We have seen the enemy and she is Alison Redford.
Why is Alberta’s premier doing public relations work for Chiquita? Why isn’t she sticking up for our oilsands, which offers far superior oil in terms of ethics and transparency compared with the conflict oil that Chiquita so clearly prefers and that obviously better reflects that company’s historical lack of ethics.
Let this serve as a warning to conservative parties everywhere: that which the left cannot defeat, they will infiltrate.
If you think the Chiquita facebook page gets wipe off fast, try the Allison Redford Premier facebook page. Any negative comments dissappear faster than a brides pajamas.
Just like Special Ed, this socialist twit was third choice in the selection of Eddie’s successor.
The delegates that voted for her were really voting against the first and second choices to get even with the other candidate.
That is how these stupid elections are run, and that is how we ended up with a liberal premier, at least until spring.
Two third choices in a row might be a hint…
DanBC >
Absolutely.
Hopefully the WRP will be able to reach more people and place more candidate in ridings than they have.
Alberta is a “working province”, meaning many good people with “head down, @ss up” to be bothered with life’s little details like politics. Most assume things will work themselves out as they always do because they always have.
“Let this serve as a warning to conservative parties everywhere: that which the left cannot defeat, they will infiltrate.”
Bang on. And it’s not just rhetoric — history bears it out. The fact is “Chiquita” (formerly United Fruit Company) was once a powerful obstacle to democracy because of its support for right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America (Standard Fruit Company also played a similar fascistic role). Nowadays many of these same companies have switched sides and become bedfellows with Left dictators and commie organizations such as Colombia’s FARC.
The country of Honduras was an example of the quinessential “banana republic” from which the name was originally coined and a place where “Chiquita” once reigned supreme. But it wasn’t only “Chiquita” that ended up switching from Right to Left fascism.
For example, Honduras’ recently deposed Marxist President, Manuel Zelaya, comes from a wealthy family of former right-wing cattle and timber barons who indiscriminately misappropriated and exploited huge tracts of northwest Honduras during the same era when the United Fruit Company was in its heyday. Zelaya’s father — Mel Zelaya Sr. — was convicted for the 1975 rape and murder of a dozen Left activist Catholic clergy that protested Zelaya Sr. who colluded with the then right-wing military dictatorship (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Horcones_massacre).
Today, Zelaya’s son is in bed with Fidel Castro’s protégés — Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Ortega brothers in Nicaragua — coincidentally also protectors of the Colombian FARC, as well as allies with Iran!
She has been getting play on PBS (radio) in AZ, the only part that I heard sounded OK, but PBS is plugged into the low life syndrome..
Just saying!
EBD:
The oil sands are the engine of Alberta’s (and Canada’s) economy
Wanna get a grip there, buddy? Might be true for AB, but Canada has a $1.8 trillion economy; the oil sands produce about $60 billion of product each year. That’s about 3% – hardly the “engine” of Canada.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m for the sands, boycotting Chiquita, and for Keystone, but let’s not crazy.
warm in calgary
“And while I respect the notion that the premier should loudly defend the oilsands at any moment, I simply do not agree. Arguing about bananas is the least of our worries. There is a bigger picture.”
…all for the loss of a horse-shoe nail…
The devil is in the details…..
An army marches on it’s stomach…
Napolean Bonopart or Frederick the Great…..
I shopped at Walmart today…Dole bananas…
Sneaking in the side door pretty much just like Stale-mach…and about as useful.
The sooner this unelected, sanctimonious, back-room dealing, sour faced hag is gone the better.
Revnant Dream at December 22, 2011 2:53 PM
notwithstanding clause
It exists to be used for just such a purpose.
It is up to the people of a Canadian province to determine the culture in which they choose to live, not the Supreme court in Ottawa or the House of Commons.
The Premier of a province is the Champion of the people which live there against every and all extra-provincial political forces.
The nothwithstanding clause is the Premier’s nuclear arsenal which was demanded by the First Minister’s to be used in instances where Federal powers were going to have a dramatic detrimental effect on the way of life of the people of a province.
The clause exists for no other reason.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Banana plantations turn enormous tracks of forest into DEAD ZONES. The strip the forests and plant banana “trees” that grow no bigger than a man stands. The trees are BAGGED and insecticides, pesticides, herbicides and who knows what else is injected both into the bags AND into the soil around and into the root systems of each plant. The result is that there isn’t a living creature from bacteria to bugs to small animals anywhere in any of these zones of death.
And chiquita calls the tar sands obscene!!
HTF did Alberta and BC both end up with watermelon moonbats as premiers? At least in Alberta the WRP will probably form the next government but here in BC it’s totally unclear what will happen if an election were held now.
One nice thing which I found out about during my very rare read today of a newspaper found lying around the hospital was that the BC law which prosecutes drivers having a blood alcohol level of more than 0.04% was found to be unconstitutional a few days ago. This means that the Alberta law is also unconstitutional. Wish I knew that before I drove to a Christmas party this weekend and had to limit myself to a mere 3 beer and waited 3 hours after my last drink before I drove home (and of course there wasn’t a single cop to be seen on the drive home).
DanBC, there is no way I’m going to vote for the BC Lieberals which share office space with the federal Lieberals. There is a certain level of moonbattery above which it becomes irrelevant to what political party the moonbat belongs to. Christie Clarke is the queen of the watermelon moonbats of BC and I’d like to see nothing better than her party go down to defeat. The BC Conservative party is likely going to be the next BC anti-communist coalition and it might require a period of communist government again before they get elected. If the NDP gets into power, I’ll be working to get the interior of BC to separate and join Alberta; that’s assuming the WRP wins the next Alberta election.
To get back to the topic that started this thread, the premier of Alberta should be pushing ethical oil and joining the boycott of Chiquita bananas. A true Conservative premier of Alberta would soak a large pile of Chiquita bananas with bitumen on the front lawn of the Alberta legislature and light it with a flame thrower as a symbolic action against watermelons and make a tiny contribution to warming the climate of Alberta. That’s the type of action I can imagine Ralph Kline doing after a night of heavy drinking, but none of the testicularly-challenged premiers of Alberta since Ralph.
Oz
I agree, but Klein stupidly tried to use it against sterilized victims, from an old social credit eugenics law. To save money. He was ridiculed & felt the fury of conservative Albertans over that. Most felt these where true victims. Which they where from an unjust law. He was stupid to try it to save reparation monies. After that debacle he was to frightened to try using it again, even though he should have in that instance.
As for polls Albertans don’t give a fig for them, if they don’t hang up first. They usually can only get socialists or liberals to talk to them. People still believe in privacy here.
Alison Redford’s Bio says it all. Albertans know a snake when they see one.
About Alison Redford
Alison Redford came from behind to win the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, replacing Ed Stelmach as Premier of Alberta. A bilingual human rights lawyer and former Alberta Justice Minister, Alison Redford is a big change for the Progressive Conservative Party which has been in power in Alberta for 4o years. Not only is she the first woman to be Premier in Alberta, she is also a centrist, and a definite switch to the progressive side of “progressive conservative.”
Alison Redford started her leadership campaign without the support of any of her former cabinet colleagues, and only one MLA. She campaigned on the theme of “change” and she means both generational change and attitudinal change. Some of her promises go directly against current policies. She has promised to call an inquiry into allegations of doctor intimidation and queue-jumping in the provincial health care system. Redford also plans to restore the $107 million cut from education funding, which resulted in teachers jobs being lost and class sizes increased.
Premier of Alberta
2011 to present
Birth
March 7, 1965 in Kitimat, British Columbia. Moved to Calgary as a teenager.
Revnant Dream,
More instances when Ralph Klein was deceptive:
-When Ross Alger was Calgary Mayor he ran a plebiscite asking citizens if they wanted an LRT and new City Hall.
81% said NO and Alger made the gross political error of publically calling the people of Calgary stupid.
Come election time, then journalist Ralph Klein ran on a platform promising NO LRT and NO new City Hall.
So what does newly minted Mayor Klein do?
He built the LRT and new City Hall that he campained against.
-Worst of all, was the untreated pine shakes scandal.
The Klein government approved untreated pine shakes in the Alberta Building Code as an acceptable roofing material.
Alberta untreated pine shakes scandal
Well i too await the next election. Ms. Smith is predicting the writ to be dropped in Feb.
I can finally vote for the Wild Rose as my riding in Elk Island/Vegreville(i think) Stelmachs old riding, is being contested by Shannon Stubbs.
See ya “P” party. Go WRA.
Oz “-Worst of all, was the untreated pine shakes scandal.”
It wasn’t much of a scandal. Most people in Alberta know that exposed pine rots in 5 to 10 years despite what the law says. I hope they never pass a law making sexual relations with a cactus legal.
The boiling frog is a perfect metaphor for Redford’s agenda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
But Redford is turning up the heat a little too quickly. The frog (voters) will hopefully figure out what’s really happening before it’s too late and give her the bum’s rush.
I read the story twice, not sure what it said ?
Is this what journalism has become, talking points inter-spaced with sound bites.
It’s not that I disagree with any conclusions, how could I, the article has no substance.
Oz
All I’m saying he was incredibly honest as politicians go which isn’t much. I loved Ronald Reagan as President, but he screwed up as well many times. These people are human. That you had to go back to when he was mayor has to tell you something. There was lots of corruption in Ralph’s tenure, but compared to most it was squeaky clean, & mostly honest. I can’t remember how many times he had to apologize even for things I figured where no starters. They did not call him King Ralph because he was perfect , but because he never claimed to be more than Human, which almost all these Pols hide. Thats why he was liked by Albertans.
It wasn’t much of a scandal. Most people in Alberta know that exposed pine rots in 5 to 10 years despite what the law says.
~Scar
Not surprisingly, contractors built homes and, to cut costs and maximize profits, used untreated pine shakes where aesthetic codes for particular developments dictated that the homes had to have shake roofs.
That meant many thousands of homes got these prone-to-rotting untreated pine shakes built on spec and people bought them assuming that the Alberta Building Codes would guarantee a quality product.
You would likely be right that few people who personally contracted for a home they chose to be built new on a lot of their choice selected untreated pine shakes just because they were cheaper than cedar(which is a self oiling softwood).
On a shake roof, it’s actually the underlying tar paper which provides the weather proofing and the covering shakes are there to protect the tar paper and provide the aesthetic rustic ‘look’ that so many people want.
When a roofer climbs around on the roof to inspect or replace rotting, curled, or splitting shakes his weight can tear the tar paper beneath by causing wiggle on the staples that fasten the shakes to the roof and allow water to penetrate to the plywood/particle board.
If the shakes are rotting or moldering, a rent in the tar paper allows that rot/mold to infect the roof boards and struts.
(I roofed homes for about 3 years in my youth when my knees were still good)
Revnant Dream,
I agree that Ralph Klein was by far the best and most conservative principled Premier Alberta has had since I became of voting age back in the ’70s.
He was entertaining too.
I miss him.