Today’s Christopher Columbus Award

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1. But the CCP adores him. What could go wrong.

   1. His social credit score remains questionable..

   2. Prosperity is something ‘white’ people like. It’s … it’s … colonial. It’s so … Trumpesque. Can’t have any of that! UnNations … Post-Nations don’t need prosperity … they just need to chill with some government ganja. And our kids win too!

2. Darn.. The TGAM, a liberal RAG.. Telling the truth.. They must know PP poo poo is the only politician running in this race..

3. Balsille is an idiot and the last guy anyone should go to for an opinion on anything related to economics or business for that matter. I’d actually take Carney over him and that’s saying something. Balsille seriously believes in the ‘value added’ malarkey and is obsessed with ‘adding value’ ‘at home’, which just demonstrates he doesn’t understand value.

   1. So, you imply that you understand “value.”
      And you would seem to refute the notion of “value added.”
      I will invite your sage dissertation on why you think thusly, or “un” thusly.
      I will wait.

      1. Value doesn’t come from ‘working’ something. There’s a great passage in StarShip Troopers that addresses this:

         “He had been droning along about “value,” comparing the Marxist theory with the orthodox “use” theory. Mr. Dubois had said, “Of course, the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart; it remains a mud pie, value zero. By corollary, unskillful work can easily subtract value; an untalented cook can turn wholesome dough and fresh green apples, valuable already, into an inedible mess, value zero. Conversely, a great chef can fashion of those same materials a confection of greater value than a commonplace apple tart, with no more effort than an ordinary cook uses to prepare an ordinary sweet.

         “These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value — the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives — and to illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.”

         Dubois had waved his stump at us. “Nevertheless — wake up, back there! — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth. If he had possessed an analytical mind, he might have formulated the first adequate definition of value . . . and this planet might have been saved endless grief.”

         Canada doesn’t need to ‘add value’ here, it can be done elsewhere. It’s really not the best use of our time or capital.

         1. Whoa, heavy and convoluted, dude. Starship Troopers?! Really?
            The “kitchen” illustration…refuted.
            Hey, hew wood, but fashion furniture. Value added.
            Oh, no, strip, ship and let someone else sell it back to you, ya lazy Canucks.

            1. cpl decades ago, whilst coincidentally taking economics courses, (minors, the major was comp sci) looking at every angle and cost factor how that could work. the common denominator was economies of scale. l then concluded given a maximum demand for all manner of furniture, that factor would in time pretty much wipe out domestic production. and it did.

               proof came long later with the ‘multi-lingual’ graphics showing assembly instructions. aha!! they did it!! l recollect thinking.

               if l had the smarts and wherewithal l would write up a utility that input the sda comments and filter out unmebot and it’s ilk.
               then pay for it by marketing it to the rest of you in true free enterprise fashion.

         2. Hello SDA readers, it’s….(sigh)…me again.

            My son has not only stopped taking his anti-psychotics, he’s now self-medicating, microdosing himself with Estrogen – the little bugger made off with my birth-control pills – and for some reason, has recently developed a monomaniacal obsession with the “Spoonie Sisterhood”, an online community of women obsessed with their (real or imagined) chronic illnesses (their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespooniesisterhood/) and which, according to several of their concerned mothers who have independently contacted me, he’s apparently using as an interface to meet vulnerable young girls.

            Anyway, he’s run away again and given what he was wearing, I have reason to believe that he’ll be trying to sneak into the local Spoonie convention dressed inappropriately in drag, and trolling for his next attempted conquest (the operative word being “attempted”, given that once his quarry finds out about his, ahem, “condition” – i.e., microphallia, something he sadly inherited from his father – all bets are usually off).

            Distinguishing features when last seen: Caucasian, medium build, approx. 5’6”, large fake eyelashes, wearing make-up, ill-fitting beehive pageboy wig in purple, 1990s Courtney Love-style baby doll dress worn over off-brand acid washed jeans, and a baggy T-shirt reading “Estrogen for Empathy” worn over all of that. Various “illness awareness” bracelets may also be visible on left wrist. He will likely be using a wheelchair as a prop; other props may include a breathing tube with attached oxygen tank (don’t worry about possible explosions – it’s fake), catheter with accompanying urine bag (I can’t guarantee that’s fake), biofeedback monitor, multiple bandages, and conspicuously-placed splits or casts (depending how belligerent he’s been and to whom since leaving my house, these latter accoutrements may be real or fake).

            Should you spot anyone fitting this description, please return my son to me, but could you return him to me tomorrow because I’m playing “hostess” at a little soiree tonight where I’ll be sipping Veuve Clicquot then getting gang-banged by Kenji, John Robertson, Eric Strauss, Keith Hardcastle (great porn name) and Steve from Rockwood (one “Dizzy” here tells me he’s hung like a mule).

            Toodledo everyone!

   2. That Balsille buys into the climate change garbage, yes. But he is right that Marx Carnage will only make things worse. Except for federal syphilis servants. That taxpayer funded bunch of parasites will thrive until the dying host expires and no longer can be taxed.

      1. He gets the ‘how’ completely wrong. It’s a crime the NP lets him pollute their pages then again the NP has been declining severely for several years.

         1. That was the Grope and Fail, Dork.

            1. NP has borne host to his terrible columns ex ‘We are all economic nationalists now’ -but I’m not Jim and never will be.

4. Just like the last guy, Carney is proving to be nothing but a successful failure.

5. Marx Carney will make Marx Carney more prosperous.

   And his family in New York City.

6. A retarded goat could make the country more prosperous.
   As the Prime Minister and former economic advisor, Carney’s the reason we’re less prosperous and getting creamed by every third world shithole 3 times over.

   1. Your “Goat” reference is spot on!. Carnage is a re-incarnation of the Judas goat whose function was to lure livestock to the killing floor at slaughterhouses.

7. “Jim Balsillie is a businessman and philanthropist. He is a founder and chair of several organizations whose mandates are to build capacity for a stronger Canada.”

   He is also the founder of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Centre for International Governance and Innovation.

   “Capacity building” Mike Benz
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Nlf-2fkhk

8. Like Balsillie knew how to adapt for changing times…