As I said in the comments section below, I hope this is a signal that someone in Tory headquarters has learned the “Abu Ghraib�� Strategy” – that to inflict maximum damage to an opponant caught in a story of wrongdoing you must ensure that the dirty details …. dribble … out …. one …. at … a … time.
As the world media did with the prison abuse story, the controlled release of “new photos” (though all had been taken at the same time) turned a brief moment in history into a multi-chaptered saga that lived for weeks, and worsened with the ugly exposure of each new naked body ….
8 minute increments, boys.
Make them squirm. Keep them on the defense for a change.
OK. Back to gardening.
Good one, Kate:
Let’s hope each subsequent release is more incriminating than the last one.
Though I’m sure a few well placed calls to the NGP-friendly RCMP will shut that game down in a hurry. After all, for just the price of one “Musical Ride” the Libs implicated them in Adscam as well.
As long as almost none come out before the Gomery hearings are done. Let the Liberals have the limelight to hurt themselves.
relax-the libs are the gift that keeps on giving….
there will be more but how can they be made to pay?
let harper be harper the clean contrast will tell-the polls aren’t catching the seismic shift going in-cambells big poll majority going in to her race was no indication of the result-keep the faith these libercrooks are done, what their criminal behaviour began the new world of smaller central gov’t lower taxes distributed decision making weakened party discipline will complete-rock on stephen!
Kate, why do you have the American flag on your home page and not a maple leaf in sight…anywhere? I guess you’re representing “an ordinary [Western] Canadian” wishing they could become the 51st state.
Can’t speak for Kate but Right now I would do the exact same thing if I had a blog. Show support for our neighbor, friend, ally and protector after all the repeated slagging from the Canuckonian lefties. And to show a Maple Leaf flag at the moment we gained our Third World Banana Republic Membership, would hardly be something to be proud of!
I put that flag up during the height of the anti-Iraq war rhetoric, as a signal to my largely US based clientelle as to where this Canadian stood.
And still do.
I don’t spew my thoughts from behind a firewall of a government salary, union contract, cost of living allowance, and fat pension plan.
My trade is dependant upon disposable income. If I had to depend upon the Canadian economy to survive, I wouldn’t. There simply isn’t that much out there anymore.
I am one of those people who was hurt directly, economically, by the thoughtless American hatemongering coming the mouths of Canadians and their politicians. Indeed, in the past couple of years, my gross income took about a $5K hit – not insignificant for a freelance artist.
Canadians who don’t believe that ordinary American consumers are checking to see the country of origin when they choose what to buy, they are deluding themselves.
So, you bet your ass I fly an American flag on my business site. Those are the people who put food on my table.
I wonder if the reason the CPC won’t release the tape, except in dribbles (edited dribbles?, or join the otthers in demanding an investigation, is that they know it will show that Grewel had gone shopping.
Thanks for the quick response, Kate. $ trumps patriotism any day!
Whatever they do, they’d better not give that tape to the RCMP- no one would ever hear of it again.
Of course, it does not take 4 hours to say no. The Liberals tried to buy his vote, just as they bought Stronach.
The Globe & Mail today pointed out, again, that any kind of such influence-peddling and bribing for government office is a criminal offence. I guess this makes Mr. Murphy, Mr. Martin and Ms. Stronach criminals (but we knew that already).
You know, “jimp” – as confusing as this notion is likely to be to you – Canadian patriotism and support for the United States of America are not mutually exclusive positions.
Before you give that a lot of thought, may I suggest you wrap your arms around the CBC and hold on tight before your head explodes?
“Does it take four hours to say No?”
All depends what the definition of No is.
Kate, why do you hate Canada so much? As the American who you seem to be so fond of used to say, Love it or leave it.
Who hates Canaduh???
What many people hate is “Liebral Canaduh”, where sleaze, lies, theft, corruption, vote-buying, bribery, Mob-ties, scandal, and outright, brazen BS gets support from the sleepy sheep and another chance to steal as much as you want! Gaaaaaagggg!!!!
“Kate, why do you hate Canada so much?”
You have a quote, I presume?
TRACEY:
Don’t confuse frustration and desire for a smaller, better government with anti-Canadianism. Not one person here is anti-Canada. If we were we wouldn’t bother trying to fix what we see are its obvious flaws.
You’re falling into the old Liberal trap wherein any criticism of the NGP superstructure (they have after all been in power for a long time, now) is conflated with being anti-Canadian.
As Kate says in her sidebar, Liberal values are not perfectly congruent with Canadian values and they are certainly not my values. They do not speak for me.
Is Harper toast? “Dump Harper” bid on the rise
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/London/Chip_Martin/2005/05/21/1049731.html
Besides, if any of us “hated” Canada, the solution is right there before us – we’d all go to the polls and vote for more socialism, more corruption, more organized crime in government, more “publication bans”, more limits to speech, more decay of our military, more Indoctrination Through Daycare, more more more more…… in other words, we’d vote Liberal.
It’s a system proven to work across the globe.
That should speed the process of disintegration, without question.
“$ trumps patriotism any day!”
This should mess with your head, then:
http://www.circleofconfusion.ca/
I’m one of those nasty Western Separatists that you hate so much. For the record, I’ve got nothing against Canada (not even Newfies, although I do like to razz them), just the asshats living in Ottawa and Toronto. If we could kick them out of Canada and keep everything else (including Quebec), that would suit me just fine.
Most Western Separatists feel a lot like Joe Clark. It’s not that we hate our country, we just feel like it took off without us and we’re doing our best to preserve what’s left (even if it means considering becoming the 51st state). I’m a proud Canuck in the same sense that Joe is a proud ‘Progressive Conservative’.
Run along now Sweetie…. Don’t you have some new shoes to buy or a few envelopes of cash to count? Maybe a few more votes to buy or lies to spread in the sleepy flock???
Tracey & jimp:
If you think that Kate doesn’t love Canada, then you haven’t been paying much attention to her site. The amount of time she spends, trying to do her little part to make Canada a better country is a testament to that.
Showing support for the states doesn’t make her anti-Canadian. Although, according to liberal logic, being a “real” Canadian means you should insult the intelligence of Americans at every possible opportunity.
Liberals push the concept of “tolerance” every chance they get, and yet if you disagree with them on any policy (be it social, economic or foreign related) you get branded as an un-Canadian redneck. Fact is, Canada is a big country, and there are a lot of different points of view. Disagree with them, fine, but don’t say crap like “Love it or leave it.”
Tracey,
Again, that rummer is being put out there by Sinclair Steven’s, who is a total socialist, and has become a Librano supporter. He wants Harper taken out because the liberals are afraid of him.
Your quoting garbage put out by MSM. If your going to propagate stories, make sure you know the facts.
thats been covered already Tracey.
Nice of you to try hijack the thread and change the subject when Kate scores a hit.
I vote, “dump tracey”
tracey: No, Harper’s not toast. It’s just that the Liberals would like him to be toast. Who do you think is leading the “dump Harper” brigade?
And ditto on everyone else’s comments re: hating what the Liberals have done to Canada does not mean we hate Canada.
from dictionary.com
critical thinking – the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion
You may want to stretch your skills in that, tracey.
jimp:
“$ trumps patriotism any day!” i suppose you are talking about the liberals. ;))))))
as a wiser man used to say:
“patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels”.
Kate,
I suggest you use Librano$ methods to shut Tracey up — libel chill her.
And, Tracey if you’re a Liberal operative trying to screw up the comments section here like you guys did at Coyne’s place, I’ll make you a deal.
Each time you post I will post something
Here’s my first, you go next
by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
Friday, April 22, 2005
The Canadian company that Saddam Hussein invested a million dollars in belonged to the Prime Minister of Canada, canadafreepress.com has discovered.
Cordex Petroleum Inc., launched with Saddam�s million by Prime Minister Paul Martin�s mentor Maurice Strong�s son Fred Strong, is listed among Martin�s assets to the Federal Ethics committee on November 4, 2003.
Among Martin�s Public Declaration of Declarable Assets are: “The Canada Steamship Lines Group Inc. (Montreal, Canada) 100 percent owned”; “Canada Steamship Lines Inc. (Montreal, Canada) 100 percent owned”�Cordex Petroleums Inc. (Alberta, Canada) 4.6 percent owned by the CSL Group Inc.”
Kate,
Don’t let jimp, or is that wimp? get to you.
Consider the intellect behind the statement. People who hide behind the flag instead of holding it high are never around when the bullets start flying. Just ask Capt Joe. He knows.
harper will not go anywhere. he is too intelligent for that. as for the “dump harper” i would dump him only if jean chretien agrees to run for the job. i am aching for a real chretien-martin contest, not that bush-league backstabbing soft coup d’etat BS that we had in 2003.
this second scenario has a higher probability of happening than the first!
Welcome back, CHOO CHOO MAN.
I was wondering where you and your well developed sense of humour had gone…
Whenever I complain about the ‘current administration’ or where I think we Canadians have gone wrong, I hear the comment “if you don’t like it here, then leave.” I’m sure the people uttering such words would not like the comparison between that and “You’re either with us or against us.”
I agree, Tom. But it does show you the lengths to which people will go to discourage dissent and contrary opinion.
In other words, what they are saying is that there are only two choices in modern day Canada: Quietly accept everything the Liberal corruptocracy shoves down your throat or leave the country.
How nice. … How arrogant.
yes, I find that those complaining about the simplicity of dualist arguments often end up arguing in them.
Canada Free Press
Cover Story
Stephen Harper should step down
By Arthur Weinreb
Saturday, May 21, 2005
If ever the time was ripe to banish the Liberals from power, that time is now. This is not to say that given the makeup of Parliament the government should have fallen during the budget votes. If an election was held today, given the credible allegations of Liberal Party corruption and a government unable to function while it desperately clings to power, the Liberals should be looking to take a drubbing like they did when John Diefenbaker and Brian Mulroney came to power.
Yet the polls indicate that the Liberals and the Conservatives are running neck and neck. Depending upon the day and the poll, one party or the other is always slightly ahead.
Under the most optimistic of circumstances, Stephen Harper has not been able to convince enough Canadians that his Conservative Party of Canada is anything more than a Western-based party. Despite the deep anger in Quebec over the sponsorship scandal, the Conservatives are not poised to win any seats in that province. And since no one will ever believe that a Canada governed by the Conservatives will be as generous with Atlantic Canada as the Liberals now are, the Tories would be hard pressed to make significant gains east of Quebec.
yeah, right. DUMP TRACEY.
Let’s see here. If I really hated Canada, I would do the following:
1. Spew hatred about Americans and their president, making sure they notice so that it damages our trading relationship and costs hard-working Canadians lots of money.
2. Continually vote for a federal government that insists on turning us into a socialist wasteland.
3. Continually vote for a federal government that steals millions from the public purse in order to get re-elected.
4. Continually give multi-million dollar grants away to corporate sinkholes like Bombardier so they can keep donating back to my party.
5. Educate children, starting in kindergarten (soon preschool) to believe that Canada has no real identity, other than being anti-american, multicutlural and bilingual.
6. Remove any legitimate Canadian history from schools, replacing it with “social studies”, in which we learn the value of bilingualism, multiculturalism, and the UN, and why the government needs to spend millions on these things, every year.
7. Raise taxes to the point where people can’t afford to have kids anymore, so the birthrate falls below replacement levels, and the country relies completely on immigration to sustain the population.
8. Create a system where as many citizens as possible are dependent on one form of government assistance or another, ensuring that they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and furthering the socialist rot that elites consider “progress”.
9. Fund various special interest groups, noisemakers, squeaky wheels, professional victims, and career whiners so that they can lobby the government to provide more of the same.
10. Appoint judges who feel that they, not Parliament, have the ultimate authority to govern the country, and go on molding the nation according to their own idea of what a progressive society should look like.
In short, I would support the Liberals (or their impatient little brothers & sisters in the NDP). If I truly hated Canada, I can’t imagine expressing my hatred in a more effective way than to continue to support the Liberals, and the path to obilivion that they have put us on.
from http://tinyurl.com/b6gv8
“For Martin and Stronach, It’s Lose-Lose
By David Frum
Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005
ARTICLES
National Post (Canada)
Publication Date: May 19, 2005
A few days before George W. Bush’s second inaugural, I received an urgent call from a friend. Belinda Stronach wanted to come to Washington to see the event. Could I get her tickets to the swearing-in and the balls afterward?
We did get the tickets–and Belinda did the rest. Her progress through Washington was glittering. She hosted a star-spangled dinner at Washington’s Palm restaurant the night after the President took the oath. The Solicitor General of the United States was there, and so was Kelly from the Apprentice, Larry King and an editor from Vanity Fair, as well as important figures from the Washington legal and business worlds.
It’s difficult to secure top guests on inaugural night, but Belinda did it. They were curious to meet a glamorous and wealthy woman, a close friend of Bill Clinton’s who had emerged as an unexpected political star. In politics, where who you are often matters less than where you are seen to be going–and in January, 2005, Belinda Stronach seemed to be going places.
Not any more. Stronach’s decision to cross the floor will be remembered as one of the most spectacular acts of political misjudgment since Joe Clark called down a leadership race upon himself in 1983. Three days ago, she was a powerful figure inside the Conservative party, the runner-up in the last leadership race and a front-runner in any race to come. She was a media darling, as left-wing dissidents in right-of-center parties always are. At the Conservative convention in Montreal, Belinda’s reception was the hottest and most glamorous, as she herself was the most glamorous figure on Parliament Hill.
Now instead she sits on the Liberal bench as the head of a second-tier ministry…”
Oooh, there’s always someone like Tracey and jimp.
Here I am, trying to be a good friend to Canadians (especially the much beleaguered pro-American, non-leftist sort), and these two come popping up, annoying everybody . . .
. . . and set my brain off into the fantasyland where Alberta votes to leave Canada and become the 51st state.
This is fun
Paul Martin’s tainted record
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2003-12-31
Source: Murray Dobbin
Globe and Mail
It is a story that will not — and should not — die. The tainted-blood scandal is tale of bureaucratic indifference, corporate greed and regulatory failure resulting in hundreds of needless deaths from AIDS and the equally preventable infection of thousands with hepatitis C. An investigation by The Kansas City Star newspaper has jolted the story back to life in North America. Ironic that the reports coincide with the coronation of Paul Martin as Liberal leader, because Mr. Martin has a connection to this story.
Here’s the best part ummm Tracey…. this will make your stomach churn a bit I think.
But by accident, Information Commissioner John Reid discovered otherwise. In his 2001-2002 Annual Report, he stated: “The commissioner . . . concluded that the answers given to the requests for CDC board minutes were so bereft of helpful information that he found them to be . . . intentionally misleading.” In his detailed report, he named “the most senior officials of the department” and Mr. Martin’s political staffer Scott Reid, as being responsible for denying they had records when they knew this claim to be false.
You’ll run out before i do. Trust me.
LOL exiled… I realized after that last post that all we’re doing is adding to Kate’s bandwidth bill.
btw Kate did you ever make a decision re tips vs. ads vs. I forget what the third option was?
Question for the day. If you are a millionairesse and make a big deal about how your new salary will be donated to charity, and then have it deposited in a “special” bank account, does it take a year to create said charity?
see http://tinyurl.com/7lx4o
one of those “hmmmmmm…” moments
I’ll probably be starting up ads shortly. It’s still not a done decision though.
On the other hand, just sorting through emails is a part time job these days.
(Someone did send a “tip” the other day, and it was most appreciated!)
Grewal-Murphy (Updated)
May 23 – Oh course there’s more about the attempt to bribe Grewal (Grewal says he wanted to show Grits were dirty) and the contention that Grewal sought the bribe (Grewal wouldn’t take no for an answer in today’s news….
How sweet it is:
The Librano$ Grovellers: Down on their knees begging Stephen Harper to “hand over the tapes”, or else!!
McKinnon, (El Presidente Librano$), McLellan aka the Librano$, and …… Doosey Dosanjh, he who tried to curry favour with Mr. Grewal, (pizza & beer bribe).
Keep them begging; release “sound bits” to conservative talk radio hosts; for example, Lowell Green, CFRA, Ottawa & others.
Ya gotta love it.
(Please advise Conservative movers/shakers of this blog.)
God Bless America.
Down with National Socialism. Down with BS.
Long live freedom and democracy.
Kate, have you applied for a Google Adsense account yet? That would bring in a few bucks a month if we help out… nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Tracey and jimp, Kate is a good friend of the traditional shared values and friendship that defined Canada and America’s relationship for over a hundred years.
She has the personal integrity to be consistent about what she believe, and both Americans and Canadians appreciate her for it. She has the courage and initiative to speak out in a country whose pop culture and climate of corruption excoriates people like her for their views.
And frankly, if any of the criticism of the USA from Canada ever had any legitimacy, it’s all gone now.
For god’s sake, you actually have had a made member of the Bonanno crime family as your public works minister. His friendships include so many members of the world of organized crime, he must use Sicilian stamps on his Christmas cards. He must prefix all of his addresses with “To a friend of ours.” Organized racketeering has become an ordinary way of doing business in Liberal politics.
You may not favor the USA’s more conservative ideology, but it’s very possible your government shouldn’t even exist, because of the shameful and opportunistic way Liberals manipulated the no-confidence vote in the House of Commons.
Let’s face it, somebody in Canada flipped over one of the boards at the lumber yard, and now we can see all of the snakes that were really there all the time.
Under different circumstances/conditions I would be collecting the heads of them there snakes and making a necklace for all future generations.
Note, I said under different circumstances/conditions ….
Tracey and jimp(or is that gimp?)…you will not find a bigger friend of Canada and the U.S. then Kate. The only reason I can figure out for your comments is that she applies a good dose of critical and clear thinking,something you socialists abhor.I bet you both can’t wait to get your offspring into PMPM’s “kiddie gulags”.And Tracey,where’s your latest response to Choo Choo? Still waiting.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Here’s hoping tracey et al have gone to play in a Liberal sandbox.
Actually my cats’ litter box needs changing. That’s much cleaner than a Liberal sandbox.
Like Greg, I’m another American who admires Kate for for her courage in standing up against the “popular” opinion that many of her countrymen unfortunately share. Right or wrong, I’ve never faulted anybody for having the guts to make up their own mind and sticking to their guns.