Just what we need, more spaced out liberals in power.
"Time to move on", sure, that's what anyone would say, if they don't want to face the real consequences of what the liberals have been up to.

I am hereby requesting the entire right side of the blogosphere refer to Garneau as "hal" for the remainder of the campaign...

It would be interesting so see a collage of the many, many, many times the Liberals have said "This is the NEW Liberal Party", "That's in the past", "It's time to put all that behind us and move on", "Canadians are looking forward to a 'new start'".

You CAN fool some of the people ALL the time.

Time to move onto a government that isn't corrupt. I guess that leaves the liberano's out.

"The markets did move prior to Mr. Goodale's announcement, there's no denying of that," he said.

"What caused the markets to move, that's something we're still looking into."

The Conservatives have also called for the Ontario Securities Commission to investigate the matter.

But Ontario MPP Gerry Phillips, the minister responsible for overseeing the Ontario Securities Commission, rejected such a move on Tuesday.

"You're treading onto very dangerous ground if you're telling the OSC what cases it should investigate," he said in the legislature, saying it would be commensurate to political meddling.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051130/rcmp_incometrusts_051130/20051130?hub=Canada

I like Hal eye, Kate.

MG- "Hal, please open the door, I'll lose out here".

Hal-"Sorry Marc, I can't do that, all of the
Lie-beral's are going to lose the election for
what they've done and now you're one of them."

I'm thinking Gerry is a Liberal

Open the pod bay door, Hal.

Daisy, daisy,...

Off topic but...Wow! This makes our Adscam look like pretty small change.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/11/30/japan-construction-051130.html

The Japanese government has warned thousands of people that they have two weeks to get out of dozens of high-rises, saying it plans to demolish them as a construction scandal widens.

The uproar started in October, when a prominent architect admitted he cut costs by designing buildings that might not survive even a moderate earthquake in one of the most quake-prone countries in the world.

Dozens of high-rise buildings in Tokyo and elsewhere have since been deemed unsafe, after revelations that property developers, contractors and others had falsified quake-resistance certificates.

"I can feel my mind going"
"Welcome to Canada Hal"

I can't do that, Dave (Dingwall).

I have noted so many references here latley to what our true culture is ... memories of great American movies and music that give us slang and great scenes and lines with which we can use in metaphor to make points and create humor with one another.

WE MUST NOT LOSE THIS TO MULTICULTURALISM!

I want my 7-11 buy, my pizza delivery guy, and my doctor to know what I am talking about when I make a humorous reference.

Laugh with me at Duke's Place

If some guy from Harvard tells me to move on, that's good enough for me.

He's from Harvard, and I'm pretty sure his brain is bigger than ours.

We'll move on when we find out where the rest of the money is, and when we see the crooks behind bar. Maybe George W. took it and has it stashed on his forward moon base. Those moon mountains sure do look like stacks of brown envelopes, don't they?

Motion is a relative thing, as any capable spaceman knows, either we can move, or he can move on. The effect, relatively, will be the same.

Has he not heard of Newton's Third Law of Corruption?

LOL Jeff, that's exactly the qualities the Liberals see in him as a "star" candidate: he "thinks" his brain is bigger than ours. Sadly, there's folks out there that will believe that to be true.

I'm surprised Mr. Garneau would sully he name and reputation as a "great Canadian" by running for the Liberals.

It's one thing to have people supporting the Liberals who have been involved with the party for so long, but it's another to have new people join, people how have no political experience whatssoever.

Why has Garneau chosen the Liberal Party?

If you disagree with the Conservatives, run for the NDP, or the Greens, or whomever. But the Liberals?

After all we've heard from Gomery, and of all the recent bribery and blackmail that has taken place (Liberals bribing voters wit their own money and saying that the opposition os responsible for preventing pension increases, etc.), I'm amazed that Garneau has chosen that the party responsible is the one that best reflects his values.

As well, where does he get off saying "It's time to turn the page on the sponsorship issue"?

Canadians will be the judge of that. And we have the report needed to do that (Gomery II is merely recommendations, not a reported needed to judge the Liberals).

The fact that he says "move on" is just a further example of Liberal entitlement, that they believe that no one should judge them.

Ground control to spaceman Garneau, we have a problem here........

"I can feel my mind going..."

"Hal" it is!

Hey,

It's nice to see that they are getting into the times technologically speaking. This may mean good things...

Although it still doesn't mean that the PM's speech writer gets it, as evidenced by yesterday's Liberal blog.

Welcome to CyberSpace Hal! Scream as loud as you want, no one can hear you.

He must have left his brain and ethics in space.

"It's time to turn the page on the sponsorship issue"

Not so fast, you silly boy . . .
There's one thing I gotta say,
We want a guy from a party who's got a thing in the polls

(The Mothers, Fillmore East August 1971) ***Disgusting lyrics***

"WE MUST NOT LOSE THIS TO MULTICULTURALISM!"

Intersting sidenote to this comment. The Town of Oxford, NS has officially declared that "holiday" on Dec. 25 and the surrounding season as Christmas. Wait for the loony left to be up in arms over this one. More towns should do the same.

Maybe someone should ask Paul Martin if he loves Christmas.

Kate;

At the rate you're going bringing down the statist pigs like Paul Martin, I think you deserve a patronage appointment from the next Prime Minister: Canadian Astronaut on the International Space Station. You could do zero-gravity art from up there and when you fly over Paul Martin's ships... you could give 'em the Trudeau Salute :-).

I'm an American that's rooting for you AND Harper!!

I've lost a lot of respect for Marc Garneau with this. I thought he would have been the ideal Governor General -- first Canadian in space, excellent academic credentials, someone all Canadians could have looked up to with pride. Instead Paulie boy gave us another CBC "journalist" who's also a damned separatist and sullied the office probably beyond redemption. Now Garneau's standing side-by-side with Paulie telling everyone to just forget all about that old scandal, after all what's a few million taxpayer dollars next to Liberal power?

I sincerely hope the Bloc MP for the riding sends Garneau home with his tail between his legs.

Jon wrote
"I'm surprised Mr. Garneau would sully he name and reputation as a "great Canadian" by running for the Liberals."

Of course he's a Liberal and he is ENTITLED TO HIS ENTITLEMENTS after all, they all have their heads in the clouds.

ON January 23 2006 Beam them all up, Scotty

Does anybody know if he's realted to PMPM's good pal and Desmarais clan friend, Raymond Garneau? It's like the Westmount Hillbillies all this incestuous groping and bonking under the Liberal banner.

I think "Hal" Garneau's hard drive has been infected with the Chretien virus... "you know, what is a coupla million stolen here or dere?"

Too pooped to do a post on my site at the moment, so I'm commenting around.

I thought astronauts were supposed to be very smart. Guess in Canada that requirement is automatically waived for Liberals. Garneau sounds like a dumb moonbat teenager, doesn't he?

Ignatieff not even a Liberal member? If this is the case, how far will Paul Martin go with breaking every rule in the book to try to stay in power? Is he really that brobdingnagianly arrogant? Does he believe he must be some sort of omnipotent deity with a divine right to claim Canada and Canadians as belonging to himself alone?

The Liberal Party is self-destructing. Mrs. Martin always climbs on top. Why? 'Cause old Paulie can only screw up!

Oops, I forgot to call the astronaut "Hal". Forgive me, Kate. I've been working eleven or twelve consecutive days, plenty of overtime and all that... causes me to have the brainfarts...

"... I've been working eleven or twelve consecutive days, plenty of overtime and all that..."

Well SOMEBODY has to fund the Liberal slush fund - looks like it's YOU. And the rest of us ...

You got that right, Matt. And the confiscatory deductions listed on my paystub will be quite large, which only serves to remind me of where it ends up... in plain envelopes being passed around in Italian restaurants and being blown in Costa Rica by Jean Lafleur (of Adscam- Lafleur Communications, I believe- see CanadaFreePress article) and his live-in boyfriend...

http://canadafreepress.com/2005/cover112105.htm

Let's give ourselves a wonderful Christmas present and resolve to vote the crooks out of power on January 23, 2006.

Damn! and to think I used to have great respect for HAL. Let's hope Dr. Bondar doesn't become queen of the Borg.

We are the Lieberals... You will be assimilated.

Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life in Canada.

Steve Mackinnon? Steve MacKinnon, the Liberal national director: "...blogs are overvalued and overrated" Bloggers are opinionated blah, nlah, blah... Where have we seen his name before? Ya mean Jean Chretien? Garc Marneau? No, Steve MacKinnon. Oh, yes.... Internet remembers>>>>>

Meanwhile, the Liberals are putting less of a focus on getting their message out through political blogs in this campaign. "That was a factor in the last election and, frankly, of limited value," Mr. MacKinnon said. "We think it's overvalued and overrated. What you have there is the most opinionated people in the country. So you're not changing any minds."
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It was all smiles and optimism Wednesday, the first full day of campaigning, as Martin introduced star candidate Marc Garneau in the town of Coteau-du-Lac, near Montreal. Then along came Jean Chretien.

The former prime minister launched a Federal Court challenge against Justice John Gomery's findings in the sponsorship inquiry, thrusting the matter back into the political spotlight as the Liberals were trying to keep it in the shadows.

Word of the challenge came as Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut in space, enthusiastically delivered the Liberal mantra that the sponsorship scandal is a thing of the past and that there are far more pressing issues to consider in the voting booth Jan. 23.

"It's been put out there, it's been solved," Garneau said. "The Liberal party has taken a beating, now it's time to move on."

It was a Liberal love-in feeding on the hope that they might win back a longtime Grit riding lost to the Bloc Quebecois 17 months ago amid the widespread outrage in Quebec over the scandal.

But that hope for a Quebec revival could be dashed by Chretien's bold court challenge, which, while not unexpected, couldn't have been more poorly timed for the Liberals.

Chretien associates insisted the timing had nothing to do with the start of the campaign and everything to do with the 30-day limit he faced after the Nov. 1 release of Gomery's report.

And the Martin camp denied that the development would cast a pall over the campaign.

"We're having an excellent day in the province," said Steve Mackinnon, the Liberal national director. "We've introduced Marc Garneau as a candidate and he will be a bright star in our firmament." >>> via cnews

Hmmmm, too bad Garneau was on the "second last" space shuttle.

Horny Toad

The Garneau gambit reminds me more of the begging-for-his-life HAL than the killing-everyone-in-sight HAL:

"I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be alright again...I feel much better now, I really do...Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this...I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over...I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal...I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you"

Sound familiar?

I'm not sure, but I think Space 2001 might be the wrong movie.

How about: "Marc, I am your father. Come over to the dark side." — Lord Martin, protege of Sith Chretien

Re: Bright Star of Our Firmament

Well, one of the definitions of "firmament" is "the vault of the heavens", and it certainly seems like all the parties except the Conservatives think they have some sort of papal dispension to raid it.

Oops, sorry, I meant to say that they seem to think they have a "papal dispensation" to raid Canada's vault.

Obviously long term weightlessness effects your ethical judgement.

Don't bring up Gomery Steve you're scaring me, I know a song do you want to hear me sing?

Policy, policy, you have none today,
I can't find the CPC website

When I heard there would be a Canadian in space I knew the first in our multicultural society would be french male. I've been cynical a long time, but surprisingly accurate.

Nothing in the Red Star's article indicates that Garneau has resigned from his position as head of the Space Agency, but a check of the CSA's website indicates that he has done so.

It also notes that Dr Virendra Jha (the current Vice-President of Science, Technology and Programs at the CSA since July 2003) has been appointed the ACTING President. I look forward to the new Conservative government making that appointment permanent, and bouncing Garneau right out of the picture come early February.

Open money pod doors Hal.
Open money pod doors Hal.

Dave- is that you Dave? (Dingwall)
Dont do it Dave.
Dave dont sue us Dave.

Dave?? Pauly , Pauly give me your answer true.
Im half crazy , over my libs for you.
We cant afford the carnage, or a same sex marriage.
But you'll look sweet , without a seat. in a
Canada split in two.

Good point, Cal2!

Pauly and Hal will share the escape pod together after it's ejected from l'spaceship Quebec when it separates from the mothership. They'll no longer even represent the air they breath as the pod drifts aimlessly through the space until it falls into a nebulous wormhole (one that Pauly knows quite well).

But not to worry, the hidden liberal crew members on l'Quebec will have stocked up the escape pod's supplies with plenty of sponsorship cabbage and patronage golden brown beans. That way Pauly and Hal will enjoy a feast lightyears long. But...they and everyone else being supported by the escape pod also have to share in the inevitable after effects.

I wonder if Hal feels anything about the years of NASA sponsorship he received in the Mulroney era? What do you feel Hal? Anything? Anything..? Anything.....?

open spending doors Hal
open spending doors Hal.

the Liberal robot machine lives on in NS, NB, que , and Nfld. spend and yee shall recieve, ]

built it and they will come with another gubmint grant.

sick ,the whole east is a sick bunch of parasites off the libs,