Well the shoe is on the other foot my friend. It is the Count who appears to have a hidden agenda i.e. higher taxes, a coalition if necessary but not necessarily a coalition, torture, maybe, maybe not, support for Iraq war, maybe, maybe not, Israel committed war crimes, maybe, maybe not, oil sands good, maybe, maybe not. The slate is blank because he has spoken on each of these issues and quickly repudiated his position. So we shall see who has the hidden agenda my friend. That Liberal talking point is so passe. You need to find something else to talk about.

Last week Barack Obama gave a commencement speech at Notre Dame, where he was received by protesters angry at him for his positions regarding abortion. Less reported was the group of students displeased with Stephen Harper for using their school’s mascot as his Finance Minster.

Unfortunately, Canadians are going to have to get used to importing intellectuals to do our thinking jobs, because we have done our darndest to make sure ideas do not grow here.

The politically correct police seem to have an abundance of units on hand to hunt down anyone so sinister as to persecute any minority group, be they blacks, gays, women, immigrants, or employees of Ruby Dhalla. But there is one minority who receives no such sympathy, indeed one to whom no amount of abuse is deemed sufficient – the intellectuals.

Our economy fundamentally functions by the masses extorting money from the few who were intelligent enough to develop a product that other people actually wanted to buy. This is a culture in which the word profit seems to be defined as “sinful blood money acquired by social parasites by exploiting the needs of honest citizens”.

We are quickly becoming a helpless nation that can’t produce anything, surviving only because we are fortunate enough to have vast natural resources which we can ship to the productive parts of the world. We have an “education” system in which the today’s useless train tomorrow’s useless. Our youth graduate from our universities and, having absolutely no salable skills, are forced to go to the only employer for whom skills are irrelevant and nescience is a plus – the government.

You know what they say, those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can’t teach, run for office.

We have set up a system that is so hostile to the thinking man and woman that there are no options for our bright minds but to flee to places where their assets are not viewed as liabilities.

We like to call it the brain drain, but in Canada brains are not drained, they’re flushed.

We’ve exchanged our free thinking for those who are free OF thinking.

To borrow a sentence from Vladimir Nabokov and apply it to my home and native land, “Ideas in modern [Canada] are machine-cut blocks coming out in solid colo[u]rs”.

There are many people who do not agree that political parties should be funded by taxpayers. Having said that I agree with you that the matter should have been brought up with separate legislation and debated in the House. However, as you acknowledge all parties practice wedge politics and so I guess its ok for other parties to do it but that damn Conservative government must be held to a higher standard.

The Count is playing wedge politics as we speak. He is arguing for an unreasonable number of hours to qualify for employment insurance i.e. 360 hours or approx. 10 weeks to collect a years’ worth of EI. Iggy knows that Ontario unemployment is increasing and so if he can pressure the government the people of Ontario may reward him in the next election. The fact remains the Liberals introduced the current EI policy as they took the notional $50 billion surplus in that fund to cover the deficit. Hyprocrisy that is the name for the Liberal party and its supporters these days.

As for proroguing parliament…he did not prorogue parliament the GG did. The PM has no power to prorogue. So get your facts straight. Did he recommend to the GG that was the best course of action for the country as it headed into a world wide recession and that the alternative would be an unstable government because it would have given veto power to the Bloc over every piece of legislation that would have been presented under a coalition government you bet. The GG agreed. She could have said no face the House but she didn’t.

It is you and the rest of the Liberal syncophants that are tedious my friend. Get some new talking points.

The pundits, media, press gallery and of course the Liberals want the Conservatives to just sit back and allow Iggy to do his thing without any push back. Well that isn’t going to happen. Harper knows how to play the Liberal game maybe better than they do.

The Liberals and some posters on this board will continue to attack the PM personally calling him all manner of things. There is no evidence he is as they portray him but that doesn’t stop their talking points from calling him those names. That’s because the Conservative policies are middle of the road so they can only try to destroy the PM personally. It really is sad to watch. There should be some truth ads run against the media in this country.

Because the media has been determined by the Canadian public to be dishonest, biased and unbalanced in their coverage they discount what they have to say and gather their own views from a variety of sources. Despite the criticisms of the media and the opposition parties the public believes the Harper government is doing a good job managing the economy through this recession. Too bad, so sad for the Liberals.

The media will not learn the lesson that Canadians want unbiased political coverage and so the public and by extension the advertisers are abandoning both the print and electronic media in troves. That is why they are in financial trouble today. If they won’t deliver the product the consumer wants the consumer will go elsewhere.

Harper has not made Canada a world voice, unless you consider gaining us a reputation as a country that will not fight for it’s citizens abroad when they’re in foreign prisons.

When the Liberals were in power, we consistently ranked in the top five of all the UN ‘best places to live’ lists (Countries with best health care systems, countries with best quality of life etc.) We had the perfect balance as a country that you could come to invest in, and as a country that stood for social justice all over the world.

I mean if the deep dark hole of the dark ages fear mongering is working so well why is the Liberal party where it is today?

They have no policies to fix the problems, they state that they will increase the GST, they will not distance themselves from a Carbon Tax, they just tried to form a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc to cheat their way into power, the Canadain public hated them for trying to form the coalition, they just undemicratically appointed a new leader that has no real idea who Candians are etc etc etc and Joe public is now seeing thru the media lies…

So I’m really not seeing where you are getting the idea that the Candian public in thier wildest dreams believes that the CPC are going to drag us into the dark ages.

The Liberals have used wedge politics very effectively over the years and of course because they are Liberals that is quit all well with their syncophants and the media at large.

The opposition feels it is their job to oppose everything under the guise that it is Harper’s fault that Parliament is not working. The opposition do not offer counter legislation but merely oppose and accuse the government of bad faith.

The opposition is using the minority government situation to threaten the government at every turn with defeat if they don’t agree with their demands. This is not governing for the good of the country. It is simply playing partisan politics.

What baser instincts are you referring to by the way. What is it that he has done that is so terrible in your mind? Or are you simply spouting Liberal and media talking points?

You need to really take a pill lady (If that’s what you are). This is a conversation on politics not a physcological session.

Make your arguments no matter how silly they are and quit attacking other posters.l

Hope that makes it better…

and of course I have no hard feelings towards you this is just the internet… ;)

RM thank you I haven’t had this much fun at anothers expense in a long time.

No hard feeling ok… ;)

Quite right, CR. But the day I let someone tell me I’m not a real Canadian, and decide to be sensible and walk away, will never dawn.

Jack, Heidi, this is getting a bit out of hand. I humbly and respectfully suggest that both of you step back, take a deep breath, and relax. Regardless of who started it, or who said what, life is simply too short for angry flame wars.

I can see why people like you want to be kindergarten teachers, actually. You get to boss people around all day, tell them when to sit down and when to stand up, and if a kid rejects your bullying you get to insult him to your heart’s content, all the while telling yourself you’re helping him out. Sick. It’s a shame all the good teachers have to tolerate people like you in their ranks.

Read this and see if the shoe fits, I’m thinking low self-esteem & seething with resentment especially when a woman stands up to you… :)

What is a Bully

Bullies are present in all walks of life and much of what is on here will be transferable outside the workplace.

The definitions of a bully are:

1) To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner.
2) To make (one’s way) aggressively.
3) To force one’s way aggressively or by intimidation.
4) To provide persistent, unwelcome behaviour.

Projection behaviour and denial are hallmarks of the serial bully. It is believed by some that bullying is present behind all forms of harassment, discrimination, prejudice, abuse, persecution, conflict and violence.

What bullies fear most is exposure and being called publicly to account for their behaviour so they can go to great lengths to keep their target (victim) quiet from misdirection when it is reported to using threats of disciplinary action, dismissal, gagging clauses and fear.

Despite the facade that such people put up, bullies have another side to them. What complicates matters is that the bully may not be aware or acknowledge to themselves they very often suffer from one or more of the following:

# Low self-confidence
# Low self-esteem
# Feel insecure
# Seething with resentment
# Bitterness
# Hatred
# Anger
# Envy
# Jealousy
# Inadequacy
# And may have a wide range of prejudices as a vehicle for dumping anger onto others.

A bully may not always be aware that they are bullying.

So, given this bizarre, inexplicable situation, I’d say anything’s possible.

If the Big Media in Canada had its way and the Conservatives were unable to or forbidden by law to have these so-called “attack” (they’re really informational) ads about Iggy, then, well, Canadians wouldn’t really know enough about Iggy to vote against him.

And when it comes to the Liberals, too many Canadians will often vote for them automatically, absent any compelling negative reason(s) not to. It’s pretty much a matter of “I’ll vote Liberal, unless I hear lots of awful stuff about them that’s proven true or verifiable as such”.

The problem is, however, that they’re too bloody busy with work, family, etc. and too short on time to be able to properly inform themselves. The Big Media is one huge cluster-bomb anti-Tory attack ad and they fall for it, one bad, manipulative headline and “expert comment” after another. And history has proven time and again that, despite folks automatically saying, when asked, that they despise “attack ads”, they still do work for them, especially if they’re purely truth-based, as are the current grouping of Tory “This is Ignatieff” ads.

Besides, Canadians don’t know jack about Iggy. Therefore the ads are informative for them, and they’ll be appreciative for the convenience they offer, as they’re not getting anything from the Big Media about Iggy, except idol worship and whatnot, with the negative stuff about Iggy either covered up or downplayed, relative to the treatment Mr. Harper gets.

And, really, when one watches the ads, one doesn’t get the impression that they’re over the top or beyond the pale or whatever. I mean, they don’t make Iggy look like Adolf H., nor do they claim that Iggy’s going to have guys with machine guns all over the place in Canada or anything so unbelieveable.

Don’t believe the Opposition and Big, Liberal-preferring Media spin about the ads. One needs to watch them for oneself and decide all by oneself about them.

The ads, objectively, will work. Just watch the coming polls…

And can you furnish us with irrefutable proof that it was the Republican Party of the United States who actually invented the negative political ad? That would make your claim that it’s a “Republican tactic” believable. Thanx! ;)

Which means that they are seeing this move as a desperate grab at anything to stop from drowning.

How about coming up with some policies that the public will support and no the public does not support an increase in the GST or a Carbon Tax that Iggy will not let go of.

How about this one the public also sees that the long gun registry has been a dismal failure why don’t the Liberals/Iggy save face and let it go, the firearms owners will still be registered so the police will still know if there are possibly firearms in a home or not but we don’t have to continue to pour our tax dollars into this bottomless pit…

Give us a reason to vote Liberal again or at least a reason to show up to the polls…

When will Iggy and his controllers stop playing into the CPC’s hands?

Nobody has the right to rule over us unless they are one of us. Iggy is not one of us. He made his life and career somewhere else.

Who does he see as his friends and associates? Us? I have doubts. Whose interests would he be looking after if he has power? Our interests or those of his foreign friends and associates? Who has his ear? People living here or his friends in foreign places? If push comes to shove would he go to the barricades defending us or would he sell us out?

Can’t happen? What about the world wars? Europe was full of collaborators. Legions of psychopaths from counquered countries joined the Nazi SS.

Let’s say borders are arbitrary. Would you be ok then with 300 million people to the south of us having the right to move north into our country and running rampant here? Borders mean that the right to live on our turf is restricted. Why so? Because resources in our country are finite. We have the world’s richest landmass and I for one would guard it jealously. It’s only for use by people we call our own. People in smaller countries with poor resources would not need this explained to them because they don’t take these things for granted. Neither would people that lived under foreign domination and oppression. They know that borders matter.

That is a big difference for the Average Joe Canadian to swallow and one that I feel will play into the hands of the CPC resulting in another Liberal lose, maybe not as bad of a lose as the last election mind you the Liberals couldn’t do any worse who ever is the new leader of the party.

Here is the link to the CPC internet ad… http://www.ignatieff.me/

Um, I don’t know, maybe. But if the States disqualified a good leader because he took off for some great opportunities outside the country, I’d probably tell them they were being a bit trivial. Hopefully, in that case, someone with some sense would say, “can you imagine Canadians discrediting someone for spending time outside the country?”