Category Archives: Politics

CBC Funding to Remain or Grow

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I know P.M. Harper is a hockey fan but if the Conservatives really want to make a $4 Billion dent in the deficit, they are going to need to change their tune on the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars.

This is not good news for fiscal conservatives.

Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore says his government believes in the CBC as a key cultural institution and has no plans to cut its funding following his party’s recent electoral victory.

“We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform and we have said that before and we will commit to that,” Moore told CBC News in Vancouver on Tuesday morning.

As Kate says at SDA, “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.”

Majority

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It is now with great happiness, I congratulate Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his excellent win tonight.

This is the results of the BRINW poll I was running over the last number of months. Conservatives have spoken and have given him the majority he asked for. Now it is time for him to deliver that badly needed reform.

52% – Scrap the CBC
32% – Kill the HRCs
10% – Lower Taxes

The other 6% was for other and most people wrote in “All of the Above.”

Goodbye Iggy. Goodbye Bloc. Layton, you can ask your question first now. Harper actually doesn’t need to answer.*

* Heard on CBC.

Please don’t Vote. If…

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I disagree with the notion of voting being compulsory or something that everyone should do. More people voting is not the cure as long as the people voting are acting like lemmings.

Everyone should vote. IF they have invested the time and energy to understand who and what they are voting for. The following list should disqualify be a guideline for people being involved in choosing who gets to run our lives.

Don’t vote if..

  • Your intellectual investment in this election involves change for the sake of change.
  • You have not read the actual policies of the party you are planning on voting for. Go beyond the glossy pamphlets with the broad generalized statements and read the fine print. The fine print is why there are policy conventions. {This may be too harsh, you should be able to at least go beyond talking points.}
  • Everything you know about the leaders, you know because you saw it on TV. This is true whether it is CBC or Sun News.
  • You are planning on voting for the same party you voted for last time, just because you voted that way last time.
  • Your union literature told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your church told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your parents told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • Your school told you to vote for ______. So you will.
  • You actually feel that all parties are the same and it doesn’t matter.
  • Your going to vote for ______, because they offered to drive you.

Don’t spoil your ballot. I don’t think of spoiled ballots as anything other than wasting your time and Elections Canada’s time. We live in a country where every vote does count. Out of the people on the ballot, which do you want to represent you? Which do you want to make decisions, on your behalf?

I know that many will say that “none of the above” is their choice but that is not on the ballot. Apathy and intentionally spoiled ballots are the same thing. Both say that you don’t want to be a part of the decision.

How does one protest then? We all know that no party meets all of our desires, whether policy or implementation.

One, by withholding donations (this is why it is so critical that per vote subsidies are scrapped) and not renewing memberships. If I get called for a donation or am asked to renew my membership, I explain to the unfortunate caller that reasons A, B, C and D are why I will not support the party financially or renew my membership at that time.

Two, contact your current MP or person on the ballot. Explain where the party has deviated from its policies and/or made decisions that you don’t agree with.

Three, become a member of a political party closest to your ideals then work within that party to enact policies. You won’t get everything you want but that’s democracy in action. The difference here than at a general election, is that your vote carries a heavier weight.

Democracy at its heart, is giving everyone, not just elites, the ability to control their future. If you are going to vote, do so with understanding, not ignorance, otherwise you make the votes of the people that care, worth less (as a percentage.) People didn’t die in wars so people SHOULD vote, they died so people COULD vote.

Note: I understand that there is a historical feeling of spoiling a ballot as a means of protest. I just think it is pointless at this point in history.

This is just opinion, feel free to disagree or make your opinion known in the comments below.

The Jack! Preview

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If, for some reason, you feel an NDP led coalition would not be a bad thing for Canada, try the following to preview what it would be like.

  • For every dollar you keep after taxes, take 30 cents and give it to the guy living under the bridge. Don’t ask what he will do with it, that’s none of your business.
  • If you own guns, hand them in to the police, or better yet, just give them to the drug dealer that sells to the guy living under the bridge.
  • If you have own a business, hire the first person that walks in the door, regardless of whether it will ruin your business or not. Then pay them double. Then triple your EI & CPP payments.
  • Take the bus, or bike, everywhere you go, including overseas.
  • If you own a vehicle that has enough seats for a family, the next time you fill up for gas, multiply the cost by 2 and give the difference to that guy that lives under the bridge. By now, he’ll be filling up his VW van at the gas station beside you so it should be easy to find him.
  • Quit your job and live under a bridge (Equality!)
  • Get a job somewhere that you want to get promoted, and pretend you are in a union by turning down every promotion until everyone else that was there before you moves up.
  • Take your globe, atlas or map of the world, cross out Israel and write “Palestinianland.”
  • Go to your bank and withdraw your money. Send it to Hugo Chavez, c/o The White House, Washington, DC.
  • If you own stocks, cash them in now, they won’t be worth much soon.

There are more but we only have a few weeks before a Jack! led government could be a reality.

Get out and vote for a Conservative Majority. It may not be the optimum, but its better than the alternative.

Election 2011

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Here are my thoughts on heading to the polls this spring.

I don’t mind having the opportunity to make my voice heard officially. I just wish I was able to vote for a fiscally conservative party rather than the 1990 Liberals.

If the Conservative party cannot get a majority in this election with the cast of characters currently leading the opposition parties, then it is purely due to the Conservatives not being conservative.

The Liberals have no message, other than they aren’t led by Harper. The NDP says the same things as always so they’ll get their usual group of crazies. The Bloc will promise to leave Canada, or at least take the rest of Canada’s money but because they say it in French, no-one will notice.

So anyone that realizes that we cannot afford to continue burning money in the CBC bonfire can only vote for the Conservatives, hoping that we get a majority and pleading that there actually is a secret agenda in place so that we can start cutting the waste.

Do we need a tea party in Canada? No, we had the Reform party. We just need a Conservative party that acts like it is actually conservative.

Anti-Policing

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Williamson picks apart the ATF.

Which is to say, we treat law-abiding citizens like criminals because they are law-abiding citizens, not criminals. It is hard to keep up with the Weekses and Floyds and sundry trash of this world, but it is really easy to get law-abiding citizens to abide by the law. They sort of do it all on their own. That is the kind of law enforcement that you can execute with a donut in one hand and a BlackBerry in the other, from a sedentary position, which is the preferred position of the publicly employed. And when you want to look like you’re doing something, you can always pass some more laws and watch with great satisfaction as law-abiding citizens abide them.

And this is why the anti-gun lobby is wasting their time with laws against purchasing the weapons.

We rarely prosecute actual straw purchasers. One reason is that it is a lot of work to find them, gather evidence, build a case, etc. It is kind of a hard crime to prove. The other reason is that straw buyers do not usually look like the right kind of villains — wrong profile. They are not usually shady guys in trenchcoats who go down to Joe-Bob’s Ammo-Mart and Nazi Memorabilia Emporium in East Hickinstick and load up one of those wobbly-wheeled grocery carts with bristling machine guns to be handed out like lollipops down at the Legion of Doom secret lair and clubhouse. More typically, the straw buyer is some gangster’s daffy girlfriend, low-IQ kid brother, or other acquaintance with a clean record.

The answer is obvious. Keep the criminals in jail and let the regular population defend themselves against the ones that aren’t in jail yet.

Why the Alarm?

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Why Carbon Dioxide?

It’s hard to imagine a better leverage point than Carbon Dioxide to assume control over a society. I mean it is essential to the production of energy, it is essential to breathing. It is a point that if you demonize it and gain control over it you can control everything. That’s attractive to people.

Quote from Richard S Lindzen (Atmospheric Physicist, Professor of Meteorology, MIT.) He is also the lead author of the IPCC 3rd Assessment report.

Not that an Atmospheric Physicist would know anything about Carbon Dioxide and how it may affect the planet.

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The UN can take that Seat and…

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Stephen Harper says Canada will stand against “anti-Israel rhetoric” at international organizations like the United Nations as long as he is prime minister — “whatever the cost.”

Ignatieff doesn’t get it.

The Opposition leader also levelled criticism at Harper for Canada’s failure to win a temporary seat on the UN Security Council, saying it was not a “moral victory” to lose out on a position from which Canada could have defended Israel on the international stage.

“If Canada wishes to defend Israel against Iran, as it should, it would have been nice to be on the UN Security Council,” Ignatieff said.

So Ignatieff is suggesting that Harper should not support Israel because we don’t get to be in a symbolic role at the UN with the other Israel haters? Or is he saying we should flip-flop between being a Israel supporter when we have a seat and a hater when we don’t?