Obama being schooled by Benjamin Netanyahu

The relative amateur and appeaser President Obama wants Israel to return to the pre-1967 borders. It's interesting, on many levels, given the porosity of the Mexican/USA border, the clear lack of astuteness in his administration thinking the Canadian border is more dangerous than the Mexican side, and the history of the USA in it's own conquering of land formerly belonging to other countries, within the contiguous USA. Perhaps Obama would consider giving California back to Mexico using his current logic.  Would that be the 1850 borders?

Watch the video to get a good account of Obama's clear lack of logical thinking and his continued willingness to appease the Arabs, who call themselves Palestinians.  The latter term is a creation of the old NKVD, of the former Soviet Union, who trained Arafat to use it so people would believe there actually was such a place.  There wasn't and isn't.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlJ6erL-HY&feature=youtu.be

Bob Rae - retread Socialist and extravagant spend thrift offers himself as Liberal Temporary Leader

If you were Chairman of the Board and wanted to rebuild the company would you hire a temporary leader to be caretaker, start the rebuild and then hire a completely different person to take over in less than 2 years?

It's no wonder the Liberals are in the tank.

Bob Rae says he won’t run for Liberal party leadership

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/19/bob-rae-says-he-won%E2%80%99t-run-for-liberal-party-leadership/

Steven Harper and the Senate

Much has been made by the punditocracy, and even Premiere Brad Wall of Sask has opined the 3 recent appointments of  Senators, who lost in the HOC election, is bad for democracy and problematic.  It is most interesting to see the swelled heads of Andrew Coyne of MacLeans, Dan Gardner, of the Ottawa Citizen, and Scott Stinson of the National Post express faux outrage over Mr. Harper's temerity.  The political sky is falling and Democracy, as we know it in Canada, is in danger -  almost as much as AGW is going to bake we Canadians into stiff pretzels instead of frozen noodles.

Here is a recent Tweet of Coyne on the size of government. He predicts with the certainty of a man who voted Liberal expecting a different outcome than what occurred with a majority CPC government.

"@acoyne acoyne  May 18/2011 People on CBC keep talking about the coming "austerity". Folks, there is not going to be any austerity. At most they will slow the growth..."

Would you bet he is right?

Someone tell Wall (and the Punditocracy) the PM requires a majority in the Senate to ensure change. Paul Martin, in his short time in power, made 13 appointments to the body.

The current breakdown does not ensure Mr. Harper will get the reform he desires.  Including his 3 recent appointees  those listed as Conservative number 55, Liberals 45, Independent 2 and PC 2.  Mulroney still has 15 appointees who could nominally be considered PC ( i.e. potentially Red Tory rather than Conservative) but may not wish to limit their terms or be elected.

Normally the Senate has 105 Seats but to ensure passage of reform legislation Harper can appoint up to 13 more Senators above the 105.  He is playing a numbers game and will want to ensure he has enough votes before putting the changes through.

If I were him I'd be doing the same thing. He is playing a long game and has 4 years to get his numbers up.  Between now and 2014 there will be at least 23 retirements due to age so time is on his side.  Those who are critical fail to understand his strategic focus even after 5 years as PM.

In the long game no one will remember this in a year, let alone 4.

Jonathan Kay: No distinction between Islam and Islamism for Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders was interviewed by Jonathon Kay, Op-Ed Editor of the National Post here

Mr. Wilders is one of the few politicians in the world to tackle the cult of Mohammad and Islamism.

He has many supporters who do understand this is no ordinary religion but a total fascist ideology teaching only they are right all others are infidels.

One only has to look at the basket cases world wide where this ideology is practised such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran for starters. If the Saudi Peninsula didn't have oil they would still be living in tents.

Welcome to Canada Mr. Wilders many of us here are behind you.MJM

"As an editor at the National Post, I often rely on three letters to protect my columnists from human-rights tribunals: I-S-M — these being the difference between spelling Islam and Islamism.

The former is a religion — like Christianity or Judaism. The latter is an ideology, which seeks to impose an intolerant fundamentalist version of Islam on all Muslims, and spread the faith throughout the world. Declaring Islamism a menace isn’t controversial. Declaring Islam a menace is considered hate speech.

Geert Wilders’ refusal to deploy those three letters is the reason that the 47-year-old Dutch politician travels with bodyguards, and cannot sleep in the same house two nights in a row. For Mr. Wilders, the problem plaguing Western societies is Islam, full stop. Terrorism, tyranny, the subjugation of women — these are not perversions of Islam, as he sees it, but rather its very essence.

“The word ‘Islamism’ suggests that there is a moderate Islam and a non-moderate Islam,” he told me during an interview in Toronto on Sunday. “And I believe that this is a distinction that doesn’t exist. It’s like the Prime Minister of Turkey [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, said ‘There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that’s it.’ This is the Islam of the Koran.”

Read more:  http://tinyurl.com/3tdm2to

What the GOP can learn from Canada’s Conservatives

The Washington Examiner takes a look at election 41 in Canada and concludes there may be lessons for the GOP in the USA.

"The Conservatives’ triumph offers a couple of lessons that may be relevant to U.S. Republicans. One is that smaller-government policies, far from being political poison, are actually vote winners.

The second is that a center-right party can win immigrant votes. Conservatives won 35 of 54 seats in metro Toronto, many heavy with immigrants. One tactic that seems to have worked was to circulate videos of Indian- and Chinese-Canadian Conservative candidates appealing for votes in their native tongues.

The simple message is that this is a party that likes and respects you. Republicans could do something similar, with Sen. Marco Rubio, Govs. Susana Martinez and Brian Sandoval, and Reps. Allen West, Tim Scott and Quico Canseco, all elected in 2010.

So Canada has moved from a four-party politics rooted in its own special history to a two-party politics more similar to ours. Nothing boring about that."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/what-gop-can-learn-canada-s-conservatives#ixzz1LnnYiLwj

In Norway's Bastoy they treat prisoners differently

The UK Mail Online Article is worth a read. I don't know if the experiment withstand's scientific scrutiny but they claim a recidivism rate of only 16% as compared to the rest of Europe of 70%.

"Can a prison possibly justify treating its inmates with saunas, sunbeds and deckchairs if that prison has the lowest reo ffending rate in Europe? Live reports from Norway on the penal system that runs contrary to all our instincts - but achieves everything we could wish for..."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norways-controversial-cushy-prison-experiment--catch-UK.html#ixzz1LnXrGw48

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Murray Aubin shows his polarized view of the leftist world he occupies

Murray Aubin, a long term far left pundit has indicated his dislike of the Conservative Party of Canada in a Vancouver Sun Blog Post.  

He hasn't posted my retort and may not as it was not favourable to his thoughts on the socialists, and extreme left wing members, in the NDP.  For non Canadian readers the NDP is a far left wing socialist party comprised of some reformed communists, Marxists, anarchists, disgruntled left wing Liberals, radical feminists, radical unionists, and terrorist supporters.  A portion of these members are 911 truthers, rabidly anti-American and pro-Hamas.  Aubin tries to infuse a degree of respectability on their recent increase in Parliament 41 seats. The increase is largely due to a transfer of voters from the socialist, separatist party, the Bloc Québécois (BQ) a party similar in social outlook. The BQ, however, are overt separatists. The NDP are playing to the same sentiments of Quebec nationalism but, like the BQ, will not be able to deliver anything they promised to  the fickle electorate. 

  

Aubin Sates:

"The prospect for a merger between the Liberals and the NDP is virtually zero. Neither party will ever put the country ahead of their own narrow interests. This is simply the perverse nature of party politics. Their entire reason for being is to get as many seats as possible: full stop. They are constitutionally and culturally incapable of any other goal. Efforts before the 2008 election to get the Greens and the NDP to co-operate by strategically withdrawing from some ridings to help defeat Conservatives got absolutely nowhere. Layton’s triumphalism, on election night – speaking to a country (not only his own party) facing the most destructive government in its history – just reinforced the point."

Daubin uses the ill termed overused "centre-left" to describe the NDP. Sorry Mr. Daubin, radical left is the appropriate term.  If you doubt me check their constitution, not found on their website for good reason. It would scare mainstream Canadians. A portion follows below.

You describe the CPC as the most destructive in Canadian History. To whom? Yes to the Liberals and Yes to the BQ but that was by design.

The left wing radicals, like Rebick, Davies, Klein and many others who call the NDP home are a clear danger to Canada, our values, our way of life and our standard of living.

Here is a portion of the NDP constitution, which they hide from an unsuspecting, electorate.

 

• That the production and distribution of goods and services shall be directed to meeting the social and individual needs of people within a sustainable environment and economy and not to the making of profit;

• To modify and control the operations of the monopolistic productive and distributive organizations through economic and social planning.
  
• Towards these ends and where necessary the extension of the principle of social ownership;
  
• The New Democratic Party holds firm to the belief that the dignity and freedom of the individual is a basic right that must be maintained and extended;

The rise of the NDP is largely a phenomenon of fickle Quebec voters shopping for the most recent lobby group and panderer for their entitlements.  It will not last and fractures will be evident over the next 4 years culminating in House Of Commons floor crossings. The fact people would vote for candidates they never knew, never met, didn't know they spoke little French in Francophone ridings, and who  have never seen the riding,  is not a compliment to democracy.  It is nothing more than personality politics. They bought the promise of a used car salesman who, history will show, sold a product with no warranty, no way to deliver, but it does have an expiry date.