It’s The Shift That Keeps On Giving!

A Toronto firm is suing the federal Liberal party for more than $8 million and demanding it cease using the firm’s name “Green Shift” for its carbon-tax plan.
Green Shift Inc. owner Jennifer Wright personally delivered a statement of claim at Liberal party headquarters today as she launched the lawsuit.
The statement says Wright is seeking $8.5 million for “general and special damages” and a further $250,000 for aggravated and punitive damages.
The lawsuit seeks a court injunction to stop the party from using or displaying the words Green Shift, or any other trademark or Internet domain name that is similar to the logo used by Green Shift, which has had its trademark registered since 2003.
The Liberal party has so far ignored Wright’s demands to stop using the firm’s name.

Related – The Victory Fund! Not to be confused with the Liberal Party “Victory Fund” website. Heh.

El cambio que se puede creer!* Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

(*thanks to reader Gabby for the improved translation)

To the satisfying roar of head explosions on the left;

The trouble is that – partly because of the surging commodity prices that have made all incumbent regimes unpopular – G8 is led by politicians who lack authority.
Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown are disliked at home; George Bush is a lame duck; Silvio Berlusconi is changing the law to indemnify himself; Dmitri Medvedev is regarded as Vladimir Putin’s creature and, in any case, Russia does not merit inclusion in the G8 by virtue either of its democratic structures or the size of its economy; Yasuo Fukuda, the host, has just become the first ever Japanese leader to have a censure vote passed against him in parliament.
Of all the leaders, only Stephen Harper – the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister – is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.
Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

The Senate and Congress are controlled by Democrats.
The majority of state governors are Democrats.
Nearly every big city mayor is a Democrat.
So, tell me again – why are they waiting for Obama?
Related:

I am coming to believe that there is no such thing as “too much” Garth Turner…

As for Dion, he will move from Calgary to Edmonton, where he’s to have an open, Town Hall meeting on his climate change plan. You might not agree with everything the man says, but you have to admire this about him. He stood up once to the self-aggrandizing, hostile, me-first, greedy, macho, selfish and balkanizing separatist losers in Quebec. I guess he can do it again in Alberta.

Get this man a bigger megaphone!
(h/t to Neil.)
Update

In case you missed it, I’m in trouble again. On Friday afternoon I began receiving lots of emails in French from folks in Quebec telling me what I could do with myself, and what they’d like to do to my sister. That co-mingled with messages from Albertans reminding me that they have the oil and we have the problem. I did some battle on the radio, on Charles Adler’s rant, with people in the oilpatch who think this climate change talk is crap. And, just to cap things off, Stephane Dion called and chewed me out.

But don’t expect him to roll!
Lizzy May, stand by for an important call…

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Obama said at his first news conference that he planned a “thorough assessment” of his Iraq policy when he visits the country later this summer. “I’ve always said that the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability,” he said. “That assessment has not changed. And when I go to Iraq and have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I’m sure I’ll have more information and will continue to refine my policies.”
Obama has long spoken of consulting with commanders in the field as part of his plan for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, but his shift in emphasis in the way he spoke about the situation on Thursday – after weeks in which Republicans and even an outside Iraq-policy adviser to the Obama campaign argued against a withdrawal along the lines he had proposed – fueled speculation that he might not be wedded to his timetable.

Bwwaaaahaaaaa!

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat.

That sounds like a bumper sticker!

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

A reader who prefers anonymity writes;

I have attached a brief math exercise of what I think may be the impact of the green shift tax. While I fully expect people to dispute the numbers that I used, i.e. the mark up percentages, I think that the basic logic is sound to support my calculations. I do not know what the real impact of the carbon tax will be but I do know that $15 billion of tax will pull a lot more money out of the economy than the initial $15 Billion, it seems that no one has analyzed this tax from a business model perspective.

Check it out.
“FF_Canuck” examines the gas tax angle;

As you know, Dion’s new Green $haft includes a direct tax on diesel, but not gasoline. This is obviously going to have a disparate effect on Saskatchewan and Alberta, where we use more diesel in proportion to total fuel consumption, but I wanted some hard numbers, so I went to the Natural Resources Canada website here: (See Table 2.2)
Turns out that Alberta and Saskatchewan are responsible for 20.7% of total automotive fuel consumption, and 27.7% of national diesel consumption. OTOH, Ontario and Quebec are responsible for 58.1% of total automative fuel consumption, but only 55.5% of national diesel consumption.
So, thanks to Dion’s cynical exemption of gasoline, we pay tax on 133% of our total fuel consumption, while Ontario and Quebec pay for 95% of theirs.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

On an almost nightly basis, Olbermann mocks Congressional Democrats as being weak and complicit for failing to stand up to Bush lawbreaking; now that Obama does it, it’s proof that Obama won’t “cower.” Grave warning on Olbermann’s show that telecom amnesty and FISA revisions were hallmarks of Bush Fascism instantaneously transformed into a celebration that Obama, by supporting the same things, was leading a courageous, centrist crusade in defense of our Constitution.

h/t

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

“… each and every year, we become more, not less, addicted to oil — a 19th-century fossil fuel.”

I continue to endorse Stephane Dion’s carbony green tax grab plan.

Boy am I ever glad I’m not Stephane Dion today. […]
“Just one moment please” said the polite woman who answered the phone, in response to my inquiry. Seconds later, another person picked up the phone. I repeated that I was inquiring about ‘the green shift’ and was asked “Are you calling about us or about the federal Liberal campaign?” I could tell this person was not happy.
[…]
The answer came just as I finished stating the purpose of my call. There was no relationship, and the person I was speaking with, while very polite, was absolutely furious that this has happened. It was suggested to me that Green Shift has lost both new business and existing clients since Thursday who have been frightened off at the perception of a relationship between them and the federal Liberal Party. You can’t blame businesses for not wanting to do business with anyone affiliated with a political party, but unfortunately, this is not the case with Green Shift are they are being unfairly punished as a result of the Liberal Party’s actions.
I was told that Green Shift has worked extremely hard for 10 years to become one of the most successful vendors of green services and products only to be faced with the reality that all this work may be wiped out in a matter of days. I was told that Green Shift did a brief interview with CTV late last week but tried to keep it low key as they had not yet decided upon what the official response be. It seems today that along with a press release, a Cease and Desist notice will be issued..

More on LIberal shiftiness from Stephen Taylor…

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

An intriguing article by Richard Fernandez;

Barack Obama’s position on Iraq has shifted significantly over the last six years. What is interesting is how his position on Iraq matches up with developments in Chicago. Specifically, there appears to be a direct correlation between the rising and falling prospects of his longtime friend and fundraiser Tony Rezko’s attempts to secure multi-million-dollar contracts to build and operate a power plant in Kurdish Iraq and the senator’s Iraq flip-flops.

In a joint news conference that just finished, Prime Minister Harper announced $86M for the proposed South Bridge in Saskatoon. Premier Brad Wall matched the federal contribution and Mayor Atch announced that Saskatoon will be responsible for $70M.

Good. Driving from west to east in Saskatoon is a horror show at the moment. Completing Circle Drive will dramatically improve that.

Special thanks to MP Carol Skelton and MP Lynne Yelich for pushing the Gov’t on this initiative that will finally allow Saskatoon and area to live up to it’s possibilities.

Now we just have to make sure that NEP II doesn’t happen.

Cheers,
lance

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Obama oversees a team of 700 people–more than twice as many as Bush in 2004–the biggest, most bloated campaign in the history of presidential elections…

Here’s a tidbit they won’t tell you on the MSNBC: “McCain/RNC combined fundraising is more than the Obama/DNC fundraising for April and I don’t know if the totals are in yet, but McCain/RNC fundraising was on pace to beat them in May as well.”

So many elements, so many good excuses to tax them. That’s why we’re asking for SDA reader input. After all – being taxed into complete economic submission is “what Canadians want!”

(NOTE: This is a Decima-style poll, so be sure to think “Liberal friendly!”)

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

via Ace

… the same sort of enthusiasm and influence that Bill brought to hers;

Upon taking control of Congress in 2007 the Democrats found themselves running simpatico with those terminally elite nations who sniffed with disdain at American individualism while being strangled by the tentacles of their own statism. Emboldened by these openly chummy alliances, and sensing a GOP in the mood to slit its own wrists and die, the Democrats looked across the breakfast table at Hillary Clinton in her sensible clothes and felt a little disappointed. There she sat — a hard worker, smart, always willing to do what it took to win. By and large, she’d been a good helper, delivering the pretty little votes, raising the pretty big dollars, entertaining, organizing, laughing, gazing, and lying when she had to, for the good of the family.

More: A Barbara Olsen flashback