86 Replies to “Sign Of Faint Hope?”

  1. “My dad was sentenced to double life, way before when there was no eligibility for early parole,” Power [the red-L head-painted-guy] said. “He killed himself. He couldn’t live with it. It was like there was no hope for him.”
    Talk about your root causes.
    (BTW nice Photoshop.)

  2. Where’d they get the paint? Was that factored into CBC’s reality check on the price of maintaining prisoners behind bars? Red paint? In the budget? In Canadian prisons? Choose your Canada.

  3. Looks like old paulie’s got the mark of the devil on this forehead. I guess I have more to fear from the big “L” instead of 666.
    Roast in peace, Paul.
    The mad redneck

  4. Wonderful, it would be even better if uncle Paul could join the convicts on a more permanent basis.

  5. The cons (convicts!! not Conservatives! sheeeeeesh) said they don’t think about minimum sentences when they commit crimes, it’s not a deterrent. I agree. It’s not. It protects US, the average schmoes from them for a minimum amount of time. Can’t kill 4 mounties if you’re in jail. Can’t rape a 4 year old if you’re in jail.

  6. I’m thinking the big red L stands for LOSER. Solidarity with murders and child molesters. You’d think he’d have more sense, or at least his handlers would have had a clue.

  7. Red L on Paul’s forehead, eh? Red L on convicts foreheads too, eh? Makes one wonder of Paul might be getting ready to join them on the other side of the fence.
    Wonder what might happen if the Liberal Party of Canada were charged criminally with fraud and misappropriation of funds. Does the party executive take the fall? the Leader?

  8. Nice, those who have been proven not to have respect for the law voting to determine who will make the laws.
    Only in the mind of a leftist judge would that make sense.

  9. All you need to know when you go to vote is that the criminals are voting Liberal and don’t like the Conservatives.
    Even if I wasn’t already a conservative, this alone would educate me. I would instantaneously know who to vote for.
    (for you libranos without a moral compas, the answer is to vote conservative.)

  10. I wouldn’t be surprised if Paul Martin and/or a planeload of Liberals absconded to Barbados or Costa Rica prior to January 23 rather than face Stephen Harper’s Special Prosecutor and mandatory minimums.

  14. don’t know about the pic on your latest post kate but to me its a bit over the top. your playing right into the liberals hands with that one.

  15. Like that Freakenomics author stated recently. If you want to lower the crime rate, keep repeat offenders in jail longer….. and wait for it, encourage abortion.

  18. Blue fingers? Huh? Sounds more like a promotional campaign to encourage digital-rectal examinations among Smurfs.
    …oh, relax. I’m doing your CBC readers a favour by cleansing the palate, as it were, after all the gush and treacle from your minions.

  19. “My dad was sentenced to double life, way before when there was no eligibility for early parole,” Before they took him away he must have put too much clorine in the shallow end of the gene pool.
    And now, I’m in Prison!
    Voting Liberal!
    Choose your Canada!!!

  21. Ti Guy wrote:
    “…I’m doing your CBC readers a favour by cleansing the palate, as it were, after all the gush and treacle from your minions.”
    No problem Ti (is that Tee or Tie?). Personally, my palate will be sufficiently cleansed when, on that rare instance when I settle in and intentionally tune in ol’ Slaphead Mansbridge at 8pm eastern January 23rd and hear him utter the prophetic words, “The polls are closed in Quebec and Ontario and the CBC projection desk is calling a Conservative majority…good night, folks. Here’s some old episodes of Air Farce and This Hour. For those of you expecting the live Rick Mercer special, Rick’s slashed his wrists.”
    Palate cleansing indeed.

  22. LLLLLLLLLLLLL, well I knew that prisoners can vote because of the SCC ruling, it’s good to have the notwithstanding to back up sensibilities… but if the prisoners can choose which riding to vote in.. you know my name is french? maybe I could elect to vote in a Quebec riding, please, just this once? could I choose PMPM’s riding?

  23. Why do prisoners get the right to vote at all. You do the crime, you lose ALL of your freedoms. Only when you are out do they get reinstated. If you want to really make sentences a deterant, make it a heck of a lot tougher than it is now. And no more minimum sentences. Man o man I am looking forward to elected judges.

  25. Any chance you saved the picture of the convict with the Liberal on his head? CBC removed the original convict photo.

  26. Kate, excellent blog; you tell it like it is. It really says something when the Libs have the criminal vote sewn up, doesn’t it…People in T.O. should really think about that, considering their crime wave.
    Keep on talking, prairie girl!

  27. Paulie had better befriend those boys .. he may be bunking with them before it’s all over.
    How sick can a man be before someone commits him.
    Where is his wife from Stepford?

  28. I can see the headlines already.
    Tonite on CTV….The news for this Tuesday January 24th.
    Severe voting irregularities have been reported in numerous ridings around the country. There have been numerous reports of ballot box stuffing and coerced votes in favor of the Liberal Party of Canada. Several Liberal candidates were caught on tape handing $20.00 bills to voters on the way into the polls.
    Bucky Jr. was reported to be seen repeating over and over again “Open the polls back up! Get more Liberal voters in here! This can’t be happening, I am the only one who knows what the stupid citizens of this country need. I am entitled to my entitlements!”
    One voter likened the Bucky scene to the 1980’s Eddie Murphy movie “Trading Places” where “Randolph and Mortimer” had their seats taken away from them at the New York Stock Exchange.
    A definite arguement for life imitating art.
    Back to you Lloyd.

  29. Dither’s press conference on CPAC tonight.
    When asked about accusing Harper about being influenced by far right Americans he started off softly about how everybody is influenced by the world around them. He then rambled on that he had been influenced by Hernando De Soto or some author from Peru about third world problems.
    He sipped from a glass of water constantly, like a twitchy witness on the stand.
    He’s Howard Hughes. He’s Elvis. He’s Michael Jackson. He’s a guy that sees his pampered world disintegrating around him. Beyond help from friends or family.
    He’s Peter Finch.
    He’s mad as Hell and we soon won’t have to take it anymore.

  30. Let’s see, those who have declared their support for Harper and the Conservatives include Bernard Lord, Jean Charest, Mario Dumont and (gasp) David Asper. Those who have declared their support for Martin and the Liberals … prison inmates. Oh ya, and Buzz Hargrove. That should clarify any hidden agendas one would think.

  31. Change of subject. Just noticed a good article by Peter Foster in the National Post about Paul Martin’s connection with mentor and business partner Maurice Strong. It ties right in with the Liberal attack ad about soldiers with guns in Canadian cities. It takes one to know one.
    Martin’s secret agenda agent
    http://tinyurl.com/bf57d

  32. Here’s what’s really frosting my bagels about this whole “Military” ad thingy, which rightfully can now be referred to as “Adscam Version 2.0”.
    As someone who actually works in the “biz”, there’s absolutely no damn way that ad could’ve made it to the ‘blog’ (bwa ha ha ha) mentioned by PMPM without some sort of check/balance. Many clients put their trust in me to get their message across in a proper manner. Several give me free rein, and unless I resort to sordid images of said clients being caught in carnal acts with donkeys, I take advantage of that trust. That trust they have in me is something I value…if not, they take their money elsewhere. So I’m careful in not making extravagant claims in their commercials. If I think there’s a definite line that I shouldn’t cross, like saying “Car Dealer X was caught with a donkey”, I make sure of the facts before going ahead. They, the Liberal Party of Canada, knew what the score was. These ads were vetted out and approved. The fact that they say they were “never aired” on tv is crap. Of course they were…during newscasts throughout the day, even after the “Military” ad was yanked from the official Liberal Party of Canada (English) website…sorry…”blog”.
    A co-worker and I had a discussion of this and he, true believer that he is, compared the offending ad to the “Swift Boat” attack ads last year against John Kerry, Fine. But were those ads placed on the Republican Party website or the George W. Bush website? Co-worker shrugged his shoulders (very Trudeauesque, I might add) and said the GOP paid for them. I agreed, but asked again if they were ever on the “official” websites?
    Having not paid broadcasters to run the ad and posting it on the official party website for, what…ten seconds before yanking it doesn’t make it a non-event. It was done, people saw it, and the Liberals thought they could pass it off as a goof without repercussion.
    I pull that stunt in the real world…at my job…in Canada…I’m Fired.
    I’m not making this up.

  33. Criminals stick together. Prisoners wouldn’t have to pay the premium that another Liberal victory would cost Canadians. Putting the criminal party of Canada back in charge of the country will cost Canadians in higher mortgages, less investment etc. because the international community won’t be too keen to send their money to Canada when the finance ministry is under Police investigation.

  34. Perhaps the new liberal campaign slogan will be
    “Vote Liberal – 8 out of 10 child molesters can’t be wrong!”
    PS – don’t drop the soap Paul

  35. The best stratagy for the NDP at this point…. ask left leaning voters to vote for the candidate that is least likely to lose their seat to a criminal investigation after the books have been cracked.

  36. Birds of a feather stick together.
    I just can’t seem to shake this spasmodic vomiting for some reason.

  37. Hey Kate – the picture link is bad – anychance of getting a new link up.
    Keep up the great work

  38. I saw a tonight on both CTV, and CBC, ran the story as if it was the most natural thing in the world to have criminals voting in a democratic society.
    mainstream media really is a bunch of Moon bats.
    Kate, if the liberals were to win this election, the first thing they will do,is create a department of Internet police, and you will be badly incriminated with that photo.
    But you can just tell them that you didn’t authorize it. L. M. A.0.

  41. Well of course the prisoners would vote for the LIEberal (read lefty,bleeding hearts). Used to be that when u went into prison, you gave up your right to be part of society, and therefore your right to vote. They even had to work *GASP*. Life ‘inside’ has been wonderful since the bleeding hearts told them to just “kickback and relax… we’ll make sure you have the same rights in here as those hard-working honest people do”!
    Bleeding-heart LIEberals…. criminals…. birds of a feather flocking together? Hmmmm, choose your canada!

  43. This bears repeating:
    Nice, those who have been proven not to have respect for the law voting to determine who will make the laws.
    Only in the mind of a leftist judge would that make sense.
    Posted by ol hoss at January 13, 2006 10:35 PM
    ———–
    Law abiding citizens in a free democracy are not supposed to own guns or property rights while the law-breaking criminals are influencing the democracy.
    Where the hell are we going in this country? The anarchists are forever chipping away at our traditions, history and culture.
    No guns for border patrol, no military in sight, gangs running the streets and criminals running the ballot boxes.
    CHOOSE YOUR CANADA!

  44. FAMILY VALUES under George W. Bush:
    Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:
    � Dead Last in # of poorest counties in country. (3)
    � 2nd from Last in # of children living in poverty. (3)
    � 2nd from Last in # of children without health insurance. (3)
    � Highest number of people stripped of Medicare benefits (10)
    � Dead Last in % of poor working parents without insurance. (3)
    � 2nd from Last in % of population without health insurance. (3)
    � 6th from Last in Child support collections (3)
    � 5th from Last in Teen Birth Rate. (4)
    � 3rd from Last in Hunger Rate.
    � 3rd from Last in Per capita funding for public health. (4)
    � 4th from Last in Delivery of social services. (4)
    � 6th from Last in # Mothers receiving prenatal care. (9)
    This is what conservatives bring to the table, this is what Harper’s mentor did for his state.

  45. One of George Bush�s Professors at Harvard
    Yoshi Tsurumi (who is now Professor of International Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York ) wrote about President Bush in March of 2004:
    “At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that “people are poor because they are lazy.” He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to “free market competition.” To him, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was “socialism.”
    The true conservative leader G.W.Bush

  46. “The Warden” Martin should be barred & feathered. It gets worser, or betterer. ^^^ Headline: Martin to be used as fishfood. (H/T andrewcoyne.com)
    Martin may hang onto Liberal leadership even if he loses election
    JOAN BRYDEN Fri Jan 13, 7:16 PM ET
    OTTAWA (CP) – Federal Liberals are growing increasingly resigned to losing power, but they’re less certain they’ll lose their leader.
    ……..
    “You use him as bait,” the ex-minister said.
    http://www.rapp.org/url/?YPTKZ1U5
    news.yahoo

  47. On/off topic?
    Find the “Irish bull” in this comment from andrewcoyne.com: Or is it a Newfie cow? Is the commenter from Newf.? More, Newfy humour, please.>
    Terry Gain: Right on. What a disgrace. The man is now apparantly willing to sacrafice his soul for a few more seats on the opposition side. If his father were alive, he’d be rolling in his grave.
    Posted by: ScottieSLB >>
    Send the comment to John Crosbie for more comments & Newfie wit.
    BTW, find the photo(s) of Martin at his swearing-in ceremony; Martin brung his Daddy’s Red Rag flag with him; Martin holding same & etc. It’s a worthy topic for derision & scorn.

  48. “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly.
    But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself.
    For the traitor appears not a traitor. . . He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
    He rots the soul of a nation. . . he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. . . he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
    HARPER what are you doing over there, what kind of seads are you planting?

  49. “Why of course the people don’t want war . . . But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship . . . Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
    WHO SAID IT??? Washington, some other great American? Does anyone here know????

  50. The Death Penalty Is Not a Deterrent
    A September 2000 New York Times survey found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than in states without the death penalty.
    FBI data showed that 10 of the 12 states without capital punishment have homicide rates below the national average.
    With the highest incarceration rates in the free world why hasn’t the crime rates fallen? $30 billion a year they spend on imprisonment.

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