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  1. Hey Lance..
    here is what I just emailed to BC PREMIER CHRISTY CLARK
    ………
    Dear premier Christy Clark,
    I AM Joe Molnar and I hereby offer your Governemnt this solution to the TEACHER HOSTAGE TAKING currently underway in your Province.
    TODAY…. OR AS IS SOON PRACTICAL…
    Prepare Legislation which orders ALL STRIKING TEACHERS .. back to work within 5 days of this legislation becoming “LAW” in BC , WORKING conditions would be under the former contracts and would be valid for ( 1 ) ONE YEAR.
    Any teacher not returning to Class under those terms would be immediately terminated and by law barred from ever teaching rights in BC again..
    Teacher Unions and BC School Boards would be given until JUne 2015 to agree to 5 year working contracts within that time ( 1 Year) or ALL TEACHERS would then be PERMANENTLY TERMINATED FROM BC…. TEACHING…
    YOu Premier Clark must act…NOW!
    ABSOLUTELY NO ARBITRATION TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS!!
    Your elected Government is in charge of lawmaking in the Province.
    Get it done!
    I AM
    Joe Molnar
    Woodstock, Ontario.

  2. As part of SDA’s long-running look at higher education {What’s the Opposite of Diversity? University!), I offer these excerpts from a press release from the Dalhousie University Faculty Association (DFA).
    The public is invited to attend a “free public panel discussion” on “program prioritization and the future of post-secondary education.” Program prioritization is defined as “a process that ranks a university’s programs according to set criteria and allocates resources based on those rankings.” This process is being adopted by a number of Canadian universities trying to balance their budgets, attract students, and make more efficient use of their human and capital resources.
    There are good arguments to be made on various sides of this issue. Faculty members need to be involved in academic planning and governance, while Boards of Governors (and their administrators) are charged with ensuring the economic viability and sustainability of the programs the university offers. I was struck, however, by the “panel” being brought together to “discuss” this question. It is comprised of: “Dr. Craig Heron, Professor of History at York University and one of Canada’s foremost critics of program prioritization.” [OK, one clear perspective here.] Also, “Dr. Len Findlay, Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan and Chair of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee.” [And we can be pretty certain that the audience will not find much daylight between his presentation and that of Dr Heron.] Finally, we have Ms Jacqueline Skiptunis, a 3rd year “Russian studies” major and Student Union vice-president. The panel will be chaired by the President of the Dalhousie Faculty Association.
    Interested members of the public attending this event would have no opportunity to hear the case made for “program prioritization” or be able to hear any meaningful exchange between different points of view. This sort of event has become in recent years the rule rather than the exception at Canadian universities.
    You get far more meaningful debate (though often with little more hard evidence in support of that debate) at any random Tim Horton’s any day of the week than you will at Dalhousie University (which likes to see itself as the “flagship of Atlantic Canadian universities”.

  3. Actually, I have a question which has been bothering me for some time. Now I am certainly not a military expert by any stretch but regarding the ISIS situation, I simply cannot understand why it can’t be dealt with quickly and decisively. The internet is full of pictures of long convoys of vehicles and ISIS savages brandishing their weapons and flying their little black flags as they travel across open ground like some bizarre parade. Given the state of today’s satellite technology and military intelligence, can these convoys not be pinpointed. It seems that a small group of A10’s flying over with gatling guns blazing would make short work of the entire convoy with a followup dose of napalm just for good measure. What’s missing here? The will to get it done?

  4. Wynne’s Liberals can do as they damned well please,enough stupid voters gave them a majority.
    Lies got them where they are today, we are living that lie and paying dearly, the worst is yet to come. They’re still spending and demanding more from the Feds/all of Canada. Equalization will never be enough, they’ll be looking for blood to make a big scene during the next Federal election. watch for it and weep.

  5. Breaking: CDC Confirms Possible Ebola Case At Miami Hospital
    http://weaselzippers.us/199026-breaking-cdc-confirms-possible-ebola-case-at-miami-hospital/#disqus_thread
    Didn’t Obama just say there would be no chance of an Ebola case occurring here in the US?
    So do we get to file that under category of:
    1. There’s isn’t a smidgen of corruption at the IRS.
    OR
    2. ObamaCare would save a family of four $2500 a year on their medical expenses.
    OR
    3. ISIS is just a JV team.
    OR
    4. Expiration Date Reached for Facts, Statement, Promise or Guarantee.

  6. Why yes, the A10s would clean up that mess quickly and would have done so even faster last year when the Iraqi government pleaded for help from Obama.
    You missed the point of American Liberalism, they need an issue to bleat over, if you solve the problem then there aren’t any problems to solve… What then do you need them for? Competence isn’t their forte, so they go with their strong suit, complaining and whining.

  7. Sadly, my fellow Ontarians voted the old biddy and her gaggle of taxpayer-teat-suckers. Now they are even hitting the seniors for more money to buy votes… er, I mean… whatever. They have no shame. Lieberals will always break promises or lie to get elected or to stay in power. Remember abolishing the GST? Yeah, they “misspeak” at all levels of government.

  8. “I’ve got nothing … leave it in the thread.”
    Or the next thread, apparently. 🙂

  9. Joe, Christy Clark doesn’t need to legislate them back to work. The union is out of money. The teachers haven’t been paid since June. They’re going to start missing mortgage payments and car payments soon. And the BC government has run out of other people’s money. Clark has no other choice but to break the union entirely. Pass the popcorn.

  10. Where are Jema54, batb, bruce, Loki, kayla, and others?
    “Abduction on Estonian soil of Eston Kohver, an officer in Estonia’s Internal Security Service, by “green men” – Russian special forces in uniforms without identification – was the latest instance of a tactic first used during Russia’s annexation of the Crimea in March.”
    http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/taras-kuzio-give-military-support-to-ukraine-and-save-the-baltics-363868.html

  11. Our CBC’s obsession with Conservative PM Harper.
    …-
    “Stephen Harper and the obsession with Franklin
    Scotch tumblers were raised last month on the bridge of HMCS Kingston to the search for Erebus and Terror”
    “With them stood the who’s who of modern Arctic explorers and investors.
    They’d been personally invited aboard to meet Harper and to talk about this year’s joint expedition to find remains of the 1845 John Franklin expedition that disappeared while searching for the Northwest Passage.
    About 20 people stood around two maps of the search area spread out on the ship’s table. Everyone signed the maps to mark the event. And then, out came the scotch.
    They raised their glasses.
    “I proposed the toast,” said John Geiger, president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
    “We toasted the memory of Franklin and then toasted the crews and wished them success. People felt excited, exhilarated,” Geiger said in an interview with CBC News from on board the vessel One Ocean Voyager, which is now exploring in Victoria Strait.
    “It was a very emotional scene.””
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-and-the-obsession-with-franklin-1.2754180
    …-
    “Search crew finds first artifact in decades from doomed Franklin expedition
    167 years after the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition, a new expedition to find the lost Royal Navy ships has found the first known artifact”
    “The current search expedition, a joint effort between the governments of Nunavut and Ottawa and the private sector, released a statement Monday.
    “The iron fitting is certainly from one of the Franklin shipwrecks,” the statement read.
    “On behalf of our Government, I congratulate the Government of Nunavut on this remarkable archeological discovery that will contribute to the search for the most sought after shipwrecks in Canadian history, if not the world,” said Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Parks Canada.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/08/first_artifact_of_franklin_expedition_found.html

  12. ISIS has said it wants to destroy Mecca (stone worship or some such objection). Why don’t we advertise in Muslim newspapers and t.v. around the world this fact and thus encourage other Muslims to destory ISIS.

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