In the opening weeks of the provincial election, I expressed my underwhelm with the SaskParty campaign in this way;
And perhaps the most important question of all – will the Saskatchewan Party leave the security of pre-election poll results showing their party with a wide lead to campaign like a government in waiting? Is SaskParty leader Brad Wall going to step up his “football dad” image and act like a premier?
Will he lead the wave or just hope to ride the “change for change’s sake” trend to victory? At the moment, there is a sense of the latter. He may passively ride the trend. The SaskParty platform, while well thought out and publicly detailed, is decidedly tepid. The campaign style seems haunted by the fear of misstep. They’ve forgotten that battles aren’t won by keeping one’s head low.
It was advice not taken.
I’m slow to anger. This does not mean I lack a quick temper, but there’s a difference between leaving a bruise and leaving a body. Genuine anger requires time, reflection, and something heavy that balances well in your hand.
It all started with a call from the CBC’s Jeff Leo, who broke the news. Sometime between March 28th and April 1st, the United Nations had issued the Universal Declaration On The Rights of Crack Whores – and I didn’t get the memo.
Unfortunately, my Premier did.
And they had caught him off guard, in a position of strength. So I was not surprised that he distanced himself, to heal the rift I’d created between the SaskParty and a deeply hurt intravenous drug user community. When a man will throw “being a good dad” under the wheels of an NDP opposition he’s just annhilated at the polls, what possible chance does a Bingophobe have?
So today, the intended shoe dropped. Because when a man will throw a Bingophobe under the bus, what possible chance does a Conservative MP saying “faggot” on video have?
Or that was their hope.
For that was the plan all along. Few reacted to my Station 20 West commentary because within its “harsh” nature, it spoke the truth. It went virtually unnoted until NDP MLA Cam Broten issued the Saskatchewan New Democrat’s unilateral redefinition of “Identifiable Group”.
Had he kept his wits about him and remembered Who. He. Is. and more importantly, who they are, there would have been no successful set-up, no “distancing” Premier Wall on fresh tape declaring intolerance zero-tolerance.
But this too, shall pass. The fashion sense jokes are already emerging.
I hope he’s learned a lesson. I hope he’s learned that pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends. I hope he’s learned that whoever is advising him on his public image needs to be kicked to the curb.
But most of all, I hope he’s learned to stop offering his throat.
One last thing. Speculation abounds in certain quarters about my “motivation” for supporting the SaskParty. Specifically, what benefits might have been coming my way.
Given events of this week, and given my anger, it’s time to put certain facts on the record. Get your pads and pencils ready my friends, because here’s the dirt you’ve been waiting for.
In exchange for my support of the SaskParty in my capacity as a blogger, I have received precisely … nothing.
Nothing was asked for, nothing was offered. No government contracts, no consulting gigs, no private business tilted my way. No invitations to social events, no advertising contracts, no party positions.
Not so much as a free case of beer, left anonymously on my doorstep.
So there you have it. My support for Brad Wall and the SaskParty has been, all along, exactly as represented – the exclusive domain of one private citizen acting voluntarily, without compensation or expectation of reward.
Which means the only “lines” here at SDA remain those drawn by me, and the rule of law.
So, Premier Wall – I ask that in the future you not trespass on my property.
You do not draw the lines here.
You’re not my referee.
And I answer to no one.
(Mr. Broten – I’ll be dealing with you in due course.)
Tolerance becomes a joke in the absence of truthfulness. I’m tired of seeing people apologize for past stupidity that doesn’t still manifest as part of their present character. It’s better to see them to own up to it and say that was then and this is now, let’s get on with the more important things.
Brad Wall doesn’t have to be everyone’s friend. His job is to show he’s competent enough to earn our vote next time.
I could look at this as something negative for you and yours….or I could choose to look at it as a politician talking about a citizen with a computer, in effect making private citizens as big as Big Media.
That’s how I’ll look at it, because that’s exactly how it is. Twenty years ago, I had to record data on cassette tapes. Twenty years later, citizens have a voice of consequence. I dig that.
Well said shaken.
Combine, two humongous institutions like Wall, and his provincial government, (who’s effort so far show incredible gut-less-ness), along with the Federally funded CBC’s 13 billion dollar a year gigantic socialist spin and misinformation machine, to combine a swipe at private citizen Kate McMillian from Del. Sask
And she kicks the crap out of them, and never breaks a nail.
Like Darcey said
Awesome.
You should run.
8,324,527
Every time you give anything to your enemy or opponent the next time they come back they want more . If you give once its a helluva lot harder to say no next time . Didn’t Wall just defeat the ndp ? Why the hell should he turn into one ?
UPDATE:
If I may use this venue for a moment.
I just finished watching CTV’s Robert Fife gleefully discussing the matter of this taped revelation where gays were slagged by MP Mr.Tom Lukiwski.
Robert Fife’S comment to count Floyd the CTV news corpse was “We all know that there are some knuckle-draggers in Mr. Harpers government and that’s why he keeps such a tight reign on them.”
Here is my question to the gleeful Mr. Fife …
Who are these knuckle-draggers? Please name them otherwise all members of the conservative caucus are painted as knuckle-draggers and I think that is grossly offensive to those who may not fall into that category.
Mr. Fife, will you please name them and explain exactly how each one qualifies as a knuckle dragger.
I find these comments by a national news commentator highly offensive.
steve said, “In essence, he can afford to piss you all off, and still raise his chances of holding on to power.”
Steve, the people of Saskatchewan and voters on the right in general have proved twice in the past twenty years that they don’t appreciate what you’re advocating.
New parties happen.
Cheers,
lance
Kate McMillan: “I answer to no one…” Wow! Not even God? You’re kinda like a modern day Annie Oakley.
First post…..
“Kate McMillan Warrior Princess.”
John West.
I say,
Warrior POET.
Annie Oakley
“In 1903, sensational cocaine prohibition stories were selling well. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst published a false story that Oakley had been arrested for stealing to support a cocaine habit. The woman actually arrested was a burlesque performer who told Chicago police that her name was “Annie Oakley”. The original Annie Oakley spent much of the next six years winning 54 of 55 libel lawsuits against newspapers. She collected less in judgments than were her legal expenses, but to her, a restored reputation justified the loss of time and money.
Most of the newspapers that printed the story had relied on wire services, and upon learning of the libelous error they immediately retracted the false story with apologies. Hearst, however, tried to avoid paying the anticipated court judgments of $15,000 ($300,000, adjusted for inflation) by sending an investigator to Darke County with the intent of collecting reputation-smearing gossip from Annie’s past. The investigator found nothing.”
tinyurl.com/3awmq2
Well said Kate! I hope that Mr. Wall has taken the time to come over to sda to brush up on how to keep friends and know enemies.
John West; I was at home watching the same ‘clip’ of red headed Fife and I thought exactly the same thing!! Where is the accountability clause PC rubber stamping that fella’s lips? Why is he free to ‘label’ people in such a negative cavalier manner.
I lit up a cigarette and considered my good fortune that I was not not in a public place, where I would have been ridiculed and fined for having such a violent reaction, (lighting a smoke of all the unthinkable things to do!) and thought to myself ‘Is that reporter saying what he is saying on purpose FOR some purpose or is he too stupid to think that the tables can turn on him too?
Brad should take up smoking IMO – he could light up a smoke the next time the msm wants a reaction. Tobacco smoke sends the PCs of all stripes scurrying for the furthest corner. I think that Mr. Winston Churchill used to blow smoke in the faces of those he was fed up with – learn from the past and take a few notes Conservatives.
BTW there are plenty of Dipper/Puffin statements that can be used as an answer to any reporter generated outrages – don’t let your lips skip a snort; just make a statement ‘ At this time we have no reason to bring up the nasty temper tantrums Mr. Romanov used to stage’…’No we are not prepared at this time to question why PET gave the ‘finger’ to peacefully protesting farmers in Salmon Arm’…’we do not know why Bobby of the red hair would ‘label’ or target a small minority group of Western people and suggest that dinosaurs do indeed exist with humans’ ….maybe later…stay tuned. ‘Have a nice day’.
Kate- keep saying what you want, when you want – it’s your BLOG.
The lefties have theirs, they can write their views there!
Given how popular Kate’s blog is compared to the lefties, I would say Kate represents far more of the general population than any combination of lefties!
As for Brad Wall, you were elected as a leader -so bloody well LEAD.
If enough people cared about what the NDP has to say then the NDP would have been elected.
They weren’t – YOU WERE! Ignore their drivel, dance to your own tune.
If you are going to play along to the NDP playbook then we may as well elect the commies again.
I always have trouble whenever the NDP point fingers at others for “offense comments” about the poor, gays or any other group they pander to in a desperate attempt for votes, when their own demigod, Tommy Douglas, openly embraced the KKK, took part in a horribly racist correspondence in which he put every imaginable racist slur on Japanese Canadians, stated, on video, that homosexuality was a “mental illness” that should be treated in institutions and not only bashed the poor, but wanted to put them in concentration camps and referred to unwed mothers as common prostitutes.
I have been told (more than once) that I do ramble on about old Tommy, but I guess I just can’t get over the extreme hypocrisy of the NDP.
John West, I caught Fife last night on that as well. My immediate response was “outfcukingragious!”. That comment was so over the top, so unprofessional, that it should not be allowed to stand. Complaints to Broadcast Standards Council and the CRTC should be made, with emphasis to the CRTC about the inappropriate use of the public airwaves by CTV. If I were Harper’s media team, I would be freezing CTV out this morning of EVERY media event, as if they never existed. They’ve demonstrated (again) that they have no respect for the public resource the airwaves represent, and should not be allowed to continually use it for slander. There is a big difference pithy political comment and out and out bigotry.
The irony is that they don’t get that they’re guilty of doing the very same thing they’re ranting about.
To Harper and the Conservatives let’s borrow from Kipling, “if you can keep your head when all about your are losing theirs…..”
The Liberals and Dippers are losing big time, there’s nothing left for them now but dredging up decades old audio/video tapes, old newspaper articles, ANYTHING to use to smear the Prime Minister and Conservative MP’s.
There is one cure for all this nonsense and it’s called an election. Let’s put them out on the stump and see how far their smut research will take them. Dion, Layton, Duceppe and May can all get out and peddle their wares. Let the people decide whether they want wannabe smut detectives to take care of the country or the capable Prime Minister we now have.
I like the broadcast standards council complaint suggestion.
Not much sense getting upset over a progressive and the term knuckle dragger, come next election you’d get rich if you were paid a nickel for every time you heard the word Neanderthal come out of their enlightened lips.
People see my stooped stature, look at my scarred knuckles, look at the tanned back of my neck and they whisper as I go by. I hear snatches of “redneck” and “knuckledragger” and “neanderthal”. I see them smirk, I see them snarl, I see them clenching their fists.
When I hear these names being called, I fear physical attack, because name-calling always precedes physical attack. I live in fear everytime someone utters the word “knuckledragger” or “redneck”.
Those words expose me to hate and harm! I don’t know what to do! Oh, woe is me…won’t someone help me! Is there not some organization that could help to stamp out such hate?
Why, oh why, must those people be so HATEFUL and HURTFUL and PETTY and INTOLERANT?!?!
I call on my oppressed brothers and sisters at EGALE to stand with me, I call on Warren Kinsella and Jason Cherniak to protect me, I call on Dean Steacy and Richard Warman to seek out and destroy my detractors! Scooby-Doo, where are you?!
It appears this newly minted premier is letting the opposition pick is friends for him and dictate is policies.
Wall the junkies premier.
“I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.
I’ve seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s
like a settin’ sun. – (Neil Young)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“Roy John Romanow, PC, OC, SOM, QC, (born August 12, 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan (1991–2001).
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 1967 provincial election in the riding of Saskatoon Riversdale. From 1971 to 1982, he served as deputy premier of Saskatchewan. In 1982 he was defeated by Joanne Zazalenchuk a 22 year old retail employee. From 1987 to 2001, he was leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. Up until recently, Riversdale remained one the poorest and most crime ridden urban ridings in Saskatchewan, but recent gentrification efforts are changing the face of Romanow’s old stomping ground. Romanow was well-acquainted with Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister from 1968–1979 and 1980–1984. He remains a close friend of Jean Chrétien, who was prime minister from 1993 to 2003.
During the 1981 discussions over patriation of the Canadian constitution, Attorney-General of Ontario Roy McMurtry, Chrétien and Romanow worked out the final details of Canada’s new constitution, resulting in the famous late-night Kitchen Accord. Romanow objected strongly to any protections on private property in the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and none were included.
On November 7, 1987, Romanow replaced Allan Blakeney as leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. When the party won the 1991 provincial election, he became Premier of Saskatchewan.”
Life in context. As you were.
Taylor wrote, “Infectious diseases are spread in marginalized communities. All throughout human history – exclusion and poverty has equaled [sic] disease.”
Interesting . . . because every Ontario school has been asked to display the following poster, provided by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario:
There’s a big, inverted rainbow triangle in the middle. The text, in large letters above the triangle is, “POSITIVE SPACE”.
Beneath the triangle are the words, “This is a place where human rights are respected, and where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and their friends and allies, are welcomed and supported.” [sic: 1) no respect for non PC types, and 2) no comma needed between the subject, “allies”, and the predicate: and this was written, apparently, by teachers!]
Where are the other posters?
The homosexual activist agenda and that of their “friends and allies” is treacherous and plays both ends against the middle:
1) While this group is no longer marginalized—homosexuals are now the darlings of “polite society” and no criticism is allowed—they still play the victim card, whenever it suits them.
2) While homosexuals, as a group, have a significantly higher than normal rate of disease, drug use, and domestic violence and breakdown, which often catches up with them—a dear homosexual friend of mine died young of AIDS—it seems that no one’s allowed to mention THEIR poor choices or hold them accountable for their behaviour, either now or in the past.
This double standard is alive and well, Taylor, and it has nothing at all to do with the so-called respect, welcome, and support the poster prattles on about. In fact, this poster is all about giving notice that one group—now a very powerful one—is privileged, and that no criticism will be tolerated. E.g., Advertisers make a bundle from and cater to the mainly no-kids, “adult”, homosexual lifestyle, and judges and politicians bow before the homosexual agenda.
Certainly, the public school boards, most political parties and courts, and the MSM do NOT respect, welcome, or support the traditional Judeo-Christian understanding of sexuality or the family, even though the new dispensation—all about complete sexual license: adult pleasure at the expense of our children’s health and wellbeing—has wreaked utter havoc on all of society.
Taylor, you and the totally hypocritical elites in this country are simply mouthing untruthful—marginalizing, often hateful in their own right, and dangerous—platitudes, which don’t stand up to the scrutiny of reality.
That shallow politicians keep sacrificing themselves and the rest of us on the altar of homosexual privilege and power—do it our way or else—is a perfect illustration of the craven public culture that is going to deep six this society, unless we start to push back. Enough!
YES!
Great response Kate!
Brad Wall needs to read one of the Aesop’s Fables, The Man, the Boy and the Donkey.
Moral:If you try to please Everyone you’ll end up pleasing No one.
Re: Fife…It’s okay for him to call MP’s knuckle draggers on National TV, but it’s not okay for someone to say faggot at a private party?
Hope we hear from Buckler on that one.
“Robert Fife’S comment to count Floyd the CTV news corpse was “We all know that there are some knuckle-draggers in Mr. Harpers government and that’s why he keeps such a tight reign on them.””
HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT!!!
I truly believe the time has come to bring some of these holier than thou journalists down to earth. I bet both Bobby and Floyd are trying to think back to some of the “knuckle-dragging” things they have said in their past and hoping against hope no one has it on tape!!!!!!
When the H*** are the press going to actually do their jobs and REPORT on something Canadians care about.
This is the “scandal of the week”. Every Canadian – even if they are horrified by this – can relate to stupid things they have said when they drank.
It is time to call these pseudo journalists out for their BLATANT bias and gleeful joy when these kinds of things surface. Thankfully we have bloggers that dig into the pasts of those that hold themselves to be higher than those “Knuckledraggers” in government.
I hope that Tom and Brad think really hard about who was behind the camera in that tape. I would bet it is someone connected with either the Sask NDP or the federal Liberals.
Kate – god(dess) of the copybook headings!
Brad Wall is a politician and a male. Therefore, by definition he lacks principle and foresight. What did you expect?
What this country needs is an Iron Lady of our own who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about convention. Any volunteers?
Sean: “Twenty years later, citizens have a voice of consequence”
Exactly. That’s why truthfulness will always trump tolerance. Can meaningful debate take place otherwise? Consequence is what gives our voices value. That’s why Kate and her remarkable venue in our day and age is so valuable. Thank you Kate, warrior on!
Crossing Lines eh?
Whose lines and who gets to decide where they lie?
I recall as a kid one silly little man on the playground tried to act out that scene from a cartoon as if to make some point about his own importance in the playground domain.
His line didn’t make a damned bit of difference to his broken nose …. or to the teacher who hauled my ass up to the principles office where I got the strap! I did not however make ANY apologies to anyone in the matter .. which left me feeling just fine at the end of the day.
Point being …. those in authority need to act like they are in authority or loose it. (Brad Wall ! )
Those who only act like they are in authority deserve to get their nose bloodied. (Figuratively or literally works fine with me)
When you bloody some twits nose … there’s likely to be consequences. In my experience it’s fine to take your lumps and having done it without making excuses or apologies is the right way to go.
Kate …. no excuses no apologies…. I like your style!
Anyone have e-mail address,or ph.# for CRTC or Broadcast Standards?We need to flood them with complaints re the Fife comments.This was done on a national newscast,and I am really offended.It was way over the top.I am wondering if Fife has family member that is gay,as when he was on Duff last eve,he started to say something about ‘anyone who has a child that is gay’ then kind of trailed off…he looked almost teary-eyed.Is there a subtext to his ‘knuckledragger’ comment?Just wondering.
Sandra Buckler should confront Robert Fife and CTV in a public press release, to put names to the “knuckledragggers” in the conservative caucus.
Fife’s comment is not news but commentary, pure and simple.
But then we all know Fife as a Liberal “lickspittle” journalist, don’t we?
Enough said!
New parties happen.
Cheers,
lance
=================================
And old ones die.
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
P.O. Box 3265, Station D
Ottawa, ON K1P 6H8
Fax: 613.233.4826
e-mail: complaints@cbsc.ca
“I hope he’s learned that pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.”
One for the quote book.
Truth is a gun and the left are voluntarily unarmed. Heh.
Also complain to CTV
news@ctv.ca
also
newsonline@ctv.ca
It is time to inundate them with complaints – this, to me is the final straw with their blatant bias.
I know this “old” news but it is related the topic of this thread – scroll down to what is in bold character, it will all make sense,
… … …
Prisoners more violent than in the past: report
Updated Thu. Dec. 13 2007 9:28 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A new report finds that Canada’s prison population is more violent and requires more intervention and rehabilitation strategies than in the past.
The Correctional Service of Canada Review Panel released its 250-page report to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day on Thursday.
The report says it discovered an “alarming” picture of who is arriving at Canada’s penitentiaries:
* Nearly 60 per cent are now serving sentences of fewer than three years and have histories of violence;
* The proportion of offenders who are classified as maximum security upon admission has increased by 100 per cent;
* One in six now have links to gangs and/or organized crime;
* Four out of five arrive at prison with a serious substance abuse problem;
* 12 per cent of male offenders and 26 per cent of females are identified as having a serious mental health problem
… … …
4 out of 5 arrive with a serious drug problem?
how are clean needles and “safe” sites for them going to help ?
As Canada has become more liberal along the years, the problems listed above have all gone worse, much worse
– including violence –
which liberals assure us are the ones who know how to take care of that, you know with leniency, appeasement, second chances…
ok we have tried the liberal way and we have more drug addicts and more violent criminals,
can we try the conservative way now?
It never fails to amaze me how the left have pushed for change from real values..
Is it not the case that…
1.) Uncrossing your legs for money is illegal
2.) Tagging your favourite building being illegal
3.) Doing drugs! illegal
Funny how the NDP want us to understand what drives these people to do this…Why does the NDP continually support illegal activity? This is what should be investigated and reported!
When will we finally go back to being responsible for our own actions, rather than blame the SYSTEM!
Dam it Kate, you said what most of us think; and even the CBC took the time to print it.. (although not for the reasons it should have been cited) GOOD ON YOU!
We can not continue to blame the manufacturers of the ladder for our continued misuse of it and subsequently falling an breaking our necks…
You should consider this entry for Best of SDA, Kate.
That’s the whole point Alberta Girl, the press really believes it is doing it’s job! where have you been for the last 20 yrs! the media has been pushing and pushing, slowly but firmly to the point where we’re at today. hence the success of ‘Rush'(30 million listeners), yes 30 million, 10% of the US population listen to Rush, because they can’t get that side of the story from anywhere else! and that still hasn’t taken away from others that have a ‘right’ point of view like, Hannity, Savage, Bill Bennett, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Glen Beck, etc etc etc..
and of course, the tremendous success of Small Dead Animals !!! ‘PC’ is all about pushing left ideas and making them mainstream, that has happened, slowly but surely over the late 20yrs, to the point ‘conservatism’ has been marginalized. ‘conservatives’, haven’t been standing up for themselves, and look where that lack of backbone has taken us! Thanks for being here Kate. (BTW, I don’t think you should run for a seat in politics, I think you should get a 2hr daily talk show from 8-10pm or 9-11pm, it wouldn’t be a question of whether it would be successful or not, the question would be what radio station would carry it! and please don’t tell me how conservative CJME & CKOM are, they’re both full of progressives and liberals from 8:30am to 6:00pm day in and out)
Well said, Kate.
“What this country needs is an Iron Lady of our own who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about convention.”
Couldn’t agree more Carbuncle…Canada’s male conservative population has produced some wimpy pathetic leaders. I find myself reading mostly the blogs of female conservatives and I do so because their dedication to principle is unwavering…like Kate’s
Canada has a few Maggie thatchers in waiting
Carl at 10;03 am –
“Thanks for being here Kate. (BTW, I don’t think you should run for a seat in politics, I think you should get a 2hr daily talk show from 8-10pm or 9-11pm” etc, etc,
Carl is absolutely correct of course!!
Canadian MSM is corrupt.
Kate you Rock!!!
As others have pointed out above, the Big Picture is that the members of the Canadian Left Establishment, from the NDP itself, to labour unions, to the CBC, to certain semi-washed-up political consultants and other various and sundry feeders at the government trough, continue desperately to limit the parameters of acceptable political discourse within the country by attacking any opinions to the right of the Liberal Party platform as hate speech and “beyond the pale.”
Such pernicious practices as ad hominem attacks on “knuckle draggers” reveal the intellectual paucity of the left and its failure to engage the right in a genuine debate of ideas. The left after all, is “reactionary” in being married to the same old ideas, Saskatchewan-style Medicare in the home of Saint Tommy being just one prime example. Isn’t one definition of insanity the propensity to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Doesn’t that describe “fixing medicare for a generation,” as a Great Leader once promised?
The only antidote to this McCarthyism of the Left is to refuse to succumb to the temptation to throw the same kind of dirt back. Engaging them in the battle of ideas will not only infuriate them but, in the long term, win more converts.
For what it’s worth…
Thanks for the e-mail addresses of where to write re:Robert Fife’s inappropriate comments. And, Kate, you’re awesome. Be encouraged by those of us who support you.
CTV poll this morning,
Should Tory MP Tom Lukiwski step down?
Yes
2401 votes (36 %)
No
4333 votes (64 %)
Total Votes: 6734
Kate, way to kick butt. That was my YES! (with arm pump!) back at 8:32am.
And now, The Phantom speaks to the Lefties.
Dear Lefties,
In a free country, one is free to like some people and dislike other people. One is even free to [gasp!] stereotype an entire group! Particularly while drinking with friends, even more particularly when one is imitating someone else’s stereotype.
One is free to overstep the bounds of good taste. Free to make fun of other people’s accents. Free even to spew insane hatred.
Also free to have your ass kicked by the guy you’re spewing at. Freedom means you don’t have to take lip from people. You can walk away, and if they restrain you, freedom means you can defend yourself.
All the Lefty/NDP inspired tut-tutting about this video is intended to convey the idea that this is NOT a free country, that people must be punished for the behavior portrayed in the video.
All the abject (and totally unconvincing) apologies of the tut-tut campaign also convey the idea of un-free speech, and bow down to the hall monitors in the hope of evading their just punishment. they think they should be punished, they are just trying to sliiiide out of it.
I am sickened.
Once, just once in my adult like I would like to see a politician stand up in front of the Lefty anti-freedom steamroller and defy them. “Hell yes I said that. At a f-ing party 16 years ago, I made fun of some guy. Its a free country you sorry a–holes, WHAT’S IT TO YA?!!!”
That guy would win my support forever.
Politicians of the Conservative Party and Sask Party, for God’s sake grow a spine and spit in these people’s eye like they deserve. They already hate your guts and call you “knuckle draggers” on national TV, I can’t see a downside to sticking up for your personal beliefs and Heaven forfend, actual facts.
As for my personal opinions, I’m not shy of sharing them. If anyone, anywhere, ever was offended by something I posted here or at my blog or anywhere in all the Internet, I’d like to take this opportunity to say:
BITE ME.
Its a free country, and its going to be getting a lot more free if I have anything at all to say about it.
Years ago an old man I knew told me that he had the perfect solution to the “Indian problem”. He said that the government should “build a great big liquor store in the middle of the reserve, and then give them all the money they can spend.”
Kate, your comments pointed out that this is precisely the approach that is being taken by governments that hand out money to addicts, and then build safe injection sites. As though there is a safe way to be a smack addict!!
But as usual, the dimmer sorts cannot seem to read the English language. I am expecting a string of out of context quotes from Kinsella anytime now. I have not been over to his site yet today. I’m still annoyed at Robert Fife from last night.
Anyway, everyone go to the CTV website. There is a poll there on the right hand side of the page that might interest you.
Tom set to do public ‘apology’ in HofC at around 10 am..cbc/ctv/cpac will carry live.
What melodramatic rubbish…
Kate, have you ever considered that the Premier distanced himself from you because you are quite simply wrong? You made comments that were ignorant and insensitive.
The Premier also distanced himself from Tom Lukiwski; is that another reason for which his image consultants should be kicked to the curb? It seems to me, that when you encounter intolerant radicals, as a public figure, distancing yourself from them is exactly what you do… unless you agree with them, of course.
Forain : You made comments that were ignorant and insensitive
Sounds like there is a job waiting for you at the CHRC, or do you already work there?
Now- crawl back to your bed, adults are talking!
Interesting how the left thinks that is has the right to rummage through the private property of others. But they come by it naturally because you don’t have to scratch a leftist very hard to find a fascist underneath.