Content Advisory: If you’re a chick, this will probably just bore the crap out of you. 😛

Just what the hell do I file this under? Yeah, I know it’s got bugger all to do with politics, bitching about Lefties or anything else that I usually put up here but COME ON NOW, this is just too damned cool not to post. I found this over at Celestial Junk today and I just couldn’t believe it the first time I saw it.

Like a lot of other people my age, I remember the shop teacher with the missing fingers. Well, this just might put an end to that. I’m not even going to bother babbling any more about this. Just watch the video…

Now tell me, was that COOL or what??

Well, I finally managed to find Her Majesty’s Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s speech at the 90th anniversary of the assault on Vimy (thanks to Daimnation for finding it first). The footage seems to be via Lowell Green over at CFRA in Ottawa.

Damn good speech and definitely worth taking the time to watch — and that’s coming from a guy that usually finds himself bored to tears by speechs.

Damn. It’s not very often that I trip over something that actually makes me sit down, shut the hell up and think. This is one of those things. This guy’s name is Evan Sayet, he’s described as a “writer, lecturer and pundit,” and this is… well, this is him ripping modern liberalism (big L and little l) a new asshole at a Heritage Foundation function. Not sure where or when this was but I find myslef wishing I could have been there; it looks like I would have enjoyed myself… 😉

I’m not going to go and repeat or even summarize, what all this guy got into, but trust me: this is well worth watching. The whole video is over 45 minutes 😯 so it might take some time to download, expecially on a slow connection like dialup. So, if you are one of those unlucky buggers still stuck in dialup land, my advice is click the vid, pause it as soon as it starts to play, and go grab a coffee or something. Come back when it’s finally downloaded and enjoy it then. Like I said, it’s worth it…

Growing up in a little, slightly more than a wide spot in the road sort of town in Western Ontario meant, amongst other things, lots of community picnics in the summertime. There were always plenty of things for the kids to do at these little shindigs, from sack races, to scavenger hunts, to junior marksmanship, and just about everything in between. But there’s one thing in particular that’s been popping up in my brain lately: the money scramble.

For those of you that haven’t heard of this, it’s just what it sounds like. One unlucky grownup would get to stand in the middle of a pack of wild-eyed kids, jacked up on glucose preteen rocket fuel, with a small sack of change. He would then grab a handful of coins, toss them into the air, and then get the hell out of the way as about 20 kids dove on the nickles and dimes like a pack of starving wolves on a herd of lame deer. So where the heck did this memory pop up from, you ask? It’s simple: there’s a budget coming up.

Actually, if you live in Ontario, there are two budgets coming up and they’re both of the pre-election variety. We all know what that means, don’t we? Yup: we’re about to get bribed with our own money on a massive scale. 🙄 As the Freeps put it this morning:

1 week. 2 budgets. $300B+ in spending.

Oh, joy. First comes the feds today, with what is expected to be a $3-billion grab bag of goodies, which will no doubt have pundits reading the election-speculation entrails for weeks to come. Then, on Thursday, McSquinty and his Fiberals will grab fistfuls of our money and furiously try to scrub our brains with it in the hope that we will somehow forget what a colossal frak-up he’s been over the past few years (health tax, Caledonia, flirting with sharia, yadda yadda yadda).

Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m a little too hungover from Saint Paddy’s day to bother with any of that bullshit right now. So here, for your non-budget-related enjoyment, is a bunch of stuff:

• Ever wonder what it takes to get a first class seat on some airlines? Now you know…
• Sun Media’s Michael Coren shows that he does, in fact, have a sense of humour (and so, apparently, does the Anglican bishop of New Westminster in Greater Vancouver): “Thank God for liberal clergyman. Because if they didn’t exist we would have to make them up.”
• Earl McRae tells us why he wears red on Fridays (as if we couldn’t figure it out).
• Watch UWO’s Salim Mansur take an astronomical pin to the zealotry balloon of the Prophets Of Eco-Doom.

There. That should keep you busy for a bit. Now I’m gonna go and try to get rid of this carpet on my tongue… Guinness, anyone?

Here’s a little something that’s sure to piss the Kult of Kyoto right off. As most of you have likely heard already, Britain’s Channel 4 has recently produced a short (75 minutes without commercials) documentary titled “The Great Global Warming Swindle” which knocks the wheels of the Kyotology bandwagon with all the ruthlessness of a Kyoto Kultist screaming for the head of a global-warming-denying heretic. No doubt the money-grubbing Marxist granola grinders from the errorless echelons of the Exalted EnviroEnlightenment Eggheadocracy® will bromidically bitch and bawl endlessly about what harsh language their critics have begun using. To them I say, “if you can’t take it, quit dishing it out and shut the hell up!”

In the opening seconds, the accusations “The ice is melting, the sea is rising, hurricanes are blowing AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!” flash across the screen, only to be immediately followed by “Scared? Don’t be; it’s not true.” One by one, the errors, delusions and outright lies of the Enviroloony elite are laid bare calmly and in plain English that is conspicuously devoid of the kind of bafflegab that saturates the rhetoric from the other side of the issue.

I’ll have plenty of time to shoot my mouth off on the topic later so, in the meantime, just sit back and enjoy the show.

[If, for some reason, you are unable to play the video in this window, just click this direct link to go directly to the video page and try there.]

A hearty thanks to Channel 4 for this excellent, non-powerpoint-presentation production. Keep up the good work, lads.

Can somebody — hell, anybody; I don’t care who — please explain to me this Canuckleheaded obsession that we seem to have with embracing double standards? Seriously, folks; we’re starting to make ourselves look like we’ve got our heads so far up our butts, we chew our food twice. I know I’ve already given my snarky little 2¢ worth on this and I really, honestly did think that this would just fade into the woodwork like the social slight of hand that it is.

But, nooooooooooooo, that would make too much sense, wouldn’t it? This thing just won’t seem to stay dead. Like Marley’s ghost, it shambles around, gibbering like a TO homeless industry advocate in a private chinwag with mayor culpa David Miller. Granted, I would expect such shrill belly-button gawking from Quebec media, but the rest of the country can’t seem to quit picking at it, either. Even the union bobbleheads have hopped up on their hind legs to bark away about it.

In case you’re one of the three people that haven’t figured out what I’m bellyaching about yet, I’m talking about the case of Carol Rioux. That’s right: the French guy in Alberta that lost his job because of crappy English on his part. That guy. What I don’t get is, why is this news?? I mean, think about it now. Think about it. With headlines like “Second look at French flap,” “Francophones up in arms,” and “Quebecer fired for bad English,” you’d think there was actually something to this. I’ve got a better headline for you. How about…

Not Bilingual, Canadian Loses Job

We could have a really cool follow-up story, too:

Man Takes Dump, Wipes Ass

What do these have in common? It’s simple: both happen every day in this country, every where. That’s why neither one is news.

Gee, could it maybe have something to do with the fact that, this time, it’s happening to a French guy?? 😯 Well, we can’t have that now, can we? After all, official bilingualism is only supposed to screw the Anglos over; right?

Licia Corbella nailed it in today’s Edmonton Sun, hypocrisy and all. Could you imagine the reverse (an Anglo losing work because his French sucks) making news in Quebec? Mais non, bien sur!

As far as I’m concerned, until I can get a job in la belle province with only the French I’ve got; Rioux, the unions, the handwringers, and all the other moonbats in general can clamp their flappin’ yaps ’round my purple-headed yogurt flinger, make like a shop vac, and chug-a-lug a few pints of Shut The F*ck Up®.

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