When Ralph Klein first ran for Premier, he told us he would reduce our spending by 20%. He told us we needed to do this to get rid of our debt, to give our children a fighting chance.
And we voted him in.
And he did what he said he would do, he reduced spending by 20%. I remember because 5 people were going to have to be let go at work and I was number 6, I survived the cuts, barely. He was vilified by the ruling Federal Liberals, made into the bad boy of Confederation by the ruling elites. Why? Because he turned our province around, and got rid of the debt, faster than promised. I miss him. Even after all the cuts and pain....
We Voted Him Back In.
Where the PC's went wrong, was to push him out, before he and Albertans were ready to see him go. It has been a disaster since then. We got Steady Eddie, a guy way over his head, useless but harmless. Now we have Red Ali, an arrogant, my way or the highway, female Dalton. She is not harmless. She has surrounded herself with weak Minister's, like Fred Horne, the marshmallow, as Minister of Health. She says jump, he says how high. He's a "Yes Mam" kind of guy.
So, what are Albertans going to do? How can we solve this problem of poor leadership, shown by the election budget they released? Do we sit back and hope it gets better? Do we pretend that the PC's are still in any way Conservative?
We can't vote Ralph back in, I wish we could. We need to change course. We need to understand that the PC's are Conservative in name only, and that Red Ali is a Liberal. We need to look to the only party in Alberta that can provide the government that we need, and that is the Wildrose Party.
Albertans are slow to change. We think about things for a long time, because we care deeply about our province. Because we care so deeply about Alberta, we need to take up a new banner. We need to make our kids and grand kids proud. We need to stop automatically voting for the PC's just because they happen to have Conservative in their name, they are closer to the NDP than to Conservatives under Red Ali's leadership.
I was upset when Klein was pushed out as leader. I was willing to give Stelmach a chance. He was awful. The PC's had the choice to go more Conservative, and what did they do? They voted for a Liberal who only won because she promised the teachers union they would get 100 MILLION dollars. That was the first thing she did when she got "elected". Then she went on to pander to special interest groups with her .05 drinking and driving law. They have mentioned a PST, and increasing the "sin" taxes. Not very Conservative at all. She has refused to support our oil industry and yet went to Ontario and Quebec to get agreement on a "National Energy" program. I smell disaster if she actually gets elected as our Premier.
I want you all to understand that they are going to use every trick in the book this election. It's going to be nasty. I have noticed government sponsored ads being run by the PC's already...remember, you are paying for them. The unions are going to be advertising for her, just like they did to get Dalton re-elected.
We can not sit on our butts, and think that she can't do much damage if she is elected. She can, and she will. Liberals have been infiltrating the PC party for years, knowing that is the only way they can gain power in Alberta. I say, it's time we taught them a lesson. Voters have power. We decide who will rule Alberta.
Got out into your neighbourhoods and talk about Wildrose. Talk about Danielle Smith and her party. Put up a Wildrose sign. Go out and door knock with your Wildrose candidate. Get the message out.
Quebec booted the Bloc last election, unfortunately they picked the NDP as a replacement. It's time for Alberta to boot the PC's and replace them with the Wildrose! If Saskatchewan could boot the NDP after years in power, in favour of the Sask Party, Alberta can replace the PC's with the Wildrose. Look at how well Saskatchewan is doing now. We can and should be doing better, it's only our 40 year old, tired, entitled party that is holding us back.
Come on Alberta! We can do better.
Disclaimer: I am not a member of the Wildrose Party, but I was a member of the Alberta PC's.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
All Of Canada Needs To Suck It Up!
That includes our seniors, who built this country for their kids, and now, seem to have forgotten why they worked so hard. Here is what they get:
CPP
First up we have CPP, which everyone pays into and what you get is proportionate to what you paid in. The more you worked, and the higher your salary, the more you get. This is totally funded by you.
On average, when you retire at age 65, you will get $512.64, no matter what your income might be. This fund is in good shape because the government can't get their hands on it.
OAS
This is paid to anyone 65 or older, depending on income. This is totally funded by taxpayers, you do not have to pay a nickle into it to get these benefits.
GIS
As shown above, the guaranteed income supplement is also available to seniors, curtsey of the taxpayers, but is subject to income cutoffs.
It looks like one person, without any income, pulls in over $1500 a month from all the social security benefits. Two seniors could pull in around $3,000 a month without a pension! When the average Canadian looks at their pay cheque after tax, I bet they are not making much more than seniors are getting.
Try this little exercise to see how much in OAS and GIS you can expect to get depending on your income level, at around $25,000 excluding CPP and OAS your GIS runs out, but OAS is still around $500 a month.
Is this "sustainable" (a favourite lefty term)? Right now we have 4 workers for every retiree, in the next 20 years that will become a 2:1 ratio. We have a government that wants to prepare our children for the future by acting now, and the opposition and lefties are screaming bloody murder.
We can act now, or our children can be put in the same position that Greek children are in today. In Alberta, we took 20% decreases in government, education, health care, and other sectors to get rid of our debt. It was hard, but we did it.... for the next generation. If we vote the Alberta PC's in again, all that hard work will go down the tubes.
It's time for all of Canada to suck it up, and get it done, for our kids. Maybe the have not provinces should look at themselves, and their spending, and try to get off the gravy train, same goes for our First Nations. Maybe the seniors or soon to be retired, also need to save for their retirement and stop expecting our children to pay for them in their old age. Sure you worked hard all your lives, but that doesn't mean that you can now suck off the teat of the taxpayers. It's time to stop with the "I earned/deserve it" attitude, and get to the "my kids deserve better" attitude.
CPP
First up we have CPP, which everyone pays into and what you get is proportionate to what you paid in. The more you worked, and the higher your salary, the more you get. This is totally funded by you.
OAS
This is paid to anyone 65 or older, depending on income. This is totally funded by taxpayers, you do not have to pay a nickle into it to get these benefits.
As shown above, the guaranteed income supplement is also available to seniors, curtsey of the taxpayers, but is subject to income cutoffs.
It looks like one person, without any income, pulls in over $1500 a month from all the social security benefits. Two seniors could pull in around $3,000 a month without a pension! When the average Canadian looks at their pay cheque after tax, I bet they are not making much more than seniors are getting.
Try this little exercise to see how much in OAS and GIS you can expect to get depending on your income level, at around $25,000 excluding CPP and OAS your GIS runs out, but OAS is still around $500 a month.
Is this "sustainable" (a favourite lefty term)? Right now we have 4 workers for every retiree, in the next 20 years that will become a 2:1 ratio. We have a government that wants to prepare our children for the future by acting now, and the opposition and lefties are screaming bloody murder.
We can act now, or our children can be put in the same position that Greek children are in today. In Alberta, we took 20% decreases in government, education, health care, and other sectors to get rid of our debt. It was hard, but we did it.... for the next generation. If we vote the Alberta PC's in again, all that hard work will go down the tubes.
It's time for all of Canada to suck it up, and get it done, for our kids. Maybe the have not provinces should look at themselves, and their spending, and try to get off the gravy train, same goes for our First Nations. Maybe the seniors or soon to be retired, also need to save for their retirement and stop expecting our children to pay for them in their old age. Sure you worked hard all your lives, but that doesn't mean that you can now suck off the teat of the taxpayers. It's time to stop with the "I earned/deserve it" attitude, and get to the "my kids deserve better" attitude.
Monday, February 20, 2012
I Justin Trudeau, Me Justin, All About Justin!
Warning Disturbing Pictures!!!
Dear Diary:
I, Justin Trudeau, woke up this morning wondering, as I do every morning, what Canada can do for me … Justin Trudeau.
After all, who wants to live in a country that insists on calling honour killings “barbaric”?
One where you can’t even call Peter Kent a “piece of sh*t” in the House of Commons without everybody going bananas?
Fuddle duddle. This is not the Canada I, Justin Trudeau, grew up in.
Because I, Justin Trudeau, am a loyal Quebecer.
I mean, I, Justin Trudeau, am a loyal Canadian.
Interesting comments too, like this one:
They Just Can't Make Up Their Minds....
And I'm not talking about women, although Liberal females are very wishy, washy and emotional, Conservative women didn't need a "consensus" to make up our minds, and we don't need to go to the bathroom in groups/herds.
It appears that lefties, who have been telling us for years that the science is settled, and global warming is real, have started to falter, and change their minds. I wonder if it has anything to do with funding, or lack of it?
Colour me shocked that the Globe and Mail actually printed this article:
You want to stop the Gateway pipeline? Go ahead, we will just ship it by rail, much more likely for a spill, but what do the environmentalists really care about that, they are being paid by foreign interests to shut down the oil sands. The railways already have the right of way through the Rockies and right into Vancouver.
Should be fun watching the econuts trying to stop the trains. Sorry First Nations, no oil royalties for you. You can keep your people in poverty for longer now.
I want our environment to be clean for the next generation, but not at the cost of shutting down the golden goose that is keeping Canada above water economically.
Let the environmentalists move to Churchill so they can save the polar bears (if they don't get eaten), let them farm the land so that they can provide us with produce from 100 kms (would like to see how they are going to do that in the winter, without greenhouses and CO2), let them swim in the ocean and save the cod from predators like seals, let them join our First Nations people in living off the land in teepees (Occupy lasted real long in tents didn't it?), and then I might start listening to them. Oh, First Nations don't still live in teepees? Why didn't someone tell me? It would destroy the whole image of First Nations living off the land you say? Well, I'm shocked!
They just can't make up their minds, and they have become shrill, pathetic and untrustworthy advocates of nothing. Climate models predicting 100 years into the future? They are unbelievable and intolerant, 60's like hippies, without the flowers in their hair (can't pick and kill those flowers now, can we?).
Make up your minds, either you are about cleaning up our environment, or you are radical activists being paid by foreign interests to shut down the engine of our country. Unions have already killed Ontario's manufacturing sector, now environmentalists are trying to kill the oil sands. Canadians can not let that happen.
Colour me shocked that the Globe and Mail actually printed this article:
One of the world’s top climate scientists has calculated that emissions from Alberta’s oil sands are unlikely to make a big difference to global warming and that the real threat to the planet comes from burning coal.WHAT??? Why the sudden change? Could it be that more and more researchers are being called out on their "facts" and that the IPCC has been shown to be a political movement, NOT a true climate change organization?
“I was surprised by the results of our analysis,” said Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria climate modeller, who has been a lead author on two reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “I thought it was larger than it was.”
They found that if all the hydrocarbons in the oil sands were mined and consumed, the carbon dioxide released would raise global temperatures by about .36 degrees C. That’s about half the total amount of warming over the last century.Why are they even still talking about temperature increases when even the UK climate researchers have admitted that no warming has occurred since 1997?
When only commercially viable oil sands deposits are considered, the temperature increase is only .03 degrees C.
In contrast, the paper concludes that burning all the globe’s vast coal deposits would create a 15-degree increase in temperature. Burning all the abundant natural gas would warm the planet by more than three degrees.
The comments are worth the read, and a few thumbs up, like this one:liza
oh,and by the way.. UK Weather office, one of only 3 in the world with data capable of making projections said the earth hasn't cooled in 15 years...
BUT THE GLOBE DIDN"T REPORT THIS EITHER...
CLEVELAND - There are three agencies around the globe that are the keepers of global temperature numbers. The first is NASA. The second is the University of Huntsville in Alabama (satellite temperature records). The third is the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, the UK Met, as it is known.
Last week, the UK Met released its latest global temperature data to the world. It shows that the Earth has not warmed in 15 years. The warming ceased after the great super El Nino of 1998.
The numbers are based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations around the planet. The data was quietly released last week without fanfare and it confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
Or this one:Sweeney Todd
If you sit quietly, you can actually HEAR the heads exploding over at GreenPeace...
Hey! You got to love Alberta! We have it all!US American
Coal you say..................
so the Alberta oil sands cannot , by themselves , warm the globe.....
now - where in Canada can we find coal............???
" Coal is the world's most abundant fossil fuel. Canada is ranked tenth in the world in total proven coal reserves. Alberta’s coal reserves represent 70 per cent of Canada’s total reserves. Alberta’s coal reserves contain more than twice the energy of all of the province's other non-renewable energy resources, including conventional oil and pentanes, natural gas, natural gas liquids and bitumen and synthetic crude. "
BWAAA HAAAA HAAAAA..........
onward Albertans..... Its time to play our second card !! Off to the coal mines......!!!!!!!
Should be fun watching the econuts trying to stop the trains. Sorry First Nations, no oil royalties for you. You can keep your people in poverty for longer now.
I want our environment to be clean for the next generation, but not at the cost of shutting down the golden goose that is keeping Canada above water economically.
Let the environmentalists move to Churchill so they can save the polar bears (if they don't get eaten), let them farm the land so that they can provide us with produce from 100 kms (would like to see how they are going to do that in the winter, without greenhouses and CO2), let them swim in the ocean and save the cod from predators like seals, let them join our First Nations people in living off the land in teepees (Occupy lasted real long in tents didn't it?), and then I might start listening to them. Oh, First Nations don't still live in teepees? Why didn't someone tell me? It would destroy the whole image of First Nations living off the land you say? Well, I'm shocked!
They just can't make up their minds, and they have become shrill, pathetic and untrustworthy advocates of nothing. Climate models predicting 100 years into the future? They are unbelievable and intolerant, 60's like hippies, without the flowers in their hair (can't pick and kill those flowers now, can we?).
Make up your minds, either you are about cleaning up our environment, or you are radical activists being paid by foreign interests to shut down the engine of our country. Unions have already killed Ontario's manufacturing sector, now environmentalists are trying to kill the oil sands. Canadians can not let that happen.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Friday Night Funnies: Sex With A Cowboy!
The Bathtub Test
> During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the
> Director, "how do you determine whether or not a patient
> should be institutionalized?"
>
> "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we
> offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and
> ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
>
> "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person
> would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or
> the teacup."
>
> "No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the
> plug."
>
> " Do you want a bed near the window?" --
> During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the
> Director, "how do you determine whether or not a patient
> should be institutionalized?"
>
> "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we
> offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and
> ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
>
> "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person
> would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or
> the teacup."
>
> "No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the
> plug."
>
> " Do you want a bed near the window?" --
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Here are some fun ads to watch!
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Queen Elizabeth
and
Dolly Parton
die on the same day and they both goand
Dolly Parton
before an Angel to find out if they'll be admitted to Heaven.
Unfortunately, there's only one space left that day,
so the Angel must decide which of them gets in.
The Angel asks Dolly if there's some particular
reason why she should go to Heaven.
Dolly takes off her top and says, 'Look at these,
they're the most perfect breasts God ever created,
and I'm sure it will please God to be able to see
them every day, for eternity.'
The Angel thanks Dolly, and asks Her Majesty
the same question. The Queen takes a bottle of
Perrier out of her purse, drinks it down.
Then, wees into a toilet and pulls the lever.
The Angel says, 'OK, your Majesty, you may go in.'
Dolly is outraged and asks, 'What was that all about?
I show you two of God's own perfect creations and
you turn me down. She wees into a toilet and she gets in!
Would you explain that to me?'
'Sorry, Dolly,' says the Angel, 'but even in Heaven,
A Royal Flush
Beats a Pair -
No Matter How Big They Are.
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WHAT PART OF QUIET DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
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Eye candy for us ladies:
Sex with a Cowboy
Prior to her trip to Calgary Alberta , Carol (a blonde chick from England ),
confided to her co-workers and
confided to her co-workers and
friends she had three goals for her trip to Cowboy country ;
1. She wanted to taste some real western Bar-B-Que.
1. She wanted to taste some real western Bar-B-Que.
2.. She wanted to take in a bona fide rodeo...
And...
3. She wanted to have sex with a local cowboy.
Upon returning, the girls were curious as to how she fared.
'Let me tell you, they have Alberta beef to die for, and when they bar-b-q it,
the taste is unbelievable!'
'And I went to a real rodeo. Talk about athletes...Those guys wrestle full grown bulls!
They ride horses at a full gallop, then jump off the horses and grab the bull
by the horns and throw them to the ground!
It is just incredible!'
Then came the big question,
3. She wanted to have sex with a local cowboy.
Upon returning, the girls were curious as to how she fared.
'Let me tell you, they have Alberta beef to die for, and when they bar-b-q it,
the taste is unbelievable!'
'And I went to a real rodeo. Talk about athletes...Those guys wrestle full grown bulls!
They ride horses at a full gallop, then jump off the horses and grab the bull
by the horns and throw them to the ground!
It is just incredible!'
Then came the big question,
'Well tell us, did you have sex with a real cowboy?'
'Are you kidding? When I saw the size of the condoms they carry in their back pockets I changed my mind!'
Brought to you by:
THE BEST CHEWING TOBACCO
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Thank goodness the gun registry is as good as gone.
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I just took a leaflet out of my mailbox,
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A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.
So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.
"Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?
"Morris Feinberg," he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?"
"For about 60 years."
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims."
"I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop."
"I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults and to love their fellow man."
"I pray that politicians tell us the truth and put the interests of the people ahead of their own interests."
"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"
"Like I'm talking to a brick wall.!!!!
So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.
"Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?
"Morris Feinberg," he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?"
"For about 60 years."
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims."
"I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop."
"I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults and to love their fellow man."
"I pray that politicians tell us the truth and put the interests of the people ahead of their own interests."
"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"
"Like I'm talking to a brick wall.!!!!
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A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands.
On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin."
"What?" said the puzzled groom.
"How can that be if you've been married ten times?"
"Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative: he kept telling me how great it was going to be.
Husband #2 was in software services: he was never really sure how it was supposed to function, but he said he'd look into it and get back to me.
Husband #3 was from field services: he said everything checked out diagnostically but he just couldn't get the system up.
Husband #4 was in telemarketing: even though he knew he had the order, he didn't know when he would be able to deliver.
Husband #5 was an engineer: he understood the basic process but wanted three years to research, implement, and design a new state-of-the-art method.
Husband #6 was from finance and administration: he thought he knew how, but he wasn't sure whether it was his job or not.
Husband #7 was in marketing: although he had a nice product, he was never sure how to position it.
Husband #8 was a psychologist: all he ever did was talk about it.
Husband #9 was a gynecologist: all he did was look at it.
Husband #10 was a stamp collector: all he ever did was... God! I miss him! But now that I've married you, I'm really excited!"
"Good," said the new husband, "but, why?"
"You're a lawyer. This time I know I'm gonna get screwed!"
On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin."
"What?" said the puzzled groom.
"How can that be if you've been married ten times?"
"Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative: he kept telling me how great it was going to be.
Husband #2 was in software services: he was never really sure how it was supposed to function, but he said he'd look into it and get back to me.
Husband #3 was from field services: he said everything checked out diagnostically but he just couldn't get the system up.
Husband #4 was in telemarketing: even though he knew he had the order, he didn't know when he would be able to deliver.
Husband #5 was an engineer: he understood the basic process but wanted three years to research, implement, and design a new state-of-the-art method.
Husband #6 was from finance and administration: he thought he knew how, but he wasn't sure whether it was his job or not.
Husband #7 was in marketing: although he had a nice product, he was never sure how to position it.
Husband #8 was a psychologist: all he ever did was talk about it.
Husband #9 was a gynecologist: all he did was look at it.
Husband #10 was a stamp collector: all he ever did was... God! I miss him! But now that I've married you, I'm really excited!"
"Good," said the new husband, "but, why?"
"You're a lawyer. This time I know I'm gonna get screwed!"
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Great weather holding out here.....Have a great long weekend, for those who get Family day off! Those who don't.....Don't wake me up with loud noises on Monday....I'm sleeping in!
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