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Bill Croke: We’re History

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Feb 192013
 

Friends,

Today is a day off (family day) in Ontario, a “gift” of the now former Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty leaving office after having pushed the province ever closer to bankruptcy. Ontario was once not too long ago the central pole of the Canadian confederation, and during the past few decades the rot described below that has taken hold of the United States has also taken its toll in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.

I thought I’d share this essay from today’s American Spectator as it describes well where the once mighty superpower, like the other one now long interred, is headed. The high noon of American place in world history was indeed a relatively short time, from the end of WWII to about the end of the Cold War, and during these years the seeds of multiculturalism were planted in both our countries that have now worked their way into the fibre of the society and have begun to poison the system effectively. The wages of multiculturalism are unavoidable, and as Bill Croke discusses a vibrant, dynamic, intellectually powerful society is pretty much washed up. How long can this situation persists before the crash comes will likely depend on how great is the external pressure from competition and rivalry of rising powers; or if the United States can avert the fall, as occurred with Britain, will depend on whether there is enough resolve left in Americans and their pride in American exceptionalism to weather the Obama years and turn things around swiftly by unleashing the powers of free enterprise and laying to rest multiculturalism.

Best,

Salim Mansur


We’re History

It took Rome a lot longer.

By Bill Croke

“….the Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. The taxes were multiplied with the public distress; economy was neglected in proportion as it became necessary…. If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.” 

—Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

February 18, 2013 (American Spectator) — In New York City and Philadelphia, “flashmobs” rob and vandalize news-stands and stores. This is a national phenomenon. In Chicago, the police department now won’t immediately respond to 911 calls if they involve post-burglaries, petty, or non-violent crimes. They’re too busy dealing with the daily carnage that is the nation’s highest murder rate—one that bested the number of military fatalities recorded in Afghanistan in 2012.

When crazy people shoot up movie theaters and elementary school classrooms, we’re told it’s the gun’s fault. On a lighter note, the Wall Street Journal recently informed us that the demands of hip-hop fashion dictates that boys insist—despite the protestations of Mom, Dad, and school administrators—on wearing shorts to school in bitter winter weather. The girls prefer flip-flops, as their toes turn blue while waiting for the school bus.

“Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”

(William Butler Yeats)

The schools are an administrative and intellectual wreck, and kids not knowing how to even dress themselves is a good metaphor for their current state. Those students, especially those of college age, are subject to that ironclad liberal orthodoxy of cultural Marxism commonly called “political correctness”, with resulting hate speech codes—the gist of which is that the kids are taught to despise America’s institutions, civic traditions, and the very constitutional sinews of free speech and opinion. Anyway, the latter is a moot point: because they learn so little history, soon their ignorance of the important aspects of the American experience will be total.

College campuses are hideous islands of totalitarianism on a national landscape that is more and more reflecting their toxic example.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity”

(Yeats again)

We’re obsessed with protecting women from “domestic violence.” The U.S. Senate has passed the Violence Against Women Act and sent it to the House of Representatives. The media bludgeons us with related stories, and multiple government programs function to assist such unfortunate souls. This is driven by modern feminism, which also favors women serving on the frontlines in the boiling cauldron of war—where, according to a feature story in Rolling Stone magazine lately, the military suffers a raging epidemic of sexual assault.

“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men”

(George Orwell)

The U.S. Post Office recently announced that it is abolishing first class delivery on Saturdays, beginning in August. The USPO seems to be taking a cue from the newspaper and network news business model of telling the public that it is essential to the public good, while at the same time skipping publication days, cutting back on home delivery, and shrinking its staffs as circulation, ad revenues, and ratings sink. A digitally-distracted America less and less buys the product (from both post office and media), especially the kids (see schools exegesis above). And the media-driven Obama cult-of-personality doesn’t sit well with half the body politic. Of course, the emperor’s cheerleader-eunuchs in the nation’s newsrooms don’t see it that way; marketing has never been a journalistic forte. Well, as for the post office, it won’t be losing our mail on Saturdays.

No matter. Cursive writing is leaving the classroom and those kids in short pants won’t be sending handwritten love letters to their “partners” and “significant androgynous others,” etc., anyway. If they do they’ll have to hire the equivalent of literate medieval monks to do it. Orwell wrote 65 years ago that “Our civilization is decadent and our language—so the argument runs—must inevitably share in the general collapse.” What would he think today? As usual, Rome is the primary example. It progressed from Virgil, Horace, and Cicero to—over 300 years later—a very minor poet named Ausonius (the Richard Blanco of Late Antiquity), illiterate barbarian emperors and, well, darkness. Ask Ed Gibbon.

And, of course, literary culture erodes. Most new works of “literary fiction” aren’t worth reading because they are written by academics for academics. Most contemporary poetry is unfathomable or juvenile in its design. E.L. James’ wildly popular Fifty Shades of Grey series’ main motif is sadomasochism. And Philip Roth has “retired” after six decades of writing. Imagine that. Maybe our most respected living writer—albeit one pushing 80—has turned his back on his work. Maybe he has nothing more to say. He once famously said that as a novelist his imagination couldn’t compete with the strange world he encountered on the front page of his daily New York Times—and that was long before the Times became the official newsletter of the Democratic Party.

Hemingway blew his brains out. Roth, lacking Papa’s late-stage mental deterioration, is sanely content to watch the New York Mets, read, play with his new iPhone, and entertain friends. Good for him. Legions of readers who enjoyed his work wish him well, and he’ll be re-read. But he is among the last of American writers who came of age and began their careers in the mid-20th century—a simpler time full of promise, and rewards for serious work.

H.L. Mencken said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” The 2012 Election makes the Sage of Baltimore’s quip ring true. All the bizarre political, sociological and economic theories that we have heard from the left for years are now being put into practice (in fact, President Obama showcased it in his Second Inaugural and State of the Union speeches). The result is a germinating dystopia sprouting from an executive branch contemptuous of the legislative and judicial branches of national government. Barack Obama is the embodiment of a country in willful decline in both domestic and foreign affairs, and he seems to relish his role.

The president is a political Dr. Jack Kevorkian, assisting our slow, national suicide.

Maybe some future Gibbon will contemplate the wreckage.

Tim Bloedow: Is Mark Bonokoski Really This Stunningly Ignorant?

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Feb 162013
 

A letter in response to Bushwhackers embarrass PM, by Mark Bonokoski

It’s remarkable that a national editorial writer would submit his two-year-old child’s article as his own. OK, that’s probably not what Sun Media’s national editorial writer Mark Bonokoski did. His child probably would have written something far more intelligent than what Bonoski himself churned out for February 9. He was writing about the move by three MPs to write a letter to the RCMP to investigate the deaths of born alive babies as possible homicides. One can’t help but wonder if he had a personal agenda, such as personal affection for the Prime Minister and strong empathy for the terrible anxiety that a weak and sickly man like Stephen Harper must be dealing with in the dark hours of the night when everybody else is peacefully sleeping!! Note that Bonokoski’s article is dated February 9, a week after the RCMP letter was made public, giving time to read and consider the other material that has been published on the controversy.

Bonokoski actually suggested that Harper should have kicked these 3 MPs out of caucus. These were the reasons he gave: “backstabbing, stupidity and the abuse of their perceived power.” A person should be kicked out of a caucus over stupidity? What pathetic totalitarian sympathies a person must have to advocate such an anti-democratic view! Bonokoski’s attitude toward caucus discipline sounds almost Stalinesque.

We’re commenting on Bonokoski’s column because of the entertainment value of its rank stupidity. It doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously, and this for one reason alone. He – even as a supposed conservative (he notes that he once ran as a Canadian Alliance candidate) – claims still a week after the incident that it is all about investigating and criminalizing abortion. This is what he writes: “If they knew anything about the law, and they clearly don’t, they would know there is no section in the Criminal Code of Canada dealing with abortion. Abortion is not a crime in this country, and therefore nothing for the RCMP to possibly investigate.”

The media rarely issues corrections, yet Canadian Press, which insinuated that the investigation being demanded was over abortion, issued a correction by the end of the first day of coverage. A week ago! It’s now been well established in the public square, even by critics, that the investigation being requested is over reports of born alive babies, not abortions. Yet, consistent with the worst caricatures of religious fundamentalists, Bonokoski has clearly made up his mind about this issue and so doesn’t want to be confused by the facts. Yet this is the specific point over which Bonokoski called the MPs “obviously stupid”. If this wasn’t so remarkably pathetic, it would be funny.

Bonokoski also says that it was outrageous for the MPs to exercise their own initiative in sending a letter to the RCMP. He talks about them getting their letter “past the PMO’s firewall” and he calls it “bushwhacking” of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The PM once had a much-criticized reputation of having an iron grip on his caucus. That reputation has eased up in the last year or two, but Bonokoski seems to be approving of the worst caricature of Stalinesque heavy-handedness that was ever imagined by Harper. Conservatives can be thankful that a goon like Bonokoski never infiltrated the ranks of the Conservative caucus as a sitting MP. Voters can also be thankful because Bonokoski is a coward and an ignoramus when it comes to knowing what he has the freedom to do as a Member of Canada’s Parliament and as a representative of his constituents.

Bonokoski also accused these MPs of “the abuse of their perceived power.” He writes: ” backbench MPs should not be using their elected position to call upon our federal police force to chase their tail over personal agendas, especially when their claims of crimes being committed are based entirely on their incredible ignorance of the law.”

First, Bonokoski should have more confidence in the RCMP as having more intelligence than he himself possesses. If these MPs are out of line, the national police force is fully capable of writing a letter back to them to tell them so, explaining why this is the case.

Second, Bonokoski demonstrates how abortion has fried his brain and turned him into a zombie. One of the favourite lines on abortion for cowards who don’t want to debate the issue in the political realm is to say that it’s an MP’s personal issue. In fact, every MP has both pro-life and pro-abortion constituents. If he’s pro-life, he will be better at representing his pro-life constituents on that issue. If he’s pro-abortion, he will do better at representing his pro-abortion candidates on the issue. Attempts to shut an MP up on the issue by accusing him of only championing a “personal agenda” are cowardly – and totalitarian because that assertion disenfranchises all the constituents who agree with the MP. Apparently the MP is not allowed to represent those constituents because he happens to share their view on the issue. Instead, he is supposed to represent the constituents who hold the opposing view. Only an illiterate would think that view was logical! Only a fool would consider it democratic!

Third, Bonokoski never explains what point of political protocol, law or the constitution he is using to defend his accusation that backbench MPs should not write such letters to the RCMP. This is probably just Bonokoski’s personal agenda.

Fourth, he says “… especially when their claims of crimes being committed are based entirely on their incredible ignorance of the law.” We’ve already addressed this point of embarrassing and gross ignorance on the part of Bonokoski himself.

On the matter of abortion, we see the utter cowardice of Bonokoski on display. He says that when he ran as a Canadian Alliance candidate, he was asked for his view on abortion, and his response was that: “Until I grow a uterus and am able to bear children, it is absolutely none of my business and certainly outside my emotional and psychological purview,” adding: “It’s not a cop-out. It’s a fact.”

That is actually one of the most despicable, pathetic and cowardly cop-outs that militant pro-aborts have come up with. Only the most insane feminists demand such a stance from men. It’s an utterly contemptible position for men to hold. Real men don’t abdicate their integrity or responsibility in that fashion.

Bonokoski also repeatedly states that the action of the MPs is foolish because the law is the law. For example, he writes: ” There is no question, however, that abortion remains a hot-button issue, driven primarily by the religious right. Fair enough. But it doesn’t change the law.”

Thanks for the enlightenment! But even if the controversy Bonokoski discusses had to do with abortion, the obvious fact is that you aren’t going to change the law without bold action, so simply stating that the law is the law, as though that was an argument against actions intended to challenge the law, is patently absurd, and just another example of how the matter of abortion fries pro-aborts’ brains and destroys their rationality.

~ Tim Bloedow

Peter Stockland: This is Ultra-Tolerance

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Feb 062013
 

From The Cardus Daily

In the gilded age of newspapers, the best understanding of the politics of the day came from reading Ann Landers or Dear Abby.

Puff-chested pontificators could empty their bloated egos into front-page stories about what a deputy minister said to a sub-committee. But the real temper of the times was in the two paragraphs of advice Ann and Abby gave their millions of readers.

When Ann Landers turned to promoting homosexual rights, for example, the gay lobby notched final victory. The times were not just a-changin’ any more. They were overthrown, carrying a solon of middle-class morality and comportment with them. Everything in the same-sex crusade has been a mopping up operation ever since.

Newspapers are a shredded simulacrum of what they once were, of course, yet their readers still—you may insert the word ‘inexplicably’ here if you wish—look to them for advice on matters great and small.

The Globe and Mail, true to its projection of itself as that much better than the slobs it serves, maintains a full fleet of advice columnists. Few are worth the candle. None are more readable than David Eddie, who writes a weekly advice column called Damage Control.

Even by his revealing standard of measuring the world entirely against his own foibles, one of Eddie’s recent columns could only be read with wonder. In it, he advised a concerned mother to be “ultra-tolerant” of the sado-masochistic lesbian who routinely walks her girlfriend on a dog’s leash in front of the neighborhood children.

Rather than upbraiding the offending party for flaunting her fetish in front of confused preschoolers, Eddie wrote, the worried mom should focus on ensuring her own four-year-old daughter grows up to understand that such public conduct is perfectly normal, natural, and acceptable.

If your daughter somehow discovers the truth [about what the S&M lesbians were really doing]—well, that’s no biggie, either, in the grand scheme. Just take her hand in yours, look into her eyes and say “Honey, it takes all kinds to make up this world.” Maybe it’ll help her grow up to be ultra-tolerant and hard to surprise.

When I read that paragraph, it provoked a memory from my own childhood of a couple getting carried away—really carried away—on a public beach where my family was spending the afternoon. My mother did not take time to write to the newspaper. She simply walked over and ordered—really ordered—them to stop. Immediately.

When the incontinent lout involved tried to talk back, she bellowed at him in a voice that carried to every ear on the beach: “You have corrupted the morals of every child on this beach. At least get up in the bushes where you belong. Are you a man or a dog?”

My mother was five-feet-two at her tallest. When she was in high school, she knocked a bully unconscious by hitting him over the head with a geography textbook to stop him picking on her older brother. When she lost her temper, it was like watching blind Fury take human form—and take over a human face. The lout, looking into it, slunk.

What struck me in contrasting that long ago episode with Eddie’s response was not the juxtaposition of strength against weakness but the difference in the vocabulary available then to my mother, an ordinary citizen, and now even to an advice columnist in Canada’s national newspaper.

Her language relied on a shared morality, yes. Much more importantly, it expressed a common code of expected public conduct even when that morality broke down. As a mother and as a citizen, she was protesting the corruption of the morals of children by forced exposure to sexual activity, true. But she was also infuriated by children having to witness human beings refusing to exercise minimal public self-restraint. She demanded, as she could, that a man on a beach differentiate himself from a dog on a lawn.

In Eddie’s case, what has replaced that vocabulary is a void. A professional writer now lacks the lexicon to articulate for an inquiring reader why it should be morally repulsive and socially intolerable for adult human beings to, publicly and in front of children, treat each other like animals or slaves.

No biggie. Avoid surprise: expect the worst. Expect, in other words, that human beings are simply slaves to animal passion and lack any capacity to consider first their public obligations to you or anyone else. This is ultra-tolerance. This is the true politics of the day.

You will find it, if you know how to look, in the writings of the bloviators who fill the front page with deputy ministers and sub-committees. But in its most vivid form, it’s tucked in the back, where readers still seek advice.

 

Multiple Homicides That Need to be Investigated

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Feb 032013
 

HOUSE OF COMMONS
CANADA
Maurice Vellacott, MP
Saskatoon-Wanuskewin

January 23, 2013

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson

RCMP National Headquarters
Headquarters Building
73 Leikin Drive
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2

Dear Commissioner Paulson,

Recent public reports have revealed the possibility of numerous breaches of the Criminal Code – to be specific, homicides – in Canada which need to be investigated.

These killings appear to have started out as attempted abortions, but the babies were born alive. At the blog, Run With Life, you will learn: “From 2000 to 2009 in Canada, there were 491 abortions, of 20 weeks gestation and greater, that resulted in live births. This means that the aborted child died after it was born. These abortions are coded as P96.4 or ‘Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn’” (http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2012/10/late-term-abortions-statistics-born.html).

The data used to discover the existence of these possible murders is from Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 102-0536, “Deaths by Cause, Chapter XVI, Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period” (http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1020536&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=-1&tabMode=dataTable&csid=).

According to the Criminal Code, a child is considered to be a human being and a person after proceeding fully from the mother’s womb, therefore, based on Section 223(2) of the Criminal Code, there should be 491 homicide investigations or prosecutions in connection with these deaths.

As you would know, Section 223(2) of the Criminal Code reads, “A person commits homicide when he causes injury to a child before or during its birth as a result of which the child dies after becoming a human being.” That is to say, anyone who interferes with a pregnancy such that the child dies after it is born alive due to that interference is guilty of homicide.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has also reported 119 live birth abortions for the year 2010/2011 (http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2012/12/update-live-birth-abortions-on-rise-in.html), which is an extremely troubling increase from previous years.

This increase indicates that the killing of Canadian children may continue to grow if these apparent crimes are not investigated, and the perpetrators prosecuted.

These incidents appear to be homicides. Therefore a thorough police investigation is required, and I am formally requesting you to pursue that. I can make several experts on this matter available to you in the course of your investigation, should you so desire.

These incidents that need investigating took place across Canada, making this a national investigation. Furthermore, in many of Canada’s province’s, the RCMP is the provincial police force. It, therefore, is the best police force in Canada to exercise the leadership necessary to investigate these serious charges.

I look forward to your expeditious confirmation that you have commenced an investigation.

Yours sincerely,

Maurice Vellacott,
Member of Parliament,
Saskatoon-Wanuskwein                   

Leon Benoit,
Member of Parliament,
Vegreville-Wainwright

Wladyslaw Lizon,
Member of Parliament,
Mississauga East-Cooksville

Pig Mistreatment Raises Protests, But Baby-Killing is OK in Canada

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Dec 112012
 

Undercover video was released this week that shows the alleged mistreatment of pigs at a Manitoba hog farm. The pigs – all destined to be butchered in time for “the holidays” (formerly known as Christmas) – are shown to be living in cramped cages and being killed by blunt force trauma.

Also released this week by the Canadian Institute for Health Information were the latest statistics on abortion in Canada. In 2009, in excess of 93,755 babies were killed by induced abortion in Canada. Such abortions are legal, even though the babies consequently experience tremendous pain and suffering.

While the living conditions of pigs has had major national coverage by newspapers and television and has stirred great ire from the public, the baby-killing story has been almost totally ignored by the media and public. A shameless Canada once again proves it has twisted priorities.

Read the two stories here:

Animal abuse alleged at Manitoba hog farm
Industry panel says most actions shown at Puratone farm in Arborg, Man., are accepted practice
The Canadian Press, December 10, 2012

Abortion in Canada — almost 100,000 documented terminations in 2009
Richard Johnson / National Post, December 7, 2012

The Mark Hasiuk Show: Birth of the AK-47

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Jul 262012
 

Mark Hasiuk presents a fascinating history of the AK-47, the most popular and enduring machine gun in the the world. So important has the AK-47 been to the liberty of some countries that it actually appears in several national flags and coats of arms!

The Prophets War: No, Canada

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Jul 012012
 

In a defiant display of gloating over his intended demise of Canadian culture, Vulture Guard's General Disorder mocks our national anthem on Canada Day with his own twisted version. Is he right? Has apathetic Canada slipped too far down the slope of political correctness and complacency? Will you join in the demise? Or resist, fight back? Show them all is not lost! Get involved! Speak up! Plan to Survive.

Vulture Guard’s “No, Canada” …

No, Canada
You’ve given up your land
To laziness, greed, and childish demands

With hungry eyes, we see our prize
The cold north sick and weak

Don’t act surprised
No Canada, you caused your own defeat

God left your land – spurned by decree
No Canada, it’s Vulture Guard for thee

No Canada, it’s Vulture Guard for thee

The Sham “Ethics” of Campaign Finance

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Apr 232012
 

Flash Drive with Ron Gray: The Sham “Ethics” of Campaign Finance

Watching the hearings by the Commons Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics is a bizarre sort of entertainment—almost as much fun as a root canal. The partisan jousting between the MPs makes a mockery of the idea that this is any sort of objective “enquiry”.

A example: NDP MP Pat Martin misquoted witness David Marler (a Conservative candidate) as having said the Tory “in-and-out” funding of television advertising “didn’t pass the smell test.”

“That’s not what I said,” retorted Marler, who then explained that he said he refused to sign because, as a first-time candidate, he didn’t understand what was being proposed—and as a lawyer, he refuses to sign anything he doesn’t understand. “If my Mom proposed it, I wouldn’t—well, maybe I’d sign it for my Mom, because I respect her,” he added. “But not even for a brother would I sign something I didn’t understand.”

Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro then skewered Martin nicely by pointing out that a shared national media purchase, partly reported as a local advertising expense, was exactly what the NDP had done for Olivia Chow in Toronto’s Trinity/Spadina riding.

What makes this “ethics” investigation so painful is that no one questions the ethics of the four parties in Parliament voting themselves $30 million a year of taxpayers’ money, while strangling the fund-raising of other parties.

Clearly, those already in the House want to pull up the drawbridge behind them, to block new parties and new ideas. The formula for funding the four parties in Parliament—tied to the number of votes they gained in the last election—is a formula for preserving the status quo: those who got the most votes get more money to campaign for reelection.

But left out in the cold by this equation is the indefeasible right of voters to have access to adequate information about all the options available to them.

The honorable Members sitting around the table seem only to care about holding onto their sinecures by bolstering their parties’ partisan advantages.

The CHP has several times proposed a plan by which each taxpayer—from whom the lion’s share of the money for election campaigns now comes, after all—should have the right to designate which party gets their money.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote, 200 years ago: “It is tyrannical to compel a man to pay for the promulgation of ideas with which he does not agree.” For example, like most pro-Life Canadians, I disagree strongly with the anti-life policies of the four parties that dominate the House of Commons. Why, then, should I be compelled to finance their immoral policies?

Canadians should write to their MPs and demand a change in the election financing formula. If taxpayers’ funds are to be doled out to politicians, let each taxpayer decide who gets their $2. Doesn’t that make more sense?

BC’s Ministry of Education Sells Out to Lady Gaga

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Mar 072012
 

BPV’s Gordon World Takes on Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is making serious money with the help of BC’s Ministry of Education, which has endorsed the 21st Century burlesque queen – immoral behaviour, racist costumes, questionable lyrics and all – by corraling pink-clad children into “flash mob” dances. Gordon World, member of the parents’ rights group Burnaby Parents’ Voice, joins Kari Simpson and Ron Gray in an examination of how our public education system is selling the wrong message to our children.

Further, Culture Guard examines how Pink Shirt Day, a national anti-bullying campaign, has been hijacked by sex activists who have bullied certain naive local school boards into promoting homosexuality to our kids instead of sticking to the original message that ALL bullying is wrong.

You don’t want to know… But you need to!

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Aug 022011
 


With Kari Simpson and Ron Gray!



Show #112, Part 3, audio only:
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8:40 – 9:30 pm: Yes, you need to know! NATHAN COOPER will join us for a cross-country look at headline happenings! How’s this for a list of topics:

RKR Weekly Definitions 02

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Jun 012011
 

Avoidance – (see Talking in Circles)

Ethical – Corporate legalese insinuating no wrongdoing in the exploitation of Third World resources.

Keyless Entry – A rock thrown through a window.

Runaround – (see Avoidance)

SexUcation – The strategic abuse of the public education system by the pharmaceutical marketing gurus to encourage the youth to engage in sexual acts that will result in a greater demand for their products thus increasing the profit margins of the multi-billion dollar multi-national corporations.  These marketing strategies are embraced by horny leftist teachers and their unions.

Shampoo – Soap with a gargantuan ad budget.

Silly-Putty – Soft questions of little substance, no verification, and fabricated assertions, such as those lobbed at like-minded guests by interviewers like Bill Good.

Talking in Circles – (see Runaround)

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The National Absurder: Embargo This

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Mar 112011
 

Can you believe there’s a country that forces its children work in factories? Wages are 44 cents an hour. Unions are illegal. Government enforces censorship with violence. Critics of the government are thrown in dungeons. Tax fraud, theft and smuggling are punishable by death. Newspapers, books, and the Internet are severely censored. Religious and ethnic discrimination are state-sponsored. Women suffer forced abortions and sterilization to control the population.

I’m not talking about Cuba here. I’m describing China.

The U.S. has no problems with Americans visiting China, our chief supplier of poisoned dog food and lead-tainted toys – not to mention off-the-scale pollution and BILLIONS of cases of human rights violations.

But Cuba? Americans can’t come here.

To be accurate, the U.S. does allow some Americans to visit Cuba. Cuban-Americans, reporters and politicians can apply for permission. Last year about 6,000 permits were issued to Americans to visit Cuba. Last year more than 200,000 Americans actually visited Cuba.

Thank you, Canada. While American Customs agents are hassling me over my nail clippers and tube of toothpaste, Canada Customs were allowing me to exercise my free choice. And Cuban Customs agents do NOT stamp American passports. Come on down!

All this is done on a wink-wink, nudge-nudge level. While I’d like to see Canada grow a pair and tell the U.S. to stop this sham embargo, I can understand why Canada doesn’t want to lose the revenue of a quarter of a million round trip vacation packages to Cuba every year.

The United States lies that this is a United Nations-backed embargo. Let’s see, the latest vote was 173 countries against the embargo, and 3 for it. Three. The United States, Israel, and the Marshall Islands. There’s a country called the Marshal Islands?

The Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bill Clinton love their Cuban cigars, but YOU can’t have any. So who’s really being punished?

The details hurt my head – admit it, they give you a headache, too. If we actually paid attention to who’s paying off whom, we’d all demand this absurdity to stop immediately. Or as American voters, we’d have to accept culpability for America’s unjust management of embargoes.

Whoa, that was way too many syllables. I’m on vacation, after all.

Hey Fidel, another mojito over here, por favor.

GMO – Oh-oh! MPs voted 178 to 98 against Bill C-474; Canadian farmers’ exports now at risk

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Feb 172011
 

From a report by blogger Karen Stephenson

http://www.suite101.com/content/gmo-exportability-bill-c-474-shot-down-in-canadian-parliament-a345789

Feb 10, 2011 — Bill C-474, a Private Member’s Bill introduced in November 2009 by Alex Atamenenko, NDP Agriculture Critic and MP for BC Southern Interior, called for an amendment to the federal Seeds Regulations Act to require “an analysis of potential harm to export markets” before federal permission for sale of any new GM (genetically modified) seed.
February 9, Atamenenko’s bill was voted down 178-98. All Conservative MPs voted against it, as did 40 of the 58 Liberals who voted.
In a Canadian Biotechnology Action Network press release, Maureen Bostock, who speaks for the National Farmers Union, stated, “It’s outrageous that instead of being at the vote in Ottawa, most Agriculture Committee members are actually in Guelph listening to the President of Monsanto Canada.”
Biotech industry tried to prevent debate
C-474 had gone further than any other Bill on genetic engineering, but last December the biotech industry attempted to prevent debate in the House of Commons; however, by an obscure parliamentary tactic the NDP secured a 5-hour debate that took place February 8. Such a debate on genetic engineering had never happened in the House of Commons before. Every MP who had concerns of their own or from their constituents presented them to the House.
Implications of C-474 defeat
Hamilton East MP Wayne Marston (NDP) asserted, “GM seeds will lead to economic disaster for our farmers.”
Jean Crowder, NDP MP for Nanaimo-Cowichan, said, “GE will destroy our export market” because our export markets do not want crops grown from GM seeds, which are considered “contaminated.” Canada’s flax exports collapsed because of GM flax seeds.
Peter Julian, NDP MP for Burnaby-New Westminster stated that “the purity of our seeds is fundamentally important.” He called C-474 a “simple piece of legislation” and was disappointed that “not a single Conservative member has responded to their constituents … they are only listening to the biotechnology industry.”
MPs who spoke shared concerns that if C-474 did not pass, Canada’s wheat and alfalfa exports will collapse just like flax.
Terry Wilson, founder of the Canadian Awareness Network, wrote in his blog, “We are seeing how Canadian politics work very clearly here. The multi-national corporations getting their way, and the Canadian people getting shafted.”
GM seeds burned
Kevin Proteau, founder of Locals Supporting Locals stated in a telephone interview with the blog Suite101, “Many Canadians are aware of the dangers of GM seeds and recognize that countries worldwide want nothing to do with crops grown from these seeds.”
Natural News reported on July 19, 2010, six months after the devastating earthquake, that 10,000 Haitian farmers marched in protest against Monsanto and burned hybrid corn seed. “A 200,000-member national coalition is encouraging Haiti farmers to burn all Monsanto seeds already distributed, and has called on the government to reject additional shipments.”

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