72 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Everyone who was involved with the “2007 Saskatchewan Election Market/Poll” or the “2007 Grey Cup Market/Poll” at InklingMarkets should visit another “izzy money” poll:
    “Will Democrats lose their majority in the House and Senate during the Mid-term election?”
    This question is currently weighted horribly to the Obamabots’ favour. It NEEDS to go horribly wrong.
    home.inklingmarkets.com

  2. From now on for the record I will post my ‘gut feelings’ so I can say ‘I knew it!”
    Thanks anon for the info about Doer. When his sudden announcement came (in the middle of the Senate announcements) I had a ‘sense’ he would be getting a new position.Way to go PMSH!!!
    Jack Layton…watcha gonna say now?Never mind…just be quiet for a change.

  3. Actually I had thought that Doer would be appointed to the Senate but ambassador to the US is a good post. Layton will probably have a stroke when he realizes that Harper one upped him again.

  4. Another Poll
    Tories lead Grits by 4pts: poll
    Toronto Star Aug28/09
    over the summer Canadians have warmed up to PM Stephen Harper & his conservative party, according to the latest Toronto Star/Angus Reid Poll…….
    34% up 1 conservative
    30% Down 4 liberal
    18% up 2 Ndp
    9% up 2 Grn
    8% down 2 Bloq
    This on top of the other favorable polls this week & Doers appt will not go over too well.
    Anon Re Hardboiled foaming
    Perfect!!!! comeback.

  5. In the London Free Press there is a story of a girl and her family complaining about the lack of help she received from the Canadian High Commission in Britain after her passport was stolen. She got a replacement passport but, as I understand the story, she had difficulty with the student visa.
    The whole problem seems to be one of difficulties with the Brits somehow being blamed on the Canadian gov’t. I can’t seem to sort out from the story why the Canadian gov’t is to blame and how the local MP Glenn Pearson can legitimately make the claim he did….though it’s not surprising as he’s a Lib.
    Any thoughts?
    ( You can bet this sort of thing will be an election issue.)
    http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/08/28/10644656-sun.html

  6. me thinks it strange that the new ambassador to the USA, although a socialist, will be seen to be right of the current government in the USA… for Mr. Doer, it will seem strange too.
    maybe hardboiled could lighten up a bit? it’s well known that PMSH has a long term plan for the Senate which includes elections. His hands really are tied with the house of liberal cards he’s been dealt. In time, real change will come. Only a few more librano senators to die off, and then we’re free?
    Obama without a helmet? It’s the first thing he’s done right. I as well, don’t wear a helmet, why? because I don’t have to. That’s why. But I don’t tell everyone else how to live their life either, so hold your fire!

  7. hardboiled, it’s called the Liberal$’ being hoisted on their own petard.
    And, oh how sweet it is … 😉

  8. A portrait of Canada’s political culture
    by Andrew Coyne
    As ever with Stephen Harper, there is an in-your-face element to the latest batch of Senate appointments. It’s almost as if he said to himself, okay, if I’m going to get slammed for these appointments anyway, what are the most obnoxiously partisan, disgustingly sycophantic choices I can make? I know — I’ll name my former press flack! No, wait — I’ll name the president of the party! Or maybe — yes! — the most hyper-partisan, Grit-hating thug I know, my former campaign manager!
    I’ve got it! I’ll appoint all of them!
    Yes, I know, the Liberals did just the same for years — the same Grits who are now assailing the appointments, just as the Tories used to attack theirs. This is the cycle we have become caught in, each party justifying its own excesses by the other’s, each hypocritically accusing the other of hypocrisy. And the public, educated by long useage to expect no better, cannot even be roused to outrage any more. Time was when this sort of flagrant cronyism would have caused a scandal. Certainly in any other country it would. But not here, not any more…..”
    read it all…http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/28/a-portrait-of-canadas-political-culture-i/

  9. heh.
    “His hands really are tied with the house of liberal cards he’s been dealt”
    “he has no choice”
    Yep.
    Almost four years in and the Liberals are still sticking it to him.
    🙂

  11. that’s correct hardboiled, as shitty as it is to see a “he has no choice” (paging John Turner y Brian Mulroney?) in this argument , he doesn’t have a majority, in either house of parliament, PMSH cannot shuffle the libranos out of the senate more quickly, we simply wait for them to retire at 75 years, or die.
    I don’t like it either, I do like the australian senate, but short of some revolution, we are stuck with this constitution in Canada.
    patience.

  12. Hey, hardboiled. This is the political culture the Liberal$ have created, ever since Monsieur Pierre Elliot Trudeau hit the political stage. And it’s a Frankenstein’s monster, no doubt about it, that’s been in the making for almost 40 years.
    The Liberal$ at no time since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister have tried to help him and his party effectively and fairly govern Canada — which would mean not for the gain of politicians and their special interest groups (something the Liberal$ excel at) but for the well-being and gain of ALL Canadians. At no time have the Liberal$ let up on their constant criticism of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but at every turn, have tried to put him in a negative light by telling lies and creating scandals, all picked up and given legs by their lapdogs in the media.
    You know the “buzz” about a fall election? There wasn’t any buzz, certainly not in the Canadian electorate who definitely do not want a fall election. It was created by the media, so that if the Liberal$ decided they wanted an election in the fall (which it was clear the media hoped would happen, in order to get their chosen party back into power ASAP), the public would be primed for one.
    The Liberal$ and their supporters have created a perfect storm and right now, it’s their ship that’s going down. ‘Talk about retributive justice.
    Another word for it is hubris. Look it up.

  16. Just received a 50bmg mold.
    7 slugs in 1 lb of lead.
    That will punch some serious holes in paper.
    Hoping to get less than 2″ at 500 yards.
    Anyone shoots lead out of their 50 cal pipes?

  17. RobC:
    Go to Google–enter
    45 RPM under dash record players
    You are in for the surprise of your life!!

  18. In regard to the senate appointments; I am surprised these names have not come up in rebuttal,Art Eggleton,Frank Mahovalich. But,but,but,…

  19. senate reform? elected senate? the old triple E not around?
    you can thank that arch conservative preeeeeeston maaaaaaaaaaning for contributing his part in scuttling the thing because the deal didn’t have *everything* he wanted.

  20. ET @ 9:32 a.m.: Re Obama wanting a “civilian national security force”.
    This is disturbing; at worst it would end up like a presidential private army of thought police. But it’s the same issue as our kangaroo courts, i.e., human rights commissions.
    Justice should be dispensed by professionals, i.e., those who have enough solid legal experience to be appointed to the bench. So should police and/or military personnel be those professionals with proper training and who go through the usual routes.

  21. Another thought: the “civilian national security force” needs a name. I propose: the Revolutionary Guard.

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