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Archive for July 26th, 2007

Colle resigns.

Update: (10 p.m.) Wow. I got a lot of mileage out of this little post. 21 comments already! It shows that you don’t have to be long-winded to attract debate. Actually, I had to go out for the evening, but managed to type out those two words and hit ‘publish’ before dashing out the door. See how dedicated I am?

Anyway, here are a few more links:

Exactly Right - Once a Liberal, Always a thief. (Yikes, that’s a bit harsh, isn’t it?)

Crux-of-the-Matter - The ON Liberal Sponsorship Scandal.

Star - Minister quits over grants. Full text of report here.

Sun - Liberal Minister Coll resigns. (While you’re at it, check out the on-line poll).

I try really hard to avoid reading James Travers. His columns are so unabashedly biased that I can barely stand to glance at the title. Sandy knows what I’m talking about.

However, today’s opinion piece in the red Star (”Human factor transcends dogma in gun debate“) is way over the top. In the Record, the same pile of vitriolic rubbish trying to pass for journalism is titled, “Harper turns blind eye to the compassion of gun control”, which is what stopped me from glossing over his rhetoric today.

If I am understanding this correctly, Travers’ argument is that Stephen Harper doesn’t feel the pain of those who have lost loved ones in gun shootings, and the evidence of this is because he is not entertaining the thought of making guns unavailable to legal, law-abiding citizens who properly register and store their guns safely.

This according to Travers, shows Harper to be without empathy for the family and friends of Ephraim Brown and others.

Harper is supposedly too cerebral and doesn’t have a heart.

This is so low, I can barely stand to type these words. (Note to self: Switch to decaff.)

I would suggest that it may be more the left-wing, knee-jerk reaction to a call to arms against guns rather than criminals, which is showing more of a lack of empathy. It happens again and again. And it will happen the next time.

Let’s get the criminals off the street and keep them off. Make the judicial system more accountable for revolving door courtrooms, bail and light sentences.

But it’s just way too easy to blame the guns and feel so smug and self-righteous.

“David Pretlove, the interim financial director of the Liberal Party of Canada’s Ontario wing, offered to reimburse the Elgin-Middlesex-London Riding Association [EMLFLA ] with party funds if it took no further action against the alleged fraudster, Suzan Pawlak.” - National Post.

Mike Crawley, president of the LPC (Ontario), has this to say about Mr. Pretlove, who allegedly acted without party approval:

“He is an individual of very sound judgment and is a nice person, and unfortunately, the latter characteristic took hold.”

Yes, indeed. Too bad Mr. Pretlove is so nice. That would explain it.

Then we have Ms. Pawlak’s former boss, Gar Knutson, painting a picture of Ms. Pawlak as “a single mother of modest means”, and that:

“It’s out of character, but sometimes good people make bad decisions.”

Oh, please. A single mom who ‘made a bad decision’ has now been arrested for allegedly stealing more than $13,000.

Gee, I mean, it wasn’t her fault right? Weren’t all the cards stacked against her? How did she have a chance? We should have provided a basketball court. We are to blame, not her.

In La-la Liberal land, only guns are bad. People are nice and good.

Obviously, they haven’t learned a thing.