Leaky faucets

What better way to avoid taking the heat while reversing direction than with a leak? We need not have worried though; the drip it appears, amounts to nothing more than the typical shallow bowl of watered down Conservative policy du jour.
Like a flea circus, they create little clouds of dust scurrying from one flip-flop to another trying to find that ever so elusive, solid Conservative position that’d be in keeping with their philosophy (which they don’t subscribe to because they were never conservatives to begin with).
Ah, but the circus knows no end. Stevie demonstrates his brand of Barney Fife style decisive leadership by adding a second fax saying, “Don’t you dare tell anyone”.
This is beyond the gang that couldn’t shoot straight; they don't even have a gun.

strategic Value of Somalia?

Maybe it has to do with potential sea ports or, maybe there is hidden mineral wealth but whatever the reason or reasons, the USA doesn’t go about starting wars for nothing. That Somalia serves a strategic purpose to the USA (or the henchmen now running the show) is something you can bet your ass on.
Of notable interest today is the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
article, not so hidden on the first page, that specifies guns for hire are the holding up progress towards whatever puppet government is now acting on behalf of George…..well, at least the people that do George’s thinking. Far be it from anyone to suggest that maybe, just maybe the warlords are combining efforts to get rid of the US puppets and get back to Islamic Cleric control that was emerging and slowly, at long last, restoring peace…up until the US planned/sponsored invasion.
Of what strategic value is Somalia to George’s thinkers? Who the hell knows but wouldn’t it be fun if some real journalists with some real contacts actually BBQ’d some yankee ass and laid it all out for the world to see…..before it goes much further?
Well, at least we got one report that throws out the G’boys theory for launching another war. (That’d be your “Al Qaeda all over the country”, excuse).
See
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/02/somalia_a_repor.html

Exlax Might Improve Her Vision

Years ago a pious man told me the reason he and others like him (?) liked the Calgary Sun was that the Sun offers them (?) a chance to voice their opinion. The fact that the Calgary Sun leads the league in sexploitation and promotion of the local sex trade did not distract, sway or anyhow influence the man’s thinking (also, the local Bishop runs a regular column with the irony of it flying right over his head).
It would come as no surprise to many that around the time of growing approval of the Sun by local evangelical’s the same Sun offered a thought provoking question, “what’s wrong with a little religion in politics”. Of course the answer is, if you’re asking the question the answer isn’t going to help you one bit.
Canada surely has more evangelicals in the party holding power than does Iran. Sure as hell we got the largest collection of hillbilly evangelicals sitting in government. These folks are to politics what plugged sinuses are to fresh air. For the sake of your country, Canada, dump them, PLEASE.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/04/20/tech-cleaninternetact-20070420.html

Nothing To Fear....

“Nothing to fear but fear itself”, so says Stephen Harper who figures the sky will indeed fall should Canada embark upon a course of international environmental cooperation under Kyoto.
Well hey, maybe he’s right. Why don't we pursue an in depth look at Stevies facts, science and experts detail that have lead to some pretty serious (or reckless) predictions under a Kyoto program?
In the absence of such detail the Conservative environmental program can only be viewed as more in a litany of inadequate, embarrassingly juvenile, poorly cobbled attempts at 'endowment legislation' for special interest groups.
Maybe there is indeed more to fear than fear; a little scepticism about Stephen Harpers competence is always in order but this serious an adventure could necessitate some questioning of integrity.

STEPHEN HARPER! PAGING STEPHEN HARPER!

The Accountability wanes. The leadership wanes. The courage of conviction wanes. Taking one for the cause doesn’t apply. Nope. And on this one Stevie needs….. TA DA! Cannon fodder! That decisive leader Stephen Harper has opted to lead the charge…….from behind. The point will be led taken by John Baird AND who’s behind ol’ Johnny giving him a shove? Why it’s, ‘STEVIE, THE GUTLESS’ WONDER!
Wasn’t the No-Kyoto your BIG bag, Steve? One of the biggies you were pounding?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/19/baird-kyoto.html

"Trusssssssssssst in me".

Brown, Harper's annointee, is THE leading champion of The "tripe E". And for those that see merit in the idea of a tripe E you might want to review the history of Alberta and Ralph Klein's version of a ‘senate in waiting’ process. It will shed light on a cynical, contrived, stacked process best compared to a Soviet style election. (Does it surprise that it worked?)
Expect nothing less from Harper whose panting lust for Americana would have you believe there could be a better day ahead for Canadians under his………..tutelage. His assuring manner borrows thin slices of truth (and he does slice thin) to add a cynical veil of mortar on a cobbled version of fair, even handed government. Itsy bitsy pieces of old fashion fascism added along his path though, testify to Harpers interest in Canada; the gears are in reverse mode. What Steve has in mind does not include the growth of democracy and freedom in Canada. It does however include a narrowing of the base of power and rights of the individual.
As Hiss the snake said, "Trusssssssssssssssssssst in me".

Gun Control Conservative Style

“…….Because he killed and injured so many victims in a short span of time, some people speculated that Cho used high-capacity magazines containing as many as 33 rounds in each clip.
Under the federal assault-weapons ban enacted in 1994, magazines were limited to 10 rounds…………BUT THAT BAN WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE IN 2004”
See the Star for the rest of the story.

Maych Ado About Nothing

What the ---- is with all the chicken little-ism over, “the deal”. One aspect that seems to fly right over the top of many of the ‘aryan blood only’, gang is the number of times the center-left is being divided by yet another party with a fruit cake cause, from people to environment.
If you want a vote splitting path to ‘rule by Fatso’, then make sure no inclusion, melding or cooperation takes place. All Tub O’ Guts needs is one third; it’s what’s kept conservatives alive in Alberta since the '30's and sure as another center-left split will help pave a path for his Bellyness at the federal level.
What the hell is everyone afraid of? This is'nt a Social Credit/Reform/Alliance/Conservative merger. This is LIKE minded people trying to come together.

A Donkey By Any Other Name

As a man of advancing age Paul Jackson still writes for the Calgary Sun, this inspite of signs of early onset of mental rickets. I’ve always believed you never want to lend a numbskull credence but every once in a while Paul, like a flasher in a school yard, exposes his inner most man with opinion that is more hilarious than stupid. Our modern day Josephus must have had full a 2 ounce shot of the finest Vegrevillian single malt bath tub gin prior to taking pen in hand for this one.
It seems Paul, looking into the future, sees Stephen Harper as being enthroned as the greatest of all Canada’s Prime Ministers.
I leave anyone who cares to follow the link below to read the article because it is funny in a pompous ass sort of way however I caution ere you become mesmerized by Paul’s dazzling way with facts, this is the man who also believes that (and said so in print) Rob Anders possesses the highest intellect of any in today’s parliament.
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Jackson_Paul/2007/04/10/3970872-sun.html

"A 200.00 hockey ticket is not a bribe"!

Subtitled:
Whose Your Daddy?
Early onset of dementia denies me recall of the name of the Conservative politician who uttered thos famous words after warming a seat as a guest of Bell during an Ottawa Senator game.
Sure.
Bell Gives out hockey tickets to politicians because..........................................the politician is a nice elected people and who wouldn't like a nice elected people?
And that would certainly prove too that John Reynolds has transcended earth to become a knotlobbyist.
http://www.cbc.ca/

Through The Glass Darkly

The Calgary Herald ran a report today by Mike De Sousa intimating John Baird might be clueless……
High praise indeed.
The Conservatives baffling stand on environmental issues may have been illuminated a day following a New York Times opaque report on the meaningful connection between a powerful, wealthy US right wing fundamentalist Christian group and Stephen Harper.
Not entirely unrelated, Harper on the same day announced the appointment of “Inspector Clouseau”, whose assignment will be the application of “Transparency” and “Accountability”….to the ‘other guy’.

Hero Worship

Don’t ya just bust with pride over Canadian heroes?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/exercise_fitness/marathon-longboat.html

First The Shoulder Shrug, Then The Spin

Irrespective of politics and political invective we as a country have an expectation elected officials will be totally committed to troops sent into battle. That commitment has been ignored by government. Our troops are driving around Afghanistan exposed to mines and suicide bombers as they travel in “a light armored vehicle” such as that which took six of our best.

Today, the infuriating spins starts: we are told the enemy used a larger than usual bomb. Who’d have thought?

While our political leader’s languor safe at home, buying up votes with billions, Canadian kids are in the gravest of danger not at the enemies hand but at the hand of those supposedly in charge of providing the necessities for Canada’s military to carry out a job. Big fat airplanes have done nothing for the troops on the ground so the question of how stupid can the Harper government be is revealed through the ultimate in costs. It is one thing to be incompetent at the very job one blusters about but to be blind to, to turn ones back on the reality of the war they committed our kids to is gross negligence even to a level of criminal responsibility. This is on the heads of the very people whose most used line is, “it’s the other guys fault”. Get off your fat ass and get the job done properly, Steve.

A Government Tied In Nots

With the NOT-election talk and vast sums being Not-squandered by the Conservatives...well, lets make that Stevie... Canada's New Government seem hell bent on what at first glance appears as a weird PR stunt if it's NOT a nation wide vote. But what the hey; bring it on! It won't be an election like we've come to know elections because NOT many Conservatives voices will be heard other than that of Emperor Stevie.
I miss the good old days when it actually looked like there was more than one person in the conservative party. Now the closest they come to NOT being a monotheistic party is when "wide-mouth" Baird or the "Flabbergasted" Kenny appear like Pop-Ups out of a toaster only to disappear in a flash.
Ah, what the hey, I guess the country has come to know and love Stevies signature endearing smirk and insecure half smile. Why not stick with a suitable formula. It is afer all too dangerous for today's Conservative to venture much beyond their comfort zone.
Nonetheless, I am hoping for a glimpse of the likes of Dianne Ablonczy who's own version of the smirk carries a condescending down casting of the eye (or does she have two?) following the baring of her teeth. I suspect we'll also get to see a bit of the NOT-lobbyist, John Reynolds. Lord knows he never smirks. His thing is to exude an air something akin to a fully impacted, crocodile and it is that which qualifies him as the NOT-Conservative hit man when there's NOT-to-be-further discussion on an issue by the press.
I expect accountability will be big on the Conservatives NOY-election agenda. Talk about impacted, though! Here's a piece of legislation likened unto a high school report, full of assumptions, spelling errors and fantasy enough for two nights of TV. And certainly Conservatives are NOT the target of the bellicose draft submitted by Stevie.
The NOT-budget should also be a biggy. I can't help but wonder if Conservatives aren't in fervent prayer for someone in the opposition to pull the plug and forces an election.
In fact, it's likely there's more passion in Conservative prayers today than was conjured up the very day Conservatives descended from the heavens and fell to their knee's on Parliament Hill. I think The last thing Conservatives really want is to actually have to pay all that bribe money to Quebec. The likelihood of that would be right up there with Conservatives getting our lumber money out of George (when is that supposed to occur, anyway?).
Stevies budget, is the Conservative pinncacle of a long list of NOT-legislation, conjured up like previous Conservative legislation which was never intended to be worth the paper it's written on.
Whataya think? IS the Emperor really intent upon a NOT-election?
(Oh, incidentally, any bets Stevie offers a note on Dion's patriotism when he gets back from France. That's too much for a dirt bag, hog wallower to resist, wouldn't ya say?)

Conservative Cheap Skate Won't Buy A Kid Lunch

Proving they're a cheap bunch of bastards as well as forked tongued, two-faced rodents, Conservatives sneeer at the idea they should buy a Canadian kid a lunch. This is not taxpayer responsibility; since it's Conservatives doing the jail house two step on this one the funds should come right out of Conservative coffers - double talking weasels that they are....
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/05/vimy-translation.html

Crooks n' Liars

98% of Albertans probably didn't know how tightly closed the doors were under Ralph Klein. So follow the CBC link below and learn what a Conservative muzzle is really all about and realize then the Emperor has just begun.
Incidentally, maybe Ed will get around to running full public audits involving all the income sources and all the payout.............any bets, anyone?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/04/05/allparty-alberta.html

Saved Again!

Salvation was at hand today as the Emperor had the horse and wagon out flogging gallons of, "Doc Steve's Constipation Elixer and Testicle Rub". The Oracle On A Belly proclaimed that today he has provided a cure for wait times. (which, he added, are the fault of Liberals).
Yesiree Bob, the Emporer announce a cure is at hand.....in 2010.
So far, the only commitments worth the lemon juice HE's written them with are so far into the future he'll have had time to give all of Canada to the USA, one log at a time.
But, the real magic is in how he's going to do it.....
with a billion dollars!
What's with Doc Steve and the billion dollar thing? Does the word, "billion" make him feel more manly?

"First Stone", Steve

This will certainly bring out the bottom feeder in Steve, providing fodder to advance his kind of justice system; revenge first, law second.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/04/03/bc-de-patie.html

How To Fight Conservative Attack Ads

First of all….never mention the ad. Never mention the word, “conservative”.
Mention instead, Liberal and all good things Liberal, for example,
“Stephan Dion is a man who respects the Supreme Court of Canada”.
And, “Stephan Dion supports Canadian troops, first”.
Change the subject and make it positive. Better yet beat them to their daily punch.
Understand that at the core of “The Emperor’s” advertising is an understanding of the advertising principle that it matters little what ‘people’ say about you as long as it’s your name on their lips. So rather than fatten a maggot with it’s own fodder, starve it. Learn to turn the ad or press release with a flood of focus on the good news from the Liberal party. The way around negative advertising is making people happy, and that starts with individual Liberal supporters; say it first, say it often, say it loud. Drown the bastards out with 'happy' every time ‘they’ open their mouths to fart (because that’s all they do, really and people will vote for them just to try and stem the stench.). Be a freath of bresh air!

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy

Doris Day is in Afghanisnam!
God help us All and in particular our kids in uniform.
'Stinky' Day is a disaster, a Joe Btfsplk right out of Lil' Abner, the one with the cloud over his head. The man is to security what Typhoid Mary was to health.
Mind you he does have leadership experience. We all recall his march round the central alberta pub calling on God to "bring 'er Down". The only problem is in Afghanisnam there really aren't many structures still standing.
This is definately not going to help our image with the Afghan's. (maybe we can arrange a late season trade with the Taliban though; Stock and his travel companion, Mr. Justice With A Stick, Vic Toews for, say, Osama).
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/02/stockwell.html

Steve! Please Stop Helping!

This must be a revival of Operation Condor, right? The North America version of it,right? The bloodless variety. State sanctioned terror where the enemy is so stupid he has a gun pointed at his own head.
Isabel Harper (or is that Stephen Pinochet) is off to negotiate more lumber deals with the USA. Describing their previous round of negotiations as “hard fought”, the reality is Conservative negotiators took a dive in the first round, gave George 1 billion dollars, a kiss on the ass and a promise to be good….and send more money.
Do Canadian lumber workers a favor Steve, don’t negotiate anything more to do with lumber and for heavens sake, send Emerson on a fact finding mission to Antartica while this is going on.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/31/softwood.html

Canada’s New Government: In Character And Transparent

Anyone remember the whispered talk about ReformcumalliancecumConservatives being rascist????????????
“ U.S. law professor Muneer Ahmad, who's on Khadr's legal team, said in an editorial last month Canada has failed him by not demanding fair treatment or speaking out about the prison camp in Cuba. "Canada is virtually alone in its silence," wrote Ahmad.”
Maybe Khadr should have joined the Conservative party. Conservatives do know how to look after their own.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/03/29/gitmohicks.html

Magnesium Politics:Poof! All Gone!

Help me out here…
we had your loosely connected liberals, outside admen and inside civil servants scam the country for multi-millions to, according to Harper, buy Quebec votes. That prompted flabbertgastation from Jason Kenny and hypergastation for a dyspeptic Stephen Harper, leader of the august body of zombie bobble heads, AKA Conservatives.
Steve clearly spelled out from then until now, all that happened on the prior watch is illegal….and earlier this week he does the same thing and calls it “a Budget”.
This is sex without kissing, right? Another bottle of Stevie’s Constipation Elixir and Testicle Rub, right?

Harper: Creative Democracy 101

In the spirit of Zimbabwean politics and Alberta Conservatives everywhere, Steve skews a vote to insure a yes or no vote means the same thing. Hot on the trail of more new American friends, this time in the grain trade (that’d be your Cargill), Steve stands boldly in front of Canadians to say the final tally of “the vote” on the Canadian Wheat Board has been fully counted (several days after the vote.......he had to think about it) and fluffed to his liking with just the crumbling tiniest bit of meaningless fraud thrown in which wouldn't count if his side got to pick some of the people on the Supreme Court.
Guess what? He wins!
In a not totally unrelated story, Cargill’s new soy export terminal in Brazil was shut down by authorities over failed environmental studies. What is interesting about the story is the location in Brazil is a region which is described as being where “LAWLESSNESS PREVAILS”; obviously these folks, Steve and Cargill are kindred spirits.
http://www.liberal.ca/news_e.aspx?id=12621

Boot Licking: 101

Always at the ready as the anal oracle of Stephen Harper and Canada’s New Government, the Vancouver Sun ran an article on safe site injection designed first as a fishing expedition and second to show the masses that God is on the job.
Steve, never strays far from his commitment to Americanize Canada, be sure George notices it and as Stephen Lewis so eloquently puts it, aligns himself with the virus in the push to eliminate HIV.
But I stray…..
True to their obligatory role, the Sun chain wipe the drool off their face only to lay on a fresh licking on behalf of their benefactor, a story picked up by the Herald in Calgary.
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=d48ea703-35ed-4a95-9591-c41ea5b57e19&k=13163

Skewing Democracy Conservative Style

Is there a collection of Conservatives anywhere on God’s earth more inclined to believe, “Because! Just because!” is valid and final argument enough.
Senator Marjory LeBreton enlightens Canadians with a piece of repartee characteristic of even those of letters in Canada’s New Government.
Reflecting Harper, the Reform Party and small minded Conservatives everywhere, Senator LeBreton tells us that Canadians everywhere reject the status quo of the Senate. The truth is more like Conservtives in some parts of Canada are tired of an electoral process that cuts them out of stacking the Senate. Though it is a function of an electorate that constantly rejects Conservative governments, Le Breton and her peers believe they should have the power to manipulate the electoral process, insuring a Conservative stacked Senate, the Supreme Court and any other institution they set eyes and heart upon. Of course these new Conservatives are now hard selling the USA’s version of democracy – he with the biggest buck pile wins, owns and dictates.
The bottom line for Conservatives/cumReform/cumConservatives is a committment to a process similar to that provided Alberta by her Conservatives who stacked a deck, concocted electoral fraud then held it all up as proof of how right they are.
Federally, the thing that keeps frustrating Reform/Conservatives is they just can't seem to find more than “Because! Just because!” as a valid argument. To them it doesn't matter how they get there because if they win, it must be righteous.
Congrat’s to The Hill Times for their insightful article on the subject of Senate reform below -
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php

Plato Knew Stephen Harper?

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

Today Is Hug Karlheinz, Day!

While the PM who sold out his country to George Bush severall times in his short tenure as Govenor of Canada's New Government, hurls accusations of "traitor", at Liberal opposition over the Libs calling O'Connor (that'd be your O'Connor of non-bid airplane fame) to account over HIS bungling of prisoner exchanges, our old friend Karlheinz Schreiber calls the Tories to account.
We know for sure that one very senior Alberta Provincial Cabinet Minister got a "loan", that "couldn't be payed back" but, what of the unnamed Conservatives scattered throughout the country?
Karlheinz is calling for an investigation and Stevie "protect your ass" Harper doesn't want 'things' being said about Conservatives.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/22/schreiber-inquiry.html

Stephen Iscariot

Maj. Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener still awaits notice from the Prime Minister of his country who fudged a gutless half-promise to respond to results from an investigation into willful Israeli artillery fire that killed Hess-von Kruedener.
Worthy of note as an aside to the cowardly slaying of Hess-von Kruedener was an Iraeli official’s declaration many, many months after the murder, about the pin point accuracy of Israeli artillery fire.
Is it safe to assume, in the absence of further comment from Steve that he too, sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver?
What does that say to Canadian troops in Afghanistan when the leader of their country deserts his post and responsibility so as to not ruffle feathers of HIS new best friends?
At least the Limey’s stick up for their troops.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2035714,00.html

What'ya Get When You Cross A Conservative With A Potatoe?

Harper is proving incompetent even as an economist his touted area of expertise.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=ca4aa39b-6ebc-47df-b742-a9d50012ab60&k=14331

In fairness though, Steve is proving he is equally balanced at everything he touches.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=ca4aa39b-6ebc-47df-b742-a9d50012ab60&k=14331

And, how do you like Harpers back-door technique on skewing abortion rights and the gun registry? Simply insuring the 'right' judge is selected, ala USA.

Is Canada "In" On Iraqi Oil $....

or is that all US and Brit money?
http://www.tomdispatch.com/

How Far Can You Throw A Conservative?

To paraphrase a question raised by Liberal Health Critic, Laurie Blakeman, what is it about Alberta Conservatives MLA’s that would make them design a piece of legislation for the exclusive use of 255 people?
As a 6 decade veteran under the rule of the only government in the western world to ever be found guilty of fraud in a court of law, my guess is, though not one of them has ever achieved anything that could truly be classified as clever, they sure as hell have learned that hiding a bus one bolt at a time is a lot easier than trying to bury a fleet of them all at once.
On the other hand, maybe we should start to more trustful of Conservatives…………
nah!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/03/13/medicare-opt.html

Think Tank Struggles For Legitimacy?

The Fraser Institute struggling? Hardly. But if there’s a half-assed struggling Canadian wannabe to the USA’s Discovery Institute it has to be the Fraser Institute. Passing themselves off as a “Think Tank”, this thoughtless tub dispenses everything from Ralph Klein wisdoms to an annual report on schools in Alberta. Undoubtedly, the Fraser Tub doesn’t do it for nothing and sure as hell elements within Ralph’s old dingdong crowd arrange for taxpayers to put up the cash to have the Fraser’s anal oracles tell the world that the Fraser’s research says all the private schools in Alberta are doing sweller than all them public institutes. Damned if they didn’t do it again. And where else but in Alberta will there be a boot-drool media response as the “righteous” forth brigade suck it in an blow it out their grist mill in a fashion that’d make the Devil himself stand in open mouthed admiration.
As for the Fraser’s “Report Card” on Alberta schools, teacher’s federations condemn Fraser’s “report card” as being “seriously misleading….full of unwarranted distortions”. No kidding! The report card has an agenda folks; it’s predetermined purpose is solely to insure ongoing taxpayer support for right wing educational institutes….and the next generation of God only knows what.
So what? Well take a bit of time and read a dated view on the subject of “think tanks” –

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy/ConservThinkTanks.html

and I really don't take the Fraser Institute lightly. Here's another must read -

http://www.yourmedia.ca/library_articles/041028_gutstein_fraser.html

and oh, a little off topic but still quite topical -

http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/DeSmogBlog%20note%20on%20the%20fraser%20institute.pdf

Know thine enemy.

Finally, lets give a little credit where it’s due; the Fraser Institute is where our very own Governor of Canada’s New Government held his one and only real job….at least he was issued paycheques indicating employment of some kind.
What’daya think? Is it possible the Governor really does have a hidden agenda? You bet your aunt fanny. But he's just a tiny bit of a cog in the machinery that's grinding away in the background. In Canada that translates to taxpayers dollars funding political outhouses the likes of the Fraser Institute.
I wonder if Canada's New Government has payed for Fraser Wisdoms? I mean other than environmental distortions.

Steve Gifts Oil Industry With Taxpayers $?

Does it boggle the mind how a Prime Minister would come to dole out 150 million dollars to an American owned industry that has raped the world, profiteered and war mongered to a degree that has lapped previous levels several times in the last decade and, an American ownded industry that currently pay a 1% royalty fee for tar sands oil (don’t even ask about who does the math, either)?
Is there a Prime Minister anywhere in history that has worked as hard as has Steven Harper to make this nation look as stupid as possible, to look as “subservient” as possible and to look as patronizing as possible?
Next to the banking industry the short lived oil industry is the most coddled, the most contemptuous, the most reckless, the greediest and murderous…….now Stevie figures all of Canada should subsidize criminals with our tax dollars so the industry doesn’t have to bear the expense of figuring out how to contaminate the earth at a different location in Alberta. This from the man that beats his breast about judges coddling criminals, the man that snorts about jail terms not being long enough.
I guess it could be simply stated that Steve favors rich mass murderers and thieves to the small time, poor ones.
And what about “User Pay”? Isn’t that a favorite Conservative concept as they promote private medicine?
Apparently not where foreign criminal corporations are concerned.

Harper's Record On Crime

A tip of the hat to the Maple Three whose in-depth blog prompts this further comment;

Liberals, according to the Governor of Canada’s New Government, are soft on crime.
That begs the question, what is the new Guv’s record?
Steve record on crime has largely been devoted to offending every arm of the law. From Police Chiefs of Canada (see gun control) to the Supreme Court ( see public dressing down of Steve from head of Supreme Court over “stuffing” judicial selection committees) he can't make a fit anywhere.
His record simply sucks. Nothing - to either progress the Canadian legal system or delete a single measure of crime.
However, he save his most theatrical of performances for legal matters as he shmoozes the country with promises, faulty science and bassackwards logic. If the basic requirement for Conservative leadership is to perform like a clown Canada certainly deserves a more qualified conservative. Steve should abdicate for Jason Kenny.

http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/realitycheck/violent_crime.html

Contempt For Canada

When it comes to self-engrandisement, Harper is a feasting maggot. With Canada's New Government nothing is sacrosanct; they lead the league is grave vandalizism.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/05/cross-soldier.html

law Harper Style

Foundational legal principle as preferred by grassroots Tories? Neither law, governing council, will of the people or principle stands in their way-
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/05/alberta-doctor-070305.html

Conservative Warm Fuzzies

Does anything placate the restive soul more than assurance from a Conservative that everything is all right or.......stroking the NWT.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/03/02/water-oilsands.html

How to always lead in the polls

Decades back a genius of an advertising manager once said of his market dominating company,"say whatever you want about me (the company), just mention my name as often as you can".
Steve has the Queen of Heart syndrome down pretty good it seems as the latest poll suggests he's waaay out in front; making noise every day so that the headline IS Steve.
Liberals had better learn how to play that game soon becuase waiting to long and they'll be no recovery time.
Liberals are under the impression it seems, that substance counts. Look across the floor and see if the same answer comes up. People don't even read the first paragraph anymore. They react to the first name mentioned. How else would you explaing a pap PM leading in the polls????????????

Flights? Shmites! The Real Question Is....

I recall the sanctimony. Pompous, pious sanctimony as he bleated and whined like a lost sheep about a Liberal Prime Ministers contempt for Canadians. That is Steve though; lock, stock and barrel;
talks a good fight, all show, no substance, a shallow, sanctimonious shell of a Prime Minister, accountable to no one.

But, "steaingl" free flights is not the real question, the real question is....
which company supplied the seats at the hockey game?
You may recal Vic Teows telling us that a $200 Bell Canada hockey ticket wasn't a bribe and a few months later the Conservatives reversed the COMPETITION BUREAU's decision to limit the major telephone companies entry into internet services. So who WASN'T bribing the Prime Minister in the instance of the Leaf game?

Well OK, there is another aside to the free flights for KING STEVE and his son;

when "Canada's New Government" leader sends his dog out to dispense snot, that grates. Buckler, with her nose in the air talking down to the rest of us about what "Canada's New Government", needs and doesn't need, is a bit more than taxpayers deserve....an unelected Conservative bow-wow assuming taxpayers are all as stupid as the average Conservative....that should be an indictable offense.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/28/jet-harper.html

Queen Of Spades Syndrome

As pointed out before, Steve the Squid has a penchant, nay, expertise, at political theatrics beyond which....Steve has no skill. But he does have the charm of a putrescent tomatoe. Steve parades first Air India victim families then, 9-11 victim families in a circus designed to…….be a circus.
Fatty knew up front there would be no extension. Fatty also knew up front the original clause HAD NEVER BEEN USED since its inception 5 years earlier. Fatty also knew up front the ENTIRE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ADVISED AGAINST RENEWAL, certainly AS IT WAS WRITTEN. So, one can only conclude the whole thing was meant to be nothing more than another painted horse on the Conservative ferris wheel – the one that goes like hell in one spot but has neither the competence, knowledge or intestinal fortitude to make a real move, one that moves Canada forward.
As for leadership,my God, the man is so bloody incompetent he can’t even get the machinery to move BACKWARDS!

The Importance Of Taking Notes

Steve’s troops keep good notes, don’t they?
“We know there is an extremist element in the Liberal party generally that has been very vocal in opposing measures that are designed to combat terrorism," Ottawa Tory MP Pierre Poilievre told a radio interviewer last week.
This was payback I suppose for all the labeling Steve’s right wing troops had to bear a few years back. The difference being Steve’s troops were and still are, mostly of the hillbilly persuasion; trigger happy, revenoo’er fightin’, "plain folk" in pointing hats with slots cut out for the eyes. Regrettably we no longer hear their entertaining notions of how flat the world is. They’re all on a very short string now. Is it safe to assume from that enforced silence there must have been some accuracy to the labels they were tagged with?
So how about those Liberal extremists? Well if salutes are offered by the New York Times to the Supreme Court of Canada and the courts support of constitutional protection for each individual, call me an extremist, please. I am extremely happy that I have a constitution constructed without benefit of simplistic, hillbilly, lynch mob notions of right ‘n wrong and their petty little prejudices.
Yesiree, count me in. I too am from that Liberal extremist element whose expectation is my countrymen will be protected by the law, safe from moralist minds of the kind synonymous with, “Canada’s New Government”, goody for me and oh, Pierre???????? you, your boss AND the terrorists can go whistle. We’ll whip all of you and we’ll do it WITH a constitution.
P.S.
I wonder what Steve thinks of the New York Times editorial? Sure didn’t help his image.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/27/terror-vote.html

Creative Politician: 101

Below please find direction to a little gem that offers a breath of hope to Harper following his less than jurisprudence venture into the judiciary...
Up til now it appears Steve has been force to rely on the legal training he gathered at the Art Hanger (the, "Hang 'Em High", Art Hanger?) School of Law and Logic. Buck up, faint heart! Hope is at hand. Steve has missed out on the plan successfully employed by his hero, George.
Steve, you dolt, why not try the George Bush, "Queen Of Spades", plan on Bev.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022707C.shtml

Suzuki Tsunami

Man, you should have heard the vitriol in the Calgary coffee bars after David Suzuki called Stelmach and Harper incompetent during a presentation at a Calgary school. Nothing makes Albertans circle the wagons quicker than an assault on a Conservative. The party that has robbed, bungled, destroyed, defrauded and denied it's way through nearly 4 decades of destruction is sacrosanct with her "people".
There is no other area on the face of God's earth where a few million people will watch stupefied as the ground beneath them sinks on the way to Hell while they smile lovingly at leader that are taking them there. Jonestown/Alberta.
So David better not stop for coffee in Alberta. And sure as Hell, he'd better not step into one of those temples Ralph enshrined so well. It may be full of gambling addicts but by God they're loyal Ralph addicts...well, they're really Ed's addicts.
A sign of what's to come was fired off smartly by Ed Stelmach. The new Conservative king fired a quick return salvo with one of the most articulate, "Oh yeh"!'s ever heard in these parts.
Oh well...
(Bye the bye, did you know the Alberta Conservative government is the only government in the western world to be found guilty of fraud?)

Afghanisnam Cheerleader

Who leads better from the rear than our very own bumbling, morphological squid. Steve disppears again in a jet of ink after a quick rah, rah, Alberta style money throwing strut in parliament. No doubt our soldiers REALLY, appreciate that little gesture and heavens knows all those afghanian war lords will appreciate the money.
Steve needs to read something other than the Calgary Sun and here's a little reality for him to start with -
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/185888

Hillier Likes That Soldiering Stuff

Gotta like a fella that speaks his mind. Hillier sold Afghanisnam real hard to Martin 'cause he has this need to kick ass and go down in history and now he's sellin' Harper on his need for more war materials and stuff to make up for years of neglect.......and loss during his little war. Difference is, Harper kinda, accidentally, without really asking.....directed Hillier's thinking a bit to massage the message a tad by making mention how bad Liberals are at the war mongering stuff.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/16/coderre-hillier.html

"It's A Joke!":John Baird.

Morphologically speaking, Steve does get around, doesn't he? Appearing more squid than man he squirts off a jet of black ink to hide his parties departure from enviromental fundamentalism then just as suddenly he stuns the world by flashing bright colors as the new champion of all things green.............. and as a first step he sends Baird to a really meaningful get together over lunch with David Suziki.

Then yesterday every last Conservatives voted against KYOTO; every last mother's daughter and son. Because...."it's a joke".

Afghanisnam Valentines Day

Bet ya haven't given it much thought for a while but since your here and in the valentine spirit, why not check up and see what kind of candy George and his pooch, Stevie have for Afghanisnam today;

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/strategy-rethink.html