deleted … no offense meant sounder, just cleaning up after New spilled in aisle 3.
Anyway, Dion I, Dion II, as it were.
Survey says, 9 out of 10 Iffy’s prefer torture.
Iffy also attempted to censor free speech.
Iffy: a typical left-liberal intellectual.
…-
“With a little help from our friends”
Coincidence?
The Prime Minister’s piano moment with Yo-Yo Ma (now a popular YouTube video) showcased his love for The Beatles, but could it have been a stab at his opponent, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff?
A few years ago, Ignatieff took issue with an essay by Conor Gearty, a professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, had written mentioning him. Gearty’s article described how liberal intellectuals had helped justify the use of torture. According to this article, which was sent to the Ottawa press gallery a few months ago, “Ignatieff’s response was as violent as it was unexpected. The harm done to his reputation by the article he insisted, was so great that it could not even be remedied by the chance to rebut. He had no alternative but to resign immediately from the editorial and advisory board of the magazine and request that any syndication of the Gearty’s piece be withheld.”
The title of the essay published in Index on Censorship was “With a little help from our friends: Torture is wrong and ineffective. So why is it making a comeback?”” http://blog.canoe.ca/thehill/2009/10/05/with_a_little_help_from_our_friends
…-
The essay below “which was sent to the Ottawa press gallery a few months ago, “Ignatieff’s response was as violent as it was unexpected.:
“No more Mr Nice Guy:
Laurie Taylor on Michael Ignatieff
Once a liberal pin-up and intellectual leader of the global human rights movement, Michael Ignatieff has now fallen out with some of his closest friends. Laurie Taylor tracks an acrimonious battle
Everyone knows Michael Ignatieff. Some first encountered him during the late 70s when his painstaking historical analyses of the evolution of the British penal system provided a valuable empirical complement (some would say antidote) to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. Others will have come to respect him for his novels, family memoirs, or his outstanding biography of his great hero, Isaiah Berlin. Many more will remember the suave, querulous, intellectual contributions he made to BBC 2’s culture-based talking shop, The Late Show. By the time that programme stuttered to a close in the mid-90s news of his fame had even made it back to his country of birth. In 1997 MacLean’s magazine included him in its ‘Top Ten Canadian Who’s Who’ and four years later exultantly promoted him to Canada’s ‘Sexiest Cerebral Man’ because of “his made-for TV looks and effortless eloquence”. What so endeared Ignatieff to the thinking classes was his cosmopolitan liberalism. His Russian family background, North American childhood and easy mastery of several languages seemed to qualify him as a citizen of the world. It was not too surprising, therefore, when he set off for what he described as “the landscapes of modern ethnic war” – Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, and Afghanistan – in search of an answer to a classic liberal question: why do we in the west feel that we have a moral obligation to become embroiled in the internal conflicts of distant lands? His answer helped to transform him into a leading figure in the human rights movement. We could, he argued, only overcome the ethnic particularism that lay behind so many of today’s conflicts by treating others -whatever their religion, class, gender, race – as rights-bearing equals rather than as members of a group. Such whole-hearted advocacy of human rights meant that he was a natural choice for the prestigious post as Carr Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.” http://newhumanist.org.uk/1299
Why, Barney Fife looks positively “Iffy”
I loved John’s little comment about the media spending way too much time talking about Stephen’s singing debut! LOL… the colour green suits those two.
Poor ole Bobby. Kinda looks like he tried to self administer an enema using a cactus for a nozzle.
Ibbitson’s logic is flawed. If it looks like the ROC will vote in a majority the bloc q’s support will disintegrate and move to the CP. Shades of Dief in ’58. The repercussions are thus good – not bad for a Canada that includes Quebec – this time on a more sustainable footing with Quebec losing its ability to extort more than its fair share from confederation.
The tories are governing, not politicing – imagine that!!
and their core support is rising not declining – a rare thing for a sitting government.
Agreed. Equal provinces within the federation, and none “more equal than others”. Constitutional wrangling must cease, for the good of all. You’re either IN or you’re OUT.
I do not think you understand me well
what i meant was
conservative blog are represent what party ask them to do or support this is not personal hit
Jan 15, 2009 Small dead animal was number one
conservative party
and
now Oct 5, 2009 small dead animal went down to
26 rank
this is means
conservative party expectation of reality and fact are not match
any party who stop and fight Muslim freedom of speech which is Harper judge government are down
and
they forced to join NDP to gain more vote from
Ontario since they can not get majority of ontario
still
NDP is not conservative
and they idea are different
and not stable share ideas with conservative
then we do not have national government
what is positive:
Harper government know so many keys that made mistake
such as how to deal with Muslim in Ontario and in Canda and all war issue can be used agaisnt conservative party
if Loblaw stop thier illegal soon
Muslim have power to help any political party to do help them
next:
certain area in forign policy with Muslim country must be changed public not like it
you put youreself away from reality
untill do not act by fact and reality
conservative only gaining with tactics
the this time tacti was join with NDP
in fact NDP save harper government
then you must say thank you Jack layton
siad go back to work
not by real votes from Candaian
Harper not understand
he has too many kids
and some aer big and some are small
he must take care of each group
seperately among those community
not use west to hep ontario to join him
all is politic not real vote from people in canada
Harper isolate himself in one group nad not see the rest
===
Muslim only help who ever take care of them not fight them and allow others to turture them by law
Isn’t it funny how in eastern liberal MSM thinking leaving Quebec out of the governing party equals not having a ‘national party’.
Leaving Alberta out of the governing party equals ‘having a national party’.
Me thinks to their feeble mind Canada starts at the St Lawrence and ends at Mississauga.
I hope PMSH is alread practising his hit song for next years gala…”We Are The Champions”
Somehow we need to turn new’s posts – guessing that they are his before scrolling (and scrolling) down to see that yes, indeed we knew it was new.
New:
All your base are belong to us.
Really, it is irrelevant how Quebec votes if we get a Conservative majority without them. The CPC is far from dead in the Maritimes according to the polls. The Crop poll suggests that some Quebec seats will go Conservative. If the voters choose to shun a political party that wins an election, too bad for them. Live with the choices you made. (ask NL after the last election) If Quebec doesn’t like that position they can voted differently next time. If the choose to have a referendum to leave Canada and votes yes they want to leave, then let you go. Frankly the country would better off with them.
Joe:
What ibbitson has failed to realize is that by his metric the liberal party hasn’t been a national party since Chretien got into power. Not only did they have nil seats in much of western Canada, but they were (and are) almost non-existent anywhere in Quebec that was more than an hour’s drive from the Montreal Forum.
What a stupid comment by Ibbitsen, although it is likely the view of most Liberals. If Harper wins a majority with Ontario and Quebec, then it is a national party. If it does so by winning Ontario and the West then it is not.
I don’t remember Ibbitson ever saying that Chretien’s gov’t wasn’t a national government when all it was winning was the East and a hugely disproportionate number of seats in Ontario due vote splitting by the Conservatives and Reform.
Eastern conceit on sickening display.
Heh , Fife ratted out Raes supporters . Must be getting tired of all the Ignegatism .
The difference between Ignatieff and Dion has boiled down to expectations, IMO. They lead in very similar ways, top down, platitudes while being critical without offering alternatives. When Dion finally did discuss policy it was the idiotic Green Shaft of the West (day care centres in Toronto to save the environment?).
The coalition gambit was a monumental miscalculation and disaster that will haunt them for years, assuming they are even able to regain support.
Dion’s expectations were exceedingly low; nobody expected him to do well, so if he did OK, it was seen as a great performance.
Ignatieff came in with high expectations, but simply has not delivered, mainly because he is a neophyte politican who hasn’t had to fight hard for anything (parachuted into riding and LPC leadership).
Ignatieff’s coronation was supposed to happen while Grits in power. He has no idea (so far) how to formulate policy. He has a poor understanding of the three-fold role of the opposition (let me help you out Mr Ignatieff: oppose the government; offer alternatives while helping the HofC pass legislation; and stand ready as government in waiting).
Instead, Mr Ignatieff seems content to misunderstand that the Liberal brand is tarnished and will remain so until they truly renew by rejecting top down leadership and cronyism. That was the case with Martin, Dion and now Ignatieff.
IOW they’re dead in the water and their leader doesn’t seem to get it. He must regain control of his party (by nailing Coderre and anybody else who challenges his authority), make a serious effort at policy formulation, and clearly and substantially reject the Chretien cronyism (who seems to still exercise great influence).
Having said that, there seem no signs whatsoever they are willing (or know how) to change their stripes. Harper has a de facto majority now and doesn’t need an election anytime soon, while the Liberal line now seems a finger wagging, “don’t call an election now Mr Harper, or you’ll paaaaay!
On a related topic:
If the rumour on bourque’s site is true – that Warren Kinsella is the guy behind the LP’s recent bearsh$it-in-the-woods ads then perhaps WK’s head will be on the chopping block:
“…”I could be wrong, but I hear the ads were shot by Kinsella and Deacey. Scripted by Iggy.”
“So Iggy, the great international auteur, reduced to writing his own ad ?”
Punk shrugged.
“Kinsella’s great with a handheld. I loved his first-person homage outside the chinese food eatery. His guppy monologues are the stuff of legend. He’s a natural behind the camera, a brilliant raconteur, a genius of the lens. But DEACEY, the former Imperial Tobacco lobbyist ? What’s Iggy doing hanging around a tobacco lobbyist ? …” http://www.bourque.com/heard.html
Is it just me or does Fife have new(and more)hair?
Inquiring minds want to know
Maybe an aside, but I thought the best thing on tonight’s Power Play was Nigel Lawson on global warming . . . finally someone tells it like it is. I would love to see his book (An Appeal to Reason) get serious play in the media. It sounds very solid.
Is Fife sporting a wig or did the little socialist bleach his hair?
Cat — “Is it just me or does Fife have new(and more)hair?”
I think it is just dyed. A fresh dye job may make it stand out a bit more, and a fresh washing makes it fluffier.
Hey …NEW
Why don’t you cut to chase and threaten to chop heads unless your Muslim superiority is recognized?
This video is three establishment liberals spinning.
Do not listen to these people. They are really peeved that the liberals are not in power, and say two things: The guy who is liberal leader is bnot bringing the natural ruling party back to rule; and … the conservatives had better run the c ountry like liberals or we will really be unhappy.
I spew upon these three. Come the majority!!
The Ontario numbers – 46 percent Conservative – are telling.
There’s no way the Conservatives could call an election without a bit of a backlash. But there’s gotta be a way to provoke Jack Layton to vote against the government.
Hope someone’s working on it.
re: comment @9:17 pm, Am I reading that correctly?
Whoa.
re: The 2 pundits, I am not surprised, frankly. It is the only time that the 2 of then don’t behave like ‘jumping beans’ and complete ‘rock star groupies’.
They have likely put their ‘palm tree fronds’ back into winter and hopefully, annual storage.
new, a tip, learn English (or French).
New said:” I do not think you understand me well”
Truer words have never been spoken.
EBD at October 5, 2009 9:59 PM :
Jack Layton won’t need no encouragement. The poll nimbers will tell him he can get votes from the liberals…that’s all he needs…. and it’sa coming 🙂
I want to ask John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail: If you can be a national party without Ablberta or most of the west then why can’t you be a national party without most of Quebec?
I agree EBD.
It just might be the strategy of the opposition party’s to dump so low in the polls which would make it almost unbearable for PMSH not to call an election. They are creating the poison pill for him to take. Once he does they can rally yelling “LIAR! LIAR!”
Whatever. As long as they are down in the dumps.
I want to ask John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail: If you can be a national party without Alberta or most of the west then why can’t you be a national party without most of Quebec?
Hey …NEW
Why don’t you cut to chase and threaten to chop heads unless your Muslim superiority is recognized?
Posted by: BL@KBIRD at October 5, 2009 9:47 PM
————–
Er, um, she’s been there, done that
I wish, RW (10:14), but Liberal support seems to be bleeding to the Conservatives and not to the NDP, whose numbers are essentially unchanged.
It’s not likely, IMO, that Layton will want to be seen as the guy forcing Canadians to go the polls again.
You know? I think there’s many a liberal these days wondering how they ever allowed that skunk Boob Rae into their chickenhouse! This was a long-thoughtout scheme that seems to have been enacted almost seamlessly. There’s alot more feathers and manure to be flung about before we see the end of this mess. And I like it! A lot!
And there’s nothing I’d like more than to see that stupid smug Fifian visage having to swallow a snoutful of Big C pie! Suits him just fine.
I know a ton of Muslims and none of them sound anything like ‘new’ but then that could be because I live in ‘new’s’ apparent reviled land, Western Canada with my Western Canadian, Muslim friends.
new, you need to get out more and share in the joy of what YOU CAN DO for this country instead of what IT CAN DO FOR YOU!
…and who said intolerance didn’t exist in Canada? Yikes!
new. People will take notice of your posts here when they see Halal pork products in the supermarket.
Honestly, I only see it getting worse for the Liberals unless they can pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Right now the Liberals are the #1 target for the BQ, NDP and Conservative party to “Steal” support from to boost their potential election results. At the same time the Ignatieff faces challenges from within his own party being that all potential rivals benefit the worse he does, and even back-benchers may “Take a run at him” to increase their profile (even if they have to sit as independents until another leader takes control of the liberal party, or join the NDP/Conservatives).
Karl,
You owe me a new keyboard.
‘All your base are belong to us.’
That’s beautiful.
I’m glad noone was around to hear me spontaneously laugh out loud.
Poll not mentioned on The National tonight. Mansbridge must not like the results. How can CBC justify not relaying the poll results? Is it because they don’t relay polls that are paid for by other broadcasters? Nonsense. It’s done all the time. Besides, Allan Gregg is with Strategic Counsel and he’s a frequent guest on The National. Must suck to work for CBC and seeing MPSH near majority territory while Iggy is sinking like a stone. Heh. The angriest guy should be Dion. He was pushed out to get Iggy in their. At least Dion can say that he won the leadership of the party.
Snagglepus 10:29.
My thoughts are (Bare Ass) Boob Rae is being inserted by his Brother John, Chretien, Desmarias and all the rest of the crooks of Power Corp. They brought Iffy in and were sadly disappointed so now they want Booby back
new– take a look at a typical posting on this blogsite…. now have a read of one of yours. Do you see a difference? ie everybody else’s are coherent and understandable/ yours are a garbled mish-mash.
If you’re able to comprehend other’s posts, then surely you can’t be so obtuse not to realize that there’s something seriously wrong with the jibberish that you excrete.
Personally, I think this is just a game to you, so I don’t know why I’m wasting my time.
But you’ll be (un)happy to know that when I start reading a post, and before the end of the first line I get the feeling that this is another one of yours, I happily skip down to the end to confirm that this is just another waste of bandwidth.
Smarten up!
Come on Liberals! Do the right thing. Give all us Ontarians what we have been waiting for. The opportunity to vote for Bob Rae for a second time!
/sarc
Jon: I seem to recall a while back that the CBC had adopted a policy of only reporting on its own polls and no one elses. Government funded hubris.
Rob C “My thoughts are (Bare Ass) Boob Rae is being inserted by his Brother John, Chretien, Desmarias and all the rest of the crooks of Power Corp. They brought Iffy in and were sadly disappointed so now they want Booby back”
You got it!
Hey New, the problem is that muslim,at the Vancouver Canucks games,when the roof opens, then someone may, but then again liberals will vote but NDP may cook it.On the other foot, you might just when it rains and your car beats carrots.What I would do is pothole.
Got that.
Horny Toad
…and the winner is Horny Toad!
Nope, new understood that perfectly.
Horny Toad: ” … then someone may …”
Don’t you mean “they someone may”.
deleted … no offense meant sounder, just cleaning up after New spilled in aisle 3.
Anyway, Dion I, Dion II, as it were.
Survey says, 9 out of 10 Iffy’s prefer torture.
Iffy also attempted to censor free speech.
Iffy: a typical left-liberal intellectual.
…-
“With a little help from our friends”
Coincidence?
The Prime Minister’s piano moment with Yo-Yo Ma (now a popular YouTube video) showcased his love for The Beatles, but could it have been a stab at his opponent, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff?
A few years ago, Ignatieff took issue with an essay by Conor Gearty, a professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, had written mentioning him. Gearty’s article described how liberal intellectuals had helped justify the use of torture. According to this article, which was sent to the Ottawa press gallery a few months ago, “Ignatieff’s response was as violent as it was unexpected. The harm done to his reputation by the article he insisted, was so great that it could not even be remedied by the chance to rebut. He had no alternative but to resign immediately from the editorial and advisory board of the magazine and request that any syndication of the Gearty’s piece be withheld.”
The title of the essay published in Index on Censorship was “With a little help from our friends: Torture is wrong and ineffective. So why is it making a comeback?””
http://blog.canoe.ca/thehill/2009/10/05/with_a_little_help_from_our_friends
…-
The essay below “which was sent to the Ottawa press gallery a few months ago, “Ignatieff’s response was as violent as it was unexpected.:
“No more Mr Nice Guy:
Laurie Taylor on Michael Ignatieff
Once a liberal pin-up and intellectual leader of the global human rights movement, Michael Ignatieff has now fallen out with some of his closest friends. Laurie Taylor tracks an acrimonious battle
Everyone knows Michael Ignatieff. Some first encountered him during the late 70s when his painstaking historical analyses of the evolution of the British penal system provided a valuable empirical complement (some would say antidote) to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. Others will have come to respect him for his novels, family memoirs, or his outstanding biography of his great hero, Isaiah Berlin. Many more will remember the suave, querulous, intellectual contributions he made to BBC 2’s culture-based talking shop, The Late Show. By the time that programme stuttered to a close in the mid-90s news of his fame had even made it back to his country of birth. In 1997 MacLean’s magazine included him in its ‘Top Ten Canadian Who’s Who’ and four years later exultantly promoted him to Canada’s ‘Sexiest Cerebral Man’ because of “his made-for TV looks and effortless eloquence”. What so endeared Ignatieff to the thinking classes was his cosmopolitan liberalism. His Russian family background, North American childhood and easy mastery of several languages seemed to qualify him as a citizen of the world. It was not too surprising, therefore, when he set off for what he described as “the landscapes of modern ethnic war” – Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, and Afghanistan – in search of an answer to a classic liberal question: why do we in the west feel that we have a moral obligation to become embroiled in the internal conflicts of distant lands? His answer helped to transform him into a leading figure in the human rights movement. We could, he argued, only overcome the ethnic particularism that lay behind so many of today’s conflicts by treating others -whatever their religion, class, gender, race – as rights-bearing equals rather than as members of a group. Such whole-hearted advocacy of human rights meant that he was a natural choice for the prestigious post as Carr Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.”
http://newhumanist.org.uk/1299
Why, Barney Fife looks positively “Iffy”
I loved John’s little comment about the media spending way too much time talking about Stephen’s singing debut! LOL… the colour green suits those two.
Poor ole Bobby. Kinda looks like he tried to self administer an enema using a cactus for a nozzle.
Ibbitson’s logic is flawed. If it looks like the ROC will vote in a majority the bloc q’s support will disintegrate and move to the CP. Shades of Dief in ’58. The repercussions are thus good – not bad for a Canada that includes Quebec – this time on a more sustainable footing with Quebec losing its ability to extort more than its fair share from confederation.
The tories are governing, not politicing – imagine that!!
and their core support is rising not declining – a rare thing for a sitting government.
Agreed. Equal provinces within the federation, and none “more equal than others”. Constitutional wrangling must cease, for the good of all. You’re either IN or you’re OUT.
I do not think you understand me well
what i meant was
conservative blog are represent what party ask them to do or support this is not personal hit
Jan 15, 2009 Small dead animal was number one
conservative party
and
now Oct 5, 2009 small dead animal went down to
26 rank
this is means
conservative party expectation of reality and fact are not match
any party who stop and fight Muslim freedom of speech which is Harper judge government are down
and
they forced to join NDP to gain more vote from
Ontario since they can not get majority of ontario
still
NDP is not conservative
and they idea are different
and not stable share ideas with conservative
then we do not have national government
what is positive:
Harper government know so many keys that made mistake
such as how to deal with Muslim in Ontario and in Canda and all war issue can be used agaisnt conservative party
if Loblaw stop thier illegal soon
Muslim have power to help any political party to do help them
next:
certain area in forign policy with Muslim country must be changed public not like it
you put youreself away from reality
untill do not act by fact and reality
conservative only gaining with tactics
the this time tacti was join with NDP
in fact NDP save harper government
then you must say thank you Jack layton
siad go back to work
not by real votes from Candaian
Harper not understand
he has too many kids
and some aer big and some are small
he must take care of each group
seperately among those community
not use west to hep ontario to join him
all is politic not real vote from people in canada
Harper isolate himself in one group nad not see the rest
===
Muslim only help who ever take care of them not fight them and allow others to turture them by law
Isn’t it funny how in eastern liberal MSM thinking leaving Quebec out of the governing party equals not having a ‘national party’.
Leaving Alberta out of the governing party equals ‘having a national party’.
Me thinks to their feeble mind Canada starts at the St Lawrence and ends at Mississauga.
I hope PMSH is alread practising his hit song for next years gala…”We Are The Champions”
Somehow we need to turn new’s posts – guessing that they are his before scrolling (and scrolling) down to see that yes, indeed we knew it was new.
New:
All your base are belong to us.
Really, it is irrelevant how Quebec votes if we get a Conservative majority without them. The CPC is far from dead in the Maritimes according to the polls. The Crop poll suggests that some Quebec seats will go Conservative. If the voters choose to shun a political party that wins an election, too bad for them. Live with the choices you made. (ask NL after the last election) If Quebec doesn’t like that position they can voted differently next time. If the choose to have a referendum to leave Canada and votes yes they want to leave, then let you go. Frankly the country would better off with them.
Joe:
What ibbitson has failed to realize is that by his metric the liberal party hasn’t been a national party since Chretien got into power. Not only did they have nil seats in much of western Canada, but they were (and are) almost non-existent anywhere in Quebec that was more than an hour’s drive from the Montreal Forum.
What a stupid comment by Ibbitsen, although it is likely the view of most Liberals. If Harper wins a majority with Ontario and Quebec, then it is a national party. If it does so by winning Ontario and the West then it is not.
I don’t remember Ibbitson ever saying that Chretien’s gov’t wasn’t a national government when all it was winning was the East and a hugely disproportionate number of seats in Ontario due vote splitting by the Conservatives and Reform.
Eastern conceit on sickening display.
Heh , Fife ratted out Raes supporters . Must be getting tired of all the Ignegatism .
The difference between Ignatieff and Dion has boiled down to expectations, IMO. They lead in very similar ways, top down, platitudes while being critical without offering alternatives. When Dion finally did discuss policy it was the idiotic Green Shaft of the West (day care centres in Toronto to save the environment?).
The coalition gambit was a monumental miscalculation and disaster that will haunt them for years, assuming they are even able to regain support.
Dion’s expectations were exceedingly low; nobody expected him to do well, so if he did OK, it was seen as a great performance.
Ignatieff came in with high expectations, but simply has not delivered, mainly because he is a neophyte politican who hasn’t had to fight hard for anything (parachuted into riding and LPC leadership).
Ignatieff’s coronation was supposed to happen while Grits in power. He has no idea (so far) how to formulate policy. He has a poor understanding of the three-fold role of the opposition (let me help you out Mr Ignatieff: oppose the government; offer alternatives while helping the HofC pass legislation; and stand ready as government in waiting).
Instead, Mr Ignatieff seems content to misunderstand that the Liberal brand is tarnished and will remain so until they truly renew by rejecting top down leadership and cronyism. That was the case with Martin, Dion and now Ignatieff.
IOW they’re dead in the water and their leader doesn’t seem to get it. He must regain control of his party (by nailing Coderre and anybody else who challenges his authority), make a serious effort at policy formulation, and clearly and substantially reject the Chretien cronyism (who seems to still exercise great influence).
Having said that, there seem no signs whatsoever they are willing (or know how) to change their stripes. Harper has a de facto majority now and doesn’t need an election anytime soon, while the Liberal line now seems a finger wagging, “don’t call an election now Mr Harper, or you’ll paaaaay!
On a related topic:
If the rumour on bourque’s site is true – that Warren Kinsella is the guy behind the LP’s recent bearsh$it-in-the-woods ads then perhaps WK’s head will be on the chopping block:
“…”I could be wrong, but I hear the ads were shot by Kinsella and Deacey. Scripted by Iggy.”
“So Iggy, the great international auteur, reduced to writing his own ad ?”
Punk shrugged.
“Kinsella’s great with a handheld. I loved his first-person homage outside the chinese food eatery. His guppy monologues are the stuff of legend. He’s a natural behind the camera, a brilliant raconteur, a genius of the lens. But DEACEY, the former Imperial Tobacco lobbyist ? What’s Iggy doing hanging around a tobacco lobbyist ? …”
http://www.bourque.com/heard.html
Is it just me or does Fife have new(and more)hair?
Inquiring minds want to know
Maybe an aside, but I thought the best thing on tonight’s Power Play was Nigel Lawson on global warming . . . finally someone tells it like it is. I would love to see his book (An Appeal to Reason) get serious play in the media. It sounds very solid.
Is Fife sporting a wig or did the little socialist bleach his hair?
Cat — “Is it just me or does Fife have new(and more)hair?”
I think it is just dyed. A fresh dye job may make it stand out a bit more, and a fresh washing makes it fluffier.
Hey …NEW
Why don’t you cut to chase and threaten to chop heads unless your Muslim superiority is recognized?
This video is three establishment liberals spinning.
Do not listen to these people. They are really peeved that the liberals are not in power, and say two things: The guy who is liberal leader is bnot bringing the natural ruling party back to rule; and … the conservatives had better run the c ountry like liberals or we will really be unhappy.
I spew upon these three. Come the majority!!
The Ontario numbers – 46 percent Conservative – are telling.
There’s no way the Conservatives could call an election without a bit of a backlash. But there’s gotta be a way to provoke Jack Layton to vote against the government.
Hope someone’s working on it.
re: comment @9:17 pm, Am I reading that correctly?
Whoa.
re: The 2 pundits, I am not surprised, frankly. It is the only time that the 2 of then don’t behave like ‘jumping beans’ and complete ‘rock star groupies’.
They have likely put their ‘palm tree fronds’ back into winter and hopefully, annual storage.
new, a tip, learn English (or French).
New said:” I do not think you understand me well”
Truer words have never been spoken.
EBD at October 5, 2009 9:59 PM :
Jack Layton won’t need no encouragement. The poll nimbers will tell him he can get votes from the liberals…that’s all he needs…. and it’sa coming 🙂
I want to ask John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail: If you can be a national party without Ablberta or most of the west then why can’t you be a national party without most of Quebec?
I agree EBD.
It just might be the strategy of the opposition party’s to dump so low in the polls which would make it almost unbearable for PMSH not to call an election. They are creating the poison pill for him to take. Once he does they can rally yelling “LIAR! LIAR!”
Whatever. As long as they are down in the dumps.
I want to ask John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail: If you can be a national party without Alberta or most of the west then why can’t you be a national party without most of Quebec?
Hey …NEW
Why don’t you cut to chase and threaten to chop heads unless your Muslim superiority is recognized?
Posted by: BL@KBIRD at October 5, 2009 9:47 PM
————–
Er, um, she’s been there, done that
I wish, RW (10:14), but Liberal support seems to be bleeding to the Conservatives and not to the NDP, whose numbers are essentially unchanged.
It’s not likely, IMO, that Layton will want to be seen as the guy forcing Canadians to go the polls again.
You know? I think there’s many a liberal these days wondering how they ever allowed that skunk Boob Rae into their chickenhouse! This was a long-thoughtout scheme that seems to have been enacted almost seamlessly. There’s alot more feathers and manure to be flung about before we see the end of this mess. And I like it! A lot!
And there’s nothing I’d like more than to see that stupid smug Fifian visage having to swallow a snoutful of Big C pie! Suits him just fine.
I know a ton of Muslims and none of them sound anything like ‘new’ but then that could be because I live in ‘new’s’ apparent reviled land, Western Canada with my Western Canadian, Muslim friends.
new, you need to get out more and share in the joy of what YOU CAN DO for this country instead of what IT CAN DO FOR YOU!
…and who said intolerance didn’t exist in Canada? Yikes!
new. People will take notice of your posts here when they see Halal pork products in the supermarket.
Honestly, I only see it getting worse for the Liberals unless they can pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Right now the Liberals are the #1 target for the BQ, NDP and Conservative party to “Steal” support from to boost their potential election results. At the same time the Ignatieff faces challenges from within his own party being that all potential rivals benefit the worse he does, and even back-benchers may “Take a run at him” to increase their profile (even if they have to sit as independents until another leader takes control of the liberal party, or join the NDP/Conservatives).
Karl,
You owe me a new keyboard.
‘All your base are belong to us.’
That’s beautiful.
I’m glad noone was around to hear me spontaneously laugh out loud.
Poll not mentioned on The National tonight. Mansbridge must not like the results. How can CBC justify not relaying the poll results? Is it because they don’t relay polls that are paid for by other broadcasters? Nonsense. It’s done all the time. Besides, Allan Gregg is with Strategic Counsel and he’s a frequent guest on The National. Must suck to work for CBC and seeing MPSH near majority territory while Iggy is sinking like a stone. Heh. The angriest guy should be Dion. He was pushed out to get Iggy in their. At least Dion can say that he won the leadership of the party.
Snagglepus 10:29.
My thoughts are (Bare Ass) Boob Rae is being inserted by his Brother John, Chretien, Desmarias and all the rest of the crooks of Power Corp. They brought Iffy in and were sadly disappointed so now they want Booby back
new– take a look at a typical posting on this blogsite…. now have a read of one of yours. Do you see a difference? ie everybody else’s are coherent and understandable/ yours are a garbled mish-mash.
If you’re able to comprehend other’s posts, then surely you can’t be so obtuse not to realize that there’s something seriously wrong with the jibberish that you excrete.
Personally, I think this is just a game to you, so I don’t know why I’m wasting my time.
But you’ll be (un)happy to know that when I start reading a post, and before the end of the first line I get the feeling that this is another one of yours, I happily skip down to the end to confirm that this is just another waste of bandwidth.
Smarten up!
Come on Liberals! Do the right thing. Give all us Ontarians what we have been waiting for. The opportunity to vote for Bob Rae for a second time!
/sarc
Jon: I seem to recall a while back that the CBC had adopted a policy of only reporting on its own polls and no one elses. Government funded hubris.
Rob C “My thoughts are (Bare Ass) Boob Rae is being inserted by his Brother John, Chretien, Desmarias and all the rest of the crooks of Power Corp. They brought Iffy in and were sadly disappointed so now they want Booby back”
You got it!
Hey New, the problem is that muslim,at the Vancouver Canucks games,when the roof opens, then someone may, but then again liberals will vote but NDP may cook it.On the other foot, you might just when it rains and your car beats carrots.What I would do is pothole.
Got that.
Horny Toad
…and the winner is Horny Toad!
Nope, new understood that perfectly.
Horny Toad: ” … then someone may …”
Don’t you mean “they someone may”.