Long-time supporter, Taylor Marsh gives up on Obama.

HotAir: “a simply jaw dropping editorial tirade this weekend from Taylor Marsh. (Actually Michelle Marshall). For those not familiar, she was arguably one of Obama’s most hard core supporters. A devotee of Gloria Steinam, to say that she embodies the modern progressive movement would be a bit of an understatement to say the least.

All of this is what makes her New Years declaration more shocking. Titled, “The Party’s Over,” she takes not only Barack Obama, but Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic establishment to task while pretty much running up the white flag for liberalism.

It’s a great read from the left’s perspective…

Best comment: Sums it all up.

Karl K:

You lefties just KILL me. How does it feel to be totally snookered by Obama? Of course, had you exercised an ounce of critical thinking before you all swooned over him, you wouldn’t have be so soundly and thoroughly snookered.

So why will Obama go down as a WORSE president that Jimmy Carter? Simple. He is an incompetent lazy hypocritical petulant charlatan.
That’s right, Obama is a charlatan, with neither the temperament, attitude, or intellect — yes, I said intellect — to be president. Because in the end, Obama is simply not that bright.

I don’t know about you, but when he got up and said “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” and “this is the day the planet began to heal” my bullshit meter was redlining. Or when he says during the BP fiasco, “we won’t rest until…” — gimme a break. Astonishingly pretentious because, you know, we won’t be resting because we will be playing a lot of golf. Or raising a lot of campaign money. From a lot of Wall St. guys.  If the speechifying isn’t pompous, or arrogant, it’s exploring new depths of banality and demagoguery, erecting false choices and straw men in sentence after sentence after sentence. And the quantity of speechifying! For a while there he was on TV giving an address or news conference more often than Seinfeld reruns.

Meanwhile, he’s supposed to be this intellectual giant, compared to Chimpy Bush McHitler, but then winds up shooting his mouth off about the Cambridge police and surgeon’s fees for  diabetic amputations without having any facts at hand, among other examples too numerous to mention. He lies about his mother not getting insurance because of pre-existing conditions.

Then there are his rhetorical gaffes — 57 states, the constitution was written 20 centuries ago, “corpseman” Austrians speak Austrian — that pass by unnoticed by the fawning media but would be front page news if uttered by Dubya or, the media’s favorite whipping girl, Sarah Palin, or the favorite whipping boys, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum. Of course, even when the teleprompter provides him fully formed sentences, virtually everything Obama says has a “sell-by” date — Guantanamo, status of Jerusalem, the ground zero mosque, health care negotiations on CSPAN, shovel ready projects-, and the biggest whopper of all, deficit reduction — you name it, he’ll take one side, and then the other, or ignore what he promised, and then give us the “HOPE” upturned look, pretending that he’s actually thinking.

Of course, the apologists put it down to other qualities — too aloof, too technocratic, too businesslike — matters of style, not substance. Of course, that’s what OBAMA thinks too – in his delusion or pretense (I’m not sure which is worse) the “shellacking” he and his party got in the 2010 mid-term election was all about not getting the message out well enough. Of course, that’s total drek. The Democrats got their asses handed to them because (1) they spent too much money — the stimulus was about as effective as dropping $100 bills randomly out of airplanes — and (2) they rammed through a 2700 page baroque health care bill whose intended and unintended consequences have yet to unfold but which reflect a kind of governmental intervention that the American electorate is, with some justification, suspicious of.

Top that off by the fact that people are waking up to the horror that state and local governments have spun out of financial control — largely under the reign of Democrats — and for Democrats, you’ve got a 3-part formula for being summarily shown the exit door, and told not to let it hit them on the way out.

You know, sometimes, in my most cynical moments, I think folks are swayed because Obama looks good in a suit — see the covers of Rolling Stone — especially when he does that swagger walk. 40 long is my guess. If nothing else, he has a future career as a Ralph Lauren model, which may come sooner that he wants. It’s the “glamour.”

But when you cut through it all, Obama has revealed himself: he’s a narcissistic petulant hypocrite (“They talk about me like I am a dog.”) And then there’s the pettiness — it’s like there’s nothing else out there that rivals the menace of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, the state of Arizona and its immigration policies — or that most insidious of organizations, the US Chamber of Commerce(!!). Holy crap. Attacking the Supreme Court during the state of the union while they have to sit there, stone faced. It brings new meaning to the word “crass.”

His policy and management mistakes are taking on epic proportions. He outsourced his legislative agenda to the Assistant Vice Principal Harry Reid and the frozen-faced Speaker Pelosi (“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it;” “The health care bill will create 400,000 jobs”)…if both of them had IQs any lower we’d have to water them twice a day. And then we get Cash for Clunkers, bailing out GM with money the taxpayer will never see…rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

And virtually every senior person he has put into his administration has been a joke; (the only decent one, Gates, was a Bush leftover). Salazar on the oil spill; Holder, he of the deaths from Fast and Furious, and who makes Alberto Gonzales look competent; Romer promising an amazingly unrealistic unemployment rate; Geithner the tax cheat and Goldman lackey; Napolitano and the TSA and the airport hand groping we all have to deal with; Chu the nobel prize winner who should be getting the economic BOOBY prize for flushing a half a billion dollars of taxpayer money down the Solyndra toilet….and on and on and on. His chief space guy thinks his main mission is outreach to the Islamic world. Really, it’s fucking endless.

His foreign trips have been humiliating embarrassments: running around the Copenhagen conference, trying to broker a meaningless climate deal, while everyone avoids him; pitching Chicago for the Olympics and getting voted off the island in the first round; in the Far East, selling stimulus when no one’s buying and failing to get a trade agreement that should have been signed and sealed before he left the country. Bowing to foreign leaders. Raising his hand in the middle of a group picture of world leaders. Idiotic.

Bottom line? Incompetence and embarrassment run wild in the clusterfuck that is the Obama administration.

Top it all off, the media still has their noses right up his sphincter, leaving Obama completely exempt from the rabid dog inquisitiveness customary with, say, Republican candidates. Of course he will not release his college and law school  transcripts… because well, he thinks he is above it all.  And the media go ga ga anyway. Of course he doesn’t have to explain his 20 years in the pew of a racist pastor. Of course he’s never asked why he renounced public financing of presidential campaigns in the general election, why he is the first candidate  in recent memory not to have released his medical records, or the first to have raised $1 billion dollars in private cash, or the first to have played 90 rounds of golf in his first three years in office.  No wonder he turns up his nose so often in his Mussolini like pose.  He knows he will ALWAYS get a pass.
Meanwhile, all you guys are going to hold your noses and vote for him again…you too Taylor. You wanna know why? Because you all  think Republicans are heartless devils who are going to turn the United States into a racist evangelical revival meeting, and force girls to get abortions by back alley quacks with un-sterile coat hangers.

In other words, there are new places of stupidity that you have to visit. My advice? Bring your dramamine.

Of course, this was the Obama strategy all along. Snooker them with visions of unicorns….and when they wake up and find nothing, snooker them by demonizing the opponents. So, come November, when you punch the card, or flip the lever, remember, you’ve been snookered again.
God I hope there’s real change coming. Frankly, a Pentecostal snake charmer would be an improvement over this guy.

photo credit: Bright Tal

It started out innocently enough. They asked. The people spoke. Overwhelmingly negative.

So, if you’re the CBC, what do you do?

Add a little bit of “CBC Journalistic license”.

Original story:

My CBC is… : Tell us what the CBC means to you

One of the nicer comments:

It is reassuring to see from the comments and the votes here that I am not the only Canadian who is disgusted by the $1.4 billion annual taxpayer subsidy that is provided to this crown corporation.

I have never felt that this channel represented my views of Canada and what being a Canadian is. It represents politically motivated and manufactured views which often make me feel sick to my stomach and ashamed to be a Canadian.

When you combine the horrible expense and the propaganda elements that consistently and deliberately try to undermine my own noble beliefs, I would wholeheartedly support the sale or dismantling of this entity.

The 6% of Canadians who actually watch this channel on a regular basis should be asked to fork over the annual $1.4 Billion themselves and support their own propaganda and freedom of speech. However, it is grossly unfair that I am being forced to fund their political messages and low quality programming in such a massive way.

There are over 300 comments – 90% negative. Small Dead Animals helped get the conversation going.

The subsequent follow up to get ahead of the anger and try to reshape the conversation, and validating the above comment:

Spotted: Your heartfelt remarks about CBC’s upcoming anniversary

“It has wonderful (radio) morning wake up shows, provocative, thought-provoking afternoon shows, a TV line up that proudly says …”We are Canadian”, as evidenced by sane political broadcasts, HNIC and great investigative journalism. However, my favourite aspect of CBC is the website. It is my homepage and the first place I look for news and sports. As snowbirds and retired, we love the fact that CBC keeps my wife and I firmly rooted in Canada as we travel the southern US for five months in the winter. Do not change a thing…….CBC is Canada….eh?”

We can’t thank you enough for sharing your comments on this particular story. Your feedback has been tremendous, and look forward to reading more of your comments in the coming days!

If you ever needed proof of what an atrocity the CBC has become, this is it. End the bleeding now. Why we are being taxed to the tune of 1 billion plus for this train wreck speaks volumes.

Let’s make the 75th Anniversary their last. Speak up.

Today the chased-from-office BC Premier, Gordon Campbell, was given a gift of a position in the UK… Can’t help wonder how he got this. Maybe there is someone that is benefiting by HST.

The Harper government formally announced his appointment as the new high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland today.

The man who gifted us with carbon tax, then HST, and elected by outright deception, now gets to flee the scene of the crime and get rewarded handsomely. Here’s hoping he gets stationed near an area of unrest.

In much better news today, it’s confirmed that we are finally rid of the Bacon brothers.

August 2005: Jonathan Bacon and two others are charged with 15 counts of drugs and weapons offences after police found a cache of automatic weapons, silencers, a bulletproof vest and a police uniform, as well as marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and more than $90,000 in cash.

February 2007 – Gangster Jonathan Bacon delivered 114 sticks of stolen dynamite, a grenade, seven handguns, two shotguns, a rifle and an Uzi submachinegun to police as part of a plea bargain for an associate.

June 2008: Provincial court dismisses drug and weapons charges against Jonathan Bacon after agreeing his charter rights were violated.

Nov. 18, 2010: Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear Jonathan Bacon’s argument that his charter rights were violated when he was charged with the 2005 drugs and weapons offences.

August 2010: The gangster justice system in Kelowna executes Jonathon Bacon…  and saves the courts the work they should have done years ago.

BC is getting better all the time.

The police reacted very well considering how large the crowd was. They didn’t provoke and acted professionally.

Unfortunately,  things got worse once it was dark, and really turned ugly. we got out before that time.

One website notices: The “anarchists” seem to have come prepared, judging by the number wearing Vancouver jerseys in the vids. It’s also strange that these mysterious outsiders would turn up for a post-game riot in Vancouver but not in Boston, eh?

More photos here. Also, here’s a site to identify the thugs and upload your pics.

Best quote: Washington’s The Atlantic wrote: “In Syria, they riot for freedom. In Pakistan, they riot against U.S. drone strikes. In China, they riot over many things, most recently in Guangdong province for worker’s rights. But in Canada, which is officially ranked as one of the wealthiest and most peaceful nations in the world, they riot over, yes, hockey.”
VPD would like this person’s name:

A professional photographers gallery of the event… closeup and personal with the rioters. Naming these criminals should be easy (yep, he trashed and burned this new BMW):

And finally, a hint of the make up of the source of the rioters:

Before the history is written, let me say just this; before the pepper spray finally weeps out of my eyes, while the tear gas covers me; let me just say a few words while this smile is still smeared across my face.

Tonight the social peace was exploded. How many will say it was just a hockey riot, as if one could say just one thing about the tearing apart of the relations that bind us to command. Just a hockey riot, where tens of thousands moved threw the belly of commerce and took what they desired, smashing what was in their way. Hockey fans, fuckin-eh we are! And we fucked shit up.

… Cars on fire brought us together, seeking the light. The smoke signaled that we were not alone. The edge of alienation cut threw the cop lines and sliced a crevice between all of us against the few of them. The fires grew with our entitlement. Single acts of defiance become the more heroic as one window gave way to another. … Each window leading to another then turned around the corner, where more windows yield to the boots and bats.

We were being blown forward by black smoke. It bellowed threw the frenzy. A car here-and-there smashed and burning. Parking garages bellowing the stuff. We all took it in deep breaths and let out cheers.

Before it is said that this was a jock riot. Drunk white guys. A hockey riot; It should be asked why are some so quick to dispel social war. This was not a politico riot. For the most part it seemed like kids from the peripherals of central Vancouver. If it were a race riot, as a white guy I’d a been strung up. My shade of white-ass was few and far in between.

www.twitter.com/lulzraft is the culprit.

They’ve been busy hacking sites over the past few days, and launched a new twitter account for this. If you look at the followers, they seem to be journalists.. so I may not be the only one on to them.

Hackers pull off Harper choking hoax:

Prime Minister Rushed to Hospital After Breakfast Incident appeared briefly on www.conservative.ca

The site, which is powered by an Expression content management system by  www.backbonetechnology.com, needs to be have a bit of work done to fix the break-in… and I am sure they’ll be back. Took me a minute the find remnants of the hack.. not sure how competent the site admins are.

The hole was announced online May 7th:

http://hackers-team.net/2011/05/conservative-ca-vulnerable-to-sql-injection-attack/ and here http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/conservativeca-vulnerable-to-sql.html and here http://anupamabbott.blogspot.com/2011/05/conservativeca-vulnerable-to-sql.html

Canada is set to face its first postal strike since 1997 starting at 11.59pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on Thursday June 2nd.

The union said it wants Canada Post to address issues such as inadequate staffing, excessive workload and what it says is “constant harassment of workers when they are sick or injured.”

From the post office that doesn’t actually deliver mail to your home anymore.. isn’t it time we shut the thing down?

After doing an inventory of our mail, I think we can actually turn it off this week. We only get bills, and now it’s possible to get all of our bills via email. My goal is to be mail free by the weekend. Try epost… it’s easy to set up and divert your bills electronically. The only question is will Canada Post keep it running during the strike?

If someone wants to send me something physical, they can use Fedex or UPS… which you can count on to actually get it there the next day.

And for our enviro friends, think of the C02 we’ll save, the uncut trees and the overall quality of life improvement Canadians would have with the death of the Post Office.

The only issue us Welfare,  Unemployment and Pension cheques… forcing these to go electronic would probably save millions by uncovering the fraud within each system. It’s interesting that the posties will still deliver these even when on strike.

CanadaPost responds to the strike notice: Canada Post issued the following news release in response to CUPW’s notice that the union plans to begin strike activities at 11:59 p.m. EDT on June 2, 2011.

Canada Post’s offer provides:
• Annual wage increases leading to a top rate of $26 per hour for both new and existing employees;
• A defined benefit pension plan for both new and existing employees despite a $3.2-billion solvency
deficit;
• Up to seven weeks vacation;
• Job security for both new and existing employees.
With in excess of 17% Lettermail volume decline since 2006, Canada Post’s challenges are well understood.

Canadians – Take the Postie Challenge… cut your dependency on mail.

Posties – take a walk... Target is opening soon – you can try to get a job there.

Bonus: The BC HST Referendum requires the mail… it may get delayed.