Union teachers (one of them wearing a "Tax The Rich" t-shirt) explain how to push Marxism in the Classroom. (h/t Maggie's farm)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/obits-get-political-in-lieu-of-flowers-please-vote-liberal/article1998038/

Dead man's family want you to know that even though he is dead, like a good Liberal, he will still be voting for Iggy.

Zombies for Iggy, where else but Toronto.

Got my new Shaw Direct receivers today and switched on Sun News for the first time a couple hours ago.

wow.. it's extremely strange watching Canadian news without being spoon fed the same old politically correct Liberal pablum at every turn. Never thought such a thing would happen in my lifetime.

Why is Bill betting on Canada when Liberal Count Ignatieff says the Dominion is going to Hades on a handcart?

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"Bill Gates now biggest CN shareholder
CBC.ca - ‎10 hours ago‎
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, shown in Paris on April 5, is the largest shareholder in Montreal-based Canadian National Railway."
(googlenews)

The comb-over candidate's do-overs:

"TV star and developer Donald Trump tells his Tea Party followers the nation needs a President who is a 'winner, not a loser' - and he's just the guy for the job. What he doesn't talk about is a recurring pattern of Trump companies filing for bankruptcy to dodge creditors and distance him from business failure.

"When his Trump casinos filed for Chapter 11 in 2009, Trump claimed he had nothing to do with the gaming halls. Documents tell a different tale: then and now, he's listed as an owner on the casino's license."

[...]

"In the last 20 years, Trump's companies have sought protection from creditors to avoid financial collapse at least three times."

In response to the NY Daily News article Trump stood in front of a mirror and pouted out his lips like the lead singer of a bad 80s hair band...

Eco bulbs more dangerous than we thought...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8462626/Energy-saving-light-bulbs-contain-cancer-causing-chemicals.html

Apparently they now emit a sort of electrical smog outside the bulb itself.

Do the following (consecutive) statements from this article by The Star's Tim Harper add up?

"The NDP....ran first or second in more than 100 ridings in 2008, and it may now be in a position to eat into enough Bloc support in Quebec and Liberal support in Ontario to allow the Harper Conservatives to pick up seats and ride to a majority.

"A strategic swing to the New Democrats will badly wound the Conservatives."

Huh?

Ignatieff - ya but, ya see, I wanna be Canada's PM now.

[In the new version there is no arrest by a young Serb in combat gear. No detention in a Serbian police station. No release ordered by a mysterious local warlord.]

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/25/john-sainsbury-rewriting-history-for-political-gain/

Which Liberal(s) had the brain wave to anoint not elect Dion's replacement? Were they afraid of 'accidentally' coming up with another dud?

Yeah EBD, I think it does.
A vote, by party preference as indicated by current polls would be good for the Cons, leading to a possible majority.

But, strategic voting by Liberals in abandoning their party and switching their votes to the NDP could take away a number of seats from the tories where the margins are tighter.

But I think NDP strength is exaggerated right now, and strategic voting is more a concept than is actually carried out in practice.

EBD Maybe it was written at a Marijuana Party rally.

RE: Marxism in the Classroom

This is a heads up moment.

The Union Crack Heads are on a road to the final abyss.. This will quickly escalate with them resorting to taking students hostage, and eventually killing them.

We have a obligation to protect the Children from evil teachers

Nineteen little known facts about the South Wests illegal immigrant problems. Some of the numbers are huge. As the article said the US has no problem securing the N/S Korea border and Mexico is more of a threat.

http://tinyurl.com/65do67j

ChrisinMB @ 10:23, ditto here. It was great, the little that actually had time to watch it.

I had some trouble setting it up, so phoned the Shaw tech people and they were great. It is working fine now.

The only problem is that the new DSR 605 has less clear picture than the old standard DSR 317. It did not matter which channel. Changes in the television's picture setting did not help. This is weird as I thought the picture should be better.

Anybody have any ideas?

Photo: KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Burned corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above this city where rioting broke out again Tuesday among Muslim opposition supporters who were angered by the announcement that the Christian incumbent president had won the election. READ More at The Hive hat tip Urban Infidel

Via Atlas Shrugged

http://blog.buttermouth.com/search/label/online%20tv

Well it looks like Robert Fife and the gang at CTV have finally "got" Harper.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20110425/stephen-harper-controversial-quotes-110425/20110425?s_name=election2011

What's next? Are they going to obtain Harper's child-hood diary???

"man who lowers the death rate in bermondsey"

What does this mean, from the movie clip.

Ken (Kulak) I upgraded from an ancient DSR411 to a HDDSR605 so obviously I had an improvement. Yeah, Shaw was very good with tech support and the upgrades. I imagine they had many such calls recently due to Sun News and knew the routine well.

An interesting article from the Toronto Sun. The writer thinks that the Liberals may be siphoning our tax dollars to support their campaign.Gee,that sounds familiar.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/25/are-taxpayers-footing-bill-to-elect-liberals

Did anyone else find it funny/ironic that the Liberal Party ran frequent campaign ads (i.e., several times an hour during Eastern prime time) on Sun during the first week of its existence? It took me until today to see one from the CPC.

"ChrisinMB @ 10:23, ditto here. It was great, the little that actually had time to watch it.

I had some trouble setting it up, so phoned the Shaw tech people and they were great. It is working fine now.

The only problem is that the new DSR 605 has less clear picture than the old standard DSR 317. It did not matter which channel. Changes in the television's picture setting did not help. This is weird as I thought the picture should be better.

Anybody have any ideas?"

Yeah -- you're not using an HD TV, and probably are using poor quality connections.

Otherwise, what you're claiming? Pretty much an impossibility. If the signal's there, it's not a hardware issue.

By the way, if Ekos is correct, Canadians are going to wake up with one sore backdoor on May 3rd. Can you say PM Jack Layton?

This is not a heads up moment or whatnot.. it's standard operating procedure.

Yeah, the Ekos poll was a bit of a digestion disturber. Here's hoping that they're very wrong.

My friend & colleague, David Berner, speaks out against InSite.

City TV Toronto's Saphia Khambalia must truly hate YouTube. Here's why!

In spite of the fact that by 1931 motion pictures were not in any measure cutting-edge technology, I always marvel at old footage such as this. This clip is the first I've seen of London pre-war. Thank you for this.

RobertW.(Vancouver)

Snot happens...seldom is it televised..

NDP MP Pat Martin forced to apologize for verbal attack; woman questioned if he lived in riding

" I asked him about the issue of not returning calls, not only I but three others had the same question. I also asked Mr. Martin who he was representing. Mr. Martin stated that he has a house on Canora, but does spend time in Vancouver where he owns property that is rented out. (Yet, in the Winnipeg Sun dated April 24th, in a quote to Tom Brodbeck, Mr. Martin stated that he just went through a divorce and his wife received the property on Salt Spring Island.) "

What happened next stunned Calder.

"As I sat down, Mr. Martin said to me, "how many restraining orders do you have against you?".

http://tiny.cc/91jcw

I believe - but am not certain - the "man who lowers the death rate in bermondsey" comment refers to the density of the crowd surrounding him, tieing that in with Bermondsey being an area half mile east of Southwark Street Market, and the belief at that time that population death rates in various neighborhoods differed widely due to varied densities of their populations.

Btw, today's Southwark Street Market has moved two blocks north and is now called Borough Market. It is a delight.

"*“Frankly, you can write that down if you want, but I just think it’s bullshit,” Mr. Rae said".

"Bob Rae blasts Harper 'jihadis'"

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/02/24/17396346.html

Of Taliban Jack LaytoNDP & Mao Stlong's nephew Liberal leader Bob Rae.

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"*Is the legacy of Rae’s days in power keeping Jack back?"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/is-the-legacy-of-raes-days-in-power-keeping-jack-back/article1998701/

"Taliban helps 480 inmates escape Kandahar prison through 1,000-foot tunnel"
(googlenews)

"ABC News
As Gas Soars, Obama Tanks"

Of Liberal Count Ignatieff's Gas Pains and gas pains' tablets.

Fill 'er up with Iggy's Mr. McTeague.

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"Ignatieff 's petro-populism"

"Once a man who preferred the intellectual high road, Michael Ignatieff now is plumbing that lowest common denominator of water-cooler populism: high gas prices. Could this really be the thinker who once parsed the fine points of global citizenship and human rights on the pages of The New York Times Magazine?

At a rally on Tuesday in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Mr. Ignatieff pledged to place MP Dan McTeague -a man already wellknown as a noisy demagogue -in charge of monitoring pump prices nationwide, should the Liberals win the May 2 election. For a thinking voter, it's as good a reason as any not to vote for the Liberals.

Mr. McTeague has made a career of bashing oil companies over gasoline prices while never quite managing to find any proof of collusion or gouging, two of his favourite accusations. The Pickering-Scarborough East MP has shown that there is less competition in most Canadian markets than in comparable American ones -so in most large Canadian cities one oil company tends to dominate above the others -but he has never demonstrated that this arrangement leads to higher consumer prices at the pump.

It's easy enough to understand how some Canadians accept the populist complaints pushed by Mr. McTeague."

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Ignatieff+petro+populism/4673764/story.html

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"Climate Craziness of the Week – greentabs for gasoline"

"This ginormous marketing spam was left as a comment on WUWT on the thread:
Stratospheric water vapor may have contributed about a third of the warming 1980-2000 but now is in decline

Seeing as to how it was left on my blog, I see it as fair game. All you have to do is add these magic tablets to your gas tank and your troubles with gasoline vehicles mileage and emissions just disappear!"

"Only one problem, this seems to be a reincarnation of:
Attorney General Abbott Shuts Down Pyramid Scheme That Marketed Bogus Fuel Pill

BioPerformance ordered to return more than $7 million to victims of pyramid scheme

AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today stopped a Dallas-based pyramid scheme from illegally marketing the so-called “top secret gas pill” that it falsely claimed would increase fuel efficiency in automobiles."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/25/climate-craziness-of-the-week-greentabs-for-gasoline/

The Ekkos poll? Please.

They have the CPC 6 to 7 points lower than everyone else, the Dippers 3 to 4 points higher, but the LPC right there with everyone elses numbers.

Ezra was having fun last night on twitter calling out the owner of Ekkos and his attempts at scaring the LPC base into voting with totally unrealistic 100 seat NDP numbers.

For all SDA folks on the Eastlink Halifax grid, the infamous SunNews is on the cable at 610 in HD. After watching it I was kind of disappointed as I didn't see any short skirts and hotties catering to the lower base of society as the MSM had reported.

What I saw was a new news channel, a bit wobbly at times, doing a decent job of presenting a "Fox style" operation, as in "fair and balanced." Given the fact that several personalities are from radio or print, they aren't doing too bad. Getting used to looking at the camera and acquiring an on-air wardrobe will take time as will the looking comfortable in front of the cameras. Look to see improvements as time progresses.

Pretty much my impression as well Texas-Canuck.

Remember, Sun News TV's entire budget of $20 million/year is likely a lot less than the CBC spends on the supper time local news here in Halifax.

Oh, they put all the hotties on during daytime programing when us working stiffs are working. This would explain why so many on the left seem to have been able to make an opinion on the dress of the ladies.

And I never thought I would be saying this, but props to Olivia Chow. She and Jack were amoung the first guests on The Roundtable. When she heard about the misogynist ramblings of the likes of Rick Mercer and Jonathan Kay she immediately took her jacket off for the taping of their piece, baring arms along with the rest of the gals on Sun that day.

From John Hinderaker at Power Line:

“Obama Blows Off Easter

“Liberals often express dismay over the fact that a significant minority of Americans believe that President Obama is a Muslim--or tell pollsters they do, anyway. . . .

“I don't think Obama is a Muslim, but I can understand why many Americans are uncertain about his core beliefs. This year, Obama let Easter pass without issuing any sort of proclamation. That can hardly have been an oversight, as he devoted considerable attention to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, a purely secular event.

“. . . On the contrary, he has made a point of issuing Presidential proclamations on the occasion of every significant Muslim holiday--Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha. Here is what he had to say about Ramadan last August:

“ ‘On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I want to extend our best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem. . . . [followed by two, long paragraphs]

“ ‘I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

“ ‘May God's peace be upon you.’

“What did he say about Easter, the most important event in the Christian calendar? Nothing. Is it any surprise that some Americans perceive Obama as more enthusiastic about Islam than about his own self-professed faith? . . .”

Read more at:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/04/028898.php

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8474157/Libya-William-Hague-urges-UK-to-prepare-for-long-haul.html

Now it's "The Long Haul" in Libya.

WTF is Harper thinking?

Get us the hell out of that crazy place. Let France and Libya deal with the lunatics if they want to. Why on earth has Harper committed Canada to "lead" and participate in this mission?

Well it seems that the muslim brotherhood may be playing a role in the unrest in Syria as well. That's a real shocka!

http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/?p=9340

Cancer Industry Report.

H/T PET Cemetery.

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"Cancer fundraising - Would you donate money to target deadliest cancers?
CBC.ca"

A person living down my street has put up NDP campaign sigh... for Jack Layton, who is not a candidate.

Just thought I'd mention 'cause it's funny, not because it's a violation of election sign rules.

Because the Liberals NEVER played ethnic politics...
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But Tariq Amin-Khan, an associate professor of politics at Ryerson University in Toronto, said that the Conservative strategy of targeting voters based on race or ethnic origin could backfire.

“This targeting of the ethnic vote has really angered quite a few people within the broader South Asian community who see themselves as people who are just being exploited to gain votes,” he said.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/04/26/toronto-key-to-majority-for-harpers-conservatives

Aaron - I'm just back from visiting the grandkids over Easter in Peterborough, ON (a riding currently held by Conservatives) and I noticed a number of lawns had signs for the local NDP candidate as well as a second one with Jack Layton's name - thought it odd - is it also illegal??
Jim

Gas price relief on the way?

[Currently, Iraq is 12th in daily production in the world, but their goal would put them slightly ahead of Saudi Arabia’s current output at #2 and challenge Russia for its current top spot.]

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/04/26/video-iraqi-oil-ministry-prepares-for-massive-increase-in-production/

Avaaz bringing Soros money into a Canadian election..again. For those with self respect and won't click the link they are suing for the AG's report.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/26/cv-election-avaaz-g8.html

I just lifted this from Ace of Spades HQ, but it's too good to ignore: Link.

Seems the Champion of the CWB, Wayne Easter, got caught doing some fancy math....billing the Canadian taxpayers for a house he didn't own.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Easter+asked+repay+expenses/4666611/story.html

wall sells out sask. $1.2B for cab. tax @tax @tax

Warren Kinsella takes a few swings at Ignatieff and the Liberals.This cannot help their cause.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/04/25/the-liberals-3-strikes

" Wayne Easter, got caught doing some fancy math"

So did Judy Srgo,to the tune of about $80,000. Unfortunately,that honest mistake got very little coverage also,about as much as Pablo's drunk driving charges.

Armageddon didn't happen ....column by Margaret Wente..."refreshing",
comments by enviromarxists...."predictable".

And some folks wonder there are those amoung them that have stock piled a couple hundred real light bulbs.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/01/25/how-many-hazmat-suits-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb/

The actuall PDF from the EPA runs to three pages!

Harper and the crew *still* in denial:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/26/cv-election-f-35-costs-316.html

"Why on earth has Harper committed Canada to "lead" and participate in this mission?"

ummmm, to justify the F35 purchase? (see previous post)

Hey, does anyone else have a problem with the Federal Government Employee Union - PSAC - putting out anti-Harper advertisements during an election?

I do. They are the employees of the government, which represents us; they have NO RIGHT whatsoever to tell us what to do; they are OUR employees; we tell THEM what to do. And we can fire them.

OK, IP Address: What fighter/bomber hybrid SHOULD we buy?

Or is your answer the one that got Canadians killed (and are still at risk) in Sea Kings?

Yeah. You won't have an answer because in the Liberal/Dipper world, you can run an airforce with Dash 8's and a couple Twin Otters.

Out here in the real world, we know that it costs money to defend our borders.

well YG,

step 1 is supposed to be a CALL FOR TENDERS.

that didn't happen.

google it.

then study the entire military procurement process.

if the F35 is in fact the best fit, would not a call for tenders AT LEAST produce a COMPETITIVE PRICE ????

Hey Yukon, Crouton made us sell off half of our twin otters and turned the second longest runway in the commonwealth into a parking lot. He also sent out troops to Afghanistan with forest green cammo. Frikkin military started to deteriorate with "Nobel" Pearson and got totally hooped with turdeau and "ET" hellyer. I was there soon after and can tell you morale couldn't be lower. I suffered two different wage and price controls and freezes and eventually got the golden finger to get out.
Today's military seem to be getting back on tract even with a minority government. I'm proud of the job our people are doing with the little they got and support them all the way. Please Mr Harper, don't put them under UN control where tactical decisions are not allowed to be made after TGIF in New York.

I'm still trying to find a list of these fatal Sea King crashes folks go on about.

Been in the Navy over 20 years. Yet to hear of one.

Have there been crashes? Yes. Should they have been replaced while I was only 2 years into my hitch? Yes. Is Chretien a moron? A given.

But everytime someone posts uninformed opinion as fact when it comes to the Sea Kings, I have no choice but to stand up in defence of my Air Force brethern. The techs DO NOT clear an aircraft for the flightline or the flightdeck that they are not personally willing to climb aboard. Believe me, if the old man thought a helo was unsafe, there is no force on Earth going to get him to fly it off his flightdeck.

As for the F-35? Seems a real non-starter to even be talking about it. After all the CPC put in the purchace order for an aircraft the LPC got or country in on in the developement stage.

Don't know if this was posted yet:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/26/human-rights-abuser-syria-set-join-uns-human-rights-council/#content

Short: UN goes down the wrong way on a one way street AGAIN

AtlanticJim @ 5:47 p.m.:

So now we know the reason the environmentalists are pushing those new-fangled light bulbs: they're trying to poison us! Should we be surprised?