I love this stuff. It really is priceless. The first major action of the Liberal Party of Canada in its process of rejuvenation is to bypass their own constitution. Classic! The Liberal Party of Canada wants to recreate itself and its first message is …
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kirbycairo: The Future is Coming and Conservatives are losing the Struggle. . . .
Here are a few of the reasons that the Conservative Party is a sad and hopeless relic. Though it managed to secure a small majority, a few years of the Government in this position will be enough to demonstrate why this party will be short lived.
– The…
Continue readingkirbycairo: What do you think of Young MPs?
I must say that the second most significant disappointment, after the election of a fascist majority, is the attacks on young MPs that are going on everywhere.
Next time you wonder why people between the ages of 18 and 25 don’t vote just think of all …
Continue readingkirbycairo: A few Quick thoughts on the Liberal Predicament. . . . .
I have read a lot of bloggers, journalists, and radio call-in Liberals for a few days now. They have all sorts of reasons for the Liberal defeat and ideas about building it back to an important political party.
Let me pare it down to the simplest form…
Continue readingkirbycairo: We’ll change henceforth the old tradition. . . . .
From Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy –
Stand ye calm and resolute,
Like a forest close and mute,
With folded arms and looks which are
Weapons of unvanquished war.
And if then the tyrants dare,
Let them ride among you there,
Slash, and stab, and maim, and y…
kirbycairo: A few thoughts on the so-called Election. . . . .
Well I personally think the prospect of a Harper majority is deeply frightening. Harper has had ties to racist groups, he has been head of the largest organization in the country that opposes universal medical care (and social programs in general), he …
Continue readingkirbycairo: Dreamers of Dreams!!!!!!!
“We are the Music-Makers and we are the Dreamers of Dreams!”
Vote for Change folks. Vote for a better world in which people, not corporations, really matter!
In the words of Percy Shelley, the greatest poet in the English language, ‘the po…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Gilles Duceppe has class if you ask me. . . .
Once again, I am impressed by the straightforward attitude of Gilles Duceppe. Even though he has the most to lose from the new popularity of the NDP, when Duceppe was asked what he thought of the Jack Layton story that emerged yesterday, Duceppe simply…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Does our Prime Minister believe in the Law???
I have now watched the exchange between Harper and CBC reporter Terry Milewski a few times. Despite what Harper suggests, Milewski is not asking the Prime Minister to answer a hypothetical question. Rather, he is asking him to answer a simple legal que…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Answer the Question Mr. Harper. . . .
As I, and other progressive bloggers, have been saying for years now, Harper has no respect for the Law or the constitution. Not that long ago, when the idea of an opposition threatened, John Baird made cryptic remarks to Don Newman about what the part…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Ignatieff has done well, and so has Jack Layton. . . .
I have been reading the Liberal Bloggers very closely over the past couple of weeks and have watched their reaction to the supposed surge in the NDP and the failure of their own party. And I must say for the most part I am deeply disappointed. There ar…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Not to lose, is the Strategy of a Loser. . .
This article in the Globe (shame on them for endorsing Harper!), asks “Will Harper Regret the Strategy of Running Not to Lose?” It is an interesting article that makes some very cogent points.
As I was reading the article it struck me how similar this…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Ha, Ha . . . . . . .
Bite me Tory hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Thanks to Buckdog)
Continue readingkirbycairo: A brief glimpse of Tory Hypocrisy and Hyperbole. . . .
One need not be a particularly astute political observer to know that the Conservatives, as a general rule, only like democracy when it gives them the results they desire. It is no surprise then that as the NDP surges in the polls, Westerners suddenly …
Continue readingkirbycairo: Why I don’t vote for the Green Party. . . .
I have a lot of sympathy for the Green Party on many issues. I essentially believe that Canada should have little or no standing military, we should have a much stronger education system, I think you might as well legalize marijuana at this point, etc,…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Stop the Fear-Mongering folks. . . .
To all those hacks out there who love to spread fear concerning the financial “chaos” that they say would be caused by having the NDP anywhere close to power. Take a look at the records. Provincial NDP governments have a good record of balancing budget…
Continue readingkirbycairo: A pre-mortem, post-mortem. . . . .
I have said a number of times that the Liberals are going to lose this election because they failed to present themselves as a meaningful alternative to the Conservatives.
But there are, I think, other significant reasons that they have failed to make…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Give me a Break already with William And Kate. . . . !
Can someone tell me why the Flat Earth Society has withered and died but the British Royal family lives on? I mean they are both equally antiquated and ridiculous institutions! Watching all the hubbub about the royal wedding, any vaguely rational perso…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Who would really be handing Harper a Majority????
I must say that I am baffled by the arguments that many Liberals are putting forward in which they condemn Layton and the NDP as somehow ‘handing Harper a majority.’ For one thing it seems a distinctly anti-democratic argument, very simpilar to the one…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Marxism and the Continued Cold-War Rhetoric of the Right. . . . .
Am I the only one who is amazed by the Conservatives who condemn fairly mainstream centrists and mild leftists with epithets such as “Marxist” and “Communist” because they are vaguely critical of the extremes of neo-liberalsim and afraid of the implica…
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