I think about all those 19 and 20 year old's, who left their farms and families to fight for Canada, in a war where Canada had not been invaded. Our reputation from WWI was that of fierce fighters and it carried through into WWII.
I was pleasantly surprised when I asked my oldest son today if he knew what D-Day was about. He knew about Juno and that Canadian soldiers were feared by the Germans for their superior fighting skills. I told him how impressed I was that they had studied it in school. He quickly corrected my misconception, it was the internet he had gotten his information from, not the school. He has been busy studying globalization in school, not history. On his own, he has researched our military history. Good for him! Shame on our schools. History is important and getting the perspective of people from 65 years ago is very interesting. Here is a radio report from way back in time.
A very quick summary of Canada at war will give you an idea of the valour of our troops.
The Canadians had to fight every step of the way to Caen and Carpiquet airfield. At one point they faced the elite 12 S.S. panzer division manned by young German fanatics commanded by experienced officers and non commissioned troops. But the Canadians Triumphed and on July 10th, Caen was liberated by Canadian and British forces.
They are not teaching this in school, even when I was in school years ago, our proud history as a fighting nation was not taught, luckily I enjoyed reading and a book (can't remember which one now) about the Battle of The Bulge and the Diary of Anne Frank, woke me up to the fact that socialism was a threat to freedom.
Much as I dislike CTV, today they provided really good coverage of the D-day ceremonies. I suspect that they were forced to because they wanted to cover Obama, and it just happened that PM Harper was there as well. Go and listen to both PM Harpers speech and President Obamas speech (On the right side you can select the videos).
Both speeches were very good, I noticed that PM Harper actually spoke from his heart. You know that he genuinely supports our troops and understands that we must stand strong as a nation against any terrorist threats.
President Obama, a noted orator, was speaking the words, but his delivery was flat. He read the speech that someone else wrote but there was no passion, no conviction, no fire.
I want to thank our veterans for keeping Canada safe. What an incredible job our troops do. Maybe Canada has never suffered from a terrorist attack because they know we are warriors at heart, and that we will never back down from a fight we believe in. That is why I get so upset about the NDP and the Bloc, they weaken our country by their sickening passivity. The Liberals only support something they think will gain them votes, that might be even worse than being pacifists.
To our troops from yesterday and those fighting today....THANK YOU.
Sometimes its difficult to choose the videos and jokes on any given Friday because I start with one video and end up watching 20 or 30 just because they are so funny. Tonight was a cold rainy evening (frost expected) so it was a great use of my time. I'm much more relaxed now, after a busy work week and a troll attack, I needed a distraction. Here are this Fridays winners:
Are women born this way?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What happens when you sleep around....
His name is Zonkey! Speaking of animals.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a tree in Africa that animals love, but the fruit contains a high level of alcohol, watch what happens:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for that perfect Fathers Day gift?? I think I've found it:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New use for Windex
I haven't checked ' snopes.com ' to see if this actually works or not . . . But they say,
If you ever get the sudden Urge to run around naked, You should sniff some Windex first. It'll keep you from streaking. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And to send you off to sleep or wake you up tomorrow, my all time favorite song:
You might have to understand Alberta's school system to understand that parents already have free choice in the type of school they enroll their children in.
Parents have a wide range of options to choose from within the public education system: public schools, separate schools, francophone schools, charter schools — as well as alternative programs and virtual programs offered by school boards — and home education. They may also choose to send their children to private schools. The Alberta government supports choice in education to ensure student and community needs are met.
Those of us standing around the cooler, couldn't quite understand why Bill 44 was needed. We had already specifically chosen the schools our kids go to, using our requirements. Mine are in a Catholic school, another has her daughter in a special needs school, and another had her boy in a Polish school. We were all happy with the job the schools were doing. So, we could not see what the big deal was about, until we started talking about the Human Rights Commission, then the real discussion began.
Having read Ezra's blog, I was the most up on what the HRC's had been up to, and the example about the McDonald's employee who now isn't required to wash her hands was a big eye opener. People had a vague idea that the HRC's had been up to no good, they just had a feeling that they were getting out of control, some concrete examples really opened up their eyes.
You see, what Bill 44 does, is gives back the power to the parent. I don't see any situation where I would want to specifically take my kids out of a class, but I like knowing that I could if as a parent I thought I needed to. Power to the parents, not some bureaucrat developing curriculum, not some teacher with an agenda.
My kids want to be pulled out of their math classes, not going to happen boys!
I don't think the opposition leaders thought about how they would look to voters by attacking a female MP. They did it once before with Rona when she was the environment Minister, and got away with it. It didn't work this time. They call PM Harper a bully, well watch this display of male party leaders attacking a female Minister.
Today's question period was disgusting in the outright attacks against Lisa Raitt. Being a typical Conservative woman, she stood up to attack after attack and she put NDP slime ball Mulclair in his place for calling public servants underlings and subservient. Kudos Lisa, you hung in there against all those male opposition leaders, and put them in their place. Garth must be grinding his teeth to little points knowing she will be re-elected in a landslide after this Minister bashing session.
Iggy, Duceppe, and especially Mulclair overstepped the bounds by their vicious attacks on a female MP. Funny how Ruby was in attendance and clapped for everything Iggy said, shouldn't she have been booted from the Liberal party? Not one Conservative MP has attacked Ruby, but female Conservatives are fair game. Also female bloggers, go to my previous post and see how male lefties attacked me and my Conservative posters. It was a virtual swarming.
Lefties target Conservative females, remember Sarah Palin? The problem for lefties is that Conservative women are not brainless, and lefty males just end up looking like bullies.
Bully Boys of the Opposition, shame on you!
Oh, and you progressives who are going to yap at me because I am using my sex as a weapon, well, you started it with your "my body my choice" nonsense. So, as a female I am totally disgusted by the male opposition leaders attack on a female. I suspect that those opposition leaders are insecure little men who can't handle a real woman.
Bully Boys, attack women because they think that will make them powerful and win votes.
Day after day we see examples of the Liberal biased media cheering for their team, and slagging the Conservatives any chance they get. No wonder their readership is tanking, we do not need the media to TELL us what to think, do, or say. We want the media to report the news...period. What do we get?
Sensitive government documents left behind at a CTV News bureau reveal Ottawa has poured far more money into the aging Chalk River nuclear reactor than the public has been told.
The binder of documents was left nearly a week ago at CTV's Ottawa bureau by either Minister of Natural Resources Lisa Raitt or one of her aides. Some of the papers are clearly marked "secret."
So, they kept those "secret" documents for a week? They copied them and now they are publishing select portions from those "secret" documents? You disgusting scum, if that would have been the Liberals you would have quietly returned the documents. Even so, you know you should have returned those documents without looking at them. How small can you be to even look at those documents before you returned them? We teach our children to return items to their rightful owners, but the Liberal media just can't help themselves, like kids in a candy store, they had to peek. No morals, just like the Liberals they support.
Here is another fine example of the Liberal media at work to support their party.
The bank warned that Ottawa's current budget balance projections are off by a significant degree. TD economists Don Drummond and Derek Burleton say in a report the federal government will run a cumulative deficit of roughly $167-billion over five years, or nearly double what Ottawa projected in its most recent budget.
The Liberal media fails to mention that Drummer Boy is a huge Liberal supporter. They use this projection to slam the Conservatives, but remember behind the Finance Minister are all the civil servants that are feeding him this information, so they are also calling those civil servants incompetent dolts. Or are the civil servants feeding the Liberals numbers in advance?
Then the Iggster, using the TD numbers threatens another election:
Lashing out at the minority Conservatives over unemployment insurance, isotopes and the deficit, Ignatieff said his party “will make a serene and clear decision” by midweek about whether it wants to topple the Tories.
The government’s second “report card” on the federal budget’s economic stimulus package is due sometime in June. That could be the catalyst for a non-confidence vote.
“I’m trying to make Parliament work with a government that every day is displaying more flagrant examples of incompetence,” Ignatieff told reporters. He said the Tories had “no plan” to deal with the isotope shortage and were posting staggering deficit numbers.
TD Bank yesterday said the deficit could be more than $172 billion over the next five years.
“The public finances of the country are not under control,” Ignatieff said.
Interesting links with damaging information can be found here:
Interesting stuff about Drummer Boy and his affiliation with the Liberal party, which you will never hear from the Liberal MSM. Bank at TD? Maybe you should think about a nice Credit Union. So we know that big businesses like banks are Liberal supporters and unions are NDP supporters, where does that leave the Conservatives? With a whole bunch of grassroots supporters.
The Liberal media is losing viewership, and they blame it on everything except their Liberal bias. That will not pay any bills. Maybe the Liberal MSM should refuse all car dealership ads, because it was the Conservatives that worked to save the auto industry in Canada, see how that works for them. HA!
UPDATE: From Iggy's own mouth we hear that the Liberals have a friendly relationship with the media:
UPDATE 2: The Attack of the Lefty Yellow Jackets, who think they can make MY PLACE home, because their own homes are so unlivable. H/T to mahmood for giving me the idea:
It appears that this Youtube video is getting some attention. I don't think these two should give up their university studies, but it's nice that people can be Conservative at that age and proud of it.
“Three thing taught me conservative love, Jesus, Ronald Reagan plus Atlas Shrugged”
This comment is similar to other responses we've received from the video. Yes, we know that Ayn Rand was an atheist, however, she preached the power of the individual and personal responsibility just as Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr. We do not agree with the religious beliefs of Ayn Rand and we do not intend to force our beliefs on anyone. We also do not imply that all conservatives are Christians. Our music is merely a way for us to express our unique, conservative message.
You have to give them credit, they seem to have clearly thought out their positions.
I vote Conservative because I want the individual to count. I want people to succeed on their own merits. I do not want the "elites" telling me what to do and think. I care about family first, I love my kids and try to make sure they are happy, I am sure lefties feel the same way, so why vote Conservative?
What makes one person vote Liberal and another vote Conservative? I think being a Conservative is all about doing for yourself not relying on the government. Conservatives are doers. They don't just talk, they don't write reports, they get to the root of the problem and solve it.
Liberals talk about a problem and create committees to study the problem but they seldom solve anything. That is why Iggy is like a ghost, he has no opinions, no policies and no direction for his people. At least Dion stood for something, Iggy stands for nothing.
Liberal values; suck up to terrorists, special interest groups and immigrants. Hire immigrants to shine your shoes, and demand your entitlements. Support swingers clubs because that is so "now". Reject religion because you are too smart to be taken in by it, but global warming is real because Gore created a movie about it.
Why do you vote Conservative? What do you want to see if the Conservatives ever get a majority and don't have to cater to the leftist voters?
I have my priorities; get rid of the CWB and CBC, reduce the power of racists unions, allow income splitting for families, spend more on the disabled and seniors, and quit banning everything.
“I got into work, I was met by my supervisor and told that there had been multiple complaints, that people found the flag very offensive and it had been taken down," McLucas told FOXNews.com.
"I went to the office to retrieve it and found the flag wrapped around the pole, sitting in the corner on the ground. I was speechless."
McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, had displayed the 3-by-5-foot flag in the office she shares with the hospital’s three other supervisors. McLucas said one of her colleagues, a woman who immigrated to the United States from Africa 14 years ago, complained about the flag to upper management, and the hospital decided to take down the flag.
"I was told that as long as my flag offended one person, it would be taken down," McLucas said.
Funny how one complaint can have that much power. Political correctness totally disrespects our freedom of speech. Even my Friday funnies got attacked today because I had some jokes about rednecks.
We also had Ralph Goodale and his sidekick Jennings yapping about tar babies being racist. I think Ralph got confused and thought Pierre was referring to those black licorice candies called "n**ger toes". We of course don't call them that anymore, but Ralph is getting up there in years so maybe he can be forgiven, but for Jennings to use her blackness to call someone racist, just lowers the bar for what is true racism, she should know better.
It's getting so bad, you can't even pray together anymore!
Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.
"On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county." David Jones told FOX News.
"We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all," Jones said.
A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited "unlawful use of land," ordering them to either "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit," the couple's attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.
The lefties attack free speech and religion because it doesn't agree with their tiny little minds, no room in there for thought nor the ability to understand different viewpoints. Progressives, those who understand only their point of view. Ban Bible studies but allow swingers clubs? Right, that probably makes sense to a progressive, because morals are to be sneered at and denigrated.
If I say lefties trolls are "offensive" and I want them removed from my blog, do you think the HRC's would hear my case? HA!
Okay, Friday is here and it's time for the Friday funnies. I was at a music concert tonight, so this is a rushed job.
Ever wonder what Santa does in the Summer?
Sort of takes the joy out of Christmas doesn't it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redneck swing:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two reasons why it's so hard to solve a
Redneck murder:
1) The DNA is all the same
2) There are no dental records -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Redneck Cooler:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you hear that the Redneck governor's
mansion burned down ?
'Yep.. Prit'near took out the whole trailer park.. The library was a total loss too. Both books went poof . . . up in flames and the governor hadn't even finished coloring one of them.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home security....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's raining out tomorrow, you might want to waste your time with this game.
Liberals being hypocrites was the theme of question period today. Funny how CTV carried question period live yesterday, but today....nothing. Too bad the expected public outrage didn't materialize. Exactly the reverse happened, even a CTV poll went way wrong.
The opposition parties are demanding Finance Minister Jim Flaherty be fired. Do you agree? Yes 35% No 65%
Today, both PM Harper and Minister Flaherty wiped the floor with the opposition.
What bothers me most is this little ticking bomb that the media is running with.
The heads of the Canada Pension Plan are slated to take home millions in bonus payouts this year, even as the fund struggles and the economy slips deeper into recession.
According to the fund's annual report just released by the CPP Investment Board, David Denison, the president and CEO of the CPP, along with his top four executives, will take home a total $8.5 million in pay and bonuses for the 2009 fiscal year.
Most Canadians do not understand that CPP is NOT managed by the government. Just like the Bank of Canada is totally independent from the government, so is CPP. This is a VERY good thing. EI is managed by the government and that is how the Liberals were able to take $54 Billion from the fund for their pet projects. Imagine if the 100 Billion in the CPP was in government hands, many pensioners would end up with nothing. Liberals drained a healthy EI fund, they would do the same thing with CPP.
EI is paid by employers and employees, it should be separated just like CPP, so governments can not get their hands on it. Now the Liberals are pushing for the government to interfere in the workings of the CPP, this is a very scary direction that both the Liberals and the MSM are taking. The MSM is using the envy factor (big bonuses) to ramp up the issue and they are making sure that the Conservatives get blamed for the bonuses granted by an independent board.
Yet if the Conservatives try to get freedom for our western farmers from the Canadian Wheat Board, that's close to being a dictatorship, and jailing farmers is what deserves to happen to those knuckle dragging red necked westerners anyways. It doesn't matter that eastern farmers can sell their wheat to anyone they want, and that ticks me off, why aren't the eastern farmers standing with their western brothers? Greed? Fear of competition?
If eastern farmers think the Canadian Wheat Board is such a great idea, they should be forced to join it just like our western farmers, that would show true solidarity. I thought Ontario farmers were like our western farmers, but sadly they are willing to see western farmers crushed by the CWB yoke.
Something about Liberals and spending EI funds to pay down the deficit....Oh right the Supreme Court ruled on that.
The Supreme Court of Canada says that Ottawa illegally collected employment insurance contributions for three years under the former Liberal government.
The court, though, rejected union claims that Ottawa diverted money from deliberately-over-inflated EI surpluses to balance the federal budget and fund programs.
In a 7-0 decision, the court ruled EI premiums were inappropriately collected between 2002, 2003, and 2005. That's when the Liberal cabinet set EI rates directly without the authorization from Parliament and the employment insurance commission, a violation of the principle of no taxation without representation.
"This means that employment insurance premiums were collected unlawfully, without the necessary legislative authorization," Justice Louis LeBel wrote in the decision.
Now the Liberals are upset about a deficit that is being caused by a world wide recession? This, after they tried to form a coalition government so they could be in control of the spending with the NDP and Bloc?
Chretien raided the EI funds during boom times, 54 billion to be exact. Now in a recession, the Conservative government is spending money on roads and bridges, they are offering unemployed workers the ability to retrain and gain skills, they have a home reno program, all programs aimed at helping Canadians.
The debate over how EI premiums could be used began in the 1990s, when Paul Martin, then-prime minister Jean Chretien's finance minister, brought in new EI legislation.
New rules made it more difficult for laid off workers to be eligible for benefits, but they also brought in new training programs.
Critics had argued the government was raising EI premiums to fund the new programs, while cutting benefits for those out of work.
Well that's Liberals for you, stealing from hard working Canadians (where is that 40 million that went into the Liberal party coffers?), to gain votes.
They are trying it again, fire Flaherty they scream (read the comments, noone is buying it), he is the bad guy they shout, an increased deficit they moan.....DEFICIT! They know Conservatives hate deficits and debt. They know deficit is a dirty word to anyone who is fiscally conservative/liberal, but they fail to understand that a recession changes perceptions.
Run a deficit in good times like the Liberals did until Reform and the IMF clued them in, not a good thing. Run a deficit in bad times, and make no mistake, the media has been telling us this recession is worse than the Great Depression, and people will shrug.
The media is now the Liberals worse enemy, they pumped up the recession so much that Canadians now believe that big spending is necessary. Canadians have seen what Obama is spending in the US, so 34 or 50 or 80 billion spent by Canada just doesn't feel big, after all the US are talking 1.2 TRILLION.
Funny how CTV never covers question period live, but today they were right there covering the first three Liberal questions. Bet the Liberals phoned up their pals in the media and told them they were going to call for Flaherty's head. Too bad that PM Harper made Iggy look like an idiot. How does Iggy respond? He reverts to his American background and calls PM Harper....Nixon? Too funny. Iggy go home to Obama, he has some shoes that need to be shined....oh wait...Iggy was a big Bush supporter, no wonder he is up here now after 34 years. I suspect if you really did the math, Iggy was probably out of the country for more than 45 years of his live, but who's counting?
Nothing! I was in BC for the last two days, (my new teeth are beautiful, thanks to my favorite brother-in-law dentist!) and I read no paper, didn't go online to see what was happening, and talked to family about issues like, what flowers to plant where, how a neighbour of theirs had suffered a massive heart attack, and how we were all going to drive to Vancouver for a 50th wedding anniversary.
Sure we mentioned policies briefly, but seriously no-one cares about politics until an election is called, and even then most couldn't be bothered to get out and vote.
It was a refreshing change to be away from the blogsphere, until I was waiting in Vancouver for my Air Canada, Edmonton flight. Great big screen showing the CBC news, get on the plane, CBC news. Brainwashing 101, especially for new Canadians.
My own family doesn't visit my blog because they have better things to do, like work, go for walks to stay healthy, and try to decide what colour of paint looks best on their house. By the way, that was one of the mentions of the federal government, the credit for renovations, everyone loves that one! Especially my nephew who has started a refrigeration and heating company, he's so busy putting in energy efficient furnaces/air conditioners that he will soon be hiring. Now, that is a stimulus package, that Canadians have been able to get behind! I want more stimulus that directly impacts Canadians.
This EI BS we are seeing by the opposition parties, it's just political blather trying to get votes. I have been working since I was sixteen, I took time off for university, but worked two jobs every 4 month break to save enough to put myself through without debt. I took 2 months off work for my first child and 9 months off for my second child, that's it.
Maybe the government should start giving tax credits for people who have paid into EI for years without taking anything back, and stop rewarding the deadbeat EI abusers. How's that for a tax credit 92% of employed Canadians could get behind.
Give tax credits for contributing to EI, but not using it! All opposition parties want EI given to people who have worked only 3 months, how about we give a tax credit to all those people who have contributed to EI for years, and seldom made a claim? Is that too radical? Reward the productive.
I still can't get used to the fact that Harper, even after 1200 days in office, is our Prime Minister. He has been leading Canada despite the fact that he only has a minority government. Daily, the lefties fight sound legislation like raising the age of consent from 14 to 16. Thankfully that law passed, even my 16 year old knew about it. Many law and order bills are stalled in parliament because the lefties think the criminal is more important than the victim, like Tori. Canadians are watching and Conservatives need to remind voters that it is only the Conservatives who for years have supported tougher laws against criminals.
What is surreal, is that Obama really is the actual President of the USA. Every time I see him, I think "pretender". The guy is a used car salesman,(sorry to all used car salesmen) an empty suit. He is a dangerous empty suit, with an agenda. Socialism.
On Friday, the dollar dropped to its lowest level this year and was on track for its biggest weekly fall in two months on concerns about the country's rating status, despite an assurance from Moody's on Thursday that it was comfortable with the current rating on the U.S., which has held a triple-A rating since 1917.
To ease concerns, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he doesn't believe the U.S. credit rating will be cut.
President Obama likes to say he inherited a financial mess, an argument that is supported by the $1.3 trillion deficit left on his lap by the previous administration. But under his watch, Obama has pushed the estimate for this year's deficit to a record $1.8 trillion, partly as a result of his $787 billion stimulus package. The deficit is equal to about 13 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
They are busy printing money, this will lead to inflation. Our dollar rose to .89 because of the weakness of the US dollar. Obama does not understand or care about the impact this will have on the US. He is too busy partying in the White House, and closing Gitmo to pay back his hard left supporters to care about the damage he is doing to his country.
What a mistake the US made. McCain might not have been the ideal candidate, but he would have been better than Obama.
Our next election, the Obama factor will work in the Conservatives favour, he will be the new Jimmy Carter, and Canadians will have woken up to the fact that socialism is a bad idea.
Short post because I am really, really tired from all the planting I did today. I will just creak my way upstairs to bed now.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Embarrassing Medical Exams
1. A man comes into the ER and yells . . .' My wife's going to have her baby in the cab !' I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, Lifted the lady's dress and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs - - - and I was in the wrong one.
Submitted by Dr. Mark Mac Donald, San Francisco
2. At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. ' Big breaths,'. I instructed. ' Yes, they used to be,'. . replied the patient.
Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle , WA
3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a Wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a ' massive internal fart.'
Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg
4. During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. ' Which one ?'. . . I asked.
'The patch . . . the Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it! 'I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see. Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now, the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one.
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk , VA
5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked. ' How long have you been bedridden ?' After a look of complete confusion she answered .. . .' Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive.'
Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis , OR
6. I was performing rounds at the hospital one morning and while checking up on a man I asked . . ..' So how's your breakfast this morning?'
'It's very good except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste.'. . . Bob replied.
I then asked to see the jelly and Bob produced a foil packet labeled 'KY Jelly.'
Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit , MI
7. A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered . It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo that read . . .' Keep off the grass.' Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said ' Sorry . . .had to mow the lawn.'
8. As a new, young MD doing my residency in OB , I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams.. To cover my embarrassment I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle-aged lady upon whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassing me. I looked up from my work and sheepishly said 'I'm sorry. Was I tickling you ?' She replied with tears running down her cheeks from laughing so hard. ...' No doctor, but the song you were whistling was . . .' I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener.'
Dr. wouldn't submit his name ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be careful what you wish for!!!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did Philip Fart?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This 85-year-old couple, having been married almost 60 years, die tragically in a car crash. They have been in good health the last ten years, mainly due to the wife's nearly neurotic interest in health food. When they reached the pearly gates, St. Peter took them to their mansion, which was decked out with a beautiful kitchen and master bath suite, complete with Jacuzzi. As they "oohed and aahed' the old man asked St. Peter how much all this was going to cost. "It's free," St. Peter replied, "Remember, this is Heaven." Next they went out back to see the championship golf course the home backed up to. They would have golfing privileges every day, and each week the course changed to a new one representing the great golf courses on Earth. The old man asked, "What are the green fees?"
"This is Heaven," St. Peter replied. "You play for free." Next they went to the clubhouse and saw the lavish buffet lunch with the cuisines of the world laid out.
"How much to eat?" asked the old man. "Don't you understand yet?" St. Peter asked. "This is Heaven. It's free!" "Well, where are the low-fat and low-cholesterol foods?" the old man asked timidly. "That's the best part ... you can eat as much as you like of whatever you like and never get fat and you never get sick. This is Heaven." The old man looked at his wife and said, "You and your #@!%&~ bran muffins. I could have been here ten years ago!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always keep several get well cards on the mantle....
So if unexpected guests arrive, they will think you've been sick and unable to clean! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's it. Have a good weekend. Rain, snow or shine, my flowers are getting planted!
That was the last sentence from my last post. Unfortunately I got no such proof. What I did get was one of my many trolls, spouting. Normally I let them spout and ignore them, but seeing as it was a slow news day, I thought I would finally respond to one of them. Now I don't want my other trolls to feel left out, it was a totally random, pick a troll event.
Your panties must be pretty knotted given your posts lately. Or could it be those polls?
If you don’t like my posts in support of our Prime Minister, don’t comment on them. They are obviously bugging you, so I guess I am kicking you progressive lefties where it hurts. Polls? How about the 2,300 people who paid $150 in Montreal of all places to hear our Prime Minister speak?
The fact remains the Opposition was demanding action on the economy, while Harper chose to fiddle. Plus the U.S. situation was in transition and needed smarter people than Harper can muster. A rapid change would do this.
Smarter people?? Like Duceppe and Layton and Dion? Oh my God that is just too funny! How about Wayne Easter, now there is one bright bulb! Or iRuby, don’t take your nannies to town? HA!
Any group of MPs can become the government if they can gain the confidence of the House.
Right, and you didn’t vote Liberal even though Dion was a total waste of space? Typical lefty, vote for a party that wants to tax Canadians just because they are Liberal. Nothing Dion proposed was worthy of our votes, nothing. That’s why over a million smart Liberals stayed home and didn’t vote.
Lefties, like you, can't imagine that we, the people, actually elected more Conservatives, you see, you can't understand people who hold opinions different from yours. Spare me your insulting diatribes that claim anyone who disagrees with you has some mental illness. It's unbecoming, and will be your party's undoing. People are sick and tired of your juvenile name calling in this regard. "Can't imagine"? "Can't understand"? Sheesh. Grow up.
You can come here every day and slag both me, and my posters and I am the one making insulting diatribes? Do you think we actually like you and respect your opinions? Have you gotten the mistaken impression that just because I let you post here, we actually like you? Did I hurt your feelings because as a Conservative, I don’t agree with your comments? Who needs to grow up?
Why did Iggy sign the coalition document? For the reasons outlined above. Harper was fiddling while Rome burns, so to speak, and time was of the essence given the US transition.
Funny how now, all of a sudden, the lefties love the US, no more stomping on dolls. You hate the fact that while your god Obama is in power the Liberals are on the sidelines. Tough.
Your party wants to radically remake the country, which the people DON'T want. All of your gains were due to various screwups of the Liberals, not due to any agreement with your party's goals. Still, people knew in the back of their minds that you would destroy our country as we know it, and denied you a majority.
The lefty mindset exposed, Conservatives are going to radically remake the country? We only won re-election (1200 days now!) because of Liberal screw ups, like electing Dion? Destroy our country, as we know it? No, you mean change it into something Canadians can be proud of again, it was the Liberals who destroyed our country, especially our military. We are fixing it.
No, after January 20, it didn't matter. Canada had lost the opportunity to be there during the US transition and we are now paying the price. The coalition would not have been maintained for long after that anyway. It was an emergency measure. It would certainly not last until October 19, 2009 which is our next election day.
You poor thing, bowing down to Obama, thinking the US is now going to save us because it’s the Democrats in power, and the Liberals should have been in power to welcome Obama. Do you not understand that the Democrats are protectionist? The coalition would have been laughed at in the US, they would have wiped their feet on Dion. Liberals wanted Dion gone, that’s why they panicked and anointed Iggy. I can see you now, stomping your feet, yelling, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE US IN POWER.
You can rewrite the coalition attempt to grab power all you want LS, but the voters will remember, no matter what unelected leader you might have. What unelected leader? Do you still not understand how our system works? Your party leader is also unelected in the sense you are implying. Because "Iffy" and "Steve" are both elected Members of Parliament, and are both the leaders of their political parties.
Are you so partisan that you will not admit that the Liberal party did not elect a leader, they had one shoved down their throats? Your leader lost the last Liberal election to Dion, what does that say about Iggy? How can you justify, in a democracy, crowning a leader?
You come to my blog to voice your opinions, and I let you. I am one of the few blogging tories to give you a voice. In turn, you accuse me of stating that you have a mental illness, which I have never done. You bring your lefty buddies here to disrupt and distort any facts with “emotions”, never facts.
I would pit any female Conservative against any of you lefty wimps any day. You are so insecure you need to attack female Conservatives, because you are weak, pathetic excuses for real Canadians, those who had the pioneering spirit, you know those people who build this great country, that you hate and want to tear down.
You are slimy creatures crawling around creating havoc because you do not love anything except yourselves. You can’t handle the truth, so you try to remake the country into something that oozes and festers with it’s lack of morals and it’s progressive swingers clubs, where 14 year old kids would have been legal, if the Conservatives wouldn’t have fought to raise the age of consent to 16. You are the ones who are going to be crying for the killer of little 8 year old Tori, because the killer had a bad life. You make the criminals the victims and spit on the families of actual victims.
You attack religion, you scoff at people who do not believe in evolution, you think abortion is perfectly okay, and that global warming is a settled science. You are not mentally diseased, but in your quest to be progressive, you have lost your morals. May God help you.
Now, post all you want (freedom of Speech), but do not expect us to respect your views.
Remember, this is my house, and I expect you to remove your shoes, because I refuse to have mud tramped through my house. If you can not remove your shoes, go to the next house like Liblogs, I am sure they will welcome you.
US protectionism will make Canada wake up. After every recession comes change, it just might not be the change Obama was thinking about. Obama wants cap and trade, fine, we will cap it off, and trade it to China and India. How would the US react to loosing 20% of their energy supply?
Eco-nuts and Quebec want our dirty oil banned, let's go for it, let's stop selling our oil and gas to the US, tomorrow. Just for one week. See we care about the polar bears and our millions of miles of trees and our untouched wilderness. Have you noticed that every time oil goes up the TSX also goes up? Funny that.
Canadian church leaders head to northern Alberta tomorrow to explore the theological, moral and ethical implications of the oilsands.
The clergy aren't the only people interested in the oilsands this week.
Down in Washington, D.C., one of North America's top energy research consultants will testify before the U.S. Congress on the importance of the oilsands to future energy supply.
Canada now supplies 19% of U.S. energy needs, but if oilsands production is accelerated, that could rise to 37%, according to a new report by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
That in turn would translate into an injection of billions of dollars into the Canadian economy. Alberta isn't the only province that benefits. This massive industrial project creates a national demand for jobs, technology and manufactured goods.
The enormous tax revenue generated by all this activity benefits everyone.
Yikes, they want us to pollute more!! How many smog days has Alberta had? NONE. How many smog days for Toronto only? Too many to count. Last trip across Canada, we stopped at streams to let our dogs drink, until we hit Ontario, no way were we letting our dogs drink out of those brown polluted rivers.
The solution is getting back to nature. This article gives us an idea of how we can start.
CALGARY — In a remote part of the already remote Grasslands National Park in the southwest corner of Saskatchewan, a herd of plains bison is in the midst of calving season with another bumper crop of babies.
Three years ago, 72 pure-blooded animals were introduced to the 181-square-kilometre refuge as part of a Parks Canada initiative to bring large herbivores to an area that hasn't felt bison hooves in more than 120 years.
Now, that little herd has become prolific beyond expectations.
The animals in Grasslands were shipped as two-year-olds from Elk Island National Park near Edmonton, where Mr. Olson was based for 25 years. The youngsters acclimatized in a paddock before stepping beyond the gate where they had to learn how to behave like bison without guidance from adults.
Yahoo, I bet the eco-nuts love this, bison back on the prairies. I actually love it too. The more bison the better. They are actually a really healthy eat. HA!
It's bad enough that Obama is trying to destroy our economy with "Buy American" protectionism. When Canadians like the Bloc in Quebec want to shut down the oilsands without even seeing them, ignorance is bliss. Quebec, listen to this, Alberta sends 8 billion into the equalization fund, you get 8 billion, do you see any connection? So sure we can shut down, but then you do not get 8 billion. Think about that, let it rattle around in your heads, prove to me you are not stupid.
I have noticed that PM Harper is more relaxed now after over 3 years as our Prime Minister. He is really starting to hit his stride. He has gotten into a comfort zone and Canadians are noticing his excellent management of our economy at a very difficult time. Foreign leaders respect him and listen to his opinions. His Ministers are performing their duties with dedication and skill.
We can whine that he is not Conservative enough, that he hasn't moved fast enough on things like the gun registry and the Canadian Wheat Board, but we have to remember that this is a minority government.
Positive news coverage is close to none existent for not just PM Harper but his Ministers are well. So, when I see some positive news, I want to share it.
Bruce Monaghan and Dianne Brister celebrated their wedding at the Glenerin Inn in Mississauga this month with 85 of their closest friends and family, plus one surprise guest: Prime Minister Stephen Harper dropped by with congratulations. Melissa Leong talked to the newlyweds about their wedding crasher:
Q. What was Steve, I mean, Mr. Prime Minister like? Mr. Monaghan: He was very nice, very casual, very friendly, really laid-back. Ms. Brister: There were probably about 15 or 20 of us. He went around to each person and shook their hands and asked their names and asked how they were related to us. My nephews who are 4 and 6, he stopped and talked to each of them. Mr. Monaghan: Pretty nice guy, actually, whether you vote for him or not.
He even signed the guest book! This is the side of Stephen Harper that the media doesn't want people to hear about. I would like to see more pictures of him with his family. Laureen Harper is a gorgeous lady who is smart and independent. Why doesn't some enterprising reporter do an article on her? I would love to see them on the front cover of a magazine, I would even buy it. If CBC and CTV are so worried about ratings, maybe they should get out of their Liberal mindset and actually interview Laureen Harper.
Here is another article that gets to the essence of Stephen Harper, the man.
Let me be clear: I am a private citizen who does not belong to any political party nor do I harbour any political aspirations, and as such, I would like to share my personal impressions of our prime minister with my fellow citizens.
I have never worked for or with, Mr. Harper and never had the opportunity of a private meeting. However, I have had the good fortune of meeting him publicly five times, most recently on the day Mr. Turner’s scathing article was printed. I think Canadians now have the right to see him from a totally different perspective.
I first met Prime Minister Harper during the 2007 Chanukah celebration on Parliament Hill. It included a Menorah Lighting ceremony in the historic Railway Room and I had the privilege of introducing, amongst others, the prime minister, who had graciously agreed to participate.
The impression my peers and I had (and let me add that nearly all of us had met prime ministers and presidents before) was of an exceptionally affable, friendly and witty leader who went the extra mile to put his constituents at ease. His tone and demeanor were remarkably respectful and congenial, and all were impressed by his understated quiet charisma.
Quiet charisma, that is it exactly! I couldn't put my finger on how I felt about meeting PM Harper, but that is what I felt as well, a quiet charisma! He is very attractive, those blue eyes are very warm, and he is very easy to talk to, but he has a presence that you can not ignore. Quiet charisma describes it perfectly.
PM Harper is a man who is very comfortable with who he is and where he is going. My hope is that more and more people are seeing that as well. We have a true leader for Canada, who puts Canada first. He has reignited our respect for our military and made them a priority, gone are the years of darkness.
I know Conservatives come in many stripes and colours, but when you look at the man who is our Prime Minister, you should be proud! Quiet charisma, not loud arrogance.
As Conservatives we need to quit fighting the lefties and understand that we are the government. I repeat, we are the government. Granted we only have a minority but we are still the ones in power. Iggy thinks he is the PM, he has put the Conservatives on probation. HA! What an idiot.
PM Harper gets ridiculed because his riding is in Alberta, Iggy gets praised because he was living out of our country for more years then he has been alive, and gets parachuted into a Liberal stronghold. PM Harper has fought for his vision of Canada all his life, Iggy has no vision for Canada, and has only been here for three years. Three years and he thinks he should be the Prime Minister of Canada?? BS.
The MSM is driving the agenda, it is time for us to take back the power. We have the power because we can protest against the media by informing their sponsors that we will be boycotting their businesses. The media is already suffering from a lack of advertising, the last thing they need is a protest against their biased reporting. That is exactly why we need to protest the bias. If the Tamil Tiger supporters can get away with illegal protests, surely we can get away with a perfectly legal boycott of companies who advertise in our biased media.
I am sick and tired of our media constantly slagging our Prime Minister.
I am sick and tired of the media forgetting to cover our Prime Minister when he travels internationally, yet they trumpet Iggy's international experience.
I am sick and tired of the Liberals witch hunt on Mulroney, while they conveniently forget about the 40 million stolen from Canadians that went directly into the Liberal party pocket.
I am sick and tired of the attempt to make Minister Kenney the bad guy in the iRuby scandal. iRuby made her bed, she has to sleep in it, and Iggy might try to distance himself from it, but the stink is going to stick to him.
I am sick and tired of the lefties pretending that the coalition was a great idea. It was about a bunch of socialists thinking they could override the voters of Canada, and they are preparing to do it again. Next election a vote for the Liberals, NDP or Greens will be a vote for a coalition government. The only party standing in the socialists way are the Conservatives.
I am sick and tired of leftists. They want legal marijuana, swingers clubs that 16 year old kids can legally go to, and they want us to pander to terrorist groups like the Tamil Tigers.
I am sick and tired of socialists, they are destroying our country!
I have been stuck inside all day due to rain, snow and negative temperatures, not how I planned to spend Victoria day. Just like the negative temperatures, I am tired of the negative political climate. So, I watched some very inspiring Youtube videos about one of my passions, dogs. Watch and be amazed at how selfless these dogs and people are when it comes to caring about another dog.
Funny how dogs never walk into the vets to get an abortion, how birds spend all spring caring for and feeding their young, but humans are too self absorbed to care about babies being killed. I bet all of you who watched those videos were pulling for the dogs to win, for the injured dog to survive, for a happy ending. Thankfully all those videos did have a happy ending. Too bad 100,000 babies a year in Canada don't get the same compassion and love.
On a lighter note, Rigger needs a bigger pool. I guess I need to go garage sale hunting for a kiddy pool. HA! Who am I kidding, I love garage sales, I don't need an excuse to go to them.
What a fun time we are having with Rigger, he is going to be an awesome assistance dog! It's a full circle, dogs helping dogs, people helping dogs and dogs helping people, no wonder I love dogs!
I swear if I ever met Gore or Suzuki in person, I would pop them one right on their nose. I am so sick of these fake environmentalists, my teeth are clenched as I type.
I have been nursing my little plants since February (28 trays), it is time for them to be outside but NO they are still indoors staying warm, because it is going to SNOW this week! Here they are waiting to be planted:
The weather didn't stop us from planting our garden, Rigger was not very happy that he was not allowed to help us! Poor boy.
I was really tired yesterday and didn't want to get the garden in, but hubby pushed me to get it done. Thank goodness he did because it rained today and even if it snows, it will just be extra moisture for the garden.
Notice the four rain barrels in the picture, and the two composters, take that Suzuki/Gore, I walk the walk and get no money for doing it. Where are your rain barrels/composters?? Oh, you are only interested in carbon credits in a company you own? Talk about giving real environmentalists a bad name, by his name alone, we can understand Gores nature. Okay the lawn needs work, but notice no dandelions. In a few weeks everything will be fixed, without chemicals!
I want to see Ellie May's garden. She's the leader of the Greens isn't she? So, how green are the Greens? Let's see your gardens, let's see you out there starting community gardens, and leading the way, without government money. HA! Thought so.
