Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good Morning, I pondered about whether or not I should put Michael Moore’s latest up on the blog this morning. It is not pretty but it is the truth and with or without a cup of coffee it is what must be faced, really faced. Yes Canada,
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Trashy's World: Satire…
..or reality? You be the judge. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/01/nra-defends-right-to-own-politicians.html?mobify=0 (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: So what now, NRA?
Arm firefighters? This is so tragic. But what can you expect when you allow its citizenry to arm itself to the teeth? I’m so glad that my family and I live in Canada. (0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Kate Heartfield worries that the NRA knows exactly what it’s doing with its jaw-dropping response to the Newtown shootings – and that it should be all too familiar based on the tactics of the Harper Cons: It’s ridiculous, but ridiculous works, time and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Now, A Word From America’s Most Powerful Lobby
Such unctuous and pious hypocrisy I have rarely seen or heard: BTW, what law were the protesters breaking that got them ejected? Recommend this Post
Continue readingIn This Corner: Internal NRA memo on how to handle latest ‘situation’ is revealed.
INTERNAL MEMO TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION Urgent: Response to latest ‘incident’ Gentlemen: As you all know, the NRA is facing another situation due to the over enthusiastic application of the right to bear arms by a young man in the Connecticut area. In the
Continue readingTrashy's World: NOW watch the gun-lobby…
…propaganda machine shift into high gear! President Obama’s speech at the Newtown vigil was very, very good. One might even declare it to be great. But what will come of it? Will there be action on gun control in the States? Real action? Like banning assault weapons so they do not fall into the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Thing Americans Have To Worry About
Think how much worse things could be if guns killed people. But as we all know, thanks to the reassurance offered by the NRA, guns don’t kill people; people kill people. Recommend this Post
Continue readingbastard.logic: IOKIYAR to Infinity.
Ok, so I know IOKIYAR is (and has been for ages) SOP in DC. Still, the manner in which the Village took Rosengate oh-so seriously (and turned it up TO ELEVEN) but is now suddenly backpeddling re: The Nuge’s semi-coherent call for Obama’s assassination (gosh, campaign surrogates sure do say
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Larry Miller Needs to Stop Quoting the NRA and Ezra Levant Just Needs to STOP!
Last week, Conservative MP Larry Miller, compared support for the gun registry to Adolf Hitler and his apparent disarming of Germans. Most people were shocked but they shouldn’t have been. The NRA uses this argument all the time and before they pried the gun from his “cold, dead hands”, Charlton Heston
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Didn’t you used to be NDP Foreign Affairs critic?
We’d really like to take NDP leadership candidate Paul Dewar seriously. Really, we would. It’s hard to imagine a candidate who struggles in unscripted French being a credible face for a party that has the overwhelming majority of seats in francophone Quebec. But we were prepared to overlook that. The
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Not So Much Reform as Special Interest Groups
Jeffrey Simpson has an interesting column this week: Remember the Reformers? They’re still here In it he suggests that the Conservatives are now putting policies in place written for the Reform Party, two decades ago. However, while the cowboy law and order agenda was early Reform Party, most initiatives are
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Proof That Abolishing the Gun Registry Was Always For the NRA
Unless hunters and farmers are snipers, the Conservative abolishment of the gun registry was always, as suspected, for the NRA. ALWAYS! ALWAYS! ALWAYS! Not one single farmer or hunter ever crossed their mind, except to solicit funds or votes. NRA! NRA! NRA! The neocons turned down an NDP amendment to at
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Shoot ’em if You’re Got Your Ruger Mini-14 Semi-automatic Rifle With You
The Reformers’ scrapping of the gun registry was never about farmers. Never. When Stephen Harper drafted their policy back in the day, it was about creating what they called a “Canadian gun culture”. Tom Flanagan stated that Harper on…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The End of an Era and a New Beginning
In November of 2009, Bloc Quebecois MP Claude Guimond, was suffering from H1N1, the virus that was making people incredibly sick and costing lives.However, there was an important vote in the House of Commons that he didn’t want to miss, so the Bloc ask…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 11: God, Guns and Gays
Throughout the 1990s, especially the early years, the Canadian Reform Party and the American Republican Party were forging ties, that have proven to be lasting.They share policies, initiatives, staff, and even financing.One name that comes up ofte…
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