.jpg "image")
1. Meaningless but just had to report it in the “news”. Headline at Vancouver radio station CKNW (all news) web site: “Vancouver top tourist destination in Canada for gay and lesbian travellers”. Wow. Upon three seconds of heavy research: Vancouver top tourist destination in Canada… GENERALLY SPEAKING. So it’s the top destination for heteros too? Go figure. Maybe for women too. And for people with a proclivity to joke around a lot. And Germans. And people with tinnitus.
2. BITTER SWEET … (mostly I don’t really care, except for the families) —Canadian liberal mainstream media giant Canwest, owner of Global TV and publisher of many of Canada’s liberal newspapers like the in-the-tank-for-Obama Vancouver Sun and National Post and many others, is laying off 500 employees—five percent of its workforce—in order to avoid eating a financial crap sandwich that has been in the making for years mainly as a result of assuming billions of dollars in debt. _30JAN2008_200px.jpg "image")
They accumulated debt by buying things on credit, like the very liberal-left, well-known U.S. political magazine The New Republic, and then watching as circulation dropped by nearly half in just ten years. But at least they elected Obama.
2-b. Of course it’s tough to compete out there in business, especially when you’re not all that keen about competition and free market capitalism. The Canadian government’s gigantic and growing state-owned media, the socialism-reliant CBC, which consumes a BILLION taxpayer dollars per year to compete against citizen-owned Canwest for viewership and readers and ad revenue and broadcast rights and, effectively, to compete against the countless Canadian families which have invested their savings in shares of Canwest, isn’t laying anybody off. That’s how socialism is designed to work in Canada. Stack the deck against capitalism, compete against private business efforts as a matter of government policy, regulate the hell out of it, meddle in the free market until it bleeds, then claim that capitalism is failing once again. Make sense? That’s good. Now back to your sitting there and doing nothing about it —or endorsing it. Maybe demand a government bailout to speed up the process.
3. Somewhat related to above: “Bush Warns Against Too Much Government in Markets”— Nov. 13 (Bloomberg)—President George W. Bush today urged leaders of the world’s biggest economies not to abandon free-market capitalism as they seek an escape from the financial crisis, calling it the “best system” for delivering growth.
In a speech at the Manhattan Institute in New York before weekend talks among leaders from the Group of 20 nations, Bush said policy makers should resist the urge to meddle too much in markets as they seek to reverse the financial and economic turmoil now engulfing the world.
“History has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market, but too much,” Bush said. “Our aim should not be more government, it should be smarter government.”’
He didn’t address the issue of the state competing against its own citizens as they do in Canada, and how that can wreck economies.
Another related article which may be banned in Canada: “Bush Defends American Capitalism Ahead of G-20 Summit”. … Liberals outraged in Canada and U.S. … Can’t wait until he’s gone and Obama is sworn in to invoke the “change”.
.jpg "image")
4. CBC on red alert, and panting, and drooling, and working feverishly to clear the decks on their TV “news” schedule to make room for pending new Michael Moore “documentary” promotion (and features, and prime-time runs, and re-runs, over and over and over again on CBC Newsworld, as they did his other “documentaries”) … It’s said to have an “end-of-the-American-empire” tone. Well that’s just perfect then. Liberals and all leftists should LOVE it!
5. Earth to PTBC readers: Coincidentally, both Ann Coulter and Steve Milloy, PTBC columnists, deploy earth to so-and-so communication strategies within their columns today. “Earth to protestors” says Ann Coulter. “Earth to Republicans” says Steve Milloy. … In completely unrelated news, the headline “Early Black Holes Grew Fast, Merged Quickly” has nothing whatever to do with Obama and his campaign promises.
6.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
Contact Mr. Johannesen about this article using this form. Please refer to article's title.
FOLLOW @JoelJohannesen ON X!
- Proud To Be Canadian. But Maybe Not. - Tuesday December 17, 2024 at 2:07 pm
- Say something. - Friday October 25, 2024 at 6:03 pm
- Keep going, or veer right - Monday August 26, 2024 at 4:30 pm
