128 Replies to “Did They Hear What I Said About Labradoodles*?”

  1. Couldn’t help myself from reading the opinions and reaction to this on this blog. Pretty balanced set of views, which is nice to see, except for the whack jobs that take it to the level of eating the poor. Disappointed in Wall for being a bit of a coward. Guess he had to do it with the Ahenakew fiasco this week.

  3. I must agree with you Warwick re: Mr. Wall. It is common for some Conservative politicians to ‘distance’ themselves from the people who backed them and did the trench mud, blood and guts work to help them become successful – after they gain office!!
    It would be wise of Mr. Wall and his MP ‘s to consider this old saying: “You cannot please everyone; if you try you end up pleasing no one.” Consider the path of such failures as Joe Who(?) Clark, Getty (Premier in Alta – I forget his first name), Ralph Cline (when he got PC), Ernie Eves (Ont.), John Tory, Eddie Stelmack…there are some great Federal Sask. MP’s who would never be this weak – Gerry Ritz, Gary Breitkreutz, David Anderson, to name three.
    As to depriving smokers of a place to smoke, thereby eliminating smokers, John West – this is not about any principle, unlike Kate’s idea; marginalizing tobacco smokers is about CONTROL. Like Global Warming, the science for this hate mongering is based on fear and hate; not facts. There is room in Canada for tobacco smokers and non smokers; the fanatics preach hate trying to ensure that all tobacco smokers will be marginalized by their tobacco habit.
    Rational people do not cherry pick the individual rights that they choose to defend. I do not like the smell of curry…should I start forcing curry eaters outside and should it be my right to ban that smell in ALL eateries and public places?

  4. “Further to that point, the social workers/shrinks et al all say that you should employ tough-love to your friends and family.”
    Begging your pardon, but I never had a single social worker do anything that would have actually helped get me back into the workforce during the entire time I was incapacitated by my schizophrenia. Not a single damned one of them. Which figures, given that my being able to support myself would have removed the justification for them employment.

  6. Sean S…President of SWNDP… The slum could have been revitalized under the last 16 years of NDP power. People in glass houses should not throw stones. Sore loser!!!!
    Kate has only stated in public what everyone else thinks. 20th Street is a slum and a hole. And, when residents themselves call it “the slum” you know it is bad. They don’t need a mall, these people need to get their butts kiked and a job!
    This area of Saskatoon is the “playground” for this provinces NDP party for years. But, there would be no need for the NDP unless they keep this area impoverished. Calvert’s Riversdale riding is part of this slum and he has been the sitting MLA for 16 years. Why is this suddenly and issue after all this time?

  7. Sean wrote; Begging your pardon, but I never had a single social worker do anything that would have actually helped get me back into the workforce during the entire time I was incapacitated by my schizophrenia. Not a single damned one of them. Which figures, given that my being able to support myself would have removed the justification for them employment.
    Posted by: Sean at April 2, 2008 5:08 PM
    Smack on target Sean, social workers need people to be poor, mentally ill and unwelfare. If people weren’t down and out and poor who’d these leftards work for? Welfare is a growing industry, completly controlled by socialists with an agenda to keep the poor and down trodden that way for a life time. Sweden realised this and cut back on their generous welfare programs and as a result people are getting jobs for the first time in generations. Poor people aren’t victims, we all have a choice on the path we walk. The liberals and NDP need to keep people poor to justify their social programs and their blatant attempts at engineering global crisis to further their socialist agenda.
    Congrats on taking the path of prosperity, it’s much easier than sitting on the sofa and blaming society for what ails one isn’t it?

  8. “..as there isn’t a conservative social worker in existence..” – Warwick
    That’s not because they don’t get some conservatives entering the profession; it’s because they don’t stay once they’ve seen how things work. Believe it or not, there are social workers who support tough love; they’re just not allowed to make it happen. There is a conservative social worker very near and dear to me..but she’s doing something else with her life now. And saying what she wants to say, too!

  9. Well, you made the CBC, Kate…:)
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/04/02/blog-wall.html
    Sask. premier distances himself from political blog
    Last Updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | 10:45 AM
    CBC News
    A website that suggests addicts in Saskatoon should share dirty needles as a “quicker solution” to their problems is being condemned by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.
    Wall said Tuesday he will also remove an endorsement from Kate McMillan, author of the Small Dead Animals blog, from his own party’s website.
    That pledge came after questions were raised in the legislature Tuesday by New Democrat Cam Broten, the MLA for Saskatoon Massey Place, who called the blogger a “right-wing extremist” and a friend of the Saskatchewan Party.
    Broten said people are entitled to their opinions “no matter how cold, angry, offensive, hurtful or hateful they may be,” but the blogger crossed the line in a recent post concerning Saskatoon’s Station 20 West project.
    In the blog post, McMillan defended the government’s decision to scrap the project in Saskatoon’s inner city.
    She wrote that people there would have better luck attracting businesses to the inner city area if they put down the spray cans, crossed their legs and put the caps back on their needles.
    “Failing that, share it with your friends. It’s a quicker solution to your problem anyway,” the post said.
    In an interview, McMillan explained she is not a fan of safe-injection sites.
    “To me it’s just as obscene that our governments would be subsidizing this behaviour as it is for me to say, ‘What the hell, share your needles, you’re killing yourselves anyway,'” she said.
    Selective outrage, Opposition suggests
    Talking to reporters after question period Tuesday, Wall said he wants to make it clear that intolerance is not helpful to the future of Saskatchewan.
    The Opposition tied its concerns over the website to the recent controversy about David Ahenakew being reinstated to the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations senate.
    Ahenakew is set to go on trial in the fall over anti-Semitic comments he made at a Saskatoon conference in 2002. Broten wondered why Wall wasn’t showing “rightful indignation” about the blog comments the same way he did over the Ahenakew reappointment.
    Wall continued to call on chiefs who belong to the FSIN to reverse their decision to reinstate Ahenakew.
    “If any political party had a member who said that First Nations people were a ‘disease’ — because that’s what the exact term was with respect to Jews … when would it be acceptable for them to be allowed back into the party?” Wall said.
    Wall also said comments in the Small Dead Animals blog are unacceptable and not ones he wants to be associated with.
    Proof that he doesn’t share those ideas is in his recent budget, which increases money for food banks and addictions treatment in the inner cities, Wall said.

  11. And speaking of socialist social workers I listened to a program on CKNW in Vancouver the other day discussing children who were found living in grow-ops and how dangerous it was for them. They wanted the government(who else?) to toughen up on that. When the announcer suggested that kids found living in grow-ops should be seized by social services and put in foster homes the “lefty” didn’t want to get THAT serious about it. Kinda reminds me of the cops and politicians going on about drinking and driving but when it is suggested they sit outside ther pub at closing time -well, they don’t want to get THAT serious about it.
    Its pretty simple really. If you don’t want to loose your kids then don’t operate a grow-op. Am I missing sonmething here-I mean being a conservative and all.
    Horny Toad

  12. Dont disagree with you Kate, except in two instancethe fact that Wall makes you sound like the cousin nobody want to take to a wedding, and the WK slur from the Ndipper “right wing extremist”. Note they didn’t call the 1N anti-semite the “indian Jew-hater”. The leftist MSM has been practising what I’ve highlighted here, the “juxtapositional slur”, for quite some time. I didn’t begin to really notice it until fairly recently, and now I see them very frequently in liberal media especially. From Sandy Rinaldo and the assorted talking twits, to many columnists and editorialists. The technique is basically highbrow innuendo: label an individual by associating a socially negative tag to them in an oblique manner. Its the essence of the sound bite – and pure Madison Ave. I’m not sure that some of them even know they’re doing it, its become so entrenched in media style. The quoted slur above is the print version of the sneered pejorative in a newscast.
    You’ll also notice the juxtaposition of the last 3 paragraphs, especially the second and third from the bottom, linking your viewpoint to the criminally discredited viewpoint of Ahenakew by physical, if not logical, association. Just another drive-by slur. You can’t tell if Wall associated your viewpoint with Ahenakew’s as directly, or whether the reporter just butted them up because that was “his” analysis.

  13. In this case, Skip, the debate in the Leg began, I believe, with questions about the government’s statements about Akenakew’s reinstatement, The NDP decided to drag me in at this point (???). So, the juxtaposition is in the context of what went on at the Leg.
    But what nobody seems to care about is that Lorne Calvert was government just a few months ago.
    Is this the tactic he’s been using against Saskatchewan citizens who criticize his government – to use the weight of government to smear them and enter it into the record of Hansard?
    The NDP didn’t check to see if I had party affiliations. That would have been easy to verify.
    As far as Brad Wall goes, I was introduced at an event a couple of years ago, shook his hand and moved on. I had never spoken to him before or since. So much for the conspiracy theories, eh?

  14. excellent read in here (‘cept for the trolls)
    Kate, you hit the nail on the head, and that’s why the “reaction”
    so keep it up, time some one open “their” eyes for them
    and as far as Wall’s reaction, kinda reminds me of some of Harper’s nonsense, but I keep on hoping for the “better”

  15. AHAHAHHA! You stupid redeck! Finally you got your bigot *ss handed to you on a platter. It was like muthaf*cking xmas to hear you being denounced by your hero. AHAHAHAHHAHAHH! AWESOME!!!! YESSS!

  16. “You stupid redeck!”
    Unless “redeck” is a word (and a noun), that sentence backfired quite well.

  17. Kate, If I were you, I would launch a formal complaint with the speaker of the legislature about Broten’s comments about you in the legislature, especially the defamatory “right-wing extremist”. Have a chat with your lawyer friend about the sanctity of the legislature as protection for MPPs when they slander non-parliamentarians. Broten’s comments are unacceptable for a sitting member, (and Wall’s are not much better), and at a minimum, he should be compelled to apologize in the legislature for defaming you.

  18. jhuck:
    Wasn’t redecking something former BC NDP premier Glenn Clark had done and the issue that ran him out of office?

  20. “Wasn’t redecking something former BC NDP premier Glenn Clark had done and the issue that ran him out of office?”
    ZING! That’s officially the high point of this thread. Nothing can top that so we all might as well move along to the next discussion.
    [bows to set you free]

  21. Sean,
    Criticism. You have some great pics. Make it easy for viewers to look at them … it’s not real intuitive for “casual” users to view your artistry from your page (or rather, the link from your post).

  22. Hmmmm, interesting.
    I guess Small dead animals DOESN’T speak for the people of Saskatchewan, after all. 😉

  23. “You have some great pics. Make it easy for viewers to look at them”
    Clicking on an image takes you to the previous image. If you prefer something swankier, download and install the free browser plugin at:
    http://www.piclens.com/
    Once you have it installed you’ll notice a small play button popping up at the bottom left corner of the images on my site. Clicking this button brings up the PicLens “wall” interface. It’s a wonderful way to move through a large number of images on a site.
    Hope this helps.

  24. [quote]As to depriving smokers of a place to smoke, thereby eliminating smokers, John West – this is not about any principle, unlike Kate’s idea; marginalizing tobacco smokers is about CONTROL. Like Global Warming, the science for this hate mongering is based on fear and hate; not facts. There is room in Canada for tobacco smokers and non smokers; the fanatics preach hate trying to ensure that all tobacco smokers will be marginalized by their tobacco habit. [/quote]
    Jema54,
    Not to mention that TALENT & smoking seem to be co-mingled.
    The No-smoking proponents must embrace never ending failure! They get up every morning, look in the mirror, and say “I must fail today”, or their job ends & the blood taxation disappears.
    In fact every civil servant (including CBC) have the same problem as they are programmed not to produce results.
    The NDP Social workers are not stupid. They know exactly how to produce failure, and that each failure will result in more jobs for the unworthy sapsuckers.
    It’s a hard Job to be on a losing team, but somebody has to take the blame & promotion.

  25. Something for Honey Pot to keep in mind.
    Would not bloggers fit the definition of the cull. 24/7 on a computer chatting, consuming air, food, and water producing sewage and nothing else useful. Thus to be culled.
    Soon for censorship.

  26. What did Edgar say is a good handle. WTF was that?
    Free country, wdes. You are free to be the loser you’ve always dreamed of being. You can be the biggest, fattest, drunkest, most drug addicted half crippled mother/father of ten illegitimate losers in the entire world. You can be so immobile that you literally grow to the couch. So long as you pay for it yourself.
    You want to do it with my money, then we have a problem.

  27. This is what Kate believes meets her censorship criterion as off topic. She may be an open Edgar Cayce hater for someone that spent his entire life helping people. He pushed people forward as they are not fulfilling their given purpose.
    CayceTV may give her some stress relief, show #2.
    And indeed, there is…according to the Edgar Cayce philosophy, each person living in the earth is here for a specific soul purpose; a purpose that no one else can fulfill. While for some people, their purpose might be directly related to a profession or vocation, for others it could simply be a particular way of living day by day. Finding and then understanding and living your soul’s purpose is actually a life-long process. As your knowledge grows and deepens, you will find greater and greater opportunities for fulfilling your life’s mission.
    To discover clues to your own life’s purpose, ask yourself these questions: What makes my heart sing? When in my life do I feel a sense of wonder? In what ways do I feel called to be of service to others? When do I feel closest to God? The Cayce readings suggest that we are closest to living our soul’s purpose when we feel joyful, when we are in awe of the wonder of life around us, when we are being of service to others, and when we are deeply aware of our connection God.

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