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I Think I Hit A Nerve With The Pencil Commentary

Mulder

I think I must have hit a nerve at Kinchblog and where’d that bug go blogs with my forced pencil sharing commentary. At least jeff at bug agrees with me that school items that are needed for the curriculum should be funded by tax payers.

As I commented on jeff’s blog:

Thanks for agreeing with SOME of my post. I want to clarify that I am all for our education system buying everything until 9th grade. That’s the way it was when I was in school, and I think it should continue.

I don’t like the fact that teachers FORCE the kids to do it. As I mentioned, my daughter does know well enough to share when it’s needed. But it isn’t the teachers place to force it. Sharing comes from the heart, not from a whip.

But thanks for trying to paint me as a tyrant. I’ll remember that (and laugh) when I give to the food bank or donate to the Canadian Cancer Society, or walk door to door with my daughter to raise money for gymnastics equipment for children who can’t afford it as I do yearly.

Did I mention sharing comes from the heart and not from a whip?

I have no clue what changed, but I do know that everything was paid for until I started 9th grade. At that point I remember going with my friends to Grand And Toy and getting our school supplies, binders, paper, etc. It was a big day getting out there on my own to buy supplies. Text books were still supplied by the school at that point and I didn’t have to buy a text until grade 13 (in Ontario) and again in all my post secondary endeavours.

Funny, that when I was in university I gave my old texts back to the school for less fortunate kids instead of selling them.

Ohh….did I mention that sharing comes from the heart and not from a whip??

Is Forced Sharing Communism?

Mulder

Yesterday at the dinner table, my wife was talking to Cookie about pencils. Cookie, my 10 year old daughter, commented that they don’t have their own pencils at school.

This made me perk my ears up a bit to listen closer.

She then proceeded to explain that in her class they have a box where they all put their pencils at the beginning of the year and when you need a pencil, you can just go up and get one from the box.

I distinctly remember pencils being on the school supply list which we, as parents, were asked to supply our children with at the beginning of the year. Now I am all for the school offering up a solution which has every student put ONE pencil into a community box which they can “borrow” from for a day when they forget their own. But for the whole class to lump ALL of their pencils into one community pile which the children draw from is not sharing. It’s communism.

Am I being paranoid? A few years ago, I remember that the kids had “1 Box of Facial Tissues” on their school supply list and the teacher took them all on the first day and kept one box on her desk the whole year for kids who needed them. What happened to parents who either kept their sick kids home or sent them to school with a pocketfull of tissues when they were sick?

I distinctly remember things like pencils and tissues and art supplies being paid for by the school when I was a child. Now we are not only forced to send supplies with our kids, but the school is forcing the children to share. Cookie knows well enough to let a friend borrow a pencil if they forgot one, but this classroom communism is pushing my limits a bit.

Someone tell me I am wrong (with a valid argument please!!)

Movie Entertainment Magazine Goes Political

Mulder

In the October issue of Movie Entertainment, the magazine sent to pay TV subscribers, Gordon McCall gets all political about the Conservative plan to cut funding to the Canada Council for the Arts.

In true spirit of the Brothers Grimm, and in his apparent quest to make us all things American, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority government seems prepared to put an end to the Maple Leaf model of government funding for the performaing arts.

Maple Leaf model?? More like socialist model. Where do you get off with such preposterous rubbish? The American model is truly successful because a) they have big name talent b) they let the market dictate what is successful and what is not and c) they don’t suck money out of government programs to make dog movies.

These folks wonk around in their tuxedos on tax payer dollars like it was theirs to spend. Why don’t they take some pride in their work and put out a movie that is entertaining. Or even better, why not learn to market a movie that actually may have some legs instead of pumping out ridiculous junk with the millions in funding that the Liberals were going to give them?

Professional theatres are dependent on the small current government subsidy to, in some cases, simply stay afloat and, in others, to keep ticket prices in line with audience expectations.”

What the heck is that? $50 Million isn’t enough for you? Did you ever think that if ticket prices were at a level equal to the value of what the theatre was showing that the market would dictate whether or not the show should go on?? If enough flops start showing up then the person selecting plays or movies for that theatre doesn’t DESERVE to get paid. Like the real world, they should get fired. What gives you the right to keep asking for more money to keep opening more theatres so that more and more Canadians can be dependent on tax dollars for a living? Get stuffed.

You know Canada’s entertainment business would die without sucking money out of the public coffers. And why is that Mr. McCall? Is it because most of the movies made in Canada are crap that would never have seen the light of day were it not for the money you leech off of people with real jobs that are productive to society?

Why don’t you take a page out of the book of good solid comedic TV like Corner Gas. The advertisers pay more for that one because it is a solid winner. It deserves to make money and be successful because it’s good. Not because it’s supported by a socialist attitude.

So when you get on your political soapbox to get the average “sitting at home on the sofa” citizen to listen to you mangle the Prime Minister for saving our tax dollars, think about all the people who’s taxes paid for that tuxedo you sport at the film festivals and how most of them don’t even own a tux.

Caribou Boo By The NDP

Mulder

I think Ann Coulter is rubbing off on me. While reading one of her books I distinctly remember that the caribou populations in Alaska were growing dramatically and that they frolic next to the oil pipelines and that the warmth from the pipelines may actually make them frisky.

So while watching my recording of Question Period today, hearing Dennis Bevington, NDP MP from the Northwest Territories state that the caribou is a way of life to the north and that their way of life is disappearing.

I think what Mr. Bevington really dislikes is the fact that big oil brings big money and jobs and a cash based economy to his riding. This is a major threat to him since there is no way for the government to tax caribou. Once northerners start making money and getting taxed, they may not be so apt to vote NDP.

Keep lying to your constituents and the rest of Canada Mr. Bevington. Some of out here know the truth about the caribou.

If you can’t see the video by clicking once on the image above, try clicking on the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STAiJs38lYw

Liberal Vixens

Mulder

If you go to google’s online translator and plug in the word “Volpe” and have it translate from Italian to English, it spits out the word “Vixen”.

If you then go to Dictionary.com and plug in the word “Vixen” you get the definition:

1. a female fox.
2. an ill-tempered or quarrelsome woman.

Considering Joe is fighting on despite having signed up dead people and having taken donations from teenagers, we know he is quarrelsome. Considering he is a wiley politician who decided to play the ethnicity card by screaming “It’s because I am Italian” when he got caught signing up the dead people, I would consider him as sly as a fox.

In other news, on Mike Duffy Live tonight Belinda Stronach politicianed her way around the question on whether or not she and Tie Domi are/were having an affair that ruined his marriage. She made a point to comment that the allegations were exactly that, but then she said it would not be prudent for her to comment on a case that was before the courts. (meaning Tie Domi’s divorce battle with his wife).

All I can say is that if Stronach had not had an affair, she would most certainly have been denying it.

Belinda seems to be more of a vixen than Volpe!

Why We Need To Teach Geography Better Than We Do

Mulder

Today I had the opportunity to work for three or so hours at a booth for the riding association that promotes our Minister of Defence at a local fair. We had our literature and maple leaf pins and little Canada flags out which are a hit with the kids, but we also had a few big art books out for people to write a message to the troops which our Minister of Defence would take with him the next time he gets to Afghanistan.

I was doing my part in asking anyone who came over if they wanted to write a note to the troops and what amazed me was that I had so many parents turn to their kids and say “Do you want to right a note to the army in Iraq?”

Each and every time I made it very clear to the children (and parents) that we have no troops in Iraq but that our troops were in Afghanistan in support of a UN sanctioned mission with troops from dozens of other nations and that we were helping them stay safe so little girls and boys could go to school and learn to read and write. I tried to do this as cordially as I could so as not to offend the parents but to help them subtly understand the difference.
I was just amazed at how the moonbat brainwash machine has done it’s job in seeding the concept that Iraq and Afghanistan are one in the same.

Rex Murphy Slams Conspiracy Theorists

Mulder

I was very pleased tonight to witness a commentary on the National by Rex Murphy slamming the whack jobs who think the 9/11 attacks were planned and plotted by the US Government. Murphy seemed legitimately ticked off that people would feel this way. I applaud him because I have felt this way since the first time I heard people thought George Bush planned the attacks.

The commentary is timely considering over a quarter of youth today feel that the attacks were planned by someone other than the terrorists. The number is shocking. Over one in four youth today feel that the government would simply sacrifice thousands of lives and millions if not billions in market capital, construction costs, clean up costs, retribution costs for lost lives, etc.
I haven’t seen a link to Rex’s commentary tonight but hopefully the link above takes you to it in a day or two.

Good on you Rex.

Lunatic Fringe – The NDP And Their Hatred Of George Bush

Mulder

After blogging the single motion session of the NDP national convention Saturday morning from my cushy seat in front of CPAC, I started recording until my harddrive was jammed up (and violently ill from) NDP national convention footage. My only regret was not getting a copy of the “First nine times I saw George Bush’s name come up“.

But thanks to the suggestion from my friend Alan, I started putting a collage together. He also suggested the background music which I thought was incredibly fitting. (You can go read the lyrics of the tune here).

If you enjoyed “The NDP Surfin’ on Heroin” and “Hit The Road Jack“, then you should really enjoy this one. I think it is the piece de resistance, or more aptly put, the piece de resistance de guerre. Here is Lunatic Fringe-A tribute to the NDP.

Enjoy, because after this, I need a break and some relaxation…which I will get by bashing a few Liberals around.

p.s. don’t forget to rate it at youtube if you have the time.

If you can’t view the video above, try clicking here.

NDP Support Surfin' On Heroin

Mulder

I love playing with Windows Movie Maker. Below is a video I made from a clip taken from the CPAC coverage of the NDP policy convention in Quebec City this weekend. Jim Green pointed out that his wife worked for the organization that created the safe injection clinic (in fact she was the president) and his daughter works for them. Talk about a biased opinion of safe injection.

I took the liberty of adding some commentary, some smokin’ music … errr … some shootin’ up music by a Canadian band called the Forgotten Rebels and uploaded to youtube.

Enjoy.

If you cannot see it embedded above try clicking here