* The Right Opinion.
- I don’t know whether it has been used before, but I have a new term to add to the social media lexicon. Tell me what you think.
Twitter troll: A person who tries to endlessly argue a point in 140 characters or less.
I realize Twitter is used to share ideas, but I can almost predict when some Twitter users who follow me (liberals) will pop up with a comment to one of my tweets. It’s almost like clockwork. They don’t like what you post so they expect an endless stream of tweets, back and forth, back and forth until they can prove their point. It’s the social media equivalent of, liberals believe in freedom of speech as long as you agree with them. If you don’t they try to shut you up. I know they’re a lost cause and can’t accept contrary opinion, so I string them along for awhile and set them adrift. Generally they’re nice people who just don’t understand the right opinion.
- Speaking of freedom of speech. Have you followed the story of the women’s breast cancer organization that dropped funding from Planned Parenthood in the United States? Susan G. Komen for the Cure dropped the funding because it wanted to divert that money to organizations that actually helped women with breast cancer. The pro abortion left went berserk. Politicians and left wing drones have managed to get the decision overturned, which is not unlike giving in to terrorists. Let them claim victory and they’ll only do it again. I have to ask a question about this. Why is it anyone’s business who this charity gives money too? If Susan G. Komen doesn’t want to give them money that’s their decision. That doesn’t make sense to the unhinged left.
The left is ugly: The Komen Conflagration – National Review
More: Steyn: The Liberal Enforcers – National Review
- The American Association of University Women announced it would no longer sponsor teams for Komen’s “Race for the Cure.” Sure, Komen has raised $2 billion for the cure, but better we never cure breast cancer than let a single errant Injun wander off the abortion reservation. Terry O’Neill of the National Organization for Women said Komen “is no longer an organization whose mission is to advance women’s health.” You preach it, sister. I mean, doesn’t the very idea of an organization obsessively focused on breasts sound suspiciously patriarchal?
- A few thoughts on Sun-TV. I know this network has become a darling of the right in Canada, but I am just a wee bit concerned that it is starting to look petty, cheap and lacking credibility. It’s also in territory I and other conservatives would never accept from the left. Let me explain using two very recent stories.
1. CBC and porn. I’ve had fun with the #cbcporntitles on Twitter and I think my tax dollars can be spent in better ways than buying soft core french porn to stream on a taxpayer funded website, but Sun News has gone way over the top. This has been the top story for Sun News for days now. Last night Brian Lilley, who I think is an excellent reporter, opened his show and chided the Toronto Sun, National Post and Globe and Mail for not featuring the story prominently in their newspapers. It makes for salacious viewing and stirs up ‘the base’, but Canada has bigger problems than the CBC streaming videos that don’t even show the money shot. I don’t like the CBC and would like to see it de-funded, but Sun News isn’t going to get results if they’re seen as a bunch of carnivals barkers selling conservative elixir. We get it Sun, you don’t like the CBC.
2. The faked citizenship ceremony. This little incident just shows how Sun News is too cozy with the federal government. Why the hell was a news network showing a ceremony like this in the first place? Now that the cat is out of the bag and the whole thing has turned up to be a big joke, Sun looks damn stupid. I doubt they’ll do anything like this again in the future.
Which brings me to my conclusion. I expect to be enlightened and informed when I watch the news or news programs. I don’t mind getting a conservative perspective when I’m presented a story, but I also want to some balance. Sun News was born because someone saw a liberal bias in the coverage on the CBC and CTV and other networks, now Sun News has done the same thing in the other direction. I don’t think it’s entertaining and being force fed one point of view is also unhealthy. Sure Sun News puts liberal pundits on the air on occasion, even regularly, but it’s done to try to create legitimacy, not debate. Some of the presenters on Sun are starting to look like crazy right wing nuts and I don’t want to be bunched in with them. I’m sure ‘selling the sizzle and not the steak’ brings in the ratings, but even I, a staunch conservative, thinks the sizzle is starting to fizzle.
Related: Maher: Sun TV plays dirty with trumped-up CBC porn scandal – Montreal Gazette
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* Someone please make them stop!
Here’s a follow up to my post from Thursday called ‘Give a study an inch and the nanny staters will take a mile’. It’s about a study by three social engineers who want the government to control sugar. Within 30 seconds of watching this video you’ll want to wrap their heads in duct tape.
(Via: small dead animals)
You can read my thoughts on obesity in my January 11th post.
I actually blame the childhood obesity epidemic of women going to work. One of the best things you can do for your family to keep them healthy is sit down and have dinner with them. That means someone has to have dinner ready when everyone gets home. Traditionally that meant Mom, but we can’t suggest that women stay home to take care of their children, can we? What a radical idea.
* World government.
The European Union has turned out to be a great success so let’s have a government to control the whole world. A… let me see… an environmental government. I repeat. please make them stop!
100 countries back world environment agency: France – Yahoo
- It should be part of a rethink of the world’s economy, in which green issues and social questions should be integrated into the search for profit, she said.
- “The new capitalism which emerges from the crisis has to be environmental, or it won’t be new,” she said.
- “We are looking for a new kind of environmental governance, something more inclusive, in which all parties have a stake and it’s not just governments which have the right to speak.”
* Is this controversial?
The left in the United States likes big government and they don’t like the constitution. The US Constitution limits government and that is contrary to the likes of Barack Obama who sees government as a tool for good. What do you think? I think it’s powerful and on point.
Link: McNaughton Art
Proof the left doesn’t like the US Constitution: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Today on ‘Deep Cuts & Lost Classics’… I hope it has already passed.
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More later.
JRB
