If The Gay Community Can't Support Itself, Why Should We Pay For Their Parade?

Mulder

The Ottawa Gay Pride Parade is begging for more tax dollars…again. And City Councillor Diane Holmes has her head up her ass on the subject.

Ottawa taxpayers are once again being asked to fork over cash to a community festival pleading poverty.

Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes will introduce a motion at next week’s corporate services and economic development committee asking it to recommend council approve more than $50,000 worth of concessions to the Ottawa-Gatineau Pride Week festival.

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“The gay pride festival is a festival event for the whole community,” said Holmes.

Is this picture from the Pride parade in Toronto the kind for the whole community councillor? Should I bring my 9 year old down to see this?

gay pride toronto

Or how about this one from New York? Would my 13 year old enjoy this one councillor?

gay pride ny

Or maybe this one from San Francisco? Should I invite my daughter’s 9 year old best friend to come along? I wonder if her parents would be happy I exposed her to this?

gay pride SF

Is this the kind of festival for the whole community Ms. Holmes?

Not my community Ms. Holmes. My community is the one that put forward personal and corporate donations to bring back Canada Day celebrations to Kanata. My community is the one that stepped up and donated personal funds to get little Aiden to the USA for the life saving procedures not offered in Canada. My community is the one that gave CFRA money to pay for Sheila Copps referendum out of our own pockets to hold her to her word when she said she would resign if the Liberals failed to get rid of the GST.

If my community wanted this parade, we would show up and give our support and buy products from the vendors and donate to the cause.

But we don’t.

Obviously you must not live in the same community as me or as I mentioned above, you have your head up your ass and are just cowtowing to buy votes for the upcoming election.

Well I say enough is enough. How proud must this group be to continuously beg for our money? If they can’t support themselves, then they don’t deserve a parade paid for by my tax dollars.

If the Gay and Lesbian community can cover their own costs for the parade, then by all means. Go wild. Have a blast. Shut down Somerset Street and have the parade. Just not on the tax payers dime.

Should this motion go through then once again the tax payer is getting Officially Screwed.

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

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Phantom Observer points out all the “ideas” the Liberals claim were stolen from them by the Conservatives.  But as we all know, the intent to bring forward good legislation and good expenditures was shot down when the Liberals spent their wad on Adscam, the gun registry, hotel stays in Cancun via relocation funds, $1000 limo rides, etc.

It’s a pity they didn’t spend some of that money on tax relief, real social programs, support for our military or the environment.  Instead they chose fraud and graft and OfficiallyScrewed us over for 13 years.  And NOW they come grovelling back.

As the title mentions the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and dat der guy from Shawinigan will be taking one smooth ride down in his luxury golfcart one day.

Dalton McGuinty Buys Off Land Developer To Avoid Conflict

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H/T to Jack’s Newswatch for the link below.

In light of this news, the name Dalton McGuinty will never be used on this blog again. Forevermore, the poll on the right side of the page will be used to determine what name the yellow bellied Ontario Premier will be known as.

I am thorougly disgusted at the solution McGuinty has come up with avoid doing what is right. Whether you think the land belongs to the Six Nations or whether you think the police should have gone in and cleaned house is irrelevant. The solution of buying the land developer out with our tax dollars is a disgrace.

On today, tax freedom day, Dalton McGuinty has chosen to slap us all in the face by pushing the day out further into the year.

Officially Screwed … again!!!

Kyoto Schmoto – The Left Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Today I stopped by the corner store to get a plastic bottle. It happened to have some water already in it, but I happen to like the shape and feel of this particular plastic bottle and refill it from the filtered water my refrigerator produces. (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and all that.)The cost of said bottle of water? $2.79 for one liter.

I happened to fill my truck up at a gas station an hour later and what did I pay? Approximately $1.03 for each liter. (Just putting things in perspective).

Considering 97% of green house gases are comprised of water vapour, (yes you heard right), I find it hard to comprehend why the left is begging for Canada to continue with it’s Kyoto commitments. Our planet’s surface is about 70% covered by water. Storms churn in and out on a regular basis spewing water vapour in the air, maintaining the levels of green house gases as the tiny particles float around in the four winds.

I think the left would be better off criticizing Poseidon and Mother Nature instead of beating on big oil.

And in case this doesn’t convince the left to change their target, I would like remind them that whenever they buy anything made of plastic they are supporting big oil because plastic is made from petroleum. Go figure.

The final word?

“Evian spelled backwards is naive”

-Dennis Miller

ADDENDUM:  I posted a few myths about Kyoto back in January and the link is only available via my archives (due to a change in blog software).  For those interested in some really interesting facts about Kyoto and global warming, please have a look.  You will be shocked at some of the information that the lefties aren’t telling you.

I Had No Idea Her Bony Little Arms Had It In Them

Mulder

Yesterday the public schools in Ottawa had their annual competition in various events like sprints, jumping, throwing, etc.  The events are broken out by grade and Cookie happened to qualify as one of the two sent from her school to compete in the Ball Throw.  All 60 lbs of her 4th grade self.

I have seen her hit baseballs with ease, win provincial cheerleading championships, compete for ovre 5 years at rhythmic gymnastics and continually she impresses me with how she simply excels at sports.

So what does she manage to do?  Throw the ball further than any fourth grader in the city of Ottawa.  I couldn’t believe it when she showed me her first place ribbon.  It was as red as the sunburn she got standing in the sun all day.

Nice job cookie.

T-Bone Impressed Us At His Tae Kwon Do Competition

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A week ago, T-Bone took part in two categories of competition at the Ottawa Tae E. Lee Tae Kwon Do Cup held at Algonquin College.

In his patterns he was both crisp and fluid, and barely missed out on a medal.  His shyness, (the reason we got him into Tae Kwon Do), still showed through his body language, but was leaps and bounds better than it was last year where he finished dead last in his belt/age group.

It was a similar result but a completely different story in the sparring.  He came out incredibly strong out attacking his opponent who put up some feeble blocks.  But in a non contact sparring competition, they did count as countermoves which left T-Bone on the short end of the scoring stick.

The better half was right in assessing his skill when she said “He would have kicked the other guy’s ass in a street fight!”  Knowing T-Bone, he wouldn’t get into a street fight, but if he ever had to defend himself, I have to whole-heartedly agree.

The shyness in him is fading as he enters his teen years and if he keeps up the hard work, I know I am going to have a tough time saying no when he asks me for the car keys in a few years!!

For those out there who have a shy, quiet child, with self-confidence issues, I highly urge  you to take advantage of the Conservative tax break on sports registrations and get your kid into Tae Kwon Do.  Not only will it give them self defence they may one day need, but it will bring out the best qualities in your child.  It has done wonders with T-Bone and he has a couple of very proud parents.

OS Bookshelf: The Da Vinci Code (psst … it sucked)

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The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown

By now, half the freaking world knows about this book/movie.Da Vinci Code I just hope half the world feels about it the way I, and Opus Dei, do. It truly sucked. I found myself painfully forcing my way through it each time I sat down to lay some cable. Dan Brown really didn’t do anyone any justice with this one.

It follows the daughter of the curator of the Louvre and an American historian through a pretty unimaginative set of riddles to find the secret of the Holy Grail (which isn’t a chalice but the true writings that would blow Christianity out of the water if revealed).

I feel the best quality the book had was that the chapters were brief enough to make it worthwhile reading on the john, and long enough to provide enough paper to wipe with.

Trudeau Gets A Mountain, But Where Is Diefenbaker's??

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After reading Syncrodox Sez’s article about the naming of a mountain after the Rt. Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau, I took it up on myself to do a bit of research on the naming of mountains in Canada after our illustrious leaders.

I did find some interesting facts out though.

1) Wilfred Laurier has 3 (count ’em) mountains named after him.

2) John Diefenbaker has no mountain named after him.

3) Chretien tried having the tallest mountain in Canada named after Trudeau shortly after his death in 2000. The locals around Mount Logan protested hard, and were thankfully, successful in blocking the naming.

4) The average height above sea level of Tory Prime Minister peaks is 3066.25 metres, and the average height above sea level of Grit Prime Minister peaks is 2736.4 metres (when counting all of Laurier’s peaks) and 3004.8 (when counting only Laurier’s tallest peak)

5) The average prominence of Tory Prime Minister peaks is 396.25 metres, and the average prominence of Grit Prime Minister peaks is 825.7 metres (when counting all of Laurier’s peaks) and 812.2 metres (when counting only Laurier’s tallest peak)

A grid showing these features can be seen below (click to enlarge)

I guess the purpose of all this was to point out that I am not upset that Trudeau now has a mountain. But I am now thinking that Diefenbaker deserves a mountain of his own. Why has he been overlooked? Whether or not he was a popular PM, or whether or not he was a long standing PM should also not matter. The man lead our nation and deserves his place in Canadian geographical history with the rest.

Diefenbaker has been Officially Screwed!!

Mugabe Marionnette Stuffs Anglican Pulpits With Puppets

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In addition to the atrocities that have left hundreds of thousands homeless and dying of starvation, Robert Mugabe is now stacking the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe with his henchmen.

I’ve written about Mugabe here and here but the situation is getting worse and worse.

The controversy revolves around Nolbert Kunonga, the Bishop of Harare, who last year became the first Anglican priest in Africa in more than 100 years to face prosecution by his peers. The charges included preaching racial hatred.

Since his appointment in 2001 Kunonga has consistently used his pulpit at St Mary’s Cathedral to praise Mugabe and decry critics of the regime. As a reward he was given a farm and a seven-bedroomed house overlooking a lake.

Now the 56-year-old bishop has started ordaining government ministers and party officials with no theological training, including Joseph Msika, the vice-president.

Any priest who dares to speak out finds himself transferred to a remote parish and intimidated.

This could make Zimbabwe the next Rwanda.

H/T to Jack’s Newswatch