(Accurate to plus/minus 5 points, 19 times out of 20. This could be the 20.) Related.
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Hey, wait a minute, I was voting for the middle picture! I didn’t know it was for a minority government!
This poll-rigging has to stop!
I read an interesting article recently on the net, about a CIA program. It was based on something called the dead ox syndrome or the dead ox something… from a fair in England where they had a dead ox on display and fair goers competed guessing the weight of the dead ox. The guesses were all over the place but, in the end when all guesses were in, the average of the guesses was within two pounds of the actual weight of eighteen hundred pounds. The CIA has a program based on this, thousands of people give their opinions on international affairs and issues, such as will Israel be involved in a nuclear conflict in the next five years, and they average the responses…
Anyway, it may be that the more guesses we get here on the election outcome the more likely the average guess is to be the actual outcome.
Or more likely we will have the Liberal dead ox as PM incumbent. I can hardly express how sick I am about this.
The chick with the guns got my vote.
It’s almost impossible to vote against girls with guns… there is the chance that ALL the pollsters are insane.
The despair in the voice of the announcer echoes mine.
My niece just posted on Facebook her favourite: “Is Stephen Harper the worst Prime Minister ever?”
And now I see that his ex-lawyer won’t vote for him for some obscure reason.
That comes on top of Conrad Black’s endorsement of Justin, which makes absolutely no sense.
Clearly, the country has collectively lost its mind.
You must be an AGW climate modeler.
I thought I was voting for my favorite Led Zeppelin album
Hey I wuz pwned!! I picked the middle picture cuz I thought we wuz celebrating a win with a new Tory national holiday – hard liquor and handgun week – I can hear the heads exploding down at Dudley HQ over that one 😉
I always though Julie Andrews was a hottie, but I want the Nazi airship *Hindenburg to burn!
The Liberals are facists so the Hindenburg burning is a good thing, right? Oh the Huge Manatee!
*These pictures are hard to decipher.
Ahh, you misinterpreted EBD.
I picked the top photo cause I’m musical and like Julie Andrews.
In the “Sound of Music” they were running from the Nazis…
Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis.
Finale – Climb Ev’ry Mountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDFoF9sfQA
Apparently they made it out…
What are you sinking about?
German Coast guard trainee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Yes Hans. Everybody here at SDA knows about the Sound of Music. And also know it was good propaganda. Move on. Oh. And there never was or is anything such as the Army Group True North.
Said it before say it again.
If its a minority the professional poker player wins the charm school grad will lose his shirt.
The pollsters seem to be favouring a minority.
The opposition parties have all been campaigning to get Harper out….and not considering what comes after…the liberals in particular I believe have been writing cheques their ass can’t cash. In a minority you have to actually deliver, and if justin has to make new promises to the ndp to keep from losing a confidence vote.
The liberals have stated they won’t agree to a coalition with the ndp and there is a good reason for this.
They know that Mucliar will extract the maximum political price in return for their support leaving justin the prospect of giving away the farm to retain power or refuse and not only take the blame for forcing another election but confirming that he is unprepared to be PM.
Consider this, the liberals have to go from current seat count to majority territory which is a jump of about 140 seats.
These are a few of my favourite things..
As a resident of South Jersey who lives not all that far from the site of the Hindenburg tragedy, I find your use of that photo particularly exploitative. Also funny.
“… when the dog bites, when the bee stings, when the Liberals win… I simply remember my favourite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.”
I voted in the advance poll, so I won’t be voting in this one 😉 … however, for those who have not yet voted, make sure you have the necessary ID so you won’t be turned away or unnecessarily frustrated.
All info from Elections Canada website:
“There are three options to prove your identity and address
1) Show one of these pieces of ID
your driver’s licence
your provincial or territorial ID card
any other government card with your photo, name and current address
OR
2) Show two pieces of ID
At least one must have your current address
(see list of 30 valid items here http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=id&document=index&lang=e)
OR
3) If your ID does not have your current address, take an oath
Show two pieces of ID with your name and have someone who knows you attest to your address. This person must show proof of identity and address, be registered in the same polling division, and attest for only one person.
Your voter information card is not a piece of ID.” But bring your voter ID card to speed up the process, as it indicates which poll booth you should vote at.
Glad I left Alberta and Canada when I did. While you folks are goose stepping down the road to communism and slavery, we’ll be rebuilding after sixteen years of it, Go Trump!
This is Harper’s last day. It’s sad, but it is what it is. Ontario, Atlantic Canada, and the big cities desperately want to run back to big daddy Liberal for warm & fuzzies & free stuff. They don’t want to be told “No” any more by that big meanie Harper. They want to make themselves feel good by voting for the handsome boy with the nice hair who soothes them with such pretty sounding words.
And that’s it, really. There’s no rational thought behind what’s coming today. Harper’s going to lose because the Canadian electorate is no less infantile than the American one; and because Canadian culture is just too left-leaning by default to tolerate a Conservative government for very long.
We’ve all survived Liberal governments before. We’ve survived the media’s nauseating kid-glove treatment of them. We’ve pointed out their stupidity, their irrationality, their politically-correct double-speak, their insane hatred of all things conservative and Christian and self-destructive love of all things not conservative nor Christian.
We’ll do so again. And we’ll have to do so for probably a decade.
I’m likely watching the Jays game tonight. I’m not going to listen to that smug pretty boy give his arrogant acceptance speech. He’s going to get my default Obama treatment: turn off the TV or radio so I don’t have to listen to him.
might as well be senile because most of the country is/are nuts.
Yep. ‘From the heart out’ bypassing the brain.
It’s pathetic that when you talk to normally intelligent people about politics, their eyes glaze over and they repeat the last thing they heard on the radio. The vast majority simply are ignorant about politics, and have no clue whatsoever about the dangers that a drama teacher as Prime Minister could pose.
As the tingles run down the legs of our pathetic media whores of this country, they should look at their kids, because it is the kids that will shoulder the burden and work in servitude for the shortsightedness of what these self loathers are trying to accomplish. The money is obviously pouring in from the tides group old Dr. Evil in China and the usual wealthy Canadian families here in Canada to develop yet another Turdomania. If elected he will serve his masters, he is far to stupid for individual thought, when he signs away Canadas soverignty the media whores will have what they have been after since they signed onto the climate scam 20 years ago. Anyone who cares about the future needs to get out to vote, but if you only care about the Kardashians and free stuff don’t bother.
It was incumbent of the Harper government over the past 10 years to educate
the electorate about conservative thought. IMHO they came no where close to
accomplishing that. Older voters through life experience usually understand
why conservative thought is best. Younger voters are schooled in socialist
thought from pre-school. Combine that with the desperation of those who can
not manage their own affairs and they fall to the ‘fear & greed’ politics
of progressives.
For a year I have expected a CPC defeat. When my own riding which has a
strong CPC brand for 20 years is likely to vote NDP it says something. Not
only did Harper fail in his message but he and who ever runs the Party have
down graded the role the riding constituencies play in policy and organizing.
What I saw was what I call the ‘political carpet baggers’ moving into party
functions for what they could get from the process and not for philosophical
reasons.
This loss will not be all about politics and philosophy. There is a fundamental economic split in Canada. The West’s wealth is based on resource
extraction. The east has traditionally benefited by transferring huge portions
of that wealth back east. Harper governments threatened that transfer and did
not create a counter balance to minimalize the loss. Combine this situation with all the external forces who have conspired to eliminate a far more
aggressive Canadian foreign policy. OPEC, the USA and Russia all have valid
reasons to fear a stronger Canada which would have happened under a continued
Harper reign.
I.M., good post but I am staying hopeful. It ain’t over yet, and the Conservatives may get far more seats than people think.
Was out at 3:30 AM this morning doing a final sign blitz in my riding. It was peaceful and quiet, not too cold, mist in the air. It felt good to pound in the signs and reflect on the campaign. My Conservative candidate has worked diligently for our riding for 10 years, and if the idiots here want to throw him out and put a stereotypical, arrogant Liberal in his place they do so at their peril.
The media’s treatment of Harper has been deplorable. Considering the extent of the hate campaign against him, the Conservatives can be proud of how well they do today, no matter the result.
One thing for me that will change after this election is that I simply refuse to ever again pick up a National Post. The writers there can rot in hell for their attacks on Harper. I hope the paper goes bust.
The other depressing thing to realize is that there are only two conservative premiers in the country, in Saskatchewan & Newfoundland, and Newfoundland is still hell-bent on punishing Harper (maybe you can give the BC premier a half-point. That Liberal party isn’t quite as bad as the feds). The entire country’s gone left. At the next first ministers meeting, which Trudeau will be certain to attend, they’ll all come up with glorious ways to spend more & more tax dollars, revive all kinds of federal-provincial cost-sharing boondoggles, trash-talk the evils of oil, praise green power, pow-wow about aboriginal women, etc. Brad Wall is going to get completely ignored in that room. It’ll be Liberals & Dippers throwing a grand old party on our dimes.
It won’t be until the second such meeting that the premiers start beating up on poofy hair for not giving them enough money.
American conservatives should be paying close attention to this election campaign. If they think it has nothing to do with them, they’re wrong. Canada is a liberal paradise: every single thing they’ve demanded has been granted, if not made mandatory. Abortion on demand, human “rights” tribunals, transgender rights, gay marriage, high taxation, socialized healthcare, pandering to every special category from immigrants to aboriginals…
And they’re still campaigning on the “need” for “change”.
It’s a warning to the US: these people are NEVER SATISFIED. This is your future, my friends. Think hard.
American conservatives should be paying close attention to this election campaign. If they think it has nothing to do with them, they’re wrong. Canada is a liberal paradise: every single thing they’ve demanded has been granted, if not made mandatory. Abortion on demand, human “rights” tribunals, transgender rights, gay marriage, high taxation, socialized healthcare, pandering to every special category from immigrants to aboriginals…
And they’re still campaigning on the “need” for “change”.
It’s a warning to the US: these people are NEVER SATISFIED. This is your future, my friends. Think hard.
As far as the election results are concerned, the thing that worries me the most – the increasing public debt load that will fall on the shoulders of the young – didn’t even get honourable mention as a campaign issue. So, if it doesn’t even worry the folks who are going to have to pay it, I guess my concerns must be overblown.
As I told one of our kids, who has already cast her “say no to Harper” vote, “It amazes me that the people who are the most ill-equipped to deal with hard times, invariably vote for them.”
* “their eyes glaze over and they repeat the last thing they heard on the radio”
sadly, this is so true.
ask any one of these intellectual lightweights to name just one thing justin trudeau has done that won their vote and watch them squirm.
this will go down in history as the scooby-doo feelgood election… and if the liberals get in, our grandchildren will be paying the price decades from now.
*
CT @ October 19, 2015 9:30 AM “This loss will not be all about politics and philosophy. There is a fundamental economic split in Canada. The West’s wealth is based on resource extraction. The east has traditionally benefited by transferring huge portions of that wealth back east. Harper governments threatened that transfer and did
not create a counter balance to minimalize the loss.”
You refer to the western “Milch cow” approach Ottawa has to nationalism – https://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/libhtm/milch.htm
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Harper will be around after tonight. In a minority position. He will not call Parliament till after the Paris COP21 to save our collective asses from the commie nut bars at the UN pushing for global policing of carbon production.
Then he will have his throne speech, and will be defeated. The Libs and Dippers will make a go of it, making a debacle of it and fail, then next election, May, June will break the bank of the Liberals and the Dippers and hopefully Harper gets his majority after being the last adult standing.
my personal favourite memory of the election will be attending the all candidates debate last week for a local riding. Topic was health care. The Liberal and NDP were gang banging away at the Conservative incumbent regarding the private health care clinics that are destroying the greatest system in history, how the Conservatives were selling us out to bring in an American style system; basically Harper is the devil incarnate regarding health care. I was able to close out the debate with the following question (which the Ndp and Liberal candidates never did answer); “if privatization in the health care system is so terrible, do you support the closing of private abortion clinics?” It was hilarious.
farmerboy @ October 19, 2015 10:50 AM – – The Liberal and NDP were gang banging away at the Conservative incumbent regarding the private health care clinics that are destroying the greatest system in history, how the Conservatives were selling us out to bring in an American style system; basically Harper is the devil incarnate regarding health care.–
Well rehearsed manipulative emotional sloganeering and Marxist critical theory in practice – these are the tactic used by 5th columnist reds from the October revolution to date – so you know they are neither liberal nor democratic nor civil in any liberal democratic sense – this open neo-bolshevism exists because there is a large voting block ignorant of the civil tenets of free liberal democratic ideals – dumbed down ir newly arrives from some hell hole in which ethical democracy and constitutionally restrained authority do not exist.
Canada will not last long on this path. It is up to patriots to create a movement to deprogram self-destructive Marxist public conditioning – don’t blame Harper for this
In a decade there could be ten million more muslims here voting for more free stuff and threatening to kill us if they don’t get it. We survived Trudeau the first but it took us twenty years to almost recover from it. Every time liberals drag us down, conservatives have to spend a decade trying to dig us out and we are still not in a great position. We are weak enough now that we might find in a decade that we look like Greece and never recover.
The consequences of a loss is that the game will be rigged. The party subsidies will be restored by Trudeau you can guarantee it plus whatever other fiddling is necessary to ensure liberal victories.
One problem that I noted this morning when I went to vote is that here in rural Sask. where everyone has a P.O. Box for their address they didn’t want to accept my drivers licence which of course has my po box #. In my discussion with the election worker she couldn’t think of any document either that would have a land address on it as well as a name because everyone uses the P.O.# . On the other side of the coin I had a problem with the post office a few months back because I had one bill that came with my land address on it but I was informed that they would no longer put it in my box because the address on the envelope was a land address not a P.O. Box. You can’t have it both ways and I could see this becoming a problem in the future.
Hey Bobd06, if that is the result I could certainly live with it! Thanks for the optimism.
Thanks for that, Nicola!
I’m part of the generation that had to memorize English Literature in high school and that was one poem that I enjoyed. On this EVE of Destruction it has given me new hope that perhaps the common electorate will wake up in about six months time when the next election will be called and realize what they have done in voting for the young unethical grafter.
I’m reminded of a time in Canada when a person only ran for government office after they had spent a lifetime establishing themselves as a beacon of inspiration. A person who had a hand in raising and providing for a family, paid a mortgage, ran a successful business or worked and was proud at what they worked at, led a straight and decent life and wanted to contribute more to the common good without a huge financial reward. After deciding to run for public office they had their reputation speak for itself in their local community and that community elected whom they thought was the most ethical and up-standing person to office. Now after Trudeau the senior we had the mantra thrown over us that we should pay politicians more if we wanted the best men/women to govern us. Since then we have been governed with a mismatch of ethical people at times and charlatans and deceivers at others. We are now approaching a far darker period in our history where the deceivers have schooled a whole generation into believing that they are entitled to everything! We are about to be governed by a party that believed it was ethical for their leader to gouge charities by charging them money for speeches. That is how far this country has fallen.
Upon refreshing my memory by reading your entry here I have a little more hope that perhaps after a little time we shall emerge from this as a country a little wiser and more astute, and understanding that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, like democracy cannot be granted, they must be worked and sacrificed for. Thank You!
For the hidden hand, this election is a case of eliminate the middleman. Why work through an unreliable incrementalist when you can have the whole enchilada?
But when you look at it carefully, all we are actually losing is the subterfuge. Now it will all be out in the open. Maybe that will help in the long run.
CT. There is no such thing as conservative thought. Freedom should be inborn and those who need to be taught about freedom will never be free.
If the entire nation can be as stupid as the people of Ontario then we’re done as a country. Three corruption-soaked governments and Ontario still voted Liberal a fourth time. Do people not remember the corruption-soaked federal Liberals? In addition, Trudeau has a resume ten times thinner than Obama’s when he was elected.
I still have a bit of hope for the election, however, because the Conservatives won 3 times previously despite the ‘soldiers in the streets’ or ‘hidden agenda’ HDS that the media and Libs were pushing at the time. We’ll see tonight.
Interesting – I voted in an advance poll in Almonte (Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston) and I only had to show my voter’s card; heavy turnout, though. At the Ontario provincial previously, I also voted in an advance poll, and had to show my driver’s license, even though I knew the meeter and greeter on the door personally.
So, as in other everyday situations, some people — in this case, deputy returning officers/poll clerks etc. make their own rules. I don’t know if every eligible voter received their personalized “voter ID card” nor the accompanying booklet listing all the pieces of ID one can use. IMO, when it comes to voting, at whatever level, the same rules should apply. In my riding, at the advance poll, there was only one polling booth/one box, whereas in another riding where a family member lives, there were apparently 4 or 5 polling booths/boxes.
Also, when I saw reports of people (not Muslim women) voting with face covered, I thought it was a funny & maybe appropriate statement. But on second thought … those mask-wearers could be inadvertently reinforcing the actual niqab wearers’ right to vote wth face covered.
My wife and I voted 2 Sundays ago. The lineup was about 140 feet long and it took us the better part of an hour to cast our votes.
Although i still want Harper to win , i agree they ran a lousy campaign / they had four years to plan and execute a winning strategy and then calling it so early WTF??/
Hey, wait a minute, I was voting for the middle picture! I didn’t know it was for a minority government!
This poll-rigging has to stop!
I read an interesting article recently on the net, about a CIA program. It was based on something called the dead ox syndrome or the dead ox something… from a fair in England where they had a dead ox on display and fair goers competed guessing the weight of the dead ox. The guesses were all over the place but, in the end when all guesses were in, the average of the guesses was within two pounds of the actual weight of eighteen hundred pounds. The CIA has a program based on this, thousands of people give their opinions on international affairs and issues, such as will Israel be involved in a nuclear conflict in the next five years, and they average the responses…
Anyway, it may be that the more guesses we get here on the election outcome the more likely the average guess is to be the actual outcome.
Or more likely we will have the Liberal dead ox as PM incumbent. I can hardly express how sick I am about this.
The chick with the guns got my vote.
It’s almost impossible to vote against girls with guns… there is the chance that ALL the pollsters are insane.
The despair in the voice of the announcer echoes mine.
My niece just posted on Facebook her favourite: “Is Stephen Harper the worst Prime Minister ever?”
And now I see that his ex-lawyer won’t vote for him for some obscure reason.
That comes on top of Conrad Black’s endorsement of Justin, which makes absolutely no sense.
Clearly, the country has collectively lost its mind.
You must be an AGW climate modeler.
I thought I was voting for my favorite Led Zeppelin album
I’m trying to figure out which one would best represent the “look at all the f***s I give” option.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h4/Shady_777/4chan%20and%20lulz/look-at-all-the-fks-i-give.jpg
I picked a fine time to go senile.
Hey I wuz pwned!! I picked the middle picture cuz I thought we wuz celebrating a win with a new Tory national holiday – hard liquor and handgun week – I can hear the heads exploding down at Dudley HQ over that one 😉
I always though Julie Andrews was a hottie, but I want the Nazi airship *Hindenburg to burn!
The Liberals are facists so the Hindenburg burning is a good thing, right? Oh the Huge Manatee!
*These pictures are hard to decipher.
Ahh, you misinterpreted EBD.
I picked the top photo cause I’m musical and like Julie Andrews.
In the “Sound of Music” they were running from the Nazis…
Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis.
Finale – Climb Ev’ry Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDFoF9sfQA
Apparently they made it out…
What are you sinking about?
German Coast guard trainee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Yes Hans. Everybody here at SDA knows about the Sound of Music. And also know it was good propaganda. Move on. Oh. And there never was or is anything such as the Army Group True North.
Said it before say it again.
If its a minority the professional poker player wins the charm school grad will lose his shirt.
The pollsters seem to be favouring a minority.
The opposition parties have all been campaigning to get Harper out….and not considering what comes after…the liberals in particular I believe have been writing cheques their ass can’t cash. In a minority you have to actually deliver, and if justin has to make new promises to the ndp to keep from losing a confidence vote.
The liberals have stated they won’t agree to a coalition with the ndp and there is a good reason for this.
They know that Mucliar will extract the maximum political price in return for their support leaving justin the prospect of giving away the farm to retain power or refuse and not only take the blame for forcing another election but confirming that he is unprepared to be PM.
Consider this, the liberals have to go from current seat count to majority territory which is a jump of about 140 seats.
These are a few of my favourite things..
As a resident of South Jersey who lives not all that far from the site of the Hindenburg tragedy, I find your use of that photo particularly exploitative. Also funny.
“… when the dog bites, when the bee stings, when the Liberals win… I simply remember my favourite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.”
I voted in the advance poll, so I won’t be voting in this one 😉 … however, for those who have not yet voted, make sure you have the necessary ID so you won’t be turned away or unnecessarily frustrated.
All info from Elections Canada website:
“There are three options to prove your identity and address
1) Show one of these pieces of ID
your driver’s licence
your provincial or territorial ID card
any other government card with your photo, name and current address
OR
2) Show two pieces of ID
At least one must have your current address
(see list of 30 valid items here http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=id&document=index&lang=e)
OR
3) If your ID does not have your current address, take an oath
Show two pieces of ID with your name and have someone who knows you attest to your address. This person must show proof of identity and address, be registered in the same polling division, and attest for only one person.
Your voter information card is not a piece of ID.” But bring your voter ID card to speed up the process, as it indicates which poll booth you should vote at.
Glad I left Alberta and Canada when I did. While you folks are goose stepping down the road to communism and slavery, we’ll be rebuilding after sixteen years of it, Go Trump!
This is Harper’s last day. It’s sad, but it is what it is. Ontario, Atlantic Canada, and the big cities desperately want to run back to big daddy Liberal for warm & fuzzies & free stuff. They don’t want to be told “No” any more by that big meanie Harper. They want to make themselves feel good by voting for the handsome boy with the nice hair who soothes them with such pretty sounding words.
And that’s it, really. There’s no rational thought behind what’s coming today. Harper’s going to lose because the Canadian electorate is no less infantile than the American one; and because Canadian culture is just too left-leaning by default to tolerate a Conservative government for very long.
We’ve all survived Liberal governments before. We’ve survived the media’s nauseating kid-glove treatment of them. We’ve pointed out their stupidity, their irrationality, their politically-correct double-speak, their insane hatred of all things conservative and Christian and self-destructive love of all things not conservative nor Christian.
We’ll do so again. And we’ll have to do so for probably a decade.
I’m likely watching the Jays game tonight. I’m not going to listen to that smug pretty boy give his arrogant acceptance speech. He’s going to get my default Obama treatment: turn off the TV or radio so I don’t have to listen to him.
might as well be senile because most of the country is/are nuts.
Yep. ‘From the heart out’ bypassing the brain.
It’s pathetic that when you talk to normally intelligent people about politics, their eyes glaze over and they repeat the last thing they heard on the radio. The vast majority simply are ignorant about politics, and have no clue whatsoever about the dangers that a drama teacher as Prime Minister could pose.
As the tingles run down the legs of our pathetic media whores of this country, they should look at their kids, because it is the kids that will shoulder the burden and work in servitude for the shortsightedness of what these self loathers are trying to accomplish. The money is obviously pouring in from the tides group old Dr. Evil in China and the usual wealthy Canadian families here in Canada to develop yet another Turdomania. If elected he will serve his masters, he is far to stupid for individual thought, when he signs away Canadas soverignty the media whores will have what they have been after since they signed onto the climate scam 20 years ago. Anyone who cares about the future needs to get out to vote, but if you only care about the Kardashians and free stuff don’t bother.
It was incumbent of the Harper government over the past 10 years to educate
the electorate about conservative thought. IMHO they came no where close to
accomplishing that. Older voters through life experience usually understand
why conservative thought is best. Younger voters are schooled in socialist
thought from pre-school. Combine that with the desperation of those who can
not manage their own affairs and they fall to the ‘fear & greed’ politics
of progressives.
For a year I have expected a CPC defeat. When my own riding which has a
strong CPC brand for 20 years is likely to vote NDP it says something. Not
only did Harper fail in his message but he and who ever runs the Party have
down graded the role the riding constituencies play in policy and organizing.
What I saw was what I call the ‘political carpet baggers’ moving into party
functions for what they could get from the process and not for philosophical
reasons.
This loss will not be all about politics and philosophy. There is a fundamental economic split in Canada. The West’s wealth is based on resource
extraction. The east has traditionally benefited by transferring huge portions
of that wealth back east. Harper governments threatened that transfer and did
not create a counter balance to minimalize the loss. Combine this situation with all the external forces who have conspired to eliminate a far more
aggressive Canadian foreign policy. OPEC, the USA and Russia all have valid
reasons to fear a stronger Canada which would have happened under a continued
Harper reign.
I.M., good post but I am staying hopeful. It ain’t over yet, and the Conservatives may get far more seats than people think.
Was out at 3:30 AM this morning doing a final sign blitz in my riding. It was peaceful and quiet, not too cold, mist in the air. It felt good to pound in the signs and reflect on the campaign. My Conservative candidate has worked diligently for our riding for 10 years, and if the idiots here want to throw him out and put a stereotypical, arrogant Liberal in his place they do so at their peril.
The media’s treatment of Harper has been deplorable. Considering the extent of the hate campaign against him, the Conservatives can be proud of how well they do today, no matter the result.
One thing for me that will change after this election is that I simply refuse to ever again pick up a National Post. The writers there can rot in hell for their attacks on Harper. I hope the paper goes bust.
The other depressing thing to realize is that there are only two conservative premiers in the country, in Saskatchewan & Newfoundland, and Newfoundland is still hell-bent on punishing Harper (maybe you can give the BC premier a half-point. That Liberal party isn’t quite as bad as the feds). The entire country’s gone left. At the next first ministers meeting, which Trudeau will be certain to attend, they’ll all come up with glorious ways to spend more & more tax dollars, revive all kinds of federal-provincial cost-sharing boondoggles, trash-talk the evils of oil, praise green power, pow-wow about aboriginal women, etc. Brad Wall is going to get completely ignored in that room. It’ll be Liberals & Dippers throwing a grand old party on our dimes.
It won’t be until the second such meeting that the premiers start beating up on poofy hair for not giving them enough money.
American conservatives should be paying close attention to this election campaign. If they think it has nothing to do with them, they’re wrong. Canada is a liberal paradise: every single thing they’ve demanded has been granted, if not made mandatory. Abortion on demand, human “rights” tribunals, transgender rights, gay marriage, high taxation, socialized healthcare, pandering to every special category from immigrants to aboriginals…
And they’re still campaigning on the “need” for “change”.
It’s a warning to the US: these people are NEVER SATISFIED. This is your future, my friends. Think hard.
American conservatives should be paying close attention to this election campaign. If they think it has nothing to do with them, they’re wrong. Canada is a liberal paradise: every single thing they’ve demanded has been granted, if not made mandatory. Abortion on demand, human “rights” tribunals, transgender rights, gay marriage, high taxation, socialized healthcare, pandering to every special category from immigrants to aboriginals…
And they’re still campaigning on the “need” for “change”.
It’s a warning to the US: these people are NEVER SATISFIED. This is your future, my friends. Think hard.
As far as the election results are concerned, the thing that worries me the most – the increasing public debt load that will fall on the shoulders of the young – didn’t even get honourable mention as a campaign issue. So, if it doesn’t even worry the folks who are going to have to pay it, I guess my concerns must be overblown.
As I told one of our kids, who has already cast her “say no to Harper” vote, “It amazes me that the people who are the most ill-equipped to deal with hard times, invariably vote for them.”
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“their eyes glaze over and they repeat the last thing they heard on the radio”
sadly, this is so true.
ask any one of these intellectual lightweights to name just one thing justin trudeau has done that won their vote and watch them squirm.
this will go down in history as the scooby-doo feelgood election… and if the liberals get in, our grandchildren will be paying the price decades from now.
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CT @ October 19, 2015 9:30 AM “This loss will not be all about politics and philosophy. There is a fundamental economic split in Canada. The West’s wealth is based on resource extraction. The east has traditionally benefited by transferring huge portions of that wealth back east. Harper governments threatened that transfer and did
not create a counter balance to minimalize the loss.”
You refer to the western “Milch cow” approach Ottawa has to nationalism –
https://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/libhtm/milch.htm
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Harper will be around after tonight. In a minority position. He will not call Parliament till after the Paris COP21 to save our collective asses from the commie nut bars at the UN pushing for global policing of carbon production.
Then he will have his throne speech, and will be defeated. The Libs and Dippers will make a go of it, making a debacle of it and fail, then next election, May, June will break the bank of the Liberals and the Dippers and hopefully Harper gets his majority after being the last adult standing.
my personal favourite memory of the election will be attending the all candidates debate last week for a local riding. Topic was health care. The Liberal and NDP were gang banging away at the Conservative incumbent regarding the private health care clinics that are destroying the greatest system in history, how the Conservatives were selling us out to bring in an American style system; basically Harper is the devil incarnate regarding health care. I was able to close out the debate with the following question (which the Ndp and Liberal candidates never did answer); “if privatization in the health care system is so terrible, do you support the closing of private abortion clinics?” It was hilarious.
farmerboy @ October 19, 2015 10:50 AM – – The Liberal and NDP were gang banging away at the Conservative incumbent regarding the private health care clinics that are destroying the greatest system in history, how the Conservatives were selling us out to bring in an American style system; basically Harper is the devil incarnate regarding health care.–
Well rehearsed manipulative emotional sloganeering and Marxist critical theory in practice – these are the tactic used by 5th columnist reds from the October revolution to date – so you know they are neither liberal nor democratic nor civil in any liberal democratic sense – this open neo-bolshevism exists because there is a large voting block ignorant of the civil tenets of free liberal democratic ideals – dumbed down ir newly arrives from some hell hole in which ethical democracy and constitutionally restrained authority do not exist.
Canada will not last long on this path. It is up to patriots to create a movement to deprogram self-destructive Marxist public conditioning – don’t blame Harper for this
In a decade there could be ten million more muslims here voting for more free stuff and threatening to kill us if they don’t get it. We survived Trudeau the first but it took us twenty years to almost recover from it. Every time liberals drag us down, conservatives have to spend a decade trying to dig us out and we are still not in a great position. We are weak enough now that we might find in a decade that we look like Greece and never recover.
The consequences of a loss is that the game will be rigged. The party subsidies will be restored by Trudeau you can guarantee it plus whatever other fiddling is necessary to ensure liberal victories.
One problem that I noted this morning when I went to vote is that here in rural Sask. where everyone has a P.O. Box for their address they didn’t want to accept my drivers licence which of course has my po box #. In my discussion with the election worker she couldn’t think of any document either that would have a land address on it as well as a name because everyone uses the P.O.# . On the other side of the coin I had a problem with the post office a few months back because I had one bill that came with my land address on it but I was informed that they would no longer put it in my box because the address on the envelope was a land address not a P.O. Box. You can’t have it both ways and I could see this becoming a problem in the future.
Hey Bobd06, if that is the result I could certainly live with it! Thanks for the optimism.
Thanks for that, Nicola!
I’m part of the generation that had to memorize English Literature in high school and that was one poem that I enjoyed. On this EVE of Destruction it has given me new hope that perhaps the common electorate will wake up in about six months time when the next election will be called and realize what they have done in voting for the young unethical grafter.
I’m reminded of a time in Canada when a person only ran for government office after they had spent a lifetime establishing themselves as a beacon of inspiration. A person who had a hand in raising and providing for a family, paid a mortgage, ran a successful business or worked and was proud at what they worked at, led a straight and decent life and wanted to contribute more to the common good without a huge financial reward. After deciding to run for public office they had their reputation speak for itself in their local community and that community elected whom they thought was the most ethical and up-standing person to office. Now after Trudeau the senior we had the mantra thrown over us that we should pay politicians more if we wanted the best men/women to govern us. Since then we have been governed with a mismatch of ethical people at times and charlatans and deceivers at others. We are now approaching a far darker period in our history where the deceivers have schooled a whole generation into believing that they are entitled to everything! We are about to be governed by a party that believed it was ethical for their leader to gouge charities by charging them money for speeches. That is how far this country has fallen.
Upon refreshing my memory by reading your entry here I have a little more hope that perhaps after a little time we shall emerge from this as a country a little wiser and more astute, and understanding that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, like democracy cannot be granted, they must be worked and sacrificed for. Thank You!
For the hidden hand, this election is a case of eliminate the middleman. Why work through an unreliable incrementalist when you can have the whole enchilada?
But when you look at it carefully, all we are actually losing is the subterfuge. Now it will all be out in the open. Maybe that will help in the long run.
CT. There is no such thing as conservative thought. Freedom should be inborn and those who need to be taught about freedom will never be free.
If the entire nation can be as stupid as the people of Ontario then we’re done as a country. Three corruption-soaked governments and Ontario still voted Liberal a fourth time. Do people not remember the corruption-soaked federal Liberals? In addition, Trudeau has a resume ten times thinner than Obama’s when he was elected.
I still have a bit of hope for the election, however, because the Conservatives won 3 times previously despite the ‘soldiers in the streets’ or ‘hidden agenda’ HDS that the media and Libs were pushing at the time. We’ll see tonight.
Interesting – I voted in an advance poll in Almonte (Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston) and I only had to show my voter’s card; heavy turnout, though. At the Ontario provincial previously, I also voted in an advance poll, and had to show my driver’s license, even though I knew the meeter and greeter on the door personally.
So, as in other everyday situations, some people — in this case, deputy returning officers/poll clerks etc. make their own rules. I don’t know if every eligible voter received their personalized “voter ID card” nor the accompanying booklet listing all the pieces of ID one can use. IMO, when it comes to voting, at whatever level, the same rules should apply. In my riding, at the advance poll, there was only one polling booth/one box, whereas in another riding where a family member lives, there were apparently 4 or 5 polling booths/boxes.
Also, when I saw reports of people (not Muslim women) voting with face covered, I thought it was a funny & maybe appropriate statement. But on second thought … those mask-wearers could be inadvertently reinforcing the actual niqab wearers’ right to vote wth face covered.
My wife and I voted 2 Sundays ago. The lineup was about 140 feet long and it took us the better part of an hour to cast our votes.
Although i still want Harper to win , i agree they ran a lousy campaign / they had four years to plan and execute a winning strategy and then calling it so early WTF??/
Atlantic Canada just voted with thier EI cards