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I don’t know what this relates to.
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And I’m not entirely certain I want to.
Via Bourque, according to the comments.
UPDATE – Ted reports the following: “This is a photo from the United Jewish Appeal’s Walk With Israel, which is the largest pro-Israel event in Canada on May 27.”
While I have nothing but the utmost respect for Ted, I hesitate to accept his information as accurate, for as everyone who follows the Canadian progressive blogosphere knows, Israel walks like this:

And now another photo mystery solved…

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  1. He’s just trying to make up for the next time half of his caucus shows up to march for Hezbollah.

  2. “Hey –… When you guys speak of “Trolls”, what does that mean? Is that good or not?
    Posted by: Orlin at August 8, 2007 2:15 PM”
    Everybody — ignore Orlin; obviously a troll from the Dark left Side trying to subvert the posts.

  3. Hey, stop calling him a fag.
    Even fags don’t dance like that, what ever ‘that’ is…..

  4. I don’t know guys ‘n gals, Stephie could make this Bobby Gimby thing work for him.
    There’s Stephie, Pied Pipering his way to a beautiful rosy Liberal future with a puppy dog in one hand and a cute little kid in the other,singing and dancing along. Cut to a brief flash of Harper’s feet sticking out from under a house, then back to the Utopi-opi-opian celebration of Liberalosity.
    Stephie’s got that kind, inoffensive happy look on him. Soccer Moms in the 905 would go for it.
    “But he’s so NICE! (giggle) Nicer than that mean Mr. Harper with his nasty facts and figures.”
    Hebrew (or possibly Yiddish, I admit my ignorance here) has a perfect word for this guy. Nebbish. Have another matzo ball Stephie and keep dancing! The Palestinians will forgive you.

  6. Stephi doing a take on Tiny Tim, tip-toeing through the tulips? Problem is there are no tulips in sight.

  9. Notwithstanding Dion looks like a complete idiot at what is a very important pro-Israel event, I find it odd that Borys Wrzesnewskyj was present. Is that not the same person who resigned as foreign affairs critic after supporting Hezbollah and suggesting Canada should negotiate with them? The same Hezbollah who attacked Israel?
    Hypocrisy has no bounds when you are a Lib.

  10. He dances like that because one of his own, BigCityLib, just pulled the rug from underneath his enviro-fanatismic dance.
    [Steve McIntyre’s weblog ‘Climate Audit’ has always been a hotbed of Climate Change Denialism, and he has spent much of the last several years flailing about madly in an effort to discredit the science behind AGW. However, it seems he might have hit onto something this time, having detected an error in the Global Historical Climatology Network’s data collection procedures which, when corrected, reorders the the ranking of 10 hottest years recorded in the lower 48 states of the United States such that several years in the 1990s and 2000s fall out of the top ten, and several years from the 1930s come into it.] BCL

  11. Ever heard David Suzuki, Albert Gore, Maurice Strong rant on about how nearly all of the hottest years “on record” were in last couple of decades or so ?? It is what had me temporaily believing in GW.
    Well they were, are, and always have been WRONG.
    Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit has exposed the fraud —- and it is perhaps even bigger than Mann’s ‘hockey stick’ fraud.
    [Four of the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900. (World rankings are calculated separately.) Note: For the new leaderboard see http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt. The old data has been erased; by sheer chance, I had the old data active in my R-session but I can’t give a link to it.)
    GISS U.S. Temperatures (deg C) in New Order
    Year Old New
    1934 1.23 1.25
    1998 1.24 1.23
    1921 1.12 1.15
    2006 1.23 1.13
    1931 1.08 1.08
    1999 0.94 0.93
    1953 0.91 0.90
    1990 0.88 0.87
    1938 0.85 0.86
    1939 0.84 0.85
    Here’s the old leaderboard.
    Year Old New
    1998 1.24 1.23
    1934 1.23 1.25
    2006 1.23 1.13
    1921 1.12 1.15
    1931 1.08 1.08
    1999 0.94 0.93
    1953 0.91 0.90
    2001 0.90 0.76
    1990 0.88 0.87
    1938 0.85 0.86 ]
    This is huge, huge news on the so-called man-made-global-warming front.
    Gore has about a hundred million dollars worth of humble pies to eat 🙂
    http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1880#more-1880

  17. I don’t envy a politician of any stripe faced with the need to do something contrived for the cameras; it’s a classic damned-if-you-do, etc. moment. If he joins in the stupid dance – and lacks any kind of graceful ability – he’s going to look like an idiot, and if he doesn’t, someone somewhere is going to call him stand-offish, arrogant and rude. His political opponents will seize upon either action and hang him out to dry for it.
    Then there is the caprice of the camera: the moment captured for all time when you are blinking just as the shutter clicks and you look like the only drunken half-wit in the crowd who has just subcontracted out his cognitive faculties to a block of cheese. Will your opponents run with that one, or the other one that shows you at least aware of your surroundings? Are bears Catholic?
    This is not to say that I respect Dion as a politician; he has always struck me as the latest puppet of the Liberal old guard, with an ear for the political moment of purest tin. But that is a fault that cannot be hidden by his handlers through the use of better photo ops – and truth be told, cannot be determined through the use of good or bad photo-ops either. It is more accurate to form your opinion through the evaluation of his own words and actions in the realm of his political expertise.
    Based on that, the man is a pompous git.

  19. You folks really need to stop bashing Stephane Dion…he is the Conservative’s best hope of getting a majority in the next election.

  22. the liebreals are looking like party crashers.because we all know here that no one crashes there fund raisers here in the maritimes. lol

  23. Politicians always risk photos like this in public. Comes with the territory. Most people will get a chuckle, much as they did when Harper’s Village People look was unveiled to the media. Most people have photos of their own taken during some rather awkward poses, or wearing some less than flattering outfits, which means they can easily relate to these pictures. So long as the photo isn’t revealing a fondness for depravity, most folks see these for what they are: a small chuckle at a fellow human being’s foibles.

  24. Actually, now that I think about this, I can find some charm in both the Harper leatherman shot, and the Dion Dancing Queen pic. Dion, for whatever one thinks about his leadership abilities, seriously looks like he’s enjoying himself. Now, I’m not convinced it’s wise to prance around in public just because one is having a, er, gay old time, but the guy is obviously, sincerely into whatever he’s doing. Like I said, there is an element of innocent charm to the photo.
    And as for Harper’s pic, there was something so revealing about his expression in that shot that it really revealed much of might have been going on his head at that time. He had this ‘Alright, I’m wearing this because some schmuck on my staff picked this out, and I’m here pretending to be a cowboy because I frickin’ have to, but I don’t like. Not one bit. I’m humoring you, and my look is letting you know that I’m in on this whole farce of politicians dressing up as cowboys, but, hey, you’re in on it too.”
    Fun times all around.

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