Team Ignatieff (the Liberals) have released a mocking "Voluntary Conservative Census Form" that includes the questions "Are there any rooms in your house where you keep books? If so, why?", "Have you ever had an independent thought? If so, please describe in details, and say where they/it occurred", and "Would you agree that giving women the right to vote was a mistake?"
For those who might think that the party of those-who-deserve-to-rule might be mocking the Conservative Party, and not conservative voters, here's a "senior Ignatieff official," as quoted by Jane Taber:
"I don't think they'll reverse their decision (on the census). Once you throw a bone at Canada's version of the Tea Party crowd it is hard to take it back."
Let's hope they keep it up. Every time our status-seeking, condescending, self-considered betters in the Bureaucrat Party insult millions of Canadians who refuse to acknowledge the Liberals' innate superiority, they demonstrate precisely why so many voters, including former Liberal voters, have left these vaunted natural rulers parked by the curb.
h/t Louise
That's about as offensive as it gets. And it's on the net forever.
Posted by: Pongo at July 30, 2010 2:03 PMYeah I had an independent thought. Pay back the thirty million you stole and disband the stinking party.
Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at July 30, 2010 2:05 PMLouise, etc., something very important may have happened recently in Ottawa that I missed: Harper replaced "affirmative action" criteria for federal public jobs with merit. Can anyone confirm this?
Posted by: nick at July 30, 2010 2:07 PMPosted previously on a different thread:
Is there a special version of the census long form for proggies on the Lieberal website?
If not, perhaps we should scratch one together.
Here are a few of questions to start it off.
A. Was Anglo-Saxon 101 your most difficult university course?
B.How many times did you have to repeat it before you got a passing grade?
C. Can you read Beowulf in the original? Do you have any other useful skills?
D. When you meet with your former UCC classmates for the annual Labour Day party at the cottage do you converse in Latin or Classical Greek? Do you have any other useful skills?
E. Can you change the oil in your Volvo all by yourself? Can you change a tire?
F. Do you still work for Canada Post or have you graduated to social assistance?
It's a start. Any more ideas?
Posted by: albertaclipper at July 30, 2010 2:08 PMAre Iggy and Obama long-lost brothers? They're both elitists out of sync with the majority of the voters.
Posted by: Slim at July 30, 2010 2:15 PMSlim:
Does the phrase ‘university professors' ring a bell?
Posted by: set you free at July 30, 2010 2:24 PMThe libs gave most of our Federal Agencies police powers, think about that my fellow Canadians. The libs gave Revenue Canada police powers with no oversight or accountability, they gave Stats Canada police powers no oversight or accountability and finally they gave the CHRC more power than the police or military. These self same libs mock those of us who want the census decriminalized. Well of course they scorn us they've turned the Civil Service into an arm of the police and now it's become the Penal Service where snivel servants can abuse us at will. The libs want the people to answer to the state or they'll use their police powers to silence us, the libs do not view the snivel services as accountable to the court of public opinion. The libs have created a new super Penal Service agencies that answer to no one, not even our politicians.
Posted by: rose at July 30, 2010 2:38 PMLieberal Census Long Form questions
G. Are you able to do any of the following:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Liberal cencus form:Do you have any money left in your account and what is the account number?
Are you a convicted criminal and not a Liberal and if so,why not?
Liberal census form question: How many abortions have you had, and if you haven't had any why the heck not?
Posted by: Soccermom at July 30, 2010 2:54 PMThat is a great quote by Heinlein. Three things left to do, one of which I'd rather leave for a while.
Posted by: grok at July 30, 2010 2:56 PMThey know they can get away with that because they pretty much disarmed you.
Posted by: Boss429 at July 30, 2010 2:57 PMI got the long form years ago and spent twenty seconds to confirm there was one person at that address and sent it back. Months later, I was threatened with jail time. I grabbed my jacket and said "Let's go." They backed off. Next census (for some reason it was only 5 years later) my phone rang late one night. It was a nice government fellow who said he'd been assigned to help people like me fill out the long form and how about if he read the questions and answered them for me and if I had any comments or corrections I could speak up. I said "People like me? How many are there?" He paused and said "496 or so, coast to coast." I told him to go ahead and listened without adding a syllable. At the end I said, "That's it? Okay goodnight." He couldn't help himself. "You're all the same," he seethed, "every one of you" and he slammed the phone down. I wonder if they still provide that helpful service.
Posted by: Mike McCormick at July 30, 2010 2:59 PMThey're right about it not being funny.
It's amazing that they don't realize how much this kind of sneering, p*ss-ignorant adolescent arrogance will alientate potential swing voters; as EBD said, let's hope they keep it up.
Posted by: Black Mamba at July 30, 2010 3:22 PMAre you too intelligent to donate to the Liberal Party?
Do you think consensus for the medicore but expensive is Leadership?
Are you easily manipulated?
How many times with your Liberal Arts Degree have you said 'Would you like fries with that?"
Have you read Atlas Shrugged? Do you think 1984 is your IQ?
This is too easy.
Boos429: be comforted in the fact that Canada has more firearms per capita than the United States.
Posted by: Kursk at July 30, 2010 3:31 PM"Bureaucrat Party"
Love it. We're gonna have to make that standard conservaspeak from now on.
Posted by: Louise at July 30, 2010 3:32 PMWhen was the last time you had a clue?
Posted by: Gord Tulk at July 30, 2010 3:33 PMLooks a lot like another "Beer and Popcorn" moment the CPC should capitalise on as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: bverwey at July 30, 2010 3:33 PMYea that's funny, I'm beside myself, really.
You got that money you stole from us Chuckles?
Posted by: richfisher at July 30, 2010 3:37 PMIggymessiah . . . Barry's wanna be liberal Czar.
Posted by: Fred at July 30, 2010 3:39 PMKursk - does she really? Well between that, and the awesome Mantracker news, and the fact that the Canadian Head of Government is now way to the right of the American Head of Government, I feel considerable pride. And terror.
Posted by: Black Mamba at July 30, 2010 3:39 PMThem thar libralls sure nuff no how to woo a vote outa us morons.
Ridikool our opinyuns, that shud do it.
Posted by: Sylvanguy at July 30, 2010 3:42 PMMaybe someone might give the Liberals a clue: make fun of the electorate, you don't get in.
On second thought, scratch that. I don't want to see those back-stabbing, self-congratulatory thieves ever again.
Beer and Popcorn 2.
Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at July 30, 2010 4:04 PMSet you free:
Are you kidding? BHO never stayed at one job long enough to become a professor. At best, he was a lecturer and senior lecturer.
Posted by: Andrew at July 30, 2010 4:06 PMnick at 2:07 PM: "Can anyone confirm this?"
===================
They're looking into it, but nothing has come of it yet. Of course, there's howling from the usual suspects who have built there careers on creating and exploiting the perception of racism in this country.
"I don't think they'll reverse their decision (on the census). Once you throw a bone at Canada's version of the Tea Party crowd it is hard to take it back."
Hmmm just like Income Tax, CPP, Old Age Security, "economic development agencies", funding for special interest groups.....
Posted by: Andrew at July 30, 2010 4:10 PMHere's some census questions to ask admited Modern Liberals:
1. Do you live alone or in your mother's basement?
2. Have you ever held a job that wasn't a government subsidized job or a government grant provided job?
3. Have you ever held a job, being a student is not applicable.
4. Do you know what a moral compass is, and if so do you have the ethical ability to find said compass?
5. Do you believe the snivel service should have police powers and should they be above the law?
6. Do you think hurt feelings are a persecutable punishable offense?
7. Have you ever held a job where you were not an activists or a peacenik or an anarchists?
8. Do you hate Canada and her culture?
9. Are you a Liberal supremacists who believes the state should imprison people who refuse to submit passively to the state?
10. Do you think Canada should abolish elections and allow Snivel Servants to appoint a ruler for this nation?
End census.
The following blank lines are made available to you to snitch on those neighbours/coworkers/family who may offend you or is likely to offend you in future. Your privacy is assured, their rights will not be protected comrade have no fear.
Posted by: rose at July 30, 2010 4:36 PMRose - Absolutely brilliant!!!
Posted by: Robert W. (Vancouver) at July 30, 2010 4:40 PMWhat I'd like to know is exactly where Iggy's Liberals got the idea to throw the so-called epithet "Tea Party" at conservative supporters.
Getting more advice from U.S. PR firms, are we?
Posted by: Karthanon at July 30, 2010 4:42 PMHope the Conservative party sends a copy of this parody out with the next fundraiser. Should be worth a couple mil.
Me, a tea partier? - i should hope so!
Posted by: Agent Smith at July 30, 2010 4:57 PMYup, the Liberals have figured out how to get voter support: make fun of our fellow Canadians, ridicule them, let them know you think they're a bunch of stupid, uneducated, bigoted proles. Yup, that'll endear you to them.
Posted by: Barbara at July 30, 2010 5:05 PMI have approx. 300 books in the room I'm in right now. They engulf the decor. The only thing that makes the whole collection Liberal unfriendly is the collection of ethical philosophy books. Oh, and there's a copy of the Wealth of Nations and the Bible.
Posted by: safety forced at July 30, 2010 5:06 PMAs I was reading this I recalled that today's Toronto (Red) Star's headline is: "10 hour ER wait claimed as victory". That's the Red Star, in the bag for the Liberal Party since paper was invented.
Keep talking boys, keeeeep talking.
Posted by: The Phantom at July 30, 2010 5:09 PMGrit census form:
How many abortions have you had: one? two? three? four? more?
Have you procured an abortion for an African woman?
Posted by: andycanuck at July 30, 2010 5:14 PMAndrew @4:10 - you're so right. It's once the left gets a "bone" that you never get it back.
Posted by: Black Mamba at July 30, 2010 5:43 PMDefinitely Iggy's beer and popcorn moment and this form should get as much publicity as possible. People just love getting talked down to by their self-appointed superiors. Note to the lieberals: there isn't a Canadian TEA party yet, but keep up what you're doing and we'll have a big one in short order. Most people on SDA would likely go to a Canadian TEA Party rally if it was held close to where they live and insulting most of the people all of the time is a great recruiting tactic. Does PMSH have a mole in Iggy's campaign team?
That was a great quote by Heinlein; just curious what proportion of lieberals can do even a fraction of the things that an independent human being should be capable of.
Nick and Louise. When I worked for RevCan I volunteered to sit on the Employment Equity Committee in our local Tax Services Office.
Quite frankly it was 50% out of curiousity and 50% for a lark. I was not disappointed.
It had to be the most confusing time I ever spent in my life. I cannot begin to explain it.
I was finally asked to leave as I didn't "fit in".
As far as I know, I am the only person in history to have been dismissed from an Employment Equity Comittee.
I'm rather proud of that achievement.
All questions are within a legal time limit-2yrs.
a] Do you spit on the sidewalk? If yes, is it directed at minorities?
b] Getting a chance to work in the public sector would you submit to brainwashing?
c] Is TigerWoods a success or a failure?
d] When 2 dogs are copulating are you inclined to interrupt or would you prefer to join in?
Well, now, we (right-wingers) do make fun of lefties from time-to-time, so I think we should be able to dish as well as take. They are kinda funny. The natural response to the book one is: "No time to read books, we're busy running the country and winning elections".
Posted by: Dean at July 30, 2010 6:36 PMG. Have you ever signed a petition calling for the banning of deadly di-hydrogen monoxide?
Posted by: albertaclipper at July 30, 2010 6:38 PMHave you ever taken and spent somebody else's money and not felt guilty about it?
Have you ever been a bully? Where did you live when you were employed by Air Canada?
Posted by: glacierman at July 30, 2010 6:46 PMLiberal census form: Which tax do you love the most: carbon tax, income tax, GST....and how much more would you like to pay?
Which religion is the most evil: Christianity or Judaism?
Posted by: Soccermom at July 30, 2010 6:47 PMHow many times have you watched "An Inconvenient Truth", shown on the CBC: 10, 20 or 50 times?
How much do you love Obama: More than Trudeau, same as Trudeau, not nearly as much as Trudeau
Posted by: Soccermom at July 30, 2010 6:52 PMsoccermom; Given the current made-up crisis, I suspect that it would be Jedi, especially since it seems to be the fastest growing religion in Canada.
Posted by: albertaclipper at July 30, 2010 6:54 PMLadies (or men or transgendered): Who would you choose to go out with on a date: Omar Khadr, Hugo Chavez or David Suzuki
Posted by: Soccermom at July 30, 2010 6:55 PMCensus questions for Liberals:
1. How many children do you have?
a) one designer baby delivered at 39
b) none
c) I aborted them all
d) gonna adopt at 44 when my career is on track
2. What are you doing with your Womyns Studies BA?
a) waiting tables
b) stocking shelves
c) a and b
d) unemployed and feeding my resentments
3. What is your religion?
a) government
b) environmentalism
c) whatever works at the time
d) what's religion?
4. Where do you live?
a) university residence
b) mom's basement
c) travelling through Europe on daddy's dime
d) I'm only 29, why should I have my own place?
5. What did you protest during the G-20 summit?
a) capitalism
b) conservatism
c) both a and b
d) too hung over to remember
Census questions for Liberals:
1. How many children do you have?
a) one designer baby delivered at 39
b) none
c) I aborted them all
d) gonna adopt at 44 when my career is on track
2. What are you doing with your Womyns Studies BA?
a) waiting tables
b) stocking shelves
c) a and b
d) unemployed and feeding my resentments
3. What is your religion?
a) government
b) environmentalism
c) whatever works at the time
d) what's religion?
4. Where do you live?
a) university residence
b) mom's basement
c) travelling through Europe on daddy's dime
d) I'm only 29, why should I have my own place?
5. What did you protest during the G-20 summit?
a) capitalism
b) conservatism
c) both a and b
d) too hung over to remember
Soccermom, do I haaaaafta?
Soccermom: "and how much more would you like to pay?"
Nothing. Make the rich pay their fair share.
/typical lefty
Can anyone explain why this is even a story? The Long-form census? Seriously -- Is there really nothing more interesting/entertaining, important going on in Ottawa right now.
Chinese spies pimping for BC pols? Prentice lauding provincial cap and tax schemes? Muslim moms and dads getting away with honour drownings?
And we waste time on a useless gov't form. Kill the f'ing thing and move on.
Posted by: Mark W at July 30, 2010 7:23 PMThere was a caller to an Ottawa radio show last week that really exemplifies the LPC mindset.
The caller was literally frothing at the mouth about "redneck Conservatives and how they shouldn't even be allowed to vote"....
Lieberals really believe they and only they should have the devine right to power, like some sort of bizarre, political blue blood.
Actually I thought the census was kind of funny and pretty well done. What I find much more telling is the comment by a "Senior Liberal official". He has basically admitted that the Liberal party has open contempt for everything the Tea Party stands for: smaller, less intrusive government; fiscal responsibility; liberty.
Posted by: johndoe124 at July 30, 2010 7:42 PMThe Lieberal penchant for excessive surveys started way back with the first Lieberal PM Alexander MacKenzie as a means of appearing to look busy and seem actually interested in building the CPR. It seems nothing much has changed in their playbook since then.
Posted by: Sgt Lejaune at July 30, 2010 8:01 PMCould it be said, that the a "senior Ignatieff official," is calling at least 50% Canadians, dogs?
Posted by: Lev at July 30, 2010 8:15 PMI'm not upset. I like to look at the big picture. No leader. No money. No policies anyone wants. Bob Rae suffering from pre-mature speculation. No plan I know of. If the government doesn't hire the students pushed out they have large debt, no job and unrealistic expectations.
I don't feel sorry for them, they deserve it but somewhere along the line they have to consider a philosopher is a drain on society and an engineer is a benefit.
The Glengarrian has his finger on what Liberals really believe.
I would be proud to wear the Tea Party label.
rose and Wicked Wasabi, those are great census questions for today's Liberals.
Mark W, Prentice is still an AGW koolaid drinking idiot and I keep telling the CPC fundraiser not another dime until he wakes up.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at July 30, 2010 8:24 PMWhen you hear the term 'Income Tax' do you:
a) think of tax
b) think of income
Posted by: ron in kelowna ∴ at July 30, 2010 8:27 PMMy, aren't they clever?
In our riding our CPC campaign office in North Grenville (part of Leeds-Grenville) office used a huge bowl of popcorn with a "Bring your own beer" sign. The next election the Libs parachuted an ex-PMO gal in, who kicked off her campaign with a statement to the effect that she had always wanted to visit Belleville. Unfortunately she uttered her homey connection to the locals in Brockville. So, our office posted direction signs to Brockville and Belleville.
Posted by: Brian from Kemptville at July 30, 2010 8:35 PMHas Elections Canada read Alice?
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!*"
...-
"The Elections Canada raid (supporting information and Conservative response)"
"Below you’ll find the application for a search warrant from Elections Canada (the warrant), attached appendices to the affidavit of EC official Ronald Lamothe, and a list of contradictions that the Conservative Party believes to exist between Lamothe’s affidavit and the supporting documentation.
First, the search warrant:"
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2008/04/the-elections-canada-raid-supporting-information-and-conservative-response/
(*H/T Jabberwocky/Lewis Carroll & Alice)
Posted by: maz2 at July 30, 2010 8:45 PM"Is there really nothing more interesting/entertaining, important going on in Ottawa right now. "
Most definitely, 20 Billion allocated for American made stealth fighters that Canada does not need and can't afford. The census gafuffle was specifically manufactured to divert Canadians from the stealth fighter issue. It worked beautifully.
Our limited defense budget should be spent on coastal patrol boats and aircraft, both made in Canada to employ Canadians. My tax dollars shouldn't be bailing out the American military aircraft industry.
Posted by: John Galt at July 30, 2010 8:46 PMThe census short form 2016 after the Libs are restored to ruling this nation?
Name: Internet monikers are valid.___________
Age: _________________ Not necessary if you wear elastic waist bands and Burkas.
Sex: Male__________ Female___________ Other__________ Other-Other_________ Gender neutral or gender negative_____________ Gender you wish to be ____________________
Social Justice Issue's section:
1: What religion are you?
Muslim
Islamists
Islamic Supremacist
Maxism/communist/socialist/Modern Liberal or all the above?
2: What religion personifies your beliefs if you aren't religious?
Islam
Islamic Supremacism
Wahhabi Islam
Marxism ala socialism alla communism ala Islam
3: Which social justice cause is a priority for you?
Getting VA to provide injured vets the services they need?
Getting the Human Condition reconized as the most important non-condition eva.
Getting cops removed from the streets and replaced by Snivel/Penal servants?
Getting drugs legalized?
Giving a beheader two taxpayer funded guards so he can take a walk at a mental institution?
Giving a child killer ala honour killer house arrest because it's not her fault but societies?
All the above excluding the VA question?
4: Which peace organization best represents your political ethos?
Hamas
Hamas
The Taliban
Hamas
Tamil Tigers
Chicken Hawks
5: Do you believe Conservatives should be excluded from our Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Error that's already legislated via Section 13 negate question the Neo Cons have no rights.
6: Politically who do you vote for?
Liberals
Liberals
Liberals
NDP and liberal or Bloc.
All the above.
7: Do you believe that we need restrictions or regulations regarding live birth abortions?
NO
NO
NO
8: What do you value most?
Freedom
Liberty
Or none of the above?
Or none of the above?
9: Do you think that Canada needs to employ social workers to visit you to ensure you don't choke on your food?
Yes
Yes
Yes
10: Are the long form census and short form vital to your continued Employment and your right to get grants to be professional Activist, poverty shakedown artists, peaceniks and professional Human Rights advocates?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Thank you for answering the above questions whilst the stasi had tea in your living room.
Posted by: rose at July 30, 2010 8:52 PMRose: Brilliant! Particularly 4:36pm.
Posted by: EBD at July 30, 2010 9:03 PMSo this has now degenerated into a 'battle of the sarcastic census forms'?
C'mon people ... that tells that the libs that it got to you.
"Are too" ... "Are not" "Are too" ... "Are not" is for Pee Wee Herman.
Be big people and have a laugh at their childish attack, then keep being who you are and let facts guide you, not beliefs ... as they do.
Posted by: Abe Froman at July 30, 2010 9:28 PMYou know how when it is late and night...you are drifting off to sleep?..and you feel something brush your face that startles you and wakes you out of your sleep?
Well, its Iggy's wandering eyebrows..they leave his head at night when he is asleep to cause alarm and consternation to small children all across the world..
Posted by: Kursk at July 30, 2010 9:36 PMPeople in Michigan have a chance to send President Obama a message August 3rd! http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/07/30/we-need-pete-hoekstra-as-michigans-next-governor-vote-august-3rd/
President Obama is trying to knock down Michigan’s best chance at finally having a conservative governor, but we can’t let Obama win! The stakes of this election are simply too high!
August 3rd is the most important day in Michigan politics in years! We need to do what we can to help make sure Michigan sends President Obama a message.
So if they make the long form voluntary, I will double the population of Canada by reporting 32 million people living at my residence. They all get up at 0400 and go to work and they all speak Urdu.
Actually this is just the place next door.
Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at July 30, 2010 9:44 PMRon in Kelowna 8:27 Good one!
Posted by: Speedy at July 30, 2010 9:51 PM“Once you throw a bone at Canada's version of the Tea Party crowd it is hard to take it back”
Liberal Party of Canada (Translation)
“Anyone who doesn’t dance naked in the streets in front of your children, or wish to cut the baby out of its mothers womb, or allow Muslim extremist ideology to take over your land or the “human rights commission” to take away your human rights – IS A DOG, not worthy of a bone”.
Kursk at July 30, 2010 9:36 PM
I'm crying, I'm laughing so hard!
Could it be that Iggy's wandering eyebrows are what has made BTJ into such a bedwetter?
Posted by: The Glengarrian at July 30, 2010 10:08 PMUni-brows make me:
A) Envious
B) Excited
C) Anxious
D) A and B but not C
E) All of the above
Iggy's eyebrows. ROTFLMAO!! Time for some talented YouTuber to get to work.
Posted by: Louise at July 30, 2010 10:44 PMAre there any 19th C. woodcuts of Count Ignatieff's eyebrows terrorizing small children?
Posted by: Black Mamba at July 30, 2010 11:02 PMAndrew 4:06 PM
Set you free:
[....Are you kidding? BHO never stayed at one job long enough to become a professor. At best, he was a lecturer and senior lecturer......]
Close but no cigar----not senior but rather VISITING lecturer.
See they do have something in common........
Posted by: sasquatch at July 30, 2010 11:05 PM
This thread definitely needs a bump! Perhaps we could have a competition, and vote on our favourite 'liberal' census questions!
1) Who is your current employer?
a - government
b - government-owned corporation
c - art gallery that relies on government grants to exist
d - unemployed, on welfare
2) Which left-wing media network do you watch the most?
a - CBC
b - CBC
c - CBC
d - CBC
3) How can we can erase Canada's $550 Billion debt?
a - import more Somalis, buy them homes.
b - Let prisoners free, buy them homes.
c - raise working people's taxes
d - Build more low-income housing. Celebrate with champagne receptions.
Do you think that offering a universial child care program to people living in major urban centers a good or bad policy?
yes no
WW2, King, Do you think maintaining a policy on conscription that sees more Canadians die every day fighting against fascism and National Socialism more or less important than winning a majority government after the war? The answer is in that great Liberal Prime Minister's journal.
SF @ 5:06
What you missed was that despite the number of books you have, the two you mentioned clearly put you in the non-progressive column.
How dare you read a book wriiten by a Scottish (OMG) economist besides the Enlightentment never actually occured because we clearly have not "Progressed" to levels suitable for society in general.
As for the other book you mention, 39 of the 66 books were based upon the teachings of the dreaded Jooos, so we know it is based upon a series of falsehoods.
So to sum up, in typical progressive fashion, your over 298 readings are clearly outwieghed by the 2 described, much like the rest of us knuckle dragging, tea party neandrethals.
Posted by: KenAinCGY at July 30, 2010 11:33 PMSee what happens when Kate is away. LOL!
Posted by: Louise at July 30, 2010 11:37 PMHey, we could ask Liberals what they books they have in their home:
A) Harlequin romances
B) Archie comics
C) Hustler magazine
D) Sociology textbooks you've never opened
E) All of the above
I'm just surprised by the Liberals use of "Tea Party" in any context, to be honest.
I did not know if the CBC or indeed any of the Canadian news networks have really spent much time investigating (I know, too much to expect) any of the Tea Party ideals beyond following and repeating the tired nonsensical rantings of MSNBC/ABC/CBS 'news' anchors (and I use the term lightly) that Tea Partiers are a group of neanderthalistic knuckle-dragging gun-toting racist KKK fanatics.
I doubt very greatly any of them would spend much time listening or reporting anything favourable, since the only response they have to any criticism of Obama is "RAAACCIIISST!!" - much like the US networks. It's sad the Canadian network response parrots US coverage talking points (from Democrats) - I wonder if it's ever been pointed out to them that they're acting very..well..'American'. You'd think they'd choke on it.
Ah, well. As it's been said here already - small government, liberty, fiscal restraint?
Sign me up!
Posted by: Karthanon at July 31, 2010 12:43 AMOh dear. This is much worse than a woodcut.
(Stolen from Blazing Cat Fur.)
Posted by: Black Mamba at July 31, 2010 1:17 AMNow that was a funny video Black Mamba.
Posted by: No-One at July 31, 2010 3:34 AMThis “Tea Party” comment by the “senior Iggynoramus official” is another example of how the entire Canadian left get all their instructions and their talking points from the American leftards. Same goes for the Toronto media. They are truly fixated on everything these people say and do. They worship the American politicians, media and celebrities with all the fawning submissive adulation that they can muster up.
They haven’t a single original though in their little minion minds.
It’s time we all changed their party name to the “Liberal Party of American Wannabes”
Canada had a Tea Party, in London, ON, a couple of years back. I believe Kathy Shaidle was a featured speaker.
Posted by: Kyla at July 31, 2010 12:19 PMWell like, history lesson folks. Let's go back to the beginning:
"Then the LORD said to Moses, 'when you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague when you number them. Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD." Exodus 30:11-16
Obvious proof of the need for jail time for refusal to consult a geneology website in order to complete the long form.
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