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PTBC speed round for Wednesday

1. On today’s news of the Canada’s utterly predictable trade deficit (and yet reported as if it’s an ominous the economy is tanking! shocker) , the self-esteemed and ever erudite Liberal Professor Michael Ignatieff rose in his Parliamentary seat today during question period and spoke from on high (and once again, as Iggy is a Liberal, one can never be sure what I mean by “on high”):

image “Mr. Speaker, the government continues to set records, but of the worst kind.  December saw a 50% increase in personal bankruptcies. January was the worst month for job losses on record. Now in February for the first time in 30 years Canada is running a serious trade deficit … What steps will the Prime Minister take to regain our position as an exporting nation?” 

The distinct impression one gets is that Ignatieff appears ready to lay blame for the global financial crisis on Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Harper, once again. 

As I’ve said before (in fact it was my January 21 blog entry, in which I exposed Ignatieff for trying to lay blame for the financial crisis directly on Mr. Harper —after which he carefully changed his wording), any politician who tries to lay blame for the global financial crisis—or even insinuates it or allows Canadians to glean the same from his words—should immediately be held in UTTER CONTEMPT by all Canadians, and he should be completely disregarded and be considered an intellectually dishonest citizen of this country, unworthy of any political office forever more, much less leadership of the Opposition, and he should be roundly mocked from sea to sea until the end of his days.  Thank you.

Other headline in news:  “American trade deficit drops to US$39.9 billion; lowest in six years” —No word on whether Ignatieff credits his right brain, Barack Obama, for this happy drop in trade deficit, but my guess is that he does—certainly choosing him over Bush.

image  2.  I sort of mentioned this in yesterday’s speed round (#4), kind of.  OBAMA’S LIKE CASTRO!  No not really.  Rush Limbaugh was saying that listening to Obama’s press conference was like listening to Castro, since his answers went on and on and on, and sounded like socialism, writ large.  But not a day later, a liberal-left talk show host on PBS said it seriously, and in complimentary form. 

clip played from TAVIS SMILEY, PBS radio host: “I heard as interesting parallels between your experience back in the day and the experience that many young African-Americans, 17, like you were at one point are having today, 17, 18, and beyond.  And that is, one, this notion of feeling that now we have a guy named Obama in the White House, we have President Obama now, there are many young people who are as ecstatic and as excited and as enthused about President Obama as you were about your new president, Fidel Castro.”

RUSH: For crying out loud, I make a joke about it and here comes PBS actually comparing Obama to Castro, Tavis Smiley, and he’s happy about it!  He compliments Obama.  We’ve got our own Castro!  God help us!

image3.    Things that make you want to say “Oh shut up you freaking idiots”.  The CBC can’t help themselves from being toadies to the trendy, politically-correct, Orwellian, liberalspeak.  Now Valentine’s Day is another day to promote left-wing causes.  It’s news! 

4.   I like this ad running on Fox News Channel today, by Americans for Prosperity:

5.  I liked this poll today at cnews.canoe.ca news site (the correct answer is Stephen Harper):

Which federal parliamentary leader do you find most favourable?
Stephen Harper 49%
Michael Ignatieff 20%
Gilles Duceppe 2%
Jack Layton 4%
None of them 23%
They are all equal 1%

Total Votes for this Question: 3456

image   6. I DIDN’T like this:  “HIDDEN AGENDA” 2.0 —the latest contumelious bloviating by NatPo columnist (and permanent fixture on state-owned CBC’s “Politics” show) Don Martin.  Today he presumed to channel Prime Minister Harper’s inner and most personal thoughts, even gratuitously extending his awesome Harper channeling powers to harness Harper’s personal relationship with his own wife and explain it to the world, while nefariously insinuating that Stephen Harper may actually be planning to quit suddenly (polls like the above, and at least four dozen others, notwithstanding, apparently). 

“If the Prime Minister has an early exit plan, it’s doubtful he’s told anyone, including wife Laureen.”

Nice!  At least, for once, he dropped his incessant caterwauls about Harper being “nasty” and “mean” and “bossy” and “petulant” and other such brilliant insights.  Oh hang on… the above quote was followed up with one o’ these:  “Mr. Harper is, after all, a lousy loser. He petulantly hinted he would…”.  …  Well as long as Mr. Martin isn’t petulant or anything.

7. Yes, for those of you keeping score at home, “contumelious” (as used above in #6) is my PTBC word of the day.  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/contumely

imageimage  8.    I think the University of Calgary, along with other taxpayer-funded universities in Canada like York, have been taken over by far-left extremist loons and are now officially nothing short of liberal-left fascist institutions.  Keep your kids out of those horrible places.  And before hiring anyone who went there, question them really carefully.  Which reminds me to recommend a great book called Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change

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