Everyone tone down the rhetoric. That includes you trolls, and those of you intent on feeding them.
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I have a question re polling. Can anyone help?
I see from the latest (Jan 18) EKOS poll number that they now have an undecided/declined category at 13.8%. This is up. I presume this reflects those who have advanced polled and refuse to say for whom they voted. How reliable are the other numbers then? The apparent drop in conservative percentage could reflect heavy conservative advance polling. Any thoughts?
Yes m’am.
Kate, I’m assuming that this is preemptive move on your part in the last few days of the campaign. I’ve been reading your blog regularly for the last year and have been struck by the generally higher level of the comments and the inept trolls. A couple of other blogs I read have comments sections that are incandescent with flames and trollage feeding.
I also haven’t noticed any retro moderation of the comments like I’ve seen on other sites where the blog owner nukes with abandon.
I do delete really nasty ones on occasion and have banned a few people. My primary concern are those people who read at work, who deserve to be able to read comments without their “bad word” software going off.
Murray. I think you may have a point. I voted on Saturday and I voted CPC. I overheard one other elderly couple (actually, they were maybe 2 years older than me but then I keep reminding myself that I am NOT getting older) saying that they both voted CPC as well. I think he was kiding her and thanking her for “changing her mind.” Whatever. They both seemed happy at that particular moment. And that made me think how lucky we are to live in a country like Canada.
Liberal ad parodies: http://www.subliminalparty.com/
We are a non-partisan group of young Canadians frustrated by the lack of quality political discourse in Canada, and concerned about its consequences for the health of our democracy. Please visit the website we created with short video ads that parody the attack ads the Liberal party is using currently. They’re hilarious!
We created these not as a political statement, but as a statement about politics.
Well, this post IS more informative than learning David Suzuki is a tool…
Why is “publicly endorsing” an NDP candidate on the CBC a “violation” of “standards”, yet railing against the NDP in general on the CBC… is A-O.K
I find blatant hypocrisy offensive…
Ken, those ads are … ummm… gorram mirthsome. (there, Kate, see? I didn’t use bad words. At least, not in English. Unless you count the mixture of Mandarin and 19th-century Anerican spoken on Firefly as English.)
/letsbebadguys
Ken Clarke: Brilliant job on the ads. “Backwards” was my favourite.
I promise not to feed the trolls.
I promise not to feed the trolls.
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.
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Too much Bart Simpson, eh?
Liberal Campaign Caught Falsely Accusing Conservative Candidate of Sexual Abuse
By John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal Campaign in the Saskatoon-Wanuskewin riding of Saskatchewan has reached a boiling point after the campaign office was caught calling in to a television show falsely accusing the Conservative candidate of sexual abuse. Tuesday night on Shaw Cable, a caller phoned in falsely accusing front-runner Conservative incumbent MP Maurice Vellacott of sexually assaulting his church secretary at North Park Church. >>> more http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06011901.html
Mark Steyn’s latest: http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=23
‘CAMPAIGN CANADA
Countdown to liberation: Four days to go!
Politicized? Moi?
Stephen Harper makes a few mild observations on the political realities of the Liberal state and everyone recoils in horror: by pointing out the “politicization” of the courts, the civil service, etc, it’s Scary Stephen who’s “politicizing them”. My old comrade Andrew Coyne http://andrewcoyne.com/2006/01/harper-in-shock-liberal-patronage.php
patronage.php
has chapter and verse on the absurdities of this: it’s ridiculous to get outraged over statements of the obvious – since 1993, 89% of all political donations by federal judicial appointees in Ontario have gone to the Liberals but we’re supposed to pretend it’s a scrupulously non-partisan bench.
Meanwhile, the strikingly similar formulations of the press criticism of Harper’s remarks tend to confirm them: why, you’d almost think they were re-typing Grit war-room e-mails. And why wouldn’t they? The over-regulated Canadian media offers limited job promotion opportunities except to waft upwards into Liberal patronage positions (as my National Post colleague Anne Dawson has just done). Consider, for example, the curious attitude of CTV News to its own polls: On Tuesday night, it was 42-24 to the Tories – the biggest lead of the campaign – and ol’ Lloyd buried it. Well, maybe it was one of them there “rogue polls”. But on Wednesday it was 41-25 – and they buried it again. I guess Harper should be grateful Lloyd didn’t go with “Tory lead plummets in poll shock!” CTV seem to have adopted a Lady Bracknell attitude to their polling: to produce one massive Tory lead may be regarded as a misfortune, to produce two looks like carelessness. (The Western Standard’s riposte to CanWest’s Don Martin, complete with audio of his phone messages, makes a similar point, and with macho back-room Liberal fellatial banter, too!) http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/01/journalism_less.html
The scandal isn’t Harper drawing attention to the politicization but the unwillingness of the thoroughly politicized organs of the Trudeaupian state to see it. Consider this small item: the Liberal Party solicits donations from the Privy Council Office employees at the office. http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Election/2006/01/18/1399439-sun.html
That’s merely the gazillionth tiny sign that the party no longer understands the codes and conventions by which the Westminster system operates. I’m not arguing that, in their elision of the line between party and state, the Grits have turned us into the Soviet Union. But, as I’ve put it for a few years now, they have turned us into Malta in the Seventies – we have the outward emblems of a functioning constitutional monarchy, but all the checks and balances have gone. That’s why the faintheartedness of the Tory platform is neither here nor there. What’s necessary on Monday is for the Liberals to lose. If, through some freak combination of factors, the Bloc wound up forming the government, a party that wants to secede from the nation would be less damaging to the country than a party that wants to swallow the nation. On Monday, it’s important for the health of our democracy to demonstrate that Canadians can still muster the will to change governments.
STEYNONLINE January 19th 2006′
Mark
Ottawa
…i still like to know why a washington state volcano cam has to do with rulal saskachewan
yes, i do stay up a night over this hehe
😉
cheers
tom
Didn’t want to bury this at bottom of page. re: Buzz Hargrove.
I finally had a chance to go to CHED’s audio vault for 2pm yesterday and the following is verbatim (took work but now I know I wasn’t imagining it): “Alberta is a wealthy province that has a lot more resources than the rest of Canada. And Harper was brought up in that enviroment. And the values and the political thinking in Alberta, I don’t think that a, that a, values of individualism, that are coming out of Alberta are shared by the rest of Canada.”
To me it sounds like he said that is the way it is in Alberta and Harper is from here.
Anyone wants a copy of the clip, e-mail me and I’ll send it. Or you can try CHED yourself(http://www.630ched.com/ -you have to be a member but it’s easy and free). Go to audio vault on left side of home and go to 2pm yesterday. At about the 4 min. mark is where it starts. 4:20 to 4:40 is Hargrove’s words.
Hargrove is only parroting what socialists have said for years.
Group rights, group rights.
That’s how they’ve been successful, playing one group against another.
I have a question re polling. Can anyone help?
I see from the latest (Jan 18) EKOS poll number that they now have an undecided/declined category at 13.8%. This is up. I presume this reflects those who have advanced polled and refuse to say for whom they voted. How reliable are the other numbers then? The apparent drop in conservative percentage could reflect heavy conservative advance polling. Any thoughts?
Yes m’am.
Kate, I’m assuming that this is preemptive move on your part in the last few days of the campaign. I’ve been reading your blog regularly for the last year and have been struck by the generally higher level of the comments and the inept trolls. A couple of other blogs I read have comments sections that are incandescent with flames and trollage feeding.
I also haven’t noticed any retro moderation of the comments like I’ve seen on other sites where the blog owner nukes with abandon.
I do delete really nasty ones on occasion and have banned a few people. My primary concern are those people who read at work, who deserve to be able to read comments without their “bad word” software going off.
Murray. I think you may have a point. I voted on Saturday and I voted CPC. I overheard one other elderly couple (actually, they were maybe 2 years older than me but then I keep reminding myself that I am NOT getting older) saying that they both voted CPC as well. I think he was kiding her and thanking her for “changing her mind.” Whatever. They both seemed happy at that particular moment. And that made me think how lucky we are to live in a country like Canada.
Liberal ad parodies:
http://www.subliminalparty.com/
We are a non-partisan group of young Canadians frustrated by the lack of quality political discourse in Canada, and concerned about its consequences for the health of our democracy. Please visit the website we created with short video ads that parody the attack ads the Liberal party is using currently. They’re hilarious!
We created these not as a political statement, but as a statement about politics.
Well, this post IS more informative than learning David Suzuki is a tool…
Why is “publicly endorsing” an NDP candidate on the CBC a “violation” of “standards”, yet railing against the NDP in general on the CBC… is A-O.K
I find blatant hypocrisy offensive…
Ken, those ads are … ummm… gorram mirthsome. (there, Kate, see? I didn’t use bad words. At least, not in English. Unless you count the mixture of Mandarin and 19th-century Anerican spoken on Firefly as English.)
/letsbebadguys
Ken Clarke: Brilliant job on the ads. “Backwards” was my favourite.
I promise not to feed the trolls.
I promise not to feed the trolls.
.
.
.
Too much Bart Simpson, eh?
Liberal Campaign Caught Falsely Accusing Conservative Candidate of Sexual Abuse
By John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, January 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal Campaign in the Saskatoon-Wanuskewin riding of Saskatchewan has reached a boiling point after the campaign office was caught calling in to a television show falsely accusing the Conservative candidate of sexual abuse. Tuesday night on Shaw Cable, a caller phoned in falsely accusing front-runner Conservative incumbent MP Maurice Vellacott of sexually assaulting his church secretary at North Park Church. >>> more
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06011901.html
Clickable link:
-Liberal ad parodies:–
Mark Steyn’s latest:
http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=23
‘CAMPAIGN CANADA
Countdown to liberation: Four days to go!
Politicized? Moi?
Stephen Harper makes a few mild observations on the political realities of the Liberal state and everyone recoils in horror: by pointing out the “politicization” of the courts, the civil service, etc, it’s Scary Stephen who’s “politicizing them”. My old comrade Andrew Coyne
http://andrewcoyne.com/2006/01/harper-in-shock-liberal-patronage.php
patronage.php
has chapter and verse on the absurdities of this: it’s ridiculous to get outraged over statements of the obvious – since 1993, 89% of all political donations by federal judicial appointees in Ontario have gone to the Liberals but we’re supposed to pretend it’s a scrupulously non-partisan bench.
Meanwhile, the strikingly similar formulations of the press criticism of Harper’s remarks tend to confirm them: why, you’d almost think they were re-typing Grit war-room e-mails. And why wouldn’t they? The over-regulated Canadian media offers limited job promotion opportunities except to waft upwards into Liberal patronage positions (as my National Post colleague Anne Dawson has just done). Consider, for example, the curious attitude of CTV News to its own polls: On Tuesday night, it was 42-24 to the Tories – the biggest lead of the campaign – and ol’ Lloyd buried it. Well, maybe it was one of them there “rogue polls”. But on Wednesday it was 41-25 – and they buried it again. I guess Harper should be grateful Lloyd didn’t go with “Tory lead plummets in poll shock!” CTV seem to have adopted a Lady Bracknell attitude to their polling: to produce one massive Tory lead may be regarded as a misfortune, to produce two looks like carelessness. (The Western Standard’s riposte to CanWest’s Don Martin, complete with audio of his phone messages, makes a similar point, and with macho back-room Liberal fellatial banter, too!)
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/01/journalism_less.html
The scandal isn’t Harper drawing attention to the politicization but the unwillingness of the thoroughly politicized organs of the Trudeaupian state to see it. Consider this small item: the Liberal Party solicits donations from the Privy Council Office employees at the office.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Election/2006/01/18/1399439-sun.html
That’s merely the gazillionth tiny sign that the party no longer understands the codes and conventions by which the Westminster system operates. I’m not arguing that, in their elision of the line between party and state, the Grits have turned us into the Soviet Union. But, as I’ve put it for a few years now, they have turned us into Malta in the Seventies – we have the outward emblems of a functioning constitutional monarchy, but all the checks and balances have gone. That’s why the faintheartedness of the Tory platform is neither here nor there. What’s necessary on Monday is for the Liberals to lose. If, through some freak combination of factors, the Bloc wound up forming the government, a party that wants to secede from the nation would be less damaging to the country than a party that wants to swallow the nation. On Monday, it’s important for the health of our democracy to demonstrate that Canadians can still muster the will to change governments.
STEYNONLINE January 19th 2006′
Mark
Ottawa
…i still like to know why a washington state volcano cam has to do with rulal saskachewan
yes, i do stay up a night over this hehe
😉
cheers
tom
Michael Ignatieff: “Iggy on the Trigger” video
http://www.efrank.ca/tv.html?id=559
Didn’t want to bury this at bottom of page. re: Buzz Hargrove.
I finally had a chance to go to CHED’s audio vault for 2pm yesterday and the following is verbatim (took work but now I know I wasn’t imagining it): “Alberta is a wealthy province that has a lot more resources than the rest of Canada. And Harper was brought up in that enviroment. And the values and the political thinking in Alberta, I don’t think that a, that a, values of individualism, that are coming out of Alberta are shared by the rest of Canada.”
To me it sounds like he said that is the way it is in Alberta and Harper is from here.
Anyone wants a copy of the clip, e-mail me and I’ll send it. Or you can try CHED yourself(http://www.630ched.com/ -you have to be a member but it’s easy and free). Go to audio vault on left side of home and go to 2pm yesterday. At about the 4 min. mark is where it starts. 4:20 to 4:40 is Hargrove’s words.
Hargrove is only parroting what socialists have said for years.
Group rights, group rights.
That’s how they’ve been successful, playing one group against another.