Just What the Hell is the NRTEE?

Seems like a taxpayer funded group dedicated to spending money on Consultants .... and producing propaganda like ... For example: Economy on crash courseClimate Change? 

As if the last 5 years of embarrassment  to the warmists  and debunking of the warmist climate change frauds never happened?
Memo to Sun News : Taking crap straight off the news wires and reprinting it .... is just another one of the reasons nobody has any respect for you.  
Well there is Bonokoski....

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The Great Failure of Modern Educators

 This is the Mission Statement of the University of Alberta Education Faculty ....

The Faculty of Education is committed to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about teaching and learning. We promote the view that to be a professional educator is to continue to question, to reflect, to seek knowledge, and to be open to change.

This is what the Dean of the faculty thinks it means ... Fern Snart ...

...  “To educate students beyond the superficial,” she writes, “we must engage them in transformational processes and deep thinking such that they understand the Western position of privilege that is often reflected in issues of diversity, power, and justice, and that they move to an internalization of responsibility related to this privilege.”

From a post at SDA and a column by  Margaret "Privileged" Wente:

Unfortunately, the people who educate the educators sound like the wacky wing of the NDP.

Prepare your children to resist the feminist/marxist/idiotarians of the world .... that alone will be worth far more than any diploma or degree from any of these indoctrination mills.

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Great Moments in TV News

Today on Sun TV ... Mark Bonokoski  ... while standing in for Ezra Levant delivered  a nicely crafted summary of exactly what Alberta oil means in this world .... as opposed to what many lefticles and enviro-freaks claim about it.

The best part was his closing line ... "Up yours Suzuki!"
As soon as a link can be grabbed ..... or the video it'll be appearing here!

The fact remains however .... that 90% of what they produce is still crap.

For example: Economy on crash courseClimate Change? Still sucking and blowing at the same time eh??? Memo to SunNews .... just because it shows up on the news wire does not mean you have to publish it.

OMMAG

Ford Muscled by The Obama Whitehouse Because of Ads

Remember ... Ford did not take the "Stimulus" bribe ..... money !

So they want to tell their customers that they are proud of that .... right?

So what do the gang of thugs in the White House do ....?

Hat Tip to commenter "ottrob" at SDA ...........

The Ever Constant MSM

Besides the blatant loathing displayed by writer Manthorpe .... the fundamental failure here seems to be a total lack of understanding on the concept of Biography let alone Auto Biography....

And then there is the truly "Revisionist" effort of the Vancouver Sun to erase the popular lefty tag that the author or the editors chose to use in the first version of their ideological smear against Dick Cheney and his book tour visit to lefticle land...

Just another reason to love the internet .....

BTW .... This is the photo they ran while describing the incident as police shoving..... funny the guy going for the other guys throat does not look like a cop to me.... come to think of it looks like assault.

OMMAG

The MSM .... Hard at Work

Montreal Gazette ... By Mike De Souza and Carmen Chai, Postmedia News

Mass act of civil disobedience? Yeah right ...


"Many protestors jumped the barrier... " Really?  How many was that?

Must provide the headlines to support the idea that those worthless tools actually matter....

OMMAG

Putin ... He's Back

So ... just like I said 3 1/2 years ago .... Putin comes back after Medvedev's term comes to a close...

Vlad the horseman ... Vlad the tough guy ..... Vlad the Commissar for as long as he damned well wants to be.

Gormogons?

Damned right ....... Fox news is no different than any other innumerate, illiterate and clueless MSM sausage factory.
This is the reason that I have no respect whatsoever for journalists or news media .... they are ... all the same.

Although in this case it seems they are alone (so far) in peddling this bit of idiocy....
Anti-Magnets ... I'm sure that the rest will shortly be jumping on the bandwagon............

I'm guessing they picked up the story from the news wires .....
The Register 
No doubt the theoretical physics of anti-magnetic fields may prove to be very real and very useful.
That ... in no way ... justifies the kind of  .... all too .... typical Mainstream butt sausage journalism from FOX.

Proving that ... as a group ... the MSM are the stupidest and most useless people on the planet.

OMMAG

A Beer Conundrum ....

Why would anyone waste beer?

Over the years I've seen all kinds of dumbass behaviour resulting in wastage of beer.....

Now when I saw this I was sort of torn .... after all getting girls naked is one of the aims of buying beer ... but the usual way to get the results is to have the girls drink the suds.

For some reason Russians always seem to be unclear on the finer pointsor debauchery  ... yet .... manage to fumble their way to some sort of result....................


Beer for Skin in Moscow

A Question Never Asked ....

When the LIbranos were still around!

But now that the much hated and feared (by CBC) Conservatives are in charge it is a different story... isn't it?


Should the Challenger fleet be cut back?   Asks the "community team"  at the ceeb.

Sure boobala .... maybe  right after you get your taxpayer funding cut ... eh?  I figure your annual  budget would pay for 33 years of Civil service jets.

OMMAG

Oktoberfest!

What can you say about a party that happens every year for 201 years?

Wunderbar ......

Cheers !


OMMAG

On the matter of Members of Parliament dating potential spies

This kind of thing pees my O no matter what the political ilk of the pol in question.

What sort of simple jerk thinks he can just take for granted that a foreign or domestic journalist is a suitable person to leave government documents with?

In the case of Bob Dechert  however ... there was no government material ever involved.
So ... if there is anything to be critcized ... it is the naivete' of getting involved with a foreign national in the first place .... although he could very well have been a target for exploitation ... it is highly unlikely that any laws or protocols were breached.

No doubt ... there certainly is a risk ... the Chinese take the whole espionage thing very seriously.

However .... in this case ... I'd be more concerned if he'd been sexting a CBC reporter.


OMMAG

If You Love ME ... You Will Snitch for ME!

Ace in the hole ... The Movie

I often wonder exactly what inspires some writers to carry a story to its most logical conclusion.
One such story is the Billy Wilder  tale for which he borrowed from a real life story about Floyd Collins who perished in a cave in 1925 after a local newspaper created a national media sensation while covering his plight. Another claimed (in the wiki notes) inspiration was the "Girl in the well" in 1949 media circus in San Marino CA however this seems like maybe less inspiration than motivation in my estimation.

Apparently ... Wilder's secretary answered a phone call from a screenwriter named Victor Desny in 1949 ... who pitched the idea of  making a film from the story of Floyd Collins... and later successfully (eventually as the first case was tossed)  sued Wilder's production company for plagiarism.

Now the reason I'm interested in this whole deal is because the film was shown just this week on TCM and although I've seen it a few times before this is the first that it really struck me how much of this media news cycle management we see today.
As we look into stories that have come and gone ... or come and stayed ... or get recycled ad nauseum ... it is fairly apparent that Wilder's portrayal of the motivation and methodology is pretty damned astute. In the 1950s or 60s it may have been easy to shrug off this story as an exaggeration of events and the product of the wild imagination of a Hollywood producer. Even in the day though there may have been some who saw this as fairly accurate. Given the response of some newspapers of the day one can almost feel that we are listening to the NY Times or WaPo protesting some criticism of their own journalistic malfeasance....( The Hollywood Reporter called it "ruthless and cynical...a distorted study of corruption and mob psychology that...is nothing more than a brazen, uncalled-for slap in the face of two respected and frequently effective American institutions - democratic government and the free press."... from wiki)
What we see in the current day efforts of media mainstreamers so closely resembles the machinations of the lone reporter that it has prompted some members of our present day media culture to comment on the "au currant" feel of the story.
I concur .... and  I suspect that if Billy Wilder were around today he'd have a lot to say about this situation.

The upshot is that for all the money and effort put into manufacturing news these days .... the actual methods follow what was essentially a scathingly ruthless portrayal of that lone wolf ... loose cannon sort from the 1950s. Today we have multi billion dollar organizations who can do no better than this and it is as if the whole world of media / journalism seem to feel it is their right to emulate the loathsome character of "Chuck Tatum" ... without of course having the courage to take the risks the movie's anti hero undertook.

Wikipedia .... yeah ... I know .....

OMMAG

Sheesh............

From the lumbercamp .... AKA Are We Lumberjacks? .... some kinda strangeness from the endo the net.............

OMMAG

Summer Memories

That's a view of the Snyder estate in the Cambridge ON area ..... our tour included a ride on the motorized dock .... good times!

I'll be thinking of those blue skies when our prairie winter comes.......................


OMMAG

Just Remember .... Conservatives are the ones who are disrespectful

In the last week or two a number of lefty pols .... including Veep and various members of the Congress ... along with a larger number of MSM hacks have gone (seemingly) out of their way to slander the ordinary Americans who support the Tea Party movement.

Thug poser and son of thug union leader James Hoffa Jr.... addressed a crowd immediately before The Zero was to speak .... inciting the union lovers and democrats to "take  these sons a bitches out" ... how very civil and tolerant!

Noted by none in the MSM ... Obama said nothing to repudiate Hoffa ... so apparently the POTUS thinks this is just fine.

Vice Pres Shit for Brains Biden ... was publicly calling Tea Party supporters Zombies ... Rubes and robots.
..... been quite a week!

Today on Fox News Radio ... the resident Democrat panelist came up with the idea that saying that Obama is a socialist is "worse than anything the left has said about Tea Partiers" ..... then went on to lather limself up into a fine fettle of moral indignation about the Fox panelists calling Obama a socialist.

Too bad the  dweebs on the panel were too chicken shit to come out and say it ... choosing instead to weasel out of the confrontation be positioning their POV as being ... He's a progressive with socialist ideas!

Not only spineless but stupid ... this was a perfect opportunity to tell it like it is. Facts confronting bullshit and liberal bullying were what was needed to smack down the Democrat toady.

Fact One - Obama the president has a job that includes setting policy.
Fact Two - Obama has set and proposed and backed numerous policies that are overtly stated to be  for the purposeof wealth redistribution ... increasing government regulation .... social engineering .... and so on.
Fact Three - What defines a person is what they do.

Fact Four - Because of what he does ... Barack Obama .... is a SOCIALIST.

What is so hard to understand about that?

And if some jerk Democrat gets offended by that?    Then GOOD!

OMMAG

Friday's Beer!

Well ... Beer and Porkchop.... That`s from last week in Guelph at 50 West in the Delta Hotel on Stone Road.

The chop was a swanky sort of thing ... but once you knock that pile of slaw off the top and get down to the maple-mustard glazed meat .... it is a thing of beauty .... sweet potato wedges were pretty good too.

That beer was a treat .... Flying Monkeys ... Hoptical Illusion .... very hoppy not much head .... but just the thing for a big slab of grilled meat!

Cheers!

OMMAG