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Friday, March 12, 2010

U.S. Government health care proponents Pelosi and Reid reach historic levels of unpopularity

YOU’RE NOT ALONE

Think you’re alone as a conservative who think left-wing progressive Democratic Party Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are irksome and raise your ire because they’re such left-wing totalitarian government know-it-alls who are trying to ram through their far-left progressive agenda despite what the citizens want?

Well you’re not.

Congressional Favorability Ratings

Friday, March 12, 2010

Congress’ top leaders are feeling the heat from voters this month, as a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows three of the four reaching or matching their highest unfavorable ratings of the past year.

Undoubtedly driven in part by her continuing efforts to pass the national health care plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains the most unpopular congressional leader, as she has for months. Pelosi is now viewed unfavorably by 64% of voters, which ties a high reached in August. That number includes 47% with a very unfavorable opinion of the California Democrat. Twenty-nine percent (29%) have a favorable view of her. Just seven percent (7%) of voters have no opinion of Pelosi.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now viewed at least somewhat unfavorably by 56% of voters. That’s up 14 points from a year ago and the highest level measured since regular tracking began last February. That includes 35% with a very unfavorable view. Twenty-four percent (24%) view Reid favorably, the lowest level found since December. Twenty percent (20%) have no opinion of the majority leader.

Reid, who is leading the charge for the health care plan in the Senate, is facing trouble at home. The longtime Nevada senator trails three top Republicans in his bid for reelection this November.

Forty-two percent (42%) of voters nationally favor the health care plan working its way through Congress, while 53% oppose it. These views have remained largely unchanged since Thanksgiving.  ...

PROGRESSIVE Conservative gov creates Canadian jobs. 76% of them GOVERNMENT jobs. CBC News applauds.

HOW IS THIS CAPITALIST?

And how’s that government “stimulus” working out for you now that the big meddling government has spent BILLIONS of your tax dollars on those industry-boosting “shovel-ready projects” (—wink!) and in the process, sunk Canada even deeper into deficit and increased our already massive half-trillion-dollar debt (not including provincial government and government “corporations”)? 

The Canadian Press

Date: Friday Mar. 12, 2010 7:45 AM ET

OTTAWA —  Canada’s recovering economy continued to churn out new jobs last month, adding 60,000 full-time positions — mostly in the public sector...

The agency said 46,000 of the jobs created in February came in the government, public service sector ...

Progressives and their big governments only “stimulate” government growth, in place of free-market business and industry growth.  This doesn’t help the economy, it makes it dreadfully worse. It’s now worse.

But yes, this is what happens when progressives are in power instead of conservatives, and the benevolent government mandarins in their central planning divisions make “investment” decisions in social engineering and economic engineering, using your cash instead of their own, thereby building an even even bigger and even more expensive and more controlling government which more Canadians will become reliant upon, and which will require even more taxation.  It’s progressive!

  And it’s what like-minded progressive reporters who are already working for the government at its 100% state-owned, socialism-reliant media behemoth — the CBC — report as being a positive:

Mike Hornbrook of the CBC reported on this, this morning, saying “it’s indicative of the fact that the economy is on the mend.” 

No, Mr. Hornbrook.  It’s indicative of the fact that Canada is becoming a more and more totally government-dominated and controlled, or socialist country, and more and more of us are becoming totally reliant upon and controlled by the state — the government — for our very living.  Which is practically the definition of PROGRESSIVE.  That’s what it’s indicative of. 

Only far-left progressives striking a pose as a normal business-y reporters dressed in business suits while working for the government in a 100% state-owned, socialism-reliant news media — the CBC state media division of the government — could report on this news with news-y gems like that.

The happy-faced progressive blathering went on, on the 100% state-owned media, from the reporter hideously reporting on it like a proper business man on business-like “bottom lines”:

“Bottom line today’s numbers suggest Canada’s job market is on the mend, things are improving ...  the pace of the recovery is continuing…” he went on, without using the word “comrade” even once.

Just vote socialist or communist to quicken “the pace of the recovery” and get things more “mended” and “improved”.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Liberal media shocked that Obama’s man Biden fails in Israel. Don’t worry, he’s not an idiot: NatPo

Reading some of the articles today (like in the NatPo at left) about V.P. Joe Biden’s humiliating failure in inspiring peace talks in the middle east between Israel and its haters, just by being there (because he certainly didn’t come armed with any new ideas, whatsoever), you’d think they expected some sort of Obama-magic success based solely on the fact that it was Obama’s man Joe Biden doing the talking.  Which is just funny, in that Obama-mania suck-up media kind of way. 

Speaking in bold colors, and with a firm grasp on reality in the fantastic Commentary magazine (online), writer and thinker Michael J. Trotten long ago summed-up one of the many reasons Vice President Biden and the Obama administration generally are a total failure in international affairs thus far: they are clueless, moral relativists.  And moreover, the media doesn’t even realize it, making them at least as clueless; or they do know it and purposely fail to tell you (in contradistinction to their vast reportage on every “gaffe” or ramped-up malapropism coming from Sarah Palin or George Bush or any number of others on the right).  And that makes them untrustworthy.  It’s a great choice: clueless, or untrustworthy. Or maybe both. 

Joe Biden’s Alternate Universe
Michael J. Totten - 10.03.2008 - 8:10 AM

In Thursday night’s vice presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, Biden said the strangest and most ill-informed thing I have ever heard about Lebanon in my life. “When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.” Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.” [Emphasis added.]

What on Earth is he talking about? The United States and France may have kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon in an alternate universe, but nothing even remotely like that ever happened in this one.

Nobody – nobody – has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody.

Joe Biden has literally no idea what he’s talking about.

It’s too bad debate moderator Gwen Ifill didn’t catch him and ask a follow up question: When did the United States and France kick Hezbollah out of Lebanon?

The answer? Never. And did Biden and Senator Barack Obama really say NATO troops should be sent into Lebanon? When did they say that? Why would they say that? They certainly didn’t say it because NATO needed to prevent Hezbollah from returning — since Hezbollah never went anywhere. 

[...]

Like many who watched the debate, I was bracing myself for Palin to say something off-putting about foreign policy. She’s the one who needed the crash course, allegedly; Biden is supposedly Mr. Foreign Policy. He’s supposed to be the experienced elder statesman Senator Barack Obama chose to help him govern and fill in some of his knowledge and experience gaps. He’s supposed to know far more about foreign policy than she does.

[...]

Biden, though, against all expectations and odds, managed to say something far more bizarre and off-planet than anything Palin has said on the topic to date.

  And the misleading, biased news reports or lack of news reports on the actual stupidity of political candidates who actually weild great power, using actual, factual examples instead of bogus drive-by smears by the media, just continue. 

For example, today the National Post uses its bash-all-conservatives pulpit to once again bash that evil and oh, ever so stupid Sara Palin, for yet another media-trumped-up bit of media-driven BS, using the goofiest possible picture they could find in their archives, to make sure we all know they think she’s an “idiot”.  No I’m sorry, “a complete idiot.”  But Joe Biden?  Well he’s just fantastic.

Today’s truly great conservative idea once again comes NOT from the Conservative Party of Canada

Happy Thursday thy sons!

Right after crafting my wily (even if cynical) blog headline about conservative ideas, I came to realize that I don’t actually remember the last time a good conservative idea came from anyone but me and a few other conservatives in Canada, rather than the Conservative Party.  But I’ll go ahead and behave just like government, Conservative or otherwise:  It’s there now, so it must be vital!  A core function of my blog entry!  A blog entry “value”!  Multicultural!  Inclusive!  Feminist!  And progressive!  Well whatever.  It’s there now.

Today’s great idea, which involves dumping just one of the hundreds or thousands of government “corporations” which are actually divisions of the government which compete against citizens and exert power and authority and grow government, is fraught with embarrassment.  That’s because while it is an idea I’ve been espousing for, well, ever (reminder: I’m conservative and believe in freedom), today it is news only because it is put forth by an elite global government-funded agency based in F-F-F-F-France!  C’est dommage!  It was and is a perfectly good idea every time I have and continue to mention it —but I’m not elite.  Or French.  Or globally government-funded.  I’m just a normal Canadian conservative.  So therefore the National Post didn’t see fit to mention it when I mentioned it a thousand times before.  Only now.  Citizens don’t have credibility.  Only elite government-funded Pairs-based organizations do.  This says so much.  (Hey “elite” is a French word, no?)

You’d think it would be front-page news, rather than news shoved back into the hard-core financial pages. 

It’s the best idea to come out of the OECD in, well, ever.  Alas, they apparently didn’t get the memo on the abhorrent waste of money and the anti-democratic and anti-freedom and free-market disgrace, the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC, which epitomizes lack of productivity (cited as a reason to sell-off Canada Post), waste (ditto), stupidity, totalitarian progressive government, and so much more.  Maybe the OECD needs more government funding. 

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Sickening display of blinkered liberal love in media, du jour:  Ignatieff now “TOO intelligent”

Work it, journalist!  Perpetuate those myths like the one that all liberals and leftists are…. why they’re brilliant!  Perhaps too intelligent, while at the same time describing all small and big-C conservatives and Republicans as dumb-ass buffoons!  Which explains why they get elected!

It’s no longer enough for the liberal-left sycophants in the media to coo and gush about their liberal pseudo-gods like Barack Obama with news-y pronouncements of “They’re intelligent!”  or “They’re so intelligent!”  or “They’re so intelligent compared to their opponent!”.  Now, in explaining why they’re losing, badly, and in some cases making a colossal mess of positions that were handed to them on a silver platter, it just might be because they’re too intelligent for politics.  Too intelligent, presumably (and as actually stated by various liberals and Democrats in politics and in the mainstream media in the U.S.) for the dumbass voters who would otherwise vote for them if only they weren’t so stupid and were instead as intelligent as the liberal candidate, but also the reporter himself who, of course, sees all this with such great clarity. 

Today’s illustration of liberal-left pseudo-science and suckup, sycophantic slobbering love affair journalism, when it comes to liberal icons today in the media, is hilarious and exemplary.  You know this is true because I wrote it.  See how this works?  Debate over!  Science is settled!  Shut up, stupids!  (Or as favorite far-leftists Sean Penn might say, “Off to jail for you!”)

Also see this recent example (among many) of Ignatieff’s, um, excessive “intelligence”: Preaching “respect” for “Canada’s institutions”, Lib leader Ignatieff once AGAIN calls PM “THIS GUY”.

RELATED:  Obama is obviously “TOO INTELLIGENT”!
Rasmussen daily tracking survey, March 10, 2010

Monday, March 08, 2010

Newspaper’s “Business” section filled with GOVERNMENT articles

HOW IS THIS BUSINESS?

These are stories in the “Business” section of the weekend paper!

The liberal-left media has so blurred the lines between GOVERNMENT and BUSINESS that they’re now apparently pathologically incapable of telling the difference. Or they’re doing this on purpose. 

Reading the “Business” section here is like reading the paper in the old Soviet Union. 

The center article (at left), headlined with the word “Corporation”, is about the GOVERNMENT.  It’s another GOVERNMENT “corporation” called BC Pavilion “Corporation”.  It’s a 100% GOVERNMENT-owned, GOVERNMENT-operated division of the GOVERNMENT.  And yet they speak, in the article, of the “corporation” being “in talks” with “the government”. 

Someone grab the vodka.  We’re going USSR-style now. 

Corporation faces deficit up to $40 million
Operator of BC Place, Vancouver Convention Centre in talks with government about how to cover shortfall

The BC Pavilion Corp. will be saddled with almost $40 million in accumulated deficits after accounting for revenue losses and added expenses related to opening its expanded convention centre and the $565-million roof-replacement project for BC Place Stadium, the Crown corporation’s service plan shows.

PavCo and the provincial government remain “in discussions” over how the $40 million will be covered, whether in its operating subsidy or some other form of grant.

PavCo, which operates BC Place Stadium and the Vancouver Convention Centre, is charged with overseeing capital projects at both, including the stadium’s roof replacement.

“PavCo is working to reduce its operating deficit through increasing sales, maintaining costs and seeking new revenue-generating opportunities,” John Harding, the corporation’s chief financial officer, said Friday. ...

The top of the page speaks of absolutely nothing to do with business, but rather GOVERNMENT.  It’s not even in need of a giant explanation.  It’s all about the MINISTRY OF FORESTS.  And here’s some news for you all:  That’s THE GOVERNMENT.  It’s not a business.

Hello?  Is this thing on?  Am I in the right country?  Let’s try this: Hola!?  Vive la Cuba!?  Vive la revolución!?

Forests minister calls for job-sharing to avoid ministry layoffs 
Six-per-cent cut to operating budget will be reflected in fewer person-hours of work

Forests ministry staff may face work-sharing or reduced work weeks as a result of cuts to the ministry budget announced in this week’s provincial budget.

“We are looking at all kinds of options right now, such as reduced work weeks, work-share,” Forests Minister Pat Bell said in a recent interview. ...

The bottom story is about the GOVERNMENT division known as the BC Film Commission.  The paper and the Commission can’t even pretend it to be a “corporation”.  It’s name is blah blah “Commission” —it sounds wonderfully Soviet on its own!  So what’s it doing in the “Business” section?  Who knows!  The “Commission” may well deal with businesses in the film industry in BC (which, to add hideousness to idiocy, is itself extremely heavily subsidized and molly-coddled by all levels of government via taxpayer cash, and get all manner of special hand-outs of cash, favored tax subsidies, government “investment” of all kinds, all to support an industry which more than nearly any other, reeks of excesses in terms of cash and other available resources), but really, it’s a GOVERNMENT story. 

“Hollywood North” is not like Cuba or the Soviet Union —  or at least it’s not supposed to be.  It’s merely as left-wing as Hollywood and its workers.  So I guess the confusion here is almost understandable.

BC Film Commission faces 23-per-cent cut 

...The provincial agency, which promotes and serves the industry, faces a 23-per-cent budget cut this year. 

The commission’s budget from the ministry of tourism, culture and the arts will fall from $1.235 million in 2009-10 to $948,000 in 2010-11, a reduction of $287,000 ...

But I still think a “Business” section should report on actual business.  Not “corporations” which are actually divisions of the GOVERNMENT —in “talks with” other divisions of THE GOVERNMENT.

So until they get it straight, I suggest the Vancouver Sun use my edited version of their misleading, Soviet-style header for their “Business” section:

Other Canadian newspapers can use a version of it.

Friday, March 05, 2010

Teachers labor union needs acting lesson to help make their far-left-wing politics more subtle

THEY FAILED!

Failed to adequately bury the fact that they are little more than yet another far-left political party by yet another name, yet again funded by taxpayers.  But like their own students, they really don’t care what you think anymore.  It’s not about what you think, even if you do pay them, and own their workplaces, and are the parents of the kids they teach.  Failure means nothing as long as they “feel good about themselves.”  And baby, they don’t just feel good about themselves, now they are teaching your kids to actually feel themselves!  Mostly though, the teachers feel good about their vast multi-billion-dollar far-left political union which helps them work less and get paid more and advance their far-left-wing progressive agenda.

The teachers, also known, using the Coulterism, as the clerics of the Church of Liberalism, are those hard-core left-wing union members whom, along with the CAW and CUPE and other unions, pretty much own the you’ve got to be kidding party of Jack Layton and its provincial secretariats, whom we pay handsomely to teach our kids for nine months per year, and apparently to also thoroughly indoctrinate them with left-wing, secular-progressive (and now: masturbatory, and homo-centric!) propaganda.  They score an A on that latter bit.  (They do care about that.)

Here are some of the key issues that teachers in Canada’s west coast are now forcing on the people who pay them (that’d be us, suckas), as they enter into another round of militant (almost literally) bargaining.  This, according to the Sun today:

• Insist that pension funds are invested ethically, avoiding companies that manufacture arms or tobacco, violate human rights or cause environmental damage.

• Lobby governments to maintain a moratorium on offshore oil exploration and drilling.

• Press Ottawa to provide basic supports in a timely manner to all Canadians who experience difficulties outside the country.

This is what you call the ABC’s of the progressive left teachers of today.  Controlling offshore oil drilling.  Foreign affairs.  Government investment decisions being acceptable to their left-wing world view.  Masturbation.  Homosexuality.  “Ethics”, by golly.  This won’t come as a surprise to those of you still struggling with your spelling and grammar, and I know there are lots of you who use they’re and there and their all wrong, and put an ill-placed apostrophe before random s’s in random words as if to warn us there’s an S coming up!,  and use your and you’re wrong, and don’t know how to write right, or use its or it’s, nor how to, you know, like, speak?  Like without asking a question every time?  And you know like how they “go” like , “I’m like so over that!” and then they’re all like “like save the whales dude”?

Tim Hortons to open 900 new locations without government help? What the….?

CAPITALISM WORKS?!
(IT MUST BE STOPPED!  BY GOVERNMENT “INVESTMENT”! 
GET McGUINTY ON THE HORN!)

How could this be?  No government “investment” (—wink!)?  Not even from Liberal Ontario Premier Dalton (“invest” in everything even if they’re earning $2.7 billion in profits and sales rose 51% in the past year) McGuinty? 

Tim Hortons donuts are GREEN compared to those famous “green jobs” (—wink!) like helping the profitable Ford build among the biggest, most offensive-to-greenies like McGuinty and all liberals, carbon footprint-a-palooza 5.0L V8 engine (seriously!  A 5.0L V8 engine!) that will be used in Ford’s famous muscle car that is built for nothing but screaming around town in huge muscle-car style, the 2011 Ford Mustang.  (P.S. —I love those cars!)

So let’s recap:  A 5.0L V8 engine plant built by a profitable, massively successful car company gets “investment” by Mr. Left-Wing Green Jobs ‘n “Stimulus”-a-Plenty Progressive, the Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty;  and Tim Hortons gets a big donut from the benevolent one and his expert government “investors” in the huge nanny-state Ontario government. 

So what’s up?  Could it be that Ford is unionized by that very-supportive-of-all-left-wing -and-progressives in politics (Hi Mr. McGuinty!) CAW union run by the socialist ass Ken Lewenza (who sounds very much like a communist to me)? 

Nah.  Couldn’t be.  That would be fascist.

Anyhoo, the relatively GREEN Tim Hortons just last month raised their dividend 30%, amid profits that rose 32% last quarter.  Without either Dalton McGuinty’s, President Obama’s, or even Prime Minister Harper’s “stimulus” (—wink!).  You know, during “the worst recession since the freaking big bang”, or whatever the latest government-growing cool-sounding mantra is that the progressives are using these days.

So I’m going to Tim Horton’s to think about that over a donut. Even though, for their own part in this farce called Progressives and their Progressivism and Governments Working Together to Wreck the Free-Market and Capitalist Economy, Tim Horton’s actively supports the socialism-reliant state-owned news and entertainment behemoth, the CBC, with their paid commercial advertising.  So I’ll get their cheapest donut, and take 15 napkins. And use their washroom. 

JOEL BITS
Fun fact:  There are 320 calories in a Tim Hortons “honey cruller” donut!  Imagine eating one while driving a Mustang!  And imagine if both were owned by or subsidized by the benevolent government through their “investments”!  While listening to the CBC on the radio!  And your car is insured by a government-owned insurance division like ICBC (in BC only—possibly only until the further left Liberals get into power).  And you’re on your way to get some o’ that government-run health care!  After waiting for 8 months!  In subsidized housing!  On “Employment Insurance”!  I might have to go to a government liquor store to get some booze to help me get over the possibilities!  Maybe buy a lottery ticket from the government’s lottery division!  Yeeeehahhhh!  I love capitalism!

Update on the MASSIVE APPEAL TO CONSERVATIVE IDEAS DRIVE by the Conservative Party

Good morning thy sons! 

Manufactured any problems today so far?  Me neither!  Boo!  How boring!  What to do.  Hmm.  Maybe we should get one of the progressives or feminazis at the government to conjure one up!  Hey someone get that Peter MacKay or that crack Conservative “strategist” Geoff Norquay on the horn!  Maybe we could collectively cancel our Fox News Channel subscriptions again on their sage advice!  That was a GREAT idea!  You know, we could base it on our collective national feelings — especially the chicks! — being hurt by one of their staff!  Yay!  Let’s move! 

PLAN B: Maybe John Baird’s available?  He’s always good for a “man-made global warming” “emergency” moment! 

Yes, here’s your latest update on the Conservatives’ ongoing effort to come up with that inspirational, aspirational, clear-thinking, solutions-driven, “bold colors”  Ronald Reagan moment:  that inspirational “idea” that all Canadians could latch onto, and drive our country forward on the right path to prosperity and security.  Through fantastic “ideas”. Because it’s like I always say:  “We conservatives could win if we just concentrate on expressing our sound and sensible ideas clearly and forthrightly, using the ‘bold colors’ Ronald Reagan spoke of…”, and “You can count on real conservatives to come up with solid ideas rather than stupid phony gimmicks and specious claptrap like liberals…”, and “If only we would focus on our ideas instead of the stupid trendy pop-socialist Zeitgeist of the day…” 

You know, things like changing our national anthem because it so obviously wasn’t “inclusive” enough for the broads, who all this time have been ever so offended by the words of our anthem!

I couldn’t wait to see the first poll on the latest “idea” that the crack squad of progressives and feminazis in the Conservative government who decided that our national anthem needed to be trendified, liberal-style.  So here it is:

A whopping FIVE PERCENT of the nation seem to give a flying crap, as documented at CNEWS.canoe.ca this morning.

That’s just awesome.

Way to capture that deep, national consciousness, Conservatives!  Through rock-solid ideas!  That’s some bold colors ya got going there!

I WANT NAMES.

I want to know exactly who in that government came up with that “idea”.  I’m thinking it was one of those wily ones I’ve mentioned.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Liberal-left’s government division posing as a “Corporation” caught in a full-on socialist lie

HOW IS THIS CAPITALIST?

It’s a wonder they didn’t publish this story in the “Business” section like they did the story on BC Hydro losing money and having to raise its taxes —sorry— “rates”.  But no, it was simply on page one of what is really the “Government” section — or what we know of as the rest of the newspaper.  (Actually, if you look at the other stories —they’re all about government.  And it’s emblematic of how government now almost totally consumes and controls our lives.  To liberals and progressives generally, this is Utopia.)

This “ICBC” isn’t a real corporation as we know corporations.  It’s another example of the government owning the means of production.  It is in fact a socialist farce which belongs in Cuba or North Korea.  The Insurance “Corporation” of BC (or “ICBC” as it is known instead of “the government”) is a government division.  No, it is not a “corporation” in the sense they and their media accomplices have always tried, using pure deception and lies, to convey, as if it’s just another business like Fred’s Car Insurance (against whom they actually compete —for what we see here:  PROFITS).

The government competes against citizens, and profits, then keeps the profits.  What kind of government does that?  Surely not a capitalist one.  Not a freedom-loving, free-market government of a democratic country. 

In this story, just as in the BC Hydro story, they don’t speak of taxes which were levied in order to compete against citizens and “earn” this profit.  They speak of “insurance premiums” and “excessive capitalization”.  So these are lies. 

And they have the gall to call the government the “shareholder” —as if it’s a private firm with actual shareholders.  Go ahead and try to sell your shares, “shareholders”!  So it is a lie.  A socialist lie. 

But you’ve got to love how they beat around the bush straining to explain all this in order to obfuscate and cover-up the inherent socialism:

The B.C. government plans to take $778 million from the Insurance Corp. of B.C. over the next three years for general revenue, rather than using the money to reduce insurance premiums for motorists.

The money can be moved because the Crown corporation has amassed a larger war chest on the optional side of its business—where the company competes with private insurance companies to provide non-mandatory coverage—than is needed. Insurance companies are required to keep enough money on hand at any given time so they can deal with unforeseen events such as a glut of claims or a significant loss from investments.

“What we are saying is that ICBC is overcapitalized on the optional insurance side, and we’re saying that is funding that should be transferred to the shareholder,” Finance Minister Colin Hansen said Wednesday…

I started out saying it’s a wonder it wasn’t printed in the “Business” section.  Actually it’s a wonder they printed it at all and on the front page to boot.  Because it proves my point:  ICBC, which poses as a “corporation” with the willing help of media which never questions this blurring of lines, is nothing but GOVERNMENT ruining the free-market system, which it will then blame for ruining the economy.  It is emblematic of what happens when the government owns the means of production and offers that other socialist lie:  the “public option”.  And then miraculously winning in the competitive business battle against its own citizens. 

What a farce.  I feel like I’m in North Korea.

 

Vancouver Sun pretends a 100% government-owned division is a “Business”

HOW IS THIS CAPITALIST?

The reported revenue drop notwithstanding, how is this a “business” story?  How does this belong on the “Business” pages of a newspaper? BC Hydro is a giant government division.  A government operation.  It’s 100% government.  Its board of directors are appointed directly by the government —the cabinet, and reports directly to the government.  It is absolutely nothing to do with “business”.  It even has one of those left-wing, authoritarian sounding names:  BC Hydro and Power Authority. 

Once again we have an example of either totally confused, useful idiots running the liberal media — one which has been suckered over the years by progressives and other Fabian socialists into thinking that a 100% government “corporation” is actually a business, further blurring the lines between government and the private/business;  or a liberal media which has actually been co-opted into helping blur those lines. 

And once again this reminds me of how one citizen, already fully deluded and indoctrinated, was quoted in this same Vancouver Sun, when he decided he needed to sue the 100% government-owned division of the government hideously called the BC Lottery “Corporation”, as saying that his reason for suing that “corporation” was this:  “It’s about keeping corporations honest, that’s really what it’s about.” 

Well done, progressives and your media division.

Upgraded from XP to Vista to 7. Ottawa needs upgrade from progressive/politically-correct, to REAL.

Hello thy sons! 

I spent the past two days and lots of the last two nights upgrading from Windows XP, to Vista (only kept Vista for 20 minutes to catch up on email), to the new Windows 7.  Thus the dearth of blog posting here yesterday and so far today.  Son of a b eh?

Now I need to buy a bunch of new software because my software was built for the Windows Leave It To Beaver version. 

Ooh — I said beaver!  Hey they should change the beaver from its status as a Canadian icon!  I mean honestly.  Beaver.  Am I right thy sons?  I think the politically-correct know-it-alls should make the new icon a big giant wiener.  Despite its contra-beaver sexual connotation, a big giant wiener more accurately reflects the idiots who we elect to office, and therefore our own selves.  Sadly we’re a lot less like beavers than wieners.  Then of course we could change that line in our anthem to In all thy wieners command!  (Plus, that next line, “With glowing hearts we see thee rise” will add chuckles!)

Anyway, since it’s budget day in Canada, I sure could use some software-buying stimulus from the wieners in Ottawa.  And nothing would stimulate me more than for at least half of them to get their asses off of the taxpayer payroll, and stop acting like feminazis and flaccid dicks, and get real.

Message from thy sons to politically correct nutbars: shut up; get to work; or quit.

No just quit.

Ignatieff once again gets attention in New York

I love reviewing the New York Times to check on news about politics and politicians, only to find the latest “Headlines Around the Web” listing my own scathing blog entry about one of them leading their list. 

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Commenter at far-left Toronto Star: “I guess Liberals like seeing women helpless.”  CORRECT.

Our PTBC Quote of the Week Award takes a highly unusual turn this time around, as it is awarded to an unknown person commenting at a left-wing newspaper.

“I guess Liberals like seeing women helpless.” —a Toronto Star online commenter named “hjk50”, on what I think is another deceptive article by the liberal-left about Canada’s liberals and their incessant demand that the government relinquish all gun ownership in Canada, for what are clearly only political/ideological reasons.  (See blog entry)

His guess is spot on.  Helpless, and fully reliant upon the government rather than themselves or their family or friends or neighbors, come what may.  That’s what all progressives want.  Citizen/gun control is at the very root of progressivism, in their manifest push toward full government control. 

See the blog entry for other examples of suddenly rather conservative-thinking or at least conservative-sounding commenters at the normally far-left Toronto Star, after they read the article posted there and refused to be taken by the total BS contained therein.  An astonishing bit of right-thinking sunshine in an otherwise normal, liberal-left media day! 

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