A stop motion of the earth spinning under the ISS.

Teachers? McGuinty gave them an ultimatum then caved. The result: Healthy raises.

Doctors and jail guards, too.

McGuinty boasts about the labour peace under his reign, unlike the Mike Harris years. Yeah, let’s all sing Kumbaya.

The only problem is we can’t afford those deals. We can’t afford 6% over three years, let alone 9%.

When there’s a recession, when your revenue evaporates, then it hits the fan.

These days that fan is spitting $19.3 billion worth of red ink back in ol’ Premier Dad’s face.

The collection agency for the maxed-out credit card is thundering on McGuinty’s doorstep.

So the premier is threatening a two-year wage freeze. Union leaders are threatening bloody war.

We’re calling their bluff. Walk. We don’t think you will. McGuinty is the best friend you have. The Conservatives, led by Harris protege Tim Hudak, aren’t waiting around to have a nice little tea party with you.

For us taxpayers, we know what has to happen — since it’s already happened to many of us poor slobs without rich pensions and healthy pay increases.

The government has to figure out how to get the balance sheet to balance. To do that, in a province where about 80% of spending goes to salaries, it’s hard to look elsewhere for a solution.

Either jobs have to be cut, wages have to be frozen or we’re looking at Dalton Days.

We don’t want to see anyone lose their job. We respect the more than 1 million hard-working civil servants across this province. They work hard and are well paid for that work.

But there is a budget crisis.

While unions may not like Dalton Days — remember the 12 Rae Days? — we suspect employees in jobs where extra days off can happen would enjoy time off rather than just a straight pay freeze.

That’s why McGuinty needs to keep his word, find a backbone and stand up to the employees of this province and constrict the ballooning cost of the civil service.

Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class.

On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord.

Dubois was critically injured.

The New Hampshire Union Leader says Dubois’ suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage.

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I would say that given these circumstances, that brain damage did indeed occur, but it was most likely at birth.

“He’s super smart, he treats all people with respect — and he’s fiscally conservative and socially progressive,” Kinsella said in an e-mail.

Well Rossi may be, but Kinsella? Not so much.

Kinsella, who runs the Daisy Consulting Group, made his feelings clear about mayoral race front-runner Rob Ford in an Aug. 5 blog post on his website.

“The notion that this knuckle-dragger could become mayor of Canada’s biggest and most diverse city is beyond ludicrous. God help us all,” Kinsella wrote. “What do you think, Internet? Want to see the Clampetts running the show down at City Hall?”

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Wow. Is your campaign so devoid of a platform that you feel the need to insult the forerunner?

And the latest from camp Rossi – a recall for elected officials.

When asked how it would work, he said that he’ll figure it out once in power.

Yeah, right.

Unless the blades of this airplane propellor can defy gravity and float, the iPhone’s camera totally distorted reality with this picture. How did this happen? No, it’s not Photoshop. It’s because of the camera’s “rolling shutter”.

So as it turns out, most digital cameras don’t actually take a picture the instant you hit the button. What they actually do to capture an image is scan over the frame either vertically or horizontally. So basically, not all parts of an image are recorded at exactly same time (the top right could be a little ahead of the bottom left, etc.). Hence it being called “rolling shutter”.

And though the “rolling shutter” is typically fast enough and hardly affects daily life, it means when you’re trying to take a picture of an even faster moving object, distortion like the picture above occurs. Looks kind of cool.

According to an interview Yost, “claimed he was forced to quit MMPR back in the day because he “was called ‘f*ggot’ one too many times” by staffers.”

In response, producer Scott Page-Pagter claimed, “the thing he remembers most was that Blue was a “pain in the ass.”"

What are you trying to tell us, Scott?

And that is the best double-entendre this week!

Lance Corporal Johno Lee has clocked up £800 in fines for parking in disabled bays in his home town of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on days when he uses a wheelchair or feels unable to walk very far.

When he first applied to Nottinghamshire County Council for a blue badge, he was advised he was young and ‘may get better’.

His right leg was amputated below the knee after he was caught up in an explosion in Helmand Province in 2008 and was catapulted into a minefield.

He said yesterday: ‘I replied that they possibly did not quite understand the situation and that I thought it unlikely my leg would grow back.

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Makes you wonder how many of these council members have served for their country.

It also make me wonder how they can go about their daily life with their heads stuck so far up their asses.

But, if you read Superman/Batman #75 this weeks, you would have sworn he was.Click to embiggan.

That’s one hell of a breakfast menu!