We're crazy

A friend in Ottawa sent me this.  Makes you realize how crazy we are doing what we're doing here!  Should be mandatory reading for Climate Barbie and her demented posse............thank you ET..............

 

Carbon TAX

China - Food for Thought

China has 19% of the world’s population, but consumes ... 53% of the world's cement 48% of the world's iron ore 47% of the world's coal ... and the majority of just about every other major commodity. In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United States. New World Record: China made and sold 18 million vehicles in 2010. There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined China currently has the world’s fastest train and the world’s largest high-speed rail network. China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power, but don’t use it themselves.  While they manufacture 80% of the world’s solar panels, they install less than 5% and build a new coal fired power station every week. In one year they turn on more new coal powered electricity than Australia's total output. China currently controls more than 90% of the total global supply of rare earth elements. In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14thplace to 2ndplace in the world in published scientific research articles. China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire globe. At the end of March 2011 China accumulated US $3.04 trillion in foreign currency reserves - the largest stockpile on the entire globe. Chinese people consume 50,000 cigarettes every second. They are already the largest carbon dioxide emitter and their output will rise 70% by 2020. ~*~*~*~*~*~ And we think we're saving the planet? It will not make one iota of difference what we do in Australia, Canada, the United States or anywhere else in the world; for that matter, all the politicians are doing is increasing our cost of living and making our manufacturers uncompetitive in the world market, with the carbon tax, when countries like China are growing and consuming at these extraordinary rates.  And we are paying carbon tax to save the World!

Off With Their Heads

That's what two respected columnists in 'The Calgary Herald' are calling for with our inept city councillors.  Don Braid says the provincial government should fire the whole bunch and outlines why. 

"City council has proven itself utterly dysfunctional in this matter of grave importance," he writes.  He is talking about the scandalous tax increase business owners are facing this year -- an 80% increase in two years!  For three years, councillors have dithered about the emptying out of Calgary's downtown office towers, wondering what to do about it.  While they refused to make any decisions, the situation only became worse.  Now they've lowered the boom.  "City councillors should be ashamed and unemployed," concludes Braid. 

The municipalities are creatures of the provinces and firing the whole bunch can be done under Section 574 of The Municipal Government Act.  Will it happen?  I wonder.  While Nenshi gets fatter and councillors argue idly, this city is going down the drain.  Trudeau's failure to get pipelines underway and the continuing exit of oil companies just means Calgary is going further into the toilet and down the drain.  Has anyone noticed there is currently no viable alternative to fossil fuels?  Listened to the demented Climate Barbie on 'Power Play' today and almost cried.  She is so out of it, repeating the same tax-on-pollution-not-free-to-pollute garbage she always does.  Answering every question with, "Look...." as it Joyce Napier was a complete idiot and had to be instructed at every turn. 

It was a disgrace.

Licia Corbella, another 'Herald' columnist, outlined what she had uncovered, leafing through job openings in the city.  Here are a couple of doozies:  The city is seeking to hire.....wait for it.....sit down......a Coordinator of Cycling and a Coordinator of Walking.  I am not kidding!  Both jobs pay up to $137,252 for a 35-hour week, with an extra day off every three weeks.

If that is not insanity, I don't know what is?!  Last year, the city announced it was funding, "$600 million in efficiencies."  When asked for details, they had none.  OMG!  She suggested privatizing city-owned golf courses -- I didn't even know we had any -- and firing the staff.  That would result in huge savings.  And by the way, these courses lose huge amounts of money because people buy a cheap membership and then play more than 100 rounds per year, which works out to a few dollars per round versus a green fee per game. 

WTF??

Will they?

Will the natives forfeit a good portion of the money currently given them in return for sharing in any pipeline revenues that go through the Crown Land on which they sit?  How about a big, fat no.

Listening to the vacant Scheer talking about how he will get pipelines built I almost laughed.  In fact I did laugh.  You can't get pipelines past the 400-odd native bands and the tree huggers, who will fight the projects in the courts the whole way through.  We desperately need pipelines, but won't get them because people will chain themselves to bulldozers, if ever a bulldozer even gets near the route.  The natives will oppose every inch of the way, while still demanding seats at the boardroom tables of the companies they are fighting.

Huh?!

I don't get any of it.  Somebody has to show some n-ts and build the damn things with the help of the army, if necessary.  But no one will. 

A death sentence

That's what a group of doctors in Belgium is calling what parents who make their children vegan are exposing them to.  The Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium published a legal opinion Thursday that could influence future court judgements. 

"It is unethical to subject children to the diet because it does not include animal proteins and vital amino acids that help growth and prevent health problems," the physicians said.  "A vegan diet should only be made safe for children if it is complemented with medical supervision, regular blood tests and vitamin supplements, which most vegan parents are not qualified to provide." 

Why would you feed your baby such a diet if it has to be medically supervised and requires needles to be stuck regularly in the kid?  Seriously, why?  "We must explain to the parents before compelling them, but we can no longer tolerate this endangerment," said Prof. George Casimir, who led the commission that wrote the report. 

Someone better tell that to Harry's wife, Meghan.  Apparently, she is planning to raise their kid vegan.

"We are talking here about stunted growth and psychomotor delays, under-nutrition and significant anemia," he continued.  In 2017, a Belgian couple was given a six-month jail term after its seven-month-old baby died of malnutrition and dehydration, blamed by doctors on the parents' choice to only feed it vegetable "milk".

So, Harry --, a red-blooded Brit who regularly kills and eats things -- has married a woman who only eats plants.

Dumb.    

This is "fashion"?!

'Style' magazine in 'The Globe and Mail' today included this disaster.  If this is now "fashion", I am in big trouble:





Stuff and nonsense

Five stretch, gas-fuelled limos were lined up idling outside the National Press Club the other day when my friend pulled up for a lunch appointment.  "Holy sh-t, I guess the PM is here," she said on the phone when she arrived.  Guess what?  He was inside -- probably blathering on about how everyone should buy an electric car.  Everyone except him.

Has no one noticed the entire North American economy centres around oil, gas, carbon and fossil fuels?  The latest stupefying move by the feds is to allocate $300 million in subsidies for anyone dumb enough to buy an electric car.  Hey, if you can afford a $50-60K Tesla, you don't need a subsidy; you've got it covered.

Think about it, it's not just the beleaguered oil sands, it's everything else that is tied to cars.  Things like gas stations and the corner stores attached to them, repair shops, after-market suppliers like Canadian Tire, tire companies, accessory companies, automotive trade shows....and on and on and on.  Whither the car industry, whither the entire economy.  Just a plain fact.

I know one guy who has an electric car, but he's a rich doctor so can afford one.  And where do you plug the blessed thing in?  An extension cord from the garage?  I don't think we're there yet.  And by the way, you can only drive so far until the battery dies and if you're in Lethbridge or Upper Rubber Boot Saskatchewan, you're sh-t out of luck.

No, the petrol-fueled car isn't going anywhere because there is currently no viable alternative.  I can think of better places to spend $300 million.     

$19,000

That's what the Kitchenuhmaykoosib reserve in Northern Ontario receives every year to pay for gas and repairs to keep their fire truck in working order.  And that's over-and-above the rest of the millions the band routinely receives. 

But guess what?  The fire truck was not in working order when a fire on the fly-in location killed a woman and four children the other night.  "Just because they have a fire truck on paper doesn't mean it's up and running.  There's not a lot of money given for maintenance," complained Richard Kent, v-p of the Aboriginal Firefighters Association of Canada.  What a bizarre thing to say while the band pockets $19,000 a year for this very expense.  Obviously, they are spending that money on other things -- what we don't know, but not the fire truck.  "Indigenous Services Canada provides money for firefighting, but communities may choose to use fire protection funding on other projects," said the department wimpily. 

Once again, it's the rest of us and the feds who have caused this problem.  It's never the bands' fault.  Well, I'm here to tell you it is.  "The way I feel right now, I don't know how to explain it?" the band chief inexplicably said.  CMHC said fires on reserves are caused by poorly-built housing, a shortage of smoke alarms (would have been useless when the truck wasn't working), arson (there's a good one!) and the use of wood stoves -- all items the responsibility of the bands who have taken over everything, including the firefighting itself.

Why are these people still living on fly-in reserves?  Oh yeah, I forgot, money.  Sorry, but someone has to say it.