“Where Being Conservative Means You'll Need To Keep It Secret.”
When you have YouTube. This guy set up a great channel that covers the best and worst of YouTube…
Bad language beeped… and like I told my wife – it’s a guy thing.
Then my Favorite:
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Our beloved loonie is on a tear:
The loonie ended the day up US 1.90¢ at US 91.60¢ after touching a high of US 91.75¢. It is at its highest level in seven months, having jumped more than 7¢ in May — its biggest monthly gain since 1950, according to Bloomberg News.
The US greenback fell more than 6% in May against a basket of six major currencies, its largest monthly drop since 1985.
You’d think there might be some good news for Canadian consumers…
Oil is priced in US dollars: So goes the explanation for our gas prices being stuck at $1/litre after oil fell from $140 to $40. Now that oil is at $65, the strong loonie should mean less of a increase. And I’ll like to sell you the Lions Gate Bridge.
Foreign import prices will fall – just like last time.
Travel to the US just got more affordable. I’d suggest Texas. California is about to get a lot more expensive.
Imported Car prices will fall. A BMW 528i is $36,855 in the US – Vancouver it’s only $59,900. Factor in exchange at 85 cents and it’s $50,915 – only a $14,000 rip-off (38%). I know such a capitalist pig vehicle is frowned upon here in Canada, so let’s look at the standard 2009 Honda Civic Sport sedan. Base price: $21,580 CA compared to $12,974 US. Factor in excahnge at 85 cents and it’s only a $5,369 gouge (41%).
Will the rising loonie and commodity prices mean good times again for the Canadian economy? Will our wounded retailers decide to pass along a little of the wealth to Canadian consumers?
Or is the more likely scenario that Obama’s looting will collapse the American dollar and drag ours along with it?
Meet Gina Incandela. She’s 7, and her singing of the American national anthem is absolutely amazing.. in more ways than one.
Gina Marie Incandela is 7 years old. She attends first grade at a private school in Kissimmee, Florida. She loves to learn new things. She also plays the piano…
Gina Marie was diagnosed with autism just before the age of 2. She couldn’t even speak until she was 3 years old and now at age 7 she is singing National Anthems at professional sports games and concerts across the country.
Her parents sent her to a school for kids with special needs as she had trouble forming words when attempting to speak. Her teachers at the school used music to help her with her language skills.
She’s a star and has her own website and a YouTube Channel
Vancouver, BC’s largest city, has gained notoriety for gun crime, especially among drug gangs. Since 1997 nearly 450 gangsters have been killed there. The surge in shootings is “directly related” to a crackdown on gangs in Mexico and the United States, says Pat Fogarty, a senior officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Recent arrests by the three countries’ police forces have disrupted a Mexican-run cocaine distribution chain, leaving Vancouver’s street dealers fighting to secure their supplies. “The price goes up and the guns come out,” says Mr Fogarty.
The funny thing is that Colombians are taking exception to being compared to Vancouver…
There’s something odd about both the timing and the message of the latest media campaign for Iran by their sympathizers:
Iran defuses homemade bomb on plane-media
Security personnel defused a homemade bomb found on an aircraft during a domestic flight in Iran late on Saturday, Iranian media said, two days after a mosque bombing killed 25 people in the country’s southeast.
The incident occurred less than two weeks before the Islamic Republic holds a presidential election in which the conservative incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faces a challenge from reformers. “The enemies want to create a security-threat environment before the country’s presidential election and to create hopelessness among people,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Mohammad Hassan Kazemi, a commander in the elite Revolutionary Guards in charge of aviation security, as saying.
Sure.
Then Newsweek puts out a piece by Fareed Zakaria entitled “They May Not Want the Bomb.”
By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK
Published May 23, 2009
Religion Versus Reality
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What’s the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons.
Is this any coincidence?
Israel carries out biggest civil defence exercise
The exercise is being watched closely in the region because of speculation about a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which could provoke retaliatory missile strikes.
Faced with the naivety of the new US leadership, Israel may be forced to solve the Iran nuclear issue on it’s own. And it’s starting to look like this will happen soon.
From my friends over at the KFA Forum:
The international press agencies, headed by Pyongyang’s Central News Agency “KCNA” were informing yesterday that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had successfully conducted a nuclear test, at 09.54 am local time (3.54 am Romania’s time).
In a KCNA press release, the Koreans clearly state that the DPR of Korea conducted a test which was merely meant to strengthen its military forces and to be able to prevent an external attack, so the action is only for defensive and purely scientific purposes.
The nuclear test conducted at the end of the weekend proved a new level in technological development, which allows Pyongyang to improve its defensive nuclear potential, in accordance with the main political line, Songun.
The nuclear test may not only help to defend the national sovereignty of the country and the cause socialism in favor of peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in the region, but also to strengthen the country as a whole and to underline that all social strata, both soldiers and civilians are acting as a monolith to defend the true and honest cause of the Motherland.
The seismological stations in the United States, Russia, South Korea and Japan confirm the test, by detecting small movements in an area located North East of Pyongyang in the same place where the Korean People’s Army had made a similar test in the autumn of 2006.
According to data made public during the day through international media reports, the Russian specialists from the Yuzhno- Sahalinsk seismic station (in the Russian Far East) have also confirmed the test.
The Korean gesture is thus a clear signal sent to the US authorities in Washington DC and especially to the recently elected President Barack Obama. The message, in my opinion is meant to catalyze the political will of the leadership from the White House in order to persuade this country to engage in bilateral discussions with the mighty Songun Korea and leave a part the bellicose language so often promoted in international forums and the harsh policy promoted by the Imperialists, with their Japanese and South Korean puppets against the DPR of Korea.
Let me congratulate the Korean people once again for this amazing step and tell them that we, Korea’s friends from Romania will stand by your side no matter what the future may bring.
Long live the DPR of Korea and its heroic and patriotic people!
Down with the US selfish Imperialism!
Ciprian Pop,
Official Delegate of Korea Friendship Association, Romanian Branch
Secretary of the Union of Romanian Communists
Recommended Reading:
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Teleprompter
We are on the brink of ‘man-caused disaster.’
By Mark Steyn
… What does a nuclear madman have to do to get America’s attention? On Memorial Day, the North Koreans detonated “an underground atomic device many times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” as my old colleagues at the Irish Times put it. You’d think that’d rate something higher than “World News In Brief,” see foot of page 37. But instead Washington was consumed by the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who apparently has a “compelling personal story.”
Doesn’t Kim Jong Il have a compelling personal story? Like Sonia, he grew up in a poor neighborhood (North Korea), yet he’s managed to become a nuclear power, shattering the glass ceiling to take his seat at the old nuclear boys’ club. Isn’t that an inspiring narrative? Once upon a time you had to be a great power, one of the Big Five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, to sit at the nuclear table: America, Britain, France, Russia, China, the old sons of power and privilege. But now the mentally unstable scion of an impoverished no-account backwater with a GDP lower than that of Zimbabwe has joined their ranks: Celebrate diversity!
GM Announces Plans to Build Small Car in U.S.
DETROIT, Mich. — General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM) announced today it plans to build a future small car in the United States utilizing an idled UAW-GM facility. This vehicle adds to GM’s growing portfolio of U.S.-built, highly fuel efficient cars including the Chevrolet Cruze and Volt.
“Small cars represent one of the fastest growing segments in both the U.S. and around the world,” said Fritz Henderson, General Motors President and CEO. “We believe this car will be a winner with our current and future customers in the U.S.”
The re-tooled plant will be capable of building 160,000 cars annually, which can be a combination of both small and compact vehicles. Selection of the site will be determined in the future.
“I would like to personally thank the UAW for agreeing to work with us to ensure our overall manufacturing competitiveness in the United States,” said Henderson. “This vehicle segment, while important today and expected to be more so in the future, is extremely challenging. It takes a special effort by everyone to bring a domestically produced small car to market in a cost-competitive and profitable way – but that is what we are going to do together.”
GM already has a strong manufacturing presence in the United States. Currently, about 67 percent of GM cars and trucks sold in the U.S. are built in the U.S. With this announcement, GM anticipates that U.S. production levels will increase beyond 70 percent by 2013, augmenting its already automotive industry-leading U.S. manufacturing footprint.
This will end badly. And we have history to prove it.
The last time the government got involved in steering the US car companies they created a decade of the worst made cars ever. From 1975 to 1985 there were no cars that stand out as anything but scrap metal. More »
From If Hollywood Was Your Only Source of History:
JFK had way more in common with Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush than most of today’s Democrats:
By modern standards, Kennedy was a fairly conservative Republican; forward-leaning on national defense and a tax cutter who may not have called it trickle-down but to improve the economy and grow the treasury he cut taxes across the board (yes, including the evil rich). Kennedy’s “tax cuts for the wealthy” not only worked but would become the starter blueprint for both the Reagan and Bush II tax cuts.
He is probably rolling over in his grave today…
California is no longer a state – it’s a hedge fund.
A great interview with the Craig T. Nelson and the new anti-christ of the Obama brownshirt brigade, Glenn Beck… and it sums up what more and more people are thinking.
I am sure some are already doing it. (This is why the government needs to withhold taxes at source – unfortunately their real source of income is from those that pay voluntarily on a quarterly basis.)
Whoops! Another big surprise – US Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981, a study released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research says. Do the math – that’s 1.656 Trillion a year if it holds month-to-month.
And the left is getting restless – even with Canada. From The World Socialist website:
Furor over soaring federal budget deficit – … the sharp rise in the projected deficit is caused by plummeting tax revenues, increased Employment Insurance (EI) claims, and the cost of the auto industry bailout. (Even they are against it)
The sharp contraction of the Canadian economy—the economy shrank at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009—and resulting declines in corporate profits and employment have caused a large drop in government revenue. Since October almost 350,000 fulltime jobs have been eliminated.
Solution (socialists version of ‘Going Galt’):
These developments underscore the urgency of workers adopting a radically new strategy. The working class must be mobilized in independent industrial and political action against all the attempts of big business and its political representatives to make the working class pay for the failure of the profit system through the cutting of jobs, wages, and public and social services, and in the fight for a workers’ government.
Hasn’t Obama fast-tracked that idea already?
If the anger I am reading on this socialist site is true, it doesn’t bode well for the poster child of socialists - who are saying the same thing as Glenn Beck.
or is it because even they know it’s really fascism we’re really witnessing?
“As a Colombian, I find the implication of your title offensive. All forms of crime and violence have plummeted since president Álvaro Uribe took office some seven years ago. Several other Latin American nations now boast much higher crime rates than ours. Why not rather compare the situation in Canada to Socialist Venezuela for instance, where violence is out of control, or any of the crime-ridden American cities such as the one from which its current president emerged?
By the way, I’m glad Canadian and American degenerates are shifting their preferences for locally-made poison. Perhaps now they’ll leave us the hell alone.”
As the Olympics get closer, we’ll see a lot more exposure of our underbelly. Not that it’ll change anything.