First Liberal: Conservatives starboard! Shields!
Second Liberal: Sir?
First Liberal:
Second Liberal: Excuse me – Mr. Prime Minister?
First Liberal:
Third Liberal: Shhh.. We’re not supposed to talk when he’s cloaked.
(A shameless ripoff of a classic PW * series)
“I love the smell of NoPaul in the morning, Its smells of Victory”
“cloaked”
More like dorked
Sorry, I know this is OT, but it’s too good not to pass on. How do they vote in Waterloo? We’d all better find out quickly, and vote accordingly Monday, lest we Westerners be considered “none too bright”. named as a top ‘intelligent community’
Updated Fri. Jan. 20 2006 11:22 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Waterloo, Ont. has been named one of the world’s top seven “intelligent communities” for 2006.
The communities were announced by the Intelligent Community Forum, a think-tank that focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy.
John Jung, the chairman of the ICF, said Waterloo met all of the organization’s criteria for an intelligent community.
“The city of Waterloo and the region of Waterloo are well-known worldwide not only for its excellence in education through the University of Waterloo,” Jung said.
I wish he could make himself invisible too.
I to am going to go O/T. I have received a letter from an older gentleman that has been fighting this whole scandal ridden government. I think that his letter regarding the NWT clause is worth reading. With his permission I am submitting it on his behalf.
I believe this information is so important for the voter to know. If you
followed the debates between federal leaders, you may have noticed
Paul Martin brought up the subject of the “notwithstanding clause”,
on more than one occasion.
The Charter of Rights permits Supreme Court judges to interpret
federal legislation. The “notwithstanding clause” in the Charter gives
Parliament the power to override objectionable rulings by the
unelected Judges. Paul Martin, has declared, if reelected, he would
strip away the opting-out safeguard of the notwithstanding clause,
leaving us more vulnerable to the whims of our Supreme Court.
There is little evidence that judges are selected according to how they
would rule in various cases. If the Charter did not contain the
notwithstanding clause and the courts were the final arbiters of social
values, it seems safe to speculate that this situation would be vulnerable
to change.
By rescinding the notwithstanding clause, Martin would give our
Supreme Court, which is made up of nine unelected Judges
(appointed by the liberal friendly Prime Minister) the same political
clout the judiciary in the U.S. has over that nation’s elected
representatives. We would then have an American style
constitution without the checks and balances of the U.S.
political system. All the while he accuses Steven Harper of
being pro-American. Have you ever seen such blatant hypocrisy!!
Paul Martin is so desperate, repeatedly attacking Harper, instead
of making suggestions how he intends to repair the damage caused by
his own corrupted liberal government. It’s a pitiful display, watching Martin,
a drowning man, grasping at straws, in an attempt to salvage what’s
left of his tattered political career. But all is not lost since Martin still
has millions of “tax free” dollars he managed to exploit, at the
Canadian taxpayers expense.
B.Coster,
A concerned critic of controversial issues.
Westbank, B.C.
so Martin is ranting about Harper hiding his candidates and the media lap it up.
Maybe the MSM shoild consider that Martin’s and the Liberal name are being hidden from all their campaign signs and literature.
Liberals, Candidates, hiding their party and their leader from the media and the electorate ?
In Canada
We are not making this up
You have the right to choose your government
In your cities
With ballots
In Canada
We are not making this up!
Regarding the Notwithstanding clause and Martin flailing around making promises like this one without any regard to the interests of our country….it’s ALL about power, isn’t it Paul?
Anyone who thinks that having the supreme power in our country resting with nine unelected velvet-and-ermine-clad former flower children who have no concept of life outside the tony confines of Rockcliffe Park is either (a) an idiot or (b) a Paul Martin Liberal (oops, sorry, that’s a redundancy, isn’t it?)….
Oh, how cute: Paul Martin has hired his very own court jester/sycophant. But does anyone else get teh impression that Feschuk doesn’t really like his boss?
Subject: Paul Martin’s choice
While vacationing on a ranch, Paul Martin gets thrown from his horse, lands on a rattlesnake, gets bitten and dies because the emergency room at the nearest hospital is too understaffed to treat him in time. So his soul arrives in Heaven and he is met by St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.
“Welcome to Heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a Liberal around these parts, so we’re not sure what to do with you.”
“No problem, just let me in; I’m a believer.” says Martin.
“I’d like to just let you in, but I have orders from the Man Himself. He says you have to spend one day in Hell and one day in Heaven. Then you must choose where you’ll live for eternity.”
“But, I’ve already made up my mind, I want to be in Heaven,” replied Martin”.
“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.” And with that, St. Peter escorts him to an elevator and he goes down, down, down, all the way to Hell.
The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a lush golf course; the sun is shining in a cloudless sky, the temperature a perfect 72 degrees.In the distance is a beautiful clubhouse.
Standing in front of it is his Dad, and thousands of other Liberals who
had helped him out over the years—Pierre Trudeau, Jean Marchand, Pelletier, St Laurent etc. The whole of the “Left” was there, everyone laughing, happy, and casually but expensively dressed. They run to greet him, hug him, and reminisce about the good times they had getting rich at the expense of ‘suckers and peasants.’ They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster and caviar.
>>
>> The Devil himself comes up to Martin with a frosty drink, “Have a
> Margarita and relax, Paul!”
>>
>> “Uh, I can’t drink anymore, I took a pledge,” says Martin, dejectedly. “This is Hell, son. You can drink and eat all you want and not worry, and it just gets better from there!”
Martin takes the drink and finds himself liking the Devil, who he thinks
is a really very friendly guy who tells funny jokes like himself, and pulls hilarious nasty pranks, kind of like they pulled on the GST and Free Trade promises. They are having such a great time that, before he realizes it, it’s time to go. Everyone gives him a big hug and waves as Martin steps on the elevator and heads upward.
When the elevator door reopens, he is in Heaven again and St. Peter is waiting for him. “Now it’s time to visit Heaven,” the old man says,
opening the gate.
So for 24 hours Martin is made to hang out with a bunch of honest,
good-natured people who enjoy each other’s company, talk about things other than money, and treat each other decently. Not a nasty prank or frat boy joke among them; no fancy country clubs and, while the food tastes great, it’s not caviar or lobster. And these people are all poor, he doesn’t see anybody he knows, and he isn’t even treated like someone special!
“Whoa,” he says uncomfortably to himself. “Pierre Trudeau never prepared me for this!”
The day done, St. Peter returns and says, “Well, you’ve spent a day in Hell and a day in Heaven. Now choose where you want to live for eternity.”
With the ‘Jeopardy’ theme playing softly in the background, Martin
reflects for a minute, then answers: “Well, I would never have thought I’d say this — I mean, Heaven has been delightful and all — but I really think I belong in Hell with my friends.”
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down, all the way to Hell. The doors of the elevator open and he is in the middle of a barren scorched earth covered with garbage and toxic industrial waste, kind of like Sudbury. He is horrified to see all of
his friends, dressed in rags and chained together, picking up the trash
and putting it in black bags. They are groaning and moaning in pain, faces and hands black with grime.
The Devil comes over to Martin and puts an arm around his shoulder. “I don’t understand,” stammers a shocked Martin, “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a clubhouse and we ate lobster and caviar, drank booze. We lazed around and had a great time. Now there’s just a wasteland full of garbage and everybody looks miserable!”.
The Devil looks at him, smiles slyly, and purrs, “Yesterday we were
campaigning; today you voted for us!”
G-G Jean is reported to be saying that her backroom is asking the same question(s). >>
Much of Conservative agenda may hinge on Harper’s ability to win majority
OTTAWA (CP) – Who knew it would come to this? As the federal election campaign winds down and voting day looms, there’s one question being asked in every backroom in Ottawa: if the Conservatives win, will it be a minority or a majority? >>
via cnews
“Also, the ability to make myself invisible.”
Interesting comment if you read Book II of Plato’s Republic and the Ring of Gyges.
“The Ring of Gyges
In the Republic, written some 2400 years ago, Plato tells the story of the Ring of Gyges. Gyges was a shepherd who found a dead man lying in cave wearing nothing but a gold ring.Gyges helped himself to the ring and wore it to the next monthly meeting of the local shepherds. Idly playing with it during a dull moment, he discovered that by turning the signet of the ring inwards,he became invisible, since the others spoke of him as if he had gone out. Turning it back, he became visible again. Dreams of unlimited power danced in his head. Gyges got himself appointed an emissary to the king. When he arrived in the capital, he seduced the queen, got her help in murdering the king, and became king himself. What Plato want to know, then, is this: Is there any human being so just that he would not take advantage of such a device? Is it only the surveillance of others that keeps us from running amok?”
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa….hehehe…. hope it gets stuck that way! :oP
Stepchild:
“One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to
Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them.”
How’s that for a liberal campaign slogan?
Ready photon torpedos, Mr. Solberg
Reality trumps appearances/ hits Martin in the solar plexus! Martin blubbers some more. He misses red tory, Joe Who? Boo-hooo. Say good night, Pauly.
This confirms the wisdom of dropping the word “progressive”, which is a left liberal buzz/code word.>>
“They used to call them the Tories,” Martin said.
“But that party — the party of Bob Stanfield, the party of Joe Clark, the party of mainstream and moderate leaders, the party that was proud to call itself progressive, is no more — it’s as dead as disco.”
I knew Joe Clark was a Liberal , I didnt know PMPM wanted to vote for him.
the Libs gave Joe Clark his last win in Calgary Central. pulled their candidate.
Joe will be given a senatorship for keeping the Libs in for two more rounds if PMexPM has time.
Subject: EXOTIC DANCER
> One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did
> for a living. All the typical answers came up: fireman, mechanic,
> businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer and so forth.
> But little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the
> teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, “My father’s an exotic
> dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other
> men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is
> really good, he will go home with some guy and have sex with him for
> money.” The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set
> the other children to work on some exercises and then took little Justin
> aside to ask him, “Is that really true about your father?!” “No,” the
> little boy said, “He works on Paul Martins re-election committee and I
> was too embarrassed to say that in front of all the other kids.”
Interesting commentary that is probably more properly directed at Harper and CPC.
He is the one who is staying silent this weekend.
What gives?
Get to know him
Harper, 46, with a gray mop of hair neatly parted and sky blue eyes, carved out an early reputation as a brilliant theoretical economist who favored delving into policy books over the fierce combat of the political trenches. One Montreal newspaper recently questioned his charisma, likening him to a �robot giving off about as much heat as an iceberg. But as his Conservatives surged ahead in recent public opinion polls, he looked more relaxed on the campaign trail, even joking about his lack of charm.
Martin branded Harper an �extremist� who wants to curtail abortion rights�?�, reverse same sex marriage reforms�?�, and stack Canadian courts with conservative judges hostile to mainstream Canadian values�?�. Harper succeeded in merging Canada�s two rightist parties into the Conservative Party of Canada, with little time to lay out a coherent electoral strategy, lost to Martin in the last Canadian election in June 2004. His campaign sank under the weight of his and others� controversial statements on abortion and gay marriage, allowing the Liberals to form a minority government.
This time round, Harper learned from past mistakes. His party has become more centrist, focused on fiscal initiatives instead of social conservatism while the fringe elements in its midst have been muzzled. He promised tax cuts to middle class Canadians, more military spending and to devolve more power to the provinces.
Still, Harper has not changed his core political beliefs. He remains hostile�?� to gay marriage and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change ratified by Canada.
The father of two is seen as an intellectual forever in love with ideas, philosophy and history. His only other known passion is ice hockey. Even during a hectic election campaign, he found time to work on a book on the history of a sport followed with feverish passion in frigid Canada. Harper was born into a middle-class family in Toronto. His parents valued honesty and integrity above all, he said. At 18, he moved to Alberta to work for an oil company before enrolling in economic studies at U of C. There, he embraced conservative political values.
He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1993, but quit politics in 1997 to work for a conservative lobby group, but returned to Ottawa in 2002 as head of the Canadian Alliance, a party born out of the ashes of the Reform Party. He made it his mission to reunite Canada�s fractured political right to challenge the Liberals decade-long hegemony.
Copied from YAHOO. I don�t agree with all of it, but it contains some good facts about our next PM (facts are a hard thing to find these days). Saying Harper is �hostile� is a bit rich.
Read the link, Observer.
funny how Harper appears to be calm cool collected yet the Libs paint him as an extremist, meanwhile PMexPM exudes nuttiness, playing air guitar.
his handlers have either left on the bus or he is out of control.
just occured to me , ever noticed when you type CBC(short for Pravda) , its all in the bottom row ,left side.