Archive for November, 2019
Scheer Vs. Progressives
As his own party blames him for the defeat
at the last election,
Andrew Scheer hangs on as Party Leader.
And if I might put in my million-member word,
the reason why the conservatives lost is due to
the party’s own promise of cutting back on expenses.
This about scared the voters from Eastern Canada
that if the Progressives win the equalization payments
will be cut off.
Presently, there is not one member of the Progressive Party
that can replace Andrew Scheer and still secure the support
of ALL of Alberta.
However, everybody knows that the next government
will be formed by the Progressives,
aye, and there’s the rub.
Bringing Scheer down will give Alberta back to the NDP.
Remember that Alberta did not vote for the Progressive.
Alberta voted for the pipeline.
No pipeline, no Progressive.
Rachel Notley, NDP, was not re-elected as Alberta Premier
because her own NDP party member, Singh,
refuses to allow the TMX in to BC.
Do not listen much to any Quebecer’s words against Alberta.
Quebec is going down.
Alberta now know how it bleeds Canada,
Alberta mostly.
(million members?)
US Senate : A laughingstock.
I cannot but laugh at the effort
of the very distinguished, famous, honorable,
historical, champion of liberty
called the Senate of the United States
for the attempts to make laws
to be enforced in another sovereign country
which is China.
The conception of America’s Greatness is humurously
overrated and their silly attempts to spread this idea
is turning from ridiculous to side-splitting.
I know that the Americans have a penchant
for democratizing the whole world
but making laws for the whole world?
This is absurd.
More bats in the belfry?
The Irishman
From Netflix comes this 3 1/2 hour movie
about an Irishman
who have more friends who are Italian
than Irish.
Curiously, this is one Irishman
who does not know how to pray.
This is a disappointment for me as regards Scorsese.
Only the first portion of the movie
have the pick-and-shoot rubouts
which is the trademark of a Scorsese movie.
More than half the movie is a drag.
It dramatizes the life of Jimmy Hoffa
instead of relating the tale of the the Irishman.
It probably aims to reveal the mystery of Hoffa’s disappearance.
if you ask me,
Hoffa did not disappear that way.
I would guess that his body was doused with cement
in a steel drum and dumped in the sea.
OR:
it was mixed with cement to form part of cornerstone
of some large building under construction.
This would be a fitting tribute
to his astounding leadership.
Anyway,
try to download the movie first
then watch it separately from any large screen.
This should minimize the active server time.
Quebec Crisis
Apparently, Quebec is now in an energy crisis
in that the CN Rail strike has stopped
the delivery of natural gas.
Affected is mostly furnace heating and cooking.
Quebec may substitute electric furnace heaters.
Also portable electric heaters and burners.
The Federal Government refuses to mediate
in the CN Rail strike knowing that in all the cases
that it did
the government had to put up some money
for one way or the other.
These electric substitutes
will be good for the environment
and electricity is cheap energy,
which is socially acceptable,
provided by Quebec Hydro.
Da Ghoat
Singled out as the prominent American
in the “irregular channel” in Ukraine
is Rudy Ghouliani,
the fall guy.
Da Ghoat,
who pushed for the investigation
of Biden, father and son.
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Party Wins
In one stupendous landslide win
the pro-Democratic party wins almost all
of the District positions.
It is expected that the riots will cease as a consequence.
Also, it will now be clarified what it is
that the protesters want.
It was clear that they did not ask for a change in government.
Neither did they declare that the present government is corrupt.
The elcctions were clean, democratic, and peaceful.
Beijing did not influence the elections.
And there was no cause for foreign intervention.
All’s well that starts well!
(Now what?)
Bill Increase
The Americans increase the service charge
for keeping its troops in South Korea.
It is now a $4.7 Billion bill.
The South Koreans will have to shoulder this
as if the Americans eat this much in Bulgoki.
As I said, the amount rings a bell.
This time it rings louder.
Loud enough to scare the bats in the belfry,
proving somebody has gone batty.
One country, the Philippines,
declined to pay for the American troops
and closed both the Clark Filed airbase
and the Subic Naval base, instead.
It did not need the Americans, after all.
Marie Yovanovitch
This woman,
former Ambassador to Ukraine,
has made me alter my views
of the Foreign Service.
Diplomats are not adversarial
not antagonistic
stoic
and don’t smile much.
But they do come across.
And this is all that counts
This is the first time I am going to say this
after all 6,415 of my posts,
UP WITH WOMEN!
Quebec’s Mea Culpa
SO!
The French guy Blanchet
seeks to come to Alberta to talk to Kenny.
What for? Mea Culpa?
Is he coming to refund all the oil money Quebec received from Alberta?
Is he coming to stop the Province from removing the French language
from the Alberta curriculum?
Is he coming to ask to join the Premier’s meeting?
Is he coming to ask Alberta not to defer the equalization payment?
Or is he coming for a look see at what Alberta grog tastes like?
Whatever his reason is, he should remember to speak in English!
(Maybe he just realized that somebody squealed that Quebec
had surplus budgets in all those years
that this province received equalization payments claiming
it was a have-not province.)
Impeachment Whistleblower
The Republicans in the Impeachment Inquiry
is hell-bent on finding the identity of the one
who squealed on Trump withholding the military aid
to Ukraine if Biden’s son was not investigated for corruption.
From what I can guess—
they should stop trying to find out the identity of the person
because if the Democrats decide to reveal the name
of the Whistleblower, this would initiate
the Fall of The House of Usher!
Be my guest.
Guess who?
Don Cherry’s Breaking Point
Clearly, Don Cherry was at his breaking point
when he started lambasting the immigrants with “You people….”.
What he said after this was enough to get him fired.
Sad it is, but there is some truth in what he said.
He just did not say it with tact and diplomacy.
But then again, he was at his breaking point
and there is no point in considering tact and diplomacy.
I do understand that immigrants take time in absorbing
the values of the Canadians.
But maybe they should attempt to understand the tradition of
and do also what Canadians do as a nation.
When in Canada one should do what Canadians do,
otherwise one refuses to integrate
and insists on being different.
However, breaking point or no breaking point,
I would have said it differently, like this—
“My dear immigrants do not allow Canadians to call you
INGRATES.
Canadians have afforded you the economic
and political conditions you have dreamt
for you and your family.
Please give our war veterans the satisfaction
of your generosity by wearing a 2-dollar red poppy
on Remembrance Day.
After which you can be assured that you people
will forever be remembered for your generosity.”
And if I were in front of the camera, I would have said this
with a smile.
Should Don Cherry apologize for this remark?
Certainly not on yer lives.
It should be these people who should apologize
for having to be reminded to be grateful
to the Canadian War Veterans.
Shame!
The Joker
This is not a joke!
For Remembrsnce Day
You will have several hours’ opportunity
to download and watch this;
After which this will be torn down.
To Each His Own
The Wild Rose must remain
with the sun and the rain
or its lovely promise won’t come true.
To Each His Own
I found my own
and my own is mine.
If a flame is to grow
there must be some fuel
To open each door there’s a key
I need you I know
I can’t let you go
your oil means too much to me.
More lips must insist
that you cannot wexit,
(ah heck! you know what it’s meant).
Representation
Representation, one of the four Pillars of Democracy,
as expounded on the program on the CPAC Channel
had articulated and educated people talking on how
to encourage more voters to vote.
In that long a time provided them, the people talked
with wisdom and experience, but IMHO, they are off the mark.
Not so much, though, because one of them suggested something
that is worthwhile considering.
I would have suggested that the ballot system be changed.
Presently, the ballots ask the voters to mark only one item—the Mp.
A vote for one MP signifies a vote for his party
which then signifies a vote for the leader of the party
which then signifies a vote for the PM.
To encourage more representation, the ballots should ask
for two marks, one for the MP and another for the PM..
As a matter of choice, this encourages the candidates to
be more involved with the community and the voters.
I do not have to elaborate on all of the benefits that
can be derived from having two choices in the ballot.
We all are smart enough to figure it out.
You see, people may want to vote for the MP
but they do not want to vote for the party
nor its leader.
People may also want to vote for the Party
and its leader but do not want to vote for the MP.
If these happen, people may decide not to vote at all.
(cpac show on tv is both informative and mind unbogling)
Failing Hongkong Protests
The ongoing ever-violent protests in Hong Kong
are doomed to failure.
It would have received support from the other countries
had the protesters not invaded government offices
and destroyed private properties.
In so doing, they demonstrated thet they will not follow
the democratic principles that they want to be subjected to.
On the other hand, it is the the autonomous government
of Carrie Lam that has shown it upholds democratic principles.
Carrie Lam has allowed the freedom to protest without
stopping it with armed military forces.
The protesters are provoking the police to be violent, though,
but the police have been heroic enough to hold back.
And so does Beijing.
The effort to determine with undercover Chinese as
to who is funding the protests have failed.
Meantime, Beijing is not cutting off the food exports to Hong Kong
because this is also one way to drain the protesters of the funds
that they are sre spending for food.
Meantime, it has taken Regina Ip’s “silent majority”
too long a time before it starts a counter-protest.
Hong Kong’s financial success, and Beijing’s too,
is not democracy, but an autonomous free port for all nations.
Tourists go there to buy things at affordable prices.
Let us not listen to the young people
who have yet to be concerned about backbreaking work
of earning a living.
Like babies, they cry because they need something.
They do not know what they need exactly.
They only know that they need something.
And they cry only because they NEED something.
Worse, they cry because they WANT something
which is out of reach.
Trailer Alert
Dan’s trailer was stolen
from his backyard in Edmonton this morning.
The trailer looks like this.
Please be on the lookout for it.
American Convoy Fired Upon.
Turkish troops fired upon an American convoy.
The Americans are maybe making the effort
to resupply the Kurdish troops in Syria.
Or maybe that was a test patrol
for a look-see if they are still “untouchable”.
Rachel Notley
$4.7 billion handout—
the amount rings a bell.
Something is afoot in Alberta.
I hope it is not a deferred foot.
Former Premier Rachel Notley
comments on Bills 21 and 20.
Rachel Notley does not literally agree
with the NDP Leader’s policies to the letter.
(makes her a good materiel for a Federal position)
The Tax On Carbon
The government imposes this tax to collect money
for, as declared, the purposes of reducing carbon emissions.
How they are going to do this reduction it fails to explain.
In other words, the government will still do some more planning
on how it will spend this tax money.
But since this tax money fills the coffers of the treasury
it could be spent on something else,
like compensation
to harassed RCMP women,
repeated payments to indigenous people
for whatever they can think of
as government malfeasances towards them,
bailouts of banks and drowning corporations,
humanitarian aid
to those peoples who can fend for themselves,
and etc.
This government is spendthrift,
spending on just about anything
that does not benefit those who foot the bills—
referring to the taxpayers.
It should be known that these taxpayers
have nothing to do with the aforementioned malfeasances
and will not stand to benefit from this spending.
What is worse, the tax targets the heavy emitters,
like oil refineries and heavy industries.
Such an intention is coming close to stupidity.
These refineries and heavy industries will just pass the amount
of the carbon tax to the consumers,
again referring to the taxpayers.
So therefore, the tight-lipped purpose for the carbon tax
may now be declared:
that the object is to make the people exercise
RESTRAINT.
Restraint from using things that would burn fossil fuels
such as passenger planes, cars, heating furnaces, stoves,
and etc.
People do not restrain themselves from doing things necessary.
And people will not pay for anything indefinite.
People will be penalized with the carbon tax.
The government will get medals for it.
Some will even get elected for it.
Hooray?
Encana Moves South
EnCana,
A noted Canadian energy corporation
moves south
virtually turning itself into American.
This is a brilliant move.
It gets itself rid of Canadian fickle rules
and regulations and revenues.
But what is more
it can still ask the original owners of the TMX
to build another Trans-Pacific pipeline
outside Canadian soil.
This pipeline would be cheaper to build
and out of the deafening noise of climate change
and indigenous protesters.
Also, it will not have to endure the carbon tax.
Why did it change its name to Ovintiv?
It just wanted to get rid of anything Canadian.
Which brings us to the all-relevant question–
who owns the Alberta oil fields?