99 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. To the MSM that Harper is a meanie and a bully for trying to save the taxpayer money, 10 million that was also coming off Conservatives think, a good man, Harper,not stealing money, or a sock puppet for a huge Quebec company, has not personally choked a homeless man on national television, caused countless billions to be wasted on scams and useless registries,sponserships,Human resources,indian affairs etc. The MSM just hate him, the tolerant MSM, the ones that preach tolerance, Liberalism should soon be classed as a brain disorder, to the ordinary person it is very obvious. The viceral hatred of Conservatives by the ellites, Simpson, Wente, Boag, Fife is so transparent, they are such liars I bet their dogs won’t come to them when called.

  3. My comment at 10:54 was a bit too hasty judging by a couple of spelling errors! One might deduct I’ve been taking English from Dion’s coach.

  4. 300 million bucks for another election is peanuts compared with the cost of what this coalition will do to this country.
    Most of us will be dead by the time we recover if it’s allowed.
    This is no longer an issue for the greedy, power hungry Layton and separatist Duceppe.
    This is now an issue for the people and can only be settled at the polls.

  5. I heard a rumour that PMSH is about to extend another olive branch to the liberal party. Supposedly he has given them permission to run the “Dion,not a leader” commercials.

  6. Col. (ret.) Robert Killebrew, Terror at the Border
    With American attention diverted to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economic crisis and a hard-fought national election, national security experts have largely overlooked the bitter countercartel war in Mexico. But that war, which is beginning to overlap the U.S. border, is only the forerunner of an even more serious threat. Sometime in the near future a lethal combination of transnational terrorism and criminal gangs is going to cross the U.S. border in force. According to some, it already has, and we haven’t even noticed….

  7. lookout – I received the same trash from Bob Rae. I wrote him back, taking apart each statement of his, and pointing out its fallacies and blatant lies and misinformation.
    What is going on isn’t about any consideration for the economy; it’s a deeply disgraceful power struggle in the Liberal and NDP parties. They are using the economy as their smokescreen.
    Persichilli of the Toronto Star, a Liberal, has an astute if pro-Liberal column suggesting that, as many have already stated, that it was indeed Layton behind this Hidden Agenda. Layton wants the NDP to swallow the Liberal party.
    He made use of Dion’s ‘bubble mentality’, by which I mean that Dion lives in an isolate intellectual bubble with no connection to reality and can thus be persuaded of anything, whether it’s a Green Shift or a Coalition.
    Telling him that the Coalition would make him PM in a month, and would thus allow him to Guide We Peasant Canadians as he, The Superior Professor saw fit…well, Dion took the bait.
    And, as noted, the Bloc laughed when they realized that this move put them, de facto, in control of the Canadian government.
    Then, you had Chretien-Rae move in. Their agenda was to do the opposite and have the Liberal Party swallow the NDP.
    Remember that Chretien-Rae are part of the PowerCorp powerbrokers – PowerCorp is the force behind Ottawa power for over a generation (Trudeau, Mulroney, Chretien, Martin..and Rae are all part of this private group).
    Rae has moved in to try to take over the coalition agenda because, as Persichilli points out, he feels he won’t win the leadership of the Liberals unless, ‘something dramatic happens’ and support for a coalition which he has made his own, could do that.
    Be aware that Chretien and the Montreal PowerBrokers will now have moved in with their money – millions of it – to support Rae and the Coalition. It’s the PowerBrokers who want back in power in Ottawa. The Liberal party is just their front.
    What is being totally and completely ignored in this power struggle – is Canada, Canadians, the economy, principles, morality. Democracy. Everything on which we based and developed our nation.
    What is being lost in this power struggle is any sense that there exists or ought to exist in our society, what one might refer to as a ‘transcendence of principles’ over individual human will.
    By this I mean that Reason, understood as the basis for rules that are grounded in principles of integrity, responsibility, respect for the public good, a political system operating within a limited authority – an authority bound by law and accountability. All of this, which is the basis of democracy, is missing in this Coalition.
    Instead what we see is an agenda based on WILL. By this I mean an agenda grounded in power, self-encoded (that unelected agreement between the three, Layton, Dion, Duceppe), enacted when this self-selected group sees fit, driven by ‘ressentiment’, devoted to turning the tables on those whom they consider dominant (Harper).
    Profoundly undemocratic, rejecting any restraints by any transcendent rule of law, such as an election. Insuring themselves against such restraints by setting up the Bloc as PowerBroker to support them against any confidence vote to ensure that there is no election.
    They need ‘enemies’ to justify their revolutionary coup against legitimacy and the people. They’ve come up with ‘The Economy’, defining it as a ‘crisis’ state and ignoring that Harper and the Conservatives are quite able and have been looking after this situation. They also set up Harper as a ‘bully’; they thus have set up an amorphous enemy, the economy, and a particular focus, Harper.
    They need to muzzle opposition to their using the Bloc as their security against election accountability; they do this by declaring that any criticism is, in effect, an ‘assault’ on Quebecers. They thus shame people and prevent criticism of this quite blatant denial of the rights of Canadians to be governed by MPs whom they can elect. Remember, the Bloc is out of the electoral reach of over 80% of the electorate.
    They need to protect themselves from an election, which is in itself, a process that limits and inhibits this Sovereignty of Individual Will. They do this, not only by setting up the Bloc as a Vote-Against-An-Election, but also by reminding us of the costs of an election, and suggesting that we Canadians are selfish, in this time of economic downturn, to be asking to spend taxpayer money in such a ‘wasteful exercise’. Far better, they assure us, to allow the Coalition to take over and guide us along The Way To Purity and Enlightenment.
    So- The Liberal Party will have to decide whether it will be swallowed by Layton and the NDP, or by Rae-NDP and PowerCorp. Or, whether it can stand on its own, something that it has been unable to do for a generation. Remember, the Liberal Party has been the front for Power Corp for a generation.
    And Canadians will have to, not merely decide, but may have to fight for their rights to live in a democracy.

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  9. what is worrying me is there are so many conflicts and pull the power and with no correct direction that can be lead to confuse people bring embrasment by abuse of power of politician
    and over power and differences people and country get damage again
    before any election
    they need to review who is eligible by security check of primer or sanator or whatever you named it
    when first thing was checked then some candidiate need to come up
    with plan detail plan
    election method need to review to prevent minority any more either one group will come wiht maximum to test their way and otehr has right to talk and say their opinion but PM AND THEIR team is in charge of final decision
    power of each group need to review whether or not PM IN FUTURE need to work in certain area and in charge of certain job not all the job to get blame
    as country is big and population is increasing
    officer in politic need to responsible for their action
    news and opion hear in fair way
    no more english french fight please taht only wast the time and bring focus in less important issues who care about it
    who ever is first language is english at least must know that at least one language well
    before jump to new fight it is better to reduce fight and just see what peopel put on the table
    may be there is not need to fight or get excited
    at the end of day who ever in PM IN MAJORITY
    MUST DELIVER GOOD JOB
    if good job is B and excelent job is A marke
    it does not matter how to reach that goal
    it is matter who ever in power must deliver the job to achieve final goals
    i know you may get excited since most people choose to link with one group as like footbale fans for me important is their plan
    judgment without any discrimination and public and privite interest and see big and small picutres and details and analysis problmes before made plan

  10. Post by: lookout at December 7, 2008 9:32 AM Well wrote and right on the point about the lefts main core problem with their ideas about how democracy works.
    Maybe the Republican party should of looked north and figure out how Democracy works. The people spoke on this one. The lefts agenda worked very well electing the ‘Resident Evil’, maybe they thought that they could enhance it up here. I think your right about the ‘pitbull and the bone’ analogy ‘lookout’, they are going to get very vicious.
    I still like your theory of the 3 parties centrist splitting off and forming a new party ‘ET’. This could be very possible if the lefties keep up their power struggle. A lot depends on how Quebec votes.

  12. ET, consider this: the coalition is trying to sell the notion that economic stimulus is required.
    With the power they have given the Bloc, what guarantee does the coalition have that any of the economic stimulus will be directed to anywhere other than Quebec? There is none.
    The economic stimulus aspect of this is so full of holes it is not worth considering. This is an arrangement of amateur opportunists.

  13. ET, consider this: the coalition is trying to sell the notion that economic stimulus is required.
    With the power they have given the Bloc, what guarantee does the coalition have that any of the economic stimulus will be directed to anywhere other than Quebec? There is none.
    The economic stimulus aspect of this is so full of holes it is not worth considering. This is an arrangement of amateur opportunists.

  14. The latest Liberal ploy is to blame it all on Dion to take the heat of the coalition. They’re trying to sell the the idea that the coalition is fine under a new leader. This has to be avoided at all cost. The coalition will defeat Harper on the budget unless a few Liberals fail to show up for the vote or cross the floor.
    If the coalition wins the day on the budget vote, they’ll demand that they take the reins of power and scream bloody murder against another election. That’s when we have to flood the GG with protest calls and letters.
    The coalition cannot be allowed to usurp our rights.This is a very serious problem, and I can see plainly now why they want to take away rifles and guns.

  15. I’m really curious as to how this is affecting Ralph Goodale in Sask?? Any blowback for him..and if so,why hasn’t there been any msm coverage,or have I missed it? Can one of you good Sask.folks fill in the blanks.

  16. I’m really curious as to how this is affecting Ralph Goodale in Sask?? Any blowback for him..and if so,why hasn’t there been any msm coverage,or have I missed it? Can one of you good Sask.folks fill in the blanks.

  17. Post by: ET at December 7, 2008 11:15 AM. That is a well thought out piece of history. It stated with the ‘PET/Pearson’ era and it lasted 41+ years. So needless to say their is a lot of crap to clean up. Kinda like cleaning out a barn after letting the barnyard animals live in it for 41+ years. It’s going take a long time and it will be about the democracy of Canada.

  18. ET: **Be aware that Chretien and the Montreal PowerBrokers will now have moved in with their money – millions of it – to support Rae and the Coalition. It’s the PowerBrokers who want back in power in Ottawa. The Liberal party is just their front.
    So- The Liberal Party will have to decide whether it will be swallowed by Layton and the NDP, or by Rae-NDP and PowerCorp. Or, whether it can stand on its own, something that it has been unable to do for a generation. Remember, the Liberal Party has been the front for Power Corp for a generation.
    And Canadians will have to, not merely decide, but may have to fight for their rights to live in a democracy.**
    As long as the Liberal Party continues yawing to port (NDP) and pandering to separatists, the Conservatives should be happy both in Quebec and ROC.
    From the events of the preceding week, it appears that a perceived threat to democracy does arouse ordinary Canadians. I hope the momentum can be maintained.

  20. Bob Rae whining this morning that he doesnt want a caucus election for chosing the next leader.
    he doesnt want a backroom deal with minimal input from the lieberal hoipoloi.
    he must not listen to his own speeches.

  21. Pat MacAdam has a good column in the Ottawa Sun today: Who’s on First”? He has a good assessment of the Coalition; “they couldn’t run a rat shoot at a dump”.
    Not a doubt to anyone listening to CTV’s QP slaggers today we are not being well and fairly served by the media and we need to do something about it. At this point they’re calling for the PM to resign because he failed to get a majority which makes no sense, we all know why he didn’t get a majority, something about Quebec getting their knickers in a knot over Arts funding was part of it. No mention of the fact the Conservatives gave the Arts more money than any other Party in history.
    They’re attempting to put down the PM and prepare to idolize the next leader/saviour the Liberals choose.
    It feels like we’re inching closer to a Banana Republic with the media in the camp of the Liberals and whoever they choose to link up with, including Separatists, who can take down our choice to govern.
    Honest brokers in the media would tell the truth, the Liberals are years form being fit to govern and need to concentrate on themselves rather slagging others.

  22. “Link Byfield’s analysis
    By Ezra Levant on December 6, 2008 11:54 PM |
    I received this essay via e-mail from Link Byfield, one of Alberta’s elected, but as yet un-appointed, Senators. I can’t find it on his website, so I’ll just reprint the whole e-mail here.
    I think he’s right to compare this putsch to the Charlottetown Accord, which the establishment and media supported, but the grassroots did not.
    He’s right, also, when he says that Liberals and NDP thought they’d get away with it, and the reason is that, psychologically, they still think they’re entitled to govern, and the means of achieving that power is unimportant to them. (When Gilles Duceppe asked Stephane Dion what went wrong with his cave-cam video delay, Dion supposedly answered by saying the Liberals were not used to being in opposition. That’s an excuse, not an answer; it might even have been an attempt at humour. But, uttered as spontaneously as it was, it surely had a grain of truth to it: the Liberals think they’re just months away from a restoration of their dynasty, and this Conservative hiatus will soon be remedied.)
    Here’s Link’s essay:
    Canada changed this past week. We grew up a little.
    The political crisis is over. It ended yesterday, when two national polls showed that by a margin of two to one, Canadians want Harper to govern, and will give him a majority if he is defeated.
    The coup failed.”
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/12/link-byfields-analysis.html

  24. Roseberry: “MJ wrote of John Manley: “He isn’t back yet, but if he does enter, he’ll look opportunistic, since he declined a few weeks ago. But nothing very unusual about that, of course.” No matter; if he wants the job, he’ll have plenty of friends in Canada’s Toronto Newspaper. I have heard him speak several times and he is arse-numbing dull.”
    He’s sleep-inducing, no doubt about that. But the reasons why he didn’t join the race still exist, only they’re worse. I’m thinking especially of the party’s financial troubles, which are very bad but will become unsalvagable if the Conservatives somehow succeed in cutting the subsidy (and you know that that proposal will resurface). And I’m also thinking about their electability, which has taken a severe hit these last two weeks. Manley is a good Canadian, but he has no reason to be a martyr.

  25. Bob Rae also said to Giggles today “We don’t appoint leaders, we elect leaders”. He meant leaders of the Liberal Party, of course, but a leader of the country? Why not? It’s just a country!
    What a hypocrite.

  26. The demonizing of Harper is a red herring, meant to deflect our focus on the undemocratic putsch of the Coalition.
    Equally, the statement that he can’t be PM because he didn’t get a majority is ridiculous, because that denies the legitimacy of our many previous minority governments. It equally ignores that obtaining a majority in a five party legislature is difficult, particularly with one party out of the electoral reach of over 80% of Canadians, yet whose territory is given an unfair number of House seats.
    Again, what we are seeing here is a number of conflicts. There is one within the Liberal Party. This is a tripartite division.
    Does the NDP swallow the Liberal Party? That’s Layton’s agenda. Who supports him? Unions.
    Does the Liberal Party swallow the NDP? That’s Rae’s agenda but remember, he’s basically NDP anyway. Who supports him? PowerCorp which is the behind the scenes powerbroker of Ottawa for the entire last generation- Trudeau,Mulroney,Chretien, Martin and now Rae.
    And a third agenda – does the Liberal Party develop as its own identity – not as merged with a socialist unionist 19th c agenda; nor as the Front for a private, enormously wealthy corporation, PowerCorp. Can the Liberal Party exist as a political party with an ideology for Canada and Canadians? I don’t know; it hasn’t done so for a generation. And who will create and mould such a party?
    And there’s something else going on, which is an assault on the basic framework of democracy in Canada. As I noted above, this can be analyzed within two perspectives.
    One is democratic and recognizes a ‘transcendence of principles’ over individual human will. The other is essentially totalitarian, recognizes no transcendent principles and is based on a Will to Power.
    The idea of ‘transcendence’in a political state is based on an acknowledgement of the role of Reason, which is understood as the basis for rules that are grounded in common principles of integrity, responsibility, respect for the public good – all of which operates within a political system operating within a limited authority – an authority bound by law and accountability. This is the basis of democracy, and is missing in this Coalition.
    The coalition is based on an agenda grounded, not in Reason, but in WILL. This is an agenda that declines reason and grounds itself in a focus on power, obtaining that power not by rules but within a self-encoded ideology and self-determined agenda (that unelected agreement between the three, Layton, Dion, Duceppe). The agenda of Will-To-Power is enacted when this self-selected group sees fit, driven by ‘ressentiment’, devoted to turning the tables on those whom they consider dominant (Harper) and to reject the results of Reason and rules.
    It is not only undemocratic but it utterly destroys democracy, rejecting any restraints by any transcendent rule of law, such as an election. It follows no principles of common integrity, responsiblility, the good of the people.
    And, as an emotional rather than rational state, this Will, is defined as an essentialist force. It is set up as a Supremacy of Essential Agency, a powerful Force to overcome assumed Evils. The Evils are Evil Demons against which to fight. This tactic, found in all states that use Will to take over a government, seeks to misinform, destabilize, and create fear and hostility in the population. The demons it sets up are numerous.
    That the economy is in crisis and that Harper has done nothing;
    That Harper is a bully, a ..whatever.
    That’s the main Front this Will To Power hides behind. Then, they have to deflect the people from fighting against their Putsch.
    So, they declare that any criticism of the use of the Bloc to prop up their coalition is not a ‘justified criticism’ but is an act of aggression against Quebec.
    This tries to mute the justified criticism that this use of the Bloc is an action which is deeply undemocratic because it puts our government in the control of a set of MPs who are outside the electoral reach of over 80% of Canadian.
    Oh, and they claim that if we want to have an election to validate this coalition, such a request is ‘shameful’ because we are ‘wasting money’ in this economic ‘crisis.
    So, repressing our right to democracy by removing a transcendent Reason from our mode of government, inserting instead a self-organized Will to Power, held in the hands of a few unelected Kings…and silencing all our attempts to criticize and oppose this putsch..that’s the coalition.

  27. ET, you’re right on. And Canadians need to know ALL about Power Corp and les Desmarais, the puppet masters of all our Quebec PMs for the past many decades. (Perhaps you could do a précis of this travesty, as well as its connections to Saddam, the UN, Mo Stlong, etc. Hey, the Power Corp/Liberal conspiracy is Canada’s own DaVinci Code!)
    A few more thoughts from the trenches: the Lord works in mysterious ways. I’ve railed for decades about the stranglehold the lefties have had over the populace of Canada, via the increasingly punitive “equity” policies, speech codes, HRCs, etc. But, in the present situation, there appears to be a silver lining. E.g., Those of us opposing the pro-treason coalition have been hiding in clear view for a long time. As we were gagged and chose not to speak out publicly on all kinds of PC issues, we lived in enemy territory and watched and listened. We know our enemy very well.
    Does our enemy know us? Having gerrymandered our silence for so long, no they don’t. They don’t know who we are, where we live, where we work, what we really think, or what we’d like to see happen to them. Sweet! (E.g., Like many of us, my work environment was enemy territory. I’ve watched and listened for decades: I know exactly what they’re up to: many of my political enemies, thinking I agreed with them—in the end, expressing my real views would have been professional suicide—carried on their nefarious campaigns right under my nose.)
    It’s not a good idea for political operatives to be so ignorant of their enemy. Of course, the lefties only hang out with and parrot each others’ thoughts, magnified out of all proportion by the duplicitous MSM, so they’re quite in the dark. Now, they’ve played a very damaging hand—on Quebec alone. Ordinary Canadians have largely kept silent about propping up, with our hard earned dollars, the most dysfunctional, bratty province in Canada—with a gun to our heads. The Liberals and NDP had/have not a clue about how THOROUGHLY FED UP and BLOODY ANGRY Canadians are with this extortion racket. That’s about to change!
    IMO, the genie is now out of the bottle: ordinary Canadians, who usually shut their mouths about, while opening their wallets to, Quebec (and a host of other dubious causes), are no longer willing to do either. As a result of our lefty overlords’ increasing use of the power of the state to gag Canadians, which meant the lefties were/are ignorant about what we really think (and, therefore, delusional about what we’ll put up with), the Three Stooges have wildly miscalculated.
    Ordinary, up-until-now-apolitical Canadians are now fighting mad and are NOT going to back down. It’s about time!

  29. ET:
    The Will of the people will eventuallly decide this issue.
    Seems like not all Canadians are brainwashed university-indoctrinated automatons yet.
    This putsch has already failed, but it will keep coming back like any National Socialist movement is apt to do.
    No long-time supporter of the Conservative Party that I know of believes the propoganda that Harper is the problem.
    Sure, he put out the bait, but he did not force the coalition to take it. They did that all by themselves and they’ll have to answer to the people of Canada for it.

  30. In all the hoopla that has been aired by the ‘Dion must go’ movement has anyone heard of any mention by cbc or ctv that Dion was fully supported by the coalition just a week ago and this reversal shows a glaring weakness in the coalition’s ability to make wise decisions? Just wondering.

  32. ET summarizes:
    “So, repressing our right to democracy by removing a transcendent Reason from our mode of government, inserting instead a self-organized Will to Power, held in the hands of a few unelected Kings…and silencing all our attempts to criticize and oppose this putsch..that’s the coalition.”
    Yeah …

  33. lookout said: “It’s not a good idea for political operatives to be so ignorant of their enemy.”
    “Nay, if nothing else will bring it to pass, familiarity will at last breed contempt,”
    “Because then we cannot live in this world out of the neighborhood of such as will continually labor to do us injury or oppose us, let us search out some way whereby this advantage and profit from enemies may be acquired.”
    …-
    “Plutarch, How to Profit by One’s Enemies”
    http://www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com/plutarch/moralia/how_to_profit_from_enemies.htm

  34. How Ralph Goodale manages to keep getting re-elected in Sask is a great mystery to me? My theory is that the good people of his Regina riding enjoy the novelty of having the last of his kind – a prairie Liberal. Kinda like a zoo with the last dodo bird on display.
    My theory on the coalition is that they will be doing a lot of posturing about the unity of the coalition. They must attempt to negotiate with the CPC government with some type of power, real or imagined.
    The MSM, well they continue to insult their viewers by treating them like idiots. Harper is unpopular and needs to be replaced….oh,please. At worst some supporters may now see him as being infallible. Hardly grounds to replace the leader that united the right and then quickly brought them to power. The MSM are blatantly attempting to manufacture dissent but they seriously underestimate Canadians and CPC supporters.

  35. Read some G&M Friday (first time in maybe 5 years), as it came with my hotel room and I wasn’t quite in the mood for my Proust (3rd reading of his magnum opus, after which I expect it to pass …)
    Ed Broadbent, Op Ed, quoting:
    In almost every sentence, paragraph, and page coming from Mr Harper, his ministers and Conservative MPs, we’re getting distortions intended to delegitimize a democratically formed coalition, proposed in accordance with normal parliamentary practices, between the Liberals and the NDP. The Conservative have tried to link the coalition with a demonized Bloc Quebecois and Quebec.
    To make this claim, is he relying on some mechanistic-legalistic reasoning which utterly escapes me?

  36. Boiling the frog is Duceppe’s modus operandi. Canada is the frog.
    It was a close run thing.
    PM Harper smashed the socialist-fascistic coup.
    But, this is not the end of fascism; fascism never dies; like the plague (see Camus), fascism lurks in the sewers/gutters waiting to surface another day.
    …-
    Duceppe is not pure 100% frog; his maternal grandfather, John James Rowley, was British by birth. (cbc)
    …-
    Duceppe: Tory MPs called us frogs
    We were treated like a band of baboons, like a band of idiots. We were called frogs by Conservative MPs. And Québec Conservative MPs said nothing about it. It’s appalling. (H/T Norman)
    nnw
    …-
    The Biggest Loser: Gilles Duceppe « AngryFrenchGuy
    2 Dec 2008 … Gilles Duceppe also lost the best gig in parliamentary politics this week: …. My grand-mother was british. In case of partition of Quebec, …
    angryfrenchguy.com/2008/12/02/the-biggest-loser-gilles-duceppe/
    Commenter:
    “Franchement! Du calme!
    You got it all wrong, dear Angry French Guy. Duceppe made a shrewd move yesterday. The coalition agenda unveiled yesterday contains a lot of good things about the economy (changes to EI, infrastructure, GHG cap-and-trade) that would not even be discussed with the current Conservative government (or even a Liberal majority).
    Politics is the art of the possible and Duceppe, the former union negociator, got the best deal possible out the current set of circumstances.
    Now, is the price to pay for the deal too high? Of course, we get Dion as Prime minister for 5 months. To me, neither Dion or Harper is a friend to Quebec’s better interests. But Duceppe only agreed to support the NDP-Lib coalition on confidence votes for 18 months and on a specific set of issues.
    On balance, it’s a good deal and the most he could get in the current circumstances.”

  37. The media and the bozos in the Opposition will not dictate when Mr Harper gets replaced as Leader of the Conservatives, we will not be seeking their advice on the matter. The more they slag and call for his head, the more we know we’re on the right track.
    Fun to watch Rae and Iggy playing the leadership race of civility and respect. Rae is supporting the coalition and Iggy isn’t unless he’s running it. Is that it?
    To quote Pat MacAdam in his Ottawa Sun column today, the coalition couldn’t run a rat shoot at a dump.

  38. lookout and me no dhimmi, you might be interested in a wonderful examination of the two systems of political organization, that which uses a transcendent Reason and that which uses individual Will To Power.
    It’s called Sovereignty: God, State and Self. by Jean Bethke Elshtain. I strongly recommend it. And even though I’m an atheist – I strongly recommend it; a monumental study. It clarifies the difference between our legitimate government and what the putsch coalition is trying to do.

  39. “”professors of climate change” and other unworldly academics”
    The Dons of Gaia.
    …-
    “Blizzard of mad proposals descends on UK
    The timing was immaculate. Last week, as blizzards closed roads and schools across northern England and Scotland and large parts of the country were carpeted with snow for the third time this winter, the Government’s Committee on Climate Change, chaired by Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, issued its first report on how Britain is to meet the terrifying threat of runaway global warming.
    In his day job Adair Turner is chairman of the Financial Services Authority, responsible for helping to sort out the chaos in our banking system which the FSA failed to foresee or prevent. A measure of his fitness for his other new role as “Britain’s first climate tsar” was the suggestion he made when he was appointed last March that, as a first step towards saving the planet, men should stop wearing ties and suits to the office, and women give up wearing skirts, because this would lessen the need for air-conditioning and encourage them to walk or cycle to work.
    Now, after eight months hard at work with his committee made up of various “professors of climate change” and other unworldly academics, he has come up with suggestions as to how Britain can lead the world in cutting emissions of CO2 back to just 20 per cent of where they were in 1990. Only one of the committee, all naturally hard-line believers in man-made global warming, appears to have had any experience of the world of industry. Unsurprisingly they have produced a wearisomely familiar list of proposals, none of which have the slightest hope of being achieved.
    They want us, for instance, to switch from eating beef and lamb to “less carbon-intensive types of meat”. Within 11 years they want to see 40 per cent of all the cars on Britain’s roads powered by electricity, in the very week when it was reported that sales of all-electric cars have this year halved, from 374 to 156, making a grand total of 1,100. (One of the two companies that make them has just gone bankrupt.) Nor, of course, do they explain where all the electricity to power these vehicles might come from.
    They seem blissfully oblivious, for instance, to the fact that, within a few years, we shall face a shortfall of 40 per cent in the supply of electricity we need to meet current peak demand, thanks to the forced closure of so many of our existing power stations.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/12/07/do0710.xml

  40. To clarify 2 previous actions of a GG’s power under a monarchy.
    In the Canadian King-Byng Affair of 1926, the Liberals had won only 101 seats in 1925 election and talked the 25 Progressives from West Canada into supporting them. They lost the support when the Liberals were accused and obviously guilty of accepting bribes.
    Oh man, Crooked Liberals again, what a surprise!
    King asked for dissolution and was refused and he resigned. The GG then asked the Conservatives to form a govt because THEY HAD THE MOST SEATS in Parliament at 116.
    In the Australian case of 1975, the GG asked the Opposition to form only a temporary ‘caretaker’ govt with the understanding they would call a new election to settle the issue.
    Which is exactly what 80% of Cdns now want in the polls. An election to settle the issue.
    In present day Canada, we have the silly situation of having 2 parties (77 and 37 seats) demanding the GG give them power because they took as a blackmaling partner, a separatist party that has vowed to destroy Canada and who will not swear allegiance to the country.
    The GG is the also head of the armed forces and would look like a moron in the history books, if she was to give control of the armed forces to a party/coalition govt containing a foreign power, like the Bloc Q.
    Therefore, the GG has no choice but to do exactly what PM Harper wants and when he wants it.
    Because his Party has THE MOST SEATS.
    BTW, can anyone imagine the Queen of England inviting Ireland to come in and govern England?
    As many have said, we don’t actually elect leaders, we elect parties in Canada and the CPC is the party with THE MOST SEATS, just 12 short of a majority.
    So get over it Judas Jack, you lost the election.
    And if you need some rope Judas, I’m sure somebody will happily give you more than you need.
    heh.

  41. Many thanks, ET, for the generous heads-up. (And hi, MND!) I’d love to read anything by Jean Bethke Elshtain. (She’s on the Editorial Advisory Board of Fr Richard John Neuhaus’s First Things, one of the finest journals in the US today.)
    I hope that “Sovereignty: God, State and Self” is available at the library. But I have a few other sources I can check out as well.
    It’s the Second Sunday of Advent. I’m listening to the songs of WW II (right now, The Andrew’s Sisters singing “Boogie Woogie”!). These happy songs, from the darkest days of the war, are the songs of my parents’ youth, in a sane and even noble Canada. Candle #1 of my Advent wreath burns brightly and, later, when family come for roast beef, #2 will be lit: “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never overcome it.”
    That is the promise of Advent and, in these dark days, it is one that can give hope to all of us, no matter what our religious affiliation—or none!

  42. I wonder if in the near future people in Quebec are going to wonder if they’ve pushed their luck a bit much this time?
    At some point there’s going to be a push back.
    The question is when and what form will it take?

  43. ET thankyou for clearly and well written summations.
    I agree that Rae represents the Powercorp and the eastern power brokers who are tired of not having power and I think that Rae was the one who motivated Layton to put the coalition together. He is a very dangerous man and with the financial backing he has, he can freely cross this country selling his poison. He is not a Liberal, he is a dyed in the wool NDP’er and he is dangerous. We must be vigilant.

  44. Rockyt, you hit the nail on the head when you referred to the Separatists as a blackmailing partner in the coalition. That’s exactly what they are and always have been.
    It may never have been mentioned but the reason many in Quebec are voting for them now is to extract as much as possible from the ROC holding the threat of separation over our heads.
    Successive governments have bowed to them for power, it’s still going on but may be about to change. The Quebec people are getting their eyes opened with this coalition rhetoric and hearing from us loud and clear, we do not support Separatists.

  46. I just heard that LeBlanc has dropped out of the race to lead the Titanic. That leaves only three,Rae,Ignatieff,and Layton.

  49. If Dion planed to change next week
    the question is this
    may if conservative or ndp or qubeq also
    look for better leader among to chang them to new
    one and keep the old member still stay in house for use their experince to work behind the scene not directly with public
    can they all political group change their leader party too or dion need to change?
    we look for best leader and best personality and manager among all parties

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