Category: Good Stuff

Well, this didn’t take too long. Can’t say that I’m surprised, either. Almost immediately following the ruling by the Manitoba Human Rights Commission that 17-year old twins Amy and Jesse Pasternak could play on the boys’ hockey team, boys have started signing up for girls’ sports teams.

Can you say coed wrestling, boys and girls?

But according to Morris Glimcher, executive director of the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association, it seems that equality isn’t exactly a two-way street:

“If we get four guys or five guys going out for the [girls’] basketball team, there’s four or five females that won’t make the team — and I dare say a bunch of other ones aren’t going to compete — and we could end up with some female teams being made up of mostly men.

“We worked very, very hard to promote and build up female participation in sports,” Glimcher added.

“Everything that our organization has done … is based gender-equal. And if we all of a sudden get an influx of males participating, it could affect female participation and that would be a travesty.”

Hey, buddy, if it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander too. If you didn’t want girls’ teams getting invaded by boys who will be able to play better and bump a lot of girls from the lineup, things should have been damn well left the way they were.

I can’t wait to see Smirkin’ Jack! flip his lack of a wig over this one; you just gotta know that its gonna be priceless. The federal Tories have just announced that they’re looking at a surplus of over $13 billion.

That’s not what’s going to get Jack!’s goat, though. This is:

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Monday the surplus would go entirely to reducing the federal debt, a move that he said would save hundreds of millions next year in interest payments on that debt.

Asked on CTV Newsnet’s Mike Duffy Live why the government wouldn’t make any new spending commitments, Flaherty said: “We’re not like the last guys,” referring to the Liberal government of Paul Martin.

Yup, that’s right. For all the special interest moochers looking for a little something from the gravy train, NOTHING. Nada, nil, zip, zilch, the Great Bugger All.

It seems that Taliban Jack!’s buffoonery has cost him a blogger, too. Blogging Dipper RJL announced this today:

I’ve decided to cut all ties with the NDP this weekend, and here’s why.

Read it all here.

Sorry to hear about your disillusionment, Reuben, but glad to see that you woke up. Here’s hoping that the future holds fewer disappointments for you.

Cheers,
Joe

I’ve found it. Yes, I have; and I found it in the damned Globe and Mail, of all places. Don’t look at me like that; the only thing I’ve been smoking is, well… smokes. But I have actually found the answer to the situation in Caledonia. All they need to do is just send in this guy right here:

‘Indian Time doesn’t cut it’ for innovative chief with on-the-edge humour

ROY MacGREGOR

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

FORT McMURRAY — The man with the PowerPoint presentation is miffed.

He is speaking to a large aboriginal conference and some of the attendees, including a few who hold high office, have straggled in.

“I can’t stand people who are late,” he says into the microphone.

“Indian Time doesn’t cut it.”

Some giggle, but no one is quite sure how far he is going to go. Just sit back and listen:

“My first rule for success is ‘Show up on time.’ My No. 2 rule for success is follow Rule No. 1.”

“If your life sucks, it’s because you suck.”

“Quit your sniffling.”

“Join the real world — go to school or get a job.”

“Get off of welfare. Get off your butt.”

Full article here.

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting to see these. The Canadian Armed Forces have released their latest Rectuiting ads today in Atlantic Canada.

“But what if I don’t live in the Maritimes,” you ask? No problem at all. You can watch them right here (be patient, though; the first 15 seconds or so are blank screen for some reason):

Click here to see the videos

Two hundred days in office and still going.

It’s great to be conservative these days, isn’t it? Just in case you’ve been living in a cave lately, today marks the 200th day of our latest Conservative government and despite what all the nervous Nellies from the left told us, things are moving along pretty damned good.

Can anyone seriously doubt that we have seen more leadership in the past 6+ months from Stephen Harper’s rookie government than we saw in over a decade of rule under the “natural governing party of Canada?” I would find that rather hard to swallow.

Let’s indulge ourselves (just this once) on a little smug reflection on what the Big Bad Scary Tories have managed to do for the country in a mere 200 days, shall we?

• The GST, which the Grits promised to scrap but never did, has been cut by one percent, just like Steve told us it would.
• The long running trade irritant with the US over softwood lumber is finally within sight of its end. The Grits couldn’t solve this one in over a decade but Harper and his crew managed to hammer out a deal in only months.
• Money that would have been wasted on a bloated child care bureaucracy is now being routed directly to the ultimate child care specialists (parents) who can decide for themselves how best to spend it.
• We have a government that isn’t afraid to dig in its heels and declare exactly where it stands on issues, whether politically convenient or not. The recent conflict in the Middle East is a perfect example of this.
• Our long neglected military is finally getting a desperately needed injection of billions of dollars for both equipment and manpower.
• We now have the Federal Accountability Act to help keep a leash on crooked politicians.
• We have legislation working its way through Parliament to crack down on crime and make scumbags start doing some serious time behind bars where they can’t hurt anybody else.
• With vigorous operations in Afghanistan, the myth of Canada being the “mouse that roared” on the international stage is rapidly being put down.
• Federalism has been revived in Quebec, with more and more people realising that they aren’t really stuck between the rock and hard place of crooked Liberals and rabid seperatists.

All of this, and a whole lot more, from the scary bunch that the MSM howled and prophecied would bring about the ruin of the nation.

Not bad for a bunch of bogeymen, eh?