Earth day sanctimony

Peter Foster wrote yet another great global-warming-scam article today, "Earth Day's kick in the ash" (here, National Post, Apr.21, 2010). It's the kinda stuff you never see our local supposed "enviro reporters" in Niagara ever writing about; they're too busy spreading Al Gore's populist Gospel of GreenFear.

Foster touches on Paul Ehrlich's doomsday fear-mongering on the first Earth Day in 1970, to Barry Commoner's baseless "civilization will end" hysteria to the Club of Rome's Malthusianism.
When Foster wrote "The 1970s and 1980s were marked by a slew of costly environmental legislation, and yet somehow the climate of eco hysteria never abated. Indeed, the more industry was forced to spend, the shriller the cries became," I'm reminded of Ontario's Grand Poobah Environment Minister in the 1980's - yeah: none other than Good Ole Jim Bradley, our imported-from-Sudbury great environmental fear-mongering Liberal Kyodiot. Jimmy and his McGuintyites believe that global warming is the Mother of all environmental issues, and slurp up Al Gore's kool-aid that global warming - man made global warming, that is! - is “the most serious manifestation of a larger problem: the collision course between industrial civilization and the ecological system that supports life as we know it.”

And if Liberals can stop industrial civilization (and, well... while they're at it, also stop the climate from changing, LOL!) and remain in power forever, then, by gaia, that's what they'll do, lying all the way!! Bradley fear-mongered his Greenshevik GreenieGarbage about population control in 1991, here, and continued his ideological, fear-based Kyoto agitation in the early 2000's, here, here .

When Foster wrote "The environmental movement has done enormous damage to the poor. One of the founding documents of the Earth Day movement was Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which raised hysterical concerns about pesticides and led to the banning of DDT, at the cost of millions of lives," I was reminded of today's Apr.21, 2010 'American Idol Gives Back' broadcast [btw, Smiley Guy was kicked off today] where the melodrama went on and on about providing malaria nets for Africans - NO MENTION ABOUT the millions needlessly sacrificed, killed due to the anti-DDT fallout in the wake of Rachel Carson's book! So sure, by all means, assuage your inner guilt; be smug and pat yourself on the back for helping buy a malaria net; meanwhile DDT (or by now, an improvement thereof) would have saved millions of lives in the first place!!

But then, there'd be nothing to be smug about...

It's a perversion of common sense.

Another perversion on American Idol today was - get this - super-star enviro-fear-monger Ban Ki-Moon came on screen blathering incoherently about freakin climate change. What a desperate act - they might as well have had Al Gore and David Suzuki there, singing back up vocals with world-GreenFear spreader Ban KaBoom. It's a good thing Cowell's leaving - none too soon - American Idol has jumped the shark with its pretentious, half-the-story eco-treacle.

Anyway, on a much more serious note, also check out Foster's article, "Climategate whitewash" (National, Post, Apr.16, 2010) where he deals with the cooked CRU "investigation" results. The science was never "settled" as the global warming despots kept on claiming - nevertheless, as Foster points out: "Draconian global policies have been made on the basis of dodgy data handled by those who are less than expert". It's no wonder then that Ontario's Sir Kyodiot, Liberal MPP Jim Bradley, has continually refused to reveal what his ahem "scientific sources" were which prompted him to agitate for Kyoto, and to continue supporting his Liberal government's greenwashed eco-havoc !

As a sitting member of Ontario's legislature, secretive Sir Kyodiot Bradley still hides from transparency; as a supposedly big hockey fan, could Jim Bradley explain to us his possible love affair with a certain Mann-made hockey stick graph, which seduced him with its phony global-warming-is-proven charms? Remember the smug Bradley, that supposed man of science, to whom others were global warming deniers, just ignorant neanderthals who knew no better? Now, post-Climategate, Good Ole Jimmy's got NOTHIN' TO SAY!!

And gaia forbid that any local reporter should dare ask. The illusion of Bradley's Great Heroic Environmental Struggle must be propagated.
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More McGuinty Tax Lies; Deb Matthews should resign

Premier Liar of Ontario, Liberal Dalton McGuinty, and his Grit Gang of Scumbags have done it again: pretending that Dalton's HST Sales Tax Money Grab will somehow be a benefit to businesses - but look at the rental housing industry, for example, where the HST will have to be swallowed by the landlord on expenses such as utilities which are included in a tenant's rent - see "Dalton McGuinty's pretend Economics" here:

"... Queen's Park applied pretend economics last week when it ruled that landlords would not be allowed to raise rents to recoup extra expenses they'll face when the Harmonized Sales Tax takes effect this summer. The tax will boost costs on utilities, maintenance, property management, renovations and other normal upkeep. Landlords estimate their bills will rise by about 5%, on top of inflation at about 2%. Since they're still not allowed to print their own money, they were hoping to offset some of the added expense via rent increases above the guidelines that tie them to the consumer price index (CPI).
No way, said Premier Dalton McGuinty. Rent increases might displease the 1.3 million Ontarians who have to pay them. So the government simply refused to let landlords make back their costs. The CPI guideline for this year is about 0.5%, and property owners will have to be happy with that..."

Scumbag Liberals such as McGuinty or MPP Jim Bradley had NEVER revealed that little detail previously, the FLICKING liars - it was all supposed to be tax sunshine and lollipops!

And the unwarranted attack on Ontario's pharmacies by a phonily-"outraged" Deb Matthews is beyond the pale - see here, where reader vsolnein commented:

"Shoppers Drug Mart has done nothing other than inform the public of the very real consequences of the proposed government regulations. The company may be an easy target in the PR wars, but ultimately patients will suffer as all pharmacies make adjustments to stay afloat. I am outraged that the minister of health is actually promoting a boycott of a specific company. This is perhaps the most egregious abuse of power I have seen from the McGuinty government. This time, her rhetoric has crossed the line. It is time for Deb Matthews to resign."

To "Pretend" - this is the standard method of operation for McGuinty's Liberal scumbag government - perpetrating pretensions, illusions, diversions, and deceptions: now pretending that our pharmacists are enemies, in the same way wackjob George Smitherman (who's now scarily pretending he's capable of being mayor of Toronto) pretended back in Nov.2005 that Ontario's optometrists were terrorists; pretending AGW climate-change is real, pretending windmills are a viable source of reliable power, pretending that Smitherman's sell-out Green Energy Act scam isn't one; pretending that patients aren't leaving Ontario for health care; pretending that the hated McGuinty/Smitherman/Sorbara Health Tax has alleviated (!) the problems of statist health monopolism... anything to divert our attention from the real problem, which is the incompetent Liberal regime ensconced at Queen's Park.

McGuinty's 'pretend' solutions are the REAL problem.

Michael Ignatieff, sexist bigot

Michael Ignatieff, nee Michael Zsohar, has flip-flopped on his stand regarding Quebec's $25 health-care-user fee (see here). Typical Liberal, typical anti-healthcare-reform obstructionism: it's just a repeat of the old Pierre Pettigrew tempest-in-a-teapot (here, pg.17) from back in 2004!! Nothing has changed - the Liberals just can't seem to understand that the ideological Canada Health Act is not sacred - it sucks; as does anyone who thinks (here) that a Liberal like Iggy would - or even could - stand for anything other than our statist, failing health care status quo.
'Bold thinking', Mr. Den Tandt, from Liberal federal leader Mr. Michael Zsohar - are you kidding?!
Ignatieff is another Stephane Bumbledore Dion: a Liberal seat-warmer, not any kind of bold leader - if Iggy was intellectually honest, he would have long ago proposed positive reforms to Canada's unfathomable, slavish obsession to single-payer monopolistic health care. With Iggy, it's just the same-old, same-old Liberal status-quo crap, year after year.
Yes... yes... Iggy can also go by his street name, Michael Zsohar (here) - what, that's insulting? It's all right for Iggy to (pointlessly) call Helena Guergis by her husband's Rahim Jaffer's last name?
What a flicking toff!
Where are the Maude Barlows, whining about women's rights and gender oppression, when the condescending Liberal party leader takes it upon himself to derisively refer to a woman as her husband's property?!
Wow: Iggy's not being a male chauvinist pig here?
Mr. Michael Zsohar is not being a sexist bigot?
Iggy's not an offensive anti-feminist boor?
Nah: he's just a Liberal asshole.
While Iggy's busy shaking the family tree of others, maybe he can finally reveal to us why Suzie ain't an Ignatieff.

Arctic ice sheet growing

The size of the Arctic ice sheet is growing again; after all those fear-mongering stories of the shrinking ice sheets and drowning polar bears and imminent floods of Al Gorian proportions which have run over the last several years in the St. Catharines Standard, I'm sure the Standard will soon be reporting on this as front-page news. Sure.
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McGuinty's Liberal LHIN's are a 'political slush fund'; Iggy ignores health care

Ontario's Great Lying McGuinty is again doing what he and his Grit goons do best: lie, lie lie.... (see here) Get a load of the utter bullshit flowing out of this Grit goon: "...Liberal MPP Maria VanBommel of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex says the review has not been canceled, just postponed. "We still say there will be a review but the timeframe has been changed," she said."

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... Liberal scumbag liars, trying to kite their way through to the next election without any more of Andre Marin's uncomfortable, and very inconvenient, truths disturbing their re-election chances. It ain't cancelled folks, says McGuinty's Grit goon: it's only postponed!!!! Trust us: we're McGuinty Liberals; would we ever lie to the people of Ontario?

FLICKING BEAUTIFUL, isn't it?!!! What pure Liberal bullshitmanship: it's breathtaking!!! The timeframe has changed, dontcha know... there'll still be a review, ya know, sometime!!!!!

Sure, we know... it will be the kind of review that McGuinty's and George Smitherman's Liberal goons carried out when some 500 hundred patients died (here) in the Liberal's health care monopoly in 2008: the Sweep-It-Under-The-Rug Review, a Dalton McGuinty specialty. Lie, deny, twist, spin, postpone, and hide. Hey, Good Ole Liberal Jimmy Bradley from St.Catharines has been doing that for years, see here.

And sadly, it works.

And let's have a quick look at federal Liberal Michael Ignatieff's recent, and laughably pompous, 'Deep Thinkers' (!) retreat in Montreal, where apparently some novel ideas for health care reform were mentioned - but then, shot down; see Joan Bryden's Mar.27, 2010 Canadian Press story "Liberals urged to champion politically risky health-care overhaul", here:

"Federal Liberals received some politically unpalatable advice Saturday to champion the overhaul of one of Canada's most cherished national programs: medicare.

They were also urged to revive the idea of imposing a carbon tax, a controversial notion which helped blow the Liberal party out of the electoral waters in 2008.

Influential speakers at the party's policy renewal conference - including former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge - said soaring health-care costs are rapidly becoming unsustainable as the country's aging population requires ever more costly medical services.

They said those costs must be reined in and recommended some solutions that have proved toxic to politicians who've flirted with them in the past. Those included setting up a two-tier system of public and private health care.

The gist of discussions on the second day of the three-day conference left some advocates of the current health system worried that the party which introduced universal, publicly-funded health care may be preparing to dismantle it.

"I think it's all up for grabs," said Michael McBane, co-ordinator of the Canadian Health Coalition, who is attending the so-called thinkers conference as a delegate.

"That's partly why I'm here, to make sure they don't make a mistake and go the wrong direction and throw our heritage away."

Ironically, it was a 1960 Liberal thinkers conference in Kingston that paved the way for the introduction of a national medicare program by Lester Pearson's government.

Dodge, a former deputy finance minister, told the Montreal conference it's time to re-think the program, the cost of which is increasing at seven per cent a year - twice the rate of growth in the economy.

He told delegates there are "really only four" options to rein in health spending:

-Impose or increase dedicated health-care taxes or levies.

-Reduce the scope of medical procedures covered by public health insurance, forcing people to buy private health insurance for services not covered.

-Introduce "significant" co-payments.

-Continually reduce the quality of services provided - letting wait times increase and limiting drug coverage, for instance - and allow people to buy upgraded, private health care. In other words, "so-called two-tier medicine."

"These are stark and unpalatable choices we face with respect to health care," Dodge said.

"There is no magic solution and we absolutely must have an adult debate about how we're going to deal with this."

Dodge's advice echoed similar sentiments expressed by various speakers on the opening day of the conference, including University of Quebec economist Pierre Fortin and Linamar Corp. CEO Linda Hasenfratz.

During a subsequent panel on health care Saturday, Alan Bernstein, former president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, said he's "skeptical" about suggestions that privatization is a "panacea" for Canada's health-care system.

Bernstein noted the United States spends 18 per cent of its gross domestic product each year on strictly private health care, compared to 12 or 13 per cent in Canada. Even so, 30-40 million Americans are uninsured.

"Their costs are immeasurably higher than ours for a much worse product."

McBane told the panel that medicare spending in Canada has actually been stable at about four per cent of the economy for 35 years. What's skyrocketed is the cost of prescription drugs, which McBane noted are controlled by the private sector.

So, rather than dismantle medicare, he said Canada should be expanding it to include longterm care, home care and pharmacare.

In an interview later, McBane said his group has met with people in Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff's office to remind them that opinion polls suggest Canadians overwhelming don't want privatized health care.

"So far, there's been no real message from Michael Ignatieff on whether he sees himself as a dreamer and builder or whether he'll preside over the continued dismantlement of the system."

Ignatieff listened to all sessions Saturday but did not offer his opinions on any of the advice given.

Toronto Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy said just because the party is listening to various opinions about how to fix the health-care system doesn't mean it must embrace them.

However, former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna, a conference delegate, said Liberals must grasp the health-care nettle.

McKenna told reporters he "profoundly" believes in the single fee-payer health system but the Canada Health Act must be more flexible to allow provinces to experiment with things like private delivery of health care.

He said the rest of the world, court rulings, and the public, which is already opting in an "ad hoc" way for private care, are way ahead of public policy in Canada.

McKenna allowed that any notion of tinkering with medicare has proven deadly to politicians who've raised the idea in the past.

"The question is: Is there room for courage in politics?" said McKenna.

"I'm not sure that this party or any party are ready for that. But there's a tidal wave coming here that is engulfing the political parties.

McKenna said Liberals are particularly "gun shy" about proposing anything controversial since the 2008 carbon tax fiasco.

Yet during an environmental panel later Saturday, imposition of a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions seemed to be a popular idea.

Panellist Steven Guilbeault of Equiterre said he was pleasantly surprised.

"I'm happy that there are so many people here who are willing to talk about this because at the end of the day it's one of the most efficient measures you can use if you actually want to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions," he said in an interview.

Ignatieff, who first proposed a carbon tax during the 2006 Liberal leadership, has since said he won't revive an idea that's been so decisively rejected by voters. He now advocates a cap and trade system instead.

But panellist Michael Phelps, board chairman of the GLOBE Foundation, said a carbon tax is a much simpler and more effective way to influence consumer behaviour.

"I'd be standing on a soapbox saying, 'Use less carbon, you're going to pay for it,"' he said."

 Reading Bryden's above article will put to rest Michael Den Tandt's bizarre pipedream that Iggy and his Liberals might somehow bring a new vision to the problem-plagued, socialized health-care malaise in Canada! Hmm... is there "courage in politics" when it comes to the "third-rail" issue of sacrosanct health care? Iggy certainly didn't want to deal with the "stark and unpalatable" limitations of state-controlled health-care! And what else to expect but the same leftist health-care rehash from McBane and Kennedy. And let's not forget that Frank McKenna was simply rewarming exactly what Paul Martin's health minister Pierre Pettigrew had already said, years before, in April of 2004 (see CTV report here; see Liberal healthcare Duplicity, pg.17) - and was then severely chastised for it by his own frightened Liberals! Listening to McKenna was like being in a damn time warp, these Liberals are so backward.

Den Tandt had written (see here; here) about Michael Ignatieff's lack of any grand vision:

"Every serious analyst of our health-care system says the present model is unsustainable, given the aging baby boomers. Where is the plan to move beyond our national theological devotion to the status quo on health care?"
adding:
 "Ignatieff looks like a bold thinker on paper, but so far has failed to deliver anything but generalities."

Den Tandt wrote this eight months ago, back in July of 2009; at the end of March 2010, Iggy again had a chance to show us the goods, to show us that he can offer Canadians a vision that is not tied to statist health care demagoguery; to show us that he has the fortitude to lead Canadians and show that we can (as Den Tandt well put it) "move beyond our national theological devotion to the status quo on health care".

But bland, un-bold Iggy didn't have the balls to do so; once again the vaunted Deep-Thinkin' Professor failed to deliver anything but safe generalities. All Iggy did was apparently listen to Deep Thinker "delegate" Michael McBane, and pretend that all is fine with health care, and anyway, if there is anything wrong, then some more government intervention will fix it!!

It's the same old elitist crap, being delivered to us hot'n'steamy from the mouths of Dalton McGuinty and Michael Ignatieff.
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Ooops - Smitherman suddenly remembers he HAD something to do with McGuinty's eHealth fiasco!!

Oh, this is precious: McGuinty's disastrous old health and energy minister, and wannabe Toronto mayor, George Smitherman is now - get this - floating the idea of private sector involvement in TTC transit and garbage collection!! (here)
Whaaaaat?!?
This is from the dictatorial Liberal ideologue who railed against ANY dilution of McGuinty's Liberal-enforced health monopoly? Ole Shitty Smitty now wants, what....?! Competition?!!
What a pandering, opportunistic hypocrite - typical slimebag Liberal.
Smitherman, the idologue, never said the same thing about healthcare - and he should have, years ago, in 2003.
Smitherman also kept pretending that he had nothing at all to do with the billion-dollar eHealth spending scandal - yet now admits (Mar.4, 2010, on Agar's CFRB show) that he should have been "more attentive"! Now, Shitty Smitty - who as McGuinty's bagboy never met a tax he didn't like - wants to portray this cultivated, fake image that somehow he's Mr.Fiscally Responsible!!!
Come on...!
Remember: this duplicity is from Dalton McGuinty's hand-picked incompetent, bullshitting health and energy minister; this is from McGuinty's hand-picked deputy premier of Ontario!!!!!!!!!!
This is from the ideologue who cut health funding while enforcing an ideological health monopoly; who was against patient-payer choice in Ontario; who sent cancer patients like Suzanne Aucoin to the U.S. to obtain their treatments - and then pretended (along with secretive Liberal MPP Jim Bradley) that he knew nothing about it!! (see Liberal Healthcare Duplicity here, page 70)
Who the flick can take this snake Slitherman seriously?

Time for McGuinty to walk, not talk

Antonella Artuso wrote in "Time to talk health care" (Toronto Sun, Mar.4, 2010,[http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/03/03/13101731.html]):

"Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to engage Ontarians in a conversation about the future of health care as the expensive ministry threatens to gobble up the entire budget.

Health care already consumes 42 cents of every Ontario tax dollar and is projected to consume more than 50% of the budget at some point between 2013-2015.

“They tell me that in 12 years it will be 70 cents on the dollar if we continue at the existing rate of growth,” McGuinty said Wednesday. “So it will crowd out many of our other programs that are highly valued by Ontarians.”

The McGuinty government has signalled that its Throne Speech Monday will begin a dialogue with the health care sector and Ontarians on how to preserve the system without breaking the bank.

Health care threatens the budget for education, the environment, business investment and supports for the vulnerable, the premier said.

“We want all those things — we don’t just want health care — and we need to find a way to come to grips with that,” he said.

The Liberals introduced a health care premium and delisted some services such as routine eye exams during their first term of office.

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said they are not looking at specific cost cutting measures like trimming salaries.

Instead, the government wants to look at ways to make the system sustainable over the long term, he said.

“No questions that the aging of the boomer population is going to have a dramatic impact on long-term care,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons we’ve been so focused on post-retirement income. One of the concerns that I have is that our generation doesn’t save the way our parents did.”

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the government’s messaging around health care raises “alarm bells” that they’re about to embark on spending cuts.

Various parts of the province are already dealing with nursing layoffs and emergency room closures, she said.

Tory MPP Peter Shurman said the government needs to spend its health care dollars more wisely, pointing to the $1 billion eHealth Ontario boondoggle as an example of mismanagement of precious resources."
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Time to talk!?
With that arrogant Liberal, McGuinty?!
Oh, please.
It's time for McGuinty to walk.
Ontario's Premier Liar, Dalton McGuinty, isn't really interested in any engagement of conversation regarding health care!!
Remember: What Deceiving Dalton says, ain't what Duplicitous Dalton means.
Double-speaking Dalton has done his best to avoid the scrutiny of the Ombudsman and the Auditor when it comes to health care.
This Liberal scumbag, and his smarmy Liberal ministers, have refused to answer my questions regarding their failing monopolist health-care policies!
McGuinty isn't interested in any health care reform in Ontario - this is simply a PR exercise, offering appearance for substance.
Sure... go talk - Dalton ain't listening.
Monopolist Liberals such as McGuinty and MPP Jim Bradley sailed through the 2007 provincial election barely even mentioning health care!!!
The stink of Smitherman was all over McGuinty's failing monopolist policies already then - yet Liar McGuinty wasn't interested in any kind of dialogue - see here!
Dalton's Liberals were only interested in enforcing Tommy Douglas' failed socialist single-payer health care ideology: see Liberal Healthcare Duplicity!!
Let's remember that during the 2007 election, McGuinty WAS ALREADY SAYING THAT THE HEALTHCARE BUDGET WAS HALF OF ONTARIO'S ENTIRE BUDGET!!!
Nevertheless - Mcguinty's government continued to spend like proverbial Drunken Liberals.
Yet now we're told - in Mar.2010 - that healthcare sending eats up (only!) 42% of the entire Ontario budget!??
So -was Dalton lying then - before the 2007 election, see video here - or, is McGuinty lying now??
Secretive MPP Jim Bradley didn't bother to answer my questions about that; neither did the health minister.
When McGuinty coyly now says "health care threatens the budget for education... environment... etc." - we should remember that it is McGuinty and his gang of ideologues who have threatened and severely mismanaged Ontario's health care system!
Every McGuinty Liberal MPP in Ontario is the problem.
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