Things were quieter on the American campaign today. No pot shots, no partisan sniping, no “I endorse this message” commercials on the radio or TV… anywhere. They have more important things on their minds.
Both McCain and Obama have declared today to be off-limits for their respective campaigns. I don’t know about you, but I consider that to be an act of class… on both their parts. Some things are more important than taking swings at each other for a day. Things like the memory of the thousands who were murdered and the brave souls who dashed into the inferno while others ran. Things like the hearts of those who continue to grieve to this day, and the sacrifices of those who have been called to their country’s service in the aftermath.
This is no day for the crass minutiae of politics.
On this day, may the Lord offer his comfort to you all.
Though you may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, be not afraid, for He is with you.
And they are with Him now.
Well, now… I was wondering if (or should I say, when?) this was going to happen. You know that the Loopier Left is starting to get all nervous and freaked out when they start recycling — yet agaaaaiiiinnn — the old “a Conservative government will mean the end of the world!!” canard. 🙄
Yeah, it’s back. But it wasn’t the Grits that dug up this corpse, sowed it together, and ran a few volts through it this time. That was a bit of a surprise.
Going pear-shaped
Danny Williams may be something of a superhero back home in Newfoundland but the rest of us are starting to wonder if his cheese hasn’t slid clean off his cracker…
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Premier Danny Williams levelled his most blistering attack yet against the prime minister, telling a business audience yesterday a Stephen Harper-led majority government would mark one of the darkest eras in Canadian history.
Williams escalated his public feud with Harper, warning voters the Tories would stoop to any depths to implement their hidden “right-wing, Conservative-Reform party” agenda.
“The only reason we haven’t seen his full plan for Canada implemented is because he had a minority government to keep him in check,” Williams said. [Be afraid! Be veerrryyyy afraid!!! -D] 😯
Ah, yes, the good ol’ Hidden Agenda®, don’tcha just love it? These idiots remind me of a doomsday cult: every time the appointed day for the End Of The World As We Know Itâ„¢ comes and goes, they just move the goalposts. In the last election, we were all warned about how the sky would fall if the Tories formed a government. I know I’ve pointed this out before, but I think some boneheads out there need a refresher. So here, along with a few additions, is my own little list of…
Catastrophes We Were Promised But Didn’t Get
Neither Stephen Harper nor any members of his caucus have eaten any babies.
Quebec has not separated from Canada.
The sun has not burned out.
Our health care system has not collapsed.
Homosexuals have not been rounded up into camps in the high arctic.
Women have not been forced to get pregnant in order to be denied access to abortions.
We have not become of 51st state of US of A.
We have not sent troops to Iraq, either.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms has not been scrapped.
We have not withdrawn from the UN.
The sky has not fallen.
There have been no reliable reports (other than above) of the dead rising from their graves to feast upon the living.
We have not declared war on puppies.
Toronto has not been placed under martial law (although that might not be such a bad idea).
The polar ice caps have not melted.
The National Capital has not been moved to Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump.
The economy has not collapsed.
We still have no official State Religion; Christian, Satanic or otherwise.
Fun has not been outlawed.
No one has been executed for anything.
Banjo lessons are not a compulsory component of our educational curriculum.
No angels have tooted any trumpets, cracked any seals, or done anything else worrysome.
Petroleum is not included in the Canada Food Guide
Gun ownership is not mandatory (and here I was looking forward to that one)
etc, etc, ad nauseum…
Please, guys; on behalf of Canadians everywhere, from Lotusland to the Rock and Point Pelee to the Pole: quit being so STUCKING FOOPID and get some new material, ya friggin’ idjits! Seriously, we mean it. This is getting beyond old.
Clever buggers
Say what you want about Jumpin’ Jack Jerkweed and his Not Democratic Party, but at least one of them over there knows how the ‘net works. Much as I hate giving the Dippers credit for anything, I’m forced to admit that this is some darned good thinking:
OTTAWA — The New Democrats have cut a deal with Google and Yahoo to grab Internet traffic in a marketing ploy that has some online experts impressed.
Type the names Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion or Gilles Duceppe into the major search engines and an ad for NDP Leader Jack Layton pops up on the screen, along with the search results.
Google Adwords; gotta love ’em.
Who’s where? 12:20
Just in case anybody’s wondering where all the bestest blowhards’ll be today…
Stephen Harper
MONTREAL: Young leaders’ breakfast at 8:45 a.m., 2200 Rue Mansfield
News conference at 9:30 a.m. Mansfield Room 4, Cours Mont-Royal
ST. EUSTACHE, Que.: Rally at 12:30 p.m. at Vignoble de la Riviere du Chene, 807 Riviere Nord
HALIFAX: Evening arrival. No events scheduled.
Stephane Dion
SAINT JOHN, N.B.: Pancake breakfast and annual general meeting at the Saint John riding association, 8:00 a.m. Media availability to follow at 8:50 a.m., Lilly Lake Pavilion, 55 Lake Dr. S
Speaks at Saint John Board of Trade luncheon at 12:00 p.m. Media availability to follow at 12:30 p.m., Delta Brunswick Hotel, boardrooms A-B-C, 39 King St.
THUNDER BAY, Ont.: Greets local candidates and makes brief remarks during a stopover at the Thunder Bay International Airport, 5:50 p.m., Thunder Bay International Airport Maintair Shell FBO, 316 Hector Dougal Way.
Jack Layton
MONTREAL: Announcement with MP Thomas Mulcair and NDP Quebec team, 9:30 a.m., Victoria Square (corner Viger and Victoria Square Streets)
Meets party supporters at Westmount-Ville-Marie riding headquarters, 2 p.m., 490 Sherbrooke St. W.
Gilles Duceppe
HUNTINGDON, Que.: Visit to Maison Russet factory with mayor Stephane Gendron and Beauharnois-Salaberry candidate Claude Debellefeuille, 9:30 a.m. at 142 route 202. Briefing to follow outside at 10:15 a.m.
VALLEYFIELD, Que.: Benefit spaghetti lunch, 11:30 a.m., 67 rue Academie.
MONTREAL: Speech in Duceppe’s riding, Laurier-Sainte-Marie at 7:50 p.m., 1220 rue Sainte-Catherine Est.
Elizabeth May
NEW GLASGOW, N.S.: Canada AM interview taping, 6:45 a.m.
ANTIGONISH, N.S.: Setting up signs and greeting commuters, 7:30-9:00 a.m.
Visits staff and patients, St. Martha’s Hospital, 10 a.m.
Lunch, meets with students, 12 noon-1:30 p.m., St. Francis Xavier University cafeteria
News conference on education issues, 2 p.m., St. Francis Xavier University campus, location to be announced.
Campus Green Club event, 7:30-9:00 p.m., St. Francis Xavier University Student Union Building.
Le Leftbot Limbo 12:55
How low can ya go? How low can ya go? Just what the hell is the Catholic version of Islamophobia called, anyway? While I’m not so sure myself, I’m sure that Big Wheel Gilles knows the answer…
Yeah, and before he goes to sleep at night, he always makes sure to check for albinos under his bed. Dickweed.
For those of you who might have read one too many Dan Brown novels, try checking out something a little closer to the source.
The cutlery is out 13:10
Gee whiz, I wonder who’s back it’ll end up buried in? What are the Librano$ up to this election, really? Are they looking to win? Are they looking to clear the way to dump Dion? You tell me…
The Liberal party moved last night to cancel its biennial convention in Vancouver in December, clearing the way for a full leadership vote next year should Stephane Dion fail win the Oct. 14 election. Sources say hotel reservations were ordered released this week as the national executive gathered to finalize the postponement decision.
No wonder Dion walks the way he does. If I had that bunch “watching my back,” I’d keep my butt cheeks clenched shut, too. Et tu, Brute?
It’s enough to make you wonder what happened to the laws of temporal mechanics, the way time seems to crawl along whenever the season rolls around for all the politicians to fling their pieholes open.
For those of you who might have been hoping that this time would somehow be different: forget it. The bullshit is flying just as fast and furious as you were afraid it would.
“I want my tag-team partner”
Dimwit Dion still has his heart set on having some backup at the leaders’ debate. Who can blame him? He needs all the damned help he can get, or else Steve’s gonna eat him alive…
The Liberal leader began his day in Mississauga going to bat for Green Leader Elizabeth May’s quest to get in on the leaders’ debate, accusing Conservative, New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois leaders Wednesday of “hiding themselves behind” a consortium of broadcasting executives.
Now, before anybody out there starts barking about how Dion’s being a fool by trying to get May into the debate, remember what we used to say when we were camping up north: “I don’t need to outrun the bear, I just need to outrun YOU!”
“Shut up and listen up, broads”
Oh well, at least Steffy sticking up for Elly May means that he can still count on the female vote:
And Stephane Dion’s pandering to women at a round table this morning, where he out-talked the women participants with promises of gender-parity throughout his government, was hardly captivating.
Oopsie. Nice irony.
I’ve had fish…
…that I pulled into the bottom of the boat that didn’t flip and flop this much. Looks like I opened my yap and moved on too quick on this one. I guess whining like a spoiled brat actually does get you your way, after all. Well, start looking for every bunch o’ kooks in the country that managed to register a political party to start expecting the same…
Canada’s broadcast networks have agreed to include Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in the televised debates, after the Conservatives and New Democrats backed down from their initial opposition.
May said on CTV’s Mike Duffy Live Wednesday that it was “inspiring that Canadians can’t stand unfairness and I think that bodes well for the rest of the election.”
“I’m just so grateful to Canadians,” she told reporters earlier in a conference call. “This last couple of days proves that democracy doesn’t happen behind closed doors.
“I think it’s enormously encouraging.”
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton both reversed their opposition to the inclusion of May earlier Wednesday.
I don’t know about anyone else, but what I wanna see, is Harper & Dion… one on one!
Vis du bloc
It’s about God damned time a politician somewhere in this country finally came out and said what the rest of us have known for years now. Leave it to a Tory to have the stones for this:
Mr. Fortier said the Bloc has achieved no real results, spearheaded no major projects and created no employment.
“The only jobs that Bloc MPs have created in 18 years are their own,†he said. “A vote on the Bloc is a wasted vote – Quebecers are already realizing the Bloc can’t deliver, and are already turning their back on this powerless party,†he said.
Last word on the debate debacle…
…goes to Hugh. I have to admit that I hadn’t thought of it from that angle. He makes a damned good point, though (May is going to be one helluva loose cannon)…
This is what will happen in the debate.Every time May attacks Harper it will make it harder for the other three to attack Harper (and it will be four on one).They will have to soften their blows (as I did) with prefixes such as, “well I don’t know about that, but I do agree that Harper sucks.â€
Speaking of elections…
Oh, yeah. The Americans are still all tied up in that odd ritual they do every four years. You’ll get a kick out of this. It seems that a couple of Left Wing Nutjobs at some radio station or other were looking to dig some dirt on Sarah Palin so they brought in Mike Gravel, a former Democrat senator from Alaska. Hey, if you wanna slag Palin, who better to get than a Democrat, right?
Yeah, right. The interview kinda went sideways on them. As Allahpundit over at Hot Air put it, “You don’t hear their hearts actually start to break until he says, ‘Troopergate is going to come out in her favor.'” Gotta love it…
And on the third day, the Steffster had himself a “road to Damascus” kind of experience. Yes indeed, ladies and gentlemen, it seems that li’l Stephane has gone and seen the light when it comes to the Tories’ 1,200-buck-a-year child care allowance.
Never mind that his party fought it tooth and nail when the Conservatives first brought the idea forward (can you say “beer and popcorn,” boys and girls?). Like carbon taxes, this is just another bad-idea-become-good.
Oh, yeah… he also wants to resurrect up the CCP and give it give it a little jolt of juice while he’s at it:
Um, Stef? You do remember, don’t you, that there was a reason why that damned thing was killed in the first place, right? Oh, wait… the reason they were killed was pretty much because they were a Lieberal end-run around parliament, weren’t they? Yes, they were:
CCP-funded groups have achieved through the courts new rights and laws they would never have been able to win democratically.
In that way, the
CCP is fundamentally anti-democratic.
But hey, since when do the Librano$ like democracy? After all, if they’re left to their own devices, the unwashed masses might vote wrong (ie, un-Liberal).
Pomo gets to start it off
As you’ve likely figured out, I’m totally pissed about Dion’s blatant ass-kissing of the gun-grabber crowd lately. You’re likely wondering when I’m going to sound off about it. Don’t worry, I will… just as soon as I cool off. In the meantime, PomoChristian does a nice job of keeping a cooler head than I:
Stephane Dion is trying to make gun control an issue in this campaign, and this morning his party posted this notice on what constitutes an ‘assault weapon’ (which he plans to ban):
Military assault rifles are defined as fully-automatic and selective-fire rifles along with selected semi-automatic rifles designed for military purposes and possessing military features such as: use of a large capacity magazine, folding/telescoping stock, a protruding pistol grip, a bayonet mount, or threaded muzzle or flash suppressor. It is these military features – features whose sole purpose is to render the rifle a more effective tool for killing other people – which make these rifles a threat to public safety.
Let’s take these in turn:
Read the whole thing, he does a pretty good job.
Whaddafu…..???
I have NO bloody idea what they’re trying to get across with this, but it creepily reminds me of the axe-clanking cult in that Stallone movie, Cobra (anybody else remember that one?)…
Elly May boo-hoo du jour
Well, so much for putting all the blame on that big bully Stephen Harper for locking the Blathering Boogers® out of the leaders’ debate. Turns out that the Smirkin’ Gherkin® didn’t want her in the room, either. BTW, there, Elly: bawling that old “it’s all because I’m a woman” line is likely to come back and bite you on your Yankee-born ass…
And now, the latest enviro-hairball…
…from the Gang That Couldn’t Stay In Office. I’m not 100% certain, off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure that if you lined all these bozos up nose to arsehole, they wouldn’t stretch to a full four-year term in 24 Sussex. These clowns represent some of, if not the, most disappointing PMs in Canadian history. And they’re presuming to lecture anybody on anything????
TORONTO — Four of the country’s former prime ministers have co-signed a statement demanding more be done to tackle climate change in Canada.
Paul Martin, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell and John Turner issued a joint statement today with a lost of business, academic and other leaders.
Clark says he is “very concerned” by a lack of decisive action on climate change and that Canada is “falling further behind.”
He adds Canada “cannot afford another round of posturing and denial” and a clear and honest commitment is needed for strong, simple and effective climate laws.”
Campbell says when it comes to tackling climate change, “there has been a persistent void at the highest political levels in this country.”
Two prime ministers did not sign the document from a group called Canadians for Climate Leadership entitled “Time To Get Serious on Climate Change” — Jean Chretien and Brian Mulroney.
Seriously, you twits; we couldn’t stand you before (that’s why we dumped your sorry asses) and we can’t stand you now. Go away.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian poll released on Monday predicted for the first time that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper would be able to transform his minority government into a strong majority in the October 14 election. The Segma poll, taken for La Presse newspaper, put support for the Conservatives at 43 percent, which the pollsters said would translate into 183 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons.
Some folks think this makes sense, some think it’s an anomaly, others think this is just a poll designed to rally the Grits. You decide.
The attack ads have come out. No surprise there, God knows the Grits loved using them. Now look for them to whine about how nasty the Tories are behaving. Me, I kinda like them, especially this one…
Meanwhile, the Boogers want in the debates but it doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen…
“This is anti-democratic, closed-door, backroom decision making by four national party leaders who are all men and five television executives – who are all men – to keep out the one woman leader of a federal party,†Ms. May told reporters on Parliament Hill, where she responded to the announcement that she will not be invited to the debates. “And I don’t think many Canadians will think that was fair.â€
Ms. May said the party has decided to pursue legal action against the broadcasters in Federal Court. She criticized the consortium for not spelling out clear criteria as to what hurdles the Greens must meet to be included.
Ms. May was reacting to a statement from the consortium of broadcasters that control the televised debates, who said there might not have been a debate at all if they invited Ms. May.
Sucks to be Elly May today, eh? Speaking of things missing, the Quebec landscape looks interesting. The Tories and the BQ have full slates in Quebec but the Dippers are missing about 30 candidates and the Grits are short by 4. Look for the Blocheads to panic soon.
Mr. Dion made his statements just hours after two Tory ministers, Jason Kenney and Lawrence Cannon, held an almost pre-dawn press conference — at 6 a.m. — in Ottawa to address the so-called Dion “triple-threatâ€, which they say includes Mr. Dion wanting to raise the GST.
And just like that, ladies and gents, we’re on our way to the polls again. HMPM Harper has finally decided that he’s sick and tired of the Librano$’s bullshit and it’s time for them to get hauled on the carpet, in front of US, to explain just what the hell they think they’ve been doing for the past (how many now?) months.
Not that this came as a surprise to anybody who hasn’t been in a coma for the last few weeks, but the final word came down this morning:
It’s official — Canadians will go to the polls Oct. 14.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper wasted no time taking shots at Liberal Leader Stephane Dion as he kicked off a federal election campaign with an early-morning visit to Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean.
Harper warned Canadians they should not take a “gamble” on Dion’s proposed carbon tax.
“Between now and Oct. 14, Canadians will choose a government to look out for their interests at a time of global economic trouble,” Harper told reporters from the sprawling grounds of Rideau Hall. “They will choose between direction or uncertainty; between common sense or risky experiments; between steadiness or recklessness.”
Not a bad opening salvo, IMHO. Better than li’l Steffy managed. As you can imagine, the HypoGrits still haven’t managed to change the playbook from the last two elections (you know, the whole “he’s got an ideology” thing):
“With this conservative ideology, Canadians are left to fend for themselves.”
Dion said a Liberal government would make Canada “richer, fairer and greener.”
Hey, Steffy, I got a news flash for ya: politics is all about ideologies!
But then, I can see how hard that might be for a Liebral to figure out. After all, in order to understand ideologies, you need… ahem… IDEAS. And it’s not like little Steph has any of those.
Oops, I forgot. 😯 He does have an idea…
Ah, campaigning on a new tax-grab platform. What a genius, eh? [Oh, before I forget: about that little “left to fend for themselves” bullshit… why is it that so many studies have proven that those mean, nasty, social-darwinism-loving conservatives are consistently more giving than the oh-so-sweet liberals? Just wondering, ya understand.]
I know I’ve been a Bad Blogger lately, not posting much and such, but now that I’ve got something to sink my teeth into, look for that to change…
Things were quieter on the American campaign today. No pot shots, no partisan sniping, no “I endorse this message” commercials on the radio or TV… anywhere. They have more important things on their minds.
Well, now… I was wondering if (or should I say, when?) this was going to happen. You know that the Loopier Left is starting to get all nervous and freaked out when they start recycling — yet agaaaaiiiinnn — the old “a Conservative government will mean the end of the world!!” canard. 🙄
Please, guys; on behalf of Canadians everywhere, from Lotusland to the Rock and Point Pelee to the Pole: quit being so STUCKING FOOPID and get some new material, ya friggin’ idjits! Seriously, we mean it. This is getting beyond old.
Bloc Québécois Gilles Duceppe seeks to portray the Conservatives as a party of narrow-minded views with a rightist religious agenda that should offend many Quebec voters. His evidence for such a patently false depiction? 
…that I pulled into the bottom of the boat that didn’t flip and flop this much. Looks like I opened my yap and moved on too quick on 
