Sorry but no time for anything else right now.

Wish I could say this surprised me, though…

You’ll die in a Bar Fight.

You are the angry type when drunk, and you can’t help but be violent towards perfect strangers. Unfortunatly for you one of those strangers is a kung fu master.

‘How will you die?’ at QuizGalaxy.com

… when the rats start running off the ship.

Yes indeed, ladies and gentlemen, the good ship Gritanic is hauling ass for Davey Jones’ locker. The latest evidence can be found in the fact that even the rabidly Liberal-loving Mop & Pail is starting to sigh heavily and admit that the Grits are completely and utterly screwed.

Just how bad do things need to get before even the Glob starts admitting that their favourite horse isn’t even in the race anymore? Well, we all know the answer to that one, don’t we? Some highlights:

The more people see of Mr. Dion, the more they want to vote for someone else. Since the campaign started, his negatives have soared. Mr. Dion is now disliked far more than Stephen Harper, who has morphed into the nation’s tough-but-fair dad.

… Many Liberal campaign events are drawing only 35 or 50 people. If Mr. Dion were any weaker, he’d need a blood transfusion.

… what we have here is a train wreck. It’s the wreck of the Liberal Party as we know it.

… He talks like a professor, sometimes unintelligibly. He has no sense of audience.

… “You are going to be seeing Stéphane Dion unplugged,” promised a Liberal shill. From now on, a new, improved leader would play down the Green Shift, which has proved about as palatable to the voters as boiled spinach. As Wall Street blows up and economic growth grinds to a halt, the environment has dropped off the radar of the electorate. But yesterday, when Mr. Dion unveiled his platform, the boiled spinach was still front and centre on the plate. And so was he. Still plugged.

… Could it get worse? Yes. Liberals are dreading next week’s English-language debate, when Jack Layton and Elizabeth May are likely to remind us how bad on his feet he really is. He may well deliver a knockout blow – to himself.

… Mr. Dion, of course, can’t be blamed for destroying the Liberal brand. It has pretty much disintegrated already. The decline of the Bloc Québécois and the fragmentation of the left are also not his fault. Mr. Harper’s sober, steady and focused performance is not his fault. The ideological exhaustion of the party is not his fault. Maybe he’s just the guy who happens to be driving the big red bus when it finally runs out of gas.

Ouch.  If this is what his friends have to say about him…  You get the idea.  You know the Grits are screwed when even these clowns have given up on making excuses for them.

I almost coulda won something. I think. Ah, well, maybe next time…

You really have to hand it to Stephen Taylor, he comes up with the coolest stuff sometimes. 😀

His latest creation, shown below in this post, is something he calls the “absent Liberals video player.” It’s based on the code for his old BT TV video distribution thingamajig (that I have embedded in the right sidebar) and it’s stuffed full of examples of exactly what kind of “leadership” the Grits don’t have to offer.

As Stephen points out in his post today, these are likely an NDP production, but what can I say? The truth is the truth, no matter whose mouth it comes out of. Say what you want about the Dippers (and I frequently do), at least they showed up for work in the last parliament. Can’t say that about the Grits.

So check ’em out and get a good long look at your tax dollars not at work. (If you want the code for your own site, just hit this page and you can get it there.)

UPDATE: Okay… for whatever reason, the player doesn’t seem to be working for me here and I don’t have time to fiddle with it right now. Guess you’ll just have to hit Stephen’s site and check it out there. Sorry, folks. 🙁

… are finally going to start getting what’s coming to them.

About God damned time, isn’t it?

Canada.com is reporting how PM Harper has finally trotted out the first plank in the Tories’ tough-on-crime portion of the election campaign. I don’t know about you, but I was starting to wonder when the hell they were going to get around to this angle (law and order is, after all, a Tory strong suit; you’d figure they’d start hammering on it earlier).

Long story made short: the next parliament is going to be scrapping the useless YCJA and replacing it with something that actually has some teeth. Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of legislation…

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to scrap Canada’s young offenders law and replace it with a tougher version under which youth who commit serious violent crimes will no longer be able to keep their names out of the news.

The new law would impose automatic, stiffer sentences for people 14 years of age or over who are convicted of serious violent crimes, such as murder or manslaughter.

Upon conviction, the names of these individuals would be made public.

‘We need to, and will, restore balance to the young offenders law,’ Harper said in a speech outlining the first major plank of his Conservative party’s tough-on-crime platform.

Under the new law, judges would also have the discretion of publishing the names of young offenders who commit repeated minor offences, a senior party source said.

The new law would also make it easier for prosecutors to apply for pretrial detention of youth charged with violent crimes.

“We need to, and will, restore balance to the young offenders law,” Harper said in a prepared text of a speech outlining the first major plank of his Conservative party’s tough-on-crime platform.

Harper said the new law would balance the rights of victims against the need to rehabilitate young people. “Of course offenders have rights,” Harper said. “Victims have rights too.“

“Victims have rights too.” Why the hell is it that the Tories seems to be the only ones who actually get that??

… until you get it through your God damned heads that we aren’t screwing around about this stuff!!”

That was basically the message that Troy Justice Minister Rob Nicholson had for the Grits, Dippers and BlocHeads, if they think that they can get away with the kind of obstructionist crap that they’ve been pulling in the last Parliament when it comes to Tory crime legislation.

It pretty much boils down to something like this: “Hey, assholes; you think you’re having cash troubles now? Try fighting ANOTHER election as soon as we’re done this one! You wanna get in the way of our keeping our promise to the Canadian public that we’d get tough on crime and the scumbags that commit it? That’s the price you’re gonna pay. We can afford it; can you??”

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – A minority Conservative government would rather force another election than back down on its law and order agenda, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Sunday.

Nicholson told a rally in Mississauga, Ont., that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already made clear he would not tolerate any more “obstruction” like the government faced last October when it introduced the Tackling Violent Crime Act omnibus bill.

“We’re making it very clear about how serious we are about getting that anti-crime agenda through Parliament,” he said.

“We will be taking a zero-tolerance approach. Our crime measures will be confidence measures, we are determined that our law and order agenda will be passed.”

The Conservatives have tried to make crime, with an emphasis on getting tough on criminals, a major issue in the election, in part because it appeals to core supporters.

[…]

Nicholson said the Conservatives aren’t interested in banning handguns since pistols are already effectively outlawed.

“I think the problem in this country is people who steal guns and people who use them for improper purposes,” he said. “It’s not sportsmen or antique collectors that I believe (are) the problem.”

Although he criticized all opposition parties for stalling Conservative bills in the last parliamentary session, Nicholson aimed his sharpest criticism at Dion, saying he had put “partisan gains ahead of public safety.”

Let’s face it, folks; the HypoGrits are hurtin’ for cash.  Between paying off their leadership run debts, crappy fundraising results, and the fact that they’re going to lose a buttload of votes in this election (each worth about $1.75), another election could push these bozos to the brink of bankruptcy.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😉

The Tories, on the other hand, have the biggest damned war chest on the Canadian political map right now.  The restrictions against corporate donations have put a stranglehold on Liberal funds while the Conservatives are raking it in hand over fist, all from ordinary, everyday Canadians.  I won’t bother going into the irony of the fact the so-called “natural governing party,” which supposedly represents the Real Values Of Real Canadians® can’t pay its bills without help from the big, bad, Big Business® (whom the Tories are supposedly beholden to).  That would be a whole post right there.

The important thing is that, if the Grits want to pull any more bullshit stunts in the next Parliament, they better damned well be ready to back ’em up.