Iggy: Hidden Agenda Free

Remember the days when Harper first came to power as head of the CPC and sought to take over the reigns of government. Liberal suggestions of a "hidden agenda" weren't chastised as being mean spirited. They were dutifully delved into.

Remember the media pouring over his past writings, his associations, his meetings? I seem to recall the slightest phrase, utterance or even the look on his face being examined (complete with the most unflattering images seeking to capture the "cold stare") in search of that nefarious unseen plot that was assumed to be lurking just around the corner. "What was that you say? A conservative candidate in one of the three hundred ridings is a devout Christian? From the Wild West no less? There it is! American style religious right wing extremism!"

Imagine the media storm if Harper had said this, at the time he was vying for the top job:

"The best possible Canada, is a Canada with Albertans in power!"

Whoa, Nelly.

New To Blogging Tories

Biff's Place just became a BT member!

I'm looking forward to contributing what I can to the conservative blogosphere, and welcome fellow BT members, pull up a chair and stay awhile.

67 MPH? Way Too Fast! 175 MPH? Sounds About Right

Another chart kept safely out of the mainstream press. It's all over the blogosphere because its so obviously informative, and so startling. Remember Bush's evil deficits and the cry's of "the children's future! Think of the children's future!"

Behold, the past and projected deficits:

Canada Was so Last Week

You can take Iggy out of London, but you can't take the London out of Iggy.

Our international man of mystery (do we know what he stands for yet - other than a desire to rule over us, I mean) has managed to find his way back to his foreign academic roots, notwithstanding his recent blustering that Canada is in shambles, and that he's the only one who can save us.

Sorry kids, I realize the school house is burning down, and would love to help out, but I've got a book signing with a few school chums of my own in London. Tally ho!

A Chart so Telling It Can't be Told

Charts and graphs can be very powerful tools in portraying a lot of data in simple form. A picture is often worth a thousand words. Below you'll find one of the most significant and telling graphs in recent memory. There are two dramatic points of importance to this chart:

1) How definitive it is in showing Obama's stimulus plan to be a failure - not only has the stimulus failed to meet projections, it makes the case that the stimulus has made matters much, much worse; and

2) That you will not likely see this powerful chart anywhere in the mainstream media.

(Everything in blue is from Obama's numbers. Light and dark blue are projections without and with stimulus respectively, and red are the actual numbers.)

(From Powerline)

History? What History? Part II

Below, I referred to the frighteningly obtuse suggestion that it is the Israelis who must learn from the holocaust. It has been over half a century since then, and during that period we, as people from a later time, have looked back in disbelief at what mankind is capable of.

It was such a horrific act that it is hard to believe that a modern society could plan, and then carry out, the systematic murder of millions of people based on a hateful ideology. Some belief systems are so hateful, so all encompassing, and so entrenched within the powerful, that an entire country's resources can be mobilized to carry out widespread murder.

So in discussions with some of my left leaning friends who brush aside the Iranian leadership's repeated declarations of hate towards the Jews, the widespread use of sick propaganda in the region (like the Jew eating bunny for children), and the repeated and overt promises to destroy the Jewish state, as mere words, it seems clear that the suspension of belief has reached its full effect.

We say "the Iranians would never do that" as if no one would ever do that. Not even a radical hateful regime racing to build a weapon capable of carrying it out. "That could never happen".

In addition to spending the last half century in disbelief at the horrors man is capable of, we've also spent that time in disbelief that the world could stand by and let it happen.

If it seems unbelievable that the world could stand by and let a state carry out the systematic mass murder of millions, it's completely unthinkable that we could let it happen yet again to the same people just a few decades later.

Unthinkable.

History? What History?

We are witnessing in our time a country, radical in its belief systems, having at its centerpiece of foreign diplomacy a dual purpose: regional dominance and a corresponding focal point of hatred and blame towards the Jews. In this context this radical power is vowing to destroy the Jewish people while simultaneously racing to manufacture the military means to accomplish this avowed course of destruction.

So it should be expected that when Obama visits a German concentration camp - the apex of a plan to destroy the Jewish people that occurred within the past century in which millions were gathered and murdered - that we pause to learn from history and apply those lessons to today's frighteningly similar reality, right?

Wrong.