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A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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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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”!
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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”?

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