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Friday, March 19, 2010

Comment of the day from a liberal or leftist or progressive of some kind, expressing the love

Good morning “bigots” and “kooks” and “racists” and “cranks”!  (*)

I’ve long said that a typical comment from a liberal to a conservative (if a conservative manages to get a word in edge-ways) is “Shut up!  You’re stupid!”, but usually I’m just exaggerating — or abbreviating their excruciatingly long-winded efforts at shutting us up, and calling us stupid.

Comment this morning from a non-conservative named ParkPlace5677 to me directly on one of my PTBC YouTube channel’s videos, exhibiting that famous liberal-left tolerance and love for diversity of opinion (and, apparently, for “fags”!): 

“@ProudToBeCanadian You are a little pussy fag boy. Why don’t you shut the flock up? Nobodys buying your brand of stupid here. moron.”

Thank God he replaced the real “F”-word with “flock”, huh?  Otherwise it woulda been rude!  (Or maybe he meant that he thinks I’m a goose and I have a flock, and he wants me to shut them up.)

He did leave out an apostrophe on “nobodys” and should have capitalized the m in “moron”.  But he sure clarified how some liberals actually think.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dan Gardner: irreverent, arrogant, liberal bigot… and a “crank”? No!

Call it liberal arrogance, call it plain old nasty irreverence, call it anti-Christian dogma, call it pure idiocy.  But just don’t call it bigotry.  Only those who dare to even discuss — in blogs especially! — stats presented recently by Stats Canada showing Canada slowly losing its heritage, traditional makeup consisting of white Anglo-Saxons and Christians, are “frantic” and full of “anguish” and are “hyperventilating”;  and “kooks” and “cranks” and, alas, “bigots”, and of course “racists”, like I had to tell you.  Actual words used by Canwest columnist Dan Gardner to describe what I think are most of us.  Including one of Canada’s leading minds, Mark Steyn, who, as Gardner churlishly — if not girlishly — muses has a “bunker” in his back yard where he can “flee Muslims”.  Golly, pilgrims, I think that’s another way of sheepishly insulting Steyn and calling him an “Islamophobe” without actually having the balls to come right out and say it!  But then I’m a frantic hyperventilating anguished kook crank bigot racist Christian pale person.  And Gardner’s not, as you can tell.

For the record, Mark Steyn, best-selling author of one of the best books in a decade, America Alone, has a broader view of the world and more intelligence in his illusive bunker’s door knob than Dan Gardner has ever even pretended to have in his fearless noggin. 

And on the other side of the intelligence coin, Dan Gardner was the tolerant lover of diversity who wrote recently in another column that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was so intelligent that maybe he was ”too intelligent”.  And, fully anguished, lamented on Ignatieff’s failure to get elected, “Perhaps the political culture has changed so much that someone who loves ideas, who thinks, and writes, and questions, cannot succeed in politics.”  Boo-hoo-hoo (in that case).

But it takes more than a pretense of intelligence and more than simple arrogance and a trollish need to be obtuse and to offend and ridicule Christians as best you can, to come up with lines like this, interspersed between repeated use of the words “bigots”, “kooks”, and “racists”.  It takes a special kind of hypocrisy, and/or a near-total lack of the real meaning of bigotry:

White folks: It’s time to chill out

... Well, I happen to care deeply about the anguish suffered by cranks and bigots and so, as a public service, I am here to offer reassurance.

Calm down, my Caucasian comrades. I’ve read the report. It’s not true that everything is going to change. In 2031, there will still be pale people worshipping a dead Jew. Lots of them. Life as we know it will go on. ...

—Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen and Canwest columnist, March 2010

Pale people worshipping a dead Jew.  Huh. 

But please remember:  You are the “bigot”.  The “kook”.  The “crank” who should, just to be good-natured, or something, be more like Dan Gardner, and show your great respect for all the diverse people and their beliefs and their religions, by zipping it; and “chilling”.  I mean as long as you agree with them and they aren’t Christians.  At which point you can insult the crap out of them and display abject hate. In blogs or newspaper chains.

Every poll shows Americans are against Obama/liberal/left-wing/progressive/gov’t “health care” ploy

I get criticized for only presenting Rasmussen polls.  So here’s a list of the latest polls from all sources.  Sorry liberals, you still lose.

Data from RealClearPolitics

UPDATE (2:40 PM PDT)

In light of the news that Democrats are now so desperate they’re gaming the system and sneaking around and threatening to not bother voting on the “health care” bill and just “deeming” it to have passed (etc)...

Fox News Poll: 55% Oppose Health Care Reform

- FOXNews.com

As Americans wait for Congress to act on health care, a Fox News poll released Thursday finds 55 percent oppose the reforms being considered, while 35 percent favor them.

[...]

By two-to-one people think the quality of their family’s health care would be worse, rather than better, if the bill passed. In addition, majorities think the reforms would cost them money (66 percent), and increase their taxes (75 percent). ...

CBC pronounces words wrong. But they’re not George Bush so it’s OK.

CBC reportr (Michael sumebody) and an unnowne ankor both pronownced the werd jewelry as jewlery in a storee out of Tarunto, Ontairyo.

Purhaps the jewlery wuz frum Izreeyal.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

How leftists think (and act): Leftist head of transit commission bills city for $3,000 in cab rides

Leftist Adam Giambrone, the man who was running for mayor of English Canada’s liberal-left central, the city of Toronto, but who quit amidst allegations and then his own admissions of multiple partners and supposedly having sex with one of them in his own city hall office (and then the story disappeared off the news pages like magic!), submitted his city councillor expenses for ‘09.  Yes he’s still there.  He’s not a conservative, see. 

His expense report didn’t include any receipts for condoms, thank Gaia, but he did bill the city for loads of taxi receipts.  Stupid, because the liberal-left media would have easily overlooked receipts charged to the city for condoms, but taxis?  Nuh uh.  That ain’t liberal.  (Well it is actually, as this proves, but it’s not supposed to be like public and everything!)

Meanwhile, as I was writing this up, the precious left-wing CBC was broadcasting an important story on their news channel not about this, naturally, but rather about another lefty anti-missile “artist”-slash-protester putting a giant 24-foot condom on an even bigger upright missile, in Euroliberal Norway.  No doubt that “artist” was reimbursed for every last cent of the cash required for that condom, and the costs associated with that political protest badly disguised as “artwork”. 

While I was struggling to figure out how that CBC story was relevant and germane to my life, I almost neglected to mention that Adam Giambrone has very close ties to the federal you’ve got to be kidding party!  The NDP.  The abject socialists.  I really should mention it because while the media division of the liberal-left have been forced by necessity to report on Giambrone’s philandering, and, apparently, on “artists” placing a giant condom on missiles in another asinine left-wing protest, no news media ever mentions that extremely intimate NDP tie for some reason.  Which is weird because it’s all about politics. 

So let’s make it clear:  Aside from being a rampant philanderer (thereby also showing that great respect for women for which all liberals are famous);  and another left-wing city councillor always blathering on about not taking cars and instead taking the wonderful public transit;  and aside from actually being the head of the transit commission;  he is also the former National President of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 2001 - 2006.  They are the self-anointed and self-described Canadian “moral conscience” of all-get-out, on green, enviro, and “environmental justice”, not to mention “woman-feminist-equality justice” and “social justice” and “sexual justice” and “everyone’s equal to everyone else and we’ll make sure of it, um, justice” and every other “justice” that is actually code for socialism and progressivism. 

Read more about the scandal-tainted Adam Giambrone in my blog entry here.  Because you won’t read it anywhere else.

YO!  TAXI!  (snap snap)

Reviewing his expenses, it turns out he’s a totally typical liberal-left elitist who thinks public transportation is fine for you, the lowly citizens, all the time.  But not for him.  At least not half the time.  Just some of the time.  You know, when it looks good, I guess.  That’s because, he wrote in an email to the Toronto Star this week, “there are, however, sometimes when taxis are needed due to time constraints or what I am carrying with me (i.e. files).”  (And sometime in the future, elected officials earning huge stacks of taxpayer cash, should learn to write English properly too.  In fact, there are some times.  Not “sometimes”, which suggests some indefinite time in the future.  All the time.  Not sometimes.)

(It should be noted that the phrase “Ride the Rocket” in the Toronto Star story below refers to a transit commission slogan, not an intimate instruction from Adam Giambrone’s to his women.)

TTC chair spent $3,000 on taxis last year

David Rider
Urban Affairs Bureau Chief [Toronto Star]

Toronto Transit Commission chair Adam Giambrone may champion public transit but he has nothing against taxis, records of city councillors’ 2009 office expenses show.

Giambrone expensed more than $3,000 in cabs last year, including a trip home after taping an episode of his Ride the Rocket TV show on a streetcar.

About $2,400 came from his office budget, with the rest billed to the TTC.

Giambrone, like other councillors, has a city-provided Metropass.

The lowest spender was, as always in recent years, Rob Ford, who billed taxpayers for nothing, merely notifying city officials he spent $708.78 of his own money on council business.

On Wednesday morning, Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) called Giambrone’s cab expenses “ridiculous.”

“I’ve taken two cabs in 10 years of politics and I think they were for fundraising dinners after council,” said Ford, who is rumoured to be set to launch a mayoral campaign. ...

And by the way, the next story on the CBC news channel, which is mentioning none of this Giambrone story, was on a joint-rolling competition.

Obama to be interviewed on Fox News Channel; CBC reports on it being “unfriendly territory”

“Unfriendly territory” is a subjective thing of course.  A viewpoint.  An opinion.  But whatever.  Apparently it’s not any of those things if you’re the left-wing CBC news.  It’s apparently a self-evident truth that Fox News Channel is de facto, “unfriendly territory”.

But first, the CBC anchor Carole MacNeil called Fox News Channel the “Fox Television Network”, which even most people not remotely connected to news and media know are two completely different things.  And only then did she glibly refer to it, in that newsy Fox News Channel-hating CBC way, as “unfriendly territory”.  No explanation provided. Self evident.

Fantastic reporting.  Now the irony:  Other news channels including the left-wing CBC are indeed “friendly territory” for Obama, which is of course something that should be the furthest thing from true with regard to news outfits.  But with their obvious pro-Obama bias and helpful agenda-driving, it is what makes them so absolutely terrible and untrustworthy and ratings losers.  So she’s spot on about Fox (by which I mean the Fox News Channel).  Being “unfriendly territory” is a good thing, inasmuch as news channels shouldn’t be friendly, or unfriendly, or any such thing, any more than you should be “best friends” with your kids. 

But in case she meant “unfriendly” from the viewer’s standpoint, well she’s wrong there too.  Fox News Channel is by far the most watched cable news channel, usually doubling CNN viewership and sometimes doubling all of the competition combined, and is in fact watched by far more “friendlies”  —i.e., independents and Democrats and liberals who elected him — than any other channel.  This has been proven by all manner of viewer statistics time and again, including here at PTBC countless times.  So how FNC can be called “unfriendly territory” by anyone but rather ignorant leftists and liberals, and especially by news anchors for national news media, is beyond my comprehension.  As usual, Fox News Channel critics betray themselves as people who never even watch it, and know utterly nothing about it, but pretend to know everything.

The CBC reporter on the scene, Susan Bonner, then quotes an Obama staffer as describing Obama’s interview on Fox News Channel — only his second such foray into “unfriendly territory” with the first being just prior to his election — as “going back to the scene of the crime”, this time in order to gain desperately needed support for his Obamacare plans. 

Fox News Channel is the best channel available in Canada.  You should contact your cable or satellite service to get it.  It’s completely different.  For example, you don’t just see and hear a left-wing point of view and then for “balance”, a further left-wing point of view from experts and analysts on stories.  You actually see and hear from conservatives too! And this is of course why liberals and leftists call it biased and unfair.  I see their points.  When you allow conservatives to say things, it blows their idiocy up and exposes them.  So they’re right.  It’s a pretty unfair fight.  It’s really quite astonishing to most Canadians who have never seen anything like it, most not knowing prior to watching Fox News Channel that there was such a thing as a non-left-wing point of view on anything. 

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Huffington Post OUTRAGED by tea party rally signs.  OUTRAGED, I tell you.

Under the w-a-a-a-y overselling heading “The Most Outrageous March 16 Tea Party Protest Signs (PHOTOS)”, the far-left Huffington Post web site (so far left they actually criticize President Obama for not being left-wing enough) huffs today that a recent tea party rally had some terrible (nay, “outrageous!”) signs.  Under the overcooked heading, they provide a slide show including the likes of these two examples and 15 others much like them, only maybe a couple of which rose to the level of being almost 1/100 as brutal as those we saw (but nobody in the media saw) in some of those 8,658 militant anti-George Bush left-wing near-riot protests, demanding he be alternately hung, jailed, buried, stabbed, shot, and calling him a fascist, evil, a Nazi, Hitler, worse than Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden put together, a dumb-ass, a war criminal, a genocidal maniac, a murderer, a liar… and others (see bottom of blog entry). 

 

Merry Moon(bat) Hour!  I love the “festive” season!

From: Matthew B
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 7:01 PM
To: Joel Johannesen
Subject: City of Ottawa - Earth Hour

Joel,

This is fast becoming one of my favourite events of the year. Unfortunately, like last year, I forgot it was coming up for some reason. The downside is that I now have less than two weeks to encourage as many people as I can to CRANK every light in their house and BLAST every electronic device they have for one hour on March 27th.

Earth Hour article from “Ottawa.ca”

I like where they encourage you to visit the WWF website for materials to educate your friends, neighbours, and co-workers…

Matt B.
Kanata ON

From: ProudToBeCanadian.ca
To: Matthew B
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: City of Ottawa - Earth Hour

Can’t we rename it “Festive ’n Inclusive Moon Hour” or something?  Or “Spring solstice”.  And hang some big-ass colorful lights instead?... And decorate a tree!....

Joel

Electricity-Consuming UPDATE:
This seems like a fitting time to award one of our famous awards:

 

GOOD READ: Tom Gross on Obama Administration bashing Israel, while silent/polite on terrorists

Journalist Tom Gross writes on an aspect of the bizarre world view of the leftist Obama administration:  routinely outraged by Israeli behavior, yet constantly appeasing tyrants and terrorists and those who hate America.

Palestinian Authority honours terrorist; White House mute

March 16, 2010, 12:00 PM
By Tom Gross

The papers are full of reports about the startling criticism of Israel by the Obama administration — a criticism of a type not used by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton against many human rights abusing-governments the world over during the past year. (Who cares, for example, that 50,000 Muslim Burmese refugees are on the verge of starvation in Bangladesh, when you can bash Israel day after day, as the Obama administration did last week?)

The Los Angeles Times noted that “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s harsh words stunned Israel.”

[...]

Even the Anti-Defamation League, one of America’s largest liberal organizations, with close ties to the Democratic Party, says it is “shocked and stunned by the Obama Administration’s public dressing down of Israel.”

At the same time as rebuking Israel, neither the White House nor State Department had anything to say about the fact that the U.S.-financed Palestinian Authority, led by “moderate” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, renamed a central public square in Ramallah on Thursday in honor of Dalal Mughrabi, the woman who in 1978 helped carry out the deadliest single terrorist attack in Israel’s history.

Mughrabi was the leader of a Fatah PLO terror squad armed with Kalashnikov rifles, RPG light mortars and high explosives, that sailed from Lebanon and landed on a beach between Haifa and Tel Aviv. They first killed a renowned American photojournalist (who was incidentally the niece of U.S. Democratic party Senator Abraham Ribicoff) who was taking nature photos, then hijacked a bus and commandeered another, embarking on a bloody rampage that left 38 Israeli civilians dead, 13 of them children.

Fatah representatives at the ceremony on Thursday described Mughrabi as “a courageous fighter who held a proud place in Palestinian history.”

“We are all Dalal Mughrabi,” declared Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of the Fatah Central Committee.

An official PA ceremony was postponed due to the visit to the region by Vice President Joe Biden. The square, planted with greenery and flowers, is outside the Palestinian Authority’s National Political Guidance headquarters. Political guidance chief Gen. Adnan Damiri said a statue of Mughrabi would be erected in the square.

[... read more ...]

Hat tip to Jean for the heads up.

Monday, March 15, 2010

EXTRA, EXTRA!  MANIPULATION BY LIBERAL MEDIA!

(DON’T READ ALL ABOUT IT!  JUST READ THE HEADLINE!)

The liberal Vancouver Sun misleads either by accident or on purpose (I suspect the latter) with this headline today:
“Canada has competitive advantage in health care, Finance Minister Flaherty tells NYC audience”
...which insinuates that because of Canada’s current socialist and anti-competitive and government-run monopoly “health care” system, Canada has a competitive advantage over the U.S. which is itself hindered by its currently privately-run, and competitive health care system.  Which is of course preposterous on several levels.

For a better understanding of what the Canadian finance minister actually said, the National Post and its Financial Post sub-section headlines read:
“Flaherty weighs in on U.S. health-care debate: Keep it competitive”
and
“Flaherty urges U.S. to ensure health care competition”

John Edwards, politician, had absolutely no political affiliation!:  Canadian news media

If John Edwards were a Republican, then after reading the latest news, you’d think someone named “Mr. Republican Party” or “Mr. Conservative” was caught up in a filthy, sordid scandal.  But John Edwards is a liberal, and a Democrat.  So when we read about the latest revelations about his God-awful philandering and extramarital baby-making during his presidential campaign while his wife was fighting her cancer battle, we only see the words “John Edwards”.  No party affiliation.  No political leanings whatsoever.  Even though he is a politician.  And it is only being written-up in the media because of that, and because he was a presidential candidate.

• The far-left Toronto Star, one of the most left-wing papers in North American, writes a long article today and fails to mention the word Democrat or liberal or progressive even once in the entire story of the despicable POLITICIAN, John Edwards (DEMOCRAT).  This is an incredible editorial achievement in misleading readers by an omission of facts, which I suspect they do on purpose because you have to actually apply an effort to not mention his political affiliation. 

• Even the normally mute-on-affiliation-when-it-comes-to-leftists (unless they’re helping them advance their political agenda), the far-left state-owned socialism-reliant CBC, mentions DEMOCRAT (just once).  Of course they used a Canadian Press article — not one they wrote themselves, which might explain that.

• The liberal-loving Globe and Mail also fails to use the word Democrat even once, in their AP article.

• The liberal-loving CNEWS.canoe.com article, using a remixed version of the same AP article that the G&M used (well one of them remixed it), fails to mention DEMOCRAT even once. 

• The liberalvision channel, CTV, in its online account of the story, uses the same AP article used by others, and it fails to mention DEMOCRAT even once.  An amazing editorial effort.

• The plain liberal Vancouver Sun (and its sister the National Post and presumably all the other Canwest papers) use a Canwest-written article which mentions DEMOCRAT three times, which is approximately eight fewer than Republican would be mentioned if he were thus.

CBC reporter explains that it would be “better” if burqa-wearing women became “commonplace”?

”[T]here will always be some level of ignorance…” the CBC reporter intones, somewhat ironically from my standpoint since I see massive ignorance all day long at the CBC.  But she was talking about ignorance not from her or the CBC, but rather from amongst us normal Canadian plebeians, of course.  This was all in her asinine news report on the state-owned, socialism-reliant and ever so politically-correct and diversity ‘n multicult ural-loving CBC, on its News Network secretariat. 

The CBC conducted a poll (obviously paid for by taxpayers), to determine largely nothing, but I suppose it was based on what a different division of the government, Statistics Canada, already concluded, which was that heritage or traditional or “white” Canadians (i.e., from European stock…) are becoming less common, especially in our big cities, and may actually become the minority in places like Vancouver, very soon, at our current rate of immigration. Which, by our very silence and non-protest, clearly indicates most of us accept, happily.  Or it wouldn’t happen.  They will be replaced by visible minorities like Chinese, East Indians, Arabs, and non-white immigrant groups.  So the CBC thereby chose to measure our collective “tolerance” anyway, at our great expense, and of course it proves utterly nothing whatsoever that we didn’t already know. 

But here’s how the CBC reporter on the scene strained to explain their poll results, after speaking to sundry Canadian non-white men and women-(and presumably “other”)-on-the-street folks.  And it leads me to wonder if she thinks it would be “better” (since “better” was her word) if burqa-wearing Muslims became “commonplace” (as one of her burqa-wearing interviewees told her was now the case) in Canada.  Here’s part of what she said:

“...But as you mentioned by 2031, according to Stats Canada, one in three Canadians will be part of a visible minority group, so the sooner we change perceptions more, because as we say this latest poll shows that our perceptions are changing for the better but there still is discrimination so there still is work to be done, but the people I spoke to really felt that a lot —that one woman spoke about wearing a burqa to school ten years ago and feeling quite alone, and now it’s commonplace —  so the more we see that, the better!  So we’ll see what the result four years from now how this poll changes if we do it again! ...”

(I did warn you it was strained, but that’s the CBC.) 

EXTRA COINKIDINK (or just dink)
Watch official state funny funny!  The state media’s precious Little Mosque on the Prairie “sitcom” is on CBC tonight.  Oh yay.  Maybe they’ll learn me how to behave!

EXTRA, EXTRA!
Topic already reported and covered beautifully in the private-sector!  Buy Mark Steyn’s fantastic, massive best-selling book —one of the best of the decade —called “America Alone”.  And here’s another thing:  Canada: Make Babies!

Caveat Suffragator

Headline in news today befitting a typical progressive leftist in the Democratic Party:

Dodd to Unveil Plan That Expands Fed Powers

AP

His proposal would restrict the size of large financial institutions once deemed “too big to fail,” tame previously unregulated shadow markets with new restrictions and create a consumer protection entity.

Hey here’s some completely novel ideas for progressives like Dodd:  For once, how about proposing to “restrict the size of large”.... GOVERNMENT? 

And “tame previously out-of-control”... RAMPANT GOVERNMENT GROWTH;  and what is now proven to be the total GOVERNMENT FAILURES;  and the CORRUPTION NOW RUNNING RAMPANT in its own far, far more “shadowy” Congressional corridors paced for decades by the likes of Chris Dodd, and man who, by the way, has received the most “campaign cash” from the now infamous government-controlled and funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Political Action Committees and employees ($133,900 since 1989, with a guy named Barack Obama being the third largest recipient, and Barney Frank at number sixteen), and maybe try enacting “new restrictions”, like, say, those which were “new” 223 years ago — in the U.S. Constitution — which manifestly restricts the size and scope of government (in contradistinction to Dodd’s and all progressives’ efforts to grow the government’s size and scope and its control over citizens, thereby circumventing one of the manifest purposes of the Constitution)?

And how about allowing capitalism, the free market, with its inherent freedoms and reliance on personal responsibility, to actually work as it would, what with its own built-in “consumer protection entity” concept so old and tried and true, it comes from ancient Latin: “caveat emptor”, or what we call “buyer beware”;  and also these proven concepts: “personal responsibility”, and “free markets”, and “consumer choice”, and “competition”, and “failure” — thus saving the likes of progressives like the arguably corrupted and bought-off control freaks like the progressive Chris Dodd from having to grow the government and spend more taxpayer cash to “create” what already exists and repeat the same mistakes over and over, except on a bigger and bigger scale each time?

Nah.  Too radical in that pre-progressive, freedom-loving, conservative, Constitution-y kind of way.

ADDENDUM:
Sure, I’m a smart aleck.  I’m saying “caveat suffragator” means voter beware.  I made it up.  Here’s another one:  “caveat progressive” or “caveo progressives”.  That means beware of progressives, in theory.

Friday, March 12, 2010

More falsification in Obamanation (Quick!  Get a breathalyzer!)

Many of us remember this rare bit of off-teleprompter blather from President Obama at a town hall meeting (filled with his sycophantic followers rather than the regular townsfolk, betraying another intentional deception).  The brief experiment with not reading every word off a teleprompter ended immediately after this.

But the Stu Blog (“The most poorly named blog on the internet”) did a little background on the numbers.  He catches lie number 8,635 from the genius President Honesty Transparency W. Post-Race Bi-Partisan Hussein Obama:

Obama gaffe gets retroactively dumber

So, we all remember this super-super classic…don’t we?  It’s worth watching again [Joel provides actual clip, above]…

  “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.” 

Up until now, this has been funny just because of the supposedly brilliant President butchering the language. It’s also been used as a prime piece of evidence in the “imagine if George W. Bush did this” file.

Today, it gets retroactively worse.

Forget about the speaking problems here for a second, and think about what he’s actually saying. It’s one of many times he’s made the case that unneeded trips to the emergency room are a major factor in the high cost of health care. Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for him—somebody took the time to look into it:

  E.R. care represents less than 3 percent of healthcare spending, only 12 percent of E.R. visits are non-urgent, and the majority of E.R. patients are insured U.S. citizens, not uninsured, illegal immigrants.

So, if we were to completely eliminate non-urgent E.R. visits (which of course would be completely impossible), you’re looking at a savings of around 0.4% of health care spending. It’s actually less than that, because I’m not accounting for the higher relative cost of urgent visits, useful non-urgent care in off-hours, or the fact that most of the care is for the insured  —  but I’m feeling really generous.

Also, Massachusetts has shown us that Obama style health care doesn’t work to lighten the load on our emergency rooms. Even though easing the burden and costs of the E.R. was used as a main selling point for universal health care in Massachusetts —  there has been a significant increase in both the number of E.R. visits and overall E.R. costs since its implementation.

It’s enough to make you reach for your breathalyzer…or….inhalator. Sorry, I haven’t had too much sleep in the last 15 months or so.

Still though, nothing beats the inane extreme-left-wing rantings and pure intellectual dishonesty of the then-health minister in Canada, Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh (who sounds very much like a communist to me), who kept saying (maybe still does) that in the U.S., people are “dying in the streets” because of the private sector-run (or “American-style” as he always called it with a sneer) health care system, in which everybody needs an American Express card or they’re left to die.  “That means somebody might check your wallet before they check your pulse,” he once said, surely knowing he was full of it and that the more weak-minded of his socialism supporters were lapping it up. 

I don’t need to tell you this —I provide this for the benefit of liberals:  Men of honor who are confident of themselves and their positions — and those who hold positions of leadership as both these men did or do — foster an honest debate.  But neither of these men were, or are.  No wonder they’re both losers. 

Maclean’s mag concedes Palin “UNSTOPPABLE”, while National Post advises us to therefore “IGNORE HER”

No great friend of any conservative, particularly American conservatives, Maclean’s magazine features an article about Sarah Palin in this coming week’s edition. 

It’s reasonably fairly written.  For example, it concedes, or admits, quite rightly, in a stunning break from the established liberal media talking points and pop-news culture meme, that in the end, after all the outrageous liberal-left caterwauling and bashing and personal attacks and outright character assassination attempts, they have ultimately FAILED to stop her.  One can’t help but sense the palpable high dudgeon contained therein. 

As if to make that point plain and simple, their cover features a huge smiling picture of the woman we know as the good Miss Palin, (not from their “goofiest pics of Palin” file, for once, either!) and reads “UNSTOPPABLE” — unwittingly betraying that which only they think is self-evident and obvious: that all along, we’ve all been trying to stop her.  Only committed liberals, who always think everybody in the room agrees with them, think that way, and have actually been trying to “stop” her.  The rest of us cheer her along.  The media’s multiple pronouncements of the political death of her and her “15 minutes of fame”, and that she’s “finally done like dinner”, and “she’s well past her best before date”, and countless other such novelties always using one or more of the words “stupid” or “idiot” or “useless” over and over and over again, failed to stop her, and she is indeed a force to be reckoned with — or as their cover also laments, she is actually “reshaping America”.  So much for “useless” and “irrelevant”. 

As I mentioned yesterday, for its own part, the National Post, which never misses a chance to gratuitously bash any real conservative living or dead, particularly an American one who might also be guiding a huge swath of American political sentiment — like our Ann Coulter, whom they recently and gratuitously bashed once again as now fully “irrelevant” and, cattily bid her “good night” — they just yesterday bashed Sarah Palin as “a complete idiot”. 

You have to laugh at the like-mindedness being exhibited by the Sarah Palin-hating liberal-left media on this.  While Maclean’s finally admits that alas, despite their efforts, she’s “UNSTOPPABLE”, the National Post agrees but wails, “She Won’t Go Away, But Ignore Her”.

So let’s review the past two days:  Maclean’s thinks she’s an unstoppable force (despite the efforts) in the whole of American politics who is actually “reshaping America”;  and the simpatico National Post also thinks she won’t “go away”, and yet she’s a “complete idiot”.  Then doesn’t that mean the National Post thinks Americans are “complete idiots”?  I vote yes — that they think they are. 

Note however that this whole paradigm magically shifts when they’re talking about their man, the ever so smart Barack Obama, and his election by the same Americans.  Then they’re all geniuses. 

UPDATE:
I always try to point out when the New York Times or USA Today or some other mainstream media features links to PTBC blog entries or columns, because Canadian media and blogs rarely or really, never do.  Just now I noticed the Yahoo-owned Buzz Tracker, described as the “news site that leverages the power of the “head of the long tail” of the blogosphere”, which features “high quality blogs that feature original content”, features this blog entry as a “buzz-worthy” blog entry.  That will generate lots of attention, like it does when the NYT features links.  The National Post and the other Canadian media never feature any ProudToBeCanadian articles for any reason whatsoever, ever.  I think it’s because I feature THEM so often in my blog entries, and they love me so.  In a coincidental Canadian connection, I LOVE how the BuzzTracker link to my PTBC blog entry is above one to a lousy Globe and Mail article.  The Globe and Mail also never links to any PTBC articles, ever.  So we STING the NatPo and the GlobMail in one jab thanks to Buzz Tracker.

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