So I watched this 8 minute video version of Harper’s speech to caucus yesterday. It was, as many reports have recounted, packed with a consistent economic focus. Of course. He really doesn’t seem to enjoy talking about anything else and that’s the turf they want everyone focused on. But the
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The Scott Ross: No Party Closer To Hitler Than Conservatives
It’s odd that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper claimed last week that the NDP were soft on Naziism in 1939, not only because it was erroneous, but because of all the parties that were soft on the Third Reich it was the Conservative Party that actually funded fascists in Canada
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Two Months
Our country is taking its sweet time to dole out justice to the culprits behind the illegal election robocalls one year ago. It’s been two months since this story came out involving Andrew Prescott, and no charges are pending for even the CPC Guelph campaign for violating disclosure rules. Examples
Continue readingTrashy's World: One year on…
One year ago today, a minority of Canadians elected a Harper majority government. So, what have I learned? I learned that growing pot is a worse crime than being a pedophile. That it’s OK to force people to register a car, but an affront to democracy to do so for
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Springtime for Hitler in Ottawa
Last week, our favourite sweatervest hoarding Prime Minister made the world’s laziest Nazi/Hitler invocation during Question Period. This is the latest in a string of Hitler references made by sundry politicos in Ottawa during 2012, and we’re not even half way through the year. His gaffe brought jeers and
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Bob Dylan’s Ladder of the Law and Rupert Murdoch
The bombshell findings of the UK Parliamentary Committee that heard the two Murdochs testify about their role and their innocence in the phone hacking case, gave rise to Bob Dylan being quoted: Bob Dylan The report’s findings – including the claim that Rupert Murdoch was “not a fit person” to
Continue readingImpolitical: Languages shmanguages
Today in Harper government infractions: “Ottawa blâmé par le commissaire aux langues officielles.” Le gouvernement Harper n’a pas respecté la Loi sur les langues officielles en nommant l’anglophone unilingue Michael Ferguson au poste névralgique de vérificateur général, révèle un rapport du commissaire aux langues officielles obtenu en exclusivité par La
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Story Bout A Man Named Steve
Steve Harper, oil man, with a cement pool.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
… no particular theme edition… ================================================================================== A big problem with social media is that it gives idiots, racists, bigots, misogynists, etc., a tool to spew their ignorant venom. And such was the case the other night after Joel Ward scored in OT to knock the Bruins put of the NHL
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Studying Cartoon #HarperHistory
The NDP broke up The Beatles and convinced Nickelback to get together. #HarperHistory— Joseph Uranowski (@Uranowski) April 27, 2012 There are many examples on Twitter of people mocking Stephen Harper’s bizarre claim today that the NDP didn’t support fighting Hitler. “How could they?” sane and educated people would ask incredulously,
Continue readingImpolitical: Late night
This is not the sexy issue of the day but it’s a biggie. The F-35 scandal saw new key information disclosed on what the Prime Minister and cabinet knew about the price of the deal and when they knew it. You’d never know that of course from the Prime Ministerial
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Exxon Valdez? Child’s Play.
For decades we’ve used the Exxon Valdez incident to define oil supertanker disaster. Yet what Harper is planning for coastal BC, south and north, will make the Exxon Valdez disaster a perversely fond memory. Let’s get one thing straight right now. When you introduce several hundred mega-supertanker sailings through treacherous
Continue readingTrashy's World: No one is really surprised, right?
That Harper is opening the door leading down a right-to-choose debate corridor? If you are, or if you really think that this is an innocent Private Member Motion to simply discuss updating the “when does life begin” law, then you need to give your head a shake. Of course, the
Continue readingImpolitical: Against the Woodworth motion
Obviously, I am against the motion brought forth by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth who is indeed reopening the abortion debate, despite Harper’s blather that his government would not do so. That was lip service and to be expected. If Mr. Harper didn’t want to reopen the debate and stir up
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s Afghan Surprise – We’re In Afghanistan Until 2016.
Okay, we’re supposed to clear out in 2014, right? Maybe, maybe not. Now, according to CBC, Harper is saying he’ll examine all options when the deadline nears. Wait a minute. 2014 is no longer a deadline for the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. It’s now Harper’s deadline to decide
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Seriously, We Have to Fight Back
Gagging the armed forces, gagging the public service and, now, sending minders to shadow government scientists at an international forum, this is too much. We are ruled by a regime. It has institutionalized the suppression of democracy in Canada. It has done it for so long and so persistently that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: The NDP and Liberals were #RoboConned
A spokesman for the Conservative Party attacked Frank Graves, the head of Ekos, for donating to the Liberals in the past. “Frank Graves … is the same pollster who predicted an NDP government last year,” Fred Delorey said in an email to CBC News. Oh, sorry Fred. If Frank had
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hey Chairman Harper, We’re Not North Korea Yet
In North Korea it’s standard for visiting journalists to be accompanied by North Korean ‘minders’ who keep and eye on where they go and who they talk to. These minders also make sure visitors don’t hear what they don’t want them to hear. Stephen Harper has obvious North Korean instincts
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Non-Conservatives Targeted, Poll Confirms
A “statistically significant” number of non-Conservative voters were targeted by illegal robocalls before and during last year’s general election. A well known polling firm, EKOS was hired to determine samples of people in both ridings known to have got robocalls, and in ridings unsuspected of targeted voter suppression. Liberals and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Does Harper Hate British Columbia?
Don’t answer that, it’s a rhetorical question. Early last week it was announced that Harper’s EnviroCan was relocating its Pacific emergency oil spill operations to Quebec which a suspicious mind might connect somehow to Harper’s insane obsession with ramping up British Columbia’s probability of massive oil spills from his bitumen
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