Seems Like A Winner To Me

14 Replies to “Seems Like A Winner To Me”

1. Yeah – and this from Global – and their bias is showing; rather baldly, in fact.
   I might just tune-in to the debates, to watch them get savaged by the audience. – If questions from the audience are allowed, of course. “What do THEY know, anyways?”

2. Co2 … carbon … is NOT a pollutant. The proper analogy would be that the eco leftist political leaders are demonizing warm homes and modern medicine in favor of tepees and Shamen’s rattles.

3. They are so stuck on stupid.

4. Not nearly red enough to impress the campus lunatics.
   Recommend the NDP hire some expert consultants from Venezuela with
   vast practical experience on how to “make Marxism work for the people”.

5. Ssssh Kenji, stop giving them ideas!

6. Too little, too late, Jerry Butts beat them to the swamp. That darling policy of the Khmer Vert has already been incorporated into LPC doctrine along with progressive Conservatives from coast to coast. The NDP have to try harder for differentiation and apparently so does the CPC.

7. It is a winner. Saskatchewan is majority stupid. All they have to say is “crowns threatened”, and all the morons will toe the line and vote NDP.
   This is why I would not risk anything to save people from a car in the water.

8. So a gaggle of leftists who’ve never held a real job in their lives and whose collective knowledge of economics is roughly equivalent to that of the average Irish Setter (the stupidest dog breed known to man), think that carbon taxes are the cat’s miaow. Of course they do: carbon taxes are stupid and don’t work – just like them.

9. Are they (Federal Dippers) going to mail a bill out to their welfare buddies in BC for the smoke that’s being spewed into our clean South Saskatchewan atmosphere?? Each year, Saskatchewan wheat, durum, canola and millions of acres of other crops and grasslands absorb huge amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis. Suddenly, we’re being polluted with smoke and pollutants from BC forests that are going up in flames, partly because of the lack of initiative to rid their forests of the mountain pine beetle. An insect that could have easily been controlled by insecticides in the early 1990s. Instead of sending protesters after our Canadian oil producers and pipeline engineers, BC would have helped the environment on a much greater scale by investing in aerial applications of selective herbicides to clean up their beetle infested forests.

10. Mountain pine beetle can’t be controlled through use of insecticides in large forests such as those in B.C. Each tree has to be individually soaked in a carbaryl solution from the base to a four inch upper trunk diameter. The only practical method is to immediately log the stand as soon as the infestation is discovered.
    The NDP government of the early 90’s prevented Carrier Lumber from doing exactly the right type of treatment with their plan to move dozens of portable mills into the Cariboo and harvest the timber then cut them into cants for shipment to the nearest lumber mills.
    The NDP government halted the Carrier Lumber logging plan just before they got started, in violation of the contract Carrier had with the B.C. government.
    Carrier sued,won, received a $160 million settlement. The Judge said he had never seen such an egregious violation of a legal contact in his career.
    This is just another of the many reasons people with short memories shouldn’t be allowed to vote.The 1990’s NDP were less radical than the current bunch,and everything they did destroyed our major industries. I won’t even mention the Fast Ferries.
    A vote for the NDP is a vote for the bankrupting of your Province.

11. http://www.mgcltd.ca/news/natpost_140501.pdf
    Here’s the ugly story of the 1990’s B.C. NDP in all their glory.

12. I’m quite familiar with carbaryl. My family owned a farm supply outlet, it was sold under the brand name Sevin in powder and liquid. Furadan (carbofuran) however is much more effective, but more toxic to mammals including humans.
    If you think a forest fire or pine beetles can devour lumber, you’ve never seen locust eat a wheat crop in 95°F heat with a SW wind coming out of Montana. In the mid 1980’s, during a grasshopper (aka locust) infestation of biblical proportions in SW. Sask., we ran out of Furadan. We sold it in 8 liter jugs, 2 jugs to a case. Our American counterparts near Havre, Mt. had it in 55 US gallon barrels, unlimited supply. Canada Customs however would not allow us to cross the border with it. Nothing to do with the chemical in the drum, but due to the fact the drums and the instructions manuals were not in metric measures of hectares and liters. The drums were stamped in US gallons and the manuals gave measurements in quarts and acres. Keeping in mind that 4 liters is nearly the same as a US gallon, and our acre measurements are identical. Liberal Trudeaumania era laws that still haunt us today. To hell with losing the crop, metrics is what mattered.
    Thanks to Premier Grant Devine (PC) and a retired Federal MP, Frank Hamilton (PC) (Swift Current-Maple Creek) who was a family friend,, we got customs clearance. We sold the drums to selected customers, and they sold and dispensed the Furadan as they saw fit. We also sold Sevin, but not anywhere as effective as Furadan.
    I remember later attending various conventions in Regina (Monsanto-Bayer etc. etc.) and hearing chemical reps talk about the Mountain Pine beetle problem in BC, Alberta etc. and how the leftist-extremists literally prevented scientists from developing a selective insecticide that could have prevented the problem in it’s early stages. Obviously, the problem lingers on today. And obviously, fires may end it as well.

13. they have finally figured out how to tax breathing.

14. The public and certainly the NDP government at the time would not have accepted the type of practices needed for an honest attempt at controlling the spread (5 to 10 km buffers of clear cut and scorched earth immediately after emergence from the Park where it originated). At that time BC NDP Premier Harcourt, while going around Europe doing damage control against GreenPeace who had the average German convinced that there were no more trees left in BC, stated arbitrarily that there were no cutblocks exceeding 40 hectares and the BCFS quickly fell in line and enforced it. That was the end of any honest attempt at control of the outbreak. Radical action at the time, if effective, would have been well worth the cost and temporary eyesore. Forest protection (diseases, insects, and fire) measures have, over the last three decades, taken a backseat to pandering to public “concerns” such as the temporary visual blight of recent cutblocks. Mother nature always gets the last say on such maters. The smoke they’re smelling in Saskabush right now is part of that.