If a leopard could change its spots...

... it would still be a leopard.

Yes, Premier Ed just wants a little lovin’ and, though the locks may be changed and somebody else’s truck is parked in the driveway with a licence plate clearly marked Wild Rose Country, he’s trying.

No, it’s not a Drone from the Throne this time around.

It’s Ed on bended knee, pleading “love-me” to the pinstripes of the oilpatch and to all those feeling the pinch of lower oil and gas prices. As well as anyone who says they prefer the We Don’t Like Ed Conservatives, a.k.a. the Wildrose Alliance, to the Ed Conservatives.

Ed can try to change his image anyway he wants, but he'll always be a LIEberal...

The Union....

... Lost the Battle of Lexington(Cannon ball in pillar at the Public Library).

Its ironic that the GOP would have a response to the "ZERO's" SOTU address in Richmond, Virginia. If the "ZERO" keeps pushing his socialist agenda, we could see a do over, especially since he's been the MOST successful at stimulating the guns and ammo industry.

With this Q-Tip

I will surgically repair all the financial evils I created in America...

Life is tuff...

I have to watch things like these flying over every day...

...... Its just soooooooo hard ...... NOT! .. I don't think I could ever get tired of it.. :-)

Progressives are in denial, terminally zealous, and fundamentally dishonest with themselves.

Clear thinkers recognize the foolishness of Dewey's assertion that society owns the "full growth of all the individuals who make it up." His sermonizing did not marry individualism to socialism, but instead forged a contrived, contentious partnership that made "progressive" educators a century ago feel good about anti-individual tactics which were destined to create the morally relativistic swamp now stinking up our schools. Today's educators will not likely wake up and smell their students' rotting synapses. They will preach multiculturalism, moral relativism, and "diversity" until the price per gallon of biofuel in their Smart Cars exceeds students' test scores.

Let's condense. Progressives endlessly hype disproved fallacies, among them:

Human-caused "climate change."
More guns, more crime.
Handouts improve the plight of the poor.
Raising taxes in a down economy doesn't impede recovery.
More government, better government
Incarcerating criminals doesn't decrease crime; rehabilitation does.
Playing nice-nice with violent scumbags pacifies them.
Raising self-esteem begets achievement, not the other way around.
Life should be fair.

Progressivism is about embracing silliness to make a person feel good -- reality be damned.

This was a great article and describes Obama, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Ed Stelmach, and all the other whacked out progressives. What's even worse is that the people elect these pieces of crap that care about no one but themselves, and their political gain, and use these myths to propel themselves to the top. No matter how high they go, they are still bottom feeders, and they eat their own, as well as everybody else.

Stelmach has a carbon infected brain...

Provincial plans to explore carbon capture and storage will be boosted by an Abu Dhabi company, Premier Ed Stelmach announced Wednesday.

The deal, inked by Stelmach — who is slated to return Thursday from the United Arab Emirates’ capital — will see Alberta team with Masdar, a renewable energy company owned by the city’s government, to investigate the technology aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions.

“Carbon capture and storage is at the heart of Alberta’s plan to combat climate change and there is much we can share with Abu Dhabi,” he said.

Combat climate change? .....curb toxic emissions?....CO2, a plant food, a toxic emission? It ain't the climate that is changing all that much. Its the false perception being created by these politicians, and activists, trying to scare people into thinking there is a concern. Especially when they remove all the thermometers in the colder latitudes to "hide the decline".

The height of Arrogance and Narcissism..

WASHINGTON (AP) - Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, the top White House political adviser said Wednesday, after President Barack Obama's signature issue took a devastating hit with the Democratic loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat.

They sure aren't listening to the electorate, and obviously they don't care. Typical LIEberal attitude of we know best, and you'll accept what we want to do at any cost. You would never know this administration swore to uphold and protect the constitution. It must just be words they had to say for the hell of it.

40 Reasons to Ban Guns...

1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, Detroit & Chicago cops need guns.

2. Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.

3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just statistics."

4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.

5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.

6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.

7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.

8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.

This is priceless.. Read the rest...

We only have four guns, at the moment, but you can count on that increasing... and we are both proud members of the NRA.

So... You don't think man made Global Warming is a Fraud yet?

Well how about some more evidence in the actual IPCC 2007 report, where the head of the IPCC relied on a RADICAL environmental group's FLAWED WWF report. The same group that thinks polar bears can't swim, and are becoming extinct, when they are now at record numbers.

The only real thing that is going to be questioned here, is the credibility of these so called elite scientists that are claiming the world needs saving.

Living in the South....

I knew when I moved south, I'd have to adjust to a few things. People kept telling me it would be the heat, but I haven't found that to be a problem at all. I like the heat, its a nice change(in the summer), and a heat index of 105 F doesn't bother me a bit. I think the biggest adjustment is the uncertainty about the bugs and critters. Which ones you can whack, and which ones to stay clear of. Up north, we don't have to many problems with insects, and have a few more problems with bears, wolves, a few mountain lion here and there, etc..

Here, you have to watch yourself with things like spiders, ticks, and snakes. The most common being the ticks, and spiders. Ticks can be bad in tall grass, and carry a lot of diseases, and you have to check yourself over after you go into the woods. Spiders, such as the Brown Recluse are just down right nasty, and you don't wanna ever be bit by one. They seem to like houses and sheds. Other spiders like the black widow can also make you fairly sick.

Snakes are kind of cool. Only seen a couple, but they don't bother anything. Around where I'm at, we only have rat snakes, and copperheads. Very rare to see a rattlesnake, or cottonmouth. Easiest way to identify poisonous from nonpoisonous is to look at the eyes, or the tale. If it has egg shaped eyes, with cat like pupils, or single segmented tales, don't touch. The diamond shaped head can also be an indicator, but not all the time.

Here is a picture of a little budy I found under the lawnmower.

They don't really have any predator animals. Maybe the odd mountain lion, raccoon, or possum, and for them, guns are legal down here, so those are no problem at all. Rumor has it that they are re-introducing black bears about a 30 miles south, but black bears have never been more then a nuisance, and scavengers. Its actually been very interesting, and I'm learning a lot. If I was to describe the place, it like being in Alberta 40 years ago, with different trees.

Climate-gate part II

Climate-gate part II begins now: The scientists with Icecap.us website announced findings late last week that not only was the CRU involved in producing fraudulent weather data, but two United States agencies, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have also been falsifying climate reports for years. NOAA, the report concludes, is actually "ground-zero" for the fraud of global warming, not the East Anglia Institute.

The best part was the last paragraph...

Let the scientists report further on the intricacies of the graphs, maps, and calculations of "global warming fraud," and then turn it all over to a prosecutor and make these "scientists" pay for this outrageous hoax that has continued for decades and is still having huge financial impacts on policy, commerce and the economy. "Global warming" is a crime.

Amen to that....

NASA has been very, very naughty....

The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid map contains only averaged, not real temperatures, giving rise to significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth temperatures.

More and more evidence coming out that this has been a total fraud, as I've said here from day one.... This may not, however, change the minds of those that believe in the AGW religion, and they'll probably end up being like the hippies of the 60's. They were whacked out freaks then, and still are to this day...

Somebody has their wires crossed...

A group of Santa Fe residents recently attempted to get all public Wi-Fi hotspots in the city banned by arguing that the APs irritated their supposed "electromagnetic allergies." More curious perhaps was how the group tried to use the Americans With Disabilities Act to force the city's hand. Now the Santa Fe New Mexican reports that one of the individuals involved in the effort has sued his neighbor for refusing to turn off their cellphone and Wi-Fi hotspot. Arthur Firstenberg claims he was made homeless by the neighbor, who apparently didn't appreciate his unique ailment. Firstenberg's legal argument is a bit of a treat, suggesting he's been forced to live in his car.

Its truly amazing that he lives in his car, if he has "electromagnetic allergies". The fields generated in a car are far stronger then what comes out of a cell phone, or Wi-Fi hotspot. Someone should walk by him and turn on a portable blender to see if he starts rotating.....sheeesh... We're going to have to find a new name for things that go beyond idiocy, and lunacy...

The Constitution and Freedom

This is an excellent series, and the Judge really knows his stuff. America is at a turning point, and which way they go will probably be determined by how well "The People" know their history. Will the people remain free, and in control, or will they revert to a big central government they fought so hard to distance themselves from in the first place?..... We may see the answer shortly... I can only pray its the former...

Look in the mirror.... DipShit!!

Reaction was swift to word that Premier Stelmach is expected to shuffle his cabinet deck as early as Tuesday, putting new faces in several high-profile portfolios, including health and energy.

The problem is NOT your cabinet... Its YOU! .. and your LIEberal policies of tax, spend, and screwing with the royalty regime ... ASSWIPE!

The Truth Behind Global Warming....

Another Dictatorship crumbles....

Leader Danielle Smith made the announcement this morning in Calgary. It boosts the numbers of the Wildrose's legislative caucas from one to three.

Rob Anderson of Airdrie and Heather Forsyth, a former Tory cabinet minister from Calgary, have resigned as members of the Progressive Conservative party to cross the floor. (bd, ccg)

Can't wait to see election results... if dear leader ever calls one...

Well ... we done went and did it...

LP and I are now married(Dec. 21st)... we just couldn't resist, and have been having a lot of fun ever since.. :)

Hope everyone has a happy new year, I know we will ... :)

AGW politically motivated?

Personal anecdote:
Last spring when I was shopping around for a new source of funding, after having my funding slashed to zero 15 days after going public with a finding about natural climate variations, I kept running into funding application instructions of the following variety:

Successful candidates will:
1) Demonstrate AGW.
2) Demonstrate the catastrophic consequences of AGW.
3) Explore policy implications stemming from 1 & 2.

Follow the money — perhaps a conspiracy is unnecessary where a carrot will suffice.

We new that.... science was never part of the equation... it was only the means to the green...

Competing with China just got a lot easier...

So you want to compete with China in the bull$hit green industry. It seems the US government has found the answer... lay off all your workers, and hire prisoners under the FPI program, and only pay them between between 23 cents and $1.15 an hour.

On the heels of news that United Solar Ovonic, a Rochester Hills-headquartered company and leader in production of solar panels, laid off approximately 80 of its workers at the company’s Greenville facility, we learned 160 prisoners at an Otisville, N.Y. prison are continuing their jobs: producing solar panels.

The insanity continues: “green jobs” are turning into “orange jumpsuit” jobs.

Unfortunately, most Americans remain unaware of the Federal Prison Industries’ (FPI) exploits. FPI employs cheap prison labor — compensating inmates at wages of between 23 cents and $1.15 an hour — to assemble products purchased by federal agencies under a mandatory source arrangement.

141 experts challenge the UN...

We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming and other changes in climate. Projections of possible future scenarios from unproven computer models of climate are not acceptable substitutes for real world data obtained through unbiased and rigorous scientific investigation.

Specifically, we challenge supporters of the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused climate change to demonstrate that: ... Continued...

Let the lawsuits begin!!! ... time to make some real history that's worth writing, and cut the funding to these enviro-nazis using this as a cash crutch...

How to kill a country with a pen stroke...

Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.

An "endangerment" finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions -- even if Congress doesn't pass pending climate-change legislation. EPA action to regulate emissions could affect the U.S. economy more directly, and more quickly, than any global deal inked in the Danish capital, where no binding agreement is expected.
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The oil industry has warned that climate legislation could force some U.S. refineries to shut down, because importing gasoline from countries without emission caps could be cheaper than making the gasoline on domestic soil.

Now you might say that this would be good for Alberta, given that importing would be cheaper. I really don't think that would be the case, as you'd have a massive drop in energy consumption exponentially increasing with the unemployment rate. A massive job killing tax in the middle of a recession that isn't getting any better, despite all the lies the media, and US government, has been telling everyone.

A little advise to the USA... buy candles, they give off heat and light, and are a million times more reliable then wind and solar.... your gonna need them...

ClimateGate - The Fraud Exposed, and Corrected...

It’s clear that the world was warmer during medieval times. Marked on the map are study after study (all peer-reviewed) from all around the world with results of temperatures from the medieval time compared to today. These use ice cores, stalagmites, sediments, and isotopes. They agree with 6,144 boreholes around the world which found that temperatures were about 0.5°C warmer world wide.

Congratulations to Steve McIntyre, and Anthony Watts for all their hard work, and for practicing real science, which involves being skeptical.

Common sense....

What a concept... and can be applied to both the US and Canada...

-Double U.S. Exports in Five Years.
-Unleash Private and Public Infrastructure Investment.
-Promote Healthy Credit Markets.
-Restore Fiscal Responsibility.
-Advance Pro-Growth Tax and Regulatory Policies.
-Reduce Excessive Litigation.
-Better Educate and Train Americans for 21st Century Jobs.

When you look through all the smoke, and mirrors, generated by Obama, Barney Frank, and Michael Ignatieff, the wrong people were elected to run these countries.

ClimateGate has environazis panties tied up in knots...

They're not just jumping off the bandwagon, the damn thing has rolled over going down the hill. Anyone supporting AGW now, only has a "Your supported by big oil defence", which is so yesterday, and always was just plain stupid. I'm really starting to like all the responses.

Climategate continues. John Tierney is aghast at what the emails reveal, in the NYT. Clive Crook is getting angrier by the day, in the FT: “Can I read these emails and feel that the scientists involved deserve to be trusted? No, I cannot.”

I also can't wait for all the law suits to start.

Climategate emails tie Obama's Science Czar to scandle..

Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”.

With all the top people in the worlds governments involved, and Lame Stream Media complicit in the cover up, we may need a revolution to bring justice to the greatest fraud perpetrated on the human race...

What he said....

Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.

I am angry, and so should you be.

This is better then watching the 4th of July fireworks.... The foundation is shaking, and now we can watch the building crumble to the ground...

I love the smell of Thermobaric explosives in the morning...

It has the nasty habit of sucking the air right out of the Global Warming agenda...

Recovery.gov

Cruising recovery.gov reminded me of a quotation:

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

Benjamin Franklin, from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784

Going to hell... its warmer there....

What happened to the Global Warming Fraud? .... All we are seeing is COLD breaking records, with food supplies threatened. Where is it warming if they have the earliest snowfalls in recorded history?.... Yet enviro-nazis just keep at it, and big governments push the agenda to collapse us into some kind of socialist utopia based on all the totally false propaganda put out by these flakes, not allowing us to use all the newly discovered energy sources that could save millions from freezing in the dark.

Some day, if any of us survive the cold, we may look back at this as the age of denial. This Mao moment has nothing to do with spreading the wealth... its only about power, control, and idolization... a showdown with arrogance of generational proportions.