Should Al Gore/Michael Moore Films Be Part of the Curriculum in Public Schools?

3% - Yes.  Kids need to learn about climate change and the evils of capitalism.

17% - Yes, only if all sides of the debate are given equal time.

77% - No.  They are nothing but leftwing propaganda.

As we witness the War on Christmas, with attacks targeting everything from the Salvation Army to our school children in the name of political correctness - even Canada's own federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff neglected 'Christmas' in his Christmas cards, I proudly offer my best wishes to all Moderate Separatist readers and visitors at this festive time of the year.

If I happen to offend non-Christians, Muslims, Grinches, or those of other faiths (or no faith at all), too bad.  It's not a celebration of 'Winter solstace', 'Winter holiday', or 'Winter vacation'.  It's Christmas. May those who attempt to discredit this most important celebration each receive a large lump of coal on the morning of the 25th.


"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."

- Dr. Seuss


And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.  This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
 
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
 
“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
 
- Luke 2:8-14

The competition was tough.  So many candidates, but there can only be one true Asshat.  To tell the truth, there was someone else in mind for the honor and the article was almost complete when I was told of an article in a Canadian newspaper written by the eventual winner.

Jack 'Asshat' Todd

While it is certainly nothing new to hear a leftwing nutjob slamming Canadian sports celebrity/broadcaster/conservative/favorite son Don Cherry, it is the background of the article's writer that made this an easy choice.

Montreal Gazette sportswriter Jack Todd is this year's Asshat of the Year.
 
Not for his condemnation of Cherry, or his being offended by some of Cherry's antics.  Todd wins because this jerk-off isn't even a real Canadian.  He is an American by birth. 

What ensured his victory is he is an American Vietnam War deserter who had the audacity to pussy out of his responsibility in the 1970's, flee to Canada, and now decades later criticizes Don Cherry - a man who knows more about being Canadian (and living up to commitments and responsibilities) than Todd ever will.



Don 'Grapes' Cherry and Blue



Imagine a Canadian turning his back on his own country, scurrying to the U.S., then proceeding to criticize a popular, home-grown American icon.

Benefiting from a then-Liberal government, Todd now holds Canadian citizenship.  More is the pity.  This asshat possesses absolutely no moral or ethical ground by which to give his opinion on anything or anyone, much less Don Cherry.

Typical of a leftwing loon, I guess.  No surprise that he has turned his running away into a novel. 

Also not surprising is his career in the Canadian media, especially in Quebec (you think the American MSM holds a leftwing bias?  That's nothing compared to the Pravda-inspired media outlets in the Great White North).

Just stick to hockey stories and high school football scores, Jack.  Leave the criticism of Canadian icons to real Canadians.

Christmas is just around the corner, so it's time once again to wish only the best (and in some cases, most needed) gifts for the deserving.  Here's a few stocking filler ideas for Santa...

Ed Stelmach (Alberta premier): a reputation as a leader.  Since he's never had that, instructions would need to be included.

Julian Assange (Wikileaks poobah): an end to his self-gratifying 15 minutes of fame.  And the proper criminal charge of being in possession of stolen documents.  And maybe a 350lb moustached cellmate named 'Mary'.

Tom Flanagan (political scientist): an end to the idiotic police investigation which has targeted him for speaking what so many of us were thinking about Assange.

Sweden: the courage to accept reality, lock down its immigration, and deal with the Islamic threat before it's too late.

Canada: see Sweden.

Canada's Teachers Unions: The wisdom to hire teachers who do not present Al Gore/Michael Moore films as 'factual documentaries', and not to call the Afghanistan war 'an American war' to the dismay of the sons and daughters of Canadian military personnel sitting in their classrooms.

Members of Greenpeace: jobs.

Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs): gratitude for her endless fight against the Islamization of America and the Ground Zero victory mosque, and for exposing the truth about 'creeping Sharia'.  She is defending not only her own country, but the free world.

Geert Wilders (leader, Party for Freedom, Netherlands): wide-spread viewing of his ultra-important film 'Fitna', safety for him and his family, and an ascension to Prime Minister of his country.

Joy Behar (t.v. host): cancellation.

Danielle Smith (leader, Wildrose Alliance, Alberta): continued momentum, candidates in every constituency, and an election victory.

Marc Emery (Canadian pot activist jailed in the U.S.): freedom.

Justin Trudeau (MP, son of former PM Pierre Trudeau): a muzzle, and a good hairstylist.

Democrats: a copy of the American Constitution.

Stephen Harper (PM, Canada): a majority government (same as every year), kudos for ignoring political-correctness by loudly proclaiming Canada's continued friendship with Israel, and for recommitting Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

Michael Ignatieff (leader, Liberal party of Canada): a personality, and eyebrow tweezers.

Bill Maher (t.v. host, comedian): a joke that works.

City of Toronto: a common sense conservative mayor.  Whoops! ...they already received that gift a few months ago.

The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC): an end to the billion-dollar-a-year taxpayer pipeline, and a newscaster/commentator who isn't far-left.

The United Nations: demolition.

Here's an excerpt from an amazing column from writer Don Feder that caught my eye.  For the full article click the link below.


What would have happened if we had fought World War II the way we’re fighting the war on Islamic terrorism? What if political correctness guided America in the weeks and months after Pearl Harbor?

• On December 8, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have come before a joint session of Congress to apologize for the presence of U.S. Marines in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic earlier in the century, and the Spanish-American War. He would have offered to give the Philippines back to Spain and pay reparations.

• He would have referred to December 7, 1941 as “a day pretty much like any other and let’s not make a big deal of it” and cautioned that, “I think that at a time when the country is anxious generally and going through a tough time, then fears can surface, suspicions can surface. We have to make sure that we don’t start turning on each other.” To put the emphasis where it properly belonged, the president would have said that anniversaries of Pearl Harbor would be officially designated National Days of Service.

• America’s slogan would have become “Remember, Pearl Harbor was no one’s fault.”

• FDR would have threatened negotiations if Japanese aggression didn’t cease immediately and sought sanctions from the League of Nations.

• Public officials would have taken to referring to Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March (more properly, the Bataan Relocation Program) and the Holocaust as “man-caused disasters.”

• Reports of German or Japanese atrocities would have been accompanied by the requisite recitation of the sins of slavery and Wounded Knee.

• In 1942, a number of Congressmen would have complained that the fighting on Guadalcanal was unwinnable and unnecessary. The Marines would have been withdrawn and the island-hopping campaign discontinued.

• Actor Errol Flynn might have speculated that Pearl Harbor was “an inside job,” and suggested a Zionist conspiracy to push the U.S. into a war with the Axis powers.

• The President would have proclaimed Shintoism “a religion of peace” which had nothing to do with the “man-caused disaster” of Dec. 7th, and explained that “Banzai” pertains to a spiritual struggle.

• Commentators would have urged us to distinguish between ordinary Nazis, who just want to live in peace, and Nazi militants. The later somehow had managed to distort their ideology of brotherhood.


• In his 1941 Holiday Message (which, coincidentally, would have come around December 25th ), FDR would have told the American people, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation,” but that Japanese ancestor worship “has done so much over the centuries to shape the world – including my own country.”

• A Shinto shrine would have been erected over the sunken U.S.S. Arizona. Those who objected to this free-exercise of religion would have been excoriated as bigots and racists by the media.

• Teach-ins opposing the U.S. war mobilization would have been held on college campuses across the country. At Columbia University, an assistant professor of anthropology would have said, “The only heroes are those who find ways to help defeat the U.S. military” and “I personally would like to see a million Pearl Harbors.”

• The minister of the church FDR attended in Hyde Park would have said the Day of Infamy was “America’s chickens coming home to roost” and “G-d damn America!”

• Words like “Jap,” “Nip,” Kraut” and “Jerry” would have been banned as hate speech.

• Civil libertarians would have demanded that German saboteurs, captured in June 1942, be tried in civilian courts.

• J. Edgar Hoover would have announced that the FBI would not engage in racial or ethnic profiling in rounding up spies, and that the Bureau was specifically targeting Irish nuns and French pastry chefs.

• The German American Bund would have decried the arrest of German nationals in the wake of Berlin’s declaration of war on the United States and suggested that they were victims of entrapment.

• Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall would have announced plans to have homosexuals serve openly in the Armed Forces. Thereafter, enlistment rates would have plummeted. Chaplains who opposed the policy would have been told to praise the lord and keep their mouths shut.


• Planning for D-Day, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower would have said he didn’t see why 110-lb. women, carrying 45-lbs of equipment and supplies, couldn’t wade ashore in rough surf at Omaha Beach. But, just to be safe, canvas tennis shoes would be issued to the troops in place of combat boots.

• To teach tolerance, American school children would have celebrated Emperor Hirohito’s birthday, and role-played at being kamikaze pilots.


• Republicans would have repeatedly asked Roosevelt where Japan’s weapons of mass destruction were and speculated that the war was FDR’s personal vendetta against Tojo and Hitler.

• On September 2, 1945, the United States would have formally surrendered to the Empire of Japan on the battleship Kongo anchored in New York harbor. Thereafter, we would have had sukiyaki for Thanksgiving.


If We Were Politically Correct After Pearl Harbor? (h/t GrasstopsUSA.com) http://www.grasstopsusa.com/df120610.html

The winds of change have been howling throughout the province for some time now.  The people of Alberta know it, the media knows it and, as the recent poll showing the upstart party in a statistical tie with the ruling Progressive Conservatives, Premier Ed 'Milquetoast' Stelmach knows it.

It's just a matter of time.

So why is the Wildrose Alliance, a party with one MLA elected under the party banner and a handful of floor-crosser MLA's, the government-in-waiting?

Here's just a few of the many reasons:

1. Policy.  Of all the provincial parties, the Wildrose Alliance has the closest 'made by Albertans, for Albertans' ideology.  Small government, reformed health care, a balanced energy/environmental plan, etc.  Even a brief look at their to-do list appeals to the majority of Albertans.

2. Quality candidates.  History shows that new political parties tend to attract the fringe and the outsiders (see: The Alberta Party).  This hasn't been the case with the Wildrose.  Constituency associations are in place, organized by experienced politicos.  Top quality candidates will be running in each constituency come the next election.

3. Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith.  While she has never been a sitting MLA, Smith is known throughout the province.  Intelligent and well-spoken, she strikes the perfect balance by exuding confidence yet shuns the image of elitism which so many current P.C. government members suffer.  As more Albertans become familiar with Smith, they will realize she is by far our best choice for premier.  Watch her slaughter her opponents in future leadership debates.

4. The Ed Stelmach Conservatives.  The beginning of the end for their 40+ year reign occurred at their own hands with the election of Ed Stelmach as leader/premier.  The fact that he wasn't the first-choice favorite in his own party's leadership contest speaks volumes.  Now, Alberta has been witness to several years of bad policy, detrimental mistakes, and embarrassing P.R. gaffes (that ill-conceived James Cameron/oil sands photo op will be remembered for years).  Blaming the global economy for our troubles, when a similar economy right next door in Saskatchewan is thriving, makes their excuses ring hollow.  Now for the first time, Albertans have a viable alternative at the polls. 



5. Wildrose Alliance MLA Rob Anderson.  The Wildrose Alliance MLA (Airdrie-Chestermere) has quickly begun to make a name for himself since abandoning the P.C. Titanic.  The charismatic Anderson is reminiscent of the 'young guns' of the P.C.s circa mid-1980's.  Back then the P.C.s were in renewal mode, led by young gun Jim Dinning and others.  They were a new generation of politicians in tune with the mood of the day and ahead of the curve, breathing new life into the party.  Anderson is a rising star on the scene and will be a force in a Wildrose government.

6. P.C. MLA Ron Liepert.  As Minister of Health and Wellness he centralized regional health authorities into the 'Superboard' which became perhaps the greatest gaffe of the Stelmach era (and there have been many).  Compounding matters is his seemingly flippant attitude to criticism and failure to assume responsibility for his mistakes.  Cookiegate will be remembered for a long time. He left the Health portfolio an absolute mess and left his replacement MLA Gene Zwozdesky to take the hits, and is now the Minister of Energy.  Given his track record, does anyone think Liepert should be in charge of our valuable energy sector?  The best gift the Wildrose Alliance could ask for is for Liepert to announce his intentions to run again in the next election. 

Party leader Danielle Smith and Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville Wildrose Alliance candidate Shannon Stubbs town hall meeting: Dec. 7 at the Lions Banquet Hall in the Dow Centennial Centre, Fort Saskatchewan beginning at 7 p.m. Attendance is free.