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In tonight’s passing amusement en route to the tips we watch two short Plymptoons in one pass: First, a couple of choice moments from “25 Ways to Quit Smoking”, and then a clip from How To Kiss.
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  1. The NDP attack ad where the message is it’s time to get rid of Stephen Harper borders on slanderous. I know attack ads are part of the electoral game but at least the Conservative ads stating that Justin Trudeau is just not ready (I don’t think he’ll ever be ready, but that’s another story) are well done and don’t simply fling sh*t at him.
    The NDP ads mention electoral fraud, bribery and good old Mike Duffy. Now I assume that the electoral fraud refers to the infamous Robo-call fiasco. You know the one where despite the best efforts of the media and others, they were unable to implicate PMSH or his office. As for the mention of bribery, help me out here as I don’t recall Harper being convicted of bribing anyone. And of course, Mike Duffy is a complete non-issue. My point is that the NDP use of words like fraud and bribery cross the line between truth and falsehood and they should be called on it.

  3. Andrew Coyne’s latest column is the same old “yada yada, niqab, yada yada”. The comments however are somewhat interesting as a number of people are challenging him. I am not sure it is o.k. to just repost someone’s comment, but it was the easiest way to share and I am guessing that the author (Mike White) would not mind his comment being shared. White’s comment so reflected my own thinking regarding Liberals and how they are the truly divisive party in Canada:
    Mike White’s comment:
    One of the many reasons I stopped voting Liberal in the late 80’s was that the Liberals never cared what I thought. I see that same arrogance present in Trudeau and the white and assorted colours social liberals who follow him. Harper in fact is doing what Liberal leaders don’t do and that is protect our customs and traditions especially ones that correspond to moral correctness. In fact I liken these same rainbow social liberals as the same types who while supporting Palestinians forget that their form of social justice is to shoot people in the head while dragging them behind a motorcycle or killing homosexuals etc. In the book that I follow that is called hypocrisy. I don’t like social liberals because their sense of moral righteousness and social justice is extremely flawed. This is why I consider the charter of rights and freedoms to be about the most dangerous document ever published because until the time of its enactment our society was not polarized but once the Charter came into effect all it has done has polarized our society and created devisiveness where none existed before.

  8. Just looked at your linked page. I’m really really really against Genetically Modified food ……but GM people (to make them tiny) would be a fab thing because it will reduce CO2 and methane emissions. A sustainable plan for “the planet.” Yay !! Make ‘em small enough would be great for real estate…I could subdivide my lot into one hundred more and put up Barbi Houses for the new generation of smallsters. (sarcasm button now off)
    Also to LindaL…glad you plucked that comment. You found a good one there for sure. This is what’s called “identity politics.” It’s the long time pain for short term gain upon which the Liberals have always placed their fortunes. They throw out these diversions so they can continue with their corrupt ways without most people noticing. This is why the long form census is so sacrosanct to them. It provides them with the material to create trivial distractions for the electorate with the intention of stifling more meaningful issues, such as rising taxes. Gun registry, metrification, charter of rights, multiculturalism, bilingualism etc etc.

  13. I hope that some conservatives who are troubled by the cynical politics of the CPC, the police state language in C-51, and the hidden problems in the TPP deal, will consider voting for an alternative such as the Libertarian Party of Canada.
    The CPC has not earned the support that it seems to have. I can only assume this is because the alternatives seem worse. The Liberals certainly are, because you don’t get any improvements over the above problems with them in government. I would feel safer about my civil liberties and internet freedom with the NDP in power. However, I can’t vote for their economic policies, so I will be voting Libertarian.
    Please consider doing the same. In the long run, the conservative movement will be stronger, and the country will have better protection of its basic freedoms, if the CPC is forced to confront these issues. I’m really surprised and disappointed that I would need to say this to anyone other than a handful of party hacks.

  15. are all of you going to vote?
    in order to continue to bytch about canuckistan politics by showing up at the voting station, I will bring with me a post-it note with the message “they’re ALL liars” which I will paste on the spoilt ballot.
    you dont show up to vote then quitcherbitchin.
    liars. all of them. dippers than would turn this country into the next ‘greece’, liberals that would hand it over to foreigners, and conservatives who are ALWAYS the closest party to fascism.
    great friggin system we have eh?

  16. Petey Odee
    Your fractured, ideological strategy elects Justina Trudozo as PM, “pal”.
    No political party is PERFECT. there are things I do not like about the CPC, however, seeing either Zoolander and his corrupt pals, or Tommunist and his Marxist brethren take power, is FAR more offensive to my sensibilities then re-electing Canada’s best PM in more than a generation.

  17. Re: Confusion on ”where do I vote.”
    The CBC ran a story on confusion and errors on voting cards.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-voting-polls-1.3260483
    For once, they are right.
    I entered my name and address on Elections Canada website. (Where do I vote?) I must say that I was disappointed at finding out that I had to vote at a mall 100 miles from home, although the mall is in my federal riding. And I knew it had to be an error. I later found out that my polling station is less than a mile my front step. When I phoned my MP, his secretary agreed that the website had erred.
    If you live in a rural area or in a smaller community, there is often confusion over the words ”physical address” and ”postal address.” I use a PO box, simply because we don’t have door to door delivery. Some Sask. farms have Rural Route numbers, we never had them when I lived on the farm. But try explaining that to a clerk at the DRO at the other end of the line, and it can be downright frustrating. As for the comments on the CBC.Ca, I can’t see how people can believe that this (errors-confusion) is done purposely and would be an advantage to the Conservatives. If anything it would be a disadvantage.
    Conclusion: Nothing in this world is perfect.

  18. Re: Polls fed election.
    Oct 6-7, Ekos, Abacus and Mainstreet are all showing a clear lead for the Conservatives. Mainstreet shows the CPC at 37% with the Libs at 29%. Even the CBC shows the CPC in the lead.
    Meanwhile the Nanos Poll at CTV keeps insisting that the Libs are ahead, and showing up to 10% difference between other pollsters. Someone at CTV needs a math lesson!! Or perhaps they’re looking at the screen through a knee-cab!

  19. An NDP candidate who once told a TV program same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy and public nudity, is offering an apology and says he no longer holds those views.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/07/ndp-candidate-apologizes-for-former-views-on-gay-marriage-homosexuality
    This reminds me of when Kamenev and Zinoviev agreed to confess and self implicate themselves during the first of the major Stalinist show trials in 1936. We are all guilty of not bowing.

  20. You’ve got it right DanBC. Any votes for the Libertarian Party of Canada just takes Trudeau one step closer to being Prime Minister. One may as well vote for the Marijuana Party or the Communists or whatever. We can all agree that Harper is not perfect. No Prime Minister has or ever will be perfect but what we have is the best that I’ve witnessed in all my years of voting. Trudeau and Mulcair are light years behind in terms of common sense and doing what is right for Canada. Oh they’ll see that the Laurentian Elite, the civil service and the big unions are looked after but as for the rest of us, especially in the west, not so much.

  21. If you look at the breakdown of Nanos’ polling, it appears that his numbers are focused on the urbancentric areas, skewing the polls liberally. These polls were showing, in BC, the CPC third and the Liberals first. Those numbers do not reflect longterm BC trends, nor 308.coms vote distribution.
    Nanos is an outlier, and a Liberal fan, to boot.
    CPC now needs to show the killer instinct, and finish off Trudozo, once and for all. It will be well worth seeing all the exploding heads and vitriol from the brain dead HDS dhimmis, country wide.

  24. What the hell was that?
    Spoiling your vote with a post-it note? That’ll show ‘em. How different is that to not voting?
    You follow that with, “you dont show up to vote then quitcherbitchin”.
    Then you proceed to bitch. After you admit you’re not going to vote.
    It seems to me you just came here to say, “conservatives are ALWAYS the closest party to fascism”.
    Then tell me why conservatives want to let you keep your guns and further relax gun laws.
    That doesn’t seem very fascist.

  25. “Worst kind of white saviour complex…smacks of colonialism for white Christian Canadian government officials…the only voices we hear on the subject are mens’…a patriarchal figure telling women what they can and cannot do…the Conservative party is actually promoting violence against women.”
    Emily Williams is a graduate of the University of King’s College. She is pursuing her studies in Montreal and hails from Dartmouth.
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1315495-williams-niqab-ban-enthusiasts-full-of-faux-feminism

  26. O’narcissist 0, Putin 4.
    “Suddenly Obama’s partners for peace are going out of their way to treat him like a nobody in the most insulting way.”
    “Now all Putin has to do is kick out the base and down he goes.”
    …-
    “Putin is in Syria to humiliate president Obama for sound strategic reasons.
    Putin appears to be the darling of the hour.
    Radio Free Europe reports that Afghanistan’s “First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum is seeking help from an old ally — Russia.”
    Iraqi Shi’ite politicians, caught up in the madness of strongman adulation, have called on Putin to bomb Iraq.”
    “Why should Obama’s ego represent such a target of vulnerability? Because Obama has thrown away the gigantic American institutional advantage by pursuing an opaque strategy from the narrowest of White House circles. He has taken foreign policy away from institutions, deprived it of bipartisan consensus in order to centralize it on his desk. Where it should have been diffuse it has become a cult of personality, a weak spot that Putin is relentlessly attacking. He knows that when a Messiah is shown in an ridiculous light, the cult falls.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/10/08/the-combat-of-champions/#more-45193

  27. PET Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine: ““Especially since Russia lost in hockey, they will be in a bad mood.”
    …-
    “Russia’s President Putin celebrates birthday playing hockey against NHL stars”
    “NHL legends such as Pavel Bure helped the president’s team win 15-10, with, coincidentally, 7 goals made by Putin.”
    http://www.fox28.com/story/30212080/2015/10/07/russias-president-putin-celebrates-birthday-playing-hockey-against-nhl-stars
    http://o.canada.com/news/justin-trudeau-makes-awkward-hockey-joke-while-talking-about-ukraine-crisis

  28. The fact that all politicians are liars is not a valid reason to abstain. One of the liars is going to get their hands on the government apparatus and you have to vote for the one that will do the less damage.

  29. I have just returned (early, couldn’t take the BS) from a local riding campaign debate. I haven’t heard so much class-warfare shite coming from very comfortably-off middle class people since I was at college.
    Liberal, Dipper and She in the Green Mould, were spouting class envy. The Libertarian did not demand a flat tax. I laughed out loud at the Marxist-Leninist, also very comfortably off, rather like university professors, less eloquent but just as confused.
    The standing Liberal member, elected four times at least, said that a recent OECD report stated that the biggest problem was that the 1% are getting more and more of their 1% while the 99% were getting less. I said, half out-loud, no it didn’t (I read that crap sometimes) and turned to the woman on my left and said: “That comes straight from the US”. “Sir, I am trying to listen to the debate!”
    Also, the man to my right, who had already voted for the (again and again and again) incumbent Liberal MP, a man of some stature in Parliament, but does FA in the riding, said he did so because he wanted change! I asked him where is the change in a Liberal government with a PM named Trudeau?
    After the first round of questions, I discretely exited before I would be expelled.
    OK Bonus question, in what riding do I live in Ottawa?

  30. The National Review had a nice precis of just how Harper has “wrecked” the Cdn Economy:
    “Canada now has a higher per capita household income than the U.S., an unheard-of development that no one saw coming. It ranks eighth in the annual Economic Freedom of the World index (freetheworld.com) that the Fraser Institute compiles for over 150 countries, with especially strong marks in property rights and business freedom. By comparison, the U.S. ranks a pathetic 17th and is now categorized as only “mostly free.” . . . The consulting firm of KPMG looked at the tax costs of doing business in ten major nations. Setting the U.S. tax rate at a benchmark score of 100, it found that Canada’s costs were the lowest, 46.4 percentage points lower than the U.S. The United Kingdom, Mexico, and the Netherlands also beat out the U.S.
    Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425057/muslim-face-veil-controversy-boosts-stephen-harper-canadas-conservatives

  33. On balance I think the CPC does a decent job and that Harper is very, very capable. Things like the “police state” language are a sign of the times. TPP is not great, but the alternative is to be left behind economically. Corporations have a lot of power these days, and that is not the fault of the Conservatives. Both the NDP and the Liberals will risk our sovereignty by opening the door to UN policies. If you are a Libertarian you should be worried about what the UN has planned. Harper is about the only force standing between Canada and global governance.

  34. “We can all agree that Harper is not perfect. No Prime Minister has or ever will be perfect but what we have is the best that I’ve witnessed in all my years of voting.”
    If I may. Harper is trying to cater to each of us under the Conservative and or the Conservative/Libertarian tent. Each of us has a slightly different idea about what needs to be done about any given subject. So naturally, each of us thinks he is not perfect because he cannot bring to fruition every idea we each have.

  36. and isn’t that the difference between us and the socialists and marxists? They hold their Dear Leaders to an unrealistic level, even if its deserved from all the ridiculous promises that they make. Justy just can’t stop his litany of crazy spending promises. Leads to profound disappointment.
    When we rail about the CBC not being decimated, destroyed, disbanded, or disarrayed, it is because it is what WE want, not what PMSH has promised.
    So far as I have noticed, PMSH hasn’t promised to lower taxes, then immediately raise them after election, like the Liberals ALWAYS do.
    A promise made is a promise kept. Something NOT in the Liberal lexicon

  38. CBC interviewed the Muslim woman at the center of the niqab issue this morning.
    Bottom line: if this woman’s not a trojan horse to get the niqab accepted in Canadian law, I’ll eat my hat. Her husband opposes it. Her family opposes it. She has no daughters (4 sons), but if she did, she’d tell them not to wear it. She knows Muslim scholars are split on the issue. She knows other Muslim women are forced to wear it, are oppressed. “But I’m not oppressed” she says. “It’s my personal choice” she says. “It’s my religious duty” she says.
    So every single objection you might typically make toward her wearing of the damn thing, she doesn’t disagree with you. It’s her choice. And isn’t that why she came to Canada, so she could exercise her choice in freedom?
    What a CONTEMPTIBLE woman. She’ll win her case, sure as hell, and pave the way for all the Muslim women who ARE oppressed and who have husbands and fathers who WILL force them to wear it, to have NO recourse under Canadian law. She’ll trample on the rights of all the women to come after her, spit on the rights of all the women who are FORCED to wear it, all so she can have her ‘freedom’.
    She doesn’t know the true meaning of the word. Unsurprising these days, since our Liberals and Dippers don’t know it any more either.

  39. Does It Matter Who Is Elected President?
    by Jacob G. Hornberger September 10, 2015
    For the next year, we are all going to have to endure the presidential campaign and its accompanying blowhard speeches, insipid commentaries, and vapid debates.
    At the same time, many people will be terribly excited over the opportunity they get every four years to elect the person who will wield omnipotent power over their lives. It’s really not surprising that people get so excited about the presidential race because it’s the only time when the person who will rule over them will be nice and deferential to them. Once Election Day comes, everything changes for the next 3 years. The president will be back in his role as ruler and the citizens will be back in their role as deferential, submissive serfs.
    Untold amounts of money will pour into the presidential race. That’s because the governmental system that we now have in the United States — a welfare-warfare state — is a money-making racket for hundreds of thousands of people who are on the dole, either directly or indirectly. Much of the big money that will pour into the presidential campaign coffers will be accompanied by the hope of getting a share of the trillions of dollars of welfare-warfare state largess that is provided by the taxpayers.
    http://fff.org/2015/09/10/does-it-matter-who-is-elected-president/

  40. The Libertarian Party of Canada seeks to cap income tax at 15%. That’s where I disagree. Income taxes should be either eliminated or made optional.

  41. Peter, I understand your sentiments but, given our first-past-the-post electoral system, your vote is simply going to help the Liberals or NDP.
    No political party matches with what *I* ideally want so most of my life I’ve always voted for the least worst option. The strongest example of this was the last provincial election in British Columbia. I can’t stand Christy Clark and many of her cohorts. But had I, and many other British Columbians taken your approach, the NDP would have won a clear victory.

  42. “I haven’t heard so much class-warfare shite coming from very comfortably-off middle class people” – Brilliantly said!
    It gets worse. Just last week, in the SF Bay Area where I now live, I had an upper-middle class Asian-American woman (MUCH wealthier than me) insist that I need to be apologetic for both my “white privilege” and my “male privilege”. She has been so deeply indoctrinated in such B.S. that she says such things with absolute conviction and not the slightest amount of self-awareness of her own station in life.

  43. Very little from the Dippers or Liberals on what sort of “carbon” tax they will introduce and how much money it will rake in.

  44. Other than Harper’s accomplishments, one of the main reasons that I consider him to be the best PM in Canada’s history is the abysmal atmosphere that he must work with. I know that it’s been repeated over and over but no PM in history has had to deal with such an adversarial media. Media that unashamedly magnifies and embellishes every little misstep, ignores or downplays positives and practices hero worship toward his opponents. The Syrian refugee thing is a prime example. Harper is blamed for the death of a little boy when, in fact, the actual story was entirely different than what was widely reported ad nauseam. The NDP MP who out and out lied about what took place in order to discredit Harper was never taken to task for his reprehensible behaviour. The whole sordid Mike Duffy fiasco is just another example of extreme and obvious media bias.
    To be able to carry on under such circumstances without blowing up is a testament to Harper’s character. Can you imagine Mulcair’s reaction if the media treated him unfairly?

  45. Having been an avid Conservative for the past 60 years, Whenever Opposition Parties, Socialist(NDP) and Liberal are becoming desperate in not moving in the right direction they and their Media Minions will misinterpret to their advantage.
    They will go after the Leader of the Conservative Party with any slanderous and completely stupid lies in the hope of discouraging support for them.
    It is very apparent that both the Liberals and NDP are in very negative support areas. The more slander and lying only means their ships are sinking faster.

  46. This is not a coincidence:
    The american who helped stopped the terror attack on the french train just happens to attend the same college that was just attacked by a ‘crazy’ gunman.
    “Skarlatos is scheduled to appear on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” for which he was rehearsing when a gunman killed nine people at the Oregon community college he attends last week.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/french-train-attack-hero-spencer-stone-stabbed-in-california-in-stable-condition
    How can the so-called reporter write this and NOT connect the dots.
    The other guy about which the article was written was stabbed in california, no details on what happened.
    If these events are unrelated then …..

  47. Peter. Full on libertarianism is a pipe dream where civil society provides for all our needs, always, every time, did you hear me, every time, from the bottom up. No income taxes, no trade agreements, no collective security. All it ever accomplishes is getting socialists elected.
    Classical liberals understand the need for very limited government chosen by civil society to serve it, while the economy develops from the bottom up with entrepreneurship, innovation & wealth creation. Conservatives agree but are more apt to use the power of the state to achieve their political aims. Harper is a mix of the two, as are most voting Canadians imho.
    Trudeau thinks Harper means “bottoms up” so waxes nostalgia for the comforts of his fellow Laurentian elites, knowing full well, ’cause daddy told him, that we work for government, economies are directed from the top down (NEP, FIRA) so “does economics from the heart” not the brain or logic or reality. Feelings matter. Not yours, his. That makes him a utopiate Grit statist who has no idea what’s he talking about – but he will get back to us later once in the PMO. Not gonna happen. The NDP got into AB because the vote split on the right, not the left, big time as in this election.
    Mulcair’s a Labour Marxist, straight and even. He couldn’t help himself this election so thundered in. He’s the Romney of our campaign – trying to play it safe. He’s put the NDP back where they belong – in third place.
    While I also see some of your sentiment, reality is there so I’ll take Harper over any of the others. Looks like you’re stuck with Stephen Harper as PM Peter!!
    LindaL. Great point on the Charter. I had a poli sci prof who was left of left who understood and warned us of the dangers of this codified document. His predictions of more powerful courts and demands upon the state have stood the test of the last 30 years.

  48. Leftists are regressives.
    “”The provisional agreement on a Trans-Pacific Partnership on trade has rattled Brazil,…”
    …-
    “Only time will tell if the TPP benefits outweigh the losses” (g-m)
    “Mulcair vows to scrap TPP deal if elected” (global)
    …-
    “Brazil on the outside, looking in on ‘very negative’ effects of TPP deal”
    “The provisional agreement on a Trans-Pacific Partnership on trade has rattled Brazil, further threatening an already battered economy and eroding the country’s status as the economic and political leader in South America.
    “Everyone in Brazil has been sleeping at the wheel while the negotiations have been going on – and it’s suddenly sinking in and people are realizing this could be very, very negative,” economist Monica de Bolle said. “There was no sense of urgency.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/latin-american-business/brazil-on-the-outside-looking-in-on-very-negative-effects-of-tpp-deal/article26711668/

  49. AGW RIP.
    “Still no global warming at all for 18 years 8 months”
    …-
    “There’s life in the old Pause yet”
    “Still no global warming at all for 18 years 8 months
    By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
    To the growing embarrassment of the world-government wannabes who are preparing to meet in Paris next month to inflict upon the world a Solomon Binding treaty that will, in all but name, create an all-powerful global tyranny-by-clerk for the first time, the central pretext for the entire venture – global warming – continues to be conspicuous by its prolonged absence.
    One-third of Man’s entire influence on climate since the Industrial Revolution has occurred since February 1997. Yet for 224 months since then there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). With this month’s RSS temperature record, the Pause equals last month’s record at 18 years 8 months.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/08/theres-life-in-the-old-pause-yet/

  50. biffjr: “To be able to carry on under such circumstances without blowing up is a testament to Harper’s character. Can you imagine Mulcair’s reaction if the media treated him unfairly?”
    What about the latest “scandal,” immigration and security officials caught red-handed doing their job:
    “Prime Minister’s Office ordered halt to refugee processing.” Was Duffy involved?
    There were, oh my God, “delays” because of the “interference of the PMO.” What’s next, murders in the caucus closet? Craig Magnon Oliver was frothing at the mouth this morning. Will he be around for the non-apology when once again these Grit loving spin doctors are shown for what they are?
    Trudeau remarked he will “change” delay times in fairness the middle class. “Change which isn’t happening, will have to change.” Mr Trudeau passionately explained, from his heart, “I’ll change Canada by keeping it the same but with me as PM. Oh, and higher taxes and, do I get a coronation?” You are getting very sleepy, get your mom to take you to the poll, vote for Stephen … I mean Dustin … I mean Justin Trudeau.
    I think Stephen Harper is OK with Trudeau believing he’s ahead. The mediocracy can continue their false newspeak for their Grit friends all they like. They like their dear leader are anachronisms.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prime-ministers-office-ordered-halt-to-refugee-processing/article26713562/

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