It’s not just any day that a political party uses caucus funds and the floor of the legislature to attack a private citizen who belongs to no political party at all.
Move over, Rush Limbaugh. They’re making me famous.
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(Upate for John Gormley Live listeners, the original post under discussion is here.)
I hope you are prepared to appear before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. You are in serious trouble, lady. You hurt somebody’s feelings. Be glad there’s no death penalty in Canada.
You’re probably pretty worried Kate. Soon they will be on CBC radio discussing this. Watch out!! Maybe these guys should do some real work for once in their sorry-ass lives.
This from a party whose youth wing openly supports Hugo Chavez.
I suspect there some hundreds of thousands of supporters of the premier that voted in majority decision for that particular party.
Now as per the socialists’ definition, the premier should apologize for anything that anyone of those that voted for him and his party has said and the socialists did not like.
Is this some kind of moronic or what?
Of course the premier should ignore the control freaks.
Radical,hurtful(is that a word),Kate you have really crossed the line now!!! Please write about baskets of kittens and rainbows to redeem yourself. Kumbaya my lord,kumbaya.
They really do fear Kate, and rightly so. They better get used of it. Kate has opened the door of the dissenters. The door no one dared opened. Kate booted the politically correct conformity door right off its fucking hinges. We walk out in the light, ready to fight for our freedom to think, speak, and take back what is ours.
I think Mister Limbaugh called them ‘phony soldiers’ twice in that transcript…
Don’t forget the rest of the story:
Reporter: What do you say today about the small dead animal blog…?
Brad Wall: Those are intolerant and unacceptable remarks and I had known for some time in Opposition we had an endorsement on our website referencing myself and I think that’s been removed, and if it hasn’t it will be shortly.
Reporter 1: Why?
Brad Wall: Because those comments are just simply unacceptable, and I’m not sure what direct relationship there is between an endorsement and those comments except that that individual and the website, if those words are reflective of their view, I would like not to be on our caucus website.
Reporter 2: In the past, members of your caucus in Opposition have cited that website, have mentioned her, spoken approvingly I would say generally of her judging by the tone of it, will you ask them not to do things like that?
Brad Wall: Well, on certain issues, on that website and others, there’s, you know, when it comes to economic cases to be made, issues, those have been agreed with by members of our caucus, by myself. This is beyond the pale in terms of what is acceptable, and so, the website’s been changed as of right now, and I don’t expect to hear anytime soon Saskatchewan Party members in the House referencing the site.
Reporter: Is this person involved in your party at all, does she help you and would she be welcome to do so?
Brad Wall: She’s been pretty clear, although, well, I think she’s been clear, I guess I’m not sure of this, but I don’t think she’s been or has any intention of being a member of the party. We would want to have members of the Saskatchewan Party who don’t take such a view with respect to people who live in core neighborhoods in the province.
Reporter: So to your knowledge she’s never been a member of the Saskatchewan Party?
Brad Wall: To my knowledge, I’m not sure, we have a lot of members.
it is the socialists in Canada – and there are many – who go out of their way to denigrate and inflame the sensibilities of those who do not embrace their macabre and obscene values…
the political climate in Canada is more than I can tolerate….
now I understand why people flee their homelands to escape oppressive and totalitarian regimes – Canadian liberals and socialists (they are the same) have fu&*ed this country beyond repair….
From the NDP site sidebar: “Brad Wall’s first Throne Speech is a sign of things to come; watered down promises, diminished expectations and a hidden agenda.”
Hidden agenda. Now where have I heard that before?
Keep digging that hole, dippers.
The Saskatchewan NDP. Now irrelevant.
From the NDP site sidebar: “Brad Wall’s first Throne Speech is a sign of things to come; watered down promises, diminished expectations and a hidden agenda.”
Well, Johnson, if Sean S. is indeed correct, then Premier Wall’s craven comments do seem to suggest that he is man of “watered down promises” and “diminished expectations”. As for a “hidden agenda” it seems rather that if he has any agenda other than the mealy-mouthed one embraced by almost every government in the country, he has hidden it so deeply that he unlikely ever to find it.
Sorry, Johann. The eyes are going at this late hour in the mystic East.
I guess this changes everything in Saskatchewan.
Bloggers, left or right will now be brought up in the legislature if they write what are deemed to be inappropriate comments.
The party for which the blogger seems to side with will become persona non grata with that organization, after being exposed by the opposing benches.
Some on the left are celebrating this ridiculous turn. Not so fast, I say..
The blog police are now officially out in Saskatchewan.
Oh great, the Bill O’Reilly defence. I’m not a member of any party I just cheer really loudly for one party, never hold their feet to the fire, and spend all my time attacking their opponents. You might not be a member of the Sask Party Kate, but you are their biggest supporter. Too bad they want nothing to do with you know.
I’ve long come to this website to see what people say, but Kate, your post was vile. It is one thing to not understand poverty, it is another to literally hate poor people which you seem too.
Peter:
Would that be too … as in also?
BTW. I grew up on welfare and now have a pretty decent net worth.
Every day we have choices to make … the biggest choice for me was understanding I’m responsible for my own decisions and I’m nobody’s victim.
I used my God-given free will to make the decisions that allowed me to step out of the darkness and into the light.
It’s not easy for anybody who feels sorry for themselves as they languish in the dark. Every day you have another opportunity to take charge of your own life and step into the light.
Your choice. Oppression is a self-imposed condition.
What about Labradoodles? I must have missed that post.
I listen to Limbaugh every morning on streaming Internet radio. Here is the link.
http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=531472
He is on between nine and noon Pacific time. That would be noon to three central.
The Sask NDP are eating sour grapes here and blaming SDA. Kate, all that’s missing is the cigar.
Keep burning those socialist stomachs and we will keep helping you do it.
Peter, put a sock in it. Do you hear the socialist screaming about the poor any longer? Of course not. The left are on this global warming stint to save the earth. Saving the earth, according to the green freaks, includes the need for a large human cull. Abortion isn’t cutting it, with only a couple of million a year. That means the poor have to go. The socialist fill their gastanks up with corn now, driving the price up, and starving people out. Poor people Peter, I am talking eating dirt sandwiches poor. If it is a toss up between your wheels, and the poor, the freaking poor are going to be your speed bumps on the way to the bio fuel station. You socialist all know that. I haven’t met too many socialist who haven’t traded their poor people pets in for a pack of curly light bulbs from the Canadian Tire.
I guess the good news is that the NDP come here to visit. So to all you NDP’ers lurking, here’s a few questions:
If the 20th street mall was so important and needed so desperately, why did you wait until it was most advantageous to the NDP to announce it?
When did you identify the need for it?
How many years ago was that?
Why didn’t you build it then?
Why did you put the interests of the NDP ahead of the interests of these poor people you claim to care about?
If Lying Lorne had chosen to wait longer to call an election, would the people who apparently desperately needed this mall have had to wait as well?
Have you figured out yet why you got your asses kicked in the election?
Does this fake outrage just mean you’re playing politics again with the people you claim to care about?
‘Cause it’s pretty obvious where your real priorities lie.
Hey Edgar, take it to the ‘Coast to Coast’ overnight.
Honey Pot:
I think you’re onto something.
National Socialists were the perpetrators of the master race theory and the culling of populations through direction of natural selections.
Fabian Socialists brought the wonders of eugenics to cull the inferiors from the population.
And, Marxists like the NDP are just plain a**holes.
This is overblown outrage on the part of the politicians. There actually is a link to making bad choices and ending up in poverty. Things like not completing high school, teen pregnancy, single parenthood and drug addiction. I understand that the post was not PC but there is an underlying truth in it.
This initiative was nothing more than the usual practice of doing something visible instead of something meaningful. What the proponents of Station 20 are advocating is the right to convenience access to businesses at the expense of all Saskatchewan taxpayers. Saskatoon has lots of grocery stores and dental services. Getting to them is a personal initiative. Surely people in this area can use some problem solving skills – the bus, car pool, taxi pool, ask older children to help carry groceries, enlist help of a charity or church for weekly transportation services. Are people in this area really so unresourceful that they need the taxpayer to create and fund a program for every basic life skill?
Oh I thought this was Coast to Coast. Where am I, what day is it?
Abducted to another non-issue.
Good article Kate, really good article in fact.
It really is true that the Nuts are running the asylum.
Pat
They spelled your first name wrong! If I were you I’d demand a correction, just for kicks. 🙂
And this from the party who idolizes Tommy Douglas …we all know all about Tommy D. here…Thanks to Kate.
Good post honey pot. Those thoughts are also mine.
Just wait…when you and Kathy and the Church Lady are appointed head honchos to the HRC, Kate…those Dippers are going to wish they would have suffered in silence!
Looking at that NDP site, one notices three written pieces of nasty *hurtful* opinion in the *left* column.
Well, OK, your blog site and your views I guess. Freedom of speech?
But the NDP children who run the site complain about critical opinion here on SDA?
I say children, because any adult would understand the shocking broken logic of that silly argument. = TG
Hold on a minute – is that the NDP saying that being called a ‘drug addict’ is “Offensive” and “Hurtful”? I thought drug addicts were victims who needed our sympathy.
I wonder what their supporters think of that characterization?
You want to put yourself in the same league as
Limbaugh? But, you always were there to begin with dearie.
Lynn: “There actually is a link to making bad choices and ending up in poverty. Things like not completing high school, teen pregnancy, single parenthood and drug addiction.”
Well, Lady Lynn, I’m quite certain that not only do those particular credential lead to poverty, they are also the result of it. Your link has less to do with ‘choice’ than you think.
[quote]The posting compares potential Station 20 users in downtown Saskatoon with drug addicts and petty criminals [/quote]
NDP web site,
The 20th street area has always been a rough side of Saskatoon. I am familiar with the ‘toon from the 1970’s and would guess Kate is near right. What has the City been doing with its development perks?
The NDP have not learned the lessons of past PROJECTS that became uncontrollable ghettoes, it is simply wrong to herd “poor people” into, soon to be forgotten, government Slums. The mantra of efficiency is not the most desired goal when dealing with people
The Saskatchewan small towns that the NDP deliberately neglected, by closing essential services, are in need of people & industry. The local housing market was forced down (lost wealth) and retired people had to move to the cities, buying up available housing with their savings. It would be advantageous to move welfare & native PPL out of the cities into the towns. The rural schools are superior & small towns teach an excellent work ethic.
The medical system needs all it’s money for Primary care & Emergency. Its time to get the pigs out of the money trough
Taylor,
You don’t happen to be employed in the lucrative poverty industry do you?
Sooooo, yer a radical now Kate?
Remember the good old days when it was the socailists that were the radicals?
Any woman that can put a smile on my face at this hour of the morning has my support. Besides, you’re a heck of a lot cuter than Rush.
Somewhere along the line I missed your original NP post but I must say that after reading it I am amazed that PETA and PETAL (People against the Ethical Treatment of American Labradoodles) are not protesting naked in front of your home. Oh right, this is April in Canader. They are too busy clubbing those seal hunters.
What? It’s bad to hate poor people now??!! Sheesh.
Kate your post about the 20 West project is full of generalizations. As someone who lives a few blocks away from the Station 20 West project I would like to add some of my comments to the discussion.
1) Just because I live in the inner city does not make me a drug user or dealer. And yes I do have a full time job.
2) I have no children and do use birth control.
3) I am not a criminal and I can gladly provide you with a police background check.
4) I have been asked for change all over Saskatoon not just in the inner city.
I know many, many hardworking decent people who live in the inner city. If you would like to meet them I would be glad to introduce you to them.
Also I wish we could have met at the last Saskblogs meet at Jerry’s food Emporium. Looking forward to speaking with you at the next one.
kate was ‘hurtful’ to me once simply because i used the F word…..IMO in context it wasn’t that egregiously offensive….
well….i moped around a bit..sucked on the corner of my hanky for a bit…..contemplated being ‘hurtful’ to my dog or my wife or the nearest kid…..wrote a kinda self justifying ‘hurtful’ post back at kate……was ignored then which i felt was more ‘hurtful’ than the first ‘hurtful’….
oh boy was i ever hurtin big time…
then i decided to suck em up…remember i’m a triple C conservative and by golly i can take it mister….and anyhow it’s her sandbox.
and now i’m okedoke again !…so actually i think kate made me a better person …..
and thank you all for listening….believe me it’s helped.
Well, we now that this can’t be a real serious NDP concern.
God knows they’ve got bigger fish to fry with all that under-age driving going on in the prairies!!!
Well done Kate, because as Oscar Wilde said: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Well, I guess it’s just because I’m A Mean Old White Guy from The Deep South, but I read your article, and I’ll be hornswaggled if I see what the fuss is about. It looks like phony outrage, to me.
My Dad was born in 1890, and had one dozen siblings.
Half survived to adulthood. Today, we laugh- or don’t even know about– the things that killed them. It was a hard old world. But it grew better men and women.
Poor people should all get AIDS and die!
Backhoe your right there wasn’t much in the way of social programs around not that long ago really, the problems of today stem from government tinkering where they shouldn’t have been in the first place, they worry more about the truth being voiced instead of taking responsibility for the messes they create.
I wonder who John Vest is ?
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Looks like someone has come here trolling with a, er, “Vest”ed interest. If so, that is a sad attempt at a setup. Don’t you leftard sockpuppets have anything better to do?
Kate if it were me I’d be honoured just to be nominated for the “Hurtful” award. The freakish socialist can’t even have meaningful dialog without using the words,hurtful, hatred, racist or bigot. I can’t imagine how they get through the day with all that knee dipping and hand wringing and sobbing. The NDP should rename it’s self to the “Snot and Bawlers Party”.
Hold your head high Kate, when they start publicly complaining it means you have them on the run and you hit the nail on the head. For the dippers stop using tissues and use bounty, with the amount of snot you guys produce it would be better for the environment. Think of the trees leftards, think of the trees.
Darren, what leads you to believe that I don’t know anyone who lives or works in Saskatoon’s inner city? Do you not think it possible to view the same problem and come to a different conclusion than you?
And of course my comments were “full of generalizations”. It’s called “demographics”, and demographics drive local economies. Where crime rates and antisocial behaviors increase, retail services leave for greener pastures. You might not like that I said that out loud, but it doesn’t change the truth of the matter.
But if you prefer the status quo, then, by all means – a government project plunked down where private retail refuses to do business is the way to go.
So long as public policy is targeted at servicing, centralizing, and enabling dysfunction, the majority will follow the path of least resistance. That’s human nature. Just don’t expect their problems – or yours – to go away. As I said in the original thread, it’s like solving a stray cat problem with feeding stations.
And of course it’s not “fair” that honest, hard working people have to live with the consequences of their neighbor’s problems – just as it’s not “fair” that thousands of other people in the province live with the consequences of declining rural populations.
But it’s a little rich to tell low income seniors and working families in towns without basic government services like schools and hospitals, that they’re expected to subsidize grocery shopping for people who whine that it’s too much trouble to get from 20th to Confed.
Blog loses Wall backing over comments
James Wood
The StarPhoenix
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
REGINA — Premier Brad Wall distanced the Saskatchewan Party from a popular right-wing blog Tuesday over controversial comments posted about inner city Saskatoon.
Wall told reporters that the Saskatchewan Party would remove from its own website an endorsement of Wall from Saskatchewan-based Kate McMillan of smalldeadanimals.com.
Saskatchewan Party MLAs have referenced the website approvingly in the legislature in the past but Wall said that would likely not occur in the future.
Following the government’s cancellation of $8 million in funding for the Station 20 West project in Saskatoon’s core, McMillan posted on her blog suggesting “economic stimuli” for the area to get a private sector grocery store.
These included “put the cap back on the used needle . . . failing that, share it with your friends. It’s a quicker solution to your problem anyway.”
She also suggested “cross your legs” and “put down the spray can.” McMillan later posted “try not vandalizing every business still standing in your neighbourhood, try not selling your ass up and down the street in front of the doors. Try parenting your sticky-fingered brats.”
Wall said the comments were “beyond the pale.”
“Those are intolerant and unacceptable remarks,” he told reporters, adding that the government has a firm commitment to the province’s core urban neighbourhoods despite its reservations about the Station 20 West project.
The comments — and the Sask. Party’s relationship to the blog — was raised in a member’s statement by the Opposition NDP Tuesday.
Saskatoon Massey Place MLA Cam Broten praised Wall for his actions.
“The comments were quite hurtful, quite ugly,” he told reporters. “We recognize that people have a right to free speech but comments like that don’t need to be given more credibility by having an association with the premier of the province.”
McMillan, who is not a member of the Saskatchewan Party, said her comments were “hyperbolic” but she stood by them and believes many provincial residents share her opinions.
She said Wall’s condemnation of her comments on Tuesday were “predictable” given “today’s politically correct atmosphere.”
It would have no impact on her blog, she said.
“I would have been more disappointed if they had gone ahead and built the project, seriously. I’m a private citizen, I don’t expect them to endorse what I say or answer for what I say and I don’t need them to flog my website,” McMillan said in a telephone interview from her home in Delisle.
The Station 20 West facility was intended to centralize public services for poor residents by including a dental clinic, a relocated West Side Community Clinic and a co-op grocery store.
jwood@sp.canwest.com
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2008
Hmm. Stephen Harper won’t touch you guys, and now your local boy hero, Brad Wall, has packed up your belongings and left ’em on the curb.
Ouch.
On the plus side, I foresee some very positive posts on the Green Party here at SDA in the coming weeks…