this should be fun...

i'm going to a family wedding this weekend in saskatchewan.

alcohol aside (it's a ukrainian wedding, after all), here's why it should be fun:

some of said family is from southern ontario. one of them was heard to say, a few years ago, "boy, it'll be great here when paul martin is prime minister". i nearly choked.

some of this family is pretty hardcore moonbat leftist gun control-more bureaucracy-abortions for all-God has no place anywhere ever pinkos.

i'll just love cornering them and, thanks to the blogging tories and such sites as proud (it's a question), angry, and sda, i'll have tonnes of ammunition to throw at them when they come back with typical sheep-like mindless moonbat rebuttals.

tomorrow morning, as monte likes to talk about, i'll be going through the drive through at timmy's and just salivating not only about my extra large triple cream, but about the prospect of blasting them with logical arguments. dreaming of having them in front of a crowd there, in saskatchewan, and having them admit to any (or all) of the following: a) having voted liberal, b) being for gun control, or c) thinking the conservatives are "scary".

man, this is gonna be good....

come **on**, people

the catholic church is not a democracy. therefore, canon law forbidding female priests, like it or not, is the way it is, and is not denying someone human rights.

i mean, really, people, find something useful to fight for.

like freedom. and real justice. and peace.

i laughed out loud

i was out for a drive yesterday afternoon/evening, and i heard something on the radio i never though i'd hear.

a talk show hosted by sheila copps.

yeah, i know, i know.

but that's not the only part that made me laugh.

at one point she talked about adrienne clarkson, and said that she had done, and i think i'm paraphrasing here, "an outstanding job".

< insert choking noise here >

i suppose you could say she has done a good job, if you ignore the fact that the governor general's budget has ballooned since she took (was given) the office. hopefully a person can do a good job if given unlimited funds.

but really, sheila. an outstanding job?

why don't you, then, personally completely fund all her junkets?

what is this "terrorist" you speak of?

i've been saying this for years, and i know i'm preaching to the converted, but really: political correctness is a bane on our society.

pravda of north america (aka cbc) doesn't use the word terrorist. what else do you call a bunch of so-and-sos who strap bombs to themselves in the london subway?

well, actually, i have a couple of choice names for them, but i don't want any children reading them.

for the profile

i haven't yet posted a photo not because i don't want to get recognized, but because the url where this one resides is too long for blogger.

woohoo. another conservative in canada.

let's unite and kick the liberal bums out!!!

reasons not to vote conservative

okay, the title seems a bit odd, but hear me out.

first off, i fully support stephen harper and the conservatives. i think they have the right vision for the country and are the only ones properly equipped (and willing, for that matter) to clean up the silliness in ottawa.

but i wish to play devil's advocate here for a while, and try to understand why people continue to vote liberal. so, to that end, i'll make up a list of reasons not to vote conservative.

• they will turn the country into a theocracy
  
• they are anti-rights
  
• they .... ummmmmmm .....
  

okay, i can't think of any actual reasons other than the obviously flawed first one and the ridiculous second one. i mean, the cpc has jewish, christian, and muslim members. can the same be said for the other parties? actually, if they were religious, they wouldn't admit it. the liberals and the dippers don't tolerate religion. how tolerant. how progressive. and the cpc supports individual freedom, rather than the groupthink big brother regime the liberals are encroaching upon us.

how about i go into a list of reasons to vote conservative.

• they believe that a strong unity with our neighbours to the south can only benefit us--that dumping on americans ("i hate those bastards" - carolyn parrish) is counterproductive and leads to long waits to get things done (e.g. border open to cattle)
  
• they believe that alternative health care delivery methods are not the devil--that privately-delivered publicly-funded health care is one of many good ways of being flexible within a national health care system
  
• they believe that government should be accountable to the people it serves--ordinary everyday canadians
  
• they believe in free votes on issues of conscience
  
• they believe that the appointment of judges to the supreme court should be subject to a free vote in the house
  
• they believe in elected senators
  
• they believe in looking at electoral changes, specifically single transferrable vote, proportional representation, fixed election dates, and referendums
  
• they believe in reversing the fiscal imbalance amongst the federal and provincial levels, which has made the federal coffers overflow
  
• they believe in implementing balanced budget legislation
  
• they believe that putting more dollars in the hands of canadians, in the form of tax relief, is a better way to stimulate the economy
  
• they believe that tax money belongs to the people of canada and as such should not be passed around in envelopes
  
• they believe that use of offshore tax havens should be outlawed so that everyone pays fairly (are you listening, oh owner of canada steamship lines?)
  
• they believe that stay-at-home parents have tremendous value and should be rewarded through tax benefits; that parents, not the state, are best equipped to decide how to raise children
  
• they believe in allowing competition in business in order to allow the best service, pricing, and benefits for all
  
• they believe that the kyoto accord needs serious looking at, as it has been refuted by tens of thousands of respected scientists
  
• they believe in removing parental income and assets from student loan applications (this one hurt me badly when i applied)
  
• they believe that, when there is a surplus in employment insurance, that premiums be lowered
  
• they believe in not coddling hardcore criminals--if you commit violent crime, you will get a minumum sentence and will not get statutory (automatic) release
  
• they believe that the gun registry is an affront to canadians and a waste of their money; to that end, they will eliminate it and use much more effective means (mandatory minimum sentences, strict monitoring, safe storage provisions, safety training, and using the gun registry money to place more law enforcement on the streets) to reduce gun crime
  
• they believe that any defence used to justify the possession of child pornography is invalid and all possible defences will be eliminated, not tolerated
  
• they believe that canada's immigration policy should be transparent
  
• they believe in supporting canada's military
  

i can't say i agree with all of their policies, like no abortion policy and leaving the cbc (canada's pravda) alone, but that's part of the beauty of the cpc--you can disagree with this or that, and still be accepted. in the liberal party of canada, if you disagree with anything they say, you're intolerant.

now, i ask you, who are the intolerant bigots?

getting revved up again

i've been thinking a lot about the democratic deficit paul martin purported to support. i knew he was lying. most conservatives knew he was lying. why the hell didn't the (unbiased? ha!) media know he was lying?

he rammed through c-38. he bought a conservative mp. he tried to buy a few more. he forced his caucus to vote the party line, not what their constituents wanted. he ignored what amounted to a non-confidence vote.

hate to break it to you, folks, but we now live in a dictatorship. we've actually done so for a while.

the part that scares me, though, is that, more and more, it's becoming a "big brother" dictatorship. religion is being attacked in the name of separation of church and state. in reality, the separation of church and state wasn't implemented to protect the state from being influenced by religion--it was to make sure religion wasn't attacked by the state. and now it is being attacked. want proof? go to toronto and tell everyone that you're religious. christian, muslim, jewish, hindu, i don't care. what do you think the response will be? does the word "leper" come to mind?

i work with university-educated people (and am one myself) and a lot of the time religion and religious people (like myself) are attacked. not for any reason in particular. just for having faith. faith, which is so sorely lacking in today's society. it seems, especially in canada, that many pray at the altar of me-me-me-now-now-now. no forward-looking and no helping others.

really, what's wrong with being a christian? a hindu? a jew? a muslim? any person of faith? just because we believe in something that can't be proven or disproven doesn't make us stupid, or crazy, or whatever.

ask paul martin.

he's a devout catholic.

(choke).

you wouldn't like me when i'm angry

adrienne batra posted on the ctf blog today that, true to leftist moonbat form, the state is a better choice to raise children than the parents. manitoba is pretty much have to be raised by other-mommy or other-daddy rather than mom and dad, unless mom or dad makes a huge salary. lots of funding for state-sponsored daycare, but no break for stay-at-home parents. does this seem even remotely right to anyone?

this is happening on a national scale, too. it's just that ken dryden hasn't filibustered and stammered (à la porky pig martin) about it yet. but be ready. once this national child care program ("a fix for a generation!") is implemented, it'll be to the detriment of the nuclear family. and, in my humble opinion, society itself.

for shame, gary doer. and paul martin.

oh, the subject of the post? well, i've been keeping my head out of politics for a while--not completely, but enough so that i haven't felt compelled to blog--because after paul martin et al. raped democracy a while ago, i was spitting nails. my girlfriend told me i needed to cool it--and she was right. i get pretty nasty when i'm angered about politics. or pretty much anything else.

at the end of the summer, though, i'll be back. and those nails will be flyin'! :)