I received the following e-mail from an uncle of mine well connected in the Conservative Party of Canada. The linked speech is well worth a read:
Ms. Danielle Smith’s address about the Alberta story to Quebec conservatives should be necessary reading for all members of the Canadian Parliament and the U.S. Congress; especially those who fail to understand the importance of the Oil Sands.
An important note: After the oil and gas stocks are depleted, Alberta. BC and Saskatchewan are sitting on top of a 1000 year supply of coal.
Danielle Smith may very well be Alberta’s premier after the next general election. Her speech to the Quebec conservatives is one of the best written, representing the positive history about the Alberta story; not the “misinformation and smear” the Liberals have used over the years. Alberta is fortunate to have a person like Danielle as Leader for the Wild Rose Party.
Premier Ralph Klein would often remark — “the only thing I fear is a Conservative party passing me on the RIGHT ! !”. Danielle Smith and her Wild Rose Alliance is that party. Ralph was a bleeding heart Liberal before he joined the Alberta PC party.
Here’s the speech!

“And that is why Slut Walk is worse than burning the Koran.”

Is for the little people.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Childhood Obesity Foundation;

Obesity rates in children have almost tripled in the last 25 years. Approximately 26% of Canadian children ages 2-17 years old are currently overweight or obese.

Saskatoon Wal-Mart Parking Lot;

Mankind would still be living in caves, but with really, really fancy curtains.*

You want the recession to end? You want unemployment back to 4%? You want oil back below $2 a gallon? You want the US back on the road to supreme economic and military dominance and security? You want a world where your precious little children actually have a future?

Related.

Captain Capitalism asks…

This rekindled an observation I had in the never-to-be-solved arena of courting, marriage and men and women. And that observation is despite being villianized, degraded and shamed, activities that were traditionally considered “woman’s work” were and still are vitally important to the family and society. Ergo, why were they villianized in the first place?

I was brought up believing she was this great aviator. Notice I said “aviator.” Not “female aviator.” There was no discernment between male or female. She was just this kick ass chick who could do what the boys could do. Matter of fact, until I read more about Amelia I thought she was side by side with Charles Lindbergh in terms of feat-accomplishment in terms of a time line. She was like the hot IT geek chick of her time and like hot IT geek chicks of our time, we absolutely adore, worship and honor them. And this of course is what everybody else my age, as well as younger and older viewed her as.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Clara Barton, 1857 – “Lining the halls as she came into work, the men made catcalls, spit tobacco juice at her, and blew smoke in her face. “It wasn’t a pleasant experience.” Barton conceded, “in fact, it was very trying, but I thought perhaps there was some question of principle involved, and I lived it through.”
Hollaback, 2010 – At Hollaback!, we’ve heard stories of women leaving their jobs, or breaking their lease, because their commute involved too much street harassment. We’ve heard stories from girls skipping school to avoid harassment. And we’ve heard a surprising number of stories from women who moved out of New York City because they just couldn’t take it anymore.

[Mavis] Moore, who grew up in Crown Butte, Sask., says she is incensed at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s characterization of the [gun registry] debate.

Has anyone heard of this place? Just asking. (Her firearms safety skills are …. exemplary.)
Update – here’s something the Star article neglected to mention about rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ rural Mavis – she’s currently a vice-president of the National Council Of Women.

Follow us here. By the same date — 2015 — that the new 35.5 mpg EPA mandate is due to go into effect, oil companies are also mandated by Congress to double the amount of corn ethanol use (from 2007 levels) to 15 billion gallons. The current mandate of a 10 percent ethanol mix in fuel won’t get us there, so the powerful corn lobby is demanding EPA increase the mandate to a 15 percent ethanol mix.
Trouble is, a gallon of ethanol is 30 percent less efficient than a gallon of gas meaning that the more ethanol you mix in, the worse your gas mileage. Department of Energy studies show steadily decreasing fuel economy as ethanol blends rise from so-called E10 (fuel composed of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gas) up through E15 and E20 — with E20 suffering a 7.7 percent fuel efficiency loss.
Yet DOE’s green-zealot-in-chief Steven Chu still favors an increased mix of ethanol. So while automakers are sweating under the federal gun to make increasingly fuel-efficient engines, the government is mandating they do it with less-efficient fuel.

Don’t think of it as hopeless regulatory roadkill. Think of it as a valuable template for Obamacare.

We’d all still live in caves, with really, really fancy curtains.*

Explained.

The only thing more pathetic than a politician who rode into public office on her husband’s coattails….

… is a politician who cannot acknowledge, even to herself, that she rode into public office on her husband’s coattails.
UPDATE: This calls for a poll!!

“It was a bit of a pain because there were all these women who suddenly wanted to be lesbians, but they didn’t actually terribly want to sleep with women.”

But sliding down a ramp with boards strapped to your feet is a Canadian human right – or so some contend. Under the sub-heading of “don’t tease us like this!”

A victory for women’s ski jumpers who are trying to get into the 2010 Olympics could spell the end of the Games in Canada, warned a lawyer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee.
“It is very unlikely the Games would be held in Canada again in the foreseeable future” if VANOC departed from its signed contract with the International Olympic Committee, said George Macintosh in a written argument.
VANOC’s lawyers on Wednesday opened their rebuttal argument to a lawsuit by 15 elite women athletes who say VANOC is in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

But here’s the best part !

VANOC also acknowledged Wednesday the committee’s financial and logistical help to the female ski jumpers who are suing them.

That’ll teach ’em.
This can’t be a gender equality problem – the modern IOC has a history of allowing fake female sports (along with fake females) into the games. Who’s advising these girls, anyway? Why go the lawsuit route when the path to Olympic inclusion is as clear and bright as a patch of sunny beach sand?

Every recessionary cloud has its silver lining – University of Guelph campus bulletin;

Following a marathon meeting, the University’s Senate Tuesday night voted to ratify an earlier decision made by its Board of Undergraduate Studies (BUGS) to cancel the women’s studies….

Except that ….

More than 40 courses offered by departments across campus concerning women’s issues, gender, sexuality and diversity will continue to be offered.

Oh, well. It’s a start.

My grandmother’s sister Florence was nearly 5 feet tall. She raised 11 children in a 576 square foot farmhouse with no running water.
I can’t recall ever hearing of her fainting.
(Correction: Cousin Meat says it was 10. Maybe. Or maybe they just stopped counting)