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The worst POTUS in history is looking even more obtuse today.
The Obama administration is like a stain on American history. How could he and his henchmen have been so gullible, without having been willfully so. The “Manchurian Candidate” trolls are starting to look like geniuses. This Obama was really a bad guy. https://t.co/0GJMu7tr7R
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 30, 2018
Canadians of my vintage don’t really know how much we’re paying at the pumps, thanks to Trudeau the elder and his confounded metric system. (I know. I know. But as Peter Hitchens—the lesser known, but much smarter brother—has written, the metric system is a feature of Utopian totalitarian regimes.) Rest assured, the amount Canadians pay is obscene. And thanks to Sock Boy and his band of buffoons, it’s about the go much higher. With some poetic justice and some economics, Vancouver gas prices have set a new North American record. Unfortunately, we are subject to the tyranny of the majority, so we will all suffer for electing the maroon.
On Monday morning, gas prices throughout the Lower Mainland are sitting at an average of $1.619.
Once again Sock Boy has embarrassed Canadians on the world stage. I’m quite sure Liberals don’t want to do anything about the illegals crossing the border, because as I stated here, they’re all potential life long Liberal voters. Nevetheless, in an effort to look like they’re doing something, the Liberals have now punted the problem over to the Americans, who really must be wondering why Canadians would ever elect such a gormless lot.
Canadian authorities, concerned with the increasing number of illegal immigrants now straining their resources, want the United States to do a better job enforcing its own immigration law and vetting visitors from Nigeria so that they don’t eventually make their way to Canadian soil.
Claims that Arctic weather was stable in the past are scientific and historical gibberish. In 1923, scientists reported a radical change in the Arctic climate and unheard of high temperatures,https://t.co/RuGTe9WOFK? pic.twitter.com/tubTaGDmWW
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) April 30, 2018
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We already have a fool for a Prime Minister, Andy. Conservatives will not vote for another. Just ask John Tory and Tim Hudak. When conservative parties move left, they lose their base and no one comes out to vote. Stop trying to appease the media. They will never back you. Learn some lessons from Trump and Doug Ford and grow a pair. And stop smiling when feigning seriousness. You look like you’re denying a village somewhere of an idiot. Cripes.
Scheer told Evan Solomon he can “guarantee” the Conservatives will unveil a national climate strategy before next year’s election and that it will “of course” meet Canada’s targets under the United Nations’ Paris climate accord, signed by Trudeau, plus tackle other major environmental issues.
“I’ve got five kids, I want them to have a cleaner environment” Scheer said, evoking Liberal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna’s three children as the reason she’s fighting climate change and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s granddaughter for why she’s on board.
Almost a year on, Comey’s deputy has been fired on the recommendation of the Department of Justice inspector general and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, and he and Comey are accusing each other of untruths (“lack of candor,” in their genteel parlance). Many high FBI officials have been demoted, and Comey, as if he inhabits a planet of different perceptions, has embarked on a book tour that is the most spectacular suicide mission since the final voyage of history’s largest battleship, the 73,000-ton Japanese Yamato. Without air cover, it set out to attack the American invasion of Okinawa. Yamato was swarmed and sunk by 360 American naval aircraft, and went to the bottom with the loss of over 3,000 Japanese sailors, having shot down about six American aircraft. Every interview Comey has had, in what was billed by his supporters at the outset as a challenge to the president’s command of media attention, has been more disastrous and self-contradictory than the preceding one. There must be millions more Americans every week who ask themselves how this vain, pretentious, and chronically moralizing hypocrite was ever set at the head of the nation’s federal police.
Those nasty little algorithms are working OT at Faceplant.
A court in Berlin has issued a temporary restraining order against Facebook. Under the threat of a fine of 250,000 euros (roughly $300,000 USD) or a jail term, Facebook was obliged to restore a user’s comment that it had deleted. Moreover, the ruling prohibited the company from banning the user because of this comment.
This is the first time a German court has dealt with the consequences of Germany’s internet censorship law, which came into effect on October 1, 2017. The law stipulates that social media companies have to delete or block “apparent” criminal offenses, such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint.
One imagines the Wynne Liberals are in full damage control shredding documents and bleaching hard disks. It’s not like they haven’t been caught doing it before. I don’t put much faith in polls—Hillary was a shoo-in—but it seems the Ontari-owe Liberals are going down because votes have finally lost trust in them. It’s the last line in the quotation below that may have Wynne and her fellow troughers terrified enough to start covering their tracks in earnest. Ford should not have opened his trap.
This past week, the current auditor general, Bonnie Lysyk, reported the Liberals are “drastically” underestimating the borrowing costs for their 25% hydro rate cut and improperly counting public sector pension plans as assets.
Lysyk concluded the government’s actual deficits will be “$11.7 billion for 2018/19 (or 75% more than the reported $6.7 billion), $12.2 billion for 2019/20 (or 85% more than the reported $6.6 billion) and $12.5 billion for 2020/21 (or 92% more than the reported $6.5 billion).”
The Conservatives are now the ones promising an independent look at the provincial books.
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So why would anyone want to entrust them with their health?
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(1) @Nigel_Farage allows me to talk about the FIVE countries I lived in that had government-run health care. pic.twitter.com/ffKcSAsTWH
— Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) April 29, 2018
It is one of the great re-writes in modern history—akin to fascism being a right wing movement and progressives re-branding themselves as liberals—that the Democrats are the party of black unfettering. Actually, the Democrats are the party of the KKK and Jim Crow laws. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which was ostensibly enacted to help black families, actually helped to destroy them. Johnson purportedly said “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.” Democrats had moved from voter intimidation to welfare and entitlements. The Obama Phone is an instantiation of the latter. One is as insidious as the next. You have only to look at Democrat-controlled cities, such as Chicago and Detroit, to clearly see in what estimation Democrats hold blacks.
I scarcely think that the groupthink of blacks voting Democrat is broken, but it’s a start.
A cultural shift is happening before our very eyes.
Entertainment royalty and prominent blacks in American society, long beholden to the Democrat Party, had a rare breakout moment this week, setting the social media stratosphere ablaze.
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Update: Baby Alfie has passed. RIP.
Who’s more brain dead: baby Alfie or Britain?
When the government tells you what you can and cannot do to save or improve your child’s life, it is nothing short of tyranny. Indeed, this a form of eugenics. Margaret Sanger would be proud.
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Meanwhile, the Merseyside Police released the following statement:
We’ve issued the following statement following reports of social media posts being made in relation to Alder Hey Hospital and the ongoing situation with Alfie Evans:
Chief Inspector Chris Gibson said: “Merseyside Police has been made aware of a number of social media posts which have been made with reference to Alder Hey Hospital and the ongoing situation involving Alfie Evans.
“I would like to make people aware that these posts are being monitored and remind social media users that any offences including malicious communications and threatening behaviour will be investigated and where necessary will be acted upon.”
Hypocrisy: thy name is Liberal. Ideologues are dangerous critters.
If you are an Albertan, or a Newfoundlander, or for that matter a person from any Canadian province or territory, who has been laid off and out of work for the past couple of years because of the downturn in the oil industry, and the fierce opposition to all efforts — pipeline construction — to revive it, the news that your federal government is funding summer jobs for professional groups whose only goal is to kill the oilsands forever, must be a hammer blow to the head.
The University of Alberta has decided to grant an honorary doctorate to the infamous David Suzuki, the charlatan who has long advocated for Alberta’s hydrocarbon industry to be shut down.
Suzuki received a PhD in zoology in the 1960s and uses it as a ploy to pretend he’s an expert on everything from climate science to agriculture to immigration to fossil fuels.
And while many remember him fondly as a presenter on CBC’s The Nature of Things, Suzuki’s political and academic record is marred with scandal and dishonesty.
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Via SDA.
(1) I’ve been thinking a lot about @Zebkeet‘s question. pic.twitter.com/Z4AaHLD9cd
— Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) April 27, 2018
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