39 Replies to “Bam, The Dog”

  3. The upcoming debates might actually be worth watching, just to see the sparks fly between Elizabeth May and Dion.
    I’ll bet Dion is ruing the day he insisted that May be included in the debates.
    This whole Green Shaft proposal was clearly being made up on the fly right from the beginning.

  4. Stepon Dion, striking a blow for beta males everywhere. What a cloistered nerd this puffin is, the real world is mean. Anyone who votes for this 98 pound weakling is also a loser. Lets grow up Canada, give Harper a majority so he can run this company called Canada in an adult fashion, don’t throw away your votes on sleazy looking Layton or the whacked out teletubbie Lizzy. The house of commons is an expensive place to run, do you want your money being wasted on Cadman, Julies hooters, porn on the laptops, hurt feelings.

  5. And the media is still talking about the pooping puffin, Gerry Ritz for 3 days, Harpers sweater. Anything negative about the PM. Dion? Not a WORD about his flip flop on his main platform being the green shaft by the media. Why am I not surprised? Thank god for the upcoming debates, to learn the truth about these phoneys.

  6. This turkey is already cooked…And thanksgiving is still 4 weeks away!…The ‘left’overs will be rare come Oct 15th!
    “Pardon me sir, but would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?”
    “…No, I’m all out, but I have plenty of Dijon Green Shaft, not many takers of that brand it seems…it’s now well hidden in the cupboard.”

  10. Not true andycanuck.
    For the first time in recorded history a national political leader has tossed himself under the bus.

  12. Changing horses in the middle of the stream, being propped up by his also-rans, aka adversaries, who are taking equal billing in the biased, desperate media, begs the question, who’s calling the shots?
    Even though Dion was threatening to bring down the government from the beginning of his “leadership”, he’s proving he’s no more ready for this election now than he was then.
    The Green Shift Carbon tax was his pride and joy
    and put forth as his main plank in the election, now he sees the writing on the wall, or perhaps his prop-ups do and it’s going to get buried like Puffin poop.
    Way to go, keep the show on the road, the comedy of errors featuring Dion and the Dionettes.

  13. Steph is trying to show he’s quite a strategist:
    Just now in Alexandria ON at again another outdoor rally on a Lib supporter’s lawn, in front of at least 27 supporters (Including running mates, news reporters and some errant dog) he just put them all to sleep (or on the bottle) with yet another 15 minute Green Shaft enigma speech…
    He tricked us all! He told us just yesterday that the Green Shift was not a major plank but today he makes it 1/2 of his entire speech.
    We are toast! Watch our polls go down!
    “You tink it fun to make funny of me!”

  14. So Mr. Dion has made 80 Billion in promises, after the financial industry in Canada has just toasted 32 Billion in ABCP and the US is getting a trillion dollar bailout due to the credit market squeeze.
    Just where does Mr. Dion think he will find the money.
    I suppose he could trade in the new currency known to North America as beaver pelts. Dear Mr. Dion your grandiose spending plans have no connection to reality.
    Some Tim Horton’s coffee perhaps?
    Cheers

  16. I really think we could see a first in Canadian election debates: Dion breaking down and crying on national television.

  18. “The man whose farm served as the backdrop for Dion’s announcement commented to reporters that he had difficulty understanding the Liberal proposal and wished the party would back away from it.”
    The quote above from the linked piece deserves an explanation. Since Dion doesn’t speak English, nor does he communicate well with anyone who isn’t an idiotic Leftie …. here is what it means to we the great unwashed Mr. Farmer man.
    It means Dion, in his wisdom, will temporarily reduce our income tax, but that is only the federal portion. You still pay Provincial income taxes and payroll taxes such as CPP and EI and workers comp, PST and a raised GST and union dues or whatever other gouges you may be subjected to in your work place.
    And remember it will only be temporary because taxation is like a drug habit, Dion is hooked and will always crave more and more.
    Then Dion would tax the crap our of the evil polluters who provide us all with jobs, goods and services and most of all … energy to heat our homes a and get to work during our 8 month winters and of course all the other things we do that require electricity, transportation and food.
    If he wins, here’s what happens …
    1. the government is suddenly awash with money stolen from the evil businesses that we work for and get our needs from.
    2. we see a small increase in our take home pay. Enough to maybe by a small appliance. right up to a big appliance if you are in a higher income bracket. The poor will see no income tax break since they don’t actually pay any federal taxes.
    3. the evil polluting companies will then raise the price of the goods and services to offset the higher taxation and pass it on down the line to us … Those increased prices will be across the board so hold that small appliance purchase, we will need every penny of that little bonus just pay for the increases in food, never-mind energy.
    4. many of the over-taxed companies will pull up stakes and move to better places to do business or at least will lay off many workers.
    5.Eventually your income taxes will go back up to help offset the loss of revenue from business that have shrunken or have moved off shore.
    Finally, nothing will have been done about the alleged global warming bullshit because Canada is a teeny tiny contributor of green house gas in the first place. But the poor will be a lot poorer and there will be a lot more of them. The wealthy will invest outside Canada or simply move to the USA. That’s what I will do and I am not actually all that wealthy.
    It’s just a logical progression of cause and effect. Not all that hard to figure. our. I think what you are having a problem with Mr. Farmer man is all the lies that are layered on Dion’s incoherent explanations of it all.
    The professor is wearing no clothes.
    Vote Harper.

  19. If the bus ran over Kyoto, the dog’s carbon pawprint would probably partially offset the footprint of the bus.
    Save energy – eat roast mutt
    Eat your dog – because its carbon footprint is bigger than a Toyota Corolla’s.
    That’s what Wellington city councillors have been told by Victoria University research fellow Brenda Vale, who is an authority on sustainable architecture.
    Her latest co-authored book, Time to Eat the Dog, investigates ways to modify behaviour to save energy. It will be published next year.
    She told a city council briefing last week that all pets should be edible because their carbon footprints – or pawprints, as the case may be – contribute to global warming.

  20. The latest bray from the Dionky.
    …-
    “”Cut income taxes. Shift to pollution,” he said.”
    (cbc)

  21. Same old same old. The more things change the more they remain the same.
    How Enron Hyped Global Warming For Profit
    3w.investigatemagazine.com/archives/2006/03/investigate_oct_5.html
    And from Wiki…Enron and “weather derivatives”…
    Enron grew wealthy, it claimed, via its pioneering, due largely to marketing and promoting power and communications bandwidth commodities and related derivatives as tradable financial instruments, including exotic items such as weather derivatives. Enron was named “America’s Most Innovative Company” by Fortune magazine for six consecutive years, from 1996 to 2001.

  23. in the CBC article there is a photo of Mr.Dion with some men behind him… who is the very, very short man with spectacles?
    he’s really short and… well, real short.
    I don’t know how else to define him, but he’s short.
    very.

  24. Marc, that has to be the worlds most indignant prarie porkupine in those spectacles, yes that more bluster that Garth himself, Little Ralph. Little Ralph of the praries suffers the same little man syndrome that so deeply afflicts Little Danny Williams. Many years ago in a liberal experiment that went terribly wrong scientists were trying to take genes out of bantie roosters to splice into Stepon Ralph and Danny, the genes got mixed up, with the chest puffing and height genes going to Danny and Ralph, and the small pecker gene going to Stepon, terrible mix up for all.

  25. Marc, that has to be the worlds most indignant prarie porkupine in those spectacles, yes that more bluster that Garth himself, Little Ralph. Little Ralph of the praries suffers the same little man syndrome that so deeply afflicts Little Danny Williams. Many years ago in a liberal experiment that went terribly wrong scientists were trying to take genes out of bantie roosters to splice into Stepon Ralph and Danny, the genes got mixed up, with the chest puffing and height genes going to Danny and Ralph, and the small pecker gene going to Stepon, terrible mix up for all.

  27. I read all 111 comments after the article. There were maybe 3 or 4 that were defending Dion and the Shift. All others were against or otherwise sarcastic. And this is at the CBC !

  28. DION must know English well but must have
    accent in his talking can be fix within few month as Celin Dion can help him too
    Dion is almost 53 4 years older than Harper
    During Sep 11 , 2001 to 2006 Chretien was Pm here in Canda.
    Canada entered war since 2003.
    3 years Chretein enterd war from 2003-2006
    3 years harper eneted war from 2006-2008-present
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    Dion planned to stop that misson to Afgan parties:
    —
    Dion may equlanct to lawyer but he is not a lawyer he has notlaw degree butfor sure know the law still different degree usualy call them counsil still! in politic but he has phd.
    Dion studied political science at Université Laval in the department co-founded by his father. His wife is Janine Krieber, a fellow-student in the same program. He obtained BA and MA degrees in 1977 and 1979 respectively (his master’s thesis presented an analysis of the evolution of Parti Québécois electoral strategies
    After receiving a doctorate (doctorat d’état) in sociology from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (commonly known as Sciences Po),
    Dion had phd and he currenly is professor. Dr. Dion worked briefly as a teaching assistant at the Université de Moncton in 1984 before moving on to the Université de Montréal to assume an assistant professor position. Dion taught at the Université de Montréal from 1984 to January 1996, specializing in the study of public administration and organizational analysis and theory, and was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. during a 1990–91 sabbatical leave. now teaches political science and sociology at Royal Military College’s ASU Saint-Jean campus in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
    After the failure of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, Dion directed his intellectual inquiry towards an analysis of Quebec nationalism. His decisive conversion to federalism, as he later recounted to journalist Michel Vastel, occurred as he was preparing for a presentation in Washington. Between 1987 and 1995, Dion published a number of books and articles on political science, public administration and management.
    On February 27, Dion’s Liberals, together with Bloc Québécois and NDP members of Parliament, voted down a Harper government proposal to extend two controversial provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act for another three years. Dion argued that the measures – which allowed police to arrest and detain terror suspects for three days without a warrant and which allowed judges to force witnesses to testify in terror cases – “have done nothing to fight against terrorism” and “have not been helpful and have continued to create some risk for civil liberties.”[62]
    On April 12, 2007, Dion announced that the Liberals would not run a candidate against Green Party leader Elizabeth May in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova (currently represented by Conservative Peter MacKay) in return for the Green Party leader’s agreement not to run a Green candidate in Dion’s riding of Saint-Laurent—Cartierville.[63] The deal was criticized by the Conservatives and the NDP (Jack Layton had rejected earlier attempts by May to cut a “backroom” deal with his party[64][65]), and also by some within the Liberal Party.[66] Dion later gave reassurance that the controversial deal was “an exceptional circumstance where Liberal voters are invited to help her [May] to win against Peter MacKay.”[67]
    On November 8, 2007, Dion released a policy plan, that he compared to the United Kingdom’s Labour Party under former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Dion mentioned that his party will tackle poverty in Canada in order to create.
    a “greener”, “richer” and “fairer” Canada. He set up targets to reduce general poverty by 30 percent and child poverty by 50 percent as well as helping working families with work rewards as well as increasing the Canada Child Tax benefit, increasing guaranteed revenues for seniors.[68] In an editorial in the National Post, economist Alex MacMillan notes that the poverty targets Dion has set are based on a Statistics Canada measure that the statistical agency has stated is not a poverty measure (LICO), and that by using what is in effect a relative income measure rather than an absolute poverty measure, Dion is essentially aiming to flatten the income distribution of Canadians.
    In 2008, as part of a measure for cutting greenhouse emissions, Dion called for a carbon price but did not called it a tax. He also praised a similar measure introduced and approved by the British Columbia government in the 2008 provincial budget as well as the province of Quebec that introduced a carbon-based tax which revenues will be used for green technologies. [70] Critics from other parties as well as some Liberal MPs said that the concept would be “too confusing, expensive and politically risky”. [71] Environmontal Minister John Baird stated that the plan was “made on Bay Street” and is actually supported by big business and polluters”. The plan received support from David Suzuki who added on CTV’s Question Period that: “To oppose the carbon tax plan, it’s just nonsense. It’s certainly the way we got to go”.
    In June 2008, Dion unveiled the new policy called The Green Shift (le Tournant vert) and explained that this tax shift would create an ecotax on carbon while reducing personal and corporate income taxes. He stated that the taxation on carbon would generate up to $15 billion per year in revenues to offset the reduction in income tax revenue.
    The plan was immediately criticized by Stephen Harper, who labeled it as “crazy” and said it would “screw” Canadians while making a comparison with the National Energy Program adopted in the 1980s.
    Dion rejected this criticism and challenged Harper to an “adult” debate on the proposal. While there were mixed reviews about the plan, Green Shift Inc., a Toronto-based consulting firm, filed an $8.5 million lawsuit against the Liberal Party on July 9, 2008 citing trademark infringement. The company also sought a court injunction against the Liberal Party to stop using the name. Dion responded that the lawsuit was “deplorable” and added that the Liberals are not a commercial company and did not see any legal problems for using the term “Green Shift
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dion
    Dion need use his leadership with learn from schientis economist and mid class toknow more before talk and use his researchby talk with tax specilist He may not know all rules and all law in science and not know all priority is what!!

  29. Garth needs higher heels on his cowboy boots. But even with them, he’d still be short in the saddle.

  30. trying to paint the conservatives as meanies and Dion as a victim is going to backfire on the leftist media. how many people sympathize with Millhouse’s dad on the Simpsons? no not too many. (In this childish political climate Simpsons references are actually quite intelligent… relatively speaking of course) and seeing as Stephane Dion makes Mr Van Houten seem like Chuck Liddell, I think his wimpiness is sending more voters to the conservatives.

  31. randall g: “I read all 111 comments after the article. There were maybe 3 or 4 that were defending Dion and the Shift. All others were against or otherwise sarcastic. And this is at the CBC !”
    I’m beginning to wonder if the only people left watching the CBC or going to their blogs are US!! Wouldn’t that be great?
    I mean, there seem to be a lot of common sense comments by people who know what’s up. So, those of us who watch the CBC to see what the heck they’re up to may be the last holdouts.
    All their other viewers have clicked onto other channels because, frankly, what’s worth watching at the MotherCorpse?

  33. Dion. “The Incredible shrinking man” has gone & done shot himself in the head by this tap dancing. Someone have mercy enough to put him out of this political misery. Watching him de-construct is worse than sitting threw a Dr. Quinn medicine women marathon.
    I wouldn’t worry about the dog Kyoto, I figure though, Dion’s neck would snap like a chickens from the weight born from antlers.

  34. McDion is coming to town.
    “”Another billion served””.
    Draw up your wish list and franc it to Citoyen Dionky, c/o, The PET Cemetery, France.
    …-
    “Dion makes $530-million in promises for arts, culture”
    http://tinyurl.com/3jamrw (g-m)
    Comments:
    1.
    John Connor from Canada writes: Does this go on this weeks’ promise list, or next weeks’?
    “Another billion served” – Sounds like a fast-food commercial.
    We can’t afford this clown and his circus act buddies.”
    …-

  35. Actually, if I’d heard Dion make the “Bam” joke, I’d have had a tiny bit more respect for him. I love dogs, but when I read the story, I laughed out loud. Reminds me of:
    Q: It is a completely overcast, moonless night, in a town without electricity. No candles, flashlights, or fires are lit. It is thoroughly dark. A completely black dog stands in the middle of the road. A car approaches, with its headlights off, driving down the middle of the road. As it approaches the dog, a collision seems inevitable. Yet the car steers around the dog, missing it completely. How can this be?
    A: Clearly, the dog is on fire.

  36. Personally I think Dion was simply engaging in Liberal politics as it has been practiced for eons. Liberals say to each region what they think the region wants to hear certain that nobody in the media will report it to the other region.
    Thus Dion speaking in the West says the Shaft isn’t a major part of his platform. When he is in Toronto he will re-emphasize the Shaft.
    The only fly in the ointment was the media doesn’t like Dion’s leadership(?) and reported in one region what was said in another.

  37. Hahaha. Looks like Dion threw himself under the bus.
    Sad to hear about the Marriott getting bombed – again – in Islamabad. How long will it take the leftards to blame Sarah Palin for this act?

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