A View From The North
By Cam Vallee Monday, September 20, 2010 (Canada Free Press)
I am a huge fan of Governor Sarah Palin. Because my Province of British Columbia borders the great state of Alaska it was always interesting to follow the going’s on up above my head. She hit my radar about ten years ago and I celebrated her every success. The biggest question asked by the left wing is ‘just who does she think she is going to take America back from' as she often says? Who does she think she is? Here is this Canadian's view:
Palin wants to put control of America back into the hands of the people where (according to your constitution) it should have always been. When you have elected officials mocking millions of people who are trying to tell them what they want and do not want and they ignore them – refuse to meet with them – call them names – shall I say “Houston, we have a problem!” Continue Reading »
How Did Jefferson Know??
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:
"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Continue Reading »
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20."Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. Continue Reading »
Carbon dioxide plays no role whatever in “heating up” the Earth
Green Pillage and Plunder
By Alan Caruba Wednesday, November 16, 2011 (Canada Free Press)
To understand what is behind all the talk, the legislation, the protests in support of “global warming”, now commonly called “climate change”, you have to understand the millions, if not billions, at stake for the liars who dreamed up this greatest hoax of the modern era.
There is no dramatic warming of the Earth. There never was though it has passed through periods of warming. The most recent mini-ice age lasted from around 1300 and ended around 1850; the Earth began to warm again to normal levels. Warming and cooling cycles, like Ice Ages, are well documented and warm is better because it produces greater crop yields, increased forest growth, whereas cooling endangers life.
The Earth entered a normal cooling cycle around 1998 and is still in that cycle. The Earth is at the end of an interglacial period between Ice Ages and it will enter a new one. The Earth is not heating up. It will get very cold and stay that way for thousands of years. Continue Reading »
The Greens think you’re stupid
It’s Just a Heat Wave
By Alan Caruba Saturday, July 23, 2011 [Canada free Press, July 23, 2011]
The most surprising thing about the current heat wave affecting much of the United States is that no global warming charlatan is claiming that it is the result of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Since the late 1980s, Americans were assailed with the global warming hoax until, in November 2009, the release of emails between the trolls ginning up false “climate models” were exposed.
These days the term “climate change” is used as a substitute for “global warming”, but fewer of us are fooled by this. Al Gore is planning a last-ditch effort in September to revive the hoax, but that will fail.
Even those in the mainstream media are too embarrassed to report the absurd notion that CO2, a trace gas in the Earth’s atmosphere (0.0380%) vital to all vegetation on the planet has anything to do with climate cycles. A new cooling cycle that kicked in around 1998 is the predictable result of less solar activity. Continue Reading »
A partial list of predictions over 117 years
Source: Press Release, "Earth Day 2008: Predictions of Environmental Disaster Were Wrong," Washington Policy Center, April 22, 2008.
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4_22_2008.html
"Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate summers and open winters through several years, culminating last winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade. – New York Times, June 23, 1890
"The Oceanographic observations have, however, been even more interesting. Ice conditions were exceptional. In fact, so little ice has never been noted. The expedition all but established a record." – Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, January 1905
[Note: Amundsen was the first to successfully navigate the entire northwest passage - in 1905. CWC] Continue Reading »
(Written in March 2000)
Health Insurance; Hospitals/Clinics/EMS/ Other Facilities; Colleges.
In healthcare, Canadians want no surprises. They want provision against ruinous loss of healthiness. They want "fairness" – equivalent treatment/timeliness/facilities for dollars paid. They want their health problems fixed if and when they occur.
The skill, the commitment, and the numbers of individuals practicing its delivery determine the quality of Canada's healthcare system. It does not depend on government management. We need to create an environment of enterprise that attracts, serves, and supports those people who are dedicated to the practice of the caring professions in a hassle‑free, stimulating, and collegial atmosphere that pays pretty well.
We need national funding of excellent personal health care, delivered by competitive, private, professional practitioners. Continue Reading »
(Written in November 1999)
Health: The healthiness of 30 million Canadians is in the hands of a mixed assortment of unidentifiable, faceless, officials (U.F.O.'s) in the provincial/territorial health bureaucracies. These U.F.O.'s have total control over the personnel, facilities, equipment, frequency, timeliness, procedures and products that are available in and paid for by their healthcare systems. Continue Reading »
(Written in March 2000)
Learning; Apprenticing; Facilities; Colleges; Standards.
Amid the turbulence surrounding the critical task of helping Canada's young people learn in an era of rapidly expanding knowledge and technology, it is important to anchor on to some basic principles and to remember that all the solutions are already being successfully practiced somewhere in the world.
A renovated Canadian government would completely rebuild an education system characterized by national, public funding of personal learning. Among the system's keystone characteristics would be national standards for curricula, testing, professional assessment, and school accountability; decentralized local control of the process; and learner choice among competing options. Continue Reading »
(Written in November 1999
Wisdom: People learn everything they think, say and do. Learning is the single most important activity any human being ever does. It is not only the first priority for the individual person, learning by its young people is essential to the continued survival of every community. The physical facilities in education systems are called "Institutes of Learning", not "Institutes of Teaching". Continue Reading »
