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.

The silence from the AGW crowd is deafening...

... As another Global Warming Pillar crumbles to the ground.

Where in the World is Hitler's Skull?

The Russians said at the time that the findings backed claims that Hitler had shot himself on April 30, 1945, and then been cremated along with his wife, Eva Braun.

Now, however, archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni says the skull really belonged to a woman aged under 40 and not Hitler - who was 56 when he died.

I could make all kinds of comments about a certain American President, but I won't... ;-)

Now I've experienced REAL health Care...

I'be been here for a while now, and had a little problem that needed attention. I was thinking I should head back for a while, and get it taken care of, but LP convinced me to go local. It wasn't nothing real serious, but did require minor surgery. LP made me an appointment, which could have been the same week, but we were real busy in that period, so she set it up for a couple weeks later.

I stepped into the medical center, filled out a few lines on some paper work, and didn't even get a chance to sit down, when I was called into one of the rooms. The Nurse took some info about allergies, and family history, and said she would be right back. Within minutes the Doc come in, took a look, and told me to lay back. He did the surgery, which took about 10 minutes, sewed me up, and left. The nurse did a little clean up, and I was done.

The whole procedure sign in, diagnostics, surgery, and clean up was done in 45 minutes! .. No playing around.. no referring me to here, there, and everywhere. No waiting for hours in the waiting room. No coming back at a better time.... Just getting it done... Period.

I new the system here was good, but it really exceeded all my expectations, and was actually really cheap, as I currently have to pay cash, unless its emergency medical. All I've ever had in Canada was looooooooong waits ... frustration.... and a generally got the impression the medical staff were annoyed with everyones presence.

All I gotta say is WOW! ... and there are people who want to change this?

Quiet Professor!.. You'll ruin everything.. were all in this together...

Hmmm.. how history repeats itself...

I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the messiah was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department-by-department, person-by-person, bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the indigent, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

This is an excellent read, and with the mood, down here, could be close to the truth...

Headed south to slay the dragon...

Well.... headed south... Goodbye Alberta... for now... don't know how its all gonna work out, but I'm sure its gonna be just fine. Doesn't mean I'm going to be stopping fighting the good fight, but it certainly has been a busy time wrapping everything up, and squeezing everything I own into one car. I look at it as kind of a cleansing period... shaking off the Stelmach socialism, and heading into the Obamamesiah socialism.

All I got to say is "What the hell!" ... I spent all my life putting up with socialist crap here, so I'm kind of used to being stepped on, and there ain't nothing America can throw at me that I haven't already experienced. All that aside, I'm going to be with someone who is very special, so nothing else matters... :-)

We've only been active since 1905...

What else can you say about a federation that just does not, and never will, work?.. Canada is just to large to try and maintain all power at the center, while totally neglecting the concerns of the regions.

The banana republic ... still active.... still searching for a solution... When the solution is right in front of their face.... INDEPENDENCE!

Note to self... Stelmach is a friggen LIEberal... always has been, and always will be....

Me and the boys think you should take the deal...

Yesterday (May 1) on Detroit’s Frank Beckman’s morning talk show (WJR), bankruptcy attorney Tom Lauria made the incendiary accusation that the members of the White House had threatened to use the “the full force of the White House Press Corps to destroy” his client’s reputation if it didn’t acquiesce to highly unfavorable terms of the government’s proposed Chrysler restructuring plan. Because of the strongarm tactics, Lauria’s client dropped its opposition.

Sounds like the MOB has been elected to the Whitehouse.... One Big Assed Mistake America...

Slow down the prompter...

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Lunatics HAVE taken over the asylum.

In spite of the spectacular failure of Dr. Serreze’s widely quoted prediction, there were no retractions, no apologies for misleading the public, no admissions of error, and inaccurate stories like the one above are still in place. So what could possibly be worse news from NSIDC?

The very man who made that ridiculous statement of “an ice free north pole in 2008″ is set to become the “incoming director” of NSIDC. Apparently alarmism pays, especially if you get press.

All these flakes have obviously not been anywhere near the North pole. It was NOT ice free in 2008, will NOT be ice free in 2009, and will NOT be open in 2010, or 2011. When are they gonna get it thru their heads that it has almost nothing to do with man. In fact, if I was a betting man, I'd be putting my money on warmer clothing, and more fuel to burn. We're all gonna need it.

Danger Will Robinson...

The fundamental goal of environmentalism is not clean air and clean water; rather, it is the demolition of technological/industrial civilization. Environmentalism's goal is not the advancement of human health, human happiness, and human life; rather, it is a subhuman world where "nature" is worshipped like the totem of some primitive religion.

In a nation founded on the pioneer spirit, environmentalists have made "development" an evil word. They inhibit or prohibit the development of Alaskan oil, offshore drilling, nuclear power – and every other practical form of energy. Housing, commerce, and jobs are sacrificed to spotted owls and snail darters. Medical research is sacrificed to the "rights" of mice. Logging is sacrificed to the "rights" of trees. No instance of the progress that brought man out of the cave is safe from the onslaught of those "protecting" the environment from man, whom they consider a rapist and despoiler by his very essence.

When are all these old hippies, socialists, and tree huggers gonna die off? ... Probably not until we're all forced to live under a tree, and anarchy reins supreme...

Oppressive and fascist governments take advantage of the situation, by hijacking the enviro agenda, using it to expand government control, and it doesn't seem to have any effect. The general population obviously enjoys their apathetic slumber, or they would be calling, mailing, emailing, and faxing their representatives, and telling them to stop this bull$hitt before it reaches the point of civil unrest....... But... that must be the point we have to reach, before we learn our lesson..... again...

Prepare to pay....

What on Earth is going on in Washington? The public believes less and less that human beings are responsible for global warming, surface temperature shows no net change in over a decade, and there’s still a bill about to be debated in the House that will require the average American in 2050 to have a “carbon footprint” no larger than it was for the average American in 1867.

Yup... gonna pay for everything related to carbon. Power, fuel, all goods and services requiring energy to produce, even tapping into, and controlling your thermostat. Its been said that he who controls carbon controls the world... well guess what..... The agenda is socialism, and its your own governments. The lower class will not be moved up, its only the upper class that moves down, controlled by the elite of course. Wars have started for less....

Changing of the Guard...

Paul Hinman is stepping down as leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance after losing the party’s only seat in the legislature in last year’s election.

Hinman says it’s time to step aside and allow someone with more charisma to take over the right-wing party — but he won’t say if the Wildrose-Alliance has found such a person.

They really need a leader that is gonna demand attention, knows history, and can get in everyones face. I can think of one Alan Clark that seems something like that... LOL

Notice how the article has the utlimate bias tag "right-wing party". You can sure tell where all the medias loyalties lie... You don't read Progressive Conservative right-wing party, because its now just another LIEberal party.

What did you expect from LIEberals...

This is possibly the most dreadful piece of legislation to be put before Congress in the history of the nation. It is the deliberate reordering of American society because without adequate energy, the economy will implode and the lifestyles that Americans take for granted, all based on affordable electricity and fuel for transportation will cease to exist.

It is based entirely on the “global warming” lie. It is based entirely on the lie that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the driving force behind “climate change.”

Clean jobs are just one more of the endless lies that Greens tell in order to put an end to America’s capacity to compete in the global marketplace.

This is going to get very interesting when Americans see their power bills rise by over $1000.00 dollars per year, and fuel rise up to $5.00 a gallon, not to mention inflation, coupled with congresses attempt to silence all opposition under a revised "Fairness Doctrine" name.

The LIEberal elite could very well do themselves in for all time. Gonna be some mighty strong tea being served up.... are you listening Harper?

Have a nice day!

Don't breath... you'll be taxed..

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal today finding greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to the public's health and welfare, a determination that could trigger a series of sweeping regulations affecting everything from vehicles to coal-fired power plants.

Leftist bastards.... taxing on a discredited theory, that has since been proven wrong, and the Canukastan Government is no better. I think we all should just go on welfare, and drive them under.... Atlas Shrugged, coming home to roost.

Just sittin here dumpin tea...

The General Welfare Clause is NOT a free pass for the federal government to hold sway over anything that enters its eyesight. The founders were very specific about this:

- Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. - Thomas Jefferson

- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined . . . to be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.” - James Madison

- With respect to the two words ‘ general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. – James Madison

Tomorrow is the big day, and time for Americans to take a stand, after making One Big Assed Mistake America. One can only hope that its big enough, which it seems to be, that the politicians will be forced to stand up and pay attention. On the page linked above, watch the video at the bottom, if you haven't seen it.

Yup... I've been scarce, my apologies, but for a lot of good reasons. LP, and I, have been very busy with a lot of things, and now we're in hurry up and wait mode. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into this on a regular basis.

9 Million PC's infected...

January 16, 2009 (Computerworld) Calling the scope of the attack "amazing," security researchers at F-Secure Corp. today said that 6.5 million Windows PCs have been infected by the "Downadup" worm in the last four days, and that nearly 9 million have been compromised in just over two weeks.

Early Friday, the Finnish firm revised its estimate of the number of computers that had fallen victim to the worm, and explained how it came to the figure. "The number of Downadup infections [is] skyrocketing," Toni Koivunen, an F-Secure researcher, said in an entry to the company's Security Lab blog. "From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That's just amazing."

Sure would be nice if these people would fix their damn computers to take the load off my systems.... it might even give me some time to put up a few more posts...

Save the trees and kill the children...

Thanks LP....In a lot of ways ... we are asleep...

Al Gore sued by over 30,000 Scientists for fraud...

Heh!.. We knew it would come around some day.....

Reflections

Making this move, and talking to LP has caused me to reflect on what I might miss after leaving the country.

Will I miss leaving the province with the biggest spending budget in the history of the nation, the people that call themselves conservatives, but are totally LIEberal...... Nope

Will I also miss the stupidity, and greed, of a provincial government that raises royalties on a natural resource and chases an industry away because of their out of control spending habits... Nope

Will I miss a city with a totally useless city council that spends 93 million on an art museum, that only the elite can visit, and then raises taxes by 93 million, using the roads as an excuse.... Nope

Will I miss the approx. 2.64 US price per gallon, currently, and go to about 1.40 US per gallon pricing due to HUGE taxes on fuel, and taxes on the taxes...... Nope

Will I miss the loooooong winters with -40 F temps, going to a place that might get down to 0 F the odd time... definitely nope...

Will I miss every major road closed in the summer for frost repair... Nope...(h/t Tim)

Will I miss a country with vast regional differences, and needs, that never worked from day one due to using an antiquated political system that was built for a small island, and imposed on a huge country with expansive regions.... Nope

Will I miss a complete change of lifestyle from one that encourages a nanny state attitude to one were you have the opportunity to excel thru hard work, which even includes property rights.... Nope

Will I miss my family.... slightly, but with today's video conferencing, no charge long distance, and 5 hour jet rides... it's not as bad as what it appears to be.

Note: For all those that listen to MSM and believe that some kind of perceived recession is going to have a dramatic affect. The recession is in your own mind. You make it work if you want to, or you sit there and become a statistic. I lived thru NEP, and didn't do so sitting on my ass.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Everyone....

Sorry for being so scarce, but a lot of things, and I mean a LOT of things have been happening, both on a business, and personal front. I've even been working today, of all days... :-(

On the business front, we've been doing a lot of consolidation over the past couple months, to enable us to preform a big move. Were finally done, with the final part completed yesterday, and a bit of problem solving today, but with extreme planing, it was very successful.

Now...... on to the personal front..... Sycorax, you aren't that far off... LOL

Lone Pony and I are now engaged, with the wedding to take place somewhere around June/July. Obviously, with the cross border situation, there is a few more details that have to be worked out, and NO, we won't be living in Alberta for a lot more reasons besides the cold... LOL .. my type of business can be run from anywhere in the world, and her and I got a growing thing goin on... ;-)

Anyway.... that's an update on the situation. Hope y'all had a good Christmas, and a very Happy New Year... I'll try to get back into this as soon as I can... :-)

Global Warming Crisis - CANCELLED

More info...

Typical LIEberals... Dem's sink the economy and blame the Republicans...

Friggen LIEberals on both sides of the border are thieves..

You know your older when...

Your son comes up to you and says.."Say hello to your Grandson" ...

Granny and I are very proud... and we will do everything in our power to make sure he doesn't grow up to be a LIEberal...

Finally...

Steven Harper says he wants to end the practise of giving House Arrest to those who commit violent and other crimes such as drunk driving causing death, home invasion, arson and kidnapping.

Speaking in Saskatoon, Harper used a local example of why conditional sentences don't work.

"In Saskatchewan, nearly 40% of criminals sentenced to house arrest were sent back to jail for breaching their conditions." Harper said.(emphasis mine)

Its about time they stop Hug-A-Thug bullshit. It just doesn't work. Make the damn prison so they don't ever want to go back, complete with pink clothing for all the prisoners. Maybe these politicians need a few lessons from a successful Sheriff. You certainly can't trust LIEberals to deal with it, when they're part of the problem.

The Free Health Care Obama wants for America..

The PRIDE of the LIEberals and NDP! ...