A friend of mine wanted to start a company in a horribly over regulated industry.  He asked me for help and I agreed even though I have grown very tired of the government stupidity I would need to deal with.  The business is started and we have recently acquired some assets which places us inside the storm of stupid government regulations.  We are bombarded daily with the stupidity so much so my friend remarked to me this week that he has not had time to do anything productive.  He spends all of his time dealing with regulations.

That is the problem with government.  The stupidity is not just time consuming.  It is expensive and destructive.

The list of stupidity is long — expensive signs forbidding homeruns in a baseball diamond, planning to dig up the Eglinton right after it has undergone years of reconstruction, allowing hate-mongers to occupy public spaces, permitting druggies to coldcock firefighters with impunity …

Canadians are over-governed beyond any level of efficiency, or good judgment, and it is costing them dearly.

Highly trained professionals are not able to spend their time productively using skills that took years of training and experience to acquire.  Instead they spend their time trying to please a government bureaucracy staffed entirely by people who have never been productive in their lifetime.  This problem has been brewing for a very long time.  Canada is blessed with so many natural resources that the government stupidity was affordable.  The problem with government stupidity however, is that it will inevitably grow until it is unaffordable.

Canada is blessed by enviable geology and geography — immense natural resources and a friendly superpower next door — which Canadians too frequently take for granted. Because our border is safe and our population well off by world and historical standards, progressive politicians feel free to obsess about issues irrelevant or actually harmful to economic growth, jobs, affordability, a sound currency, security and national unity.

Since 2015, intrusive regulations have proliferated across the economy, imposing burdensome compliance costs that are particularly harmful to small and medium- sized enterprises. 

The election of Justin Trudeau in 2015 was not a turning point but an inflection point.  Canada has been on this path for a long time.  The stupidity just accelerated under Justin Trudeau because Justin Trudeau is capable of a level of stupidity previously considered impossible.  Sadly there is no end in sight.  When faced with a problem caused by government regulations like our housing crisis government bureaucrats can only think of one solution; more regulations.

Reid said he would like to see affordable housing mandated in planning,

I was at an event recently that was attended by several MLAs.  I was not expecting to encounter any politicians but looking back I should have been.  The event was a small part of a movement that is gather steam and movements attract politicians like shit attracts flies.  They all see the potential for votes if they can pretend to be part of it.  I spoke to 3 MLAs and I admit that I was not at my best because I had not expected to have an audience with 3 people who likely regretted stopping to talk to me.

My conversation with all three was that regulations are strangling us.  Government brings in new regulations only to solve problems caused by previous regulations.  A more simple and direct solution would be just to eliminate the existing problem causing regulation but that never happens.  To their credit they all listened respectively to my rants and then went on to explain how they were making things better with the new regulations they were currently working on.

They just don’t get it and they never will.  This has gone past the point that it can be fixed without tearing the entire system down ad restarting from scratch.

Time for a rethink of our over-governed lives. Or a revolution.

I could not agree more.

Politicians are very good at framing policies as sunshine and roses.  If we follow their path every end result will be good.  If we don’t it is all bad.  Some politicians are even stupid enough to believe the things they say.  Others like Trudeau have a messiah complex.  They believe they have special knowledge that only gods have and mere mortals will never understand.

As Sowell writes, “the vision of the anointed is not simply a vision of the world and its functioning in a causal sense, but is also a vision of themselves and of their moral role in the world. It is a vision of differential rectitude” or righteousness.

“What a vision may offer, and what the prevailing vision of our time emphatically does offer, is a special status of grace for those who believe in it. Those who accept this are deemed to be not merely factually correct but morally on a higher plane.

Intelligent people, a group that politicians rarely fall in to, know that this is not true.  Every decision has the potential for both good and bad outcomes.  There is always a tradeoff but politicians refuse to acknowledge that there is ever a downside and their stubborn refusal to acknowledge reality can be dangerous.  COVID was a great example of that.

The lockdowns were sold as a sure fire way of controlling the virus.  At no time was the downside of the lockdowns discussed.  As far as politicians were concerned there was no downside so to them the risk/reward equation was positive.  Only an idiot could have believed this.  Lockdowns were dangerous to the economy and to public health; that was certain.  What was not certain was how much of a benefit they could be but all of the available data from previous lockdown attempts indicated the benefit would be negligible.  Lockdowns had a very real large downside with a small and uncertain upside.

Ditto for the vaccines; all medical treatments carry risk.  New medical treatments often carry very large risk.  Treatments that we barely understand and that caused problems in the lab carry an unacceptable risk.  But that is not what we were told right?  They were safe and effective.  Once again it would be all sunshine and roses; except it wasn’t.

You would think people would learn but we haven’t.  The average person is no more able to evaluate options than the average politician.  A case in point is our current energy transition.  Politicians tell us eliminating hydrocarbons is all upside.  For some reason the world started using hydrocarbons even though apparently we derive zero benefit from using hydrocarbons.

That is of course not correct.  We use hydrocarbons because they are hugely beneficial so eliminating them comes at an extreme cost.

The story told by activist politicians and climate campaigners suggests that there is nothing but benefits to ending fossil fuels, versus a hellscape if nothing is done.

But the reality is that the world over the past centuries has improved dramatically — largely because of the immense increase in available energy that has come mostly from fossil fuels.

Life spans have more than doubled, hunger has dramatically declined, and incomes have increased ten-fold.

While the impact of climate change is likely negative, it is enormously exaggerated.

Giving up hydrocarbons is giving up a lot when we are not even certain the overall impact of climate change will be negative.  So we are not making a small sacrifice for a large gain we are making a large sacrifice for a small and possibly nonexistent gain.  Are you ready to sacrifice all the gains we have made in the last century for an uncertain climate benefit?  A better question might even be are you prepared to let people die for an uncertain benefit; because that is where this is going.  Our energy transition will kill people.

The problem with wind and solar is that when you need energy the most is when they generate the least.  Extreme heat and extreme cold happen when large unmoving high pressure cells settle over an area.  When this happens there is little to no wind so there is no wind generation.  In fact under these conditions in the winter wind turbines consume energy to stay warm.  They make a bad situation worse.

The Australian government is telling us “we’re different” to other countries struggling to make wind and solar work. We supposedly have “world-class resources” and “natural advantages in renewables“. But we also have world-class high pressure cells that stop wind generation across the entire nation simultaneously. On days like these, it doesn’t matter much whether we have 1,000 wind turbines or 10,000 if 95% of them are failing.

Blackouts during extreme heat and cold will cause deaths.  How many people are you willing to kill to prevent climate impacts that are exaggerated and only LIKELY negative?  We never stopped to ask that question about lockdowns or vaccines.  People died as a result.  Possibly millions of people died.  Do we really want to repeat that stupidity with climate policies?

Contrary to what politicians will tell you there is a risk/reward component to any decision.  The switch away from hydrocarbons to renewable energy will be overwhelmingly negative; even deadly.

Congressional hearings in the US have uncovered that Anthony Fauci and his inner circle communicated with private emails and private cell phones during COVID.

Congress brought Morens to Capitol Hill today to ask why he used a Gmail account to dodge the Freedom of Informant Act (FOIA) when communicating about the COVID virus we were assured came, not from a lab, but from a guy who ate a bat salad, so that he could “delete anything he doesn’t want to see in the New York Times.”

While being questioned by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.), Morens stammered like Joe Biden at a Girl Scout meeting. He clearly knew Congress had done its homework.

Morens was busted in a big fat felonious lie. Several actually.

Laugh with glee as Comer reads Morens’ email claiming that “Tony [Fauci] is too smart” to use his NIH email for things he doesn’t want to go public.

Is anybody really surprised by this?  Aren’t all criminals careful with how they communicate?  If COVID really was a pandemic Fauci would have nothing to hide but COVID was not a pandemic.  COVID was a criminal conspiracy and Fauci was in the middle of it.

COVID was the largest most audacious crime in history.  It was all fake and they even told us what they were going to do 6 months before they did it.  In October 2019 the WEF and Gates foundation hosted event 201.  Event 201 was to be an emergency planning exercise for a pandemic, but it really was just predictive programing.  It was an exercise to convince the public that existing pandemic response plans were inadequate to handle a serious pandemic.  They proved this by starting with the assumption that the existing plans did not work.

I shit you not.  They did an emergency response exercise with the assumption that every bit of knowledge accumulated to date was wrong.  The only thing that was right was all the things that had failed in the past.  To put it in perspective, imagine an emergency response exercise where the imagined emergency was a fire.  A rational person would say in case of a fire grab a fire extinguisher and call the fire department.  But for event 201 this would have been the wrong answer.  This fire can not be put out by fire extinguishers and firemen.  Even though every fire in history has been put out with fire extinguishers and firemen that is not the right answer for this particular fire.  For this fire we need to pour fuel on it and add fans to supply more air.

The whole thing was laughably ridiculous, but we bought it.  We threw out our old plans built on decades of hard-won experience and did every damn thing that had failed in the past.  We truly do live in the dumb ages.

Now congressional hearings have uncovered that from the first minute of the lockdowns the criminals stopped using official emails and cellphones.  Every one of them knew this was fake as they went on television to tell us how dire the situation was.  They should be in prison waiting for execution, but they are not.  They are living in luxury, and it appears they are planning to do it all again.

The only social media I use is X and I did not even start X until after Musk bought it and it looked like he might allow free speech.  So, I am a relative newby and don’t know the terminology or all the intricacies.  All I know is that when I sign on there are several posts for me to read.  Sometimes it is dominated by people I do not follow so I assume these people pay somehow to have their pearls of wisdom show up uninvited.  In the past week I have been flooded with posts from COVIDiots trying to convince me that masks work, COVID jabs are the best thing since sliced bread, and COVID is not over.

There is obviously a miss/dis/mal-information program underway.  We are headed to another lockdown just in time for the US elections which Joe Biden will win by receiving 400 million mail-in votes.

Anything they do not get punished for they will do again.  Why wouldn’t they.  They got everything they wanted last time.  We are at a decision point.  Build gallows or watch our rights disappear again.  I have saws, hammers, and even materials to donate towards option 1.  How about you?  Which one will you choose this time?

Things are getting so bad in Canada that even the normally willfully blind media is beginning to notice.

Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.

So what is wrong with Canada?  Why is a country with a skilled workforce and abundant resources moving backwards?  The short answer is Justin Trudeau.  The long answer is Justin Trudeau’s climate policies.  To save the planet Justin is sacrificing Canadians.  He has used climate change as an excuse to cancel projects, restrict resource development, and tax Canadians in to poverty.

And, to be clear, the climate narrative is just that; an excuse.  There is no climate emergency.  Yes the climate is changing but that is completely normal.  There has never been a time in history when the earth’s climate has not changed.  At times the earth’s climate has changed just as quickly as it is changing now.  There is nothing happening now that should be considered outside the bounds of normal.

Modern western politics is about weaponing normal.  It is normal for ill seniors to die in cold and flu season yet for 3 years politicians were able to convince the public that it was abnormal and could be prevented.  To bestow eternal life on grandparents we just needed to hide in our basement and look the other way as politicians looted the public treasuries.  The same is true of climate change.  Suddenly storms are not normal.  They are completely preventable by giving up your SUV.

We let them steal and lined up for experimental injection and guess what?  Ill seniors still die in cold and flu season.  You can give up your car and eat bugs but I guarantee we will still have storms.  Climate is not controlled by humans any more than viruses are.  Climate changes are part of a much larger cycle that we are powerless to prevent.

• This analysis suggests that it is the change in orientation of the Earth to the Sun, known as Milankovitch cycles, that is the primary driver of climate change.

• These findings raise questions about the credibility of the existing climate change narrative.

These cycles cause both warming and cooling which is great for politicians.  They can prove either warming or cooling just by picking a different start date.  Currently they are weaponing warming but I have no doubt they will someday weaponized cooling.  That is what makes climate so useful to politicians.  There is always something happening that can be used to justify action and no way to judge whether any of it worked.  The future climate will be what it will be but you can argue it might have been different.  Therefore the insane destructive policies must have worked.

It also helps that the government controls all of the data.  When their insane policies don’t meet the stated objectives they can just go change the data.

The government says retroactively changing the historical record of Canada’s emissions every year is due to improved methods of measuring them, both past and present.

To save the planet western governments have made hydrocarbons expensive.  This has damaged economies but has not lessened our dependency on hydrocarbons because we have no substitute for hydrocarbons.  We pretend that windmills and solar panels are a substitute but they are not.  These are not new technologies.  There are good reasons we were not using them before.  Both tend to produce power when we do not need it and don’t produce power during periods of peak demand.

So why do we do it?  Why are western governments intentionally impoverishing their citizens?  To answer that question we need to ask another question.  Cui Bono, who benefits.  When you ask that question about COVID, China bubbles to the top of the list.  The lockdowns eliminated Trump, the most problematic politician China has ever had to deal with.  It also installed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  Two politicians China has financial ties with.  COVID could not have worked out any better for China.

Remarkably when we ask that question about climate change we get exactly the same answer.  Western politicians are pursuing climate policies that seem to benefit no one other than China.

The glut in solar power in Australia is so big that next year solar panel owners in Sydney will have to pay 1.2c a kilowatt hour to offload their unwanted energy between 10am and 3pm. Nearly a million homes in Sydney have solar panels, but only 7% of them have batteries, which means basically, thousands of homes installed hi-tech generators that aren’t very useful. Worse, other homes were forced to pay part of the costs for them. The only winner was China.

China is playing a long game.  They purchase western politicians and get exactly what they want.  The west becomes weak and dependent on Chinese manufacturing.  There is only one way to stop this.  Stop voting for Chinese whores like Trudeau and Biden.  Politicians should pursue policies that benefit us not China.  Wouldn’t it be nice for once to ask Cui Bono and be able to answer “we do”?

It has taken 4 years but at least some of the legacy media has finally admitted that there was nothing natural about COVID.  The virus was engineered and so was the response.  All of the people claiming to follow the science had no knowledge of or regard for science.

The nation’s top public health official during the Covid-19 pandemic admitted that the origins of the coronavirus remain up for debate, the lab-leak theory is not a conspiracy, and that there was no scientific evidence to support the government’s social-distancing guidance.

Not a single COVID mitigation measure had a foundation in science yet anyone who pointed this out at the time was vilified.  Our governments were not following science they really just following a script written by sociopaths.  The pandemic architects had political, financial, and ideological objectives.  All of their objectives were to your detriment.  Lives were lost and fortunes were made.  It was a crime plain and simple.

Increasingly it looks like COVID was a crime no one will be punished for.  The co-conspirators have friends in high places.  Those friends have obstructed every investigation and by now much of the evidence has been destroyed.

All signs point to a lab leak. The only reason we can’t say it conclusively is because China has been allowed to destroy all evidence.

We are finally able to question the virus origins and the response but we still are not discussing something that was obvious 3 years ago.  They built this virus with the intent to release it.  The virus was for the lockdowns and the lockdowns were for the vaccine.

Again I have no smoking gun but many things taken together makes this the most likely explanation.  Even things that point to it being accidental still make sense if it was intentional.  Like the outbreak starting in China.  The logical argument is that the Chinese would not release the virus inside China.  The reality is that if China wanted to disguise their intentions, it had to be released in China.  If a virus common to Chinese Bats first appears in The US people will smell a rat (or in this case a bat).

We need to accept then that an intentional release makes as much sense as an accident.  How do we tell which it was?   In my mind these are the things that point to this being intentional.

COVID was a well-planned and orchestrated crime.  The people who committed this crime either held public office or were able to exert undue influence over those who did.  The criminals still hold all the power that is why no one has been punished.  This can’t be allowed to stand but I doubt voting will be part of the solution.