FROM BULLETS TO BLANKETS AND MARCHING TO MINCING

Matthew Fisher posits that in a Trudeaupian Canada, our Armed Forces likely wouldn't have much to do with either arms or force.

DEMONSTRATING A FIRM GRASP OF THE BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS...

...a perfesser shocks us with the revelation that our young'uns can't make a plug for a hobby-horse's arse.

2014 IN REVIEW

Dave Barry gives a humourous account of 2014.

WYNNE'S WINNING WAYS

No more money for teachers, Wynne says. There's no money for public sector wage and benefit hikes.

SPREADING THE MANURE

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said his company “has a very strong view that we should make decisions in politics based on facts. And the facts of climate change are not in question anymore.

2014 SCIENTIFIC NOSE STRETCHERS

This year, stories about scientific retractions were dominated by big numbers—120 at once in one case, as well as the eyebrow-raising practice of researchers submitting fake peer reviews.
 h/t SDA

SELF-ABSORBED POTUS

In his six years in office, he hasn’t been much of a friend to Canada.  We're on a long list of countries in a similar position.

PRESERVING THE SHREDS OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE

Putin couldn't make Russia a great power, so he made it a geopolitical racketeer.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC TO ENJOY

A compilation of beautiful Christmas songs for you.

A REMINDER

Celebrating Christmas.

CANINE OBJECTIONS

 Not everyone enjoys Christmas music.  Have a laugh.
Merry Christmas!

BEARDS & TARTAN

Some city boys trying to imitate rural men...

NEW CANADIANS OF 2014

Welcome.  Make us proud of you.

HOW MANY DAMN OSAMA BIN LADENS WERE IN THAT COMPOUND ANYWAYS?

Because 3 different guys are supposed to have fired the killing shots.
O’Neill insists that he was the shooter. Fellow Seal Matt Bissonnette also claims to have shot bin Laden. But others say a still-unidentified man likely fired the round that caused a lethal head wound.

WEATHER WATCHERS' SPECIAL

Environment Canada’s top 10 weather stories of 2014.

LIBERAL GENEROSITY

TORONTO - The Ontario Liberal Party has decided to reimburse taxpayers the $10,000 that Peter Faist was allegedly paid to wipe government computers.

THE INVITATION IS IN THE MAIL. OR NOT.

  Ontario Premier Wynne has been seeking a meeting with Prime Minister Harper for several months now to discuss common interests such as infrastructure support for the provincial economy.

THE TWO FACES OF WYNNE

Wynne’s majority means she no longer, in their words, “has to play nice” with the opposition to get things done.  Remember her vows of “new and different” and “open and transparent.”? 

MAXIMUM SECURITY'S NEW CENTERFOLD

Sure hope it doesn't end up like Dorothy.  Right?

NATURE'S BEAUTY IN ALBERTA

 Photographer Brett Abernethy snapped a photo of Mt. Rundle near Banff, capturing a fiery meteor plunging through the earth's atmosphere.

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES

"'That is, the Liberals, first under Dalton McGuinty, now under Kathleen Wynne, have wasted billions of our dollars because they rushed into green energy without knowing what they were doing."

BEARS, BAGPIPES,CORRUPTION & IMPOVERISHMENT

Kelly McParland: The truth about Big Oil. No one controls it, it has no friends and it can’t be relied on

TRY SWALLOWING THESE FACTS

Even though average beer prices in Ontario and Quebec are similar, the Ontario government commodity tax on a case of 24 cans is more than double the Quebec beer tax.

BIRD WHACKERS PLEAD GUILTY

"Wind farm operator PacifiCorp Energy will pay $2.5 million in fines after pleading guilty Friday to charges related to the deaths of protected birds in Wyoming."

FREE THE BEER!

High on the list of Wynne's priorities in Ontario is " a rethink of the government’s deal with the foreign-owned Beer Store."

HIDING A MOUNTAIN OF LIES

McGuinty and company have their talents revealed in e-mails from computers seized by the OPP.  Included is this gem of a quote:  “Introducing a new reason now will make us sound like we are slipping and sliding.”

RED INK RISING

TORONTO - The Province of Ontario's credit rating has been downgraded over rising deficits and doubts the government can balance the books as promised by 2017/18.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

The Green Climate Fund, (GCF) a United Nations-affiliated piggy-bank  intended to finance climate change projects around the world, is determined to win sweeping U.N.-style immunities from prosecutions for its global operations.

UP & DOWN IN THE OILPATCH

Calgary producers chop billions more from budgets.

BURYING THE EVIDENCE

TORONTO – Newly released police documents allege the partner of an aide for Dalton McGuinty was paid $10,000 to wipe personal data from the hard drives of computers in the premier’s office...

WILDROSE SELLING OUT

What's goin' on here TJ?

Wildrose caucus meeting over merger with Alberta Conservatives

YES, YOU CAN JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

Presenting the sad story of Broadacre Farms, which, despite all the catchy phrases (economies of scale, new partnerships, risk management, sustainability, mission, etc.)  on its website.... flew like a pig.
Please dispense your much-needed advice to save further flocks from fleecing.

ALTERNATIVE TREE DECORATION

Dead, hanging coyote stirs controversy in Montana. Let the howling begin.

LIBERALS FLUSHING

TORONTO - "There just aren't enough hours in the day to report on all the Liberal spending scandals around Queen's Park. I worry if I blink, I may miss another billion dollars getting flushed down the toilet."  Christina Blizzard: One boondoggle after another at Queen's Park.

IGNORING THE SURVEY

Time for the UN to get out of climate change, Canadian prof, Tim Ball, says.   Tom Harris, the head of the Canadian chapter of ICSC, also came down hard on the UN.

ANOTHER GREEN FLOP

WELLAND, Ont. — This southern Ontario city’s $50-million biodiesel plant — which was once heralded as the future of the clean fuel industry — has gone into receivership and will be sold to the highest bidder.

A REALISTIC TARGET

Last week, a UN report revealed up to US$650 billion had been invested in climate related initiatives around the world between 2010-2012.  This week the UN’s chief climate official Christiana Figueres suggested $90 trillion would be a more realistic target.

CUTTING THE PROPAGANDA HOURS

CBC will shorten all local supper-hour newscasts to 30 or 60 minutes.
CEO Hubert Lacroix announced in June that the broadcaster was planning to cut down local newscasts...  The broadcaster plans to cut up to 1,500 jobs over the next five years, as it struggles with federal budget cuts and advertising shortfalls.

NO TURBINE ZONE

A victory for the informed: awareness and education played a large part in the campaign against the wind turbine project in this Perth-Welling community.   Wind Concerns Ontario executive member Warren Howard said the project’s cancellation comes as a victory for the Elma-Mornington Concerned Citizens group that has co-ordinated an effort against the project and how it would impact the rural community.  

THE PATRONIZING KNOW-IT-ALL

ON Energy Minister, Bob Chiarelli noted that the energy sector was “very complex, is very difficult to understand.”   So difficult, apparently, that Ontario's Auditor General, does not comprehend it.  Disregard the fact that she spent 10 years at Manitoba Hydro.  Oh Bob, your arrogance knows no bounds.




.

EDUCATING FARMERS

An online survey of 250 farmers who had taken a soil and crop workshop found that 57 per cent of them said they would feel "pleased," "proud," or "lucky," to find a species at risk on their property.

WHADAYA GET WHEN YA CROSS A HYPOCRITE WITH A PARASITE?

Rex nails it.

DOUBLE DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE,

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Death by state pettiness and parasitism.

HEY, MAYOR WEBER!

Just wave your Crown Letter Patent, and they'll all run away!  Well, maybe not right away....

"COMPETITIVE " ONT HYDRO RATES

The Standing Committee on Estimates continues with Committee Lead MPP Randy Hillier questioning Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli over the uncompetitive and rising energy rates in Ontario.  In the video Hillier does not accept Chiarelli's  obfuscation.

YUP. OIL INDUSTRY HAS NO BALLS EITHER

Energy East Pipeline: TransCanada standing down on further work in Quebec

Announcement comes after a federal government committee concludes beluga whales are endangered

Note to TransCanada: I own undeveloped St. Lawrence Seaway waterfront! Let's make a deal! Oh wait. The local Conservation Authority will kick up a fuss; and... you have no balls. Damn. So much for that idea.

MERCI JEAN

Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Jean Béliveau dies

THEY SAY A PICTURE'S WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS...

Snopes says the photo was altered. True enough.
However, the altered photo is closer to the truth in this matter.
Come to think of it, here's another: NO MOTHER SHOULD HAVE TO FEAR FOR HER SON'S LIFE... WHEN HE RUNS AT AN ARMED POLICE OFFICER AND STARTS LANDING PUNCHES
Okay folks! It's your turn!

CHALLENGING THE OSPCA

In a sworn affidavit to support a constitutional challenge of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Act, a former veterinarian states, "Over the past approximately 25 years, instead of using resources to help people, the OSPCA have practised a more ‘dictatorial’ approach." 

BIG PHARMA SNICKERS

Marketed in the late 1950's as a safe treatment for morning sickness thalidomide resulted in birth defects.
Yesterday, Dec. 1st,  the Canadian government (with all party support) agreed on a compensation package for the victims of this drug.
I feel for the victims...but why is the Canadian taxpayer paying for what should be totally Big Pharma's financial responsibility?

PRO-LIFE IF NECESSARY BUT NOT NECESSARILY PRO-LIFE?

Don't worry one bit about your lack of principle...you just might be a Liberal.

GOVERNMENT = CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE

You just can't make this shit up.
The province spent $240 million implementing the new case management software for Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) workers. It took a total of four years to develop and implement the Social Assistance Management System software. Its first day in operation was on Nov. 12...At least 17,000 payments were generated erroneously in less than a month, totalling $20 million.

BOY, YOU GOTTA LEARN HOW TO FARM THE MAILBOX!

"Words of wisdom" from a local farmer years ago (let's just say our respective philosophies regarding fiscal responsibility and government dependency in agriculture were somewhat divergent).
Mandatory AgriStability Participation Removed From Enrollment Criteria for Ontario RMP Program 
Hell, while we're at it, let's throw this in the mix too (probably not related)...

WHEN YOU LIE DOWN WITH DOGS

You shouldn't be surprised to wake up with fleas. Or is it bees?
It seems the love affair between Ontario agriculture and the Wynne Liberals isn't as sweet as honey any more.

HOW COME ONTARIO'S NEW CONSERVATISM...

...looks and sounds like the same old meaningless snot and dribble.
“We have to be open-minded,”...Patrick Brown
“We need to build a new big blue tent...(avoid) the politics of division,”...Christine Elliott
“Reach out to everyday Ontarians.”...Lisa MacLeod

BITCH FIGHT ON THE ROLLER DERBY TRACK!

Grab the popcorn and follow this fray as Skinny Linnie McIntyre and Nails MacDonald get into the scratchin' and bitin' !

SO, YOU THINK YOU'RE TOUGH, EH?

You survived the Urea Formaldehyde Insulation disaster, and you made it through the asbestos ceiling tiles plague, and you dodged the vermiculite insulation outbreak....But....your time is up, Punk!   You can't hold your breath forever! RADON IS GONNA GET YA!!!!!!

IT'S NOT EVERY DAY WE SAY "GOOD JOB TORONTO!"

Fans at the Air Canada Centre saved the day Tuesday after the anthem singer’s microphone stopped working.

THE STATE OF DEPENDENCE

News: Illinois will forge ahead with its $111 billion pension deficit (aka: unfunded liability). Meanwhile, "there are 86 million full-time private sector workers in the United States paying taxes to support the government, and nearly 148 million Americans that are receiving benefits from the government each month."
Well, ain't nothin' we can't fix with a little more QE = margin debt (leveraged liquidity) for the stock market, eh?

DIGGING THE HOLE DEEPER

  The premiers of ON and QUE have a "meeting of the minds".  These two financial geniuses sign a
memorandum of agreement between the two provinces.

THE "RIGHT" STUFF !

Peace be upon him.

THIS ONE'S FOR TJ...

David Stockman lays a beat-down on Hugh Hendry. Couldn'ta said it better meself.

DON'T GIMME THIS FUNNY MONEY! GIMME REAL MONEY!

Jean-Claude Juncker, the new head of the European Commission, is next week expected to unveil a €300bn investment programme for the next three years aimed at boosting growth through infrastructure and other projects.
Emmanuel Macron, France’s economy minister said “I’m convinced we need real money and we need to use it in an effective way." 

Poor old Freddy Bastiat just rolled over in his grave.

KEYSTONE BILL FAILS TO PASS U.S. SENATE

YES 55     NO 41
Obummer had his veto pen ready if it had passed.

FARM ACTION NOW

...because what Ontario Agriculture needs is a new mouthpiece (sarc).
Lord preserve us from the fixers.

THREE CHEERS FOR THE WILD ROSE PARTY!

Bill 1 falls short: More needed to protect property rights

WHEN WHORES GET TO OLD...

...they get replaced, and end up whining all alone outside the brothel door.

IF YA CAN'T BRING MOHAMED TO YOUR MOUTAIN...

...why don't you just piss off south with your rose-coloured glasses and meet him on his. 
Victoria BC resident Richard Brunt one week ago giving Obammy a tongue bath: The dollar is at its strongest levels in years, the stock market is near record highs, gasoline prices are falling, there's no inflation, interest rates are the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports are declining, U.S. oil production is rapidly increasing, the deficit is rapidly declining, and the wealthy are still making astonishing amounts of money...When you are done with Obamma, could you send him our way?


Brunt one month ago belly-aching about his Victoria BC property taxes: StasCan tells us that our real incomes (after inflation) have not moved since the 1990s. Yet City of Victoria workers continue to get generous raises. I’ve just heard they got 2% each year for 3 years. Inflation is 1.4%. Please, please tell me you are not giving city workers wage increases well in excess of inflation, every year. If that is true, I want to know if you supported it.

THE VERY CURE FOR THIS AILING WORLD's ECONOMY...

...Government-assisted suicide!
"plan for jumpstarting growth includes investing in infrastructure, increasing trade and the creation of a global infrastructure hub that would help match potential investors with projects.

Leaders also aim to reduce the gap between male and female participation in the workforce by 25 percent by 2025, saying that would put 100 million more women in employment and reduce poverty."

ISN'T THIS HOW THE PLAGUE GOT GOING?

No way will the all-you-can-eat green bin buffet be blamed for this problem.

NOTICE TO CHIEFS: YOU MIGHT NOT WANT AN INQUIRY, BECAUSE....

...behind all those missing and victimized aboriginal women....

...there just might be a "victimized" Indian man.

WHEN YOU'RE COLD, BROKE, HUNGRY AND....

...DEAD...will you still vote for the Ontario Liberals?

AH, THE OLD BLAME GAME...

Millennials are getting the old economic shaft, but are likely oblivious to the root causes. Here are some stats that scratch the surface of "sucks to be you guys: responsible for the baby boomers' unfunded liabilities", but the article also finishes with a pertinent example of "situational awareness".
CLA opinion: if you spend your time watching Jersey Shore rather than learning about your own country's revolutionary war, and the brilliant design and sentiments of its resultant constitution, you deserve to be screwed by the political oligarchs. Keep a-votin' for hope and change yo.
h/t zerohedge

TAXPAYERS AND TAX CONSUMERS

The inherently nonproductive and oligarchic nature of government thus ensures that all nations under political rule are divided into two classes: a productive class and a parasitic class or, in the apt terminology of the American political theorist John C. Calhoun, "taxpayers" and "tax-consumers."

THE US FED'S QE CHICKENS ARE COMIN' HOME TO ROOST

Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar & Canada http://t.co/qsilfOCjWP
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 11, 2014

A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Introducing the crazy concept that investors, shareholders, speculators and depositors, rather than taxpayers, should carry the risk of bank failure. Gee, that might require fatcat bankers to reassess risk, eh? Might also cause Joe Blow depositor to accept some of the burden of fiscal responsibility by assessing the fragility of the monetary system, rather than transferring that burden to his children and grandchildren who "some day" will be forced to deal with unfunded government liabilities.

A KNOT IN THEIR BERET

Protests against daycare fee increases are popping up in Quebec.
Seems the 7.30$-a-day to a sliding scale fee based on household income is just to much to bare.
The horror.... the fee might go to 20$ at the top end of the income scale. Collis. Tabernac. Lets riot in the streets and fling poutine!
The cost to the Quebec government for their subsidized day care program is 2.7 billion dollars a year for 223,000 spaces.
Hmmmm....what is it they say about socialism ending when you run out of other people's money?

NO SH!T HITTING THE FAN HERE

A wind energy development company is claiming to be the victim of a Lucknow farmer.  Cry me a river.

HOW COZY IS YOUR BUBBLE BATH?

Looks like someone's been spot on why we've expanded our footprint in the region. Bravo @TheBubbleBubble http://t.co/TXCG7E1tb4

— The Monolografer (@monolografer) November 8, 2014

SNOWFLAKES IN THE AIR

Just in case you are wondering what may be upcoming for winter 2014/ 2015.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN TROUBLE WHEN...

CBC management says it must “recommit” to the corporation’s values.

GRATITUDE FOR DECADES OF SUBSIDIES

The perversities of coddled European agriculture...coming soon to a Canadian city near you!

ONLY 92.4 MILLION AMERICANS...

Participation Rate Rebounds From 36 Year Low, Only 92.4 Million Americans Not In Labor Force http://t.co/iOPGIthZcX
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 7, 2014

OINK, OINK, OINK, OINK !

Ontario's Fairness Commissioner fares pretty well.

GOT YOUR INVESTMENTS IN STOCKS?

While @USTreasury fiddles, the international monetary system burns: http://t.co/hjhvoxZ7Zl
— Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) November 6, 2014

SOLVE THE PROBLEM OVERNIGHT BY LOWERING TOBACCO TAXES...

...or seize the moment and create more useless government jobs.

THE SCARRING EFFECT SUFFERED BY THE UNEMPLOYABLE

Adult children stuck in their parents’ basements because they can’t find adequate employment should take unpaid work to bolster résumés as they wait for the recovery to take hold, Poloz said Monday in Toronto.
“Having something unpaid on your CV is very worth it, because that’s the one thing you can do to counteract this scarring effect,” Poloz told reporters was his advice to discouraged youth.
OK. Maybe that'll work. Or maybe a long-overdue boot in the arse...

PLAYIN' THE BONGOS

“With no warning, [Ghomeshi] just reached over and grabbed my genitals (through Hounslow’s jeans) and started fondling them. I was completely shocked and I reacted,” Hounslow said.

THE KICK IN THE TEETH AWARD

"Washington is easing mortgage requirements and wants no down payment for houses again."
As Americans go to the polls today for mid-term elections, they'll be sure to punish those Washington, DC fools...

THE DISGUSTINGLY HIGH PRICE OF PROVING YOU'RE A SUPERMOM

And while you're at it, you may as well lick the huggies clean...

GRANNY WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG

"Everything in moderation" was her motto. Words to live by.
If you want words to die by: "the so-called science was cooked, manipulated and the data selected to show a desired outcome concerning low fat diets.Medical providers got very rich-while many people got sick and even died from heart disease, diabetes, obesity and more."
With Canada's socialized medical system, tax dollars pay for the human carnage, caused by the falsified studies.

WHEN THE IMAM TELLS US TO WAKE UP...

...you can bet it's time to wake up!
Assalaam Mosque Association president Abdulhakim Moalimishak said mainstream mosques are increasingly being challenged by extremists.

“I would not say this is an isolated incident. I would say there are groups out there that are trying to have a foothold in Islamic centres."

Moalimishak said extremists are taking advantage of the open-doors tradition of mosques and that mosques need help from the wider society to counter that threat.

"We came from war zones, we came from conflicts that we do not want to replicate in this great country of ours.… We do not want these places to be places of politics, of foreign agendas, and of groups who have no interest in co-existence."

AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME?

A gasp,  true small "c" conservative heading Ontario's Conservatives!

THE FERVOR OF THE RECENTLY CONVERTED...

Rosi di Manno calls out Tinkerbell Tom.

AWWWW, C'MON NOW TOM....

You said it wasn't terrorism...so why all of this...and this?

“For all of us in our caucus it’s going to be a tough day. We’re going to get through it”.

The NDP also had a counsellor on hand should any of the MPs have wanted to discuss how they felt about what happened.  NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said his caucus will be taught how to recognize signs that they may need further counselling or other help.  “After a really shocking event like that, it’s normal to sometimes need support.”
What you all need is a two-day retreat in your party shrine on Dundas.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

Buried deep in the story, this line: In May 2013, the Commissioner of Official Languages decided to take the case to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Thibodeaus.

IN ELIZABETH MAY's CANADA...

....every home will have a canoe paddle.

DO WE DETECT A TREMBLE....

...in the "Celebrate Diversity" song?

ARE YOU A TERRORIST?

A handy-dandy check list of what governments watch for.

WELCOME, TO THE HOTEL JIHADIMORON

You can check out anytime you like,
But you can never leave....

SUB-D'OOD: NEW CEEBEECEE-OTTAWA WORD MEANING....

....I'm too much of a bedwetter to say "He Gut-shot the piece of crap".

WHO'S WRITING THE HEADLINES????

An old Gypsy lady with a crayon and a crystal effin' ball?

CROWN LETTERS PATENT: OLD OJIBWA WORD MEANING...

..."Legends on Birchbark"

GLOBAL WARMING CLAIMS YET ANOTHER VICTIM

I'm tellin' ya - heat waves and rising seas will be the death of us.

HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!

Canada wins the WTO ruling that U.S. of A's COOL discriminates against beef and pork exports from Canada and Mexico.

IF CANADIANS PAY THE LIBERAL CARBON TAX

This shouldn't be a problem any more, right?

WHEN SPOILT CHILDREN CRY FOR MORE CANDY

During the last financial crisis, the idiots that coddled the brats, inevitably caved.
And while David Stockman might be right that the Fed is now out of bullets; during the next crisis, I bet the brats will run to Grandma's House. Just you wait and see!

WHILE FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE...

TRY PRINTING MORE MONEY
The fly in the ointment, however, is that this inflationary default scheme can never work.  Central banks have buried the world in massive malinvestment and unsustainable credit fueled growth that will eventually collapse. So a classic hyper-inflation will never break-out because there is too much capacity in the world economy to permit labor, commodity and industrial prices to explode.
Damn. My crystal ball is cloudy today.

ATIKOKAN: OLD OJIBWA WORD FOR "CARIBOU BONES"

Seriously!
Sounds like a good place to piss away tax-dollars on handouts to begging dairy farmers, right?

WHO'DA THUNK IT?

And ye shall find the truth...far below the headline.
In Manitoba, the biggest provincial exporter of young pigs to the U.S...the provincial NDP government has since 2011 allowed expansion or replacement of hog barns only under environmental conditions that the industry complains are the strictest in the world....With attractive hog prices and cheap feed grain, hog farmers have reason to expand. But they cannot do so in Manitoba without spending about $1 million on equipment to treat pig waste.

WORKING TOGETHER. OR NOT.

Ontario to no longer allow border agents on road safety blitzes

CHANGE IS COMING TO AMERICA

Just like Obama promised. Medical based martial law trumps rights and freedoms.

WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION

...old Abenaki words meaning "get Chief to take your neighbour's wampum and give to you to buy a nice new lodge".
I just LOVE that my farm's income tax, my personal income tax, and all sales, gas, etc taxes I pay to the Queen's Park thieves, are redistributed to other Ontario farmers to help them clear/drain/purchase more land. That's just dandy!

WHEN MOST EU NATIONS ARE DROWNING...

...in socialism and debt, what happens when they latch onto the strongest swimmer?

LET ME FINISH THAT SENTENCE FOR YA

Chickens four times bigger than they used to be....


...and there's ten times as many!

ARSY-EMPEE: OLD BLACKFOOT WORD MEANING

...even when Muslims denounce Islamic terrorists, we would rather stick to our official broad strata line.

BETTER LUBE UP THE OL' PRINTING PRESS...

"... the total balance of newly originated subprime auto loans is $70.7 billion, an eight-year high and representing 27.8% of the total balance of new auto loans."

Auto Debt Nearing $1 Trillion—But No Bubble Here!

2014's # 1 HALLOWEEN COSTUME

Hurry! Order yours now they are going fast!

WHO COULDANODE?

That the stress of going without electricity during ice storm '98 could alter human DNA? or is it all really about obtaining research grant money?

OH BOY! FREE STUFF!

There has been a flurry of phone calls locally and flyers arriving in the mailbox promoting Hydro One's latest and greatest "give away" which is 1500$ worth of FREE lighting upgrades.
There is NO free lunch people! Children not born yet will be old before they finish paying for this nonsense.

NOT TO BE OUTDONE!

Where yesterday, we highlighted the suck and blow of the CFFO, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture is not to be outdone!
"as our global climate changes, including the environment on our farms, we face ongoing challenges from weather."..."we are bringing three key points to the government. The importance of business risk management tools for farmers to deal with the predicted increase in extreme weather events. The need for OFA to be at the table to make sure climate change programs and policies are available to farmers. And to ensure the efforts made by Ontario farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are recognized."
While Ontario Farm Lobbyists' outstretched palms for alms are often mistaken at Queens Park as sexual overtures, climate facts are daily delivered by fellas like Steve Goddard:
The frequency of major hurricanes in the US is at a record low

The Midwest US is experiencing its coldest year on record 

Scientists say that high levels of CO2 make animals and plants small and sickly. Like during the Jurassic

Experts say #climatechange threatens the global food supply, because they are complete morons 

A voice of sanity and reason is so refreshing these days!

THE PUBLIC EDUCATION CONUNDRUM

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words...

WHEN WHORES GET TOO OLD...

...they multi-task for all to see.
Sucking...
we need our provincial and municipal governments to work together to identify ways to remove redundant regulatory hurdles.
and in the very next sentence, Blowing
we need municipalities to embrace the spirit of the new Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) when it comes to on-farm value-added industries and secondary industries related to agriculture.
For those who are not familiar with the PPS, from the perspectives of development and land-use, it is without doubt the most restrictive, confiscatory piece of legislation imaginable.  "Embrace the spirit" indeed.

BUT WHAT ABOUT GLBT REPRESENTATION???

Dumb is now dumber
Just what we need - two MPs per riding; 1 male, 1 female. 

FACEBOOK

Isn't just for narcissists...it is for ISIS recruiting.

REWARDING INEPTITUDE

 Ontario taxpayers are footing the bill for more Pan Am Games executives receiving severance packages.  It pays to be incompetent in this province.

HYPOCRITE BE THY NAME

Balancing the books the ON Liberal way seems vaguely familiar......
Wynne is not giving up on green dreams, regardless of the cost involved.

SO...WHICH VERSION OF THE APOCALYPSE IS IT?

IPCC 2014: "human impact is uniequivocal"


IPCC 2014: "It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming"

AS LONG AS THE FISH SUPPORT IT

California passes legislation to regulate groundwater.

JUDGEMENT IS NOT PROOF

 Understanding the facts of scientific proof is a foreign concept for this group:
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states: “It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.”

SO, YANKEE CAPITALISM HAS BEEN GOOD TO YA...

...and you can look down over Manhattan and lord it over all the peasants.  But (tee-hee) I betcha you'll be away camping every September 11th.

HOW ARE THE RUSSIAN SANCTIONS WORKING OUT?

Not so well in France.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR PEACE PRIZE YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PEACE PRIZE

Syria is the 7th Muslim country to be bombed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obomber.

LET'S PLAY THE BLAME GAME!

CBOT grains haven't bottomed yet
Oil clogging US rail seen constricting grain exports
CN faces first fine under Fair Rail Act for failing to move enough grain
EU to set harvest records in both corn and wheat
Wheat drops to four year low on rising global output
Hmmm. Is the UN going to blame speculators for LOW food prices?

HOW DOES I GET ME SOME...

...OF WHAT THESE GUYS ARE SMOKIN'?

9-1-1

What's your emergency?

SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE

The real reason why Britain is freaking out.

OUT OF AFRICA

Obama is to send 3000 E-bola fighting troops to Africa.
3000 troops returning home from an E-bola plague zone should offer no risk to North America?
Nope. Nothing to see here. Move along.

EXPOSING U.N. AGENDA 21

The United Nations has very specific land use policies they would like to see implemented.
Be sure to read "Report from Parliament" and take part in the poll.

NOW WOULDN'T THAT BE AWFUL...

So pray for a "yes" vote.
Andrew Coyne agonizes that if Scotland leaves GB to form it's own welfare state, it might provoke Pauline Poutine to rise again. 

ISIS AND PUTIN TAKING ON THE YJF

Yaweh's Jewish Fighters?

Nope...

Yemeni Justice Federation?

Try again...

Yellow Jello Fellow?
h/t das Steymmeister

GLOBAL WARMING

Canadian style.

THE SIBERIAN MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT...

...does not exist!

OFA GROWS A SPINE

Well sort of. They are asking for more teeth to the Ontario Trespass Act.
The comments at the end of the article are very telling as to the problem in rural Ontario.

BIG PHARMA SMILES

The same statistics quoted would probably apply to Canadians at 10% of the US population.
Beware the prescription pad.

QUESTION DU JOUR

Name one of the worst Central Banks globally.
***theme from Jeopardy***

POWER OF SIBERIA

Russia, China begin construction of the world's largest gas pipeline. What no Native protest? and where are the environmental studies? just 2 things that hamper Canada developing her resources.

LABOUR DAY WEEKEND

Summer is almost over folks. In case you have forgotten just how wet the fall harvest months can get, here is a tractor stuck in the mud video, to remind you. Have a safe weekend!

CANADA POST STEALS COLONEL SAUNDERS SECRET RECIPE !

The headline:
Canada Post segment reports $53-million profit before tax in second quarter
The small print:
Year-to-date, the net reduction in employee benefit costs is $113 million when compared to the same period in 2013.

IF YOU ASK A STUPID QUESTION SUCH AS:

Should the young man in the Trudeau break-in case have been charged?
You might be a Turdo la Doo cheerleader disguised as an independent news broadcaster.
How about...
Should the Ottawa Police release all the details about the case in the vain hope that the Press Corps might ask some real questions?

WHEN WHORES ARE IN THEIR PRIME

Beef Farmers of Ontario (formerly Ontario Cattlemens Association) is totally producer funded by check-off fees on every animal sold in Ontario. Logic would suggest they are to represent the very people those check-off fees are collected from. Then why are they now in bed with the OSPCA with some sort of joint partnership formed and spouting off about myths and facts?
Here is a prime example/story of the true facts and how a couple was persecuted by the OSPCA

US FLIGHTS MAY BE CHEAPER...

BUT IF YOU WANT GRAVY ON YOUR FREEDOM FRIES, THAT TRAIN HEADS NORTH FROM THE BORDER !
The "whole" truth often hides in the small print...and in another, smaller story.
'vantage number 1:
The incentive to move is the U.S.’s high corporate tax rate — 35% versus our federal rate of 15% — and its practice of taxing its companies on their worldwide rather than simply their U.S. income.
'vantage number 2:
Ontario reportedly has agreed to contribute $385 million in incentives. If Ottawa matches Ontario’s contribution, both levels of government will have covered about half of the total cost of the investment.
from Windsor Star and Nat'l Post

THROUGH ROSE-COLOURED GLASSES

Howlers from a Conservative back-bencher:
we understand that a small, efficient government is beneficial to the economy, our personal liberties and our daily lives.
and...
 too much regulation and meddling will slow economic growth, limit individual initiative and impact the day-to-day lives of ordinary Canadians
and...
we’ve eliminated some programs and agencies that were not achieving results; and we’ve reviewed and reduced department spending levels throughout the federal government, including handouts to businesses from regional development budgets.
and...
 most of my constituents and small businesses would prefer lower taxes to fatter business subsidies
and the final knee-slapper
if governments do, as the Post‘s editorialists write, “bring home the bacon,” voters know who’s paying for it.
h/t National Post

WHEN WHORES GET TO OLD....

....their johns desert them for the younger skanks.

PROPHESCIES FROM THE NEON GOD

So how ya doin...Marshall McLuhan?
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art

♫ THEY'RE REALLY ROCKIN' IN MOSUL ♫

While the Free World awaits a sign from The Sultan of Swing
It's such an appropriate tune...

A FLAIR FOR THE OBVIOUS

Git yer fingers outa yer ears and listen up, Obammy!

O-BAM'AH: OLD MOHICAN WORD...

...meaning "lame duck have limp dick".

OH WELL...DOESN'T BOTHER ME

....'cause I don't play the bagpipes.
To remain free, a people need something more basic - the spirit of liberty. Once you've lost that, there are no easy roads back.
das Steynmeister

TRAILER PARK BOYS (and girls) DUE FOR A COMEBACK?

Why Johnny and Sally (okay, Jayden and Olivia) will never leave home.
President of Ottawa Home Builders' Association outs the unholy trinity:
taxes, land-use restrictions, and red tape.
h/t John Hebert via Ottawa Sun

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA...

...and everybody pretended they didn't see him.
Bright lights and fame haven't blinded Charlie Daniels

♫ OH, WHAT DO YA DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? ♫

♫ shave his belly with a rusty razor! ♫

Looks like the binge-buying of agricultural equipment is coming to an end at last...

...as ag commodity prices continue to tank.

"THE REAL OBJECTIVE..."

"Central banks exist to make it easier for insolvent governments to borrow more money."

CRIMESTOPPERS TIP

Police are investigating a Break and Enter to Turdo la Doo's Rockliffe Park home where  "reportedly" "someone" left a threatening note.  In the interest of public safety, we want to let the police know about this suspect.....

UM, MR. HARPER...

... YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

Steyn's New Friends

An update regarding the hockey stick temperatures trial in the USA:
"I get the sense that the Washington libel community and U.S. national media have belatedly woken up to the potential threat of Mann v Steyn ..."

WHAT'S MISSING IN THIS PICTURE?

The Rhyme of the Anxious Government Magician
Jobs, jobs everywhere,
nor any hint of whether they might be private or public sector....

THE WISDOM OF THE WITLESS

Turdo la Doo fingers "resource depletion" as the cause of terrorism. 

WHAT WAS SAID:

"...no one wants — to get it into an unnecessary and avoidable fight."

What was meant:

"...no one in the West even wants to get into necessary and unavoidable fights."

THINGS WE ALREADY KNEW

Sing it, folks!
♫ Obammy loves the muzzie-wugs ...Obammy loves the muzzie-wugs ♫

BRITAIN: A STUPID LITTLE COUNTRY

Where the public pays for boob-jobs for trashy skanks...

Where men with no description throw acid on women...

And the socialists are committed to sinking along with their continental brethren...

O' BAH 'MAH: OLD MOHICAN WORD....

....meaning "Nero with a nine-iron".
h/t Drudge

CEE'EF-AI' HAY: OLD PIEGAN WORD...

...meaning "pemmican-sniffers-who-trade-bugs-with-enemy"

TOO WET TO GO OUT, TOO COLD TO PLAY BALL...

...so we sat in the house and enjoyed a booster during these dripping-dog days of summer...
h/t das Steynmeister

BILINGUAL WARNING LABELS LONG OVERDUE

We do hope CSA and Health Canada are, ahem, on top of this...

HEY ENVIRO-WEENIES! PROVE THAT YOU HAVE A SET!

Quit Being the Oilsands' Bitches!
...Go ahead, just do it!  I double dare ya!

ONLY IN KARACHI YOU SAY....

"Revolution" means revolution in Pakistan, but it only means "change" in Canada.
 “I am one million per cent against military coups,”
Except this one, that is...

ONTARIO: OLD HURON WORD...

...meaning "Chief has many papoose but no warriors".
"The job purge was offset by the creation of just over 14,000 public sector and".....get this now... "1,400 self-employed positions."
h/t Toronto Sun

WAIT FOR THE (PREDICTABLE) LEFTY WHINE

Chow drops to third place in mayoral race.
"...I'd hate to think it was sexism..."

PROPANE CRISIS 2.0

Factors are starting to line up for a return of the propane crisis. 'Tis deja vu all over again.

OUT OF AFRICA

Wynnebag will just have to ban eating fruit bats ( the source)and monkeys (the carrier) if indeed E-bola has arrived in Ontario.

THANKS FOR MAKING OUR WORLD A SAFER PLACE

Brave border agents seize teenagers' bagpipes.
Show me the guy who would do this, and I'll show you a wee man with no brains or balls.  But, as Mark & Mark point out, there will be nary an official Conservative voice raised.

IF THE "OUTRAGE" IS ANY INDICATOR...

Israeli men must travel a long way to kick unarmed, starving, Palestinian squirrel children to their deaths.

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Guess there ain't no HRCs or Barbara Halls in Moscow....
Russian students project "racist" laser image of Obammy onto US Embassy wall.
h/t Drudge

YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST

...for that old, illiterate great-uncle who still has a s***house.

WHEN A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST...

...nobody hears a thing if its place is taken by a windmill.

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE LONELY CONDUCTOR?

Dutch orchestra walks off stage when muzzie-wug conductor preaches to Queen Beatrix.
h/t Manitouwadge

ONTARIO GREENBELT EXPANSION

Expanding Ontario’s Greenbelt by one million acres attracted a lot of attention when the idea was proposed by a group of municipal leaders this past June. The announcement was made by the Municipal Leaders for the Greenbelt in the lead up to the fall municipal election, and is widely expected to become an election issue.

WHO'DA THUNK IT???

Consumer Report identifies culprits responsible for Public's pessimism on farming's future.
"When participants think about the sector there is a tendency to envisage farms, livestock, crops, green pastures, endless wheat fields, and prairie landscapes. This type of imagery reinforces a view of the sector as traditional, rather than modern, progressive and innovative."
However...
"Recent surveys of the Canadian public have underscored a number of misperceptions about the agricultural sector and a relatively pessimistic public view with respect to its future outlook," the report says, citing "alarmist documentaries and media reports" as the culprits."
And just in case you think Ag Canada will soon straighten this out...
"The final report...was delivered to the department in April, but never publicized. It now sits quietly tucked away in its online archives ...."
h/t Bourque Newswatch

WHEN I GROW UP I WANNA BE......

....An Indian Chief!
h/t Bourque Newswatch

♫ NYAA, NYAA, OBAMA...♫

♫ We caught ya in the panty-drawer♫
h/t Bourque Newswatch

THE APOCALYSE

Just wait until the MSM Chicken Littles' start reporting on the smoke, from millions of acres that have burned in the Northwest Territories, arrives via the jet stream in a smoky, gloomy haze over Central Canada (and Eastern U.S.) limiting sunshine this weekend.
The sky will be falling !

SO, DID YA HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE 3 HATEFUL IMAMS?

Notme, Notme, and Notme.
"...federal investigators were still asking leaders at a Burnaby, B.C., mosque who could have radicalized the man they had expressed concern about for at least two years."

PARROTS WANTED !!

As long as they scream like ruptured monkeys and howl like Husqvarnas.
"...The Rainforest Connection concept takes discarded cell phones, equips them with a solar technology, and places them in trees. The cell phones are set to continuously stream the ambient noise of the forest—so when the phones pick up the sound of gunshots, chainsaws, or other indicators of rainforest distress, an alert is immediately sent to the authorities..."
Ya shoulda stuck to grass and stayed off the glue, Neil

ALL CULTURES ARE CREATED EQUAL...

...but for a few minor differences.
"It seems to require a form of moral hypertrophy to find equivalence between Israel that uses its weapons to protect children, and Hamas that uses children to protect its weapons."
h/t George Jonas, Nat'l Post

WYNNIBAG: OLD HURON WORD MEANING...

..."ya gets what ya danced for".

AAY-HEFF 'EN: OLD BLACKFOOT PHRASE MEANING...

...Jeeess...anywayss...we're just like that other useless bunch.
His (Shawn Atleo) resignation is a symptom of a deep and serious problem: the inherent dysfunction of the AFN itself. It is broken; its structure, modelled after the UN General Assembly, renders it irrelevant.
h/t Bourque Newswatch

RESEARCH PROVES DOGS 'ACQUIRED' HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Mahone Bay N.S. to host Royal Canadian Arse Sniffers Convention.
h/t NewsWatchCanada

STUFF THAT EVEN DEMOCRATS KNOW

Q: What's worse than a Lame Duck President?
A:  A limp dick pretender.
The President has simply failed to respond to an outburst of violence around the world. It is an outburst that has not been seen since the 1970s. His only reaction is mere rhetoric, sometimes no rhetoric at all.
h/t The Spectator via NewsWatchCanada