Climbing Out Of The Dark

Discrimination? What colour are You?

2009-11-27T00:28:00.009-07:00

Funny, our country is multicultural, so why are some better than others? Why is law breaking not equally applied? When has it become a criminal act to carry a Canadian flag?

Well, it appears, it's worthy of arrest in Caledonia. The National Post has been doing an outstanding job of covering the news, like Climategate. Now they increase their readership with yet another great article.

Ontatio police banned Canadian flag in occupied areas of Caledonia, court hears

HAMILTON -- Recent videos of two flag-waving marches along the main street in Caledonia, passing a site that has been occupied by native protesters since 2006, were shown in court on Thursday, starkly highlighting the different reactions of police to aboriginal marchers and Caledonia residents.

The videos make it appear as though the Canadian flag has been outlawed in the area by the Ontario Provincial Police.

The first video (the fourth video on this external website) shows Caledonia resident Randy Fleming walking down the side of Argyll Street South last Victoria Day -- May 24, 2009 -- with a Canadian flag tied to a stick slung over his left shoulder. He saunters on to the edge of the occupied site, at which point he is grabbed by a black-clad OPP officer, escorted a few metres off the site, and is then pounced on by several other officers.

An officer is seen taking the flag from Mr. Fleming, quickly rolling it up and handing it to another officer, who rushes away with it.

Whatever happened to one law for all? The OPP must cringe when they see those videos. I understand that they were operating under orders from above, but deep in their guts, they must have been sick about what they were doing. Standing by and letting one group of people who will NOT fly the Canadian flag, dictating by intimidation, to another group who had no one to turn to because the OPP sat silent.

I can not imagine the trauma suffered by that family. They were stuck because noone would buy their property, not even Dalton who bought up the developers land pretty quick. So, why is the Crown fighting this? How is this couple less worthy of compensation than the developer? Why were they hung out to dry?

Well, I'm in a disadvantaged group,(HA) supposedly, because I'm a female. So, I should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon, be it pepper spray or a gun. I demand that my rights of self protection be heard. If no law covers it, so be it. I will just declare myself a Ukinchuk and demand my rights to self governance, flying a flag my 5 year old just made up. After all I have been in Canada all my life. This of course means I should be able to disobey any Canadian laws I want, because I have been here much longer than anyone younger than me.

Opposition Members Made To Look Idiotic!

2009-11-25T22:41:00.009-07:00

Colvin appears for his testimony with a lawyer to guide him. Our proud military Generals appear with facts and an unwavering conviction that they did everything right. Colvin might have gone outside the Kandahar gates once or twice, with FULL military support. The Generals were on the ground, with the troops on hundreds of occasions.

The opposition is worried about Taliban prisoners, how about they worry about what the Taliban did to their own people, especially women?

The Generals were worried about our troops on the ground. Those troops are risking their lives to protect Afghans from the Taliban.

In 2006 our troops were too busy trying to stay alive to care what happened to the people shooting to kill them. They still treated all prisoners with respect.

Our opposition parties look like they are in support of the Taliban with their little torture committee. It might play to the extreme lefties, but it makes most Canadians sick. The Taliban are despicable, and if you want to see torture, try googling taliban beheading. I am not recommending that anyone click on any of those links, I didn't, I don't have to actually see it to know it happens. Still, maybe someone should make our MP's watch some of those videos so they can get their heads straight, the Taliban are the enemy, not our troops.

General Hillier's testimony should have been embarrassing for the opposition, who mouthed, the required "we respect the troops" and went on to accuse the Generals and our troops of wrong doing. To see the whole thing, click here, it's worth watching.

The opposition have called the Generals liars and they responded back with facts. I would like to know which opposition MP called our Generals liars, because the Generals should sue them. So, who was it? Which MP called Hillier a liar outside of the protection of Parliament? Just because they are MP's should not give them the right to destroy a person's reputation for partisan reasons.

Preventing Ambassador Mulroney from testifying, is just playing political games. The opposition only want one side of the story presented. Do they understand that real lives are at stake in war? The lives of our troops are way more important than any "supposed" torture of the Taliban prisoners by Afghans. The Generals made that perfectly clear today.

Quit it, you are making yourselves look like idiots.

Global Warming Exposed!

2009-11-24T22:19:00.003-07:00

The MSM is in lockdown, they are waiting for instructions from Al Gore and Suzuki. So all is quiet on the Canadian front, except for bloggers, who are blasting the news that we have been lied to by the econuts. Most Conservative bloggers already knew that, why didn't the lefties?

Talk about deniers, we have taxpayer funded CBC that has yet to even mention the hacking. The left are the deniers, they refuse to acknowledge that the science is not settled. They deny scientists the opportunity to publish their papers showing that the planet is not warming. It's all in the emails that the MSM refuse to write any articles about, for fear of.....what? They are the enablers. They have shouted about drowning polar bears and rising ocean levels, without any statistically, scientifically supported evidence. Computer models are only as good as the data that is input, and from the emails, it sure sounds like the data was corrupted.

I want to make sure that the National Post gets recognized for being just about the only Canadian media to cover this story.

Many bloggers are covering this. Here are two to start with:

Small Dead Animals, Kate has a huge list for you to read.

Sort of Political, Springer has some excellent videos.

Speaking of videos, here are two that you might have seen before, but they are both on topic and funny!

Global warming, not such a bad thing!

Liberalism, An Idea Gone Bad.

2009-11-23T22:28:00.008-07:00

From Dion's wife slagging the Liberals, to global warming emails exposing global warming supporters for what they really are, frauds, the lefties are taking hit after hit.

Now Liberals are trying to out special interest group the Conservatives.

Tory MP apologizes for erroneous flyer

Good for him, but has the Toronto Liberal Star mentioned any of these Liberal 10 percenters that need to be apologized for? The Liberal 10 percenters are way more offensive than anything the Conservatives have done, but you won't hear that from the lame stream media.

More here.

So the latest is all about those prisoners being turned over to Afghanistan jails and maybe being tortured. (Didn't we do this like 2 years ago?) The lefties really think they are on to something here, but as per usual, they have no clue what the Timmies crowd is thinking. Most of us are thinking....who really cares?

Here is an interesting insight into the opposition. They are shouting about Colvin (a bureaucrat), and torture...not even alleged torture, but they refuse to listen to an Ambassador.

NDP, Libs, BQ say no Mulroney testimony on Afghan detainees without documents

After hearing his "professionalism" questioned by former subordinate Richard Colvin last week, David Mulroney sent a letter to the House of Commons Special Committee on the Mission in Afghanistan offering to testify to "set the record straight." That's no light offer from Mulroney as his current job is Ambassador to China. Mulroney, in fact, was en route, my sources tell me, from Beijing to Ottawa late Monday night in expectation that he would get a chance to testify on Thursday.

Not so fast.

Opposition MPs tabled a notice of motion late tonight that will get voted on when the Committee meets Wednesday (a meeting at which they'll hear testimony from Gen. Rick Hillier and others). The motion is from NDP MP Paul Dewar but I'm told the Liberals were ready to table one that was mighty similar and, basically, it tells the government that Mulroney ain't testifying until the committee gets a pile of documents that they've been asking for for ages.

So, it's NOT about torture, it's all about political jockeying. The opposition MP's are showing their agenda, they only want to listen to people supporting lefties. They do not care about the truth, the truth is inconvenient, just like the fact that global warming is not occurring.

I find their behaviour despicable. It just makes the Timmies crowd mad, and more intent on electing a Conservative majority next election. These juvenile games must stop, and the only way to stop them is with a Conservative majority. Majority is not a bad word anymore, and if Quebec doesn't understand what side their bread is buttered on, too bad.

Liberalism, an idea gone bad. Send the lefties a message. They are the dinosaurs not the Conservatives.

Smear The Conservative Bully Boys!

2009-11-22T22:31:00.007-07:00

This article by Weston is a typical smear the Conservatives article. Weston has his opinion, here is my response.

Comment Columnists / Greg Weston
Feds stick to see-no-evil script

Conservative bully-boys put the boots to Colvin over his Afghanistan bombshell

If you believe Stephen Harper's bully boys putting the boots to Colvin this past week, the former top political attache in Afghanistan and now deputy intelligence chief in Washington has no credibility. Who's telling the truth? You be the judge.

In April 2006, Colvin began a 17-month posting in Afghanistan as political director and deputy ambassador, one of only two officials there with access to the Canadian government's hyper-secure "C4" communications network.

So, Colvin began a 17 month posting in April of 2006. The Conservatives won the election in January. The Liberals signed the original prisoner agreement, they are the ones responsible for the prisoner transfer rules. Is Colvin telling us the Liberals did nothing about the prisoners? Weston doesn't mention the Liberals and their Taliban prisoners. Funny that. Weston is a sad little supposed reporter, not of the news, but of Liberal issues that need propping up.

More likely, the Harper government was just trying to cover up the whole thing -- sacrificing Canadian lives to bring torture to Afghanistan isn't exactly the stuff to inspire public support. Indeed, Colvin claims various superiors in Ottawa tried to get him to drop the detainee issue, but he persisted.

You sad little Liberal toady.... Sacrificing Canadian lives? It was Chretien who sent our troops into battle in green fatigues. It was the Liberals who set up the transfer arrangement. It was Liberals who refused to fund our military so that they could only die for our country.

A month after he arrived, Colvin issued his first of several dozen reports detailing concerns about Canadian forces turning over Afghan prisoners to "serious, imminent and alarming" abuse at the hands of local authorities.

Colvin reported his sources were "highly credible," adding he also "obtained first-hand reports of torture and personally saw evidence of injuries related to torture suffered by detainees."

Did Colvin, personally ever go to an Afghan jail to verify his claims? Did Colvin ever personally see an Afghan prisoner tortured? Did Colvin ever talk directly to Hillier? Did Colvin ever directly talk to Minister O'Conner? Did Colvin ever talk to the tooth fairy when he was younger?

Of course, it is possible the bureaucrats kept the potentially explosive detainee issue to themselves to give their political masters "plausible deniability" if it blew up.

More likely, the Harper government was just trying to cover up the whole thing -- sacrificing Canadian lives to bring torture to Afghanistan isn't exactly the stuff to inspire public support. Indeed, Colvin claims various superiors in Ottawa tried to get him to drop the detainee issue, but he persisted.

Let's see, the bureaucrats had been hired by the Liberals. Remember that the Conservatives only won government in January of 2006, this is April, only 4 months later. Weston spews about "plausible deniability". How about the bureaucrats wanting to make the Conservative government look bad. We all know that the foreign affairs department resents any restraints on their power. Colvin is a bureaucrat.

Canada's then top general Rick Hillier wrote in his recently released book that "we lost confidence that basic, reasonable measures were in place to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners."

Hillier bluntly rejects claims by Harper's officials that the PM was kept in the dark on the issue. Even to this day, despite Colvin's 17 months of memos, Harper and his ministers continue to plead ignorance.

I wonder if Weston can be called on his article. Given our freedom of speech laws, I suspect he can spew anything he wants to, but the fun thing is that I can spew as much as he does. He might have a bigger audience, but my audience is dedicated to our cause. Yikes that sounds NDP'ish.

Weston loses all credibility when he labels Conservatives "Bully Boys". He is a typical name calling Liberal, just like all my trolls. Too bad he isn't an unbiased journalist, most blogger are better than he is.

Is He A Muslim?

2009-11-22T00:56:00.004-07:00

I really don't know, but he doesn't help himself by supporting them.

There are some obvious cutoffs to make him seem more radical, but so many statements in only a year makes all those statements more powerful.

I started out saying that I liked Obama as a person, but didn't like his policies. I now understand that he is as phony as a $3 bill. He is an empty suit. He is a disaster. He is the American Dion/Iggy.

Thank goodness that Canadians are waking up to what far left Liberals/NDP have done to our country, and they are fighting back. Quebec separatists are taking a pounding as well. Could we finally have a country that is working together for all Canadians?

H/T to Jen.

Friday Night Funnies: Amazing Math Quiz

2009-11-20T23:01:00.012-07:00

Take your positions, sit back with a glass of wine, or if you are reading this in the morning, your coffee, and enjoy.
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The FUN Theory:

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I got this new deodorant today.
The instructions said remove cap and push up bottom.
I can barely walk, but whenever I fart the room smells wonderful.
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Two old guys were talking and one says, just had my 85th birthday, and the
wife gave me a SUV.
Great says the other guy, what a gift.
Yep, socks, underwear and viagra.
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This amazing math quiz can likely predict which of 18 films you would enjoy the most. Don't ask me how.

Pick a number from 1-9.
Multiply by 3.
Add 3.
Multiply by 3 again.

Now add the two digits together to find your predicted favorite movie in the list of 18 movies below.

Mine was "Jurassic Park" - exactly right! So be honest, and do it before you scroll down to see the list below. It's easy and it works.
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A car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it. It read: "Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".
Read it. You won’t believe what it said. ><>
Psalm 109:8
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
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1. Gone With The Wind
2. E.T.
3. Beverly Hills Cop
4. Star Wars
5. Forrest Gump
6. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
7. Jaws.
8. Grease
9. The Joy of Anal Goat Sex
10. Casablanca
11. Jurassic Park
12. Shrek
13. Pirates of the Caribbean
14. Titanic
15. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
16. Home Alone
17. Mrs. Doubtfire
18. Toy Story
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I know everyone reading this will enjoy it - no matter which sex you are.
This morning on the Interstate, I looked over to my left and there was a

Woman

In a brand new Cadillac
Doing 65 mp h

With her Face up next to her

Rear view mirror

Putting on her eyeliner.

I looked away

For a couple seconds!

And when I looked back she was

Halfway over in my lane,

Still working on that makeup.

As a man,

I don't scare easily.

But she scared me so much;
I dropped

My electric shaver ,

Which knocked

The donut

Out of my other hand. !

In all The confusion of trying
To straighten out the car

Using my knees against
The steering wheel,

It knocked

My Cell Phone

Away from my ear

Which fell

Into the coffee

Between my legs!

Splashed,

And burned

Big Jim and the Twins,

Ruined the damn phone,

Soaked my trousers,

And disconnected an
Important call.

Damn women drivers
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Kate from SDA's will love this one:

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Your time wasting game for this week: Sonic...use your space bar to get anywhere!

Have a great weekend everyone!

To Divorce Or Not To Divorce? That Is The Question.

2009-11-19T22:05:00.007-07:00

Remember the 60's? That was the age of flower children and drugs and freedom from the bra. Feminists had a goal and they achieved it. Abortions. Equality. Getting out of the kitchen. They had a purpose. I might disagree with the abortion position, but they did a lot to advance the cause of females, for that I applaud them.

Where are they now? Or, I should say, what are they now? What is a feminist these days? They have achieved all their goals, but they are so addicted to their cause they refuse to acknowledge they have become irrelevant.

One of the most harmful things that feminists have achieved is abortion. What Mother cuts her baby into pieces, legally? Do they feel better because it is legal? I don't think so. Maybe in the 60's when it was taboo to be pregnant out of wedlock, it was an issue, especially before birth control. Today, we even have the morning after pill, so why does any woman have to have an abortion? It should be a non-issue in this day and age. Feminists are lazy, they can't even get off their butts in the morning to take the morning after pill.

Feminists need to get out of the 60's. Our bodies, our choice? How about you engage your brains and stop having unprotected sex.

Another thing the 60's feminists brought us was divorce. Don't like the guy you married anymore because he leaves the toilet seat up, divorce him. It's about me, and my feelings. The pioneers stayed married, raised families and thrived. Our society right now is sick. We have more fatherless homes by the day. Our children need both parents, they need stability, they need both Mom and Dad. Our courts refuse to acknowledge that fact because feminists have convinced them that children only need Mom, and that Dad is only the wallet. That is discrimination against Dad.

Barbara Kay: Sticking it out in marriage is a good thing

Why did the numbers start going down? One reason, which the study notes, is the tendency for people to marry later. But I would also tie both the divorce peak and its diminution to the rise and decline of militant feminism’s influence. Seventy percent of divorces are initiated by women. Feminism of the man-dismissive type was a strong influence in the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the 90s, however, third-wave feminism relegated the man-haters to the fringes of the movement, and marriage regained respectability as an institution. I predict the numbers will go further down when Canada finally institutes equal parenting as the default custodial policy, as it has in jurisdictions where that is presently the case.

If you get married because the sex is good, you are an idiot. Marriage is about a long term commitment, especially when kids are involved. Don't like the way the guy squeezes the toothpaste tube? How shallow can you be? This trend is only going to get worse, because generation X is all about me, not us.

I've Been Chuckling Ever Since I Read This....

2009-11-18T22:12:00.010-07:00

(Yikes polar bears kill seals....who knew?)

It is just so right on so many levels. At first I thought it was an April Fools joke. I'm still not sure that they are going to do this, but if they do, it will be awesome.

G7 ministers to meet in Arctic, kick sand in face of G20 wimps

That should have been "snow" not "sand", then it would have been the perfect headline.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Top finance officials from the G7 countries will meet in the remote Arctic town of Iqaluit on Feb 5-6 but may not issue a communique, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the world's most industrialized countries will gather to coordinate global economic policy in Canada's northernmost territorial capital, an isolated town of 7,000 people.

"The February meeting will return to the G7's roots with a more frank and focused dialogue," Flaherty said in a statement. "In an ever-changing global economy, the G7 will continue to evolve, with a focus not on paper but on people -- not on communiques and accords, but on constructive dialogue on actions to strengthen the global economy." (Reporting by Louise Egan)

"In the ever changing global economy", "return to the G7 roots", "focused dialogue"? As a Canadian, you have to laugh, because these G7 finance Ministers have no idea what they are getting into.

Let's take this one point at a time.

Ever changing global economy...code for climate change/global warming.

So, let's get some of those guys up to the Arctic in the dead of winter to watch the ice melting, after they fly for 4 hours from Montreal over nothing but snow and ice. Then they land in -40C+ weather, and are glad for the heated buildings. Bet they will be glad they don't have to rely on wind turbines and solar up there, seeing as the sun goes down around 3:30, and if the wind fails to generate power, you freeze to death.

Return to the G7 roots....code for get some work done.

When you can't go out on the beach and watch the pretty girls, you will have to actually get to the meetings and do some work. The odd dog sled run or snowmobile ride is not going to cut into the meetings.

Focused dialogue...code for cut the BS.

It's hard to talk about sending BILLIONS to undeveloped countries for help with global warming when you are just hoping and praying that the heat won't cut out. Maybe they should invite Al Gore to the meetings, let him explain how the Arctic is melting, and the Northwest Passage will be open next year. Maybe he could even go out on an ice flow and ask the polar bears how they are doing, but they might be too busy killing seals to answer.

Speaking of seals, how are the Europeans going to feel about eating them? Maybe that should be all that is on the menu, seal soup, seal meatloaf, seal jerky, seal cake (okay that's going a little to far)...what can they do? Leave in a blizzard in protest?

Oh, and how about those protesters that dog any G7 meeting? I would love to see a greenie out in minus 40 weather dressed as a polar bear. It might be a tad difficult for the protesters to disrupt this meeting. If they try, let them go count polar bears out on the ice, see if they really are endangered.

Do those finance Ministers have any idea what they are in for? They can see Greenland from there! HA! Do they have any idea how far north they are going to be in the dead of winter? They will get to see the biggest and best light show on earth, the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. They are so amazing the Ministers might actually forget about how cold it is in awe of the dancing lights. I watch them for hours, they are hypnotic.

It appears that rooms are being booked quickly so, if you want to vacation for a few days, 250 kilometers from the Arctic circle in February, for some reason, you better book now.

Why did the government choose Iqaluit for the destination for the G7 finance Ministers? Is it to show them that the Arctic is not melting and the Northwest Passage is not going to be open anytime soon? Or do they want to make it perfectly clear that the Arctic (and Santa) are ours? Whatever the motives, it's going to be fun to watch!
Further reading.

I'm Sponsoring All My Relatives Now!

2009-11-17T22:05:00.008-07:00

Hey Vlad, come on down! Let's open up our doors even further, why not let sponsors renege on their commitments? That's a great idea! I can bring in all my Ukrainian/Polish relatives and when they go on welfare, I can now wash my hands of them. Nice.

Court gives sponsors chance to avoid paying for immigrants on assistance

First, look closely at the text below the picture...2205?? Yikes, things haven't changed much since 2009!

An Ontario court has ruled in favour of a group of residents who said they should not automatically be made to pay for relatives they sponsored to immigrate to Canada, despite having pledged to do so, in a decision that could have costly implications due to the number of such immigrants who seek social assistance.

The landmark ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says the provincial government must consider the circumstances of immigrant sponsors and use "case-by-case discretion" when deciding whether to demand sponsors pay back the money their family members collect.

Appeal court Justices Janet Simmons, S.E. Lang and John Laskin wrote that Canada and Ontario "owe sponsors a duty of procedural fairness when enforcing sponsorship debt."

Hey judges, how about the sponsors OWE Canada and Ontario payment for sponsoring a do nothing relative who wants to live the good life in Canada, on the taxpayers back? How about some fairness to the CANADIAN taxpayer? You judges ever think about that?

So, I sponsor someone, they come over, sit around on my couch, claim poverty and get welfare. I then go to the courts and also cry poverty, and the problem is solved. No one has to take responsibility for the new guy, except us taxpayers. We have to work hard and pay taxes so we can support those new immigrants. Does anyone see the problem here, or is it only me?

However, some legal observers said the ruling has pricey implications, since the Ontario government provides millions of dollars worth of social assistance every year to sponsored relatives, and a case-by-case analysis could carry a hefty administrative price tag.

So far this year, about 5,000 sponsored immigrants have applied for social assistance in Ontario, according to the Ministry of Community and Social Services, with a cost of about $56-million. About $45-million of that has been covered by the province and the rest by municipalities. A spokesperson said $13.7-million has been paid back. Ministry spokesperson Sandy Mangat said the government tries to come up with a voluntary repayment plan, and if all else fails goes to the Canada Revenue Agency to route tax credits to cover the debt.

What tax credits, they are on social assistance? Lawyers must love these judges, they give them a whole new avenue of money sucking from taxpayers. This is another gun registry in the making.

"The idea was to control abuse, because before this mechanism existed, there was a tendency for a small number of people to import family relations to Canada for the express purpose of taking undue advantage of our welfare system, chronic care homes, what have you," said Mr. Kurland. The sponsorship system made sponsors share the overall economic burden, which curtailed this kind of abuse.

He said the creation of a "case-by-case determination system" would create "humongous administrative overhead" and weigh down any collection system.

"It just begs the question, should we be having case-by-case determination for the relatively small number of cases like this? Or could we be a little smarter, and adopt the Quebec system where the sponsor gives a 100% guarantee to pay, with no excuses possible?" said Mr. Kurland.

Finally something I can agree with from Quebec, 100% guarantee to pay. These judges need to get their heads straight. I am so tired of bleeding heart lefties that are quick to spend my tax dollars. I am calling Vladimir right now to get him into the country, he will be thrilled to sponge off of Canadians with social assistance for the rest of his life. I have hundreds of relatives just like Vlad!

Bad PM, Bad, Bad PM, Now Sit and Stay!

2009-11-16T21:06:00.007-07:00

Good Boy! HA! Okay so far, the lefties refuse to say good boy. They are still trying to train the PM to OBEY their commands. How's that working for you lefty reporters? Readership dropping?

PM Harper's iron message control working

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has become legend for the iron control he exerts not only over the messages his government sends out over the heads of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, but also the messages his staff and MPs project.

Over the heads?? Meaning that PM Harper should bow down to the reporters in the parliamentary press gallery? Who are you but some journalist hacks with an agenda? Why should the PM care about your hurt feelings?

The PMO issues-management unit, whose job it is to get on top of breaking developments even before they break, was meeting every morning at 6 a.m. The schedule was so gruelling one of the young staffers complained to another he was going to bed at 9 p.m. each night, adding "and I'm not 80 years old."

Liberals in the Opposition Leader's Office, meanwhile, were beginning their daily strategy and tactics meetings at 8:30 a.m. as swine flu developments dominated Question Period. The comparison of schedules demonstrates the intensity of discipline that now envelopes Harper and his staff.

So, what we have here are lazy Liberals and said reporter, who can't be bothered to get their butts out of bed early enough to catch the worm, then they complain that the worm has been eaten and they didn't get their share of it. Too funny!

For at least two years, following his battle with the press gallery in 2006, Harper has snubbed the front door of the Commons for Question Period. He established a covert route to get to the Chamber from his third-floor Centre Block office, ducking down through a narrow hallway behind the public gallery atop the west side of the Chamber, down a small staircase, and then scuttling into the government lobby through a back door across from the House Speaker's Chamber.

Arriving and leaving the Centre Block, his motorcade now pulls up beside a renovated House Speaker's entrance at the West side of the building. Harper whisks in and out as his sun-glassed Mountie bodyguards give cover.

I suspect this reporter has Harper envy, plus I think he wants cool shades like the Mounties. Given the juvenile slant to this article, is it any wonder that PM Harper would ignore the "Parliamentary Press Gallery". Notice how the press, gives the "Parliamentary Press Gallery" capitals? As if they are up there with the actual Parliament. Talk about delusions of lefties.

Harper's stubborn insistence on managing his scrums and news conferences through deputy communications director Dimitri Soudas appears to have worn down members of the press gallery executive, who up to a year ago were firing off letters of complaint almost monthly.

Gallery President Helene Buzzetti says the struggle came to be too draining, a distraction from work, and there has only been one tentative exchange with Harper's new communications director, John Williamson. Nothing has come of it so far.

Look you little babies, maybe Canadians are sick and tired of your endless whining, like this whole article. Maybe Canadians are not buying your papers because we are sick and tired of being told by reporters how we should think. The days of people getting one paper delivered to their home and watching only taxpayer funded CBC are over. We have lots of access to thousands of newspapers online, add blogs into the equation and your paper is dead unless you provide interesting unbiased articles. This article is a sad biased attempt to make our PM look like a control freak. We are not buying that garbage anymore. The polls show it.

True Patriot Love!

2009-11-15T22:55:00.006-07:00

It seems that everyone, including Obama listens to out Prime Minister.

Funny I can't remember seeing this in the news...

Hey, even ex-PM Martin was there. Remembrance Day attendance has increased dramatically, why? Could it be that the Conservative government shows active support for our troops. Yes, I know that our troops are leaving in 2011...unless Obama (God of lefties) asks for us to stay. I would like them to stay and help the Afghan people, especially the young ladies.

A Prez who hates his country .... sad days ahead for Americans HT to Dodo Can Spell.

It will be difficult to "change" anything while Obama is in control. Change as Americans are finding out is not always a good thing.

True patriot love? Hard to have Patriot love when the President of your country seems to hate his own country. Something is out of whack with America, and they better get it right in 2010 because it affects Canada.

True patriot love? Canada needs to get that love going. It seems like we only get patriotic when the Olympics are running. Maybe we should remind everyone about how great Canada is everyday, not just during the Olympics. If Canada was such a bad country, like the econuts tell us, why are people from everywhere on the planet trying to get into our country?

True patriot love! You bet. Love our country or get out.

Let's Swing Into Cheating!

2009-11-14T22:30:00.005-07:00

We all know that swingers clubs are legal in Canada. What's the harm? Consenting married couples go to a club and have sex with other consenting married couples. It spices up their sex life and allows them to spread the love around. No drinks are served so 16 and 17 year olds are allowed, just to add extra spice. It's not illegal, it's not prostitution because no money is exchanged, and it's not immoral because the courts have ruled that it is okay. Nice.

Now, the new craze is to cheat on your partner to spice up your marriage. That's right, cheat and enrich your marriage. Who knew?

Cheating makes 'better partners,' infidelity guru says

His wife obviously agrees as this picture shows:

Look closely at her eyes, she is so happy about the cheating she can barely contain herself. Every woman must be jealous of her and her progressive husband. Watch the video at the link, then tell me how happy she is about his "business".

"I think people who have affairs are totally misunderstood and for the most part they're people who are suffering. They're really lonely within their own marriage and when you're lonely there's a biological driver that's going to make you act out to change that," Biderman said earlier this week in an interview with Canada AM.

"So they tend to have affairs, they have dalliances, and often it makes them better partners, better parents, better bosses, better employees. It's hard for people to accept that, but it's the truth."

This guy has no concept of what commitment actually means in a marriage. An affair makes someone a "better" partner? What happened to "tell death do us part"? I can tell you if my hubby cheated on me, he would be booted out of my life so fast he wouldn't know what happened to him. Luckily he knows I'm a better shot then he is! (That's for you progressives, who hate guns, but think cheating and swinging is "cool".)

Dr. Carole Lieberman -- Beverly Hills psychiatrist and author of "Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them and When to Leave Them" -- disagrees that cheating strengthens relationships.

On one hand, cheating "can make a dull marriage more exciting, at least temporarily," Lieberman told CTV.ca in an email interview.

"But, in the end, most marriages suffer terribly from cheating and ultimately break apart because of the loss of respect and trust."

Respect and trust. If progressives think it's okay to have swingers clubs and to cheat, do they have any concept of what actually makes a marriage work? Are these finally the illusive Liberal values we have been hearing about?

The comments are interesting, read them all!

This person needs some help, I know a good shrink that maybe able to help him. I have been married for 36 years and in all honesty I have not had a desire to go to bed with another woman. I did all of my running around before I was married. I see marriage as a commitment between two people,if there is no commitment then what is the purpose of getting married? Our society needs help in the worst way, but not from someone like him. In marriage for the first few years it is all about sex after that it becomes respect and trust in your partner and the longer it goes the more of a friend that person becomes. If you want to cheat, stay single and do your own thing,so you can go on without hurting anyone especially children, who are the most affected by break ups.

Religion gets slammed by the progressives all the time, maybe it's time for those with morals to stand up and tell the progressives that cheating is not ever good for a marriage.

Friday Night Funnies: CHICKS

2009-11-13T22:23:00.010-07:00

Does it seem to anyone else that we had two Mondays this week? Having Wednesday off messed up my whole schedule. Let's begin....
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Farmer John lived on a quiet rural highway.
But, as time went by, the traffic
Slowly built up at an alarming rate.
The traffic was so heavy and so fast that his
Chickens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day.

So one day Farmer John called the sheriff's office
And said, "You've got to do something about all
Of these people driving so fast and killing all of my chickens."

"What do you want me to do?" asked the sheriff.
"I don't care, just do something about those crazy drivers!"
So the next day he had the county workers
Go out and erected a sign that said:

SLOW:
SCHOOL CROSSING

Three days later Farmer John called the sheriff
And said, "You've got to do something about these drivers.
The 'school crossing' sign seems to make them go even faster."
So, again, the sheriff sends out the county
Workers and they put up a new sign:

SLOW:
CHILDREN AT PLAY

That really sped them up. So Farmer John called
And called and called every day for three weeks.
Finally, he asked the sheriff, "Your signs are
Doing no good.. Can I put up my own sign?"
The sheriff told him, "Sure thing, put up your own sign.."
He was going to let Farmer John do just about
Anything in order to get him to stop calling everyday to complain.

The sheriff got no more calls from Farmer John.
Three weeks later, curiosity got the best of the
Sheriff and he decided to give Farmer John a call..
"How's the problem with those drivers.
Did you put up your sign?"

"Oh, I sure did. And not one chicken has been
killed since then. I've got to go. I'm very busy."
He hung up the phone.
The sheriff was really curious now and he thought to
Himself, "I'd better go out there and take a
Look at that sign... It might be something that
WE could use to slow down drivers..."

So the sheriff drove out to Farmer John's house,
And his jaw dropped the moment he saw the sign.
It was spray painted on a sheet of wood....

NUDIST COLONY
Go slow and watch out for chicks!
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Speaking of chicks....

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Texas Cowboy

A Lady went into a bar in Waco and saw a cowboy with his feet propped up
on a table. He had the biggest boots she'd ever seen.

The woman asked the cowboy if it's true what they say about men with big
feet being well endowed. The cowboy grinned and said, 'Shore is, little lady.
Why don't you come on out to the bunkhouse and let me prove it to you?'

The woman wanted to find out for herself, so she spent the night with
him. The next morning she handed him a $100 bill.

Blushing, he said, 'Well, thankya, ma'am. Ah'm real flattered. Ain't
nobody ever paid me fer mah services before.'

'Don't be flattered... take the money and buy yourself some boots that fit.
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Do you need eye glasses?

Look slowly and carefully at the picture below:

Did you see the a$$ of the girl in the back?

If you did, then you need to have your EYES CHECKED you TWISTED old Fart!
That's the shoulder of the girl in front of her.
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Something else to worry about ...

I'm not really concerned about swine flu. Here's my concern.

• 3 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the cow . . . Mad Cow disease.

• 2 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the bird . . . Avian flu.

• This year, Chinese calendar year of the pig . . . Swine flu.

Next year is the year of the cock - Anybody else worried?
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Puppy Whistler:

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How Blonde Was She???

She was Soooooooo Blonde ..
* She thought a quarterback was a refund.
* She thought General Motors was in the army.
* She thought Meow Mix was a CD for cats.
* She thought Boyz II Men was a day care center.
* At the bottom of an application where it says "Sign here:" she wrote "Sagittarius."

She Was Soooooooooooooo Blonde...
* She took the ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
* She sent a fax with a stamp on it.
* Under "education" on her job application, she put "Hooked On Phonics."

She was Sooooooooooooooooo Blonde.....
* She tripped over a cordless phone.
* She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice can because it said "Concentrate."
* She told me to meet her at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T WALK."
* She tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order.

She was Soooooooooooooooooooo Blonde...
* She studied for a blood test.
* She sold the car for gas money.
* When she missed bus #44 she took bus #22 twice instead.
* When she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home.

She Was Sooooooooooooooooooooo Blonde...
* When she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
* She thought if she spoke her mind, she'd be speechless.
* She thought that she could not use her AM radio in the evening.
* She had a shirt that said "TGIF," which she thought stood for "This Goes In Front."

AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE:

She is sooooooooooooooooo Blonde...

She thinks Taco Bell is the Mexican phone company.
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Dating in 1961:

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THE RULES OF RURAL ALBERTA:

LISTEN UP CITY SLICKERS!!!!
1. PULL YOUR DROOPY PANTS UP. YOU LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.

2. TURN YOUR CAP RIGHT, YOUR HEAD ISN'T CROOKED.

3. LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT; IT'S CALLED A 'DIRT ROAD.' NO MATTER HOW SLOW YOU DRIVE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET DUST ON YOUR LEXUS. DRIVE IT OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

4. THEY ARE CATTLE. THEY'RE LIVE STEAKS. THAT'S WHY THEY SMELL FUNNY TO YOU, GET OVER IT.

5. SO YOU HAVE A $60,000 CAR. WE'RE IMPRESSED. WE HAVE $150,000 HAY BALERS THAT ARE DRIVEN ONLY 3 WEEKS A YEAR.

6. SO EVERY PERSON IN RURAL CANADA WAVES. WE THINK OF IT AS BEING FRIENDLY. TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT.

7. IF THAT CELL PHONE RINGS WHILE AN 8-POINT BUCK AND 3 DOES ARE COMING IN, WE WILL SHOOT IT OUT OF YOUR HAND. YOU BETTER HOPE YOU DON'T HAVE IT UP TO YOUR EAR AT THE TIME.

8. YEAH, WE EAT TATERS & GRAVY, BEANS & MEAT. WE FRY OUR FISH AFTER 'CATCH IN' 'EM'. YOU REALLY WANT SUSHI & CAVIAR? IT'S AVAILABLE AT THE CORNER BAIT SHOP.

9. THE 'OPENER' REFERS TO THE FIRST DAY OF DEER SEASON. IT'S A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY JUST AFTER REMEMBRANCE DAY.

10. WE OPEN DOORS FOR WOMEN. THAT IS APPLIED TO ALL WOMEN, REGARDLESS OF AGE.

11. NO, THERE'S NO 'VEGETARIAN SPECIAL' ON THE MENU. ORDER STEAK. OR YOU CAN ORDER THE CHEF'S SALAD AND PICK OFF THE 2 POUNDS OF HAM & TURKEY.

12. WHEN WE FILL OUT A TABLE, THERE ARE THREE MAIN DISHES: MEATS (INCLUDES FISH), VEGETABLES, AND BREADS. WE USE FOUR SPICES: SALT, PEPPER, HOT SAUCE AND KETCHUP. OH, YEAH...WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU FOLKS IN TORONTO CALL THAT STUFF YOU EAT...IT AIN'T REAL FOOD!!!!

13. YOU BRING 'COKE' INTO MY HOUSE, IT BETTER BE BROWN, WET AND SERVED OVER ICE.

14. YOU BRING 'MARY JANE' INTO MY HOUSE, SHE BETTER BE CUTE, KNOW HOW TO SHOOT, AND HAVE LONG HAIR.

15. COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY IS AS IMPORTANT HERE AS THE LEAFS AND THE HABS, AND A DANG SITE MORE FUN TO WATCH.

16. YEAH, WE HAVE GOLF COURSES. BUT DON'T HIT THE WATER HAZARDS---IT SPOOKS THE FISH.

17. COLLEGES? WE HAVE THEM ALL OVER. WE HAVE UNIVERSITIES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND VO-TECHS. THEY COME OUTTA THERE WITH AN EDUCATION PLUS A LOVE FOR GOD AND COUNTRY, AND THEY STILL WAVE AT EVERYBODY WHEN THEY COME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

18. WE HAVE A WHOLE TON OF FOLKS IN THE ARMY, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE. SO DON'T MESS WITH US. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL GET WHIPPED BY THE BEST.

19. TURN DOWN THAT BLASTED CAR STEREO! THAT THUMPITY-THUMP CRAP AIN'T MUSIC, ANYWAY. WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT ANYMORE THAN WE WANT TO SEE YOUR BOXERS. REFER BACK TO #1.

20. 4 INCHES ISN'T A BLIZZARD-IT'S A FLURRY. DRIVE LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE IN IT, AND DON'T TAKE ALL OUR BREAD, MILK, AND TOILET PAPER FROM THE GROCERY STORES. THIS AIN'T THE YUKON, WORST CASE YOU MAY HAVE TO LIVE A WHOLE DAY WITHOUT CROISSANTS. THE PICKUPS WITH SNOW BLADES WILL HAVE YOU OUT THE NEXT DAY.
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It's very quiet in our house right now, I haven't been without a dog since I was in grade 2.

The Perfect Woman and The Perfect Man!

And for your stupid time wasting game, try Simpsons Naked Skate.

Have a great weekend.

How They Have Grown!

2009-11-12T22:48:00.012-07:00

We have seen our Prime Minister's hair get noticeably grayer, and his weight go up and down, but let's look at what Ben and Rachel have been up to.

Here they are greeting their father during the 2006 campaign. They are so young.

Here they are celebrating the 2006 win with their Mom and Dad:

Look at what they have been up to lately...growing up! This is just before they met the Pope. I suspect Ben and Rachel fight just like any siblings, but Ben will take special care of his sister, which probably drives her nuts!

Ben is taller than his Mom now. Both my boys are taller than me, one by more than a foot!

They are growing up right in front of our eyes. What we see from the Harper family are well adjusted kids growing up just like our kids. We can identify with the Harper family.

This photo is outstanding, look at it closely:

PM Harper naturally holds out his hand and both ladies just as naturally reach for it. This photo tells the tale about our PM. He is a strong person that women will reach out for because they understand when someone offers them a safe haven. Every time you see the PM with his daughter Rachel, he is holding her hand...this will change soon, so he should enjoy it while he can.

Make no mistake, Laureen is no pushover cupcake. She is the force behind our PM. I think she out feminists the feminists.

She is a lady of many talents. She is responsible for PM Harper singing and showing his talented side. She is the anchor behind our PM and the Harper family.

How the Harper family has grown since 2006, it has been a pleasure watching them grow.

Shhh, Don't Mention The Mass Murderer Is Muslim!

2009-11-11T22:40:00.004-07:00

Political correctness has gone overboard. The guy who was drunk and froze his kids to death was a First Nations person. We constantly hear that more First Nations people are in jail than any other ethnic group. Really? Maybe they do more crime than any other ethnic group, anyone ever thought of that? Shhh, I shouldn't say that. It's not politically correct. My MP might get upset with my insensitivity to our First Nations people. I actually like our First Nations people. They are a happy people who just want to make a better life for their children than they had...sounds like our pioneers. Maybe the problem is political correctness. It is keeping the First Nations people tied to an archaic system that helps only the chiefs and their families.

Are we committing cultural suicide? Let's call a spade a spade:

Political correctness will be the death of Western civilization because unlike our earlier forms of pluralistic tolerance, PC is wilfully blind to the lack of reciprocal tolerance in other cultures. Indeed, the more others hate us, the more PC denies their hatred.

The most disturbing aspect of last week's Fort Hood shootings -- aside from the horrendous loss of life, of course -- has been the triumph of political correctness in the analysis of Maj. Nadil Hasan's motives. Many "experts" have assiduously avoided the obvious cause: Hasan's fundamentalist, radicalized Muslim views.

A man runs into a room of unarmed people and starts firing away while shouting " Allahu Akbar" ( "Allah is Great"). He has had frequent arguments -- many of them extremely heated -- with several fellow officers in recent years over the alleged stupidity and immorality of the West's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He expressed public agreement with the Koran's exhortations to kill infidels, justified suicide bombings, attended a radical Virginia mosque, sought permission from superiors to have Muslim-American soldiers exempted from service in Middle Eastern wars and, among other things, attempted to make contact with al-Qaeda recruiters.

Some of the nicest people I have met are Muslims. They truly live a quiet moral life. They deserve our trust as long as they respect our laws. That's all we ask from every Canadian, respect our laws. It's easy, don't break our laws and you can live in our beautiful country without fear.

Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation

2009-11-11T13:17:00.003-07:00

This is from 2003, but it is still relevant today:

Salute to a brave and modest nation

Kevin Myers
The Sunday Telegraph

As our country honours the last of its four dead soldiers, we reprint a remarkable tribute to Canada's record of quiet valour in wartime that appeared in the Telegraph, one of Britain's largest circulation newspapers.

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LONDON - Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.

That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.

Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.

Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack.

More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth-largest air force in the world.

The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated -- a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.

So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality -- unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.

Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves -- and are unheard by anyone else -- that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth -- in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.

Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace -- a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.

So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan?

Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun.

It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost.

This week, four more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.

Remembrance Day, With A Little Help From My Friends!

2009-11-11T00:00:00.005-07:00

Remembrance Day is a great day to honour our troops, but we need to remember and care about our troops everyday. My first friend, my husband, talked about a commercial from Walmart he had just seen, a Christmas wish, I found it for him.

Then we have my friend, Jen, who gave me the link to "A Pittance of Time". You need to read the singers explanation about how the song was created. The guy paying no attention to the two minutes was a real person, make sure you aren't that guy this year.

Another friend and frequent poster, MaryT sent me this:

A lesson that should be taught in all schools . . And colleges

Back in September, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms.. Cothren, where're our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.'

She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms.Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) War Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall... By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned..

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

By the way, this is a true story.

We need more teachers like that one to instill in our children the pride and honour for our troops that they deserve.

Thanks for all the help from my friends!

Finally, I want to thank everyone who comes out, no matter the weather, to the 50 bridges covering 170 kilometers, to send our heroes home in style on the "Highway of Heroes". I am sure it comforts the families of the fallen to know that Canadians care. Understand that for every single person standing on those bridges there are another 1000 from around the country who wish they could be there to send our troops home, with respect for their sacrifice. Even Prince Charles mentioned our "Highway of Heroes". Get your Kleenex out.

May we have no more people who have to gather on the bridges to welcome our heroes home. May we gather next time to welcome them home, with a job well done, and all troops having their hearts, minds and souls, intact.

Tomorrow, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, take two minutes of your time to remember, ALL of the men and women who fought and died for our freedom. It's the least we can do to honour our troops.

Liberal Vote Collapses Or....!

2009-11-09T22:16:00.008-07:00

Okay, first off, 2 out of 4 is excellent! Hey, lefties, the Conservatives won 50%! HA. Except the Liberal communication/BS team expected 100% for the Conservatives. Too funny!

The Liberals issued a talking points memo to their party members Monday, saying the byelections were a referendum on the Conservatives.

"If the Conservatives fail to win all of the seats in tonight's byelections, it will be a signal that Canadians are still not willing to turn over the keys to such a partisan and incompetent government," the party maintained.

The talking points also said that the Grits have not held the ridings in "in 30, 40 50 years," while the Tories "have held all four in recent memory."

Now that is so funny, the Liberals expect the Conservatives to win ALL 4 ridings or it reflects badly on them? How about the Liberals at least increasing the vote percentage in a riding or two? Or are Liberals colluding with the NDP?

Let's see last election in New Westminster--Coquitlam:

Close race, the Conservatives just about won. They got 38.8% to the NDP's 41.8%. The Liberals had 11.3% of the vote. Now look at the by-election results so far:

Liberals are at 9.1% so far. The Green party vote has totally collapsed, in BC no less. So are lefties voting for the lefty candidate that can win against the Conservatives? A coalition of sorts? Did Liberal voters in the BC riding switch to NDP? Just when reports are saying that the New Liberal Leader Donolo is going to try and get the NDP votes? Chucker Canuck has the scoop on that one. How's that working for you Liberals? I know, I know, give it time....like 10 years.

PC's Get It Wrong.

2009-11-08T22:28:00.005-07:00

Okay, being an Albertan I should blog about the leadership review for Stelmach. I don't care. I'm still mad that the Liberals and NDP helped elect the guy. Now they whine and complain that he isn't very good. Suck it up, you got him elected.

Doug in Calgary
I am with Mike on this. I have always voted PC but come next election I will vote Wild Rose as along as Ed is in. It may be 1 less vote for the PC's but at least it's my vote. One also must remember, at the PC convention, Ed was put in by a small group of people as the leader of the PC's, it was not all of Alberta that got to vote on that leader. If our voting was different here, Ed surely would not be still in office.

Hello Doug, only Conservatives should vote for the leader of the Conservative party. That didn't happen, because lefties signed up to the Conservative party and voted against a real Conservative, Ted Morton. That's why Conservatives voted for Stelmach last election. Too pay back all the Liberals and NDP voters for interfering in OUR election of a leader, and sticking us with Stelmach.

Next election is a whole different story. Wildrose is a promising alternative. I wait to see their policies or are they going to be like the federal Liberals, and save it for an election? Time will tell. My vote is up for grabs. I have not seen my MLA since he got elected. From what I have seen of him, he is a real dud, maybe I should run against him. That could be a real hoot. My campaign slogan would be, "Don't go Lefty, go WILD!" HA. I should copyright that slogan. Bet Gayle would vote for me.

Can't Resist Posting This One!

2009-11-08T15:05:00.005-07:00

Hey, I know it isn't Friday, but this is too funny.

Now, I'm off to deliver Elliott to his autistic boy. It's hard to give them up but the people they go to need them so much more than we do.

I have finally convinced my hubby that we need two greyhounds (rescued) as our family pets, so the hunt is now on for the perfect ones for our family. The greyhound is one of the most regal, quiet, low maintenance dogs you could every get. It will make giving up the assistance dogs a little easier.

Goodbye America The Strong.

2009-11-07T22:16:00.007-07:00

Sadly America has lost it's way and is now lost. It's not just about the health bill that has been passed, although it is going to be a huge problem for Americans. I am very sad about what is happening to the great nation next door to us.

House Passes Health Care Bill

BREAKING NEWS - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

One Republican voted for the bill. All I can say is welcome to a socialist medical program like Canada. Get ready to wait in long lineups for any procedure and to pay for everyone with a sniffle. You will pay, they will not.

Health care is only one aspect of the decline of America, the other is how the murderer, Major Nidal Hasan has been portrayed in the media. They just can't seem to say TERRORIST. Let me help them, the guy is a TERRORIST! How else to you describe 13 dead and over 30 injured? Or will MURDERER make everyone feel better?

Look, the guy emptied out his apartment, bought some guns, and jumped on a table to better shoot his victims in the back, what do you want to call him? Lefties will probably call him a "freedom fighter", after all he was scheduled to go over to Iraq and he didn't agree with either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Poor baby, maybe he should have headed to Canada where our lefties would have welcomed him with open arms as a "draft dodger"...oops they don't have the draft anymore. Welcome him as a refugee I guess, seeing as America is such a bad place to live that everyone wants to live there.

The guy is nuts. I had one date with a budding psychologist during my university days, he was also nuts. He kept phoning me and telling me I was nuts not to go out with him again. I swear they go into psychology to help cure themselves.

Political correctness is killing democracy. You can not say anything against a minority group without being slammed about being racist. If I was to say that the 70+ Tamils who arrived on a boat should just be sent back, I'm going to be labeled as a racist. How about stating that Islam treats women like slaves? That might get you slapped down by your MP. It's not very politically correct to slam any minority about anything they might do, and that gives them more power than the average Canadian. They are busy abusing that power, remember Levant's problems with a minority person? Why should that person have more power than a Canadian, just because they are a minority?

I am sick and tired of supporting illegal immigrants who think that Canada is meant to be milked for all we have. I am tired of being politically correct. Let me give you an example.

I foster dogs who might go to a blind person. Don't let this shock you, but all blind people are not necessarily nice. Some of them are quite abusive to the dogs. Just because you are blind does not mean that you are a good person. Just because you are are Muslim or Christian doesn't mean that you are a good person. Why can't we state that without being called racist? It is because of the lefty philosophy that minority votes win them power. They could care less if a person is white, black or purple as long as they vote for them. The way they get the votes is to encourage division. East/West, rural/urban, French/English, anything that might win them votes. Sad really.

America is in trouble, only Americans can fix it. I hope they get it right next election.

Everyone Loves Hockey, Even Our MP's!

2009-11-07T13:44:00.006-07:00

This is hockey for a great cause! Go out and support the Boys and Girls Club of Leduc! As a bonus, you get to heckle some MP's!

Nothing goes better together than a good 'ol hockey game and raising money for a good cause, so on Saturday, Nov. 14, why not grab the family and head on down to the Leduc Recreation Centre (LRC) to watch some local businessmen take on Conservative Members of Parliament in a charity hockey fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club (B&GC) of Leduc.

"It was an idea that came out of a discussion with Mayor Krischke," said Edmonton-Leduc MP James Rajotte on the idea to hold the fundraising game.

Rajotte said he and Krischke talked about the idea for over a year and tried to find a good time to put it together, but election timing and speculation kept getting in the way.

He said the timing turned out well because of the opening of the LRC.

"We are quite excited about it."

The team made up of MPs includes Minister of Defence Peter MacKay, Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice and some the local MPs as well, including Blaine Calkins (Wetaskiwin) and Brian Storseth (Westlock-St. Paul).

If I remember correctly, didn't MP MacKay, break his arm last time he participated in a sports event? Hope he stays on his feet and scores some goals this time!

"We have a few Ontario MPs: our goalie Dean Del Mastro was my roommate and is from Peterborough, Gord Brown is an MP from Grenville, Ontario, Patrick Brown, who is our fastest player and in the best shape, is from Barrie, Ontario."

The opposing team is made up of community members. Each paid $500 to enter the fundraiser, with all the proceeds going to the B&GC.

Their team will be known as the Boys and Girls Dream Team.

I remember when Monte and Strahl roomed together, their blog posts were hilarious. Something is fundamentally wrong with grown men and women having to room to together like in university. People wonder why more women don't go into politics, here's one of the big drawbacks. You leave your family for the week, to go and live with some other woman and only get back home on the weekends. That doesn't sound very appealing to me. I would prefer to be at home every night with my family, cooking them wholesome meals and helping with homework. Then again I could be wrong and the wives might actually like having their husbands gone all week.

Maybe it would save us taxpayers money if they put up dorms in Ottawa, so that every MP could have their own apartment, maybe they would be healthier too. All those chicken fund raisers seem to put the pounds on our MP's. Maybe a hockey game is a good idea, gets them out of the banquet halls and into some badly needed exercise.

Anyways, this sounds like a great cause, and good fun. HT to JEN for sending me the article. Sometimes Edmonton and Leduc can be light years away, one part of the riding has no clue what the other part is doing.

Friday Funnies: Talking Centipede

2009-11-06T22:42:00.009-07:00

Another week of hard work is done. It's time to kick back and relax.

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Love Story

I will seek and find you.
I shall take you to bed and have my way with you

I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan.

I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop.

I will exhaust you to the point that you will be relieved when I'm finished with you.

And, when I am finished, you will be weak for days.

All my love,

The Flu
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I thought you would want to know about this e-mail virus. Even the most advanced programs from Norton or McAfee cannot take care of this one. It appears to affect those who were born prior to 1965.

Symptoms:

1. Causes you to send the same e-mail twice. Done that!

2. Causes you to send a blank e-mail !that too!

3. Causes you to send e-mail to the wrong person.yep!

4. Causes you to send it back to the person who sent it to you. Aha!

5. Causes you to forget to attach the attachment. Well darn!

6. Causes you to hit "SEND" before you've finished. Oh, no - not again!

7. Causes you to Hit "DELETE" instead of "SEND." I hate that !

8. Causes you to hit "SEND" when you should "DELETE." Oh No!
IT IS CALLED THE "C-NILE VIRUS."

Hmmm....Have I already sent this to you?
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THREE WOMEN, TWO YOUNGER, AND ONE SENIOR CITIZEN, WERE SITTING NAKED IN A SAUNA.

SUDDENLY THERE WAS A BEEPING SOUND. THE YOUNG WOMAN PRESSED HER FOREARM AND THE
BEEP STOPPED.

THE OTHERS LOOKED AT HER QUESTIONINGLY. 'THAT WAS MY PAGER,' SHE SAID. I HAVE A MICROCHIP UNDER THE SKIN OF MY ARM.

A FEW MINUTES LATER, A PHONE RANG. THE SECOND YOUNG WOMAN LIFTED HER PALM TO HER EAR.

WHEN SHE FINISHED, SHE EXPLAINED, 'THAT WAS MY MOBILE PHONE.. I HAVE A MICROCHIP IN MY HAND.'

THE OLDER WOMAN FELT VERY LOW-TECH. NOT TO BE OUT DONE, SHE DECIDED SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING JUST AS IMPRESSIVE. SHE STEPPED OUT OF THE SAUNA AND WENT TO THE BATHROOM..

SHE RETURNED WITH A PIECE OF TOILET PAPER HANGING FROM HER REAR END.

THE OTHERS RAISED THEIR EYEBROWS AND STARED AT HER.

THE OLDER WOMAN FINALLY SAID..........WELL, WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT.....I'M GETTING A FAX!!
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HOW IS NORMA?

A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph 's Hospital. She timidly asked, "Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?"

The operator said, "I'll be glad to help, dear. What's the name and room number of the patient?"

The grandmother in her weak, tremulous voice said, "Norma Findlay, Room 302."

The operator replied, "Let me put you on hold while I check with the nurse's station for that room."

After a few minutes, the operator returned to the phone and said, "I have good news. Her nurse just told me that Norma is doing well. Her blood pressure is fine; her blood work just came back normal and her physician, Dr. Cohen, has scheduled her to be discharged tomorrow."

The grandmother said, "Thank you. That's wonderful. I was so worried. God bless you for the good
news."

The operator replied, "You're more than welcome. Is Norma your daughter?"

The grandmother said, "No, I'm Norma Findlay in Room 302. No one tells me shit."
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The Talking Centipede

A single guy decided life would be more fun if he had a pet.

So he went to the pet store and told the owner that he wanted to buy an unusual pet.

After some discussion, he finally bought a talking centipede, (100-legged bug), which came in a little white box to use for his house.

He took the box back home, found a good spot for the box, and decided he would start off by taking his new pet to church with him.

So he asked the centipede in the box,"Would you like to go to church
with me today? We will have a good time."

But there was no answer

from his new pet..

This bothered him a bit, but he waited a few minutes and then asked again, "How about going to church with me and receive blessings?"

But again, there was no answer from his new friend and pet.
So he waited a few minutes more, thinking about the situation.

The guy decided to invite the centipede one last time.

This time he put his face up against the centipede's house and shouted, "Hey, in there! Would you like to go to church with me and learn about God?"

This time, a little voice came out of the box,
"I heard you the first time!
I'm putting on my shoes!"
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The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
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> It's so bad, I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the
> counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"
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> The economy is so bad that CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
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> The economy is so bad if the bank returns your check marked
> "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
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> The economy is so bad Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher
> than GM.
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> The economy is so bad McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
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> The economy is so bad parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and
> learned their children's names.
>
> The economy is so bad a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into
> Mexico.
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> The economy is so bad Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
>
> The economy is so bad Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
>
> The economy is so bad the Mafia is laying off judges.
>
> The economy is so bad Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
>
> And finally...

Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal.
Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being
investigated by the people who made $1.5 trillion disappear!
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Time wasting useless game tonight, back to the classics, Mario 2

Have a great weekend.

Senator Duffy Wipes His Feet With Stoffer!

2009-11-05T21:52:00.006-07:00

I don't usually visit the CBC, but Springer from Sort of Political mentioned this and got me curious, so I wondered over there.

Duffy blasts NDP MP as 'faker'

Make up your own mind on this one by watching the video.

I like Peter Stoffer for his support of our troops, but he's way out of line with this one. It's not as if PM Harper appointed MORE Senators, he just filled vacancies. Vacancies that no provinces voted to fill, except Alberta. Maybe the NDP could get one of their own elected if they worked with the provinces to get a list of elected Senators In Waiting for the PM to choose from.

Lefties distort what the PM has said about Senate reform to suit their own purposes. Like this extreme-left lefty, Gayle.

Blogger Gayle said...

"Gayle, explain how the Liberal leader of Alberta got into the Senate?"

He was appointed of course.

First, he is obviously qualified, even if you do not agree with his politics (and as you may have noticed, I have already noted there are undoubtedly qualified conservatives out there, even though I do not agree with their politics).

Second, at no point did the man who appointed him promise he would not appoint senators, nor did he promise he would not use the senate for patronage appointments.

I thought people like you did not like politicians using the senate to reward their political friends. I do not see how you can complain about Grant Mitchell being appointed if you are OK with Mike Duffy's appointment.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:17:00 PM

You see, in Gayle's mind it's okay for a political hack like Liberal Mitchell to be appointed to the Senate, from Alberta no less, when we had a list of Senators in Waiting that Martin ignored. No, he rubbed Albertan's noses in the fact that he didn't care what we wanted. He appointed Liberals in Alberta to show us how little he cared for us westerners, a typical Liberal response to western Canada. Someone like Mike Duffy, who no-one even knew was a Conservative until he got appointed, is unacceptable....to Liberals. It was okay when Liberals were appointing Liberals because they loved yanking Conservative chains, they were the natural ruling party after all. Now that Conservatives are close to a majority in the Senate, the lefties are getting hysterical.

All Senators who have been appointed by PM Harper have agreed to limit their own terms, but you won't hear that from the media, or the lefties. Gayle is happy that Mitchell is in the Senate until he's 75, seeing he was born in 1951, and appointed in 2005, he has until 2026 to suck off us taxpayers, and he can't be fired!!!!

Gayle thinks he is "obviously qualified". HA. Look at his bio, he is qualified to be a politician, one that Albertan's rejected time after time. So a failed politician gets a sweet life time deal in the Senate. Knowing this guy, I will soon be called into the HRC for slamming him.

Senator Duffy is a great addition to the Senate. I loved getting a message from him, and the Conservatives should continue to use him to promote the party policies. I like the fact that Duffy is now free to tell it like it is, instead of having to be non-partisan. PEI is lucky to have him representing them.

Go Duffy!!!