Saturday, July 9, 2011

Is the Last Shuttle the High Water Mark for Western Civilization?

Usually I have nothing but harsh words for the media.

Yesterday was different and it was because of the last Space Shuttle launch.  Thanks for the coverage.

I used to be a huge space buff.  I still am, but I had to put my limited resources into saving the country from the stupidest politicians.  Now that the least stupid ones are sitting in the most dangerous positions we can relax a bit.

I especially want to thank Charles Adler for his show yesterday.  He had Robert Zubrin and Seth Shostack among others on today to talk about Mars and Alien contact respectively.  I haven't heard those names in so long and I remember now how much I admired them.

If you get the chance watch the BBC series Hyperspace.  Its a bit old now but its narrated by Sam Niel and its very well done.  BBC's politics might be biased but they do make some fine documentaries.

The thing that struck me about all this is how far we've (humanity) dropped since the heyday of Apollo and the Shuttle programs.  The last Space Shuttle mission might be the high water mark for western civilization.  All that is left now is the hitch-a-ride-on-old-communist-junk program.  Its sad.  I look at movies like Avatar and think of how remote that vision of the future is today.

Remember Avatar?  Its about a dark and terrible future where we can travel the gap between stars, grow alien clones in a tank and pilot them in complete sensory emersion virtual reality from a fortress on another planet.  That wasn't stupendous, it was wrong and oppressive and a vehicle for atrocity.  Do you see what they are doing to us?

There will be no epics among the stars or even our own planets.  Some say there never was a future like that.  The people who think the space future of the fifties was all a dream forget about the Cold War.  The most powerful nations built fleets of tens of thousands of rockets and buried them underground to collect cobwebs.  Thank goodness.  We got our space future.  It was just different than expected.

Now there is nothing and no plans to go anywhere or do anything except to try and validate Global Warming so that the socialists can control everything.  Disgusting.  Nasa's Rick Hansen is one the primary little green men who push Global Warming hysteria with their every breath.  He is even proud of sabotaging the air conditioners at landmark hysteria conferences for good visuals of overheated bureaucrats.  That sort of attitude pervades the warmist community.

The end result will be the stifling of growth, the decline of the economy and the ultimate inability to project human will into outer space for the benefit of all mankind.  Freedom loving human beings from all races and religions who read this must realise that the hydra of socialism, the cult of giai environmentalism, and defeatist liberalism are a poison and a curse on us all.  They must be fought wherever their stink is found.  They must be pushed back, discredited and dismantled.

So thanks again for talking about space and reminding me what the quest is all about.  Its a war for the future. 

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Doubt of the Benefit

I'm trying to get my head around this story from Sun Media today.

Conservatives send congrats to Chinese communists

I don't get it.  Why would our president go out of his way to send birthday wishes to the Communist Party of China?  Ironically the acronym for both parties is the CPC.  Funny.

Is this a result of the recent security breach of the Conservative website?  Is it just Chinese propaganda?  Is John Walsh looking to make a spectacular exit?

If he really did write this letter then I suggest his resignation letter is soon to follow.  It had better be.

I'm trying to imagine what benefit would come from sending the Communist Party a birthday note.  There is no political benefit.  There is a substantial cost in fact.  Was there some favor owed or solicited?  Maybe he really doesn't understand what the heck he is president of and thought he was doing a good thing.

Diplomats I can understand.  Being nicey nicey to their evil hosts can only make their jobs easier even if its all crap.

This makes no sense.  I'm going to need an explanation.  I'm still a loyal CPC supporter but I can't in good conscience participate in a party who's president honestly believes 90 years of totalitarian Communist control is something worth congratulating.

Did you send the letter Mr. Walsh?  Is this out of context somehow?  I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because I greatly doubt the benefits of this move.

Drop Progressive from Conservative Parties

Its time for a name change for parties that sport Progressive in their titles but are actually conservative.  Sorry.  Liberals and Socialists have taken up Progressive as one of their key words.  It matters.  Whenever the electorate begins to realize what socialists are all about, they change the name and keep the ideology.

This is why Socialists became Liberals and now Liberals are Progressives.  Its more palatable they think.  I know what was meant by Progressive when applied to Conservatives.  The route word is progress while its anything but.  Now progressive is about the progress of bigger and bigger government.  Its about progress of the laws over people who follow them and coddling for people who don't.  Its the same way that Liberals are liberal with spending good peoples money.  The classical liberal is gone and so is the progressive.  They are all just socialists.

Do you doubt me?  Good.  Google Progressive.   Here is what you see when the Liberal Party shows up.
The Liberal "blog" goes out of its way to use the word progress and its derivatives in every post.  "..The summer progresses..., ...we are making progress...'' etc...  You might not want to drop your P word yet but they are obviously moving in on it. 

Lets ask Alf Apps, Liberal Party President, what he thinks Liberals are:




The Alberta PC's can keep Progressive.  They are more progressive than conservative.  The rest of you PC's had better think long and hard about what progressive means and what its coming to mean.  Do you really want to be socialist conservatives?  Its not about progress.

The End of the Beginning for Wild Rose

The introductions are over.  Everyone knows the Wild Rose Alliance is on the scene and looking to clean out the decrepid old PC Party.  We know that the Wild Rose Alliance is the real thing.  They are the grass roots, once in a generation revival of true conservative principals here in Alberta.  Their aim is nothing short of replacing the PC pretenders.

Who are PC's anyway?  Progressive Conservatives.  Progressive is the Politically Correct way to say Liberal in the west.    Its as if they are ashamed of just being conservative.  They have to qualify it with progressive.

Like the federal Liberals before them, the PC's have become a Natural Governing Party.  Its not surprising that people who like to call themselves progressive will also think that a Natural Governing Party is the ultimate goal of a political entity.  They think its a good thing.  They see nothing wrong with becoming the uncontested supreme rulers of an electorate such that there is no choice for a responsible citizen but their choice.  A natural governing party is the de facto government and not responsible to its citizens.  Nothing is uglier to a freedom loving conservative than the specter of an entitled and entrenched natural governing party like the PC's. 

This isn't just rhetoric.  The progressive disease is deeply entwined with every move this Alberta Government makes.  Lets run through some the larger controversies the PC government has caused recently.
  •  The Royalty Review.
  • The Health Care Review
  • Carbon Schemes
  • Summarily shutting down private zoos
  • seizing oil sands leases
An entire book can written about each one of those above and I'm sure there are more.  The common thread between each of them is the big uncaring natural government of the PC's trampling the rights of citizens in favor of their pet bureaucracy.

The PC's have been sitting there so long I can't see a difference between the politicians and the bureaucracy.  Its almost like bureaucrats colonized the PC ranks in the decades since their ascendancy.  The route to any real power lies with the PC party.  There isn't much left except people desperate to get in power and stay in power for their own sake.

There are some glimmers of hope for individual characters in the PC Party.  I look forward to your inclusion in the Wild Rose Alliance. 

The take home message for Wild Rose is that the PC party has to go.  Its not going to go easily.  Its going to get ugly and juvenile over there.  Look at it already.

Keep your heads.  Let them be petty because its all they've got.  Enunciate the points above and keep bringing up new ones.  People have to know clearly why the PC's are no longer acceptable.  They have to see how this government reacts when it gets caught doing something bad and understand that if not for perceptive citizens they would have merrily continued and congratulated themselves for it afterwards.  

People need to know that if the government can grab back leases they sold fair and square and shut down private businesses without hearings or trials then they can do anything!  Your success is at the pleasure of the bureaucrats. 

Its not enough to trot out the speech about Alberta's political history.  You know the one.  Social Credit was swept out and now the PC's are going to be swept out.  It was awesome hearing that the first 10 times, even once on the CBC.  What we have to know now is explicitly why the PC's should be swept out.  The introductions are over.  There is so much to work with too.

Take Stelmach for example.  I've got nothing against him as a person, but as a premier?  What an embarrassment.  I felt sorry for him.  He was in way over his head from day one.  The only good thing he ever did was quit and look how long its taken him to just do that?  -Not before he helped himself to a huge cash goodbye present though.  He's got a sympathetic face but he is one self-entitled PC reject.

Our Wild Rose, Danielle Smith, will lead us to victory and as Premier be the shining example to Canada that we all demand.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Happy Canada Day!

A very Happy Canada Day to you, your Family and all your Friends.  Thank you each for making us all feel so lucky.  Now, get out there and enjoy it. 

Monday, June 27, 2011

Apologies Rejected

I could not read this message from a Vancouver Police Officer without re-posting it.  The message is anonymous but the words ring true. 

Please Stop Apologizing: a police officer’s letter to rioters

Dear 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Rioters,

Please stop saying you’re sorry. Stop posting YouTube videos begging for forgiveness. Stop writing letters asking that society cut you some slack and leave you alone.

While you were drunk and flipping cars, I was driving with all of my emergency equipment on to get into Vancouver. While you were throwing anything you could get your hands on at the police, I was pressure testing my APR and standing in the middle of the tear gas. While you and thousands of others disgraced Vancouver and its surrounding population, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a couple hundred men and women, whom I trust my life with, ready to address your indiscretions.

You came up to me like you owned the streets in your drunken stupor, thrust your middle fingers in my face and shouted obscenities; I didn’t snap you in half.

Actions speak louder than words.

You started “harmless” fires. You torched other men and women’s cars whom you’d never met and never did you wrong. You assaulted firemen as they arrived to try and deal with your “mistakes”. You took limited, valuable emergency resources away from good people who needed them. You endangered more lives by tying up emergency services than you ever considered.

You started fights. You stabbed people you’d never met because they somehow made you angry. You gave men and women trying to protect property life altering concussions. You brought paramedics into the tear gas and exhausted them trying to save people they’d never met.

You showed up to hospital emergency rooms crying because you’d been exposed to tear gas. You got obnoxious and demanded to be treated like you were somehow dying. You knew it was a riot, you chose not to leave, you chose to stick around and breathe the tear gas in. You took nurses and doctors away from people who needed their care to live. People they’d never met but work tirelessly to save. You demanded to be treated as if you were better than the rest of society.

You’d tell me that the emergency services personnel I speak of are paid to do this job and chose to be there. You’re right. We give a damn about people we’ve never met and property that isn’t ours, that’s why we do what we do. You disgust us.

What brought a tear to my eye, after the gas had cleared, was standing in the middle of an intersection at about 3am the only people I’d seen for the last 30 minutes were other police officers, until a shop keeper brought us a case of water. Then I saw a random person with a broom clearing the sidewalk. I had a duty to respond, the citizens of Vancouver immediately afterward could have just left it up to those paid to deal with it. They didn’t just stand by, they came out in force and cleaned up after your indiscretions. Everyone I saw that early morning thanked me, I was only doing my job. I have the utmost respect for all of the people from Vancouver and the surrounding areas that came downtown and volunteered to clean up after you.

You owe Vancouver and the surrounding population more than mere words. Don’t you dare ask for our forgiveness without taking responsibility. You can’t fix life altering injuries with an “I’m Sorry”. You can’t repay someone’s car loan with a YouTube video. You ask that people leave you and your family alone but you offer no way to replace priceless losses.

You’ll sleep soundly in your bed tonight because men and women like me will always be there to deal with your poor choices. You have no idea how fortunate you are, even after we arrest and charge you. Even though you disgust me, if you call for me in the middle of the night I’ll respond. I’ll protect your life and property because it’s right and it’s what I do.

The evening of June 15, 2011 fellow emergency services personnel, my brothers and sisters, left our families at home and while grossly out numbered stood to fight. The morning of June 16, 2011 the true heroes emerged to volunteer their time and restored my faith in humanity.
Actions speak louder than words. What are you going to do about that?

— a police officer from the suburbs, who was called in to serve and protect on that night; a proud Vancouverite.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Good Cop, Bad Cop: The Conservative Party and Sun News

I'm still amazed and delighted at the situation conservatives find themselves in today. 

On one hand we have the majority Conservative Government.  It's a government that obliterated the vote subsidy and is legislating not one but two unions back to work while Jack Layton has to watch.  All this before the summer recess and they aren't shy about Senate Reform either.  Love it.  The gun registry is as good as gone and the economy is chugging right along.  Look at our guys go!  Keep it up.

On the other hand we have Sun News.  Extremely conservative media.  Every second is an in-your-face to the liberal establishment media.   Its awesome.  Today Ezra Levant, who is a free speaking hero in his own right, had Ann Coulter on his show.  They talked about mobs and riots and how any issue advocated by the left becomes one with rioting mobs.  At one point Ann wanted to claim BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan as US states.  Very flattering.  I'm sure this is just one of her sensationalisms, but the funny thing is that if nationalism wasn't an issue, I'd bet there are more US States that would rather be under Stephen Harper than under Barack Obama. Get your citizenship ahead of the rush Ann.

Its a great time to be Canadian.  I contend that these increasingly opposed forces are fantastic for political discourse in Canada.  There's a new argument going on.  Its not just the force fed left wing dialectic we've all grown up with anymore.  Its the center right Conservative Government vs. the extreme right Sun News.  Excellent.  The Government won't be able to get away with anything that socialists decide gets a free pass, while also getting a vocal cheerleader for good conservative moves.  Its good cop, bad cop.

In case you don't know, Good cop-bad cop, or bad cop-worse cop as you prefer, is an urban legend where 2 cops interrogate a suspect by pretending one is crazy so that the suspect sides with the friendly cop to avoid losing fingers or whatever.  The Conservative Party gets to play the good cop, while Sun News is the bad cop. 

Who's the suspect then?  There are so many, but one of the big ones is the CBC. 

Recently, Sun News has taken issue with Heritage Minister James Moore and the CBC.  Specifically with the Canada Day celebrations that have been auctioned exclusively to the CBC and no other broadcaster.  Sun News has been very hostile to James Moore about this.  Sun News is loathed by liberals from coast to coast. When they bash James Moore because he sticks up for the State Broadcaster the CBC, you can't help but think James Moore ends up as the hero to those that love the CBC. 

I like James Moore.  He's clean and effective, the way good Conservative Ministers should be. 
He's got a tough job and that is fine because he can handle it.  That's why he takes the big bucks.  I don't think partisans should have anything to worry about when Sun News attacks.  It makes James Moore into the good cop from the perspective of the CBC.  If CBC is smart, they will become more and more pro government.  They will never be conservative, its just not in their DNA.  Canada Post would not have invented the internet or fax machines, you can't expect the CBC to suddenly decide that they should not exist and enable that line of thinking.  At the very least they will stop being the media party and support the government more often.  A victory. 

As for Sun News they need to keep doing what they are doing.  Attack, attack, attack, then attack some more.  There are generations of liberal attitudes to dissolve and we have a small window to spread the alternative.  This is how it works.  This is how you make the CBC knuckle under to a Conservative Government.  They know what we think of them, and it's only James Moore that stands between us, Sun News, and the CBC. 


Also note:

I would caution Sun News.  Don't take yourselves too seriously.  I'm not entirely sure the public cares at all if CBC got the Canada day bid or not.  Be careful you all don't get too excited over something that excites an upstart broadcaster more than anyone else.  We all have our cracker factories and their rivalries with the other cracker factories.  Just dial it down a notch if at all possible.  All of your angry words for James Moore and the CBC the other day didn't really hold up when I went over to CBC to see how things are looking.  When I watch the CBC I see a chipper blond with a cute smile that kinda trumps the angry men at Sun News.  I'm saying this because I love you.  You have to save the crisis attitude for a real crisis.  Barack Obama is not my president and I do not need a furrowed brow all of the time.  There is always a big deal around the corner and it doesn't involve you.  I'll come to you to hear all about it though.  Keep at it.