34 Replies to “December 30, 2018: Reader Tips”

  1. America’s Cold Civil War October 2018 • Volume 47, Number 10 • Charles R. Kesler

    In the Claremont Review of Books, we have described our current political scene as a cold civil war. A cold civil war is better than a hot civil war, but it is not a good situation for a country to be in. Underlying our cold civil war is the fact that America is torn increasingly between two rival constitutions, two cultures, two ways of life. …
    https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/americas-cold-civil-war/
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    Canada, under the regime of Justin Trudeau faces the same “cold civil war” between individual rights versus the imposed totalitarianism of endless identity group class conflict. Forces pushing for surrender of individual rights or are leading to a sovereignty association and retained individual rights, liberty and limited government, so that, at least a part of Canada, could be recognizable to the men and women of uncommon valour who carved this once proud nation-state out of the wilderness. If we fail, all that will remain is for a Alexandre Solzhenitsyn to write of our demise in a second Gulag Archipelago.

    1. In spite of it all, those who think they know how the average voter will vote, are still predicting at least a minority government for this train wreck. I’m predicting a big surprise, we can’t be that stupid if given the facts .

      1. The numbers of stupid Canadians is high, but the numbers of selfish and ignorant is even higher.
        The selfish ignorant Canadians will vote for PM ProK-bec and the Liberals.
        Getting stupid Canadians to vote is how PM Pothead got put in power.

        1. He has guaranteed himself the pothead vote. From the way he stammers to answer questions he seems to be suffering brain fog syndrome. Some of his answers wouldn’t even pass as fuzzy logic.

        2. We thought the same thing about Daddy. People knew how much of a jerk PET was, but the Quebec-Hamilton corridor kept returning him to office. All he had to do was promise them some goodies and it was a cinch for him to win.

          Of course, PET didn’t always follow through on those promises, but it didn’t matter because he knew that the political memory of most Canadian voters is about 6 weeks.

  5. Canada is expected to bring in more than one million immigrants over the next three years. Praise Allah! Now Alberta will be flooded with new Liberal Party voters, and bring the province into line with Great Leader’s diverse policies. A mosque on every Alberta street corner.

    1. Or will he send the jackboots to stop the protest before it gets to Ottawa like they did in 1932?

    3. Doesn’t matter. The media will keep it silent, anyway.
      Most Canadians will not hear about it, or will hear it explained away by the Talking Heads as regionalism or populism, or whatever “ism” they think will persuade listeners to ignore it.

  9. Calif. set to go “rescue only”… may need to send a monthly rescue flotilla to Korea / ROC to keep the supply chain moving?

    “California is set to become the first state in the nation to impose strict rules on pet stores regarding retail sales of live dogs, cats, and rabbits.”
    …
    “Phil Guidry of the American Kennel Club called the new law part of the campaign of “anti-breeder animal rights extremists,” saying the campaigners ultimately seek to outright ban all animal breeding and ownership.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-california-law-bans-retail-sales-of-dogs-cats-rabbits-with-one-exception_2751416.html

    1. Banning the sale of puppies by pet shops is actually a step in the right direction. I’ve heard that dogs that are sold in stores are often sick or difficult to manage as they mature.

      All the dachshunds that my parents had were obtained from breeders. They provided a controlled and safe environment for the pups. All of them turned out to be healthy animals until they were well into middle age when afflictions that arise due to them being pure-breds emerged–back problems, mainly.

      Another reason my parents went to the breeders was that pedigrees for each of them were available, so their lineages could be traced and verified. My father didn’t bother getting one for the last critter, not that it was necessary. There’s no doubt that the little guy’s a dachshund.

      1. You make the grave mistake of supporting the radical left’s agenda – in this case, banning pet shop sales. Never support the left’s agenda of coercion. The stated reasons presented to manipulate the public to action or acquiescence are never the real reasons.

        They want to end all pure-bred dogs, and ultimately all private dog ownership.

        1. Pet shops are a poor environment for puppies. They rarely get proper care in that setting. Customers and their kiddies coming up to where they are kept and disturbing them is detrimental to their long-term health and development.

          It’s got nothing to do with the left.

          As for ending dog ownership of any kind, that’s not surprising. Even the “great” Dr. Fruit Fly suggested in one of his documentary series in the mid-1980s that nobody should be allowed to have any pets, dogs in particular, and that they should lead free-range lives. My mother watched that series (which was shown on CBC, no surprise there) and she was outraged, particularly since my parents had their first dachshund then. The critter had a better life under their care than she would have had out in the wild.

    1. His comment about confiscating the wealth of western Canada hits the nail on the head. That’s what it’s been all about for the last 50 years. Western Canada is seen as a renegade region which was never meant to be prosperous and, when it was, didn’t deserve to be.

      The Quebec-Hamilton corridor has long seen itself as the only legitimate part of the country with anything outside it merely as colonies to be ransacked and exploited for their resources. Two and a half centuries ago, it was called taxation without representation. I believe it caused a revolution somewhere in North America. I wonder how that turned out…..

    2. My recommendations for the first two steps
      1. An Alberta referendum on equalization.
      2. Alberta opts out of dairy supply management

      1. I think the western provinces should start implementing institutions and acting as though they are already independent countries, establish relations with trading partners etc… When the time comes that there is support, just declare we are gone.

        At that point who cares what the Supreme Court has to say about the process, it would be a foreign court we wouldn’t have to listen too.

        None of that Quebec marxist separatism of constantly talking about it and asking for bribes.

    1. Not funny – they were preventing a private business that in no way harmed them from making money. No different from the left destroying the business of Christian bakers for not baking gay “ wedding “ cakes.
      Hopefully they get arrested next time.

    1. Of course it produces something: virtue signalling, one of the most valuable commodities in the world. As some wag once said, a gram of image is worth a kilo of performance.

        1. You’re not thinking far enough into the future. Centuries from now, he may be seen as the founder of a religious cult or a new branch of a certain religion of “peace”. Loyal Dummkopfists will make pilgramages to places where he lived or was, clutching the selfies of their distant ancestors like holy relics, hoping to have them blessed.

  14. Oh no! The National Post reports that the federal innovation fund is being politically influenced. Say it ain’t so Groper! The Post must be full of those Nazis Gerald Butts warned us about.

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