The Harper Conservatives: Tough on Crime

I think all of us can agree that Stephen Harper and his Conservative party are tough on criminals. Why just the other day I got a pamphlet in my mailbox telling me so. It showed a picture of a gentleman sitting on his couch with open liquor in proximity pointing the channel changer at us. The pamphlet had the word "Jail?" written in the middle of the image.

On the reverse side it went in to some detail telling me how the Conservative party was tough on criminals and how they were going to eliminate house arrest for certain offenders, which of course wouldn't bother me considering they're also planning on cutting taxes to the bone so hey we'll be able to pay for all those extra jail cells without going in to deficit right?

So there I was, walking down my hallway on my way out the door for work when what do I see on one of my neighbor's newspapers? "Tories ditch Halifax candidate."

Why would they ditch the Halifax candidate you ask? Well it turns out she has a criminal record of course!

Now, I don't personally care whether this person has a criminal record or not. If she's paid her debt and she's not a threat to re-offend then I say who cares? But it just goes to what I call the Culture of Hypocrisy in the modern Conservative movement where they preach one thing and practice another. Now in the end they did end her candidacy after two days, but the party who likes to profess itself as the most competent to lead the country has now made two big mistakes in succesive days in the campaign (this and poopgate) one would think they're the most prepared for having known for sure when they would call it before everyone else.

Now it's time for everyone's favorite game

Can YOU Spot the Outlier?



If you guessed Segma Unimarketing you're correct! You've won a BRAND NEW CAR!!!!*

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Everyone knows the only polling firm worth a pinch of shit in Canada is Nanos Research. (Formerly SES) They start coming out with nightly numbers on Thursday, you can either see them on CPAC's Primetime Politics or on their website @ http://www.nanosresearch.com/main.asp

I'm Very Happy

I haven't said much for a while, I'm sure some of you thought I died or got thrown in Jail by Harper or something but I'm still here.

I just wanted to say I'm very happy the Greens have been excluded from the debates once again. I'm happy their sleazy little trick of taking a tainted MP who the Liberals booted out of their caucus and turning him Green didn't succeed. I've mentioned this issue before.

http://liberal4lifeblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/time-honored-tradition.html

But I do think that we need to set clear rules for the inclusion of the leadership debates so that fringe parties like the Greens know exactly what they have to do to get in. I think that it should have something to do with being elected to official party status in the house but then you get in to the problem of what happened to the PC's in 1993. (hehehe) So maybe if a party has been elected to official party status in any of the last 3 elections? Something along those lines. But having a single elected MP shouldn't be threshold.

CNN Projects: The Democrats Win The House!

Oh thank God, finally that moron Dubya will have effective opposition.

It's So Very Hard...

...to not be overconfident for tomorrow, the U.S. Midterm Elections. I'm really trying to guard against it. But I still know that Republicans have rigged the last 3 elections and after watching Hacking Democracy I think they're perfectly capable of doing so again, and it's far easier than it was for them before. I think if the Republicans somehow pull out a miracle and don't lose the House (The Senate is by all accounts a dead heat) there needs to be a massive investigation. There of course won't be, but I think there needs to be one.

Then we have people like this genius who keeps hoping against hope that his fascist buddies can pull one out of the fire. He's also painfully unaware of how his party stole previous elections. He actually thinks they won them on merit. BAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA Oh man, that's a great one. I mean I know the Liberals screwed up on the Sponsorship program, I readily admit it. I don't think it was as overblown as the far righters said it was, but still I admit they screwed up. But people like this guy, who is a Jesus freak as if you couldn't have guessed, are so hopelessly out of touch with reality it is frightening. This guy lost both his parents in Iraq (they were missionaries, there to spread the word of Christ) in the war W started and he's still drinking the far right cool-aid.

My Dream Scenario: The Dems win both chambers, impeach Bush and Cheyney, and Nancy Pelosi (the concencus for Speaker of the House) becomes President until 2009.

My Nightmare Scenario: The Republicans steal another election, and no one in the States seems to care enough to do anything about it.

I imagine the outcome will fall somewhere in between.