Archive for February, 2010
Danny Williams and the case of outrageous hypocrisy
“My Heart, My Choice”
These were the words he chose to describe his trip to the United States for surgery…
Shocking.
Why are politicians against the sorts of reforms that could make Canada’s system better? They obviously make those choices when the option is available to them by flying to the U.S.
Why not provide those options in Canada?
Look at how his actions are being perceived in the U.S.
Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list of Canadians who have decided that they prefer American medicine to their own country’s government-run health system when their lives are on the line.
But just as American hospitals are becoming popular vacation destinations for about 40,000 Canadians a year, California’s Senate is pressing ahead with its effort to make the state’s health care system more like the one in the Great White North. The Senate recently approved a bill sponsored by Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would install a government-run, single-payer health system in the Golden State. The Assembly will soon consider the measure.
Lawmakers should take Williams’ case to heart….
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/24/EDVV1C6HTS.DTL
Prorogue
Dalton McGuinty, the Premier of Ontario has prorogued the legislature.
Did you know that?
It hasn’t been mentioned much, so I would guess the answer is no.
But why?
Why aren’t people in Ontario up in arms about this afront to democracy?
Here’s a great article showing Canada’s left wing media bias….
Take 2003, for example. During the year, there were 84 articles that referred to “prorogue.”
That was the year that Jean Chrétien prorogued Parliament for two months in mid-November. Speculation had it that he did so to avoid having to sit alongside Paul Martin in the House of Commons, since Martin was to be acclaimed new party leader in November. And of course it’s possible that he wanted to avoid taking the increasing flak from the sponsorship scandal. Also, the 84 articles included several references to Ontario’s legislature, which also was prorogued in 2003.
Now let’s look at 2010. In the month of January, there were 242 articles about prorogation in our mainstream media.
From Jan. 1 to 26, the Globe and Mail published 34 separate articles on prorogation in its print edition. (Think Douglas firs.) I didn’t bother to count the number of online articles, which would include their perpetually outraged bloggers.
On Jan. 31, the entire two hours of CBC radio’s Cross Country Checkup was given over to prorogation. CBC’s The House also dealt at length with it.
Speaking of CBC’s The House, on Jan. 23 it featured Iggy’s sidekick, Bob Rae, singing Just Prorogue to the Beatles tune, Let It Be. But don’t worry if you missed it. You can also catch him on the Maclean’s website. Rae is quoted as saying that Stephen Harper “made a terrible decision.”
He should know. During his brief stint as Ontario premier, he prorogued the Ontario legislature three times, for four months at a whack.
On Jan. 13, Tom Walkom of the Toronto Star called it a crisis of governance. There were 33 prorogue references in the month of January in the Toronto Star.
To his credit, Walkom also mentions the 2003 Chrétien prorogue, and admits that the PM did it for political reasons. He writes that “Curiously, even though his (Chrétien’s) motive was seen to be as self-serving as Harper’s, Chrétien’s actions caused much less uproar.”
Curious indeed. Hello? Nobody was alerted to any crisis of governance or democratic deficit or constitutional crisis in 2003. It was merely reported as an adjournment of Parliament.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/prorogue-coverage-appears-biased-this-time-84096517.html
No commentsStill no Jobs….
Jobs numbers came out today.
More losses.
But the media is spinning this as positive because the unemployment number is down.
Why is the unemployment number down while the jobless numbers are up?
Because people have given up looking for work and are no longer counted in the unemployment stats.
….um…
Hurray!!!
The recession is over!!!!
No commentsU.S. Debt to GDP worst ever…
Total U.S. debt versus GDP is the worst it has ever been…
check out this link…
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA8QmxrSIpk/S2c8lAaVLeI/AAAAAAAAAR0/_nDiBr-Zl1I/s1600-h/USdebttoGDP2009
No commentsIgnatieff wants mass abortion in non-white poor countries!!
Stephen Harper wants to help poor women and children around the world. He wants it to be a G8 goal.
Fantastic, but fraught with problems.
Nevertheless, it’s better than farting around with Global Warming or some kind of Communist intiative involving taxes or tariffs.
What is Iggy’s response?
He desperately wants mass abortion included in the provisions for fighting poverty. Mass abortion for non-white poor women. Mass abortion to prevent poor non-white babies from coming into the world.
The Liberal solution to poverty is to kill the poor.
Sad part is…he wasn’t pulling a Jonathan Swift…he was serious and attempting to score political points.
I am interested to see how the Tories will respond to this…since even some pro-Liberals in Iggy’s own party are disgusted.
Here’s the link…http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/759427–include-aid-for-abortions-ignatieff-says?bn=1
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