“Christmas is fast approaching, and with it, the dilemma of what to give the less likable people in our lives: office mates, ex-spouses, born-again Christians.”
“Christmas is fast approaching, and with it, the dilemma of what to give the less likable people in our lives: office mates, ex-spouses, born-again Christians.”
AdScam Chretien wishes a tax-free holiday to AdScam CSL Martin.>>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533742/posts
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Paul Martin’s patriot games
The Winnipeg Sun ^ | Sunday, December 4th, 2005 | Editor – Winnipeg Sun
Posted on 12/04/2005 6:38:02 AM PST by fanfan
Prime Minister Paul Martin should put his money where his mouth is. Or, to put it another way, maybe he should plant his assets where his heart is.
Last Tuesday, the opening day of the two-month-long election campaign (heaven help us all) Martin declared: “I love Canada.”
Well, that’s good. We expect that would be the sentiment of the vast majority of Canadians.
The intention of his proclamation was to throw aspersions on Conservative party Leader Stephen Harper who gave a very long-winded response to the simple question: “Do you love Canada?”
The question itself is curious, of course, and points to an intense central media bias against anyone who is not a Liberal. The implication in the question is that non-Liberals don’t love Canada.
It is a contemptuous question and assumption.
We don’t doubt that Martin loves this country.
After all, it’s arguably the best country in the world, despite the weather.
But there are varying levels of love so let’s look at just how much Martin really loves his country.
Martin has lowered the Canadian flag on his Canadian Steamship Lines freighters and hoisted up other flags for crass profiteering.
That might suggest that Martin and his fabulously wealthy family care more for the almighty dollar than they do for their country.
Canadians would have reason to be outraged if outside of Stornoway, the official residence of the leader of the Opposition, the flag of Barbados or Vanuatu flew there instead, so that the resident could avoid paying Canadian taxes.
But that is exactly what Martin did and his sons still do with CSL.
They simply have to hoist up another country’s flag and bingo — it’s tax freedom day forever!
How do you like that brand of patriotism?
For the past 12 years, millionaire Martin has refused to lower the taxes of over-burdened Canadians and yet he and his firm and his family get a tax-free ride. It’s a real slap in the face to hard-working middle class Canadians.
By lowering the Canadian flag on seven of his CSL tankers, Martin’s family firm has saved untold millions of dollars in Canadian taxes.
By raising these so-called flags of convenience, Martin also saved many more millions of dollars by allowing him to flout Canadian labour laws and pay his crew members a fraction of what Canadian crews would have to be paid and also to violate more stringent Canadian environmental laws.
Martin can wax eloquent and cry crocodile tears over his love of Canada. His actions clearly show a man who cares more for his own bottom line than he does for the well-being of his country.
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The author of the article is a lecturer at York U. in humanities. I suppose her vast experience as a bartender was a fine sigue into that position.
Check her out more here. Looks like she is about to serve up a lecture.
The people who write for the Globe and Mail probably know more transsexual prostitute performance artists and Wiccan polyamorist women’s studies professors personally than they do ordinary middle-class evangelical Christians in nuclear families.
Unfamiliarity breeds contempt.
That’s what the Press Council of Canada is supposed to deal with: This type of anti-inflammatory rhetoric. Expect more from the Globe the better Harper and the Tories do. In fact, I’m willing to bet once the screetching in the MSM begins to make Anne McLellan sound muted and demure, it can only be because the polls they aren’t publishing are showing the Tories surging ahead.
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Really, speaking of lack of class, it’s quite astounding. Take an event like Halloween where portraying witches as ugly, evil, and demonic, is really “just a bit of harmless fun” — but a light hearted swipe at christianity is a horrible thing…. feeling a tad insecure are we?
feeling a tad insecure are they?
When they’re all of their meds,
the right wing paranoia thing really kicks in.
No stageleft, just fed up with the artsy-fartsy bull$hit garbage we’ve been paying through the nose for, celebrated by a hypocritical “inclusive” press.
Choose:
Born-again Librano$ Martin, aka Flowers Power CSL vs Sum Dim Jack Layton.
Harper is at home with his wife and family.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Where the Leaders Are
OTTAWA (CP) – Itineraries for the federal party leaders on Sunday, Dec. 4 (all times local):
Paul Martin – Liberal Party
OTTAWA: Photo opportunity with Mrs. Sheila Martin. Tivoli Florist, 282 Richmond Rd. 12:10 p.m.
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Stephen Harper – Conservative Party
No scheduled events.
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Jack Layton – New Democratic Party
VANCOUVER : Dim Sum with Vancouver Area NDP Candidates. Floata Restaurant. 400-180 Keefer Street. 10:00 am >>>
via cnews
Stageleft: “but a light hearted swipe at christianity is a horrible thing…. feeling a tad insecure are we?”
If you want to get a handle on how anti-Christian this “Stageleft” chap is, try doing the following searches on his site:
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=ramadan
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=christian
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=muslim
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=christ
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=mohammed
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=xmas
http://www.stageleft.info/index.php?s=christmas
You’ll notice that he capitalizes “Mohammed”, but not “christ”. Capitalizes “Ramadan” but not “christmas, not even “x”mas. Capitalizes “Muslim” but not “christian”. Poor form!
Thanks Christine Sismondo you insensitive bitch. I will pass that book along to some ardent followers of Islam … in your name!
I find born agains’ less than a comfort in my life-style, but I wouldn’t try to shame or embarrass them. Especially at Christmas. Only a bottom of the barrel socialist central Canadian hack would be so crass and intolerant.
I suggest either send them a card or do nothing at all.
Have a laugh at Duke’s Place
http://dukemcgoo.blogspot.com
Then come back here eh?
OOps correction .. the name above is not meant to be the fivilous author of the silly book in question, but rather the idiot By JESSICA WARNER who wrote the piece in the globe. My apologies.
Duke
I suppose if Christians blew up a few wedding celebrations and lopped off a few heads, we would get some respect or at the very least, appeasement.
Weel, Stageleft, I suppose it all depends on whether you are Good Witch or a Bad Witch. I don’t recall seeing anyone mocking Glenda on Halloween. And I didn’t see Ms. Warner handing out any candy with her little jest.
Flying out of the Broomcloset schreeching simply doesn’t reflect well on one’s desire to gain equal footing in the arena of Spirituality. How many people connected Wicca with the Green skin witches of Halloween _before_ certain pagans became so loud about it? Hoist on one’s own petard, I’d say.
My email to the rag
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051203/BKMOND03/TPEntertainment/Books
“Christmas is fast approaching, and with it, the dilemma of what to give the less likable people in our lives: office mates, ex-spouses, born-again Christians.”
Where do you people get off printing this kind of hate speech? Would you print stories about “less likeable” Jews? or Muslims? or Sikhs? or any of the other religions?
Pathetic what passes for journalism these days.
I expect a retraction, and an apology from this bigot to myself and the many Christians in this country.
First thing Monday morning I’m cancelling my subscription. They’re never going to change unless you hit them where it hurts – in the pocket book (realistically, I doubt they’ll change even then but, at least I’ll feel better).
Can we classify this as hate speech since it makes a pointed mockery of some Christian denominations stance of alcohol?
Anna–kick back,take a breath and pour yourself a Martini…if you don’t know how to make a martini, I could refer to this article in the Globe.
Personally I wish this stuff could get through without the caterwailing, we are all too sensitive…but…to be consistent the Globe and Mail should apologize. Either they have a policy or they don’t.
I personally am not offended but then again born again christian is a particular sect of christianity to which I do not belong.
The appropriate comparison would go something like this
“….what to give the less likeable people in our lives: office mates, ex-spouses, born-again Christians (or insert your favourite least likeable subsect of your least favourite religon, wahabist muslims, orthodox jews, brahmin hindus, opus dei catholic christians, stalinist communists etc etc)”
Silly ain’t it.
Globe editor deserves a slap across the back of the head for that one, unless of course she is female since we wouldnt want to be accussed of violence against women. So the appropriate punishment should be the same sensitivity course that Margaret Wente wrote about. I am only half kidding.
They were wrong to let this one through. Write, subscription cancel and press council complain away. The stepped in something they should be nailed for it.
Can you imagine the uproar if they’d said Orthodox Jew instead of born-again Christian? Or how about Musim extremist? Open season on Christians at Bellglobe Media, and it’s only going to get worse now that the Toronto Star is gobbling up shares. What a country.
Letter to the editor:
What to get for people you don’t like – like born again christians?? Perhaps next time you publish an article like this you could ensure that the content be more inclusive with regards to Canadas rich diversity and use “born again muslims” or “fatwa issuing mullahs”, “instead of born again christians.” Hint: this is the kind of thing that gets by you when you are busy staring at your navel.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=press+council&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryCA
Here is a list of provincial press councils…they are the national newspaper so I would suggest you complain to your local one and it will go up the chain.
Those of you in Southwestern Ontario, BC interior and lower mainland and Alberta (since the comment concerns parties that predominate in those regions) ensure the article is brought forward to your local pastors/ministers…they should be the most offended. If they arent, thats their problem and they deserve the slams they get because they wont defend themselves.
The Globe & Mail – home of Canada’s most bigoted mental midgets, a pure expression of the true nature of the elitist Ontarian mindset (the province with the lowest average IQ, and that’s only a little skewed by the chromasomally defective liberal caucus in Ottawa). Globe reporters – press imposters, one and all, now published from the basement at Liberal HQ.
Vote liberal – let the corruption and incompetence continue! Bequeth to your kids Zimbabwe, with Martin as the dimwit analogue to Robert Mugabe!
But witches ARE ugly, evil and demonic. What’s yer point?
Hey Boudica:
Why wait till Monday, You can cancel your subscription right away with an e-mail…that’s how I did it.
Witches are a funlovin’ bunch…that Mongomery gal, married to Darren on Bewitched, was really very cute and sexy. She also had the occasional martini.
OT:
The CPAC-SES tracking completed last night shows the Liberals still
in the lead (LP 38, CP 29, NDP15, BQ 14, GP 5). The Liberal up-tick
was concentrated mostly in Ontario. Our daily Leadership Index which scores the leaders each day shows Martin fared better yesterday than both Harper and Layton.
On the best PM front, unsure has mathematically surpassed Stephen Harper (Unsure Best PM 20, Harper
Best PM 19) although still a statistical tie.
Decided Voters
LIB – 38% (+4)
CP – 29% (+1)
NDP – 15% (-5)
BQ – 14% (NC)
GP – 5% (+1)
*17% of Canadians were undecided (+3)
In Quebec:
BQ – 52% (-2)
LIB – 30% (+6)
CP – 9% (NC)
NDP – 6% (-2)
GP – 3% (-1)
Best PM
Martin – 30% (+1)
Unsure – 20% (+7)
Harper – 19% (-3)
None – 13% (+2)
Layton – 10% (-6)
Duceppe – 6% (-1)
Harris – 2% (-2)
Leadership Index (Daily composite of the Leaders’ Trust, Competence
and Vision)*
Martin – 82 (+6)
Harper – 49 (-11)
Duceppe – 30 (-13)
Layton – 25 (-5)
Harris – 8 (0)
Re the SES poll
Two words: Weekend Polling.
Tracking polls consistently show liberals rise on weekends.
It may fall further tomorrow (full Sat. and Sun sample with the trailing three days) but will rise again for Tuesday’s and Wed’s releases.
Hey wingnuts. Could you possibly suggest to your more ‘enthusiastic’ Con-supporters that not every person in Ontario is a communist Liberal! Everytime you spew crap like that you make it that much more difficult for us Con’s in Ontario to convert others here.
Shift down a couple gears and we will win this one.
The most interesting thing about Jessica Warner’s article is that it ends calling for readers to “epater les bourgeois,” as though most Globe readers belong to some other class. Warner — an urban state employee and an officially certified intellecual writing in Yorkville’s national newspaper — evinces a fascinating, and rather disingenuous, need to imagine herself an opponent of the prosperous and the powerful. All before going back to her government job.
Mark F. Proudman
mfp@canadianreview.ca
Your setting yourself up here ‘Only human’. Sit back and strain to withstand the hot winds of the wingnut barrage.
Articles of this nature are self-serving crap at its finest. I mean really, does anyone really read G&M outside of TO? Who cares what some hack has to say about any religion.
My apologies for the ‘wing-nut’ comment.
Nothing wrong to make fun of (or insult a bit) born again Christians. But as someone said above, likewise we should/must accept the same kind of disrespectful writings about all groups in society.
If we get upset about every insult or negative opinion about ‘us’ (whatever ‘us’ happens to be) someone might have, then what does that tell us about our sociaty?
Unfortunately, freedom of speech is not a valued concept in Canada, neither on the left, nor the right, it seems.
For some silly reason i decided to buy a Globe and Mail today. See what the enemy was saying, i guess.
Blood pressure raised as i saw the repeated mistruths. “Harper raised the same sex marriage debate”
Not one more Globe and Mail will i buy or read this election.
To top it off is this article mentioning born-again christians.
Work for the Conervative victory. Perhaps a goal can be stopping this aquisition of a stake in G and M by the toronto star. Maybe this will make them think twice this election and keep it a little cleaner.
There was also the interesting article via nealenews.com regarding a Martin heckler getting thrown in jail for 4 days. Now there is you democratic deficit.
enough
People are dummer on weekdays?
Crap … I want someone to give me that book for Christmas.
Personally, I’m atheist, but this really bothers me. Like many have said in these comments, why is it ok to make fun of christianity but not any other religion?
Headline in yesterday’s National Post:
CAW President Endorses a Liberal Minority
Hargrove tells members to vote strategically
Headline in yesterday’s Globe & Mail:
Liberals Touted by CAW Leader
Hargrove’s endorsement bitter pill for NDP to swallow.
Notice that in the headline alone the G&M distorts the story and actually puts a pro-Liberal spin on it before even reporing the news.
Well, there you go again.
Only Human,
Welcome to the club fellow Ontarion. The ribbing you’ll get is mostly good natured and you are allowed to give as good as you get.
At the end of the day most of the people on this forum, but by no means all, share a few common goals. But being modern conservatives it makes us a fractious bunch.
I welcome the help in letting others know Ontario cant be painted with one brush, just like every other province, region or city.
Now back to tarring all Liberals as thieving eastern dominated criminals…..
Where is your sense of “outrage” only human? Peole who believe in God should not be targets at any time – people who tolerate crooks with sublime stupid “dear caught in the headlights” confusion; should be. Get your ducks in a row.
Part of our problem is we have let this type of
bias go by, doing nothing to let them know it is
unacceptable for years.
If we cancel our subs and write letters to the
paper in enough volume for the paper to notice
each time they decide to slander Cristians or
any other religion they should hear about it and
it eventually gets noticed. There are millions of
people who read the blogs but do not comment.
Any of their other bias and lies should be
noted. There are American blog sites that do
just that, read the paper and give the paper,
usually the NYT, and we know about them, and
do it on a daily basis.
We are all tired of our medium lies and distortions and their ignoring any good news about Iraq or S.Harper.
We are the ones who get hurt while they continue
the usual behaviour, happy in the knowledge nothing will be done by the conservatives or the
public. We have had a lilberal government for
years for this very reason, people tend to
believe what is written there. I know I did for
too long in my life and now I see the bias so
clearly it is hard to even read the lies they
write. I just do not bother 95% of the time.
The internet is the answer and we should use it
for the facts and the truth.
Okay, I’ll bite. I’m a born-again Christian. We are not all abstainers from alcohol, we’re not all obnoxious Bible thumpers. However, that is how we are perceived by liberals feminists and gays etc. So we have our work cut out for us. Let’s quit bashing those we disagree with.
Jesus said, “Love your neighbour.” He also said, “Love your enemy.”
nonomous said…
I don’t think there is anything ‘Christian’ about the west’s views on torture. The Salem witch trials of 1692 used torture to elicit confessions. Until around 1700, drawing-and-quartering folks was a familiar public event in England. The pageant included castration, evisceration and finally extraction of a beating heart (if possible).
During the 1600s, broadsheets started running cartoons of torture victims, making its use a political liability. The indignation one can generate with cartoon of some poor soul’s unjust suffering is still an amazing political tool. Broadsheets educated 18th century army and a that army was critical for political survival.
The left’s use of the ‘torture’ issue is entirely self serving. When torture serves their purposes, it is simply called something else, ‘abortion’ for example. What else would one call sucking out a baby’s brain, or ripping its arms off with a vacuum hose? >>> more
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Anyone who paints any collective the size of Ontario with a single colour is just being juvenile. After all, I think Quebec is a problem because I think Napoleonic Law is incompatible with Common Law in modern Canada.
But for me to suggest that all citizens of Quebec support Napoleonic Law would be absurd, because I only need one counter example to defeat my suggestion: Western Standard columnist Pierre Lemieux at http://www.pierrelemieux.org/
What about the fact that it’s a book review? Isn’t that sort of up there with blog, or editorial, in terms of the standards that people expect of it?
Martin buys a *********** wreath. Wishes you a happy **************. Says he will be home for ************. Hopes you get all you wish for at ***************. Merry ************, Paul, Jr. (Keep your profile down at **********).
The word *************** is not mentioned: it’s a Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ “wreath”.
Martin maintains low profile
OTTAWA (CP) – After taking most of the weekend off while his key rivals toured British Columbia, Prime Minister Paul Martin shopped for a wreath with his wife Sheila on Sunday in his only public event before heading for Newfoundland and Labrador to kick off Week 2 of the campaign for the Jan. 23 election. >>> via cnews