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Newsquips are added through the day.  Today’s a weird day though.  Car broke down, doctor’s appointment later, you know.  Weird.

1.  My broken down car is now in the shop… awaiting verdict.  Could be dismal.  PTBC doesn’t offer me a car allowance.  Bastards.

image 2.  On the flipside, here’s a STATE-RUN CBC STATE EMPLOYEE WITH $80,000 a year in theater ticketsThe executive vice-president for French services at the taxpayer-funded CBC is claiming almost $80,000 a year in expenses for theatre tickets, meals and travel.  … Documents obtained under Access to Information reveal that in 2006 Sylvain Lafrance ran up bills in the tens of thousands—all of which apparently “conforms to CBC’s corporate policy”.  Here a sentence I love:  “Those expenses are fully compliant with CBC corporate policy … if you compare them with the private (sector) they are very low.” .. OK let’s compare:  It’s exactly $80,000, plus a salary, and all the other benefits, more than I get.  … You really have to read the story to believe it. You really have to be a socialist nutbar to even remotely think this is fair, and sound, and sane.

2. Obama voters reveal their inner idiocy. Turn volume up to hear this undervolume video.  (For liberal Canadians like the media and academia, the correct answer to the questions about who controls Congress is: Democrats; Barney Frank is Democrat chairman of the House Financial Services Committee which oversees housing and banking industries, and the guy who bears most responsibility for the current financial crisis; and Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Party leader of the House and third in line for Presidency; and Harry Reid, Democratic Party, is Senate Majority Leader.  Democrats control congress and have done for the past two years) —

3. Here’s something I made at JibJab just now.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

4. Current poll at Cnews.canoe.ca:  74% say the CBC costs taxpayers too much money, or should be sold off. 
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But say it with me:  State-owned or state-run media should be banned in this country, and that notion enshrined in our constitution.  … And a memo to the Conservative government: image I swear I’ll get Rupert Murdoch on the phone right now if you’re interested in selling that socialism-reliant taxpayer-cash-sucking left-wing media behemoth.  All I ask is full control over the new direction, including full firing and hiring privileges.  And a damn car allowance.  … Note how similar the CBC logo is to the News Corp logo.  It’s a transition made in heaven. 

image 5.   The diagnosis on the car is in.  Not good.  Intake manifold gasket, injector o-rings, and such. The official recommendation is: junk the car.  Fabulous. Who needs a car?  Much.  …  I wish I worked for the CBC so at least I could get a couple of new $40,000 cars every year… or for the government-run lottery “corporation”.  … My human doctor’s appointment went better:  I don’t need any injector o-rings nor intake manifold gaskets, although I could use an alignment, some bearings, and possibly an oil change.

imageimage 6.    Smug CBC “reporter” overlooks CBC being rewarded for its “folly”.  In a CBC article today, the state-owned, state-run CBC’s reporter Neil Macdonald (who else?) presumes to bash the Americans (mostly Republicans, duh!) for bailing out industries in this financial crisis.  This is in effect, he opines quite correctly, rewarding them for their folly (you can see the teaser from the CBC.ca’s front page at left.  Strangely, the actual article replaces the words “economic folly” with “irresponsibility”).  Not so vis-a-vis Canada and the CBC, though, apparently.  Annually rewarding that giant state-owned left-wing media morass (and I do mean more ass), no matter how asinine the programming, no matter how dismal the ratings, and despite the fact that almost nobody watches it, and despite it being credibly argued that the CBC is a complete failure and state-owned, state-run media being a horribly morally repugnant waste of taxpayer cash, particularly in these strained financial times, it still gets rewarded with at least a BILLION taxpayer dollars every year, no questions asked, and CBC minions and the liberal-left generally demand more and more taxpayer rewards every year.  It couldn’t even remotely make it on its own volition.  That, they say, makes it worthy for state rewards, every year.  That’s not “folly”, you see.  It’s “progressive”.  NOW you’re thinkin’ like a socialist!  Good job, Neil Macdonald.  Enjoy your state-issued reward plus benefits every two weeks.  And a folly new year to ya.  … And here’s a gratuitous rendition of Michael Bublé singing “Call me Irresponsible” (Windows Media). 

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