Elizabeth May Is F*cking Up Your Kid

Political Animal 93 Comments

Update: According to John Gormley, the leader of the Green Party is suddenly and uncharacteristically unavailable for media interviews.

After listening to calls to JGL this morning, I sent John the following in an email:

Young Greens Or Old Reds?
I think everyone is missing the point here. It’s not the “f*cked up planet” that’s at issue – it’s the tactic of convincing youth to reject their parents in favour of The Party. The Party knows best, The Party knows all. In not so distant times, this propaganda style led to young people turning their parents in to the state for prosecution, even execution…
It’s not funny, it has nothing to do with the environment, and Elizabeth May should be called to account on it.

Unsteady Eddie

Political Animal 42 Comments

A cautionary tale for federal Conservatives: support for the “Stelmach Liberals” plummets;

Mr. Cameron said the Tory party, which has governed Alberta since 1971, seems to be “running into a wall at 100 kilometres per hour” and may have to reconsider unpopular policy decisions. Those include changes to the royalty regime that angered the province’s powerful oil patch.
Last week, another poll also concluded the Wildrose Alliance’s popularity was quickly rising in the province …

On the other hand, he’s the best thing to happen to Saskatchewan in a generation – doing for us what Tommy Douglas did for Alberta so many decades ago.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Great Moments In Socialism 19 Comments

The high cost of rampant environmentalism;

I was in a conference session and a gentleman from a utility in the Netherlands was making a presentation. During his presentation, he casually mentioned that there is the equivalent of a 60-cent (U.S.) tariff (tax) on each kilowatt-hour of electricity. After many of us in the audience picked our chins off the floor, we asked him if he was serious—he was. That certainly explains how Netherland can afford so many windmills. Of course those windmills only provide about 15%-20% of the power the Netherlands needs. But if electricity costs more than 60 cents per kilowatt hour, your utility industry can afford to build a lot of things.

(Emphasis mine).

Your Life, Their Choices

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 49 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Lorrie Goldstein, August 2009 – “When the insane political right in the U.S. makes such outlandish [death panel] allegations, linking them to the dangers of Canadian and British “socialist” medicine, they sound like the insane political left in our country….”
CBC, October 2009 – “A majority of Quebec’s medical specialists are in favour of legalizing euthanasia and believe the public also supports the idea, according to an Ipsos Descarie poll released Tuesday.”
h/t Tom B.

Reader Tips

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Terry Jones on Do Not Adjust Your Set introducing (as he notes) this week’s deliberate mistake, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, featuring Vivian Stanshall with Neil Innes and the boys, performing Hunting Tigers Out in Indiah ¤ (3:38) in 1969 (ca. their touring with The Who), from their Tadpoles album (a vinyl copy of which we have, along with one of their 1967 Gorilla album, here in the studio, of course 😉  For those listeners less than enamored by Hunting Tigers, here also from their Tadpoles album is Shirt (4:31), and from their Gorilla album and our 2008-07-17 Late Nite Radio show here is The Intro & the Outro (3:04).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

The Unknown War

Little Known Facts 37 Comments

Matt Welch;

On August 23, 1989, officials from the newly reformed and soon-to-be-renamed Communist Party of Hungary ceased policing the country’s militarized border with Austria. Some 13,000 East Germans, many of whom had been vacationing at nearby Lake Balaton, fled across the frontier to the free world. It was the largest breach of the Iron Curtain in a generation, and it kicked off a remarkable chain of events that ended 11 weeks later with the righteous citizen dismantling of the Berlin Wall.

h/t pacemakerdoug

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

Great Moments In Socialism 38 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, 2008 – “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
WV Metro News, 2009 – Governor Joe Manchin says he was once willing to give the Obama administration’s EPA the benefit of the doubt, but now the agency’s direction is clear when it comes to coal mining. “Right now, my belief is that they’re trying to kill off surface mining through regulation what they cannot get done through legislation,”

This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed

Religion Of Submission 35 Comments

On the same day …

that yet another Israeli female scientist was winning a major award, Hamas further cracked down on the rights of Palestinian women, this time by banning females from riding motorcycles in the Gaza Strip.
The decree was issued by the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the movement’s security forces in Gaza. They said the ban was in keeping with “Arab traditions.”
This follows Hamas’s recent reported ban on women laughing in public. Public female laughing, they said, was “unIslamic”.

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