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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

“Conservative” city councilor candidate flips off familes neighborhoods and by-laws to get elected

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday September 01 2010 at 12:56 PM
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Sandeep PandherIf this guy wins, don’t seek his help regarding noise complaints.  Or to uphold laws.  Or to gain respect for and work for families and neighborhoods in our community.  Other than that, I’m sure he’ll do an awesome job quelling noise complaints, upholding laws, and respecting and working for families and neighborhoods in our community.

Conservatives are all about the law and order, and the ordinary people, and families.  Let’s get that typed out properly though:  Actual conservatives are about that.  Big-C Conservatives apparently shun the petty little things that get in their way, like law and order, ordinary people, and families, and neighborhoods, and their community, and they trample all over those small annoyances in their ever-so important rise to power. 

So here’s a real-life example:  Here in my home town, there’s currently an election campaign for a city councilor seat left vacant by a councilor who passed away mid-term.  Among the many candidates is a failed federal Conservative Party candidate by the name of Sandeep Pandher. 

As soon as campaign lawn and street signs were allowed to be erected, Pander’s family-loving and law-respecting crews were out — at five in the morning— hammering nails and pounding posts into the ground with giant sledge hammers, waking up unknown numbers of entire households.  Above left is the one in our otherwise picturesque vista right behind our house, mere feet away from our bed.  That was two weeks ago.

Last night, at 1:10 AM, following a wind storm, his crews were out again, pounding nails and waking up unknown numbers of people and households — families and neighborhoods in our community — including ours.  Once again proving that he couldn’t be less interested in the community’s people and families and neighborhoods in our community, nor our noise bylaws, and that he is above all that —he’s far more important than us and our idiotic interests like sleeping — and beyond those annoying details that get in the way of his sacred rise to power (if you can call being a councilor in a small town like ours “power”). 

And here’s a snapshot of his possibly hilarious website:

Sandeep Pandher website

After he’s elected, we are to presume, he’ll magically and instantly regain his respect for the people and families and neighborhoods in our community, and for our noise bylaws. 

But for now, all we know is that he sees himself as more important than the people and families and neighborhoods in our community, and our noise bylaws.  He rises above that pettiness. 

So of course I’ll vote for anybody but that guy.  And I’ll view with the greatest of suspicion any “Conservative” Party candidate running anywhere for anything.

For his education, and he needs it, here’s our dumb little noise by-law number 1906:

5. No person shall make or cause any noise or sound in or on a highway or
elsewhere in the Municipality which disturbs, or tends to disturb, the quiet,
peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort, or convenience of the neighbourhood, or of
persons in the vicinity by any means whatsoever.

8. No person shall carry on or cause to be carried on any works in connection
with the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or demolition of any
building, structure or thing in such a manner as to disturb the quiet, peace,
rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the neighbourhood or of persons
in the vicinity before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. any day of the week from
Monday to Friday, inclusive, before 9:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m. on Saturday,
or at any time Sunday.

And as even liberals know, respect for people, families, neighborhoods, and our community in general are demanded 24/7.  And this little nugget:  You would be working for us.  Serving us.


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“Conservatives” leading Canada… to taxpayer-“empowered” Progressivism

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday September 01 2010 at 11:36 AM
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The Minerva Foundation is in and of itself a fine organization… even though they exist to help "empower" women.  I mean come on: "empower" women?  Is this 1917?  So let us barf at this time. 

That word "empower" is replete with divisive, feminist, and almost always left-wing zealotry.  For example nobody ever wants to "empower" self-employed business folks (...unless of course they're women); or "empower" pro-life folks (even if they're women).  The only people who ever seek to be "empowered" are women, or those who subscribe to and fight for an unmistakably left-wing cause. 

About Mierva

Aside from "empowering" women, Minerva seeks to help grow and nurture and mentor women who so desire it, into strong leaders in our nation, in whatever facet of life they choose to be leaders.  It's a reasonable enough cause on its face, and they're a private organization, so you know, good luck to 'em.  As a private organization, if for that reason alone, my hat's off to them… bbbbut then just as quickly, they force me to put my hat right back on.  Actually it's an army helmet these days.  Ya need a helmet.  It's like a war.

The government — the "Conservative" government — announces with great fanfare in an utterly uncritical liberal media, that it is getting itself involved.  With our taxpayer cash, of course.  In an otherwise already successful private organization, already Rona Ambrose, 'empowering' women. NOT.replete with corporate and individual sponsors, as it should exclusively be.  And the foundation happily accepts the government — our — money. 

That's not "leadership" on any level, by anybody.  That's the opposite.

That, to me, is like declaring war against the strong principles (and the folks who all learned on their own how to lead) that built our nation.  So too, against conservatism, which makes it personal for me;  and it’s actually against Canada itself, as I see it, because when the government tries to make itself indispensable and causes people and private groups and private organizations to become crack-whore-reliant upon the government, as all governments and the major political parties in Canada perpetually attempt to do, it harms Canada and all the foundational ideals upon which it was built.  It's nation-wrecking.  And it’s anti-leadership.

And it's taking sides with liberals, leftists… progressives.  Against me and my nation.

All that, from a "Conservative" government.  I can't stress my use of air/scare quotes around "Conservative" enough.  These people aren't conservatives.  They're progressives.

Only liberals and leftists and progressives generally would see the funding of private organizations such as this for the purpose of "empowering women" and mentoring them into leadership roles, as a fundamental, core function of government.  And only progressives and socialists (etc) would glibly expend our extremely scarce tax dollars (to the point of near national economic catastrophe and virtual bankruptcy, in the midst of a massive recession, deficit, and historic national debt) to do it.  It's exactly anti-conservative.  It's certainly war against my core beliefs and principles as a Canadian.

After already making the case hundreds of times over, I hardly need to reiterate how the liberal-left media is always utterly uncritical of big-nanny-state-government moves such as this, even when the government is called "Conservative" and which otherwise gets the media's breathless, endless criticism, and nasty critical nuance, piled up upon every other announcement and policy idea like cutting taxes, or cutting "arts" or the state-owned CBC’s funding.  Dump the long-gun registry?  For shame!  Fund abortions and "empowering" women?  No questions.  It's just perfect.  Keep it up.

"Rona Ambrose, politically progressive non-leader, gives women's group our taxpayer cash so they will follow" —that would be my headline.

Real women "leaders" in government (particularly a real conservative one) would tell the lassies at the Minerva organization, under no uncertain terms, to find their own damn way.  Lead, damn it!  "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime," and all that.  See, it works for women too.  But ironically, this "Conservative" government shows "leadership" by giving them a huge fish, and making the organization servants of the state's largess, and the women "leaders" accept it.  It's progressivism writ large.  And it's exactly dis-empowering.  To all.

So there she was yesterday: federal "Status of Women Minister" Rona Ambrose ("Conservative") in the liberal newspaper, announcing with great fanfare and absolutely no critical analysis from the media that it is granting the Minerva "leaders" well over a third of a MILLION taxpayer dollars in order to help the them in their goals of helping women in their quest to become leaders.  Because apparently Canadians couldn't decide on their own how best to spend their own money.

It all sounds like the Soviet Union, as run by Libby Davies, and reads like a story in PRAVDA.

AMONG THE MANY "CORPORATE" SPONSORS LISTED BY MINERVA:

  • BC Hydro —a 100% government-owned and controlled monopoly non-corporation.  It's a branch of The Government.
  • B.C. Institute of Technology (BCIT) — a 100% government-owned and government-funded public post-secondarty instutution.  Minerva lists them as another one of their "corporate" sponsors.
  • University of Victoria—a 100% government-owned, government-funded public university.  Minerva lists them as another one of their "corporate" sponsors.

...And now the taxpayers of the entire country as well.

 


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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Americans think politicians are… overpaid. (Right again!)

Written by Joel Johannesen on Tuesday August 31 2010 at 09:07 AM
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Rasmussen Reports headline this morning: “75% Say Congress Should Cut Its Own Pay Until Budget is Balanced”.

I agree with America.  I usually do.

I’ve written before that I think federal politicians here and in the U.S. should be paid according to a formula something like this:  They should be paid roughly whatever small business people — entrepreneurs — are earning on average in any given year.  Net, and after their taxes.  Minus expenses (not plus lavish expense accounts and travel compensation and gold-plated benefit plans and Cadillac pension plans and…). 

Since that’s how small business people and their families live, and they’re at least as valuable as politicians to a nation — or more valuable on so many levels — then why should politicians be treated and paid as if they’re better, or more special, or more highly valued by society?  Nobody works harder or is more beneficial and valuable to the economy than small business people who innovate and create jobs, and find efficiencies in everything they do, and provide every good and service a nation needs and wants, and more.

MY BUILT-IN FORMULA FOR PAY RAISES:
The Rasmussen survey also question folks about how pay raises should occur in Congress.  78% of folks said pay raises should first be voted on by the public.  Spot on. 

Using my own formula, however, it works out naturally.  Liberals: you could go ahead and call this “organic” if you want.  If small business people make more money, the politicians will make more money.  So there’s your formula for government “pay raises”.  I imagine that would have an effect upon politicians roughly similar to a bolt of lightning up the gravy-filled butt.  This is the desired effect.

Suddenly politicians would find ways of helping create an environment that would encourage small business, induce higher incomes, help create more productivity, more innovation, more employment, and so much more.  They sure as heck wouldn’t prop up businesses or give them federal grants and loans. My formula would force politicians to see how they are in the way, and force them to get out of the way.  Just watch as those business and employment taxes come down, baby!  And you think they’d take most of the summer and winter off?  Not a chance. 

Some say this pay formula would discourage good folks from running for office.  Well that’s just another added benefit.  Downsizing government by 50%, even if it’s because they were forced to through a shortage of “employees”, would be just what the doctor ordered.  They’re loath to do it on their own.  So that’s fantastic.  We’d end up with a government consisting of folks who actually want to perform a civic duty and serve the public, rather than useless career politicians who make a fabulous living and unreal pensions as they find more and worse ways of getting in the way, creating more stupid laws and regulations and policies and grow government bigger and bigger and more useless, and serve as more a hindrance to progress and innovation than anything else.

The only downside is that the nation would suffer some sort of temporary economic shock.  I mean it would be positive — people not knowing what to do with all the extra money and what not — but this would serve as a re-awakening of sorts.  The economy would suddenly start to turn all, you know, good and capitalist and free-market-y.  People will get used to it, and demand even smaller governments, fewer intrusive regulations and idiotic taxes and reliance on governments….that sort of thing.  Liberals will call it the new dark ages. It will be awesome.

So everyone benefits.  I say let’s get on it.

There is no better way to conclude this blog entry than by including this quote from the same Rasmussen survey:

Voters are evenly divided as to whether a group of people selected at random from the phone book would be better than the current Congress.

Plain old Americans.  Ya gotta love ‘em.


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Thursday, August 26, 2010

PTBC has the second most-watched YouTube video of all time…

Written by Joel Johannesen on Thursday August 26 2010 at 02:22 PM
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When? All time!...in the News & Politics category. 

http://www.youtube.com/news?lg=EN&s=mp&t=a 

Although it’s not a “home-grown” or in-house PTBC creative effort, I put a video clip of a simple Fox News Channel story up because I knew that over time, the story would get lost in all the liberal, left-wing, progressive bullcrap, mired in history re-writes, particularly in the liberal media. I couldn’t have been more right.  We’re still being instructed by desperate liberals to blame “Bush” and “capitalism” and “conservatives” for the economic meltdown, despite the real blame resting on the shoulders of left-wing, big-government progressives and liberals who live to meddle in free markets and seek to regulate it, control it, and even wreck it, rendering it anything but free.  Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and others in second most watched -- croppedthe Democratic Party spring to mind.  Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid and all their supporters are taking it all to new and higher heights (or more accurately, lower lows).

Thankfully, though, millions have viewed that little video, so doubts about the Orwellian claptrap constantly and repeatedly broadcast by the left will linger.  We’re closing in on six million views.  And there have been several thousands of comments submitted.  I actually moderate the comments at YouTube, and have exercised my awesome power to screen-out the worst of them.  There have been thousands of absolutely horrid comments — usually from liberals — who expressed absolute, rabid, indiscriminate hatred and death wishes against anyone who disagrees with them and whom they fear is exposing the truth — the truth about them or their party’s political record, or about progressives or liberalism in general.  Some of them are as bad as the comments you see on the state-owned CBC’s web site of hate and intolerance.  So what’s left are the comments you see there — around 2,600 of them. 

PTBC's second most-watched YouTube video of all time
See this screen capture full-size here (900 pixels wide)

 

PTBC’s YouTube Channel is located HERE (http://www.youtube.com/user/ProudToBeCanadian). 


I bring this up because I’m finally closing in on the last leg of the big changes I’m going to make to this site, and I want you to keep supporting the efforts I have made over the years in exposing liberals and progressives for what they are and what they really stand for, and my efforts at promoting true conservative thoughts and ideas, in bold colors. 


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Thursday, August 19, 2010

UPDATE on PTBC’s return

Written by Joel Johannesen on Thursday August 19 2010 at 01:15 PM
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Here’s a quick update on PTBC’s return:

First of all, it will.  Progressives, socialists, liberals, and others will be against this.  This is good.

Second: I am not in the mental hospital, or in a regular one, or in jail, or on the lam.  Nor am I on pot, or any other kind of drug, or on the bottle.  Nor am I pregnant (though I’m still trying to figure out that far too big belly o’ mine). 

Third:  I changed my mind and my direction on several issues well into making my initial changes to the site, and this has caused undue delays in retuning to action.  Plus, right in the middle of the changes, I found that the “engine” I use to power the site came out with their long-awaited update to version 2.1, and it would be ridiculous not to update to that version, but this ended up causing me no end of confusion and disruptions within my already overtaxed brain. Now every part of me is overtaxed.  Mostly by governments, but partly by me.  Crickies.

Fourth:  It’s summer, in Canada, where it’s almost always winter.  It’s not freezing cold outside.  And we had to teach our (now one-year-old) puppy how to swim. 

Here’s Sammy learning to swim at Spanish Banks in Vancouver (Sammy is the black blob on left, Jo-Anne coaching on right):
Sammy learning to swim

And here’s some other pictures of me busily working on the site:
Joel on bike Joel drinking beeeer


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Friday, July 02, 2010

Great read: Michael Coren’s Canada Day column — special to PTBC

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday July 02 2010 at 10:56 AM
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Michael Coren graciously allowed PTBC to post his “Canada Day” column.  Please read it... particularly in light of the changes I’m currently making at PTBC, while me and the site are on “vacation”.


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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Screwed-up idiotic email of the day

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday June 30 2010 at 08:51 PM
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From: seafriz@___.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:21 PM
To: ProudToBeCanadian.ca
Subject: Communists

Are you sure you mean Proud to be a Communist. Seems it would fit better.

A Real Canadian Citizen

Possibly a CBC viewer.


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Monday, June 28, 2010

UPDATED **Aug 10**:  —I’m going to take some time off.

Written by Joel Johannesen on Monday June 28 2010 at 06:21 PM
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This is a sticky post, meaning it will stay atop the page even while newer blog entries may appear under it.

UPDATE Aug 10:

I’m actually here, working behind the scenes.  I’m watching that bloody awful CBC again.  Yes it hurts my brain, just as it did before I started my break. 

As you’ve might have noticed, the site is sporadically closing and opening again as changes are being made.  Columnists’ columns are continuing to be posted.  I’ll keep you posted!

Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE July 24
Getting close to slowly easing back in.  There will be changes!
ALSO: I attributed a Mike Adams column (July 22) to myself by accident.  That has been corrected.
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UPDATE July 12
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I’m going to take some time off from PTBC.  Ironically, given the name of this site, I can’t think of a better time to do this than during this Canada Day holiday week, and into the following week.

Mainly, I need large blocks of time during which the site, and me, are not active, in order to make substantive changes to it.  I’ve also got a couple of new web site launches to embark on. 

I also just need some time off from this site;  and from the things connected to its function, like watching and then forcing myself to think about the absurdity of, and absurdity contained within, the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC, and then writing about it;  and musing about Layton’s ridiculous you’ve got to be kidding party and its daily progressive preposterousness;  and trying to keep up with the hypocrisy and perfidy of the lamestream media;  and all those other things I try to do here every day. 

When PTBC is back, it will look different and be different.  I certainly welcome suggestions with regard to changes.  They must be revenue positive, not negative.


P.S.: I’m going to continue to posts the columnists’ columns during the time off.

 


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PTBC Quote of the Week Award:  “The Chicago crime buffet is over. We are not prey.”

Written by Joel Johannesen on Monday June 28 2010 at 05:30 PM
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“To those who would prey upon the citizens of the city of Chicago, to the criminals — I would like to say the Chicago crime buffet is over.  We are not prey.”

—Colleen Lawson, gun rights advocate

Colleen Lawson wins.  She’s one of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case which was decided today, which drives all liberals and progressives completely batty, in which the Supreme Court confirmed innocent Americans’ right and freedom to bear handguns.

She wanted to own a gun, particularly after burglars targeted her home in broad daylight while she lay in her bed sick with the flu.  But the progressive, liberal-left-wing government of Chicago, like all the progressive governments in Canada, wouldn’t let her defend herself.  They didn’t want her to be able to defend herself.  They banned handguns.  Like all progressives, the people running the city of Chicago wanted to force her to rely on the government instead.  They wanted to make her wait there, unarmed, like prey, while she and her family were under attack, until the police arrived.  The government alone must save the day!  People must not be allowed to save themselves!  The progressive ideology and its experiments take precedence over Collen Lawson’s and her family’s lives!

That didn’t make sense to her.  Because she’s sane.  And free.  And American.  And has a right to defend herself and her family.  And their constitution says so. 


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Friday, June 25, 2010

Top European human rights court rules against “right” to gay “marriage”

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday June 25 2010 at 09:06 AM
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This has GOT to be huge news in the liberal media in Canada and the United States, since liberals yearn to be just like their Euroliberal cultural leaders (with a touch of the economics of Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, of course).  Right?  Wrong! 

Court rules no right to gay marriage in Europe
By Reuters

PARIS - European law does not require countries to grant same-sex couples the right to marry, even if some states have already done so, the continent’s top human rights court has ruled.

The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected an appeal by two Austrian men who said their country’s refusal to allow same-sex marriage violated the right to marry and prohibition of discrimination in European rights law.

The ECHR is part of the Council of Europe, which promotes democracy and the rule of law among its 47 member states. Its rulings are binding on Council members since they have signed the European Convention on Human Rights. ...


•  The state-owned CBC is not reporting this.  My educated guess is that they don’t want you to know. 

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...but they are all over the big story they do want you to know about: “Assisted suicide OK’d by German court”.

•  Nor is the CTV web site.  But they are all over “Michael Jackson remembered one year after his death” and “Porn sites closer to .xxx web address”. 

•  Fox News Channel is covering it as seen below.  So naturally my recommendation is that you avoid CBC and CTV, because if that’s who you rely on for news, you will be uninformed, and actually misinformed since they purport to tell you all the news;  uneducated, and as I always say, you will by logical extension actually become dumber. Folks who watch Fox News will, once again, know more than you.  So you might as well just watch and read Fox News Channel’s news.

... A panel of seven judges ruled unanimously Thursday that the couple was not covered by the guarantee of the right to marry in Europe’s human rights convention. ...
—Fox News Channel’s web site

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But moreover, you really have to then question phony advertising slogans like this from the state-owned media in Canada:

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It’s really a lie, isn’t it?  Here’s a slogan: The CBC: Your tax dollars at work… feeding you lies. 


SIMILARLY UNREPORTED  — at the socialism-reliant CBC and other media possibly also owing to the fact that they don’t WANT you to know:
Venezuela’s (Socialist) Hugo Chavez takes over American oil rigs off his coast.


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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez takes over American oil rigs off his coast

Written by Joel Johannesen on Thursday June 24 2010 at 09:20 AM
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Given all the support publicly offered to Hugo Chavez by left-wing Canadian and American politicians and left-wing columnists and Hollywood liberals and others, this story is all the more important to bring to image light.  But it’s barely reported in the media.  For some odd reason, I couldn’t find it at the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC, for example. 

Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm’s oil rigs

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in a push to socialism as President Hugo Chavez struggles with lower oil output and a recession.

A former soldier inspired by Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Chavez has made energy nationalization the linchpin in his ‘revolution’. He has also taken over assets in telecommunications, power, steel and banking. ...

Rosie O’Donnell and several other socialists, Democrats, Jack Layton and most of his you’ve got to be kidding party minions like Libby Davies, several Liberals, and progressives generally would all applaud this action by their global socialist partner, Hugo Chavez, many of whom rave about him all day long.  If you don’t believe me, you should ask them.  The media should ask them.  They won’t, because they’re afraid of the answer and how it would play out in the public.  Yeah.  This is a challenge to the media.  Ask them.  I dare you. 

Actually, for a start, print the story.  Stick it on your teleprompter and read it.  See how it plays.  Use the word “socialist”.  And “takeover”.


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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

CBC goes wobbly over minor earthquake. But it affected THEM.  So you know, it’s HUGE.

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday June 23 2010 at 12:40 PM
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Just to show you how lacking in perspective, how provincial and self-centered — and unfamiliar with Canada the Toronto-centric CBC is— a minor earthquake imagestruck in Ontario and Quebec at about 10:40 Pacific, and they’re still giving it wall-to-wall coverage from every conceivable angle, sending out reporters in every direction, taking viewer phone calls who all relate their awesome (not) personal experiences, and reporters and politicians all recounting with riveting (not) stories about where they were and how they felt “when it happened”.  It’s noon now.  Still covering it.

No damage.  No injuries.  No nothing.  Zip.  Nothing.  Except that it is in Ontario and Quebec.  It was a 5.0 magnitude.  Not major.  An 800 times per year event. Moderate at worst.

It all reminds me of when the former CBC employee and now still Governor-General Michaelle Jean visited the west coast and insisted that the mountains around Vancouver that she was looking at were “the Rockies”...

I’m not sure if it was the fact that at the time of the non-event, they were broadcasting yet another one of their live broadcasts of the ridiculous you’ve got to be kidding party making yet another one one of their totally useless public pronouncements for the sycophantic leftist news media, which of course the CBC therefore reflexively covers NO imageMATTER WHAT;  or the fact that they have absolutely no clue that the west coast experiences these things weekly;  or more likely, that it happened to them, and that’s all that really matters. 

But they’re still covering it.  It’s after noon.  It’s like the biggest thing that has ever happened in this country.  Ever. And yet it’s nearly nothing.


RELATED SEISMIC ACTIVITY
They’re covering traffic jams and security in Toronto surrounding the G-8 and G-20 summits just like this as well.  Vancouver just got over its two weeks of equal or more traffic diversions and extreme security measures, including the movement of fully armed F-18 fighter jets and armed forces from the world over lending their support,  all thanks to the government games (the Olympics), and the near-riot situations amongst left-wing nutbars.  There was barely a mention of all all that in the media before or during the games.  Certainly not the kind of extreme coverage the news media, which is all centered in Toronto, is giving to themselves and their own concerns. 

Oh the humanity. 
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Expert from an Ontario university being interviewed here dressed in his uniform…
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UPDATE:
Still on it.  12:30 PM.  The entire CBC media industrial complex and every one of the thousands of state-employed CBC employees is now apparently completely dedicated to this non story. 

UPDATE 2
CBC Anchor Carole MacNeil to Ottawa Parliamentary reporter Rosemary Barton — using age-old jokes now like we in the west stopped using about 80 years ago because they’re so old and over-used…. “...guess you felt the earth move there in Ottawa eh…?!!!!”  (uproarious laughter between the two of them for about ten minutes…)


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Weird Coast Hotel messaging at Drudge?

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday June 23 2010 at 12:29 PM
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The auto-rotator ad at DrudgeReport’s site this morning displays this “repeat” ad atop the page, which looked weird to me at first glance… against which I’m pretty sure the main news headline reporting on a repeat of a different kind (“GUSHER…AGAIN!”) and accompanying picture is unrelated.  I’m thinking.

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WHAT I SAW (maybe because I’m weird):
I saw a photo of a woman with her legs spread open.  And the word “repeat”.  Purposely subliminal?  Don’t know.  Think so.  I clicked and went to the Coast site, and the spiel is “Relax, Recharge, Repeat”.  Which made the Drudge ad seem even weirder.  Inexplicably, the accompanying photo at the Coast Hotels site is reversed, and is a wider shot, more clearly showing a couple laying their bellies with their legs exactly not spread.  And the word “repeat” is not there. 

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That is my report.  Film at eleven.  Possibly R-rated.


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Prez Obama in latest crisis:  “Now is the time to come together…”.  NOW?  What about 2 yrs ago?

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday June 23 2010 at 11:52 AM
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What a mess.  Now President Obama’s Generals and officers are turning on him.  Gen. Stanley McChrystal even voted for him, according to the clearly liberal Rolling Stone magazine. 

image But in what I would agree is the best choice for his replacement, General David Petraeus will not please Obama’s far-left base of anti-war minions and funders.  (Read this blog entry from April 2008.)

Barack Obama’s far-left wing —MoveOn.org — prior to the last presidential election, took a full-page ad (as seen at left) out in their New York Times (who gave them the space at a reduced rate because they clearly agreed with the message) calling the heroic General David Petraeus “General Betray Us”, because they so disagreed with him and the Bush administration and everything he and they ever did, ever.  Most of America condemned the ad.  In an extremely rare move, the United States Senate even voted overwhelmingly to condemn the ad.  One Senator who did not join in the massive vote to condemn MoveOn was…. then-SENATOR BARACK OBAMA. He hid under his desk that day. Didn’t want to condemn the ad.  Didn’t really like that whole “come together” thing just then.

And Obama and all of his minions tore the United States apart over not just the Iraq war but the Afghanistan war as well —and derided the American efforts there every which way they could.  They tore the country apart.  On purpose.  To win an election.  NOW they want everybody to “come together”? 

So this has got to leave a mark. 

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Scientists prove pesticides work, and “organic” pest control measures are WORSE than chemicals

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday June 23 2010 at 10:54 AM
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Here’s all you need to know, aside from the facts in the case:  a fan of and commenter at the state-owned, far-left CBC website, after having read the story which is so devastating to their whole doctrine and ideology — which goes so against the “science” that the CBC and their David Suzuki division and the whole militant enviro-left have advocated for decades, wrote, simply, “This story sends a bad message.” 

Let’s review that statement:  actual science and facts are once again getting in the way of and possibly wrecking their Orwellian progressive, anti-capitalist political messaging, and more should be done — possibly by government or at least their media divisions — to shut these stories up and prevent them from getting out. 

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Yeah it does.  For your phony ideology-based pseudo-science.

Natural pesticides may hurt environment
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | 11:31 AM ET

CBC News

A new Canadian study suggests natural pesticides could cause more environmental damage than conventional chemicals.

University of Guelph researchers said natural compounds often are used in higher doses than traditional chemical pesticides, resulting in potentially more problems for the water table and other parts of the ecosystem.

“These data bring into caution the widely held assumption that organic pesticides are more environmentally benign than synthetic ones,” said a synopsis of the paper published in the most recent edition of PLoS ONE, an online magazine that publishes medical and scientific research. ...

... The study places in doubt the conventional wisdom that has led to the banning of chemical pesticides in cities such as Toronto.


Of course in typical alarmist, knee-jerk, and obviously unscientific but very specious, trendy, politically-correct, left-wing political science fashion — exactly the same in ever way to the “man-made global warming” poli-sci, many cities have already banned chemical pesticides and herbicides, after concluding that “the science is settled” and “the debate is over”.  There was a “consensus” of all the scientists, see.  All of ‘em. 


EXTRA LEFT-WING CONSPIRATORIAL:
The very next CBC comment alluded to the notion that the scientists at the (state-owned and state-run) Guelph University are “obviously” in the “pocket” of chemical companies Monsanto and Dow, and alleged that grant money was received by giant capitalist chemical firms, and so there should be an investigation.  By goons in the state, I guess.

“Sounds like somebody’s in Dow or Monsanto’s back pocket to me. ... Someone should loook and see if any grants were received from any chemical companies by this university.”

A few comments down, a CBC’er wrote:

“Wouldn’t be surprised to find the study secretly funded by monsanto….”

A few down from that:

“So, two questions: Who sponsored the study? Monsanto or Dow?...”

A couple down from that:

“Was the study funded by Monsanto?”

Another one said this:

“Pfizer, Monsanto, Cargill can afford to pay for this research and those selling natural products without patent protection are religated to the back of the line. Need I say more?”


For the record, if the lazy-ass CBC fanatics and blinkered left-wing commentators bothered to actually read the study, they’d see this:

Funding: The authors acknowledge funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) (http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.php) and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs - University of Guelph partnership (http://www.uoguelph.ca/research/omafra/). The funders had no role in data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. AAFC suggested the insecticide list for testing, and this is the only role any funders played in study design.

They also go so far as to admit that funding totally unrelated to the study has been received by the research group in the past from all manner of governments, farmers, interest groups, and a variety of companies which produce organic and synthetic pesticides. 


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