So we here at OfficiallyScrewed.com are going to give it to them.
Today, Liberal critic Gerard Kennedy had a few choice words for John Baird regarding stimulus spending.
Liberal infrastructure critic Gerard Kennedy said the minister was ducking from his responsibilities.
“It is politically convenient for him to say he doesn’t know why projects aren’t happening, when, in fact, the government has been responsible for all the delays until now,” Kennedy said.
So far, the federal government says $2.8 billion of the $4-billion infrastructure stimulus fund has been spent and more than 1,700 projects have been approved.
Meanwhile just tonight on Hannity, Karl Rove gave us some details on how the U.S. stimulus spending is going. The Americans have spent a mere $67.4 Billion out of a $787 Billion stimulus package.
So Canada has spent 70% of our stimulus while the Americans have spent 8.6% of theirs.
Gerard Kennedy should hang his head in shame for even suggesting that our Federal government is holding up spending.
Thank you for serving our PM with distinction Kory Teneycke. Best of luck in your future endeavours. If you pursue them with the quality with which you served our PM, you are sure to be a success.
OfficiallyScrewed is an understatement for this one.
Carleton University has searched high and low, near and far, day and night to fill a teaching spot for an introductory sociology course. But alas, the qualifications must have been tough because out of a nation of about 30 million citizens, they chose to hire an alleged terrorist charged with killing 4 people in the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in France.
But that was 29 years ago you say? Maybe, but he was just recently charged and is under house arrest with a condition that he has to wear one of those “anklets” to track his location. He is not even allowed to get in his car and drive to the University without accompaniment.
Hassan Diab, who is charged with murdering four people in the 1980 bombing, will begin teaching a part-time introductory sociology course at Carleton University two days a week until the middle of August.
Diab, whose strict bail conditions prevent him from leaving the house alone, will be required to travel to and from the university with his common-law spouse Rania Tfaily, an Ottawa court heard Monday.
But once at the university, Diab will no longer need an escort.
What? Am I reading that last sentence correctly? Once at the university, he will no longer need an escort? Are you kidding me? The guy is charged with killing 4 people and he is welcome to roam the Carleton University campus without an escort?
Note to self: Do not let my kids attend Carleton University.
This video clip is a bit dated, but considering more and more stores in Canada are starting to charge 5 cents for plastic shopping bags, I feel it is very appropriate. Al Gore and his environmentalistas could use a bit of good old fashioned George Carlin realism. Here is a perfect dose..
On the subject of charging for grocery bags, I have to say that I am all for minimizing garbage. But realistically, I can buy 100 Kitchen Catcher(tm) bags for about $5.00, or I can bring home plastic grocery bags for a nickel each. In either case I have trash bags for my kitchen for the same price. I just hate the fact that some stores are going to take the 5 cents per bag and donate it to charities that I may not want to support like the World Wildlife Fund.
Ironically, it is these same stores that send you half a pound of flyers in the mail twice a week without a single iota of environmental conscience.
Now THAT’S OfficiallyScrewed.
WARNING: THE VIDEO BELOW CONTAINS COURSE LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR SOME VIEWERS. IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY COURSE LANGUAGE, DO NOT WATCH.
When you can donate $20M to an American university like Georgetown or Harvard, it gets you some pull. The only things I have to say after watching this short YouTube clip of a news program are:
a) I thought that there was separation of church and state in schools? Why are they teaching kids that Muslims discovered America? Even if this incorrect information was to be taught, should it not at least have been that someone from the middle east discovered America? Where is the ACLU? Where are the people forcing schools to not celebrate Christmas? Where are these hypocrites?
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b) I hope this misinformation is the part of an education that these kids don’t remember.
If I was a REALLY paranoid right wing extremist I might think that ABC’s decision to postpone John Stossel’s piece on the Canadian healthcare system until July 31st was because they did not want to run it when President Obama was getting pounded on his already failed attempt to push through healthcare reform before the summer break.
But I turned my PVR on this morning towatch the special because I was out last night and noted that Charlie Gibson had taken up the full hour on 20/20 with an oil/gas industry piece. Considering many Americans have a high interest in the oil/gas industry and the reasons behind the highly fluctiating prices, I will give ABC the benefit of the doubt. But one more delay and we won’t be so kind to the station that has regular love ins with Barry O.
If you want to read John Stossel’s view on the delay, as well as the views of his fans, you can check out his blog.
Last week it was announced that the Rogers Cable subscribers in Ottawa would no longer get their PBS from rinky dink Watertown, NY anymore and would instead get it from Detroit, where most of our other major network feeds come from. I have two words for people.
WHO CARES?
Tell me the last time you actually watched PBS? It is Bill Moyer’s liberal playpen. Moyer should crawl back into the communist red hole that spawned him and hide his face in shame for what he has done to that network.
I am even more upset that I am hearing right wing or center right talk radio pick up the banner and wave it high that we need to support local TV stations. How about we support choice instead?
I am a Roger’s subscriber and I wanted Fox News Channel (181 on your Roger’s dial) and I had to subscribe to their “News” package which includes 5 other stations that I had no intention of ever watching and haven’t watched since I got them. Yet I have to pay the $4.99 for this one station. Today I inspected Roger’s pick and pay station options and all 5 of these stations are offered individually for $2.79 per channel if I just want the one. Guess which station in the “News” package was not available individually? You guessed right. The Fox News Channel.
So I surfed over to the Bell ExpressVu website and after a few minutes I noticed that the Fox News Channel was not available as a standalone either. It comes as part of their “News and Learning 2” theme package which includes 7 other stations and costs $8.00 per month. I found the Bell Pick and Pay options for single channel subscriptions and I could order every network in the “News and Learning 2” package individually for $2.50 each. All but ONE that is. Guess which one? Wow, you’re good. 2 for 2. It is the Fox News Channel.
This network is the number one rated cable news channel kicking CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN to the ground. In fact, Fox regularly has the top ten individual ratings for shows in the Cable News World. Look at some of these numbers.
From April 2009, the top 11 shows were all Fox News Channel.
1. “The O’Reilly Factor” (Fox News): 3,498,000 total viewers
2. “Hannity” (Fox News): 2,566,000 total viewers
3. “Glenn Beck” (Fox News): 2,230,000 total viewers
4. “On the Record with Greta van Susteren” (Fox News): 2,173,000 total viewers
5. “Special Report with Bret Baier” (Fox News): 2,047,000 total viewers
6. “The Fox Report with Shepard Smith” (Fox News): 1,915,000 total viewers
7. “The O’Reilly Factor” (Fox News, repeat): 1,723,000 total viewers
8. “Your World with Neil Cavuto” (Fox News): 1,520,000 total viewers
9. “America’s Newsroom” (Fox News): 1,505,000 total viewers
10. “Studio B with Shepard Smith” (Fox News): 1,314,000 total viewers
11. “Happening Now” (Fox News): 1,247,000 total viewers
12. “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” (MSNBC): 1,237,000 total viewers
13. “The Live Desk” (Fox News): 1,210,000 total viewers
14. “Larry King Live” (CNN): 1,093,000 total viewers
15. “Anderson Cooper 360″ (CNN): 1,058,000 total viewers
16. “The Rachel Maddow Show” (MSNBC): 1,042,000 total viewers
17. “Situation Room” (CNN): 898,000 total viewers
18. “Lou Dobbs Tonight” (CNN): 826,000 total viewers
19. “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull” (CNN): 786,000 total viewers
20. “CNN Newsroom” (CNN): 725,000 total viewers
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When it comes to analyzing timeslots, to the right is a graphic taken from the Hot Air Pundit indicating ratings by timeslot. Note Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly (twice) kick some serious ass in their timeslots. Additionally, Fox News wins every slot from 5pm to Midnight by a significantly large margin, in most cases over all other news networks combined. How can Rogers and Bell include CNN in their premium cable packages, yet they continue to ignore Fox? This is a travesty in my opinion and it is another example of the viewing public getting Officially Screwed.
If the upcoming John Stossel piece on Canada’s healthcare system interests you, then you should really take a look at the Steven Crowder piece below. Crowder did some digging for Pajamas TV on what it’s like to get healthcare in Canada. You won’t believe your eyes.
WARNING: If you start to split your gut laughing at any point, do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT expect to get quick service at a Canadian hospital.
For those conservative “Crackberry” addicts out there like me, I thought I should point out that Nobex Radio Companion has added Ottawa’s 580 CFRA to its’ list of stations a mere three months after I suggested they add the station.
For those who do not know, Nobex is a streaming radio player for your Blackberry and is available in the new “App World” or you can download it from the Nobex website. It is a fantastic way to get radio wherever you can take your cell phone.
CFRA is the radio station that many feel is the reason Eastern Ontario has elected so many Conservative MPs. With voices like Lowell Green, Steve Madely, Rob Snow, Nick Vandergragt, and John Counsell, I highly suggest people give it a listen either online at cfra.com or via Nobex on their Blackberry.
Mark your calendars. On Friday July 24th, John Stossel has a segment on ABC’s 20/20 which looks at the Canadian Universal Health Care system. This is very timely as the Obama administration is poised to pass a Universal Health Care bill through Congress.
In an effort to educate American’s about our system, Stossel does some serious digging. In a brief preview some of the information that will be revealed is:
a) Canadian doctors earn less than 50% of what their American counterparts make, which leads to the doctor shortage.
b) towns in Canada are holding lotteries when space opens up with local family doctors to determine which family will get a doctor.
c) CT Scans, MRIs and other critical tests can get done usually next day…if you are a cat or a dog. But for a human the wait time is far longer.
If Stossel ‘s past segments are an indication of what we can expect then this segment should be eye opening for Canadians as well as Americans. I urge you all to take note and set your PVR’s. For a sneak peak, check out the early promo by clicking here.
We will also do our part and try to get the show recorded and posted to the web as we feel it is critical for Canadians to know how OfficiallyScrewed we really are.
