Privatize the CBC

I just read an excellent column in the National Post by Stephen Taylor.  In it he takes a random sample of the CBC's flagship program "The National" and of course finds media bias.  Anyone who isn't an indoctrinated liberal zombie knows about this.  Its been going on for years.  Have a look at some old posts of mine here and here.

The CBC doesn't report the truth.  It makes the truth.  It uses its authority as national public broadcaster to exert political influence for its own socialist agenda.  It may as well get beamed out from the V mothership.   Not only is its message foul and biased, but its practices are an extension of that bias.  One look at its lineup and its plain to see that our very own bailout baby is a an arm of the Liberal party.  What conservatives they do have play the useful idiots.  They have a role because they are chronically unhappy with the government and so serve a Liberal purpose.

Take the case of Frank Graves for example.  We all know about the "Culture War" he thinks is best for the Liberals.  We can all have our opinions.  But the CBC has a pattern of preferentially seeking out Liberal opinions.  Liberal thinkers get big fat paychecks from the CBC, which in turn ends up as donations to the Liberal party.  David Suzuki earned his stripes where?  He didn't earn them studying fruit flys.  He earned them lecturing about things he did not discover for the CBC.  The CBC again elevates their champion by hosting a"Greatest Canadian" show declaring him at least a great Canadian.  The Suzuki Foundation, his child, endorsed the Liberal Party in the last election.  He has many vile quotes against the Conservative Party, and has had many interviews on "The Hour", yet another pro Liberal production. 

Stromboli's "The Hour" frequents guests like Micheal Ignatieff, George Galloway, Hillary Clinton, Stephane Dion and other leading leftards (if you can call that leading).    Strombo himself gives several on air hints about his politics being uniformly Liberal.

All this leaves a great many around this country wondering why we give this institution, The Ministry of Liberal if you will, its annual bailout year after year.  Its obvious that the CBC could not survive as a competitive free market player in its current configuration.  It means that Canadians are funding their own demise.  We know liberal ideas to be as bankrupt as the CBC itself.  Why do the people have to suffer taxes to deliver a poisonous message nobody listens to or wants to hear?

I know.  The next part of this argument is about all the good things the CBC does.  Well lets compartmentalize all that stuff.  CBC sports sounds like a good channel to me.  Anything that can float on its own, should get to float on its own.  Sink the rest.  Lets see how biased and independent they can be when they are really independent.  The CBC is much worse than the huge sum of its parts.

The only innocent reason I can see for all this is that maybe the CBC doesn't do this on purpose.  Perhaps Liberals self select the media and the CBC in particular.  What could be better to a Liberal mind than the illegitimate power that comes from media?  What could be better than state funded media?  Its all a great feedback loop where poison breeds further poison. 

The only possible repentance for the CBC would be to truly change its ways.  Perhaps it could split itself in two.  Well, split itself in four since there are already two CBCs, french and english.  If bias cannot be removed it can either die or roll with it.  Embrace bias and service both views.  Compete against itself.  The only other option  is to have some kind of affirmative action, where Conservatives are given a national voice on par with that of Liberals.  Not just at the business end of a camera but in all departments.

I say the market should decide.

What are you guys waiting for?

You is the government.  Do something fiscally Conservative.  I hear and read all over the place that Harper is a socialist, and that we are just Liberals now.  Even Liberals have caught on (the morons).

That proves 2 things.

1. People have forgotten how terrible the Liberals were/are.
2. That its time to go back to our roots and start acting like Conservatives again.

The recession is over, but we aren't clear yet.  Greece's debts are now junk.  I want the stimulus to play out as planned.  The whole plan.  That means no more stimulus after.  We have to start paying that money back without new taxes.  Then we'll find out if this Keynesian experiment really worked.  I'll want the truth, not dogma.  Did it work or not?  You must take the stimulus of the whole world into account especially in the US.  If we did not pitch in with our own stimulus, we would have been shut out due to protectionism.

What else can be done?  Tax cuts.  Privatization.  De-regulation.  Legalization.  Hurry.

I can't keep telling everyone that our hands are tied forever.  I believe that you are fiscally conservative but you are still playing chess.  Lets stop positioning and attack already.

Bring out that a fat Liberal lamb for slaughter.  I'm hungry for cuts, and Liberal lamb chops are on the menu.

Whats the worst they can do?  -Call an election?

Liberals want to teach you how to eat with your own money

80 million dollars is chump change to a Liberal.  That is what they plan to spend on a campaign urging you to eat local food.  Rural people already eat rural food.  The Liberal deceit is in taking money from rural people who already know what to do, in order to teach city dwelling Liberal voters an obvious fact.

Here is an idea that Liberal will never think of.  Why don't Urbanites grow their own food?  A sensible City like Calgary not only votes in Conservatives but the City has implemented an urban chicken pilot project.  Although raising urban chickens is portrayed as a progressive idea its actually very Libertarian.

Conservative reasons to grow your own chickens.

• produce fresh consumable eggs daily.
• escape government regualtions
• avoid taxes
• avoid all transportation costs of eggs
• secure food source
• free garden fertilizer.
• cheaper than owning a kitten
• Give eggs away.

My mother kept about 10 chickens on our acreage.  They would roam  free during the day while our dogs kept watch.  At night they would go back to their coup on their own.   We would lock it to keep out predators.  In the morning we would have at least a half dozen fresh eggs.  Every morning.  We could not possibly eat all the eggs.  Visitors had to leave our house with at least one carton of eggs.  No payment accepted.

I would be happy with 3 chickens.  If all goes well it will be fully legal in Calgary very soon.

You can already grow backyard chickens in Toronto.  Just Google it.  Is this really worth 80 million?

We don't need $80 million ripped from our pockets in yet another Liberal scheme.  We don't need more programs.  We don't need more CUPE members justifying their salaries and pensions.  We need less government.  We need fewer laws.  We need to enforce those few laws.


Of course we all know how Liberals operate.  They will give contracts to firms who are Liberal friendly in exchange for donations.  That money started out as your annual bonus at your job, but Liberals think you should be giving them your bonus.  Make no mistake.  Corporate taxes still take your money.  Its taken from your RRSPs and investments.  Its taken from your next raise.  Its taken from the person who needs that private sector job.  Its taken from your next bonus.  A Liberal government will take its bonus first and it doesn't even have to say please.

Iggy says that he will get the money for scrapping corporate tax cuts that haven't even been cut yet.   That means by not cutting taxes in the future Iggy has somehow produced 80 million dollars.  That makes no sense.  We will just be in the hole by 80 million more than before.

Liberals obviously think you are stupid.  They use a rational only an ignoramus or an idiot could accept for the expressed purpose of making their people less stupid.

I'm really tired of their crap.  We all know what they want to do.  Make a carbon tax to rape and pillage the west to make a big fat nanny state.  Lets have an election and get this Minority into a Majority.  We don't have time for the daily opposition tricks.  The economy is getting better and its time for cuts.  Lets get that mandate and make this country great.  I dare you Iggy.  Are you chicken?

Scientist Claims Earthquakes Caused by Gobal Warming

Hilarious!  We were expecting this.  If prostitution could be caused by Global Warming then what couldn't be?  My next bet is that the American Dental Association will claim that plaque and gingivitis are caused by Global Warming.

How did anything happen before Global Warming?  Genesis will have to be rewritten.  Here goes:  In the beginning there was Global Warming.  Then God said: "Let there be Socialism."  Then there was Socialism, and it was good.

Ok I can't have too much fun without providing the link.  Here it is courtesy of CBS news.  The warmist is Dr. Tom Chalko, whom I thank for today's deep belly laughs.

The interesting part is that I don't necessarily dispute that there might be uptick in geologic activity lately.  Connecting this to the Theory of Global Warming however is more than absurd.

update: not much of an update since this is a couple of years old already, but still funny.  I honestly haven't heard of it until yesterday.   Watts Up With That has a great article about it.


Here are some cool pics of the Volcano in Iceland.  Boy.  When Nature "pollutes" she doesn't mess around.

Shout Racism

A policy of the left is to shout racism where none exists.  This makes sense since the cause of racism has been appropriated by the socialists.  So many initially good causes have been appropriated by socialists.  Sexism, environmentalism, racism, anything that can be bent towards redistribution of wealth is used by the socialist.

Today I participated in a thread at Barrel Strength.  I encourage you to read through it.  A socialist shows up  throwing racism comments around.

I found this clip over at The Right Scoop.  Its applicable to this topic because the Tea parties have been falsely accused of racism by the left wing lame stream media.


Equality is uncontested.  Socialists want more than equality, they want to take from one group and give to another group based on arbitrary reasons like race or environment or sex.  To do this they must take power over both groups so that they have the ability to grant or remove rights or property.  At some point Socialists end up using force to exercise their powers.

Our society already lives with a necessary evil of taxes.  The socialist does not have a built in abhorrence for large government.  Taxes are readily used by socialists to extend the scope of government in limitless directions.  The goal is to take the individuals means of exerting power over their own lives and use those means to exert power over the individual.

There isn't a problem that socialists can see that doesn't require a new bureaucracy to administer a new program requiring a new tax.  The program doesn't have to work.  They typically don't.  The important part is those new government jobs and yet more tax.

Not Just French Culture is in Trouble, Western Civilization is Failing

Update:  The Globe has a neat article on this very subject (coincidence?).   The author claims the above scenario is a fairy tail but he doesn't provide any reasoning or proof to back that up.  He does however question the assumptions and then claim that religious fundamentalists of all stripes will  not dominate the future.  The fact remains that we just don't know one way or another.  Here is a little rhyme I remind myself of when dealing with statistics.

A trend is a trend is a trend.But the question is: will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force, and come to a premature end?

A Short History of Corruption

Jean Charest appointed a former Supreme court Justice to the inquiry today.  This Judge, Michel Bastarache, was never appointed previously by Quebec and is therefore a little more trustworthy.  The inquiry seeks to expose weather revelations made by Marc Bellemare are true.  The former Justice minister, turned whistle blower, has claimed in several interviews that party bagmen pressured the government to appoint Judges they requested.  He also claims to have witnessed illegal cash donations made by the construction industry.

Corruption has a long history in Quebec.

Recall Brian Mulroney's Airbus scandal.  The former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister proved too slippery for the multiple investigations into that matter.  For reasons unknown Mr.Mulroney received a cash stuffed envelope from Karlheinz Schreiber.  Most people have had enough of this little mystery.  They have concluded that Mr. Mulroney was probably a crook, and that the extinction of his party is enough punishment for one politician anyway.

Then came the Liberals under Jean Chretien.  The scandal was called Adscam or the Sponsorship Scandal.  Money was paid to ad agencies for no work and then donated into the Liberal Party.  Approximately 100 million dollars was lost by the taxpayer, some of it only to damage taxpayers further by ending up in Liberal Party hands.  The Liberals promised to pay the money back, but as with all Liberal promises, they have not been honoured.

Now we hear of more scandals at the provincial level.  Jean Charest was once leader of the same party Brian Mulroney led.  Will he be able to stay above suspicion?  Is he as unflappable and Paul Wells once claimed him to be?

He may yet escape, but his party will feel the judgment of the voter.  They are rightfully peeved already about large tax hikes.  Peeved enough to storm the Finance Minsters office and protest in the thousands.  The 77% disapproval of Jean Charest before this newest scandal will surely get worse.