2020: Warning. The Democrats Are Just Getting Started With Their Nefarious, Undemocratic And Cynical Schemes

The Democrats have engaged in perhaps the most unproductive three years in the last half century - or more.

They've dropped all sense of fairness and objective reasoning since 2016. In short, Trump not only broke their brains but their sense of justice.

Still shorter, they've acted like a bunch of crazed, sore-losing lunatics.

So much so the party has pulled so far left it'll be vey hard to jolt it back towards the centre.

They've engaged in so much hysterical hyperbole (calling Trump every possible pejorative in the book - so much for going high when they go low, eh?) while engaging in sham, tin pot, banana republic investigations (Mueller and Kavanaugh) and impeachments, one has to wonder what in the fuck are they going to do for an encore in 2020?

Given the lengths they have gone to ruining lives, flipping every established legal mores and concepts going back 2000 years, and turning sound rhetoric and logic into a macabre theater of stupidity just to try and over turn a legal election (through a cynically orchestrated soft coup), one has to wonder what these shady characters (one may even say treasonous) have up their sleeves for 2020.

Social media and mainstream media are already in the bag for them ready to bow to their demands.

But what other lies and deceit do they have in store for the American public?

Stay tuned.

Thought Police Not Just In A Book Or A Movie; Witnessing The Fall Of A Godless Scourge And The Millennial Embrace Of Illiberal Thought; Murder; Populism Arrives In Canada

Think again. The UK's slow descent into tyranny is unfolding right before our eyes in real time.

'Recording non-hate crime incidents'.

If this doesn't send shivers down the spines of people....people need to understand that 'hate speech' can mean something as simple as having a different opinion that is perceived to be hateful.

Rather unsettling.

This is happening in a so-called 'free and democratic' society with the rule of law.

And they didn't need Trump to do it! How about that, eh?



Sadly, I wish I could say Canada would be above this but we just aren't.

This could very well happen here.

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Rostropovich playing the cello at the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. Feel the emotion of the moment. The day people became free from the evil grips of communism.

With the troubling rise in popularity of socialism among millennials, this (mostly) illiterate generation has fallen prey to illiberal forces as a result.

They may be well-traveled but remain woefully ignorant of classical liberal Western history and achievement.



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Fun gif contrasting the electoral map and the distribution of murder. Hint: Blue areas are murdery.

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People are angry. And this thing of just waving the hand and dismissing them as 'extremists' is foolish  and lazy arrogance.

How Far Left Have The Democrats Pulled?

The other day The Washington Post published an article stating 'Barack Obama, conservative'.

/Llllllooooong pause.

Yes, they can and yes they did. They changed and moved those goal posts. 

Now.

The idea of taking a position claiming Barry is conservative is quite astonishing onto itself. 

For starters, if one recalls way back when he was still a candidate, it was well know he was the most liberal (ie progressive) politician in the United States based on his voting record.

Then comes the way WaPo framed their specious argument. Namely, the DNC has pulled so far left (Pew, The Economist and NYT have all come to the same conclusion), this somehow makes Obama a conservative. I suppose relative to the Democrat party, sure, he's 'conservative'.

He's just 'right' of the current crop of leftists but he's still a progressive. Nothing he has ever said or done suggests to me he is a conservative; or classical liberal or anything along those lines.

It's often claimed Hitler and Mussolini and the parties and ideologies they founded were 'right-wing'. 

But upon closer examination, the fact is Mussolini was a socialist throughout his life and editor of the socialist magazine Avanti! while Hitler and his minions often said they were socialists.

Both were collectivist, at the end of the day, in their o outlook but were to the right of Marxism, communism and socialism. 

See the games people play?

None of these leaders are liberal in the classical sense.

Obama in particular held NO conservative thoughts or values. He constantly railed against Fox and Rush Limbaugh. He held non-conservative views and interpretations of history (eg. his comments on The Crusade were just typical (and lazy) progressive talking points). He rarely - if ever - spoke of the individual as their own agents to prosperity and liberty choosing instead the state can provide happiness as he did with Obamacare when he claimed, among other things, 

He also made a false-moral claim that at some point make enough money and then turned around earned himself multi-million dollar book and TV deals. He spoke of rising sea levels and the need to do something about climate change (committing America to the Paris Accords without Congressional backing) only to purchase a $15 million estate on Martha's Vineyard.

He took Catholic nuns to court for not bowing to his demands their organization (s) give out contraceptions which goes against Catholic religious orthodoxy.

His own appointees made clear where they stood on the issue:

"The phrases 'religious liberty' and 'religious freedom' will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any form of intolerance," Castro, a Democrat appointed by President Obama, said. 

He added: "Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others."

Catholics are bigots and that's that.

That's a progressive world. Not a conservative one.

I've spent the last 20 years of my life basting in classical liberal, conservative and libertarian thought.

I don't know what Obama is. Clearly, he doesn't know who he is philosophically because he never possessed any real principles. 

Economically, he was nothing more than a spendthrift Keynesian. There was no ground breaking 'Obama doctrine' anymore there was one in foreign policy.

Where Trump is lampooned for taking a wise non-interventionist posture in foreign affairs, Obama spent his entire tenure at war even smashed up a country like Libya alongside his war-mongering sidekick Hilary for no apparent reason. 

And he got a Nobel Peace prize for this? Not to mention his drone killing of American citizens without due process.

He recently spoke out against 'cancel culture' which I found to be a bit rich since his rhetoric did very little to deal with the rise of the intolerant left (from OWS to BLM to Holder's perjurious acts) during his tenure. He even enforced Title IX rules on campuses. He was only for gay marriages when it was safe to do so and pop culture rewarded him as if he was some sort of advanced thinker as his appearance on Ellen showed. 

Obama went with the tide to keep him in power, to build his brand and to cash in.

I do know one thing.

He's no conservative. 

He's yours Democrats and progressives.

Keep him.

The Silence Is Deafening

It's quite appalling how few in media defended Don Cherry on the grounds of free speech. Or how few of his colleagues have come to his defence in general.

Appalling and amazing. Says a lot about these people in my view.

I'm sure some even smiled privately. Not surprising considering how sports writers wrote about him over the years.

It's the same with academics who lowered their heads and let Jordan Peterson be attacked mercilessly by his detractors.

Like Trump, people like Cherry and Peterson are useful in forcing others to drop their masks.

China Crackdown Violently On Hong Kong Protestors; A Reminder Of Why The NBA Is Cynically Woke

***Updated. Epoch Times printing press attacked. See video below.


China is doing what all of us who understand its authoritarian behaviour was going to do all along and that's begin systemically killing protestors in Hong Kong calling them 'suicides.'

Let us reflect and remind each of other of this is a county Trudeau (still can't believe Canadians voted this dishonourable individual back into power even if in minority status) 'admires' and the NBA saw fit to do business with.

Sadly, the West won't be going in to save Hong Kong. Its fate was sealed when Britain handed it back to China. Thinking it was going to continue on as it always had was naive and foolish. As I told a friend at the time when it happened, 'Oh well. I never got a chance to visit it. It will change forever.'

No way I visit now.

Reading the article only further cements my disgust with the NBA and people like Kerr, Harden, Popovich and Lebron.

While young people are murdered, the NBA quietly and cowardly continues to do business with the NBA. They all get to flap their gutless gums about Trump, bounce their balls and make millions.

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I can't be the only person in North America who doesn't see the blatant hypocrisy of people like Kaepernick and some NBA star athletes who have various endorsements and apparel deals.

On one side you have them squawking on about how owners 'act like slave owners' - all the while they make obscene amounts of money the average person can never attain I might add - then on the other they act precisely like slave owners as their 'shoes' are made in Asian sweatshops. Sounds like a classic case of projection.

Are these people for real?

End of the line for woke.

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The NBA on China:




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Come on NBA. Make a funny.

Pondering

The French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier - regarded as the greatest in history - was beheaded in the French Revolution during the period of the Reign of Terror led by the likes of murderous men like Marat and Robespierre.

Two thoughts occur to me writing this.

One, is a socialist magazine called Jacobin (at its roots the Jacobins were reactionaries in France were responsible for the execution of around 10 000 individuals) of which Robespierre was the most infamous.

Overt time, the term has 'softened' (think of the coy usage of 'Democratic socialist'. In the end, the coercion in socialism eventually overcomes the 'democracy' part leading to authoritarianism. It's an inevitable embrace of authoritarianism that leads to a death spiral be it in the form of death camps or, well, reigns of terrors of whatever kind) come to mean your run of the mill belief in big government.

To my mind, it's not a stretch the violent underpinnings and under current of its essence lurks not too far off.

Every time we read of socialism we are confronted with murder and mayhem.

It resembles a death cult. Socialism (and its derivatives including communism, Marxism, progressivism etc. Though these ideologies tend to fight one another they all in the end fall under the collectivism umbrella) embraces every possible anti-human position you can think of from population control to eugenics.

If there's a perceived social or economic ill, you can bet socialists will be extremely eloquent in their rhetorical elegance to single out a group and mark them for death or 'abolishment'.

Which brings me to my second point. It's rather preposterous people still make the claim politicians like AOC or Sanders aren't socialists despite they describing themselves as such. And one need only listen to what they say to know that's what they are.

It's funny how one can smell, talk and act like a socialist but still claim to not be one. No wonder Venezuela isn't a socialist failure. There are no socialists!

Yet, the ideas persist and poll after poll seem to indicate it's popular among the bearded-tattoo ones: Millennials. The 'connected but detached' generation who gave us safe spaces and censorship on campuses.

And it's on the campuses we see the forming of socialism and Marxism reaching new heights.

We should be concerned - and appalled.

They've already staked their position and have taken dead aim at Western civilization as a whole. The entire cannon of our achievement is under direct attack. Western culture has been marked for death and a New Revising of history must be written.

It's something well under way in academia. If you don't see it, then you're not looking hard enough.

A quick word on what's going on campus across North America. We know about left-wing groups constantly attacking conservative people (sometimes physically and violently) as well as censoring or shutting down speakers. But what about the process of indoctrinating students while quietly introducing horse shit courses?

It's one thing to introduce new courses that examine or theorize about something along side established and classic courses. It's one thing to say 'hey, we feel this course on 'X' addresses topics not covered in subject 'Y' so we will introduce it to be taught along side other courses'. Quite another to say 'This is the course replacing the other one' and not meet the same intellectual rigour that's come to be expected.

Indeed, to actively replace all those courses so as to monopolize the educational market with their propaganda. Which one must ask: If these courses are being replaced, are the new ones better?

The answer, as far as I can tell, is no.

What's happening on campuses very much should concern us. It's a mess.

Very angry reactionaries studying gender studies are wreaking absolutely havoc on the civil order as they take a machete to our intellectual heritage, moral and legal codes while emasculating men.

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Connecting dots. It's no coincidence that the Boy Scouts were attacked. Now the Salvation Army. And soon the YMCA.

Notice what these organizations have in common? They're all Christian (Protestant) at their roots.

It matters not how many millions of people they helped and saved. If they don't submit to the narcissist social justice movement it will be targeted.

See. In order for socialism to prevail, it must destroy that which is in its way. Being secular and atheistic, Christianity stands in its way.

Nothing new really. The Enlightenment certainly robustly attacked the Church but the reactionaries took it to a whole new level I don't think the philosophes ever could imagine.

These attacks aren't about principles and justice.

It's about equality and diversity - and by this we mean the totalitarian versions of these vague terms.

Another major obstacle and irritant is The Constitution.

The 1A and 2A in particular. They need to curb speech and they need the guns.

So. To recap: The deliberate and designed calculus seems to be: Undermine Christianity. Eliminate free speech. Confiscate guns.

All ideals and rights connected to the free sovereign man under laws of human nature and God.

They will couch this through soft and being language claiming it's to 'defend democracy from the rise of the alt-right' and 'diversity and equality' and other imprecise terms and words.

Lavoisier was a member of the hated Ferme Generale.

AOC and Sanders use phrases like 'abolish billionaires' and the loathsome anti-semitic Labour party in the UK asserts 'no needs billionaires.'

The two examples are connected.

Take them at face value.

Vote accordingly and don't be useful idiots.

They will go after a selected group to achieve power.

And then they'll come for you to keep power.

At which point you're done.

History makes this clear.

Canada (Or The EU): Not A Beacon For The Free World

I'm really, really, really not liking Canada at the moment.

Let's leave aside the antics and policies of the Liberal party and the fact Canadians inexplicably saw fit to give this incompetent and ideologically driven party another mandate; where among other things they seek to foolishly curb gun rights and free speech.

Now a court (citing a British precedent. Which is ludicrous considering a) we're not Britain and b) the slow descent into authoritarianism Britain has embarked upon. We should NOT be copying Britain on any level) has ordered that 'website blocking' is okay.

That is, internet providers will be allowed to block websites. The lawsuit were brought forth by three monopolistic companies: Bell, Rogers and Quebec's TVA.

Score one for the monopolies and next time you wonder 'why come we be 1984?' look no further than this story.

It doesn't take a genius where this can potentially lead.

Let me help you along. Nowhere good.

Long of it? Online censorship has arrived in Canada. 

European style.

Canadians have no one but themselves to blame here. They elected a government that finds wisdom in anti-free speech policies in Germany, France and the UK.

Canada in the last five years has been a model on what not to do in building a true free and just society.

We're good at monopolies, faux-democracy and suppression of free speech.

Canada: Wake up already. They're building a 1984 world right in front of you and your response was to vote the bastards back in.

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Canadians make me laugh sometimes.

As mentioned above, the same bunch who cry about Cherry (including the people at Sportsnet/CBC/Rogers) probably voted for Trudeau. A guy who admitted to groping a woman (and probably others), dressed up like Blackface (and other costumes of buffoonery), gave a terrorist killer $10.5 million in our tax dollars, committed four ethics violations and above all, obstructed the rule of law.

I don't think people appreciate just how serious the last part is.

As far as I'm concerned, if you voted Trudeau you lost the plot.

Always waving the Maple Leaf and over exaggerating their pride over things like Tim Hortons, health care and hockey but yet they live in a country where they're slaves to the monopolies and government limiting their freedom and liberty.

Trudeau has only further emasculated this country.

In fact, if he could (and I'm almost certain he's trying), he would shut down this blog for its less than kind words for his government.

You know. It's ironic when you ponder things a little deeper. Canadians love to jump on that 'Trump is Hitler' band wagon. Yet, he has not passed a single piece of legislation (mostly because the President is weak in the USA as proper. Unlike here where the PM has way too much power) that comes remotely close to what the Liberals have done when it comes to civil liberties.

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I'm a customer of Bell and Rogers. I just want to write here I can't stand these companies for what they did. But I'm stuck. There isn't much else by way of competition and they know it.

I would love to see these CEO's compete in a real market.

It seems all they're good to do is leverage government power against citizens.

FIN RANT.

That felt good.

Democrat Picture Horror Show

Democrats aren't convinced their Kubaki Theater production is going to pay off. That's a good thing.

Problem is....how much damage will they have caused? They've set a precedent here and it's not necessarily a good thing. 

“Abuse of power is not necessarily a concept that most Americans run around thinking about,” said Rep. Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee. “The point is we are all working to try to make a fairly unusual concept to most Americans — abuse of power — understandable.”

“I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay,” the Illinois Democrat said. “Because the courts have routinely allowed and created needed exceptions to hearsay. Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct as we have learned in painful instances, and it’s certainly valid in this instance.”


Ladies and Gentlemen....your Democrats. /slow clap.

And don't think for one second the left-wing Liberal party of Canada with the ideological direction it has taken wouldn't for one minute turn thousands of years of Western legal tradition on its head like these Democrat idiots in the USA have. 

Take a bow Quigley. Take. A. Bow.

Beccaria nods in solemn disapproval. 

Canada Is Faux Woke

A PM  dresses in Blackface and breaks ethics laws and Canadians go full 'meh' and vote him back in. His supporters even went as far as to claim they weren't offended by his Blackface and groping of women. It's all 'normal' and 'society is going too far' in his case.

But Don Cherry says two little words 'you people' and all hell breaks loose. All of a sudden it's 'he doesn't reflect our values!'

Please.

Real nice perspective on things we have here.

'Why I never!' and all that pearl clutching really is nauseating.

Sportsnet Overreacts And Drops The Ball

Sportsnet: We fired Don Cherry.
Reporter: Now what?
Sportsnet:

Honk, honk!

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So what's the hoopla all about? Cherry said:

“You people… you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” he said. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”

Did anyone bother to ask what he meant by 'you people'? I use that all the time and it's not directed at snowflake minorities who offend easily. I just use it as a generic phrase.

I gotta plead ignorance on this. Any woke progressives out there to set my language straight and be awoke? 

As for his over all point? I think he's right. People should honour our dead soldiers. I don't think it should be mandatory and people have all sorts of reasons not to - and this should be respected - but the ones who don't have an excuse except to be lazy and should know better, you should rethink your position.

The more we're disconnected from our past, the worse our dark age gets. 

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Never apologize. And Cherry stands by his comments.

Good on him.

Cheer!

Ron MacLean, for his part, folded like a cheap hockey net.

Booo!

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So Sportsnet over reacts AND they fire him on November 11.

Nice classy move guys.

Now get to replacing Cherry with some lame ass who will follow your shitty 'woke' scripts.

Chop, chop.

Friday Night (Jazz) Music

I hadn't realized French pianist Michel LeGrand had passed away earlier this year.

My wife and I have a fond memory of LeGrand as he performed on the night we went to Birdland in NYC, gosh, roughly 15 years ago.

Thursday Night Music....Story

This clip was really poignant. Quite powerful I find. Life can be unfair as we all know.

My wife and I really enjoyed the first song Herbie Howell sang. Strange how 50 years on we learn of his music through the work of Mr. Hoffman. I wonder if he left behind a catalog of music. Maybe he can find an audience with all this technology.

It's funny. We're conditioned to think if a person doesn't 'make it' then maybe they're no good or just didn't have the talent to become successful. I myself over the years fell into this trap. As I mature, I realized this is not necessarily true. Sometimes, things just don't go your way. Maybe you may not be the 'cream of the crop' but you can carve yourself a niche. Especially today.

Though it would have been nice to know why he couldn't at least be a studio musician of some kind.

Open Public Musings

Differences between the United States and Canada:

Canada: Poor long-term demographics: Aging population; low births rates. Moving to not be energy independent.
USA: Healthy long-term demographics; energy independent.

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There's a lot of doom and gloom about America. There are even some who look forward to its impending collapse. 'All empires collapse' is one popular assertion. Another, among the left, is the premise America is a colonialist nation built on genocide and slavery and so ergo it must fall in order for the meek and proletariat to inherit and make things 'right'. Something like that anyway. The big book of Howard Zinn spinning a cynical revisionist  'Sins of America' tale.

I've also heard people make the claim that one need just look at America's global power as a percentage of GDP to see it's power is diminishing. After WWII America represented 50% of world GDP. Today it's down to 27%-30% or thereabouts. Still a significant figure.

Meanwhile, America's newest rival - China - represents about 17% of world GDP. or roughly $14 trillion. In 1945, it was $30 billion.

That's a massive growth spurt. Since 1990, on average, it grew at about a 10% rate.

Now keep in mind, the growth came from total poverty in a relatively short period of time.

But here's the thing. Poverty rates in China remain extremely high. An even bigger problem is demographics. The one-child policy has had an irreversible negative impact on China while its human rights record remains abysmal and its environmental record practically a non-issue. Innovation isn't on the level of the United States, Japan or the EU.

America is the opposite.

It remains the centre of major innovation and and cutting edge R&D and there's no reason to believe this will lose its advantage. America doesn't have a human rights abuse problem and actually is committed to environmental policy contrary to popular belief.

However, there are two (aside from complete and utter military dominance) MAJOR factors America has an indisputable advantage on the world. One, are demographics. America has a healthy distribution of youth, immigration and aging populations.

These trends remain in tact. Most nations in the West (including Canada - more on us later) have an aging population and low birth rates. Which explains why, in part, they seem to be very open to mass migration. We're not having kids and we need more people to pay for things.

The other factor and a more recent development, America is now pretty much energy independent now. They're now net exporters of clean oil and natural gas - shale  in particular. This reality has a direct impact on Canada (again, will get into this in a sec).

My friends. I submit the impending demise of America will have to wait. China will eventually have to face their negatives just like America does and has done in the past. This will put an end to their challenge.

If anything, we're about to enter a second golden age of American prosperity. New Rome and Renaissance Italy revived....in America.

And this is great news for the rest of the world and Canada in particular. We can take this and make it work in our favor, or we can be fools and fight it for short-sighted political (mis)calculations.

Our choice. They've already made theirs.

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What of Canada?

We have a couple of things going against us and are also the opposite of America.

One are demographics and the other our steadfast refusal to properly and without reservation develop our energy sector. If anything, we're astonishingly looking to subvert it.

The shame about Canada it has some competitive advantages (of which being a neighbour to American is one) but we're probably one of the most inefficient managers of human capital in the West. 

We have an aging population but among the lowest birth rates in the world. So much so, immigration can't make up the difference. As if this is bad enough, the one major thing we have to retain prosperity and stability is our natural resources. 

The sector provides reliable cash flow to help pay for our two unfunded liabilities: pension and health care. 

Health care is especially going to be a major challenge as Canada's population continues to age. Because of the nature of how we pay for the system (pay as you go), it goes toward paying towards those who are the heaviest burden. This is why you may start to see some really uncomfortably cost-cutting measures in the future - both financially and medically (rationing of some sort). It's inevitable.

One industry that can help to ensure some fiscal feasibility to the UL's is the energy sector. But this has become a target of Canada's 'climate change' initiatives.  

That is, oil is bad.

As a result, Canada is foolishly not building pipelines to get our oil to market and be a major player to ensure our sovereignty is secure and our social net in tact.  

We act as if we have a choice but we really don't. The United States already made he decision for us by becoming energy independent. What are we going to do? Import our oil from Saudi Arabia and the USA? How is this forward thinking and intelligent policy?

Our economy, while advanced, is tiny and not as diversified as the United States. We can't afford to get political with energy because there is no other sector to pick the slack. Banking is the next best thing here and this isn't a growth or innovative industry. 

At the moment, we don't have good leadership steering the country at this critical juncture. If we don't build these pipelines within the next couple of years, we may pay a permanent price in the form of less prosperity. 

Or worse.

This part reminds me of an essay I read (or I may have heard it on the radio. I forget) where an American military scholar was asked what Canada should do about its military. He soberly replied nothing can be done. We sat so long on not maintaining our military or forcing on just peacekeeping (essentially we became a UN force), we fell too far behind the United States even on just basic technological advances in communications. Even if Canada increased the budget it wouldn't make much sense. He basically concluded 'let us doing the heavy lifting (ie protect you) and Canada can perhaps focus on special forces training - something we remain very good at.

Canadians need to become more realistic and understand their place in this new world order being reconfigured by the United States. It's unfolding before our eyes and we shouldn't tolerate a government that's hostile to the USA. Now is not the time to play pretend nationalism.

I recognize this is just a skeleton of thought but it's how I'm seeing things. 

The Future Of Canada Is In The Wrong Hands

I don't think people are appreciating what's at stake in Canada and its future.

We have a couple of major issues that need addressing. One, is our aging demographics. We don't pump out enough babies to keep up and the only way to solve this glut is to increase immigration - and even then it may not be enough. Our tax base is tiny to pay for a lot of stuff.

For now, we've been ok because, and this brings me to point two, Alberta has served as a sugar daddy for the rest of the country. Leaving the Quebec-Ontario axis to continue to play their counter-productive power politics games. Ontario's position is more digestible considering its wealth but Quebec is playing with fire.

Already a province that takes in more in equalization payments than most, the province is also not as productive and wealthy.

Their war with Alberta is a bit of a 'biting the hands that feed you'.

By taking an anti-pipeline stance, Quebec is condemning itself to a no-win situation.

The country as a whole needs these pipelines to be built.

When all is said and done. When we get past the Green lobby and David Suzuki, this country's independence (to the extent we are independent vis-a-vis the United States) hinges on keeping the oil flowing; on not destroying the energy sector.

We are who we thought we were. A semi-diversified, branch-plant, resource based economy.

The one competitive advantage we have that could keep us prosperous we're in the process of eliminating.

For what? Exaggerated fears over the environment and noisy indigenous activism?

Environmental impact studies are taken seriously (as they ought be) and we do take care to consider First Naions concerns.

But we're at a point it has paralyzed us and nothing short of just shutting down the oil industry will suffice.

Guess what?

The decision was made by the United States. It's 'damn the torpedoes' as they revolutionize the oil and gas industries. They're already oil and energy dependent and with that Canada has a choice. Either we join in on that reality, or we don't.

If we don't, then all we do is further our dependence on the USA. We already take advantage of their corporations locating here, we have military protection (even if not explicitly said but everyone know the USA is our protectorate) and now we're about to add energy to the mix.

If these pipelines to Houston don't get built, we sealed our fate.

I hope Canadians understand this once they get past their myopic 'yeh but we're not American' tiresome navel-gazing.

Alberta is the key to keeping Canada together. Not Quebec.

If Alberta gets beaten down by the Trudeau liberals, they will become less prosperous and retrench into a backwater producing hockey players and some country singers.

Ottawa is looking to tax the living hell out of Alberta because they're the sweet spot with all those young people. Alberta is the only province with a decent demographic profile. Once we realize Canada's birth rate is among the worst in the West coupled with the Liberals spending to historic levels while knowing they can rape Alberta, it's pretty obvious they know where to go get the money.

If they fight, they risk being outcasts in Ottawa.

And this is where the fun begins.

The eye of the American eagle is watching.

With #Wexit on the march (and the fact few people hear about this points to just how apathetic we are as a country), Alberta's separation movement isn't going to create an Alberta nation.

It will be absorbed into the American empire for no way can Alberta exist betwixt Ottawa and Washington.

This is why Canada re-electing the Liberals may have made a grave miscalculation. I have little confidence in the Liberals making the pragmatic and healthy choice. They're led by a self-absorbed, selfie maniac ideologue.

If I'm Albertan, aside from NEVER voting Liberal or NDP again, and they continue to be pummelled by Justin, I start to think about this very attractive possibility.

Wake up Canada.

Build the damn pipelines.

The world is moving ahead with or without us and we can be a part of it or lose more than we think.

Colorado Student Dresses Up As Trudeau's Blackface

Holy shith! Someone did it?

I joked this past Halloween that I would dress up as Justin Trudeau in Blackface and wondered if anyone would do it as the ultimate parody and lampooning of a public figure.

The reaction, of course, came as we would expect given the zeitgeist.

But what adds a twist to this story is the person who dressed up is a black conservative names Koby Peters.

Give 'em hell Koby. Thanks for making my day.



As an aside, there's a larger point here. Trudeau has become a joke and a meme.

This is why he should have resigned.

Meanwhile,  we have a government and RCMP that refuse to do anything about his antics.

How is this person getting away with obstructing the rule of law?

Quote Of The Day

"Now comes the mother of all adverse effects — and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work," Krugman wrote. "So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened."

Paul Krugman, 2016.

Well, that didn't age well.

When does baseless fear mongering and pissing on the people ever do?

Remember folks: Top. Men.

On Impeachment

From what I'm reading....

The American public shouldn't believe a single word from the Democrats and the mainstream media - who once again are sleeping at the switch - until they open up the process.

Right now, in sum, it's a kangaroo court being conducted in secret with one person leaking out information to give the appearance of a consistent story.

All the while the President has been denied due process, the right to counsel, and to present witnesses.

This is American democracy?

More like a tin pot dictatorship. Pelosi claims this is about 'the constitution'. No, it's not. It's about taking one man down for what really doesn't amount to an impeachable offence if our readings of the Framers views on it and past history are a guide.

They've basically weaponized impeachment as a political tool.

And this this a terrible precedent to set.

Americans should reject their cynical ploy.

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Another example of abuse of power and abhorrent totalitarian behaviour from the left comes by way of Alberta and its Election Commission office headed by a known left-wing agitator. It was an office created by the NDP.

Pay close attention to their tactics on their attacks on Rebel Media:



Keep in mind we have a Prime Minister that obstructed the rule of law and neither the government or the RCMP have done anything about it. Worse, Canadians put this person back in power.

In all cases, this is tin pot dictator banana republic stuff.

Courtesy of the Democrat, Liberal and NDP parties. 

Take That For Derp: Wokespin Edition

“Until the University of Texas realizes you have to have a black quarterback, and nothing against Ehlinger, you got to have a talented, black quarterback,” Campbell said. “All these schools that are winning, even in the pros, have black quarterbacks. When guys are not open, something can still happen.”

Let's rework this. /sticks tongue out of corner of mouth. Spins propeller on hat.

“Until the University of Texas realizes you have to have a white quarterback, and nothing against Ehlinger, you got to have a talented, white quarterback,” Campbell said. “All these schools that are winning, even in the pros, have white quarterbacks. When guys are not open, something can still happen (ie whites aren't athletic like blacks).”

Thoughts woke people and ESPN?

A racist comment is a racist comment. And this is as racist as they come. Period.

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Another woke athlete. Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle doesn't want to go the White House because he doesn't like how Trump talks.

Snowflake.

Let’s keep in mind everyone and team who declined to go to the White House the next time a DEMOCRAT President is in power and people choose to not go.

Let’s sit back and watch the reactions. 

*Please see Tim Thomas for an example. I remember liberal sports writers losing their minds over this decision.

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The NYT confirms there's indeed a deep state. Whoops! Our bad.

Except they're not a cabal or anything like that. They're just patriotic public servants.

Is that the spin you're going with because I gotta tell ya, there's not enough gravol in Venezuela to help with the dizziness.

Reminds me of the time when Trump claimed the Obama administration was spying on his campaign and making for a rough transition the media and wokesters laughed at the idea. Then Politico and other news outlets found out it was true. And not only were they spying on Trump but all Americans.

Yet, it didn't garner outrage as it ought to have. Rather, they still treat Obama as the second coming of Cincinnatus and Cato.

It's nauseating.

I link to The American Conservative as opposed to directly linking to NYT but their articles are behind a paywall and I ain't paying for that. You can look it up if you so desire. 

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Emotional lift’ to steal from someone’s wealth?

Is that how they describe envy now?

I appreciate articles like theses. It helps me to teach my daughter on how not to think about success.

When others do better than you, taking from them to assuage yourself is electrifying.

Another bizarro version of this is 'the state taking care of you makes you free.' For example, by making health care 'free' leads to more free time to start businesses. 

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"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day..." 

"...I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

Thomas Jefferson. Geez, sounds like he snuff out CNN before it was a thing. 

You're better off not reading or watching the news. It's a conclusion I arrived at about 20 years ago. The media fills us with so much BS no wonder the populace seems confused and divided.

Think of it. They're willingly accepting leaked information from ONE person conducting an impeachment inquiry without due process in SECRET.

No one is taking issue with this, you know, crucial point. 

Instead, they're consuming a narrative being formed by Democrats and passing it off as objective journalism and fact. It's propaganda of the worst kind.

This alone should leave pause something isn't right.

Also. It's a bit of a joke how many corrections Wapo and NYT issue. They print a whole lot of conjecture and sloppy facts to convey a narrative (see Covington) and then when called out, they 'retract' (we regret the error) but the damage by then is done. It's almost as if they do it on purpose.

Or they're just that plain incompetent.

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Good on the University of Michigan for doing the sane and right thing by dismantling their Bias Response Team. I get shivers every time I type those words or think about it.

Score one for the good guys.



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How Democrats and progressives treat The Constitution:



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Good article from Quillette on the state of journalism and dubious reporting at CJR.

Not too long ago, Bill Moyers penned an article at CJR basically calling for all media outlets to speak as one voice and bash climate change skeptics.

It was a foul read.


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Even in the UK (not exactly a bastion of free speech and objective journalism these days) they notice something is amiss with journalism in Canada.

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How about some verbal diarrhoea mixed in with a lack of self-awareness courtesy of The Atlantic?

C'man. You know you want it:

“Americans with a more conservative, or “fixed,” orientation value obedience in their children and strength in their leaders. They often fear the world around them, and prize stability and tradition over experimentation and change. By comparison, Americans with a more liberal, or “fluid,” worldview strive to raise independent, curious children and see empathy and tolerance as the most noble qualities a leader can embody. They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.”

So much rubbish in such a small paragraph, however, let's unpack.

First off, let's get one thing clear. Progressives aren't liberals. What we understand liberalism to be is actually classical liberalism and this liberalism is being conserved in the conservative and libertarian ranks. Progressives are collectivists and illiberal. History, it seems. for the left began with Howard Zinn.

Moving on, there's a whiff of 'Me, the lefty writer has attained self-axtualisahun and therefore consider my thoughts to be good and final, while you, the far-right extremist in the deplorable camp, are too stupid to vote in favor of your own interests.

It's a bunch of unsubstantiated pseudo-intellectual word salad to support a priori conclusion.

This is a flock that likely thinks along the lines of: How can you vote for Trump? and No one I know voted for Trump and I would never befriend a Trump voter!

The irony is, it's not 'Trumpistas' who are acting with intolerance. It's the side that has refused to respect the result of a lawfully contested election. So much so, they tried to usurp its legality and taint the result through a manufactured crisis in the form or 'Russian collusion and hacking' and whatever else it absurdly devolved into.

"They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.”

Until you question theirs. 

This statement belies the well-documented facts and reality of what's going on at 'street level'. The left has proven to be every bit the reactionary and intolerant whenever someone expresses disapproved opinions as we've seen on social media and college campuses.

Be it in school or at the ballot box, they have a collective meltdown whenever something doesn't go their way or someone has the audacity to challenge their orthodoxy.

And in cases when this behaviour is acknowledged, they then move to disingenuously make a claim of 'both sides do it'. Essentially dragging down others to their level. 

Shorter version: Diversity (based on skin not intellect thus not diversity of ideas) and tolerance (of a peer group that submits but not of differing opinion). In other words, they despise diversity and tolerance that doesn't hinge on approved thought and speech and the collective narrative. 

Ironic, given they sure love MLK yet espouse a distorted and disfigured version of his philosophy. 

Theirs is less about questioning authority in search of truth and more about bullying someone into thinking like them. Diversity and tolerance with us or bust! 

I would further add and end with, this notion ‘conservatism = fear’ and ‘liberals = reason’ is no longer tenable; if it ever was. It completely (and willfully I think) ignores the fact maybe – just maybe – smart, forward looking people with ‘fluid world views’ voted for Trump.

Gee, I wonder who are the ones living in fear really?

Or.

Get your head out of your asses because you may not smell your own shit but the rest of do.

Climate Change: A Cottage Industry That Demands We Suspend Critical Thinking And Bow To Its Commands

It doesn't take a genus to see what's going on. It just blows my mind how people insist on letting themselves be duped.

It's quite literally the world's perfect business scam.

Impeachment: Entrenched Interest Takes On Donald Trump

From the onset, the deep state (which is real) attempted to orchestrate a soft coup - to which Obama played a part - against Donald Trump. Calls for his impeachment started from January 2016.

And they have not stopped.

First came the fabricated Russia narrative now since obliterated for the lie it was and now comes Trump and whatever it's being alleged with the Ukraine.

Impeaching a President is a massively serious thing. That's why it has only happened three times before. The most recent being, of course, Nixon and Clinton. But this one is different. They're denying the President due process and to have counsel.

Removing a lawfully elected President in this manner is dubious. It should be  done with the utmost care and respect for the law.

But this is not what's happening.

Not by a long shot.

In The Federalist Papers, in the articles discussing how the Framers envisioned how impeachment should be handled, Alexander Hamilton expressed concern that impeachment could be used for solely political expediency. I do need to brush up the Federalist Papers.

They thought of everything didn't they?

It does seem Hamilton's fear are being played out. Pelosi and the Democrats are engaging in a cynical game of misdirection and disinformation carefully making sure what information comes out of the SCIF in the form of leaks to give the appearance of a consistent message that Trump did something that warranted impeachment. They control the narrative and what the public and press see.

And it's working.

So far.

In addition to them clearly wanting to take down Trump before he did anything, they're accusing him of something but are looking for the evidence to prove their conclusion.

Without according him his right to due process.

Witnesses and whist blowers are interviewed in secret. The White House hasn't been able to cross examine them nor have they been permitted to defend themselves by presenting their own evidence.

It's a kangaroo court in the most powerful nation in the world. They're basically saying you're a witch and why do you want to defend yourself against our accusation? Play nice and shut up because we're the deep state and we don't like you.

That's it.

There is no crime here. Simple as that.

If there's sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation then why not let the FBI do it? Let them investigate and report their findings?

And the stuff he's being accused of? Nothing out of the ordinary or rises to something serious enough to be impeached when the annals of American history is concerned.

Interestingly, the GOP could have played the same game with Obama when they had the House but chose against. In the end, they simply accepted the will of the American people. The irony is there was probably more to impeach Obama.

The other interesting thing is Trump doesn't believe he did anything wrong and has so far not put together a War Room to deal with this. He seems to be winging it and putting faith and trust that he will be vindicated.

The Democrats better be careful moving forward because they may just hurt American democracy. As for the Republicans, hopefully they can stretch this out and just get it to the election. Let the people decide. Ultimately though, the Senate will have final say. I just don't see this going beyond the play to formalize impeachment proceedings absent concrete evidence.

I could be wrong.

I do know one thing. Trump is attempting to chart a whole new path for American diplomacy that diverts from Bush and Obama.

This is not popular among the mandarins.

Trump wanted to drain the swamp. The things in it are lashing out.

Can he survive it?