Have no fear of the coming recession, The One has revealed the answer to our economic problems:
Obama also said he wants to install energy-saving light bulbs and replace old heating systems in federal buildings to cut costs and create jobs.
Yes, an army of illegal immigrants running around installing made-in-China lightbulbs in federal buildings is a sure path to prosperity.
“Somebody’s back there shooting their own video, I guess.”
(h/t to Paul W.)
Question – If the Conservatives are doing all of the astroturfing, how come the “Coalition” has all of the printed signs?
Related: Dion finally provokes his members to open their wallets. “Card carrying Liberal Party members. incensed at what their Party leadership have pulled, are calling Conservative Party HQ and donating… BIG TIME.”
And also related – 74percentmajority.ca
| A good turn out of “severely normal” Canadians showed up at Saskatoon City Hall at noon, and a good time (if somewhat chilly) was had by all. For a round up of reports from across Canada, your best starting place is Blogging Tories. Update – Star Phoenix coverage (Via Financial Post). Yours truly is quoted. |
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Part way through the rally, I walked over to the small, noisy, (and predominantly francophone) pro-coalition group and asked them to close up so I could get everyone in the shot.
The photo taken, I told them that I simply wanted to record the faces of those who had chosen to disrupt the moment of silence that had just been observed for the fallen soldiers in Afghanistan.
And that, in a few hours, several thousand people would know them, too.
Full size image
Update – several of you have sent photos via email. I can’t possibly use them all, but here are a few… including my favourite from Ward, from Vancouver!
London, Ontario courtesy of Jason.
“No Guff” sends shots from Nanaimo, BC
Click for Winnipeg rally pics. Maurice writes “A few days ago, Winnipeg’s leftwing elite held their pro-coalition rally in a warm hotel banquet room.”
Also – Youtube of the Queen’s Park rally in Toronto.
Pelalusa has a bunch of photos and video, too. (sorry, link fixed!)
Feel free to drop links to your own albums in the comments.
A proposal put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency…
…would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.
The executive vice president of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Ken Hamilton, estimated the fee would cost owners of a modest-sized cattle ranch $30,000 to $40,000 a year. He said he has talked to a number of livestock owners about the proposals, and “all have said if the fees were carried out, it would bankrupt them.”
Of course it will. Has no one been paying attention?
So someone decided that publishing Scott Reid’s rallying cry to “kill” the Prime Minister wasn’t such a good idea after all.
In the interest of preserving one of the Great Moments in Liberal Party Asshackery, here it is again –
Their imperative could not be more clear: kill him. Kill him dead. Do not, whatever you do, provide him with an opportunity to extend his hold on power. Because you can be damn certain he will never again be so reckless as to give you a chance to finish him off.
Fate tends to be grudging with gifts of this significance. To ignore it would be an error every bit as historic as the one Mr. Harper himself has made.
So don’t get fancy. Don’t get confused. And don’t get weak in the knees. If you don’t put Mr. Harper in his grave, he’ll put you in yours.
That passage disappeared faster than loose cash on a Montreal ad agency desk. Thank you, Globe and Mail, for demonstrating to us all the vast gulf of professionalism that separates the considered commentary of mainstream opinion from the vicious rhetoric that permeates the blogosphere.
CHRC delegate – “You must try the champagne glazed strawberries. They’re exquisite.”
CHRC stakeholder – “Only abject subservience to Israel can explain the World Trade Center attack.”
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is William Gargin starring as Barry Craig in the Hay is for Homicide episode of Confidential Investigator (1954, 29:21). Jake is great in this show.
NB: Today’s COMPAS poll gives a value of 22.0 for Vitruvius’s Experimental Election Predictor, the largest value it has ever been for any party in the data I have since 1962. In other words, if an actual election produced a Ve that large, it would produce the largest majority we have seen during that time: on the order of 3/4 of the seats in the House. In my opinion, anyone who is suggesting that Mr. Harper should be replaced at this time, either as Prime Minister or as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, is either (1) simply unaware of these last three Ipsos, Ekos, and COMPAS polls, (2) non compos mentis, or (3) of questionable character.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“[CBC] Newsworld will not necessarily wait for the definitive word on a story before beginning to report, the meeting was told.
Bonus from the Globe’s comments thread, the Quote Of The Week!
L. van Dyk from Canada writes: “I was raised on the CBC. It’s intelligent. Much of the language skills I now have I got from listening to them.”
h/t Ian.
Or, in the words of Jim Geharty – “All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.”
Nevermind the new COMPAS poll out today. COMPAS: CPC 51, LPC 20, NDP 10, BQ 8, GPC 6
Let’s drive the Coalition Fantasy Tour into the wilderness proper. Rally For Canada is still a go, just check the link for information on events in your region.
Saskatchewan locations – Saskatoon City Hall and Provincial Legislature in Regina.
I can’t be the only person in the country who has noticed that the same network which rejects “terrorist” to identify mass-murdering Islamists who target civilians, chooses “boyfriend” to describe a 23 year old man who “dates” 12 year old girls.
(Bumped for the convenience of Charles Adler listeners. Newer posts below.)
Did you ever see the tape?
(mp3 – 1.4 meg)
Originated at CKLF-FM 94.7 Brandon, MB – the city with the only NDP MLA between Winnipeg and Regina … for now.
Editorial comment… It has occurred to me that some of my dear readers of the more sensitive Liberal persuasion might be, by now, disturbed at what could be perceived as a “piling on” over this latest public humiliation of Stephane Dion.
Of course, such an accusation would be absolutely true. The only advice I can offer you is to simply brace yourself and continue to take it until we become bored and move on to fresher sport.
Stiff upper lip, and all that.
(I’m tempted to invoke that famous Victorian encouragement to “lay back and think of the Queen”, but that would be cruel under the circumstances.)
Dec 4, 2008 – Oil may fall below $25, says Merill Lynch
Now, before panicking, review this table of previous oil price forecasts for 2009 (from various sources).
What would we do without experts?
I’m by no means arguing that a further drop in oil prices isn’t possible. I just want you to remember these days of rapid declines when the inevitable occurs, and the price of crude begins to rise again.
For when that happens, politicians and activists alike will resume their anguished wails decrying the problems of economic good times – from “lack of supporting infrastructure” to “lack of affordable housing” while they argue that responsible public policy demands “managing” the boom downwards into something they call “sustainable growth”.
As though such a thing exists.
Forcing “sustainable” growth on the energy industry is the equivalent of forcing a farmer to slow the rate at which he empties his bins during a grain price spike, to prevent him from earning too high a rate of return per bushel.
There’s a name for this in the ag industry – it’s called the “Canadian Wheat Board”.
I’ve lived and worked through a couple of boom and bust cycles, and what I’ve learned doesn’t require a degree in economics. Write it down, and tape it to your fridge door, because it’s something you’ll need to remind yourself of every day.
When a commodities boom comes galloping your way, grab that beast and ride it for all your worth, because slowing it down won’t make the ride last longer.
So remember that forecast of $25 a barrel oil the next time a socialist politician, (or a politician appeasing a socialist) advocates “sustainability” during times of rapid economic growth.
Remember those capped wellheads the next time a agenda-driven activist convinces your elected betters to pile another costly environmental regulation on an industry already drowning in bureaucratic redundancy.
Remember that $25 doesn’t cover the cost of getting a barrel of oil out of the ground, much less provide royalty revenues to fund hospitals or service new subdivisions for all those economic migrants that long ago stopped arriving.
And by “remember”, I mean hunt them down and leave the remnants of their political careers in a garbage bag in the ditch.
A CBC exec expenses his donations?
The president of CBC says recent articles about the spending habits of a senior network executive are unfair and misleading. […] Lacroix said it’s erroneous to interpret the information as meaning Lafrance — executive vice-president of French-language network Radio-Canada — spent $80,000 on himself. The amount includes, he said, contributions to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra “or other charity events in the arts community.”
…if these professors were confronted with a situation in which their favorite Party, the NDP, had won more than 140 seats in the House of Commons. Imagine if the NDP had double the seat total of the Conservatives. Imagine what would happen if the Conservatives had then gotten together with two other parties, one of them being an Alberta Only party and then perhaps the Christian Heritage Party, one that would be supporting Capital Punishment and Opposing Abortion. Imagine if the Conservative Party with their right of centre coalition partners including a party dedicated to the Independence of Alberta. Imagine if the Conservatives signed a document with these smaller parties and presented that to the Governor General and said, “We have ourselves a legitimate, constitutional, coalition of elected members who have lost confidence in the government led by Jack Layton. He must face the house. He must face defeat, and we must now come to you Governor General, your excellency and pick up the keys to a new government.”
Can you imagine the professors of our elite universities going on the National TV Newscasts, saying “This coalition is very much in keeping with Constitutional Values, Canadian values and there is no reason to go back to the polls. These coalition partners ought to be given a chance to make government work.”
If you can imagine the professors giving their intellectual and moral consent to that, then you can also imagine Pigs flying, Cows barking, and Cockroaches coming up with a cure for cancer. If you are willing to believe that the professors of this country would approve of a coalition of the right then you are willing to trade in your fine mind for a fine box labeled B.F.I. For the alphabetically homeless, that means a dumpster.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is Bugs Bunny playing the role of our Right Honourable Prime Minister, with Rocky and Mugsy playing The Coalition Thugs, and a cameo role for the (second) policeman playing Her Excellency the Governor General, in the classic Bugs and [the Coalition] Thugs (1954, 7:12).
By the way, did something happen this week, or is there a bug in my SDA Comments per Day program?
I think something must have happened, because Vitruvius’s Experimental Election Predictor hit 15.87 today, the highest it’s been since 1984, the second highest ever in the years of data I have since 1962:
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, on the biggest issue of the year, here and as reported elsewhere, according to (for what they’re worth) the best polls we have available, Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition(s) have been blown out of the water. Hornblower is smiling. The next big battle will be in late January, or before. Keep your powder dry.
And don’t forget that when Mr. Harper achieved his first term as Prime Minister, it happened over Christmas. It’s three years later now, and it’s that time again. Between now and late January, and especially over the upcomming annual gatherings with friends and family, remember to gently and kindly remind people of what’s going on here (yet don’t, I think, in general, yell at them, or, in general, they won’t be interested in listening).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Region: East – West fracture now starts at the Ottawa River (CPC have an astonishing 22-point in Ontario); Alberta incensed.
Meaning Canadians are in the process of rejecting the propoganda of mainstream talking heads and pundits – perhaps for good. If you want the pulse of the nation, talk radio is where it’s at, baby. In all of this mess, they were the only ones who got it right.
View breakdown by region.
That sound you hear is the coalition forces splitting into four .
Like they “fixed” the housing market;
Last summer, Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey joined his Democratic colleagues in piling $85 billion in new regulatory costs on the Detroit Three by mandating a 40-percent fuel-efficiency increase by 2020.
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At this afternoon’s Senate Banking Committee hearings, Casey … demanded quick passage of $34 billion in taxpayer money to save the Detroit companies from bankruptcy.
Via Bourque;
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Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean was in tune with public opinion across the country when she agreed Thursday to suspend, or prorogue Parliament until Jan. 26 at the request of Harper. Almost seven in 10 of those surveyed Tuesday and Wednesday gave prorogation a thumbs up.
The Tories also were deemed by almost six in 10 Canadians to be the best managers of the economy in these troubling times.
Results of the wide-ranging survey, conducted exclusively for Canwest News Service and Global National, paint a picture of a population gripped by fear that is largely giving the Conservatives the benefit of the doubt – for now – to lead the country in such uncertain political and economic times.
“Overall, this is breaking quite clearly to the government as opposed to the coalition,” said pollster Darrell Bricker.
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Bricker said a clear consensus appears to be building in Canada, albeit to a lesser degree in Quebec, that Harper is doing the right thing by trying to hang on to power.
“The idea of having Stephane Dion as the prime minister, combined with the coalition being supported by the Bloc Quebecois, is basically fatal in the minds of the public,” Bricker said.
