As IF Times

link Canada government defeated in non-confidence vote – Yahoo! News.

There’s an ancient anecdote about a movie that was made about the lives of an husband and wife team of brilliant scientists.  As they were watching the movie depiction, during a particularly steamy love scene, the real life wife leaned over to her husband and whispered, ” I don’t remember it being like this”.  The husband responded, “that my dear is because they are professionals and we are only amateurs”.  This stupid story reminds me of what has just happened in Canada.

The opposition parties have ganged up on the minority Conservative party to force the 4th federal election in 7 years.  Apparently, the opposition Liberal and NDP parties are expressing the mandate of  “the people” in pushing for a vote.  There is no anecdotal evidence that anyone wants another election, but hey, they are the professionals, so they must have some special insight.

If anyone has noticed, Canada at the moment is a bastion of calm both politically and economically in a world where everywhere else there is chaos and uncertainty.  There are no religious or cultural protests in the streets.  There are no burnings of effigies.  We are not at war with anyone.  There are no massive bank failures.  There is no imploding real estate sinkhole.  The currency is at an all time high versus the U.S. counterpart, our main trade partner.  The economy overall is strong with worldwide demand for our commodity products.  Thank goodness we have the Liberals and NDP willing to come to the rescue and save Canadians from all of this disaster.

The professional politicians are at it again.  The leaders of the opposition parties, Ignatieff and Layton,  both lack experience in any executive capacity; they are either academics or of some other crazed ideological bent that want to foist some tired notions of socialism upon the nation.  We know how that worked out just across the border to the south.  A handful of entitled people, otherwise unemployable, pushing their  mandate upon 35 million others who are living lives of relative tranquility.  For the benefit of these idiots, the way the  nation is running now is the way it’s supposed to be when things work.  The only thing they don’t like is that they’re not in charge.  These are people whose only role in life has been to suck on the nation’s political teat.  Let’s hope the amateurs rise up and make these ‘professionals’ pursue new professions in the next election.   I hear Cuba is looking for new leadership.

link Palin Success Triggered FCC Complaints | The Smoking Gun.

This story line has been worked over pretty thoroughly, but I will add just one more comment.  Only to point out the rabid insanity of many people out there who are obsessed with the activities of the Palins, mother and daughter.  Clearly the uproar over the younger Ms. Palin is not over her dancing ability, or lack thereof as some are claiming.  Here’s one of the more comical utterances:

“…I want my Government to protect me the viewer from deceptive practices…”

!!!  That is one of the best quotes ever which sums up succinctly the mentality of many in America.  And when I say many, I mean the left and liberals. Clearly this individual and his/her ilk are expecting to be spoon fed in all manner of things affecting their lives including entertainment.  I’m not sure such a groundswell of outrage erupted when a player got voted off Lost or some other ‘reality’ show? I wonder if they get all apoplectic when their football team loses?  What if Cam Newton doesn’t win the Heisman?  I wonder if they go postal when their orders at McDonald’s aren’t filled properly?

The world of should be and the world of what is, most clearly separates liberals from more conservatively minded individuals.  It is the difference between “Oh, that bear can’t be chasing me, I love animals” versus “run this way and bring the shotgun”.   It is the difference between “well, someone should feed us”  versus ” we’d better go out and find some food”.  In some ways, it is protracted adolescence wherein no responsibility is taken for anything since mother will ultimately take care of things.  It may stem from brainwashing by popular entertainment in which slackers and stoners are glorified and depicted as sympathetic  anti-heroes.

Somehow, western society has become soft from generations of affluence.  The mindset has changed so that many willingly listen to and believe people who tell them that all will be taken care of by an omnipotent  and compassionate government.  We have in essence become a society of domesticated dogs who are dependant on their handlers for every aspect of their lives.  This of course, is very sinister, for what eventually happens is that you create  a society of those who are governed and those who are in charge.  I invoke Animal Farm for the 30th time in my musings, but those who haven’t read the book, should make it a priority over the upcoming holiday season. 

We witness acts of outright stupidity and entitlement such as people calling 911 because they didn’t get french fries or enough shrimp  in their fast food order.  In our neck of the woods, a family was berating the government because they weren’t looking after their mentally challenged family member.  Even after all the hard lessons that have been taught over the past few years, there are still those who expect government to take care of their housing, their schooling, their health care, their security and now their entertainment.  Domestic animals indeed.  People like those in the article only make it easier to slip the collar on.