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Glenn Beck Dares To Promote Values and God.

August 28th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in activists

Glenn Beck for President

The Glenn Beck event taking place is a rally to restore Faith, Hope and Charity and have people return to God. Not a religion, but God.

Read what the press is saying and frantically trying to do to put down this racist, white, conservative, tea bagging movement.. it’s a study on how the left thinks.

At last count there are over 3,000 stories, and probably the best view of how much the left fears him, would be here. And this is from the CBC.

It’s hard to see how you could knock an event that focuses on Faith, Hope and Charity, promoting God, Honor and Integrity.

But their heads are exploding over this, and if anything, it’s fun to watch.

Not that the left is prone to judge…

From the storyline:

From the steps of the memorial, Beck told the crowd of largely Tea Party supporters that the United States has “wandered in darkness” for too long and now is the time to “concentrate on the good things in America.”

Winnipeg Free Press: A largely white and heavily patriotic crowd of flag-waving conservatives gathered at the foot of the iconic Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to hear Fox News personality Glenn Beck reassure them that America “begins today to turn back to God.

The Baltimore Sun: The brand of American history taught by Glenn Beck Saturday at his rally would not pass muster in a mediocre middle school. (that’s the problem – they’ve rewritten history).

The Guardian: Tens of thousands descended on Washington today for one of the biggest culture clashes in decades – one that pitted an almost exclusively white crowd against one that was predominantly African-American. Both claimed the legacy of Martin Luther King. (Race baiting)

Live feed here.

Google gets in the game.. switches the map for Lincoln Memorial. Forgets to do no evil.

The list goes on for pages… They are going all out on a campaign to quiet Mr. Beck, and the previously silent majority. They have avoided showing the crowds, as it looks to be far in excess of 200,000.

And the race baiting theme has found a home Canada:

Mitch Potter at the Toronto Star: Tea Party rally big on God, short on colour. By last count he wrote three articles on the event. I don’t believe he watched the event and saw that blacks were well represented as presenters, given awards, and were there in the audience. America is 79.2% white, so it’s logical that a quick scan might show a high number of “crackers”. With at least 500,000 attending, it marks one of the most successful events in recent years.

Canada needs a Glenn Beck of its own to awaken our silent majority… to counter the control left has of us.

I keep wondering when we’ll wake up to the fact that the government here taken away freedoms and raises taxes on a monthly basis, without a peep from the electorate. The impending crash and burn of the US will damage us tremendously, and most of Canadians are blissfully ignorant of what this means.

Take a look at Alberta if you want an example. How they could be underwater with $70+ oil escapes me. And they are the closest thing we have to a conservative gov’t.

When (not if), the recession turns to a”great” depression in the next few months, we’ll find ourselves unable to pay for the social programs we have in place, and the cuts will be forced on us.

Think of Canada as a business – The US is bankrupt and they are our biggest customer.

It’s our choice if we’ll react like Greece, or if we can actually find our way on our own without the Nanny state.

The values Glenn Beck is promoting will be the only way to survive the fall of our socialist system.

In case you missed this racist, political, right-wing, teabagger event: (viewer warning)

Creative Commons Licensephoto credit: Nevada Tumbleweed

First They Came for The Census

August 18th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Oddities

Canadian Government Decides Penis-Measuring Lie Detector for Children Not Such a Great Idea:
B.C.’s minister of children and family development has ordered a permanent end to a controversial sex testing program for young offenders after learning one of its government technicians was recently charged with sexual assault.

Gizmodo: Use of penile plethysmography (PPG), which measure your penis for arousal while viewing questionable content, is being ceased by the Canadian government. After being used on kids for 25 years.

PPG testing, almost too perverse to believe it was actually a government-sanctioned procedure, was employed in British Columbia as a means of interrogating child sex offenders. A sensor was strapped to a child’s penis, monitoring blood flow while the kid was subjected to images of other nude children, and audio descriptions of rape. Reread that sentence if necessary. The reasoning—if you can even call it that—behind the test was to discern whether a child offender was lying about his or her desires, though we have a feeling this treatment probably created far more sociopaths than it screened. As Boing Boing points out, and as any adolescent can tell you, erections aren’t exactly the most objectively predictable phenomenon, refuting entirely the purpose of the test.

British Columbia’s Minister of Children and Family Development has put an end to PPG after the revelation that a technician administering the test was himself a sex offender. The levels of perversion-within-perversion here are dizzying. The Canadian government will now begin an official inquiry into trauma victims among the children subjected to PPG over the past decades—an investigation we have a feeling will not be a short one.

Just for Techies

August 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Tech Goodies

Another funny German meme…



Play The Vancouver Real Estate Game

July 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in All about Vancouver, Real Estate

Vancouver Real Estate Prices

Is it a Crack Shack Or a Mansion:

A sorry statement on the reality of Vancouver housing prices…

You are playing Part 2 of the Crack Shack or Mansion game.
The game features real Vancouver real estate listings, as of April 21st, 2010.
Can you tell the difference between a crack shack and a Vancouver, BC mansion, listed for one or two million dollars?

Find out!

Vancouver’s Main Export Could Be Wiped Out.

July 22nd, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in All about Vancouver

BC Bud

This bud’s for you! Interesting article on how much BC stands to lose from our “illegal” agriculture.

Wonder where all the money goes? On the bright side, they could follow California, legalize it, and charge HST. Deficit solved.

British Columbia’s cannabis activists and law enforcement officials are bracing themselves for a political earthquake that’s set to hit California this fall when voters head to the polls to legalize marijuana. Vancouver-based activists fear BC‘s bud industry could be wiped out if California opens the door on pot decriminalization.

“We’ve got to protect our pre-eminent position by legalizing now,” said Marc Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture and “BC‘s prince of pot.”

Speaking from his magazine office on Hastings Street, Emery said BC‘s marijuana industry could only compete with a possible pot haven in California if the province legalizes cannabis within the first two years of any such move south of the border.

If California legalizes, the demands for BC marijuana at $2,400 a pound will greatly diminish, said Emery, who faces a five-year jail term in the U.S. for drug trafficking and distributing cannabis seeds over the Internet.

According to Emery, the homegrown market will evaporate if Canadian pot users flock to California for cheap, high-quality cannabis that could be available for as little as $10 per ounce, compared to the current rate of $200 in Vancouver.

Should BC also decriminalize pot, Emery said the provincial economy could benefit from industry innovation focused on developing high-quality cannabis strains.

The BC marijuana industry is estimated at $5 to $8 billion and, if decriminalized, presents significant taxable revenue. William Austin, a BC Marijuana Party activist who phones MPs as part of the anti-prohibition drive, said the province and law enforcers are failing to see the bigger picture.

“The black market won’t go away but [legalization] will be a significant hit and it will allow the police to actually focus on more dangerous things like people-trafficking or weapons smuggling,” said Austin.

Yet, if California voters legalized marijuana, the impact on BC police would change little in the short term since pot “causes a considerable problem for law enforcement,” said RCMP Sergeant Dave Goddard. “It’s still going to be illegal here in Canada,” he said.

If other U.S. states such as Washington and Oregon legalize cannabis, Staff Sgt. Goddard said the impact would eventually be felt in Vancouver. “It would certainly reduce the market for BC bud and it would certainly have a domino effect here,” he said. “But we won’t be seeing that for some time.”

The California Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act would allow the recreational use of up to 28 grams of weed for adults over 21 and cultivation of up to 25 square feet of plant per household. It would be illegal to smoke in public, in the presence of minors, or on school grounds. Driving under the influence of pot would remain prohibited.

If cannabis becomes legal in California, the state will take ownership of an industry with an estimated value of $14 billion, which would help its bankrupt government plug a deficit of $42 billion in 2009.

Source. Creative Commons License photo credit: themadpothead

Motorcycle Insurance

July 3rd, 2010 | 12 Comments | Posted in All about Vancouver

BMW K1200LT Touring Motorcycle
Creative Commons License photo credit: WorldWideMotorcycles

Just got back from my friendly ICBC insurance broker, where I went to get BC insurance on my motorcycle.

I drive it a few times a month – and have owned it for 10 years.

Knowing BC insurance rates are ridiculous, I opted for liability only (the minimum required). After all, how much damage can I do with a motorbike?

The rate for 1 year- $1,200!?!

I can drop it for those winter months you don’t normally use the bike to save money… the rate goes up to $120/month.

So, as I can’t drive my car and motorbike at the same time, you’d think they’d give me a break. No such luck.

For a comparison of how far out of wack ICBC is, hop over to a national insurer in the US. Use an American zip code (try 33333 – Florida).

I have been paying $150 per year.

It’s time BC residents start asking questions of ICBC, and why a monopoly would overcharge by so much.

Something is terribly wrong.

I think it has do do with engine size, and as I have a bike that’s over 1000 cc’s, they charge me a lot more. Unfortunately, motor size in inversely proportional to risk. Anyone with a 1000-1600 cc motot os most likely older, and has years of driving experience… less risk.

Makes no sense, but ICBC is a monopoly and there is no reasoning with these bureaucrats.

Not sure what it takes to get BC residents to revolt against this monopoly and allow free enterprise into the province. ICBC needs to be shut down.