CBC News
Women take a break from digging for diamonds in Marange, Zimbabwe, in November 2006. (Tsvangiray Mukwazhi/Associated Press)
Zimbabwe, a country beset by poverty, cholera and political violence, also possesses great mineral wealth, and lately there have been allegations of government involvement in the theft of mined diamonds and killings of local panners, CBC News has learned.
Under military control since late last year, the Marange diamond fields in Chiadzwa — potentially one of the richest diamond deposits in Africa — were seized by the government from a private mining company called African Consolidated Resources in 2006.
It is an alluvial field, meaning many of the stones just sit on the ground, ready to be scooped.
Tens of thousands of people — doctors, teachers, lawyers — impoverished by President Robert Mugabe's decades-long regime, had descended on the area, which lies near the border with Mozambique.
The fields are off limits to the media, but a CBC crew recently got in by joining the convoy of a local MP. They toured through the heavily guarded villages that surround the fields to meet with people who said they witnessed the killings, and their aftermath, first-hand last year.
Lovemore, a former telecom worker-turned diamond panner, said he saw soldiers shoot some of his fellow panners. "Yes, some were killed because of this diamond," he told the CBC's Adrienne Arsenault.
A cemetery worker near Chiadzwa showed Arsenault a mass grave that he said contained the bodies of 68 people who were allegedly slaughtered in that campaign. He produced dozens of burial orders filled in December — names unknown.
A local mortician also said he saw those bodies. "They were found in the field, beaten by soldiers, beaten by police," he said, adding he also observed gunshot wounds.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace arrive at the swearing-in ceremony for South African President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 10, 2009. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)
The Zimbabwe government vehemently denied the allegations.
"Only three people died as a result of infighting among the diamond panners, and the culprits have been arrested and they are actually going through our court of law now," said Obert Mpofu, the country's minister of mines.
He dismissed the idea of a mass grave. "It is totally fantasy. It is totally false. I don't know what people want to achieve by doing this."
The government also denied that military and other officials were benefiting directly from illegal panning in the fields.
"We are on top of the situation, and there is not even a single illegal diamond activity now because of the measures we are taking," Mpofu said.
However, a former military officer, who used to work in Chiadzwa, and was able to produce some industrial and gem-quality diamonds fresh from the fields with just a few hours notice, refuted that assertion.
"That's a lie.… It's only those with connections who are now able to dig and profit," he said. "It is the soldiers and police who are manning the area who allow you to go and dig, and when you dig, you show them what you have. Sometimes they take the diamonds and go sell them for their own profit."
His story was consistent with what other panners told the CBC.
The former officer also said that at night he had seen soldiers digging and then handing over their finds to powerful people.
"They come during the night, take the diamonds, and share them with senior government officials," he said.
Diamond profits unshared
The government is vague when queried about how much is mined and where the money goes. Some people, like the local MP, believe diamond profits could help to solve many of the nation's problems — if only they could be shared.
After uncontrolled inflation, Zimbabwe's once thriving economy has collapsed. About one-quarter of its population has fled, with most of those who remain depending on food handouts. Poverty and AIDS have taken a toll, slashing life expectancy to 37 years for men and just 34 years for women.
The MP is trying to set up a trust for villagers to receive some of the mining proceeds and is also pushing for immediate short-term relief — to help build a proper medical clinic for example.
The existing clinic, which serves 8,000 people, is little more than a ramshackle two-room shed with a caved-in roof, few medications and two exhausted nurses.
And yet it is stands on land that may be rich enough to offer hope of a cure for much of what ails Zimbabwe.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/26/zimbabwe-diamonds.html
C´mon tell, the truth, how much did you buy---
fibber...
TSX's top ten reasons to suspect that your stock is a scam:
10. Mining operations are being conducted by some guys with shovels and "caribou".
9. Instead of real news agencies, PR's are disseminated by paid tout sheets.
8. Company president has several alias's.
7. Company president also claims to be president of quasi-religious "Dominion".
6. Company claims that it can process gold more efficiently with $800 wonder machine purchased on the internet.
5. Company has issued 30 billion common shares.
4. Company has issued 30 trillion "preferred" shares.
3. Company announces complicated share buy-back, convertable debenture, and preferred swap scheme.
2. Company's internet message board is one of the busiest on IHub.
AND THE #1 REASON YOUR COMPANY MAY BE A SCAM:
1. Company claims its share price has been held down by naked shorters.
Sorry... TOP SECRET
The only thing remotely close to a diamond mine is the Sturgeon Lake gravel pit near P.A. I suspect it will be the first commercial operation in Saskatchewan for diamond and there is also a gold bearing horizon in the gravel that can be processed cheaply.
That little leprechaun and his pot of gold is Jewish so why not Irish Muslims...
Muslims now make up the third largest faith group in Ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Ireland
Murtha is a good example why Irish catholics should be barred from holding public office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murtha
"C) They couldn't read it anyway"
Yep you're probably right.
Wow are you ever mean. Not even Urbie deserves our RCMP.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/14/bc-taservideo.html
What is even funnier not one of the million millionaires in training took the time to order the court file.
Nothing was discussed in court. I was there waiting for someone and because I had 15 extra minutes had the clerk bring me the court files for everything under Urbie's name.
Nope... you have to order the file by mail.
Nope... you lazy bops have to learn to do your own research. I searched the court file while I was waiting to meet someone for lunch.
I was just in the Prince Albert Court House. I'm surprised none of you have ordered a court report on Urbie and his current activities.
I guess the cost is prohibitive. It costs $10 which is maybe too much for you high rollers.
"I have a hard time picturing urban and a prince at the same table."
Why?
The Prince inherited the wealth his ancestors stole by virture of brute force or a pretend direct link to God.
Urban earned his money the old fashion way by scamming.
The Prince and Urbie both deeply believe they are entitled to wealth stolen and confiscated from your pocket and in comparison Urban is an up-start.
Here is a quote for your Jimmy that you should read the next time you want the government of the U.S. to regulate every facet of your existence.
"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." AYN RAND
West Jet is cancelling all flights starting May 4 - I just got out now.
The flu is no problemo being stranded here forever is - although...
Richie Valens La Bamba being performed by Mariachi Vargas.
Is she any relation to Emily Dickinson?
"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
Emily Dickinson
I have not left yet...
You sure seem to have time, yes you do...