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Yep.
A legend in his own mind.
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Mojo – get firefox with the “adblock” and “noscript” plugins. The video just shows up as a blocked image for me, and I have to click it to give it permission to play.
Poor Stephane Dion looks *more* like an out-of-touch academic while fishing and skiing than he does on Parliament Hill.
Dion *was* a decent man; corrupted by the Liberal apparatus.
Stephane Dion may still be a decent man but he and his rookie campaign team are doing what they think, versus what they know, a real campaign looks like.
Without that stupid Puffin thing yesterday the news stories would all be about how bad the Liberal campaign is, and the pressure to fire “the kids” would be immense.
I only hope that campaign plane they have doesnt have any issues. IF it does, look out below.
The Liberal campaign “innocence” will show up in spades in about a week, you cant sustain yourself with the low human and financial resources they have present.
Dion has no idea what to do, thats not his fault. I trust him to organize international symposiums not election campaigns. Unfortunatley governments are more like campaigns than they are symposiums.
Assuming no more bone headed Tory foot gunshots then I give Dion a week and there will be major holes in the campaign. We will be discussing Jack Layton as leader of the opposition.
Poor woman being left all alone on a Sat.nite while Dione and les Boys go out, play hockey and chug beers after..
Right.
Why does Dion’s wife get to keep her last name and there isn’t a problem the way there was with Laureen Harper? Don’t bother, I know the answer.
I actually think he’s a nice guy and sincerely wants to help Canada. But I also think that his “theories” about how to do it are completely wrong and will take us into the forest … and lose us there.
It’ll play well to the millions of Kool-Aid drinkers in the 416 Area Code though.
Liberal Party of Canadian Election 2008 Agenda:
Day one: Swear to take the high road in this election.
Day two: Call your opponent a liar.
Day three: Go for the sympathy vote by discovering a new personal medical ailment.
Day four: release an ad that henceforth shall be known as the Dion Looking For His Masculinity ad.
Day Five: Change name to Sarah?
Wonderful man. He saved the Country and saved the environment and is offering his great talents to us as Prime Minister.
Has anyone heard the roar of the Dion Liberals Air Inuit gaz guzzling jet in the skies? It’s going to be tough for the Liberals to atone for increasing their carbon footprints. Wonder what their sidekick Lizzy May will have to say about that? Since she’s backing various Liberal candidates will she herself take a flit on that plane…if it gets off the ground?
Loved the CBC’s discriptor, referring to Dion as “rugged”. Slowly and awkwardly going down a hill and standing with a tiny fishing pole, which I’m sure he needs all of his strength to maintain. Yep! “Rugged” certainly comes to mind. Maybe he can become the next Marlboro Man.
Since small dead animals and other blogs were cited on CBC last night, please refrain from the cute accent parody. Already the French papers are calling the Tories anti-French in their coverage yesterday.
Danny Williams is calling Harper everything but an eater of kittens in his speech. Harper should tell him he can’t eat kittens because his wife would kill him.
Carbon tariffs?
Please explain Mr.Dion.
Danny whine for wine Williams will be on the outside looking in.
The best part is Dion entangling the line at the tip of fishing rod. Doesn’t look like a Bob Izumi moment, more like drinking coffee with extended pinky.
“small dead animals and other blogs were cited on CBC last night, please refrain from the cute accent parody.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe the purpose of this blog is to appease the CBC or those few that greedily dine on their gruel.
it his not izzy heating tin gruel hindeed.
News from the world beyond;
“When contacted after the decision to exclude Elizabeth May from the debate, the CBC said the media consortium had nothing to do with this decision, but that the ‘rule’ was that all leaders had to be in agreement with the newcomer’s inclusion in the debates.
However, minutes later, when asked, on CBC Newsworld, about Harper’s role in excluding May from the debates, the Conservatives’ election strategist innocently said it was an interesting question and that it was the media consortium’s decision.
Then whose decision was it? Why doesn’t anyone want credit?”
I didn’t do it, you can’t prove it, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Bart Simpson
Stephen Harper compared to Nazi; Liberal candidate apologizes. Not Puffin Poo
In reply to jckirlan.
You might not be aware of this, but if you marry in Quebec, taking your husband’s surname is not an option; it is literally against the law. If you want to do that, you have to get married in another province. So, if Dion got hitched in Quebec, there is your answer.
A quote from a Dion speech yesterday:
‘When I was young,my dream was to be a naturalist.I came over to humans later on.’
Can you imagine how the msm would mock this comment mercilessly,if PMSH had said it…seeing that he’s not human and all.
Layton just caved on the debate issue!
Thanks Kevin – didn’t know that.
Found an interesting article:
“When the marriage law was created, it was hailed as a triumph by feminists and equality rights activists.
“It was seen as extremely progressive at the time,” said Robert Leckey, who teaches family law at McGill University.
“I don’t think feminists of the day imagined that 25 years later people would be complaining that they don’t have the choice to be traditional.” ” http://tinyurl.com/26h2bo (CTV)
Layton just made a fool of himself on this one. He had a chance to look like one of the big boys…oops he handed in his age of majority card on this one.
All Harper has to do now stand his ground. Offer up one on one debates with Liberals, NDP and BLOC, saying he will only debate the Liberal party once. If Stephane Dion wants to invite Lizzie May to his debate thats fine, he’ll debate them both.
Layton looks like a weasal for backing down.
Harper has no reason to back down. The Liberals made a pact with the Greens to do an election tradeoff. Not interested, no thanks. Offer one on ones then.
From Sammy…
A quote from a Dion speech yesterday: ‘When I was young,my dream was to be a naturalist.I came over to humans later on.’
Can you imagine how the msm would mock this comment mercilessly,if PMSH had said it…seeing that he’s not human and all.
They would argue that Dion is not proficient in English while Harper is, and that is why they would mock Harper. This, of course, is a canard and nothing more than an excuse. The MSM attacked Bush for not being able to name the leaders of some far flung countries… the half dozen or so former Soviet states that end with “stan”. But Obama got a free pass when he said that if he’s elected president, he would look forward to meeting the ‘president’ of Canada, even though he’s cosmopolitan (unlike Bush) and is from a Great Lake’s state (unlike Bush).
Yes, but can he field-dress a moose?
As much as it pains me to say this, Stephan Dion is probably a very kind and gentle person who should have stayed on course to become a naturalist. But being kind and gentle does not equate to doing what is best for the country.
I need another drink.
I have been told that when Dion was a professor, he often held high in the air student work that he didn’t agree with and making a spectacle in front of the class, would say some disparaging remark and drop them in the garbage.
By all accounts, from those who know him, Dion is a cruel, pompous asshole.
I watched the Danny Williams speech to the chamber of commerce. After he was done chewing on Harper and outright lying about the Cadman affair and all the other unproven Liberal smears, he said that Newfoundland was in the best economic condition it’s ever been in; is no longer a have-not province; and looks forward to a great future.
Complete disconnect from the economic fiasco he attributes to Harper. And proving that he wants his cake and to eat everybody else’s too.
Regardless of Harper’s so-called broken promises, Danny Williams is a charlatan and a thief aka Liberal. I hope there’s a Newfoundlander backlash against him that shows up in the vote.
A referendum on his leadership, unproven and juvenile smears and twisted opinion.
Bit OT,but there is some buzz about Dion/May coalition from a Green blogger,Dan Baril.CTV has interviewed May about the rumor that dion offered her a cabinet post.Anyone know much about this guy?Credible?
First of all Martin gave a ton of money to Newfoundland and so has Harper.
Secondly I don’t know why you don’t get it why it is important not to give any excuse to the media and the Quebec media that we are anti-French. Surely by now you realize they will seize on any little thing and the masses in Quebec have no way of knowing if it is true or not. We have a chance for a great increase in seats in Quebec – is it not worth it? Dion can be mocked in so many other ways.
To go back to the puffin issue …
Was not the pooping puffin a symbol for Ignatieff?
It may have been too clever by a half, since I have not seen or heard that tie-in anywhere.
On the other hand, it was pretty juvenile.
Was it just my imagination? Did Dion’s commercial show the Canadian flag laying on the ground, not once, but repeatedly?
Hmmmmmmmm
Actually Dion said:
‘When I was young,my dream was to be a nudist.I came over to humans later on”
I saw a couple articles explaining it was a translation thing. The MSM is very helpful that way.
Bob Smith of CTV is wondering why Dion has only been to Montreal and Toronto in 4 days of campaigning.
Someone should explain the MTV(Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver) Party to him.
CBC radio news is reporting that Harper caved and May will be in the debates.
Lots of pictures of him untangling fishing line and holding fishing rods: but no fish.
Do you tink hits eezzyyy LAnDING the BigWAUN?
Dion has his snowshoes and fishing rod.
At least Dukakis had a tank to make him look foolish
With regard to those pictures of Dion – who says they are real? He can be photographed posing against backdrops.
As for a coalition between the Liberals and the Green Party, I can see Dion using such an idea to grab the green vote – but – I’m not sure if the Liberal BackRoom Boys would want that. Do they want all of May’s socialist policies?
But the Green Party is turning into a wedge party between the Liberals and the NDP. The NDP want votes from the Liberals; the Liberals want votes from the NDP. The Liberals will try to ‘append’ the Green Party to them, while the NDP will say that they don’t need any appendages. They are already the Party-of-the-Environment.
The Bloc is disappearing in the middle of this.
The CPC? They might gain from that muddle.
Miss Lizzy May is Pro-Life, the lieberals have trouble with that , as do most of the greens.
Can’t leave Puffin STOPIIGY out of this. He’s a real intellectual; not a phony intellectual; he’s sagacious, too; sagging is not easy.
…-
““politicians don’t usually tell you this but we could lose this riding.”
“and the fact is I’m no damn good to anybody if I lose my seat.””
“Later, outside in a steady drizzle, a senior Liberal strategist with long standing ties to Ignatieff drew hard on a cigarette as he admitted, with a certain gallows humour, the national situation looked grim. “We’ve got to outperform expectations and at least that aspect of it looks feasible. Expectations couldn’t be much lower. We’re going to have to go negative.”
(g-m)
ET, Dion’s orginal deal was a de facto alliance/coalition with Greens. The trouble is, it was met with criticism within and without his party, so he abandoned the idea, IMO.
For that reason, I believe he won’t go there. Ms May has essentially allied with the LPC, or at least Mr Dion himself, with her support of him as PM.
Of course, it does make great political fodder for Mr Harper and Mr Dion, and will keep the LPC and Green leaders off balance for the remainder of the election campaign.
Mr Harper is two or three steps ahead of all his adversaries. Maybe he’s played a lot of chess.
iss izzy beings born wid i hicoo brine bud nonebodys knowink dat han mine earrings earing nutting boat dat. Heats nod fair!!
Dion Likes the snow!
Also, to ski!
Bon Chance Canada!
…wow…..
of course Stephan Dion is just an average hockey fan-outdoorsy type regular guy…who happens to eat his hot dogs with a knife and fork. (Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!) and Milhouse is also cool- his mom said so.
“We convinced 180 countries to fight climate change”
Notwithstanding his own, run by the libs, that sat out the “fight” for 13 years in majority government status
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
Has anyone noticed that Dion`s floor hockey stick is way too long for him and he is also wearing jeans?
Yep.
A legend in his own mind.
PLEASE don’t have embedded vids auto-play. Some of us have limited bandwidth.
Sorry about that – will fix it.
Mojo – get firefox with the “adblock” and “noscript” plugins. The video just shows up as a blocked image for me, and I have to click it to give it permission to play.
Poor Stephane Dion looks *more* like an out-of-touch academic while fishing and skiing than he does on Parliament Hill.
Dion *was* a decent man; corrupted by the Liberal apparatus.
Stephane Dion may still be a decent man but he and his rookie campaign team are doing what they think, versus what they know, a real campaign looks like.
Without that stupid Puffin thing yesterday the news stories would all be about how bad the Liberal campaign is, and the pressure to fire “the kids” would be immense.
I only hope that campaign plane they have doesnt have any issues. IF it does, look out below.
The Liberal campaign “innocence” will show up in spades in about a week, you cant sustain yourself with the low human and financial resources they have present.
Dion has no idea what to do, thats not his fault. I trust him to organize international symposiums not election campaigns. Unfortunatley governments are more like campaigns than they are symposiums.
Assuming no more bone headed Tory foot gunshots then I give Dion a week and there will be major holes in the campaign. We will be discussing Jack Layton as leader of the opposition.
Poor woman being left all alone on a Sat.nite while Dione and les Boys go out, play hockey and chug beers after..
Right.
Why does Dion’s wife get to keep her last name and there isn’t a problem the way there was with Laureen Harper? Don’t bother, I know the answer.
I actually think he’s a nice guy and sincerely wants to help Canada. But I also think that his “theories” about how to do it are completely wrong and will take us into the forest … and lose us there.
It’ll play well to the millions of Kool-Aid drinkers in the 416 Area Code though.
Liberal Party of Canadian Election 2008 Agenda:
Day one: Swear to take the high road in this election.
Day two: Call your opponent a liar.
Day three: Go for the sympathy vote by discovering a new personal medical ailment.
Day four: release an ad that henceforth shall be known as the Dion Looking For His Masculinity ad.
Day Five: Change name to Sarah?
Wonderful man. He saved the Country and saved the environment and is offering his great talents to us as Prime Minister.
Has anyone heard the roar of the Dion Liberals Air Inuit gaz guzzling jet in the skies? It’s going to be tough for the Liberals to atone for increasing their carbon footprints. Wonder what their sidekick Lizzy May will have to say about that? Since she’s backing various Liberal candidates will she herself take a flit on that plane…if it gets off the ground?
Loved the CBC’s discriptor, referring to Dion as “rugged”. Slowly and awkwardly going down a hill and standing with a tiny fishing pole, which I’m sure he needs all of his strength to maintain. Yep! “Rugged” certainly comes to mind. Maybe he can become the next Marlboro Man.
Since small dead animals and other blogs were cited on CBC last night, please refrain from the cute accent parody. Already the French papers are calling the Tories anti-French in their coverage yesterday.
Danny Williams is calling Harper everything but an eater of kittens in his speech. Harper should tell him he can’t eat kittens because his wife would kill him.
Carbon tariffs?
Please explain Mr.Dion.
Danny whine for wine Williams will be on the outside looking in.
The best part is Dion entangling the line at the tip of fishing rod. Doesn’t look like a Bob Izumi moment, more like drinking coffee with extended pinky.
“small dead animals and other blogs were cited on CBC last night, please refrain from the cute accent parody.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe the purpose of this blog is to appease the CBC or those few that greedily dine on their gruel.
it his not izzy heating tin gruel hindeed.
News from the world beyond;
“When contacted after the decision to exclude Elizabeth May from the debate, the CBC said the media consortium had nothing to do with this decision, but that the ‘rule’ was that all leaders had to be in agreement with the newcomer’s inclusion in the debates.
However, minutes later, when asked, on CBC Newsworld, about Harper’s role in excluding May from the debates, the Conservatives’ election strategist innocently said it was an interesting question and that it was the media consortium’s decision.
Then whose decision was it? Why doesn’t anyone want credit?”
I didn’t do it, you can’t prove it, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Bart Simpson
Stephen Harper compared to Nazi; Liberal candidate apologizes. Not Puffin Poo
In reply to jckirlan.
You might not be aware of this, but if you marry in Quebec, taking your husband’s surname is not an option; it is literally against the law. If you want to do that, you have to get married in another province. So, if Dion got hitched in Quebec, there is your answer.
A quote from a Dion speech yesterday:
‘When I was young,my dream was to be a naturalist.I came over to humans later on.’
Can you imagine how the msm would mock this comment mercilessly,if PMSH had said it…seeing that he’s not human and all.
Layton just caved on the debate issue!
Thanks Kevin – didn’t know that.
Found an interesting article:
“When the marriage law was created, it was hailed as a triumph by feminists and equality rights activists.
“It was seen as extremely progressive at the time,” said Robert Leckey, who teaches family law at McGill University.
“I don’t think feminists of the day imagined that 25 years later people would be complaining that they don’t have the choice to be traditional.” ”
http://tinyurl.com/26h2bo (CTV)
Layton just made a fool of himself on this one. He had a chance to look like one of the big boys…oops he handed in his age of majority card on this one.
All Harper has to do now stand his ground. Offer up one on one debates with Liberals, NDP and BLOC, saying he will only debate the Liberal party once. If Stephane Dion wants to invite Lizzie May to his debate thats fine, he’ll debate them both.
Layton looks like a weasal for backing down.
Harper has no reason to back down. The Liberals made a pact with the Greens to do an election tradeoff. Not interested, no thanks. Offer one on ones then.
From Sammy…
A quote from a Dion speech yesterday:
‘When I was young,my dream was to be a naturalist.I came over to humans later on.’
Can you imagine how the msm would mock this comment mercilessly,if PMSH had said it…seeing that he’s not human and all.
They would argue that Dion is not proficient in English while Harper is, and that is why they would mock Harper. This, of course, is a canard and nothing more than an excuse. The MSM attacked Bush for not being able to name the leaders of some far flung countries… the half dozen or so former Soviet states that end with “stan”. But Obama got a free pass when he said that if he’s elected president, he would look forward to meeting the ‘president’ of Canada, even though he’s cosmopolitan (unlike Bush) and is from a Great Lake’s state (unlike Bush).
Yes, but can he field-dress a moose?
As much as it pains me to say this, Stephan Dion is probably a very kind and gentle person who should have stayed on course to become a naturalist. But being kind and gentle does not equate to doing what is best for the country.
I need another drink.
I have been told that when Dion was a professor, he often held high in the air student work that he didn’t agree with and making a spectacle in front of the class, would say some disparaging remark and drop them in the garbage.
By all accounts, from those who know him, Dion is a cruel, pompous asshole.
I watched the Danny Williams speech to the chamber of commerce. After he was done chewing on Harper and outright lying about the Cadman affair and all the other unproven Liberal smears, he said that Newfoundland was in the best economic condition it’s ever been in; is no longer a have-not province; and looks forward to a great future.
Complete disconnect from the economic fiasco he attributes to Harper. And proving that he wants his cake and to eat everybody else’s too.
Regardless of Harper’s so-called broken promises, Danny Williams is a charlatan and a thief aka Liberal. I hope there’s a Newfoundlander backlash against him that shows up in the vote.
A referendum on his leadership, unproven and juvenile smears and twisted opinion.
Bit OT,but there is some buzz about Dion/May coalition from a Green blogger,Dan Baril.CTV has interviewed May about the rumor that dion offered her a cabinet post.Anyone know much about this guy?Credible?
First of all Martin gave a ton of money to Newfoundland and so has Harper.
Secondly I don’t know why you don’t get it why it is important not to give any excuse to the media and the Quebec media that we are anti-French. Surely by now you realize they will seize on any little thing and the masses in Quebec have no way of knowing if it is true or not. We have a chance for a great increase in seats in Quebec – is it not worth it? Dion can be mocked in so many other ways.
To go back to the puffin issue …
Was not the pooping puffin a symbol for Ignatieff?
It may have been too clever by a half, since I have not seen or heard that tie-in anywhere.
On the other hand, it was pretty juvenile.
Was it just my imagination? Did Dion’s commercial show the Canadian flag laying on the ground, not once, but repeatedly?
Hmmmmmmmm
Actually Dion said:
‘When I was young,my dream was to be a nudist.I came over to humans later on”
I saw a couple articles explaining it was a translation thing. The MSM is very helpful that way.
Bob Smith of CTV is wondering why Dion has only been to Montreal and Toronto in 4 days of campaigning.
Someone should explain the MTV(Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver) Party to him.
CBC radio news is reporting that Harper caved and May will be in the debates.
Lots of pictures of him untangling fishing line and holding fishing rods: but no fish.
Do you tink hits eezzyyy LAnDING the BigWAUN?
Dion has his snowshoes and fishing rod.
At least Dukakis had a tank to make him look foolish
With regard to those pictures of Dion – who says they are real? He can be photographed posing against backdrops.
As for a coalition between the Liberals and the Green Party, I can see Dion using such an idea to grab the green vote – but – I’m not sure if the Liberal BackRoom Boys would want that. Do they want all of May’s socialist policies?
But the Green Party is turning into a wedge party between the Liberals and the NDP. The NDP want votes from the Liberals; the Liberals want votes from the NDP. The Liberals will try to ‘append’ the Green Party to them, while the NDP will say that they don’t need any appendages. They are already the Party-of-the-Environment.
The Bloc is disappearing in the middle of this.
The CPC? They might gain from that muddle.
Miss Lizzy May is Pro-Life, the lieberals have trouble with that , as do most of the greens.
Can’t leave Puffin STOPIIGY out of this. He’s a real intellectual; not a phony intellectual; he’s sagacious, too; sagging is not easy.
…-
““politicians don’t usually tell you this but we could lose this riding.”
“and the fact is I’m no damn good to anybody if I lose my seat.””
“Later, outside in a steady drizzle, a senior Liberal strategist with long standing ties to Ignatieff drew hard on a cigarette as he admitted, with a certain gallows humour, the national situation looked grim. “We’ve got to outperform expectations and at least that aspect of it looks feasible. Expectations couldn’t be much lower. We’re going to have to go negative.”
(g-m)
ET, Dion’s orginal deal was a de facto alliance/coalition with Greens. The trouble is, it was met with criticism within and without his party, so he abandoned the idea, IMO.
For that reason, I believe he won’t go there. Ms May has essentially allied with the LPC, or at least Mr Dion himself, with her support of him as PM.
Of course, it does make great political fodder for Mr Harper and Mr Dion, and will keep the LPC and Green leaders off balance for the remainder of the election campaign.
Mr Harper is two or three steps ahead of all his adversaries. Maybe he’s played a lot of chess.
iss izzy beings born wid i hicoo brine bud nonebodys knowink dat han mine earrings earing nutting boat dat. Heats nod fair!!
Dion Likes the snow!
Also, to ski!
Bon Chance Canada!
…wow…..
of course Stephan Dion is just an average hockey fan-outdoorsy type regular guy…who happens to eat his hot dogs with a knife and fork. (Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!) and Milhouse is also cool- his mom said so.
“We convinced 180 countries to fight climate change”
Notwithstanding his own, run by the libs, that sat out the “fight” for 13 years in majority government status
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
Has anyone noticed that Dion`s floor hockey stick is way too long for him and he is also wearing jeans?