Taxpayer Money Found.

Seriously, who thinks Canadian artists deserve taxpayer money? Only Canadian artists! My kid plays a mean trombone, does that qualify him for a subsidy/grant? Does playing it on a street corner qualify for funding? How about theater performances, can I get funding if I create the organic (not orgasmic) carrot documentary? Oh, well, I'm just being silly. Or not.

The lefty media is taking aim at Alberta again...why am I not surprised? They must get the heebie jeebies just thinking about Alberta. They better look closely at the MLA they are targeting, because it would be an easy HRC case to claim hate speech against him.

Alberta Culture Minister defends criticism of home-grown television

“I sit here as a government representative for film and television in the province of Alberta and I look at what we produce and if we’re honest with ourselves, why do I produce so much shit? Why do I fund so much crap?,” Lindsay Blackett, Minister of Culture and Community Spirit, told an industry panel at the Banff World Television Festival. “Why aren’t broadcasters picking up more Canadian content? It’s because Canadian content isn’t what it should be.”

Banff? Right that center for the Arts that is internationally recognized. Subsidized by Albertans for garbage like this:

Artist: Kiss and Tell

Confronting Bodies: Ken Kowalski, Alberta Deputy Premier and others

Date of Action: 14 November 1992

Specific Location:

Description of Artwork: ""Much Sense: Erotics and Life" was an exhibition at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts. As part of the exhibition, the Vancouver-based performance troupe Kiss and Tell presented "True Inversions," a performance work with lesbian themes and simulated woman-woman sex.

Description of Incident: A nationally syndicated column by Rick Bell in the Alberta "Report of 7" (December 1992) blasted the Banff Centre for spending tax dollars on the series. "Banff hosted the latest in subsidized 'alienation' and lesbian porn... As usual, the money for this free-admission spectacle came from the empty coffers of indebted governments." (Bell/Alberta Report). The article touched off a year long controversy on arts spending in Alberta. Alberta Deputy Premier Ken Kowalski fumed, "Every once in a while they do some of these things that are God-awful in my humble opinion. This is the third (controversial show) I've had to deal with, this abhorrent lesbian show." (Edmonton Sun) Alberta Conservative government officials Dianne Mirosh (community development minister) and Stockwell Day (labor minister) joined the anti-arts funding fracas. Statements by these officials in the national press mobilized the Alberta arts community in a show of support through protest rallies, letter writing campaigns, etc.

Results of Incident: "Provincial funding forms were amended to include a paragraph that said funding could be pulled from any particular project that the government deemed inappropriate." Galleries in Alberta whose presentations came under attack during this controversy did not experience a cut in funding. "It seems to me that because the arts community was so united and so angry and so public, the government did back off. It is always good to see that people actually do have some power in these processes." (Persimmon Blackbridge of Kiss and Tell in an interview with Kerry Kilmartin/Artichoke)

Source: The Banff Centre for the Arts

Lets have a protest anytime your funding is cut off. How about taxpayers start protesting our hard earned dollars going to garbage like the above.

What really takes the cake, is that campers can't drink in Banff anymore.

So, we have radical lesbian fake sex acts funded by taxpayers and allowed in Banff because its "art", but don't you dare bring a beer to your campsite. Do lefties even see how ridiculous they are getting? Has common sense died?

H/T General Brock

Log It Baby, Log It!

Back from Kelowna, had a great Christmas with my family. No snow there for Christmas, it was actually depressing. I prefer 30 below with snow and sun, than 5 below and no snow or sun.

Every time we make the journey from Edmonton to Kelowna, I notice our huge carbon sink, called trees, we have trillions of them, maybe even gazillions of them, but we get no credit for them from the IPCC and idiotic organizations like Suzuki, and Pembina.

OTTAWA - Canadians rely partly on our nation's forests to help save the world's climate. Now evidence says it's time to stop.

In Canada we know we burn too much coal, gas and oil, creating the "greenhouse'' gas called carbon dioxide.

But we have learned for years that in the fight against climate change, this country's vast forests too many trees to count pull carbon dioxide out of the air again, locking it up as solid carbon in branches, roots and trunks.

Just one problem, scientists now say. It's largely wrong.

We noticed an increased level of logging activity in BC. It's about time! Log it! Why not, the eco-nuts tell us that Canada's forests are not a carbon sink. Fine, then we can log it all we want. Right?

These idiots are so determined to make CO2 the big bad wolf of global warming, that they have turned some of us off on conservation. If we are all going to die in 2012, might as well make hay while the going is good. Oopps, hay is bad.

And in farming, reduced tillage can prevent carbon loss because disturbing soil accelerates the release of carbon into the atmosphere. "It's been estimated that we've lost a billion tons of carbon from our prairie soils during the 20th century due to sustained cultivation of soil," said Grant. "That's five years of our current emissions." He added that putting unused fields under grass rather than allowing them to lie fallow is also helpful.

Notice this guy uses Suzuki as a source... that pretty much says it all about this "expert".

So, let me get this right. Alberta needs to shut down the "tar" sands, we need to stop planting wheat, and we need to kill all those flatulent cows, buffalo, pigs, and chickens. Even if we do all that, we will still be the bad guys because we are red neck Conservatives who believe in the "live and let live" ideology.


Yikes, frozen water? I thought the Arctic was melting and here we have road side waterfalls that have frozen solid.

Some other photos for my eastern friends who have never had the chance to see the Rockies up close and personal.

This mountain clearly shows the force that created it.






Downtown Banff from our hotel window:



Notice the "maybe" language these "experts" use? If the science supported them, they would be saying things like we are "positive" that..., but they can't because global warming is a money transfer scheme.

If trees are not a carbon sink like the "experts" at the U of A are telling us, then log them baby, log them!!! If 40 billion acres of trees has nothing to do with CO2 consumption, then let's grow veggies, that should make the eco-nuts happy!