Governor Scott Walker's Enhanced Mandate

Wisconsin has voted to keep Governor Scott Walker.  Congratulations Wisconsin!  He not only has an electoral mandate, he now has an enhanced super mandate.

Governor Walker famously removed collective bargaining from public sector employees.  We all know that government jobs (excluding armed services) are filled with gravy and perks that folks in the private sector only dream about.  Those same private sector workers are the ones forced to pay for all these perks.  This is not fair.  I envy Wisconsin and their brave leader Scott Walker.


Not only did he free the tax payer from unlimited theft by these unions, he also balanced the budget.  It's not impossible, even in this economy.  He has turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a 154.5 million surplus without raising taxes one penny.  Unemployment in Wisconsin is 6.7% against the US average of 8.2%. Even average income is higher in Walker's Wisconsin beating the US national average by 0.5%.

The single most informing statistic about the Wisconsin recall is this one:

Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011 (via American Thinker)

That is just over a 54% drop.  Public Sector Union members in Wisconsin were given the choice to be a member or nonmember.  Amazing.  The clear majority of unionized employees were involuntary members.  If you've been in a unionized environment in Canada, you know that union membership is forced on all employees whether you want it or not.  It is a clear sign that Unions are parasites on the workers they purport to represent.  This is why Unions must have the dictatorial privilege to force entire shops and job sites into membership.  The involuntary membership privilege is a key existential factor to the way unions operate around the world.  Imagine if unions had to win the trust and cooperation of their membership to gather and keep members?  Imagine how they would change for the better?

This is the reason that the big unions tried to recall Governor Walker.  Wisconsin is the example that could not be allowed to stand.  900,000 signatures were collected over 2 months by the big unions to force the recall. 

The union sponsored recall attempt not only failed, it has given Governor Scott Walker a resounding democratic mandate to keep doing what he is doing.  Walker has won the recall by 8 points, more than he won the original election.  The people want more! 

No Mulcair "Attack" Ads

A few weeks ago some of the people in the opinion business were wondering aloud why the CPC wasn't running ads about Mulcair. 

I had a theory but I didn't want to spoil it.  The NDP sure delivered though.

The Beard has come out hard against western provinces and Alberta's Oil Sands in particular.  He intends to wade into Bank of Canada territory and start managing fiscal policy.  Its a bad and stupid idea for government to directly intervene in monetary policy to begin with.  The NDP's best idea is to devalue the currency (didn't Glenn Beck say this was coming?). 

Mulcair and the NDP actually believe that a strong Canadian dollar killed manufacturing in Ontario and Quebec.  They must have missed the fact that manufacturing on both sides of the border went to China and other cheaper places.  President Obama and the Fed have done as much to inflate the Canadian dollar relative to the US dollar as anything else.  This only proves that left wing ideology is entirely capable of making good things worthless. They should also have to prove that destroying the part of the economy that works, will somehow force the part that doesn't to burst into activity.

Has anyone asked The Beard what happens to his plan of attack on the west if the Eurozone starts to default?  The NDP may find their monetary policies difficult to enforce if the Euro beats them to it.

There are so many holes in NDP goals that you have to conclude they nuts or they think their supporters are nuts.  This is why no ads are needed for Mulcair.  He's doing a fantastic job on his own!   

The NDP want your money to be worth less on purpose.  I don't suppose employers will raise wages nor will merchants ignore inflation in any part of the country.  This is right up the NDP alley actually.  You can see why they would want to tip this country into turmoil.  The employers of the east won't raise wages and won't go on hiring sprees to restore times gone by.  An NDP regime would then declare war on employers, foisting unrestricted union mayhem and wage controls on a reeling economy.  Inflation will go through the ceiling as our wealth plummets.  The NDP (and Soros) will achieve their objective in spades.  Next they would turn to price controls causing shortages and spawning black markets. 

The only western democracy to remain relatively unscathed by the great recession would succumb entirely on purpose.  The stages of terminal socialism are well documented.  I don't doubt that the collapsing dominoes of the PIIGS defaulting on their sovereign debt would trigger a second recession.  But I expect that losing a pillar of stability like Canada to the same sort of ignorant insanity touted by the NDP could also trigger a world wide recession or depression. 

Mulcair and the NDP aren't just dangerous to Albertans or Westerners or every Canadian.  The damage they intend to cause could harm the whole world.  The rich will be poor and the poor will be dead.  Thanks Tommy!  Who needs "Attack" ads when the real thing is bad enough?

So why didn't the NDP get a gruesome package?

Is it because narcissistic psychopath sadistic cannibal gay porn actor necrophiliac murderers really dig NDP ideology?

Or is it because its counter to NDP narrative and had to be hushed up?

Truth is it doesn't matter what crazy people think until they get into government and do some crazy.

EI is a Safety Net, not a Hammock. Get OFF!

I'm glad to hear that EI is getting reformed.  It's about time.

I've never received EI.  That doesn't mean I haven't tried.  When the bust of '08 got around to busting my gig as a self-employed contractor I applied.  I heard that part of the economic action plan was extending EI to self-employed people.  I involuntarily paid into it.  Time, I thought, to get something out.

Rejected.  Truth is, I wasn't expecting much.  That is government for you.  Overly expensive.  Predictably unimpressive.  When was the last time the government did something that failed to disappoint?  Exactly. 

I'm not sure why I didn't qualify.  I was too something.  I don't care what.  I don't care to be more eligible for pogey.  Some bureaucrat, whom I'm also forced to subsidize, even while losing my own business, knows better than me who needs my money and when.  Fine.

So lets see who these great bureaucratic minds forced me to pay instead.

There's Elizabeth May.  Pogey collector and proud.  She was in seasonal tourism which entitles her to an EI cheque.  She was laid off and re-hired by her family's restaurant every year.  That is how they planned it.  That is how her family arranged their business model.  Instead of scrambling to drum up winter business like true entrepreneurs, they all took a taxpayer funded vacation.  Every year.  Planning it into their business.  They could have offered baby seal hunts.  I don't know.  Put them in a pen and let the kids club them.  Blood red and snow white.  Canada's colours!  Alright, I'm kidding but you get the idea. 

Dog sledding.  Snow shoeing.  Cross Country Skiing.  Eating!  Fun is what you make it.  Try snowmobiling trips.  Try Ice Fishing.  Try Dammit!  It's so much easier to collect EI than to try.  Its too easy.  That is why it needs to change.

Did you know these well paid union workers in Ft. McMurry collect EI once a year too? 

One guy, a journeymen electrician, showed me his bank account. ~$100,000 in cash in the bank for one season's work.  He was homeless.  No Fixed Address.  He would live in camp all winter and then get laid off in the spring.  He would collect EI in his off months.  He would take his $100,000 and go live in South America while still collecting EI.  He gave me explicit details on how he screwed the taxpayer. 

Why is this allowed?  The Harper Government has already closed the door to leaving the country on EI.  Good for them.  Now they are looking closer at the repeat seasonal collectors.  GREAT!

If people don't get EI, they will find another job.  If people find another job, they won't come back.  Employers in the oil sands are already in a labour crunch.  To keep their workers they will need to end seasonal lay offs.  Its a problem that solves itself (though whiners will lose their tax funded vacation).  Other employers will do the same.

Seasonal down time can be useful.  It's time to retool, retrain and plan for next season.  I see it myself every single year in the oil patch.  Other industries can live without perpetually repeating EI.  People should live without planning to get on EI.

EI is a Safety Net, not a Hammock.  Get off!   

Thoughts on Atheism, Leftism & Religion

I don't really owe anyone an explanation regarding who I am and what I believe.  I feel the need to explain myself however since there seems to be an overwhelming number of stupid or rude atheists.  The obvious example is Bill Maher but the condition afflicts conservatives too. 

It also occurs to me that religions offer a simple road map to a person's values.  When someone says they are a Jew or a Catholic or a Muslim, you immediately know something about who they are and how they think.  It's the user guide to their operating system, if you will. 

An atheist can be anything.  You can't know anything about them because many define themselves as anti-religion rather than simply non-religious.  Most religions stress that a person should be good.  To be totally anti-religious is to be against good.  The militant disposition of many atheists serves as confirmation to believers that they are indeed evil. 

I believe this is all by design.  In political terms, the goal is to chip away at the big tent of conservatism leaving only the socially conservative base.  Liberty and economic freedom are the unifying factors of conservatism that are ignored or vacuously mocked by the left.  Atheists and social conservatives are driven against each other similarly to other single issue groups.   

Militant atheism is actually subset of militant leftism.  Observe how similar militant atheism is to militant feminism, militant environmentalism, militant racism (though they still call it equality), militant LGTB etc... 

I have no problem with any of those things in their true and fair forms.  If feminism is about the equal opportunity of both sexes than I'm a feminist.  If Environmentalism is about conservation and efficiency then I'm an environmentalist.  If Equal Rights are about equality of the races then I am on board.  I actually don't believe in races.  Science doesn't define race beyond the Human race so why would I buy into the social scientist (they aren't scientists) garbage? 

I simply believe there is no God.  I'm just not wired that way.  I don't have that pull toward the supernatural.  God is so obvious and so strong in some very smart people that I've concluded that they have some kind of wetware that I don't have.  Maybe its like an antenna where you can tune into the presence of God?  Whatever it is, I don't have it.

It's nothing against you believers. 

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not even absolutely sure about atheism.  I'm an agnostic who's made an informed decision.  I'm not sitting on the fence.  I'm off the fence and standing the "maybe He isn't," side of things.

It's not about my Dad or a run in with a mean preacher.  It's not to feel superior either.  I am clearly inferior to many believers whom I hold in high regard.  It's nothing more than an apolitical observation of nature.

This is where I caught on to the leftist game.  Remember Sinead Oconor tearing up the photo of Pope John Paul II?  I don't get that.  What's wrong with the Pope?  Of all the people to get pissed at, she hates the Pope?  John Paul II was a good one.  "Silencio!" He told some communists once.  Yeah.  Shut up!

I mean, fine, you don't like Catholicism.  Go someplace else.  Its a worshipers market.  Whatever your preference, there is a church for you. 

Catholicism and the Pope are evil?  Nope.  Don't buy that crap either.  Leftist manipulation of the weak minded.  So my dear departed Grandmother, who spent her life wishing, wishing, wishing on her knees for goodness and favor and protection, that was largely received, is evil?  Sorry, I can think of a whole lot of evil in the world beyond that.  Evil that lefties routinely apologize for.  -strategize for.  -lie for.  

Religion is not the enemy.  The Left is the enemy of Mankind. 

An ideology that would force atheism on good people would not hesitate to indoctrinate them with their own beliefs.  Look no farther than the green religion.  Environmentalism has become the secular religion. 

Giai is not a God.  There are no sins against the Earth.  It needs no offerings or gestures.  Holy days like Earth Day and Earth Hour are as unremarked and unnoticed by the earth as detonating a Hydrogen bomb.  The Earth does not get happy or sad if you eat organic food or Poutine from a burger joint.

The Earth is not a God.  It is not sentient.  It is not even alive.  Yet people insist on endowing it with an imaginary spirit and a will.  This is no different than worshiping the sun or a golden cow.  It is still encouraged by our "secular" society.  

I won't exchange freedom for tyranny simply to stamp on the beliefs of my forebears.  They have built the greatest free society in history.  I honour their achievement, even if I don't agree with them about everything.  I'm not about to subscribe to the leftist wholesale ruin of our civilisation for the chance to swap one religion for another.

The War on Humans

Humans are a part of Nature.  I would say the best part. 

Those who disagree set Mankind apart from nature.  They view mankind and all of its works as unnatural.  Everything unnatural is evil to the earth worshipers.  Nature is preferable and takes precedence over the unnatural.  This puts Mankind below the lowest microbe.

Beaver dams and Bee hives are sacred to these people.  Hydro dams and drilling rigs are an abomination.  Humans demand human works for human life and happiness.  The Co-founder of Greenpeace coined the term Anti-human for what these misguided misanthropes wish for. 

Oil is a naturally occurring substance.  The Oil Sands were deposited naturally.  Humans naturally want to live happily and grow.  Liberating the oil enriches the lives of tens of millions of people even leaving the sand "cleaner" than we found it. 

Let's be honest here.  When an Eco-nut talks about nature what they mean is "no humans."  When they say they love nature.  They are saying they love 'no humans' or they hate humans.     

Eco-nuts in Canada have started touting the "War on Nature" as the response to the realization they are at war with Humans.  They have been waging it for decades now.  Other than mainstream liberal news outlets repeating their telling phrases: "War on Nature" there isn't really much to this latest offensive.  There is talk of ads but so far its just talk.

#BlackOutSpeakOut is all there is.  Websites who appose accountability for political pseudo charities will black out their content in protest.  I have to say that I wholeheartedly support this.  I think every crackpot eco-nut site should shut down in protest.  Drag it out for months.  Knock yourselves out.  I mean that.

June 4th is the day that the Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Pembina, WWF, Environmental Defence.... etc are going to blackout their own pages.  You can imagine the shock waves that these organizations in eternal freak out mode will cause when they freak out once more. 

I pity the clueless marketing exec that follows them.

The Occupy Guy Scrutinized

Remember this smug Occupy spokesman?



He gave me the creeps. 


You know how Anonymous tries to come off like some ominous Bond villain type organization?  "We do not forgive. We do not forget.  We are legion.  Expect Us."  You have to snort.  They are playing G.I.Joe and Cobra and they think they are Cobra. 

This guy, Harrison Schultz, seemed like the Sinn Féin of Occupy and Anonymous.  A Guy Fawkes who took off his mask.  He doesn't want reform.  He doesn't want fix anything.  He wants to tear it all down.

Hannity reveals why.

So he's an unemployed loser living off of grad school loans?  Ha!  Yeah he wants to bring down the system.  He's up to his ears in debt and actually thinks revolution is the answer.  This guy is clueless and desperate.

This video really put a smile on my face.  If Schultz embodies everything that occupy is then there is really nothing to worry about.  They aren't storming the gates of our civilization so much.  Its more like a frantic retreat from reality in our general direction.    It's a problem of delusional expectations. 

Its comical and even a little uplifting. 

I pity that smug smirking liberal occupy guy.  He is like so many liberals out there.  Remove the mask and all you have is a freightened and confused child.