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Monday, March 28, 2011

CLick here for PTBC news!

Written by Joel Johannesen on Monday March 28 2011 at 12:28 PM

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Friday, February 25, 2011

PTBC Changes — News for February 25 2011

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday February 25 2011 at 08:33 AM

Hello canucks! 

I haven’t been cross-posting my blog entries to here at ProudToBeCanadian for a while anyway so this isn’t very newsy, but I won’t bother posting here at all any more.  I’m now fully committed to blogging at the new BoldColors.net and .ca (the .net is slightly different from the .ca, for now anyway, one being America-centric and one Canadian, in case you couldn’t figure that out).  And no, I haven’t even been posting at BoldColors very much because of other priorities, but that will change as time frees up.

I’m going to try this for a least a while, anyway.  So I’d love it if people would look over BoldColors, please!  It’s still in its infancy and much needs to be done in terms of excitement and content and nodules of info etc., but it is at least a going concern now.  So please link up to articles there, find the BoldColors RSS feeds, and make comments, and so on.  You can also follow me on Twitter as I’ve become a bit more active there.  And by active I mean snarky of course.

Registering at BoldColors to comment is… a pain in the ass.  I’ll just put that out there to save you the need top say it yourselves or write me to tell me.  You can only comment using your real, full name, just as I changed PTBC some time time ago (to much failure), and your identity will have to be proven either with ID you upload to us through the registration form, or via a PayPal or credit card payment to us of any small amount of money (that qualifies since that method requires a real names and identity).  If you’re already registered here at PTBC, and I know you through email exchanges, or years of “membership” here, or you’ve purchased stuff from PTBC or sent money, no problem,  Just contact me and I’ll set you up there. Real name please!

Since I won’t be blogging here, and since all the columnists have agreed to the move to BoldColors, too, I will stop cross-posting their columns here too (I’d more or less stopped that anyway). They’re being posted in both BoldColors.net and .ca in some cases, or at just one or the other in some instances, depending on the context of the column or the arrangements I have with the columnist.

I am looking for new columnists who will write FOR BoldColors (both .net and .ca) — separate from any newspaper articles or op/eds they regularly write, to avoid any copyright or other conflict.  If interested, write me.  I stress you must be able to write like a pro or better yet, be a professional writer. Nobody will be paid.  And yet they must write like pros or be a pro.  So, this should be easy. 

The database of articles and columns is going to live on, as it is a wealth of information and reference not just for me, but for many people and web sites that have links to the material accumulated here over the years. For example at BoldColors I’ve already had to link to articles here, so even I rely on it being here.  So all that stuff will remain here.  So the face may change, but the guts will remain intact.


Please contact me with any questions.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

PTBC news coming up

Written by Joel Johannesen on Tuesday February 22 2011 at 09:16 AM

Clearly things have changed course here.  There will be news soon.

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Friday, February 18, 2011

Blog posts, columnists at BOLDCOLORS.NET and .CA, in plain black and white

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday February 18 2011 at 11:45 AM

Blogging over there at BoldColors. Contrary to popular notion, I do NOT type all in bold letters over there.  Nor in rainbow colors.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Ann Coulter column now at BOLDCOLORS.NET

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday February 16 2011 at 03:06 PM

Democrats: Emboldening America’s Enemies & Terrifying Her Allies Since 1976

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Hey how come you never go after CTV, Joel?

Written by Joel Johannesen on Tuesday February 15 2011 at 02:30 PM

Because it’s so damn boring.  But last night I had a decent night’s sleep so I watched it this morning.

I blogged about it at BoldColors.ca.

Wake me when CTV News Channel wakes up.

Also see

I’ve been calling CTV network “liberalvision”. With a small ‘L’.

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Mike Adams says his aim is true. But reader says he’s “sychotic”

Written by Joel Johannesen on Tuesday February 15 2011 at 08:41 AM

Mike Adams’ latest column is at BOLDCOLORS.NET:
My Aim is True

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Monday, February 14, 2011

A shooting? I demand answers from liberals!

Written by Joel Johannesen on Monday February 14 2011 at 05:17 PM

How could this be?  My understanding was that we currently have the liberals’ gun licensing and registry (and “early learning!” —wink!) division in firm control of the situation.  I must have read the news story about the shooting wrong. 

I’ll re-read “Man charged with downtown Vancouver shooting”. 

Nope.  Got it right.

Well maybe he was an American.  That would explain everything (it’s science!). 

”...Hassan Omar Hassan, 32 ...”

Nope.  Hassan Omar Hassan, 32, sounds like another typical Canadian, if I understand the liberal-left progressive multiculters correctly. 

My understanding from liberals and members of the you’ve got to be kidding party and the police union and of course the Canadian Auto Workers Union, (which as it turns out are part owners of that party) explains every chance it gets that the “$2-milion” [sic] Canadian gun registry is checked, oh, “874,7693 times per day” [sic].  (And also, as a bonus, that “right-wingers” are “the cause” of the financial meltdown that resulted in this recession).  Still, somehow, these shootings occur. 

In this case, the assailant’s handgun, for which there has been a government registry since the early part of the last century in this country, was not registered.  Not registered!  That’s just simply too amazing for words.  Not registered I repeat.  The shooter?  Not licensed.  No really!  Not freaking licensed.  Possibly untrained as to the safety of using firearms!  It’s true!  What an amazing oversight on his part. But we’ve all had those days when we forget the most obvious things! 

We know all that’s true because he’s “known to police” as a result of prior drug, property, and firearms trouble.  Clearly, he was romping around town, free and not in jail, on the basis that he had to be “reintegrated into society,” or “rehabilitated,” as the progressives all put it, and help serve the public — in just this way.

So you’d think the crack reporters (not to be confused with the reporters on crack) working in the liberals’ media division, would question liberals about that.  By way of example, in case any one of them are reading this (as if!), I suggest this as a possible entré into their questioning: “Honorable progressive, how could this happen?”  Hint: Try to refrain from winking, or snickering together like little girls!

Then, await their answer.  When they begin to speak gratuitously about the “hidden agenda” of the Conservatives, and how they’re “racists” and “homophobes” and “war criminals,” don’t print that bit (see, it has utterly nothing to do with anything).  No don’t print it!  I know —it’s counter-intuitive.  I know, you’ll lose any chance at that Pulitzer.  I know, that’s not what’s in your media handbook.  Instead, report how they have no answer with regard to the failure of their own platform on the safety of Canadians.  Finally, try to remember that non-answer next time they bring up gun control and gun registries and such, and report about their non-answer. 

I’m sure this blog entry will help.

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Columns posted at BoldColors.net and .ca

Written by Joel Johannesen on Sunday February 13 2011 at 10:47 AM

The changes continue here at PTBC.

I posted some columns at BoldColors.net and .ca this morning. 

Find Salim Mansur’s weekly column at both, Doug Giles’s at both, Michael Coren’s at .ca (only).  All three hit on the failure of state-sanctioned or state-mandated multiculturalism, as did one of my own blog entries late last week.

Salim_Mansur  Doug_Giles  Michael_Coren

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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Sarah Palin gets bashed by US WEEKLY for remarks; but the source was FAKE

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday February 09 2011 at 06:03 PM

They were duped.  Then they duped a million others.  And so on, and so on.  Thus we have left-wing dopes.

I wrote it up at BOLDCOLORS.NET. 

Amazing.

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Ann Coulter column now at BOLDCOLORS.NET

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday February 09 2011 at 04:05 PM


“Dear Mainstream Media Reporter Who Wasted My Time”

 

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I feel like I’ve said everything.  Hmm.

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday February 09 2011 at 08:34 AM

Lately I read articles in the news and editorials and think, yeah, I’ve been over that a thousand times.

This sort of thing has happened to me several times over the years, but I feel like I’m in the middle of a sort of writer/editorialist Mojave Desert at the moment. 


•  UPDATE:
Remember when, just before 9/11, the big news story was a contrived BS story about a Congressman, Gary Condit, and charges leveled against him about dating and then killing his intern Chandra Levy? 

Maybe that’s what’s going on now.  Even on Fox News, which I can normally count on to bring me the important stuff and keep my ears and mind piqued, is running this story:

I turn to CBC and I literally can’t watch it, it’s so ridiculously boring and glib and buffoonish with its idiotic and left-wing perspective on every single thing, to say nothing of the horrible anchors and delivery generally, its awful overall look, and that droning Eurobeat as they go into and come out of commercials. 

And politicians from the you’ve got to be kidding party, particularly, today, the New Democrat time-waster Charlie Angus and his Montreal comrade-in-waste Thomas Mulcair, I mean come on.  Can Canadian taxpayers get a refund on these guys?  That whole party?  What a waste.


•  CHOO-CHOO ca CHOO.  Or just cah-cah.
I did like this story.  It sounds so… Canadian liberal-left:

“Obama’s High-Speed Sale”

President Obama’s proposed $53-billion more for “high-speed rail” (on top of a previous $10-billion) is a testimony to the power of adjectives.

If it were labeled “plain old rail travel” it would lack the pizazz but would be far more accurate.  Understating costs, overstating benefits, and lots of supersonic rhetoric are the selling points for high-speed rail.

The “high speed” adjective invokes thoughts of bullet trains speeding at 150 mph, 200 mph or more.  The reality of Obama’s plan is—at best—the 85 mph that is the average speed of America’s fastest train, the Amtrak-run Acela. ...

It comes with this video:

.
Coinkidink headline today:
Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano: Terror threat ‘most heightened’ since 9/11

...

•  Hang on…. Nowww We’re Watchin’:
Megyn Kelly

.
•  ... and I just posted this tease at BOLDCOLORS.NET for viewership later today.  So that’s something to look forward to: 


•  Hey here’s some good news, which, by the way, you’ll never see on the CBC or even liberalvision CTV, even if it’s true here in Canada too, which it probably is:

Apparently there’s over 1.5 million home-schooled kids in the U.S. these days, up over 75% over the past eight years. 


•  Currently checking out S.E. Cupp’s new video show on GlennBeck.com.  I like S.E. Cupp and follow her on Twitter.  Very smart, funny….
GlennBeck.com/secupp.  Start with “Glenn Welcomes S.E. Cupp”, wherein one of the best parts is where she talks about how she loves NASCAR, and she has guns.  Then watch the first official show later today.  The vids are free right now, otherwise you have to join GlennBeck.com, which is not the worst thing you could do. 
Watch “Getting To Know…” two-parter…

 


•  I like this TV ad I’ve seen on Fox News Channel and MSNBC and I suppose on CNN and others too.  It’s American, but is not unlike many of the excellent videos put out by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation at least in terms of its political/taxation sentiment.

I couldn’t agree more.

 

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Saturday, February 05, 2011

Union hall madness

Written by Joel Johannesen on Saturday February 05 2011 at 04:48 PM
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Currently at a huge union hall observing a dispatch (from mgmt side). Wild.  There’s actually a labor shortage. Nutty. Glad I’m just a guest.
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Drudge tempers Obamamaniacs: Canada grows more jobs than America.  BUT! (Or rather, butt!)

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday February 04 2011 at 10:03 AM

I don’t recall ever seeing an economics-related thing like this between our two countries.  And this is despite a Canadian Dollar at par with the greenback. You’d expect the exact opposite. 

But there’s a big butt for the Canadian story.  And by butt, I do of course mean butt with a double T as in a big ass.  A big, fat ass which is so big it has a name:  Big Government.  And its own postal codes (which coincides with each province’s capital, and the parliament buildings, which is fitting, because it’s like the big fat ass is sitting on all of Canada and stifling it, and more— make up your own metaphors here).  And like any donut-eater’s huge ass, the Canadian ass is growing bigger.

Private companies boosted their payrolls by 22,700 during the month of January, but government employment increased by 26,400, according to Statistics Canada. 

That’s asinine. That’s what happens in countries led by progressives; and logic dictates that at that rate, eventually most everybody will be working for the government at some point in the future.  And that’s too North Korean for my taste.  It’s ass-backward. 

And speaking of asses, no, Jack Layton and your cabal of socialist you’ve got to be kidding party parrots* screeching variations of the “oh it’s all on the backs of the ‘workers’” canards:  average hourly wages advanced 2.6 percent in January from a year earlier, the fastest pace since May, following a gain of 2.4 percent in December.  Higher than inflation.  And government wages are already higher than most people’s, and certainly higher than my pay or my wife’s.  So put down that hammer and sickle. 

Meanwhile, just to draw some meaning out of the numbers of jobs at play here (which I do as a free bonus to readers), Wal-Mart said last month it will open 40 “supercenters” in Canada by the end of January 2012, creating 9,200 more construction and store jobs.  Progressives have already condemned that.  Because they know so much about business and economics.  To them, if the giant CBC media empire hired 9,200 new people, or if the giant government monopoly Canada Post did, or their Purolator government-owned subdivision did, thus helping crush even more of the little-guy competition, they’d all be simply delighted.

Over the past 12 months, there was more growth in government jobs (+3.4%) than in private sector jobs (+2.5%).  Self-employment declined by 2.3%.

So the good news is cloaked in big-ass danger. 


* UNRELATED:

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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Late night Tweet from @JoelJohannesen: “How libs think”

Written by Joel Johannesen on Thursday February 03 2011 at 10:57 PM
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Like a story from Stupidland. But it’s about Canadian liberals and how they think. And no it’s not a spoof or satire.  http://bit.ly/gc17c1


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