I figure with hyper-stagflation I can’t go wrong with an energy company.

Plus, their dividend is massive.

Remember to turn EVERYTHING on in your house.

Stick it to the left!

Get out of the dark!

It’s no secret that the left-wing Canadian media hate Harper. No matter how much he sells out Canadian conservatives, it’s never enough for the left wing elite.

So after the Obama visit, Harper headed to the U.S. and did follow up interviews and you know what?

They respected him and painted Canada in a positive light. The impact back home was positive for two reasons…

Canadians can watch Harper interact with journalists who aren’t desperate to ‘get him’. The dynamic is better and the information clearer (or at least presented with less natural bias).

Secondly, Canadians deep down long for American approval and recognition. If our Prime Minister is a big thing in the U.S. and appearing on U.S. shows, it has a prestige and credibility that our own media lack.

Both the medium and the message are better fed to us from the U.S. and as a result…Harper is playing the game.

I still think Ignatieff will win a minority next year, but at this point you can never count Harper out.

Approval ratings are getting lower and lower!

Looks like we’re going to have a re-run of 1994. A Democrat President that pushes too far left and as a result gets deluged with hard-right Republicans as a counter balance.

Good.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pelosi_approval_sinks/2009/03/27/196810.html

The fact that both of these issues are now on the horizon bodes horribly for a culture already sliding down the slippery slope.

Legal suicide on the grounds of compassion and polygamy on the grounds of religion are new battle zones in the culture wars.

The first…assisted suicide for dying or handicapped patients is looking for respectable in the courts of public opinion.

Removed from the Christian ethic of believing that human life is divine, atheist progressives are pushing in this direction…

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Allow+assisted+suicide+expert+health+urges+Canada/1423971/story.html

Polygamy is on the horizon in BC with the radical Mormons claiming they deserve multiple marriages.

Fundamentalist Muslims are also on board with this.

Leftists hate it, because they hate marriage in general and the thought of a man having MORE than one wife to demand submission from disgusts them.

But with the Same-Sex Marriage re-definition as a precedence, we probably won’t have much choice, but to redefine marriage again…and maybe again…and maybe again after that.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Life/Polygamy+coming/1433007/story.html

Then there is always child sex…but perhaps we’ll have to ‘progress’ to about 2016 before people begin accepting that.

Just when I was about to write off Americans as being hopelessly spoiled and soft I am rudely reminded of the base culture that has made the U.S.A the most important country in the world.

Americans are saving. A lot.

Here is an excerpt from the Globe and Mail…

Mr. Guatieri expects the savings rate will ease somewhat from its 13-year high of 5 per cent, but he predicts it will eventually exceed 6 per cent later this year. That would equate to $600-billion (U.S.) a year being used to pay off debt or add to savings.

“The savings rate is well above the virtual zero rate at the height of the boom when people were using their houses as ATMs,” Mr. Guatieri said. “That takes us back to levels of savings, pre-boom, in the 1990s.”

“The savings rate is an absolutely sea change in behaviour,” said David Baskin, president of portfolio manager Baskin Financial Services Inc. “At the peak of the trend, Americans were making $500-billion a year in equity withdrawals [from their homes].” In the latest quarter, they reduced mortgages by $75-billion.

This is how it should be!

Back to the value of thrift and rainy day funds.

This is why regular recessions are so good. They remind people about reality.

Ever since we pursued this policy in the Western world of ‘continual growth NO MATTER WHAT’ we have been on a path of tension.

You have to relieve the pressure of a booming economy with a retrenchment of resources.

If that doesn’t happen, then a greater problem builds on the horizon.

Anyway, here is the article.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090327.RBELL27ART1913/TPStory/Business

This article by the literary genius known as Mark Steyn is dead on.

He not only assaults our inability to mythologize our own culture, he attacks our modern character in regards to recent news tragedies.

The Canadian character is in decline according to Steyn, and the reason is the nanny state.

Creeping socialism may be good for life expectancy, but it isn’t good for life! By systematically removing responsiblity and consquence from Canadian life, we aren’t making things better any more than removing all physical activity from someone’s life makes them “safe”.

The slow decline of “safe” is actually quite dangerous at worst, very detrimental at best.

Read on…

If you missed the CRTC hearings the other week, don’t worry. The exciting plans to annex the Internet to the cheerless wasteland of CanCon enforcement were justified under the usual refrain of Trudeaupian boosterism: we have to create space for Canadians to tell their own stories.

Personally, whenever I hear that line, the only plot twist I’m in the mood for is: “And then I woke up, and it had all been a bad dream.” But, assuming you’re of a more indulgent bent, the question then arises: why do Canadians have such difficulty telling their own stories?

Well, here’s a thought: maybe because most of the ones we’re trying to tell are false.

I don’t use that word lightly. But I’m still digging myself out from the blizzard of reaction to what I wrote in this space two weeks ago about Polytechnique, the film of the Montreal massacre. You can get a more or less representative sampling of reader complaints from the Maclean’s website, but let’s start with the National Post’s objections:

“Mark Steyn uses the occasion of Denis Villeneuve’s new film,” wrote the Post’s Chris Selley, “to renew his complaints about Canadian manhood, as represented by the male students who ‘abandoned their female classmates to their fate’ on orders from Marc Lépine. Ten years ago we considered this line of argument usefully contrarian; now it’s just tired. The point, such as it is, has been made.”

Oh, dear. I’m sorry it’s “tired.” Actually, the point, such as it is, was that even M Villeneuve, no right-wing pro-American yahoo but an impeccably Québécois progressive trying to tell one of those quintessentially Canadian (okay, Quebec) stories, had been unable to avoid placing the men’s fatal passivity at the heart of the film. Unfortunately, the official narrative of the event—the feminist narrative, the dark-underbelly-of-Canadian-male-violence-lurking-within-every-somnolent-hoser narrative—remains in place, even though it’s utter twaddle. And, as long as Canada’s establishment keeps forcing a fraud on me, I’m going to object.

By the way, since Mr. Selley tires so easily, I wonder whether he’s as weary of other “complaints about Canadian manhood.” To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Cheri DiNovo, MPP, told the Ontario parliament that one in every two women in the province is abused or assaulted—including, as she noted, half the female members listening to her. The only difference between your Sudanese machete-wielder and your Ontarian abuser is that the latter’s more furtive about it: “We can look at the Congo, we can look at Darfur, we can look at the horrors of the world; here, it’s more guerrilla warfare; here it’s one man against one woman in the quiet of their own home . . . ” Does Chris Selley not occasionally find this sort of thing also just a wee bit tired, albeit statistically imaginative?

Here’s another Canadian story. The day Mr. Selley issued his magisterial yawn, the Court of Queen’s Bench in Manitoba passed sentence on Vincent Li for stabbing, beheading and partially consuming Tim McLean, his fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus ride last summer. The “agreed statement” between the Crown and the defence was full of interesting details. The Winnipeg Sun’s Tom Brodbeck published the fullest version:

“When Greyhound bus 1170 was approximately 18 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie on…

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/26/the-silence-of-the-canadian-lambs/