Archive for January, 2012
VIDEO: Obama’s unforced error in his re-election campaign, taking on the Catholic Church
State Broadcaster’s secrets
The CBC is once again telling the people who pay for it and the people who vote for its annual subsidy to mind their own business.
To put this another way, CBC is telling you and I, the taxpayers of Canada and Members of Parliament that while we may pay to keep their tooshies cushy, we can get stuffed if we want to know more about how our money is spent.
They are thumbing their noses at us, poking us in the eye, flipping us the bird, describe it however you like.
A Conservative MP named Brent Rathgeber tabled a question in the House of Commons. This is different that the oral questions in Question Period that you see on TV. These are questions the government of the day is required to answer.
Rathgeber asked the following:
“With respect to salaries at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), how many employees at the CBC earn more than $100,000.00, and what are their names and salaries?” Read more…
VIDEO: Levant – Honour killings are part of a war on women
Death and dishonour: Shafia murders the latest sad chapter in war on Muslim women
by Ezra Levant
The jury in Kingston got it right: The evil Shafia family has been sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years, for killing the girls in their family.
Mohammad Shafia, his polygamous wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their demon son Hamed Mohammad Shafia, were motivated by a medieval belief that women are the personal property of men, to be owned by men, and disposed of by men.
Mohammad and his son Hamed decided the three beautiful girls in the family needed to be killed, needed to be drowned like kittens in a barrel. Because they didn’t want to live in a cage, which is the norm for women in Islamic fascist states like Saudi Arabia, or the Afghan culture from which the Shafias hail.
Zainab, Sahar and Geeti, just 19, 17 and 13 years old, respectively, were murdered. Rona, one of Mohammad’s polygamous wives, was murdered, too.
A quadruple homicide.
Paul Bernardo, Canada’s most notorious serial killer, was convicted of three murders.
The Shafias killed four. Of their own family.
Judge Robert Maranger said: “It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable, more honourless crime.”
Difficult, but not impossible to conceive of it. Because there have been more than a dozen honour killings in Canada in recent years. Read more…
VIDEO: Media needs to stop scaring seniors and tell the truth on pension reform
Honour from justice
We have heard it said several times that there is no honour in killing, well maybe not in these murders but there is honour in justice.
And in the convictions of Mohammad, Tooba and Hamed Shafia we can hope for justice.
They have been sentenced to life in prison and we can hope that life, does mean life.
This was a family that plotted to kill three of its daughters and one of the wives in what was a polygamous family. The Google searches by the father trying to see if he could run his shopping malls from prison, his denunciations of his daughters as “prostitutes” and “filthy whores” plus much worse, showed a twisted mind but one that saw killing as honourable.
In Canada, we cannot abide by that.
This was an honour killing by people who in accepting the idea of honour killing rejected that way of life. Read more…
VIDEO: John Kerry paid a lower tax rate than Romney but the liberal media didn’t care
VIDEO: No one waves a finger at a president, except Brian Williams
The American media has been in a tizzy since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was photographed pointing her finger at President Obama in a tense tarmac moment. Racism has been claimed of course and Jesse Jackson has denounced Governor Brewer. Meanwhile Brewer herself, in a radio interview, said she doesn’t know exactly what she was saying when her finger went up.
So is it always bad form to point a finger at a president? NBC anchor Brian Williams seems to say yes, unless of course, he is the one doing it.
VIDEO: Bob Rae on reforming MPs pensions
There is a great deal of support for reforming the gold-plated pensions of MPs. As the old saying goes though, you better watch what you wish for. When Ontario changed it’s plan in the 90s and replaced a pension with an RRSP type plan, those already vested in the MPP pension received significant payouts, including about $1 million for now Liberal Leader in Ottawa Bob Rae. Rae was asked about that in Quebec City last week.
COLUMN: Robinson – Bike sharing idea makes him think someone has been drinking
Robinson: Leave my body alone
by Ian Robinson
Last week, some folks dedicated to saving the world through spending your money on silly stuff wanted the City of Calgary to cough up $2.5 million to set up a bike-share program downtown.
You know, you plug your credit card into a rack, you get a bike of some sort to ride around on.
This is a fabulous idea.
Frantic for a bike
Personally, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been downtown and frantically began patting all my pockets in a fruitless search before realizing: “Holy crap! I’ve forgotten my bicycle at home!
If only there was some way I could rent one from the City of Calgary!” Or.
Not.
Okay. Maybe if I was drunk or something, but then again, I’ve done stuff while drunk that makes some of the antics in The Hangover look like a Baptist picnic. Read more…
