Category: Canada

Okay, I’m a little behind the herd here, but still, what is this? I repeat: WHAT… THE HELL… IS THIS!?!? How the HELL is it that some Yank sleazoid sex offender gets dumped in our backyard? Yeah, you read that right. An American teacher gets convicted of having sex with one of his students in New York and, instead of tossing his worthless ass behind bars south of the border (where he God damned well belongs), he gets banished to Canada so he can walk the streets a free man up here. Consider my whatthefuckometer redlined.

The baffling case involves Malcolm Watson, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen who lives in Fort Erie, Ont., with his Canadian wife and three children, but who had been commuting to teach at the Buffalo Seminary, a private all-girls school in the Buffalo area.

Buffalo immigration lawyer Robert Kolken found the sentence, by Cheektowaga Justice Thomas Kolbert, “quite creative.”

When the hell did we become the willing repository for the rest of the world’s perverts? And just how the hell can a convicted sex offender (and American citizen, no less) even be allowed into this country in the first damn place?? I can’t be the only one who’s 37 kinds of pissed off about this. No way, no how.

And have we heard anything from Vic Toews about this? Not a God damned peep. I don’t know about anybody else, but I didn’t vote Conservative to let this kind of bullshit slide.

This will surprise no one, I think. It seems that a bunch of antimilitary busybodies have been slinking around trying to undermine any attempt to include military co-op programs in Ontario secondary schools. Yes, these twits live under the very freedom provided and defended by our soldiers but damnit, don’t go teaching their little darlings to be one of those nasty army types. It brings to mind a very fitting line from John Stewart Mill:

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

But the dogoodniks on the left don’t seem to see it that way:

“We recognize that all nations need to protect their borders, but we don’t feel that has to be taught in the schools,” Marilyn Eves, a retired teacher and Windsor peace activist told me.

Eves said it made no sense that schools teach non-violent conflict resolution but allow students to count basic military training, including how to kill with a rifle, towards their high school diploma.

Well, why the hell not? Has it ever occurred to this spongehead that it is the military prowess of a nation that ensures all other freedoms that we take for granted? The country without an army will, sooner or later, be conquered by the one that has one. And don’t give me any of that “what if they had a war and only one side showed up” bullcrap, either. You want to know what happens when only one side shows up? Here’s what happens:

The side that does show up hunts down the side that doesn’t show up. The men are slaughtered outright. Women (some of them, anyway) are kept around as long as they can be sexually entertaining before they, too, are killed. Children are also put to the sword becasuse the winning side can’t afford to risk letting them grow up with visions of revenge dancing about in their little heads. This has happened numerous time throughout human history. So, why do allegedly intelligent people keep asking such a stupid question? 🙄

Well, it’s official. Ol’ Senate-smackin’ Steve gave the word yesterday and I’m gonna have me a new MP pretty soon (most likely Dianne Haskett ;)). As you might expect, all the usual MSM suspects have popped out to check for their shadows and sound off about the dire fortunes this holds for the Tories, because London’s “such a Liberal bastion.”

There’s just one little problem with that… no Grit seems to want the job so far…:lol:

And a political expert says Harper is taking a “huge risk” calling byelections in London-North-Centre and the Montreal-area riding of Repentigny.

“Byelections are always mini-referenda on the people’s opinion of the government of the day and people are seldom happy with the ruling party,” said Paul Nesbitt-Larking, a political scientist at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario.

Nesbitt-Larking predicts a “very interesting, four-way race” potentially with former city mayor Dianne Haskett running for the Conservatives, the “surging” Green Party’s leader, Elizabeth May, former city councillor Megan Walker for the New Democrats, and an unknown Liberal.

Two prominent local Liberals turned down invitations to seek the nomination, including lawyer Doug Ferguson and Glen Pearson, who ran unsuccessfully for the Grits in London-Fanshawe in January.

City lawyer Laura Tripp, president of the London West Liberal riding association, also declined.

A rumour that federal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay would enter the race was dashed yesterday.

Holy crap! Mind your melons, boys and girls, those pigs are flying and they’re flying low. Damnedest thing I’ve ever seen. Well, second damnedest, actually. It seems that somewhere here in nice, politically correct, lefty-loving Canada, there’s actually a celebrity with his head screwed on straight who isn’t named Stompin’ Tom. I woke up this morning and found this in my email. It seems that, unlike a lot of other celebrities, Bruce “if I had a rocket launcher, some sonofabitch would die” Cockburn isn’t falling for the peacenik propaganda from the Taliban Jack! crowd…

BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP) — Trying to imagine Bruce Cockburn as a soldier is a bit of a stretch.

But the singer, whose songs strongly condemn war and injustice, says enlisting in the military is something he could consider.

“What would I do if the Taliban invaded Canada?” he said in an interview, staring reflectively at the ceiling of his dressing room before performing at Belleville’s Empire Theatre.

“I’d sign up. I know how to shoot,” Cockburn said with an easy shrug.

Tough words for an avowed peace-loving folkie.

The rest of the article is just as good. I have to say, it’s damned nice to see someone in the public eye without their head up their arse.

Well, this is rich. Pure true Grit bullshit at its absolute finest if ever there ever was. After months of dithering, sitting on his hands and basically allowing anarchy a free pass in Caledonia, the waffling wanker from Ottawa South has flung open his piehole to demand that the feds should pick up the tab.

Yup, you read that right. The guy whose utter lack of leadership screwed up a no-brainer law enforcement issue until it became the biggest farce since Bob Rae’s government wants the feds to pick up the tab for his gutlessness and stupidity.

How truly Liberal of him. Can we have an election now, please?

I’ve been following the Great Grit Grand Poohbah Of The Porkbarrel Pageant lately. Okay, you caught me; no I haven’t. While I must admit that the thought of watching the Librano$ turning on each other like a pack of starving dogs does hold a certain lurid attraction for me, I really can’t bring myself to give a damn about it. BUT, I do know who I want to win…

Special thanks to the Ottawa Sun’s Greg Weston for reminding me of all the reasons why I think Bob Rae should win the leadership race and lead the Grits in the next federal election:

1. Bob Rae made history as a man who gets things done. It took 40 years for mainly Conservative governments in Ontario to accumulate $20 billion in debt building the province’s schools, hospitals, highways and hydro dams. It took Bob’s NDP administration only four years to run up another $40 billion in red ink with little of enduring value to show for it at the end.
2. Bob Rae is a visionary in health care. It was his NDP government that implemented the ingenious plan to cut medicare costs by reducing the number of doctors graduating from medical schools. Today, his legacy endures with a physician shortage that saves taxpayers a fortune by not having to treat millions of sick Canadians who can’t find a family doctor.
3. Bob Rae is a champion of the Canadian leisure industries. For the first time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, there were fewer people employed in Ontario industries when Rae left office than when he arrived.
4. Bob Rae boldly stands up for Big Business and isn’t afraid to stick it to the Little Guy, those whining small businesses that always have it easy. In the five years before Rae came to office, about 85% of all the net new jobs created in Ontario were in companies with fewer than 100 employees. Even in the 1980s recession when big companies shed more than 100,000 jobs, small businesses in the province grew by almost twice that number.But not under Bob’s watch — a few major industries got huge bailouts, while all those mom-and-pop operations got ravaged, losing more than 100,000 jobs in the four years of NDP rule.
5. Bob Rae understands what it means to be a taxpayer — when economic times get tough, the tough get taxed, thereby ensuring the economy slows to the point where everyone gets screwed equally — although some more equally than others. For instance, by the time the NDP left office, Ontario professionals and entrepreneurs earning more than $67,000 a year had the highest marginal tax rate in North America, and were ungratefully running for the border in droves.
6. Bob Rae is a politician who never forgets his promises. The NDP pledged to introduce public auto insurance that would save car owners a fortune in premiums. Four years later, the Dippers were still promising socialist collision coverage even as they were being driven out of office.
7. Bob Rae is perhaps the only great Canadian leader of the last century to have a day named in his honour — Rae Days. Just over a decade ago, the man who would now be the next federal Liberal leader and perhaps Canada’s next prime minister looked out upon the economic landscape he had created and saw that it was ravaged by record debt, record deficits and record job losses, and he knew exactly what needed to be done.He hired 100,000 more public servants, gave them all a big raise, and ordered them to stay home and not get paid.

Can you say “Harper Majority,” boys and girls? 😉