Politics-Federal

Thanks Ontario Teachers For Making Our Kids More Stupid

Mulder

Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation voted to reduce the number of annual report cards from three to two.

Am I the only one who sees a problem here?

I wonder what my boss would do if me and the other sales guys said we were going to cut our customer visits by 33%. I’ll tell you what they would do. They would fire all our asses.

Once again, the honest taxpayer is getting OfficiallyScrewed.

My wife pays very close attention to the homework the kids are assigned and we work hard to strengthen their basic reading, writing, and math schools.

But how many parents rely on the report cards to determine how their kids are doing? How many kids are going to find the halfway point too late in the year to pull their bootstraps up?

I’m pretty upset at this. How could teachers have possibly gotten by for decades doing three report cards and all of a sudden it is too much?

Perhaps if the schools stopped teaching left wing politics and stopped giving lessons to grade schoolers on how to put a condom on and focussed on the three R’s and the report cards, the world would work just fine and dandy.

Having Your Cake And Eating It Too

Mulder

Ghosts of Mr. Dithers…

When the Lebanese Canadian evacuation wasn’t to the liking of left leaning Canadians, they criticized and said a slowdown was because the Prime Minister’s office was calling every shot.

When rumour got out that MPs were told to run all press releases/statements through the Prime Minister’s Office, the press and leftists fried PM Harper for being too controlling.

Yet….

When Harper doesn’t show up at the Outgames, instead letting his Montreal based Cabinet Minister have the honours he gets sacked for not taking part.

And once again, after letting his Health Minister, Tony Clement, ably handle the responsibility of attending the International AIDS Conference, the Prime Minister takes a beating from the press and the lefties for not attending.

For all you moonbats, what’s it going to be? Do you want his hands in the cake or do you want him to let his team of chef’s do the baking?

Make up your freaking minds already.

PM Paul Martin A Shitty Tipper?

Mulder

Talk about a crazy websurf.

I start off reading Steve Janke’s article about a holocaust cartoon contest put on by an Iranian newspaper.

While looking at the list of submitters I see the name Aaron Heineman.

Being a fan of Discover Channel’s Mythbusters starring Jamie Hyneman (I was never sure how he spelled his name), I google the name Aaron Heineman and find myself at a website called “Kiss My Bitter Ass” that has a poor tipper database.

Seeing a couple of celebrities like Chris Rock, Kirsten Dunst and Ted Knight on the list, I start surfing the database for shits and giggles and poof, Paul Martin’s name shows up.

The Shitty Tipper Database!
Tipper’s Name: Paul Martin
Where it happened: Ottawa
Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $1556.22 / $0.00 / 0%
What happened:
Former PM and some buddies came in and proceeded to get drunk and loud. I got moved to their table because they were harassing the poor server that had them to the point she was almost in tears.In the end they paid their tab and left a ZERO tip. Even after I ran between their section and my own and made sure they had everything they wanted.I guess when you’re not spending the taxpayers dollars its hard to be generous.Bastard Politicians.

Why do I have a feeling if he was still Prime Minister the tip would have been a heck of a lot bigger?

Disclaimer: The information above is part of a user submitted info database like wikipedia so I take no credit for the accuracy of the tip information or the validity of the statements on the bitterwaitress.com website.

Ex-Liberal Ann Cools Disagrees With Harper and MSM Calls It Dissent. Are They High?

Mulder

Can I have some of what they’re smoking?

The Daily Herald Tribune is calling Ann Cools’ disagreement on the Tory position in the Middle East “dissension in the ranks”. I would hardly call an ex-Liberal, red Tory disagreeing with the PM “dissent”.
From her own website:

Anne Clare Cools is a Senator from Ontario. In 1984 His Excellency Governor-General Edward Schreyer summoned her to the Senate on the advice of Rt. Hon. Pierre E. Trudeau. Her appointment to the Senate continued a long career of community organization and social services in the field of family violence and family conflict. As of June 8th 2004, Senator Cools is a Conservative Senator from Ontario.

So

a) she was summoned to the senate on the advice of Pierre “La Communiste” Trudeau.

b) she has a long career of community organization and social service, things that are usually championed by the left.

Let’s look closer at her profile:

Senator Cools’ representation in the community and her involvement with the Liberal Party of Canada is long standing. She was the federal Liberal candidate in the Federal General Elections of 1979 and 1980 in Toronto’s Rosedale Riding. She was also Vice-Chair of the Greater Toronto Liberal Caucus in 1993, 1994 and 1995.

So how did Ann Cools become a Conservative? She did not want to be tied to the Adscam Liberals and the Gun Registry boondoggle. She was fed up with the graft, etc. It had absolutely nothing to do with her political views on foreign policy. Make no mistake about Ann Cools. She is as red a Tory as you can find in Canada.

Senator Anne Cools announced today that she will no longer be sitting as a Liberal senator and will be joining the Conservative caucus in the Senate. Senator Cools described her decision as being driven by her inability to defend repeated Liberal spending scandals, particularly the billions wasted on the sponsorship scandal and the billions on the gun registry.”I can no longer defend the Liberal record. Like so many Canadians, I had been hopeful that Mr. Martin would initiate a new era, a genesis and renewal in the Liberal government. I had hoped for an affirmation of responsible government, diligent stewardship of public moneys and renewed leadership, accountable to elected members and the public, not its paid advisors,” said Senator Cools. “But we have seen the opposite. We now know that Mr. Martin’s promised review of the gun registry was posturing and optics.”

Senator Cools came to her decision after months of contemplation and introspection. Her decision to become a Conservative Senator, rather than an independent, was prompted by her personal respect for Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper. She described Harper as “Canada’s hope for change. He understands that elected members are Parliament’s eyes and ears in our communities. He welcomes Members from all cultures and backgrounds, and has a keen intellect and respects debate.”

(emphasis mine)

So when you see the MSM title an article “Dissension in the ranks Tory senator unhappy with Harper’s Mideast stance” you should really verify which senator they are talking about. I bet Marjorie LeBreton is behind our PM all the way.

Shame on you Daily Herald Tribune.

Smackdown – Raskolnikov Socks It To Six Nations Wind Claimers

Mulder

Land claims, get your red hot land claims here.

Caledonia has been spoken for. Crown land in Ottawa’s Green Belt has been spoken for. And now a windfarm near Shelburne has been spoken for.

The Six Nations Confederacy is interfering with the development of a wind farm on land owned by Canadian Hydro and says both the land and the wind that passes over it are the rightful property of Aboriginal Peoples.

When someone starts claiming the wind that goes over land in a land claim, I have to draw the line. That would be a wind claim and falls under a completely different legal claim.

I am very familiar with wind claims because I eat a lot of broccoli. When I let one rip in the car and my wife and kids start gasping for breath, I don’t hide the fact the air they are breathing is mine. I proudly pipe up (no pun intended) and tell them: “That was me.” Because I am proud of the wind I break.

Natives claiming Mother Nature’s farts are theirs just sounds moronic. What’s next? The gas in tanks under filling stations? The electricity produced at Churchill or Niagara Falls?

Raskolnikov over at DustMyBroom calls the land claimers out with the precision of a veteran lawyer.

If they own the wind, does that mean non-Indians can sue them the next time a big gust takes down a tree and it goes through someone’s roof or car?

I think all those people who own cottages up in Muskoka could probably get back all that money taxpayers put into Indian Affairs after that storm that blew through a week or so ago.

Lebanese Man Looks Gift Horse In The Mouth …

Mulder

… and says it has rotten teeth.

I hate to flog a dead horse, but …

Minutes after receiving his Canadian citizenship, a Lebanese man spoke out against Ottawa’s response to the crisis in the Middle East.

Wadih Farah took his oath of citizenship Wednesday during a ceremony at Halifax’s Pier 21. After repeating his pledges to the country, he said a few words about the country’s handling of the crisis in Lebanon.

“I think they could do a little bit more,” said Farah. “They were a little bit slow to pull people out at the beginning.”

I’m starting to get sick of this kind of complaint. I have no problem with Mr. Farah becoming a Canadian citizen. I have no problem with Mr. Farah saying Canada could be doing a little bit more. But for Mr. Farah to say Canada was a bit slow to pull people out at the beginning? Well frankly I think he is full of shit.

The bottom line is that the only Canadian civilian casualties happened before any foreign nationals were evacuated by any nation. So Mr. Farah, why not tell me and the rest of the citizens in your new found home what a faster reaction from our government would have accomplished? Tell us how many lives it would have saved?

H/T to DustMyBroom

k.d. lang Gets A Spanking She DOESN'T Enjoy

Mulder

Many of you know I am a big fan of John Robson. After today, I am as big a fan of his wife Brigitte Pellerin. I was always a fan when she would do stints on CFRA and today I have added her to my pundit link list.

I know this story is a week old, but just returning from vacation, I am still catching up.

In her story from August 1st, Brigitte does a great job spanking k.d. lang for her comments regarding Stephen Harper not attending the Outgames.

I would like to believe most people in the Western world are tolerant enough of homosexuality to refrain from shouting insults at gays or treating them badly. If they don’t go out of their way to endorse a big pride event (or do endorse it and still get booed off the stage), it doesn’t mean they are intolerant or even disrespectful.

Sometimes we just have other things to do than watch a parade. I wish gay activists could understand that.

It is well worth the read.

This post is also my standing offer to take this great writing couple to dinner sometime.

H.T. to Tory Time

Reuters Picture Booboo Might Be Worse Than First Reported

Mulder

Being away from civilization for a few days and I am still catching up but I noticed something today regarding the doctored images by a Reuters freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj.

“Manipulating photographs in this way is entirely unacceptable and contrary to all the principles consistently held by Reuters throughout its long and distinguished history. It undermines not only our reputation but also the good name of all our photographers,” Szlukovenyi said.

“This doesn’t mean that every one of his 920 photographs in our database was altered. We know that not to be the case from the majority of images we have looked at so far but we need to act swiftly and in a precautionary manner.”

(emphasis mine)

Either the speaker of the above words, Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi, needs to take a few language courses, or he is trying to hide something.

Why would they need to qualify that not EVERY ONE of his 920 photographs in their database was altered?

Why would they say they know this is not the case from the MAJORITY of images looked at so far? Majority implies anything from 1 more than half all the way up to all of the images.

i.e. Tom’s words could easily imply that as many as 459 of the photos taken by Adnan Hajj may be doctored. This is obviously not the case, but why would Reuters not come out and say after a thorough analysis, they found X number of photos were doctored and print a retraction on all the doctored photos?