Greg at American Energy Crisis got an email from his buddy the other day, and decided to share it with his readers. I thought you would get a kick out of it, too, so here goes:

The wife of former liberal leader Stephane Dion has lashed out at current liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for a variety of reasons:

Janine Krieber wrote on the popular social networking site Facebook that the party is in full collapse.

She warns the Liberals will pay for refusing to endorse the historic left-wing coalition between the Grits, NDP and Bloc Quebecois that almost toppled the Tories last December.

The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the note, where Krieber openly questioned whether current Leader Michael Ignatieff is the one to lead the party out of its funk.

Sources say Dion himself was not involved in producing the note and that people in his camp persuaded her to delete the message earlier Saturday.

While only people with access to her page would have seen the note, her words were apparently widely distributed within the party.

Janine Krieber may say that the liberals “will pay for refusing to endorse the historic left-wing coalition between the Grits, NDP and Bloc Quebecois that almost toppled the Tories last December”, but if recollection serves me correctly, I believe nearly every last liberal did endorse the coalition of the weak. I know Stephane Dion did, I know Michael Ignatieff sure did. I know of two, possibly three liberals that didn’t, but the overwhelming majority did. Which tells me that Janine Krieber knows her history as well as her husband can read the pulse of Canadians.

In a way, I actually feel sorry for Stephane Dion. He quickly found out as liberal leader that his own party hated him, the electorate despised him, and even the press refused to support his nonsense. To top it all off, his own wife not only wears the pants in their family, she also wears the testicles. His wife took his long ago and now keeps his two tiny marbles safe in a kerchief which she holds in her purse.

Stephane should have known that marrying a woman who refused to take his name was not going to end well. Couple that with her bruising linebacker looks and her Attila the Hun personality, and you have the recipe for a lifetime of disaster. Fortunately, it’s Stephie Dion’s lifetime of disaster and not someone who people actually like or care about.

One of the state-controled media outlets let a doozy slip, as ABC reported that slush fund  stimulus money has been used to create jobs in places that don’t actually exist:

Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And that’s just the start of it, of course:

For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona’s 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district.

In Oklahoma, recovery.gov lists more than $19 million in spending — and 15 jobs created — in yet more congressional districts that don’t exist.

In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent  and 39 jobs created — in nonexistent districts.

In Connecticut’s 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars.

The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.

$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.

$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico’s 99th congressional district.

The stimulus is working so well that it is actually creating districts that didn’t exist before. Just as Obama created extra states when he was running for president, his stimulus is actually creating new land.

The stimulus is constructed entirely out of victory and a healthy dose of black magic. For billions and billions of dollars, the stimulus creates non-existant jobs, for non-existant businesses, for people that are not sure where they live.

Bra.Vo.

The Obama administration defended it’s non-job jobs, claiming that the people who are reporting the non-job jobs are telling the truth, they are just geographically impared:

“Some recipients clearly don’t know what congressional district they live in, so they appear to be just throwing in any number. We expected all along that recipients would make mistakes on their congressional districts, on jobs numbers, on award amounts, and so on. Human beings make mistakes,” Pound said.

Indeed. And “In Connecticut’s 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars”, those jobs were created out of Obama’s Hope ‘N Change© campaign. He hoped ‘em up, and they plum appeared. Like the mighty Kreskin, he is.

If the recovery website just had a drop-down menu which listed each district for each state, we probably wouldn’t be talking about this right now. But I’m pretty sure you can’t get a drop-down menu for $18 million nowadays, drop-down menus are pretty high-tech.

Now consider that only 14% of the stimulus has been spent so far. And this is what you have. Imagine next summer – a few months before the November election – when another $500 billion gets spent in Democrat districts. If you think this is a boondoggle so far, you aint seen nuttin’ yet.

I think you already know the answer, but let’s get it from the source:

Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC. During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined.

But the 203,991 abortions only account for the totals in 36 states and two cities, the real rate is much, much higher:

Among the large states not reporting abortions by race–and thus where the number of blacks killed by abortions is not included in the national total of 203,991–are California, Florida, Illinois and the rest of New York state outside of New York City.

According to the CDC, the total of 203,991 blacks killed by abortion in 2005 also does not include those aborted by ”private physicians’ procedures.”

According to the article, there were 820,151 legal abortions performed in the US in 2005, the last year the stats were released. If the article is correct and nearly 36% of all abortions were performed on blacks, that 203,991 total is far closer to 300,000.

And yet the silence from the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, etc, is deafening. Oh sure, when there are too many fast food franchises in poor black areas, these characters will be up in arms, but 300,000 dead souls a year doesn’t even register on their radar.

Also consider there have been about 45 MILLION abortions since 1973, the year in which abortion became legal in the States. If blacks account for 36% of all abortions, that would mean about 17 million black babies have been aborted since 1973.

As a sheer coincidence, the US accepts about 900,000 immigrants to its shores every year. Yup, about the same amount of babies that are aborted. So the next time you hear about some western nation whose population is dwindling, think back to this article and put the pieces together.

Since America’s black leaders are conspicuously silent on this matter, the last word goes to Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

In August 2007 she told a meeting of Priests for Life that abortionists “plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.”

“The great irony,” she said, “is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”

Will they overcome?

Apparently, a look-alike book about Sarah Palin is due out in bookstores the same date the official Sarah Palin book, Going Rogue, is due out. Here’s the reason why:

November 17th that Sarah Palin’s autobiographical work Going Rogue: An American Life comes to shops. It’s also the day that the Nation release Going Rouge: An American Nightmare. Yes, the wicked liberals have come up with a book highlighting everything Sarah Palindoesn’t want you to know with a sleeve that looks the same but doesn’t feel the same (notice the lightning in the back). We hope some conservatives will get confused as some of them wouldn’t know the difference between “rouge” and “rogue” if they worked at a cosmetics counter.

This shows that we are no longer going to be live-and-let-live liberals and just going all the way combatting ignorance. The liberls are no longer indolent and will get to your even if they have to trick you. That’s always fun and great that it’s coming for the left side this time. Yes, we are the “internet left fringe” and we are here to stay.

Ah yes, ”The liberls are no longer indolent and will get to your even if they have to trick you.”

Truer words my friends, truer words. The author is right, of course. Liberls are no longer indolent and will get to your.

And how do these liberls intend on combating Conservative ignorance? By releasing a book that looks identical to Sarah Palin’s, with the ultimate hope that Conservatives will be tricked into making a purchase they didn’t intend on making.

Bra.Vo.

That should teach those evil Conservatives a lesson. That should knock the ignorance right out of those disgusting neo-cons. That should win some additional “hearts and minds™” that liberals are obsessed in winning.

And I’m sure the Conservatives that do make the mistake of buying this copycat book won’t return it to the bookstore, so the bookstores won’t have to worry about having to fill out any additional paperwork, or have lines created at their Return Counter during the busy Christmas season.

But to tell you the truth, I’m not even sure there is a book being released that looks like Sarah Palin’s book. Surely this is some sort of silly rouse. Buehler? I mean, Sarah Palin is irrelevant, right? The state run media keep telling us that. Palin isn’t even in politics any more. A poll the other day showed that if she ran on the Republican ticket for President vs Huckabee and Romney, she would be in third place with 22% of the vote.

So why write a book disputing what a third place, irrelevant, private citizen has to say?

Good luck to the authors of the book and the author of the post that wrote the story I quoted from, I hope they are able to combat ignorance. And for starters, they may want to look inward.

For instance, did Sarah Palin really say she can see Russia from her backyard, or is that an ignorant misquote liberals use to make fun of her with? Do liberals still believe Trig is not Sarah’s child? Or is that just an ignorant smear liberals find they get traction from?

Etc, etc, etc.

Man, I should write a book…

The director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases announced a few weeks ago that there was going to be a shortage of swine flu vaccine doses for the general population of the USA:

Earlier this month, the government was forced to announce that only about 28 million doses would be available by the end of this month, about 30 percent below the 40 million it had previously predicted.

But the October shortfall was not the first. Indeed, since the outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu occurred in April, federal projections have been consistently and wildly overoptimistic and have had to be ratcheted down several times. As recently as late July, the government was predicting having 160 million doses by this month.

From the lack of coverage this has received by the various state run media, it makes me believe that this isn’t much of a big deal. Unlike a few years back when the Bush administration didn’t get enough vaccines for the common flu:

Democrats have seized on the vaccine shortage to accuse the administration of being unable to protect Americans — from either illness or terrorism. ”If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism?” Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, asked in an interview with National Public Radio. ”If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program are you running?”

That was during the 2004 election. Kerry was trying to score points with residents of Florida (where the old folk are at!). Here’s what Kerry said one of the reasons why there wasn’t enough doses at the time:

”They relied on foreign workers to make the vaccine. A company with a bad track record. Now we’re about 50 million vaccines short.”

I wonder why the Bush administration had to get foreign workers to make the flu vaccine? If only I could think of one reason…one single reason. Oh ya – in 2004, the Democrats refused to pass medical liability reform  which would have gotten rid of junk lawsuits. Since the junk lawsuits were the curse of vaccine makers, nearly every last one decided to close up shop in the US and move overseas. I suppose the vaccine makers were sick and tired of being sued over the most frivolous things.

So the US gov’t had to outsource for the flu vaccine doses to a company in Britain. When a major malfunction occured in manufacturing the vaccine, the US lost 48% of the vaccines for the flu.

What a disaster. The US only had 60 million doses of the vaccine, not the 84 million it should have had. The state run media went ballistic. And as John Kerry said above, “”If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism?”

And keep in mind once again that the US had 60 million doses – for the regular ole FLU. Now let’s recap how many doses the US has for the swine flu:

…was forced to announce that only about 28 million doses would be available by the end of this month

As of today though, there are only a little over 11 million doses.

Let’s just put aside the fact that Bush was nailed to a cross in 2004 for having 60 million doses of the flu vaccine, and that Obama is getting a free ride for having all of 11 million doses of the barnyard flu vaccine ready. And let’s not even talk about the *fact* that the barnyard flu is going to kill millions and millions of people (if it wasn’t, why is every official talking about it and the UN counting on anywhere between 7.5 and 150 million deaths).

Let’s just put all of that aside.

I’m sure there is one thing we can agree on: If the government can’t even get this swine flu thing right, how the hell is it going to properly run the entire US health care system?

Riddle me that.

The Ontario government has set a new record. But don’t go rushing to your phone to call the good folk at Guinness just yet, as the record the liberals have set is bringing us the biggest deficit in the history of our province:

The $24.7-billion deficit figure was blamed on a 48.1 per cent drop in corporate tax revenues – which amounted to a $5.8-billion loss in provincial revenue. At the same time, the government is increasing its expenditures by $4.8 billion to $113.7 billion amid further investments in skills training, the auto sector, and health care.

Notice how a $5.8 billion loss accounts for the majority of the blame on a $25 billion dollar deficit. The EXTRA $4.8 billion in increased expenditures had NOTHING to do with it. As for the other unaccounted 15 billion, well, who knows who’s to blame for that. Probably Mike Harris.

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan and company intend to slay the deficit dragon though, but it will take some serious work and a lot of cutting:

That will mean belt-tightening in other areas, said Duncan, although he’s not ready to specify what cuts, if any, are planned.

“We want to have a long, hard look at how we deliver programs and services,” Duncan said.

“We will call on our partners in the public and the broader public sector to help us sustain public services in the long term.”

(the liberals)…said they will go ahead with a plan for full-day kindergarten for four and five year olds, to be announced later this month.

So our Finance Minister with the Scottish name (the only Scotsman who isn’t frugal, BTW – what are the chances of that?) has decided that we must cut back. We have to tighten our belts. And how are we going to do that? Simple: by creating a billion dollar program consisting of full-day kindergarten classes for four and five year olds. And before you say anything, I know, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN!

Moving on. The liberals have been a little behind the 8 ball this last year in their predictions on how big our deficit was going to be. Let’s recap that, shall we?

The Liberals originally predicted their books would be balanced when they tabled their 2008 budget, which included an $800-million contingency fund and boasted that “there was no danger” of falling into deficit.

Last October, Duncan signalled an end to the days of balanced books when he said a $500-million shortfall was expected for fiscal 2008-09 – a figure that actually came in at $6.4 billion.

The figures in Thursday’s fall economic statement also represent a dramatic leap in deficit projections for 2009-10, from the $14.1-billion forecast in the March budget and the revised June prediction of $18.5 billion.

Let’s face it, they were awfully close. They predicted a balanced budget and only missed it by $25 BILLION dollars.

But you can always count on the liberals to make the hard choices. Seeing as though we are now crippled with debt, I’m sure Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty will do the right thing. Which, given McGuinty’s history can only mean one thing: He will mandate bigger warning labels on cigarette packs and ban drinking coffee in cars.

Seeing as though the liberals have governed so well over the last 5 ish years the have been in power, let’s recap a few of the gems they have imparted on us:

• A scandal over $32 million in grants to multicultural groups has cost Ontario Immigration and Citizenship Minister Mike Colle his job and jolted Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government…
• Mired in scandal and having already claimed two bureaucrats and one cabinet minister, the eHealth fiasco, “flushed 1 billion precious health-care dollars down the toilet with nothing to show for it.”
• provincial government casinos haven’t made a profit on operations since 2006. They lost $94 million last year, after the province skimmed some money off the top. Despite that, the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expanding a casino in Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s Windsor riding. Inexplicably, the lottery corporation is also building an $81-million power plant there. Pork is traditional in Canadian politics, but this is the whole hog.
• It was 2005, when we began hearing rumours of “insider” wins and lottery sellers collecting a disproportionate share of winnings; in some cases, ripping off customers.The ugly truth was revealed through an independent probe launched by Ontario’s Ombudsman, Andre Marin. His report revealed that millions had been paid out to unscrupulous retailers, stating “confidence in our lotteries is shattered.”

But dontchu worry, good times are right around the corner. For instance, next July, Ontario residents will be paying an extra 7% on just about everything, as Dalton and gang are harmonizing the GST/PST. Although it has been called *the biggest tax increase in the HISTORY of Ontario*, I’m sure the people saying that are just a bunch of negative Nellies. They have to learn to turn their frowns upside down. Make a negative a positive. L

For instance, don’t look at it like 250,000 Ontario citizens lost their jobs this year, look at it like 250,000 Ontario citizens have more time to spend with their families and friends now

Yup, keep voting the liberals in. They are the party of the people!

A study commissioned by the Canadian Convenience Stores Association and the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco, found that over 30% of all cigarette butts found on High School grounds are contraband smokes:

“One out of every three high school kids in Ontario who is smoking is choosing to buy his cigarettes from, basically, a criminal,” Grant said in an interview.

It isn’t just the teens that are attracted by the much lower prices for the illegal cigarettes, which often sell for about $1 dollar a pack instead of the usual retail price of about $8 for 20 cigarettes.

“About 50 per cent of all cigarettes being smoked in Ontario and Quebec are contraband, so adults are fuelling this industry just as much as kids,” said Grant.

“But the (kids) are the ones most vulnerable, and the reason that it’s so attractive to them is because they can’t buy them in the stores.”

No, the reason it’s so attractive to them is that illegal smokes cost $1 a pack compared to $10 a pack for legal ones. Kids may be slow, but they do grasp basic arithmatic.

Moving on, Grant has a solution to stop young adults from smoking:

The coalition wants smoking to be illegal for anyone under 19, similar to drinking.

“I believe that most kids would stop buying cigarettes of all kinds, never mind just contraband, if they couldn’t possess them and smoke them.”

Right. Just as people wouldn’t drink and drive if they didn’t have access to a car. Or booze. And druggies would stop taking drugs if there were no drugs. And feral cats would stop crapping on my stoop if I would only get rid of my stoop. Or the cats. 

Imagine, an 18 year old young adult can be shipped off to Afghanistan, yet can’t legally purchase a beer or a smoke. That’s what Grant is proposing. He’s saying that people who are old enough to drive a tank, or fly a plane, or quit school and work full time, should not be able to buy, let alone smoke a smoke.

Makes sense. Good luck selling that.

We know that Grant is the spokesman for the “National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco”, but who are they exactly?

That’s the result of a study commissioned by the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco, a group fully funded by the Canadian Convenience Store Association.

I see. Grant’s company is fully funded by the same group that commissioned him for this study. In other words, it’s completely in the interest of the Canadian Convenience Store Association to have this study skewed for their benefit, so instead of using an outside agency to get the findings, they use a group they FULLY FUND.

Put another way, The Mayor has a site called Mitchieville. He also has a site called The Coalition Against Useless Websites, one which Mitchieville fully funds. The Mayor gets the CAUW to conduct a survey to find out what is the coolest, bestest website in the universe. Using *special investigative techniques*, Fenris Badwulf  finds that 99.3% are useless, but Mitchieville isn’t, and that’s why EVERYONE should advertise on Mitchieville. Mitchieville declares that a *New Study* has proven what members of Mitchieville have been saying for years. We have the proof! We’re #1!!!

Fair and balanced, right?

Sure, that was a terrible analogy, but you get the idea.

What this whole study comes down to is that the convenience store people feel they are losing a ton of revenue because of contraband smokes. Which is true. They are. But instead of going after the Ontario gov’t to stop the illegal smoke distribution, they are going after the Ontario gov’t to stop kids from smoking by making them illegal to young adults under 19.

That’s a perfect ploy. The Ontario gov’t is basically spineless, and will never go after the Indians that manufacture and distribute contraband smokes, hell, they have let the Indians illegally occupy Caledonia for four years now and refuse to say boo to them, what would make you think they would go onto reserves that manufacture smokes and start arresting people?

So the convenience store folk have asked the Ontario gov’t to start smashing some low hanging fruit — kids under 19.

And McGuinty will do it, he has a poor solution for every serious problem. “We’ve lost 30% of our manufacturing base in the last three years? Mandate helmets for kids that ride bikes.” “We’ve got another summer of the gun on Toronto streets? Ban rottweilers” , “Indians are manufacturing and distributing contraband smokes? We better give school kids $700 fines for smoking.”

You see where this is going. It’s all about root causes, except when it isn’t. It’s all about doing the right thing, unless it costs votes. It’s all about the children, unless they get in the way.

Women with large breasts…

* can get a taxi on the worst days
* have men give them the best seats on a bus.
* have a neat place to carry spare change
* have always been the center of the arts (art)
* make jogging a spectator sport
* can keep a magazine dry while laying in the tub
* have more negotiating power (with men shorter than them)
* usually can find leftover popcorn after a movie
* can always carry a little extra cash
* always float better
* know where to look first for lost earrings
* rarely lack for a slow dance partner
* have a place to set their glasses when sitting in an armless recliner
* never have to buy a car with airbags
* have a place to carry a extra beer

Women with small breasts…

* don’t cause a traffic accident every time they bend over in public
* always look younger
* find that dribbled food makes it to the napkin on their lap
* can always see their toes and shoes
* can sleep on their stomachs
* have no trouble sliding behind the wheel of small cars
* know that people can read the entire message on their T-shirts
* know that everything more than a handful is wasted
* can come late to a theater and not disrupt an entire aisle
* can take aerobic class without running the risk of knocking themselves out
* never be accused of having implants.

Thanks to Bits & Pieces, Via My Confined Space

There has been so much made of Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday that I thought I’d make my triumphant return after being away for two days (thanks for noticing) and add my two cents.

The way I see it, there are really only two camps of thought on this: A) Obama deserves the award because he is a man of peace, and B) What the hell?

You may find this hard to believe, but I’m glad Obama received the Nobel. However, I’m glad he received it, but not for the same reason the drooling lefties are glad he received it. Let me explain.

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Back on May 21 of this year, Somali born Canadian Suaad Hagi Mohamud was detained at the Nairobi airport after officials claimed she didn’t look like the picture on her passport. She was thrown in a Kenyan jail for 8 days, then released and sent back to Canada after DNA tests proved she was the same person on her passport.

During the time of her detention, the Canadian media and various left wing political groups made Suaad Hagi Mohamud a celebrity, espousing that the Conservative government wasn’t protecting its own citizens, even going as far to claim that the Conservative government doesn’t like non-white people.

Let’s hear what Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty had to say back a few months ago:

“Something is fundamentally wrong when we can’t count on the Canadian government to stand up for Canadians – I’m not sure I can put it any more directly than that,” he said.

Canadians expect their government to help them when they’re in distress, no matter where they are, McGuinty added.

“That didn’t happen in this particular circumstance, and there’s no excuse for that.”

Christopher Hume of the Toronto CZtar was even more over-the-top than McGuinty:

According to the administration’s new meaning of Canadian citizenship, the main qualification is not residence, place of birth, oath of allegiance or passport – it’s the colour of your skin.

And in Canada today, God help you if you’re not white, because the federal government sure won’t. Indeed, that government creates these problems in the first place.

This isn’t just another political scandal; this is cause for deep national shame. This smacks not just of prejudice, but of apartheid.

All those on the left seemed to agree: Canada is a racist shithole.

Unfortunately, there are a few facts released yesterday that got in the way of lefty *truth*:

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I may have posted this before, but it’s always a good refresher to put things in perspective.

I saw this today when visiting BillyBob, and when YOU go visit BillyBob, you’ll see it too. See how that works?

1. Detroit , MI 32.5%

2. Buffalo , NY 29.9%

3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%

4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%

5. Miami , FL 26.9%

5. St. Louis , MO 26.8%

7. El Paso , TX 26.4%

8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%

9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%

10. Newark , NJ 24.2%

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961

Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954

Cincinnati , OH (3rd)…since 1984

Cleveland , OH (4th)…since 1989

Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor

St. Louis , MO (6th)….since 1949

El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor

Milwaukee , WI (8th)…since 1908

Philadelphia , PA (9th)…since 1952

Newark , NJ (10th)…since 1907.