CPC Majority

I am elated that the CPC has been mandated by Canadians to lead the nation for four years before returning to the polls. It speaks to trust in Stephen Harper and is a visceral acknowledgement of sound leadership in multiple minority Parliaments. Harper has earned a majority.

The CPC are now able to bring the CPC platform and most recent Budget to bear. This is good news for Canada's economy in the short term, and one hopes that four years onward we will be able to testify how Harper's government kept taxes low, supported businesses of all sizes, retracted its talons from the market and abandoned deficit spending.

As a former party member, I am looking for some real conservatism from the CPC in the next four years. No, I do not for a moment think the Harper government will tack hard-right. Their platform is very centrist and clearly reflects a party that is much more "progressive" than conservative. A majority isn't going to change that; the CPC has captured the political center and must govern close to it if they wish to retain power post 2015. Still, one can hope that a shred of conservatism remains in the party faithful somewhere and hope that amidst the "progressive" policies there may now be room for some truly conservative policies that lead Canada in a different and better direction. Time will tell.

Congratulations CPC and Stephen Harper!

Ignorance is bliss

Until it mercilessly gropes your nether regions.

Before the assault, Ms. [Lara] Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced.

How could that possibly be?

News you didn't hear

San Francisco.

Thousands of Christians gathered for an outdoor Easter Sunday service in San Francisco to publicly mock gays and humiliate gay heroes.

The flagrant attack, which included skits, obscenities and impersonations satirizing gays and gay stereotypes, sent shockwaves of outrage and disgust throughout the region and across the nation.

This report features photo and video documentation of the free public Easter service, which was attended by a majority of Christians in the city, who laughed at and insulted gays and the homosexual community.

Click the link.

And remember, there's no bias in the media. None. Whatsoever. (H/T)

Good riddance

Via CBC.

ABC cancelled two of its three soap operas on Thursday, consigning One Life to Live and All My Children... to television history.

In which farting becomes a criminal act

Indigenous Andean Gaia worship, writ large. Because what's good for Bolivia must be thrust upon us all.

Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country. [...]

Bolivia’s Law of the Rights of Mother Earth... grants the Earth a series of specific rights that include rights to life, water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities, and the right to be free from pollution.

It's only a matter of time

... until they return to Canada.

About 20 Canadians have travelled to Somalia to join Al-Shabab, a federal official said two weeks after a Toronto man was arrested as he was allegedly leaving to enlist in the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group. [...]

... Using an Internet propaganda campaign, Al-Shabab has attracted hundreds of foreigners, among them Canadians, who have flocked to Somalia to join what they claim is a global jihad against the West.

“Islamist extremists are radicalizing and recruiting Somali-Canadian youths within Canada to travel to Somali for jihad training,” reads a de-classified 2010 Canadian intelligence report released under the Access to Information Act.

Five planks with which to whip the NDP

The anti-capitalist, anti-growth, anti-competition platform, released today.

The NDP is also proposing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, instead of imposing a carbon tax. [Where is the money coming from Jacko? Taxes. -ed] [...]

The centrepiece of the NDP's fiscal plan is to restore the corporate tax rate to 19 per cent and to crack down on foreign tax havens. [...]

There's also an NDP promise to compensate Quebec for harmonizing its sales tax, and another promise to pull out of the Afghanistan training mission.

HRM anti-idling by-law

Moronic ecofascists at work in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Halifax now has a noise bylaw that aims to prevent idling over five minutes, but the proposed new rules would make it illegal to run an engine in a motionless vehicle during a shorter time frame. [...]

The planned bylaw will probably have a stipulation that no stationary vehicle have its engine running for longer than 180 seconds, MacLellan said.

... including metro buses, police cars, construction equipment, transport trucks, school buses, emergency vehicles, eh?

Good luck with enforcement, chaps.

Federal election?

For the first time in a decade, I find myself completely and utterly disinterested in the federal election, mainly because it is wholly unnecessary.

The Liberals have lost the Center to the CPC and they won't gain it back unless Harper and Co make some incredible blunders in the campaign and in the next government, which the CPC will undoubtedly form, the only real question being whether or not Canadians will hand the CPC a majority.

From the Left-drifting CPC I expect the old Liberal line of big government, big spending and big tent. Come one, come all, suckle here on the polished public teat. The CPC kicked fiscal conservatism to the curb approximately five years ago and they haven't welcomed him back on the bus since, so there's no reason to assume they are going to campaign on a fiscally conservative platform, the mere mention of which would appear revolutionary in this political climate where we have a choice between big, huge and gargantuan government. I could be surprised, of course; the CPC could campaign on fiscal conservative ideals and be flat out liars, but I suspect they'll continue to tout themselves as honest big spenders brokers of the public purse. Lots of big spending and little to nothing in the way of downsizing government and reducing taxation, which go hand-in-hand, one might add.

And so it is that I will probably cast a vote for the CPC candidate in my riding only because he represents the least worse option.

Taking risks, suffering consequences

Nearly two weeks have passed since CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan was sexually and physically assaulted in Tahrir Square, Cairo, by a group of Egyptian Muslim males who thought she was a Jew. Similarly, nearly two weeks have passed since Angella Johnson was sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square, though not as severely as Logan, thankfully. More than three weeks have passed since CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his crew were assaulted and ABC’s Brian Hartman was carjacked and threatened with beheading. Reports indicate approximately 140 journalists have been injured or killed in Egypt in the past month. And just this past week, four Americans, including a Christian missionary couple sailing around the world distributing Bibles, were captured and killed by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

In each of these cases, the associated risks were well-known and accepted by the would-be victims. The acceptance of the potential consequences, even in naïveté, does not mean the victims deserved to be assaulted or killed. This argument, made by some in recent weeks, is particularly insidious for it implies that risk-takers should be punished for daring to take risks. It carries undertones of cowardice and timidity, of condemnation for those who dare to accomplish great things, of malice toward those who courageously accept the enormous potential sum on the risk calculator.

I condemn that line of thinking because risk-taking is the substance of life. Rewards are often the greatest where the risks are highest. Unfortunately, those risks sometimes materialize and the consequences are very costly, even to the taking of human lives.

Men (and women) who risk little accomplish little. We need more men and women who are willing to risk greatly to accomplish incredible things and less men and women who would sneer at those who stumble in the fight. Men and women that risk great loss to report news from the four corners of the globe, or bring the Gospel to the four corners of the globe, deserve our respect. I do not count them among the timid and weak souls; they are the bold, the living and the free. They deserve sympathy as much as any other man when the risks they accept as part of a job, or simply as a matter of living, materialize and cause them great harm.

The victims in each of these cases are bearing the consequences of their decisions. As much as we may wish to do so, it is now impossible to absolve them of the consequences they accepted and subsequently received. There is little point in reminding them of the fact they accepted the risk. They well know; they're living through it. And far be it from me to condemn them post facto for taking great risks. All we should say is that it is too bad the risks materialized, and then do our very best to sympathize with those who live to tell of their ordeal and grieve with those whose loved ones paid the ultimate price for freedom.

Happy hunting, boys!

Grey seal hunt begins. In your honour:

Recipe: Seal Flipper Pie

4 seal flippers
1 L water
500 ml soda
125 ml fat pork, diced
1 cup milk
2 white onions, chopped
5 ml salt
60 ml flour
250 ml cold water
5 ml Worcestershire sauce

Soak flippers in 1 L of water and soda. Trim off excess fat. dry flippers and dip in seasoned flour. Brown in pork fat. Add onions and make a gravy of flour, water, and sauce. Pour over flippers. Cover and bake at 160C for 2-3 hours. Make a pastry and cover the flippers. Bake at 220C for 30 minutes. Serves 6-8.

Go ahead Austrian man

... marry a 6-year-old girl and have sex with her when she is 9. It's not paedophilia as long as you're still married to her when she's 18. After all, what's good for the Muslim is good for the kaffir too, yes?

“Paedophilia” is factually incorrect, since paedophilia is a sexual preference which solely or mainly is directed towards children. Nevertheless, it does not apply to mohammad. He was still married to Aisha when she was 18. It is a “denigration of religious teachings” and are found guilty and sentenced to 120 days, which approaches the minimum of € 480.

Jesus is the Light of the World

You don't need to erect a 25-foot cross to prove it. Just get out there and live like He asked you to. Serving the community will work a far greater eternal reward for you than peeving them off.

Daily Dose of Islamicism

Via.

[14-year-old] Hena was raped by her 40-year-old relative Mahbub on Sunday. Next day, a fatwa was announced at a [Bangladesh] village arbitration that she must be given 100 lashes. She fell unconscious after nearly 80 lashes.

Fatally injured Hena was rushed to Naria health complex where she succumbed to her injuries.

But remember: Canadian culture and its Judeo-Christian moral foundation are not superior to any others.

No place for religion in Quebec schools

Excepting the Cult of Gaia, of course.

Is the cult of environmentalism now so zealous and pernicious that it has come to this – a six-year-old Quebec kindergartener is punished for bringing a sandwich to school in a plastic bag? What’s next, suspending him for using a nightlight that has an incandescent bulb rather than a compact fluorescent one? [...]

Recently, Felix began crying when his mom went to pack his lunch in a resealable plastic bag. When asked what the trouble was, Felix told his parents that his kindergarten class had had a draw for a stuffed toy, but that he had been excluded from the contest because his teacher had found a plastic sandwich bag in his lunch kit. So he pleaded with his mom not to make him an enviro-criminal again.

For the record....

Educational curriculum always promulgates a set of beliefs and ideals, subtly, in most cases, and incessantly, year over year over year. There is always an indisputable dogma being promoted and reinforced. Educators themselves are hardly objective. Except for the scattered "rogue" teacher, they promote and enforce the cultural, religious and sociological ideals of the system in lockstep. Breaking the mold makes you a troublemaker and is a surefire way to crimp your status with the school administration and hinder your advancement through the union ranks. If you're not a believer, if you're not "with the program," then you're in for a rough ride.

And so it is that in Quebec public schools, while organized religious activities of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, etc., are considered verboten outside of some sort of innocuous World Religion and Ethics course, a totalitarian environmentalist program can be implemented at a school-wide level with compliance rewarded and non-compliance punished down to the youngest child.

Similarly, the Ontario Human Rights Commission is poised to "take over" all education curriculum, including that of private and home schools, according to the Family Coalition Party of Ontario.

The question is not whether or not any credo will be taught to the next generation as much as it is which one(s) will be taught.