The Supreme Court has changed the constitution, unconstitutionally

 How cute, tying the acceptance of Trudeau's carbon tax to good, ole "climate change".  (You'll notice they're no longer calling global warming because it's not.)  That's how out-of-it Richard Wagner and five other judges are.  They failed to notice that section 92 of the Constitution Act of 1982 gives responsibility for resources to the provinces.  I should know because I get my info from B, one of those who held the pen, thus knows it inside out.  

So, the feds do not have the jurisdiction to impose such a tax at all.  But hey, look how well carbon pricing has done in reducing emissions!  Absolutely nothing.  It's all just a money grab, period the end. 

In all the coverage of this ruling, not one journalist I have read or heard has even mentioned section 92.  They just blather on about non-existent climate change.  (Read my previous blog to see what a hoax this is.  But millions of people are making money out of it, so it continues.)  How could the supreme court simply ignore our constitution?!  Oh, I forgot.  Wagner and Trudeau are McGill old-school-tie buds.

Case closed.

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I was glad to see someone other than I denouncing Lucki and calling for her to be removed.  Native journalist Tanya Talaga wrote a good piece in the 'Globe and Mail' the other day.  Of course she aligned her arguments with native issues, but we're on the same page on this file.  Lucki is a disgrace to the uniform.

     

Here are the facts...............

 Boy is this going to bum out Greta and Gore:

Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies.   He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.

Born	12 February 1946
Residence	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Earth Science , Geology, Mining Engineering
Institutions	University of New England ,University of Newcastle,University of Melbourne,University of Adelaide
Alma mater	University of New South Wales ,Macquarie University
Thesis	The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia (1976)
Notable awards	Eureka Prize (1995, 2002),Centenary Medal (2003), Clarke Medal (2004)

Source. Wikipedia

 

Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From?

Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better!
If you've read his book you will agree; this is a good summary.

PLIMER: "Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland. Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - its that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know....it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up 'til midnight to finish your kids "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs.....   well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.
 
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS - by that volcano in Iceland which has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.

 Yes, folks, Mt. Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it.

 Of course, I shouldn't spoil this 'touchy-feely-tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized, 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year. Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus 'human-caused' climate-change scenario.

 Hey, isn't it interesting how they don't mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just "Climate Change"  - you know why?

It's because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull**** artists got caught with their pants down.    And, just keep in mind that you might yet be stuck with an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer.

It won't stop any volcanoes from erupting, that's for sure.

But, hey, relax...give the world a hug and have a nice day!"

Here's what I don't get?!

 If Jonathan Vance had an affair with a woman outside his direct command, to whom he was engaged and the affair was consenual, what is the problem?!  

By that measure, so many people having consenual office affairs should be in jail -- including B because when we started dating 40 years ago, we were working together, albeit he didn't have any direct control over my career.  

Just take a look at the smash TV hit 'Mad Men' and you'll see how life used to be at the office.  In fact, when I worked for Maclean Hunter in the late sixties and early seventies, that's exactly how it was.  And boy, was it fun!  No one forced anyone to do anything; you went along because you wanted to, or you didn't.  No hard feelings anywhere in sight.

That's why I felt sorry for Jian Gomeshi, who had a consenual affair with a woman outside the workplace who apparently was in complete agreement.  I still don't get that one either, which makes me terribly old-fashioned or completely with it.  Either way, I believe in free choice regardless of what the sex police and gender lunatics have to say.  As for Gomeshi, his life and career have been destroyed and that's a shame because I loved 'Q' when he hosted it.  I don't now.

Botched and bungled

 Whatever happened to ministerial accountability?  Used to be, in the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy, a minister resigned when things f-cked up.  

Not anymore.  Now, they just appoint someone to look into what went wrong and wash their hands of the entire mess.  That's what Hadju and Tam have done with the botched vaccine rollout.  That's what Anaud has done with the procurement bungling.  

The early-warning system was just dismantled and now they're blaming lower-level bureaucrats.  It's just bullsh-t and Trudeau needs to fire people.  But he won't.

Self-perpetuating bullsh-t

Apparently the millions Murray Sinclair and gang spent on finding out their own people murdered native women* wasn't enough.  Now we're going to have a permanent body dedicated to dredging up who was apprehended and taken into provincial care so we can.....uh......get more money for them? 

Just think what that $3 billion could have done to fight covid!  And why is it that everyone who went to a residential (i.e., boarding) school is always a "victim"?  Many become very successful.  But if they move back to the "rez", all bets are off.  That's where they get into trouble and fall back into bad habits.  Why?  'Cause there's nothing to do there but hang around is desolation and isolation.  

The two above-excerpts speak for themselves.  I smell more money flowing out the federal door.  Just what we need!

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*Google the RCMP stats for the numbers.
 

First of all

 I am not in any way, shape or form a fan of the ridiculous and screamingly incompetent Trudeau, but I have spent my career in communications and journalism in one form or another and I do know a thing or two about political public imaging.  In other words, I instinctively know what  Ralph Klein's "George and Martha" are thinking.  

Trudeau seems to know nothing and neither do all the sycophants that surround him.  Either they are giving him bad advice, or he refuses to do what they are telling him.  Frankly, I think it's a case of "The Emperor's New Clothes", but whatever it is, he has a tin -- no, make that deaf -- ear when it comes to how to handle and avoid his many missteps.  

What would I do?  I'd fire Tam, Hadju, Anand, Freeland and Sajjan immediately.  Tam and Hadju should have been gone a long time ago, but our "feminist" pm wouldn't do it.  Now, the incompetents are piling up alarmingly and he must do something.  He needs to show strength, step up and fire people.  Now.

People would sit up, say whoa and take notice, let me tell you.  If he stood in front of a microphone and fired the bunch of them, telling us Canada's response to the pandemic wasn't good enough and that things needed to change, if he added that the defence minister's handling of sexual harassment allegations wasn't swift enough, he would look decisive, show leadership and silence the opposition in one fell swoop.

That's what I would do.  But he won't because he's too stupid.  What's even sadder is that Erin O'Toole is not the leader the Conservatives should have elected because he will not defeat Trudeau.  Even Bernier would have been better because at least he had a definite position, one which might have resonated with a lot of closet right wing nuts.  As for ejecting Derek Sloan, that was also knee-jerk and short-sighted.

The other unelectable leader is Singh.  We must not know the religion of a secular political leader and with Singh, we do.  But Trudeau knows he's safe with Singh because the latter will never defeat him in a vote of confidence.  As the Globe and Mail's Bob Fife said in pointing out the obvious, "The NDP are toast."  And don't even get me started on the ridiculous Annamie Paul, another dumb choice for a leader -- even of the irrelevant Greens.

So, that's the sorry state in which Canada finds itself.  

My pet peeves

 As you know, I bang on about the same things quite often.  Here are a  couple:

Chrystia Freeland strikes again!  What the eff is a "feminist" budget?!  It's all so predictably boring.  Women can stand on their own two feet, we don't need a babushka like Freeland babysitting us.  

Speaking of incompetent women, what have I been saying about Tam since day one!?  Here, Dr. Ronald St. John, former head of the public health agency, slams her for her non-repsonse to the covid mess.  Typical.

Here's a letter I had in today's 'Calgary Herald'.  Logic always escapes public health agencies:

One agenda item

Have you ever noticed that EVERY interview with, or by, a person of colour ALWAYS bends back around to race?  It always does and it was the same with that stupid interview with Meghan Markle.  Eventually -- and it didn't really take too long -- she started in about race and Oprah grabbed onto it and went to town.  

Race, race, race.  

As I have pointed out, there is only one race:  The human one.  Everything else is cultural or personal decisions.  But, hey, if it grabs headlines and let's someone off the hook, flog it!  And saying someone wondered how dark the baby would be?  So what?!  I pondered the same thing.  And the minute she mentioned it, Oprah paused -- dramatically -- and incanted, "What?!"  By the way, most of the Commonwealth is made up of people of colour, so, as I said, so what?!

Let's face it, Meghan's agenda from day one was to nab a title and get Harry back to millionaire status in California.  There's a reason none of her family members, save one, talk to her.  She is toxic.  And speaking of titles, only those in direct line to the throne get one, so brush up on protocol will ya.  And speaking of protocol, after having been married before, why the virginal white wedding?  You'll notice that the classy Wallis Simpson didn't do that.  But that's what class is all about.

And have you also ever noticed that when natives jump on an issue -- any issue, name one -- they ALWAYS bang on about residential schools and colonialism?  Everything always rolls back around these two "issues".  By the way, again, without the dreaded colonialism, the world -- outside African where it all began -- would not exist.

No one takes responsibility for what they say or do.  It's always "racism" or "residential schools".  I'm sick of it.

And speaking of over-blowing things, yesterday we had International Women's Day.  Yep, it's Black History "Month", Aboriginal Awareness "Week", but women?  We get one lousy day.  Again, I seem to be the only person who notices stuff like this.

Ah well, in the long run, we'll all be dead.

     

  

Great lines

From that brilliant philosopher, Mike Tyson, here is a guide and explanation of life:  

"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."

How true is that!

Think about what your personal punch in the mouth was.  Mine was hooking up with my husband, which meant hooking up with his money-grubbing ex-wife, who not only went after my money, but also wanted to get her mitts on my parents'.  The latter didn't happen, but she tried.  My money, however, was regularly sent to her for many years, while I raised, paid for and supported her children.  I was actually under the mistaken impression that any self-respecting woman with a pinch of self-esteem would fend for herself and not steal from another.  "Unfortunately, the judicial attitude looks at overall household income," said our lawyer.  So I was robbed.  That's how I saw it then and that's how I see it now.  

Another good philosophical moment came from B, who said:

"Life is made up of small victories and mediocre defeats."

Dead on and also brilliant.

As for funny lines, the facebook feed I got the other day takes the cake -- or should I say "olive":

"Black (o)lives matter."

Ya gotta look out for pithy truths and enjoy them when they pop up.

 

Really?!

 This is what "fashion" looks like today:

Must have been put together by someone who hates women.

Have to hand it to them

 The vaccine registration system for those over 75 has been corrected.  I got a vaccine appointment for B a couple of days ago, right here in Calgary; didn't have to go to Red Deer.  Yesterday, he got his first jab and all went smoothly.

So, the initial registration might have been a complete disaster, but they fixed it.  We got a quick appointment and are now booked for his second shot.  Hopefully, when my cohort is called up, it will run as smoothly.

Bravo Alberta Health!