877...The Tories And Environment Canada Listen

To your news station, at least the one you watch the most, FOX.

They wouldn't use water bottles nor would they waste power.

In fact on the bottom of the email they sent me they are advising you and, I suppose, me, to

Plug your electronic devices into a power strip and turn it off whenever you leave the house. This small change could save the country over $1 billion a year in wasted electricity.

FOX

Green It.

Mean It.

Shades of Stephane.

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796...Apparently

If one is to believe Greg Weston in today's Sun newspapers, the Liberal Party of Canada is at the exact same spot in the polls as they were when Stephane Dion went to the polls.

We all know how that went.

Don't shoot the messenger.

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492...Then Again, I May Be Wrong RE 490

Steven takes time out of his day to inform me that the Liberals are as bad as the NDP when it comes to getting in bed with the Conservatives.

I think.

Here is his thoughtful retort:

Your partisan triumphalism is almost as amusing as your lack of familiarity with the historical record.

"Progressive" Liberals, from the mid-1990s on, massively cut spending that could benefit people in their local communities.

As for Stephen Harper's bed partners, Liberals under Dion and now Ignatieff have voted to keep the Conservatives in government nearly 80 times in a row, while ignoring the interests of the unemployed and a range of other groups."Creative destruction" was Ignatieff's most recent description of the economic catastrophe that has seen nearly 400,000 Canadians lose their jobs since last fall, in case you missed it.

Liberals as progressives?

Spare us.

I hate it when they use facts.

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448...Snarky Headline In The Edmonton Sun

Nice change to have a federal Liberal leader who actually can be understood when he speaks

So reads the headline on page 7 of this morning's Edmonton Sun.

Rick Bell writes that, unlike Stephane Dion, Michael Ignatieff's English is impeccable and his French ain't so bad either.

A Prime Minister for all Canadians, he will be.

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402...Making The Playing Field Equal

The Liberal Party of Canada is.

Rocco Rossi, the national director of the party, is, in a story reported by Susan Delahunt in this morning's Toronto Star, positively over the moon with the news that, in the post Stephane Dion era, party membership has more than doubled, from 40k to 90k, and revenues for the first half of 'o9, five mil, are almost as high as they were for all of last year, 5.9 mil.

Making the playing field equal with the Tories.

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386...Jack Layton Done Like Dinner?

Now that JACK FM in Toronto is history the only Jack left in the Big Smoke is Jack Layton and if one is to believe what Richard J. Brennan wrote in this morning's Toronto Star, Jack2 is on his way out too.



By the way, you know, you know when they use an initial they mean business. If it was merely "Richard Brennan", okay, but "Richard J. Brennan" now we are talking some serious stuff.



I digress.

In a story headlined "Layton goes from kingmaker to bystander; Bubble has burst for NDP leader since coalition, and party has lost its momentum from 2008 vote" Mr. Brennan makes the point that when compared to Stephane Dion, Jack Layton was brilliant. When compared to the next Prime Minister of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, not so brilliant.

Support for the Dips was as high as 27 per cent during the fall election period; right now it is about 15 and that will translate into a lot of ex NDP MPs if it stays that way.

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158...Thought Police Strike Again; Poor Stephane

The Canadian Standards Broadcast Council, your Thought Police in action, see Post 150 for more on these National Socialists' work, have sanctimoniously decided, Juliet O'Neill reports in this mornings' National Post, that "CTV was unfair and unethical when it broadcast outtakes of an interview with then-Liberal leader Stephane Dion, who repeatedly did not understand a question, during the election campaign last fall..."

Uh, and I am wearing a Stephane Dion hat as I write this, may be CTV was being unfair and may be their ethics were questionable but, so what? To remind you, Steve Murphy, anchor at ATV Halifax, asked-the-man-who-would-have-been-so-much-better-as-Prime-Minister-than-the-guy-we-have-now "If you were prime minister now, what would you have done about the economy and this crisis that Mr. Harper has not done?"

Mr. Dion had a brain pause and then another and then another and it was all on tape and the tape made it to the broadcast waves. End of story.

One would think. But it only takes one complaint to get the CSBC Anti Free Speech Squad to go into action.

Again the CSBC has decided that they are going to decide what is funny, what is satire, what is right in this country.

They are a cancer and anti free speech. You have to decide, do you want to live in a country, and we are perilously close to living there, where all speech is carefully constructed as so not to offend? Or do you want to live in a country with freedom? Free speech is there, or should be there, to defend those that colour outside the lines. And certainly someone who asks a question as benign as the one Mr. Murphy asked should not be chastised. One would think.

Imagine how much broader the discourse in this country would be with more voices, especially on the local levels, like they have in that country below us. Left, right and center. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Drew Lane, Jay Severin, Sean Hannity, John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Allan Colmes, Mancow Muller and on and on and on. In this country, because of self righteous groups like the CSBC, freedom of expression on air is virtually non existent and none of the above would be able to work the way they do, which is often in an outrageous manner.

Voltaire said "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write".

The CSBC takes a different tact.

Bullies.

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118...Iggy The Bastard

Andrew Steele in this morning's Globe and Mail points out that a/the Tory attack ads are branding the next Prime Minister of Canada Michael Ignatieff as a bastard and b/we like voting for bastards.

Mr. Steele subscribes to the to the Will Ferguson theory of Bastards and Boneheads and points out that historically the bastard beats the bonehead.

Trudeau/Clark winner was the bastard.
Chretien/Day winner was the bastard.
Harper/Dion winner was the bastard.

Soon.

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