Shocker: Art & Design Student Performs Invaluable Public Service

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Malkin nominated Stupid Name Boy for Jerk of the Year, but I think he should be congratulated for inadvertently preventing the AIDS research industry from getting another red cent.

Beer Drinkers Be Warned – You’re Destroying the Earth!

Who knew that a beer fridge in your garage could be so evil?

The government-commissioned study says the old, inefficient “beer fridges” that one in three Canadian households use to store their Molson and Labatt’s contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity. [via: politicalstaples.com]

Read all the gory details at New Scientist. And you’d better be ready to hide that beloved beer fridge; the author of the beer fridge study proposes a government run “round-up” of these carbon spewing devices.

Young supports government-run “round-ups” offering to pick up and dispose of old refrigerators.

Secret Liberal Plan To Taint Harper Leaked

Garth Turner, Her Majesty’s parliamentary representative for all parts of Halton minus Main Street in Milton (I go there daily, and it’s all the better minus the bearded one!), stated yesterday on The Garthitopia that his seat mate in the Commons, Robert Thibault (Liberal, West Nova) drew him out the plans that will ultimately use the Mulroney-Schreiber affair to defeat the Harper government…and it was on one of those Parliamentary Restaurant Napkins of all things!

Well, after pulling some strings and doing some arm twisting, yours truly was able to obtain this plan, which is displayed below, along with the text of said napkin posted in a legible form:

1)Use opposition majority to keep Schreiber in country until February

2)After Johnson commission drags inquiry out for a few weeks, accuse PMSH of lotz bad raps against German Canadians

3)Have (Supreme Leader) Dion host Oktoberfest-style party in Manitoba (benefits should be obvious!)

4)Blame Harper for not showing leadership and following Dion’s example

5)Wait till Harper uses now Ont. holiday, “Family Day” to host his own kegger in Kitchener

6)Sneak Schreiber into party along with Jason Cherniak, posing (he’s a natural!) as an innocent by-standard

7)Cherniak gets Harper drunk, seduces Harper into signing contracts with Schreiber to supply government with arms for hit job on Danny Williams (brilliant!)

Here’s the original document:

Canada is Shreiber’s Bitch

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Earlier in his remarks, Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman, said he wouldn’t co-operate with the committee until he is told how long he can stay in Canada.

His case, he said, will go before the Ontario Court of Appeal on Friday where a decision will be made regarding his extradition to Germany where he is wanted on tax and corruption charges.

“Until that time I will not speak to or answer any questions of this committee,” Schreiber said during his opening remarks before the committee.

Without being too earnest, let me offer the government some advice. No Canadian seriously cares about “The Shreiber Affair.” What they do care about is an Ottawa insider who made millions in the shadows of this nation’s politics by-passing legal judgment for eight years on the basis of his money (Eddie Greenspan is expensive, I’ll bet), his old political connections, and his newfound political connections in the Liberal Party and the NDP.

Why are so Canadians so cynical about politics? Let me tell you in six words: Karlheinz Shreiber is still in Canada.

Shreiber isn’t just playing Pat Martin and Robert Thibault. He’s playing Canada, and the world is noticing. The government should pick Shreiber up in the night and put him on a one-way flight to a German prison. Yes, Liberal buffoons will scream and Martin will throw pencils. But take the chance anyway. Maybe Canadians will appreciate seeing a reprehensible old man get what’s coming to him in spite of his political connections.

Canadian Politics is a Joke

A couple of days ago, the entire left-hand column at National Newswatch was filled with “opinion pieces” on Karlheinz Shreiber. Today, Jason Kenney pointed out what every Canadian who is not a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery already knows: No One Cares.

Jason Kenney mentioned on MDL tonight that he hasn’t had one email from a constituent regarding Karlheinz Schreiber. Outside of Parliament, MSM and political junkies like you and I, one wonders how many people are talking about it.

Oh yeah, and the Liberal Party. Even the perennially idiotic Canadian populace knows that Stephen Harper, who still thought Preston Manning was cool when Shreiber passed Mulroney the envelope in question, can hardly be implicated in this. Not everyone, of course. You have to scroll to Garth Turner’s comment section to find this tear-jerker from sentimentalist “I Believe in Canada”:

Isn’t Schreiber a Canadian citizen? Why is he being extradited? Only one reason and that’s to silence him.

I will admit that it is possible that Stephen Harper used his Sauron-like powers eight years ago to look into the future and commence extradition hearings against Shreiber in preparation for the controversies of today. But of course the real question is: What kind of country allows someone to avoid extradition for eight years, most of them spent out on bail living the high life in, for example, “posh rockcliffe townhouses”?

Which is why you haven’t seen Conservatives, let alone Harper, doing much to defend Mulroney. [Did anyone else laugh out loud when a "Mulroney associate" revealed that Mulroney was nearly destitute when he accepted an envelope of cash from Shreiber?] Shreiber and Mulroney are the same insiders. They live in the same posh houses; they attend the same cocktail parties. Mulroney was parasitic on the taxpayer; Shreiber was in turn parasitic on politicians like Mulroney. Now that he’s lost his Tory contacts, Shreiber’s moved on to a new host: The Liberals.

And the National Press Gallery.

Trash Talk, Hamilton Style!

Emboldened by David Miller’s tenure as Mayor of the Centre of the Universe TM, many of Ontario’s other mayors and city councilors have recently gone on a spending binge, with budgets full of pet projects and good intentions.

On the latter note, we’ve seen such bright lights as a ban on two-garage houses and on pellet guns here in Kitchener recently (with another wise-guy idea to ban windows that open more than a foot wide to prevent saps like me from falling out of apartments on the way, although balconies are still perfectly legal…), now it’s Hamilton’s turn to show that they too can take their stupid pills with the best of them! Tonight, Hamilton city council is debating a motion to limit garbage to one bag per household. As my 16-year-old sister quickly pointed out, there’s some very nice fields around Hamilton (seriously, they exist!) that can and will become insta-landfills if this bylaw goes through — memo to councillors: Captain Planet would be proud!

But while Hamilton’s representatives are debating whether they should limit garbage to one or two bags, clear or black plastic, coffee, tea or Sega, might I also point out that we’re talking about Hamilton here guys! The poor performance of the local football team this year is only a reflection of the malaise that engrosses this city; that is why many, like yours truly, simply leave at the first opportunity! I did come back though to enjoy the expressway that the city finally managed to build, after only 50 years of trying too!

Back to the garbage issue, I ask what is stopping the limit from backfiring with, say, students at MacMaster University and Mohawk College who would see piling garbage on the street curbs regardless of whether it gets taken or not as part of their duty to add to Hamilton’s breathtaking (literally) charm? Are we really so certain that these young citizens, known for their loud house parties, poor house maintenance and minimal loyalty to the larger community will so giddily comply with such a restrictive law, especially when they live with 5-6 other adults typically?

What is also stopping someone from, say, dumping some trash in somebody else’s pile? Or just on the street as is. I know the environazis and eggheads down at City Hall have to think that this is sheer brilliance but as soon as you lower the limit to something ridiculously low unless you’re single or a very clean couple then grey areas will start to appear among the green. On that note, speaking of green that is, I must’ve missed council’s debate over the tax reductions 500,000 Hamiltonians will see next year now that they’re having a major service cut back!

The Birth of Democratism

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Ideology is substitute religion, a belief system based on ideas that are often contradicted by history and common sense. Yet men will adhere to ideologies with a zealotry that borders on fanaticism.

Marxism, fascism and socialism were are ideologies, gods that failed. So, too, is democratism, the Gospel of George W. Bush.

Democratism is a belief that all men are equally endowed with a desire for freedom and an aptitude for democracy. All can be uplifted, and all brought to see that democracy is the one true path to peace in our world. In democracy lies our salvation.

VANOC Reinvigorates the Mutant Cartoon Genre

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“Hi, I’m Miga, a snowboarding sea-bear who is part orca whale and part marketing gimmick contrivance!”

A mutant bear-whale and a bear with wings? Dude, this isn’t Douglas Point.

Ha:

I still think “Ted the Tazer” should have won with “BC Bud” as runner up.

Neo, Neo, Neo

Neoconservatism is the first variant of American conservatism in the past century that is in the “American grain.” It is hopeful, not lugubrious; forward-looking, not nostalgic; and its general tone is cheerful, not grim or dyspeptic. Its 20th-century heroes tend to be TR, FDR, and Ronald Reagan. Such Republican and conservative worthies as Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater are politely overlooked. Of course, those worthies are in no way overlooked by a large, probably the largest, segment of the Republican party, with the result that most Republican politicians know nothing and could not care less about neoconservatism. Nevertheless, they cannot be blind to the fact that neoconservative policies, reaching out beyond the traditional political and financial base, have helped make the very idea of political conservatism more acceptable to a majority of American voters. Nor has it passed official notice that it is the neoconservative public policies, not the traditional Republican ones, that result in popular Republican presidencies.

From the horse’s mouth 

The Rise of the Paleo-Conservatives

Unfortunately, I have to agree. If Tucker Carlson is hemorrhaging viewers, it’s because he never revised his neo-conservative “let’s go create democracies throughout the world!” schtick that is, post-Iraq, becoming increasingly illegitimate and, let’s be honest, just plain goofy.

And, of course, being America, there are conservatives willing to offer alternatives to the obsolete “youngish” neo-cons:

Lou Dobbs could arguably be held responsible for bringing to the fore of our national conversation the topics of illegal immigration and free trade. And then hammering away at them on his nightly broadcast until his ratings have shot through the roof.

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