Why does the NDP regard Greece as a democratic success? Why?
Because – as frightened Greeks line up, right now, for basics like food – it isn’t a success. It is an abject failure. It is, as they say, a failed…
Musings
Dingwall
This is long overdue. The media went after him because he didn’t kiss their ass. The Martin folks went after him because he had been loyal to Chretien. So they…
My love letter to Maude, after spending the night at the airport
And I mean it in the nicest possible way.
The delicate dears at HuffPo are offended
By this: HuffPo doesn’t like what my former boss did. Poor babies. The above image, from February 1996, is of one Jean Chretien throttling a protester, natch, who had gotten…
Socialist barbarians at the gate of Fortress Liberal
Quote: Jennifer Hollett, the former MuchMusic VJ and now digital strategist, and Linda McQuaig, journalist and author, are the NDP candidates in the two federal ridings located in the heart…
BC-bound
It’s WestJet, however, so the chances of actually getting there are somewhere between slim and none. Happy Canada Day anyway, eh?
I’m happy folks are opposing the display of the Confederate flag
Good. But why not the pro-the pro-Nazi rag distributed by Canada Post, as well?
Trudeau, Dion and the Green Shift
Liberals still wince, a little bit, when reminded of Stephane Dion’s Green Shift. Some of them even attempt to rewrite history, and suggest they never supported it when it was…
Mulcair honeymoon ending in 5…4…3…
In this, the NDP leader frankly looks not unlike a megalomaniac without a shred of principle. But, then again, the main source is Dimitri Soudas (a guy who allegedly has…
She blew a big lead before, she’ll do it again
He’ll beat her.
Trudeau, CPC and the ISIS footage
There has been a ton of commentary about what the ad is. There hasn’t been a lot of commentary about what it isn’t. It isn’t: Proprietary: The CBC has tried…
#NDP trying to turn The Beard™ into an asset.
Smart. (Shows what I know.)
NDP spots political landmine, decides to dance on it
So: If you’ve got the dough, and the NDP does; If you have achieved historic levels of popularity due to the other parties’ spending scandals, and the NDP has; and…
Equality!
Justice Kennedy’s closing paragraph this morning. Read.
Nine Inch Not A Good Idea
It’s a lot of fun until voters start checking out the lyrics to NIN’s Closer, Naheed and Rachel!
My little love letter to Dean del Mastro
A few years back, when I was briefly helping Ignatieff, Dean del Mastro, Darryl Kramp et al. would take shots at me in the House of Commons. They’d do it…
These Are People Ewe Have Known
New tune by SFH, starring Steve Deceive and Bjorn von Flapjack III. Posted because (a) we are punk rock stars and will be able to quit our day jobs soon…
It’s Forum, but…
…it’s more or less consistent with other, recent, polls. There are a variety of reasons for it, some of which I’ve written about. But – as I asked a couple…