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Author: Simon

June 3, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: The New Speaker and the Bible Wars

Uh oh. More evidence that everything young isn’t good.  We’ve got the youngest Speaker of the House of Commons. 

But he’s an anti-choice fanatic, and a homophobe.

And how do I know this since the MSM won’t tell me? Because he’s got the…

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June 2, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Humble Pie Show

Well I see it was Glorious Majority Day at the Con caucus today.

A buoyant Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fresh off a majority election win, returned to Parliament Hill Wednesday declaring that the “Conservative party is Canada’s p…

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June 1, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Surviving in the Progressive Blogosphere

Oh no. I’m afraid my campaign to bring a non-partisan point of view to the progressive blogosphere has met with a bruising setback.

A sucker punch from Sister Sage.

Last, but certainly not least, Simon, I have always liked your b…

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May 31, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: The Liberals and the Quebec Question

It’s a debate you’d expect to hear at a party like this one. But it’s one being hoisted upon us by the Liberal Party, which only makes it more absurd.

With Jeff Jedras as the Mad Hatter spouting this nonsense.

Now, you could try to ar…

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May 30, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: What do the Cons and the Saudis Have in Common?

They both hate high gas prices.

For all the wrong reasons.

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don’t accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country’s…

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May 29, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Blogging and the Planet of the Apes

A few weeks ago I ran this video by Bruno Mars, The Lazy Song.

I can’t remember why, except that it had something to do with comparing Stephen Harper’s Thousand Year Majority to the Planet of the Apes.

And was yet another hopeless attempt to try …

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May 29, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Stooge Harper

Well at least now we know who is the architect of Canada’s Middle East policy, the Israeli right-wing blowhard Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.

At the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper thwart…

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May 28, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: The Desperate Liberals and the Horny Peacock

Oh boy. Sometimes it’s not easy to be a Canadian eh?There I was this afternoon at the old farm, enjoying a quiet moment with the ducks, and thinking: Oh how lucky I am to live in sleepy old Canada.Even if now it’s a dictatorship, and we’…

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May 27, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: The Liberals and the Clouds of Spring

Look I realize it’s been a wet Spring eh? There has been a cloud hanging over all our heads since Stephen Harper won his majority. And that if you’re a Liberal that cloud is even bigger than the one that floated over my house the other day.I …

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May 26, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Jimbo Flaherty and the Killer Budget

Oh no. I see the nasty Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty has morphed into his even more evil cousin. After saying his budget would be the same as the last one, now he says it includes bribing Quebec, and killing the Liberal Party.”Basically this is the Mar…

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May 25, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: The Cons and the Corruption of Canada

Start with a government that practically bought itself a majority with its porky action plan. A government that lies, cheats, and covers up everything.A government that wants to jail thousands of young Canadians for the “crime” of  smoking marijua…

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May 24, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Bradley Manning: The Angry Gay Soldier

On Thursday it will be one year since Bradley Manning was arrested by the U.S. military and accused of leaking classified documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.The massive leak revealed war crimes, embarrassed the rich and the powerful, and is c…

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May 24, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: The Grim Queen and the Two Four Holiday

Well if you live in English Canada today was Victoria Day. The day when you remember the grim old Queen, who came to symbolize both sexual repression and hypocrisy.The one who gave royal assent to anti-gay laws that sent Oscar Wilde to prison. And stil…

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May 22, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Omar Khadr and the Airport Outrage

As if it wasn’t bad enough that two Canadian governments allowed the war criminals at the Pentagon to imprison and torture a Canadian child soldier in a place like Guantanamo.As if it wasn’t disgraceful enough that so few Canadians spoke out against th…

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May 22, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Harold Camping and the Fleecing of the Faithful

Oh boy. What a bummer. I waited all day for The Rapture, clinging to the top of a tree with a butterfly net, hoping to catch Jason Kenney as he floated by. But it never  happened.Except in Iceland.And while some were exultant.After …

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May 22, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Kochtopus

They say hogs of a feather flock together, so try this porky gang out for size. Stephen Harper, the Dirty Oils Sands and the Kochtopus.If the massive Keystone XL pipeline project gets fast-tracked, as some members of congress want, the far-ri…

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May 21, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: How I’m Preparing for the End of the World

Well as you probably know by now the world is going to end tomorrow. So I have issued my final orders for tomorrow’s Rapture Rupture Beach Party. Bring your own protective head gear and wooden spears in case Jason Kenney falls out of the sky….

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May 20, 2011 Simon

Montreal Simon: Tony Clement and the Chainsaw Massacre

Only Stephen Harper’s tormented mind could have conjured up such a ghastly apparition. The sight of the bumbling idiot Tony Clement coming after us with a humming chainsaw.Mr. Clement says there will be no backing down…“Yeah, …

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