Liberal Dingbats

The Liberal Party of Canada is the official home of persons prone to being a dingbat, and the Maritimes have a lock on the title of dingbatville. How else could any reasonable person explain PEI Liberal MP Shawn Murphy's latest example of empty-headed moronic babble?

CBC:

[...] Ed Fast, the Conservative MP from Abbotsford, B.C., rose to congratulate his party on the passage of the government's new crime law, which had been hung up for a bit in the Liberal-dominated Senate.

That was when Liberal MP Shawn Murphy, from Charlottetown, who sits next to Fast turned in his seat towards the microphone and started yelling, "Get tough on crime, bring forth Brian Mulroney! Hang him high, hang Mulroney! Let's get this Mulroney before the courts as soon as possible and hang him high! We gotta get Mulroney, put a noose on his head, put a noose on his head. Get tough on crime."

Murphy is head of the Commons public accounts committee, the one that recently suggested citing a senior Mountie for contempt while it was probing management problems within the force.

CBC called Murphy's office for an explanation but he didn't return our call. His office said he was rushing for a flight back to his constituency.

ED: emphasis added

What an asshole.

It's bad enough that we have Dominique Leblanc, Scott Brison, Robert Thibault and Shawn Murphy as examples of duly elected liberal-minded representatives, but couldn't they keep their asstraps shut?

Am I asking too much?

Yeesh, it's embarrassing being in this place.

+ Colder +Snow + Ice = Global Warming on Holiday

While Al Gore, David Suzuki and other ecofascists live comfortable lives, their doom and gloom message about catastrophic global warming is starting to sound like idiocy. And so be it.

Must read from DailyTech:

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

[emphasis added]

This morning New Brunswickers are waking up to another major snow storm........

Invading the Kosovo cradle, one rat at a time....

The Canadian government may or may not recognize Kosovo. It better not! Kosovo independence is wrong. If the Canadian government does decide to recognize the partition of Serbia by following the long established tactic of Canadian decision making - waiting until no one is paying attention, then the Canada as we know it will start down its own road to destruction.

Independent.ie (Irish):

[...]

The EU now accepts the principle that an existing country can be partitioned if the demographic balance changes.

Does this have ramifications for Europe's future? Given differing birth rates between Europe's Christians and Muslims, could we see the Independent Caliphate of Piedmont or the Islamic Republic of Jutland?

It would be unwise to overstate the case, but the implications of the Kosovo move for an aging Christian continent facing mass Muslim immigration might be worth considering.

PipeLineNews.org:

[...]

The Islamist penetration into the Balkans especially Kosovo should be alarming to anyone concerned over the growing threat of Islamic jihad.

Throughout the region radical Muslims, originally led by Alija Izetbegovic began consolidating their power in the 1990s. During this period and leading into the Balkan civil wars tens of thousands of foreign mujahideen fighters entered coming from places as disparate as Northern Africa, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

[...]
n many ways the decision to welcome what is a renegade - nearly 100% Muslim - province of Serbia into the community of nations is inexplicable. Perhaps inertia is the best explanation, with the policy already having been set over ten years ago along with the tremendous investment of resources by NATO and the United States, the momentum to continue even a failed policy seems irresistible. Regardless the victory for the Islamists which this development represents will reverberate throughout the continent for decades, as Dr. Shay reminds us, “In the eyes of the radical Islamic circles, the establishment of an independent Islamic territory including Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania along the Adriatic Coast, is one of the most prominent achievements of Islam since the siege of Vienna in 1683. Islamic penetration into Europe through the Balkans is one of the main achievements of Islam in the twentieth century." [Dr. Shaul Shay, Islamic Terror and the Balkans]

God help us all..................

Ignoring An Environmental Disaster

Estrogen is harming our water supply, fish and the environment. Estrogen has polluted all of the rivers and lakes in Europe, polluted several rivers in the USA and doing the same harm in Canada. Imagine the uproar with feminists and ecofascists that could ensue if any government tried to stop the destruction of estrogen in the water supply? Imagine their same reaction if birth control pills users had to pay special taxes for polluting the water supply system?

ScienceDaily.com:

ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2008) — While most people understand the dangers of flushing toxic chemicals into the ecosystem through municipal sewer systems, one potentially devastating threat to wild fish populations comes from an unlikely source: estrogen.

After an exhaustive seven-year research effort, Canadian biologists found that miniscule amounts of estrogen present in municipal wastewater discharges can decimate wild fish populations living downstream.

The research, led by Dr. Karen Kidd, an NSERC-funded biology professor at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John) and the Canadian Rivers Institute, confirms that synthetic estrogen used in birth control pills can wreak havoc on the sex lives of fish. Small amounts of estrogen are excreted naturally by women whether or not they are taking birth control pills.

Male fish exposed to estrogen become feminized, producing egg protein normally synthesized by females. In female fish, estrogen often retards normal sexual maturation, including egg production.

"We've known for some time that estrogen can adversely affect the reproductive health of fish, but ours was the first study to show the long-term impact on the sustainability of wild fish populations," explains Kidd. "What we demonstrated is that estrogen can wipe out entire populations of small fish -- a key food source for larger fish whose survival could in turn be threatened over the longer term."

[...] h/t

Gee, what harm could estrogen in the water supply have on humans?

Kosovo - A Victory for Islamic Terrorism

It's unbelievable, a province of an independent country is overrun by an "ethnic" group from a neighboring country while incompetent journalists support the ethnic group and their terror organization. The result is a declaration of independence by people who are not indigenous to the lands. Kosovo independence is a moral, political and historical outrage.

Our first clue that something is wrong with the Kosovo story should be these snippets of information:

Thousands of jubilant Albanian-Canadians.......

Ninety per cent of Kosovo's 2 million people are ethnic Albanian — most of them secular Muslims — and they see no reason to stay joined to the rest of Christian Orthodox Serbia.

About 90 per cent of Kosovo's two million people are ethnic Albanians. Most of its minority Serbs live in isolated enclaves, and feel unprotected and vulnerable.

Celebrations are being held across Canada by ethnic Albanians after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, and many urged the Conservative government to recognize Europe's newest state.

The USA and the EU are wrong to allow a sovereign nation to have its territory divided by outsiders. Kosovo is more proof that cunning, deceitful Islam gets its way when cowards ignore history. God help us all.

More snippets of information:

[....] In the capital, Pristina, the mood was jubilant. Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved subfreezing temperatures to ride on the roofs of their cars, singing patriotic songs and chanting: "KLA! KLA!" the acronym for the now-disbanded rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. They waved American flags alongside the red Albanian banner imprinted with a black, double-headed eagle.

Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) formed in Macedonia in 1992 with the goal of uniting the ethnic Albanian populations of Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia into a "Greater Albania." Their name recognized that the province of Kosovo, officially part of the new nation of Serbia, was their most important and difficult target.

[...] Christopher Deliso's new book, "The Coming Balkan Caliphate", which tells the most terrifying story never told in the War on Terror. An American journalist based in Macedonia, Deliso has been investigating radical Islamic trends in the region for the better part of a decade. He's the director of the independent Balkan news website Balkanalysis.com and a field analyst on Macedonian politics for the Economics Intelligence Unit, London. His book examines the repercussions of the free world's alliance with radicals in Kosovo and Bosnia, one of which surfaced just this month with the attempted bombing of the U.S. embassy in Austria. The vivid picture Deliso paints, one that is corroborated by daily reports that have been streaming out of the region since the Clinton administration rallied NATO countries to the side of "moderate" Muslims against Yugoslavia, is more disturbing than anything that even the most vigilant Jihad-watchers can imagine.

[...] In the six years since our bizarre bombing of Belgrade to prevent a genocide that forensics turned up empty (a memo that apparently made it only to European and Canadian presses, leaving a gaping hole in our national dialogue), the sense of something not being said grows palpable. With every explosive report coming from the Balkans--Islamic charities getting busted as terror-funding fronts, terrorist cells being uncovered in Bosnia and Kosovo, explosions on Pristina’s Bill Clinton Avenue, then last year’s coordinated Albanian riots that injured 900, killed 19 Serbs and tried to drive out what was left of Kosovo’s non-Albanian population--more and more people have started to think it, but who has the poor taste to say it? After all, we were told that a genocide was in progress. We were told of mass graves. A hundred thousand killed and 800,000 displaced, Bill Clinton said. Soon after the U.S.-led NATO invasion, the 100,000 figure turned out to be closer to 2,000 and included armed Albanian and Serb fighters. “No Bodies at Rumored Grave Site in Kosovo,” read a Reuters headline as early as October ’99, above an article reporting the results of an excavation by international war crimes investigators to check the rumors that Serbs had hidden up to 700 Albanian bodies in a lead and zinc mine. Other “mass graves” turned up empty or hardly massive, and the Racak massacre, the feather that was used to break the NATO camel’s back, turned out to have been staged, according to three forensics teams sent in to investigate--but only after the first team, headed by Finland’s Helena Ranta, initially gave a thumbs-up to “massacre” so that the bombing campaign could commence. (Two years and thousands of lives later, Ranta’s final report confirmed the opposite conclusion.)

Those of us who warned that the West was being sucked in on the side of an extremist, militant, Kosovo-Albanian independence movement were dismissed as appeasers. The fact that the lead organization spearheading the fight for independence, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was universally designated a terrorist organization and known to be receiving support from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda was conveniently ignored. The recent dearth of news in the North American media regarding the increase in violence in Kosovo compared to the comprehensive coverage in the European press strongly suggests that we Canadians don't like to admit it when we are wrong. On the contrary, selected news clips on this side of the ocean continue to reinforce the popular spin that those dastardly Serbs are at it again.
[...]
Since the NATO/UN intervention in 1999, Kosovo has become the crime capital of Europe. The sex slave trade is flourishing. The province has become an invaluable transit point for drugs en route to Europe and North America. Ironically, the majority of the drugs come from another state "liberated" by the West, Afghanistan. Members of the demobilized, but not eliminated, KLA are intimately involved in organized crime and the government. The UN police arrest a small percentage of those involved in criminal activities and turn them over to a judiciary with a revolving door that responds to bribes and coercion. The objective of the Albanians is to purge all non-Albanians, including the international community's representatives, from Kosovo and ultimately link up with mother Albania thereby achieving the goal of "Greater Albania." The campaign started with their attacks on Serbian security forces in the early 1990s and they were successful in turning Milosevic's heavy-handed response into worldwide sympathy for their cause. There was no genocide as claimed by the West -- the 100,000 allegedly buried in mass graves turned out to be around 2,000, of all ethnic origins, including those killed in combat during the war itself. The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world.

Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!

[...] The Serbs are struggling to maintain control over Kosovo for cultural reasons as well. The territory has a significant role in Serbian history, as the site of the Serbs' defeat by the Ottoman Turks in 1389. The battle at Kosovo Field figures prominently in Serbian poetry and has great national significance as the cradle of Serbian civilization.

Setting the Stage
While the issues at the center of the fighting in Kosovo date back nearly two decades, the recent tension began to heat up after the emergence of the KLA in 1996. In 1997 the KLA took a more active role against continued oppression by the Serbs. They began killing Serbs in Kosovo, their main target being policemen. Eventually the KLA was able to establish control over areas within the province.

MacLeans:

[...] But a retired Canadian general who commanded UN troops during the Bosnian war of 1992 warned that the message Kosovo is sending to a number of independent minded movements around the world is troubling.

"It's a wrong decision," Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie told The Canadian Press.

"The potential ripple effect is quite staggering, " said MacKenzie, who's been a long-time opponent of NATO's intervention in Kosovo.

MacKenzie said some countries' willingness to recognize Kosovo's independence stemmed from their willingness to have NATO intervene there militarily in 1999.

"I think people are trying to perhaps right a historical wrong and get it off the table but this thing ain't going away any time soon," MacKenzie warned .

"This is going to cause some serious, serious repercussions internationally, in my opinion."

It's because of those repercussions that a number of countries with separatist minded ethnic groups like Spain, Greece, Georgia and Cyprus have said they will not recognize an independent Kosovo.

There is more to the Kosovo story than our media overloads report. Big brother media don't do their jobs. They never do. One did:

"Those of us who served as UN commanders in Bosnia realized the majority of the media reports were biased to say the least. Whenever we tried to set the record straight we were and continue to be accused of being, "Serbian agents." It's refreshing to see a journalist, not a general, dispel some of the myths that characterized the professional propaganda paid for by two sides in a three-sided civil war."
- Lewis MacKenzie, Major General (ret'd)
UNPROFOR Chief of Staff and Commander Sector Sarajevo March to August 1992 Author of, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo, 1993

"Peter Brock's devastating portrayal of the role played by western journalists in distorting the truth about what was really happening during the break up of Yugoslavia is a major accomplishment. The book underlines the terrible power of the media in influencing governments to make unwise policy decisions affecting the very course of history. It also exposes the close affinity that exists between media and government. Both are capable of telling lies and both are unwilling to admit mistakes. This is a "must read" book. It is a sad and shameful story but one that should be mandatory reading by every politician and by every practicing and aspiring journalist."
- James Bissett, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1990-1992).

Rowan Williams is an Archetype NOT a Bishop

There is no greater example of liberal buffoonery than the Archbishop of Canterbury. His recent hide and seek game of words about allowing Islamic sharia law in the UK exposed him to widespread condemnation by those that get Islam - those that know that Islam is not like any other religion. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the perfect liberal - self-centered, shallow and reeking of BS.

What really pisses me off about his type of liberal is that he truly thinks he thinks and knows, when in fact his reaction to issues shows that he usually only reflects, then reacts - causing irreparable harm in the process. Liberals, in all their varieties, truly are the result of bad learning. We see the same type of mindset in Canada and in New Brunswick. Cowards and those that can't ever think beyond their shallowness are in full supply and are leading most government offices, departments and policy bureaus. How else can one explain why thousands of Canadian government employees and their friends believe in the same tried and failed multiculturalism policies? See: Beinthisplace.ca

Yep, the Bishop is a modern liberal, the type of liberal that is leading his flock astray. His type will go down in history as the apprentices of western societies decline.

Melanie Phillips (read the whole thing):
[...]

SEVEN: His remarks will have a devastating effect on Christians in the Third World. Don’t forget Dr Williams is the head of a church whose members, in countries such as Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan and elsewhere, are being persecuted, harassed, attacked, forcibly converted and murdered in large numbers at the hands of the enforcers of sharia law.

By proposing to entrench sharia law in Britain, he has both betrayed his besieged flock worldwide and weakened Britain against the danger that it faces from the same Islamist enemy that threatens Christians around the world.

That, disgracefully, is what the Synod rose to its feet to applaud when it gave Dr Williams its standing ovation.

No, there was no public misunderstanding over the Archbishop’s remarks. People understood precisely what he was saying. But now he has compounded that gross misjudgment by spinning it as cynically as any venal politician.

For shame.

And for shame on all liberals who "dislike" western society, democracy, capitalism and Christianity.

" You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. - Clarence Darrow

Hell on Earth - Another Islamic Reality Check

We live in sinister times - a reality largely ignored or misunderstood by most. Although it is very easy for me to blame contemporary journalism for misrepresenting reality, there are days when I believe there is something far more dangerous operating within our earthly realm. Perhaps I am sensing a symbiotic combination of maligned journalism and a dangerous power phenomenon that will result in a period of unenlightenment? Words escape me - I sense a shadowy iniquity on the horizon.

When I read the following BBC account of Coptic Christians in Egypt, I know there is something sublimely dishonest about Islam- it is almost like Islam is a clever form of evil.

BBC:

An Egyptian court has ruled that 12 Christians who converted to Islam and then reverted to Christianity can have their faith officially recognised.
[...]

Reports say the judge decided that the Copts should not be considered apostates for converting from Islam, because they had been born Christian.

This suggests that Egyptians born Muslim will still be unable to convert to other faiths and have those conversions recognised on their identity cards. Many Muslims believe that converting from Islam is wrong, and some believe it is punishable by death.

Last year, an Egyptian convert to Christianity was forced to go into hiding when he received death threats after trying to have his conversion officially recognised.

I read the above story shortly after I watched the following videos of life for Coptic Christian in Islamic controlled Egypt. I am convinced that Islam's domination over all aspects of human life is a 'religion' that needs to be restricted, banned or defeated.

The following videos are stunningly bleak. I am off to church. After watching those videos, I know I cannot complain about being a Christian in North America.

Unreported world - h/t



Watch them all
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The Earth Has A Cold - A Troubling Truth

Here's some news:

Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.

To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.

And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.

Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.

read the rest.....

Now, I hope the ecofascists own a sweater.

Equality is Discrimination & Productivity is Unproductive

The groupthink crowd who are overwhelmed by their current fears of catastrophic global warming hold two principle values dear to their bleating hearts: equality is discrimination and productivity is unproductive. They despise western based democracy, capitalism and our Judeo-Christian heritage. Oh yes, they rarely come right out and say we hate our society, instead, they plant little bits of evidence that reveals their inner fascism.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury said some citizens (Muslims) don't relate to the British legal system and then said Sharia law is inevitable in the UK, we know he is telling his flock that surrender to Islamic fascism is close at hand. It's not good to demand that all citizens be equal before the law because some citizens are special - equality is discrimination.

Second, when a judge allows another drug dealer to get away with his criminal behavior because hard working police were too productive in their efforts to arrest him, what is being said is that productivity is unproductive.

We are doomed!

It's an "accidential" event

Most of the exempt media picked up on the phrase and surely emphasized the word "accidental" while reporting on the 'important' death news of another decadent star. It's sad, really! It's so sad because the same media cannot explain worldwide Islamic terrorism or our Canadian media cannot find the way to "explain" our mission in Afghanistan, but they sure do get to the bottom (cough) of an individuals fall from life. The dying star news begs another question - why are so many successful (so called) people prone to personal suicide? What is it about drugs (legal and otherwise) that causes so many people to spiral downward and die? And why can't rich people find happiness or serenity without drugs, booze or sex?

Why?

Population Growth Secretariat Issues Its Manifesto

The Shawn Graham government has to be the first government in Canada overrun by tiny little fairies who sprinkle fairy dust into the air hoping that something magical will transpire. The fairies are quite adept at using words such as strategy, stakeholder, inclusiveness, diverse, evolution, integrated, family-friendly, missions, meaningful, measures, potential.

The minister responsible for the feminist secretariat, I mean the population secretariat, lists the following as the key points of his government's strategy:

The growth strategy has four areas of focus:

• increasing and targeting immigration
• increasing settlement and promoting multiculturalism
• retaining youth and repatriating former
  New Brunswickers and
• adopting family-friendly policies

In other words, the strategy is to retain targets that promote policies.

Message to those who sprinkle fairy dust: everyone in the liberal western world is suffering from the same depopulation problems because they are NOT producing enough babies. The USA, on the other hand, is producing babies. Maybe the concept of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is enough to make people want to have many children while also attracting the best and brightest immigrants?

Every time a minister or government spokesperson of the Graham government says something I want to throw up or I gag from the overuse of insincere and superficial words. My gosh, the brain drain is complete - New Brunswick is run by a self-help guru template.

Be..... wildered .....in this place

"The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power"
- Benito Mussolini

I was waiting to comment on the obviously dumb branding conceived by some self-help obsessed individuals. But, the Daily Gleaner editorial beat me to it.

First things first - cough -
The New Brunswick government has decided to take the corporatist thing way beyond the realm of a proper boundary between business and public service.

Beinthisplace.ca:

“In New Brunswick you can be yourself, belong and be better.”

Our brand is about people. It reflects the emotional connection people have with New Brunswick, and the underlying reasons for that bond. It addresses the very human need to belong and to realize your individual potential. These are powerful, universal needs.

We have a compelling advantage here: people are better able to realize these needs in New Brunswick. The very fabric of our society makes it so. Our brand will resonate with most New Brunswickers because it emerges fundamentally from their views and beliefs.

Be Yourself - New Brunswick affords people the opportunity to truly examine and embrace who they are. There is a discernible personal freedom here based on a core value that accepts and celebrates that people are different.

Then there is the time factor. People have time for the thought and introspection that can lead to personal understanding. We’re not consumed in the urban sprawl of long commutes, traffic jams and countless lines. We live our life here. We don’t wait to live. It’s not a small consideration. It has an enormous impact on our collective way of life. In New Brunswick, people discover who they truly are and live their lives in a fundamentally authentic way.

Belong - People in New Brunswick avoid the feeling of isolation that is a growing social problem, most paradoxically in densely packed urban centres. There are real, ingrained ties to communities here, the natural opportunity to become part of something bigger than yourself. This opportunity flows from understanding who you are and how you fit within your community, however you choose to define it. That sense of community offers meaning. It may be as simple as belonging to your own family, or something larger, such as a charitable group, a theatre troupe, a sports team or countless other groups.

Be Better - In New Brunswick, you can be better because your life is authentic and you are part of something you value. There is a spirit to this place that drives us to find better ways to live, learn and work. That spirit, and the foundation of values that support it, allows us to achieve and accomplish more. It can be demonstrated personally or in a more public way, but the opportunity to be better is inherent to our way of life.

I've got some bad news for the dreamboys and dreamgirls who spend far too much time pretending to know what to do with a province that is failing, yes failing. New Brunswick is NOT the place where one can 'Be yourself, belong, or be better.' Nope, this is not the place. In New Brunswick, one can be here and face years of underemployment and be limited in career opportunities because certain political and social mafias dictate who shall join and rise in the NB club. A more appropriate branding might be - welcome to Beimbo land.

Last week I was talking with a woman who worked for the provincial government on a contract basis. Years of contract work and uncertainty about job renewal has forced her and her boyfriend to abandon NB for the USA [ you know - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness]. This is a woman who bemoaned the obvious lack of customer service that appears to be common in New Brunswick these days. Yep, no rebranding is going to make things better in New Brunswick until someone understands that far too many people have lost the maritime friendliness. It's no secret that American tourists have not been returning to New Brunswick. I know, it's the stupid passport thing or the high price of gas but never that they are ill treated here.

I also know another woman who works for the New Brunswick government who is learning first hand that the ability to speak French is more important than the ability to be yourself. I know other many other people who joined the call to return to NB only to find that there is nothing to be in this place, and subsequently returned to their 'foreign' post. I could go on and on and on.

New Brunswick is beautiful, it is lovely and it is uncluttered. But years of government control of most aspects of civic life have rendered New Brunswickers into a dependent people.

There is only one way to make things better. Get rid of the all of the phonies, political hacks, slogan makers and mafia groups and give New Brunswickers life, liberty and a chance at happiness.

The "beinthisplace" bullshit should be thrown out the door. Perhaps Premier Graham should be too because he can't seem to envision anything other than what a few crafty corporatists have laid out for the people of New Brunswick.

Sapere Aude

Drunk on "haterade" and other "thought police" corruption

During the last federal election I was at the Fredericton Inn to listen to a campaign speech by Stephen Harper. One of the national reporters following the Harper campaign was Susan Riley of the Ottawa Citizen. She and I chatted briefly and I learned that she was no fan of Mr. Harper. I was not surprised by her candor - after all, most reporters I've met are inherently weak individuals, shallow and not ashamed of their bias. Of course, these same reporters would never openly admit they have a "hidden agenda." In my opinion, most of the Ottawa Press Gallery long for a return to the "friendly dictatorship" days of former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien. In those liberal days, the exempt media were willing accomplices to the massive electoral fraud committed by the federal liberals -suitcases of cash distributed during the 1997 and 2000 election campaigns by liberal insiders to help win power. Our entrusted media acted like the Orwellian "thought police" by keeping the Liberal's "big brother" machine free from scrutiny.

So, it is always amusing for me to read 'comments' from the "national press gallery." Susan Riley's latest column, "Susan Riley . Madness of King Harper" [ED: actual headline] is one of the better examples of a journalistic meltdown. There is no denying her contempt for Prime Minister Harper. In Riley's Ottawa, the Prime Minister must be 1) a liberal, 2) a left-wing liberal or 3) dumb. Sadly for the majority of Ottawa's media 'corpse,' Harper does not play along with their obsessive compulsiveness and their personal corruption. Susan Riley and her ilk are sick persons, byproducts of the modern school of Cowardice -Bullshit - Corruption. Their values mantra includes payback, revenge and mockery. Yes, Susan Riley, I remember our conversation. I'll give you credit for being up front about your opinion.

Another example of a journalistic meltdown is published in today's Chronicle Herald. Stephen Maher's, "Then, Mr. Harper turned a bit nasty," has all the features of a journalist who considers himself adept at writing. For example, "It seemed that the prime minister made an effort to give up drinking the "haterade" for a few days, then fell off the wagon and took a big gulp." I guess the Ottawa Press Gallery really is using the fake story of Dimitri Soudas as payback. Unlike Mr Maher, I know who Dimitri Soudas is and I know why the Ottawa press gallery hate him.

Unlike the Ottawa obsessed thought police, I want to know why "Global Warming" becomes "climate change" when the facts don't support what the thought police cite as evidence. I want to know why no one within the Ottawa Press Gallery can clearly explain the Afghanistan mission to Canadians but are highly vigilant in explaining/supporting gay marriage? And why do the same media always say that we need to keep talking about the purpose of the Afghanistan mission while gay marriage, abortion and the sponsorship program are no longer worthy of discussion?

The nastiness of journalism ain't new - what's new is that they are open about it. We lived through the Chretien "friendly dictatorship" because the media kept telling us that everything was OK - then we learned otherwise. Now we are being told that things are not OK - I know Harper must be doing what's right. Funny, ain't that what leaders are supposed to do? Not according to the Maher's and Riley's - they long for something far worse.