This cartoon is EXACTLY why this site is named what it is.
OfficiallyScrewed by McGuinty
How Dalton McGuinty is Raping and Pillaging Ontario Residents
Here are two simple ways Yellow Bellied McShifty is hitting me in the wallet.
My Enbridge bill showed up. This is for a low month where I used very little natural gas.
My HST on this bill was $25.27.
My Hydro bill showed up. This was for a two month period.
My HST on the electricity was $44.20
My HST on the Delivery, regulatory charges, etc. was $28.18
My Debt Retirement Charge was $30.00
Divide these by two (for a one month average) and you get $51.19
The total of my monthly HST and debt retirement charge is $76.46. The debt retirement charge was supposed to be all paid off in 2012. But McGuinty has extended it for SIX YEARS to 2018 as I have told you all before. He is RAPING our wallets.
Extrapolate to a 12 month year and the money that I will save if Hudak knocks that lying McGuinty out of office is $917.52. Tim Hudak and the PC Party has said they will eliminate the HST on electricity and natural gas bills as well as eliminate the debt retirement charge.
What could YOU do with an additional $900 in your wallet every year?
On October 6th, vote for Tim Hudak.
RIP Jack Layton – NDP Leader
I disagreed with his politics. I cringed when he put on that smug smile. His left wing soundbites were like finger nails on the chalkboard to my ears. He reminded me of a used car salesman…or even worse, the guy from the Computer learning CD commercials who would say “Please try my products.” But he sure made politics interesting.
He carried the NDP to heights only he could take them to. His recent success helped to dismantle the Liberals by giving Canadians two choices. Conservative or NDP. Capitalist or Socialist. The creation of the great divide has served my chosen party well and, I believe, it will continue to moving forward so for that I am grateful to him.
He was a darn good adversary. If he fought cancer as hard as he fought for his political beliefs, he sure gave it his all. Cancer also took my father and one of my best friends way too early in their lives. My sympathies go out not only to Olivia and his family. But they go out to all members of the NDP as today is a day they are all in mourning. And even though I disagreed with his politics, his death has saddened me along with many other conservatives.
RIP Jack Layton. I hope CTV doesn’t mind me sharing a clip that I put up on my blog a few years ago. The lighter side of the man. Hopefully he has his guitar with him in heaven.
Society: Humane? Or Ass-Backwards?
Today while listening to CFRA, I heard that the Humane Society is warning about the dangers of leaving pets in cars during the heat of summer. Great. No objection here.
They also said that they have received over 100 complaints so far of people leaving pets in cars this summer season. Wonderful. I am glad people are observant and willing to make a call to help save a family pet.
Then they said that anyone caught leaving their pet in a car with the heat going will be charged. And they even said fines can range from $500 to 2 years in jail.
The agency maintains that if a pet must be rescued from a locked, hot car, charges will be laid against the owner.
Penalties can range up to $500 and a maximum of two years in jail.
The operative word above is “will”. They WILL be charged. Pretty definitive word.
Everything seems hunky dorey to me.
But wait. Did we not just have a case in Ottawa of a couple who left their month old baby in the back seat of a car on a 30 degree Celsius day while they shopped in an air conditioned Home Depot for an hour? And did that couple NOT get charged?
Yup. This most certainly did happen.
Even though they could under the Criminal Code, Ottawa police, unbelievably, are not charging a couple with the stunningly irresponsible act of leaving their infant alone in a vehicle Saturday for almost an hour in a humid, sweltering temperature of 30C while they were shopping at an air-conditioned Home Depot.
How the hell could they not have known better?
Not that first-time parents is any excuse, but they aren’t. They have several children.
How the hell can they not be charged by the police, one of whom saw the infant in the vehicle, broke the window, after which the infant was rushed to hospital by paramedics, and — luckily — found to be in stable condition.
The 30C temperature was outside.
God knows what it was inside the closed-windows vehicle.
The child had no say in the matter.
It was only a month old.
A human being.
This is simply OfficiallyScrewed. This comparison of the way two similar situations are treated with the only difference being the animal is treated like a human and the human is treated like an animal. It sure says something about how “humane” our society really is.
Obama Two Faced On Raising Debt Ceiling
In 2006, he called it “a sign of leadership failure”.
He said it was a “sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay it’s own bills.”
And finally, he voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006 and did not even bother to vote in 2007 or 2008.
But now that he is POTUS, Barack Obama wants to raise the debt ceiling.
Talk about being OfficiallyScrewed!!!
Supporting Link to National Review.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/256199/obama-not-always-fan-upping-debt-ceiling-katrina-trinko
Captain Watertown, AKA Ottawa Councillor Rick Chiarelli Digs Himself A Deeper Hole
First he proposed changing the name of Robertson Rd. siting no objection after some polling of local businesses.
Then when businesses said they were never asked and the petition was started to keep Robertson Rd. as it is, he said he had the blessing of a descendant of Robertson to change the name.
Then when a different descendant came forward, he could not produce his key descendant to give the aok to the name change.
Now Captain Watertown, aka Councillor Rick Chiarelli says that Robertson Rd. will stay Robertson Rd. but an additional section that is Richmond Rd. will also change names.
The problem here is that the section of Richmond Rd. that will become part of Robertson Rd. is at the end of Robertson Rd. that starts with the number 1. This means every business along the existing Robertson Rd. will need to be renumbered.
One of the two main arguments for not changing the name was the fact that addresses would change, businesses would have to rebrand stationary, invoices, cheques, etc and inform dozens, hundreds or even thousands of customers and suppliers of the address changes. What a waste. These businesses are all being Officially Screwed and will have to do this now anyway. The solution to this problem is easy. Leave the street names as is and put up some clear signage indicating the street name change.
I mean, let’s get serious for a minute. The street changes names several times from Stittsville/Kanata all the way to downtown where it goes from Hazeldean to Robertson to Richmond to Wellington to Somerset. It’s been good enough for 100 years, it will be good enough for another 100.
But worse now for Captain Watertown is that Chiarelli must produce the descendant of Robertson or forever be known as a councillor who tried to deceive not only the existing City Council, but every citizen in the city of Ottawa. To not do so will scar his reputation forever.
Happy Birthday Canada!!! Here’s Some Love For Our Nation, Strong and Free!!
This video first made the rounds back in January 2010 but it’s pretty fitting to play today and it explains a lot about who Canadians really are and what we are really like.
Past Speaker Pelosi Takes Cake…Then Claims She Baked It And Gave To American People
I tweeted this but this story just HAS to get out there. It’s simply preposterous what past Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has claimed.
At her final press conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”
The numbers tell a different story.
When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi’s Speakership on December 22, 2010 the national debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 – a roughly $5.2 trillion increase in just four years. Furthermore, the year over year federal deficit has roughly quadrupled during Pelosi’s four years as speaker, from $342 billion in fiscal year 2007 to an estimated $1.6 trillion at the end of fiscal year 2010.
Ya gotta love her moxie though. She claims their priority is deficit reduction yet the deficit under her watch goes up $5.2Trillion.
NOTE: for those following my twitter I tweeted Billion and deleted to retweet Trillion. Oops!!)
New Democrat Wants To Redistribute Wealth
They finally said it.
Rookie NDP MP Dany Morin of Chicoutimi–Le Fjord, while speaking in the house on Wednesday June 22, 2011 admitted that the NDP want to redistribute wealth.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to say to the Conservative member that the NDP supports wealth creation. However, unlike our Conservative colleagues, we support the redistribution of this wealth in society.
We all know this means dipping (no pun intended) into the pocket of those who have and putting into the pocket of those who do not have with a “commission” for the bureaucracy. How big that commission is? Or who decides who is a have or a have not is not up to you but up to the state.
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
The Curse of Michael Buble
I traditionally cheer for any Canadian team in the playoffs.
Not this year. I have been cheering for the Bruins and it is all because of Michael Buble.
I heard he told Canada that the Canucks are NOT Canada’s team and that they are Vancouver’s team and that the rest of Canada can go find their own team.
I found some supporting evidence of this here.
So if…errr….when the Canucks lose in game 7 tonight, I will officially be calling it the Curse of Michael Buble and until he makes room on the bandwagon for any Canadian, the Canucks will NEVER win a cup.
So beware the Curse of Michael Buble.