You may not like the Obama-Mia surrounding the inauguration today, and you may not like the policies the man stands for, but you have to agree today is an historic day. It is not because of his message of “Hope”, it is not because the MSM says it is, but simply because black people in America have finally been accepted as genuine Americans. As much as Obama himself didn’t want to make it about race, and to his credit he hasn’t, it is of course about race. You can’t escape it: he represents the underdog, the blacks of America.

The people voted for “Hope” in these hard economic times, and that is a fairly superficial reason: what is wrong in America read more

(Squ)Iggy’s been successful in his transition from Thinker to Listener to Stinker. Last year, the Libs were crying for stimulus packages, and saying “doing nothing” was not an option. Over Christmas, Harper was forced to adjust his budget, provide a stimulus package and do “something”, and now Iggy says $40B is too much. More stimulus, less stimulus. I mean, make up your mind!

Maybe Iggy should devote his time on learning how to properly get a car out of the ditch.

The last time we heard from Lizzy May, we hoped it would be the last time. But, she’s back. As Joanne over at Blue Like You reports, Lizzy May has been recorded as saying she plans to give a copy of her book “Global Warming By Dummies”, er, “Global Warming For Dummies” to PM Harper when parliament resumes.

So, not only does she think that the

The Ottawa Citizen has a story today about how teenagers do not wear boots, toques or mitts, even in -32 degree weather. Quoting a grade 10 student walking down the street in the Glebe, the story tells us that teens do not want to wear toques because of the potential to mess up the bed-head hair-do, and do not want to wear gloves or mitts because they cannot operate their iPod with them. And wearing boots, well, that’s just, like, not cool. Throw in a transit strike, and what you have is thousands of freezing teens shivering by the glow of their cellphone screen, trying to look cool (but not cold).

I probably did the same thing when I was a teen. Of read more

After years and years of Liberal fence sitting and indecisiveness, the Harper government has shown the world we have balls again by voting for Israel and against Hamas. A lone state amongst thirty three terrorist-loving ones and eleven European weenies, Canada stated to the world we are against terrorism and respect the right of Israel to defend its land and people.

Bravo Mr. Harper!

Thank you for standing up for what’s good and not for what’s popular.

Looks pretty good right now, doesn’t it Mr. Cornellier?

Ottawa’s Amalgamated Transit Union voted against the city’s latest offer yesterday, prolonging their strike indefinitely. They claim it is not about money, but about their ”quality of life” eg. the scheduling.

Right now, scheduling is in the hands of the drivers (union). They can pick their own shifts based on their seniority, currently resulting in $8 million dollars a year in overtime pay because senior drivers pick the lucrative shifts, some booking more than 60 hours a week (resulting in about 30 hours/week of overtime pay) while junior drivers are sitting in the garage waiting for work (and being paid). Some workers are now being paid for 12 hour shifts while they only work for 6 or 7. The city wants the read more

Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien has sent a letter to federal labour minister Rona Ambrose to throw a wrench into the ol’ boys club that is the ATU and force the ATU to allow their members to vote on the “second offer” as it has come to be known. Of course, this is perfectly within her rights as labour minister, but it is unprecedented and I am sure the MSM will have a field day with this one.

In a strange twist of facts, Mauril Bélanger, Liberal MP for Ottawa-Vanier said that the proroguement of parliament may have had a role to playin the length of the strike, leaving no unfortunate incident unused to push the liberal cause. Thanks, you’re really helping there, Mauril.

Court decision lets limited number of OC Transpo drivers picket at the World Junior Hockey Tournament in Ottawa. The picketers are allowed to hand out flyers. I am sure a hockey fan from Kazachstan will be very interested to read about the plight of the Ottawa Bus Driver. “Just hang in until next week, then the Hockey comes to town” said local ATU official Andre Cornellier a few weeks back. It seems that was what Andre was trying to blackmail the city with and he was hoping the city would be panicked enough to cave in order to “save” the tournament.

He was wrong.

With Christmas over, a limited picket at the tournament, and people getting used to car-pooling, walking and living down town, read more

I am not an economist. In fact, the last time I took economics in school, Keynesian Economics was taught. Things have changed since then. But it seems clear to me, that in this global credit crisis, which is caused by government overspending and extending too  much credit to people who cannot afford it, that extending more credit is not the answer.

The Government’s role is to make sure the economy keeps rolling along. Left leaning governments do it, generally speaking, by raising taxes and spending more on social programs. They, generally speaking, want to have more of a hand in the marketplace. Right leaning governments do it, generally speaking, by lowering taxes and allowing the citizens to keep more of their money read more