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Left-wing Toronto mayoral candidate in sex scandal has ties to a certain federal party. No kidding.
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CBC writes up the story about the latest sex-scandalized, cheating politician, Adam Giambrone, as if it were the story of a baker dropping a cookie. He has been accused of having sex with a 20-year-old girl in his Toronto city hall office — on the couch (oh how yummy for the visitors!) — for the past while. Today he admits to an “an inappropriate relationship with a young woman.” In this case, “young” means “barely an adult”. She was 19 when they first started “dating”. But whatever. This is the world of progressive Canada, where the motto is. “You’ll get used to it.” Giambrone is still running for mayor of the Canadian liberal-left center of the known universe, Toronto Ontario, having loudly announced his candidacy just a week ago, over the thumps of blaring hip-hop music (because he’s so groovy, baby). So he’ll probably get elected. He’d be a shoo-in if his lover were a gay lover instead, I figure, and the CBC wouldn’t even mention this story.
But the CBC really should have mentioned his extremely close ties with the federal you’ve got to be kidding party, today. I’m sure it would even be OK if they used the name “NDP” instead. It is a politics story. They don’t even bother to mention that he’s “left-wing” —you know, they way they would if he were even remotely not left-wing, in which case they might remind us 18 times that he’s a alternately a “neo-conservative”, or “religious right”, or “far-right”, or “right-wing”, or “right of center” (which they’d spell centre) candidate. If he were connected to the Conservative Party — or he were a Christian — they might also have a five-part series on their “Passionate Eye” program about the big story, which they’d of course keep promoting on CBC News Network.
So in case it’s helpful to the CBC, they could have written, for example, “Adam Giambrone is a far-left politician with close ties to the federal NDP. Moreover, he is the former National President of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 2001 - 2006.” They could do this because it’s true, and it’s a politics story, and because the news media should inform people properly even if they find it uncomfortable and it doesn’t advance their agenda.
Not mentioning party affiliation is pathological amongst liberal-left and further left media, but only when the subject is left-wing and they’re caught doing something unsavory (by which I mean unsavory only to the rest of us). For example, the left-wing Toronto Star, which covers the story more thoroughly, also doesn’t mention anything about his being left-wing or in any way connected to the NDP.
There is no CBC.ca story today about New York Governor David Paterson (D), despite allegations apprently about to be released by the New York Times about that left-wing politician’s trist with another woman besides his wife. When he became governor, Paterson admitted he had been unfaithful to his wife. But apparently there’s more.
Paterson, it should but won’t be noted, if the CBC and others ever get around to noting anything, took over after Democratic Party star Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned, which he did only after being caught red, err, handed, hanging out and having sex with with a slimy hooker. The most recent article I could find about Democratic Governor David Paterson at the CBC was back in April 14, 2009: “New York governor plans same-sex marriage bill — New York Gov. David Paterson plans to introduce legislation this week to legalize same-sex marriage in the state…”, in which the word Democratic appears four times in that short and apparently “good news” (to them) article.
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Saturday, February 06, 2010
cnews.ca poll on the you’ve got to be kidding party, sort of: “NDP is irrelevant”
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CORRECT!
Actually, I think it’s more complicated than that. We don’t need a half dozen parties all essentially going in the same direction. How many progressive parties do we need in one country? Certainly the far-left NDP exist only because they’re constantly, gratuitously, needlessly propped-up by the liberal-left media to help advance the left-wing agenda that is now well-established in that culture; as well as by the huge bank accounts of the owners of the party, the often militant and Marxist-oriented labor unions and teacher unions, which are themselves irrelevant and far worse than merely irrelevant. So they are in fact irrelevant as a party. Thus my proper name for them, the you’ve got to be kidding party.
But the Liberals and Conservatives are both progressive parties and are almost indistinguishable in every respect. It’s no wonder the polls are constantly tied between them. They should just join together with the you’ve got to be kidding party, and call themselves the Fabian Socialist Party of Canada; possibly also sticking the words “Progressive” or “Populist” or “Giant Nanny-State Government” in there somewhere. Oh and also “Gay ‘Marriage’” and “Abortion”. And “State-Owned Media”. It’s gonna be a long party name.
Then a bunch of us (including the three actual conservatives in the Conservative Party) who believe in freedom, free markets and capitalism, personal responsibility, small limited government, families, traditional Judeo-Christian values, and other conservative tenets which have actually built strong, free, ebullient, rich, safe, democratic countries, can form the Actual Conservative Party of Canada. Actually maybe we could do that anyway, and give Canadians a real choice.
Tea anyone?
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Friday, February 05, 2010
The brilliant Barack Obama can’t pronounce “corpsman” but don’t worry, the media won’t mention it!
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Relying on the teleprompter as usual, the smart One still managed to once again flub his words. Like the word “corps”, or corpsman, which he pronounced as “corpseman”. Not once. Three times. And he’s the Commander in Chief — not merely a coll-en-al or a see-ar-ghent.
Let’s play our little game….
Imagine if George Bush or Sarah Palin said it!
...in which no matter how you play it, George Bush and Sarah Palin are cast by the liberals and their media as total buffoons and as dumb as billy goats… for no apparent reason…!
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Dispatches from the sane set — Feb 5, 2010 (#2)
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From: Loretta
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:25 AM
To: proudtobecanadian.ca
Subject: Options for Maternal healthNfld doctor, Dr. Robert Walley founded a NGO (years ago) called MaterCare. It works in Africa and elsewhere seeking to improve the health of mother and child during and after childbirth. This would be a great place for Canada to contribute as a nation, but also a place where individuals can contribute out of their own generosity. http://www.matercare.org/
The hijacking of every educational and health initiative to include abortion and/or ‘alternative lifestyles’ seems weird to me. No matter how many times nations push back, the UN seems bent on conforming everyone to their ‘ideal’. How is it that this group maintains so much influence in a supposedly multicultural organization? Why do nations continue to fund the campaign, in spite of not having a mandate at home.
I have a question about Stephen Taylor’s suggestion in the Nat’l Post today, that Harper should just tell Iggy that the subject of abortion has been ‘closed’ BY CANADIANS. When did anyone ask me? Where’s the mandate to say something like that? Or, Iggy, where’s the mandate to fund abortion in other countries. Bad enough that its funded without a mandate in Canada. No one asked the Canadian voter. I can understand why they are reluctant to do so, but please, don’t tell me that WE have closed the subject. Only one side wants the subject closed. Anyone who has doubt, or wants at least SOME restrictions, or is morally opposed to the killing of Canadians/humans, would like to see some courage and progress on this ‘divisive’ subject. The nature of a debate is that there are ‘sides’- divisive. Can Canadians really be against ‘divisive’ subjects? Are we THAT lame?
Loretta Westin
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Loretta,
Liberals and progressives in general always speak as though everyone in the room agrees with them. That’s how they get around divisive subjects. The shear arrogance is breathtaking, and usually causes a lip-zipping reaction — perhaps because the other people in the room see no sense in wasting time refuting idiots and close-minded jerks and the things they say —but this is of course folly. Progressives totally rely on this ability to get away with their social engineering by repeating things over and over and never being refuted, by marginalizing their opposition by labeling them as “stupid”, “racist”, “homophobe”, calling them a “Nazi” (the irony flies right over their heads), or of course a “neocon” or a “Christian” (each of those latter two as though they were a bad thing) —and ultimately shutting them up any way they can. For more information about this, see Glenn Beck’s book Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, or Ann Coulter’s How to Talk to a Liberal, If You Must. And simply keep reading this blog and the columnists at PTBC.
One of the progressive’s favorite tactics is to try to dogmatically close debate by falsely claiming —as if by the quasi sacred dictum of some unearthly, overarching pseudo-god — that “the debate is over”, or as you caught it, that the debate “is closed” by one awesome (to them) person or another —as if they have that dictatorial power, and if they do, that it’s totally acceptable to them that they do, as long as that person is doing their bidding.
In actual fact, like the hideous, fascist “the debate is over” mantra emanating from the goons in the “man-made global warming” fraud, the “debate is over” when we say the debate is over, but that’s really just my way of resuscitating the debate. Those of us in the traditional, conservative, and open-minded set, who live still in free societies, never really end debate or foist this “the debate is over” type of idiot mantra on anybody. The only people who do that are people who know they can’t win the debate, and who know that their opposition can, were they allowed to engage in it in the first place.
I know you know all this —this was for the other side. They need to know that we know this.
Thanks,
Joel
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Dispatches from the sane set — Feb 5, 2010 (#1)
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From: Lorna
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:13 AM
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Subject: Working in the Private SectorOn a recent Glenn Beck Show, he had a graph that illustrated the percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is… a real life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages discussed by Mr. Beck.
T. Roosevelt…..... 38%
Taft…..................40%
Wilson .................. 52%
Harding….............49%
Coolidge…........... 48%
Hoover ................. 42%
F. Roosevelt…...... 50%
Truman…...............50%
Eisenhower…....... 57%
Kennedy…........... 30%
Johnson….............47%
Nixon…................ 53%
Ford….................. 42%
Carter…............... 32%
Reagan…..............56%
GH Bush…........... 51%
Clinton ................. 39%
GW Bush….......... 55%And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is…...........
Obama…............. 8% !
Yep! That’s right! Only Eight Percent!..the least by far of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? They know what’s best for GM… Chrysler… Wall Street… and you and me?
How can the president of a major nation and society…the one with the most successful economic system in world history… stand and talk about business when he’s never worked for one?... or about jobs when he has never really had one?!
And neither has 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers! They’ve spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs… or as “community organizers”... when they should have been in an employment line.
GOD HELP US
Dear poor, dumb ‘n inept little Lorna,
Apparently you do not yet understand, or for whatever reason have not yet been fully awed by nor bowled-over by the Obama orb of messianic awesomeness of all get out. You may need Obama to explain it to you after he gets done explaining his government-run “health care” system to you. Please prostrate yourself to the Obama orb of awesomeness —or alternately bend over — and allow the Obama orb to bowl you over and consume you such that you understand the greatness that is “progressive” politics.
May the orb be with you. Obama is great.
Joel
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Jack Layton has prostate cancer.
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Politics aside, God bless him, and best wishes for a full recovery.
He will stay on as leader and as an M.P.
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CBC: Stock markets down on “EUROPEAN debt” worries. Yeah. Right.
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For the CBC and most others in the Obama-kissing liberal media, the markets tanking this week has utterly nothing whatsoever to do with their progressive heroes in the U.S. Democratic Party, under the near total lack of leadership and growing economic chaos of President Barack Hussein Obama, who nearly all voted in goose-step fashion to increase the U.S. debt by another nearly TWO TRILLION dollars, to a new ceiling of 14.3 TRILLION dollars.
This new U.S. debt is some of the biggest news in decades. But it’s ignored. It’s the “European” debt that investors are worried about. Uh huh.
For liberals, the problem of debt is solved by borrowing more, and adding more to the debt. This makes sense only to progressives, some of whom actually have ulterior — and I do mean nefarious — political motives.
The CBC story doesn’t even mention this historic vote in the U.S. and its tragic consequences for America and the world including Europe, under Obama’s watch. In fact it’s hard to find any good articles about the new American debt under Barack Obama, anywhere in Canada. This is in stark contrast to the massive bashing and trashing that the media ensured President Bush took (and quite rightly) for his ineptness in reigning in spending, particularly in the latter days of his administration.
All Republicans voted against the insanity, apparently having learned a lesson being shouted at them by actual conservatives and the burgeoning tea party movement. Even 37 Democrats voted against it. Clearly, the entire investment community is voting against it all.
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Deaths, scams, destruction, sex offenders, jail time… oh and Sarah Palin’s coming up north
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Today in the National Post’s daily “National Report” section, which ostensibly lists, in short form, some of the happenings of national importance or newsworthiness, they list this item: SARAH PALIN TO SPEAK IN CALGARY IN MARCH.
Yay! Good news. Or so you’d think if you were a conservative, or even totally neutral and objective and ran a newspaper, for example. So OK, at the very least, which is to say from a liberals’ perspective, yay for free speech and tolerance —am I right, all you tolerant liberals and “progressives” who love the diversity (yadda yadda)? OK yay for Calgary tourism?
No I guess this is all bad.
The other items similarly important items which they fit into that exact same category:
QUEBEC PROBES LEBANESE MEDICARE SCAM
HEALER TO BE SENTENCED IN SEX ASSAULT
PARENTS FACE DEPORTATION TO HAITI AFTER SERVING TIME FOR INFANT SON’S DEATH
FOSTER HOME REVIEWED AFTER SEX CHARGES
ENCANA APOLOGIZES FOR WELL BLOWOUT
Gee. Notice any sort of a theme here?
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
83% of Americans know: the deficit is due to politicians’ gutless refusal to cut spending
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Actually I’m not sure it’s “gutless” as much as it is “ideological” and “purposeful” and “part of their agenda”, or to use their word, “progressive”.
The tin ear President and his liberal-dominated Congress and their supporters in media and elsewhere should all have a cup of tea at one of the tea parties and sit there listening carefully, instead of mocking the participants from on high and calling them all “teabaggers” and “Nazis” and “right-wing neocon idiots”, etc.
83% Blame Deficit on Politicians’ Unwillingness To Cut Spending
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Americans say the size of the federal budget deficit is due more to the unwillingness of politicians to cut government spending than to the reluctance of taxpayers to pay more in taxes.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just nine percent (9%) of adults put more blame on the unwillingness of taxpayers to pay more in taxes.
Ninety-four percent (94%) of Republicans and 91% of voters not affiliated with either major party place the blame on politicians, and two-thirds (66%) of Democrats agree.
Just 11% of all voters now think the government spends taxpayers’ money wisely and well. Seventy-eight percent (78%) do not believe that to be true.
Again, 90% or more of GOP voters and unaffiliateds don’t think the government handles taxpayers’ money well, compared to 54% of Democrats. ...
... The president on Monday released a proposed $3.8 trillion budget for the coming fiscal year, which includes a largest-ever $1.56-trillion deficit. ...
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“Progressive” Liberal Ignatieff: Fund abortions! But now an opposing “private option” comes along!
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I’m sure Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff is concerned about the health of pregnant mothers, and hope they have healthy babies… I mean if they want to have them… otherwise, you know, well I do understand the confusion here over the health of the baby. But I think he will be pissed that private enterprise — citizen-owned companies — are competing against his vision — the progressive vision — of government, and are offering a sort of “private option”, if I could flip a phrase coined by socialists down south as part of their specious “health care” sales con job.
In juxtaposition to yesterday’s Ignatieff abortion news, today I read where some companies in the U.S. are joining forces and will sort of compete against what would be his even bigger-than-it-already-is nanny-state (irony!) government, and help preserve the life of babies. As I mentioned yesterday, he would direct his government, just as he is demanding that Stephen Harper direct our government, to take care of the abortion needs of mothers the world over, and of course their unborn babies, which he feels may need the help of taxpayers and the government in getting aborted. He would do this by, as he calls it, “investing” in the “reproductive health care” of pregnant women and their unborn babies who are apparently very quietly demanding that the “reproductive health care”, um, “choice” be chosen against them. (As I always say, liberals always speak as though everyone in the room agrees with them, but this is ridiculous!)
This “private option” is somewhat different than his “progressive”, liberal, vision of taxpayer funding of abortions. Let’s compare!
Healthy baby campaign uses texts to reach mothers
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Date: Thursday Feb. 4, 2010 8:57 AM ETWASHINGTON — Expectant mothers in the U.S. are getting a new tool to help keep themselves and their babies healthy: pregnancy tips sent directly to their cell phones.
The so-called text4baby campaign is the first free, health education program in the U.S. to harness the reach of mobile phones, according to its sponsors, which include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, WellPoint and CareFirst BlueCross and Blue Shield. Wireless carriers including AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have agreed to waive all fees for receiving the texts.
Organizers say texting is an effective means of delivering wellness tips because 90 percent of people in the U.S. have cell phones.
“Especially if you start talking about low-income people, cell phones are the indispensable tool for reaching them and engaging them about their health,” said Paul Meyer, president of Voxiva, a company which operates health texting programs in Africa, Latin America and India.
Studies in those countries have shown that periodic texts can reduce smoking and other unhealthy behaviors in pregnant mothers.
Meyer said the U.S. program, run by Voxiva, will be the largest health-related texting program ever undertaken.
Under the new service, mothers-to-be who text “BABY” to 511411 will receive weekly text messages, timed to their due date or their baby’s birth date. The messages, which have been vetted by government and nonprofit health experts, deal with nutrition, immunization and birth defect prevention, among other topics. The messages will continue through the baby’s first birthday.
Text4baby is expected to be announced Thursday morning by officials from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Government officials will be publicizing the campaign in speeches and promotional materials. ...
Yikes, huh? These companies are actually helping pregnant mothers and their unborn babies maintain healthy happy pregnancies and deliveries and lives, instead of demanding abortion funding. That ain’t liberal! No, that’s kinda like the opposite. And hell’s bells — these companies aren’t the government! Unfair competition! No wonder progressives and all liberals and leftists like Ignatieff want to ramp-up their control over corporations and the entire economy with their yummy regulations and meddling and ownership! They are behaving incorrectly! Now I see Hugo Chavez’s point!
As I mentioned here yesterday, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff nearly popped a gasket this week, rushing to stake his ground on abortion —and not just abortions in Canada which are already funded in a limitless fashion by taxpayers. He meant global abortions: they too must be funded by Canadian taxpayers! He made it priority one to ensure that no matter what else happens in the world, the babies of the world know that they can count on him. Advocating for global abortion funding by the taxpayers of Canada is apparently one of the ways he makes a living, now that he’s been born.
CBC UPDATE:
They may like this healthy baby program, and therefore they credit “the government”:
According to the socialism-reliant CBC News Network secretariat, it’s not private companies who are doing this at all whatsoever. No. They’re not even 
remotely involved. It’s “The White House”. Yes, that’s right. It’s only “U.S. officials” who have launched the program. The government. No mention in their report of any corporate entities who are actually, as the CTV reports, running the program (to wit: ”...the U.S. program, run by Voxiva…”). As the CTV story alludes, above, the federal government is participating by supporting the action by the companies. The White House, for their small part, drew attention to the program this morning.
Then the CBC did what the CBC always does: the reporter declares, thanks to her crack investigative journalism, that alas, this may all be useless, because, “We ran this by a Canadian expert” the reporter intones, notably not naming the “Canadian expert” nor his field of “expertise” except to say that he’s an expert in “health care policy”. Their unnamed “expert” proclaims that what’s really needed is, of course, more government. ”[P]roper housing”, for example (read: taxpayer housing) for the pregnant women; and state programs to alleviate all the “poverty”. That’s “the only way”, the unknown, unnamed CBC’s “expert” is reported to have said, to help low-income American mothers and their babies. Once again, only the government —and increased government —can save us all. Not just from cradle to grave, but pre-cradle, even.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
OSCARS: Biden predicts “this this this this new program… thing unfolds in front of you” will win
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Let’s pretend for a second that we should care even the slightest bit about the Hollywood liberals giving each other more shiny trinkets. And that when a liberal news media (NBC and MSNBC in this case) finally manages to bag a progressive liberal Democratic Vice President for his ingenius thoughts about all matter of world affairs for the big news show, they see fit to badger him with that kind hard-hitting question usually reserved for, well, all other liberal progressives, like “Hey Mr. Vice President, any Oscar picks this year?” And forget that he can’t even answer the question without help from the news anchor. Forget all that.
Forget showing this on every media outlet the way they all do whenever a conservative says the word “nuclear” wrong. Don’t worry, Vice President Joe Biden will not —I repeat not — be chided for being a bumbling idiot. He is, after all, no Sarah Palin.
Here’s what to remember: It all makes sense: they see things — even Avatar, in which the whole point is “3-D”, in 2-D. Perfect.
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Ignatieff says Canadian taxpayers must fund abortions ... for the world! An abortion in every pot!
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The compassionate respectful one, the dear leader of Canada’s Liberal know-it-all elite, Michael Ignatieff, is moving more quickly than usual to jump down Prime Minister Harper’s throat, this week. Or as Michael Ignatieff calls Harper,
“that guy”, as a sign of his great “respect” for “Canada’s institutions”.
This, because this week the Prime (“that guy”) Minister dared to tread on what Ignatieff and all liberal-leftists seem to perceive as liberal-leftist territory or property: women. Well, women and children… or as Michael Ignatieff sees it, women and children if the women choose to let their babies live and if not, it’s him and the government to the rescue once again! This time to “save” not the banks, not the economy or capitalism or democracy or Canada’s institutions, but the children!.... well actually, not so much “save” them as, well, government “investing” in their untimely demise. So actually it is kinda the same!
Yes, plebeians of the world, we should all pitch in with our hard-earned money and help end those evil little lives by saving them and investing in them! It’s for the kids! Ooh again… not so much…. But it’s, it’s, it’s, why it’s a core function of government! That is, it is to a liberal-left zealot, or a progressive ideologue, or your average big government nob bent on global governments’ social engineering and funding of abortions. Or as Ignatieff strains to call abortion, anythingbutthatwordabortion.
...As host of the G8 summit this year, Harper last week outlined his plan to champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world’s poorest regions. He said Canada would seek to mobilize G8 governments and non-government organizations, as well as private foundations.
Ignatieff raised the issue earlier in the day, telling a Liberal-organized forum on international aid that Harper’s initiative is “better late than never,” and that Liberals support the plan so long as it includes abortion and birth control.
“If you’re going to invest in women, you’ve got to invest in the full gamut of reproductive health services,” he said, winning applause from an audience of Liberal MPs and representatives of about 50 non-government aid, rights and humanitarian organizations.
“This is the last place to start playing politics here and ideology here. Women are entitled to the full gamut of reproductive health services and that includes termination of pregnancy and contraception.” ...
I just can’t get enough of that reference to the big nanny-state — ooh…poor choice of words, huh? — “investing” in women as if they’re chattel, or yet another universal social program run by and socially engineered by progressive governments and whose “reproductive health services” are paid for by the taxpayers of the global community because after all, “it takes a community”, by gum!
As readers and all actual thinkers know, abortion is the most disgusting, most egregious thing ever thought of by humans.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
LET THEM EAT CAKE, EH: Canadian provincial premier heads to U.S. for heart operation
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The progressive premier of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Danny Williams, has headed to the United States for an unspecified heart operation, according to his staff of progressives, leading to further proof of the failed government-run “health care” system in Canada, and the better — life-saving — options currently still available in the United States.
Williams’ political affiliation is with the Progressive Conservative Party, which is heavy on the “progressive” and dismissive of the “conservative”. As such, they fully support (with taxpayers’ cash) the current government-run North Korean-style Canadian healthcare system…. for ordinary citizens that is.
U.S. heart surgery could sideline Williams for weeks
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Date: Tue. Feb. 2 2010 9:15 AM ETNewfoundland and Labrador deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed Tuesday that Premier Danny Williams is in the U.S. for heart surgery and could be off the job for up to 12 weeks.
Dunderdale told NTV that Williams travelled to the U.S. for the surgery because it wasn’t being offered to him in his home province.
“She told us essentially he’s known about this for several weeks, that he’s had tests done, he’s had consultations with doctors,” said NTV’s Fred Hutton from St. John’s.
“The deputy premier, who is now the acting premier, said that this was never offered as an option for him to have the sugery done, so he left yesterday morning to go to the United States.” ...
In the 2008 federal election, Mr. Williams acted out against the federal Conservative government with what he called his “Anything But Conservative” campaign, which effectively stopped any Conservatives from winning any federal seats in Newfoundland. Ironically, the federal Conservative Party is also a progressive party which fully supports the government-run Canadian healthcare system as it now exists.
Other articles:
• Williams travels to U.S. for heart surgery
• Danny Williams to have heart surgery in U.S.
• Surgery in Nfld. never an option for Premier Williams
The story is also being reported by the Canadian state-owned, socialism-reliant, taxpayer-funded CBC news and entertainment media behemoth in Canada, which, with the Conservative government’s blessing, competes directly against private citizen-owned news and entertainment media operations in what might be called a “public option” —in fact their specious marketing mantra is “Giving Canadians a choice”. Like the decrepit government-run “health care” system in Canada, the CBC network “choice” is a miserable TV ratings failure with its oft-repeated broadcasts of Michael Moore “documentaries” and anti-conservative, anti-capitalist, anti-corporate programs and its left-wing bent as a general matter. But the Conservative Party and all liberals and other progressives maintain its well over one BILLION dollar annual direct taxpayer funding nonetheless, apparently on pure ideological grounds, not unlike their obsession with the current government-run healthcare monopoly, into which the progressives have fully invested their political capital. The CBC also competes against its “competitors” for advertising and audience share. Its competitors in the private sector are currently facing massive layoffs and even bankruptcy.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Liberals in shock, but it’s a good kind of shock: banks now reliant on GOVT
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The real risk of failure is one of the things that make capitalism — and personal responsibility — work. In fact the possibility of failure is absolutely required in order for it to work. So naturally, that’s one reason why progressives in government have prevented capitalism from working as best they can, by meddling, regulating, imposing social engineering-oriented policies, and then “bailing them out” —or what they speciously call “saving” them all, when it appears they (predictably —hopefully?) fail. And that pernicious effort will continue to succeed unless we in the sensible, freedom-loving set, stop progressives.
January 31, 2010
Watchdog: Bank Bailouts Created More Risk in SystemThe government’s bailout of financial institutions deemed “too big to fail” has created a risk that the United States could face a worse fiscal meltdown in the future, an independent watchdog assigned to review the program told Congress on Sunday.
The Troubled Assets Relief Program, known as TARP, has not addressed the problems that led to the last crisis and in some case those problems have festered and are a bigger threat than before, warned Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general at the Treasury Department.
“Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car,” Barofsky wrote.
Barofsky wrote the $700 billion financial bailout has encouraged more risk-taking because bank executives, who are still receiving massive bonuses, figure the government will come to the rescue the next time they steer their ships nearly aground.
“The market mentality now seems fixed that the U.S. government will continue to step in and bail out giant financial institutions,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “The IG’s findings confirm my decision to oppose releasing $350 billion in TARP funds last year and my recent vote to terminate the program altogether.”
“The SIGTARP’s report is just another reminder of how Congress and the administration have ignored the role that politics and government played in causing the housing crisis and the economic collapse while pursing other regulatory reforms will not fix the underlying problem,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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The report warned that these supports mean the government “has done more than simply support the mortgage market, in many ways it has become the mortgage market, with the taxpayer shouldering the risk that had once been borne by the private investor.” ...
Or in the words of progressives, Eureka!
(1) The progressives (from both parties, but mostly Democrats) meddled in the private banking sector in the first place in their effort to social engineer, and required banks to make stupid mortgage and other loans to people who had no business buying homes or new cars; (2) Then when that (absolutely predictably) failed, they bailed out (“saved” —wink!) banks and car companies and the people who took out stupid loans, instead of letting them fail as they should have. And now all those folks rely on the state. This is the desired result.
Progressive Dictionary Alert: In the bizarre world of the progressive’s crapspeak, “saving” really means “killing”. Any time a progressive politician speaks of “saving” something or “investing” in something, hold onto your wallet and watch out for more government controls and regulations, and higher taxes.
Bailing out companies causes capitalism itself — and personal responsibility — to fail. It’s really a form of restructuring society. Or transforming an economy. To a socialist end.
Five days before election night, 2008, Barack Obama, on the verge of winning, said in a rousing campaign speech that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!”. Few people realized what he meant. He really did have in mind to “transform America”, and not just in small ways. “Fundamentally.”
Having maimed capitalism — and personal responsibility — goes the progressive’s mantra, the grand (and hopefully even grander in size and scope), benevolent government can come along and pretend to be the savior and “save” the individual companies — and people — that would have, and should have, failed. Rinse and repeat until the government controls everything in the nation and in your life, including even your very life —including what you eat and how you behave (and in Canada, how you speak and perhaps even think, thanks to the progressives’ very successful “human rights” commissions and tribunals, which effectively shuts conservatives up — which is very much a part of the progressive’s strategy).
The goal of the American progressive is to move away (“progress” —wink!) from the very tenets of God-given individual rights and freedom (or in the parlance of the Declaration of Independence, the “unalienable rights”, “endowed by their Creator”). The U.S Constitution and the Declaration of Independence is the bane of the progressives’ existence, with its focus on “We the People” and on limited government to preserve individual freedom and worst of all, that part about their unalienable rights to freedom and liberty being “endowed by their Creator”. And they want to proceed apace (“progress”) with their effort to move away from that —to make all of society reliant upon them, and their state, for they are smarter. So remove God. Remove the family. They want to replace all that and socially engineer humans and their behavior, and society in general, and create nations in their own, better, smarter, Utopian image. They know better. They think they can accomplish this through government. Their government.
Today, progressive have convinced many in the populace to think that the government can and should be relied upon to fix all problems —even those they caused. Which is a turn on Einstein’s definition of insanity. Einstein never defined progressivism as far as I know, so it’s as close a definition as I can come.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
The 118th call from the Conservative Party fund raising robo machine from Hell…
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...And I finally answered this time, even though I was going to wait until the 120th call. Yes, I’ve logged the last 118 calls, all of which have gone unanswered because I honestly thought that after 117 unanswered calls, they’d get a clue. Alas, no, they didn’t get a clue. They still don’t have a clue.
I was in a particularly foul mood this time because I was awaiting an important call, and this asinine call once again took me away from something important. I answered and was greeted by a woman who, after about 10 seconds of me repeatedly saying “hello”, finally pushed the “I got a hot one!” button on her Hellacious Hal 666 Robomarketing ‘n G-D Fund Raising Auto-Dialer-o-Freakin’ Matic, and once her noggin-mounted mouthpiece went live, proceeded with her ritual by…. presuming to call me “Joel”.
“Hello Joel, I’m calling from the Conservative Party and blah blah blah yickity-yack…”
This is problematic.
People who should be bending over backward to impress me and treat me with their utmost respect and reverence — especially those who call me at my castle on my weekend to ask me for (more of) my money —and who then begin that call by referring to me, uninvited, by my first name alone, will never, ever, get anything out of me, except a return of the favor: a like-minded disrespect and irreverence. Call me an overly sensitive and old-fashioned conservative twerp (I’ve been called far worse, like “Nazi” and “idiot” and “homophobe”), but yes, I yearn for the stupid old days when sales people’s initial inclination was to show some basic respect and decorum and politeness, especially when bothering me at home to ask me to give them my money for absolutely no tangible benefit to me in return, except possibly more of just this sort of request of me for still another donation to that political party.
I’m not as pure as the driven snow, nor are my feelings and emotions as tender as a typical liberal’s, but you’d think that a political party which calls itself the Conservative Party would at least establish itself, in its calls, as a group of people who hold to the basic, traditional value of decorum and old-fashioned modicum of respect, simply by calling people Mr. so-and-so, rather than presuming to call them by their first name —you know, the way news reporters call the leader of the you’ve got to be kidding party “Jack”, on account of their being pals. But even that little nugget of conservatism has been tossed now by the progressive, age of Obama Conservatives, who now see no need to be anything like conservative. Even when they don’t (but should) know me from Adam (whom I swear has no last name or I’d refer to him proper-like).
Anyway, after I almost immediately managed to cut off her spiel and told her to take me off their sales call list after being called 118 times (and you know how it goes, they purposely start talking and talking non-stop, giving you no chance to even politely say “not interested”), she became sort of passive-aggressive and annoying and inquired as to why I didn’t want to be called again, which, in and of itself I find irksome, particularly after my telling her this was the 118th call. But unless I heard it wrong, it was that she asked if it was that I didn’t believe in the conservative values (or something) any longer —or in any case, some such excruciatingly annoying — and blindingly ironic — BS. And it was done in an all too cynical, almost mocking tone. She was rude, plain and simple.
Now, I don’t know if it’s clear among my readership or not, but this inquiry as to whether or not I, of all people in Canada, believed in “conservative” anything, is something I could find somewhat, I don’t know, mildly rage-inducing, if that isn’t too much of an oxymoron (and since even Conservative Party folks don’t find the state-owned, socialism-reliant news broadcaster CBC presenting hourly reports on business to be an oxymoron, I’ll assume this also isn’t). If they at Conservative Party HQ don’t read my blog and don’t have a clue who I am, and know they shouldn’t include me on their sales call list by now, they’re simply willfully ignorant, and need better intelligence. Actually, that last bit could be said in any case. But I digress. Forget the rudeness. The very fact that they’ve apparently got no clue who I am alone drives me nuts, inasmuch as I have spent the past many years and spent tons of my cash ranting about the value of conservative principles, usually touting that party if begrudgingly at times, but yes, I’ve also lamented over how that party has almost completed its apparent goal of finally forgetting every last vestige of actual conservative principle.
Hideously, I presume that my last donation to the Party (which was of the maximum amount allowed by law variety), helped pay for all of this. Which ironically puts them in almost the same league as the CBC in a weird sort of way. And the CBC is something they also support not just in principle but with my cash. Which also drives me batty inasmuch as it should normally help explain why I wouldn’t ante-up my supporting cash when they come a-calling.
So this is all, shall we say, very swear-word swear-word annoying. And here I thought being a liberal was hard.
Suffice it to say I did not offer-up any cash. And for the record, my do not call me any more “confirmation number” is supposedly 16213759, which seems like a very long number to me. That many folks, huh? Unless “Patricia”, the Hellacious Hal 666 Robomarketing ‘n G-D Fund Raising Auto-Dialer-o-Freakin’ Matic engineer who, considering how my day is going, may also belong to the CAW, was lying to me. In which case I’d be really annoyed…
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