I apologize to regular readers for the reduced posting frequency here at BLY lately, but as you all know some things in life have greater priority. Meanwhile here’s a YouTube video from Tuesday’s Mercer Report. (H/T to Wilson and to Richco who sent me over to Stephen Taylor’s blog a different mission, where I happened to notice it on his Facebook sidebar.)
It’s hard to say if this latest clip will end up being as popular as Liberal – We’re Adaptable, but it sure is good for a laugh.
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Update:
We are seeing this Liberal waffling quite often lately. Iffy is grabbing onto the green life raft, but he may find that it has a slow leak. Witness the various pundits’ reactions at his plans on the environment:
Michael Ignatieff’s environmental vision — Let’s be more like China – Kelly McParland:
…Carbon capture? The Tories never shut up about carbon capture for God’s sake, and are criticized for being unrealistic about its potential. But the Liberal leader maintains carbon capture is his solution, and Canadian researchers and “pioneers” are already beavering away on it? Point of order Mr. Chairman, could the speaker choose one position and stick to it, instead of arguing both positions at once?
Liberals rediscover a love of green – Chantel Hebert:
…On Monday, Ignatieff accused the Conservatives of having had as many draft plans to meet Canada’s climate-change commitments as they have had ministers (for a total of three). Fair enough, but when all is said and done no party has shifted gears as dramatically as the Liberals over that same period...
…Overall, it reinforces the perception that this Liberal team is making up its script as it goes along and having its leader read it off the back of an envelope.
Iggy making Liberals feel a little green – Michael Harris:
…The real problem for Iggy in his policy speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade is credibility. He is the last person any self-respecting tree-hugger would choose to save the environment. After all, this is the same man who filled a 10-gallon hat full of praise for the infamous tar sands on the eve of a trip to Alberta…
And finally, Lorrie Goldstein has some tough questions for Iffy – Kyoto questions will dog Ignatieff. Here’s an example:
…How could your party in good conscience have committed Canada to Kyoto when Liberals knew that implementing it would place us at a huge economic disadvantage?
For example, the treaty makes no demands for any GHG reductions on the U.S., our largest trading partner and the world’s second-largest GHG emitter, which has refused to ratify Kyoto, going back to the Clinton-Gore administration, and still refuses to do so under Barack Obama. How could Liberals ratify Kyoto knowing it made no demands on China, the world’s largest GHG emitter, responsible, along with the U.S., for 40% of global emissions, compared to Canada’s 2%?
How could Liberals ratify Kyoto knowing it made no demands on our oil-producing competitors such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Mexico and Venezuela? Nor on India, South Korea, Brazil, Indonesia and scores of other nations.
What was your party thinking when it ratified Kyoto, since it obviously wasn’t thinking about the economic well-being of Canadians?
Also please check out Kissing off Kyoto – Norman Spector.
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Oh and apropos of absolutely nothing, I swear…
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Saturday Update: Michael Ignatieff should think outside the green box – Rex Murphy
And the following are links to great stories in that issue of Macleans that I told you all not to miss!!
From Mr. Angry to the piano player: Harper looking for harmony with voters – David Akin
Playing against type – John Geddes
He gets by with a little help from his friends – Kenneth Whyte
Mitchel Raphael on why the PM wanted his guests to leave - Macleans
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Sunday Update:
Obama and Harper: A Tale of Two Leaders – Pajamas media
Ignatieff’s ‘Clean Energy’ Proposal Bad Politics and Bad Policy – John Laforet
EXCLUSIVE: One-on-one with Harper – Global News
Mercer had another rant about your boy Harper. Did you happen to catch that one? He said Porky Pig was better qualified to manage the ecocnomy than Stephen Harper.I imagine anything critical of the devine one is strictly forbidden here in the echo chamber.
Here’s something to consider. With 33 million people, Canada produces 2% of the world’s GHG emissions. India,at over 1 billion, produces 3%. Can you see the problem here? Responsible environmental stewardship and creating jobs for tomorrow are hardly poison pills. Canadians won’t be fooled by the deceit of the CONservaturds forever. He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Poor Iggy, hitching himself to the same green wagon the wheels fell off under his hapless predecessor, Kyoto Dion. It could be he has been advised to do so in an attempt to regain ground he has lost and losing in Quebec. At this point he should be making his own decisions and putting out firm policies, telling us what he stands for, in other words, acting like a leader and PM in waiting.
Iggy may be a thinker of thoughts, even very deep thoughts but he sure appears to be a slow learner in the realm of politics. He’s both a waffler and a ditherer flailing about in a game that’s out of his league.
George @ 7:56 am, what did the Liberals under the man who signed Kyoto do to reduce GHG’s?
The AGW moonbat LizardMaySuzukiGore trolls are surfing/dropping their fetid, green manure. Do not respond.
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“None Dare Call It Fraud
Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or medical device and pharmaceutical companies doctored data on patients injured by their products.
Media frenzies, congressional hearings, regulatory investigations, fines and jail sentences would come faster than you can say Henry Waxman. If those same standards were applied to global warming alarmists, many of them would be fined, dismissed and imprisoned; sanity might prevail, and the House-Senate cap
Fortunately for alarmists, corporate standards do not apply – even though sloppiness, ineptitude, cherry-picking, exaggeration, deception, falsification, concealed or lost data, flawed studies and virtual fraud have become systemic and epidemic. Instead of being investigated and incarcerated, the perpetrators are revered and rewarded, receiving billions in research grants, mandates, subsidies and other profit-making opportunities.
On this bogus foundation Congress, EPA and the White House propose to legislate and regulate our nation’s energy and economic future. Understanding the scams is essential. Here are just a few of them.
Michael Mann’s hockey-stick-shaped historical temperature chart supposedly proved that twentieth century warming was “unprecedented” in the last 2000 years. After it became the centerpiece of the UN climate group’s 2001 Third Assessment Report, Canadian analysts Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre asked Mann to divulge his data and statistical algorithms. Mann refused. Ultimately, Mc-Mc, the National Science Foundation and investigators led by renowned statistician Edward Wegman found that the hockey stick was based on cherry-picked tree-ring data and a computer program that generated temperature spikes even when random numbers were fed into it.
This year, another “unprecedented” warming study went down in flames. Lead scientist Keith Briffa managed to keep his “lost” (destroyed?) all the original data.
The supposedly “final” text of the IPCC’s 1995 Second Assessment Report emphasized that no studies had found clear evidence that observed climate changes could be attributed to greenhouse gases or other manmade causes. However, without the authors’ and reviewers’ knowledge or approval, lead author Dr. Ben Santer and alarmist colleagues revised the text and inserted the infamous assertion that there is “a discernable human influence” on Earth’s climate.”
(More)
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/10/15/none_dare_call_it_fraud?page=full&comments=true
George heard the same CBC radio show that I heard…lol…
It was a Bollywood star throwing out the usual scaremongering (all due respect to Bollywood actors), and taking the government of Canada to task.
Interesting that one of the callers challenged him how Bollywood actors feel about the poverty in his home country.
I’m looking forward to the CPC taking a stand and speaking out against the propaganda wrt climate change.
Just 2 facts: arctic ice is not shrinking; polar bears are not facing extinction.
Many other facts avavilable from a variety of familiar sources.
It’s well worth remembering that the Waffle’s “We didn’t get the job done” was a direct response to Dion’s attempts to implement Kyoto.
So the classic Tory response would be: “You KNOW you didn’t get the job done then. Why do you think you can get it done now?”
Hey George, if you are going to come on board here, perhaps get your facts straight first.
‘A government report in August said India contributes around five percent to global carbon dioxide emissions’
And if the ‘recipient countries’ of our natural resources had to calculate the ghg’s in their worldly contributions,
Canada would shed 80% of our ghg/capita.
We produce what the world needs. And there is no shame in that.
The natural end result of the religion of socialism/greens.
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“Councillors Want Diapers, Plastics Kept Out of Plant
Two south-end City Councillors are urging the Ministry of Environment to keep diapers, plastic garbage bags and feminine sanitary products out of the Orgaworld facility.
In a letter to Environment Minister John Gerretsen, Diane Deans and Steve Desroches say they “strongly oppose the inclusion of these materials given the experiences of the organics facility in London.”
Orgaworld is appealing the Ministry of Environment’s ban on the products that was put in place in part because of complaints about odours at its London facility.
Deans and Desroches are urging the ministry to “rigorously defend and enforce” any conditions aimed at controlling and abating odours at the Ottawa facility.
Ottawa’s organics recycling program will not accept diapers, sanitary products or plastics.”
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=68669
Don’t miss this interview with our PM,
great pic!
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/15/he-gets-by-with-a-little-help-from-his-friends/
I am waiting for the PM to respond to iffy, when he mentions 3 ministers with, well, your party has had 3 leaders and an interm leader in the same period.
George @ 7:56 am:
You’re wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
India?
#4 on that list of countries by emissions at 5.3 %
Canada?
#8 on the same list at 1.9 %
So, try to get your facts straight.
And perhaps Joanne may want to check your real identity. To me you sound like the resident troll polluting Stephen Taylor’s blog.
I think George is suggesting that Canadians living in the deplorable, abject poverty that people in India do.
So… presumably, he’s the first one in line to give up his central heat, his house, running water, sewage, his job, his Prius and go live in a stick shack in a gutter with 14 of his closest family members?
Was there an announcement on Liberal climate policy?
I must have missed that particular coverage while watching the coverage of cheque logogate. Liberal spokesperson McGuinty was especially outraged as he compared the actions of the Conservatives to one-nation states in third world countries.
A panel of pundits declared, with a bit of a giggle, the actions of the Conservatives to be cheap and tawdry.
Maybe the climate policy story came on right after and I missed it because I was laughing so hard at the cheque logogate story.
I don’t think anyone in the Conservative government believes for a moment in climate change and I would love to have a senior government minister get up and say so. Maybe they could debate David Suzuki if Suzuki has calmed down sufficiently after his most recent arm-flailing angry rant on Power Play.
Warning, rant to follow.
I have just read articles by Susan Riley and Dan Tent, both suggesting that disaffected former Progressive Conservatives have never accepted PMSH and have gravitated to greens. They say it is time for a new party.
Who is behind this attempt to disunite the right. Peter MacKay was the leader of the PCs, so who is behind the attempt to discredit him re Afghan prisoners.
Is there a connection to all this.
Do those against so called torture in Afghan think we should have had our own gitmo. Do canadians really care if those trying to kill our troops get bad treatment when captured.
If Riley is right (I think her crystal ball is cracked and fogged up) are those upset tories, (Garth) who vote green, just malcontents, who would never be elected as dog catchers.
If they are the green voters it tells me they never wanted power, just trouble makers.
Is all this just an attempt to cause PMSH problems and keep him from a majority. All the faux scandals have failed so lets try something else.
Re the cheques, maybe it was wrong to use the logo, but those getting that money know it is government money. No party would deplete their coffers building roads and other projects. It is not adscam, or a relative of adscam.
We have more ridings than the opposition so of course they will get more money.
Would someone identify all the liberal ridingss or Bloc or NDP ridings that have gotten money.
How much money did liberals ever give to Alberta or the west in their years of power. Libs tried to break the west, as JC did not like Albertans, and said so. He failed.
Can we expect more of these divisive articles from the liberal media.
Would the libs be happy if all those stimulus cheques were cancelled and no more money handed out. After all, it was their demands that caused this deficit. Deficit or coalition (with higher deficit) that was the choice our PM had.
End of rant, and time for another coffee. Message to myself, never ever read NNW without having first had coffee.
George
Yes, we in the “Echo Chamber” we are all just parrotting the Conservative message of:
– We will do the best for our country by not driving ourselves into poverty and not hamstringing our businesses and not giving our government supreme power over every aspect of our lives. –
If we were free thinking Liberals we would all have differing opinions on what is best for the enviorment, we would all have a say in who was the leader of our party, we would all be making a principled stand in the House regardless of the possibility of forcing an election even if we didn’t stand a chance of winning it, we would not be changing our opinions about coalition governments every second day . . . . Oh Wait . . . . .
More about the Global warming BS and what it’s really all about:
http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/
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2% of the world’s GHG emissions! Whoooooooooo! 2% of a theory. I’m not too worried. I’m sure those on the prairies are sure worried about ‘global warming’ now, with all the early snow they had.
o/t Anyone know what’s going with the by-election campaigns?
Just curious. Haven’t heard anything.
I just realized how I missed the boat with the title of this post.
I should have called it “Knows not where he’s going to…” (from the Beatles’ Nowhere Man).
Big sigh…. another day what 1300 or so since the Conservatives came to power another “Liberal-Gate” faux outrage. Cardboard cheques! with logos! 200 of em! First the money wasen’t enough. Then it wasen’t going out fast enough. Then it caused a deficit, which of course was the Conservatives fault even though the Liberals and NDP demanded the stimulus and voted in support of it.
Meamwhile a needed crime bill is held up and gutted in the senate, thats news not this silly logo-bogo, my goodness they are actually giving Cheques to people!!
The Liberals are much more discreet, plain manila envelopes only, no press! Just leave it on the seat in a dingy, badly lit resturant, retreat to the washroom, and volia!
My dear wife was watching CTV and the logo-bogo scandal-du-jour came on I swear the “anchorman’s hair piece” was vibrating with glee! Aha! we have them at last! No wonder the Liberal numbers are in free fall this is pound your head against the wall silly. It is not a “real” cheque. Repeat 200 times.
In other news Mr Ignatieff is warming up the big yellow Kyoto bus to follow Mr Dion over the cliff? Is it just me or are the Liberals exhibiting peculiar lemming-like behavior?
MaryT @ 10:23 am
I hardly ever go to NNW. I go to Bourque. It’s a little easier on the blood pressure.
http://www.bourque.org/
Yeh, I think there are some who would like to see a division within Conservative family again. Remember that’s they way Chretien and the Libs won their majorities. They hope that would happen because they know that’s the only way they would even have hope of winning an election.
Just an attempt to divert attention away from the Lib problems. I think the Libs are the ones that are divided right now.
Don’t know if you saw PP yesterday with Jean Lapierre, he said the Liberals still have a lot of problems in Quebec. They have no organization, candidates are dropping off etc. so it sounds like things are not going that well in the Liberal family.
Hey George, the good folks in India don’t spend half the year trying to keep from freezing to death. They can also walk to the proverbial store. It takes big Ontario smokestacks to manufacture our means of transportation, the automobile. We can’t walk to the store in a country our size. Building oxcarts and rafts only takes a sharp axe and elbow grease.
Another poll goes horribly wrong.
http://www.sympatico.ca/
The top four GHG producing countries are China, US, India and Japan. Despite the economic slowdown, China and India are expected to increase their emissions this year. China will likely have emitted about 28% of the world’s GHG total this year, The US will follow at about 23%, India will contribute about 14%. The developing world will emit about 55% of the GHGs this year. By 2020, the developing countries will emit more GHGs than the total world does today if pre-meltdown trends resume.
You can always tell when a Tory Blogger gets under the skin and close to the truth of the Liguana’s cheerleaders. They show up on blogs, try to impress us and send us into a tailspin of shock and awe. George is obviously a legend in his own basement but you’ve got to feel sorry for the dudes like old George who just can’t wrap their heads around the fact that the best strategy for the Harper government is for Michael Ignatieff and co. to keep twisting in the wind.
I seem to recall also a few weeks ago a speech the Iggy gave somewhere – maybe it was whatever “think” his party had in Quebec? I forget exactly but I do remember that Iggy sucked up to Dion in a big way in that speech and said clearly that Dion was right about the Green Shift all along. That in fact he “had it right”.
Get that? He had it right a few weeks ago but didn’t get it done a few short years ago.
So George – I’m thinking the GPS skit way WAY more relative to Canadians than the Harper slag.
Our cable system doesn’t carry PP, so must catch it on playback.
Question for Gabby, can you give us any info on lib candidates dropping out in Quebec or ridings having a problem recruiting same.
Now for some happy news, on Sunday, Oct 19, parents of friends of ours will be celebrating 70 years of marriage. I wonder how many couples recently married will reach that milestone.
For the multi-tasking, audio junkies, listen to Darrell Bricker of Ipsos-Reid, Wed. on CFRA radio … here
He covers a lot of bases … what it will take for us to form a majority, regional trends, the latest green shift, Iggy’s women/men problems, Bob Rae undermining Iggy, etc and ends with this:
“The Liberals have played the one big card that they can play, relative to their party. That is to change leaders, and they’re right back where they were”
Anyway, re the logo kefuffle, my take is that we have to keep reminding ourselves that the ethical bar is set a lot higher for Conservatives than it is for Liberals. That’s just the way it is, it won’t change, so there’s no point complaining about it, or comparing what the CPC does now with what the LPC did before.
To use a baseball analogy, Jason Kenney once observed that the public doesn’t expect the CPC to bat 1000 (i.e. be perfect). I would carry that description further, and say the public has watched the LPC batting around .200 when in power, and now expect the CPC to bat around .700. The logo thing dragged our average down, so we need some base-hits to bring the average back up. Maybe Harper has to lay down the law on future photo-ops with big checks ?
What’s obnoxious?
Liberal Jeancula Ad$Cam Chretien Sidewinder: the link here*.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Offend the left-liberals some more.
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“Economic Action Plan website links to Harper tickling the ivories
Obnoxious: That’s right, a government website devoted to the Canadian Economic Action Plan linking to a video of Stephen Harper tickling the ivories.” (nnw)
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*China and the Asian triads affair in Canada Sidewinder Report …
The Sidewinder Report, as readers recall, examined links of Chinese-triads and the Chinese government to Canadian-based corporations. (The WatchDog)
http://www.primetimecrime.com/Articles/…/Chinaasiantriads.htm
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“Conservatives Flirt with Majority as Ignatieff Momentum Plummets
Angus Reid: The start of the fall season finds the governing Conservative Party with its biggest advantage since the October 2008 election… Con. 41%, Lib. 27%, NDP 16%, BQ 8%, Grn. 6%”
(nnw)
Support PM Harper. Do not succumb/yield to the Liberal propaganda.
More, please.
Paint Canada Blue.
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“Sandy: Logogate – Tory MP’s should smarten up!
October – 15 – 2009 Reporter: Sandy 13 Responses
It is well known that I am a Conservative government supporter and have been keeping a list of Harper government accomplishments as a show of that support. However, I sure don’t support this latest streak of partisanship when it comes to government business — by including a Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) logo on stimulus project presentation”
I’ve been disconnected for an entire week and missed MI’s new move. Is he really going green? Really? Heck, just slap a backpack on the guy and he is indistinguishable from Dion. Even worse, MI cannot hide behind crappy English as cover for his fumbles.
For a “smart” guy, MI is not very perceptive. The eco-gravy train has pretty much run out of steam. Right now, growing the economy is at the top of the list. A government-led green jobs program will only remind voters of the e-health scandal and other cases of government waste and corruption. Besides, the advancing science is coming from the skeptical side not the Gorites.
More troubling…MI once again he assumes the Canada is Naughty and Ignorant viewpoint. He could not be more wrong. We have nothing to be embarrassed about. Most countries would love to have a country as pristine as ours. Canada is a natural paradise full of clean water, air and wilderness. Perhaps MI needs to get out of Toronto and see for himself. Liberals also need to remember that our “dirty” industrial areas are what powers our economy and this money allows the the country to protect and conserve our environment. Hobbling the wealth generators with new taxes and regulations will not only make us poorer but also more polluted (see India, China, Russia,Africa etc).
The Red-Green Show Cabaret*: Velcome to Showbusiness.
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“Berlin brothel cuts rates for ‘green’ customers
Seattle Times ^ | 10/16/09 | Mary MacPherson Lane
BERLIN — Part of Berlin’s red-light scene is going green. One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door. “It’s very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is better for our environment,” said Thomas Goetz, who owns the brothel Maison d’Envie, or House of Desire. Local residents in Prenzlauer Berg – a part of former East Berlin now home to scores of trendy boutiques, restaurants and clubs – had staunchly supported the Green party in recent elections and have welcomed the bordello’s offer to emphasize the environment. The bordellos in the capital of Germany, where prostitution is legal, have seen business suffer with the global financial crisis. Patrons have become more frugal, and there are fewer potential customers coming to the city for business trips and conferences.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364040/posts
* “Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!
Im Cabaret, Au Cabaret, To Cabaret!
Meine Damen und Herren-
Mes dames et Messieurs-
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Guten Abend! Bon Soir! Good Evening!
Wie geht’s? Comment sa va?
Do you feel good?
Ich bin eur confrencier!
Je suis votre compère,
I am you host!”
Piano Man in TO today.
More, please.
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“have a look at the Vid on ctv.ca for the Federal Annoucement funding for the Toronto Library
The annoucement’s made by the PM & Mayor are what Canadians need to see & hear, Different levels of Govt working together for all Canadians. Mayor Miller has praise for the PM Stephen Harper & The PM also Recipicates what can be done when working together.
Have a look also at the Vid on The PM takes Questions, At the end a reporter ask’s about Opposition Allegations of Federal funding going more to Tory ridings, The PM gives a straight forward answer, The crowd appreciates the answer with applause & you can hear Mayor Miller in the background saying: Good Answer. Then at the end of the wrap up Mayor Miller goes to PM Harper to shake hands the Mic is still on And again you hear Mayor Miller say: That was a great answer.
The PM basicaly said if the Opposition MP’s would get off their Duffs and try working for their constituents & stop the Belly Aching More would get done in these Uncertain time’s . Anyways the answer was so impressive the crowd applauded loudly & Miller was very Impressed. Just another reason Why Canadians are appreciating the PM more & more.
Posted by: bryanr | October 16, 2009 4:25 PM”
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Add: to the prior Post When asked about Tory Favorites, The PM drew great laughter & applause also more or less saying to the Reporter, Iam here in the Middle of Toronto, how many tory ridings here in Toronto. Then indicating 4 major annoucements 3 in Opposition Ridings, Mayor Miller points out that over 500 projects with help from the feds.for infrastructure in Toronto Miller greatly thanks the PM on behalf of all of Toronto.
Again Great Vid a must view at CTV.ca.
Posted by: bryanr | October 16, 2009 4:38 PM”
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Wonder why the media did not give a lot of coverage to Iffy’s speech in Vancouver. Could it be there was a crowd of about 300, and very little, if any applause, either during or at the end. Another dud.
Funny how Iffy goes green and sets out a carbon capture and green jobs policy,
on the same day PMSH ribbon cuts…the first carbon capture (large scale) in the world, and it’s in Alberta.
This lean coal technology will be sold worldwide.
http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/canada/article/339443–pm-says-canada-can-be-carbon-capture-world-leader-announces-clean-coal-project
The Liebral GPS is another indicator of a wreck in-the-making for a wayward party which has run the gamut a of lack of leadership and direction from the top down. If anyone ever expected them to actually get up off the mat after ABSCAM is living in a world of total disillusionment. Ever since the ratchet-jawed Frankenstein who led them during their previous dynasty and subsequent shipwreck, they have embarked upon a meandering journey of snipe and run, with no direction, no policies, and no platform. Their only strategy has been to reach up and try to pull down. In so doing, these Liebrals, with the self-acclaimed great Igneutered One orchestrating, (let him play a stringed instrument instead)
have stooped to the lowest of lows, trying to achieve power via whatever avenue appears before them, just like in Mercer’s video. If it’s through the Coalition of Stooges or a threat to bring down the House, it’s all master trickery and so typical of the ill-willed infestation of the LPC. They are growing more and more indignant and impatient sitting on the “sidelines”. They want power, and will “go for it”, apparently on auto-pilot, abandoning all common sense and relying on their faulty-calibrated Liebral GPS.
There are two posts at “Watts Up With That” from Oct 16 that some may find interesting. One of them shows over 500 million years of trends in temperature, sea level, and CO2 levels from recent research. What we consider normal is actually quite unusual.
The second post is about Lord Moncton’s opinion of the proposed climate treaty to be discussed at Copenhagen in December. In his opinion climate is just an excuse for the real purpose.
I am waiting for the PM to respond to iffy, when he mentions 3 ministers with, well, your party has had 3 leaders and an interm leader in the same period.
Zing! Well said, Mary T.
Swift, thanks for the info in your comments. I wish I had more time to pursue this.
maz2 says:
October 16, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Piano Man in TO today.
More, please.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi
Maz2, I tried entering this particular website you wrote but for some reason or other I can’t enter because of some wrong id. Is there another way.
Wow, that performance of the PM is still being talked about.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Harper+looking+harmony+with+voters/2114653/story.html
Oh, by the way, Joanne, I picked up copy of the latest Macleans yesterday. You are right, it is a keeper. Especially the pics are something every Canadian should see.
Also a great but long article by Andrew Coyne on the behind the scenes about how the central bankers and finance ministers took care of this ecomonic meltdown mess. Very interesting.
I recommend to everybody, pick up a copy.
“Obama and Harper: A Tale of Two Leaders
The American president gets accolades; the Canadian prime minister gets results.”
“There is a powerful irony at work here.
President Obama is well on his way to ruining the American economy and reducing the nation’s defensive posture before an increasingly threatening world.
The evidence for so unflattering an assessment is bluntly undeniable, at least for those who have managed to resist hypnosis.
Yet he is staunchly defended by the MSM, receives accolades from a vast and robust constituency of devoted supporters, including the Oslo bunch, and is crowned by a nimbus of invincibility.
Prime Minister Harper, on the other hand, finds himself constantly struggling to maintain a minority government, faces the prospect of no-confidence motions against his administration and ad hoc coalitions of the disgruntled, and is regarded by the teeming number of leftist nannies in this country as “scary” and of nurturing a “secret agenda” — an agenda, be it said, which is transparently conservative and responsible. If there is a scary and secret agenda to be feared, it is not here.” (More)
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-harper-a-tale-of-two-leaders/
“David Solway is a Canadian poet and essayist. He is the author of The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity, and is currently working on a sequel, Living in the Valley of Shmoon. His new book on Jewish and Israeli themes, Hear, O Israel!, has just been released by Mantua Books.”
Maz2, correct, NBC sells cups, jerseys, with OBAMA face on it.
aThis is my deepest feeling
The cnadian National media and opposition parties will not mind that OBAMA becomes the president of not only USA but of canada as well.
The media here reek with OBAMA yet OBAMA is doing beyond what GWB will ever do. I see the HUGO CHAVEZ style government crawling very slowly and before you know it you are trapped.
Christianity and God are constantly under attack.
Control of some media are already taking over by OBAMA; whereas only a handful of other media are filling in what is being kept as a ‘secret’ from the public.
The media, intentionally or unintentionally, are messing with MI’s mind with their conflicting advice and constant criticism. At this point, MI seems confused and desperate enough to try something, anything to slow his descent into failure. So now, jumping from one bad idea to another is becoming his trademark. Unless he wants to quit, he better learn to tune out the background noise, accept that the Liberals are not the government-in-waiting and go about rebuilding the party properly. The Liberals are long overdue for a change in their organization. Too much power is concentrated in too few hands. Those hands, along with most of the msm, are increasingly out of touch with voters outside of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
Realistically, I don’t think MI can successfully pull off the rejuvenation that the Liberal Party needs. He is too weak of a leader to jettison the troublemakers. Additionally, his perspective of the LPC is rooted in the past and all of his “new” ideas are heavily influenced by the LPC’s glory days. This carries the risk of being seen as stale and outdated “been there, done that” ideas.
Take a look at a ‘scary’ man .
http://macleans.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/stephen_harper1.jpg
Wow, Jen, that’s really scary!
Seriously, it’s a great picture, where do you find such gems?
Re: Jen “Take a look at a “scary” man.
Hell yes Jen….and WTF?….that “scary” man is promoting the Liberal party. Must be, after all he’s wearing their party colours!! Quick get Kinsella on that will’ya?
The thing with quicksand is that the more you struggle, the faster you sink. But even if you don’t struggle, you stay stuck until your die. Unless, of course, you are rescued, which in Ignatieff’s case, isn’t about to happen. Ignatieff brought the Liberals to the edge of the cliff by withdrawing support from the government in any way shape or form. Now he is forced to back off even that, but the bridge is gone – into the quicksand he goes. And there are an increasing amount of people in the LPC right now that would push Ignatieff down deeper in their scramble to get out, or surreptitiously push down with the heel of their boot. I don’t see anyone offering him a vine, least of all those with leadership ambitions of their own.
Akin and others in the media seem so surprised that PMSH good relax, have fun and that he had such talent. Where have they been? They were so busy spinning the ‘angry, scary, cold’ line that they started believing it. Most of us here were quite familiar with his talent and that he was a warm friendly, family man. He just did not play kissy face with the media like Cretin and Martin did.Remember after the ’06 election Weston and others were saying it would come back to bite him? Well…looks like PMSH has come out the winner….the PPG and company have eggs on their face, scrambling trying to make their spin stick.
It’s not working.
Awesome picture Jen!!
Very good points LC Bennett
Even John Laforet, a former Liberal riding president, rips Iffy apart on his “staggering ignorance on the ‘clean energy’ file.