First Jim Curran, and now this;
“If this gets out, it could mean the end of the Liberal Party of Canada,” warned a local politico, requesting anonymity.
And what, pray tell, has the Grits so up in arms? It seems that when Stéphane Dion touched down in Winnipeg last month, he and his entourage popped by North End mega-icon Kelekis for lunch. There, Dion shocked locals and his handlers by eating Kelekis’s world-famous hot dog with — gasp! — a knife and fork.
“It conjured images of George on Seinfeld eating a Snickers bar the same way,” said another witness who, for obvious reasons, also asked not to be named.
Whether Stephen Harper’s Conservatives use Wienergate to their advantage — at press time there was no word whether they’d be rejigging their official slogan to read Getting Things Done (Without Utensils) — remains to be seen.
Looks like it’s going to be a long day at Liberal party headquarters.
Albatross,
You’re an idiot. You quote a half-wit journalist quoting Turner on matters of investments? “well-respected personal finance author in private life”???
Here’s some quotes of your grandstanding moron turncoat:
“If you own Nortel, or a mutual fund holding it, don’t bail out now… If you do not own Nortel, then this is the time to start accumulating it.”
– Garth Turner, Conservative candidate (Halton) November 27th 2000 at the start of the stock’s plummet from $50 to pennies a share
“I am constantly amazed at the assumption people make that they can manage their own finances… most people can’t. They don’t have a clue how to pick stocks.”
– Garth Turner in a 2002 personal investment column regarding those unfortunate enough to have lost on Nortel
H/T to Rick Mercer for keepint that wisdom alive.
Albatross: “Halton MP Garth Turner, a well-respected personal finance author in private life.”
Are you kidding? This is a guy who told people to get fully invested in stocks in 1999. Anyone who followed his advice is broke. Buy Nortel at $120 a share? It’s less than 1% of that now – so following Garth Turner’s advice lost 99% of your money.
Meanwhile, the income trust market is down by about 20%; yes that hurts but it’s not a catastrophe, unless you are one of the stupid investors who put all their money into a single asset class. Sort of like the advice Garth gave people. Garth is a self-aggrandizing blowhard, and albatross – well, you’re a ‘tard of another kind.
“unless you are one of the stupid investors who put all their money into a single asset class”
Those “stupid investors” were told by their stupid economist Prime Minister “Stephen Clueless Harper” that their investements were safe.