I was one of the few to break from the pack, and rise to his defense when David Emerson crossed the floor.
I stood fast in my support during the “Harper is a cold parent”, “Harper is fat”, and “Harper wears frumpy vests” controversies.
I did not waver during the barring-the-media-from-CFB-Trenton crisis.
I have been as steadfast and reliable a defender of Stephen Harper as a dyed-in-the-wool partisan could hope for.
But no more. The news that a contingent of Celebrity Activists®, Gulfstream socialists, and legacy-challenged politicians are in Toronto to attend the most important photo-op* on the planet – and that my Prime Minister is nowhere to be seen – is simply too much.
This is not the behavior Canadians have come to expect – and deserve – of their Prime Ministers. Not at all.
This event has been hijacked by militant homosexuals, social activists, radicals, anarchists….wait a minute. This isn’t even a G8 meeting. No wonder PMSH didn’t attend. It’s a bloody inter-galactic freak show.
WL prophetic words from BJ Bllie.
“What would Paul Martin do?”
Paul Martin was on the board of the Canadian Development Corporation (CDC) from 1981-1987, during the time hemophiliacs were infected with tainted blood. The CDC was the holding company for the private company, Connaught Laboratories, the major supplier of blood products in Canada, specifically Factor VIII used by hemophiliacs.
Bill Clinton was Governor in Arkansas approving tainted Arkansas prisoners blood sales to a Montreal wholesaler who handed it off to Connaught who passed it off to the Canadian Red Cross ( despite warnings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ) who passed the deadly material to unsuspecting Canadians.
Paul Martin’s judgement is keener than Bill Clinton’s about attending the aids industry conference.
Harper knows a carney snake oil and political side show for what it is.
Give the usual European bureaucratic fuckwits credit, at least on the tainted blood issue. They managed to hold their tainted blood culprits responsible with prison time.
In Canada we invite them back and pay them to rub it into our faces by preaching about aids!
PM Stephen Harper needs to be congratulated, once again–right, Kate!?–for taking a wide swath around the AIDS Conference. The guy’s brilliant! His time, as our Prime Minister, was much better spent in the North, as far away from this celebrity/activist/media zoo as possible.
One of the South African participants, on the front line of the fight against AIDS in Africa had this to say (reported in today’s National Post via neale news):
“‘This conference has been more of a Hollywood conference for philanthropists and stars than for people who are living with AIDS,'” said Sipho Mthathi, head of the South African group Treatment Action Campaign.
“‘We would like this to be registered by the International AIDS Society that we are quite aggrieved. Does money and does being a former president buy you a voice in today’s times?'”
And, Stephen Lewsi is a horse’s ass. Suggesting that “safer sex” by using a condom is in any way a ‘solution’ to AIDS (and pooh-poohing abstinence, which is the only 100% effective way to avoid contracting this disease) is like saying that smoking ‘lite’ cigarettes is a cure for diseases caused by smoking, or that drinking half a bottle of vodka is better than a whole bottle when fighting alcoholism.
These guys just want to have their cake and eat it too–or have their sex and make everyone else pay for their irresponsibility.
That’s “adutlthood,” ACT-UP style.
The AIDS-Fest in Trantor is nothing but a MoonBat Festival that is a global campaigne to discredit the right and promote those oh-so caring regressives.
The promiscuous left is really pissed that they can go around screwing anything with a pulse (as is their human right) without worrying about disease.
Of course no worry about unwanted pregnancy … abortion rights take care of that. No worry about destroying families … legal aid takes care of that.
On the left, other than high risk sexual activity
there is little to worry about because the right takes care of everything else including terrorism, and funding for everything that the left imposes on free and decent people.
That would be “can’t go around screwing anything with a pulse”
Im not a keen fan of the senate.
but here is a bigger distortion than the House of Commons.maybe PMSH can address this sooner rather than later.there doesnt seem to be a correlation to when you enter confederation but definitely a correlation to position towards the west.
Province or Territory Population per Senator
Newfoundland and Labrador 85,488
Prince Edward Island 33,824
Nova Scotia 90,801
New Brunswick 72,950
Quebec 301,562
Ontario 475,419
Manitoba 186,597
Saskatchewan 163,156
Alberta 495,801
British Columbia 651,290
Nunavut 26,745
Northwest Territories 1 37,360
Yukon Territory 1 28,674
The Aids conference in Toronto was about the same as a meeting of Socialists International. Mr Harper was wise not to attend.
I still get nightmares of Paul Martin being Prime Minister during the Israeli/Lebanon conflict. He may not have pleased anyone on that issue with his infernal fence-sitting, but at least he’d be in Toronto berating Americans today…
ctv.ca reporting that the government will not be making any announcements about boosting funding or other measures to fight hiv/aids this week, Because Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said the issue has become to “politicized”
Nor will Harper’s government announce whether it plans to renew support for North America’s only safe injection site for drug user’s in Vancouver.
“A decision that had the Liberals fuming Thursday”
The PM has reconized that this has “become nothing more then a political love In” & The liberals, Well when are they not fuming lately. Anything to give the impression that they are the feel good party not the stinking ,cheating, thieving, liars the are.
bryanr said: What would Paul Martin Do?
Pauls Conference Script:
Let Me Make this Clear
Ah,Ah,Ah,(remember to shake jowels) Canada is committed in the battle against this terrible desease, We will be Committing $____________(insert any amount here). Ah,Ah,Ah, This will be achieved by the Year 2___(insert any year here)
Ah,Ah,Ah,(remember to shake jowels & Remember to have picture taken with the 2 Bills, try to avoid Jack & Stephen at all cost).
Hey bryanr:
You forgot, “Let’s be clear” (or “Clearly…”) followed by ambiguous blithering that clears up nothing. Then, you must remember the obligatory “I think it’s important to all Canadians…” or “Obviously, all Canadians believe…”
I hope more was accomplished at this conference than what it looks like – a shmoozefest of people who love the limelight. What expertise does Richard Gere have on this subject??? I know he’s a handsome guy, but come on!
We all know Harper would have been booed and possibly worse had he attended this. For all their cries of “He should have been there”, it would have just been an excercise in public humiliation, which thankfully, Stephen didn’t fall for. Same as the gay games thing he didn’t attend.
Paul Martin would have been at the Aids conference with his good pal Buzz and have been the belle of the ball, getting the photo op and a big fat ZERO accomplished.
Bryceman: Thanks for the reminders, How soon we forget.
The one i did forget about is “This is what Canadian’s want”, or is that Libby’s Line? i get them mixed up alot lately.
From the Globe and Mail:
“The government of Canada is strongly committed to the fight against HIV-AIDS and continues to commit a significant amount of money to this issue,” press secretary Erik Waddell said by e-mail. “Our government is committed to doing more in the future.”
“However, there are no announcements this week while the issue is so politicized.”
Along Duke’s lines, because personal responsibility is an anathema to leftists, what’s always missing in their hijacking of the HIV story as a political weapon is that HIV(add Hep C too) is 100% preventable if people took responsibility for their behavior. Are protected sex, monogamy, and getting help for your IV drug addiction too much to ask? From the left’s point of view with their lack of condemnation of welfare babies out of wedlock, abortion on demand, and unencumbered access to gay bath houses, the answer is yes.
AIDS was handled so poorly from the beginning. It should have been quarantined as strictly as TB is. Instead, because it was the gay population involved initially, the left’s pc minions with assistance from the MSM played their victim’s card against sound public health policy. AIDS, unlike TB which has been pretty much contained, was allowed to morph into the numbers we see today.
No surprise to see Clinton milking publicity there, he’s promiscuous with sexual self-control issues.
Africa, a disaster in just about everything, has a culture of promiscuous sexual behavior. That’s well document, so don’t even dare use the R word. I know, I know, but all cultures are equal in moral relativism.
I remember when Bono met Martin for the first time. He walked away gushing praises towards dither. I thought to myself, Bono’s in for a surprise if Martin promised him funds.
The next time I saw them together Bono didn’t gush over Martin, guess he found out Martin was always about lip service.
Soccermom: Picture it, Paul & Buzz would be sporting there leather’s, arm & arm.
Camera Flash turn & smile.
BryanR: Yes, sadly I can picture it, and THAT would have been a “Damn disgrace”.
I only hope the leather pants they would be wearing would not have the a**cheeks cut out!
I think it would have been nice to see Bill Clinton and Paul Martin together again. They could discuss all the money they made giving Canadians Aids and Hepatitis
Link
Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: ‘No.’ Altruism says: ‘Yes’
Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: ‘No.’ Altruism says: ‘Yes’…..Ayn Rand
Soccermom:
A**cheeks cut out!! ewwwwwwwwww.
gawd i think i feel sick
LOL
I applaud our Prime Minister for NOT attending this so-called conference.I hope he was doing something FAR more important like spending time with his family or sitting in a lawn chair, enjoying the summer weather and some “damn good beer”. Conference?? What a joke – put any title to it you want, it’s still the same ole get together of the same ole bunch of Liberal losers and whiners. Get a life!
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – Canadians are in the middle of high-stakes talks in southern Afghanistan that could see insurgents put down their weapons in a key Taliban stronghold.
The clandestine negotiations, led by Afghan authorities but involving NATO intermediaries, come as hundreds of Taliban fighters amass within two kilometres of a Canadian outpost west of Kandahar, preparing for battle.
if we were Isreal or had anything left of the armed forces we could wait till they were there and then call in the bombers.
Soccermom:
I just had another thought, Pauly & Buzz Standing there all smiles(still in leather’s W/A** cheeks cutout) ONLY with Wacky Jacky Behind them with a whip!! Dance you naughty boys!! We will see who leaves who? Crrraaacckkk, Crrraaacckkk, I said Dance!!
Whoops Smile Camera Flash.
Sorry for the double post kate.
Soccermom: That will be a yellow card for unsportsmanlike mental images!
Bryanr: That comment will get you a red card dude.
Texas Canuck: Ya i have not been feeling too good today touch of something, gotta be the pills? warping my mind.
I should not make fun of Paul, Buzz & wacky jack afterall they were almost on the same team.
LOL
this just in from CBCpravda and uberhomo Bill Graham . note the overuse of quotation marks.google Lawrence Metherel and Bill Graham if you want to know what this is about.
No AIDS announcement during ‘politicized’ week: Ottawa
Last Updated Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:28:56 EDT
CBC News
The federal government won’t be making any announcements on the future of Vancouver’s safe-injection site or AIDS funding this week because the prime minister believes the issue has become “so politicized,” a government spokesperson said Thursday.
Opposition leader Bill Graham said the Conservative government should ‘rise above’ politics in the fight against AIDS. (CBC) A spokesman for Health Minister Tony Clement confirmed Thursday that there will be no announcement on either issue before the International AIDS Conference in Toronto wraps up Friday and an estimated 31,000 delegates return to their homes around the world.
“The government of Canada is strongly committed to the fight against HIV-AIDS and continues to commit a significant amount of money to this issue,” press secretary Erik Waddell said by e-mail to Canadian Press. “Our government is committed to doing more in the future.
“However, there are no announcements this week while the issue is so politicized.”
When the funding announcement was delayed earlier this week, I heard a radio news type say the government may be increasing the amount due to all that criticism, etc.,blah blah.
Maybe, I thought, or maybe they’re just going to make them wait to show the bullying days are done. Glad I was right. For once!
Harper was right not to go. He would have been roasted for something else if he went.
Unions and other parasites are there – 20,000 of them. I estimated it cost each attendee about $1,000 to attend. Of course they didn’t pay for it. It came out of the funds that people donated for AIDS research. How much was Clinton paid to show up and give his speech? His usual tens of thousands?
Things that work and reduce AIDS were not to be discussed – like how abstinence reduced AIDS in Uganda. Things that don’t work like multi-partners are still a good lifestyle choice. Diets don’t work. The only way to loose weight and keep it off is a lifestyle change. That’s a no-no at this conference.
SO the love-in continues with the usual players in play.
Bravo, PMSH! And sda posters: Who the bl**** hell gives a fig about the bloated, cry baby navel gazers of the left? Their time has come and gone. Good riddance is what I say–with a very big smile;-)
On a brighter side the T.O Star is reporting that “Laureen Harper would like to have a dog”, However with the lifestyle that they live, Mrs Harper said: it would be unfair to the dog as where the 2 cat’s are great company for each other when they travel so much. Mrs.Harper was at a Humane Society function with her daughter today.
So what’s going on here? The Star is reporting the other side of the Prime Minister & showing that the Harper’s Yes have feelings too.
Ok sorry for the off topic, but it is a good read.
Is Bill Clinton attending as a speaker or as an exhibit?
AIDS activists not only demand that it be proscribed behaviour to state the truth — that in North America, AIDS remains almost entirely a lifestyle disease, i.e. that the risk of catching it is almost completely determined by one’s own sexual choices — but incredibily, they villify those who promote the best way to stop the disease in its tracks.
The unavoidable truth — unavoidable, that is, to everyone but noisy, righteous, fingers-in-the-ears activists — is that those who live a tradition/conservative lifestyle have virtually zero risk of aquiring the virus. So of course activists scream at and boo those who promote the best possible solution to this horrible disease…
Can anyone think of another disease so politicized that merely pointing out — at a symposium dedicated to eradicating the disease — the best way to avoid aquiring and spreading it gets you booed and villified?
Even Bono admitted GW Bush has done more for Aids in Africa than previous admininstrations…maybe it was Geldof….the point is, even though thats the case do you think GEW could have spoke at that conference and about the successful program he helped put in place and not get booed.
Why should you go somewhere where people are going to be rude to you.
On CBC yesterday morning they spoke about the “tradition” of Aids conferences being about opposition and activism…..man I thought it was about finding a cure….
“Is Bill Clinton attending as a speaker or as an exhibit?”
His credibility is blown.
Gulfstream socialists, huh? Are you including Bill Gates on that? If you are, please pony up at least a billion towards eradicating a disease (your choice) for some credibility.
Grasspooper said:
If, say, polio had been rearing its head again in a very serious way around the globe, and the conference about that, do you think that maybe then Harper would have shown up, even for a cup of fancy coffee?
Ya, except one is an avoidable disease and the other isn’t.
Bill Clinton speaking on anything remotely connected to sex strikes me as bizarre….then again, it depends on what your definition of “is” is….
As for PM Stephen Harper, if he had made an appearance at the AIDS conference, critics would have accused him of micromanaging his cabinet, and they would have wondered why Tony Clement, Health Minister, wasn’t good enough to be there on his own. They would have accused the PM of muzzling his cabinet, if he had made a statement. If he hadn’t made a statement, they would have accused him of not caring…..you get my drift?
PM Stephen Harper hasn’t done anything to justify the criticism and hate sent his way….especially by people who turned a blind eye to the doings of the Liberal party for years.
When my kids were still in school, I pointed out that if there was a brand of juice in the drinks dispenser which, if a student drank it s/he would contract a disease to which there was no cure and ended in premature death, parents, teachers, principals, politicians, and quite possibly members of the MSM, would be demanding that this brand be banned immediately.
There would be warnings posted everywhere that the drink was contaminated, harmful to your health, and could be fatal to anyone who drinks it. Parents would be giving their kids specific and strict instructions to stay clear of any drink that even resembled the poisonous one.
Wouldn’t you think that’s what we should be doing about our kids contracting AIDS? It’s not all that hard to get if you’re sexually active with multiple partners, which fits the profile of many young people today. Are their parents, their teachers, public health personnel, the MSM telling them this–or are they afraid to “frighten” them?
Chances are, my own children excluded, a lot of kids think that to be “safe,” they “just need to use a condom.” Out of deference to the sensibilities of gays, we tip toe around the issue, activists and bleeding hearts cry about the “victims” of a largely lifestyle-choice disease, and decree that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES is it acceptable to EVEN MENTION a surefire, cheap way not to get this sexually transmitted disease: abstinence or sex only in a monogamous relationship, which will last for life.
The problem with this cheap, efficient, and easy preventative?
No one makes money and it’s too much like the moral code of Christianity. And an “open” and “tolerant” society just can’t have that.
(Never mind, that Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam teach the same conduct around the subject of sex.)
Have we totally lost our senses?
“it’s avoidable..”
Actually it’s not if you are a woman in Africa , the males do pretty much as they please and they don’t ware condoms.
Once again Harper has shown he has more political savy in his little finger than Bill Graham and Keith Martin of the Liberals. The aids conference has turned into a 3 ring circus because people like Stephen Lewis politicized it. It is nothing but a photo op for Clinton, Lewis and the Gates. The front line workers are being ignored and they are not a happy lot. For Lewis to make such a big deal of Harper not being there even tho Chretien didn’t show up 10 years ago he invited the reaction that Harper has taken. Why should Harper help Lewis get more publicity. Harper will make his announcement after all have gone home. He will get as much thanks then as he would now. In fact if he announced it this week he would have been accused of opportunism or trying to buy votes. Good on Harper, again.
It is difficult to get attention for a cause, and there are some causes,read autism, that are crying for attention, and there conferences would love to have the coverage, that AIDS gets…
The media is so rife with left wing idealogues who dont give a damn for the families of regular Canadians in need, especially those with autism..
The media is hell bent on advancing their own religion,Liberalism, of which the UCC is a huge participant..
The UCC has little recognition now of teh basic tenets or sacraments of traditional christianity..
It is a bastion of anti-semitism and a promter of alternative lifestyles which ignore selfishly the plight of children , which male homosexuality most certainly does.. Just look at the Episcopalian Gay Bishop in Vermont.. The media bent over backwards to estabish whay a trail blazer this guy was..
Did they ever think to interview the abandoned widow whose husband lied to her in his vows and deserted her for another man?
The Aids agenda conttrols the media..
PM Harper apparently being in Nunavit inrecognition ogf northern Canadians and Canada is oddly enough not as important as Stephen Lewis’ self enhance,ment program..
This guy has gotten filthy rich through the UN and its tentacles of corruption……
If Harper had made the announcement of funding during the conference, he would have been criticized in these ways:
“Oh, NOW, because we’ve made all this fuss, he’s anteing up some $$. Shameful. Damn Disgrace.”
“It’s just a photo-op! Damn Disgrace!”
“Is THAT ALL Harper will give? Those Conservatives are such cheapskates! It’s a Damn Disgrace!”
He is right to delay this announcement, once the tornado has left town.
Juliette: my prediction: Mr Gates reception will pursuade him to decline invitations to future conferences. he will shrug and claim he has stated his points. if the money continues to come forth depends on how the politicoaids folks use what theyre given up to that point.
frankly ladies and gentlemen, if a cure or vaccination is invented, the old promiscuity habits will return in a florish as if they have ever left….
just a thought:
eons ago when I was straight out of hi school I wheeled around in a cab here in RobertJville for spending money.
EVERY *ing TIME there was some sort of conference going on, the attendees would want to know where the girls are. for the usual extracurricular if ya know what I mean. I knew but acted like I didnt.
I wonder how many attendees to this aids conference went shopping to sample the local female companionship???
lieberals that whine and bitch about underfunded aids research paid by the canadian teat should have thought of that BEFORE adscam. 300,000,000 pays a lot or research time.
Honourable, rememberable, celebrate.
more from CBCpravda and the looney left.the only ones who deserve a mention are the ones the redcross poisoned with “civil servant careless attitude” blood.
Thousands gathered in downtown Toronto Thursday night for a candlelight vigil to honour, remember and celebrate the lives of those who have died from AIDS.
Each candle on stage, 15 in all, represented a community that has been affected by HIV and AIDS, including gay men, aboriginals, transgendered, injection drug users, sex trade workers, children and those living in poverty.
Three years ago this time I was conducting perfectly legitimate business in Spain. I met a local woman who was wearing a “2006 Toronto AIDS Conference” necklace pass-holder thingie. In Spain. In 2003. I’m not making this up.
The bottom line by the MSNM and oposition parties will be 1) If Harper goes he will be usurping his Health Minister’s function (micromanaging) ans getting “photo-ops”. 2) By not going he shows he doesn’t “care” and is “snubbing” this very useful and important conference.
It’s all crap, so just go about running the country, and that’s fine with me.