Dippers In Deep...

...do-do:

NDP MPs ordered to repay office spending to be denied expense claims

Gee...

...what am I going to blog about, then?

UN Admits Reason for Global Warming Propaganda

"What a scoop this is from Investor’s Business Daily! Someone from the UN is admitting the truth about global warming: it’s a scam! And she even goes as far as to tell us the reason for the scam: to destroy capitalism."

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"As yet, no admission has been given for the reason for the destruction of capitalism, but I can’t help wondering if it’s with the aim of introducing communism or some other totalitarian regime. It’s certainly not for the greater good."

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"At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism."

Scandal Du Jour....No! Really...

Francois Hollande 'affair' will overshadow policy shift

"French newspapers warned Saturday that President Francois Hollande's alleged affair with an actress risked overshadowing his much-anticipated announcement of a new tack in efforts to kindle growth and create jobs.

Whilst largely defending the unmarried Hollande's right to a private life, national and regional dailies admitted the hundreds of journalists at his bi-annual press conference on Tuesday will only have one question in mind."

It wouldn't be France without a good sex scandal. And just when he was about to do something to correct his economic blunders.

Makes things easy for journalists anyway.

Will Wonders Ever Cease?

I've held the belief that the struggle going on in Toronto is not so much about what to do with a boorish mayor as one of ordinary citizens fighting back against smug elites who look down their noses at the great unwashed while robbing them blind at tax time. And here's an article in the Toronto Star (of all places!!) saying more or less the same thing. Those who comprise the Great Unwashed, the voters, are yearning to return their city to the days when it was known as Toronto the Good from what it is now, vis., Toronto the Hood, thanks to the dominance of lefty elites, champagne socialists as they are called.

I feel the same way about the Harper administration. Despite the lefty media's best attempts to smear him and pronounce him dead due to the Senate scandal, I have a gut feeling he, or at least the Conservatives, will be returned to power come election day in 2015. I firmly believe Canadian elections over the last little while have been more about sticking it to the lefty elitist media who deign to tell us not to vote Conservative, and the Parties for which they shill. Mind you, it helps when the Liberals make Baby Trudeau their leader. And that's precisely the point. We want the adults to be in charge.

It's So Hard...

...not to believe in conspiracy theories:

Saskatchewan to call for abolition of Senate

"The motion, which is largely symbolic, comes one week before the Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to begin hearings on the constitutional implications of reforming the Red Chamber."

More here and here and here.

How Can You Tell A Lawyer Is Lieing?

His lips are moving:

Rob Ford wasn't smoking crack on video, lawyer says

If he had left it at that, it would have been better. But then he has to go and add this:

"Ford was smoking another substance, such as marijuana or tobacco."

Oh My, Oh My, Oh My!

This explains a few things (and raises a few questions):

Whistle-blower comes forward, attests to attorney that Obama’s financial aid state his citizenship Indonesian, aid given to Obama as a FOREIGN student...

Denials and accusations will be flying left and left.

The Truth Will Out

Petraeus Bombshell: The Administration Censored The Benghazi Truth

"The Benghazi terror attacks were a concerted, organized attack by terror cells on the United States. It happened on 9/11 of 2012. It was, in a sense, the second volley of 9/11. Only this time, Mr. Obama was president, and he betrayed us all every step of the way, intentionally, for weeks."

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"...through the month of September, we were beside ourselves with the way the administration handled the attacks. First, they blamed the freedom of speech. Then, they “detained” the supposed director of a video making fun of Muhammad. Then, it turns out they essentially had originally forced the Marines and the ex-SEALs in the area to leave, requiring our ambassador to Libya be grossly undefended, before the attacks even began. Rand Paul correctly asked, “Where the hell were the Marines?”

But now, news is coming out that is worse than everything else, because it shows that this wasn’t just incompetent leadership. It was something darker and more sinister. General David Petraeus has testified that he knew the attacks were terror all along, but “someone” in the administration censored his message. In other words, the attacks on the video and the claims it was a “spontaneous riot” weren’t just wrong — they were lies."

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"Considering Obama met with his security staff within minutes of the attacks, and that he obviously would keep up with his CIA director’s view of an attack that was plastering the news for weeks, this means only one thing: Obama intentionally tried to cover up the terror attack as just being a protest."

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"...we’ve been lied to, they’ve been busted, and people need to lose their jobs over this."

Morning Laugh

Who is the most corrupt?


(Heavy sigh)

There's More Than One Way...

...for attention seeking Canadians to get noticed by Yanks:

Queen Latifah wants Mayor Rob Ford on her new talk show

Jimmy Kimmel cracks another joke about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Why do I have this gut feeling that this is a turning point for old media?

For Dave

Only Dave knows why.



Did you feel that wind pass by?

(This blog has officially reached a new low. If you don't like it, you can always watch the scandals unfolding on either side of the 49th. This is just pixels on a screen. The scandals are just democracy burning up, that's all.)

Hmmmmm.

It seems to me our political class has betrayed us. First it was Harper-Hitler for any number of horrific misdeeds, then it was Rob Ford, now it's Winnipeg's mayor, Sam Katz:

Winnipeg Mayor Caught Littering

"...a Winnipeg woman saw the mayor take a piece of chewing gum out of his mouth and casually toss it onto the grass, showing a cavalier disregard for the city he governs and its grass lawns."

What's this country coming to?

PS: I wonder what the media would be doing if Ford had been caught smoking marijuana instead of cocaine? He'd likely be a hero.

A-huh

Gawker says they are unable to reach owner of alleged Rob Ford video

Yah, I Know I'm Biased...

...but what with photo-shopping and all, lefties will stop at nothing.

I suspect the good people of Toronto will see this for what it is.

And it's funny, I suppose, that when this story broke, I, too, dusted off the old gray cells and thought about Marion Barry.

There's something rather sordid and self-serving about offering the video for sale. This has fraud and desperation written all over it. Lefties know they are in full retreat and they ain't happy about it.

And I like this one:

Mayor Ford won’t be afforded compassion for his ‘disease’

Well, So Much For...

...those behind closed doors meetings:

David Petraeus says he believed terrorists behind Libya attack all along as pressure mounts on Obama’s version

What'd I tell ya?

Oh My, Oh My, Oh My

We got us a feeding frenzy:

Petraeus

Petraeus

Petraeus

Petraeus

Petraeus

Petraeus

My prediction: Petraeus will spill the beans and go down in history as a hero.

Speaking of going down, I suspect he will take a lot of good-ole-boys with him. All mashed up at the bottom of the pit will be leftards and media types (hard to tell them apart, though), and the Democrats. And Global Warming zealots. They've already been moved off the radar screens. This will finish them off for good. I just hope they swing by this way and do a bit of snow shoveling.

This has all the makings of a turning point in history. Oh, and maybe the 21st century will be Canada's. Laurier was only off by a century.

Good-bye America.

The Plot Sickens...

...as it thickens:

Petraeus to Testify on Benghazi Behind Closed Doors

Oh well. It will just take a little longer for the truth to come out, but come out it will --- on blogs.

Sh!t, Meet Fan

What Does Petreaus Know About Benghazi?

"As the scandal between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell continues to unfold, we need to remember one thing -- Petraeus may be one of the few people who actually knows what happened in Benghazi."

Holder lashes out at The Daily Caller while refusing to address growing calls for his resignation

White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' For Favorable Testimony On Benghazi

And, as if that wasn't enough:

West letter to secretary of state

Good-bye America.

(PS: I've been on this planet long enough to know that America holds its scandals in the public arena. Watergate, for example, or the Iran hostage crisis. But this one has a different feel about it. It's not just the nefarious doings of a President that are rocking the nation, although that's certainly part of the cocktail. Nope. This one goes to the heart of the democratic process. I sincerely hope this is not "good-bye America", but it sure has a feel about it. Sixty-five years at the top of the heap is not that long. But then, everything moves faster these days. And it used to be that the enemy was external. Now the enemy is not just within, it's in the innermost sanctum. Hope you can weather it, neighbours.)

More....

...from the bread and circuses file:

Prince Harry gains support — with naked salutes — for his Las Vegas photos



I hear tell Liz is not amused.



No siree.

She's ordered him to stop partying.

But what's a prince to do?

And Chuckie-pooh?

"A palace source reports. “She [Queen Liz] sent a message to his father, Prince Charles, telling him to pull Harry back in line or there would be consequences.”"

Secretly, he's probably jealous.

I wonder what Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grannie would think?

Politics is Soooo Entertaining

Bill C-38: Voting continues in Parliament's omnibus budget marathon

"Bleary-eyed members of Parliament are continuing their round-the-clock voting on proposed amendments to the government's 425-page sweeping budget bill, and are expected to be stuck in the House of Commons until the wee hours.

As many as 159 consecutive votes — which began Thursday around 1 a.m. and are likely to stretch through to early Friday — are expected on more than 800 proposed opposition amendments to the federal government's Bill C-38.

By 10 a.m. Thursday, MPs had completed about 60 votes on proposed amendments and had nearly 100 more to go.

New Democrat MPs were slowly rising for each and every vote in what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to slow the voting process, while government MPs were being handed 30-minute breaks every four or five hours to grab some breakfast, brush their teeth and prepare for a long day in the House.

Indeed, MPs were stocking up on coffee, dark chocolate and a healthy supply of political outrage as they headed into a potentially 24-hour marathon session of voting on the federal government's budget-implementation bill"

On vote after vote, Conservatives quash C-38 amendments

"Federal MPs came armed with snacks, blankets, even iPads for a marathon voting session on the government's omnibus budget implementation bill, which began at around 1 a.m. ET Thursday morning.

The opposition parties have introduced more than 800 amendments or deletions to Bill C-38, which includes major changes on everything from Employment Insurance to environmental approvals for major projects.

Andrew Scheer, speaker of the House of Commons, grouped some of those amendments together and ruled others out earlier this week. The end result is that as many as 159 votes are being undertaken by MPs -- a process expected to take about 24 hours."

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"...most MPs are organized in shifts to ensure each party has enough members in Commons at any given time during the voting marathon. The Conservatives, for example, have split their MPs into 11 groups, with 10 of the groups required in Commons at all times. As a result, all MPs get a short break at regular intervals to use the bathroom, get a coffee or stretch their legs."

As long as they get potty breaks, we're gonna be alright.

Read the comment from Angus99. Weep, lefties. Weep.