Category: Conservative politics

Ontario’s $200,000 Rubber duck

Ontario was also a nominee in the provincial category for having the most expensive counterfeit rubber duck.

As part of Canada 150 celebrations, the province spent $200,000 on a huge rubber duck — not a mallard or other native species — to float around Lake Ontario by Sugar Beach.

The duck — which was rented by a company in the U.S. — turned out to be an “illegal counterfeit” from a Dutch company.

The Dutch company said the U.S. rental costs of the fake were “exorbitant” and that they would have made the original available for Ontario’s Canada 150 had they been asked.

How Lincoln Changed the World in Two Minutes 

Today would have been former President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and in another great video from
Prager University. Professor Doug Douds explains why The Gettysburg Address led to a new birth of freedom in the United States.

Full Text of Speech

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863