Lorne Calvert is promising this bright young chap a $1000 cut in tuition.
If elected, that is.
h/t
SDA Flashback.
Let’s Do It For Tommy!
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Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and that hajib becomes you, infidel woman;
A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.
Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians.
The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.
Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher and a teaching assistant – are Muslim.
An Army Of Lornes
A reader sends this along this morning;
The Sask Federation of Labour is on the U of S campus today handing out [the same info] that is on their commercial. They have a table in the Arts tunnel along with numerous people handing out pamphlets all over campus. […]
The flag is a SGEU flag but all of the propoganda is SFL (We have a choice…. Which Saskatchewan will YOU vote for?) The other tables are unrelated (the one pic has red posters with a student there: unrelated). These pics were with a camera phone in the dark tunnel with fluorescent lights…. sorry about the quality.
Note: The info in the pamphlet is totally unrelated to the CUPE walk-out today on campus.
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Who Is That Man With His Finger In His Ear?
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(h/t LizJ)
Lest We Remember
(via reader Kirby)
Update – a couple of our readers have received the following in response to emailed complaints – “I take full responsibility for the ad and failed to proof read the ad thoroughly. The correct ad will be in the next edition. Personally I attend Remembrance Day celebrations with my girlfriend 91 year old father each year. So sorry.”
No purpose in piling on – I think the point has been made.
Calvert’s Little Helper
“Surgeons aren’t the same today”
I hear ev’ry dipper say
They just don’t appreciate that you get tired
While you’re waiting for the knife, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a Calvert’s little helper
He will help you through the night, help to minimize your plight…*
The Enemy Is Tempting You With Coca-Cola
Anti-Americanism in Europe – a six part documentary in Youtube.
Think Tommy In Drag
There’s a reason Shirley Douglas made her living reading other people’s scripts;
One thing I do like about Shirley – when she’s |
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Flashback – Heh. “He’s dead by the way”
Tommy Douglas: The Greatest Canadian Export
Melanie Phillips gets letters;
“Unfortunately, 30 months ago I was diagnosed with bowel cancer and had my bowel removed. On arriving at the hospital the day prior to the operation, I went to the toilet. No soap or hand-wash. Spoke to nurse. Yes we know we will get some tomorrow when the cleaner is back!!!!! The patient in the next bed informed me he had said the same the day before. Basic hygiene. After the operation, excrement from a spill from a colostomy bag was left on the floor for 2 days until the next bed patient’s daughter brought in disinfectant to clean up.”
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“Many days I watched the nursing auxiliaries bring his food in and place it temptingly on his table at the foot of his bed, often out of reach. After what seemed a relatively short time they returned and noticing the full dishes commented that he must not be hungry! He couldn’t reach the food. When I complained they left it there but no-one came to feed him so I and his friends fed him. On very few occasions did any of the nursing staff attempt to feed him (they may have when I was at work. I visited him every evening for 3-4 hours). Had it not been for myself and his large group of friends visiting and feeding him I believe he would have received little or no food at all. As a result he didn’t last very long.”
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“I am a nurse of some forty years experience, most of which has been spent in community nursing and working with elderly people. Nurses are no longer encouraged to nurse (care) for their patients. Instead they are directed to learn abstract concepts and highly technical procedures from the beginning of their training. Long gone are the days of bed bath, bed pan and temperature rounds. These rounds generated the time for nurses to share confidences with patients and to observe ways in which their patients’ comfort and progress could be monitored and improved.”
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and ONE AND TWO AND THREE AND TOUCH YOUR TOES…
Companies with more than 500 staff would have an ” exercise hour”. Employees would have to deliberately choose not to join in. The proposalsare the opposite of the Government’s approach which requires people to opt in to healthy lifestyles. Instead it would be up to them to make the unhealthy choice.
In his speech to the Royal Statistical Society last night the professor, a former aide to Tony Blair said: “It is not like banning something, it’s a softer form of paternalism.”
Tommy Douglas: Lions Fan
Frustrated while awaiting surgery on his damaged knee, Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Matt Dominguez told a national TSN telecast about his unhappiness and inadvertently waded into a debate about universal health care. All this in a province approaching an election, in the birthplace of medicare, where surgical waiting times are always a hot-button topic.
“I went from being on the best team in the league, leading the league in receiving, to being on a list for surgery,” Dominguez said Monday after calling the Leader-Post to clarify his on-air comments.
“I’ve lived here for three years and I’m involved in the community, but not a week goes by that I don’t hear somebody complain about the health care system. Because I’m an American, I can’t talk about the health care system? You never hear people saying that the waiting lists are awesome. I never said I’m better than anyone or that I should be put ahead of anybody else. I’m not. I’m just saying that if I have to wait eight months (for surgery), that’s too long.”
There’s a reason that the Saskatchewan Roughriders have never won a Grey Cup with the NDP in office.
But what Tommy Douglas taketh away, Lorne Calvert can giveth!
Help Matt Jump The Wait Times Queue!
Telephone: (306) 787-9433
Facsimile: (306) 787-0885
premier@gov.sk.ca
Pay No Attention To Those Multi-Culti Consequences Behind The Curtain
A funny thing happens when left-wing social engineers begin to mess with other peoples’ neighborhoods;
The Swiss People’s Party, or SVP, which campaigned on an aggressively anti-immigrant ticket featuring posters that showed white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag, received about 29 percent of the vote and 61 of the 200 seats in Parliament, projections showed, up from 27 percent and 55 seats in 2003. It was comfortably ahead of the Social Democratic Party, which dropped from 23 percent of the vote to 19 percent and was projected with 43 seats, as opposed to 52 in the most recent Parliament.
There’s a reason they say that “all politics is local”.
Opponents protested with riots and criticized the conservative party for instilling racist policies, but the electorate was apparently more impressed by federal statistics that showed “about 70 percent of the prison population is non-Swiss.”
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and reality finally bites;
Tommy Douglas: Postponed
For a province in the middle of an election campaign, this report is receiving surprisingly little media attention;
The survey measures median waiting times to document the extent to which queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures are used to control health-care expenditures.
“It’s becoming clearer that Canada’s current health-care system cannot meet the needs of Canadians in a timely and efficient manner, unless you consider access to a waiting list timely and efficient,” Esmail added.
The 2007 survey found the total median waiting time for patients between referral from a general practitioner and treatment, averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, increased to 18.3 weeks from 17.8 weeks observed in 2006. This was primarily due to an increase in the first waiting period, between seeing the general practitioner and attending a consultation with a specialist.
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The waiting time between specialist consultation and treatment — the second stage of waiting — increased to 9.1 weeks from 9.0 weeks in 2006. The shortest specialist-to-treatment waits were found in Ontario (7.3 weeks), Alberta (8.9 weeks) and Quebec (9.4 weeks), while the longest waits were in Saskatchewan (16.5 weeks), Nova Scotia (13.6 weeks) and Manitoba (12.0 weeks).
Of course, we know the drill by now. Despite our own personal experience and that of family, despite the individual cases that come to media attention, despite alarm bells being rung by doctors, despite, despite, despite – each year the Fraser Institute tells us what we already know, and Sask Health responds by telling us not to believe our own lying eyes.
And there’s the dirty little secret behind the NDP’s promise of a universal cradle-to-grave drug program – you need to see a doctor to get a prescription.
(More at the National Post)
The Ignobel
Say what you want about the Goracle’s win, but you have to admit, the field was weak.
They Were A Laughing Stock Long Before This
The malnutrition that afflicts millions of Zimbabweans has reduced the country to a “laughing stock”, President Robert Mugabe has admitted. Distributing equipment to black farmers resettled on land seized from white owners, he said: “We have become the laughing stock because of hunger. We all need to eat, whether you are Zanu-PF or MDC. Let’s unite.”
Since Mr Mugabe began confiscating farms Zimbabwe has gone from being an agricultural exporter to a country where millions need food aid. He blames supposed Western sabotage for the situation, rather than his own actions.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
University. A long-time reader writes;
I’m a 3rd year polisci/history major at the University of Victoria, and since Thursday, this has been the #1 issue here:
“UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) chairperson Tracy Ho broke a 6-6 deadlock at a Sept. 10 UVSS board meeting by voting that the military should be banned from the SUB.
“The motion was passed to clarify a policy amendment passed 10-1 by the last UVSS board of directors in April.That board amended the society’s policy on military issues to include, “The Society is opposed to the militarization of Canadian Society, and is unsupportive of a Canadian military establishment that violates international law and human rights.” […]
“The ban voted in on Sept. 10 means that the Canadian Armed Forces will be unable to attend the annual recruiting fair put on by UVic’s Career Services in the SUB every January. The Armed Forces attended last year’s recruiting fair.”Basically, a radical leftist anti-war organization with a membership around 20 decided to table a motion at the UVic student society meeting earlier this month to ban recruiters, and the UVSS board passed it, deciding we students are too “uninformed” to make our own decisions. The nearly 20,000 students at UVic have been painted with the same brush as these dozen or so wackos, and we’re not going to take it.
There has been massive outcry in response to the student union board’s decision. So far, it has resulted in the formation of a pro-recruiter facebook group numbering 271 in less than 48 hours, reactions from the Army.ca forums, another facebook group at the University of Toronto (if you can believe it) condemning UVic, and a massive stack of letters to the student newspaper. The facebook group founder is going to be speaking to The Zone 91.3fm radio station here in town, several organizers (myself included) will be passing out anti-UVSS flyers on campus, and the local media are being informed. Even students who are against the war have joined up with us because they recognize this for the blatant violation of democracy it is.
I’m just sending this to you to help dismiss the image of UVic students as a bunch of pinkos and hippies. The majority of students here want recruiters on campus, and we’re going to fight for our right to have them here at the upcoming student society meeting on monday. There is going to be massive attendance, as well as a major takedown of the radical lefties who have hijacked our democratic process.
I just submitted my application to the air force last week, so I’m not about to let this down.
The link above has to be read in its entirety to be believed.
(More – “Military ban an affront to free speech”.)
An Ottawa Cancer Patient & Liberal Jim Watson
No
No, no, no.