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Tonight, CBC’s topical comedy show 22 Minutes takes a two-minute break from their usual orgy of Conservative-bashing to mockingly announce – in song – the celestial coronation of Pierre’s Boy Child.
h/t foobert
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  6. On the putative infallibility of science: Dinosaurs, Planets & Obama.
    Related: James Delingpole’s Why have scientists stopped doing science?
    Brief excerpt:

    We saw in the Climategate emails what this creeping politicisation has done to fields like palaeoclimatology, meteorology and atmospheric physics. But by no means does it end there. It has poisoned everything from polar bear research and the work of the British Antarctic Survey to the study of amphibian extinctions in Costa Rica, glaciers in the Himalayas, and corals on the Barrier Reef..

    Highly recommended – read the whole thing.

  8. Rather than posting another choice link/excerpt from the same site – I don’t want to keep going back to the same well – I’ll suggest bookmarking Dyspepsia Generation, where you can scroll, read, and click to your heart’s content.
    A punchy, pithy, entertaining blog, and one of my first daily stops.

  11. Won’t watch this drivel as I don’t want to give CBC or any internet item associated with it a hit. It just shows that their existence is justified.
    I accidentally watched part of the “show” a couple of weeks ago and turned the channel quickly as it was full of Harper bashing and even Mulcair. The only thing I will watch on CBC is ski racing and HNIC (particularly Coach’s Corner) because I love both sports and Don (just what the CBC lovers hate). Even Mercer’s show was all bash and no dash.
    It makes me sick to watch the CBC.

  13. Check out this story from Sun, regarding Benjamin Levin, former deputy minister of education in Ontario, charged with child pornography offeences. Near the end of the vid, his lawyer, the one and only Clayton Ruby, goes into ‘child mode’…….Hmmm, wonder if he shares Levin’s hobby………………shocking behaviour from a lawter, but this guy is a POS in the first place.
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/fear-benjamin-levin/2902830346001

  14. Mark J. Perry has posted two good Quotations of the day, which he places in the context of the current so-called “War on Drugs”.
    The first one is from the 27th U.S. President, William Howard Taft:

    “No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”

    True that. For the second quote, from a 114-year-old NYT editorial, click the link!

  16. Sporty:
    Re: CBC. I used to think like that too. However the CBC is the same as any other political opponent, assuming of course that you’re pro-right. We need to go face to face to it, and hit it with all we have.
    I comment on their anti-Harper raves (etc.) at every opportunity. Yes–I get some comments withheld, but on average I get my message across. Sooner or later, I and thousands of others will be heard.

  22. Globe and Mail, Monday, Dec. 9. Some judges seem to be skirting the sentencing law:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/judges-defy-order-to-impose-tories-victim-services-surcharge/article15820100/
    “Judges in several provinces are rebelling against the Conservative government’s attempt to make all convicted criminals pay a surcharge to fund victim services.”
    “Ontario Court Judge Stephen Hunter of Ottawa even ruled that the mandatory surcharge is unconstitutional, without being asked to do so by the defence. The Crown is appealing that ruling.”
    Does this not constitute shocking, lawless behaviour by the judges in question? Can’t lawyers be disbarred for showing contempt for the law?
    The whole column is rather disgusting – judges showing a lot more compassion for criminals than for victims of crime. What a disgrace, whatever the merits of the surcharge or not.
    I’m especially wondering though about the issue of finding something unconstitutional without being asked to do so. Was there evidence presented to this end? How much leeway does a judge have in this regard? I’m thinking of one Supreme Court case (Bell ExpressVu v. Rex, 2002) in which this might have been done, in support of consumer choice, but which was rejected in favour of a narrow interpretation of law, with a note that a future case might be brought that could be decided on constitutional grounds, but not today.

  23. Globe and Mail, Monday, Dec. 9. The elitists who write the newspaper’s editorials, on expanding the Canada Pension Plan:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/a-bigger-cpp-is-the-best-bet-to-make-retirement-savings-sufficient/article15810356/
    “RRSPs have long provided a tax-effective way to save for retirement, yet three out of four eligible tax filers did not contribute one cent into their RRSPs in 2010.”
    That’s mostly because they can’t afford to – high taxes, government intervention in the economy that strangles productivity and trade, and squandering of billions through parasitic government bureaucrats (not least for their salaries) are the culprits.
    This is like blaming a person who can’t fight because one or both hands are tied behind his back.
    “The Ontario and PEI plan for a bigger CPP addresses the main defects of Canada’s current retirement system. Because mandatory contributions come straight off paycheques, it ensures those who need the most help in saving will save.”
    Translation: Canadians are morons.
    There is NO issue in which coercion is preferable to freedom. NONE.
    A pension is essentially a broad-scale savings plan that provides regular income as long as one is alive. The idea is that a productive individual can use some of his savings to provide this regular stream of income, which derives from investment in an ongoing productive economy, rather than just spending the money immediately. What is absolutely required is a productive economy in which to reinvest the savings. If pensions are not providing adequate returns, blame the government tinkering with the economy that prevents them from doing so. Merely to expand the pension plan doesn’t deal with the real problem.
    Today, all the attention is directed at the supposedly dismal pension payouts rather than at the fact that a productive economy is needed to support them. In other words, all the attention is directed at those who appear to be getting a freebie (although they wouldn’t be really, if they had invested in a voluntary savings or pension plan rather than the CPP Ponzi scheme), as opposed to those who are engaged in productive activities and trade.
    The first rule of investing is “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. What the elitist editorial clowns at the Globe and many others are advocating is precisely to break this sound rule.

  24. http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/us-government-sells-remaining-stake-in-general-motors/1/201331.html
    “The US government ended up losing $10.5 billion on the General Motors bailout, but it says the alternative would have been far worse.”
    “The Treasury Department sold its final shares of the Detroit auto giant on Monday, recovering $39 billion of the $49.5 billion it spent to save the dying automaker at the height of the financial crisis five years ago.”
    “Without the bailout, the country would have lost more than a million jobs, and the economy could have slipped from recession into a depression, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said on a conference call with reporters.”
    That’s about $350 per American that Barack Obama, and probably George W. Bush, lit a match to.
    The economy involves actions of productiveness and trade based on individual valuations. A free economy would recover fairly quickly from a blow like the failure of a large automobile company. A heavily regulated one like the U. S. might have much more trouble.
    When the problem is over-production of automobiles, the dumbest thing you can do is to subsidize the production of automobiles. I suspect the economy might have recovered far more quickly without the bailout.

  25. Last story on the Obamacare fiasco dated Nov 13.
    Why are we handing them a billion bucks a year to filter the news and create a narrative?

  28. AM Update. Green-Red Neo-AGW PR.
    …-
    “Respectable hiring climate expected for Calgary
    Calgary Herald”
    …-
    “Alberta Canada Sees Avalanche Of New Record Lows … “Glacial Temperatures” … Edmonton Sees -39°C!”
    “Cold is gripping globally, and not only in the US or Antarctica.”
    http://notrickszone.com/

  29. Mao Stlong*’s Crimate Page.
    “Buildings are shrouded in smog in Lianyungang, China.”
    http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/12/10/1386679419690/Smog-in-Lianyungang-008.jpg
    …-
    “Chinese media find silver linings in smog clouds”
    “Haze has unified people, made them funnier as smog jokes proliferate, and could bolster military defences, say state media”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/chinese-media-silver-linings-smog-haze
    *Liberal Justine’s dictator.

  30. nv53
    Good evaluation of the GM bailout. I can’t think of anything as stupid as the Governement picking winning and losers in the auto industry. If you want your commercial sector to increase productivity, you have to watch the weak fail and remove the roadblocks for the strong. It will be interesting to see what kind of legs GM has in Ontario with the busiess friendly climate being created by the Liberals.

  32. Steve & nv53. Here’s my favourite: Government is bad at picking winners but losers are good at picking government.

  35. I assume you meant to write “Hopefully Harper is next up.”
    Perhaps your “H” and “E” keys are broken from overuse.

  37. Encore: Liberalism.
    H/T Green-Red AGW Watermelon Shew.
    …-
    “Who killed Heinz? Company warned Wynne Liberals in August its new blue-box bill was ‘unacceptable'” (NP)
    “Criminal trial date set for Joe Fontana, London, Ont. mayor and former Liberal MP accused of fraud” (NP)
    …-
    “Blue Boxes, green energy and red tomatoes”
    “How the Ontario government is driving away jobs with Blue Boxes and green energy”
    “Terence Corcoran: Slowly but surely, Ontario’s central planning public policies — from green energy to Blue Boxes — are driving business out of the province”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/12/09/terence-corcoran-ontario-driving-jobs-out-with-blue-boxes-green-energy/

  38. Liberalism’s selfie: a booed-job.
    Liberalism’s “vision thing” explodes in mid-air, crashes. Mugged by reality.
    “”Mandela had a vision, Mandela lived that vision. But what Zuma speaks, he doesn’t live,” said Funeka Gingcara-Sithole, 31, reflecting the mood of the Zuma critics in the stadium.
    “He should do the honourable thing and resign,” she said.”
    …-
    “Zuma booed at Nelson Mandela memorial”
    “JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma was booed and jeered at a memorial to anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, a major public humiliation in front of other world leaders six months before national elections.”
    “Zuma was booed when he first entered the crowded stadium, and again when he prepared to speak. In contrast, U.S. President Barack Obama received a roaring ovation, and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and UN chief Ban Ki-moon were also cheered.
    Some in the crowd accompanied the boos for Zuma with thumbs-down gestures and rotating hand movements, the sign for a substitution in a soccer match.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/10/live-nelson-mandelas-memorial-ceremony

  39. DanBC – I am not easily shocked, but that was scary! This along with a video seen on SunMedia about a demonstration by women in Argentina, attempting to burn down a Church and being stopped by a ring of, mostly men, attempting to prevent it. The police stand by while the women spit in the faces of the men, bedeck them with their panties and physically assault them. The reason, church policy re: feminist concerns!

  41. Leftist Guardian reports on liberalism’s crack-up/crash up. It was a miasma of a quagmire.
    O’hymnselfie gallumphed into the bog and slew the crowd: O’s Woodstock.
    “… left no doubt of his continued political rock star status, at least in Africa.”
    …-
    “But one man was missing, both physically and figuratively: Nelson Mandela himself.
    The former South African president’s body was not brought to the national memorial service in Johannesburg. His voice was not heard over the loudspeakers, though many others’ were. And in a peculiarly rambling, rain-soaked event that got bogged down in domestic politics and ended in a near empty stadium, it felt like Mandela’s soul was absent too.
    “Barack Obama lights up drab Nelson Mandela memorial”
    “In a peculiarly rambling, rain-soaked event that got bogged down in domestic politics, it felt like Nelson Mandela’s soul was absent”
    “For a long spell a section of the crowd turned their backs to the stage and instead stared upwards at a balcony containing Barack and Michelle Obama and former president Bill Clinton, wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea. VIPs and members of the public began filing out well before the end. When, after four hours, retired archbishop Desmond Tutu stood up to address a virtually empty stadium, it summed up the frustrated sense of what might have been.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/nelson-mandela-memorial-service-barack-obama?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-3%20Main%20trailblock:Network%20front%20-%20main%20trailblock:Position1

  42. PET Cemetery Report.
    …-
    “Justin Trudeau says he smoked marijuana, makes no apologies”
    ““I do not consume cannabis. I am not a big consumer at all. I tried it…
    “I’ve never tried other types of hard drugs. I am not a consumer of marijuana but, yes, I’ve already tried it. I used it – maybe five or six times in my life.””
    (globalnews)
    …-
    “Pot-smoking Mountie charged with assaulting another RCMP officer, subdued with stun gun”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/10/pot-smoking-mountie-subdued-with-stun-gun-and-charged-with-assaulting-another-rcmp-officer/

  43. ” The government agency that produces most of Ontario’s electricity has fired three of its top executives following an audit that found the Crown corporation was doling out big bonuses and hiring staffers’ family members. ”
    ” The audit found 700 groups of OPG employees who share addresses and are likely related to one another. ”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/auditor-finds-unexplained-bonuses-hiring-of-family-members-at-ontario-power-generation/article15854716/
    This could be the start of a very large snowball. Hopefully it crshes into the door of Queen’s Park.

  44. Exposed: PET/POT Party Liberal Justine’s Secret Agenda.
    Forget PET’s NEP, National Marijuana Program (NMP) is the hidden agenda of the pot-smoker Liberal Justine.
    Move aside, Orwell. Huxley’s dystopia, Brave New World, has become reality.
    …-
    “Uruguay bill pioneers state control of cannabis market”
    “Uruguay is set to become the first nation in the world to regulate the production, sale and consumption of cannabis after a new law was passed by the country’s senate on Tuesday.
    Once the president signs the bill, the state will control the production and sale of cannabis.
    For Cristian, this will mean that instead of hiding his plants from the police, the authorities will supervise them to make sure he complies with the new rules.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25315215

  45. Auditor general report: Executives fired at ‘top-heavy’ OPG, which is rife with nepotism and generous benefits
    “more than half of OPG staff, including senior managers with access to confidential nuclear data, have never obtained security clearance or have allowed it to expire”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/12/10/auditor_generals_report_topheavy_opg_rife_with_nepotism_pays_too_much_in_wages_and_benefits.html
    OPG website
    OPG’s Commitment to Security
    Safe Stations, Safe Community
    Over the last 10 years, OPG has taken great strides and invested more than $400 million to ensure our nuclear stations are safe and secure for our staff, our communities and the stability of Ontario’s electricity system …..
    ….”To enter the site, OPG staff must have a valid security clearance and identification card. An in-depth security review is completed every five years for all employees and includes background and police checks. Every employee must also undergo a three-step security search each time they enter the protected area of the site.”
    http://www.opg.com/safety/nsafe/nuclear/security.asp

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