Comments on: With statistics

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:13:00 +0000

Actually, I think it’s more like arguing that cakes are a horrible thing to eat, and then taking credit for making a birthday party more fun because you brought the cake (while simultaneously being unable to prove that you’re actually the person who brought the cake).

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:15:00 +0000

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I liked Manning personally….very friendly, gave a good speech, genial, likeable

It was his politics I disagreed with.

By: Yearn For Reform

Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:06:00 +0000

Ok. What did you think of Manning, when you met him?

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:48:00 +0000

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The party came fully-formed…there were no additions from the ‘grassroots’ in spite of all the talk.

They’ve ditched many of them over the years, but they never added anything to the original back porch vision

By: I Yearn For Reform

I Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Are they’re any particular policy proposals that you feel effectively align with the personal preception your time with reform helped develop?

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:27:00 +0000

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Old Tyme Religion…evangelical tent revival stuff…that would never sell in the ROC

A vision of a ‘Leave it to Beaver’ or ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ type Canada from the 50s.

Canada as a white christian heterosexual male nation where everyone thought the same way they did….they’ve been shocked to discover it’s not true.

The kind of parocialism that comes from sitting on your back porch in Red Deer and having your buddies agree with you, because none of you have ever been anywhere else.

By: I Yearn For Reform

I Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:20:00 +0000

What about the movement in particular did you think was crazy? Please don’t tell me Manning was crazy, the guy seems pretty reasonable in his writings!

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:17:00 +0000

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I was PC for about 30 years, but as you know they were reduced to 2 seats when a woman became leader.

So I decided to try out Reform….’fresh wind from the west’ and all that. Became a riding president…met Manning etc

Found a party of crazy people. SoCred in disguise. Left.

By: Batman Bacon

Batman Bacon — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:08:00 +0000

And now I’m not sure if your trolling or trying to get into a fight with the digital scary guy. The internet sure is a crazy and or mundane place!

By: I Yearn For Reform

I Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:07:00 +0000

Well as someone who greatly respects Manning but wasn’t really following politics when reform was big, I would be interested in hearing from an ex-reformer about why you originally joined reform and what has caused you to depict it as crazy.

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:01:00 +0000

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I’ve been both PC and Reform.

I could still be PC…but Reform is crazy.

By: I Yearn For Reform

I Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Oh. I seem to have made a mistake. I rescind my prior endorsment of your comment. That being said, I think we can both agree that PC stood for Pretty Corrupt back in the pre-merger day.

By: OrsonBean

OrsonBean — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:31:00 +0000

He’s the perfect embodiment of the progressive, tolerant left.

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:27:00 +0000

If Reform hadn’t moved to being PC, they’d still be wandering in the wilderness

By: I Yearn For Reform

I Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:50:00 +0000

Excellent point! It’s like baking a cake without joy, but you certaintly take credit for the joy that comes to people’s faces after they eaten your joyful but not joyfully made cake!

By: I Yearn For Reform

I Yearn For Reform — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:41:00 +0000

Amen. It’s too bad too, those reform partisans were so great until they started interacting with those wretched PCers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:42:00 +0000

It’s called dog-whistling.

By: Batman Bacon

Batman Bacon — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:15:00 +0000

I’m not sure if you’re trolling, or just the scariest commentator on Macleans

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:51:00 +0000

They don’t govern with statistics.
They never said they wouldn’t take credit for them.

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:04:00 +0000

LOL that’s cuz their partisans are absurd as well.

By: neuroticdog

neuroticdog — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:44:00 +0000

Probably because to their own partisans, they don’t sound absurd at all.

By: OriginalEmily1

OriginalEmily1 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:08:00 +0000

The scary part is that Cons never realize how absurd they sound.

By: Russell Barth

Russell Barth — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:36:00 +0000

shameless monsters these tories. they should all be thrown in jai for their deliberate attempt to increase crime and the spread of diseases. they are beasts – unworthy of the air in their lungs.

By: Hester Eastman

Hester Eastman — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:19:00 +0000

Andrew Lang ~ “…. uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination”