Rusty Idols: Wild Rose promises to waste your tax dollars…

…by attempting to discriminate against gays and women seeking reproductive services, guaranteed to cause legal challenges equally guaranteed to be decided against the Alberta Government after expensive legal battles with preordained results. So called ‘Conscience Rights’ have been decisively adjudicated.  People in government licensed positions like Marriage Commissioners MAY NOT

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Rusty Idols: Damn Peasants!

The Globe and Mail sniffs in outraged offense at the peons daring to inconvenience or insult their betters. Consider contacting the Globe and Mail and expressing how you feel about this display of patrician disdain.  Try to avoid any tempting four letter words. Hat tip to Dawg sdnxry5z7g

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Rusty Idols: Pandering to Hate

Throughout his career, whenever his job was on the line French president Nicolas Sarkozy has never shied away from pandering to the worst instincts of the French people. With the polls showing that the French are abandoning the political center and that the more xenophobic have begin to flock to

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Rusty Idols: How the mighty have fallen

Last year Gary Mar was the odds on favorite to win the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives and by extension the Premiership of the richest province in Canada. Now he’s been peremptorily and unceremoniously summoned back to Alberta from his consolation prize/exile job as Alberta’s Asian trade representative in

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Rusty Idols: Calling Out

Had one of his critics gone on a radio show and compared Rob Ford to Hitler the Canadian right wing blogosphere would be exploding with fury right now. That sound of crickets?  Its their reaction to Ford comparing his opposition to Joseph Stalin. sdnxry5z7g

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Rusty Idols: He’s back……

Wow, two months.  A longer time without blogging then I’ve had since I started Rusty Idols lo those many years ago.  What can I say?  Sometimes real life takes precedence. So while I’ve been gone Huffington Post Canada has continued to be an embarrassment and a disappointment.  Famously progressive in

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Rusty Idols: Afraid to call a Liar a Liar

The Montreal Gazette headline is ‘NDP accuses Tony Clement of doctoring Hansard’.  Wow, thinks the reader, that’s a pretty serious allegation, accusing someone of deliberately distorting the public record of Parliament is a big deal.  But look, the headline just says he’s just accused of it, so if its just

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Rusty Idols: Punished for Overreach

The number one crippling tactical flaw of the American Republican party is a tendency to drink their own kool-aid. Over and over they make the same mistake, confusing what they believe with what the majority of Americans believe.  They have managed through the enormous efforts of a right wing media

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