Keep my tax dollars out of "Trailer Park Boys"

I'm tired of having colleagues in Ontario and other provinces who somehow feel that the idiots on the television show "Trailer Park Boys," are representative of Nova Scotia. They don't represent our province. They don't represent most people I know who live in trailer parks. The only thing they represent are the idiots they are in the show and the idiots they probably are in real life. Yet, Telefilm, funded by the taxpayers of Canada, is putting money into a feature film about these idiots (the ones on Trailer Park Boys, not at Telefilm). It will be shot for under $5 million in and around Halifax this summer and will be released on the unsuspecting public next year. With only $5 million to put into the movie, it's obvious the people who are making the film aren't idiots or they couldn't convince enough idiots to put up some real money into shooting (on film) the idiots. (The idiots in Trailer Park Boys, that is.)

Two new sites are looking at some other bull

We thought we were good at digging out the bull. But, I fear we are small potatoes when we consider two new "bull" sites. The sites are: Conservatives Against the National Post and Canada's 2005 Federal Election. We will put links to these sites also in our links section for future reference. Our bull is more general, their bull is very specific. Also, for you U.S. loving Canadians, check out this site.

An Economic Primer for the NDP

In light of the move by Canada's federal NDP to support the corrupt and criminal Liberal Party of Canada, (see this posting), by pushing for economically-challenged budget changes, we felt it was crucial to put together a basic, easy-to-understand primer for the NDP.

An Economic Primer for the NDP OR:
Ten top reasons not to vote for the New Democratic Party of Canada:
1. Business creates "real" jobs, not government.
2. Government creates "unreal"jobs by promoting economic policies that cause businesses to leave the country or go bankrupt. These "unreal" jobs are when unemployed workers must now depend on government unemployment insurance or welfare payments in order to survive.
3. Business creates jobs when they are profitable. When they are not profitable, they lay off workers.
4. Business is profitable when they make more money than they lose.
5. Business loses money when they do stupid things (in which case they deserve to sink or swim) or when government taxes them so much they can no longer afford to be in business. (See number 2.)
6. When business taxes are low, business can afford to expand.
7. When personal taxes are low, people can afford to buy more things.
8. When people buy more things, business has to produce more things.
9. As people buy even more things, business produces even more things. For example: When people have more money, they buy more things like cars. When they buy more cars, more people are hired to make more cars. As more cars are made, more people are hired to make the things that go in cars. And on, and on and on.
10. When business gets taxed more and more they either go bankrupt (see 2.) or they move to another country.

Do men with long hair do drugs?

Of course. You knew that, didn't you? That's not what the freaks at FIG think. Check out this posting to get their take on this hairy topic.

How can you be Pro-Life and Pro-Death?

Someone once said that you can't respect any life, until you respect all life. So, you have pro-life people wanting to protect unborn children while at the same time have no problem with executing adults, who have been convicted of murder. (Whether they are actually guilty or not, that's another story. There are too many examples of innocent people being convicted of murder.) Then, on the other side, you have pro-abortion people saying it's okay to kill unborn children but you shouldn't kill adults who have been convicted of murder. You have this same group saying it's okay to kill unborn humans but it's wrong to kill seals, baby or adult. Both sides, obviously have a problem with consistency in the positions they take.

"Can't Remember," "Can't Recall" Claude Boulay at Gomery Hearings

It's pretty torturous watching Groupe Everest kingpin Claude Boulay facing questions at the Gomery hearing today. "I can't recall," "I can't remember," "I have no idea," seems to be the favorite expression of Mr. Boulay. Boulay, who worked on Prime Minister Martin's failed leadership bid in 1990 and Martin's campaign in the 1993 federal election, appears to be suffering from severe amnesia when he is asked questions that seek to link him to the Adscam scandal. During one point in today's questioning, Boulay switched from his favorite phrases and started answering with one word. An answer that drew the ire of Mr. Gomery. Probably," "Probably," "Probably," he started answering. It was at this point that Gomery jumped in and said: "You have used the word 'probably' three times. The word 'probably' doesn't help me much. I want to know the facts." Boulay, known as "Dear Claude" by our Prime Minister, donated - along with his wife - $195,000 to the Liberal Party from 1995 to 2003 and also handled, during the same period, $107,000,000 in sponsorship contracts. Also during the same period, "Dear Claude," pocketed nearly $12,000,000 in income. One wonders how someone with such a seemingly faulty memory was able to build up such a profitable company as Groupe Everest. But, let's not be hasty, maybe he is as squeaky clean as he claims.

Scott Brison. Liberal Party of Canada lapdog

Every day at 3:00 p.m. Atlantic Time, we gather around the big screen television to watch Question Period, live from the House of Commons. Dollar for dollar, you can't get any better entertainment. The main actor for the Liberal Party today, as he is most days, was Scott Brison, Minister of Public Works and Government Services. Just about every question the opposition side asked the Prime Minister, up popped puppet Brison to answer the question. Did the opposition have a question for some other government minister? Up popped puppet Brison. If you want to get the lowdown on Brison, visit this site. It's an eyeopener to see how this turncoat use to trash the same government he is now defending. If Brison ever had any credibility, he has certainly squandered it away during the last several months.

Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell is the "stupid" one.

As Forest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does." This sure does apply to Vancouver Mayor Larry "legalize heroin and all other soul, body and mind destroying drugs" Campbell. He's the fellow who opened up heroin "shooting houses" in this once fine city and in doing so has spread the use of heroin outside of a few city blocks and scared away tourists. Sure, the city is attracting more people. But, the people it is attracting are those who are looking for an easy heroin score. Anyways, this stupid mayor has said, "My biggest concern is that nobody does anything stupid in Ottawa. Calling an election, I consider it extremely stupid." Stupid is, as stupid does, Mayor Campbell. Or put another way, we have the pot calling the kettle black.

A "front" for the Conservative Party of Canada?

That seems to be the opinion of some. This accusation is addressed in today's freaks inc. posting.

A Conservative Canada. No Bull.

See this new posting on freaks inc., which we fully support, United for a Conservative Canada.

Freaks on Retreat. A Manifesto. Of sorts.

Where do we go from here?
It’s been a little under a month since our first Freak blog was published. Since then, we have grown to 12 blogs which are linked through our freaks inc. site. Now is the time to put our feet into the ocean for a few days to see where we go from here. So, as of tomorrow, April 14, there will be no postings until about April 19 as all the Freaks associated with all the sites go on retreat. We will be asking ourselves these questions, among others:
1. Do we continue as blogs or go to a full Web site? Or, both?
2. Will all the Freaks, from all the blogs, join in the upcoming election to lobby against all those politicians who support Bill C-17? Or, do we concentrate our efforts on the Liberals and the NDP and ignore the Bloc and the Conservatives? (If we go after the Bloc, we will have to recruit a French speaking Freak.) And, do we really want to go after the Conservatives? Truth be told, although we have picked on the Conservatives along with all the other parties, most of the Freaks are supportive of the Conservative Party. If this party wins the next election, we are sure they won’t be as anxious to support the spread of non-medical drugs, as are the other political parties. Or, do we remain completely apolitical?
3. How much money do we pour into the upcoming election campaign? Do we try to raise some cash? How many Freaks will put their lives on hold to fight this campaign?
4. How do we fight the campaign? Do we use news releases and telephone interviews with media that are situated within the targeted ridings, as well as updates to our blogs or web page (the latter depends on the time we have before an election to get a Web page up) or do we also use billboards and other mass advertising? This, of course, depends on our finances and would probably necessitate some fund raising. Are there any rich Freaks (or not Freaks) out there, who support our fight against the spread of non-medical drugs, such as pot?
5. Will we finally have an Executive Director to co-ordinate all our FAD (Freaks Against Drugs) business? It is important to have a "front man" for all media contacts. We have two Freaks here who are capable and have the experience to do this, but they are a bit leery of becoming front men because of some of the language, in the past, used on many of our sites. Not only what we have said, but how we have said it is bothersome to both of them. Each site is independent of the other and even within sites, particularly the FAD site, there is more than one person posting. If we are to be taken more seriously, our candidates for Executive Director have said that all postings (at least on the FAD sites) would have to be cleared by them. Some of our more anarchist Freaks have a problem with this.
6. Do we disband? Say, "it was nice to get our feelings out but, there is more to life..." and just let the country go to pot?
7. That’s about it. If you have feedback, please email us at freaksinc2@hotmail.com.
8. Until next week, this is Peter wishing you peace. Freak peace

P.M. showing signs of senility...

...please, let's have an election!
During Question Period in the House of Commons today, when opposition MPs provided evidence that the prime minister was probably a crook and a liar, Mr. Martin accused Stephen Harper's Conservatives of "trying to destroy Medicare." This phrase became his mantra every time he was asked a question. (Even though the questions had nothing to do with Medicare. Hey, when you can't put people off with the truth, you dazzle them with bull.) Didn't he hear the question? Sorry, we can't use this as an excuse; we would like to help him out. Even old socialist warhorse Ed Broadbent took shots at the prime minister for ignoring questions by trotting out the same old, tired bugbear of a statement: "the opposition is trying to destroy Medicare." (Hey, this lie worked during elections in the past, why not trot it out again? Well, sorry to disappoint you Mr. P.M., we aren't buying it anymore.) Please, somebody put this prime minister out of his misery by voting the government down and putting the kabosh to this farcical Liberal administration. The prime minister not only embarrasses himself and his party, he is an embarrassment to Canada. As to the Conservatives destroying Medicare (which even the NDP didn't buy into during today's Question Period), this prime minister refuses to make any changes to stop our Medicare system from crumbling. It's obvious he is the one destroying Medicare. (See this link for a posting on the matter.)

Unions, Wal-Mart go Head to Head

By Willie Wonkin
(Washington, D.C. April 12, 2005) "If we are able to unionize every Wal-Mart employee our membership would double," says United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union spokesman, Bill Blank. In an interview with a freak reporter, Blank says that this was the furthest thing from their mind, however, as the union launched their "Wake up Wal-Mart" campaign. Blank says the union is launching a multi-faceted attack on the world's largest company through their Wake Up campaign and by spearheading a new coalition, the Center for Community and Corporate Ethics. "Wal-Mart has no ethics so by publicizing this, we hope to gain public support. We will go after this unethical company by joining with groups who are fighting the department store giant to stop them from opening more stores. We need to stop more stores from opening so that we can hurry up and unionize all the Wal-Mart stores that are presently open." Blank refused to comment on the fight Wal-Mart is leading to urge North American governments to tighten laws to make union leaders more accountable to their members, so that "unions can be more ethical in their dealing with their members."

Wal-Mart spokesman, Charles Check, says it is ironic that the UFCW is calling his company unethical while the union is using membership dues to support political parties and causes that many of the members don't support. "You might also want to ask Mr. Blank about the union leadership salaries that make Canadian politician's salaries look like coffee money," Check says. "The word on the street is that for every 100,000 new members the UFCW signs up, the leadership's salaries double."

Both Blank and Check refused to join our reporter for a joint interview, but, Peter Piper, chairman of freaks inc. , agreed to a telephone interview. "Everyone knows how some of the freaks at freak inc feel about Wal-Mart. They sell, for the most part, junk, but we hesitate to support one side or the other in this fight. Heck, we only report the news, we don't make it (up)."

No Human Rights in Most Muslim Countries...

...but they want them for Canada!
A coalition of Buddhists, Hindus, Sikh, Jewish, Muslim, Quaker and a few oddball Christian groups climbed into bed for a love-in yesterday in a downtown Toronto quackery Centre. (Our spell checker changed Quaker to quackery, so we thought we would leave this more appropriate word in our final draft.) These groups refused to let their religious books' admonitions against homosexuality interfere with their call for the Canadian government to extend marriage to gays. Leading the pack of religious misfits was Tarik Fatah of the Muslim Canadian Congress who said Conservative Stephen Harper's refusal to support same sex marriage was tatamount to "mixing religion with politics." In an interview afterwards with a Freak reporter, a Muslim spokesman said that in most Muslim countries: "We don't mix religion and politics. We don't mix them because religion and politics are one and the same thing. And, if people try to separate the two, then we separate a hand from their body, or two hands. Sometimes, even a head."

Our Muslim source said that the whole issue of same-sex marriage in Canada is one of human rights. Of course, he admitted, "we don't have that problem in most Muslim countries. We define human rights that suit us men and anyone who disagrees loses a hand. Or two hands. Sometimes, even a head. Or some other part of their body that sticks out. Our human rights include no car driving for females, veils over their faces and big bulky burqas (50 pound dresses that cover them from head to foot)." He agreed that western type human rights for gays weren't important in Muslim countries,"and we would probably kill any gays if we found them."

When our reporter asked him about Abdul Malik Kamawi's (spokesman for Afghanistan's Supreme Court) campaign against western culture, our Muslim source said he was in complete agreement with Kamawi's words. "Watching a woman with half-naked breasts and a man and a woman sucking each other's lips on TV is not acceptable. It gets worse. There are now even television shows in Afghanistan where women take of their headscarves."

When asked if he didn't see something a bit odd about condemning the showing on Afghani television of a man and woman kissing while lobbying in Canada for two men to marry, the Muslim spokesman replied: "Well, this is the West. We believe that if we can support decadence here then your system will collapse that much faster so that our form of morality will be more appreciated." In the meantime, according to our source, he and many other Muslims support their Afghan brotherhood who are fighting against television stations in that country that "broadcast music and foreign films. It's decadence, pure and simple. It's downright sinful."

Ahenakew Supporter and National Post Cross the Line

David Ahenakew, on trial for anti-Semitic remarks, has received some hurtful help from Roseau River First Nations Chief, Terrance Nelson. In a letter to The Winnipeg Free Press, Nelson, in supporting Ahenakew, says that the media coverage of the trial "will surely cause natives to hate Jews even more then some of them do now and what Jews fear the most, active promotion of hatred against Jews in Canada, will only rise dramatically amongst natives as they make a martyr out of an old man. Natives are killing whites now, soon they will be killing police officers on a regular basis."

Nelson's remarks are in very poor taste, to say the least, but his foot-in-mouth disease didn't stop there. He says that Jews own and control much of Canada's media and this is why the media doesn't cover today's "holocaust" against native people. First of all, I can think of only one media empire, out of several, that are controlled by Jewish people. And what if Nelson was right? It doesn't matter who controls the media, let the market decide that. As to native issues being ignored? Hardly. A "holocaust" against natives? To compare what happened to 6 million plus Jews in Europe during World War II with native issues today, is a bunch of crock.

But, our favorite whipping boy, the National Post, (see this link) didn't help matters in their coverage of Nelson's remarks in today's newspaper. Nelson made himself look quite foolish on his own and the Post should have let the man's words speak for themselves. Instead, the Post ended their coverage of the story (on page A9) by looking back 8 years to find some dirt on Nelson. According to the paper, Nelson was "found guilty in 1997 of five counts of illegally keeping gaming devices, 47 slot machines and other gambling equipment." And the Post's point is...