Licenced, Regulated, Indoctrinated -&- Other Bud Bites

Child care--Harper has it right

This child care debate could be the sleeper issue of the election. It comes down to the Liberals / NDP wanting to licence, regulate, and doubtlessly dictate the curricula of this-now-state-run institution; while the Conservatives want to give the money outright to the parents, to use as they see fit. Do the Canadian people want a system that parallels what was so successful for the Communist Chinese and Russians in indoctrinating children? The system already has their left-leaning allies in the universities to "re-educate" students later on. And just let your imagination run free when considering the vast bureaucracy that will be needed. Thinking about the $$$ tens of millions more spent on the Indian Commission for Reparations to Natives (or Reconciliation Commission--whatever its formal name) in residential schools would be a good start. The auditors found that three times as much money was spent by the commission on themselves, than on awarding Natives who were victimized.

© Bud Talkinghorn

Was setting up another vast bureaucracy the point, Bud? Think how many Libs will be given jobs.

A cynic's advice: Consider joining the Liberal Party right now if you want a daycare job, in case PM & Co (buy off) convince enough people to vote for them. You may always vote as you please but cover your proverbial, if you want to work. Use the join now, pay later plan -- or ask for a forgiveable loan. NJC



Taxing mutual funds and other stocks

It was revealed in a National Post letter to the editor (A-17) by Stephen MacPhail, who is COO for CI Financial Inc., that there is a hidden GST embedded in the price at sale. If you see your mutual funds as a savings element rather than a consumption one, than you should be infuriated. Food for thought, if you can't afford food after liquidating your mutual funds.


Mohammed Hagi Mohamud--Poster child for the IRB

Why the totally dysfunctional IRB has not become a major election issue speaks to the crimping of genuine freedom of speech. The Liberals try--and apparently succeed--to silence all critics of their failed immigration / refugee policies with shouts of "racist". Here is Mohamed, who has two imprisonments for violent offences; yet is still allowed to remain in Canada to kidnap, rape and nearly beat to death a woman. One snatched off the Skytrain platform in Vancouver, yet.


How toothless our IRB has become. In a related story, we have a CBC morning anchor ( Nancy ? maybe ) demanding to know why the Vancouver police have stationed armed transit officers on the Skytrain system. When the chief officer said a number of felony and fugitive arrests were made, the anchor replied, "Do you need armed police to do that?" Duh!



The fraud of the Turner Art Prize--Shedboatshed

If you ever had doubts about the "cultural elites'" proclamations of genius, then you should check out the current winner of The Turner Art Prize. Simon Starling won for his "Shedboatshed" entry. He bought a ramshackle shed, disassemled it and turned it into a boat, then reassembled it into the wretched shed it previously had been. Starling follows in the footsteps of previous winners. Last year some chap won for a barren room that had a lightbulb that changed colours when he entered or left. For some strange reason his name escapes me. The year before that, a woman won for her "Unmade bed", featuring used condoms, an empty liquor bottle and a pair of "nicotine-stained" panties. Oh yes, and the unmade bed looked like anybody's after a hard night. I wait with bated breath for next year's winner. While the Turner Prize is an English one, Starling has a fan in the curator of the AGO in Toronto. Mr. Moos agrees with Starlings suggestion to sink Henry Moore's statue, Warrior with Shield, into Lake Ontario, so it can be encrusted with zebra mussels. I leave you with Mr. Moos's comment on this brilliant plan. "...the idea typifies the artist's concern with the legacies of modernism and his quest to explore the tensions between aesthetic perfection and ecological devastation." Or maybe we should just sink both Starling and Moos into Lake Ontario and see if their mussel encrusted forms would also be a "legacy of modernism."

Turner must be turning over in his grave knowing that these travesties are being awarded in his name.

© Bud Talkinghorn


Welcome back, Khadr

As part of the Liberals' "family reunification" immigration program, we have the return of Abdullah Khadr. First we got one brother who was released from Gitmo. He claimed to have repudiated his al-Qaeda ties. Then Mama Elsamnah Khadr, daughter and crippled son returned home. They made it clear that they weren't reformed. However much they proclaimed that Canada was a moral cesspool, they chose to leave that Islamic heaven called Pakistan. Now we have the return of Abdullah, who states he was tortured in Pakistan, with Canada's complicity. This is a man who ran an al-Qaeda training camp in Afganistan and was named in a radical Islamic website as the person who was responsible for the suicide attack that killed a Canadian soldier. The government refused to comment on his re-entry to this country and what they plan to do with this fanatic. All that's left to complete this touching family reunion is to have daddy's corpse sent here and for Omar Khadr to be sprung from Gitmo. Perhaps Martin can follow Chretien, who helped daddy Ahmed get out of prison in Pakistan, and lean on Bush for a commuting of Omar's detention. He might vote Liberal, you understand, and who knows how many Canadian Muslims would be grateful for such compassion.

© Bud Talkinghorn

The Liberals' handgun ban idea: Martin shoots himself in the foot again

You have to give the Liberals credit. First they create that useless two billion dollar gun registry albatross; now Paul Martin wants to create a monstrously stupid ban on handguns. Ostensibly, this is to quell the gun murders in our cities. The logical flaw is that the criminals already have illegal handguns. They are not going to turn them in through some amnesty--Toronto 's police have already gone that route and it didn't work. Nor will the drug thugs stop bringing them in from America. All that this ban will accomplish is the creation of another incompetent, expensive bureaucracy and the wrath of those owning legal handguns. The liberal elites in Toronto will love the idea, but then they also loved the "Yes side" on the Charlottetown referendum / Meech Lake Accord. Thank you Paul, for providing another moronic policy--another nail in your electoral coffin.

© Bud Talkinghorn

It's job creation, Bud.

I enjoy your bites . . . The pure evil genie in me hopes they give the usual suspects lockjaw . . . a hiatus in the blunderbuss and bafflegab of the electioneering. NJC

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