April 2011
Your Friday Bullets For Will We Or Won't We
Posted by on Friday, April 29, 2011 in - 8 comments
... give them the boot. Or even, at least, top them. As far as I am concerned, one word took Harper from 44 to 34%. Asbestos. I had no idea that former "[h]igh-ranking member of the Canadian government, Transportation Minister Chuck Strahl, suffers from an asbestos-related cancer." The word frames …
Day 33: OK, Maybe It's Not Quite So Over
Posted by on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in - 6 comments
Apparently I was channeling Paul Wells on Monday. Like him, I am now amazed: • Just about all the trends have changed. Nanos now has the Conservative top-line national vote down to essentially where it was in 2008; other national polls put that vote lower. In Ontario, Nanos has the NDP vote … read more »
Day 31: Today, I Think It's Over - Tory Majority Coming
Posted by on Monday, April 25, 2011 in - leave a comment
Sure, I got 2 hours sleep after the four year old woofed the cookies in the night leading to laundry rather than sleepery but I just don't see anything other than a Tory majority of around 160 seats after next Monday, a few more than this prediction. I still think I may vote Grit for the first … read more »
Friday Bullets For Week Four... And A Week Off
Posted by on Friday, April 22, 2011 in - 9 comments
Took a holiday week. Planned to do a lot of work and didn't. Rain. Cold. So I napped and watched baseball instead. Watched the newer Tron. But the universe is coming back into order as the Red Sox, while still in fifth will move up this weekend, passing other sluggish AL East teams. The election …
Day 26: Time To Shout "Throw The Bums Out!!!"
Posted by on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 in - 12 comments
What exactly is there to lose now? Sure, the polls show a weakness for the Tories in their inordinate strength in ridings already won. Ridings that were won in 1931 or so. And Iggy has done better than he might have but also worse than he could. The Bloq is weak and Layton is having his best …
Day 25: New Tory Nationalism = Making Stuff Up?
Posted by on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 in - 2 comments
An odd piece in the Globe this morning about the alleged Tory strategy to create a new nationalism: • If you wonder what that new nationalism is and where to find it, the Conservatives will point you to Canada’s belligerent domination of the Vancouver’s Winter Olympics; to the new generation of …
Day 24: NDP Quebec Surge Makes Everything New
Posted by on Monday, April 18, 2011 in - 3 comments
A paradigm shift. That is what the Tory long plan has been all about - making us all comfortable with less government by dismantling Federalism with a weird tactic agreement with Quebec. A continuation of Chretien's administrative devolution with a pinch of Alberta sovereignty thrown in while no …
Friday Bullets For Day 20... 21... Or So
Posted by on Friday, April 15, 2011 in - 3 comments
The debates. Harper still is just on the good side of smug with is plastic grin. Iggy learned a lot but still looked a bit contrived. Jack was very good and Gilles had little or no worries. I wonder if there's going to be exactly the same number of seats per party at the end of all this. Kingston …
Day 19: Has Hap Harper Beaten Me Into Submission?
Posted by on Thursday, April 14, 2011 in - leave a comment
Here's my problem. I am looking for a post about Harper, the one with that image being used in the Liberal attack ad tonight, and I can't find it. Because I appear to have spent the last seven or eight years obsessing about Stephen Harper. Steve. Now "Hap" because I really think "Hap" is a … read more »
Day 17: Thank Heavens The Word "Illegal" Was Removed
Posted by on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in - 5 comments
Yesterday watching Twitter election 2011 flow by was one of the most bizarre things I have ever witnessed in politics. • Idle yapping about Iggy's wife citizenship suddenly breaks for the announcement that a confidential draft of the Auditor General's report on the G8 has been leaked and is out …
Day 15: Conrad Black Makes Carson Matter All Better
Posted by on Sunday, April 10, 2011 in - 9 comments
How comforting that we all were wrong but Connie has set the record straight: • The controversy surrounding Bruce Carson — a former advisor to Stephen Harper — is a shabby and worrisome exercise in priggish hypocrisy and cowardice that reflects no credit on anyone except Carson’s fiancée … read more »
Friday Bullets For The End Of Week Two
Posted by on Friday, April 8, 2011 in - 10 comments
So right now I am leaning towards voting for the Grits. Never have before. Reason? Iggy is turning out to be no flake and, frankly, Jack announcing a "doubling of pensions" is a wee bit irresponsible. We have solid pension plans in Canada and I am aware of how much that costs when I look at my pay …
Day Eleven: Is This Really "Our Country"?
Posted by on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in - 28 comments
Somewhere there is a place between boring and sappy. That is the place that the Tories call "Our Country" in an new campaign video. Watch it and then come back for a few questions... • There. Are you comfortable? Now... • Odd images: Trees, mountains, Vancouver, barren snowy scene, grain field …
Day Ten: Do I See Dead People?
Posted by on Monday, April 4, 2011 in - leave a comment
Let us pause for a moment to consider the graphical representation of data. This was on the Globe's website this morning. Is it great because it is clear and informative or is it clear and informative because the data represented makes it so? See, that is a pretty steady rise for the Tories up …
Friday Bullets For The Weekend Of Opening Day!
Posted by on Friday, April 1, 2011 in - leave a comment
Screw the election. It's fine as far as those things get you but the affairs of man bow to the affairs of life, the cycle of the seasons. The Giants and Dodgers were on last evening and LA took it in a one nothing game. Sad is life that we needs five months without baseball so that the other seven …
