Category: Grits

“Dennis,” people have been asking me a lot lately, “what the hell’s up with you, man? There’s been an election campaign going on all summer in Ontario and, aside from a couple of posts about how lousy an idea MMP is, we haven’t heard a damn thing from you. You’re not packing it in, are ya?”

No, I’m not packing it in. It’s just that getting laid off back at the beginning of summer, job-hunting and then getting settled in to the new job have taken up one hell of a lot of my time lately. Anybody out there that’s ever had to switch jobs knows exactly what I’m talking about. And as far as the provincial election goes, well, I think I can sum it up pretty well…

Faith based schools. Faith based schools. Faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools faith based schools.

Just about sums it up, doesn’t it? Way back at the beginning of the race, John “Guess What Party I’m With” Tory said that if he got elected, faith-based schools in Ontario would be able to get some funding, therby bringing them into the public fold and holding them to the same academic standards as the rest of the schools in the province. He made the announcement and then moved on to other things. Dolt McGuilty, however, seized on it like a tarrier with a rat and has maniacally banged away on that same drum over and over, drowning out all other discourse in the campaign. The stupidity of the whole transparent ruse, along with the baffling herd-of-sheep response of Ontariens to it, got to such an extreme that even Howard Hampton J. Pig blew a gasket at the media for having gone so gleefully along with the whole sham. And that’s probably what pissed me off the most…

An irate Howard Hampton swept through Southwestern Ontario yesterday, dragging a campaign’s worth of baggage.

That burden — his party falling in the polls, the faith-based school funding issue dominating debate — blew open in Hamilton, as the NDP leader strafed his Tory rival and the media, accusing journalists of hijacking the campaign and ignoring real issues.

[…]Hampton’s frustration boiled over into a blistering attack on Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory, whom he called a “disaster” whose mistakes have given the ruling Liberals a free ride. “Mr. Tory’s campaign has been chaos,” Hampton said, noting the faith-based school funding vow has hijacked the campaign debate.

… because, as all of you know, there’s just about nothing in the world that I hate more than being forced to agree with a socialist. And, as Lorrie Goldstein saw when he talked to Hampton, Hampton might be getting the same nauseaous feeling, even going so far as to say something sounding vaguely … conservative…

Asked what he’d say to voters poised to give Premier Dalton McGuinty a second majority government, while ignoring his record of fibs and broken promises in favour of the minor issue of stopping public funding for non-Catholic religious schools, Hampton deadpanned: “What do I say? I say, well, then people get the government they deserve (laughter) that’s what I say.”

Hampton, meeting with the Sun’s editorial board, knows, as we do, that if McGuinty wins big Oct. 10, it won’t be long before voters who abandoned the Tories and NDP to back the Liberals will be asking themselves what they’ve done.

No shit, Sherlock. For the record: I’m against public funding for faith-based schools, but not for any of the reasons that McSquinty and the Liebrals barf up. He who pays the piper calls the tune and I don’t think it’s a good idea to let a rabidly secular government ministry be in the position of holding a financial gun to the head of a school that might be teaching something that goes against whatever the trendy Leftbotâ„¢ dogma du jour might be. Keep government the hell out of it; it’s better for the schools. That’s my take.

But, to listen to McGuilty, you’d think that white kids would be going to all the good schools and black kids would be lucky to end up in a one-room schoolhouse if Tory’s plan went ahead. You don’t think he’s hammering away on the word “segregation” by accident, do you? And the media, from top to bottom, have been all too happy to help him out.

But it’s the smart thing for McGuilty to do, isn’t it? The sad fact is that Ontario is likely the most intolerant province in Canada (yes, even worse than Quebeckers or those nasty Albertans), especially when it comes to religion. This is because Ontario has become infested with the disease of the Leftbotâ„¢ mindset and religion is the ultimate enemy of the modern neoliberal ideology…

The neolib socialist philosophy (there really isn’t much “neo” about it) requires, above all else, that the masses give their first and foremost loyalty over to the authority of the secular state (of course, you and I know how well that has worked out in the past, but they don’t, for some reason…). Religion gives people a higher authority than the state, therfore it has to go. They won’t come out and say this out loud, but that’s still the meat of it. This is the mindset that has infected Ontario; especially urban Ontario.

John Tory should have known this. He made a rank-amateur mistake and now he’s given McGuilty four more years in Queens Park and the people of Ontario four more years of weak leadership.

This week, I’ll still be voting Conservative, but I’m afraid J.T. already sold the farm.

Goddamnit, what the hell does it take to finally get over this crap? It’s been damn near a year and a half since we kicked their sorry arses to the curb and we’re still having to deal with the fallout from the Liebrals’ willful neglect of our Canadian Armed Forces! Everybody from the Freeps, to CTV, to the Ministry Of What You Should Think, and everyone in between has been telling about how the Librano$ were, as usual, too damned busy buggering things up to take care of our men and women in uniform (the Snowbirds, this time):

The air force was urged in no uncertain terms four years ago to quickly replace the aging Tutor jets belonging to the prized Snowbird demonstration squadron.

The study by the Defence Department’s director of major service delivery procurement warned that the life expectancy of the 1960s-vintage aircraft was 2010, but could be pushed out for another decade if absolutely necessary.

“With each passing year, the technical, safety and financial risk associated with extending the Tutor into its fifth decade and beyond, will escalate,” said the review, written in August 2003.

And just what did the Grits do when they were given that information? Why, they did DICK ALL, of course! Just like they always do whenever something concerns the safety, wellbeing, morale, image or the very lives of our soldiers. After all, these are the same assholes that gave us Sea Kings In The Sun, the flying caskets that are older than most of the pilots that fly them, fer Chrissakes.

Granted, the Tutor isn’t as bad as the Sea Kings, but these things are starting to show their age. In the 35-year history of the Snowbirds, only six pilots have died, but half of those have been in the last nine years.

So here we are, with yet another Grit mess to clean up. Don’t expect them to take the blame, though. Hell, NO!! That ain’t the Lieberal way. Just like they twiddled their thumbs for years over the Kyotology Kult and then had the gall to demand that the Tories implement it within months (likely hoping that such an implementation would tank the economy, making the Conservatives look like assholes, and thereby get the Librano$ back high on the public hog), look for the Grits to screech away to anyone that will listen about how the mean, nasty, Stephen-Dubya-Harper® Tories are the ones that aren’t looking after the military.

Sometimes I wonder if those bozos don’t deliberately bugger up, just so they have a failsafe to fall back on whenever they get the boot: blame the Tories for not fixing their mistakes and then act like the screwup happened on their watch instead of the Liberals’. Just a thought.

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…when the Grits are working themselves into a lather, doing everything that they can to try to nail the closet door shut before their little osteological embarrassments have the chance to form a chorus line and come kicking on out for all the world to see like a regiment of revenant rockettes. 🙄

That’s right; the McSquinty Lieberal$ are once again raiding the public piggy bank in a mad rush to keep the rest from us from knowing… well, how they abused the piggy bank before…

TORONTO — The Ontario government spent another day in court yesterday arguing why its legal bill for fighting an autism treatment lawsuit should stay secret, which means even more money has been wasted on lawyers rather than helping kids, the opposition said.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard arguments about a request under the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to reveal how much the government spent defending against a lawsuit filed by parents of autistic children.

Yeppers, boys & girls. The grits are blowing a buttload of your tax dollars on lawyers to keep you from knowing how much they spend on lawyers.

Whaddaya call a hundred lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start. (rimshot here)

Same old, same old, same old … Grits make promise. Grits break promise. Grits waste more money breaking promise than they would have spent keeping it. Grits then blow even more money covering their asses. And every cent of it is, of course, your money and not theirs. Meanwhile, the Grits of McSquinty — who loves to cry poor to Ottawa — show off their lack of common sense by using the annual surplus to buy votes instead of paying down the debt.

Ontario’s Liberal government has “institutionalized” the habit of spending surplus funds at the end of the fiscal year instead of applying the extra cash to the provincial debt or deficit, Auditor General Jim McCarter said yesterday.

In his first pre-election review of the Liberal government’s fiscal plans for the next three years, McCarter said the government has been creating lists of candidates who could receive year-end grants long before the end of the fiscal year.

[…]

“The combination of such revenue surpluses (and) the tight timelines involved in these year-end spending decisions . . . has resulted in a significant reduction of the normal accountability controls over these transfers.”

Pay down the debt? Are you nuts? That’s the kind of thing Mike Harris would do! When the hell are people in this province going to get it through their heads that Liberal$ (of any stripe) just plain can’t be trusted with the public purse??

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until October.

Holy bejabbers, Batman; you’d think that even the Grits would learn sooner or later. Booted from office for being frequent frolickers in financial fiddlyfriggery, you’d think that these boneheads would have figured out by now to keep their hands the hell out of the cookie jar.

But nooooo, not this bunch. For all their talk about scary conservatives, hidden agendas, a new Liberal party direction with a new leader and practically doing everything short of giving themselves a snot rubdown to look greener than thou, they’re still the same old, same old, same old (etc, ad nauseum) Librano$ that they ever were…

About $16,000 has vanished from a London federal Liberal riding association, triggering a police investigation.

The probe comes amid indications an official with the party’s Ontario wing offered a way to keep a lid on the issue.

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“I’ve never encountered anything like this and I’ve been in politics since I was 13,” said Lois Jackson, a St. Thomas party member. [guess ya musta slept through Adscam, eh, Lois? -D]

Jackson is upset the riding executive has said nothing about the matter publicly, despite conducting a nomination meeting in April for which nearly 800 party memberships were sold.

St. Thomas police confirm they’re investigating a complaint about the missing funds.

“Quite a number of people have been interviewed,” said Const. Anders Nielsen. “The allegations are, in excess of $15,000 (has) gone missing.”

The Free Press has learned a high-ranking party official tried to solve the problem by offering to cut cheques for the missing money provided local officials agreed to take no further action and considered the matter closed.

A letter from David J. Pretlove, then interim executive director of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario), offered to cover the missing funds.

That letter was given to the board in January by Suzanne van Bommel, then a member of the board and now also the party’s candidate in the riding for the next federal election.

Van Bommel said she presented the offer “on behalf of Mr. Pretlove.”

Pretlove is now director of finance and administration for the party’s Ontario wing.

Van Bommel is a former chief of staff for Steve Peters, the Ontario Labour Minister who holds the same riding provincially. Peters nominated van Bommel and sold memberships on her behalf.

Hey, relax, folks. I’ll just slide a little cash over in that direction and this can all just go away. Youse diddn’ see nuthin’. Hey, Dave; any chance I can get that in a nice plain brown envelope?

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A little ditty, ’bout Dave ‘n’ Su-zanne
Two Canadian Grits scammin’ folks the best they can…
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As you’ve likely heard, the federal Tories are once again firing one across the Grits’ bow with another series of ads designed to remind people of just who and what the Liebrals are. The latest, shown below, was originally put up at notaleader.ca, — the Tory site that gleefully sticks it to li’l ol’ Stephie Dee — but was uploaded to YouTube by Matt over at ASTTR (thanks, dude).

I don’t know about you, but I sure got a chuckle or two. So sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy the show…

Well, it seems like yet another Grit has gotten fed up with the Fiberals and jumped ship.  The Grit in question is Ontario Liberal backbencher Tim Peterson (whose website seems to be currently offline).  Some of you might know him as being part of what the MSM like to call “London’s first family of Liberals.” :roll:  He’s former Ontario premier David Peterson and Toronto-area MP Jim Peterson’s kid brother and London-North-Centre MPP (and former Ontario Lieberal president) Deb Matthews’ brother-in-law.  Now there’s a gene pool for ya…

The Liebrals, predictably, are saying that he’s just pissy over not getting a cabinet post.  Because we all know that whenever someone crosses the floor from the Grits, its always because of a cabinet position or some other such ulterior crap; but when someone crosses to the Grits and gets plopped right into a cabinet position that they have no qualifications for, it’s truly altruism at its highest.

And before the hooting even starts: no, he’s not joining the Tories.  He’s going to sit as an independent until the October 10 provincial election when he does plan to run as a Tory (assuming he can secure the riding nomination — he’s not getting a freebie).  Ironically enough, it looks like PC Leader John Guess-What-Party-I’m-With actually talked him out of outright crossing over:

“John Tory convinced me that I should not work in this session against the party that helped me get elected, and the party that the people in Mississauga South supported in the last election,” he said.

Imagine a Grit doing that.  Go ahead, imagine it.  Nah, I can’t either.