Rain, Rain, and even more Rain!

I can't concentrate on politics when the weather is so very bad. We wait all winter for summer, for the heat, for the growing of vegetables and then we get smacked by Mother Nature with enough rain that I am considering building an ark.

The econuts can scream "global warming", "climate change" all they want, but when it comes down to day by day weather, they always get it wrong.  Just like the NDP are wrong headed.

Maybe the NDP should drop "socialist" from their mandate and go with "global warning, anti-Israel, union supporting" as their mantra. They are abrasive, rude and out of touch with Canadians. Jack and Olivia can move up, but that doesn't make them classy.

My husband made a really important statement today. He said that the Conservatives have got to get tough. He wants no more talk about the gun registry, he wants it gone. He wants the Conservatives to stop being wimps, and start implementing the agenda he voted for, he wants changes, not promises.

I agree that the Conservatives have got to show leadership, and they have to be Conservative, not liberal lite. Privatize the CBC, get rid of the gun registry, give western farmers choice by de-funding the CWB, and most importantly, get rid of the human rights commissions. 

My husband is a fair weather voter, more liberal than conservative, so when he calls for tough measures, it is time for the Conservatives to listen.

USA....Pick Up Your Speaker In Canada!

"We just have to pass the Healthcare Bill to see what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March, 2010)

''Life's tough .. it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' - John Wayne
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It appears that the Democrats already think they have invaded Canada! They do not think our oil is "foreign". Well I hate to disagree, but, Canada is a sovereign nation, and therefore our oil is "foreign" to the USA. We are happy to share it, for a price, but it is not yours. As a matter of fact, it's not even Canada's (remember the NEP?), it's Alberta's!

Alberta oil not 'foreign,' U.S. official tells premiers

One of the most powerful politicians in the U.S. said that while Washington wants to wean itself off foreign oil, Canada is the exception because it isn't "foreign," according to Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach.

The comments came as U.S Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi met with politicians, environmentalists and First Nations leaders in Calgary.

"She didn't consider Canada to be foreign oil," Stelmach said Thursday, noting that the politicians also spoke about his province's efforts in renewable energy during their dinner meeting on Wednesday.

So US Democrats feel they can dictate to us how we sell our oil? Environmentalists think they can dictate how we sell our oil? Easterners (McGuinty and Charest) think they can dictate to us how we sell our oil, even though they don't buy it? How about Albertan's sell their own oil, to whomever they want to, like China and India, if the US is unhappy with our "dirty" oil? How would Pelosi like to explain to the American people that 20% of the oil they need has become unavailable because Alberta doesn't want to sell their "dirty" oil to the USA anymore? Can you say $8.00 a gallon gas Nancy?

You don't want our "dirty" oil? Go buy "blood" oil from the Middle East and continue to support terrorism. Oh, and did anyone ask you about the environmental disaster that is happening in the Gulf right now? Did the environmental groups ask you about that? Funny how quiet the greenies have been about that little spill. You would suspect that because far left Obama is in power that the econuts are happy and that's why they are so quiet. What has happened to protests against "dirty" coal? Hello greenies, your prejudices are showing!

Politicians are still talking "global warming", econuts are still talking "climate change", with straight faces. HA!

One of those groups is Environmental Defence, whose executive director Rick Smith took issue with Stelmach's characterization of the oilsands.

Smith said the U.S. has never threatened to cut off Canadian oil imports, and he said that Stelmach was creating a "straw man" to distract from the real issues of pollution and climate change.

Hey Smith you ever seen the oilsands? Mother Nature's biggest oil spill ever, and all we are doing is cleaning up the mess, why would environmentalists complain about that?

Pelosi is a typical Californian lefty, who will be retired in November, so Rae can get a boner about meeting the botox queen, but he might want to be careful about his stance on energy.

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"You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)
(Is there anything going on behind those eyes????)

HOW LUCKY CAN THE USA BE - TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF THEIR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY?

Shut Down The Oil Sands! They Shout!

Funny how the environmentalists yap about big oil granting so much money to the "deniers" and fail to tell us where their money is coming from. Here is a group that is taking a complaint about the oil sands to NAFTA. Notice that the government of Canada has actually given them money. Taxpayer money going to try to shut down the oil sands? Now this is a real scandal!

Canada faces NAFTA complaint over oil sands

In the latest move in a long-running campaign to highlight the impact of oil sands development, the submission by Environmental Defence Canada, Natural Resources Defense Council and three citizens charges that toxic tailings ponds are being allowed to leak and contaminate ground water.

So, Canadian environmental groups are trying to get NAFTA to shut down the oil sands. Where do they get their money? Take a look:



Industry Canada and Public Works Canada.....that's our tax dollars being used to sue the Canadian government. Also notice TD Friends of the environment. Want to see the board of directors?


That Suzuki guy gets around now doesn't he! Environmental Defence's Annual Report is interesting in that they provide no details about how they spent the money.




Wow! How did they increase their revenues so quickly? I don't know, their annual report is more of a propaganda report than it is a financial report. How do they get away with that? Can we send Sheila Fraser in to audit them? They did get federal money, so she should be allowed to determine how they used it.

Cut off the money NOW! If the City of Toronto wants to give them money, fine, but they should get NO federal tax dollars. If they keep up their attacks against the economic engine of Canada, they just might get their wish. I would love to shut down the oil sands for as long as it takes to make both eastern Canada and the US lefties to scream uncle. It would be payback for Trudeau and the NEP.

Maybe Environmental Defence should worry about the pollution of Toronto, all those smog alerts can't be good, but living in Alberta I couldn't tell you because we have never had a smog alert. So who are the polluters? You know all those people, six million isn't it, all crammed into one small area in Toronto, the pollution from that many people is a huge problem. Maybe Environmental Defence could look into that, oh and while they are at it, maybe they could pressure McGuinty to close down Nanticook, which spews more pollution than all of the oil sands development. I guess econuts don't sh*t in their own houses. How about they go to China and protest all the polluting coal plants they are building. Right, I thought not, they love communists and hate Canada, why else would they sue Canada with taxpayer funds?

I want to know how big the grants are from Industry Canada and Public Works, and who authorized it. Cut Environmental Defence's grants TODAY!

TD BANK In For Some Serious Backlash!

I wonder why the TD Bank would get into the climate change issue with a report that was guaranteed to incite Western Canadians into a frenzy, and frenzy it will be. Do they not understand that Albertan's still remember NEP, that's why they will not vote Liberal. For a bank to get political, which is what they have done by paying for this report, is unCanadian. And Donald Drummond is responsible for this report. He requested it, the TD paid for it.

Mr. Drummond was curious about the regional economic impact of the Conservative government's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 2006 levels by 2020, and commissioned a study to investigate. So far, so good.

His mistake was to ask two environmental groups, the David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute, to author the report.

Oh, and this is hysterical:

"For anyone to insinuate retribution against a guy as neutral as Don Drummond...it's thuggery," said David McGuinty, the Liberal environment critic.

Mr. Drummond said that TD does not endorse the findings but neither does he think the results of the study were distorted. "We have an obligation to analyze economic matters that will affect our own business and that of our clients. We have always done this," he said.

Thuggery, HA! Hey McGuinty you Liberal crybaby, try this for neutral:

Drummond was once a senior economic adviser to former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin and is someone the current Liberal leader, Stéphane Dion, likes to cite in his speeches in favour of taking action against global warming.

Political hardball? No question. But as Drummond told CBC News, "it's all in the timeframe." If you accept the government's contention that to meet the Kyoto deadline of 2012, big cuts — equivalent to almost 30 per cent of our current greenhouse gas emissions — have to begin in 2008, and the only vehicle for those is a tax.

"This would not be the approach I would recommend," Drummond said. But other techniques would take time to implement, "and that's why I grudgingly accepted that if you are going to have that type of timeframe, which is incredibly tight, you are going to have to go with a very blunt [instrument], such as a huge increase in the carbon tax."

That is why he is not in favour of proceeding with the clean air bill as currently amended either, Drummond added. "I do want to see something done with the environment. [But] I think the economic impact would be so dire that environmental policy would be abandoned."

Yikes that is from CBC, the mouthpiece of the Liberal party, so it must be true!

The TD Bank financed Calgary-based Pembina Institute and Vancouver's David Suzuki Foundation to produce the comprehensive report. The group contracted with respected economic consultants, M.K. Jaccard and Associates Inc., to model the impacts of climate policies; Jaccard has done similar work for the Canadian government.

TD's chief economist, Don Drummond, said the bank has not endorsed any targets, though it has supported a policy of a national emissions cap. He said the bank's interest was to shed light on an area where there has been little informed debate: the likely cost of imposing regulations.

So, Drummond, a Liberal, who supported Dion's carbon tax, gets the TD to pay for this joke of a report by two of the most far left econut organizations in Canada, and the TD doesn't think that it will impact their business with oil companies, and us, the little people? Our money can walk right over to the nearest Alberta Treasury Branch or our Credit Unions. We had already transferred our mortgage to a Credit Union but now it's time for us little people to talk with our money.

This report stinks worse than a dog sprayed by a skunk. Try to get that smelly oil out of the dogs fur, it's very hard to do, but it's very easy for the skunk to spray that oil. That is what the econuts have done. They have fear mongered for over 20 years, and the oil is sticking to politicians, who think that we want our industry stopped because of CO2. What our politicians fail to understand is that we want REAL pollution eliminated not some airy fairy the sky is falling CO2 wealth transfer to third world despots who keep their people in poverty on purpose.

We just happen to have the NDP environment critic in Edmonton, Linda Duncan, she of the university minded, save our earth crowd, willing to kill thousands of jobs in Alberta, because she has a pension from the university already, and will get another one if she is elected again, a double dipping dipper. Wonder how the students studying the environment will feel about having NO prospects for jobs in Alberta, because we demand government funding of these eco-terrorists get cut off if the PC want to get elected again.

David Suzuki was probably kidding when he said Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach should be jailed.

No one is sure whether the UN was kidding when it recently named Tinker Bell -- yeah, Tinker Bell, you think I could make this @##% up? -- as an "Honorary Ambassador of Green" for children. But that's only because it's the UN.

Anyway, if you're wondering about the performance of the Kyoto accord, it's been a total disaster because it requires nothing of the vast majority of the world's nations when it comes to cutting their GHG emissions, including the world's number one emitter, China, and the number two emitter, the U.S.

The U.S., unlike Canada and Jean Chretien, was never stupid enough to ratify Kyoto, going back to the Bill Clinton-Al Gore administration. Yep -- Gore.

But, hey, don't think about any of that.

I urge you to call these hypocrites out, because they have a pair of deuces and we have a royal flush. We pay the taxes and they suck off of the goodness of delusional people who think CO2 is a pollutant.

How are all the econuts getting to Copenhagen? Canadian econuts should canoe to Copenhagen if they want any credibility. That is the problem, they have lost credibility and are now a laughing stock. I sense a funeral approaching, rest in peace global warming.

Oh, and TD Canada Trust, don't think we westerners haven't taken measure of you, and you should expect some reduction of deposits in the near future in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Just giving you a heads up.

Blah, Blah, Blah, Vote For Me!

My day 3 impressions.

Oil; Alberta and Saskatchewan are going Conservative after Layton's and Dion's scheme's to hurt our economies, who else can we vote for? NDP Duncan, in Rahim Jaffer's Edmonton riding, is going to pay for Layton's oil sand slam. Sure the university groupies Duncan has surrounding her are cheering, but it's a big riding, many people living there work in the oil patch, and Rahim is very popular. Duncan is living in a lefty world at the UofA. I predict real Edmontonian's are going to show her for the THIRD time, that talking about taking their jobs away isn't a vote getter. Her only hope is getting Liberals to shift (HA) their votes to her.

Diesel; Count on all farmers, truckers, and rural people to vote Conservative. This will resonate with anyone not living in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. The econuts are against this, but what do they ever produce but hot air? They do nothing, you never see them in Africa planting crops, all you ever see is the econuts protesting in polar bear suits.

Afghanistan; Count on military members, veterans, and their families to support the Conservatives after this message from the Taliban. The only party that has been standing up for our military has been the Conservatives, with the Liberals, who actually sent us there, dragging behind them. Liberal support of the Tamal Tigers, Hezbollah, and voting down the tough security bill, one of the only times they stood up in Parliament to vote, has seriously harmed their brand.

Dion Re-branded; Please! Are we going to see him hunting moose with Sarah Palin next? It's not going to work, his image is made, just like the Liberals branded Stockwell Day way back when.

Day 3, the most exciting thing that happened was a puffin, oh and don't they hide their excrement? If that's the best that the MSM can do, sorry not buying it. No-one is going to change their vote over puffin pooh.

Maybe I can't get excited about this election because we are not the underdogs anymore. We are not clawing our way out of the 13 year wilderness and hoping to take power. Maybe it's just because I'm sitting here in Conservative country, sure of getting my MP re-elected. What I do know is that it's dangerous to think this race is a done deal. It's not, one little puffin miss-step, like beer and popcorn, could change everything.

I almost wish I could be door knocking in a close riding, just for the excitement of fighting to win. Maybe I will toddle off to Rahim's riding (right next door) to see if they need a door knocker, I love talking to lefty university students, they are like blank slates, they passionately support a cause, then forget to go and vote.

Bad, Bad, Alberta! Good, Good, Ontario!

I would say Alberta should separate, but the econuts would still be on our case. The National Post printed an excellent article by Premier Stelmach, that got ignored by all other Ontario media.

Alberta taking action on climate change

While others sit around a cap-and-trade poker table figuring out how to redistribute chips and gamble on Canada's economic future, Alberta is taking real action to make real reductions.

So, Alberta is taking real action, spending over 4 billion, but Ontario signs a vague agreement about maybe doing something, no money involved, and that's all we hear about. RAH RAH, out come the cheerleaders, the environmentalists, and the automotive workers...oops, maybe not the autoworkers, in celebration of how green McGutless is making Ontario. No mention of the lost refinery for Alberta gold in Ontario, no mention of how this will impact manufacturing, nothing. What can you expect from a province that re-elected McGutless because of not funding faith schools?

What is really funny is that the only agreement the provinces could come up with was to reduce CO2 by 20% in 2020! They are being hailed as ecofriendly now. Sounds familiar.....OH that's what PM Harper has been saying.

QUEBEC — The Harper government faced new pressure Friday to adopt a more aggressive climate-change plan after Canada's largest province threw its considerable political weight behind a North American initiative to tackle global warming.

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The Conservative government's plan to target industrial emitters is aimed at reducing Canada's emissions 20 per cent by 2020, but it uses 2006 as the starting point rather than the 1990 baseline used by the United Nations and the WCI. The Harper plan also does not include a cap-and-trade program.

Do they seriously think any Canadian cares about what year is used as the base year? If the Liberals had done anything except raise the CO2 levels 36% above the 1990 levels they might be believable. An econut from Suzuki says something and we should blindly believe it? Are we amoeba?

And here is the real agenda, this is central to all that we hear. This is NOT about the environment, this is a political agenda by the econuts.

Its addition gives increased leverage to the WCI and could reduce the political ability of energy-producing and heavy-polluting provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan to influence the political debate.

Could reduce the political ability.....kind of reminds me of the Dion Green Shaft, a wealth transfer that has nothing to do with the environment. There you have it folks, it's about political power, not the environment. Did you ever doubt it?

They Were For It, Before They Were Against It.

Funny how the environmentalists were the ones pushing biofuels for years. Now? Not so much. For example, the Sierra Club, back in 2007, had this to say:

The Sierra Club also strongly supports investments in biodiesel created from recurring oil-seed crops such as canola, which can be grown in Oregon as part of regular crop rotation cycles without intensive water use. However, we urge caution in promoting corn-based ethanol in Oregon. The production of ethanol from corn can create its own pollution, including carbon monoxide, methanol, toluene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds.

That was only a year ago. In 2006, Berkeley had this to say about biofuels:

Ethanol more energy-efficient than oil, finds study
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
January 26, 2006

Using ethanol -- alcohol produced from corn or other plants -- instead of gasoline is more energy-efficient than oil say researchers at the University of California, Berkeley

So, they pushed and they pushed and then when they finally get what they were screaming for, what happens?

Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: February 8, 2008
The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those of producing of conventional fuels, scientists said.

HA! What weenies, seriously, they shout, they bleat, they shove their beliefs down our throats, they protest in polar bear suits,and then, OOPS....they don't even admit they were wrong. And who do they blame? Not themselves, no, guess who...

Earth Day Resolution: No Biofuel from Food Crops

Once again, President Bush has come down on the wrong side of an environmental issue: his misguided subsidizing of American ethanol production has helped drive up grain prices. Biofuel is a disaster-in-the-works when it comes to feeding the planet. If produced on a large scale from food crops, biofuel will keep transportation costs down for the rich, while many of the planet's poor starve.

Hello, you environmentalists have been pushing for quicker renewable solutions for at least 20 years, now that you are winning, you back off, and blame the government? This is a perfect example of how first of all, environmentalists don't think any issue through, and second, that no matter what governments try to do, it will NEVER, ever be enough, not ever, until we are sitting in caves, with no wood to burn.

Nuclear, a very effiecient energy solution,nope, it's got to be solar and wind. They will only be happy when we shut down all coal operations, and of course the oil industry.

Campaign against Climate Change
Now that name is just too funny! You econuts go ahead and "campaign against climate change", all you want, but take it up with Mother Earth would you? Good luck with your 'No New Coal' March

Climate Change Protesters Hijack Coal Train

As the driver of the EWS train radioed for advice, a second group of protesters used shovels which they had also brought with them to start emptying the gravel-like power station coal on to the track.

Nice, very eco-friendly!

And as far as the G8 goes, don't these little protesters just make you want to donate to their cause?

A group of German punk rockers lying down on the lawn at the campsite remembers that last year's protests were very different.

Militant activists threw Molotov cocktails and stones during demonstrations at the summit in Germany that drew tens of thousands of protesters from around the world.

"Demonstrations here are smaller than the German protests we saw last year," said Posti, the drummer of punk band Sprengsatz who goes by one name.

Do you see why I feel justified in calling them econuts?? It's because they do more harm than good for their own cause. Let's get back to talking about cleaning up our lakes and smog, shall we? Like adults.