If I may coin a verb, it would be called 'chavez'.

'Dwain is going to chavez Sask economy...'

Gary Doer has used the same model to build Manitoba Hydro into a world class powerhouse and household name in fuseboxes the world over.

Could this drilling and exploration company then be sold to the same company that bought Sask Oil someday? Cool set up if you can swing it. Global warming? Pass the cool aid please.

blakeney , didnt he talk like Elmer Fudd?

The term "self-righteous" was coined for a reason...

Re:
"Obviously you know why the glaciers are melting . . . "

D'you think maybe a shortage of moisture (as in rain/snowfall) might have something to do with it, nature being cyclical and all that?

After all, most of Alberta was once covered by thick glaciers. Who wants to go back to that?

WTF? Citing the Blakeney government policies as a model for prosperity?

I don't think DEwane remembers that under the Blakeney administration the term, "Would the last person to leave Saskatchewan please turn out the lights." was coined.

Of course the second paragraph is the most ironic...Former member of disastrous socialist government fondly recalls the glory days of state development of resources while simultaneously slagging said resources, while simultaneously working for an evil corporate entity developing said resources, while running for leadership of previously disastrous party, while promising more of the same?

My head hurts.

Syncro

As a senior cabinet minister, Dwaine was part of the Romanow/Blakney plan to destroy Saskatchewan. Thinking he had accomplished the mission considering the unprecedented out migration, he followed those whose lives he had ruined to Alberta. After all, who wants to live in a dump?

However, it appears Saskatchewan wasn't killed. It was just seriously wounded and needed time to heal. Now more vibrant an economy than in over half a century, Dwaine can not stomach such success. He has returned to attempt to finish what he failed to do the first go around.

Well, Dwaine, this aint the Alamo. Its Vimy Ridge. We've taken the hill and we aint giving it back.

Old Lingy's CV reads like a policical hack who has been at the government teat far too long. Even his private sector job is to act as a lobbyist for the oil company.

The only saving grace for this dipper is that he apparently operates his own farm.

Lingy has returned to Sask with an entirely different spin than when he was with the Calgary oil company.The middle east oil barons make not a peep about climate change.Could it be that they dont like the competition from Sask and Alberta and have hired someone to shut our oil production down by any means?

"Mugabe" would be a better verb that "Chavez".

Duh-wayne, answer your phone. Doer is calling offering you a job. He hasn't done enough to destroy Manitoba by himself and could use the help.

All I can think of is the Brett Butt skit where the RCMP asks for a description of the robber in a small town and the reply was "It was Dwyane."

Lingenfelter is only trying to make himself more appealling to the extreme left element of the NDP.

He couldn't possibly be so stupid as to believe what he's saying.

Could he?

give em a gun so he can shoot his foot, really!

And he is reputed to be the business friendly one that went to Alberta to work in private enterprise!
He sounds like an old man stuck in the past, remembering his glory days.

>>Obviously you know why the glaciers are melting, because of the vast quantities of fossil fuels that we use that are heating up the atmosphere of the earth.

There is a marker near the reception centre at the Columbia Icefields showing the location of the toe of the Athabasca Glacier in 1843, long before the automobile and airplane were invented. Other markers show that the glacier had receded close to half a mile before 1940. Obviously the glacier had been receding for long before 'global warming' was invented. What is one to believe? One's own eyes, or some lying politician?

And his current boss is Pierre Alvarez, former President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).

I'm sure everyone understands that the political expediency of his comments considering the circumstances of his current endeavor.

Lingenfelter is dumb as a fox. He knows that this kind of talk from a high profile politician will put the fear of god into investment capital. Its pretty well a given that he will become the next leader of the Dippers. The way things are going in Saskatchewan, unless something drastic happens to the economy - Brad and his party will be in power for a long time.

Dwaine knows this so he is, for purely selfish and political reasons, trying to make Saskatchewan less successful so that some day he can cash in on voter dissatisfaction at become Premier.

Make no mistake about it - he would sacrifice prosperity for us all in order to become Premier.

You'd have to dumber than a sack of rusty hammers to vote this self-admitted fool.

""""You'd have to dumber than a sack of rusty hammers to vote this self-admitted fool.""""

or simply as dumb as the voters south of the border!!!!

Good grief - Lingenfelter IS redder than a baboon's ass. I KNEW it!

Is it a coincedence that only 17 months after showing the door to the NDP, Saskatchewan is now leading the nation in prosperity? Does anybody actually miss this dead weight of a party?

Dwain thumbed his nose at his party's philosophy and jumped ship a number of years back to work (gasp) in private industry in (gasp) Alberta. Now he is the top candidate for the NDP's leadership. Do I laugh or cry?

Practice saying "Opposition Leader Dwain Lingenfelter" there Dwain. Its the only handle you will ever go by.

Is it a coincedence that only 17 months after showing the door to the NDP, Saskatchewan is now leading the nation in prosperity?

Not quite a coincidence. 16 years of solid NDP government helped the province recover from the disastrous tenure of Brad Wall's former mentor, Grant Devine, thus setting the stage for the current prosperity.

Measures like the Rainy Day Fund Brad Wall used to denounce in opposition (though he now relies on it to balance his budget) are but one example.

Oh, by the way, what's Brad Wall's resume of activity in the private sector look like?

"16 years of solid NDP government helped..." Thanks Sephen, you made me laugh today.

, but burning oil and coal as our major supply of fuel without cleaning it is a major disaster waiting to happen."

One of these days these bright lights will figure out the difference between air pollution and plant food.
Or maybe not...

Oil is not a pollutant nor is coal. Tar sands are but the tarry stools of Gia that great green hirsuite hermaphrodite, our God.

Next thing you know, Saskatchewan will be spending two billion dollars on sucking cow farts out of the atmosphere. All well going into deficit, Oh yah you got rid of the lefty leanie greenie weenies.

Sorry Stephen, Sask. only began to prosper when the NDP implemented Sask Party Policy.And by the way we still haven't fully recovered from a certain 1940's Permier. Hey you started it.

It's a given at this point (I think) that Lingenfelter will get the NDP leadership but if he gets elected to the Premiers Office spewing this kind of garbage then we in Saskatchewan never ever ever deserve to make a decent living or come out of the dark ages.

Yup - Melissa - you nailed it. Hopefully it never comes to that.

"16 years of solid NDP government helped..."

And the valiant efforts of the NDP miraculously came to fruition shortly after the Sask Party came into power. Quite a stretch there.

The obligatory reference to Grant Devine was a nice touch although a tad tedious.

The only thing missing was a few words of praise for Tommy Douglas and how his policies set the stage for today's prosperity.

Good grief!

I'm beginning to think Stelmach cut a deal with the NDP in Saskatchewan to bring Link back to this province to drive another wave of young, talented people to Alberta to bolster their economy.

Leave it to an opportunist like Lingenfelter to show up at the party only when the booze is free!

From what I've heard, Saskatchewan potash mines were very lucrative *before* they were nationalised by T. C. Douglas. Then they took a nosedive. Now that they have been privatised again, they are once again lucrative.

How many times, oh Lord, how many times, must You demonstrate the folly of socialism?

like Lingenfelter to show up at the party only when the booze is free!

Actually, if I were a supporter of the man who once worked in Minister Gerich's office, I wouldn't bring up the issue of free booze at parties.

"Actually, if I were a supporter of the man who once worked in Minister Gerich's office, I wouldn't bring up the issue of free booze at parties."

Since we're exhuming Devine era misdemeanors (again), let's hear the one about Lorne McLaren's saddle.

Since we're exhuming Devine era misdemeanors (again)

Yawn.

Exhume what misdemeanors you will from whatever era: there's no chance whatsoever that the account will ever come close to favouring the Sask Party (or any of its sorry antecedents) over the NDP.

In closing, I find it amusing that so many of Saskatchewan's own collection of hyper-capitalist dead-enders find it "tedious" to refer to Grant Devine, and yet have no problem reaching back to the 70s and even the 40s for evidence of so-called "socialist" failure.

The evidence isn't there to support their case, of course, because today's crop of capitalists is not--and has never been--interested in facts or logic.

In the end, one can admire--at most--the sincerity of their faith in Mammon's power to guide the invisible, non-existent hand of the badly named 'free market.'

One can't take them seriously as opponents in rational debate, however--they're just not up to the job.

seems like Stephen doesn't understand sarcasm.

or interested in facts for that matter.

I'm so glad Communist Russia is doing so well now.

cheers!

Thank goodness Saskatchewan is beginning to move beyond the socialist nightmare. My own contrary view, is that I don't think the socialist nightmare is over in Saskatchewan. It is too soon to declare victory over the luddites.