I’m toying with a migraine this morning, so staring at a computer screen isn’t on my list of desirable pastimes. Plus, I have to work up the energy to finish off a goal mask and run errands in town.
It’s a reader tip morning. You know the drill.
I’m toying with a migraine this morning, so staring at a computer screen isn’t on my list of desirable pastimes. Plus, I have to work up the energy to finish off a goal mask and run errands in town.
It’s a reader tip morning. You know the drill.
Thank God some people who need two-tier health care can get it:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1119486999024_55/?hub=TopStories
‘Military, RCMP get private health care
CTV.ca News Staff
Canadian soldiers will soon receive treatment from private doctors, thanks to a deal the Department of National Defence (DND) has struck with Calian Technologies Ltd.
Over the next five years the government will pay more than $400 million to Calian in exchange for various skilled professionals, like laboratory technicians. They will also get doctors to fill in for the army’s medical staff as needed.
Michael McBane of the Canadian Health Coalition finds the government’s actions hypocritical.
“They’re the guardian of public health care in Canada, and yet when it comes to delivering service in their own jurisdiction they’re privatizing,” he told CTV’s David Akin.
The RCMP is spending $250 million on health-care, with some of that money going to private clinics. Corrections Canada also spends some of its budget on private health care.
This makes the government the largest purchaser of private health care services in the country.
Defence Minister Bill Graham defended his department’s spending, arguing Canada’s health services are insufficient for the military.
“For a long time we had our own health services which covered everything,” he told Akin. “Now we are unable to do that and we find it more efficient to go outside.”
Akin reports that soldiers can receive MRIs within days, while other Canadians must often wait for months.
Conservative Health Critic Steven Fletcher wants a national debate on fixing health care, and argues the Liberals “mislead the public” by vocally opposing privatization.
“They use myths, and they use fear and deceit, to prop up their point,” he said. “And it’s time Canadians say, ‘Enough is enough.'”
According to Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, Canada has always allowed certain groups to have private health care to alleviate stress on the provinces.
“You know, right from the inception of public health care in Canada there have been exemptions for the Canadian Forces, Workers’ Compensation Board, the RCMP,” he said.
Dosanjh sees no reason for this to stop.
“There was a decision made on a rational basis at that time. I don’t believe anything has changed in terms of the rationale for that.”
Canada’s health care has come under increasing scrutiny since the Supreme Court said bans on private care violated the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Critics argue that if the government is unable to care for patients, those patients have a right to seek care through other means.
The government’s contract with Calian could be extended to 10 years, possibly earning Calian an additional $480 million.’
Liberal consistency in action.
Mark
Ottawa
And yet the Liebrals insist with a straight face that we won’t allow two-tier health-care in our dictatorial little Banana Republic. Too funny!
Everyone excepting the ordinary schmuck on the street can now access private health-care. And yet the Liars and the Socialist hordes carry on with their public charade. Pathetic….
As a former Army brat, I gotta say it’s a step up for the guys in service anyway. You should see some of the fuckups I had to deal with as a kid. I swear they could’a trained chimpanzees to do a better job at dental/medical care than the twats they had practicing 35 years ago.
From what I can see, the majority of those fuckups are now senators in Ottawa.
BC has allowed WCB, cons, RCMP and military to bypass usual routes of care for expedited service. In fact, military surgeons keep their skills honed in major trauma centres across the country. It’s just regular folk who can’t get access to timely care, just like in North Korea and Cuba, where the government has a monopoly. Universality Canadian style: a shared misery, miserliness and mean-spiritedness. It’s not about equal access. Nabobs have been crossing into the US for care and still paying taxes/premiums for healthcare. That money can be better spent in Canada. It’s just the unions who are driving this anti-privatization, and of coure, the politicians who have managed to convince Canadians that healthcare defines us, and only they can manage it, which means that they can ration however they see fit. They’ve been castrated. High time, too.
COMMENTARY: Six Sigma Sexism at the Supreme Court of Canada?
Breaking news at The Wild Duck on a study of gender bias at the Ontario Court of Appeal, focused on decisions authored by Abella & Charron, who were appointed last year to the Supreme Court of Canada. See the Press Release from F.A.C.T., the actual study, and, as usual, colorful commentary.
http://www.wildduckdiary.com/wordpress/?p=36
Was I wrong to nod my head in complete agreement to Rove’s perceptive observations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/politics/23rove.html?ei=5090&en=be050f4c6a1d0259&ex=1277179200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
So why are these people so upset?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050623/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rove_speech_8
Truth hurts, I guess.
Ok, I can see the need for the military to have some form of unique health care due to the amount of relocation that can occur. Maybe the RCMP works differently than any other Police Service and requires something as well (though I doubt it), but Worker’s Comp (WSIB)? Gimme a break…
I’m all for the ability to purchase my own health insurance and see if the private sector can do any better, but let’s make it available to all.
WWell, what should we direct the following to – afterall, Rick’s an international sensation and should be in charge of his media empire….
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And if everyone of these sites were directed to Jason Kenney’s website, would a google search of Mercer’s name take people to it? It might be worth trying.
anna have some Rick Mercer fun?
Oriana Fallaci is interviewed in today�s OpinionJournal by Tunku Varadarajan: Citizen of the World. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
�Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,� the historian Arnold Toynbee wrote, and these words could certainly be Ms. Fallaci�s. She is in a black gloom about Europe and its future: �The increased presence of Muslims in Italy, and in Europe, is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.� There is about her a touch of Oswald Spengler, the German philosopher and prophet of decline, as well as a flavor of Samuel Huntington and his clash of civilizations. But above all there is pessimism, pure and unashamed. When I ask her what �solution� there might be to prevent the European collapse of which she speaks, Ms. Fallaci flares up like a lit match. �How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It�s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did?� She then says �Phwah, phwah,� and gestures at slashing her wrists. �He committed suicide!� Seneca was accused of being involved in a plot to murder the emperor Nero. Without a trial, he was ordered by Nero to kill himself. One senses that Ms. Fallaci sees in Islam the shadow of Nero. �What could Seneca do?� she asks, with a discernible shudder. �He knew it would end that way�with the fall of the Roman Empire. But he could do nothing.�
The impending Fall of the West, as she sees it, now torments Ms. Fallaci. And as much as that Fall, what torments her is the blithe way in which the West is marching toward its precipice of choice. �Look at the school system of the West today. Students do not know history! They don�t, for Christ�s sake. They don�t know who Churchill was! In Italy, they don�t even know who Cavour was!��a reference to Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the conservative father, with the radical Garibaldi, of Modern Italy. Ms. Fallaci, rarely reverent, pauses here to reflect on the man, and on the question of where all the conservatives have gone in Europe. �In the beginning, I was dismayed, and I asked, how is it possible that we do not have Cavour . . . just one Cavour, uno? He was a revolutionary, and yes, he was not of the left. Italy needs a Cavour�Europe needs a Cavour.� Ms. Fallaci describes herself, too, as �a revolutionary���because I do what conservatives in Europe don�t do, which is that I don�t accept to be treated like a delinquent.� She professes to �cry, sometimes, because I�m not 20 years younger, and I�m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics somehow.�
Here she pauses to light a slim black cigarillo, and then to take a sip of champagne. Its chill makes her grimace, but fortified, she returns to vehement speech, more clearly evocative of Oswald Spengler than at any time in our interview. �You cannot survive if you do not know the past. We know why all the other civilizations have collapsed�from an excess of welfare, of richness, and from lack of morality, of spirituality.� (She uses �welfare� here in the sense of well-being, so she is talking, really, of decadence.) �The moment you give up your principles, and your values . . . the moment you laugh at those principles, and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.� The force with which she utters the word �dead� here is startling. I reach for my flute of champagne, as if for a crutch.
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Oriana Fallaci faces imprisonment.
Something like this would cause a Google search of Rick Mercer’s name directing people to Jason Kenney’s site:
Rick Mercer
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Browser makers warned against ad-blocking
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Mugabe Begins the Genocide
VIDEO OF FARM SEIZURES IN 2000 HERE.
Interesting how the fears of these people played out.
With a program called “Drive out the Trash” you get a sense of how President Mugabe feels about certain Zimbabweans. And, when the government destroys their homes, destroys their means of earning a living, and destroys their food, in a country already threatened with famine,… only time separates these people from certain death.
The genocide has begun in Zimbabwe.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/06/mugabe-begins-genocide.html
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National Socialism at work.
The natural end result of socialism is death.
Down with socialism.
Illegal bars spring up
SASKATOON – Illegal “booze cans” operating covertly in some private Saskatoon homes have attracted the attention of police, the province and residents who want to reclaim their neighbourhoods. The booze can harkens to the days of prohibition and bootlegging, but now it’s the smoking bylaw that is driving people to secret locations where they can drink and smoke at the same time. (Star Phoenix)
primetimecrime.com
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hic. puff. wheeee… me can fly….
Nick Teen and Al K. Hall were found-ins. Mary Jane did not show.
The Liberating Power of Truth – Victor Davis Hanson review of “South Park Conservatives”
Posted by CHARLITE
On 06/23/2005 6:51:09 PM PDT � 4 replies � 12+ views
VICTOR HANSON.COM ^ | JUNE 23, 2005 | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
In the sixties, many of us were pulled to the left because we thought it was the ideology of liberty. Duped by a false caricature of the conformist fifties as a neo-Puritan, repressed enemy of the individual, we were attracted by the spontaneous, exuberant celebration of individual freedom we thought characterized that decade. Those of us with intellectual pretensions further asserted that the sixties sensibility was squarely in the American tradition of autonomous individualism. Surely, as the movie Easy Rider suggested, the hippy was the new mountain man, the new Huck Finn, the new frontiersman � and so, more quintessentially..
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Easy Rider:
Didn’t Jack Nicholson make his debut in that film?
Priceless bit of acting, it was.
�Attempted suicide bomber
Wafa al-Bas Yesterday (June 20), a Palestinian woman took advantage of a humanitarian medical clearance to attempt a suicide bombing of an Israeli hospital. Israeli security caught Wafa al-Bas at a Gaza checkpoint and safely detonated the explosives that had been tied to her undergarments. �
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Then, on 4 October, comes another surprise. Le Figaro runs a surreal story on its front page. One of those who had died in the explosion was a man called Hassan Jandoubi, an employee at the factory, who was, according to Le Figaro, a known Islamist sympathiser. He had had an argument the day before with some colleagues when he objected to their displaying an American flag in solidarity with the victims of Manhattan. Most sinister of all, he was found to be wearing several layers of underwear. A well-known identifying characteristic of suicide bombers, apparently (nobody explains why; and I make a mental note to be more careful what I wear to work in the mornings). Suddenly, the…
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n21/seab01_.html
Two stories…. one from 21 September,2001… the other 20 June, 2005.
The connector between the stories: underwear worn by the suicide bombers.
WTF???????
Anger flares at NB Agent Orange meeting
CTV – 5 hours ago
Anger surfaced at a meeting between federal officials and former military personnel and civilians over the use of the defoliant Agent Orange in the 1960s. The officials said the chemical was only used briefly …
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Mommy, why is Stephen so angry?
Loads of Angry People; the Orange Revolution redux.
Now it’s plain why Stephen Harper is so angry.
Stephen, are you and your advisers listening?
Listen to the Angry People of Canada.
Harness that anger and drive the Librano$ from office.
We are angry; we are not going to take it anymore.
Get out in front, Stephen. Do something to get out in front. Set the pace; get out front, Stephen.
We are angry, too. Mad dog it, Stephen.
maz2: Actually Jack’s first movie was “The Cry Baby Killer” (1958).
Mark
Ottawa
Alert;= Thinking Dell?
Think carefully. Things have changed. Service is now India Based. Amazing testimonials at *WWW.buzzmachine.com* comments= 81 and rising.
Don’t buy that notebook yet. Be informed. Be aware. Be happy with IBM or Mac. This off topic interruption will save many blogger friends anguish and heartache. You will thank me
Another Dell faux-pas. Patty paid off a Dell 4100 and got a $4 cheque from Dell. Her next credit card statement showed a debit of $139.95. When Patty cashed that $4 cheque she unknowingly began a DealPass account. DealPass never notified her and the $139.95 was for the discount service.
She felt betrayed by Dell. Check July 05 PC World, page 42.
What are you doing, Dell?
73s TG at BendGovt.blog.ca