End the Public Subsidy for Party Financing

I very rarely agree with Libluvin' Jeffery Simpson but this I agree on, to scrap the public funding of political parties. 

 It would  hurt the Liberals and the Bloc the most, because they are not very good at fundraising. They haven't really had to. The Liberals in the past has relied on large corporate donations and that is not allowed anymore under  the Accountability Act which was implemented after the Conservatives took office in 2006.  The Bloc are just lazy, it's just more money they suck out of ROC.  The Conservatives and NDP have better fundraising skills so it wouldn't them as badly.

The Conservative government tried to put an end of that public funding in 2008 when the opposition got into a hissy fit. Then you had the attempt of the coalition of losers  trying to overthrow a duly elected government that was just weeks old.  I believe the Conservatives used the proposal  to smoke the losers out.

Why should you or I be forced give money to parties whose ideologies and policies I don't agree with?  Because that's what it is, it's forced donations. It's nothing but distribution of wealth. It doesn't make sense.
End the thing, increase the personal limit from $1100 to I would say maybe $3500 a year.  Then if you like a particular party then support it with your wallet not mine.

I say to PM Harper and Minister Jim Flaherty, bring it back.  Include it in the next budget and let the chips fall where they may. If the opposition vote the government down on that, so be it.   I'm sure the Conservatives would love to campaign on that issue.  The opposition I think would have trouble knocking on doors explaining away why the taxpayer should be forced to fund parties they don't agree with.

Omar Khadr, Don't Weep for Him, He's No Little Angel

Ezra Levant says we shouldn't cry for Omar Khadr and stop seeing him as a sweet innocent little lamb who could do no harm  who is being railroaded for something he couldn't possibly have anything to do with. Oh no, poor poor baby, after all he's was just a "child soldier" you know.  He had no clue about what he was getting into so how could he possibly be responsible for killing an evil American soldier?   You know those Americans, they just want to be the world's policeman anyway.

On the other hand could it be that little Omar is not such a little angel that the bleeding heart far left portray him to be?
Child soldier? OK he was 15yrs. old when he allegedly threw that grenade that killed an American medic and  wasn't part of a uniformed organized army. Heck, the same bleeding heart lefties cried when the age of consent was raised from 14 to 16 yrs of age.  So in other words they think it's OK for a kid of 14 to get a learners permit and have sex but at the same time at  age 15, you can be classified as a "child soldier."  Go figure! Some 15yr. old's can even be tried as adults for some serious crimes, especially in the US.   Most kids today, at 15, in this information age are mature and worldly enough to know what they are doing most of the time.

So yeah, I agree with Ezra.  Don't cry for Omar Khadr!  He is no angel!

Premier Stelmach Wins the Lottery!

Let me present you with Alberta's newest millionaire. It's none other than our dear Premier. He has won $1,004,000 from yes, you and me the hardworking taxpayer.  He and others will get a nice little sum when they leave the legislature whether they quit on their own or are defeated next election which is scheduled to take place by  2012.

Ed Stelmach. $1,004,000. Now, a million-dollar man.
Ken Kowalski, the legislature Speaker. $1,270,000. Even better.
Wildrose MLA Heather Forsyth. $605,000.
Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman. $482,000
Ted Morton, finance minister, apostle of austerity, elected six years ago. $345,000.
Carl Benito, the well-heeled Tory MLA who promised two years ago to donate his full salary to charity if elected, got elected and then didn’t, the man who pushed for the red-cap mushroom to be declared Alberta’s official fungus and then suggested a beauty pageant to boost tourism. $136,000, after only one term in office as a backbencher.
This big-time moolah is the estimated cheques these members of the legislature will receive if they vamoose or are bounced at the anticipated March 2012 provincial election. That’s provided they don’t add on to their pay by 2012. If anything, the dollars spelled out here are a little on the low side.

Nice little departure gift, wouldn't you say?  Come to think of it, maybe I missed something but I don't remember signing off on this. Do you, fellow Albertans?  Who do they think they are?  It smells of arrogance and entitlement.   Now I don't begrudge our elected officials a decent living but this is over the top especially in a time of restraint and austerity. It is just simply outrageous.
Most regular Albertans don't get sweet deals like this when they leave a job. Time for Albertan's to stand up against this kind of travesty!

Census is About the Invasion of Privacy

I haven't posted  before about the so called census kerfuffle because I saw it as another  non-issue conjured up by the Lame Stream Media and the opposition. Minister Tony Clement and the PM want make the long form census voluntary instead mandatory without the threat of jail or fines, and you'd think the world was coming to an end. Armageddon was about to come upon us!  Run for the hills!

The government want to gives a little freedom and privacy and all hell breaks loose?  Something's wrong with that picture if you ask me. Maybe I'm missing something here but I thought people would clamor for a little freedom and privacy.  Actually the general population is not talking about this.  It's a non-issue at the local Timmies, the offices and workplaces, and around the the kitchen tables in this country.
Chris Vander Doelen from the Windsor Star sums it up perfectly what this whole cabal is all about and brings some sense into it.

The census is about the unelected controlling the public. The intensity of their defence of the long census reveals the importance this information plays in their plans to tax and control every aspect of life.

 That's it, it's about control and social engineering.  I guess those  in the  Lame Stream Media outraged about this non-issue enjoy the infringement of  their privacy.  They must relish the government and the unelected bureaucracy controlling every aspect of their lives.   The coalition of the losers love the thought of controlling everything we do and say and social engineering. After all they are the parties of big (brother)government and love the big government social  welfare programs.

The less government knows about our private lives the better and the more freedom we have.  Our freedoms are being eroded little by little everyday without us even realizing it.  We must not be sheep led to the slaughter.  We must protect and fight for our freedoms.  It's worth it.  That's why I support Tony Clement and the PM for taking this action on the long form census.

Next thing  this government should tackle is the  Human Rights Tribunal, Section 13 of the Human Rights Act and the erosion of  our free speech.

 

 

CBC Keeps Smearing Our Troops

What does CBC have against our troops?  They keep smearing them time after time.  The latest is the Wikileaks document that claims  four of our brave soldiers were killed by friendly fire instead of Taliban fire.  Peter Worthington tells of a CBC interview he listened to recently that they had on with an unreliable source to discredit  the former Chief of Defense Staff and others. Former General Rick Hiller and others had come out to set the record straight about what really happened.

Leave it to the CBC to smear our troops.
The most startling aspect for Canadians in the 92,000 documents supposedly leaked by the gadfly outfit WikiLeaks, was four Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2006 were victims of friendly fire, not enemy action.
Although DND, former military boss Gen. Rick Hiller, commanders in the field and troops involved in the action all insist it was Taliban fire that killed their comrades, the CBC chose to dispute this in a long interview with a person they described as a retired American general.

They just can't take former General Rick Hiller's word or the word of other's that were actually there of their recollections of that day.  They will drag anyone or anything out to make our troops look bad in hopes it will reflect on our current government as to make them look bad as well.  At least this government staunchly supports our men and women in uniform unlike the previous Liberal government who treated our military like crap. This government is making sure they have every thing they need in order to be a strong effective military.  In order to have a strong country you need a strong military.

General Hiller is way more credible than anyone that Mothercorp finds to twist the truth and I will believe him any day over what the CBC pushes. 
Shame on them! Time to shut them down. Sell the assets to SunTv.  It would at least help with our deficit reduction. They lost their credibility a long time ago as a trustworthy honest news organization.  
SunTV can't come soon enough to take the CBC and other news organizations to task on their blatant attempts to not tell the real story about what is going on issues like this and other topics.