CANADIAN POLITICIAN HAD NEVER HEARD OF AUSCHWITZ YET SHE WANTS YOUR VOTE

"Well, I didn't know what Auschwitz was, or I didn't up until today," said Alex Johnstone, a political candidate seeking to become a representative to provincial parliament in Canada. According to the CBC / The Canadian Press, in NDP Candidate Alex Johnstone 'Didn't Know What Auschwitz Was,' eight years ago, Johnstone wrote on her Facebook a mocking comment about artifacts of the NAZI concentration at Auschwitz.

Shockingly, Johnstone is vice-chairwoman of school district's board of directors. The woman managed to get through a master's degree program in social welfare as well as live through the television-era and yet she had never heard of Auschwitz until her ignorance became revealed publicly.

It does not seem possible that anyone born after World War 2 doesn't know about the NAZI Holocaust against European Jews and at least a few buzzwords like Auschwitz, Kristallnacht , Anne Frank, Final Solution, Treblinka, Nuremberg Trials.

If Johnstones suffers from a mediocre intellect, it is understandable she might not know these:

• Arbeit Macht Frei
• Krakow Ghetto
• Warsaw Ghetto
• Oskar Schindler
• Zyklon B

Politics attracts the nuttiest. Likely, almost all politicians suffer from mental illness. By their crazed beliefs, they believe they are superior to you and thus you should anoint them to do more than lead you. You should surrender to them and let them tell you what to do to your dying days.

The NDP is the national socialist party of Canadians. 

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Q2 2015 GDP FOR CANADIANS. CANADIANS HAVE BEEN SUFFERING RECESSION FOR MUCH LONGER THAN RECENT PROPAGADISTS CLAIM

Yesterday, the John Shmuel of the Financial Post reported that Canadians have entered a "technical recession" — two quarters of negative growth. Shmuel went on to report that most Canadian economists would claim Canadians aren't experiencing a recession because the unemployment rate seems steady and wages in current Canadian dollars seem to be growing.

Of course, Schmuel's beliefs are silly.



Right now, Canadians are feeling the effects of the recession of the Chinese and the depression of the Americans.

The Canadian economy has shrunk -34.9% in True Dollars™ since Q2 2011.

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YOU WANT US TO PAY MORE BECAUSE WE LIVE IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH? TAKE OFF, EH!

Today, the CBC published a work by Chris Hall who reports the Canadian federal government wants to give new powers to the Competition Bureau because Canadian politicians have told voters that voters suffer from geographic price discrimination.


Like their Australian brethren Canadians believe they pay more than Americans for the same products. Back in September, in DO YOU COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER WHERE PRICES GROW AND MEN PLUNDER?, I showed that Australians likely pay the same prices.

So, I decided to find out for myself. I looked at products made in Canada as well as products made elsewhere. Canadians pay much more for products made in Canada than they do for products made elsewhere.

Canadians pay much less for all kinds of cool products like the Microsoft Surface Pro 3, the iPad Air 2 and even a Fender Stratocaster!

Canadians pay much more for cars and tires.




Of course, my random selection of products cannot be construed as scientific.

Sadly, Chris Hall perpetuates the Ricadian myth that costs producers outlay to make things has anything to do with the prices they can fetch in actual sales by having written, "While higher labour costs, tariffs and the cost of transporting goods to Canada are some of the reasons goods can cost more here than in the U.S..." 

Heed my dictum: Costs have nothing to do with prices. Costs have everything to do with profitability.

Regular readers of Bizarro Theater will have learned by now the reality of prices. All prices get governed by the one, true, infrangible law for all of trade — the Law of Prices. The Law of Prices holds the winning bids of purchase and sale in the face of what is on offer sets the price. 

It's the actual buyers of things who set prices. Whether those prices are high enough so the sum of sales on those prices lets a seller at least break even is another matter.

The whole trick of business is producing so that one can adhere to the Axiom of Profit on given prices set by winning bidders. The Axiom of Profit holds the sum of sales on prices set by winning bidders must at least equal the cost of production, otherwise the seller goes to ruin.

Costs of Production arise in the production and manufacture of a thing. Producers incur expenses.

Sellers can reduce their offering prices when they acquire their products at lower-to-them prices. As long as the sum of their sales at least equals their outlays, such sellers offering alike products can remain in business. If their competitors cannot do so, in short order, their competitors go to ruin. The Axiom of Profit prevails.

Any right-minded thinker can envision a producer who incurs $10,000 in costs to produce collapsible pick-up truck racks. Lets say he produced 100 racks. The costs distributed over 100 racks is $100 for each rack.

Such a producer could offer one rack for $400. Let's say that no one buys one rack at $400. Reluctantly, the producer reduces the price to $300 a rack. Again, let's say no one buys at $300, worriedly, the producer reduces the price to $100.

At at $100, the producer sells one rack. He earned $100. Yet, his costs of production remained at $10,000. Owing to the great Axiom of Profit, he goes to ruin precisely because the sum of his sales did not equal his cost of production.

The producer needed to sell all 100 at $100 to stay in business. The producer could have sold 50 racks at $200 to stay in business.

It is winning bidders of purchase and sale in the face of what is on offer — in our example the customer who paid $100 — who set the price.

Costs relate with profit. Costs fall under the great Science of Profit. 

Costs are a factor of production. Costs and sales govern whether or not a producer can stay in business. If something cost more to produce, that means there is less profit and if costs exceed the sum of sales, in short order, the producer goes to ruin.

Prices relate with winning bids of purchase and sale. Prices fall under the great Science of Wealth. Prices arise from trade.

The idea that costs have anything to do with prices is laughable on its face and comes from a huge fallacy pushed by David Ricardo and perpetuated by Karl Marx.

Two producers could face the same material costs, but one producer renders a superior design. When both producers offer for purchase and sale their products to those with cash and credit, the one with the superior design could capture the lion's share of sales. If the inferior design producer fails capture enough sales to cover his cost of production, in short order that producer will go to ruin.

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OH (NO) CANADA. OH BROTHER (OOPS AND OH SISTER).

O Canada is a lyrical poem written by Adolphe-Basile Routhier and set to music by Calixa Lavallée who left behind Canada to serve with the 4th Rhode Island Volunteers of the Union army during the War Between the States.



In 1880, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille commissioned Lavallée to compose the song, which became Canadians' national anthem one hundred years later in 1980.

Routhier wrote the poem in his French. In 1906, Robert Stanley Weir loosely translated the poem into English. Weir tried his hand at it again in 1908. It is Weir's 1908  version, which became the version sung at most every hockey game played across Canada.

Now, too-much-time-on-his-hands Canadian politician Mauril Belanger has introduced a bill to change two words from thy sons to of us. The Liberal Party meddler Belanger believes that without such changes, O Canada is not inclusive enough. It surprises that meddler Belanger hasn't protested against the word God in the seventh line of the poem.

The word son is an Old English word. Son means descendant as well as  immediate male offspring.

English reveals reverence for females with female-specific words — daughter. English lacks the same reverence for males. Words for males also get spoken when sex lacks relevancy. Sons is one of those words.

The word man means person. Men, the plural for man, means persons. Mankind means people. And world means all men (persons) everywhere on earth. And no, the world doesn't mean the earth, though many weak speakers of English believe so, wrongly.

All of those words — man, men, mankind, world — are bedrock English words spoken by Germanic ancestors of all Englishmen, Canadians and Americans who have Germanic ancestors.

A literal translation of the poem reveals a fiery Canadian who is willing to take up sword and cross to forge an epic history.

O Canada!
Land of our forefathers,
Thy brow is wreathed with a glorious garland of flowers.
As is thy arm ready to wield the sword,
So also is it ready to carry the cross.
Thy history is an epic
Of the most brilliant exploits.
Thy valour steeped in faith
Will protect our homes and our rights
Will protect our homes and our rights

The 1908 translation comes across as something Bob and Doug MacKenzie might have sung, reducing Canadians to rent-a-cop security guards.

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

If Canadians are going to buckle under to cranks like Mauril Belanger, they might has fix the song in full to reflect reality. Here is my gift to Canadians: O Canada, 2014.

O Canada! (village!)
Our home and once the natives' land (reservations!)
True multicultural legality in all political command.
With indifferent hearts we see thee rise,
The True North once strong, now wimpy!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we skate on ice for thee (hockey!)
For glorious two-four, Canadians keep the queen!
O Canada, we skate on ice for thee (hockey!)
O Canada, we skate on ice for thee (hockey!)

Enjoy native Canadian William Shatner having a go at making O Canada fit into the vision of the Belanders of Canada.




As a bonus, enjoy Geddy Lee, bassist of Rush, the Canadian band inducted into both the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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YAY CANADA (AND AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY AND ICELAND)

Yesterday, a few media reported that Americans have the warmest feelings toward Canadians, at least according to the findings of the 2014 Chicago Council Survey of American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy.



When I think of the top people on earth and their respective countries, Canadians and Canada top my list, along with Australians and Australia as well as New Zealanders and New Zealand. Also, I think highly of Norwegians and Icelanders, especially as they do not belong to the E.U. nor are they part of the Euro banking system.

That is not to say I don't think favorably of others. I do.

The Irish and Finns seem all right. So too do all those from little countries like Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino and Liechtenstein. As well, those from the quasi-independent lands of Guernesy, Jersey, Isle of Man, Faroe Islands and Greenland seem all right.

The Germans, Swedes, Danes and Brits seem all right too. Mostly, the world of North Sea people have done well for themselves since the start of modern times.

The Japanese, the Koreans of the south and the Taiwanese seem to be all right as well. I enjoy anime and K-Pop.

I might enjoy travels to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Chile. Vietnam, Mongolia and Serbia hold an exotic charm for me. Ah and there are many Pacific Island countries that seem worthy of visits such, at least where the locals play rugby.

Even the Portuguese seem to have done right by those with mental problems by no longer prosecuting drug users.

The Chicago Council Survey consisted of 2,108 respondents who were asked about 26 countries. Here are the results.

The writers at VOX make a strong case for Canadians and Canada.

If only someone could make a compelling case for my fellow Americans and the USA. America has become quite the venue of Bizarro Theater. There seems to be so little freedom as politics seems pervasive, ruling over every aspect of American living these days.

Canadians seem to be doing it right these days. The Heritage Index ranks Canadians 6th in economic freedom right behind the New Zealanders and three down from the Australians. Americans now rank a lame twelfth. The Fraser Institute of Canada ranks the USA a shockingly low 17th on their Economic Freedom of the World index.

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DANISH TOURISTS BLAME CANADA!

So a couple of traveling-companion, Euro tourists from Denmark, Holly Chabowski, 30, and Nanna Sorensen, 23, visited Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. During their experience, Ms. Chabowski fired off a letter of complaint, sending copies of said letter to party-hardy Toronto mayor Rob Ford, Jim Watson, mayor of Ottawa, federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen, a newspaper published in the capital.

Of her trip with Ms. Sorensen, Ms. Chabowski wrote, “We just had this impression of Canada being quite different, a bit more European.” According to Ottawa Citizen Marie-Danielle Smith, Ms. Chabowski and Ms. Sorensen slummed it by bumming places to sleep in the houses of strangers, which many rhetorical call "couch-surfing."



Chabowski and Sorensen lamented over “great oceans of car parks,” the "sea of Tim Hortons," and "12 lane high ways, rammed packed with huge SUVs, with people going no where." Chabowski and Sorensen screamed horror over Halifaxians driving their SUVs alone.

And in her disappointment with Canadians, in typical meddling-minded European fashion, Ms. Chabowski wrote, “I write this letter to appeal to you to take radical steps to transform Canada into the healthy, happy and sustainable country we were expecting.”

Rød grød med fløde to those Danish cranks!

Alas, Chabowski and Sorensen suffer from the European disease, meddling European bureaucrat central planning syndrome. According to Ms. Smith, Chabowsk said that urban planning could convert Canadians into Europeans. Chabowski and Sorensen failed to see how meddlesome government planners are the ones who approved zoning, designing the Canada, which Canadians have today.

Suffering years of hyper-indoctrination beginning in childhood, Euros expect everyone on earth to live their diminished lifestyles. And of course, being European, they call for radical action imposed by the heavy hand of dictatorial government.

Noticeably absent from Chabowski and Sorensen were any calls for the removal of politician-fueled subsidies and letting an organic, free-market driven transportation design arise. Ironically, Chabowski acknowledges that European cities arose organically during medieval times of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages.

It seems Chabowski and Sorensen hope for Canadians to have the same graffiti-sprayed trains as they have in Copenhaven.




Canada is huge. If Chabowski and Sorensen wanted a dinky footprint, why didn't they restrict themselves to Victoria or Vancouver. Better yet, why didn't Chabowski and Sorensen stay in Europe and visit Lichtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Andorra or Luxembourg?

It amuses always at how profoundly ignorant Lilliputian Europeans are about the size of Canada as well as the United States, especially west of the Mississippi.

According to Google Maps, someone could pedal the 400 km from Krusa, Denmark on the border with Deutschers of nearby Flensburg, Germany, to Skagen, Denmark, in the farthest north of Jutland in 21 hours. As well, someone could pedal from Blåvand, Denmark in the far west, through the islands of Funen, Langeland, Lolland, Falster and Zealand, coming to Copenhaven in 22 hours and 36 minutes.

To make the ride straight through, that someone likely would need to be a world-class Tour De France caliber cyclist. Oh, and that someone would need to ride a ferry as well as pedal through the town of Middlefart.

If a Canadian yearned to pedal from Toronto, which sits on the southern border with Americans who share Lake Erie to Alert, Nunavut, Canada, which sits 4,366.6 km (2713.25 miles) away on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, a mere 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole, well that one couldn't do it. There aren't any roads that go that far north into Canada as well as traverse the many islands between Canadian mainland and Ellesmere.

However, assuming someone could, based on the Google Maps pedal rate of 19.05 km an hour, it would take someone 228 hours or 9.5 days! Of course, that assumes, the cyclist would enjoy friction-free, clear-skies weather.

Now, someone could pedal across Canada. According to Google Maps, someone could pedal 6,026 km from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Victoria, British Columbia, in 313 hours. Oh and that would would need a ferry ride out to Victoria as well.

So someone could pedal across Denmark in under a day. However, someone would need a bit more than 13 days, of 24-hour a day pedalling to power oneself across Canada.

Here is the letter from Ms. Chabowski:

My girlfriend and I (Danish) were tourists in your country for 5 weeks this summer. We had the most incredible adventure and met the most wonderful Canadians, who welcomed us warmly into their homes.

Apart from these people, who sincerely do your nation credit, our overwhelming memory of Canada is one of cars, traffic, parking and the related obesity and unfulfilled communities. It is an impression that we have since shared with other tourists who have visited Canada.

Before arriving in Canada we had a genuine impression of a clean, healthy and sustainable first world country. Upon arrival in Toronto we were horrified to see great oceans of car parks deserting the landscape and 12 lane high ways, rammed packed with huge SUVs, with people going no where. A greater shock came when we discovered that this kind of infrastructure is not reserved just for the sprawl surrounding towns and cities but that highways actually run through city centres too. As humans trying to enjoy Canada’s major cities (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa and Halifax) we were treated like second class citizens compared to cars. The air was dirty, and the constant noise from horns and engines was unpleasant.

An observation that was especially noticeable in Halifax was the sheer amount of land in the city centre given to parking. Ginormous swaths of prime locations for living (parks, shops, cafés, market squares, theatres, playing fields etc – human activities which are key to quality of life) concreted over as homes for an ever increasing number of SUVs (most trucks and SUVs we saw contained only one person. The most SUVs we saw in a row were full of singular people driving through Tim Hortens). We asked the Canadians that we met how they felt living in such a car culture, here are a few of their responses:

‘Trying to solve traffic problems by building more roads is like trying to solve obesity by buying bigger trousers.’ Ottawa

‘It’s only 10km to my work place. I would love to cycle, it would only take 30 minutes but it is simply not possible. I don’t feel safe. Instead I park and sweat, meaning after 25 minutes stuck in traffic I drive my car to the gym and waste another 25 minutes of time I could spend with my family.’ Quebec City

‘I hate cars in the city so much that I actually find myself slowing down as I cross the road, in a tiny effort to exert my authority as a human being over all that metal.’ Toronto

‘It seems to me that birds fly, fish swim and humans walk. Except in North America where you are expected to drive-everywhere. You wouldn’t put a fish in a submarine!’ Montreal

‘I am obese. My children are overweight and most of the people who live around here. I am surrounded by fast food chains, car parks and highways. I would love to ditch the car. My neighbourhood doesn’t even have sidewalks.’ Levis

As we explored more of the country we tried to console ourselves that at least a few cities were making an effort to make life liveable for humans – small local businesses, cycle infrastructure and pedestrianised streets. However, it felt like a token gesture rather than a genuine effort to make Canada a healthy, happy and sustainable country. Pedestrians were squeezed onto narrow pavements and forced to stop every 100m to cross the road, bike lanes were little more than paint on the ground for the cyclists to help protect the parked cars lining every street. We heard that the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, is actually tearing up bicycle lanes to make way for more cars!

Walking and cycling are human activities that bring great life, health and economy to communities. Streets that prioritise cars over humans are bad for business, bad for health (mental, social and physical), unsafe and break down communities.

I write this letter to appeal to you to take radical steps to transform Canada into the healthy, happy and sustainable country we were expecting. You are a nation of the most fantastic people, we know because we met them everywhere! As citizens they deserve much, much better.

Come on Canada! When tourists visit Canada make sure they remember it for for its parks rather than parking.

Sincerely yours,
Holly Chabowski

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BUT IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN, EH. BC TEACHERS AND NHL PLAYERS.

So News1130 of Vancouver, British Columbia, reports that members of the BC Teachers Federation are facing a 5% cut in wages if teachers fail to agree to a new deal. Should teachers sign the deal, each one shall get a CAD$1,200 signing bonus. The sum of those bonuses would cost the BC provincial government more that CAD$40 million.

The average wage of a player in the NHL is $2.4 million. NHL players belong to a union, the NHLPA. 

But are NHL hockey players overpaid? It is unlikely that a pro hockey player in the NHL could play in the NBA, whose players earn US$5.15 million on average, nor in the MLB, whose players earn US$3.2 million on average. 

Perhaps a few NHL players could play in the NFL, whose players earn US$1.9 million a season, on average. Yet, most couldn't.

So, the true wage of a NHL player absent his union would be the highest wage he could earn doing something else. The true average wage then for all NHL players would be the average of the highest wage all players could earn doing various work.

If BC teachers weren't teaching, then what kind of work could they do? Let's suppose that BCTF teachers could qualify to do government work. Statistics Canada reports there were 3,631,837 public sector workers earning wages and salaries in 2011.

Statistics Canada also reports that public sector workers were paid CAD$194.19 billion wages and salaries. Dividing total wages paid by total public sector workers gets $53,469.73. On a 40-hour work week and at 52 weeks of work, the average hourly wage for a Canadian government worker across all provinces is CAD$25.71 an hour.

There isn't any federal minimum wage in Canada. Instead Canadians of their respective provinces establish minimum wages through their respective provincial legislatures. 

At $25.71 an hour, that is a whopping 2.5 times the minimum wage of $10.25 an hour for residents of BC.

In spite of what anyone might believe, teachers rarely improve their skills after their first year teaching. So, a teacher working 20 years who claims to have 20 years experience truly only has one year experience repeated 20 times. 

Even if a teacher improves her skills during the first two or three years work, any improvement thereafter likely is insignificant. 

Of course, what holds back teachers from improving their skills is their Luddite fight against any capital, which would improve their productivity.

BC teachers get paid in steps by categories. To create a representative table of salaries for BC teachers, I have averaged the pay tables for Metro Vancouver, since the lion's share of school-aged population lives there and thus likely the lion's share of teachers in BC.

So, BC teachers need to justify why a teacher at step 10 in category 6+ should get paid $39.33 an hour or 1.3 times that of the average government worker and nearly four times (3.84) the minimum wage worker.

In the meantime, unionized BC teachers shall tell the same big lie that all unionized teachers tell.

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LOONIE TALK! CANADIANS CAN GET RICHER WHEN THEY CAN AFFORD TO BUY LESS OR SO THEY'RE TOLD!

So today, I came across a persuasion-in-propaganda piece, Weaker Loonie will help the Canadian economy, published by Shaw Communications' Global Canada news.

The piece of deceit is typical. In it, the writer suggests fallacy and what should seem as absurdity to all.

Export growth will boost domestic disposable income and the government’s tax take and will enhance the balance of payments so why wouldn’t Canada want a weaker loonie.

Ask Canadians in what time periods their living standard has risen.

A weaker Canadian dollar does not help almost all Canadians whose jobs consists solely in working in Canada. A weaker loonie means Canadians would need to work more hours to pay for the same products they buy now from foreigners.

Only 4% of Canadians work in primary industries — logging, oil, fishing, mining — which account for 58% of Canadian exports. Primary industry accounts for a mere 6.2% of GDP. Yet, the devaluate-the-loonie jokers would have you believe that weaking the buying power of the loonie would be a bonanza for a whopping 93.8% of the Canadian economy!

Three-quarters of all Canadians work in services, mostly servicing other Canadians.

A weaker Canadian dollar only helps those whose firms export and thus are trying to increase sales against other exporters from other countries. Such Canadian exporters hope to increase sales to foreigners to offset what amounts to lower prices owing to a lowered exchange rate.

If what they say were true, that a weaker loonie would make Canadians richer, giving Canadians more income, then why wait? Why the executives of the Bank of Canada, Canadians central bankers, should double the cash in circulation right now. That should cut the prices of exports in half instantly.

Why Canadians could become the richest people on earth, if merely having less buying power were the key to life. Why would anyone believe the fallacy preached by those who who claim you can get richer when your cash loses buying power? Why would anyone believe that anyone can get richer when that one can buy less for the same hours worked?

If merely cheaper export prices were the key, why don't exporters voluntarily cut their prices in half right now? Why try to force a lower exchange rate, which imposes a burden upon all Canadians who are not capitalists of export products?

Exporters want a lowered buying power of Canadian cash because exporters still need to pay Canadians their full wages, the ones who make those export products. Weaking the Loonie lets exporters pay less in buying power to Canadian workers who work in export.

So why the clarion call for less buying power for Canadians with a so-called "weaker" loonie? Some Canadian businessmen can't compete without bending the rules.

If the Chinese are slowing down, needing less natural resources, it means that Canadian bankers and investors have plowed too much cash and credit into primary industries to produce things for export. Their capital structures are wrong.

Those Canadian primary industries need to shrink. Bankers and capitalists who bet on those industries in what now is clearly over-investment, need to take losses.

Too many unprofitable firms involved in primary industries exports need to go out of business. The Canadian state of trade needs to adjust to the new reality.

What Canadians ought to hope is for a strong loonie that lets Canadians buy American know-how (technology) at favorable prices to Canadians so that Canadians can set the stage for new industries and more employment for Canadians.

Greater buyer power is the essence of what it means to be rich. However, believing that having less buying power against foreign goods leads to trade dominance and enriches everyone through undercutting rivals is to suffer from loonie-cy, er, lunacy.

Weakening the buying power of one's cash against foreign cash puts one's exports on fire sale prices. Fire sale prices might lead to more sales, but it does not follow that doing so leads to higher profit. It is profit whether from wages less living expenses or sales less outlays, which makes anyone rich.

Exports are not an end. Exports are the means to an end, paying for imports. The goal is to work for greater buying power. The goal is not to work for less buying power. If the goal were the latter, then why not enslave oneself to a people of another country?

Never in history has a country failed because its people suffered from having too much buying power. However, the list is long of those countries whose people were ruined by having too little buying power.

Oh, Canada. Talk about daffy, loonie lunacy.

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ROB FORD, TOMMY BOY. DID YOU EAT A LOT OF PAINT CHIPS AS A KID?

Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto seems to pull one gaff after another. The man is a living Tommy Boy.

Chris Farley (right, above) starred in Tommy Boy, the story of a socially and emotionally immature man who learns lessons about friendship and self-worth following the sudden death of his industrialist father. Shooting of the movie happened mostly in Rob Ford's city of Toronto.

Like Tommy Boy, Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto can't seem to keep himself from trouble.




The world became aware of Tommy Boy Ford from an improptu presser where he discussed having cunnilingus with his wife.



Only weeks later, someone caught Ford with a smart phone cam seemingly drunk.


And now the colorful Toronto mayor has been ticketed for jaywalking.

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AMERICANS, WHAT HAPPENED? WE CAN'T BLAME TERRANCE AND PHILLIP FOR THIS ONE

One day, historians shall say a post-World War 2, 1950s to early 1960s economic bump masked the long decline of the USA. This decline began to be obvious in the late 1960s and began to accelerate in the early 1990s, with last gasps that included the dot com bubble of the late 90s and residential reality bubble of the mid-2000s.

However, the real decline began in 1913, during the the Quiet Revolution of 1913, which overthrew the Founders' constitutional design. During the Quiet Revolution, popular representation of the House was frozen at a permanent 435, which has made it easy to capture Congressmen.

Also popular voting for Senators became law, which took away the impossibility to bribe thousands of states' legislators, who had chosen Senators, and made it easy to buy 51 out of 100 senators.

The revolutionaries of the Quiet Revolution of 1913 established the Federal Reserve System, eventually replacing a specie money system based on gold with a fiduciary money system based on checking account credits, paper centralized bank notes and token coins.

In the days of specie money, citizens could run on bankers when they could see that bankers were mishandling credit. These runs forced bankers to behave. With gold as everyday money, bankers were powerless and so were politicians.

Today, in the era of fiduciary money, citizens live at the mercy and behest of bankers. It's bankers who control the Federal Reserve system and who bailout themselves and the lesser bankers whenever they mishandle credit, as in the most recent residential reality bubble stoked by no-doc liar loans.

Also, it's bankers who order their Federal Reserve system to buy bonds sold by U.S. politicians. However, their Federal Reserve system doesn't have money. So to buy bonds, the hacks at the Federal Reserve conjure up checking account credits from nothing.

Doing so is a kind of counterfeiting. Doing so is why food prices go up and why gasoline prices go up. Doing so is why unionized government employees are vastly overpaid for the same job titles as those in the private sector.

Also in 1913, the Quiet Revolution revolutionaries instituted the income taxation system, which gave politicians the means to dole out political privilege through subsidy to financial backers and welfare to loyal voting blocs.

So now you know what happened to America, Americans.

Enjoy Canada Is Less Of A 'Failed State' Than The US

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DID THE OIL TRAIN EXPLOSION HAPPEN BECAUSE OBAMA DENIED CONSTRUCTION OF THE SAFER KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE?

Thirteen died after a runaway train carrying crude oil set off a series of explosions and flattened a downtown. An estimated 100,000 liters of oil spilled into the nearby river.

For more on the debate over dangerous train shipping versus safer Keystone XL, check out what the greenies say here:

Here is the story from the CBC.

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