From a right wing columnist. This is becoming a recurring theme. If only Quebec wasn’t included and man the Conservatives would really have a majority! These guys are the PQ’s natural allies.
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They Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Why Merge With The Liberals?
If you can become the Liberal Party? How the NDP deals with the temptation to move right, will determine whether or not it will be worth supporting them, going forward.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Question About Questions
Isn’t it odd that the corporate press would rather pose questions to rookie opposition MP’s than to the guy who is actually running the country? Isn’t even odder that they want to impose the same standard on them as the Prime Minister?
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Conservative Economics
What would you do if you had a shaky economy with not great employment numbers and you want to balance the books? Well if you are the Harper government, you start by laying off 6000 people. Meanwhile, the owner class is doing very well, thanks very muc…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": On Studied Ignorance
As the Conservatives drift off to sleep, after an orgy of self-congratulation, they would do well to look at the following paragraph:
The Canadian middle class is in crisis. Each year, its share of our national income shrinks, relative to that of the…
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister": "Innovative Technology"
From the Star: Conservative fundraiser Senator Irving Gerstein says “innovative” technology is directly responsible for electing 40 MPs – a margin that handed the party its majority victory.
“Yes, you heard me. There are roughly 40 Conservati…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Like Any Good Farmer
Tony Clement has kept his eyes on his pork: Mr. Clement insisted that not a penny went missing and that the projects were all completed to the benefit of the Muskoka region, although he acknowledged the paperwork “could have been better.”That’s the…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": New Majority, Old Liars
Oink, Oink, Oink. Just think, Tony Clement is in control of all your money. Solid gold outhouses for everyone!*
*This offer is only good in Parry Sound-Muskoka. City dwellers especially, can suck it.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Dear Peasants
The latest missive from King Stephen’s court:“As the Prime Minister is prohibited from flying commercial for security reasons, he will compensate the government for the cost of an equivalent commercial flight to Boston,” Thursday’s note from the …
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Written Unselfconciously
By Susan Delacourt: Though I have immense respect for all the presenters this morning, I found myself a little puzzled by their description of what they describe as conservatism. In fact, as they were rhyming off “generally ascribed” Conservative value…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Entitled To His Entitlements
Wow, Harper has had a majority less than a month and he is already jet-setting. Wait until year four. He will be eating jello out of the navels of virgins! And what is all this crap about not “being allowed” to take commercial jets? I thought he was th…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Day Two
And the press is bored, poor lambs. They want their heckling. They want their politics WWE style.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Hit A Nerve
I like Brigette DePape. She pisses off the right people. The people she pisses off are Conservatives and Liberals who are offended by her use of the term, “Arab Spring”. “Surely”, they bleat, “we are not living in a dictatorship (well except for that w…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": How About "Lunch"?
The PM wants your help naming his new kitten.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Will You Break A Butterfly On A Wheel
There is a lot of clucking going on about Brigette DePape’s protest in the Senate. First, let me say, I admire the hell out of that kid. What she did took more courage than most of us possess. She put her future on the line, knowing the consequences, …
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Advice From The Street
I was reminded, as I read Jeffrey Simpson’s column today, of Mark 8:36-37: 36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whenever a conservative columni…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": One Government
Two foreign policies, one for Jewish voters and one for non-Jewish voters. Isn’t it fun when a government mixes domestic politics with foreign policy?
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Lost In Translation?
Impolitical has some questions for Brother James, whoever that is. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. 😉
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Harperites Faked A Climate Change Report You Say?
I’m shocked, shocked! Not really. In fact I would have been shocked if they told the truth. Cats are cats and sociopaths are sociopaths
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Canada’s Foreign Policy
Has been outsourced to Jerusalem. Can Canada be even considered a sovereign country anymore, or are we now a province of Israel? H/t to Buckdog.
Here, for the record, is Canada’s “official” policy. Note that it does mention the 1967 border as the key…
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