Another double speaking Prog quits before voters can bring the axe down themselves. What a shame. Stelmach, McGuinty, and now finally Redford have all resigned in disgrace. Good riddance.
Redford announced her failure "with profound optimism". That really had me laughing. When was the last time you felt profoundly optimistic? Doesn't seem like something I'd want to feel. -Like getting into an accident on your birthday ("Thank you everyone. I'm just so so so so so happy today!"). It's a far cry from the election 2 years ago. Was she profoundly optimistic back then? No, she was probably as jubilant as millions of Albertans are feeling tonight.
I suppose the PC's think all of Redford's broken promises are gone with her too. All the lies from the last election campaign are erased. Its a new party now... again. This is not your father's PC party. Its the party that stood with Redford as she lied to Albertans in every budget since she took power. The new name for Deficit is Operating Expense didn't you know. That makes it ok, because deficits are bad.
Typical prog lies.
Every progressive dirt bag out there, no matter what party or level of government, thinks that good government is simply the skill to sweet talk voters into punching themselves in the face. That is what impresses progressive politicians. Some of them will tell you that they are not even politicians at all.
Well we know their game.
Raise a glass Alberta and conservatives everywhere. There is no reason not to give Wildrose a chance next time. Danielle Smith will make an excellent Premier.
Showing posts with label Redford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redford. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Not so bad: Redford champions the Oil Sands in Washington
Yesterday Alison Redford spoke to the Brookings Institute on the Keystone XL pipeline. You can watch the whole thing here and the text is here.
I'm going to cut the wildly unpopular Premier of Alberta some slack on this one. She did good. I think that somebody initially opposed to the pipeline might change their mind on Keystone if they were listening and reasonable. Canada needs that and so does Obama.
Of course that doesn't excuse her lousy government's dismal record on the purposefully obscured budget deficit and broken promises. It's just that the Oil Sands and its vital arteries like Keystone are central to Canada's economy and our National Interest. Partisanship is not appropriate on this key issue.
Thomas Mulcair, being a foreign citizen and leader of a communist/separatist NDP unsurprisingly doesn't see it this way. When his MPs aren't bashing Canada's victorious dead, they are defecting to the Bloc. In his spare time Mulcair is himself bashing the Oil Sands in the east with phony Dutch Disease and bashing it in the South with similar tales. The NDP is the party of division and disaster.
The NDP segment of society; the self styled "progressives" showed up to Alison's discussion too. Out of the 2 hours they spoke for, these morons disrupted only about a minutes and a half of it. I've compiled the interruptions into this short video. Let's take a look. It's always fun.
Idiot #1: "They want to sell out the future of life on our planet! Lets get more creative! Create Green Jobs! It's easy. We just need a little more subsidies and we create green jobs!"
Who's a sell out? A little more subsidies to create green jobs and "the future of life on our planet," isn't so important anymore. Nobody but the eco-nuts think Keystone threatens the future of life on earth. Well. I don't even think they believe it. They just say it, and then they get their money. Sell outs.
Idiot #2: "You all are responsible for all these pipelines in the United States and for oil proliferation throughout our country." (Idiot#2 then runs in the wrong direction, towards the stage, where he is tackled and led away)
Where to begin with this one. First. Plaid shirt. Trucker Hat. Obviously he's trying to look like a regular Joe. What did they think this guy came for? Perhaps Washington has a new form of parasite akin to squeegee kids. One that drifts through Washington from think tank event to think tank event to keep warm and scavenge food.
Kid, those people on the stage did not build any pipelines nor will they. Real people who actually like to wear plaid shirts and trucker hats built all those pipelines. These are pipelines that you happen to use on a daily basis and have done since the day you were born. Also Google oil history to find out why you sound so incredibly stupid.
Idiot # 3: "Climate Change means mass casualty flooding, mass casualty famines, mass casualty droughts."
Is that what Climate Change means this week? A couple of weeks ago we learned Climate Change causes gun crimes in Chicago. Yesterday I read Climate Change will cause turbulence on your flight. Climate change is a new God. It causes all things that people don't like. It might even have caused itself to go away for the last 20 years and also caused all the progressives not to notice.
Idiot # 4: "That's why were doing something about it," said Alison Redford. One thing you can't do it is talk sense into these idiots. Look at his face. He practices that look in the mirror I bet. You've also just pleaded guilty multiple mass manslaughter. All in a days work for a prog politician. Guess who caused the next flood, drought and famine? Alison Redford. Good thing she is doing something about it.
If that is what it takes to get this thing built, then plead away.
I'm going to cut the wildly unpopular Premier of Alberta some slack on this one. She did good. I think that somebody initially opposed to the pipeline might change their mind on Keystone if they were listening and reasonable. Canada needs that and so does Obama.
Of course that doesn't excuse her lousy government's dismal record on the purposefully obscured budget deficit and broken promises. It's just that the Oil Sands and its vital arteries like Keystone are central to Canada's economy and our National Interest. Partisanship is not appropriate on this key issue.
Thomas Mulcair, being a foreign citizen and leader of a communist/separatist NDP unsurprisingly doesn't see it this way. When his MPs aren't bashing Canada's victorious dead, they are defecting to the Bloc. In his spare time Mulcair is himself bashing the Oil Sands in the east with phony Dutch Disease and bashing it in the South with similar tales. The NDP is the party of division and disaster.
The NDP segment of society; the self styled "progressives" showed up to Alison's discussion too. Out of the 2 hours they spoke for, these morons disrupted only about a minutes and a half of it. I've compiled the interruptions into this short video. Let's take a look. It's always fun.
Idiot #1: "They want to sell out the future of life on our planet! Lets get more creative! Create Green Jobs! It's easy. We just need a little more subsidies and we create green jobs!"
Who's a sell out? A little more subsidies to create green jobs and "the future of life on our planet," isn't so important anymore. Nobody but the eco-nuts think Keystone threatens the future of life on earth. Well. I don't even think they believe it. They just say it, and then they get their money. Sell outs.
Idiot #2: "You all are responsible for all these pipelines in the United States and for oil proliferation throughout our country." (Idiot#2 then runs in the wrong direction, towards the stage, where he is tackled and led away)
Where to begin with this one. First. Plaid shirt. Trucker Hat. Obviously he's trying to look like a regular Joe. What did they think this guy came for? Perhaps Washington has a new form of parasite akin to squeegee kids. One that drifts through Washington from think tank event to think tank event to keep warm and scavenge food.
Kid, those people on the stage did not build any pipelines nor will they. Real people who actually like to wear plaid shirts and trucker hats built all those pipelines. These are pipelines that you happen to use on a daily basis and have done since the day you were born. Also Google oil history to find out why you sound so incredibly stupid.
Idiot # 3: "Climate Change means mass casualty flooding, mass casualty famines, mass casualty droughts."
Is that what Climate Change means this week? A couple of weeks ago we learned Climate Change causes gun crimes in Chicago. Yesterday I read Climate Change will cause turbulence on your flight. Climate change is a new God. It causes all things that people don't like. It might even have caused itself to go away for the last 20 years and also caused all the progressives not to notice.
Idiot # 4: "That's why were doing something about it," said Alison Redford. One thing you can't do it is talk sense into these idiots. Look at his face. He practices that look in the mirror I bet. You've also just pleaded guilty multiple mass manslaughter. All in a days work for a prog politician. Guess who caused the next flood, drought and famine? Alison Redford. Good thing she is doing something about it.
If that is what it takes to get this thing built, then plead away.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Redford's Keystone messaging could lead to failure for Alberta
Tom Harris has a message for Alberta Premiere Allison Redford in his article: Smart messaging needed to avoid pipeline lobbying failure. Harris laments Alberta's Keystone pipeline messaging saying "a supposedly conservative government feeds the fire that threatens to destroy the province’s, and indeed the country’s, main source of wealth, their vast hydrocarbon resources" and of Allison Redford that "her approach is doomed to failure."
The article identifies Harris as the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and an advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He's put together an excellent well reasoned video you can watch below.
(h/t WUWT)
What's wrong with preaching nonsense to the nonsensical? Why not serve gobbleygook to the gook gobblers? Well because its a waste of time.
Pandering to the ridiculous only reinforces it. It's better to appeal to higher reasoning than to stoop to the level of sloganeering battles. They sloganeer to appeal to the ignorant in the first place. The antidote to ignorance is clarity on reality, not learning to speak the mongrel noises of the irrational eco-nut.
By trying to appease climate alarmists and using their own nonsensical and incorrect language in a vain effort to win them over Redford is conceding victory. They don't have a rational reason to oppose Keystone. Its pure symbolism. Keystone is a proxy for their larger war. They don't care if Keystone is better for the environment. They care about scoring a victory against "big oil." There is no circumstance where the success of the pipeline will include the symbolic victory they seek.
Eco-nuts are the enemy.
I make a distinction against Eco-nuts and people like us who love the environment. You can't call yourself Canadian and not be in love with this beautiful land. We are people who respect the land and work hard in our responsible and bountiful economy. We are the target audience and we share these values with Americans.
Eco-nuts are lost. There is nothing we can say to sway them. Perhaps losing their illogical Keystone battle is the first step to their rediscovery of reason but that is a path they have to walk themselves. Approving Keystone will help the average person and that is who we need to be speaking to.
Allison Redford will be speaking to the anti-Keystone Brookings Institute in Washington next week. It will be live streamed but you have to register.
Whatever happens to Keystone will have major political and economic repercussions in Alberta, Canada and the United States.
The article identifies Harris as the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and an advisor to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He's put together an excellent well reasoned video you can watch below.
(h/t WUWT)
What's wrong with preaching nonsense to the nonsensical? Why not serve gobbleygook to the gook gobblers? Well because its a waste of time.
Pandering to the ridiculous only reinforces it. It's better to appeal to higher reasoning than to stoop to the level of sloganeering battles. They sloganeer to appeal to the ignorant in the first place. The antidote to ignorance is clarity on reality, not learning to speak the mongrel noises of the irrational eco-nut.
By trying to appease climate alarmists and using their own nonsensical and incorrect language in a vain effort to win them over Redford is conceding victory. They don't have a rational reason to oppose Keystone. Its pure symbolism. Keystone is a proxy for their larger war. They don't care if Keystone is better for the environment. They care about scoring a victory against "big oil." There is no circumstance where the success of the pipeline will include the symbolic victory they seek.
Eco-nuts are the enemy.
I make a distinction against Eco-nuts and people like us who love the environment. You can't call yourself Canadian and not be in love with this beautiful land. We are people who respect the land and work hard in our responsible and bountiful economy. We are the target audience and we share these values with Americans.
Eco-nuts are lost. There is nothing we can say to sway them. Perhaps losing their illogical Keystone battle is the first step to their rediscovery of reason but that is a path they have to walk themselves. Approving Keystone will help the average person and that is who we need to be speaking to.
Allison Redford will be speaking to the anti-Keystone Brookings Institute in Washington next week. It will be live streamed but you have to register.
Whatever happens to Keystone will have major political and economic repercussions in Alberta, Canada and the United States.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Progressively Deeper in Debt
Nobody can keep track of the Progressive Party lies. None of their election promises were true. They couldn't even be bothered to follow the law in the last election as far as funding was concerned. I don't trust these guys as far as I can smell them. This bloated nightmare of a government is way past due.
The white hats of this provincial western, the Wildrose Party, did the math and it doesn't look good.
BACK IN DEBT: Budget 2013-14 by the numbers:
National Post - Alberta budget 2013 marked by billions in deficit spending, service cuts
Calgary Sun - Budget a trifecta of debt, deficit and cuts
Edmonton Journal - ‘Painful’ cuts, billions in borrowing in Alberta budget
Calgary Herald - Painful cuts, deficit and borrowing mark Alberta’s budget
Globe and Mail - Canada's wealthiest province cuts deep as Alberta embraces austerity
Sun News - Debt and borrowing mark Alberta's austerity budget
The only way they can spin it is that its all because of the price of oil. Its all because of Keystone and Gateway and has nothing to do with gross mismanagement in government. This is a galling lie.
Lets say Iran closes the Strait or Hormuz. Yay war, (sarc) and now that makes Allison Redford an economic Einstein? No. The PCs will still suck but we won't be able to see how bad very clearly. Wasted money is still a waste even if you can afford it.
Conversely, lets say Chavez bequeaths all of Venezuala's oil wealth to the world absolutely free. Yay we all drive to the Yukon for a picnic because we are out of work and gas is almost free. The PC government still spends too much and now they lost 28% of their revenue on top of that.
Its lose-lose with them. The Progressives are bad for Alberta. They can't manage money. Redford herself says she's got a "spending problem." So stop with the spending!
Would you look at these morons. Did you launch a man to the moon and bring him safely to the earth or something? Oh right, you just spent the equivalent on our behalf and have nothing at all to show for it. Yes I see very clearly why you're are so happy. You lied your way into office and played Albertans for fools. Congratulations!
Remember all the talk last year about Zero Based Budgeting? Zero based budgeting is a fiscal philosophy where no sacred cows are grandfathered into budget spending year after year. Each and every program must justify its existence. Not a peep. Was it just last year's buzz word?
They fund anti-Alberta movies with taxpayer money but when it comes to teachers they cry poor. Here we go again. Why is it always the teachers and the firemen? Cut something else you idiot bozo's! You can start with your own damned paychecks. You'll need it for the moral authority to start letting all these useless and expensive government consultants off the payroll. You know the ones that recommend Agenda 21, shutting down zoo's, confiscating licenses where no laws were broken, and grabbing property? They go first.
These big fat piggys in government are going to need a lot of advise with their spending problems. We have empirical evidence they can't handle it all in red ink. Wildrose, veritable media, Think Tanks at large: please help our dear government with solutions to their problems.
The white hats of this provincial western, the Wildrose Party, did the math and it doesn't look good.
BACK IN DEBT: Budget 2013-14 by the numbers:
- $3.5 billion – New debt this year, doubling the amount to over $8 billion next year
- $16.9 billion – New debt before the next election, the original amount of the Sustainability Fund
- $5.5 billion – Budget 2013-14 cash deficit.
- $2 billion – Amount taken from the Sustainability Fund in 2013-14
- $691 million – What will remain in the Sustainability Fund after Budget 2013-14
- $1.4 billion – Operational deficit for the current budget year, 2012-13
- $451 million – Operational deficit for Budget 2013-14
- $238 million in debt servicing in 2013, $404 million in 2014, $593 million in 2015
National Post - Alberta budget 2013 marked by billions in deficit spending, service cuts
Calgary Sun - Budget a trifecta of debt, deficit and cuts
Edmonton Journal - ‘Painful’ cuts, billions in borrowing in Alberta budget
Calgary Herald - Painful cuts, deficit and borrowing mark Alberta’s budget
Globe and Mail - Canada's wealthiest province cuts deep as Alberta embraces austerity
Sun News - Debt and borrowing mark Alberta's austerity budget
The only way they can spin it is that its all because of the price of oil. Its all because of Keystone and Gateway and has nothing to do with gross mismanagement in government. This is a galling lie.
Lets say Iran closes the Strait or Hormuz. Yay war, (sarc) and now that makes Allison Redford an economic Einstein? No. The PCs will still suck but we won't be able to see how bad very clearly. Wasted money is still a waste even if you can afford it.
Conversely, lets say Chavez bequeaths all of Venezuala's oil wealth to the world absolutely free. Yay we all drive to the Yukon for a picnic because we are out of work and gas is almost free. The PC government still spends too much and now they lost 28% of their revenue on top of that.
Its lose-lose with them. The Progressives are bad for Alberta. They can't manage money. Redford herself says she's got a "spending problem." So stop with the spending!
They fund anti-Alberta movies with taxpayer money but when it comes to teachers they cry poor. Here we go again. Why is it always the teachers and the firemen? Cut something else you idiot bozo's! You can start with your own damned paychecks. You'll need it for the moral authority to start letting all these useless and expensive government consultants off the payroll. You know the ones that recommend Agenda 21, shutting down zoo's, confiscating licenses where no laws were broken, and grabbing property? They go first.
These big fat piggys in government are going to need a lot of advise with their spending problems. We have empirical evidence they can't handle it all in red ink. Wildrose, veritable media, Think Tanks at large: please help our dear government with solutions to their problems.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Alison's Solyndra begins to collapse
Over in Ontario so called "progressive" policies have led to credit downgrades exactly as predicted.
Here in Alberta, the eco-boondoggle known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) lost a major player. TransAlta corp has pulled out of the $1.4 billion Pioneer Project because it wasn't economically feasible.
The Minister of eco-nuttery (or Environment) Dianna McQueen says:
The Minister predictably maintains that the other 3 projects are economically viable. This must refer to a progressive definition of economically viable. Projects subsidized in the tens of millions are normally thought of as economically infeasible.
Even with the heavy subsidies, companies use the CO2 from CCS to stimulate old wells to produce more oil. Money is made producing oil alone. CO2 has no value. Its smoke.
TransAlta blames the inherent worthlessness of CO2 for the project's cancellation. Government price controls on a worthless and ubiquitous substance like CO2 have failed everywhere they have been tried. Al Gore's Carbon Exchange in Chicago was dreamed up by Enron and is now history like Enron. European Carbon Exchange is rife with fraud and even the eco-nuts don't like it.
Don't ever say oil companies oppose cap and trade. They don't. Essentially, the government pays them gigantic sums of money to extract more oil. What a deal. You pay for it all.
The best part is that all of this is happening under the premise that its supposed to make you feel good. Its the 'Do-Something' rationalization. CCS has negligible impact on Climate Change according to the most alarmist Climate theories. The PC government has committed $2 billion to do nothing at all. $2 billion will make a lot of CO2 however its spent. CCS does less than nothing at all for the Climate in theory and don't forget that It's only profitable if they can sell more oil doing it. Stupid. This is probably the most expensive way to produce oil possible.
"But we have to do something."
Why? Why do we have to do something? I am all for efficiency. I despise waste. The 'Do-Somthing' rationale is a total waste. It doesn't affect global warming and it makes nobody happy. I'm not happy and the eco-nuts are never happy. Welcome to Alison's Wonderland Alberta.
Update: Minister McQueen says that no taxpayer money has been spent on CCS yet. Hopefully the rest will pull out before the government can waste it.
Here in Alberta, the eco-boondoggle known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) lost a major player. TransAlta corp has pulled out of the $1.4 billion Pioneer Project because it wasn't economically feasible.
The Minister of eco-nuttery (or Environment) Dianna McQueen says:
“Under new technology, sometimes this happens ... "That so happens to be the same excuse Obama used to explain the Solyndra failure. Excuses appear daily as "green" endeavors fail.
The Minister predictably maintains that the other 3 projects are economically viable. This must refer to a progressive definition of economically viable. Projects subsidized in the tens of millions are normally thought of as economically infeasible.
Even with the heavy subsidies, companies use the CO2 from CCS to stimulate old wells to produce more oil. Money is made producing oil alone. CO2 has no value. Its smoke.
TransAlta blames the inherent worthlessness of CO2 for the project's cancellation. Government price controls on a worthless and ubiquitous substance like CO2 have failed everywhere they have been tried. Al Gore's Carbon Exchange in Chicago was dreamed up by Enron and is now history like Enron. European Carbon Exchange is rife with fraud and even the eco-nuts don't like it.
Don't ever say oil companies oppose cap and trade. They don't. Essentially, the government pays them gigantic sums of money to extract more oil. What a deal. You pay for it all.
The best part is that all of this is happening under the premise that its supposed to make you feel good. Its the 'Do-Something' rationalization. CCS has negligible impact on Climate Change according to the most alarmist Climate theories. The PC government has committed $2 billion to do nothing at all. $2 billion will make a lot of CO2 however its spent. CCS does less than nothing at all for the Climate in theory and don't forget that It's only profitable if they can sell more oil doing it. Stupid. This is probably the most expensive way to produce oil possible.
"But we have to do something."
Why? Why do we have to do something? I am all for efficiency. I despise waste. The 'Do-Somthing' rationale is a total waste. It doesn't affect global warming and it makes nobody happy. I'm not happy and the eco-nuts are never happy. Welcome to Alison's Wonderland Alberta.
Update: Minister McQueen says that no taxpayer money has been spent on CCS yet. Hopefully the rest will pull out before the government can waste it.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)