Now they tell us:“This is the most curious appointment since Caligula named his horse as consul…”
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Is it just me, or does she appear to be BAT-SH*T crazy??
Speaking of appointments. On Sunday Barney Fife was going on and on how those nasty Conservative senators could block Liberal legislation. Barney – if Shiny Pony fills the vacancies he will have a majority. Is Barney Fife really that stupid? I hope he doesn’t get any Trudeau stains on his blue dress like Oliver did with his old man
“A geographer by training”
A bit ironic, this coming right after Cappy’s comment on liberal arts.
The Liberals don’t have any senators because I recall Shiny Pony disowned all of them in the midst of the Duffy Scandal. Or was that just another Lieberal Lie made just for their convenience at the time. Nahhh, Lieberals aren’t that diabolical are they?? Don’t answer, I already know the answer !
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i read “the devils flu” about the two parallel missions to get samples of the 1918 flu virus.
kirsty duncan’s unsuccessful, extremely expensive, me, me me journey… and the quiet, mostly self-funded yet extremely successful trip by an unassuming male researcher.
duncan comes off as, to be charitable “eccentric”… sort of a “hooters waitress” caricature of a scientist.
she should have stuck with her chosen field… geography.
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Bad clowns and good train wrecks alert !!
A back to the nineties sequel of the Premier Bob Rae and the Clampetts
situation comedy show seems to be in the cards as a top Ottawa based
draw for the foreseeable future.
“When Justin Trudeau created a new science portfolio in cabinet, and appointed a former academic as the minister, observers hailed the move as a sign of renewed respect for empirical study.”
In other words, “it’s only science if we say it is” portfolio.
Remember how roundly Stockwell Day was mocked for expressing some doubts about the theory of evolution?
Now we have a minister of science who’s willing to jump aboard any junk science bandwagon and she’s applauded as a veritable Einstein in cabinet!
She does have that kind of cute but totally psycho chick vibe, though.
Geography is to earth sciences as sociology is to rational thought…
C’mon, she’s part of the gender equity program. So what if she’s bathsit crazy, she’s a Liberal, no different than Goodale, McCallum, and the rest of the Trudopian gubermint. All total idiots, elected by idiots, incompetents, and LIVs.
Its going to be a long 4 years, but, I hope they keep up their crazy ways. Canadians will wake up to this nonsense soon enough. Remember, the conservatives are a SOLID 30% voting base. It won’t take long for buyers remorse to kick in, for the necessary 10% to comeback to the fold and abandon Boy Blunder and his pack of imbeciles.
Scar, Barney is just providing cover for upcoming Liberal Senate appointments. First a false crisis has to be created before the government gets to mislead Canadians – in this case the non threat of obstructionist Tory Senators – for the required repudiation of their own policy. Just think of the “middle class in crisis” meme to see the success of this strategy. Look soon for I didn’t realize the finances were as bad as they were (according to the always wrong and out of their purview PBO). Funny how bas news means good news for the Grits. We can all be thankful to the intelligentsia for that.
On point though, from the article:
“The idea that there is some kind of scientific conspiracy to stop good research from happening, or stop good research that doesn’t fit with convention from happening, I think is an unfortunate perception for someone who is now the science minister,”
Well exactly. Clearly she should have been given the climate change portfolio. Her scientific approach would fit in perfectly. It takes great talent to be precisely wrong. I’m sure she believes CAGW without reservation – to using it as a taxation excuse.
Pure comedy gold.
The juxapostition of liberal words/criticisms of the conservatives directly against their own actions.
Everything the media party/libtards accuse others of, is 100% projection.
Harper antiscience?
They are all crooked, all politicians lie…?
Small wonder they hate truth and honesty.
Shammy, its already started! Why waste any time? Totally predictable from the Fibs. They will wear it well.
“Liberals start their new life another day older and deeper in debt” http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-liberals-start-their-new-life-another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt
Here’s to 4 years of bad news under the Liberals. They might just find out that life was MUCH easier in opposition, and gubermint is a lot harder than it looked while they were flipping their hair, and calling CPC members “Pieces of Hsit” while in opposition
You are right Shamrock it will be a phoney crisis of some sort that will be justification for filling the senate. Sort of like Mulroney stacking the deck to pass the free trade agreement. Bongo will fill the senate – he has to – there are those who are deserving…..and he cant risk the senate holding up his very important legislation (read climate change). Once he has a solid majority in the senate he might toss in a token conservative just to make the ‘fair and balanced’ point
Tons of comedy coming out of Awtawa already. It will be a good 4 years for the cbc – lots of fresh material. Oh I forgot. Liberal satire isn’t cbc funny. Too bad.
It gets better (or worse, depending on how you take this). I checked her scientific bona fides when her appointment was announced. She has two scientific publications to her name according to the best information I can glean. I’m open to hear of any others. I believe the first one is likely her PhD thesis. At any event, it essentially has to do with wether or not one can predict rainfall in Scotland based on temperature trends — the long and the short of it is, you can’t (surprise, surprise). Her two papers have been cited a grand total of three times, each in equally whacked out global-warming alarmist pseudoscientific rants. She considers her area of expertise to be, “medical geography” something I, nor apparently any of my colleagues, had ever heard of. This is going to be a long four(plus?) years.
CBC? Wut dat?
Oh yeah, it was deleted off the dial, DEAD TO ME. AND CTV isnt far behind, with Lisa LaFlamer and her breathless delivery of all things Fiberal, along with her friends Barney Fife, Howling Owliver, Katie Blimpson, and the rest of the Media Guild/Unifor reps giving their daily propaganda.
Its actually very liberating, y’all! There is really nothing that is really news anymore, on these broadcasts, its all propaganda, yellow journalism, and jaded press releases.
Stop watching the news! It drives DOWN ratings, and makes them hurt, eventually. Getting your news from the interwebby, let’s one avoid the blatant BS and editorializing that masquerades as “news”.
* “drd says She considers her area of expertise to be, “medical geography” something I, nor apparently any of my colleagues, had ever heard of.”
it’s based on her unsuccessful, expensive attempt to find genetic material from the 1918 flu. she spent years organising this incredibly complicated trip, riding herd on noted scientists doing the actual work and then tried to position herself as a world authority.
read the devils flu by pete davies.
unfortunately, the mission was a total failure… all she dug up was a useless soup that was not down deep enough to be protected by permafrost.
this bimbo held wilderness graveside press conferences in a miniskirt, jeggings & high heels.
meanwhile an elderly virologist hopped on a plane to brevik and dug up actual usable material by himself. “Unfortunately she didn’t know that two other scientists, Jeffrey Taubenberger (pathologist) and Johan Hultin (virologist), had already got sufficient samples in Alaska—Hultin having made it to the same difficult region of Alaska in 1951.”
but hey, she’s got the prerequisite vagina. we’re just lucky justin didn’t make lisa laflamme minister of propaganda.
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♫ And we will all go down together/Yes we will all go down together…♫
I’m with you DanBC. I refuse to watch CBC or CTV news and avoid even Global TV. We are not alone my friend.
“medical geography” is layspeak for “epidemiology” without the numbers, critical analysis, or facts…
As the fabric of Space cadet time starts to unravel
Just curious if this scientisty girly will be muzzled?
Because its 2015 (I’m going to wear that one right out with Fiberal ufckups!)
>Now they tell us: “This is the most curious appointment since Caligula named his horse as consul…”
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the show.
To feel that warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We’re gonna find out where you folks really stand.
Hey, she believes in Global Warming. She can’t be all that bad /sarc
Trofim Lysenko must have been unavailable. On the plus side, she may be right that vaccinating children causes athlete’s foot.
As I foretold: COMEDY GOLD!
I was actually thinking of starting a blog under that name and devoting it only to the mis-steps and screw-ups under Trulander’s regime, but I realized that, given The Hair That Walks Like A Man‘s government is less than a week old and is already producing gaffes almost faster than we can take them in, there probably isn’t a web host on Earth that has that much disk space for my blog.
Plus, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else. Like sleep.
I bet she was picked because she knew how to “rethink the basic elements of space and time.: The boss loves the dramatic flow of that narrative.
The Canadian taxpayer awaits this new scientific “rethinking” of basic concepts of time and space from the nation’s #1 & #2 space cadets with white knuckles clinging onto our wallets..
Damn. Here I thought I had enough popcorn to carry me for four years. Getting more tomorrow.
Ditto here. I have not watched any of those channels for many years now. Just the Shaw advertisements for CBC and Global on FoxNews is enough to make me want to barf.
The really sad part is that there will be many Trofim Lysenkos in Paris shortly.
peterj, better stock up on a little beer to go with that popcorn.
Yep, my buddy works for the Red Cross, an organization that won the Noble Peace Prize three, or was it four(?), times in the past. Occasionally when we are in the pub together I buy him a beer and tell him “Hey, congrats on winning that Noble!”
I wouldn’t get too excited about the MS thing. It was a supposed new therapy, but most of the later trials didn’t work. That’s fairly common. Remember, the failed scientific results don’t mean the issue has been “settled” yet. And as we all know, there’s always the possibility that politicization may also have been involved.
Other than that, she reminds me a bit of Sheila Copps, although the latter seemed to recover some of her marbles once she left politics. Whether Duncan had any to begin with seems to be an open question.
nv53 maybe read the article again:
‘A string of largely negative research, though, culminated with a major 2013 study out of the University of British Columbia, which found the vein narrowing was equally present in MS patients and healthy controls – the theory’s “death knell,” according to the journal Lancet’
Oops I quoted the National post article not the Province article. The article in the Post is better actually.
Hey, try to stay up to date LIE-beria!
There’s a Fiberal gubermint in power, with plenty of BOZO eruption material to work with already.
Because its 2015
LOL
What? Saint Suzuki wasn’t available? Prime Minister Awesome’s Amateur Hour will be a hoot!
I’ll bet anybody $50 that Kirsty Duncan has BPD, aka. borderline personality disorder
Is it just me, or does she appear to be BAT-SH*T crazy??
Speaking of appointments. On Sunday Barney Fife was going on and on how those nasty Conservative senators could block Liberal legislation. Barney – if Shiny Pony fills the vacancies he will have a majority. Is Barney Fife really that stupid? I hope he doesn’t get any Trudeau stains on his blue dress like Oliver did with his old man
“A geographer by training”
A bit ironic, this coming right after Cappy’s comment on liberal arts.
AND she’s a fake nobel prize laureate (I wonder if she know Michael Mann??).
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/10/23/kirsty-duncan-canadas-fake-nobel-laureate-member-of-parliament/
The Liberals don’t have any senators because I recall Shiny Pony disowned all of them in the midst of the Duffy Scandal. Or was that just another Lieberal Lie made just for their convenience at the time. Nahhh, Lieberals aren’t that diabolical are they?? Don’t answer, I already know the answer !
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i read “the devils flu” about the two parallel missions to get samples of the 1918 flu virus.
kirsty duncan’s unsuccessful, extremely expensive, me, me me journey… and the quiet, mostly self-funded yet extremely successful trip by an unassuming male researcher.
duncan comes off as, to be charitable “eccentric”… sort of a “hooters waitress” caricature of a scientist.
she should have stuck with her chosen field… geography.
*
Bad clowns and good train wrecks alert !!
A back to the nineties sequel of the Premier Bob Rae and the Clampetts
situation comedy show seems to be in the cards as a top Ottawa based
draw for the foreseeable future.
“When Justin Trudeau created a new science portfolio in cabinet, and appointed a former academic as the minister, observers hailed the move as a sign of renewed respect for empirical study.”
In other words, “it’s only science if we say it is” portfolio.
Remember how roundly Stockwell Day was mocked for expressing some doubts about the theory of evolution?
Now we have a minister of science who’s willing to jump aboard any junk science bandwagon and she’s applauded as a veritable Einstein in cabinet!
She does have that kind of cute but totally psycho chick vibe, though.
Geography is to earth sciences as sociology is to rational thought…
C’mon, she’s part of the gender equity program. So what if she’s bathsit crazy, she’s a Liberal, no different than Goodale, McCallum, and the rest of the Trudopian gubermint. All total idiots, elected by idiots, incompetents, and LIVs.
Its going to be a long 4 years, but, I hope they keep up their crazy ways. Canadians will wake up to this nonsense soon enough. Remember, the conservatives are a SOLID 30% voting base. It won’t take long for buyers remorse to kick in, for the necessary 10% to comeback to the fold and abandon Boy Blunder and his pack of imbeciles.
Scar, Barney is just providing cover for upcoming Liberal Senate appointments. First a false crisis has to be created before the government gets to mislead Canadians – in this case the non threat of obstructionist Tory Senators – for the required repudiation of their own policy. Just think of the “middle class in crisis” meme to see the success of this strategy. Look soon for I didn’t realize the finances were as bad as they were (according to the always wrong and out of their purview PBO). Funny how bas news means good news for the Grits. We can all be thankful to the intelligentsia for that.
On point though, from the article:
“The idea that there is some kind of scientific conspiracy to stop good research from happening, or stop good research that doesn’t fit with convention from happening, I think is an unfortunate perception for someone who is now the science minister,”
Well exactly. Clearly she should have been given the climate change portfolio. Her scientific approach would fit in perfectly. It takes great talent to be precisely wrong. I’m sure she believes CAGW without reservation – to using it as a taxation excuse.
Pure comedy gold.
The juxapostition of liberal words/criticisms of the conservatives directly against their own actions.
Everything the media party/libtards accuse others of, is 100% projection.
Harper antiscience?
They are all crooked, all politicians lie…?
Small wonder they hate truth and honesty.
Shammy, its already started! Why waste any time? Totally predictable from the Fibs. They will wear it well.
“Liberals start their new life another day older and deeper in debt”
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-liberals-start-their-new-life-another-day-older-and-deeper-in-debt
Here’s to 4 years of bad news under the Liberals. They might just find out that life was MUCH easier in opposition, and gubermint is a lot harder than it looked while they were flipping their hair, and calling CPC members “Pieces of Hsit” while in opposition
You are right Shamrock it will be a phoney crisis of some sort that will be justification for filling the senate. Sort of like Mulroney stacking the deck to pass the free trade agreement. Bongo will fill the senate – he has to – there are those who are deserving…..and he cant risk the senate holding up his very important legislation (read climate change). Once he has a solid majority in the senate he might toss in a token conservative just to make the ‘fair and balanced’ point
Tons of comedy coming out of Awtawa already. It will be a good 4 years for the cbc – lots of fresh material. Oh I forgot. Liberal satire isn’t cbc funny. Too bad.
It gets better (or worse, depending on how you take this). I checked her scientific bona fides when her appointment was announced. She has two scientific publications to her name according to the best information I can glean. I’m open to hear of any others. I believe the first one is likely her PhD thesis. At any event, it essentially has to do with wether or not one can predict rainfall in Scotland based on temperature trends — the long and the short of it is, you can’t (surprise, surprise). Her two papers have been cited a grand total of three times, each in equally whacked out global-warming alarmist pseudoscientific rants. She considers her area of expertise to be, “medical geography” something I, nor apparently any of my colleagues, had ever heard of. This is going to be a long four(plus?) years.
CBC? Wut dat?
Oh yeah, it was deleted off the dial, DEAD TO ME. AND CTV isnt far behind, with Lisa LaFlamer and her breathless delivery of all things Fiberal, along with her friends Barney Fife, Howling Owliver, Katie Blimpson, and the rest of the Media Guild/Unifor reps giving their daily propaganda.
Its actually very liberating, y’all! There is really nothing that is really news anymore, on these broadcasts, its all propaganda, yellow journalism, and jaded press releases.
Stop watching the news! It drives DOWN ratings, and makes them hurt, eventually. Getting your news from the interwebby, let’s one avoid the blatant BS and editorializing that masquerades as “news”.
*
“drd says She considers her area of expertise to be, “medical geography” something I, nor apparently any of my colleagues, had ever heard of.”
it’s based on her unsuccessful, expensive attempt to find genetic material from the 1918 flu. she spent years organising this incredibly complicated trip, riding herd on noted scientists doing the actual work and then tried to position herself as a world authority.
read the devils flu by pete davies.
unfortunately, the mission was a total failure… all she dug up was a useless soup that was not down deep enough to be protected by permafrost.
this bimbo held wilderness graveside press conferences in a miniskirt, jeggings & high heels.
meanwhile an elderly virologist hopped on a plane to brevik and dug up actual usable material by himself.
“Unfortunately she didn’t know that two other scientists, Jeffrey Taubenberger (pathologist) and Johan Hultin (virologist), had already got sufficient samples in Alaska—Hultin having made it to the same difficult region of Alaska in 1951.”
but hey, she’s got the prerequisite vagina. we’re just lucky justin didn’t make lisa laflamme minister of propaganda.
*
♫ And we will all go down together/Yes we will all go down together…♫
I’m with you DanBC. I refuse to watch CBC or CTV news and avoid even Global TV. We are not alone my friend.
“medical geography” is layspeak for “epidemiology” without the numbers, critical analysis, or facts…
As the fabric of Space cadet time starts to unravel
Just curious if this scientisty girly will be muzzled?
Because its 2015 (I’m going to wear that one right out with Fiberal ufckups!)
>Now they tell us: “This is the most curious appointment since Caligula named his horse as consul…”
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the show.
To feel that warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We’re gonna find out where you folks really stand.
Hey, she believes in Global Warming. She can’t be all that bad /sarc
Trofim Lysenko must have been unavailable. On the plus side, she may be right that vaccinating children causes athlete’s foot.
As I foretold:
COMEDY GOLD!
I was actually thinking of starting a blog under that name and devoting it only to the mis-steps and screw-ups under Trulander’s regime, but I realized that, given The Hair That Walks Like A Man‘s government is less than a week old and is already producing gaffes almost faster than we can take them in, there probably isn’t a web host on Earth that has that much disk space for my blog.
Plus, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else.
Like sleep.
I bet she was picked because she knew how to “rethink the basic elements of space and time.: The boss loves the dramatic flow of that narrative.
The Canadian taxpayer awaits this new scientific “rethinking” of basic concepts of time and space from the nation’s #1 & #2 space cadets with white knuckles clinging onto our wallets..
Damn. Here I thought I had enough popcorn to carry me for four years. Getting more tomorrow.
Ditto here. I have not watched any of those channels for many years now. Just the Shaw advertisements for CBC and Global on FoxNews is enough to make me want to barf.
The really sad part is that there will be many Trofim Lysenkos in Paris shortly.
peterj, better stock up on a little beer to go with that popcorn.
Yep, my buddy works for the Red Cross, an organization that won the Noble Peace Prize three, or was it four(?), times in the past. Occasionally when we are in the pub together I buy him a beer and tell him “Hey, congrats on winning that Noble!”
Sure mock Trudeau’s cabinet…Harper’s cabinet ministers were the biggest collection of dim bulbs in Canada’s history:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/12/13/Canadian-Conservatives-Education/
Wrong! There was no mention of your name there.
I wouldn’t get too excited about the MS thing. It was a supposed new therapy, but most of the later trials didn’t work. That’s fairly common. Remember, the failed scientific results don’t mean the issue has been “settled” yet. And as we all know, there’s always the possibility that politicization may also have been involved.
Other than that, she reminds me a bit of Sheila Copps, although the latter seemed to recover some of her marbles once she left politics. Whether Duncan had any to begin with seems to be an open question.
nv53 maybe read the article again:
‘A string of largely negative research, though, culminated with a major 2013 study out of the University of British Columbia, which found the vein narrowing was equally present in MS patients and healthy controls – the theory’s “death knell,” according to the journal Lancet’
Oops I quoted the National post article not the Province article. The article in the Post is better actually.
Hey, try to stay up to date LIE-beria!
There’s a Fiberal gubermint in power, with plenty of BOZO eruption material to work with already.
Because its 2015
LOL
What? Saint Suzuki wasn’t available? Prime Minister Awesome’s Amateur Hour will be a hoot!
I’ll bet anybody $50 that Kirsty Duncan has BPD, aka. borderline personality disorder