Maybe I was once too harsh in predicting I would never stop bitching if Harper were elected PM. While I am not going to pull a Kent Brockman and welcome our new insect overlords, I do think he should be given some slack, but I am still waiting for the refoooooooorrrrrrrmmmmm agenda to assert itself.
Ok, Martin – he is not going to be missed – he’s not a total loser PM like Turner or Campbell but he’s no better than a Joe Clark. Like Joe, he’ll be remembered more for all he did other than being PM. So, if we had to send The Liberals another message, and in our entire history the only other alternative we have ever turned to are The Conservatives, a week minority is the best result we could have hoped for.
I am proud of Canadian voters, this week – and of course, for me, if you abandon the Libs to vote NDP, I can live with it.
Harper was shut out in Toronto, Montreal AND Vancouver. Large cities have more problems which often require government policies to combat them –“law & order” policies, by themselves, about all we’ve seen from Harper, aren’t going to cut it.
The GTA has not forgiven Mike Harris and were sceptical that Harper walked too close to Mike’s footsteps.
Harper may have to jettison the gay-hatin’, bible-thumpin’ creationists, or relegate them to the back bench if he has any hope of leading a majority government. If he leaves them in the front, he’ll loose the next election.
Well, it’s going to be interesting….
TF
P.S. I am squarely against “Intelligent Design” being considered a valid scientific theory. I have an ally on that – THE VATICAN. Yeah, that’s right, THE F^$&n POPE agrees with me.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Saturday, January 14, 2006
When Young People Die
Have you ever noticed that people who are anti-abortion, or, “pro-life” don’t care about those babies after they are born?
If you’re pre-born, you’re fine. If you’re pre-school, you’re FUCKED.
-George Carlin.
I once again re-state that poverty and cuts to social programs do not put guns in people’s hands. But, are we not seeing what most of us predicted in 1995, that Harris’s gutting of the province would lead to exactly what we saw in 2005 ??
Conservatives love forcing women to have babies, not giving a toss about them when they are young (maybe some of them will die thus reducing the surplus population) unless of course they commit a crime in which case you throw them in jail, or , and this really gets them hard, execute them. Conservatives also love war so they get all a-flutter when their children die...oh sorry…I mean other people’s children die and come home wrapped in the flag .
So, killing an unborn child is wrong – but watching them starve to death, get executed or die for rich people is somehow not wrong.
Doesn’t sound like “Pro LIFE” to me – sounds like Pro MY life and Fuck anybody else’s.
The good news at least some of those people who die are gay….(just not in the Military).
TF
If you’re pre-born, you’re fine. If you’re pre-school, you’re FUCKED.
-George Carlin.
I once again re-state that poverty and cuts to social programs do not put guns in people’s hands. But, are we not seeing what most of us predicted in 1995, that Harris’s gutting of the province would lead to exactly what we saw in 2005 ??
Conservatives love forcing women to have babies, not giving a toss about them when they are young (maybe some of them will die thus reducing the surplus population) unless of course they commit a crime in which case you throw them in jail, or , and this really gets them hard, execute them. Conservatives also love war so they get all a-flutter when their children die...oh sorry…I mean other people’s children die and come home wrapped in the flag .
So, killing an unborn child is wrong – but watching them starve to death, get executed or die for rich people is somehow not wrong.
Doesn’t sound like “Pro LIFE” to me – sounds like Pro MY life and Fuck anybody else’s.
The good news at least some of those people who die are gay….(just not in the Military).
TF
Please - Make it a Minority !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s sad to watch a great travesty occur in a neighbour’s house – it’s much, much tougher to have to sit through it in your own house.
In 2004, John Kerry ran a flat, uninspired campaign that handed re-election back to Dubya. In 2006, Paul Martin is running perhaps even a stupider campaign handing the country over to the Reform party.
The great thing about democracy is that we all get a vote. The bad thing about democracy is that we all get a vote. The average person is not curious and does not think things through – not when considering something of extreme importance such as who is going to lead the nation.
What is going to be very frightening is that Harper will blindly follow Dubya – and there’s a regime that has been a disaster. Harper does not value human rights, women’s reproductive rights, the environment, health care or social programs. What he does value is raising taxes for the poor and cutting them for the rich. Tax cuts plus new spending means cuts to social programs. Ontario has been ruined for decades by half a decade of Harris-ment and Harper is going to do the same thing.
The only hope I see is a Harper minority – which will be tough on him because he’s not comfortable with minorities, such as gay Canadians.
In 2004, John Kerry ran a flat, uninspired campaign that handed re-election back to Dubya. In 2006, Paul Martin is running perhaps even a stupider campaign handing the country over to the Reform party.
The great thing about democracy is that we all get a vote. The bad thing about democracy is that we all get a vote. The average person is not curious and does not think things through – not when considering something of extreme importance such as who is going to lead the nation.
What is going to be very frightening is that Harper will blindly follow Dubya – and there’s a regime that has been a disaster. Harper does not value human rights, women’s reproductive rights, the environment, health care or social programs. What he does value is raising taxes for the poor and cutting them for the rich. Tax cuts plus new spending means cuts to social programs. Ontario has been ruined for decades by half a decade of Harris-ment and Harper is going to do the same thing.
The only hope I see is a Harper minority – which will be tough on him because he’s not comfortable with minorities, such as gay Canadians.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
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-Tom
Alternative Theories
I don’t actually enjoy criticizing the American right, nor do I go out of my way to do so. They just don’t value anything that I value - such as science.
For people who follow science, like I do, in an “artsy” way, in America, and only America, there is a “debate” whether “Intelligent Design” should be taught in science class along side evolution. I think this debate ended in most other First World countries back when Kaisers and Czars were ruling.
I am always open to alternative theories – but if a school board is to allow “Intelligent Design” should it not also provide an alternate theory for human reproduction? I recall a theory espoused in 1970s commercials for pickles that The Stork delivers babies – should that board not also teach the “Avian Express” theory of human reproduction???
How come in America Pat Robertson gets on CNN – in Canada we don’t put those people on CBC Newsworld - we call them those people who have the misfortune of battling with mental illness, and they don’t make it to television, at least not as commentators for world events.
His latest assertion is that Israeli PM Sharon was “sent” a stroke from God for…well who the fuck cares what Robertson said was the reason…
Continuing one with the trend, should we not allow the possibility that bleeding people with leeches is sound medical treatment, that the Moon might be made of green cheese, that the world is flat, is the centre of the universe, and hangs from the heavens by large gold chains?
As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, another soul from Purgatory springs…
TF
For people who follow science, like I do, in an “artsy” way, in America, and only America, there is a “debate” whether “Intelligent Design” should be taught in science class along side evolution. I think this debate ended in most other First World countries back when Kaisers and Czars were ruling.
I am always open to alternative theories – but if a school board is to allow “Intelligent Design” should it not also provide an alternate theory for human reproduction? I recall a theory espoused in 1970s commercials for pickles that The Stork delivers babies – should that board not also teach the “Avian Express” theory of human reproduction???
How come in America Pat Robertson gets on CNN – in Canada we don’t put those people on CBC Newsworld - we call them those people who have the misfortune of battling with mental illness, and they don’t make it to television, at least not as commentators for world events.
His latest assertion is that Israeli PM Sharon was “sent” a stroke from God for…well who the fuck cares what Robertson said was the reason…
Continuing one with the trend, should we not allow the possibility that bleeding people with leeches is sound medical treatment, that the Moon might be made of green cheese, that the world is flat, is the centre of the universe, and hangs from the heavens by large gold chains?
As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, another soul from Purgatory springs…
TF
Election 2006
It seems like every other year we have an election....
Not much of a narrative here - more a series of thoughts. Luckily this is a blog and not a term paper at McMaster University during the 1980s (I am reminded of this as I type on a computer and not a typewriter).
The only obvious issue is that the Liberals did some bad things that lead to the sponsorship scandal. The other party that could realistically form a government, Harper's Reform party (for Air Farce fans REFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM) has wisely, to their advantage, pointed this out during every day of the campaign. The other "National" party, The CCF guys (and the only one with a good representation of gals), also began the campaign hammering the Grits for their corruption, as did the other party that wants to win all the Quebec Federal seats in a parliament it actually wants to leave (Le Bloc).
You know, even for French people, The Bloc are kind of odd.
Layton then realized that he shouldn't spend all his time demonizing the Liberals as this might drive some folks who voted Liberal in 2004 to switch to the Conservatives, so now he is letting us know that a Conservative Government would kill Canada as we know it (but he has left the door open to a possible Con-NDP Coaltion should the electorate return a Tory Minority).
As I have said before of myself, I am an "Orange Liberal", or, one that leans to the left of centre without being on the left wing. I guess that means I am still seateed in the fuselage but right up against the window??
Ok, we are ALL tired of The Liberal reign that began in 1993. But, and I cannot stress this enough, I want a better, or at least, not a worse regime in Ottawa to replace them.
Martin's defence is that it was OTHER Liberals who did those bad things - he had only a wee role in those governments: Finance Minister. Hardly significant at all, you know, like the tiny role David played in defeating Goliath.
I hate Harper and everything about him. If he is ever the PM, I'll never stop bitching about it until he isn't anymore.
I think though I need to separate Layton's moustache from his face - his rhetoric spewed during a campaign from what he would actually do as a Federal leader involved in a ruling coalition. I don't think he would be that bad, really. When he helped save the government in 2005, he did so with a set of NDP-style demands. He's just such a loud-mouth holier-than-thou fellow and I've had a problem with this since his days in Toronto politics.
If Martin scores anything less than a majority, he is done as Leader. I'll wait until that happens before I speculate as to who'd best replace him - Bob, Belinda, Lightfoot, Gretzky, Jerome The Giraffe..
Boy, these people with their accusations, half-truths and assertions are acting like children or, well, like politicians. (Aside: put "Or and "Well" together and you get George W Bush....).
I don't fear a hidden agenda from Harper -I fear what he has ACTUALLY SAID so far in the past two campaigns.
TF
Not much of a narrative here - more a series of thoughts. Luckily this is a blog and not a term paper at McMaster University during the 1980s (I am reminded of this as I type on a computer and not a typewriter).
The only obvious issue is that the Liberals did some bad things that lead to the sponsorship scandal. The other party that could realistically form a government, Harper's Reform party (for Air Farce fans REFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM) has wisely, to their advantage, pointed this out during every day of the campaign. The other "National" party, The CCF guys (and the only one with a good representation of gals), also began the campaign hammering the Grits for their corruption, as did the other party that wants to win all the Quebec Federal seats in a parliament it actually wants to leave (Le Bloc).
You know, even for French people, The Bloc are kind of odd.
Layton then realized that he shouldn't spend all his time demonizing the Liberals as this might drive some folks who voted Liberal in 2004 to switch to the Conservatives, so now he is letting us know that a Conservative Government would kill Canada as we know it (but he has left the door open to a possible Con-NDP Coaltion should the electorate return a Tory Minority).
As I have said before of myself, I am an "Orange Liberal", or, one that leans to the left of centre without being on the left wing. I guess that means I am still seateed in the fuselage but right up against the window??
Ok, we are ALL tired of The Liberal reign that began in 1993. But, and I cannot stress this enough, I want a better, or at least, not a worse regime in Ottawa to replace them.
Martin's defence is that it was OTHER Liberals who did those bad things - he had only a wee role in those governments: Finance Minister. Hardly significant at all, you know, like the tiny role David played in defeating Goliath.I hate Harper and everything about him. If he is ever the PM, I'll never stop bitching about it until he isn't anymore.
I think though I need to separate Layton's moustache from his face - his rhetoric spewed during a campaign from what he would actually do as a Federal leader involved in a ruling coalition. I don't think he would be that bad, really. When he helped save the government in 2005, he did so with a set of NDP-style demands. He's just such a loud-mouth holier-than-thou fellow and I've had a problem with this since his days in Toronto politics.
If Martin scores anything less than a majority, he is done as Leader. I'll wait until that happens before I speculate as to who'd best replace him - Bob, Belinda, Lightfoot, Gretzky, Jerome The Giraffe..
Boy, these people with their accusations, half-truths and assertions are acting like children or, well, like politicians. (Aside: put "Or and "Well" together and you get George W Bush....).
I don't fear a hidden agenda from Harper -I fear what he has ACTUALLY SAID so far in the past two campaigns.
TF
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