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  1. Excerpt from Bill Lind’s The Origins of Political Correctness:

    The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.
    If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms…

    Read the whole thing here. Highly recommended.
    h/t Maggie’s Farm

  3. Tonight I got a robocall from my Liberal MPP. Anyone know the number I call at the CBC to get 24/7/365 coverage?

  6. Another give-yer-head-a-shake story: Last weekend, fans of a high school basketball team in San Antonio Texas celebrated their team’s win with chants of “USA! USA!”
    Julian Castellano, a junior who attends the losing team’s school, said “I was very surprised. Very appalled.” Senior Ruby Arredondo: “They really didn’t have any class.”
    Alamo Heights Superintendent Kevin Brown: “We just hope that people know that’s not who we are, and we’re not going to let it happen again….That’s not a reflection of our school district.”
    Alamo Heights school said “the students identified will have to apologize and have been banned from the state title games.”
    “Both districts are now just trying to move past this disturbing incident.”
    So what’s the problem? Well, you see, Alamo Heights school has a lower percentage of minority students than the school whose team they were playing, so the “USA! USA!” chant was *racist.*
    Seriously.

  7. From Publius’ All In The Canadian Family:

    The economics of the oil sands are pretty clear cut. Albertans need equipment and people to process all that lovely dirty oil so they can make lovely dirty money. The province, unfortunately, doesn’t have enough of either so it imports from elsewhere in the Dominion. That’s why nearly a quarter of the residents of Fort McMurray are from Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s also why one of the few growth areas for Ontario manufacturing is providing kit for Albertans.
    Isn’t this, to borrow a phrase, the National Dream? Canadians buying from Canadians to help make Canada richer? Wasn’t that Trudeau’s hazily expressed intent when he established FIRA, nationalized Petro-Canada and set up the National Energy Program?

  9. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/03/07/lorne-gunter-cellphone-driving-bans-are-nothing-but-nanny-state-intrusions/
    Also from Lorne Gunter. An article on the constant and inconsistent implementation of rules. The comments are hilarious.
    People are always quick to want ‘new’ rules. Sidney Crosby takes and elbow in the head and now we need a head shot rule. What happened to ‘elbowing’ ???
    Now we need a no cell phone rule (hands free exempt, don’t you know) Seems to me that the ‘driving with undue care and attention’ should still be on the books.

  11. The Alberta government is in the final phases of alienating the rural voting base with their inclusion of the Alberta Human Rights Act in the new Education Act. The homeschoolers are the only ones connected to education who can protest without getting their knuckles wrapped by the ATA.
    The retired men and women are phoning each other in outrage. Which, unscientifically speaking, is the most reliable signal the government is about to change.

  12. Solar storm now has scientists predicting a cold spell that could last for more than a decade!
    Back to block heaters, frost shields and tow ropes!!
    F%?K!

  13. Let me share with you all a little story to help you realize what the Republicans are up against in November:
    This evening I had dinner with an American friend of mine who is visiting for a few days. She’s married, has a few kids, works in a well paying job, and is intelligent. But she doesn’t pay that close attention to the news. When she does follow political coverage she tends to watch MSNBC and CNN.
    Here are a few things that came out during the course of our conversation:
    – She thinks that Obama is a very moderate, centrist President
    – She has never heard Obama make a gaffe, including never heard him state that America has 57 states
    – She thinks that Joe Biden is a fine, genial bloke who rarely makes a gaffe
    – She’s convinced that the government inefficiently handles everything it touches
    – She’s a registered Democrat who will absolutely vote for Obama but insists that she believes strongly in smaller government
    – She believes that Mitt Romney doesn’t pay enough taxes but isn’t entirely sure of the details
    – She thinks there’s little wrong with the U.S. Government telling the Catholic Church what birth control methods their insurance companies must provide to their employees
    – She kind of worries about the U.S. debt but doesn’t think about it that much
    Why do you think she has those views, folks?

  14. Robert W. (Vancouver)
    Wait a second, what does intelligent mean again?
    Oh ya, means diddly without some wisdom.

  16. Of The Campaign for Primary Accountability.
    “The group’s enemy is incumbency”.
    “The constituencies of entitlement had dug themselves in so deeply that in government at least it resembled one massive entrenchment, each part as heavily fortified as the other. There was no soft interior defended by a thin crust. It was solid as a rock.
    Yet, therein, Linbeck felt, was its weakness. Government had settled so solidly on the taxpayers’ wallet that it would starve without it. The sheer size of government was now working against it. The bureaucracies had drained the surrounds of sustenance and now, they were on the point of either finding new prey or cannibalizing each other to survive.”
    …-
    “The Storm Signals”
    “The Washington Post could be echoing Spock. “Bridge to Captain, an unclassified object has been detected at the limit of sensor range. It appears to be headed this way.” The pundits don’t know what it is, but in any event, they are reporting an extreme anomaly on the political scene. It has a name: the Campaign for Primary Accountability.
    In two Ohio congressional primaries Tuesday, a Texas-based group spent almost $190,000 supporting a pair of candidates who could not be more different: a tea party conservative and a liberal icon, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio).
    The group’s enemy is incumbency — of any ideological stripe, anywhere in the country. The Campaign for Primary Accountability, founded by the son of a Houston construction magnate, is targeting longtime incumbents in House districts that are otherwise safe for their party. Group leaders say these long-term lawmakers who face scant competition have created a “permanent political class” that has poisoned politics …”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/03/07/the-storm-signals/#more-20868
    …-
    “The Campaign for Primary Accountability.”
    “LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD”
    “Citizens from across the political spectrum have come together to level the playing field in primary elections through the Campaign for Primary Accountability’s Equalizer Campaign. The Equalizer Campaign gives voters the facts they need to make informed decisions. Incumbents usually have a “message monopoly” during primaries; they raise more money (mostly from lobbyists and special interests) and use those funds to tell voters all of the “wonderful” things they have done. But they never speak of the earmarks, pay raises, junkets and generalized corruption that have infected politics in Washington, D.C.
    Our goal is to bring true competition to our electoral process, to give voters real information about their choices, and to restore fair, not fixed, elections.”
    http://www.campaign4primaryaccountability.org/about/

  17. Of socialism: a religion of the stomach*.
    “*Now, the first characteristic of all socialist ideologies is, I believe, an incessant, vigorous and extreme appeal to the material passions of man.”
    …-
    “10.31 Greece’s decline in 140 characters or less:”
    “AlbertoNardelli Alberto Nardelli #Greece youth unemployment rate has risen to 51.1%. It was 39% in 2010, 28.9% in 2009, 26.3% in 2008, 24.5% in 2007”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/debt-crisis-live/9130112/Debt-crisis-and-Greek-default-deadline-live.html
    …-
    “*Tocqueville’s Critique of Socialism (1848)”
    “Now, the first characteristic of all socialist ideologies is, I believe, an incessant, vigorous and extreme appeal to the material passions of man. [Signs of approval.]
    Thus, some have said: “Let us rehabilitate the body”; others, that “work, even of the hardest kind, must be not only useful, but agreeable”; still others, that “man must be paid, not according to his merit, but according to his need”; while, finally, they have told us here that the object of the February Revolution, of socialism, is to procure unlimited wealth for all.
    A second trait, always present, is an attack, either direct or indirect, on the principle of private property. From the first socialist who said, fifty years ago, that “property is the origin of all the ills of the world,” to the socialist who spoke from this podium and who, less charitable than the first, passing from property to the property-holder, exclaimed that “property is theft,” all socialists, all, I insist, attack, either in a direct or indirect manner, private property. [“True, true.”] I do not pretend to hold that all who do so, assault it in the frank and brutal manner which one of our colleagues has adopted. But I say that all socialists, by more or less roundabout means, if they do not destroy the principle upon which it is based, transform it, diminish it, obstruct it, limit it, and mold it into something completely foreign to what we know and have been familiar with since the beginning of time as private property. [Excited signs of assent.]
    Now, a third and final trait, one which, in my eyes, best describes socialists of all schools and shades, is a profound opposition to personal liberty and scorn for individual reason, a complete contempt for the individual. They unceasingly attempt to mutilate, to curtail, to obstruct personal freedom in any and all ways.
    They hold that the State must not only act as the director of society, but must further be master of each man, and not only master, but keeper and trainer. [“Excellent.”] For fear of allowing him to err, the State must place itself forever by his side, above him, around him, better to guide him, to maintain him, in a word, to confine him. They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, [Further signs of assent.] to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom. [Lively assent.]
    I have not entered into a discussion of the details of these systems. I have indicated what socialism is by pointing out its universal characteristics. They suffice to allow an understanding of it. Everywhere you might find them, you will be sure to find socialism, and wherever socialism is, these characteristics are met.”
    http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1270&Itemid=262

  19. Ee-haw! John Hiatt! One of my faves. A musician’s musician. He plays with Raitt and Lovett and Raitt’s covered some of his songs. Saw him a couple of years ago at Massey Hall, opening for Levon Helm. Helm was awesome, but I preferred Hiatt.
    He rocks!
    http://www.johnhiatt.com/hiattDiscography.html
    Slow Turning:
    … Now I’m in my car,
    Oo, I’ve got the radio down
    And I’m yellin’ at the kids in the back
    ‘Cause they’re bangin’ like Charlie Watts …
    http://www.johnhiatt.com/hiattDiscography.html

  20. “BP refuses to pay claims arising out of Obama’s drilling moratorium!!”
    H/T “5. MachiasPrivateer”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/03/07/the-storm-signals/#more-20868
    …-
    “Gulf oil spill moratorium claims have no place in BP settlement”
    “BP buckled on health claims, striking a settlement deal with private plaintiffs to compensate hundreds of thousands of people whose complaints of illness from exposure to oil and cleanup chemicals were once derided as flimsy. The oil giant even caved on paying casino workers for lower earnings, beachfront property owners for loss of enjoyment and fishers for subsistence use — the types of claims that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg often rejected over the last year and a half.
    “But in the sweeping BP oil spill settlement that the company expects to cost $7.8 billion, the company held firm on one thing: It still won’t pay moratorium claims.
    That’s devastating news for thousands of oilfield workers and businesses whose work on rig supply vessels, in shipyards and supplying equipment for drilling operations dried up when the Obama administration stopped all deepwater drilling in the wake of the Macondo disaster.
    From Feinberg’s office to Capitol Hill, they are counted as victims of the spill that are surely as deserving as anyone else for some kind of compensation. And yet, there may be nothing for them under the law because their losses stemmed not directly from the explosion or spill, but from the government’s reaction to it.
    They have been the odd men out at almost every turn, and they are yet again.”
    urlm.in/lmhm

  21. “BP refuses to pay claims arising out of Obama’s drilling moratorium!!”
    H/T “5. MachiasPrivateer”
    urlm.in/lmhn
    …-
    “Gulf oil spill moratorium claims have no place in BP settlement”
    “BP buckled on health claims, striking a settlement deal with private plaintiffs to compensate hundreds of thousands of people whose complaints of illness from exposure to oil and cleanup chemicals were once derided as flimsy. The oil giant even caved on paying casino workers for lower earnings, beachfront property owners for loss of enjoyment and fishers for subsistence use — the types of claims that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg often rejected over the last year and a half.
    “But in the sweeping BP oil spill settlement that the company expects to cost $7.8 billion, the company held firm on one thing: It still won’t pay moratorium claims.
    That’s devastating news for thousands of oilfield workers and businesses whose work on rig supply vessels, in shipyards and supplying equipment for drilling operations dried up when the Obama administration stopped all deepwater drilling in the wake of the Macondo disaster.
    From Feinberg’s office to Capitol Hill, they are counted as victims of the spill that are surely as deserving as anyone else for some kind of compensation. And yet, there may be nothing for them under the law because their losses stemmed not directly from the explosion or spill, but from the government’s reaction to it.
    They have been the odd men out at almost every turn, and they are yet again.”
    urlm.in/lmhm

  22. This helps to explain the sorry state of “education” in Ontario:
    From The Hall-Dennis Report (1968) which called for an end to rote learning and corporal punishment:
    The committee recognizes the need for pupils to learn that behaviour has its consequence, but can find little to defend, solely as means of correction, such punishments as the writing of lines, isolation, detention after school, extra work, sarcasm, and ridicule [my best teachers often used sarcasm to brilliant effect — so what did Hall-Dennis suggest in place of these correctives: TM? Hug a thug?].
    The committee is opposed to the use of the strap as a form of correction, and therefore strongly recommends the abolition of corporal punishment from our schools.
    In addition to co-authoring The Hall-Dennis Report, Lloyd Dennis also wrote a book called The Learning Circus which, sadly, could also describe his legacy.

  24. batb: “To explain my post above, Lloyd Dennis died this past Wednesday.”
    …-
    A non-tribute to socialist charlatan Lloyd Dennis and his socialist legacy.
    Socialism: F.A.I.L.
    cf : Liberal-socialist McGuinty’s Ontario.
    …-
    “Argentina’s Slow-Motion Disaster”
    “Massive capital flight and high inflation presage a future economic crisis.”
    “Whenever Argentina starts rattling sabers over the British Falkland Islands, it’s a surefire sign that the South American country is experiencing some type of domestic turmoil. So it comes as no surprise that President Cristina Kirchner has responded to high inflation and massive capital flight by picking a diplomatic fight with London over a sparsely inhabited archipelago that has been a U.K. possession since 1833. While Kirchner, thankfully, has not launched a military conflict — as the Galtieri dictatorship did in 1982, shortly before it collapsed — she has been escalating her rhetoric in hopes of stoking nationalist sentiment and distracting attention from concerns at home. Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the 1982 war, so the time is especially ripe for a fresh round of bellicosity.”
    http://pjmedia.com/blog/argentinas-slow-motion-disaster/

  26. United in misogyny: hatred of women.
    Mohammedanism + left-liberalism.
    …-
    “Jury finds Mohammad Hamadeh guilty in stabbing death of neighbour”
    “A Toronto Superior Court jury has found Mohammad Hamadeh guilty as charged of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his 81-year-old neighbour, Marion Lyons, on Jan. 6, 2009.
    Hamadeh went on a shopping spree with her credit card after discovering her body in a Flemingdon Park area apartment down the hall from where he lived with his family.
    Lyons had beating injuries and 90 stab wounds. A mistrial was declared last year after another jury could not reach a verdict. A sentencing date will be set Friday.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/1142842–jury-finds-mohammad-hamadeh-guilty-in-stabbing-death-of-neighbour
    …-
    “John Doyle”
    “The real problem with Sarah Palin”
    (G-M)

  27. United in misogyny: hatred of women.
    Mohammedanism + left-liberalism.
    …-
    “Jury finds Mohammad Hamadeh guilty in stabbing death of neighbour”
    “A Toronto Superior Court jury has found Mohammad Hamadeh guilty as charged of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his 81-year-old neighbour, Marion Lyons, on Jan. 6, 2009.
    Hamadeh went on a shopping spree with her credit card after discovering her body in a Flemingdon Park area apartment down the hall from where he lived with his family.
    Lyons had beating injuries and 90 stab wounds. A mistrial was declared last year after another jury could not reach a verdict. A sentencing date will be set Friday.”
    TO Red Star:
    urlm.in/lmio
    …-
    “John Doyle”
    “The real problem with Sarah Palin”
    (G-M)

  29. Robert that is the purpose of an election campaign. The woman you described will only be swayed by attack ads played during her sitcoms. Whoever has the best attack ads wins over those kind of uninformed voters.

  30. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Gleetings womens flom Liberal* leader Rae’s uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.
    …-
    “This year let’s celebrate … China leading the world in wealthy self-made women”
    “International Women’s Day: But Chinese women’s participation in politics is seriously lagging behind other countries”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/08/china-female-entrepreneurs-international-womens-day
    …-
    “China unveils new legislation on police powers of detention”
    “Experts warned that original draft legislation would have legalised disappearances, allowing police to hold suspects without informing families”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/08/china-legislation-police-powers-detention

  31. Got this in my e-mail this morning.
    “”The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living”
    This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. It’s her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare system that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.
    Nov 18, 2011
    Put me in charge . . ..
    Put me in charge of WINZ food grants. I’d get rid of cash for potato chips or chocolate, just money for 50kg bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.
    Put me in charge of Healthcare. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.
    Put me in charge of government housing.Ever live in a military barracks?
    You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.
    Put me in charge of compulsory job search. In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”
    Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.
    If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.
    AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest…..You will vote for a ‘welfare’ Govt. only. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job. ”

  32. Dem Harry Reid just announced the Dems have enough votes to defeat the Keystone XL pipeline amendment scheduled to be voted on today.

  34. Michelle Mallick has a great column on the hypocrisy of the left regarding their rhetoric about women.
    The left can chastize and attack Rush Limbaugh for his reference to Fluke but totally ignores their vicious, ad hominem, sexist attacks against conservative women.
    Mallick has it all outlined.
    http://michellemalkin.com/
    The names that the left, everyone from media hosts to members of the Democratic Party, use to refer to conservative women – disgusting.
    Obama, by the way, never calls these vilified women on behalf of his daughters, to support their right to speak.

  36. The progressives are seen and glorified by the media as good people. They say the right things about the “oppressed”, and for society’s “most vulnerable”, and are always there with a kind word for the groups on the totem pole of victimhood.
    So,when they say the nasty things that they do,they are forgiven because they slipped up,likely because of too much pressure from caring so much. It is just a momentary lapse,and isn’t it better to forgive and forget. Hey,they really care about everything and look at their past record. These are good people,you should perhaps consider why you are judging them.
    The media has been portraying right-leaning folks as basically evil. They only care about themselves. Their transgressions are proof of that. They must be punished and punished severely,thereby proving that the media and the progressives are caring and looking out for those who can’t,and the circle continues.
    Just my opinion.

  37. batb – yes, yes, you are right! I am terrible with names; I instantly forget them even after looking at that name 5 seconds before. My apologies to the really smart and wonderful Michelle Malkin! Thanks for clearing it up.
    And there’s no way I can read ‘that other woman’ (I won’t bother with her name). She is so incredibly ignorant, stupid and bigoted that I just start to froth..

  38. ET … the one thing I am good at is names! I was sure you didn’t mean to mal-ign Malkin! 😉

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