Posts Tagged: Non-partisan blog posts
Irony Revisited
Posted by on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 in - 2 comments
Another good lesson in the meaning of ironic. I think the nasty inner message in what follows is too obvious to qualify as an ironic statement but I'd think the fact of who and when this statement was made makes for an entertainingly ironic circumstance: • “Mr. Harper, meanwhile, told reporters …
Caption For A Change
Posted by on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 in - 3 comments
After all this Tory implosion, I need something else up here. What better than to say silly things about than men in silly outfits that remind you more of a type of hootch than centuries of tradition.
It Just Keeps Getting Better
Posted by on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 in - 3 comments
From the Toronto Star tonight, we learn that a hand from the dark past has reached out: • “ Stronach told the CBC that she spoke with Mulroney today to discuss her move. "Brian said to me, 'I’m your friend. . . I support you as a friend,'" she said. Mulroney was not available for comment …
Hopeless Harper
Posted by on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 in - 14 comments
I zipped this off at Ben's in response to yet another dense comment from someone other than Ben (as Ben is as bright a conservative thinker as I have come across) about how the Tories are great because the Liberals are bad...and then I thought it was rather good. It's a list of Harper's …
Pension Suit
Posted by on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 in - 1 comment
It's not because it's my pension that is being sued and I have no idea who is right. No, it's because I think this is exactly the sort of thing unions should be doing in the new era of watching corporate management with a careful eye, freed as we are from the '80s and '90s cult of managerial …
Tsunami Relief?
Posted by on Sunday, May 15, 2005 in - 1 comment
Care of Jay, I was directed to the Financial Times which ran a string of stories last week on the failings of tsunami relief. This is quite shocking: • May 12, 2005: "Within a week a Diageo supplier began sending the equivalent of eight 20ft shipping containers of drinking water to survivors in …
Big Dig Now!!!
Posted by on Friday, May 13, 2005 in - 7 comments
First Minister Designate of the Tantrama City Provisional Government, John McDonald MacKay Archibald, the Federal Liberal appointee, surprised many with his stinging rebuke of Tantrama City not being included as a stop in the "Free Money!" tour made by Prime Minister Paul Martin prior to the …
About That Vote
Posted by on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 in - 9 comments
I watched it on CPAC last night and it was clear to me, despite the hand wringing, that: • it was not a confidence votethe Liberals do not lack the support of the House of Commons. • I won't vote for the Grits but let's not lose our heads. There is no constitutional crisis. Harper admitted …
Just Say No...To Dinner
Posted by on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 in - leave a comment
Another day, another poll but this one has some real oomph. In the big numbers, it plays out like this: • “Tory: 31% • Grit: 27% • NDP: 20% • Green: 7%” • Within Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois has 56% support to the Liberal's 16%. • In the most important numbers, however, we learn this …
