Baird was the attack dog for the Harper government at the UN yesterday with his meandering rant that read like it was written by the Israeli ministry of international propaganda. Claiming people and nations who didn’t support Israel were akin to appeas…
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DeSmogBlog: Saudi Arabia and Ethical Oil Group Go Head to Head Over Ads
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The controversial Ethical Oil ads, which enjoyed an exclusive run on the Oprah Winfrey Network at the end of August, have earned a new enemy: the …
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Pottery Barn Rule applies to Libya: We broke it, now we own it…
U.S. Marines board the Barbary Pirates’ gunboat in Tripoli harbour, Feb. 16, 1804, a big night for the United States Marine Corps. Things are more problematic for the United States and its NATO allies in Tripoli tonight. Below: Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that to end your Tuesday.
– The Ottawa Citizen tears a strip off the Cons’ G8 patronage and cover-up:
The more details emerge about the way the government funnelled money into the Muskoka region under the convenient category of “G8 legacy inf…
Scott's DiaTribes: I guess the ‘almighty dollar’ spoke
Apparently, a majority government has changed the Conservative’s attitudes towards China:
Canada’s relationship with China will be the “centrepiece” of its Asian diplomatic ties, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird on Wednesday… Pushed on whether the growing trade relationship with the economic juggernaut is coming at the cost of Canadian values such as human rights, Baird said Canada could have the best of both worlds. “Canadian interests and Canadian values – we’re not going to make a choice between one or the other,” Baird said. “Neither one is more important than the other.”
It’s a different stance than Prime Minister Stephen Harper took in 2006, following an apparent snub […]
Continue readingRedBedHead: China & Canada: It Was Never About Human Rights
There’s much foofaraw in the media about the visit by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to China. Are we now neglecting human rights in the interests of profit? Have we stopped supporting liberation struggles, like those of Tibet? NDP Foreign Affairs…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Our Foreign Affairs Minister Doesn’t Keep Up With World Events
Recently, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said: “Canada is emerging as a destination of choice for Chinese investment and Chinese investors and we welcome that”. He didn’t go into specifics beyond that and on its own merit, that’s not a news s…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: MacKay – Baird Photo : Caption Contest
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start it off. “Hmmmm… Why is
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: MacKay – Baird Photo : Caption Contest
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start it off. “Hmmmm… Why is
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: MacKay – Baird Photo : Caption Contest
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, when I seen this here pitcher of ol’ Johnny Baird eyeballin’ Petey MacKay, I figgered it was cryin’ out fer a caption contest. It ain’t much of a contest on accounta there ain’t any prizes. Here’s a couple to start …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: June 14, 2011
With the debate over Libya taking up the time for debate, yesterday didn’t see quite as much of a range of issues discussed as some previous days. However, there’s still plenty of material worth noting from the day’s events.The Big IssueObviously, the …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- When Paul Wells tears into a story, you can be assured of results that are both entertaining and frustrating. This week, he’s been hard at work pointing the complete lack of transparency and credibility in cuts which…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: We Don’t Want an Apology From Tony Clement. We Want an Investigation.
Embezzlement – To take (money, for example) for one’s own use in violation of a trust.Fraud – deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. I watched the news coverage l…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Is the G20 slush fund scandal the Harper Tory gun registry?
When the Auditor General first reported about the gun registry, she told Canadians that “What’s really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark” about the cost of building the long gun registry.
Then opposition Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkr…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Never Seen Anything Like It? I Have. Mike Harris all Over Again
Why can’t taxpayers press charges against politicians who steal our money?Tony Clement deliberately misled Parliament, suggesting that he needed money for border security and instead used it for his re-election campaign. And listening to John Baird tr…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Canada supports 1967 borders after all despite blocking this position at G8
Faced with significant pressure, Harper’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has affirmed that Canada does, in fact, support Obama’s position of using the 1967 borders with land swaps as a basis for a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine. In …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Harper’s anti-democratic senate appointments.
Harper has appointed three senate seats from among his party. Here is the kicker: these people just lost their election campaigns to be MP’s.
Opposed to supporting democratic influences it is actively rewarding loyal party members even thought they l…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: "Stay Calm, Be Brave, and Watch for the Signs"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I gave my ol’ blog a facelift yesterday so I’m all inspired an’ I figgered I’d enlighten my thousands an’ thousands o’ readers with some rural culture. Something I seen yesterday was ol’ Pitbull Baird runnin’ his stoopid…
Continue readingBaird Accuses Liberal MP of Lobbying
Bully Boy John Baird launched a scathing attack against Liberal MP Derek Lee today – going as far as accusing Lee of lobbying on behalf of (scary-sounding) “foreign organizations”. From what I can gather, Baird was blustering about Lee’s bio on the Sun & Partners site – a firm he
Continue readingThis week in Conservatives behaving badly…
– The Cons have stripped Helena Guergis of the chance to run in her riding without, she claims in a letter to the party, providing any reason for the decision. She is also scheduled to testify, along with her husband Rahim Jaffer, at the government operations committee on June 9th.
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