Friday, December 31, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!





Right On The Money...


by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.)
This next year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occur on the same day. It is an ironic juxtaposition of events: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication while the other involves a groundhog.

e Don't Take A Backseat In This Area...

Big Nannies of the Year


By Michelle Malkin • December 29, 2010 10:22 AM

Iggy Moment...

The First American Prime Minister


Juxtaposed!

Ottawa Sun: "Ignatieff needs to be himself." - You need to show your true self because that’s the self that governs, that emerges in testing situations when a nation needs a strong leader the most.

Toronto Life: "Ten things the federal Liberal party leader can’t live without" - I like brown or black shoes with laces, no surprises. I’m currently wearing a pair of comfortable lace-up Ecco shoes. My wife is the boss of everything to do with fashion, but I get to make marginal choices, about things like buying shoes.
Posted by Kate at 12:07 AM
Christie Blatchford


Court case offers glimpse into reasons behind poverty on first nations reserves

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Don't Forget The Boxing Day Madness...




...that has little to do with giving unless you count the banks as recepients.

A Wish We All Have BUT...

...social in-activists and leftwing city politicians have made it a cottage industry and you have to wonder how much of the hundreds of thousands of $$$ designated for the homeless actually are spent on the heating grate denizens.

A Handyman's Hero By Any Name...


Real authors writing fake books

KATE TAYLOR

...and the readers of these books are more likely to be found in Tim Hortons rather than Starbucks and the other dens of the psuedo intellectuals!

Iggy Moment...

Leftwing Media Admitting Defeat

Pay Heed; Your Time Is Coming...

Goar: Seniors cut through silence on elder abuse

by Carol Goar

A simple solution: Seniors living in poverty


Mon Dec 27 2010

A flaw in the GIS could be fixed by sending it automatically to every eligible senior.

The Secret To Acheiving Their Goal...

...would be to follow the Quebec/Canada debacle.

Peter Goodspeed: Southern states mark 150 years of trying to rewrite history

June Murray Wells, Director of the Confederate Museum, holds a copy of the Ordinance of Succession on the 150th Anniversary of South Carolina's

They held a ball in Charleston, South Carolina, last week to celebrate the onset of the bloodiest war in U.S. history.

Men in frock coats and militia uniforms joined women in silk hoop skirts to sip mint juleps, as a band called Unreconstructed played Dixie and a squad of historical re-enactors staged a replay of the Dec. 20, 1860 signing of South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession, which severed ties with the Union and paved the way for the American Civil War.

The 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s secession is the first in a long list of Civil War memorials scheduled to be staged over the next four-and-a-half years that could end up reopening old war wounds.

Festive and defiant, in character with the Old South, Charleston’s Secession Ball sparked a revival of an old debate about whether the most deadly conflict in U.S. history, which claimed a total of 620,000 lives, was fought over slavery or states’ rights. Read More »

Professional Bloggers Share...

Dan Arnold: Politicians, you let me down. Again

Like unreported crimes, there are many unaired grievances. So, in honour of Festivus, here’s how ÃŒ have been wronged over the past year.

1. To Naheed Nenshi: Because of you, everyone thinks Calgary has gone soft. Electing a muslim university professor who blogs about urban planning? Yeah, way to be a right wing rebel without a cause. Calgary used to be the Jack Bauer of Canada – now the city acts like one of the kids from Glee.

2. To Carl Benito’s wife: I blame you for not paying your husband’s taxes, the worldwide economic downturn, and Canada not winning a security council seat at the UN.

3. To Rahim Jaffer and Helena Guergis: Way to make us read 20,000 stories about you this year. Those are hours of my life I’ll never get back. Read More »

The Erosion Of MerryCHRISTmas to Happy Holidays!

The first Christmas, Zuckerberg version
(click to see video)

How Christmas would have worked if social media existed in Bethlehem 2010 years ago

Posted in: Full Comment, Pop Culture, Social Issues Tags: Nativity, YouTube

Isn't This The Truth....

The Year in Ideas: The death of humour
The year has been notable for the amount of offence that was taken at so little. In Canada especially, where hurt feelings are now specifically compensated in human rights law, taking offence looks like a growth industry

Considering The Screwing Toronto Citizens...

...have taken over the past seven odd years this might be a blessing.

So Much For SECOND CHANCE And...

...rehabilitation!

Councillor won't hire ex-con


By JONATHAN JENKINS, City Hall Bureau

A public outcry has forced Coun. Frank Di Giorgio to back down from plans to hire former convict Mario Gentile as a constituency assistant.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Voters Get A Needed Break...

Santa Claus Must Of Bypassed The Hume Home...

...it is an explanation for this "attack" on the police and he is following his employer's constant badgering the of police. But to be fair his "journalistic" contributions are minimized due to his heros at silly hall skulking into oblivity and it is difficult to talk about his waterfront paradise.


Hume: Police park their arrogance for all to see

Sun Dec 26 2010

The police closure of a public square in front of 52 Division raises questions about who's serving whom.

...out in the real world:

Gun violence continues five years after Creba murder


By CHRIS DOUCETTE, Toronto Sun
It has been five years since rival gang members opened fire on crowded Yonge St. killing 15-year-old Jane Creba and wounding others on Boxing Day 2005.

Many teens murdered in 2010


By ROB LAMBERTI, Toronto Sun

What’s striking about many of the murder victims in Toronto this year is that, really, they’re children.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Enjoy! Have A Happy VISA Year...



Don't Break Out The Champagne Yet...

...like the bedbugs there are still some of the lefties at silly hall!

2010 awards time at City Hall
By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist

There’s no doubt it has been a whacky 12 months at City Hall. The year saw an upset by a candidate deemed least likely to succeed and the end of, shall we say, The Gravy Train for the David Miller regime and those who hitched their wagons to the socialist star.

Comrade Miller and His Cabal

Boxing Day Annual Event?

One teen killed, a second injured in shootings


An 18-year-old male died in hospital after being gunned down in an apartment complex on the city's west-end Saturday. Police are also investigating a second shooting which is linked to the homicide.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Downside Of A Winter Wonderland...

Legal Protection For Those Wanting To Wish...

Merry Christmas....‏

I wanted to send some sort of Christmas greeting to my colleagues, but it is difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer yesterday, so acting on advice I wish to say the following :

Please accept with no obligation , implied or implicit , my best wishes for an environmentally conscious , socially responsible ,low stress , non addictive , gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and / or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all .

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2011 , but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that Australia is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wished .

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:

This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her / him or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. The wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

Best Regards (without prejudice)

Name withheld (Privacy Act).

It Is Sad We Even Have To Ask...


Call it 'Christmas Season', 71% of Canadians say


Poll indicates many traditions disappearing. Canadians have weighed in on the "Christmas" versus "Holiday" label to describe this time of the year and there is a clear winner

What Has Been Happening...

Thursday, December 23, 2010

MerryCHRISTmas...

The Result Of Rebranding Christmas...



Mother Nature Is On A Tangent...

Where Is The Media Condemnation And Coverage...

...of those organized the marches and failed to control the social in-activists, anarchists, gawkers, etc.

G20 protests: Don’t let charge be end of story

There is a lesson in the laying of charges Tuesday against a police officer in connection with the beating of a G20 protester: we don’t have to acquiesce when the authorities circle the wagons.

Point, Counterpoint...

John Moore: Atheism and the irrational mind

Yoni Goldstein: Agnostics are the conscientious objectors of the God wars

Being Held To A Higher Standard Is Justified BUT...

...this is used by many on the left, including the "media" to further their personal agendas.

Kelly McParland: Toronto’s shallow, cowardly cops

There is a sad little ritual that plays out a few times a year after one of the senseless shootings that take place with dispiriting frequency in some of Toronto’s less-advantaged neighbourhoods.

Some dolt, or group of dolts, demonstrate their manliness by firing off an illegal handgun. The bullet flies off wildly and hits an innocent victim: a woman in her kitchen, a child in the back yard, an elderly person on the sidewalk. The neighbourhood expresses its outrage that such things could happen and complains at the failure of police to protect them. The police appeal for local assistance in identifying the shooters. No one comes forward. The police decry the fear that prevents witnesses from declaring themselves, noting earnestly that justice is handcuffed when responsible citizens refuse to do their duty out of fear of the consequences or some misplaced sense of loyalty to the transgressor. Read More »

DiManno: How G20 officer was identified


A front desk officer looking at video footage is behind the identification, DiManno writes.

I AGREE...

National Post editorial board: No apology for the Mohawk Warrior Society

Thu, Dec. 23, 2010 7:00 am ET by National Post editorial board









Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/#ixzz18w6ANDkd

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Basic Training Upgrades...

The Cost Of Your Thoughts Increases...

Bonanza For Editorial Cartoonists...

Caption Redundant...

Facing Reality...

It Was Only A Matter Of Time...


The not so soft bigotry of the elites

NPR's Nina Totenberg Apologizes For Saying "Christmas"

Posted by jerry

Playing Cards With A 53 Card Deck...

The new 'racism'? 'Running the KKK's asses out of town'


Thank God for the folks at HotAir for explaining to me why this is "racist" now. Cuz I read it twice and figured I just needed another coffee...

Dennis Prager is right: Simply talking about race is the new "racism." And that attitude is more dangerous to the social fabric -- and more prevalent -- than actual racism.
# Kathy Shaidle

The Reality Behind First Nation Solitude...

For a group of B.C. fishermen, another Caledonia

Congrats And More Power To Them AND...

Schmeck the Halls: How Jewish songwriters created Christmas

...it highlights the simple fact that when it comes to making a buck religious/beliefs take a back seat.

Ask Comrade Miller...

...he had no problem cancelling the contract in the old city of York to suckup to his union buddies so just reverse the process.

Garbage in, garbage out


By Benjamin Dachis

Tue Dec 21 2010

The issue is not just contracting out garbage collection, but how you do it.

The HAPPY HOLIDAY Cabal Training Session...

...first let's get rid of Santa, then Jesus, then.......

Iggy Moment...

Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Michael Ignatieff stares into the abyss


Happy Christmas, your arse

Some farewell 2010 brickbats for Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals.

Sun Media’s Ezra Levant tees off on a very silly-looking bill that would strengthen bilingualism requirements for everyone from Mounties patrolling the Trans-Canada highway to, conceivably, minimum wage employees at airports. Levant ascribes all this to Mr. Ignatieff and his Liberals, for whom “forced bilingualism is a tool to beat up anglophone westerners (translation: Conservative voters) to the delight of Liberal voters in Montreal and Toronto.” It’s actually a private member’s bill in the Senate that was introduced six months ago, but what the hell — close enough! Read More »

Cohn: Canada’s world according to Bob Rae

A Glimmer Of Hope On New Council...


Q&A: Mary-Margaret McMahon on speeding up city council


Councillor McMahon was so “embarrassed” by a council meeting on Dec. 8 that dragged on for five hours that she got up at the one on Dec. 16 and gave her colleagues an earful. “It was a complete and utter waste of our time” she said

...and why is it necessary to have "quorum calls" when ever a vote is called. Why aren't councilors in their seats?

McMahon: The fiscal and green conservative

Which Will Make MADD Happy...

Kids Areen't The Only Ones Who Say The "DARNEST" Things...

Top 10 quotes of 2010


By JERRY AGAR, Guest columnist

“I don’t wish anyone bad luck — I’m Christian.”

Waiting For Comments From Vaughan, Layton, Et Al...

Budget chief finds 'Homeless Hilton' leaks


By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist

New budget chief Mike Del Grande and Auditor-General Jeff Griffiths got a real eye-opener when they dropped in unannounced at the city’s Peter St. shelter and assessment centre last Friday afternoon.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Common Sense Returning To Ameteur Sport?

Coach reinstated after protest over racial slur

...both sides seem to have gone to extremes which probably were a reaction to political correctness.

Mayor Ford Message To Stintz...

...tell TTC Management and beauracrats to priortize this long outstanding issue and have a solution, cost and implementation date no later than Dec. 24th or expect Santa to handout pink slips. The 12 scond delay excuse shows that this problem has been studied to death and the former TTC chair Mihevic was more interested in the St. Clair Right of Way debacle and the 12 second delay would be offset by the riders on St. Clair getting a 3 minute reduction.

Bureaucratic fear
Re “TTC stalls bus stop for Variety Village,” (Mike Stobel, Dec. 16): The TTC’s actions on this issue are reprehensible. A 12-second delay is nothing, and given the reason, there would be no complaints. The TTC has lost its perspective in bureaucracy and is using expedience and expense to delay, assuming the issue is a flash in a pan that will disappear. Well, it won’t go away. Where is the strong TTC administrator prepared to do what is right — to stand up and take action by putting in a temporary bus stop at the front door of Variety Village now and debate a permanent stop at a later time. Of course, bureaucratic fear prevents immediate action. The TTC continues to hit those who are emotionally and physically challenged. Somebody needs to put on a heavy pair of boots and start kicking butt at the TTC.

Stewart Glassford Newmarket

(Why make any stops at all? That would eliminate all delays)

Shocking arrogance
Re “A kick in the teeth” (Dec. 16): Way to go Mike Strobel, for an excellent column about the Variety Village bus stop madness. The sheer arrogance and lack of compassion shown by TTC brass is shocking, yet not completely unexpected. Perhaps the much-needed stop would have been implemented promptly if someone in TTC administration had a disabled child.

Mark Chisholm Aurora

(Doubt it. Strobel rightly describes them as “heartless”)

Twelve seconds?
So, no bus stop at Variety Village because it would add 12 seconds to the trip (“A kick in the teeth” Mike Strobel, Dec. 16). I wonder how long it takes to install and remove a bike from the bike racks on the front of the bus, that is if anybody ever uses those things? I guess the TTC is only “essential” to some.

Ellery Hollingsworth Scarborough

(How come everyone except TTC brass seem to understand the right thing to do?)

Will Parents See That This Another Broken Promise By Premier Dad...

Dalton Daycare definitely a dud


By JOHN SNOBELEN, Toronto Sun

Mafia makes you a deal you can’t refuse. The McGuinty government makes you a deal you can’t understand.

Change of daycare plan makes sense


By MOIRA MacDONALD, Toronto Sun

I’ve tried to get that media frenzy feeling about the latest “about-face” in Ontario’s all-day kindergarten program. But I just can’t.

They Might Be "NOT HAVE" Provinces But

...one thing they have lots of is the milk of human kindness and caring.

Halifax airport offers gift-wrapping


By QMI Agency

Travellers in Halifax worried about airport security dismantling their ribbons need not fret — the airport is offering post-security gift-wrapping throughout the the holidays.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Community Social In-Activists Protect Their Cottage Industry...

...originally it was funding to  deal with racism and then it became dealing with gangstas.

No easy answers to stop gang violence

Dec 14, 2010 3:23AM EST


Stemming the tide starts at home

I Know I Am Repeating Myself But...

...the nuts doesn't fall far from the tree and in this case we have acorns and lichee nuts.

Next on Michael Layton’s agenda: Restore Pluto’s honour, condemn bubonic plague


Rookie Toronto councillor Mike Layton, son of federal NDP leader Jack Layton and stepson of NDP MP Olivia Chow, objects to a recent Macleans article that asked if Canadian universities are “too Asian.” Mr. Layton put a motion before council calling on Macleans to apologize because the article was “offensive to me personally.” The National Post was able to obtain Mr. Layton’s secret list other personal annoyances he feels it is the city’s duty to address (at someone else’s expense — these are the Laytons remember).

The Phil Kessel Trade: Phil has been a disappointment. He’s been here what, a whole year? — and no cup yet. And he’s, like, a minus nine. This team needs to rebuild from the ground up, and you can’t do that without draft picks. That’s why I’m proposing Toronto City Council form the Stanley Cup Victory Advisory Group, which will bring together government bureaucrats and amateur hockey fans on council, under my leadership, to review any/all Leaf trades and acquisitions. Read More »

...you must take the time to read:

.” Who was that again?







Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/category/full-comment/#ixzz18PFBnlM2

Monday, December 13, 2010

Don't Blame The "Chiefs:...

...blame the feds and provincial politicians and beauracrats who ignore the problems of a two tier society.

The Main Weapon In Native Arsenal
 Chiefs paid handsomely


By PETER WORTHINGTON, QMI Agency

No one should be surprised that 82 aboriginal chiefs in Canada are paid more than the prime minister.

Recognizing A Problem And Dealing With That Problem...

Men wanted for taxi robbery


By ROB LAMBERTI, Toronto Sun

Taxi surveillance photos of three men wanted for the weekend mugging of a Toronto cabbie were released Monday.

...and in New York we:

New York taxi advocate suggests drivers use race profiling? - Reuters 

It Is Obvious The Nut Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree...

Councillor calls for 'Too Asian' apology


By DON PEAT, City Hall Bureau

Rookie Toronto Councillor Mike Layton's first motion to city council asks Maclean's magazine to "apologize unreservedly" for writing an article entitled "Too Asian?"

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