What better place to start than the CBC? A couple weeks ago a Senate committee came out with a report recommending that CBC television channels should go commercialess with the government footing the costs caused by having no incoming advertising revenue. With a current annual budget of close to $1 Billion dollars, it is estimated that going commercialess will cost taxpayers an extra half a billion dollars a year. Even further, the committee suggests that the Competition Act be expanded to automatically review any private media conglomerate that reaches a certain percentage of audience share in the market.

Now obviously the Liberal controlled Senate would like to see their ultra-liberal pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-Liberal party propaganda machine have free access to the market. And now that the CBC cannot survive in Canada's media market, they are depending on their good 'ol Liberal friends in the Senate to protect them and force the market to accept them. Both the Liberals and the CBC win on this deal.

But I think it is time for the CBC to wake-up and realize that the reason they are loosing market share is because...(pause for suspense)they have no good product or service to compete with! Besides sports they have nothing to offer the Canadian public - and they are not going to have that much longer (CTV has won the broadcasting rights for the next Olympics)!

Don't even get me started about the Quebec branch of the CBC, Radio-Canada, which is pro-separatist and is financially supported by CANADIAN taxpayer dollars!

In light of this, I am calling for the end of the CBC; and the mere shutting down of the CBC will not do. Commenting on a story at the Western Standard someone named Scott proposed the following:

Nothing short of the complete physical destruction of the CBC is acceptable. Purge it off the face of the Earth. Fire the staff, destroy the buildings and foundations, incinerate the rubble, and place its records and archives into a secret location (preferably in another country), for 100+ years to prevent their ideas from polluting the world.

The former building locations should be filled in with salt, gravel and dirt, and memorials to the Holocaust, the veterans, victims of terrorism, and human rights built in their place.

Privatization is not acceptable because their ideas will remain in new hands. End this monstrosity now.

Lol, I couldn't have said it better myself, Scott. Although somewhat extreme, I am all for it - maybe we should compensate the fired staff a bit, or, even a lot (giving a million dollars to every employee would sill save taxpayer dollars in the end). If the government wants to provide media access to northern communities then the government should subsidize all media operations that occur in northern communities, or other places where it would otherwise not be profitable to do so, without regard to which media conglomerate provides it. This would help to keep the "diversity" of media alive - something different than the CBC up North. Instead of spending $1 billion tax payer dollars a year, use the money to enhance, upgrade, and install telephone and internet connectivity to isolated communities that "depend on the CBC" for knowledge of the world around them. Even if the government spent $5 billion dollars to do this - an excessive amount for sure - they would still be saving money in the long run! After five years they can use this money to assist the poor and needy at home and abroad, or to better enhance our military, or for infrastructure, or to pay down our debt, or for healthcare - the possibilities are endless.

So, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and your Conservative Government: instead of increasing funding to the CBC as the Senate Committee suggests, privatize them or abolish them altogether! It's not like they like you anyways; they are more active and effective at ruining your image than the Liberals are right now anyways. It's not the Liberals you have to worry about, but the CBC! So, why don't you finally put an end to CBC favouritism by the government?

This is a testiment to how great Argentina is. I told all of you that they would beat out the Netherlands!

Research on bread indicates that:

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.


In light of these frightening statistics, it has been proposed that the following bread restrictions be made:

1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.

Supposedly this article was written by B.S. Wheatberry in a desert after consuming mass quantities of yeast bread then realizing his canteen was empty.
Article can be found here.

if anyone is actually interested in this crazy thing, it is called a selk'bag - a sleeping bag in the shape of your body.

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