WinnipegFirst has a story up today about the abysmal failure of the Communist in the Manitoba election.

The highlight of the story, is that halfway through the campaign their only car broke down. Thats right, five Communist candidates in Winnipeg were sharing one car between them. Not even the damn car could finish the campaign as a Communist! Why didn't the community rally to fix the car?

In a province of more than 1,100,000 people the Communist party garnered less than 400 votes province wide. 69 of those votes came from my riding of Wolseley, which did elect a Communist who runs under the NDP banner, Rob Altemeyer. Love thy neighbour? Not bloody likely.

I guess between the 400 Communist supporters in Manitoba, they couldn't get the car fixed. But thats probably because each of those 400 votes came from a lazy waste of skin who wouldn't do any work to save his own sorry life, much less to fix the automobile of a political party who shares their beliefs of leaching off of others.

Update: Speaking of Communists, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is spending $18,000,000 of hard earned Communist cash to make a movie. Dear Comrades, how does giving Danny Glover $18M to make a movie in Hollywood do anything to better the lives of Venezuelans? And do we really need anymore evidence that Hollywood is unabashedly Communist?

Labels: Communism, Manitoba, NDP, politics, Trough Feeders

After previously bashing the Green Party's economic platform, I was glad to see the headline Growth trumps environment in China report.

Even Communist China understands human nature better than Manitoba's Green party. But an even bigger concern is the fact that the world's biggest polluter is putting environmental concerns on the back burner for economic growth. Meanwhile back in Canada, the Greens, Liberals, NDP, and Conservatives battle over who can appear to be the Greenest of them all. It would be nice if we could get the same kind of brutal honesty from our own government.

It appears that the Liberals/Greens and the NDP have pushed the Harper government too far while tinkering with the Conservatives Clean Air Act, and the government will be forced to abandon the legislation. Frankly, this will be a good thing in the long run. The Clean Air Act was thrown together in haste for purely political purposes. It would be fair to say that something like Kyoto, which has the potential to devesate our economy, should be an election issue.

Labels: China, Communism, Conservative Party, Green Party, Liberal Party, NDP, Y2Kyoto

I'm not a reactionary fuck like some, but somethings just chap my ass beyond... reasonable chapping of the ass. I don't harp on the Communists in China too much, mostly because it's futile to challenge the most populous largest countries in the world.

That has changed, and I'm declaring war. Why you ask? Trevor Loudon pointed me to a fantastic website called The Great Firewall of China. It will tell you if a particular URL is banned in China or not.

Obviously my first test was Natedawg.org, and I'm glad to report that, for the time being, the Chinese can still read this website, though it has been banned in the past. Which explains some things. I've had 12 readers on this blog in the last 9 months from Iran, but none from China. I found that odd.

There are a lot of websites that aren't allowed by the Chinese government. But what shocked the hell out of me though, is that the Homestar Runner is banned in China! Homestar basically brought "Web 2.0" to the masses, and is the greatest internet cartoon to ever run. The length of their run speaks for itself.

So back to Communism; are the Chinese not allowed a momentary chuckle from time to time? Homestar is far from being political in nature, its just funny crap. I hereby call on the Chinese government to allow their citizenry the right to access Homestar.

Labels: China, Communism, Funny

The Soviets haven't given up yet. From my man at New Zeal.

Russian Communists urged Saturday the Communist parties of ex-Soviet states to join their efforts to restore the former Soviet Union.

Communist leaders from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and other ex-Soviet republics gathered Saturday in the Russian capital to discuss the strengthening of future cooperation and the development of a common strategy to re-unite the former members of the now-defunct Soviet Union.

It's too bad for the Communists that half of the former Soviet Union is thriving and would have to be dragged back kicking and screaming... not that the Communists would have any problem with that.

Labels: Communism, politics, Russia

David Suzuki and Kim Jong-Il have something in common, a hatred of cars.

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has ordered the seizure of all Japanese-made cars in the communist country after he spotted a broken-down model blocking a road. [...]

It remains to be seen whether North Korean authorities will be able to implement the order fully, because most of the cars operating in the country are Japanese, Yonhap said.

And for David Suzuki's view of Canada in twenty years...

Our cities will be more livable places because we won't be using cars nearly so much.

We'll have a live in a radically different way. We'll basically live, work and play in the same area, we won't need cars to cover that distance. We'll have to have dense pockets of settlement, connected to each other by rapid transit. [...]

We've got to start using taxation to encourage the things we want and discourage the things we don't want. We should pull back taxes on personal income and we should be taxing the hell out of pollution and carbon is one of those pollutants.

Labels: Communism, Environment, Y2Kyoto