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You clearly have not even read a summary of Volume 2, but that's ok - neither has Barr.

Truth and facts literally don't matter to them. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-tells-supporters-what-youre-seeing-not-whats-happening https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/how-kellyanne-conway-ushered-in-the-era-of-alternative-facts/?utm_term=.0284ef6d3af7

Waste of time?

If Nixon had Fox News, he never would have been impeached. It's one of the reasons Fox exists. "A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News" (read it here) is an unsigned, undated memo calling for a partisan, pro-GOP news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House. Aimed at sidelining the "censorship" of the liberal mainstream media and delivering prepackaged pro-Nixon news to local television stations, it reads today like a detailed precis for a Fox News prototype." Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News https://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon-era-blueprint-for-fox-news

Who funds Ontario Proud? "The list is a who’s who of developers, anti-union groups and construction agencies — all that have already benefited from Doug Ford’s policies (two sweeping labour law reforms that will make it less safe to work in Ontario, and the promise that Ontario is “open for business” which apparently means gut the Greenbelt.)" https://medium.com/@noraloreto/who-funds-ontario-proud-76a56ca92de1

"For the first time, University of Guelph biologists have tracked an annual migration of up to 20,000 kilometres made by the 12-gram blackpoll warbler, one of the fastest declining songbirds in North America." “It’s amazing,” said Norris, who worked on the study with Hilary Cooke, associate conservation scientist with Wildlife Conservation Society Canada. “A bird weighing a couple of loonies travels from the western edge of North America all the way to the Amazon basin – and, in between, traverses the Atlantic Ocean.” https://news.uoguelph.ca/2019/03/tiny-songbird-makes-record-migration-u-of-g-study-proves/?fbclid=IwAR1N8DdV6inWGedsFndroRGaaZG9Jn7RGrigFeDeR_wL5tVfE-TqqxYaL4I

Which is why no one campaigns on the environment, early childhood education, climate change or anything that takes time but has long term benefits. It's sad, really. Some are worse than others and some (Harper (ELA anyone?), Ford, Trump) actively throw wrenches in long term programs once elected.

Because "modern" Conservatives are short-sighted about everything? More than any other party, they're about the election cycle and that's saying something given Liberal history.

"Stephen Moore, one of President Trump’s many exotic picks to staff the federal government, declared this week that his opponents are “pulling a Kavanaugh against me.” Moore, Trump’s pick for the Federal Reserve Board, is so convinced he is being treated like Brett Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court confirmation was marred by sexual-misconduct allegations, that he reportedly hired a PR firm that helped Kavanaugh." "Now CNN, the New York Times and others are reprinting Moore’s greatest hits, including his joke about how he potty-trained his son by “pasting a photo of Hillary Clinton with a bullseye target on the bottom of the potty.” And his hilarious tale about showing his children pictures of the “mangled and bloody” corpses of Saddam Hussein’s sons with the message “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO KIDS THAT GROW UP TO BE DEMOCRATS!” And the riotous bit about him “hitting on” a “gorgeous 20-something blond,” then telling his concerned son “how nice it would be if you had a much younger mommy.”" "In other writings, Moore defended misbehavior on college campuses: “If [women] were so oppressed and offended by drunken, lustful frat boys, why is it that on Friday nights they showed up in droves in tight skirts to the keg parties?” He reserved particular derision for his wife. After she voted Democratic, he wrote: “Women are sooo malleable! No wonder there’s a gender gap.” Moore is now divorced from her — and was held in contempt of court in 2013 for failing to paymore than $300,000 in child support. There’s a tax lien against his home because he owes the Internal Revenue Service $75,000." Stephen Moore could not be more qualified to work in the Trump administration. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stephen-moore-needs-a-vacation-from-women/2019/04/24/0a841868-66d1-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?utm_term=.4058abac63cf

So is the opposite of tax and spend, cut and bury your head in the sand? Ontario cancels program that aimed to plant 50 million trees "TORONTO - Ontario is cancelling a tree planting program, with those involved warning the move will lead to the loss of jobs and environmental benefits that forests provide. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry told Forests Ontario the day after the Progressive Conservative government delivered its budget this month that the 50 Million Tree Program was being eliminated. Rob Keen, CEO of Forests Ontario, said since 2008 more than 27 million trees have been planted across Ontario through the program, which saved landowners up to 90 per cent of the costs of large-scale tree planting. It was started as a carbon sequestration program, Keen said, but planting that many trees also helps clean the air and water, protect shorelines and reduce erosion." "The majority of the funding went to Forests Ontario's planting partners, such as conservation groups, stewardship groups and First Nations, who worked with landowners to get trees planted, Keen said. The government also recently cut funding for conservation authorities' flood management programs in half." https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-cancels-program-that-aimed-to-plant-50-million-trees-1.4394241

In the Near North School District, it would appear so.

Ontario Con's cutting education, but hey - tailgate parties and buck a beer (which failed). #BREAKING: @osstf says “Near North District School Board, headquartered in the riding of Finance Minister @VictorFedeli, will be issuing redundancy notices to 121 of the approximately 240 high school teachers employed by the board.” #ONpoli https://t.co/rQGd4gk41P — Travis Dhanraj (@Travisdhanraj) April 23, 2019

From page 76 Volume 2: "..a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes or that would give rise to personal and political concerns."

In my opinion, a vote is more than a vote. It is where we set our "price" on various aspects of society vs self-interest. Albertans made a choice on whether their own self-interest was more important than human rights, the environment, education and health care not realizing that these things are also in their self-interest. The majority voted for a party that has no qualms about undermining democracy in their own party and has aligned with far right hate groups. Voting for the UPC was essentially making a personal choice and naming the price a person was willing to pay to ignore these disturbing factors. Manitobans will soon name their price. Is a 1% pst cut really the price someone would pay to support a government that takes back $25 a month from the poorest in our society after the government just spent $173,000 trumpeting the tax cut? In my mind, that's a moral failure and beyond the price I am willing to pay.

What if Fox News covered Trump the way it covered Obama? It would look like this:

I'd much rather have a pipeline from Gimli.

And Kansas and Oklahoma are proof of that. The grand experiment of low taxation failed miserably. "Since Kansas enacted tax and spending cuts in 2012 and 2013, Brownback and his allies have argued that this fiscal potion would generate an explosion of economic growth. It didn’t. Overall growth and job creationin Kansas underperformed both the national economy and neighboring states. From January, 2014 (after both tax cuts passed) to April, 2017, Kansas gained only 28,000 net new non-farm jobs. By contrast, Nebraska, an economically similar state with a much smaller labor force, saw a net increase of 35,000 jobs." "The tax cuts did produce one explosion, however. The state’s budget deficit was expected to hit $280 million this year, despite major spending reductions. Kansas falls well below national averages in a wide range of public services from K-12 education to housing to police and fire protection, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute’s State and Local Finance Initiative." https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2017/06/07/the-great-kansas-tax-cut-experiment-crashes-and-burns/#7e46e2385508

Why is conservative politics such a natural home for white supremacists?: Neil Macdonald "Why is it that white supremacists, from the neo-Nazis who threw celebratory salutes the night of his election, to former KKK leader David Duke, to the Charlottesville torchbearers, to the New Zealand murderer, or Cesar Sayoc, the Florida bodybuilder who sent explosives to Trump's critics in 2018, gravitate right, rather than left? Why is conservative politics such a natural home for white supremacists? Canadian conservatives might ask themselves the same question. Rather than whining about how unfair it is that Liberals are associating Andrew Scheer with Faith Goldy — an obvious white supremacist (a label she rejects) who proudly advocates for "European identity" and "white identity," and who has contributed to a neo-Nazi podcast — they could instead reflect on why in heaven's name he appeared on her online diatribe show two years ago." https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/conservative-politics-1.5099222

If anyone thinks Katie Porter is weak, they haven't been paying attention. JP Morgan CEO can't explain how one of his low-paid employees should budget her salary – video https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/apr/11/jp-morgan-ceo-cant-explain-how-one-of-his-low-paid-employees-should-budget-her-salary-video?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1555015598

LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It’s Showing Promise. The inaugural class of third and fourth graders at the school have posted extraordinary results on its first set of test scores. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/education/lebron-james-school-ohio.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

UPDATE: Peterborough police say they won't charge neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau, who called for "Lone Wolf actions," asking his supporters to murder us, gov. workers, anti-racists, and journalists. #cdnpoli https://t.co/GtHG7QVTYY pic.twitter.com/Q2Ev42E4RO — Canadian Anti-Hate Network (@antihateca) April 12, 2019

Eleven Ignored Issues that Albertans Should Think about Before They Vote Most critically it must decide: will its future be sticker or boomer? "Between 2000 and 2017, annual revenue from royalties collapsed by 59 per cent — $9.5 billion — while oil production rose by 112 per cent during the same period." "Louisiana, a major U.S. oil-dependent state, has done such a poor job of collecting and saving revenue from oil production that it introduced a sales tax rate of 4.45 per cent in 2016 to avoid a “fiscal cliff.”" "Alberta has no real plan for addressing a hidden fiscal crisis: unfunded oil and gas liabilities worth at least $260 billion. The province, for example, has only $200 million in security deposits to cover the abandonment and reclamation of hundreds of thousands of wells." "The recent Canada’s Changing Climate Report mentions Alberta more than 60 times. In 2013, extreme rainfall caused a flood that cost the province billions. In 2016, extreme drought caused a massive wildfire in Fort McMurray costing the province billions more." "According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a conservative group, almost every major oil-producing state faces a tempestuous future. Last year the IEA estimated that if low oil prices continued, net income from oil and gas would never recover to its 2010-15 levels, “leading to a cumulative $7-trillion reduction over the period to 2040” in government revenues for the world’s petro states. The IEA recommended that oil-exporting states invest heavily in renewables, end all fossil fuel consumption subsidies and invest in adding value to hydrocarbons." https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/04/12/Eleven-Ignored-Issues-Albertans-Should-Think-About/

Wow! "Documents obtained by CBC News show email addresses fraudulently attached to Alberta's United Conservative Party (UCP) memberships were used to cast ballots in the party's leadership race, which Jason Kenney won in 2017. There were virtually no safeguards against the practice. From a sample of 49 email addresses selected by CBC News, due to suspicious domains, from a list of over 100,000 UCP members, 31 were used to cast votes in the leadership vote." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ucp-leadership-voter-fraud-membership-lists-data-1.5091952 Double Wow! "The audit of the vote was conducted by Dorward & Co., an accounting firm with offices in Calgary and Edmonton that was founded by David Dorward, a UCP candidate in Edmonton-Gold Bar."

"Climate change is often thought of as a partisan issue in the United States, but New York Times journalist Nathaniel Rich says that wasn't always the case. Rich says that from 1979 until 1989, climate change was viewed as a bipartisan problem — then the the oil industry "descended and bared its fangs" and everything changed." https://www.npr.org/2019/04/08/710992579/losing-earth-explores-how-oil-industry-played-politics-with-the-planet-s-fate?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190408&fbclid=IwAR10nNtdI3hlm0jEGukWLXP7rLP9pVUPzn2JZo7j3BTTD38TRVlyCAaElrQ