Or how those hidden behind the curtain have total disdain for the average joe.
This is an edited version of an editorial that appeared in the Washington Post.
European voters are in a testy mood. In Germany last Sunday, an election in the industrial Ruhr region rebuked Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's ruling Social Democratic party for its economic reforms, even though the opposition conservatives are equally reformist. In France tomorrow, it's not clear whether a referendum will endorse the proposed European Union constitution, even though nearly all of the political establishment is campaigning in favour of it. A Dutch referendum on that constitution, to be held Wednesday, is expected to withhold endorsement, even though all the main political parties are urging a Yes vote.
-- where is the little guy in all of this maneouvering?
These revolts against political elites can be loosely grouped under the heading of backlash against globalization. In the Netherlands, the anti-constitution campaign is fuelled by the loss of Dutch national identity within a growing European Union and also by a fear of immigration. In Germany and France, the backlash is against "Anglo-Saxon" capitalism, meaning pro-market change. Schroeder's government has made it hard for people to collect welfare benefits indefinitely, forcing them to look for jobs; the French have backed away from their government-mandated 35-hour workweek. These reforms have produced pain before gain. Hence the voter backlash.
-- notice the emphasis on immigration, a problem about to become a bomb in Europe. The fiscal reforms as a result of the EC do not jive with the normal euro-socialistic state cares routine. But this is not an anglo conspiracy because England is an outsider in this game. The culprit is somebody else, a small rich and powerful minority.
This comes across most clearly in the case of Germany. Blue-collar workers and the unemployed turned out in record numbers in Sunday's vote to punish Schroeder's party, which had controlled the government of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for nearly four decades. Schroeder's standing was so diminished that he felt forced to seek an early national election, which will probably take place in September.
-- Good and I hope he is smashed. When the 'hidden hand' totally ignores the average joe he will be made to pay. The hidden hand rushes to meet the deadlines of the controllers but will fail because the changes only cause the citizens pain.
Outsiders have a stake in Europe's economic and political reforms. A defensive, anti-immigrant Europe is less likely to admit Turkey as a member of the European Union, even though admission would bind a major Muslim nation to Western institutions and values. Moreover, slower economic reform and therefore slower growth will make it harder to address the imbalances in the world economy.
-- Especially true when one see's what is going on in Iraq. The Muslim world looks scary to everyone on the outside looking in.
There's a chance that Germany's economic reforms could speed up if the promised election equips one of the major parties with a fresh mandate. But the French political establishment wavers between markets and statism, and a No vote on the EU constitution is likely to damage the reformers. If on top of that a Dutch No vote is read as a revolt against immigration and Turkish accession to the European Union, there won't be much to celebrate.
-- Who is behind the reforms and when did they consult with citizens last? I don't think that Bilderbergers have the right to make all the decisions or any such group.
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Canadian MSM: business case study of stupidity.
Why does the Canadian MSM ignore the real market?
Brian Walsh
I'm no MBA, although a number of friends are, but I did complete a business degree and I have done a number of business case studies. The case study is a staple in the world of business education - the opportunity to apply scientific social methods to a real world business problem. I always enjoyed them and relished the challenge they presented, although it can be difficult to figure out the bottom line issue that each story points too. Business Case Studies are demanding and require the locus of many of the skills obtained in your education combined with good practical judgement.
That is why I question who is running the MSM in this country these days. If they are MBA's they must of went to the worst schools in the country. In fact if they are MBA's I'm betting that they are overpaid and incompetent. I know lots of people that can take their jobs and provide better results for the business owners. The reason I believe this is that the media almost totally ignores the largest single groups of consumers in the country: conservatives.
Yeah, those people that the liberal media loves to ridicule, even hate at times. Those same people tend to be older, educated and most certainly more likely to be successful or have good jobs. Many of them are at the top of their careers or at the very least are serious performers in the economy. Conservatives are known to go to church, drive carefully, own homes and or have families. They are often the bedrock of this country's economy. Even when conservatives are young, poor or uneducated, they often aspire to leadership roles in this country and are as likely as anyone to get there.
So why would the MSM in Canada totally ignore such a large portion of their population which are well-off consumers that currently are underserved? That is truly the question isn't it? I can't see it being the owners, since they want profits don't they? I can't see it being the journalists that while many are liberals, would want to hang onto their jobs via increased job security. Then having to blame somebody for the imbalance in political and social views in this country: I have to blame the stupid MBA's because, well I have to blame somebody.
I mean the MBA's must not be aware that something like 2/3rds of Canadians on the last Canadian Census identified themselves as Christians for example. Yet everyday, many Christians in Canada decry how much of the MSM in this country depicts them. This antagonism by the media has been a long-time beef with Christians, and it is typified by the hostile one moment and neglected the next game of the MSM. All the same from a business perspective how could you not be influenced by such a statistic like 2/3rds of the population is Christian? Would you not want to tap into such a business opportunity as that, even if you were not exactly like those people? Sounds like opportunity to me, but then again my business career hasn't been that good unfortunately, seemingly the corporations prefer MBA's over us lowly business grads in Canada. Still I can't help but think that maybe the MSM is wrong and that they really are stupid, maybe they are more stupid than many think because they did not hire somebody like me.
Brian Walsh
I'm no MBA, although a number of friends are, but I did complete a business degree and I have done a number of business case studies. The case study is a staple in the world of business education - the opportunity to apply scientific social methods to a real world business problem. I always enjoyed them and relished the challenge they presented, although it can be difficult to figure out the bottom line issue that each story points too. Business Case Studies are demanding and require the locus of many of the skills obtained in your education combined with good practical judgement.
That is why I question who is running the MSM in this country these days. If they are MBA's they must of went to the worst schools in the country. In fact if they are MBA's I'm betting that they are overpaid and incompetent. I know lots of people that can take their jobs and provide better results for the business owners. The reason I believe this is that the media almost totally ignores the largest single groups of consumers in the country: conservatives.
Yeah, those people that the liberal media loves to ridicule, even hate at times. Those same people tend to be older, educated and most certainly more likely to be successful or have good jobs. Many of them are at the top of their careers or at the very least are serious performers in the economy. Conservatives are known to go to church, drive carefully, own homes and or have families. They are often the bedrock of this country's economy. Even when conservatives are young, poor or uneducated, they often aspire to leadership roles in this country and are as likely as anyone to get there.
So why would the MSM in Canada totally ignore such a large portion of their population which are well-off consumers that currently are underserved? That is truly the question isn't it? I can't see it being the owners, since they want profits don't they? I can't see it being the journalists that while many are liberals, would want to hang onto their jobs via increased job security. Then having to blame somebody for the imbalance in political and social views in this country: I have to blame the stupid MBA's because, well I have to blame somebody.
I mean the MBA's must not be aware that something like 2/3rds of Canadians on the last Canadian Census identified themselves as Christians for example. Yet everyday, many Christians in Canada decry how much of the MSM in this country depicts them. This antagonism by the media has been a long-time beef with Christians, and it is typified by the hostile one moment and neglected the next game of the MSM. All the same from a business perspective how could you not be influenced by such a statistic like 2/3rds of the population is Christian? Would you not want to tap into such a business opportunity as that, even if you were not exactly like those people? Sounds like opportunity to me, but then again my business career hasn't been that good unfortunately, seemingly the corporations prefer MBA's over us lowly business grads in Canada. Still I can't help but think that maybe the MSM is wrong and that they really are stupid, maybe they are more stupid than many think because they did not hire somebody like me.
Why we've sunk so low in politics
Toronto Star Editorial, May 28, 2005
Richard Gwyn
This last little while, I've been using my downtime to go backwards in time. To prepare for a project, I've been boning up on Canada's earliest days, around about the time of Confederation.
That, of course, was the era of our first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. It's generally known that he drank a lot, that he fathered Confederation, that he built the Canadian Pacific Railway and so stretched us from coast to coast, and that he got embroiled in a terrible scandal.
This was the Pacific Railway Scandal, in which Macdonald was caught taking money from a company his government was negotiating with to build the railway. It was the worst scandal in our history. The second-worst is today's sponsorship scandal.
--we can debate that one, Richard but we both agree that we are facing a nasty scandal
There are differences about these two events that reveal a lot about the way our politics have evolved. Way back in the 1870s, two important things happened. First, Macdonald was forced to resign because many of his own MPs were so disgusted by the scandal that they switched to supporting the opposition. Second, Macdonald paid a steep price: In the succeeding election, he got trounced. Today, by contrast, not a single government MP has broken ranks over sponsor-gate. Instead, one opposition MP, Belinda Stronach, has crossed the floor to join the tainted Liberals.
-- ironic isn't it? we have not advanced an inch on the moral scale in all those years - and I blame most of it on liberalism
Far from being trounced, Paul Martin's Liberal government won the last election, if only with a minority. More telling, the Liberals are actually better off, despite the immense publicity about the bribery and corruption coming out of the Gomery inquiry. In the latest poll, the Liberals' standing has gone up. Leger Marketing now puts the Liberals at 38 per cent, a shade higher than their 37 per cent showing in the last election.
-- we can argue the accuracy of polls and the liberal companies that take them, also that polls outside of elections are highly elastic to say the least - but I get your point, where is the outrage?
While the Liberals are down in Quebec, where people are really outraged, they are definitely ahead over their election showing in the rest of the country, as confirmed by their easy success in this week's by-election in Labrador.
-- btw, I expect Labrador to be shafted by the liberals re: all their promises
How to explain why, even if we're mad as hell, we're entirely prepared to take it? Two explanations, neither very flattering to us, come to mind. First, our expectations about politics are so low now that scandals, while they may irritate us, don't enrage us.
-- Okay Richard, a trick question here: Who is responsible for this? The liberals for the most part or better still, liberalism.
Second, this is a Quebec scandal. There've been so many of them — only in federal politics, certainly in recent times, it must always be remembered — that we've come to regard them as one of those unpleasant things that happen almost naturally in Canada, like snowstorms in winter.
-- I don't agree, btw are you writing a subtle appolgy piece for the liberals here? This is a LPC scandal.
This cynicism may be justified. The docility of our MPs — in contrast to the past when party discipline wasn't so tight and, occasionally, some members would vote against their own party on principle (or for self-interest, but at least for something other than careerism) — does reinforce the public's attitude that politics has become a game for insiders.
-- All true and again a system put in place by Liberals.
The attitude may also be a kind of protective device by which we justify our inclination not to get involved in politics; in other words, not to get involved in our own governance.
-- Most people are lazy true, but they are not lazy when it comes to complaining about taxes though.
Either way, it's self-defeating. Those who have accustomed themselves to expecting little, get little.
-- Yes! look at what we are becoming..
What's striking about the sponsorship scandal is that it should have happened in the affluent, educated, urbanized, international-minded society that we've become — so utterly unlike the rural, parochial Canada of long ago.
-- but again Richard, this society is a construct of liberalism itself is it not?
What's really striking is that when it happened we, unlike our ruder, cruder ancestors, have, quite unlike them, essentially looked the other way.
-- agreed but give credit to conservatives for their active role in presenting this sordid tale to Canadians.
For the most part I liked this article Richard, and since it was published in the pro-LPC Toronto Star I understand why you tailored it the way you did.
Keep up the good work!
Richard Gwyn
This last little while, I've been using my downtime to go backwards in time. To prepare for a project, I've been boning up on Canada's earliest days, around about the time of Confederation.
That, of course, was the era of our first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. It's generally known that he drank a lot, that he fathered Confederation, that he built the Canadian Pacific Railway and so stretched us from coast to coast, and that he got embroiled in a terrible scandal.
This was the Pacific Railway Scandal, in which Macdonald was caught taking money from a company his government was negotiating with to build the railway. It was the worst scandal in our history. The second-worst is today's sponsorship scandal.
--we can debate that one, Richard but we both agree that we are facing a nasty scandal
There are differences about these two events that reveal a lot about the way our politics have evolved. Way back in the 1870s, two important things happened. First, Macdonald was forced to resign because many of his own MPs were so disgusted by the scandal that they switched to supporting the opposition. Second, Macdonald paid a steep price: In the succeeding election, he got trounced. Today, by contrast, not a single government MP has broken ranks over sponsor-gate. Instead, one opposition MP, Belinda Stronach, has crossed the floor to join the tainted Liberals.
-- ironic isn't it? we have not advanced an inch on the moral scale in all those years - and I blame most of it on liberalism
Far from being trounced, Paul Martin's Liberal government won the last election, if only with a minority. More telling, the Liberals are actually better off, despite the immense publicity about the bribery and corruption coming out of the Gomery inquiry. In the latest poll, the Liberals' standing has gone up. Leger Marketing now puts the Liberals at 38 per cent, a shade higher than their 37 per cent showing in the last election.
-- we can argue the accuracy of polls and the liberal companies that take them, also that polls outside of elections are highly elastic to say the least - but I get your point, where is the outrage?
While the Liberals are down in Quebec, where people are really outraged, they are definitely ahead over their election showing in the rest of the country, as confirmed by their easy success in this week's by-election in Labrador.
-- btw, I expect Labrador to be shafted by the liberals re: all their promises
How to explain why, even if we're mad as hell, we're entirely prepared to take it? Two explanations, neither very flattering to us, come to mind. First, our expectations about politics are so low now that scandals, while they may irritate us, don't enrage us.
-- Okay Richard, a trick question here: Who is responsible for this? The liberals for the most part or better still, liberalism.
Second, this is a Quebec scandal. There've been so many of them — only in federal politics, certainly in recent times, it must always be remembered — that we've come to regard them as one of those unpleasant things that happen almost naturally in Canada, like snowstorms in winter.
-- I don't agree, btw are you writing a subtle appolgy piece for the liberals here? This is a LPC scandal.
This cynicism may be justified. The docility of our MPs — in contrast to the past when party discipline wasn't so tight and, occasionally, some members would vote against their own party on principle (or for self-interest, but at least for something other than careerism) — does reinforce the public's attitude that politics has become a game for insiders.
-- All true and again a system put in place by Liberals.
The attitude may also be a kind of protective device by which we justify our inclination not to get involved in politics; in other words, not to get involved in our own governance.
-- Most people are lazy true, but they are not lazy when it comes to complaining about taxes though.
Either way, it's self-defeating. Those who have accustomed themselves to expecting little, get little.
-- Yes! look at what we are becoming..
What's striking about the sponsorship scandal is that it should have happened in the affluent, educated, urbanized, international-minded society that we've become — so utterly unlike the rural, parochial Canada of long ago.
-- but again Richard, this society is a construct of liberalism itself is it not?
What's really striking is that when it happened we, unlike our ruder, cruder ancestors, have, quite unlike them, essentially looked the other way.
-- agreed but give credit to conservatives for their active role in presenting this sordid tale to Canadians.
For the most part I liked this article Richard, and since it was published in the pro-LPC Toronto Star I understand why you tailored it the way you did.
Keep up the good work!
Thursday, May 26, 2005
A Tory's view to today's events.
Or, what pissed me off today!
Wacko Jacko: We will find you innocent, just sell us the damn Beatles Catalogue!
Found this today May 26, 2005 on the Drudgereport site:
link here: www.drudgereport.com
"Sneddon asked judge this AM for permission to put into evidence the photos of Michael Jackson's splotchy penis/private parts that were taken in '94... Judge turned him down flat... MORE... Sneddon also wanted to introduce into evidence the drawing that boy Jordy Chandler drew of Jackson's penis -- so that it could be compared to the photos that were later taken by police of Jacko... Developing... "
-- Now we have judge complicity in this case... hmmm.. is it true that people of a certain small religious group desperately want control over Jackson's Beatle library and are conspiring to let him off the hook?
France admits: EU treaty vote is Lost!
French in disarray as they admit EU treaty vote is lostBy Charles Bremner in Paris and Philip Webster, Political Editor
THE leader of France’s ruling party has privately admitted that Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution will result in a “no” vote, throwing Europe into turmoil.
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1628272,00.html
--Just got to love it, I feel better today already. When the socialistic/globalists take it up the hoo-hoo I am one happy boy!
Helen Thomas Rides White House Press Sec: 'Were we invited into Iraq?'Wed May 25 2005 17:16:06 ET
MR. McCLELLAN: There are two democratically-elected governments now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are there at their invitation. They are sovereign governments, and we are there today.
-- Q You mean if they had asked us out, that we would have left?
Link:http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
-- The US lefty media throws its weight around: We are the boss, our owners control the country, we own it. You do as we say, or else! The tension is being ramped up!
Black agrees to return stolen documents
Associated Press
Thursday, May 26, 2005
TORONTO -- Deposed media baron Conrad Black has agreed to return 12 boxes of documents after a video caught him on tape taking papers from his headquarters in downtown Toronto, a spokesman for Black said Thursday.
It was a new twist to Black's venomous battle against his enemies at the Toronto holding company, Hollinger Inc.
Black, who is accused of misappropriating money from Hollinger and its publishing subsidiary in Chicago, is to be evicted from Hollinger's offices at the end of the month.
Black had been barred by an Ontario court from taking any documents from the company without the permission of a court-ordered inspector.Link: http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=995df4fc-12f9-4873-977a-251765d4a19f
Wacko Jacko: We will find you innocent, just sell us the damn Beatles Catalogue!
Found this today May 26, 2005 on the Drudgereport site:
link here: www.drudgereport.com
"Sneddon asked judge this AM for permission to put into evidence the photos of Michael Jackson's splotchy penis/private parts that were taken in '94... Judge turned him down flat... MORE... Sneddon also wanted to introduce into evidence the drawing that boy Jordy Chandler drew of Jackson's penis -- so that it could be compared to the photos that were later taken by police of Jacko... Developing... "
-- Now we have judge complicity in this case... hmmm.. is it true that people of a certain small religious group desperately want control over Jackson's Beatle library and are conspiring to let him off the hook?
France admits: EU treaty vote is Lost!
French in disarray as they admit EU treaty vote is lostBy Charles Bremner in Paris and Philip Webster, Political Editor
THE leader of France’s ruling party has privately admitted that Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution will result in a “no” vote, throwing Europe into turmoil.
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1628272,00.html
--Just got to love it, I feel better today already. When the socialistic/globalists take it up the hoo-hoo I am one happy boy!
Helen Thomas Rides White House Press Sec: 'Were we invited into Iraq?'Wed May 25 2005 17:16:06 ET
MR. McCLELLAN: There are two democratically-elected governments now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are there at their invitation. They are sovereign governments, and we are there today.
-- Q You mean if they had asked us out, that we would have left?
Link:http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
-- The US lefty media throws its weight around: We are the boss, our owners control the country, we own it. You do as we say, or else! The tension is being ramped up!
Black agrees to return stolen documents
Associated Press
Thursday, May 26, 2005
TORONTO -- Deposed media baron Conrad Black has agreed to return 12 boxes of documents after a video caught him on tape taking papers from his headquarters in downtown Toronto, a spokesman for Black said Thursday.
It was a new twist to Black's venomous battle against his enemies at the Toronto holding company, Hollinger Inc.
Black, who is accused of misappropriating money from Hollinger and its publishing subsidiary in Chicago, is to be evicted from Hollinger's offices at the end of the month.
Black had been barred by an Ontario court from taking any documents from the company without the permission of a court-ordered inspector.Link: http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=995df4fc-12f9-4873-977a-251765d4a19f
-- The ongoing saga of Mr. Black. Here is what I find interesting about Mr. Black, he was a Jew that converted to Catholicism years ago and entered high society. He was a leading member of the Bilderbergers and was given a the title of 'Lord' by the Queen herself. Yet, for some reason the system has turned on him with a vengeance. I'm not defending Mr. Black, he is probably not that honest a guy and I'm sure that they do have legitimate charges on him. But what I don't understand is why him? Who did he piss off? Why the long knives against a guy that is probably par for the course in the business world? I will find out why, but I will have to dig for awhile yet. The reason may have been mentioned by me here in this post already.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Hebert batting Belinda
Or how a Quebecer sees Belinda's swan song for Quebec..
There comes a time, albeit rarely for me, when somebody gets it right! Chantal Hebert did it today (May 25, 2005), with her article on Belinda Stronach and her defecting to the Liberals all for the idea of preventing Quebec separation.
You can access the link by clicking on the title above.
Stronach's unity cloth a little threadbare
CHANTAL HÉBERT
There are two main reasons to turn one's back on one's party — principle and self-interest — and they rarely coincide. Or at least they did not until Belinda Stronach came along.
She continues...
Except that Stronach was hardly as concerned about unity when she set out to become leader of the Conservative party last year. Had she succeeded, she would have led her party in a campaign without having had the time to master enough French to hold her own in a leaders' debate.
It is hard to think of a swifter way to push angry Quebecers into the open arms of the Bloc than by presenting them with a federalist alternative to the Liberals led by someone who cannot address them in their own language. And yet, at the time, that never seemed to bother Stronach.
Great stuff and it goes on.. just check it out, seems an extension of what I wrote a few days ago..
Thanks Chantal, it needed to be said!
There comes a time, albeit rarely for me, when somebody gets it right! Chantal Hebert did it today (May 25, 2005), with her article on Belinda Stronach and her defecting to the Liberals all for the idea of preventing Quebec separation.
You can access the link by clicking on the title above.
Stronach's unity cloth a little threadbare
CHANTAL HÉBERT
There are two main reasons to turn one's back on one's party — principle and self-interest — and they rarely coincide. Or at least they did not until Belinda Stronach came along.
She continues...
Except that Stronach was hardly as concerned about unity when she set out to become leader of the Conservative party last year. Had she succeeded, she would have led her party in a campaign without having had the time to master enough French to hold her own in a leaders' debate.
It is hard to think of a swifter way to push angry Quebecers into the open arms of the Bloc than by presenting them with a federalist alternative to the Liberals led by someone who cannot address them in their own language. And yet, at the time, that never seemed to bother Stronach.
Great stuff and it goes on.. just check it out, seems an extension of what I wrote a few days ago..
Thanks Chantal, it needed to be said!
The NDP: On their last legs?
Has Jack destroyed what is left of the NDP?
In the aftermath of last week's budget vote in Canada's House of Parliament, there was one very interesting event: the complete acquiescence of Jack Layton to the demands of PMPM (Prime Minister Paul Martin).
The media in Canada the loyal liberal lapdogs that they are, have been peddling feveriously to sell NDP supporters and the general public on the Jack and Paul deal. Problem is that this deal stinks from start to finish and it appears that Jack has sold out the NDP, and likely imperiled its very future for what appears to be a very low payoff.
Let us consider the facts here: first the NDP has been in a downward spiral for at least a decade now. NDP fortunes have been on the decline as the party has not returned more than 25 seats to parliament in a long time. Furthermore, their percentage of the popular vote has been weak and lower than traditional levels of prior decades. When Jack Layton was announced as the new leader, his primary job was to reverse this downward trend in the NDP's fortunes, he was the young academic urban hipster that was connected to youth and was seen as a good communicator. His job was to reach out to the urban vote as a method to replace waning union support which had been the primary backbone of NDP muscle for many decades. It appeared that Jack was onto something as he was able to excite the base and he became a darling of the MSM at a time when the NDP needed it most. Furthermore, Jack was able to produce good polling numbers for the NDP before all elections. Sadly for the NDP, this did not translate into more elected party members for two main reasons.
Liberals under pressure from the resurgent conservative party of Canada, began to broaden their base by moving left and right on several fronts as maintaining the middle ground did not guarantee them electoral success anymore. The Liberals found that selecting certain key issues that they could offer to core NDP supporters and for which they had a good chance of actually delivering on, allowed them to draw on the NDP electorate. The other pressure against the NDP base was the steady growth of the Green Party in Canada which was seen as more relevant and daring in many respects as compared to the old and staid NDP brand. The Green's were fresh, different and even exciting in many respects as compared to the NDP, which was attractive to the youth vote which was crucial to the left. Lastly, the Greens seemingly were able to attract a broader base of support with their ecclectic range of policies from fiscal conservatism on some levels, to more accountability in government to environmentalism. Although, the greens are not putting many people in the house yet, they are seen as the heir apparents of the NDP in Canada by many on the left and also by other political observers and pundits.
An example of Liberals eating at the base of NDP support was the recent budget vote which forced Jack Layton to lay down for the liberal interests, and subugate his own and party's interests to those of the Liberals. Jack was also dictated to by Buzz Hargrove the famed Auto Workers Union head in the now murky meeting these two had in the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Toronto several weeks before the vote. It was obvious that Hargrove forced Layton to sleep with the Liberals in order to hand over his support to the NDP, which has in recent years been leaning towards the liberals. Then there is the Greens in the background courting their support also. It seems that there is too many political parties in Canada on the left and they are all fighting over too few supporters.
But the real problem is this: Layton has been very critical of Paul Martin and his government and rightly so, the corruption and sleaze that emanate from parliament these days has been unknown in history in this country. Furthermore, Layton has to be looking over his shoulder at not just the liberals but also the Greens as willing and able to take him and his party down. One would have believed that Jack would have voted to have the Liberals defeated as the NDP was riding high in the polls and many on the left were looking for the opportunity of a square-off between the two left-leaning parties. This was likely one of the last opportunities for the NDP to 'come back' and restore the brand in this country. There was good reason to believe that the NDP under Jack was on the way back and that a breakthrough was just around the corner.
The conservative and Bloc alliance to take down the liberals would have meant that left-wing initiatives would not have been taken off the table and that the conservatives would have had to tread lightly for sometime around the Bloc. Then why did the NDP cuts its own wrists, by giving up the chance to greatly improve their lot vis a vis the liberals and Greens and be seen as the hero's on the left?
Well we all know about the $4.6 Billion in social spending that Layton demanded from Paul Martin which was dictated to Jack by Buzz Hargrove (ostensibly to court union and NDP core support), but none of that money is guaranteed to be spent by passing one budget vote. Also, the precarious state of affairs in Ottawa these days makes any deal look about as certain as the Maple Leafs winning the Stanley Cup in 2006 (if there is even pro-hockey in 2005/6 to begin with).
But there is other rumours going around that may explain what happened, one is that the NDP is absolutely broke and cannot afford an election now. Annother rumour even more dangerous is that the NDP has agreed to merge with the liberals and they are working on the details. If this is so then this whole story is not a fable. On the other hand, if the NDP is still standing on its own two feet, then it needs to start looking out for itself more instead of making desperate moves to cut conservatism off at the knees at any cost - even its own future. If they don't start seeing the big picture with them in it and stop obsessing about political ideology then the Liberals will swallow their base or the Greens will take them out. Sayonnara!
In the aftermath of last week's budget vote in Canada's House of Parliament, there was one very interesting event: the complete acquiescence of Jack Layton to the demands of PMPM (Prime Minister Paul Martin).
The media in Canada the loyal liberal lapdogs that they are, have been peddling feveriously to sell NDP supporters and the general public on the Jack and Paul deal. Problem is that this deal stinks from start to finish and it appears that Jack has sold out the NDP, and likely imperiled its very future for what appears to be a very low payoff.
Let us consider the facts here: first the NDP has been in a downward spiral for at least a decade now. NDP fortunes have been on the decline as the party has not returned more than 25 seats to parliament in a long time. Furthermore, their percentage of the popular vote has been weak and lower than traditional levels of prior decades. When Jack Layton was announced as the new leader, his primary job was to reverse this downward trend in the NDP's fortunes, he was the young academic urban hipster that was connected to youth and was seen as a good communicator. His job was to reach out to the urban vote as a method to replace waning union support which had been the primary backbone of NDP muscle for many decades. It appeared that Jack was onto something as he was able to excite the base and he became a darling of the MSM at a time when the NDP needed it most. Furthermore, Jack was able to produce good polling numbers for the NDP before all elections. Sadly for the NDP, this did not translate into more elected party members for two main reasons.
Liberals under pressure from the resurgent conservative party of Canada, began to broaden their base by moving left and right on several fronts as maintaining the middle ground did not guarantee them electoral success anymore. The Liberals found that selecting certain key issues that they could offer to core NDP supporters and for which they had a good chance of actually delivering on, allowed them to draw on the NDP electorate. The other pressure against the NDP base was the steady growth of the Green Party in Canada which was seen as more relevant and daring in many respects as compared to the old and staid NDP brand. The Green's were fresh, different and even exciting in many respects as compared to the NDP, which was attractive to the youth vote which was crucial to the left. Lastly, the Greens seemingly were able to attract a broader base of support with their ecclectic range of policies from fiscal conservatism on some levels, to more accountability in government to environmentalism. Although, the greens are not putting many people in the house yet, they are seen as the heir apparents of the NDP in Canada by many on the left and also by other political observers and pundits.
An example of Liberals eating at the base of NDP support was the recent budget vote which forced Jack Layton to lay down for the liberal interests, and subugate his own and party's interests to those of the Liberals. Jack was also dictated to by Buzz Hargrove the famed Auto Workers Union head in the now murky meeting these two had in the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Toronto several weeks before the vote. It was obvious that Hargrove forced Layton to sleep with the Liberals in order to hand over his support to the NDP, which has in recent years been leaning towards the liberals. Then there is the Greens in the background courting their support also. It seems that there is too many political parties in Canada on the left and they are all fighting over too few supporters.
But the real problem is this: Layton has been very critical of Paul Martin and his government and rightly so, the corruption and sleaze that emanate from parliament these days has been unknown in history in this country. Furthermore, Layton has to be looking over his shoulder at not just the liberals but also the Greens as willing and able to take him and his party down. One would have believed that Jack would have voted to have the Liberals defeated as the NDP was riding high in the polls and many on the left were looking for the opportunity of a square-off between the two left-leaning parties. This was likely one of the last opportunities for the NDP to 'come back' and restore the brand in this country. There was good reason to believe that the NDP under Jack was on the way back and that a breakthrough was just around the corner.
The conservative and Bloc alliance to take down the liberals would have meant that left-wing initiatives would not have been taken off the table and that the conservatives would have had to tread lightly for sometime around the Bloc. Then why did the NDP cuts its own wrists, by giving up the chance to greatly improve their lot vis a vis the liberals and Greens and be seen as the hero's on the left?
Well we all know about the $4.6 Billion in social spending that Layton demanded from Paul Martin which was dictated to Jack by Buzz Hargrove (ostensibly to court union and NDP core support), but none of that money is guaranteed to be spent by passing one budget vote. Also, the precarious state of affairs in Ottawa these days makes any deal look about as certain as the Maple Leafs winning the Stanley Cup in 2006 (if there is even pro-hockey in 2005/6 to begin with).
But there is other rumours going around that may explain what happened, one is that the NDP is absolutely broke and cannot afford an election now. Annother rumour even more dangerous is that the NDP has agreed to merge with the liberals and they are working on the details. If this is so then this whole story is not a fable. On the other hand, if the NDP is still standing on its own two feet, then it needs to start looking out for itself more instead of making desperate moves to cut conservatism off at the knees at any cost - even its own future. If they don't start seeing the big picture with them in it and stop obsessing about political ideology then the Liberals will swallow their base or the Greens will take them out. Sayonnara!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Inside the warped mind of people at Rabble.com
Why Conservatives should thank Chuck Cadman>by Murray Dobbin May 22, 2005
The article I came across by this title at the link above (click on this posting's title to go to the link..), is a good example of left-wing warped logic. I will post extracts (in red type), and comment (in the blue), on them for your amusement.
For all the talk of a dysfunctional House of Commons, what has transpired over the past few weeks is precisely the opposite. Oh, to be sure, for Bay Street, newspaper editors, hysterical right wing pundits like Andrew Coyne of the National Post and the self-absorbed Rex Murphy of the CBC, it is dysfunctional because the dismantling of the country has been put on hold. That, after all, has been the “function” of the House of Commons under Tories and Liberals ever since the free trade deal went through after the 1988 election. But if you are talking about government functioning in the interests of ordinary Canadians, families, communities and the nation, Parliament functioned better this past week than it has at any time in the past 20 years.
- No offense Dobbin (you know the guy in Harry Potter by chance?), but the house is entirly dysfunctional. We had 9 days of a government with no rights whatsoever governing with the Queen here no doubt. I notice that you had to lash out at the FEW MSM So-called Conservative voices in this country, compared to the thousands on your side! Yeah things are good all right, Buzz-saw Hargrove got to dictate a budget that likely never will be: ah the joy in Dipper land (NDP's).
Forget the lack of so-called “decorum,” the name-calling, the opportunism of the Liberals and the motives of Belinda Stronach. Who cares? If you are keeping your eye on the prize, for the first time in a long time, Canadians actually got out of a federal government what they have been saying for over a decade that they want: a return to activist government which operates in their interests and not in the exclusive interests of corporations and the wealthy.
- See why people don't like socialists Dobbin? Any means to an end for you people isn't it? What people are you talking about here that want activist government (code words for communism by chance?), oh say 15% of the population? If you got a problem with corporations and the wealthy then why did you get into the bed with PMPM, we all know who they service on a regular basis.
And they got it because the NDP's leader Jack Layton was able to leverage just 19 seats — a fifth of what the over-represented Conservatives have — to achieve a package of progressive funding arrangements for the environment, cities, affordable housing, child care and universities. All the machinations aside, that is what happened on May 19 as the Liberal government managed to win a budget vote by the skin of its teeth.
- Now Jackal is a hero (Jack Layton)! You sided with the dark side to achieve this (oh I forgot you are the dark side). Funny that you mentioned many of these issues because obviously, YOU NEVER EVER READ any of the conservative policies yet! The bigger question is this: When is the NDP to be absorbed by the LPC? Rumours are flying around that the dippers days are numbered.
Harper can't win
There is, of course, no need to get delusional about what happened. Paul Martin, in his best of all possible worlds, is as obedient a hand maiden of Bay Street as ever walked the halls of Parliament. As finance minister for nine years he did more to dismantle the fabric of Canada's social programs than even Brian Mulroney dared to do — and in the process also managed to give obscene tax breaks to the wealthy and to large corporations that also out-paced Mulroney.
- What is this a back-handed compliment to Brian Mulroney? What does Harper can't win have to do with this - is that on your wish list? Furthermore what part of CPC is a lot like the PC's that you recognize these days, I know a lot of lefty's are having problems with this.
And it is a certainty that Martin supports Bay Street's “deep integration” initiative by which what is left of Canada would be handed over to the US — a sacrifice in the interests of Canadian corporations who can't compete with their US counterparts. He is deeply committed, as well, to massive privatization through public private partnerships — a program that has simply been put on the shelf waiting for a Liberal majority.
- This will be bad for your union buddies that is for sure. But many of them have become fat cats of their own type in recent decades and I have no sympathy for many of them. This still doesn explain why Jackal didn't help to being down the Libranos to force an election when he was riding high in the polls? But I know that you would rather sacrifice the NDP's future to ensure that the dreaded conservatives never get elected. At least that is what PMPM talked Jackal into doing. You are rubber stamping your own demise right here right now.
The only thing preventing this horrendous agenda from going forward are the 19 NDP MPs whose influence is far greater than their numbers suggest. Not only do those numbers count in this House but they give the progressives in the Liberal caucus the backbone they need to resist a right-wing prime minister. If Martin had a majority, he would silence these dissidents with the same ruthless efficiency with which he silenced his opponents in the Liberal leadership race.
- Horrendous agenda! Wow what drama you weave. Yeah the 19 Dippers saved Kanada all right. But you still don't explain why you caved in to Martin. Are you so desparate to never see Canada ever go right again, even a small amount that you would sacrifice yourselves to do it? If so how does that make you any more scary than the Christians and other such religious types that you attack every day? You know the messaniac bunch, look in the mirror socialist and see yourself too. Nice of you to mention the Blood Red Liberals, I had forgotten about them, seems your kind has infiltrated every aspect of this once wonderful country.
As for the leader of the loyal opposition, Stephen Harper just doesn't get it. Hidden in the media spin surrounding the budget votes is all the evidence the Conservative Party needs to rid itself of the man who cannot possibly win them power. Far be it from me to help this Reform/Alliance retread party be more effective, given its draconian, hidden agenda. But the fact is, this extremist agenda is exactly what Harper brings to the party.
- Why can he not win? I say he wins easily before Jackal does. Did you not say that the Dippers had the ears of many Canadians, they prove it, pony up the ridings then. Also, I'm tired of this hidden agenda whatever the hell it is.. Then please tell us What You Think It IS Then! Last time I checked you and your friends had a hidden extremist agenda - socialism which then could lead to communism!! Regarding Harper, I got news for you, he is probably a moderate in this conservative party right now. You should be kissing his ass frankly and hoping he is elected, because I do know hard-core right wingers that would love to take down people like you.
If the Conservatives actually chose someone from the old Progressive Conservative wing of their party as leader, not only would they do better, but Canada would not be constantly threatened by Harper's vision of creating a carbon copy of the US north of the border. While Harper is almost pathologically committed to an American vision of the country, what's left of the old PCs — especially the Red Tories — might just have enough good sense left to recognize that Canadians are moving to the left in their values and policy preferences.
- Oh you mean the socialist wing don't you? Sorry but Canada has shifted far too left in the past 50 years for my liking, furthermore the lefties running this country have only left it broke, broken and dysfunctional. The so called Canadian values are only those of the media and it's owners, the 80+% of journalists that are left-wing by preference. You will soon see what real-Canadian values are buddy. In regards the US, we are so damned lucky that we border on that country and not Russia, that I pray to God for thanks!! If we were not bordering on the US, your Russian buddies would have invaded us years ago. But you would like that Dobbin because you would have been a big shot in the communist system right? Maybe you would be standing in line right now waiting to buy a stale loaf of bread, and not have time to write crap like you wrote.
The Stronach wing
Of course the likelihood of this happening is very slim as the majority in the party is made up of old Alliance members, including all the extremist nut-bars who stopped Preston Manning at the Manitoba border. But old PC Conservatives in Ontario (of the Belinda Stronach school) must be looking at Stephen Harper and realizing that under his leadership they are doomed to lose. Even on the eve of the budget vote, the Liberals were suddenly back into a commanding 15-point lead in the province, according to an Ekos poll. If Conservative MPs have any sense they should be phoning Chuck Cadman and thanking him. Had there been election, Harper and his party would have been hammered in every part of the country except Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- Last time I checked, the NDP was considered extremist because they only command 15% of the vote, with many of their supporters being hard-core socialists and unionists. Last time I checked the liberals did not have a 15% lead in the polls in Ontario, not that it means much either way because much of those supporters would be in metro Toronto, the freak capital of Canada. Yes, we are going to thank Chucky Cadman, thank him for being a backstabber and a closet NDPer! Don't turn your back Chuck, you are not liked. Oh, and Dobbin, if we were to be hammered in an election then why were all of you lefties so desparate to avoid one?
Just what would Harper have offered Canadians? His campaign, if he was honest, would have sounded something like this: “Vote for me. I just forced an election on the 65 per cent of you who didn't want one. I just declared that the Gomery inquiry is irrelevant and so too is your desire to hear him out. I think spending $250 million on an unwanted election is not too high a price to pay for my ambition. And, oh yes, I voted for the old budget — but explicitly opposed the NDP budget changes and more money for education, housing, child care, the environment and cities.”
- What is funny is that you have not said one word about the Bloc yet, why is that? Afraid to offend them for your liberal buddies? Taking talking points from the PMO? Or are you hoping to actually pull a few votes there is future? Well dream on! The Gomery inquiry that you love so much is a white wash just like Bob Rae has been working for the past 5 years on the government dime and producing nothing, he was one of the most hated premiers ever in this country! In regards the $250 million, it is a small price to pay to save this Kanda from the daily and constant raping of it by these liberals but you do not see it that way - as long as your friends can join in too. We voted against the changes your commie friends wanted in the budget because they were SOPS to you dippers (since Martin had never seen fit to implement such spending on his own watch), and we had our own policies which you should be aware of. So you hate us because we didn't give you what you wanted? What children!! I hate you now because you are hypocrites, hopelessly biased, and bigots! Furthermore, your leader has shown his true stripes, he is so committed to socialism that he would shoot himself in the foot to achieve it. That means that any Canadian that is moderate or right of centre, should never ever trust a dipper again!
Way to go Stephen.
- I concur, you keep truckin' Stephen, save this beautiful country from the commies!
Murray Dobbin is the author of Paul Martin: CEO for Canada? This column has appeared in The Tyee.
The article I came across by this title at the link above (click on this posting's title to go to the link..), is a good example of left-wing warped logic. I will post extracts (in red type), and comment (in the blue), on them for your amusement.
For all the talk of a dysfunctional House of Commons, what has transpired over the past few weeks is precisely the opposite. Oh, to be sure, for Bay Street, newspaper editors, hysterical right wing pundits like Andrew Coyne of the National Post and the self-absorbed Rex Murphy of the CBC, it is dysfunctional because the dismantling of the country has been put on hold. That, after all, has been the “function” of the House of Commons under Tories and Liberals ever since the free trade deal went through after the 1988 election. But if you are talking about government functioning in the interests of ordinary Canadians, families, communities and the nation, Parliament functioned better this past week than it has at any time in the past 20 years.
- No offense Dobbin (you know the guy in Harry Potter by chance?), but the house is entirly dysfunctional. We had 9 days of a government with no rights whatsoever governing with the Queen here no doubt. I notice that you had to lash out at the FEW MSM So-called Conservative voices in this country, compared to the thousands on your side! Yeah things are good all right, Buzz-saw Hargrove got to dictate a budget that likely never will be: ah the joy in Dipper land (NDP's).
Forget the lack of so-called “decorum,” the name-calling, the opportunism of the Liberals and the motives of Belinda Stronach. Who cares? If you are keeping your eye on the prize, for the first time in a long time, Canadians actually got out of a federal government what they have been saying for over a decade that they want: a return to activist government which operates in their interests and not in the exclusive interests of corporations and the wealthy.
- See why people don't like socialists Dobbin? Any means to an end for you people isn't it? What people are you talking about here that want activist government (code words for communism by chance?), oh say 15% of the population? If you got a problem with corporations and the wealthy then why did you get into the bed with PMPM, we all know who they service on a regular basis.
And they got it because the NDP's leader Jack Layton was able to leverage just 19 seats — a fifth of what the over-represented Conservatives have — to achieve a package of progressive funding arrangements for the environment, cities, affordable housing, child care and universities. All the machinations aside, that is what happened on May 19 as the Liberal government managed to win a budget vote by the skin of its teeth.
- Now Jackal is a hero (Jack Layton)! You sided with the dark side to achieve this (oh I forgot you are the dark side). Funny that you mentioned many of these issues because obviously, YOU NEVER EVER READ any of the conservative policies yet! The bigger question is this: When is the NDP to be absorbed by the LPC? Rumours are flying around that the dippers days are numbered.
Harper can't win
There is, of course, no need to get delusional about what happened. Paul Martin, in his best of all possible worlds, is as obedient a hand maiden of Bay Street as ever walked the halls of Parliament. As finance minister for nine years he did more to dismantle the fabric of Canada's social programs than even Brian Mulroney dared to do — and in the process also managed to give obscene tax breaks to the wealthy and to large corporations that also out-paced Mulroney.
- What is this a back-handed compliment to Brian Mulroney? What does Harper can't win have to do with this - is that on your wish list? Furthermore what part of CPC is a lot like the PC's that you recognize these days, I know a lot of lefty's are having problems with this.
And it is a certainty that Martin supports Bay Street's “deep integration” initiative by which what is left of Canada would be handed over to the US — a sacrifice in the interests of Canadian corporations who can't compete with their US counterparts. He is deeply committed, as well, to massive privatization through public private partnerships — a program that has simply been put on the shelf waiting for a Liberal majority.
- This will be bad for your union buddies that is for sure. But many of them have become fat cats of their own type in recent decades and I have no sympathy for many of them. This still doesn explain why Jackal didn't help to being down the Libranos to force an election when he was riding high in the polls? But I know that you would rather sacrifice the NDP's future to ensure that the dreaded conservatives never get elected. At least that is what PMPM talked Jackal into doing. You are rubber stamping your own demise right here right now.
The only thing preventing this horrendous agenda from going forward are the 19 NDP MPs whose influence is far greater than their numbers suggest. Not only do those numbers count in this House but they give the progressives in the Liberal caucus the backbone they need to resist a right-wing prime minister. If Martin had a majority, he would silence these dissidents with the same ruthless efficiency with which he silenced his opponents in the Liberal leadership race.
- Horrendous agenda! Wow what drama you weave. Yeah the 19 Dippers saved Kanada all right. But you still don't explain why you caved in to Martin. Are you so desparate to never see Canada ever go right again, even a small amount that you would sacrifice yourselves to do it? If so how does that make you any more scary than the Christians and other such religious types that you attack every day? You know the messaniac bunch, look in the mirror socialist and see yourself too. Nice of you to mention the Blood Red Liberals, I had forgotten about them, seems your kind has infiltrated every aspect of this once wonderful country.
As for the leader of the loyal opposition, Stephen Harper just doesn't get it. Hidden in the media spin surrounding the budget votes is all the evidence the Conservative Party needs to rid itself of the man who cannot possibly win them power. Far be it from me to help this Reform/Alliance retread party be more effective, given its draconian, hidden agenda. But the fact is, this extremist agenda is exactly what Harper brings to the party.
- Why can he not win? I say he wins easily before Jackal does. Did you not say that the Dippers had the ears of many Canadians, they prove it, pony up the ridings then. Also, I'm tired of this hidden agenda whatever the hell it is.. Then please tell us What You Think It IS Then! Last time I checked you and your friends had a hidden extremist agenda - socialism which then could lead to communism!! Regarding Harper, I got news for you, he is probably a moderate in this conservative party right now. You should be kissing his ass frankly and hoping he is elected, because I do know hard-core right wingers that would love to take down people like you.
If the Conservatives actually chose someone from the old Progressive Conservative wing of their party as leader, not only would they do better, but Canada would not be constantly threatened by Harper's vision of creating a carbon copy of the US north of the border. While Harper is almost pathologically committed to an American vision of the country, what's left of the old PCs — especially the Red Tories — might just have enough good sense left to recognize that Canadians are moving to the left in their values and policy preferences.
- Oh you mean the socialist wing don't you? Sorry but Canada has shifted far too left in the past 50 years for my liking, furthermore the lefties running this country have only left it broke, broken and dysfunctional. The so called Canadian values are only those of the media and it's owners, the 80+% of journalists that are left-wing by preference. You will soon see what real-Canadian values are buddy. In regards the US, we are so damned lucky that we border on that country and not Russia, that I pray to God for thanks!! If we were not bordering on the US, your Russian buddies would have invaded us years ago. But you would like that Dobbin because you would have been a big shot in the communist system right? Maybe you would be standing in line right now waiting to buy a stale loaf of bread, and not have time to write crap like you wrote.
The Stronach wing
Of course the likelihood of this happening is very slim as the majority in the party is made up of old Alliance members, including all the extremist nut-bars who stopped Preston Manning at the Manitoba border. But old PC Conservatives in Ontario (of the Belinda Stronach school) must be looking at Stephen Harper and realizing that under his leadership they are doomed to lose. Even on the eve of the budget vote, the Liberals were suddenly back into a commanding 15-point lead in the province, according to an Ekos poll. If Conservative MPs have any sense they should be phoning Chuck Cadman and thanking him. Had there been election, Harper and his party would have been hammered in every part of the country except Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- Last time I checked, the NDP was considered extremist because they only command 15% of the vote, with many of their supporters being hard-core socialists and unionists. Last time I checked the liberals did not have a 15% lead in the polls in Ontario, not that it means much either way because much of those supporters would be in metro Toronto, the freak capital of Canada. Yes, we are going to thank Chucky Cadman, thank him for being a backstabber and a closet NDPer! Don't turn your back Chuck, you are not liked. Oh, and Dobbin, if we were to be hammered in an election then why were all of you lefties so desparate to avoid one?
Just what would Harper have offered Canadians? His campaign, if he was honest, would have sounded something like this: “Vote for me. I just forced an election on the 65 per cent of you who didn't want one. I just declared that the Gomery inquiry is irrelevant and so too is your desire to hear him out. I think spending $250 million on an unwanted election is not too high a price to pay for my ambition. And, oh yes, I voted for the old budget — but explicitly opposed the NDP budget changes and more money for education, housing, child care, the environment and cities.”
- What is funny is that you have not said one word about the Bloc yet, why is that? Afraid to offend them for your liberal buddies? Taking talking points from the PMO? Or are you hoping to actually pull a few votes there is future? Well dream on! The Gomery inquiry that you love so much is a white wash just like Bob Rae has been working for the past 5 years on the government dime and producing nothing, he was one of the most hated premiers ever in this country! In regards the $250 million, it is a small price to pay to save this Kanda from the daily and constant raping of it by these liberals but you do not see it that way - as long as your friends can join in too. We voted against the changes your commie friends wanted in the budget because they were SOPS to you dippers (since Martin had never seen fit to implement such spending on his own watch), and we had our own policies which you should be aware of. So you hate us because we didn't give you what you wanted? What children!! I hate you now because you are hypocrites, hopelessly biased, and bigots! Furthermore, your leader has shown his true stripes, he is so committed to socialism that he would shoot himself in the foot to achieve it. That means that any Canadian that is moderate or right of centre, should never ever trust a dipper again!
Way to go Stephen.
- I concur, you keep truckin' Stephen, save this beautiful country from the commies!
Murray Dobbin is the author of Paul Martin: CEO for Canada? This column has appeared in The Tyee.
- Yeah he wrote the book but he learned nothing from it, go figure?
Monday, May 23, 2005
Ralphy pulling up the Rear!!
Even the Queen is not amused by Ralphie's so called conservatism.
Hey Ralph!!!!
Here is a funny pic of Ralphie pulling up the rear behind HRH in Edmonton as shown in May 23rd online edition of the Globe & Mail (Gay & Married).
Even the Queen doesn't appear impressed with Ralphie these days. Not good Ralph, being a fake conservative and stoolie agent for liberals.
If anybody is so inclined to post comments for this pic, I would welcome them and choose the best one in a week's time. I think this picture can lead to a few good quips.
Hey Ralph!!!!
Here is a funny pic of Ralphie pulling up the rear behind HRH in Edmonton as shown in May 23rd online edition of the Globe & Mail (Gay & Married).
Even the Queen doesn't appear impressed with Ralphie these days. Not good Ralph, being a fake conservative and stoolie agent for liberals.
If anybody is so inclined to post comments for this pic, I would welcome them and choose the best one in a week's time. I think this picture can lead to a few good quips.
Belinda and the mythical Tory Youth Wing.
Belinda was sowing divisiveness in the Conservative Party of Canada long before she left.
Belinda always said she was for gay marriage like many Red Tories in the conservative party. But now I have found the connection between her rabid support of a conservative youth wing and gay marriage. The excerpt below indicates that the so called conservative youth wing that she was supporting the creation of during the Montreal Policy Convention was in fact a lefty trojan horse. The link of this obviously liberal friendly website is found by clicking the title of this article above.
"Conservative, Liberal and NDP Youth from Ontario Congratulate Parliament for Defeating Harper Amendments to Bill C-38 AUDIO: Andrew Teliszewsky, President of the Ontario Young Liberals comments on young Canadians from all parties standing up to Stephen Harper (http://www.youngliberals.ca/documents/oyl_e.mp3) The leaders of the Ontario PC Youth Association, the Ontario Young Liberals and the Ontario New Democratic Youth banded together on Tuesday, April 12, 2005, in a rare show of cross-party unity to congratulate Parliament for defeating Stephen Harper’s motion to kill the government’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill."
It is becoming painfully clear now that Belinda was in fact a liberal in sheep's clothing trying to infiltrate the conservative party. That Stephen Harper did not fall for this is quite commendable on his part. I also believe that the struggle between Stephen and Peter McKay at the Montreal convention was in fact engineered by Belinda.
Also, one may surmise that along with Belinda's role as spy came the sexual favours that she showered on Peter as a way to increase her ability to penetrate the conservative movement in Canada.
What is more concerning at the moment is the relationship between Belinda and the following old-guard PC's: Brian Mulroney, Mike Harris and William Davis amongst others. Were these people behind Belinda in her double cross as well as her obvious defection to the safe side' at the opportune moment as she was being found out? We will soon know.
Lastly, what is Belinda's obsession with gay marriage all about? This is a person from a family that would crush union rights, worker's rights, and steam roller you in a business deal if they could, but they have a real big and soft heart for gays for some reason? I mean I can understand why gays or even the opportunistic left want gay rights but it does not make any sense for Belinda. I'm sure that her hair-dresser may be gay and some of her clothing designer friends, but they don't need any protecting from bad people like me do they? There is something very weird about all of this that does not make logical sense.
Furthermore, why do they have to push gay rights onto conservatives when anybody knows that Liberals and the NDP are offering it freely. Very strange indeed.
Belinda always said she was for gay marriage like many Red Tories in the conservative party. But now I have found the connection between her rabid support of a conservative youth wing and gay marriage. The excerpt below indicates that the so called conservative youth wing that she was supporting the creation of during the Montreal Policy Convention was in fact a lefty trojan horse. The link of this obviously liberal friendly website is found by clicking the title of this article above.
"Conservative, Liberal and NDP Youth from Ontario Congratulate Parliament for Defeating Harper Amendments to Bill C-38 AUDIO: Andrew Teliszewsky, President of the Ontario Young Liberals comments on young Canadians from all parties standing up to Stephen Harper (http://www.youngliberals.ca/documents/oyl_e.mp3) The leaders of the Ontario PC Youth Association, the Ontario Young Liberals and the Ontario New Democratic Youth banded together on Tuesday, April 12, 2005, in a rare show of cross-party unity to congratulate Parliament for defeating Stephen Harper’s motion to kill the government’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill."
It is becoming painfully clear now that Belinda was in fact a liberal in sheep's clothing trying to infiltrate the conservative party. That Stephen Harper did not fall for this is quite commendable on his part. I also believe that the struggle between Stephen and Peter McKay at the Montreal convention was in fact engineered by Belinda.
Also, one may surmise that along with Belinda's role as spy came the sexual favours that she showered on Peter as a way to increase her ability to penetrate the conservative movement in Canada.
What is more concerning at the moment is the relationship between Belinda and the following old-guard PC's: Brian Mulroney, Mike Harris and William Davis amongst others. Were these people behind Belinda in her double cross as well as her obvious defection to the safe side' at the opportune moment as she was being found out? We will soon know.
Lastly, what is Belinda's obsession with gay marriage all about? This is a person from a family that would crush union rights, worker's rights, and steam roller you in a business deal if they could, but they have a real big and soft heart for gays for some reason? I mean I can understand why gays or even the opportunistic left want gay rights but it does not make any sense for Belinda. I'm sure that her hair-dresser may be gay and some of her clothing designer friends, but they don't need any protecting from bad people like me do they? There is something very weird about all of this that does not make logical sense.
Furthermore, why do they have to push gay rights onto conservatives when anybody knows that Liberals and the NDP are offering it freely. Very strange indeed.
Assorted items to ponder.
A synapsis of things going on from the perspective of a real conservative.
Here is some tidbits I have come across in the last few days:
- The upcoming EU vote in France;
"The latest French poll showed 52 percent of people who have decided how to vote will reject the constitution, but suggested one in four voters were still undecided.
"The vote on May 29 is going to be tight. Each of us has a historic ballot paper in their hand. So I appeal to people to be responsible," Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told the Center-Presse Poitiers newspaper, demanding a high turnout."
this is from http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050523/ts_nm/eu_constitution_france_dc_1
All I have to say is Go NO side! Turn down the commie globalists, save your country from socialistic infiltration and save your culture, language and heritage from destruction.
Apparently, the Dutch vote to be held days later is not going any better and all I have to add is that the Dutch can fool you sometime and this is good news.
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. Senate moderates struck a deal on Monday intended to avert a showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, a member of the bipartisan group of negotiators said. "We've got a deal," Nebraska Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson told reporters. Senators plan to announce details at a news conference shortly.
link to above:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005052319360002842904&dt=20050523193600&w=RTR&coview=
This is also good news for conservatives, as I now expect that conservative judges (most of them at least), will find their way to the supreme court of the US. Now if only we could do the same in Commie Kanada.
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's official - "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" is a mega, runaway, blockbuster, record-setting hit. However, the popularity of the George Lucas film didn't vanquish the overall box office slump that has plagued Hollywood for 13 straight weeks.
link to above: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050523/D8A9679O0.html
Is it not obvious in Hollywood what is going on? The public is getting tired of commie programming, occultic themes, and anti-US tirades. Furthermore, the lack of wholesome and quality film making that most people around the world can relate to is turning off audiences world-wide. Lastly, if I wasn't so intuned to the Star Wars story line, I would refuse to go because I am not in the least impressed with Lucas' recent tirade against GWB in Cannes. He may have impressed his socialistic friends over there but he did not impress me. While I am at it, I hope his new film projects bomb and I for one will not grace any of them with my presence. Currently the right in the US and hopefully in Canada too, are beginning to boycott certain films directed, produced and starring certain well known lefty actors as they well should. All I can say is this George Lucas, if you are such a socialist then give up some of the many many millions that you have or shut the F*ck up!
- Jacko's Receipts Could Exonerate Him
The "captors" of Janet Arvizo's kids, whom Arvizo called "the killers" on the stand, not only bought them books, but paid to replace their lost schoolbooks as well.
And they did this during what turned out to be the Arvizo family's last week at Michael Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch in March 2003.
link to above: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157331,00.html
Ah Mikey, if there was real justice in this world you would be behind bars right now. Anyone with a shred of intelligence and wanting to seek the truth while realizing the sneaky and ugly face of evil would know that you are a guilty mother-f*%ker!
But when you are famous and believed to be wealthy (Mikey is how shall we say it cash-challenged at the moment..), and part of the black community that believes its icons must be preserved at any cost, then you will get a 'get out of jail' free card. Your fans are obviously deluded because the circus that your life is and all that you stand for has turned off any truly sane or mature person long ago. I could barely stomach when OJ got off on a similar deal years ago, but I could rationalize it because it was between adults and sometimes people that play with fire deserve to get burned. Just remember that line OJ cause it will be your turn soon...
But that a pedophile like Mikey will be set loose to try his game again, and he will, makes me sick. That he paid some kid $20 Million US plus in the past to shut up about his predilection should open everyone's eyes and find the truth - but no, we all know that those that are hopelessly left-wing only want everybody to be happy, and thus everyone should do what they want to do, when they want to do it. Let bygones be bygones they say.
All I got to say is this: the first commandment of Satanists is this;
Do what thou wiltst is the whole of the law - Allister Crowley.
I am a Christian and not a satanist.
Here is some tidbits I have come across in the last few days:
- The upcoming EU vote in France;
"The latest French poll showed 52 percent of people who have decided how to vote will reject the constitution, but suggested one in four voters were still undecided.
"The vote on May 29 is going to be tight. Each of us has a historic ballot paper in their hand. So I appeal to people to be responsible," Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told the Center-Presse Poitiers newspaper, demanding a high turnout."
this is from http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050523/ts_nm/eu_constitution_france_dc_1
All I have to say is Go NO side! Turn down the commie globalists, save your country from socialistic infiltration and save your culture, language and heritage from destruction.
Apparently, the Dutch vote to be held days later is not going any better and all I have to add is that the Dutch can fool you sometime and this is good news.
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. Senate moderates struck a deal on Monday intended to avert a showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, a member of the bipartisan group of negotiators said. "We've got a deal," Nebraska Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson told reporters. Senators plan to announce details at a news conference shortly.
link to above:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005052319360002842904&dt=20050523193600&w=RTR&coview=
This is also good news for conservatives, as I now expect that conservative judges (most of them at least), will find their way to the supreme court of the US. Now if only we could do the same in Commie Kanada.
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's official - "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" is a mega, runaway, blockbuster, record-setting hit. However, the popularity of the George Lucas film didn't vanquish the overall box office slump that has plagued Hollywood for 13 straight weeks.
link to above: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050523/D8A9679O0.html
Is it not obvious in Hollywood what is going on? The public is getting tired of commie programming, occultic themes, and anti-US tirades. Furthermore, the lack of wholesome and quality film making that most people around the world can relate to is turning off audiences world-wide. Lastly, if I wasn't so intuned to the Star Wars story line, I would refuse to go because I am not in the least impressed with Lucas' recent tirade against GWB in Cannes. He may have impressed his socialistic friends over there but he did not impress me. While I am at it, I hope his new film projects bomb and I for one will not grace any of them with my presence. Currently the right in the US and hopefully in Canada too, are beginning to boycott certain films directed, produced and starring certain well known lefty actors as they well should. All I can say is this George Lucas, if you are such a socialist then give up some of the many many millions that you have or shut the F*ck up!
- Jacko's Receipts Could Exonerate Him
The "captors" of Janet Arvizo's kids, whom Arvizo called "the killers" on the stand, not only bought them books, but paid to replace their lost schoolbooks as well.
And they did this during what turned out to be the Arvizo family's last week at Michael Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch in March 2003.
link to above: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157331,00.html
Ah Mikey, if there was real justice in this world you would be behind bars right now. Anyone with a shred of intelligence and wanting to seek the truth while realizing the sneaky and ugly face of evil would know that you are a guilty mother-f*%ker!
But when you are famous and believed to be wealthy (Mikey is how shall we say it cash-challenged at the moment..), and part of the black community that believes its icons must be preserved at any cost, then you will get a 'get out of jail' free card. Your fans are obviously deluded because the circus that your life is and all that you stand for has turned off any truly sane or mature person long ago. I could barely stomach when OJ got off on a similar deal years ago, but I could rationalize it because it was between adults and sometimes people that play with fire deserve to get burned. Just remember that line OJ cause it will be your turn soon...
But that a pedophile like Mikey will be set loose to try his game again, and he will, makes me sick. That he paid some kid $20 Million US plus in the past to shut up about his predilection should open everyone's eyes and find the truth - but no, we all know that those that are hopelessly left-wing only want everybody to be happy, and thus everyone should do what they want to do, when they want to do it. Let bygones be bygones they say.
All I got to say is this: the first commandment of Satanists is this;
Do what thou wiltst is the whole of the law - Allister Crowley.
I am a Christian and not a satanist.
Belinda: Now a darling of the lefty-set.
Or, how does a single, swinging billionaire heiress get two thumbs up from Canada's reigning left-wing Queen?
I never met Linda McQuaig but I know she has been around seemingly forever. I think she lives in Edmonton and she has written books and been a journalist in several newspapers. I'm now seeing her in the Toronto (Red Star), for some reason. Normally I would have thought her too Left for the Star but they seem to be shifting left, lately.
Years ago when in University and taking poly sci courses, I was told that if you wanted to get an A' for a paper, a good move was to quote Linda McQuaig since she was held in such esteem by all the obviously left-wing poly-sci profs. In fact I think all the profs in University were left-wing now that I think of it, even the business ones (why in the hell would that be btw...?).
Well back to Belinda, it must be kinda a backhanded compliment to be now lauded by hard-core socialists that only months before would have hissed and spit at the mere mention of your name. Furthermore, the thought that such same socialists giving you compliments, Belinda I think would have made you feel uncomfortable... but then again I'm only guessing here.
The story title below was found on thestar.com May 22nd edition as an editorial.
Followed are snippets of the story (link to it by clicking the title of this blog..), with my comments:
'Linda McQuaig praises Stronach for allowing the budget to survive amid vicious attacks from outraged right'
By crossing the floor, Belinda Stronach — hero or political whore, depending on your perspective — allowed the budget to survive.
Ha Ha, good one Linda, not sure if that is a backhanded compliment or not..
With the extra $4.6 billion in social spending insisted on by the NDP, this is the most progressive federal budget in 30 years. So this is a very good thing — even if it turns out that Stronach defected because she couldn't think of a gentler way to dump Peter MacKay.
You know Linda, I'm sure that Barbelinda or stick chick' will find a nice upstanding commie to love amongst your crowd. He can do the dishes for her. But the real issue here is you and your boss Jack L. (Jackal), counting billions you ain't gonna see.
But when that same inexperienced little rich girl impulsively grabbed at a brass ring last week, no scornful epithet was spared — sell-out, whore, dipstick, political slattern, blonde ambition, Judas.
Suddenly her wealth became an issue.
The same crowd who never condemn the unfairness of inherited wealth, abruptly began disparaging Stronach for her inherited wealth.
Okay but why arn't you calling her a spoiled wealthy bitch you commie? Oh I forgot, you and Jackal think she is on your side. LOL!
Yet, for years the media encouraged a nakedly ambitious Paul Martin as he plotted against Jean Chrétien.
Nor did pundits accuse Martin of betraying his principles for abandoning the social spending promises he made in the 1993 Liberal Red Book.
Okay so I repeat myself Linda, why don't you criticize Barbelinda for being over ambitious? Why the silence about the ultra-sleaze recently from PMPM?
As long as politicians veer to the right, pundits seem satisfied they're acting on principle.
I never met Linda McQuaig but I know she has been around seemingly forever. I think she lives in Edmonton and she has written books and been a journalist in several newspapers. I'm now seeing her in the Toronto (Red Star), for some reason. Normally I would have thought her too Left for the Star but they seem to be shifting left, lately.
Years ago when in University and taking poly sci courses, I was told that if you wanted to get an A' for a paper, a good move was to quote Linda McQuaig since she was held in such esteem by all the obviously left-wing poly-sci profs. In fact I think all the profs in University were left-wing now that I think of it, even the business ones (why in the hell would that be btw...?).
Well back to Belinda, it must be kinda a backhanded compliment to be now lauded by hard-core socialists that only months before would have hissed and spit at the mere mention of your name. Furthermore, the thought that such same socialists giving you compliments, Belinda I think would have made you feel uncomfortable... but then again I'm only guessing here.
The story title below was found on thestar.com May 22nd edition as an editorial.
Followed are snippets of the story (link to it by clicking the title of this blog..), with my comments:
'Linda McQuaig praises Stronach for allowing the budget to survive amid vicious attacks from outraged right'
By crossing the floor, Belinda Stronach — hero or political whore, depending on your perspective — allowed the budget to survive.
Ha Ha, good one Linda, not sure if that is a backhanded compliment or not..
With the extra $4.6 billion in social spending insisted on by the NDP, this is the most progressive federal budget in 30 years. So this is a very good thing — even if it turns out that Stronach defected because she couldn't think of a gentler way to dump Peter MacKay.
You know Linda, I'm sure that Barbelinda or stick chick' will find a nice upstanding commie to love amongst your crowd. He can do the dishes for her. But the real issue here is you and your boss Jack L. (Jackal), counting billions you ain't gonna see.
But when that same inexperienced little rich girl impulsively grabbed at a brass ring last week, no scornful epithet was spared — sell-out, whore, dipstick, political slattern, blonde ambition, Judas.
Suddenly her wealth became an issue.
The same crowd who never condemn the unfairness of inherited wealth, abruptly began disparaging Stronach for her inherited wealth.
Okay but why arn't you calling her a spoiled wealthy bitch you commie? Oh I forgot, you and Jackal think she is on your side. LOL!
Yet, for years the media encouraged a nakedly ambitious Paul Martin as he plotted against Jean Chrétien.
Nor did pundits accuse Martin of betraying his principles for abandoning the social spending promises he made in the 1993 Liberal Red Book.
Okay so I repeat myself Linda, why don't you criticize Barbelinda for being over ambitious? Why the silence about the ultra-sleaze recently from PMPM?
As long as politicians veer to the right, pundits seem satisfied they're acting on principle.
As long as politicians are veering to the left they get a free ride from deep thinkers like you eh Linda? When was the last time that any sentient citizen in this country can remember that a politician actually dared drift to the right without being attacked mercilessly by a left-wing pitbull like you?
I suspect Stronach was motivated by a number of things: a deep dislike of Stephen Harper (imagine not warming to that guy!), a growing alienation from her party, a sense that she had no future there. It's even possible she was motivated, in part, by what she feels is good for the country.
This is the joke part of your story is it Linda? First of all your new found buddy PMPM is believed to be a liar by 2/3rds of the population. Secondly Harper is considered an academic compared to most politicians right now, I thought commies liked academics? Regarding stick chic' she was obviously a lefty trying to rebuild the party in her image, something she has no right to do. Why don't you and Jackal welcome her to the NDP? In regards her motivations Linda, they are Greed and well... Greed. What are yours? Oh I know achieving a socialistic nirvana wherby God is banished and people like you become God, am I wrong?
If she had simply quit the party and sat in obscurity as an independent, she would have eventually been forgiven.
Ah no, you are wrong. Besides have you apologized to her yet for your slagging of the monied class in this country? Better fess up Linda.. lucky for you she never read any of your propaganda as she quit University after 1 year or less.
But to grab a job on the Liberal front bench, and to do it so dramatically, when so much was at stake — why that's downright cocky.
Yeah it is when she didn't earn it and it just so happened to co-incide with a vote on a budget that Buzz Hargrove dictated to Jackal on a napkin at the Royal York and for which you will never see a dime - so who is the whore Linda?
No right-wing pundit is going to let some smart-ass little rich girl get away with all that.
You're right Linda, and now how do you feel after some badass right-winger like me has bitch-slapped you?
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