Insane much?

U.S. Warmongers Accused of Stepping up Military Moves against the DPRK
Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- The U.S. warlike forces are now contemplating forward-deploying two squadrons of F-22 in Japan and Guam after winding up the deployment of 30 land-based interceptor missiles targeted against the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:
These moves lay bare the sinister and dangerous scenario of the U.S. to put the Asia-Pacific region under its military control.
The U.S. remains unchanged in its way of thinking and wild ambition that it can dominate the world only when it puts the above-said region under its control. The aim sought by the U.S. imperialists through the deployment of F-22s is to carry out its blitz strategy based on a surprise pre-emptive attack upon any target.
Recalling that the DPRK is the first target of their attack on the Asia-Pacific region, the commentary notes: The present U.S. administration is talking about what it called a "change" and "bilateral dialogue" but it is, in actuality, pursuing the same reckless policy as followed by the former Bush administration to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
It goes on:
The DPRK has single-minded unity more powerful than nuclear weapons and invincible military capability unfathomable in its range and depth.
The U.S. moves to mount a pre-emptive attack on the DPRK are as foolish an attempt as taking oil to extinguish the fire.
The army and people of the DPRK are keeping themselves fully combat ready with a high degree of vigilance against the above-mentioned moves of the U.S. imperialists.
The U.S. would be well advised to halt at once its dangerous military moves against the DPRK if it wants to escape the lot of a tiger moth, bearing deep in mind that any attempt to make a pre-emptive attack on the DPRK is little short of inviting a disaster itself.

Sort of reminds you of Mini-me daring Fat Bastard to take him on.

Ross Douthat: Liberated and Unhappy

I think this article is going to generate a lot of discussion for several news cycles.

Liberal bill aims to end pre-election ad binges
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Liberals have introduced a bill in the Senate aimed at stopping political parties from going on pre-election advertising binges.

Senator Dennis Dawson’s bill — which is aimed at the cash-rich Tories — comes amid renewed election speculation on Parliament Hill.
FROM
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/canada/2009/05/26/9577351.html

It's clearly time to pass legislation to limit the CBC's roll as a free Liberal advertising source or at least blow the whistle on it.

Fate of the infamous "bus beheader" may be kept from the public:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Fate-of-man-who-decapitated-fellow-bus-passenger-may-not-be-made-public.html

"The chairman of Manitoba's Criminal Code review board says such details about Vince Li's fate could violate his rights as a patient."

What kind of justice system is this?

Stephen Harper in the House of Commons today: "... we need to raise taxes".

My jaw dropped.

First, he sets records in spending BEFORE the election.

Then, he sets records with deficit spending, something he vowed he would never do even in an economic downturn. No serious economist believes his numbers but he says they are sound (like his prediction of never having a recession?).

Then, yesterday, even bigger record setting mind numbing deficit for this year of $50 BILLION.

AND NOW HARPER SAYS WE NEED TO RAISE TAXES.

Wow.

Earlier this week, he said he had not given up on Quebec. But clearly he has given up on getting re-elected.

allan, it used to be an axiom that for justice to be done it must be seen to be done.

We're living in a Brave New World, or at least a Stupid New World, you only have to have courage if you know what's going on in it.

What does Obama do? He instead focuses on a 'soft emotional agenda', calling for the release by Myanmar of opposition leader Suu Kyi. Ahh, such a statement will get him lots of brownie points whether it is successful or not.

But N. Korea? Will Obama's two basic strategies that he uses for everything, which are, first, The Charm of My Being, which includes: 'we'll visit and talk about superficial things and this shows that we get along and how much you like me' ..or The Rejection of You Because You are Not Charmed by Me, which includes totatlly ignoring them and pretending their behaviour didn't happen - will these two strategies work?

Under Obama's careful watch, which is to say, within his egoistic belief that they are amenable to his charm - while he utterly ignores their actual activities, both Iran and N. Korea are becoming nuclear powers, and are positioning themselves as key sites to control that area, and the Middle East.

Here's an interesting podcast focusing on the Sotomayor nomination from my buddies in Houston who produce the weekly ConservativeFunHouse.com vidcast.

So, Vince Lee has "rights" as a patient, having taken away any "rights" that Tim McLean, or his family members, have?

No wonder Mark Steyn calls Canada the "Deranged Dominion." Can it get anymore bizarre than this?

Thanks, PET. Thanks alot.

That's strange, ted. The news reports I've read are that Harper has DENIED that he plans to raise taxes. But certainly govt revenue will increase.

Where will the increased govt income come from? Not from raising the tax rate but, as the economy improves, the taxes actually raised from corporations and personal incomes, according to their current percentage, will increase and also, govt payouts and unemployment insurance will decline.

So, ted, there's no prospect of raising the tax rates, but the tax income will rise, because corporate and personal incomes will rise. Get it? No? Oh well.

Ted, thats not what the Prime Minister said, and you know it.

My jaw dropped.
~Ted at May 26, 2009 11:15 PM

Snakes do that when they try to swallow something larger than their head.

Progress - a new ABC animated prime time series by Mike Judge (Beavis and Buthead, King of the Hill) to make fun of environmentalists. What Would Al Gore Do?

Ted's still making libelous statements that the PM bribed Chuck Cadman..his heads scrambled or he just likes to lie...alot...

Man-Made Disaster in the Making!
Rapid climate change is forcing scientists to consider for the first time whether to help wildlife relocate to places where they are not currently found, says a group of international researchers who have created a tool for evaluating such relocations[sic].

Assisted wildlife migration was once a taboo conservation strategy because of its potential for harming ecosystems. It is still highly controversial because it's not clear that we know enough to predict what will happen.

SNIP[...]

Many species have survived previous, slower periods of climate change by evolving or by moving to more hospitable habitats via their own power.

But today, animals are faced with a double-whammy. Climate change is happening so fast that it's hard for them to find suitable new homes, and escape routes to new habitat are often cut off by cities and other man-made structures.

Without help, animals can become trapped in habitats that have become too hot or too dry for them.
FROM
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/25/assistedmigration-wildlife.html

The eco-freaks are going to destroy the ecosystem themselves and blame it on Global Warming.

Hey, ET, it's what he said in the House of Commons today. And I quote: "until we need to raise taxes". His words, not mine.

Kursk: What's this about bribery? I did not say that Harper offered Cadman a bribe. I said "financial considerations". Again, just using the Prime Minister's own words and nothing more. One may wonder if "financial considerations" for a vote is what is contemplated in the Criminal Code as a bribery offence, but I don't wonder if that is what the Criminal Code contemplated. Not one bit.

OK, this has probably been discussed before, but those anti-Ignatieff ads seem so amateurish. They look like something produced by some graphic arts failure.

Negative ads work in the US - no doubt. But do they work here? I'm not so sure. They don't do much for me. I doubt if they appeal to the undecided voters.

Bah.

Ted, you got me all excited for a moment. Now it turns out that YOU ARE A LIAR.

Please apologize to everyone on here!

Robert: where did I lie? I have only quoted Harper's own words. I thought this was called being "truthful".

"until we need to raise taxes"

that could be years Theodore

So Cal2, are you saying that when Harper said "we need to raise taxes" he was agreeing with Ignatieff that if we truly want to eliminate the Harper deficit, after taking all other measures, we may need to increase taxes. Is that what Harper meant by saying "we need to raise taxes"?

Poor Ted, he must be exhausted, flitting from blog to blog trying to justify the Liberals attempt at shutting up the Conservatives. Give it up buddy. Most of us can tell its you from the first couple of words and just scroll on by.

Ted, you listen and comprehend just like a Liberal.

(and no, that is certainly not a compliment)

Context folks........
Of course Ted did not quote the whole passage.
The Prime Minister was answering a question to do with EI.
I dont have the exact quote, but he was saying that if they followed the Liberal wishes, they would be redoing the budget every couple of weeks ad infinitum UNTIL IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO RAISE TAXES.
And he closed by saying that was something the Government would not do.

I am paraphrasing, but i saw that on question period today, and that was the gist of it.
Ill check hansard and get back to you.......

Here is the exact quote:

“Mr. Speaker, let us be clear,” responded the Prime Minister “When we did our prebudget consultations, the Liberal Party wanted two more weeks of employment insurance. We gave five more weeks of employment insurance plus all kinds of additional money for training, for people both on EI and not on EI. These are measures to help the unemployed in this recession. What we are not going to do is, every two or three months, come up with another economic policy, another budget until we need to raise taxes. Our deficits are affordable but they will remain short-term.”

Re: "The Liberals have introduced a bill in the Senate aimed at stopping political parties from going on pre-election advertising binges." (this was posted in yesterday's Reader Tips, but I decided to comment here)

A number of cases involving freedom of expression during election campaigns have reached the Supreme Court of Canada in recent years, including Stephen Harper's own case on behalf of the National Citizens' Coalition in 2004. Most of the decisions went against freedom of expression, and in one case that didn't, in which the Court struck down a three-day ban on releasing poll results prior to election day, the government later brought in a two-day ban in lieu. Personally I think that was contempt of court ...

Anyway, one argument often raised against respecting freedom of expression during election campaigns (coming from slimeballs like Democracy Watch, for example) is that outside of the election period, you can spend money to your heart's content, so the impairment of your rights is minimal. But should this bill pass, apparently even that will no longer be true.

There is no doubt about it: stifling freedom of expression even the slightest amount is a slippery slope that will ultimately lead to its complete destruction. The only just solution is to scrap all limits on expressing one's political opinions during elections or at any other time and also to scrap limits on election spending by all parties, which includes "third parties" who are not political parties. Remember that freedom of expression, by definition, includes the right to spend one's resources in its exercise. Possibly a measure such as the US practise of requiring that political parties disclose all donations within 48 hours of receipt would be justified, but apart from that, there should be no restrictions.

Thank you Oz.
I noticed that Mr. Goodale has the same problem with comprehension that Ted does.
Must be a Liberal thing.

So, Lee/Oz, are you going to ask Harper to provide the same sort of "context" in his ads? I thought folks were saying around here that, as long as the words were actually said, quoting them in any way is always going to be "truth". Ergo, Harper said "we need to raise taxes".

I can see the Conservative-style ad already.

I can see the Conservative-style ad already.
~Ted | May 27, 2009 1:05 AM

No doubt you think you can.
But it would be your style, Ted, you little projector you, not Conservative style.

The Prime Minister's sentence begins with the words-"What we are not going to do..."

If you want to chop sections out of sentences and pretend the opposite was said, your credibility is going to be zilch, Ted.
Chopping out words is how serial killers put together taunting letters to the authorities.

"What we are not going to do..."

and then he talks about not increasing the budget. He said that in the morning. In the afternoon Flaherty announced the budget was going up, way way up, to AT LEAST $50 billion.

So: first of all, he was talking about budgets not taxes when he said "what we are not going to do"; second of all, he was wrong within hours of that statement just like he has been 100% wrong on ALL STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE ABOUT THE ECONOMY!; and third of all, he admitted ""we need to raise taxes" if the budget keeps going up, which it is.

He is so toast.

"If you want to chop sections out of sentences and pretend the opposite was said, your credibility is going to be zilch, Ted.
Chopping out words is how serial killers put together taunting letters to the authorities. "

Is that what you really think about the Conservatives, Oz? I agree with you and welcome to the growing majority of Canadians for whom the credibility of the Conservatives is zilch. Though I would not go so far to call Harper a serial killer. I think you are going a bit too far calling him that, Oz.

Since we can't rely on American defence we ought to go Nucular ourselves. Just to keep the Russian Bear trying to eat the North whole.

With Obama's Protectionist racket going full tilt, alienating all & sundry. I bet it wouldent take more than a few months to have real Nukes like Hydrogen bombs. Seems the fasion World Wide these day's . We should extend our help to make Australia a partner in this. They too can have a nuke nest egg.

After all in Canada we have the proud tradition under PET himself, that gave India & Pakistan nukes.

Time to look after our own house.

Problem: North Korea - Answer: Nuclear Japan

http://www.therightscoop.com/problem-north-korea-answer-nuclear-japan/

Pollster incredibly thinks Ignatieff's "taking the high road" wrt the ads about him, plus he also said it's currently summer...

Fact Checking A Pollster

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/05/fact-checking-pollster.html

I think pollsters should be a little more careful when talking to the media, and should think before speaking, don't you? Otherwise, what are folks going to think about someone who believes that Ignatieff, going around saying "don't mess with me or I'll mess with you" is "taking the high road" and that it's "summer" in May.

So Ted lies (again) and gets caught, so he employs the typical leftist approach...deflect (talk about negative ads) and change the subject (deficit is increasing).

Who do you think you're influencing here, Ted?

I thought lawyers were supposed to be smart. I guess that instead of being smart, they just need to be sly, eh?

"our president is a pathological narcissist"
...-

"Narcissus And Echo: Obama And The Mainstream Media

It is troubling that our president is a pathological narcissist caught up in the thought patterns of Darwin, Marx, and Alinsky. Even more troubling is the fact that the Mainstream Media (MSM), suffering from an Obama-inspired narcosis, shirks its duty, refusing to publish or even explore any aspect of Obama's dark side. There is room for much optimism, however. If the ancient story of Narcissus and Echo plays itself out as Ovid recorded it, and Obama and the MSM are their contemporary counterparts, both will fade away in the not too distant future.

Narcissus did not fall in love with his own reflection by accident; he was thus cursed by Nemesis for his audacious mockery of others. As for Echo, it was her dishonesty and deception that caused Hera, queen of the gods, to curse her so that her body would dwindle away to a mere voice able only to echo the words of Narcissus."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258894/posts

A Salute to Alice Munro.
...-

"Munro wins Booker award

LONDON — Alice Munro, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, known for stories of small-town life, has won the Man Booker International Prize.

The prize is awarded every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.

She told Man Booker officials: "I am totally amazed and delighted."

Munro has won three Governor General’s awards, two Scotiabank Giller Prizes and an O Henry Award in the United States for her short fiction.

The judging panel was: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov.

The panel said: "Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels."

"To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before."

Her latest collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, will be published in October.

Munro, 78, will receive C$105,000 and a trophy on June 25 at Trinity College, Dublin.

Munro has said: "I want to tell a story, in the old-fashioned way — what happens to somebody — but I want that "what happens’ to be delivered with quite a bit of interruption, turnarounds, and strangeness. I want the reader to feel something is astonishing — not the "what happens’ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.""
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1124082.html

Barf Alert:
I-Iggy's watchdogg, aka CerberusTed, is baying in the comments.
Its drool is from the pool of the PET Cemetery.
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"“We created the country you live in. Never forget it”

In this collection of clips,

1) Ignatieff seems to forget he’s in Canada.
2) An example of Ignatieff’s I, I, I problem
3) A declaration that the election is, to Ignatieff, about the Liberal Party reclaiming its place in Canada.
4) Not a hint of arrogance (because he says so)
5) A tired old attack line."

http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2009/05/we-created-the-country-you-live-in-never-forget-it/

Ted just had a brain freeze.

But when you have a single, small, tiny, teensy-weensy brain cell, the result is the usual crap spewing forth from his mouth.

Single cell creatures like Ted and other Lieberals should be pitied, not mocked.

"THE VINDICATION OF CARBON MEANS THE VINDICATION OF HUMAN FREEDOM

The evidence is piling up every day that the world is now getting cooler instead of warmer, the oceans are now cooling instead of warming, the ice is returning to the Arctic rather than receding, the sea ice in the Antarctic is at record levels, and that rising sea levels have moderated. The sun has recently gone into a less active phase of fewer sun-spots, and the ocean decadal currents have changed from a warming to a cooling phase. Before too long the global warming scare will be as dead as the scares about the Y2 bug or acid rain. Already some of the global warming alarmists, anticipating this may soon happen, are re-inventing their alarmism into the scare about the oceans becoming acidified by our CO2 emissions – even though the oceans already contains 90 times more CO2 than the atmosphere (Chilingar, et.al.) Beyond all these things, however, we need to get to what this debate and this climate change alarmism is really all about. Beyond all this alarmism about global warming or ocean acidification, we need to see that on a deeper level it is a debate about carbon, and when we dig into that level of the debate we will finally see that behind the demonization of carbon and CO2, it is all about an attack on humanity itself."

"THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD

ABSTRACT:

"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.

Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.

If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258870/posts

"(Excerpt) Read more at climaterealists.com ..."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522103,00.html

and the president has his teleprompter on pause.

Ah, typical ConBot response. Don't like the truth when it makes you and your guy look soooo bad and hypocritical so what to do but go for the insults and juvenile name calling.

You have all trained very well under Stephen "sir Flip-a-lot" Harper: avoid policy and substance at all costs, bribe where necessary, abandon and break promises and principles if they are longer advantageous, and attack attack attack. The Con way to build a better country.

He is so toast, indeed.

A Message from the Enemies(sic) of the CBC.

Blue is planning a going-away bash for DonCBC Broaaaaadcast.
BYOCake and join in.
...-

"# 53 Joanne said:
May 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am

Joanne, can we plan a coffee party at your blog to celebrate the end of Politics next month. We bring our own cake.

Heh. Sounds like a great idea, Mary T!"
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2009/05/26/quebec-conundrum-part-deux/#comments

Arthur Herman, The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard

...What this account and others like it fail to take into consideration are the aggressive and unending efforts of a cadre of lawyers, activists, left-leaning Democrats in Congress, and civil libertarians against the facility, its purpose, its goal, and its existence. These efforts began even before it was opened, in November 2001, and continue to this day. The anti-Gitmo forces worked tirelessly to shape the public perception that Gitmo was the red-hot center of an aggressive policy approach that led the leftist financier George Soros to declare: “The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush.”

The enemies of Bush and Gitmo have succeeded brilliantly. But in so doing, they have done grave violence to the truth about the Guantánamo Bay facility, have aided in the release of prisoners who have since committed acts of terrorism outside the United States, and may yet succeed in having Barack Obama’s government release young men with terrifying ambitions for murder and mass destruction onto the soil of the United States...

Stephen Taylor has a thread we should all be talking about, it's another outrageous statement from I, I, I, Ignatieff: "We built the country you live in. Never forget it".

Let's keep that one going, it's an insult to all of us.

Young offenders act now protects 19 year olds.
How do you like this novelty concept?

http://peelpolice.ca/News/Media%20Archive.aspx?MainContent=2334

This happened in my neighbourhood just a few days after police intercepted a parcel from a gun store and raided my home.

I want to know how the gun registry helped to make these arrests. I really want to know.

NEW MACLEANS POLL RIGHT NOW!

"Does it bother you that Michael Ignatieff spent more than 30 years outside Canada?"

http://www2.macleans.ca/macleans-poll/

B.C. election recount for South Delta now completed, with Independent Vicki Huntington winning by 32 votes.

To be filed under 'where foxes caper unmolested':
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6350237.ece

Does anyone still use the words 'screw you' in England?

goofy business from da great white nort' this week. Madame G G chomps on some raw seal meat and the EU goes berserk.

a way of life that continues to exist in a small way for 15-20 thousand years but noooooo, gotta put the enviro-politico spin on it.

next !!!

If the Iggy attack ads are out of context, please put them in context.

I won't hold my breath.

The U.K. government is printing money at a rate equivalent to 65% of their annual government budget. The author of the article pointed out that this is a greater percentage than what was seen in the Weimar Republic.

Bathroom Boy* is scouring the stalls again for "evidence".
I-Iggy's BB says, flushingly, he has a nooseful.
(NNW)
...-

"NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND KENNEY'S NECK?(sic)
*Kinsella: We have the fascinating postings below, taken from a "nanny" chatroom. They're very interesting - particularly, I think, the degree to which Kenney worker Melissa Bhagat was involved in coordinating attacks on Dhalla and two provincial cabinet ministers."

...-

*Warren Kinsella has taken to snapping pictures of graffiti in washrooms to illustrate the need for s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

I suspect Warren and I might agree the little shit who scrawled this deserves a spanking or, if he is a bit older, a few well aimed punches from his more enlightened team mates not to mention an hour or two scrubbing out every stall in the bathroom to remove every bit of graffiti which is what a coach of mine demanded when I simply drew a mildly naughty picture on a wall."

"A Wide Stance"
http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/a-wide-stance/

DON'T BLAME IT ON THE ECONOMY
Out-of-control spending is the real culprit

Terence Corcoran, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Earlier this year, National Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn launched an advertising campaign to promote the Conservatives' various tax credits, including the $1,350 home renovation tax credit, also known in some circles as the Home Depot bailout.

The message was that Ottawa had created all these great tax deals that stimulate the economy and put cash in pockets. The ad slogan was: "You've earned it. Claim it."

News that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is projecting a budget deficit this year of "more than" $50-billion suggests Ottawa needs a new advertising campaign and some fresh language to bring the message up to current fiscal conditions.

Recommended new slogan: "We've borrowed it. Now you pay for it."

There are roughly 18 million income-tax filers in Canada, which means Mr. Flaherty's new deficit will put the average Canadian taxpayer about $2,700 deeper in hock by the end of this fiscal year. Add in the deficits running up in places such as Ontario, and the total average debt load per income-tax filer could run to $5,000.

That's a lot to pay for the thrill of "stimulating" the economy.

How many Canadians will get $5,000 worth of benefit out of what is quickly becoming a major national extravaganza of spending and borrowing? Canadians who spent $1,350 on home reno materials this year will be in debt for three times that amount...."

Stimulating, isn't it?

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=f98a4010-9f7e-46c9-aa18-bc05674b610b

DON'T BLAME IT ON THE ECONOMY
Out-of-control spending is the real culprit

Terence Corcoran, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Earlier this year, National Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn launched an advertising campaign to promote the Conservatives' various tax credits, including the $1,350 home renovation tax credit, also known in some circles as the Home Depot bailout.

The message was that Ottawa had created all these great tax deals that stimulate the economy and put cash in pockets. The ad slogan was: "You've earned it. Claim it."

News that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is projecting a budget deficit this year of "more than" $50-billion suggests Ottawa needs a new advertising campaign and some fresh language to bring the message up to current fiscal conditions.

Recommended new slogan: "We've borrowed it. Now you pay for it."

There are roughly 18 million income-tax filers in Canada, which means Mr. Flaherty's new deficit will put the average Canadian taxpayer about $2,700 deeper in hock by the end of this fiscal year. Add in the deficits running up in places such as Ontario, and the total average debt load per income-tax filer could run to $5,000.

That's a lot to pay for the thrill of "stimulating" the economy.

How many Canadians will get $5,000 worth of benefit out of what is quickly becoming a major national extravaganza of spending and borrowing? Canadians who spent $1,350 on home reno materials this year will be in debt for three times that amount...."

Stimulating, isn't it?

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists

RE: LIBERAL SUPPORT FROM CBC AND RADIO CANADA:

A word of caution. While it's no secret that the CBC and Radio Canada are in bed together, be extremly cautions about going on CBC.CA.

Your comments are voted on by the viewers, given a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." As is often the case, the use of multiple computers can allow a viewer to cast several votes. Liberals watching this popular site tend to get too much wind in their sails. My advice to my right wing extremist friends--don't turn your back in the Liberals! The same applies to "online surveys."

Celebs who lean right: a photospread of people whose movies/tv/CD/sports stuff to buy.

Some of the names surprised me.

http://cbs11tv.com/slideshows/Conservative.Celebrities.republican.20.828253.html

"Canadians who spent $1,350 on home reno materials this year will be in debt for three times that amount...."
~hardboiled at May 27, 2009 12:31 PM

You have to spend $9000 on home reno or materials to get the $1,350 tax kickback.

If you spend less than $9K, you get less of a kickback.

The kickback is 15% of what the home owner spends on reno or materials up to a total of $1,350 if you spend $9000.

It's a spending incentive to help kickstart the economy.

O'Narcissist*: It's here in black and white.

"This is his [Obama's] sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."*
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"SHOCK! News Media Shows Black Woman Criticizing Obama While Praising Pres. Bush

Video Report here

In a rare episode of the mainstream media reporting on citizen frustration with Barack Obama, Central Florida News 13 broadcast footage of a young black woman praising former President George W. Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina while sandblasting Barack Obama for his failure to respond to disastrous flooding in Volusia County, Florida.

Volusia County, which includes world famous Daytona Beach, was devastated by several feet of rain which fell within a few days last week from a weather system that parked itself over Florida and drenched the state with drought-ending storms.

Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who has become Obama's BFF since the November election, has asked Obama to declare parts of the state a federal disaster area to start the flow of disaster aid.

Obama has ignored Crist's appeal. The situation is reminiscient of Obama's slow respone to widespread ice storms in Kentucky shortly after his inauguration.

Flood victim Shannon Jackson was shown in the CFNews 13 report by Mark Jenkins that aired yesterday evening voicing her complaints directly to Obama:

"Even, um...they had a lot to say about George Bush, but at least George Bush was on the scene during Hurricane Katrina when everything was going down, you know?

"So therefore if he wasn't going to declare a disaster area so we could get immediate action then he should at least come and show his face so he could see for himself what we're going through.

"Cuz we would like to see you after everybody campaigned for Obama and worked so hard to get Obama in the chair. You got to do something."

According to CFNews 13, an estimated 1500 homes were damaged in the flooding. There are growing concerns for mold and mosquito-borne encephalitis in the wake of the flooding.

FEMA has not been activated by Obama yet.

Alternate indirect link to video. Choose story entitled Crist Talks With Flood Victims"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259174/posts
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*"The "small people", the "rank and file", the "loyal soldiers" of the narcissist - his flock, his nation, his employees - they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated - is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/71124

Cut off a man's head and then be secretly released into public less than a year later.

Only in Canada :-(

Robert, read the laws - it's all there. The criminals have rights, while the victims do not. Isn't that so obvious, for example from the press release of Peel police that I linked above - the 19 year old gangster's identity will be protected under YOA!!! He may be walking around the playground where my children are playing and I am having no clue. Puke at Canadian justice!

GG Jean and her Haitian Voodoo* ritual.

"Their services include symbolic or actual rituals of sacrifice and consumption of flesh and blood,*"
...-

"GG crossed line with seal-snacking incident, British critic says
CBC.ca - ‎2 hours ago‎
Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean sparked an international controversy by cutting out part of a seal's heart and swallowing it raw."
http://news.google.ca/

*"Haiti: Possessed by Voodoo"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0707_040707_tvtaboovoodoo_2.html

This poll could easily go terribly wrong:

http://www.globecampus.ca/poll/are-social-sciences-and-arts-being-underfunded/

Less than zero
By Andrew Coyne - Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Great news! After many years, sales of Bombardier’s much-vaunted — and much-more-subsidized — C-Series regional passenger jet are finally off the ground, with Lufthansa finally commiting to buy the first 30 of the planes.

So let’s see. Governments have put, what is it, $780-million into the project? That means as of now Bombardier is into the taxpayer for roughly $26-million per plane sold, or just over half the sticker price. But it’s all right: it’s a “repayable loan.” Bombardier only needs to sell several hundred of the things and we get all of our money back, ie we earn a zero per cent rate of return. Until that day, we’re in negative territory.

So it’s not quite true, even now, to say that Lufthansa has “bought” 30 jets from Bombardier. More like: the taxpayers of Canada have paid Lufthansa to take them. And Lufthansa has, after much deliberation, accepted.

The end of Canadian conservatism
How Harper sold out to save himself

Say what you like about the Tories: they don’t do things by halves. When they spend, they spend. When they go into debt, they do it $100 billion at a time. And when they decide to finish off what remains of conservatism in Canada—as a movement, as a philosophy—they go out with a bang.

We can safely say that the strategy of “incrementalism,” at least, is a thing of the past. With this week’s historic budget, the Conservatives’ already headlong retreat from principle has become a rout—a great final leap into the void. Understand: there will be no going back from this, for the party or for the country. Whatever the budget’s soothing talk of “temporary” this and “extraordinary” that, and for all its well-mannered charts showing spending obediently returning to its pen, deficits meekly subsiding, multi-billion-dollar “investments” repaid in full, we are in fact headed somewhere we have never been before. We are on course toward a massive and permanent increase in the size and scope of government: record spending, sky-high borrowing, and—ultimately, inevitably—higher taxes. And all this before the first of the baby boomers have had a chance to retire.

Whether it will prove the country’s undoing, and not just conservatives’, will depend upon events. In its simplest terms, the budget is a “stimulus package” that spills money every which way: $12 billion over two years for infrastructure; almost $8 billion meant to kick-start housing and construction; billions more in forestry, auto and manufacturing aid. The much feared broad-based income tax cuts amounted to lifting the income threshold for the middle and lower brackets. If everything the budget foretells comes to pass, we might not come out of it too badly. A $34-billion deficit next year, after all, is barely two per cent of GDP, and even four years and $85 billion worth of deficits, if the budget’s projections hold, would barely budge our debt-to-GDP ratio. But if they do not—if the economy fails to recover on cue; if inflation spikes when it does, and interest rates soon after; if all those billions in new spending, once in place, do not prove so easy to trim back; if the assets the government acquires with all of its borrowed money do not turn out to be worth what they cost—then we will head into the approaching demographic storm loaded down to the gunwales. It’s a monumental, even reckless gamble...."

Read it all Oz...stimulus? Heh, heh. And the estimates (until 2013, tentatively of course) are now revealed as 25% too low. Stimulus? Heh. Depends who you are stimulating, no?

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/01/29/the-right-in-full-retreat/

Liberal ally praises Minister Flaherty's moves:

"... the move represents a "positive development," said Don Drummond, chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, as it provides further options for Canadians in the tail end of their working careers. He said pension arrangements have been an impediment for those looking to reduce work hours or shift to part-time, because of the hit they would sustain to benefits earned."

A Conservative government at work with conservative principles at the forefront.
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"Ottawa to allow working people to draw CPP cheques

OTTAWA -- The federal government said Monday it is going to allow Canadians to work and draw on their Canada Pension Plan benefits at the same time - a move that analysts described as a "sea-change" in pension policy.

The move was announced following a meeting between the federal Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, and his provincial counterparts, in which pension issues emerged as a significant issue.

Analysts say the changes proposed to CPP indicate policy makers are serious about the need to revamp Canada's retirement-income scheme. "The more flexibility you build into pension arrangements, the better," said Jack Mintz, public policy professor at the University of Calgary."
urlm.in/cnhe (more)

hardboiled at May 27, 2009 3:08 PM,

I'm curious as to why you want me to read something that Andrew Coyne wrote on January 29 2009, serveral months before the present budget was passed?

It's all past speculation and not altogether germaine considering where we are today and what the budget contained.

correction on the day the budget was passed.

More broadly, how in good conscience could the Liberals, or the NDP for that matter, vote against a budget they might have written?
~Coyne

Coyne has just made perfection the enemy of the good in this article you refer to.

It's hardly "The end of Canadian conservatism".

You fight the battles you can win.
Politics is the art of the possible.
~Bismarck

Wow.

Say tell me Oz, when exactly was the current budget introduced, and when was it subsequently passed by Parliament?

You can probably figure the rest of your question out from there. Or not.

Ignorance is bliss, no?

Ha, beat ya to the correction.

Posted by: Oz at May 27, 2009 4:33 PM

Wow^2.

So, if the 'conservative' party introduces a budget that could have been written line by line by the NDP or Libranos, it's for the greater good?

I honestly don't understand why Red Tory's aren't more comfortable in the Liberal party. I mean, honestly....

"Ottawa to allow working people to draw CPP cheques..."

Anyone ever try to live on only your CPP?

Ha, beat ya to the correction.
Posted by: Oz at May 27, 2009 4:38 PM

You did. Retraction of date question underway. Since you're in quote mode....

I want to die a slave to principles, not to men. - Emiliano Zapata Salazar

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees - José Martí

Well hardboiled, let's look at this Harper quote from yesterday:

What we are not going to do is, every two or three months, come up with another economic policy, another budget until we need to raise taxes.

That was a dig against the Liberals.
Why?

Because the last Liberal government, the Paul Martin government, passed "mini-budgets" every "two or three months" because they didn't stick to a BUDGET at ALL.

You see Harper may have passed at " budget that could have been written line by line by the NDP or Liberals" but the difference is integrity.

The Conservatives are sticking to their budget, which is what having a budget means.
Changing the plan and passing "mini-budgets" like the Liberals did is the same as NOT having ANY budget at all.

Go ahead and die already, hardboiled.
Hope it works for ya.

By the bye, Latins are such drama queens.

So, Harper passing a budget that could have been written by the NDP and/or Liberals is "integrity".

$120B in deficits (proj. through 2013 est) is for the greater good, and has integrity.

I'll have to look that up.

btw - the quotes are simply ones I like, they weren't in reference to our discussion per se.

I don't think wishing death upon others is good form.

No, hardboiled, integrity is sticking to your proposed plan.

The Liberals/NDP could have written it....they just wouldn't have had the integrity to stick to it.

Integrity is also believing in the quotes you make.

To be is to do.
~Socrates

To be or not to be.
~Shakespeare

Do be do be doo.
~Frank Sinatra

8^D

“We'll do what we have to do, so long as we remain economically prudent. We're sure not going to run a deficit ... We will maintain a surplus in Canada and we will continue to pay down debt.”
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty - October 8th, 2008

(addendum: Asked if running even a small deficit would be bad in these difficult times, Mr. Flaherty said flatly: “Yes, it would be.”)

Indeed.

I agree.
Running a deficit is bad.

Would there be any way for any political party to run Canada at this time in these unforseen economic circumstances we are in without going into deficit?

No.

Say what you like about the Tories: they don’t do things by halves. When they spend, they spend. When they go into debt, they do it $100 billion at a time. And when they decide to finish off what remains of conservatism in Canada — as a movement, as a philosophy—they go out with a bang

Andrew Coyne, January 29, 2009

Do any of the liberal supporters remember blasting the gov't endlessly for not spending enough to stimulate the economy?--- This is simple,if you spend what you do not have,you end up in the hole. If you spend even more,you end up in a bigger hole. The libs and the ndp wanted the bigger hole,so STFU,the liberals would have given us the bigger hole.

If wishes were horses then beggers would ride.

Coyne, an Ontarian, wouldn't know Conservatism if it bit him on the lip.

Conservatism in Canada isn't dead.
Take it from a card carrying Alberta Reform Party member.
If we Albertans get tired of Stephen Harper or the CPC we'll either build a new Conservative Party or a new nation that will be Conservative, in which case Coyne will actually be right, Canadian Conservatism will be dead if Alberta builds the new nation 'cause there won't be any Canada.

We're sure not going to run a deficit ... We will maintain a surplus in Canada and we will continue to pay down debt.”
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty - October 8th, 2008

...On Wednesday, the finance minister again said that the government would not try to manipulate the numbers or take "cute steps" to stay in a surplus during these challenging times.
"So that may mean that we will run a deficit next year," he said.
November 12, 2008

"Relatively speaking this is a mild economic recession. “ - Flaherty, April 3, 2009

''We're in the middle of a serious recession” - Flaherty, April 8, 2009

"When we published the budget at the end of January this year -- the earliest budget in modern Canadian history -- we laid out what the private-sector economists said was going to happen, and then we discounted that, because we, quite frankly, thought they were being a bit optimistic about what might happen," Flaherty said. - April 11, 2009

"We will run a (substantial) short-term deficit this year which I would estimate at more than $50 billion," Flaherty said. - May 26, 2009

Integrity is also believing in the quotes you make.
Oz, May 27, 2009

Say Oz, which one should we/he pick to believe? Unforseen economic circumstances?

From November 2008:
I present this Statement at a time of unprecedented deterioration in economic and financial systems around the world. Without a doubt, here in Canada and around the world, these are difficult times that will require difficult choices.
It is important to recognize just how quickly things have changed, Mr. Speaker, and how dramatically - Flaherty, Fall Economic Statement, Nov 27, 2008

Reform? You? I didn't know there was a Progressive Reform branch in that Party...

"Relatively speaking this is a mild economic recession." - Flaherty, April 3, 2009

Relative to what?
The Great Depression, that's what.

"We're in the middle of a serious recession" - Flaherty, April 8, 2009

So it's a mild recession, relative to the Great Depression, and it's a serious recession.

Yes, the private sector is still overly optimistic.
Did you know there are 600,000 foreclosed houses in the U.S. that the banks are hiding from the market? Did you know that 3 out of 5 homes that are being foreclosed on, right now, are not sub-prime mortgage homes but prime mortgages that are in arrears because they home owners are unemployed?

No problem with any of it. It's all true, and at all the same time.

Would there be any way for any political party to run Canada at this time in these unforeseen economic circumstances we are in without going into deficit?

No.

If you can't answer this question in the affirmative and tell me the way then you're just being obtuse and bashing the Conservatives for being pragmatic.

Would there be any way for any political party to run Canada at this time in these unforeseen economic circumstances we are in without going into deficit? Posted by: Oz at May 27, 2009 7:38 PM

My answer is no as well. EI is going to eat $15B itself in a major recession, that's a known number. A deficit was/is inevitable.

Flaherty knew that 2 days after the Cons blew their shot at a majority - against the weakest wet-nose academic that could ever have accidentally come down the pipe.

My point is that our Little Leprechaun hasn't had this right for 8 months. Or he wasn't honest about what was coming.

In either case - the quotes speaks for themselves.

Now - what was that about integrity - and standing by your quotes?

More importantly - if the Leprechaun was a Librano - you, and most of SDA (aside from Ted) would be all over this guy, and the Finance Department.

Partisanship is for the weak. Free your mind. Think for yourself.

My point is that our Little Leprechaun hasn't had this right for 8 months. Or he wasn't honest about what was coming.~hardboiled

I've just demonstrated that none of the quotes you show @ May 27, 2009 6:50 PM are incorrect or conflicting.
I don't see where Flaherty was wrong at all.

The recession is mild compared to the Great Depression, but it's a serious recession as Flaherty says.
That covers quotes 1 & 2.

If you see a conflict between what Flaherty said in quotes 3 & 4 you'll have to explain it to me.
I don't see any.

Flaherty knew that [EI is going to eat $15B itself in a major recession] 2 days after the Cons blew their shot at a majority - against the weakest wet-nose academic that could ever have accidentally come down the pipe.

Where do you get that premise?
Show me.
I say you pulled it out of thin air and if you didn't it's just some wonk's unsupported opinion.

If I were Prime Minister, and had a majority, I would have cut all taxes very deeply and axed many programs, then borrowed the tax revenue shortfall letting Canadians keep their money and sort out the places that the money should best be spent.
There would have been no bailouts of any kind and EI expenditures would have been only slightly above normal, except for the loss of the Union Auto makers.

Chrysler and GM are dead men walking. There won't be any political appetite for another bailout in my lifetime and they won't last to the end of Obama's term anyway.

But there was no majority.
The welfare junkies in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Toronto that the Liberals created saw to that.

No welfare junkies in the Reform paradise of Alberta, right Oz? What about them plough junkies?

That's right, philboy, there are no welfare junkies in Alberta.

Plough junkies?
Never heard of that term before.
Google search for this exact wording or phrase: plough junkies-comes up ZERO.