Archive for: October 2006

I always love it on those rare occasions when I can open up a paper and find something in there that actually brings a smile to my mug for a change and today is one of those occasions. The Calgary Sun’s Licia Corbella had the chance to interview the PM on Friday and the resulting column came out today. It’s one of Licia’s best works yet, IMHO, and is a definite must-read. To give an idea, it starts off:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government is doing such a good job, the Liberals have to dream-up phoney Conservative bogeymen in order to attack him and his government.

and ends:

Stephen Harper not only enjoys being a player on that world stage he’s impressive and effective, too.

That makes him the biggest Liberal bogeyman of them all — only he’s not make believe.

What’s in the middle is all meat. There’s even a good belly laugh in there, too:

Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is looking into an incident in which government officials discussing topics of media interest shared the name of a journalist who had made a request under the Access to Information Act. That’s an apparent violation of the Privacy Act.

“I don’t know who asks for information and I’m not sure why it would matter anyway,” says Harper. “I mean, why would I care?”

Some people would say it’s so you can punish the journalists who ask, he’s told.

“I punish them all anyway.”

And people ask me why I like that guy so much.  Read the full article here.

They say that drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is “like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.” Well, so is trying to figure out the logic of gay activists, only without the slice of lemon. Okay, okay; maybe they’ll throw in one of those little umbrellas, but it’s still just as annoying and it’s hypocritical.

After years of hooting and howling that “AIDS is not a gay diesase,” they’ve now turned an about-face on the whole thing (again):

One of Southern California’s most influential gay institutions has launched a controversial ad campaign
declaring HIV to be a “gay disease.”

The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, which has for 20 years vigorously fought the contention that HIV/AIDS is a ‘gay plague,’ says it now wants to target gay men who have become complacent about the illness.

The message “HIV is a gay disease” and the tag line “Own It. End It” is set to appear in magazines and on billboards across L.A.

Make up your damn minds, already.

Well, this isn’t surprising. In their never ending quest to find some deep, dark secret in PM Stephen Harper’s closet, the MSM may have finally latched onto something that will get Canadians‘ attention, and maybe keep it, too (though I haven’t yet figured out how they’re going to put some “Bush-loving, neocon, American Republican conspiracy angle on it yet, but I’m sure they’ll think of something). CTV leads off with:

PM’s hockey loyalties questioned after Leafs goal

Updated Thu. Oct. 5 2006 11:46 AM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Hockey fans are wondering if Prime Minister Stephen Harper unwittingly outed himself as a closet Toronto Maple Leafs fan with his reaction to the team’s lone goal Wednesday night.

Harper, a hard-core hockey fan, has been careful to keep his allegiances to himself.

But that hasn’t prevented hockey fans from speculating whether the Toronto-born Harper, who studied in Calgary and now lives at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, has any favourites only his inner circle knows about.

So there you have it. A far-right wing, nutjob, knuckle-dragging, homophobic, neanderthal, gun-toting, redneck Evangelical troglodyte is one thing, but are Canadians ready for a PM that’s a Leafs fan?

EEK.

A tip o the old chapeau to Small Dead Animals for the heads-up on the online poll the Globe & Mail is running asking: “We’ve asked this before but the federal Conservatives keep bringing the question up: Do you approve of same-sex marriage?” So far the count is 63% against to 37% for (not exactly the done deal that the would-be social engineers of the left would have us believe). Make sure you vote.

[UPDATE] PTBC has a posting on how this poll was just so not going the way that the lefty Globe thought it would and Mark Peters has his two cents worth in too…

Those of you who have been following the “And the flop flips” fun (there seems to be more of you than I would have thought) can now pick it up here. It’s been so amusing that I migrated the whole thing, comments and all (but the comments are the best part, aren’t they?), from the old blog today.

Some things just make you want to lose your lunch. I don’t have too much patience for soft-headed lefty crap to begin with, but some things piss me off more than others. Accusing my country of being gutless and trying to undermine our national determination are two of them. So I grab my morning paper (rarely a source of good news, I know, but I keep reading the damned thing anyway), and what do I see on the front page? This bullshit:

Decima Research polled more than 2,000 Canadians last month as Prime Minister Stephen Harper stepped up efforts to promote the mission.

Fifty-nine per cent of respondents agreed Canadian soldiers “are dying for a cause we cannot win,” while just 34 per cent disagreed.

An even larger majority said they would never fight in Afghanistan themselves under any circumstances — even if forced to by a military draft.

Yeah, right. Anybody else want to put money on whether or not this was one of those “now that you’ve stopped beating your wife” questions? You know what I mean. Here’s a little experiment that everyone out there can try. The next time you bump into some mewling little peacenik, ask them two questions:

1) Do you believe that we should bring our troops home from Afghanistan?

2) Do you believe that the Taliban should be allowed to regain power in Afghanistan so that they can once again brutally oppress any ideals that they don’t agree with, train terrorists to come here and attack us, reduce women to slaves, etc, etc.

The resulting contortionist logic that will come out of the little lefty’s mouth is truly amusing. Look at the bright side, though. What with the difficulty of getting four male Muslim witnesses together at once, rape will virtually cease to exist in Afghanistan. A triumph for womens’ rights! SOW should be falling all over themselves in support of that, right?

One little nugget of good news here, though. Even with the obviously skewed question,

Twenty-eight per cent of respondents in the Decima poll said they would fight in Afghanistan if they were of fighting age and called up in a military draft.

and…

The military has been surpassing recent recruitment targets, despite the loss of 37 soldiers in Afghanistan since the mission began in 2002.

Some of us you can’t baffle, no matter how much bullshit you fling.