Preemptive Solidarity

Let me be the first to express my support for David Warren in his upcoming Canadian Human Rights Commission inquisition.

No, it hasn't happened yet, I'm just hedging my bets over this.

It's spot on by the way.

From Cap and Trade to Cap in Hand?

Another warning about the great global warming swindle

"Common sense should tell us that good policies produce more in benefits
than they cost us. Unfortunately, common sense has left the building when it
comes to climate policy. "

"Smith found that the annual loss in GDP
would increase to the range of $800 billion to $1 trillion, which is
serious money. By 2020, Smith estimates losses of 1.5 to 3.4 million jobs -- and
that is net jobs, after adjusting for the new "green" jobs that might be created
by the bill."

The recent rumblings of appeasement in the US's Presidential race have me worried that not only has common sense left the building, it isn't even on the planet.

Hold firm America, hold firm.

UNballanced, UNfair, UNinformed, UNbelievable!

UN Watch

“All forms of racism, Zionism and foreign occupation and domination constitute an impediment to human dignity and a major barrier to the exercise of the fundamental rights of peoples; all such practices must be condemned and efforts must be deployed for their elimination.”

"Zionism is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel."

Utilizing a "Human Rights Charter" to call for the extermination of a political movement, or to be clearer, to defy a human right?

Where have I seen that before?

Oh yeah.

Abandon All Hope

As much as the right wing and small “l” liberals in this country wine and wince about the socialist and leftist bend of our educational system we are the ones at fault for abandoning it to them.

Angelo Persichilli gets it. His article comes into focus in this statement…

“They have not simply become the apostles of left-wing culture. Rather, they are
the culture and, according to them, anyone who disagrees with their ideas is a
warmonger, hates the poor, opposes social justice. Their New McCarthyism is
actually McCarthyism in reverse.”

Until such a time as we on the right side of the political aisle in this country get our poop in a group and begin to take responsibility and ownership of the institution of education we will continue to be marginalized, and the democratic and capitalistic institutions that made this nation will continue to suffer at the hands of our children, whos education has been absconded by the socialists and leftists of academia for the common misery of all.

Marxist Pap Indeed

Thanks to Lorrie Goldstein for pointing out the rationality deficit of some of our educators.

"Excellence in schools is widely understood as reproducing 'model students' who
are trained to function within the capitalist economy. Students are not
adequately trained to ask critical questions about social inequalities; what
constitutes 'valid' knowledge; and whose points of view determine the criteria
for meaningful education. Myopic definitions of excellence are entrenched in
middle class values. These definition privilege discourses about merit and the
idea that individual hard work will result in success. The focus on merit and
individuality normalize class oppression and does not question the implications
for working class youths in schools. Critical educators propose a philosophy and
practice of excellence that centres equity and disrupt social inequalities."

If this is the prevalent attitude of our educational boards then there's no wonder that our school system is circling the drain

Read the article

You Cant Spell Unethical...

Without the UN

"Tretyakov, former deputy head of intelligence at Russia's U.N. mission from 1995 to 2000, names some names, but sticks mainly to code names. Among the spies he says he recruited for Russia were a Canadian nuclear weapons expert who became a U.N. nuclear verification expert in Vienna, a senior Russian official in the oil-for-food program and a former Soviet bloc ambassador. He describes a Russian businessman who got hold of a nuclear bomb, and kept it stored in a shed at his dacha outside Moscow."

"An 18-month investigation into the oil-for-food corruption, led by former
Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, culminated in an October 2005 report
accusing more than 2,200 companies from some 40 countries of colluding with
Saddam's regime to bilk the humanitarian program in Iraq of $1.8 billion."

Excellent!

This is just what we need, diversification of markets and more FREE TRADE!

Hubris or Horse Hooey?

Sometimes when I read things printed in and taken as news, and therefore gospel, in this myopic country of ours I wonder if the people writing it really believe the shit they shovel.

A prime example of the self-aggrandizing Canadian navel gazing graced the pages of the Ottawa Citizen today.

"The European media responded to the report with a yawn. At a downtown Paris newsstand, only the London-based Financial Times mentioned the report."

Does Peter O'Neil really believe that when the Canadian government commissions a study about what WE as a nation should do in Afghanistan, that Europe in whole or in part should stand up and take notice? Bullshit. There's a better chance that if Canada as a nation passed gas that it would be noticed by Europe .

Oh, by the way NATO is headquartered in Brussels not Paris.

More Principaled Leadership...

[pedantic socialist]When will it end!!![/pedantic socialist]

I can just hear the socialists whining now, as the government says Canada is not interested in a (another) UN "Gong Show"

Backpedaling From The Truth

After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men, University Scrambles to Clarify

"A separate part of the study, conducted at an AIDS clinic in the city from
2004 to 2006, found that gay men were 13 times more likely to be infected
with MRSA USA300."

So, it's not that the study was false or misleading at all, but that the truth was too hurtful?

Personally I couldn't care less what sexual preference any consenting adult has, but I would hope that whatever it was the person would be honest enough with themselves (and everyone else) to acknowledge any risk associated with it. Isn't this the kind of ostrich like behaviour that led to so many dying of ignorance in the early days of the AIDS epidemic?

Zip’s Laws of Socialism:

Feel free to add your own...

1. The Altruist Effect: Never underestimate the propensity of well intentioned people working in large numbers to create evil.
2. Rule of Consequences: Any effort, program, edict or agenda which has as its stated goal the amelioration of any injustice, inequality, perceived discrimination or hurt shall have a negative consequence equal to or greater than the initial condition.
3. The Oppression Corollary: Any action taken against oppressors in favour of ‘the people’, ‘the working man’ , ‘the disadvantaged’ or any similarly undefined amorphous group shall serve only to create a new more powerful and vicious set of oppressors.
4. The Self-sacrifice Principal: Those who call for self-sacrifice will be the only ones to profit from the sacrifice while sacrificing nothing themselves.
5. The Bureaucracy Connection: The larger and more complex the bureaucracy the greater the danger to freedom.

2+2= ...

Damn! It's been 4 this whole time.

The fact that it has taken this long for some people (predominantly those hiding their heads in the sand on the left side of the barn) to figure out that turning food crops into fuel can and will lead to people starving is absolutely astounding.

ALMOST sounds like Mcarthyism

So much for beyond a reasonable doubt...

"Messages that make use of allegedly true stories, news reports, pictures and references to apparently reputable sources in an attempt to lend an air of objectivity and truthfulness to the extremely negative characterization of the targeted group have been found to be likely to expose members of the targeted group to hatred and contempt."

Article

Rule of Law Missing

Ya figure?

Yeah, Riiiiight...

Why does the phrase "Like a whore in church" come to mind?

Update: Liberalspeak NATO = Diplomatic

Because what sounds like invasion is actually just a really stern talking to

It's All About The...

Oil

You know you live in a Banana Republic when...

$10,000,000 = pocket change.

Welcome to another socialist utopia!

Liberal Newspeak 101: Withdrawal = Invasion

Article

"Mr. Dion can't be serious to suggest NATO "intervene," in another country while
simultaneously saying Canada should abandon its United Nations-mandated NATO
mission in Afghanistan," he said in an e-mail.
"He has to explain to Canadians why he wants an "intervention" but wants to turn his back on
Afghanistan, which has asked and continues to ask for Canada's help. It's inane."

There you have it folks, an all too close look at the workings of Uncle Steph’s brain, where the moral imperative of removing our troops from harms way leads to the invasion of a nuclear power.

When Profit Is A Sin, All We Are Left With Is...

Deadly altruism…

“So giving someone a kidney is a good deed, but selling the same kidney is a
felony.”