That she is supported by both the old guard and some of the brighter young members (Warren McCall, Cam Broten) in caucus speaks to her ability to unite and perhaps also addresses her foremost criticism that she simply isn’t bright and gifted enough to be a leader. (More on this in a moment.)

Other major positives include the fact that she would be the first woman leader of the party. Also, as a former president of the United Food and Commercial Workers’ provincial council, she has plenty of union credibility and her tenure as labour minister produced today’s minimum-wage increases. Her campaign has outlined a plan to eliminate poverty in Saskatchewan and run 30 candidates under 30 years of age, or 40 candidates under 40 years, appealing to the youth and left.

The main criticism is that she isn’t “bright and gifted enough” to be NDP leader…(given the context being an NDP leader…I’d count that in her favour.)

Other positives include her being the first woman leader of the party. Right, right…no penis=positive…obviously.

Union credibilty? Um…okay. Do unions still have credibilty? Why are they judging others?

Raised minium wage? Debatable as to whether this is good or bad. Raising minimum wage in 21st century Canada just increases unemployment, and inflation does it not?

Eliminating poverty in Saskatchewan? The government can do that? What’s taken so long?

Run 30 candidates under 30 etc.etc.??

Why is the NDP so in love with the idea of having random people reflect society?

“We have to find a midget so the midgets have a voice in the corridors of power!! Does anyone know a midget? I need five Indians and a one legged man!”

Just get the best people in there and maybe voters will have someone worth voting for…

(I hope not!)

http://www2.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/columnists/story.html?id=68f0c3a3-edf0-4626-a162-fcebb2112af4

The liberal media bias strikes again…here’s a report showing the amount of laughter by reporters during press conferences at the White House.

Looks like those good ole reporters are having a heck of a time with their Democrat buddies…

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23015.html

My official position on same-sex marriage is that I barely want the government to exist, let alone define people’s relationships for them…so I am kind of past caring about the same-sex marriage debate.

From a Christian point of view, however, marriage is reserved for men and women alone.

Thus, I think the state should address individuals only and leave this area of organization to the culture itself.

Basically a libertarian approach.

Two things though…

1. California is denying same-sex marriage and the courts have upheld proposition 8 as a result. This leads me to ask…Is the battle for same-sex marriage over then?

The courts decided right?

It’s over then right? Traditional marriage is how it’ll be done from now on right?

Obviously wrong…the battle only ends when the left wins. Once a court decision rules in their favour then the terms of debate are finished.

That’s why in Canada we don’t have this debate anymore.

The left says it’s over.

It’s over when the left says its over.

Sort of like with abortion.

They are disturbed that pro-lifers keep fighting, because obviously the issue is settled…

Anyway…

2. I was watching CTV newsnet and they did a story about this issue. It was then followed up with an interview with a female rabbi from a progressive synagogue in California.

The questions consisted of things like, “Were you surprized?” (At the ruling) and “What next?” etc. etc.

Basically this woman had a platform for five minutes to express her point of view.

They also showcased a clip from a disgusted Elton John, offering his dismay at the ruling.

Ben Mulroney diligently nodded in sympathy.

After the segment was over they continued on to their next story…an interview with some guy from America’s Next Top Model.

A show that is conviently airing on CTV soon.

Unbelievably shitty television.

They actually have the audacity to beg people to write their MP’s and tell them to force cable providers to charge customers for carrying their garbage local channels?

Sad.

The ship needs to sink faster.

The Republicans have been down and out in the past, and they usually roar back stronger than ever.

In the late 70’s people thought the Republican’s might be finished forever!

Then came Reagan.

Here is a great article showing the unfolding plan that Reagan used to win the white house…

Reagan’s conservatism was one part Barry Goldwater (the small government part), one part the foreign policy of Truman and Roosevelt, and one part the traditional social mores that had been the common currency of people in both major parties until the late 1960s had blown it apart. As such, he was able to rally the Goldwater base, and then to shake loose many millions of Democrats, among them the onetime Young Socialist Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who would become Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations, and at the Republican convention in 1984 would blow the roof off the building when she said that the post-60s Democrats, in every crisis, would “blame America first.” Kirkpatrick remained so at odds with the domestic approach of the small-government faction that it was only years later that she became a Republican. Reagan did not seem to mind.

Everything Reagan became while he was president came into focus during the first two years of the Carter administration. He defined and remade the conservative movement, made himself into the voice of that movement, and then made himself into the lead opposition to Carter, and to the liberal forces Carter led. Reagan recast the conservative movement from a fringe to a vast, inclusive political presence, and rebuilt the Republican party around it, as a large and a national force. He was optimistic, inclusive, positive, disciplined, and focused on large issues. He was a conservative and a Republican, who understood the two roles of a movement and party, and how the two roles can converge. Charm did not hurt, but he made his case through exposition: He never opposed without proposing an alternative, and he understood that his role was less to attack than to persuade. He understood that the Republican party has no obligation to present the conservative movement with a nominee to its liking, but that the conservative movement has the obligation to lay out its case in so convincing a manner that it persuades most Republicans, most independents, and even some Democrats to follow its banner. This is what Reagan did while in opposition. It is what conservatives could start doing right now.

Read the whole article here…

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/534kmjzd.asp?pg=1

Raising awareness is fine…but then what?

Once people are aware of a problem what are they supposed to do next?

I wrote to a couple of charities suggesting we get some money together and hire Executive Outcomes or Blackwater to go and kill Joseph Kony and the LRA.

They failed to respond to my inquiry.

I am tired of middle-class liberal charities that only aspire to “raise awareness” and follow it up with letters to the newspaper or your local MP or MLA.

The other option is to send over things like bags of corn to Africans living in refugee camps.

You know what?

They don’t need bags of corn…they need their own AK-47’s.

Anyway…check out this article…

An interesting fact about white people is that they firmly believe that all of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.”  Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it.

This belief allows them to feel that sweet self-satisfaction without actually having to solve anything or face any difficult challenges.  Because, the only challenge of raising awareness is people not being aware.  In a worst case scenario, if you fail someone doesn’t know about the problem.  End of story.

What makes this even more appealing for white people is that you can raise “awareness” through expensive dinners, parties, marathons, selling t-shirts, fashion shows, concerts, eating at restaurants and bracelets.  In other words, white people just have to keep doing stuff they like, EXCEPT now they can feel better about making a difference.

Raising awareness is also awesome because once you raise awareness to an acceptable, aribtrary level, you can just back off and say “Bam! did my part.  Now it’s your turn.  Fix it.”

So to summarize – you get all the…

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/23/18-awareness/

Remember this post?

http://canadashrugged.freeblogit.com/2009/04/08/should-the-us-just-nuke-north-korea/

In case you are in a rush, I suggested that nuking North Korea’s capital would possibly be a not so terrible idea.

I understand the horror and destruction, but in the long run the people of North Korea…and now the world…would probably be better off.

Seems interesting that 4 months after Barack (Jimmy Carter) Obama takes office, North Korea suddenly starts firing missles over Japan and testing nukes.

After all…who’s going to stop him?

Barack Obama?

Um…..yeah…

Here’s the link to the BBC story about the nuke test…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8066615.stm

Joesph Kony is a cult leader/terrorist in Northern Uganda.

Here is a quick bio…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

Obviously a pyscho and in need of a good George Bush style lynching.

Last year a joint operation was launched to destroy Kony and the LRA once and for all.

It failed.

Now the U.S. is planning to assist a sequel…and the question is of course…will Obama have the balls?

http://www.sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=7&newsCategoryId=123&newsId=682303

So I just saw Terminator Salvation tonight. The theatre was about half full as it was downtown and Thursday and a late show.

The movie was really good.

The audience…not so much.

Now, I should know better, but I like to give humanity the benefit of the doubt.

It was a late show on the first weekend of a huge movie…downtown.

96% of the crowd was fine. The other 4%, (as with most of society) was deserving of death.

Why do these fucktards come out in groups, high and/or drunk and think everyone is just itching to hear their not so hilarious comments throughout the movie?

An emotional scene? Make a fart noise.

An explosion? Say Boom.

An innocent victim gets killed by a bad guy? Laugh hysterically.

These fucktards seem to think people like their act!?!

People hate it.

Nobody wants to be the one to yell, “Shut Up!” of course…cause this is Canada and that wouldn’t be nice. Being nice is super important, even in the face of those who aren’t nice.

Also, it ruins the dynamic of watching the movie, because the confrontation takes the place of the entertainment. Even if the “shut up” works…it kind of spoils the mood.

Nevertheless…the ass wipes in our theatre were told to shut up…twice.

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I sometimes notice that leftists complain about the United States having a high incarceration rate. Roughly 1 in every 50 people (as per population overall) is in jail in the United States.

They talk about this stat as though it indicates a failure on society’s part. How can a civilized society jail so many of their citizens?!?

The truth is…that number is probably not high enough. I think Canada would probably be a better place if 3-4% of our population was in jail for whatever it is they’re doing and not in jail now for.

It would be better for them and better for us.

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Back to the theatre…

This officially marks the last time I intend to ever watch a movie during early release.

I am a fan of movies and I get caught up in the hype of a new release.

For a movie like Terminator I was eager to see the future war story that fans have been thinking about since ‘84.

In retrospect I should have just waited until July to watch it in Regina.

The movie would be the same and you could hit a matinee with five people in the theatre. Same price. Better quality.

That’s the plan from now on.

I can wait.

And if you haven’t seen Terminator Salvation yet…don’t!

Wait until July to go…it’s a lot of fun!

Thanks Link!

The Sask Party can now establish itself as the natural governing party of Saskatchewan.

No more waiting for the next election for the socialists to undo everything and send Saskatchewan back in time every other decade…

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/05/14/ndp-applications.html

The controversy will continue for a long time and the “anybody but Link” faction will surely not be satisfied with the outcome should he win.

A divided, broke, NDP with a non-existent Liberal party and a burgeoning Green Party will surely keep Brad Wall in power for the next dozen years or so….just what the province needs to firmly overcome the poison of the NDP culture.

No longer will the United States dollar play middle man between Brazil’s lumber and China’s housing.

Now if China wants to order an Embraer plane from Brazil they will pay in Chinese currency. (Renminbi)

If Brazil wants to order in a million Chia pets from China, they order will be paid for in Brazillian currency. (Reals)

Goodbye U.S. dollar as world reserve currency. You are now one of many. This is a good thing for you AND the world. Don’t sweat it.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/996b1af8-43ce-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html

Well…It’s been about 8 months since VI day.

(That’s Victory in Iraq day for those outside the know)

VI day was sponsored by the blogosphere since we all know that the mainstream media would simply never approve of such a thing. They still like to frame the Iraq war like the Vietnam war…sigh…

Their loss…

From this article, http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D989DULG5&show_article=1 we learn that a new craze in Baghdad is fitness clubs.

Looks like the men in Iraq would rather do crunches and chin-ups than fight the imperialists.

Check out this piece from the article…

Ali Abbas, 31, who owns the Dragon Gym, says his business is up by about 80 percent since 2003.

“It’s a fad,” he said. “So many people now want to work out. They want to look good.”

On the walls of Abbas’ gym—the size of a volleyball court on the first floor of a dusty, six-story building—hang some two dozen pictures of himself posing in a tiny swimsuit during a body building contest in Arizona in March.

Across the road from the Dragon—whose typo-riddled street sign reads: “The Dragin G.Y.M. for Body Building and Fituess”—is the Hummer, which opened only last month.

Hummer manager Zaid Mohammed said he was forced to offer customers lower rates to stay competitive.

“Working out is a fad now, but the business of gyms could soon level off and the weaker ones will close,” said Mohammed, a body builder who sports tattoos on both of his bulging shoulders.

Sabah Taleb runs one of the city’s older gyms—The Arnold Classic—named after boyhood hero Schwarzenegger. No fewer than 140 pictures of the California governor from his body building days adorn the walls of Taleb’s gym, by his own count.

Not only is one guys business growing at 80%,(This after he competes in Arizona!) but the most popular gym is called The Arnold Classic.

Yeah…named after this Arnold…

Congratulations to the Sri Lankan government for finally having the balls to crush terror in their country…

And look who gets the props!?!!!

That this seemingly endless war has come to such an explosive and complete end is a reflection of the way the world has changed in the past few years.

When Mr. Rajapaksa came to power at the end of 2005, he began speaking of the struggle between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese-speaking majority and militants from its Tamil-speaking minority using a new language adapted from the struggles against al-Qaeda in Washington and London. He enlisted the help of then-U.S.-president George W. Bush, who listed the Tamil Tigers as a part of the global terrorist threat.

Suddenly, this long-running civil war was part of the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” At the same time, the ethnic breakaway state, that bloody staple of 20th-century politics, was losing its appeal in international circles.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090517.wsrilankamain18/BNStory/Front

Imagine the dying days of WW2. Top Nazi officials see the writing on the wall. Nazi Germany’s Third Reich is going to fall…

What do they do?

Begin planning the Fourth Reich of course.

The three-page, closely typed report, marked ‘Secret’, copied to British officials and sent by air pouch to Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State, detailed how the industrialists were to work with the Nazi Party to rebuild Germany’s economy by sending money through Switzerland.

They would set up a network of secret front companies abroad. They would wait until conditions were right. And then they would take over Germany again.

The industrialists included representatives of Volkswagen, Krupp and Messerschmitt. Officials from the Navy and Ministry of Armaments were also at the meeting and, with incredible foresight, they decided together that the Fourth German Reich, unlike its predecessor, would be an economic rather than a military empire – but not just German.

The Red House Report, which was unearthed from US intelligence files, was the inspiration for my thriller The Budapest Protocol.

The book opens in 1944 as the Red Army advances on the besieged city, then jumps to the present day, during the election campaign for the first president of Europe. The European Union superstate is revealed as a front for a sinister conspiracy, one rooted in the last days of the Second World War.

But as I researched and wrote the novel, I realised that some of the Red House Report had become fact.

Nazi Germany did export massive amounts of capital through neutral countries. German businesses did set up a network of front companies abroad. The German economy did soon recover after 1945.

The Third Reich was defeated militarily, but powerful Nazi-era bankers, industrialists and civil servants, reborn as democrats, soon prospered in the new West Germany. There they worked for a new cause: European economic and political integration…

How true is this report?

Not sure…but it doesn’t sound impossible does it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179902/Revealed-The-secret-report-shows-Nazis-planned-Fourth-Reich–EU.html

Link with some advice from Rush…

http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/05/rush_to_heritage_presidents_cl.php

This is in honour of all the Bilderberg folks meeting in Greece right now…

This week Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (www.gata.org), will be in London, England.  Their trip is part of GATA’s ongoing effort to raise awareness of the gold cartel and its surreptitious intervention in the gold market.

Bill and Chris will meet with the British media to explain GATA’s findings.  They will also attend an important fund raising event being held in support of GATA’s work.    Their trip is another important step by GATA aimed at creating a free market in gold, one which is unfettered by government intervention.

Governments want a low gold price to make national currencies look good.  Gold is recognizable the world over as the ‘canary in the coalmine’ when it comes to money.  A rising gold price blurts the unpleasant truth that a national currency is being poorly managed and that its purchasing power is being inflated. 

This reality is made clear by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker.  Commenting in his memoirs about the soaring gold price in the years immediately following the end of the gold standard in 1971, he notes: “Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake.”  It was a mistake because a rising gold price undermines the thin reed upon which all fiat currency rests – confidence.  But it was a mistake only from the perspective of a central banker, which is of course at odds with anyone who believes in free markets.

The US government has learned from experience and taken Volcker’s advice.  Given the US dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, the US government…

http://news.goldseek.com/JamesTurk/1241449200.php

British Columbia lucked out tonight.

If it wasn’t for the Green Party we could very well be looking at a NDP majority!

Thanks Green Party!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090513.wbcelxnearly0512/BNStory/Front/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail

Africa is big and teeming with natural resources.

It is ideally located to trade with…well…everyone!

It has a population of roughly 900 million people!

So what’s the problem?

First check out this map to just imagine the opportunity in Africa…

I’ll finish this post later…check back soon…

http://bp0.blogger.com/_vl82uG2c1XE/R4BWmsbYVYI/AAAAAAAAAdw/uR9LCNm6KJ4/s1600-h/AfricaSize.jpg - courtesy

Osama bin Laden took credit for destroying the Soviet Union. His rational was that the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and by 1989 the Berlin Wall fell down.

By 1991, the Soviet Union ended. Bled dry by the war and demoralized by failure.

Islam was triumphant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

(This is the bin Laden view)

He then turned his sites to the U.S.A. Thinking that it was the weaker enemy of the two.

In the 90’s and early 2000’s he committed terrorist attack after terrorist attack.

Here’s two of the most famous…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_U.S._embassy_bombings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing

Then of course…9-11.

Bush rallied the people and conquered Iraq and destroyed the Taliban…but…but…

Look at the state of the United States today.

Many people want the recession to end and ‘normal’ to return, but some think it is different this time.

One of the big differences is debt.

Massive debt.

Historical levels of debt.

Fundamentally this is what is different.

After 40 years of fiat policy, massive debt, massive deficit, declining demographics, bloated welfate state spending, rising Godlessness, demoralized culture, thin-stretched military and government and corporate corruption…9-11 may go down in history as the domino that was finally pushed over.

Now the U.S. has socialist Obama spending more money that Bush ever dreamed of and Americans have “Hope” for solutions.

I’m not making a call on this either way, because the resilience and decency of the common American still serves as a backbone for the culture and success of the country, but I suspect we are definitely at a point in history where Osama is going to be judged one way or another.

He was a student of economics and rejects both democracy and socialism as political systems. He believes in Sharia only.

Was his plan a lot larger than simply taking out a few buildings?

Will 2109 view Osama as Americans now view George Washington?

You tell me. 

The secret society that everyone loves to hate…(they’re Nazi’s! they’re New World Order types! etc.etc.)

…meets on May 14th.

Watch the markets after the 17th when the meeting ends.

From the article:

The future of the US dollar and US economy: The plan is for the Bilderberg Group players, through their allies in Washington and Wall Street to continue to deceive millions of savers and investors who believe the hype about the supposed up-turn in the economy. They are about to be set up for massive losses and searing financial pain in the months ahead. The bank “stress tests” now being conducted by Washington are little more than a shameless hoax: Based on the irrational assumption that the economy won’t get as bad as it already is!

One prediction floating around out there is that the discussions will revolve around whether to make this recession long and gradual or short and painful.

With the outcome being more control for them of course.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10854

Canada ADDED jobs in April.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090508/business/cbusiness_us_economy_jobs

The U.S. lost another half million jobs, but that was the lowest loss since October.

Remember this post?

http://canadashrugged.freeblogit.com/2009/04/19/i-predict-unemployment-in-us-and-canada-will-stop-rising-by-july

I’m standing by my prediction!!!

7 minutes and 48 seconds that are worth the investment…

Remember this picture?

http://www.prolifeamerica.com/4d-ultrasound-pictures/images/MichaelClancyPhoto.jpg - courtesy pic.

This was a photograph that was taken during surgery on this 21-week old baby.

During the surgery he grabbed the finger of the surgeon and the picture became an icon for the pro-life movement.

Today, that baby is a 10 year old boy…

Samual Armas proudly displays his swimming ribbons.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519181,00.html