Dear Prime Minister Harper: Are You Feeling Well, Sir? What the Hell Were You Thinking?! Most Disappointingly, You Weren’t…
Right after I appeared on Brian Lilley’s exceptional Sun TV show just one week before the last federal election (May of 2010), I was removing my mic and fighting with the bit of make up that ended up in my eye, when a former Sun colleague listening to the interview emailed me:
“Are you sure about your prediction of a Conservative majority? There’s little chance of that, don’t you think?”
“No, they’ll have it,” I wrote. “My only concern is that, as per every single historical implosion at that level, some entirely self-absorbed asshole in the backroom, who views Einstein as a lightweight, will advise the Prime Minister to do something incredibly stupid, that will end the majority support–beginning in BC and if it happens–followed by acrimonious finger-pointing, the party will split again, I assure you. Just watch. The idiots on the far right are as stupid as those on the far left–neither can escape their own detonation radius. But I have faith in the Prime Minister, he’s a very good man. When it comes down to it, it’s his decision that’s final. Though, if he blows a few key ones, it’ll be tough to recover. The ego will get in the way, naturally, and you can forget pulling the nose up…it’ll be one huge induced swan dive…let’s see happens, anyway. But the first six months will tell the tale”
Sometimes, I hate being right.
It’s been six months exactly, if you deduct for short holidays on both ends of the fall.
The Tories, far from perfect ball, have had a fairly easy ride considering the Fiberals and the Dippers continue to shoot themselves in both sets of feet.
But I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. One which I think speaks volumes about how unfortunately prophetic the reply to my former colleague was.
Without getting into the minutiae of the Tory tenure, thus far, they’re slipping on key issues.
• The marijuana legalization dunces (I know, this is redundant) have come out swinging (waving a half eaten slice of pizza). No coordinated reply from the government; no stats (ample as they are) to show how wrong these idiots are, nothing. No national drug strategy. Just what’s in a crime bill that in some parts is too hard and in others too soft. The Grits have handed them a golden opportunity with the passing of their insane legalization motion at the convention over the weekend, and NOTHING from the government that ran on protecting your families from crime. Not a peep about addiction, not a single effort to corral the dozens of addictionologists across the country clamoring for an audience the mainstream press refuse to provide them (because the vast majority of press members are left leaning and want to be able to smoke weed with impunity).
• A contradiction in how provincial independence will work. Lots of talk about regional autonomy, but little real work on that file except window dressing. A classic example is the Enbridge pipeline, which is completely wrong-headed and absolutely certain to cost the Tories seats in BC, where they can ill-afford to lose them. In fact, with the Liberals taking a decidedly left turn on the weekend–most appealing to La Belle Province, and the NDP holding at least half the Quebec seats they gained last May, where is the other province the Tories can make gains in? Are they annexing Michigan?
• Nevermind the idiotic alarmism last week about gay marriage being revisited (it’s not and never will be)–no one consulted a lawyer but instead relied on the CBC’s extraordinary bias–and in this case, fiction. Notwithstanding the Prime Minister’s reasonable and appropriate comments on social issues, the idea that there be no party solidarity behind NOT reopening abortion or gay marriage has spawned various backbench dwelling imbeciles and their archaic brains to spout bone-chilling codswallop about when life begins and ‘gayness’ that can be “corrected” through some church in Edmonton. Honestly….
• On the one key issue they ran on, the economy, their strategy–too simple by half, seems to be holding spending while praying the tax breaks they instituted will buoy our bottom line enough that we simply tread water. This is visionary? What if the United States dips again? If they develop the flu once more, we’ll have to come running with our emergency life support unit, never mind the Kleenex box. Then what? While the HST sits, nothing is moving and no plan exists to hasten the unfairness of the current circumstances. I’m hearing from staunch Conservative circles in this province that inside complaints to Ottawa are falling on deaf ears. Goodness, they sure forgot our numbers rather quickly after we secured them a majority.
But there in no greater crazy-making by the federal Tories than what I’m about to show you.
During the BC Liberal leadership race, the Prime Minister’s office asked Premier Clark’s very close pal, Mr. Boessenkool (a senior Tory stroker) and now Chief of Staff, to cool his tummy-rubbing of the dimwitted one. Federal Tory hierarchs would NOT take sides, they were told, and the Prime Minister’s closest people, past and present, were also told to forget making endorsements or providing support. No congress, of any kind, please, we’re Conservatives…
Well, what a difference almost a year makes. Ms Clark, having once again cheated to win, is now the Premier. Previously, when she was an afternoon embarrassment at CKNW radio, Mr. Clark routinely PUMMELED Stephen Harper, black and blue, and always without a stitch of reason or purpose.
Then, when she ran for the leadership, other than the smidge of cocktail conservatives that remain (I believe there are still a few left in the dupe troop), she surrounded herself with what was left of the FEDERAL LIBERAL crew Dave Basi and Bob Virk expertly put together for her, to once again win the Indo Canadian community, and the usual FEDERAL LIBERAL retreads her ex-husband, FEDERAL LIBERAL operative Mark Marissen cobbled together, to carry the day.
In the first nine months of her incumbency as Premier, Ms. Clark has gone from one monumental gaffe, where the federal Tories are concerned, to another. Be it agreed-to joint announcements that she went off and did on her own, or claiming credit for federal decisions that had nothing to do with her or her failing government or demonstrating her lack of intelligence when speaking of the Senate, Christy Clark’s been a colossal nightmare (just have a look at the tape of her deer-in-the-headlights comments today on national health matters followed by Premier Redford of Alberta and her articulate brilliance–more ignominy at the hands of the most unqualified person to ever hold public office in BC).
Not to mention Premier Clark’s ongoing denials about how she never had anything to do with the sale of BC Rail (Chapter One: giving away Cabinet secrets to admitted bribers of public officials, who were your friends and associates, may be viewed as grounds for charges of breach of trust–but not by politically bias prosecutors or the feckless RCMP in this province).
And now that the BC Conservatives (led by a former Harper caucus member no less) are EVEN in the polls with her free-falling BC Liberals, excuse me, Christy party/government, here is how the Prime Minister of this land–a man whose whole electoral byline screamed ethics, morals, values, ideals and virtues not eight months ago, comports himself.
This, unbelievably, is a picture of the Prime Minister of this land, who ran on an ample platform of ethics in government, sitting next to the most spectacular phony and fraud in BC political history. They attended the weekend hockey game of Ms. Clark’s pawn, excuse me, son, Hamish Clark-Marissen. The request came from the Premier’s office and the complete morons running the show for the PM, well, I’m told most of them. agreed (although a few, are livid). If only you knew the firestorm of anger this has caused many long-time and prominent supporters of the Prime Minister in BC. An incredibly stupid move if there ever was one. The only silver lining is that it, once more, verifies what a political whore Ms. Clark is.
And again.
Young Hamish must have saved that goal, but the real winner of the game in the stands was Ms. Clark, who managed to use the federal Tories post-election arrogance to her advantage. Of course she wants to stem her party’s bleeding by being seen as ‘a BC conservative’ since those very same people have sensibly left her corrupt party and precisely because of her and her incompetent, shameful team. Of course the idiots who advise the Prime Minister and agreed to this think anyone but the NDP in this province would be better for the feds (not smart boys, think it through again…) and of course Mr. Boessenkool, whose federal Tory work is reportedly uneven, helped concoct such a coup as getting the PM to show up sitting next to Premier Clark, for yet ANOTHER shameless photo op (these pictures were splattered across her twitter and facebook pages–TWICE).
And the Prime Minister fell for it, every bit of it, hook, line and sinker. For shame, Sir. For shame.
Corrupt is, as corrupt does. If the federal Conservative meatheads (both in downtown Vancouver and in Ottawa) that allowed for this treason, think some of us will stand idly by while they sell this province to the absolutely unethical group that has infested Victoria along with Ms. Clark, then you can count this blog as unfriendly territory if I see this nonsense happen again.
And that’s not a warning shot.
Check your bow. Not fazed? Neither was Sam Sullivan.
Or Christy Clark.
I don’t give a damn about your pipeline.
There is nothing more important that a full public inquiry into the sale of BC Rail.
This stunned me initially … but SH is signalling she’s his gal pal … a fun date … but not anyone that he needs to sit down with and discuss policy … just a nice lady at the kids’ school parents’ night … a lightweight … so light that she doesn’t see it …
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Stop kidding yourself.
Yes, he looks uncomfortable but this is a guy who’s too smart for such foolishness.
I’m still digging and looking into it. The political end isn’t my concern. It’s the ethical lapse.
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Wow!
The Prime Minister needs watch the company he keeps… unless his objective is to be painted an attention whore like “Crispy Crotch”!
Here’s what a YouTuber thinks of the BC “Lieberals” political future… the truth in 20 seconds!
BC Liberals – Dead and Soon to be Buried Political Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBo1cVVqYxU
Click “Show More” at this link to read what the person who posted it says about “Crispy Crotch” and how she’s using your money, to run what is in effect a phantom head start pre-election, prior to the real deal.
She can smear Adrian Dix all she wants, but she should be doing it with her string-pullers’ money, not with taxpayers cash… and, if she wants to run the 100 meters smear race, she should at least say, “on your marks, get set, go”! As usual, Crispy isn’t happy unless she spots herself 50 meters!
Wait, I forgot, Crispy loves to cheat… forget it… replay the video!
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It was an appalling lack of judgement by the Prime Minister and an absolutely boneheaded thing to approve by his people.
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Don’t ever say “Crispy Crotch” again, please. That is to much.
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Ooh, not enough “oo” in my “too.” Anyway, that kind of name-calling isn’t as clever as you think it is.
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Hi Mr. Tsakumis
I have been following your blog for quite a while now (ever since you ripped the Teamsters @ RMV) and have found myself having some really good laughs followed by tons of headshaking at the antics of our elected officials and kleptocrats that you have brought to the forefront.
All in all, thank you for praising those that deserve it (like your good friend Rafe) and so righteously trashing those who deserve it and never seem to get their just desserts.
Please keep calling it like it is and keep the feet of our so-called leaders in Victoria and Ottawa as warm as they deserve to be.
Play safe Sir….you are greatly appreciated and to lose your contribution would be a tragedy.
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This is very kind of you. Thanks very much.
I will certainly stay safe.
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Alex i am glad you came to this , i know you thought my anti Harper stance was based on little other than personal dislike it wasnt i knew what many see now including you and if ever there was a time for you to shine its now , BC needs some heros to stop a pipeline being pushed for all the wrong reasons im hoping you are one of them.
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I will continue to fight against the pipeline. It’s wrong and problematic in many ways. I don’t know what alternatives exist to mitigate the risks, but they have to be better than a pipeline.
Thank you.
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just an addition Harper as pro pipeline as he can get not sure theres any doubt in his leanings
http://www.canada.com/business/Foreign+money+attempting+delay+pipeline+hearings+Harper/6005154/story.html
hard not to think its done deal in his eyes.
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What I find most troubling is that a sitting Prime Minister would not think to hold his tongue. He’s commenting on a national broadcaster about a tribunal, with legal status. It’s wholly inappropriate and commits to the same kind of prejudice he claims is spilling over the American border. The contradiction is one thing, but the inappropriateness of his comments is shocking.
Both Mulroney and Chretien were faced with similar circumstances on two different trade agreements and declined comment. Mind, they were both lawyers and understood the law and protocol governing such boards. But this is common sense. And on this issue, the PM exercised none of it.
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And the sound byte that the MSM are running with is that there are foreigners who want to turn Canada into a “giant national park.” Straw-man-type fallacies like these only further polarize the real issue. Harper has impressed me in the past with his ability to choose his words carefully. He hasn’t impressed me lately.
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Me neither.
I am extremely troubling by the dropping of the guard since the election. They will hand the next election to a coalition if they continue like this, I assure you. The fact the Prime Minister did not understand that it is verboten to speak about matters before a legal tribunal is just mind-blowing to me. General comments are fine, but language that could do precisely what he was (legitimately) complaining about is plainly wrong. He should have known better.
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Your not turning into a Harper hater are you.
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No, absolutely not. Simply questioning his judgement on this matter. It was wrong and deserving of rebuke.
OFficial events is one thing, but to attend the hockey game of the Clark-Marissen spawn is just wrong–period. Not unless the Prime Minister is trying to tell us he’s supporting the BC Liberals in the next election–because if he is then he can rest assured of a minority government at best.
It’s really up to him.
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It seems pretty clear to me that the quid pro quo for the photo op will be for CC to climb down from the fence on the side of support for Mr. Harper’s pipeline.
Although I think the PM’s people have grossly overestimated the value of her endorsement.
I agree it was a tactical mistake for the Prime Minister. On balance the cost of his trip to the good ol hockey game will be greater than the value received.
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NOTE TO READERS: SUPERB COMMENT–REQUIRED READING.
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Wow!!, I’m really surprised, Stephen Harper is usually so measured and careful in his actions !, Why the hell would he allow this despised woman to hitch her star to him, does he not get he is just being used as another prop in this woman’s long string of meaningless photo op’s, surprised an intelligent man such as Harper got sucked in…if he only knew what she REALLY says about him!!!
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Yes, well, he obviously doesn’t get it. The arrogance of SOME of the team that surrounds him is absolutely what I predicted would happen–because it always happens. But how one manages this tells the real story. He needs to stop this kind of ridiculousness at once.
If he doesn’t, he’ll lose a ton of conservatives in this province. the funny part about it is that the harder Christy pushes to pretend she is a conservative, the more people she drives away from the BC Liberals and the more entrenched she makes them in beating her–or having her lose badly.
I know from mutual friends that in private, Christy hates the Prime Minister and during one conversation referred to him as “nowhere as intelligent as Paul (Martin).” She routinely mocks him to insiders and yet here they are at her son’s game.
Completely idiotic.
Always good to hear from you.
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Your friend is giving you “factual” accounts, and knows what he is talking about.
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Yes, thank you. Good to know.
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great column.
the federal conservatives are treating the liberals as if they are irrelevant.
. such a mistake they should have had observers at the convention and critique their policies.
we cannot forget that it was not that long ago that the conservatives had 2 seats and were considered finished
mr harper when you hang out with an old media whore you get an s.t.d ( social twittered disease )
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Brilliant!
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@ harry lawson …Your a funny man that is awesome ….I going to chuckle all day STD …..thank you …cheers
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I don’t get it either. The deal used to be that no one from the CPC was to get involved in provincial politics and vice versa. The CPC for years has been trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with BC and why they can’t seem to get a lot of seats here. I think they figure that their vote is with the BC Liberals but that’s not true. A lot of their vote stays home for the provincial race or votes dipper. They would have been better off sitting back and watching the implosion from Ottawa and coming in to pick up the pieces later.
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Precisely right! John Cummins won’t stay forever. They could have allowed him to seed the beds from which they would eventually pick the flowers.
This was an extremely stupid move.
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All creature of common ilk dwell in the same oozing stench of corruption . These Politicians are puppets controlled by some corporate manipulator.
These marionettes buffoons don’t give a rat’s ass about BC or Canada .Harper is not paid to concern himself with such trivial matters as a catastrophic oil spill on our coast , this will not effect his affluent retirement in any way . Christy simply does not concern her self , she just obeys diligently . Harper know Christy is the exact kind of Politician the Conservatives want in power , someone they can tie to the whipping post as they cowardly slither back to corporate headquarters to regroup when the inevitable shit hits the fan . ……
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Is Christy actually that stupid?
Biggest advocate of per-capita based health care transfer payments was Ken Boessenkool
http://bcconservative.ca/2012/01/premier-clark-campaigns-against-new-chief-of-staffs-brainchild/
Christy, Get to the back of the line, or get out!
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Yes, she is that stupid. Did you see Christy n Global last night. She was all shits and giggles about an issue as serious as health care. They cut to the clip of Alison Redford and my jaw dropped. Stunning articulation and brilliant execution. It’s what a Premier should sound like. Christy’s problem, among the many, is that she’s dumb.
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You know I kind of doubted you on that front until I saw her health care photo op thing and I couldn’t stop laughing. What’s up with her weird facial expressions? She looks like she’s lost and confused. Dix and Cummins will rip her to pieces come debate time.
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Never doubt me.
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The term Christy “photo op” should be replaced with “cringe op”.
My God it’s embarrassing.
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She is completely cringeworthy. I quite agree
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I think it is pretty obvious why Harper stood in for the photo op. He wants to make sure CC is on board with the Gateway project. Take a look around the country and one can plainly see that the jobs strategy has everything to do with getting the oil out of the ground. Manufacturing jobs are fleeing the country for slave labor regions of the planet and the Cons have nothing else but resource extraction to count on for creating jobs. Hanging out with CC is the only move he has, besides, Christy and he have many of the same friends.
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I don’t know where you get your information from but Harper and Clark DO NO share the same friends. I know both circles of influence very well. You’re dead wrong on that.
And the jury is still out on the jobs strategy. I think it’s a little more all-encompassing than you describe.
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Overheard at the hockey game , pssssst hey christy ! yes my darling pm ! Support the pipeline and you don’t have to pay back the 1.6 bill.!
Also , if and probably when one of those super tankers crash onto the rocks and spills a million gallons of oil , will premier photo-op be there in her rubber gucci’s with a mop cleaning up the spill ??
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You never know…
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Yes, her sound bite on global and the contrast with Alberta’s premier spoke volumes. Clark always seems completely surprised and relieved that she makes it through a question period without making a major gaff and that she has managed to get through her prescript-ed rhetoric. Like Vana White, she continues to turn over the letter boards to see what appears.
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Complete agreement. I cannot believe how utterly vacant she sounded. And the reading from the script was just stunning. She couldn’t even do that right.
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In the first picture above, are the coffee cups they are holding “Tim Horton’s? If so, this is a product placement coup for someone. Well done.
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They are Tim Horton’s but it’s not as you think it is. They could have held Starbuck’s cups or Blendz, they could have been anything. But the reason they made sure the Timmy’s cups were there is because it invokes all those downhome Tory values, ya know?
She is the most shameless person I’ve ever encountered. There is no end to how much she will whore herself for power. It’s so degrading to women, I’m surprised she’s garnering any support from the fairer among us.
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“I’m surprised she’s garnering any support from the fairer among us.”
You know Alex I too wonder about this.
Are woman supporting her only because she is a woman? Have we as a society stooped to such a low, that a pretty face or celebrity status matter more than integrity and honor…
I noticed the placement of the Tim Horton coffee cup, and let us not forget it was a hockey player that started that started Timmy’s, clever marketing.
I wonder how Christy can sleep at night knowing she is using her son to further her photo and political opportunities…this for me is a shame…
Poor Hamish doesn’t have a say in it. Christy Clark should be ashamed of herself, she has even stooped to the level of taking the attention away from her own son and his hockey experience…
Hamish should be the center of attention at that hockey game…not Christy, nor Stephen Harper.
Did not one adult think about that…obviously not, and yet these are the folks we have running the country.
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Excellent comment. Exceedingly well put.
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Seem like Harper has a perfectly placed Timmie’s cup every where he shows up …..but I suppose Bob Rae will have to have a doobie from now on ……
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LMAO!
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The look on his face in the second photo just seems to say ” how long is this going to take so I can get outta here”. Why are we suprised at this photo op, any one with half a brain can see whats happening here. Back room deals have always been made, but at least it was done in private and we could still boot them out if it was a bad deal. Politicians today do not fear or respect the electorate so why even try to hide the deals being made, only a small fraction of the populace will complain. Voter apathy is the problem.
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Yes, we should demand better quality of candidates! That’s the BIGGEST problem in public life today. It’s the root of our issues.
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Thank you once again for your journalistic integrity and willingness to speak and write your truth regardless of your overall support for the federal Conservatives. This makes you a true journalist and independent thinker in an arena that is so full of political and journalistic ‘yes’ men and women who are more strategic than conscientious and human. You had me rethinking my anti-Conservative bias but the gag factor I felt when I saw this photo op a few days ago threatened all that. The emotional part of the human brain precedes the logical part and is more influential for most of us. To see Harper ‘hanging’ with Christy in support of HER son after having done so much to harm children as Minister of Education and not help them as Minister of Families a decade ago, is revolting in the extreme. Thank you for your integrity. Although I am trying not to comment (only because it’s not good for my health or happiness), I check your blog two or three times a day and am cheering you and your commenters on, There is power in information and truth that cannot always be ignored or spun away. Time reveals all. Very best to you Alex! Thanks for putting PEOPLE first at a time when it’s so unfashionable.
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If I didn’t put people first I’d be selling out on what my parents taught me as a kid. It’s one of the few things I haven’t managed to mangle. Y
You’d be amazed at the riches I’ve been offered to stop blogging and go back to business. It’s not even tempting.
The people need some of us out here to fend for them since the vast majority of those you’re electing have less ethics than prostitutes.
The Prime Minister really screwed up here. A very bad move.
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DON’T FORGET HE SET GORDO UP WITH A NICE RETIREMENT ALSO…..IDIOTS
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Yes, great point! I was going to mention how Gordo was rewarded for the HST debacle. A BC pension and a federal patronage appointment!
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The Gordo appointment was pushed by someone in Vancouver. It did not originate with the Prime Minister and many of his surrounding advisors had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the goal line. About six people across the country know the inside story. If I told you about it, even in peripheral details, it would be obvious to whom I spoke. Sorry…one day.
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I’ve almost finished reading Christopher Moore’s excellent, insightful book, “1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal”. It was published in 1997, but it’s relevance to Canadian party politics is timeless.
The Book Warehouse at 1051 Davie St. had seven copies on the shelves yesterday. At $9.99 it’s a steal. Highly recommended reading.
http://www.christophermoore.ca/books.htm
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In an unrelated topic, my I recommend another excellent book that I’m currently reading:
‘The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform’
It was published in 2003 and written by Daryl Champion. A little dry, but wonderfully insightful.
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Hmmm…Some Enchanted Evening
Kinda reminds one of the PM’s ‘dude’ experience of a few years back at the Calgary Stampede photo-op.
Mr Harper should stick to what he’s confident with…as his facial expressions give him away.
Me?…I’d have to take a bath if I ever found myself next to ‘The Preemie’
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I’d wash everything in turpentine.
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I’m still seathing about Scampbells appointment. now this. not olny shitting on BC’rs but trying to rub our faces in it. I’d sure like to take him to the woodshed. He has a mind of his own and does not have to listen to everything his advisers tell him. stand tall and be a man. I and a lot of others would sure be in the dark if you didn’t do your own thinking. Keep on, keeping on my man.
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Will do.
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In regards to the federal Liberals, that passage of the legalizing of marijuana..
Was the result of a joint meeting with the cadet Young Liberals and a few MPs that would listen to them because they couldn’t get tickets to the Bob Rae table..
What’s next? An event with Marc Emery as guest speaker (via video feed?)
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It’s amazing how incredibly stupid they are and how they’ve learned nothing from the drubbing they took.
And the band played on…
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Except on this issue, the Liberals are dead right. Prohibition is a total waste of time, police manpower and money. Tax it. Nuff said.
Will that eliminate crime? No. But it will free up resources to fight a fight that may be won.
And no, I don’t smoke it. That’s a choice of personal taste, not morals. It isn’t a moral issue, and shouldn’t be a criminal one.
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Drivel peddling…
1) The vast majority of marijuana cultivated in BC is traded pound for pound for cocaine across the American border.
2) There is no war on drugs. If there was No 1 would not be true.
3) Legalizing marijuana will do no different for younger generations of kids that will get hooked. You enslave them.
4) You will tax what exactly?! It’s not ever going to be as socially acceptable as alcohol. Ever. How much will you collect? And from whom? The amount it will cost to set the whole thing up will exceed the revenues in the long run. The majority is traded green for white. Your collecting a small fraction.
5) You create a drug competition bureau for smaller dealers. They will refine their product, charge more, and outsell the Govt.
Your arguments on this issue are nonsense. I’ve interviewed over 200 addicts and not one thinks we Gould be doing except jailing dealers for a long time and paying for rehab facilities, not harm seduction centers like InSite.
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Ok let’s suppose that eliminating marijuana use were a worthwhile goal.
It still wouldn’t be worth the dollars and resources devoted to it, given how total a failure the criminalization of the weed has been, in the US as well as here.
I know I won’t convince you, and it’s not even such a big issue for me, but you know that old definition of insanity…Cheers
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Perhaps you can explain how one compares something that has never existed with something that has had its costs manipulated by every bloody proponent of legalizing dope.
Absurd.
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Alex
You have hit the nail squarley on the head.
It woud be appreciated if you could comment on the ‘TwistyChristy ” Clarks minister Rich Coleman standing up in the house and ‘on the record’ he promised that the BC government would not allow any Gas Fracking to take place until a full and complete hearings with Northern residents and natives,and the BC public.
Yet shortly thereafter the BC government then gave permission and signed a contract to allow a major gas company to conduct gas fracking in BC utilising 1.5 billion litres per day from Williston lake.
When asked on a TV interview Coleman denied,lied and tried to blame anyone and everyone saying it was not his responsibility Blah,Blah Blah.even when he was recorded visually and verbally yet no comments or criticism by the NDP house members.Just what in the hell is happening to BC’s opposition party,the NDP?
Proven substantiated documentation exists the contamination of underground aquafiers,due to gas fracturing,and extremely high quantities of BC water reserves are being wasted.
Let alone coupled documented history of short and long term sickness by residents,and the chance of permanently contaminating ground fresh water.
This Liberal Premier is totally responsible for this action and as such “Twisty Christy” must be held 100% liable for all Liberal actions and lies by her government to BC voters,even for the Liberal lies by her Ministers
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I’m going to tell you two stories:
1) Rich Coleman is a really tight pal of Pat Kinsella’s. ‘Nough said.
2) Recently, on his facebook page, I took Adrian Dix to task for not addressing the obvious wealth redistribution that he obviously finds appealing. He had posted his convention speech and I asked about the keynote speech delivered by American Communist and racist, Van Jones. Well! You’ve never seen Mr. Dix respond so quickly. And he deleted my question and comment. What’s even more cowardly is he wouldn’t answer my question about wealth redistribution and when I posted the video of Van Jones claiming only WHITE suburban kids commit murder, no reply. Nothing. Not even the courage to say he didn’t agree with it or Mr. Jones has been misunderstood or any of the usual schlock.
As long as the BC NDP sit way out on the left, they could very well be handing the election, as frightening as that may sound, to Ms. Clark. Trust me. I know the BC map. And the majority of BCers are center right. The NDP is stalled at their traditional percentage of support–meaning, that they win only because the center-right is divided.
Reunite and…
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You didn’t ever say Ms. Clark…….Until now.
You said snookie……and many more.
Miss Unelected, that friend who has her family’s back.
You are so right Alex. For Shame Mr Harper. It Is In Good Judgement that for the most part , you mean well.
HEY! EVERYone. This Is.
P.S…….CTV ……..Is Cool again.
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Sorry that ps ctv is cool again comment is mine.
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Yeah, we noticed…
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You need to go back and reread my posts. I often refer to them formally. It depends on the tone of what I’m expressing. Sometimes, I’ll let it rip a little…in case you didn’t notice.
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What a surprise PMSH at a hockey game supporting minor sports … as odd as seeing a preacher in a church talking about God.
As strange as it may seem for some of your readers, PMSH has attended a lot of minor hockey games, and will, in all likelihood, attend a lot more. Did/will he talk about pipelines at all of them? … or is this the only one?
Having the PM attend their hockey game will be something that all the players/parents will remember forever.
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Spare me the album serenade. He had no goddamned business at a personal event for the greatest political fraud in BC history, knowing full well that it would appear like a clear endorsement.
He should be ashamed.
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It wasn’t a date. it was pure politics,without ethics or morals.
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A link of interest pertaining to your Enbridge post, but also relevant to the bullying trend we’re seeing from the Harper government since gaining majority:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/79228736/Whistleblower-s-Open-Letter-to-Canadians#source:facebook
I tend to lean a bit left on most political topics, but much to many of my left-leaning friends distaste, I felt having Harper at the helm of a minority conservative government in sketchy economic times wasn’t such a bad thing… so long as he could be moderated by the opposition. When he got the majority I despaired at the prospect of the arrogant strong-arm crap we’re starting to see now.
Curious, Alex, on your opinion here… since I noticed your favourite (
) mayor, Gregor Robertson, was director of Tides Canada several years back and I recall you believe him to be associated with some questionable lefty organizations. And yet I appreciate (and commiserate with) your recent criticisms of the government’s stance on Enbridge.
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The letter writer has been declared a fraud by an environmental group. Apparently no such intimidation took place. The denial came from the chap this writer claimed was intimidated.
I think the Tides Foundation is dangerous and panicked that climate change hooey is dying in the US, with Obama not delivering enough of what they demanded and the world waking up to ‘Climategate’ etc. So, they concentrate on Canada, where far left wing nutism is mainstream.
They should be banned.
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