NSFW - more below the fold...

... Union workers learn that they aren't the boss of the company:

Wal-Mart is closing a tire-and-lube garage in Gatineau where workers won a major victory last August when a Quebec arbitrator imposed a collective agreement on the company.

The precedent-setting contract was the first ever imposed on the Arkansas-based retailer by an outside agency.

The agreement affected just eight workers at the garage on Maloney Boulevard in Gatineau, across the river from Ottawa.

The workers are represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada.

Wal-Mart said meeting the workers' demands would have forced the company to raise prices at the garage by 30 per cent.

In 2005, Wal-Mart closed an entire store in Jonquière, Que, on the same day Quebec announced an arbitrator would impose a collective agreement there.

Wal-Mart said the decision to close the store was unrelated to the announcement, but the incident led to the union's speculation that the Gatineau Wal-Mart garage would close in the wake of the arbitrator's ruling in August.

It's the owners of a company who decide what happens with that company, not the workers.  Period.  If Quebec workers want something different, maybe they should consider moving to Cuba.

Joe everyman speaks and the Obama campaign/MSM are pulling their hair out:

As a side note, Canadian moonbats are beside themselves that an average American guy is against higher taxes and an increased government presence. 

It's time to move south methinks... 

I Am A Free Canadian

"I am a Canadian,
a free Canadian,
free to speak without fear,
free to worship God in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right,
free to oppose what I believe wrong,
free to choose those who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold
for myself and for all mankind."

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Went to the in-laws farm for turkey dinner today.  This from an octogenarian farm wife while discussing Tuesday's election:  "That Green lady looks like a beaver!"

Bless her heart...

If they know they can't win, why even exist as a party?

Prominent Green Party supporter and environmentalist Guy Dauncey is urging Vancouver Island voters to forsake all Green Party candidates and vote NDP and Liberal in ridings where they can defeat Conservatives.  [...]  Here is Dauncey's complete email:

 

Dear Friends,

Voting on Vancouver Island

I know it hurts to vote against your instinct, to make that all-important democratic tick for a party other than the one you believe in.

Under our antiquated, colonial, discriminatory, stupid, undemocratic, first-past-the-post voting system, however, when we split the progressive vote not two but three ways, every vote for a candidate who has little chance of winning makes Conservatives cheer.

They are laughing all the way to a possible majority government, packed with Conservative MPs many of whom, If the disgraced MP Maxime Bernier is anything to go by, think climate change is a joke, a Rocky Horror Show of doom and gloom dreamed up by us eco-freaks.

I have been a member of the Green Party in Britain and Canada, on and off, for 35 years. I wrote our Canadian Green Party's climate platform, that was awarded the highest rating by the Pembina Institute. And I am urging all people of a progressive hue not to vote Green, but to vote strategically, to put aside party loyalty for greater loyalty to our Planet Earth.

We absolutely must stop the Conservatives from getting back into power. A Liberal/NDP/Green coalition government (hoping Elizabeth May gets elected) would get Canada back on track with committed action on climate change.

In Vancouver Island North, this clearly means voting for Catherine Bell, NDP - see http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/31

In Nanaimo-Alberni, this clearly means voting for Zeni Maartman, NDP - see http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/75

In Nanaimo-Cowichan, this clearly means voting for Jean Crowder, NDP - see http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/95

In Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, it's a close race between Keith Martin (Liberal) and Jennifer Burgis (NDP) - see http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/129

In Saanich-Gulf Islands, this clearly means voting for Briony Penn, Liberal - see http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/127

In Victoria, it clearly means voting for Denise Savoie, NDP - see http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/155

This is also what 120 of Canada's top climate scientists are urging us to do - vote strategically - see http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/07/scientists-environment.html

Just as a comment - if all these candidates won, with Jennifer Burgis in Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, 100% of Vancouver Island's MPs in Ottawa would be women - which would be amazing.

To all those committed Greens who think this means I am betraying my deepest principles - I apologize. Our undemocratic voting system turns good friends into bickering enemies, which is a drag. I have good green friends who are running for the Green Party, and I'd love to support them - but it just does not make sense.

Lizzie May, her Party and her party's supporters are all mental midgets.

"I believe that if you voluntarily take an innocent life ... you should forfeit your own," deDelley told a Winnipeg newspaper yesterday.

DeDelley's son, Tim McLean, a 22-year-old carnival worker, was asleep on the bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., when he was randomly attacked, stabbed to death and then beheaded.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/10/10/7038146-sun.html

They left out the cannibal thing, 

  From compass

They sing.

They drill in paramilitary dress.

They march in the streets.

On Sunday, October 12, Washington State kids and families will parade around Seattle's Green Lake. "Kids for Obama Parade" will illustrate one of Barack Obama's core beliefs: Everyone's voice counts. Join us as Obama's youngest supporters rally their families and call for change, for a better America. At 2 pm, rain or shine, children and teens will express with words and drawings their hopes for the future of America on "wish flags" that will be mailed to Obama. The first 300 kids will be given a helium balloon, an expression of solidarity. At 3 pm, the "Kids for Obama Parade" will skip, toddle, stroller, rollerblade, pedal, and red-wagon clockwise around Green Lake in a cloud of red, white, and blue balloons and a garland of kid-made wish flags. How to prepare? If possible, bring home-made signs and wear red, white, and/or blue clothing. That goes for moms, dads, big brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents too. Please spread the word.

Hitler youth, Obama youth, same difference.

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