Senator Boxer aka Jim Crow

Senator Boxer exposes herself as an intolerant racist, giving credence to the truth of liberal fascism.

CUPE Continues to Hold TO Hostage

Every day I walk down the street and notice the trash outside my building. CUPE workers are nowhere to be seen, but the every day commerce of the city in small shops, restaurants, and boutiques continues. I can't help but thinking that Toronto would be a lot better off without CUPE, as they continue to make insane demands for wages, benefits, and sick days that no one else could even dream of having.

Just watch this woman be prevented from going to a public place by ignorant, uneducated, non-working union goons. Or check out this lazy CUPE member pretend to be hurt. I'd like to know why the police are so utterly useless. How can a union prevent people from going to a public place? What right does CUPE have from preventing traffic from flowing where people are legally permitted to go? The cops are a big part of the problem here, or rather that commissioner, Chief William Blair, who is obviously taking orders from pro-union mayor David Miller.

If there was ever a reason to privatize, just go to Etobicoke and breathe in the clean air where private workers are doing a great job keeping things clean and tidy (at must lower cost). Then drive down Bloor, Lakeshore, or Dundas to Toronto proper and breath in the smell of decaying garbage and rotting fruit. Remember that smell for the next time municipal elections come around.

The current garbage strike is a nice picture of socialism run amok. If CUPE can block people from using public spaces without repercussions, I don't see any reason why private residents of Toronto can't drop off their garbage on the front lawns and porches of any city worker on strike. Hey, just wondering...

Reagan's State of the Union Resounds Today

President Reagan's 1984 State of the Union speech is entirely properly and fitting well over 20 years later. Obama has chosen to repeat the exact mistakes of his mentor and ideological twin, Jimmy Carter, the worst president in the history of the United States. America is on its way to returning to a cultural malaise with a stagnant economy, swelling government, and weakening stature in the world. Big government inevitably leads to smaller wealth creation and diminished growth. The celebrity president may make a good speech with the help of a teleprompter, but he's paving the way to American decline and danger.

Global Warming: It's Redistribution Stupid

Every once in a while, the religion of global warming exposes itself for what it really is: a socialist plan to redistribute wealth on a global scale.

"To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country."

With communism, socialism, fascism (yes, national socialism was left wing) and every other left-wing statist ideology cast upon the ash heap of history, the central planners have turned to the environment to push their agenda of increasing government control at the expense of individual freedom. They want to regulate your light bulbs, your car, your garbage bags, your grocery bags, and even the air you exhale. With the environment as the focal point of the "collective good", there's nothing beyond the grasp of climate central planners.

Never mind that Los Angeles just had a record cold June, the coldest on record as a matter of fact. Ignore that Greenland's ice isn't melting at an alarming rate, the record cold winters in Toronto for the past two years, and that there's been no global warming since 1998.

Just bow down and obey Pope Gore, Priest Suzuki, and Cardinal Obama. Do not question, do not be skeptical. The government knows best. Now pay up.

The Economy Slides Further

President Obama's stimulus has thus far, stimulated nothing but the deficit and federal debt. Meanwhile, the oinking from the pork echoes and the smell of bacon drifts through the warm streets of Washington DC.

It was announced that another 467,000 jobs were lost in June. Yes, almost half a million in a month. That's certainly change, but there's not much hope from statistics like that.

So let's be clear: Obama has no freakin' clue what he's doing. He's trying to jam everything through now before he's exposed as the incompetent lightweight he is. I think even Jimmy Carter's presidency could look endurable if Barack continues down this path of destruction.

Sooner or later, if Cap & Tax, Soviet health care, and a 2nd stimulus are passed, the Democrats and the "state run media" will have to start wondering why unemployment is approaching 15%.

Here's the kicker. If you want to stimulate the economy, you have to make business and the private sector grow, not the government. For every new government worker and dollar that goes to the public sector, the wealth generating engine is squeezed and suffocated that much more. Remember this simple rule: government produces nothing. If we all worked for the government, we'd starve. Just look at Kim Jong Il, Mao and Stalin if you want proof.

Until President Hopey-Changer realizes that to start creating and even "saving" jobs, he'll have to make the cost of business less by cutting taxes, regulation, and barriers to trade. Until then... happy deficits.

Obama Sides With Chavez & Castro

In true Carter-esque fashion, el-Presidente Obama condemned the "coup" in Honduras. While Obama was slow to criticize the brutal repression and killing of demonstrators in Iran, he wasted no time coming to the vocal defence of radically left wing President Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya was removed from power by the military with the support of the Congress and the judiciary for trying to unconstitutionally extend his presidential term.

FNS reports: "It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections," Obama said in the Oval Office after meeting with Colombian President Alviro Uribe. "The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don't want to go back to a dark past."

The past he refers to of course is the past that he and other far leftists see as one where "evil" America intervened and meddled in South America to the detriment of the proletariat. Obama subscribes to a historical realm of thought that views America as an agent of evil and oppression in the world rather than one that promotes liberty, justice, and individual rights.

Obama's criticism of the events in Honduras rings hollow. He was cowardly in his statements on Iran when students and democratic activists were dying in the streets at the hands of the Basij, not unlike his lefty appeaser soul mate, Jimmy Carter.

So what really happened in Honduras? The WSJ reports:

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.
But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.
The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.
...The struggle against chavismo has never been about left-right politics. It is about defending the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators. This crisis clearly delineates the problem. In failing to come to the aid of checks and balances, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Insulza expose their true colors."

Obama takes his stand alongside Chavez and Castro. What has happened to America?

Ontario PC Boredom

I couldn't get excited about the Ontario PC's. Christine Elliot and Frank Klees are simply Liberals dressed in blue. I don't really understand what differentiates them from Dear Leader Dalton in any substantive way.

Hudak seems alright, but it's not like the guy really generates any excitement or bold ideas. I'm happy to hear he wants to get rid of half of the Human Rights Racket, but why he wants to keep the other half is either cowardly or nonsensical. Randy Hillier has given me some hope, but he's not going to win. Nevertheless, his policies are decidedly conservative and market friendly.

I'd like to hear a strong statement regarding the privatization of the LCBO. It is absolutely backwards and Soviet that the government monopolizes this legal industry. The threats of striking by retail workers at the LCBO is reason enough to privatize the whole liquor sales system immediately.

If Frank Klees does pull out a win, I absolutely will not vote for him. He doesn't know what freedom is and he doesn't represent any meaningful difference from Dalton McGuinty. If he does pull out a win, he may cause the Balkanization of the Ontario PC Party. In the short term that would be unfortunate, but if you can't differentiate yourself from the Grits, what's the point anyway.

Settled Politics Not Settled Science

"[A]ctual climate observations do not match climate change theories and that only the politics, not the science, has been settled."(IBD)

As the House rams through Waxman-Markey to regulate the air you exhale and the bubbles in beer, the "consensus" on global warming is decaying quickly. The fact is, there has been no global warming since 1998. The last two winters in North America have been incredibly cold by historical standards. There is no evidence of rising sea levels, declining polar bear populations, or human deaths as a result of global warming.

Scientists and governments around the world are waking up to the reality that politics, not science is driving the issue. Kyoto, Waxman-Markey, cap and tax, and every other program does not stop "climate change", their supporters have to admit that, at best, these programs only slow carbon production.

The WSJ reports: "In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program."

President Obama's rush to pass every bill because of each new weekly "crisis" is evidence of how weak the arguments are for climate change bills. The Congressmen who vote on these measures won't even read the bill, it's over 1,000 pages and is riddled with complexities, pork for various districts, and exceptions for "friends" of the Democrats. The Republican criticism of this bill as a "tax on everything" is spot on. If you tax energy, you tax the engine of every economic, social, and political activity in society. You essential tax growth, productivity, economic expansion, and work. How can that create a new economy of green jobs? Since when has the government ever created anything, let alone a market.

The basic premise of "global warming" is, in fact, deeply flawed. That CO2 is a pollutant is almost laughable. Even more unreasonable is the idea that human caused CO2 is the driver of climate change, just look at the above chart to see what a minute percentage anthropogenic carbon output actually is.

The EPA has even been suppressing information that provides evidence that the carbon worries are massively over hyped.

"A new 2009 paper by Scafetta and West," the report says, "suggests that the IPCC used faulty solar data in dismissing the direct effect of solar variability on global temperatures. Their report suggests that solar variability could account for up to 68% of the increase in Earth's global temperatures."
The report was the product of Alan Carlin, senior operations research analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE). He's been with the EPA for 38 years but now has been taken off all climate-related work. He is convinced that actual climate observations do not match climate change theories and that only the politics, not the science, has been settled.
Thomas Fuller, environmental policy blogger with the San Francisco Examiner, wrote Thursday in a story developed in conjunction with Anthony Watts' Web site wattsupwiththat.com: "A source inside the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed many of the claims made by analyst Alan Carlin, the economist/physicist who yesterday went public with accusations that science was being ignored in evaluating the danger of CO2."

The truth about global warming is increasingly clear. The politics are settled, but not the science. Evidence and public opinion are increasingly skeptical of Al Gore's claims. The global warming believers are primarily interested in control and power: the control of what is considered "green", the kind of light bulbs you must purchase, the kind of car you must drive, the kind of food you eat, the way in which we power our appliances, and on and on.

Every directive and regulation is one less choice you can make. Every choice the government makes for you, is another freedom we have ceded to the government. At what point do we say "enough". If government progressively enlarges, we will not be free. If government continues to grow we will be subservient to the state. Freedom is not easier, it is much harder because it requires responsibility and choice.

Every tyrant from Nero to Castro has claimed to act for "the collective good". But the far more important value is the respect and dignity of the individual who is protected by law from the collective and the government. We must say "no" to government growth or we will be slaves to the state.