A most informative segment was aired on John Batchelor’s show last night, illustrating the stark contrast between Canada and the U.S. these days. It featured guest Jason Clemens, of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, who recently wrote this column. Lorne Gunter has an equally interesting follow-up piece.
To Drive or to Fly?
Peter Cheney has written a most interesting column in which he proffers that he’d rather drive up to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) than fly. He discusses his thoughts with Charles Adler here.
What’s the maximum distance or time that you’d rather drive than fly?
Reader Tips
After a very long day I needed a laugh. Here are several, courtesy of Jerry Seinfeld and his friends.
Your Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
Spain vs. Poland
“Spain vs. Poland” could alternatively have been written as “A bloated, inefficient public sector vs. A thriving, efficient private sector”. The BBC’s Peter Day explores the differences in this most excellent podcast. More info here.
It’s so brutally and blatantly obvious, yet socialists the world over will never understand.
Reader Tips
Larry Griswold was a gymnast, comedian, and co-inventor of the trampoline. Here’s a funny video of him appearing on Frank Sinatra’s show.
Your humorous and serious Reader Tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.
The Left vs. ‘Can-Do’ Citizens
This morning Dennis Miller had a brilliant, off-the-cuff rant that accurately points out how the Left is consistently against every form of energy needed to power a nation. In America today, the Democrats are truly the party of “No”!
Back to the Fall of 2008?
The insane spending of President Obama and his merry Dems looks like it’s returning America to the situation it was in just under 3 years ago. It possibly could be even a lot worse. Mark Steyn has just published an important, but depressing, column about the state of affairs in Washington, DC. Here’s a key section:
If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem. If you owe the banks 15,000,000,000,000 dollars, the planet has a problem.
Totalitarian Leftards Come in All Colours & Religions
Free Speech Denier Zuhair Kashmeri wants Mark Steyn and others silenced. So “Canadian” of him, eh?!
Voting Out Obama
Charles Krauthammer has put forth an interesting strategy about getting Obama out of office next year. Well worth a read!
Moral Question
A friend, knowing I’m finalizing my car purchase today, called this morning. He insisted that I, just hours before the sale is to be completed, contact a car broker acquaintance of his to see if I can get a better deal elsewhere. This would mean foregoing all the time the salesman and other personnel at the dealership have spent with me, test driving several cars, arranging financing, etc.
I immediately rejected my friend’s suggestion, as I view it as unethical. I won’t be changing my view but am curious whether you might have a different one?
The Deep Seated Hypocrisy of Hollywood’s Left
Adam Carolla hosts a weekday podcast that happens to be the most popular one in the world. Recently he has been playing segments of a first person audio recording of his grandfather’s life history.
In this video I put together, you’ll hear his grandfather talking about his time at Ellis Island, NY, after arriving from Hungary. Then you’ll hear Carolla contrast the complete lack of gratitude expressed by so many in Hollywood today.
As is always the case with Adam Carolla, a language warning is necessary:
South Koreans Taking America For Granted
The hatred towards America by more than a few Canadians is well known. We see it exhibited every month by NDP and some Liberal politicians. We see it expressed regularly here on SDA by the Leftist cretins that periodically infest this wonderful community. What I wasn’t as acutely aware of were similar sentiments expressed by South Koreans. Talkshow host Dennis Prager recently had a few things to say about this.
Narcissism on an Entirely New Level
SDA regular ‘ET’ has long explained that to understand Barack Obama you just need to accept that in his mind, everything is about him. With that in mind, the Dear Leader is soon going to be turning 50 and a BIG Birthday Bash is planned!
What are you & your family going to do to celebrate The Great Barack’s Birthday? Perhaps plant your children in front of the TV, force their eyes open as in Clockwork Orange, and watch El Messiah’s speeches over and over and over again?! Seriously, waddya goin’ do?
Chhhanges in Book Selling
NRO’s Rich Lowry has written an interesting piece about the upcoming disappearance of Borders bookstores in America. It’s a reminder to us all that advances in technology never stop happening. In the process, there are winners and losers*.
* – Not applicable to the public sector.
Toronto on the Rebound
The economy of Toronto appears to be recovering nicely by all accounts. This is a good thing, not just for the city, but for Canada as a whole. I would never have dreamed that Ontario would ever slip into have-not status, yet they did. With Toronto doing better, hopefully this will reflect well on the country’s largest province as well. After all, the workers in the West don’t want to keep bailing it out forever!
Now, when are Montreal & Quebec going to do the same?
The Aftermath of the Riots
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is going to start laying charges against hundreds of hooligans who participated in the mayhem, destruction, and theft in the downtown core on June 15th.
Roy Green, who is sitting in for CHQR’s Dave Rutherford today, has invited me and Vancouver Spirit Rally organizer, Amanda Page, onto the show to talk about this. If you’d like to listen to or participate in the discussion, you can listen live here. It’ll begin just after the 11:30am MST (10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST) news.
Canadian Prostitution
I’ve long thought of the Pivot Legal Society as a victim-baiting organization / Leftist front group. Perhaps elements of them actually are. But on the show that I photographed yesterday, I thought Katrina Pacey sounded more like a reasonable libertarian:
What say you?
Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out!
Jason Kenney and his Ministry are set to rescind the Canadian citizenships of 1,800 fraudsters. He discusses the matter with Geoff Currier here. Sun News TV was all over this, such as here and here. It appears that even more than a few of Canada’s Left support the idea that the law should be respected.
Just one thought: Bravo!!!
Question: How long will it take before the “support groups” start calling Jason Kenney a racist?!
Standing Up to Mr. Leg Tingle
Good to see that Congressman Joe Walsh refuses to put up with Obama sycophant Chris Matthews!
Why Republicans Should Stay Clear of Mitt Romney
Last Thursday evening, WABC’s John Batchelor had a guest co-host named Mary Kissel, who works for the Wall Street Journal. In one of the segments, they interviewed a journalist named McKay Coppins about a recent article of his. You can listen to the interview here beginning at 19:00 (about half-way through the podcast).
Mr. Coppins tried his best to defend what he was saying in the article but Batchelor & Kissel kept battering him with questions, eventually shattering to pieces his defense of Romney. Towards the end, Batchelor asks a most important question: “Doesn’t this suggest to us that Mr. Romney would do better in another party?”
Mitt Romney might be a nice guy, might look like a President, and absolutely does have a good track record in business. But he’s too much of a flimsy fellow when it comes to any core set of values and a concrete vision. Sometimes compromising is a good thing but often it’s absolutely the wrong thing to do.
America is in trouble. A whole lot of trouble. The next Republican American president simply cannot compromise when it comes to fixing the economy and restoring a large semblance of fiscal sanity to government spending. For if it’s more of the same then the whirlpool of financial ruin that the nation is cascading down into will only pull it down in a stronger fashion. That’s not a good thing for anyone in the world except America’s enemies.