wildrose ----carrot on a stick

Good read Geoff.I am not sure if I should chuckle at this lady and her stupidity or just break down and have myself a good cry.
Lets see if I have this right.
No proof humanity has caused global warming.
The faster they exploit the tar sands the faster the oil companies can return the land to it's natural beauty(choke)
She wants to give Albertans mass transit and comuter rail to reduce pollutants and co2 emissions------hang on a minute here my dear---I thought we were not responsible for global warming---what the hell then is the point of reducing emissions?
Now just in case any of you sheep are foolish enough to think for yourself how about I sweeten the pie a little bit----if you v ote for me I will give you $300 bucks to do with as you please---mayb e fill up your gas tank-----money gone back to government(gas taxes) and big oil.I wonder if $300 would get you and your family to Fort Mac for a picnic on that beautiful forest big oil is going to replace.
Will voters ever wake up(and smell the roses)and actually think for themselves.
What a sad and sorry state of affairs

A very good professor friend

A very good professor friend of mine in world class sustainability studies, advisor to the Chinese govt. goes to China several times a year, advising them how to cut their emissions etc. which have now reached astronomical proportions on account of the fraudulent economic system the whole world lives under.

Interesting that the Chinese have discovered the damage caused by carbon emissions, but Canadians are still hysterically denying it, because admitting it, wouldn't be "economically efficient and wealth creating".

What this country and the world needs are more brain testing machines for "right wing", in reality at the top of the ideological pole, politicians.

Ed Deak.

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/revolt/guangdong-leads-the-way-in-chinas-low-carbon-development/

the 3 ladies

I agree Indy----one point though We in B.C. did not----or ever will vote for Clark---sadly we(not me)voted for the gangster that she replaced

And humans (homo sapiens) lived with Dinosaurs!

Alberta will be one giant strip mine with neighboring shopping malls!

How is this not a bribe?

In the Philippines, the people used to get $5 to vote for whomever.

Now, Albertans are to get $300 if they vote in Wildrose?

I remember when bread was five cents a loaf.

Who let the idiots out of the madhouse?

Can someone please pinch me - I think I am dreaming that I have been transported to a planet where Idiots rule. WTF?

Where all these 'politicians' coming from?

Seriously - maybe it is time to create the 'ecogroup' and start cleaning up the house. Our planet is infested with humans suffering from brain disease called IDIOTS.

She's new. She's different. She's a fresh face!

Keep your eyes on the bus. You are getting sleepy... sleepy...

We need to strip-mine the forest to save it from itself.

Our energy security into the future depends on getting that energy to Asian markets now.

Alberta oil sands contain pro-biotics that promote good health (show pretty woman spooning it from a yogurt cup against a boreal forest backdrop).

All eyes on the bus...

Who will be queen of the Alberta Tar Ponds???

To the prospective leaders of the new Canadian Toxic Waste Dump, please keep your talk on how great Alberta is to Alberta and when we turf out the idiots in the B.C. political environment we will send them to you. They are very well practiced in selling out the electorate for corporate profits, truth has never been a concern for them and out right lying instead of political spin is the height of their intellect. They should fit right in with the politics of Alberta as they also use Harper political cast offs..

Is it me or do these two parties look exactly the same?

The Conservative Party and the Wildrose Party are like the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea, except not as funny.

WTF

Great comments on a sad story. Alberta is the Canadian version of Texas so it is easy to the santorum in the Alberta insane asylum.

Alberta speaks for the West?

Just think, once she's Premier every time she opens her mouth the national corporate media will maintain she speaks for the West. Are B.C. and Manitoba good with that? Saskatchewan has recently gone over to the dark side so I don't think they'll have a problem with it.

Physics guy-

Being a science guy myself I agree except that one is the "Neo Judean People's Front". And you're right; not nearly as funny.

Danielle Smith & Ayn Rand

Yep! Just like the owners of the Britannia Mines cleaned up after themselves.....

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/danielle-smith-my-life-will-fall-under-the-microscope/article1797368/

Going from one right wing

Going from one right wing government to even a further right wing government does not say much for 'change'..She is best buds with Chairman Stevie too like Christy is here. They really sound like a provincial 'Reform Party'...

This Wildrose party sounds like they will give Big Oil even more of a free reign. I guess Albertans do not really care about the environment? Even speeding up hearings like Chairman Dictator Stevie. I may sound harsh towards Alberta but If you ever say anything to many Albertans about this you get 'attacked' so to speak, then lectured how they and only them keep Canada afloat blah blah. Just don't come crying to the rest of when it comes time to try and clean up what is left of your province.

Sarah Palin North

Immediately after this article was published Smith bought the AMA; patients can go where they want if the wait time's too long.
Yep! That means USA (well...they way she said it it does, but wait 'til tomorrow).
This women is a real fruit cake who will bring to Alberta all that the Fraser Institute has to offer...after she buys her way in.
Sarah Palin Smith will set a new standard of low.

All this is the typical

All this is the typical history of the world, regardless of nationality.

When we look at history's leaders, we can only wonder where in hell were the paramedics with the nets and the cops with the locks to keep them from causing more damage ?

Perhaps, it is because normal people have no wish to run for leaders and society never learns the lessons, by putting up with them.

As a 17 year old, I've seen the last 5-6 months of the nazi empire from the inside, when we were taken there for training with the Hungarian army, then in combat, then as working troops, with my leg rotting away from a small shrapnel wound, without medical help.. It wasn't pretty, then almost getting executed for "high treason", but saved by the end of the war. .

14 months in a German military hospital, 3 as a patient, 11 as a volunteer orderly. The most primitive conditions, the country in ruins, starving, the wounds didn't heal, young guys wrecked and ruined for life for nothing. Yet, njever heard a single word blaming Hitler for the terrible conditions and suffering.

3 years in postwar Austria. All we could hear was what a great guy Hitler was and so on.

If Hitler had been alive and running for president in either country, after the war, he would have been elected with a landslide.

Which means that I'm not the least bit surprised to see this lady running on a fascist, which means "conservative" ticket and win. People love dictatorships because it frees them from thinking for themselves. That's all.

Harper wasn't elected by Albertans either.

Ed Deak.

scary

On other topics: wait until Smith's government totally privatizes health care in that province, eliminates social and legal programs for the poor (and there is many there), reverses any labour laws not 100-per-cent business-friendly and makes religion mandatory.

Ed

You're right. It was all those Ontario blue collar types - who are now losing their jobs to the American South (unless they want to work for $15/hr and no perks).
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/05/state-of-the-anti-union/
Automakers are flooding to the Deep South for cheap, union-free labour

Rick w

You are conflating Ayn Rand with Milton Friedman who at the Chicaago School of Econ., yes the same school Obama was at. Created in the 50s and 60s what are todays economic policies. His big idea was that a middle class was an unnecessary expense an should be dispensed with. M Rand was a russian /jewish immigrant with fascist sympathies. She wrote a couple of mildly successful books and created a silly philosophy called Objectivism. When I was in school we called it "fascism in a skirt." Some of the idle rich found it mildy attractive.As far as I remember she rarely if ever spoke on economics, other than within a political context.

One of these days people will

One of these days people will perhaps realize that both of the idiot twins of communism and capitalism are nothing but dictatorial fascism, to set up ruling classes, and that so called "monetary efficiency" doesn't exist.

"Monetary efficiency" is a fraud, because you can not have two contradictory efficiencies used in the same system and physical realities are unbreakable facts that no imaginary, pseudo religious theories can overrule.

In short, what they teach in our universities as "economics" are fraudulent garbage.

Ed Deak.

Joe Who's protege

Alison Redford's premiership is hardly right-of-centre, with her loving the UN, best buds of Jean Charest and being Joe Clark's protege. Christy Clark, Jean Chretien's student, is probably right of Alison Redford but left of Smith. Neither Alison Redford nor Christy Clark are buddies with PM Stephen Harper, with both being closer to Dalton McGuinty, so both will drive up deficits and debts.

I have little doubt that Christy Clark has little hope against the NDP in the next BC election, although it is too bad that the NDP didn't pick a leader. I don't believe the polls in Alberta with the PCs probably winning. But crazy things can happen, Ontario reelected the McGuinty led Liberals after all.

Opposites Attract

After so much vilification of Alberta it's understandable that there be a resonating voice in politics to refute it.

R/M old man....

The use of the word "vilification" implies false accusation. Is it? Alberta is not without it's righteous indignation, having been much maligned by Central Canada (but then EVERYONE was "much maligned" by Central Canada at one time or another). But what kind of person who professes to be Christian, would want to see Central Canada buried?

You Tell Me

Vilify does not have any hint of falsehood; "speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner". Nothing false there.

Are you of the opinion that any accusation is false? Is that why you mention it?

I think that we can be pretty sure that a substantial number of Albertans are less than overwhelmed with the negative haranguing regarding resources so frequently heard, of late. It's only natural that they would seek and endorse a vociferous leader and spokesperson that inclines towards countering the bad rap.

R/M old man....

Connotatively, vilification reeks of untoward condemnation. And DS certainly doesn't counter the bad rap. She rides with it, lapping it up, and spitting it out - much like Harper (post-majority).

That Bad Rap

Untoward condemnation indeed. Conrad. Yesterday.

"The antics of McGuinty, who has led Ontario from the commanding heights almost to the low-rent district of the Canadian economy, blaming the prosperity of Alberta for raising the value of the Canadian dollar and inconveniencing Ontario, is an outrage. The new federal NDP leader, Thomas Mulcair, has been uttering something perilously close to the same inexcusable flimflam. Alberta, per capita, has done more than any other province to carry the cost of federalism, including oceanic largesse to Quebec. And all Canadians should rejoice at the prospect of Canada becoming a world energy giant, especially as it entails the prosperity of Newfoundland after centuries of economic struggle, and also the flowering of the hydroelectric wealth and technical sophistication of Quebec. "

Conrad Black: National Post.

He is a perceptive chap.

He's a blundering idiot. Ed

He's a blundering idiot.

Ed Deak.

Alberta

Why do people think that Alberta is the economic darling of Canada? They are squandering our wealth at breathtaking speeds.

There was a report on The Tyee not to long ago about how it takes one barrel of conventional oil to extract two barrels of bitumen, what do people think is going to happen when it hits equilibrium?

I'm so sick of hearing these Right Wingers talk about economics, they are like the Snake Oil Salesmen of days gone by. How is it efficient to transfer that energy into pollution which in turns drains the real economic system ie the Ecology of the Planet? it's a negative effect, it's uneconomical and criminal.

R/M old man....

And what GUARANTEES does Comrade Conrad offer up that Ms. Smith's promise to restore Alberta's north to pristine conditions will be honored?

RickW

They can't it's impossible at this point, they don't have the energy to do it or the will, they just want extract as much as they can, then make off like Bandits in the night.

This whole idea of reclamation is just a clever piece of propaganda.

Something capitalists have

Something capitalists have never been able to figure out, or the brainier types who are crooks, always keep quiet about, is the simple fact that resources are capital.

The sale of capital is not an income but either criminal, or stupid actions

Any society in history that relied on the exploitation and sale of resources/capital, committed suicide.

If Conrad Black had any brains he wouldn't have ended up in jail, therefore any advice from him is worthless rubbish.

If the corporations doing the exploitation are registered, separate entities, instead of being part of their parent outfits, it means that when they've exhausted the resource, they'll simply declare bankruptcy and walk away from the mess and nobody can do anything about it.

This is all the fraud of monetary economics, distorting and covering up physical realities with imaginary figures, invented from the air, to mislead people into a false sense of security, causing suffering and destruction and violence on the long run.

Ed Deak.

Wicked Witch of The West!!!

I am ashamed that I am A Albertian!!! I can't believe Albertian are going to vote for here. On top of the enviromental policy, she is going to Privitise Health Care!!! Can you say Alberta U.S.A. P.S. The American Republicans are over joyed to have her as A Premier!!!

Rick

The general sentiment seems to be that once god had smitten the landscape with such icky goop, the prospect of any restoration to pristine conditions is somewhat moot. Since, whenever was the landscape pristine, for god's sake? Any remedial landscaping will be an improvement.

The ability to sell off the goop is truly an act of god.

That fools will pay a king's ransom to purchase this muck is like money falling from the heavens.

It is unquestionably providential that this bounty exists in biblical proportions.

He blackened Alberta with sticky muck - and it was good.

Two Truths That ALberta Voters need to Understand

As is common in politics, Alberta's two biggest parties tell the truth about each other. First, the truth about the ruling Progressive Conservatives is that much of the anachronism that characterizes Alberta politics--the 2008 scandal of having half of the returning officers, the long history of intimidating and punishing doctors who criticise the public health care system, and the recent scandal of universities and municipalities giving donations to the PC party--are all the result of having the same party in power for too long.

The other truth--the one that too many voters still don't get-- is that Alison Redford represents real change in policy terms, as she tries to sensibly respond (within severe political constraints) to the long-term fiscal health and environmental challenges the province faces. WIldrose is reactionary: Danielle Smith represents the myth of rugged individualism that disguises the truth--that ALbertans do not choose to get by with lower taxes and less government, they use revenue from a depleting non-renewable and highly polluting resource TO AVOID MAKING THAT CHOICE. Smith channels Ralph Klein and Ernest Manning; Redford needs to evoke ( and invoke) Peter Lougheed.

For a fuller discussion, see my blog: http://markcrawford.blogspot.ca/

The falacy of WRP platforms

Alberta is loosing more than 700 thousand dollars a day in royalty which should be in our pocket! http://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2012/02/alberta-royalty-explained.html

For this she is offering 300 dollars a year! Nonsense!

WRP like the Conservatives are owned, operated by and for the oil industry! It wasn't that long ago you had Liepert on the national news telling Alaska they were charging too much royalty!

Both parties are on the same wave length on everything their priority being how to move a Republican agenda forward; not what is best for this province.

Here is a one on one comparison of the WRP and the Conservatives. Considering a Conservative Majority on in Canada now; these are crisis times! Harper is hitting on everything that is on the Republican list as being bad for their business. http://albertathedetails.blogspot.ca/2012/03/alberta-election-2012-who-to-trust.html

We need some resistance at the provincial levels!

I will continue to support the Liberal Party as being the single common sense cure for most of our problems!
Both have said they will do away with the flat rate tax system offering instead the incremented system. This means individuals, small and medium companies will pay more income tax while larger companies (oil etc.) pay nothing.

Oil people nod and say "is the cap turning right yet?" Turning Left means the cap sticks; in turn meaning is their fortunes still good under the Cons.

There is a c

R/M old man....

At least He had the decency to cover it up with the "lungs of the earth".......can't "improve" it any more than that.