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  1. This is the best thing I’ve ever seen Anne Coulter do. She is one Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher-esque!

  2. Further to the thread about the Flight 93 election.
    “Friedrich von Hayek dedicated The Road to Serfdom to “the socialists of all parties.” This serves as a valuable reminder that our democratic freedoms cannot be entrusted to any political party, but depend instead on widespread societal commitment to ordered liberty. That commitment is weak, and appears to be growing weaker in Canada’s political culture.” The same is true in the US.
    http://www.c2cjournal.ca/2016/07/the-road-back-from-serfdom/

  3. Treaties made to be broken.
    “This June the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the former Conservative government’s approval of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, citing a “lack of consultation” with Aboriginal communities. The successful plaintiffs were the Gitga’at First Nation and Coastal First Nations, acting on behalf of nine Haida communities along British Columbia’s northern and central coast.”
    http://www.c2cjournal.ca/2016/08/treaties-made-to-be-broken/
    Canada is hooped.

  4. Thanks! Very interesting, and definitely disturbing presentation, considering that my maternal ancestors lived there. My daughter was in Calais a few years ago where she boarded the TGV to London. Calais is a major transportation hub. It was liberated by
    Canada during WWII. Obviously, it needs to be liberated again.
    Amazing how Trudeau, the Liberals and their CBC cohorts can turn a blind eye to all this.

  5. Still searching for mention in the media of Trudeau being dubbed a small potato . It’s an insult to him and also to the country, bubble head Chrystia Freeland seems to be the only one who thinks it’s a compliment.

  6. Looks like Peter Mansbridge won’t be turning his pockets inside out looking for change in his retirement, he’s slated to receive a pension of $500,000 grand smackeroos. Nice.

  7. That’s nothing new.
    I used to teach at a certain post-secondary institution between the late 1980s and the early part of the previous decade. I heard incessant whining from my students about how the high cost of tuition and books being expensive.
    Many of those same students would often have designer clothes, the fanciest calculators, CD players (this was before iPods were on the market), and cell phones. Oh, and they often carried cups of the designer coffee that some outlet sold at the other end of the campus.
    By comparison, when I was an undergrad 40 years ago, I wore ordinary street clothes, saw my textbooks as an investment in my profession, and I made my own iced tea. I didn’t have the fanciest calculator but I made sure that I bought the best that I could afford.
    It’s all a matter of perspective and learning to make do with that one has and doing as well as one can with it.

  8. I see Jesse Brown over on canada land.ca is reporting slaphead mansbridge’s cbc salary at 1.1 million annually. I thought it might be more.
    Now that Slaphead has announced his ‘retirement’ I’m sure we’ll be subjected to a farewell tour – replete with Spud the show dog popping up in every photo.

  9. Mansbridge is laughing all the way to the bank. In addition to his obscene pension, he can always pick up a few bucks doing cheerleading gigs. God knows he has enough experience in that area.

  10. When Peter fades to black he may find out he’s not the popular Icon the CBC would have the world believe from within their bubble. He needs to take the money and run…it’s a steal to get such obscene pay and pension for reading the news and other expense paid jaunts they sent him around the globe to cover. Of course we can’t rule out an offer from Potato Head for the GG’s post….oh, wait..he’s not French, not bilingual, scratch that idea.

  11. …and how about the arrogance to announce that his last broadcast from his throne room will be 10 months from now on July 1, 2017. How many employees anywhere are allowed that privilege?

  12. Statists do not believe in ordered liberty and thus civil society. They prefer to follow a utopian civic society model whereby the individual must be reshaped, along with society, by elites who know better and who can mitigate the “unfairness” of society they say results from “inequality.”
    We are very far along the road to governments deciding societal preferences, equality of outcome rather than opportunity, and a deep and foreboding statism that is so removed from any idea of limited government that the citizen is basically an economic deer in the headlights, thinking the state can actually “manage” economies, that it is most virtuous and drives prosperity.
    The government sector has replaced the manufacturing sector, but the state transacts in decline in modern economies, distorting signals and harmony.
    The implications are as staggering as they are obvious. Common sense is disappearing along with common law, fueled by relativist ethics.
    It will take a look of peeling back of the statist onion to get to the idea that big government is by definition not good government and that citizens can go about their daily lives without the state following them around with a safety net, but which is actually a statist spider web trapping them in dependence, both financial and psychological, its most immoral aspect being the devastating effect on our poor as elites feather their nests. 2019 awaits.
    Harper only postponed that move to the Rousseauian top down model of politics started by PET. Now with the hangover of his father’s policies persisting – crowding out of investment, unfunded liabilities and massive debt – the younger seeks to roll that snowball down the hill again.
    Harper knew a fusion of conservatism and libertarianism was the only solution to the progressives’ iron grip on our political culture. He also knew it would take a long time and had to be incrementally done. He was done in by false narratives, particularly all politicians are corrupt so what the heck, and a disgusting media who felt no compunction to propagandize the election platform of their favoured party.
    His main failure was to not recognize the only way to get back to our roots of common law was to not allow government to grow, not just to limit its growth, but to stop it in its tracks.
    The mediocracy and crony statists went all in, jetissoning their integrity because they knew Harper could finish the job with another majority.
    When individuals have a stronger relationship with their families and communities than with the government, statists fret and start spouting clichés like the middle class in crisis and the inadequacies of free enterprise, whom they allow to survive as a milking cow, sure and settled that they are the moral ones.
    They don’t mention the opportunity cost of taxation or the reducing effects of statism on prosperity and liberty. They pretend we can all be equal and free at the same time. Churchill beautifully argued that in capitalism, riches are shared unequally, while in socialism misery is shared equally.
    von Hayek knew Liberals, socialists & progressives were cut out of the same statist cloth and their collectivist fatal conceit meant our inevitable serfdom.

  13. Yes, arrogance is the word, he thinks it will take that long to find a replacement. Very considerate of him.
    It’s even too soon to start a contest on who will try replace him.

  14. Agreed and well said. Hayek said it well in “The Road to Serfdom”.
    What happens when this false utopia crashes as it ultimately will as it did in the Soviet Union?

  15. Maybe the CBC will run a contest like its radio program “As It Happens” did in the mid-1970s when Lloyd Robertson went to CTV.
    The show got all sorts of people and celebrities to call in and audition, including the likes of Maggie Trudeau and, as I remember, Punch Imlach. When the Cookie Monster called in, host Barbara Frum broke up laughing on air and could barely finish 2 sentences without at least chuckling. (Cue “National” theme. “Dis is de Cookie Monster for da National!”)
    The winner was then Opposition Leader Bob Stanfield. Cookie Monster placed second and I believe Maggie finished third.

  16. Expect the cbc to wring every drop of cheap nationalism, shameless self promotion possible out of the Slaphead replacement.
    Maybe G-yawn has been sufficiently rehabilitated to now rejoin the corpse?

  17. The Clinton Pay-to-Play Foundation:
    For example, in 2009 Band asked Abedin if Clinton could meet with “our good friend” Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Salman, who had given the foundation $32 million, met with Clinton, who later approved a $630 million arms sale to Bahrain.
    That same year Band also sought to arrange a meeting for Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian real estate developer with vast business interests who donated between $1 million and $5 million.
    Chagoury was once a senior adviser to Nigeria’s longtime dictator Sani Abacha and in 2001 admitted assisting the family of the deceased despot in transferring $300 million into foreign bank accounts.
    This and numerous other exchanges “illustrate the way the Clintons’ international network of friends and donors was able to get access to Hillary Clinton and her inner circle during her tenure running the State Department,” stated an Aug. 22 Washington Post article Post by Spencer Hsu and Tom Hamburger.
    http://princearthurherald.com/en/politics-2/pay-play-foundation-078

  18. I just briefly looked at the Commanders In Chief Forum over at MSNBC. Did Hillary just admit she committed a crime? She was asked a softball question about her emails, and she went on an incomprehensible description that she never had “marked” classified on her emails, which apparently she thinks is always required for material to be classified. Just who is she kidding besides herself?
    She says she only “referred” to “classified material” in her emails. Really? So she referred, for argument’s sake to an deep cover operative in the field, who’s identity is extremely sensitive and obviously classified. The mere mention of that individual means Ms Clinton is required to classify her email and safeguard that information, given the originator did so on the basis of protecting that operative’s cover.
    She should have known better, she pretends she didn’t. Her ignorance, which is frankly incomprehensible given her experience, is no excuse. The fact she didn’t bother to take security training or require the same of her staff is negligent to say the least.
    She clearly breached security with her homebrew server and defied orders to preserve her emails, intent is quite clear – she intended to cover her tracks.
    IMHO, the FBI pursued the contravention of an obscure law never intended to deal with her corrupt intentions instead of the more evident criminality.
    He should have investigated her for obstruction of justice. The case is much clearer. Even as she and her staff were given subpoenas and orders to preserve information, they went ahead with destruction of this materials, including physical back ups, hitting the delete button and bleaching information.
    This should be an open and shut case, but as in the FBI non-investigation into her intent, it was never investigated or pursued.
    I think Mr Comey has joined the co-opted who wish to close the circle that keeps the elites controlling the law enforcement and justice supposed impartiality. They have built a wall of elite protection from the voter, with the citizen on the outside looking in with leaders obviously held to a lower standard than the people they’re supposed to serve.
    Hillary is headed to very bad days for two reasons: her conduct and her arrogant refusal to be accountable, sure she did nothing wrong because she didn’t see a “security marking,” which doesn’t come close to passing the smell test.
    I suspect Julian Assange and WikiLeaks will show just how smelly her incomprehensive and counterintuitive her explanations are.

  19. Looks to me like Hillary was giving clearly ‘polished’ and very quickly given answers to virtually all the questions for her NOT to have had advance info as to the questions.
    She’s pretty good but not that good. So a set up!
    The interviewer for Trump was getting into demands for specific plans way beyond what would be expected at this sort of event. Set up again.

  20. The unconfirmed rumour is she was using an inductive earpiece to be fed information.
    I’ve looked at a photo where it seems obvious, but not so much in the video, so I’m not sure on this one.
    If she was being coached, she was badly coached and provided terrible responses that Trump will have a heyday with, as she “tries” to tell the truth.

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