Friday, April 9, 2010

God Bless Israel ....

Holocaust Remembrance

“We wish to remember. But we wish to remember for a purpose, namely to ensure that never again will evil prevail. The world must heed the warning that comes from the victims of the Holocaust and from the testimony of the survivors.
~ Pope John Paul II ~

Yom Hashoah—the day of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust—begins at sunset on the 27th of the Hebrew month of Nisan—a week after the seventh day of Passover and during the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (see Lesson 6: Jewish Resistance in Echoes and Reflections for information about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). Established by the Israeli government, Yom Hashoah has become a day commemorated by both Jewish and non-Jewish communities and individuals worldwide.

In the United States, Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day that has been set aside for remembering the victims of the Holocaust and for reminding Americans what can happen to civilized people when bigotry, hatred, and indifference go unchecked. The United States Holocaust Memorial Council, created by an act of Congress in 1980, was mandated to lead the nation in civic commemorations and to encourage appropriate Remembrance observances throughout the country. This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day is on April 11, 2010.
http://www.echoesandreflections.org/additional_resources/remembrance_activities.asp
 
 

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Socialization of Canada



I have heard that Owebama wants to be known as the 'founder of American health care'. He as unknowingly stepped forward with this statement and identified himself as what he really is. A socialist. Why do I know this? Well grab a cuppa java and read on America .....


The man who is hailed as the founder of Canadian Health Care is Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas.

Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC, CC, SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public healthcare to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, he was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971. His grandson is actor Keifer Sutherland.

In 2004 Tommy was voted "The Greatest Canadian" of all time by my countrymen in a nationally televised contest. I voted for Wayne Gretzky myself because at least he never cost us any money but I shall continue my story ....

M.A. thesis on eugenics

Douglas graduated from Brandon College in 1930, and completed his Master's degree (M.A.) in Sociology from McMaster University in 1933. His thesis entitled The Problems of the Subnormal Family endorsed eugenics.[11] [12] The thesis proposed a system that would have required couples seeking to marry to be certified as mentally and morally fit. Those deemed to be "subnormal" because of low intelligence, moral laxity or venereal disease would be sent to state farms or camps while those judged to be mentally defective or incurably diseased would be sterilized.[13]
Douglas rarely mentioned his thesis later in his life and his government never enacted eugenics policies even though two official reviews of Saskatchewan's mental health system recommended such a program when he became premier and minister of health.[13] By that time, many people questioned eugenics after Nazi Germany had embraced it to create a "master race".[14]Instead, Douglas implemented vocational training for the mentally
handicapped and therapy for those suffering from mental disorders.[15] (It may be noted that two Canadian provinces, Alberta and British Columbia, had eugenics legislation that imposed forced sterilization. Alberta's
law was first passed in 1928 while B.C. enacted its legislation in 1933.[16] It was not until 1972 that both provinces repealed the legislation.)[17]

PhD research in Chicago

In the summer of 1931, Douglas continued his studies in sociology at the University of Chicago. He never did complete his PhD thesis, but was deeply disturbed by his field work in the Depression-era "jungles" or hobo camps where about 75,000 transients sheltered in lean-to's venturing out by day to beg or to steal. Douglas interviewed men who once belonged to the American middle class --- despondent bank clerks, lawyers and doctors. "There were little soup kitchens run by the Salvation Army and the churches," Douglas said later. "In the first half hour they'd be cleaned out. After that there was nothing...It was impossible to describe the hopelessness."[18] Douglas was equally disturbed that members of the Socialist Party sat around quoting Marx and Lenin, waiting for a revolution while refusing to help the destitute. "That experience soured me with absolutists," Douglas said. "I've no patience with people who want to sit back and talk about a blueprint for society and do nothing about it."[19]

From pulpit to politics

Two months after Douglas graduated from Brandon College, he married Irma Dempsey and the two moved to the small town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan where he became an ordained minister at the Calvary Baptist Church.[20] Irma was only 19, while Douglas was a young-looking 25.[21] With the onset of the Depression, Douglas became a social activist in Weyburn, and joined the new CCF organization. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 federal election.

Despite being a federal Member of Parliament and not yet an MLA, Douglas was elected the leader of the Saskatchewan CCF in 1942 but did not resign from the House of Commons until 1 June 1944.[22] He led the CCF to power in the 15 June, 1944 provincial election, winning 47 of 53 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, and thus forming the first democratic socialist government in not only Canada, but all of North America.

Douglas and the Saskatchewan CCF then went on to win five straight majority victories in all subsequent Saskatchewan provincial elections up to 1960. Most of his government's pioneering innovations came about
during its first term, including:
  • the creation of the publicly owned Saskatchewan Power Corp., successor to the Saskatchewan Electrical Power Commission, which began a long program of extending electrical service to isolated farms and
    villages;
  • the creation of Canada's first publicly owned automobile insurance service, the Saskatchewan Government Insurance Office;
  • the creation of a large number of Crown Corporations, many of which competed with existing private sector interests;
  • legislation that allowed the unionization of the public service;
  • a program to offer free hospital care to all citizens—the first in Canada.
  • passage of the Saskatchewan Bill of Rights, legislation that broke new ground as it protected both fundamental freedoms and equality rights against abuse not only by government
    actors but also on the part of powerful private institutions and
    persons. (The Saskatchewan Bill of Rights preceded the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations by 18 months).
Premier Douglas was the first head of any government in Canada to call for a constitutional bill of rights. This he did at a federal-provincial conference in Quebec City in January, 1950. No one in attendance at the conference supported him in this. Ten years later, Premier Lesage of Quebec joined with Premier Douglas at a First Ministers' Conference in July, 1960, in advocating for a constitutional bill of rights. Thus, respectable momentum was given to the idea that finally came to fruition, on 17 April 1982, with the proclamation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[23]
Thanks to a booming postwar economy and the prudent financial management of provincial treasurer Clarence Fines, the Douglas government slowly paid off the huge public debt left by the previous Liberal government, and created a budget surplus for the Saskatchewan government. Coupled with a federal government
promise in 1959 to give even more money for medical care, this paved the way for Douglas's most notable achievement, the introduction of universal medicare legislation in 1961.

Medicare

Douglas's number one concern was the creation of Medicare. In the summer of 1962, Saskatchewan became the centre of a hard-fought struggle between the provincial government, the North American medical
establishment, and the province's physicians, who brought things to a halt with the 1962 Saskatchewan Doctors' Strike. The doctors believed their best interests were not being met and feared a significant loss of income as well as government interference in medical care decisions even though Douglas agreed that his government
would pay the going rate for service that doctors charged. The medical establishment claimed that Douglas would import foreign doctors to make his plan work and used racist images to try to scare the public. Their defenders have also argued that private or government medical insurance plans covered 60 to 63 percent of the Saskatchewan population before Medicare legislation was introduced.
An often forgotten political fact is that though Douglas is widely hailed as the father of Medicare, he had retired from his position as Saskatchewan's premier, turned over this job in 1961 to Woodrow Lloyd and took the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party.

The Saskatchewan program was finally launched by his successor, Woodrow Lloyd, in 1962. The success of the province's public health care program was not lost on the federal government. Another Saskatchewan politician, newly elected Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, decreed in 1958 that any province seeking to introduce a hospital plan would receive 50 cents on the dollar from the federal government. In 1962, Diefenbaker appointed Justice Emmett Hall—also of Saskatchewan, a noted jurist and Supreme Court Justice—to Chair a Royal Commission on the national health system—the Royal Commission on Health Services.

In 1964, Justice Hall recommended the nationwide adoption of Saskatchewan's model of public health insurance. In 1966, the Liberal ( Democratic) minority government of Lester B. Pearson created such a program, with the federal government paying 50% of the costs and the provinces the other half. So, the adoption of healthcare across Canada ended up being the work of three men with diverse political ideals - Tommy Douglas, John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
So here we had an avowed socialist share the wealth politician in the early Canadian political field but at least he never lied about his political party. He just never mentioned his prior teachings and actual beliefs. Had Canadians had the ability to find information about his background he never would have made it into the arena here. Canada at that time was an extremely Conservative country and the idea of eugenics which is no more than culture cleansing would have disgusted us. But we did not have the resources.

All who are concerned about Owebama's effort to seal all his records should be. Very concerned. To this Canadian it makes sense there is something you are not being allowed to see. But maybe that is not working anymore? Maybe you are seeing him and his administration for what they really are now.

All I can do is pray that you are. All I can ask is that you start waking everyone up. The very soul of your great Republic is under attack. They are laying a framework to destroy it just as they did here in Canada. There is more to this story and I shall add that blog later.

This was Canada's first step towards socialism. It was a big step. The rest that followed only added to the stupidity of what we allowed to happen.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Sausage Making In America ....



When I was a kid I was growing up in a French farming community way up by the tundra line in Alberta Canada. It is always said to this day that the land my father owned grew far more rocks than it ever did the wheat he planted. It was back breaking and at time heart breaking.

But man did we ever know how to make sausage! You know, the kind from meat either pork or beef which we did have a lot of! It's not really hard to do and there are lots of videos on U-Tube how easy it is to do today. We never had all the gizmo's that are now used to create the perfect sausage back then. Sometimes Mom would cook them in a little bit of maple syrup and there was nothing better in life to eat! Sure beat eating boiled chicken which we also had a lot of!

I have heard a lot this last year about how American politicians described what they do as 'making sausage' when it comes to bills. That confuses me because sausage making back in my day was pure and clean and very good to eat when done right. Anything added was done to make it better but you had to be very careful about what you did and how you did it. Nothing smells better than a pan of good sausage being cooked. But nothing smells worse than a mix of sausage sitting there rotting. Sometimes you added too much of something and the whole thing ended up being food for the pigs.

 I always believed that law makers made law - not sausages. I thought they were responsible for every word they wrote and every idea they had that they initiated and passed and in the end answered to the people. Then again I thought America was a Republic and Owebama himself keeps calling it a Democracy. Seems like he should go back to school. Then again we have only been told that Owebama has a brain. His school records are tied up tighter than Fort Knox and he has spent millions keeping them that way. He was never a 'professor' of anything by the way. That was a lie.

It the sausage making these politicians of both parties refer to is the making of laws for the benefit of the many and not the few then where is the good in what they do? Mr. Stupid held out like a hero to prevent the framework being laid for the takeover of American health care. When all along he was nothing but another lousy sausage maker. On Friday it was disclosed in my Canadian Media that he sold his vote. He would be getting money for his state to help with repairs to several airports there. Politics as usual continues in America and I can smell it all the way from Washington to British Columbia, Canada. Quite the smell America I must say.

So now here you are America. Just more of the same crap different day. Hopeless and changeless in America. More debt added to an already increasing level that continues to climb at a rate that is unbelievable. In Canada this kind of 'sausage making' in government would get you thrown in jail.

I like what Governor Sarah Palin did. All the corrupt politicians in Alaska are wearing orange jumpsuits for trying to make this kind of sausage in Alaska. She was having none of it. How about that. A lady who really knows the value of making really, really good sausage and keeping the rot out of it.

Just a suggestion but perhaps that is something you the people really need to take a serious look at before the next election.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Why the rest of the free world should care about ....

America ....


I am often asked why I care so much about what is taking place in America. Twenty years ago I did not actually give a rats arse what happened there. I loved my neighbour but I was raising a healthy family, living life and had no bloody idea how to turn a computer on let alone use it ....

Calmer days and different priorities, interests but most of all education. It was not until 911 that I really started paying attention to all things American. My heart broke for all free nations in the world that day because so much was lost to all of us even if we did not realize it at the time. Most of all my heart broke for America because the innocent people who died that day did not deserve what happened to them. That was an act of war. That was an act of terrorism. THAT was an act of evil.

If you do not live in North America pehaps you did not feel the pain as deeply as all of those of us who do live here did. Perhaps you did not feel the shock and the disbelief and the pain? Perhaps you did not cry long and hard about the stories of the families who were looking for their loved ones. Perhaps you were so far removed from it you did not have the ability to feel our pain? It is the only explanation I can think of for why I am constantly being questioned about my passion regarding America.

Worse than that perhaps you have been one of those who has been unable to forgive America for past mistakes. Japan has been forgiven. Germany has been forgiven but America remains the scapegoat of everything the world like to hate. They do nothing right. Are the 'EVIL EMPIRE'. Cause all the problems in the world and even though my country is their largest supplier of oil of gas - everything they do is always about oil and gas. Yes folks, CANADA is the biggest supplier to America of what keeps them ticking and we have lots of it. Now, the pipeline that is going to be built, negotiated by Governor Sarah Palin between the state of Alaka and my country will continue to ensure America's independace. Have heard Owebama is trying to stop the whole thing. That could be why my Prime Minister things he is an arse I guess.

It was well after 911 happened that I retired and learned how to use a computer and connect with the world. It was then I started to realized how few people living in free countries actually understand that there is only one reason we are all still 'free' today. That reason is America. Deny it if you like but it is true. England can stand alone - so I congratulate you on that point James but what kind of defense do the rest of us have against the evil that is trying to take over the world? Israel, small as it is also has the ability to mount a good defense. But what about the rest of us?

France? Cyprus? Greece? Canada? Australia? Germany - how about that army of yours eh? Japan? What are your military capabilities like? Do not know about the rest of you but here in Canada we have a great military. Well trained, under equipped and very small in numbers. Eroded at the expense of all of our social programs, our cost of living or things we did in the past that were so damn evil we were disarmed by the rest of the free world.

So here we are. Unable to fight our way out of the weakest paper bag or defend ourselves against the likes of China, Russia and other countries who really hate our democracies (socialized as some of us are). They really hate the freedoms we enjoy, our way of life period.


Like it or not we all have been living under the protective wing of the United States of America for a very long time now. 

As goes America, so goes the rest of the democratic world.

They have been an excellent neighbour and friend to my country and I am talking about the American people. Not necessarily their government. I do not see them as perfect but which of us in our own countries can say that we are?

So why do I care? Because as goes America so goes the rest of the free world. 

That is just my personal opinion but I have to wonder when I read stories like the one I just posted below about what is going on right now in America, I have to wonder what the hell is going to happen to the rest of us if they fall.

America, Sit Down and Shut Up ....


Yesterday, I decided to call Rep. John Garamendi’s (CA-10) office in Washington, D.C. He’s my representative and I wanted to voice my opposition to the Senate Health Care Bill. I spoke with a female staffer and politely told her that, while I support health care reform, I oppose the Senate Bill because it wasn’t true “reform.” She said the Congressman thinks it’s a good bill and that he campaigned on health care reform. I told her I knew that. I also mentioned that I voted for him. When I tried to give her specific reasons why the Senate Bill would harm our system rather than reform it, she refused to listen. She said she was very busy and hung up on me. Being the persistent person that I am, I kept calling back. Each time I tried to finish my point, she hung up.

quiet

I called one more time. This time she said, “If you call one more time, we will notify Capital Police.” I asked why my conduct warranted involving federal law enforcement agents. She said I was “harassing” her. I tried to explain that trying to convince a representative to change his or her vote didn’t constitute “harassment.” Before I could fully explain, she hung up again.

I called back. This time, I asked to speak to her supervisor in order to report her repeated hanging up as well as the threat she made. I was placed on hold. Thinking I was holding for her supervisor, I was shocked when a Federal Agent with the Capital Police picked-up the telephone.

At first, the Agent was curt with me. He claimed I was harassing Mr. Garamendi’s staff by continually calling after being told to stop calling. I asked him when it became a federal crime to lobby a congressman. He said that it wasn’t but it was a crime to “harass” congressional members and staff pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 223. I told him I was an attorney (which I am) and that I would research the statute he had cited.

After researching 47 U.S.C. 223, I called Mr. Garamendi’s office again and asked to be transferred back to the Capital Police Agent. The Agent picked up the phone and I explained to him that the statute he cited was not controlling since it only prohibits people from calling with the specific intent to harass. I further explained that I was simply trying to voice my concerns with the intent of getting Mr. Garamendi to change his mind, not to harass his staff. The Agent eventually agreed with my position and said he would call Mr. Garamendi’s office and instruct his staff that I was within my rights to call my congressman and voice my concerns.

After I hung up, I realized that this story should be told. Besides being an attorney, I’ve also had the privilege of serving this great country in the United States Marine Corps. Having seen the ugly legislative process the Senate Bill had been through, I saw this as not just another tactic to pass the Senate Bill at all costs, but also as an affront to our liberties.

While I’m fortunate enough to be able to legally challenge what happened today, others aren’t. The sad part is the democrats know this. They know that Americans unfamiliar with federal jurisprudence can easily be silenced when threats to involve federal agents are made. They know that most Americans don’t want trouble and they’ll go away rather than face the possibility of having to explain themselves to federal agents. That’s why I found this tactic appalling, as a Marine, as an attorney and as a proud American.

During my final contact with Mr. Garamendi’s staff, it was confirmed to me that he would vote for the Senate Bill no matter what. I was told that I was wasting my time by calling. Mr. Garamendi is a junior member of the House of Representatives. He was just elected via a special election last November. He has made it clear that he is willing to forsake his constituents in order to please the Speaker of the House.

Speaker Pelosi has said that she will stop at nothing to get the Senate Bill passed. She publicly stated that she would “ole vault over a wall” if barriers stood in her way. While that may be an amusing spectacle, it is indicative of what happened to me today. Apparently, threatening Americans with federal crimes to silence them is the latest tool in Speaker Pelosi’s dirty bag of tricks.

In the coming days, I’m sure more stories will develop illustrating the “win at all costs” tactics being employed by democrats. It’s these tactics that have appalled a majority of Americans to the point that the Senate Bill has overwhelmingly been rejected by the American people. When we try to explain that to Speaker Pelosi’s Caucus, we are threatened with criminal sanctions. We are told to shut up or face federal agents. Such treatment may be acceptable in the former Soviet Union, but it’s repulsive in the country I love and served. Is this hope and change?

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/03/19/the-heat-is-on-congressmans-office-says-constituent-calls-are-harassment/

Friday, March 19, 2010

STAND UP AMERICA ....



Am I he or am I she .... well lookie here folks this is me!
This picture was taken last Christmas when we went up a mountain with our grandkids to remember what snow was like! Linda was so stuffed with clothes she fell down so being the gentleman I am I got down to try and help her up. It became a comedy of errors but was a lot of fun!

It was beautiful and brought me back to the days of my childhood.

Maybe you remember those days? When truth was more important than lies? When making back door deals got you thrown in jail? When loving a country meant you stood by your flag and stood for truth and honesty and all things that made it stronger instead of weaker? When you thought for yourself and decided for yourself and knew that if arms had to be twisted or broken you could call the cops for backup?

I got some news today from the doctors that is not very good. Then I came home and heard a nun lamenting the fact that someone she knew had died of prostrate cancer because of faults in your American health care system. I hear Owebama just the other day say again that our Canadian system never happened all in one swoop. I guess the nun figured if you had our system her friend would not have died. That's a laugh. I get the feeling that Owebama things a single payer system like the one we have in Canada is a great idea. That is a joke and a sad statement from someone I now believe had a goal from the very beginning to bankrupt America.

Prince Harry has just promised that single payer Health Care is 'coming to America soon.' I would like to welcome you all to my world but I will pray for you instead because I am walking the walk of this system and it has literally killed me. So much for that idea eh?

So between the laugh and the jokes I find none it funny at all. Not any of it. See my 'great' single payer system culled me to the point I may well now die of something that should have been treated earlier. Why? Because of my age and because of the fact I smoke I was pushed down the list of importance. I was watched well 'to death' actually! See in the end they do start selective care. It is part of the program and if you are close to my age your name is on the list as fast as they can put it there. Might as well just start building ovens and shoving us all into them as soon as they pass it.

There has been a call - a plea put out for all who can to be in Washington tomorrow at noon to let those crooks know what you think about what they are trying to do.

The irony to me of all of this is I finished reading that so called 'bill' about three o'clock in the morning and I was shocked. At the level of corruption, the double talk, the vote buying that is included and expanded in this mess of a bill.

Yet is does not do one thing to stop the biggest problem in America which is torte reform. Not even mentioned so the lawyers won on that one eh? Are the Insurance Companies corporations? Yep - and each and every one of them are backed by corporate lawyers that this White House is standing beside.

NO ONE IN AMERICA IS EVER DENIED HEALTH CARE! EVER! Insurance coverage? Yes and pre-existing conditions need to be prohibited by the government. High Premiums a problem? Yes and that needs to be better regulated by the government. This can be done by allowing you to purchase coverage based on a country wide premium rate rather than a state to state basis. Many, many things can be done rather than passing this mess of a bill.

Owebama is leading America down a path of destruction. He is marching you down a path towards socialism and is using Chicago style politics to do so. He is the pied piper of doom when it comes to all that the American Republic stands for.

I love my country. I am a proud Canadian. But I love America and Americans as well. I have made many friends and frenemies here at Care 2 and I want you all to know that every thing I have been trying to tell you is from my heart.

YOU MUST STOP THIS BILL. BE IN WASHINGTON IF YOU CAN AT NOON TOMORROW. PLANT YOUR ARSE OUTSIDE OF YOUR REPS OFFICE IF YOU CANNOT BE SO THEY KNOW YOU ARE NOT A DUMB AMERICAN. PHONE, FAX AND E-MAIL THIS MESSAGE TO THEIR OFFICE AT HOME AND IN WASHINGTON.

STAND UP AMERICA AS YOU HAVE NEVER DONE SO BEFORE AND DO ALL YOU CAN TO STOP THIS MONSTER AND STOP THE SOCIALIST TAKE OVER OF AMERICA.

Then in November KICK THOSE OUT THAT YOU CAN. IN 2012 GET RID OF OWEBAMA ....

You are the greatest country on Earth and your lady needs you this weekend. The very existance of your republic depends on it. Even if you lose it is only a small battle and not the war in the end. You will be able to live with the fact you headed the call and stood up against this madness.

See I followed the turnip truck when I was in my younger days. Voted to bring it in! Mark my words when I say it may well be the absolute death of this Canadian.

America must stand tall ....

If there was ever a time in the history of the greatest country of the world to stand tall that time is now. The great Republic of America has been under attack for a great number of years now and things appear to be getting worse every day.

Elected officials are no longer serving the people they are supposed to represent but appear to be worshiping Owebama. What has this pretender done for America but increased the lever of debt at a rate that has never been seen in any country. If one needs to ask why then you have not been following what is going on in America.

There has never been a time when America has needed her people more than she does now to stand up for her Republic. A call has been made to go to Washington this Saturday and meet at noon to protest the bill. For those of you who are discouraged I beg you to reach down into the very depths of your heart and soul and go for the good of your country.

For those who believe it will not make a difference I urge you to know that if the streets are filled with angry protestors YOUR VOICES IN UNISON WILL BE HEARD. They were heard the first time this took place but made light of. You were not considered a serious opposition to what was taking place but you stopped it then in its tracks. You need to go for your lady liberty again.

For those of you who have phoned and faxed and emailed and think it is all for not think again. Every effort made to try and stop this injustice is as good as a bullet shot from a gun. It is a peaceful way of telling those who think they hold all the power that they are wrong. YOU hold the power. YOU the people of America hold all the cards as to what will happen and do not listen to the naysayers. DO NOT GIVE UP.

America is worth everything you can do for it now and it needs you to be there for her. Take from a Canadian who made a mistake many years ago and elected a government who promised real change. We are so screwed now my own grandfather would not recognize a country he helped shape.

Stand tall and stand together for your country America. Do it peacefully but please go to Washington on Saturday. Answer the call once more for your country and tell Owebama what he can do with his attempt to take over one sixth of your country.