Keep on Whacking Liberals

Destroying lives, destroying careers: All in a day’s work:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has hired on as an adviser a former lawyer who was disbarred, convicted of theft and sentenced to 18 months in jail in the early 1980s for stealing money from clients of his law firm.

The incident in question occurred just under a third of a century ago. Carson pleaded guilty and served his time. But no matter; if Harper can be splattered with a little residual mud as a result of the decimation of Carson’s life and career, all the better.

Someone could ask Findlay where he got his information, but what would be the point? This one has LIBERAL written all over it. And so it is, consumed by irony as I am, that I present this whine-fest about Stephen Harper being mean to the poor, poor Liberal Party:

Some of the most vociferous Conservatives will argue that this is no misuse at all. In fact, they believe that they were elected to destroy the Liberal Party. Never mind ideology; as a matter of democracy they believe they would be doing the right thing for Canada.

If only Canada would be so lucky.

If ever Conservatives ever feel pity for the Grand ‘Ol Liberal Party, keep Bruce Carson in mind. Every time that Harper kicks them in the nuts, I’ll be standing there cheering.

Mental Handicaps and the Criminal Justice System

Nothing like a pack of blood-thirsty local yokels to illustrate one of the dirtiest little secrets of Canada’s criminal justice system: The hundreds if not thousands of people with mental handicaps, oftentimes severe, who are either sitting in prison (being punished) or cast out into society after a prison sentence without an iota of support:

“[He] has been diagnosed as being developmentally delayed and has the mentality of an adolescent,” O’Reilly read.

The family’s letter said the man cannot take care of himself and requires 24-hour care. As well, the family said they can no longer look after his needs.
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“If they don’t get him out soon, I’m going to get him out,” neighbour Sean George said to a cheering crowd.

But don’t fret: I’m sure there’s a refrigerator box in downtown St. Johns just waiting for the guy to take up residence.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go listen to the Liberal leadership candidates tell me about how 12 years of Liberal rule has made Canada the most compassionate nation in the world.

Erma Bombeck Remembered

Will this be available in Canada? I doubt it. Too bad.

Erma Bombeck: A Legacy of Laughter, celebrates one of America’s best loved humorists. Recollections from family and friends along with photographs and rare home movies tell the story of her life and career.

Welfare Reform: Ten Years Later

From the wonderful City Journal, Kay S. Hymowitz provides a lucid and thoughtful assessment of welfare reform in the US ten years after it was introduced by the Clinton/Gingrich tag-team. People willing to dismiss Hymowitz as a conservative apologist will be suprised by the turn she takes toward the end of the column:

Though researchers haven’t found that reform has had any adverse effect on children, they haven’t found much positive impact, either. Jason DeParle’s book and others that look at the lives of poor families after reform give a pretty good idea why. Just because a woman has to be at a job at 8 each morning doesn’t mean that her child’s father has become a paragon. For that matter, just because she’s following the dictates of an alarm clock doesn’t mean that she is envisioning a better life for her children.

MI3: The Underutilized Philip Seymour Hoffman

Jeff Otto tells us what everyone already knew about Mission Impossible 3:

Phillip Seymour Hoffman is the best part of III…..

He then goes on to what I fearfully suspected about the movie, given its status as a Cruise-hype vehicle:

…..even if he’s totally underutilized.

Oh well, he still sounds cool:

If you’ve seen him shouting at Cruise about hurting his girl in the trailer, you’ve essentially seen the majority of Hoffman’s performance. He’s mean as hell, he doesn’t care about anyone or anything except his precious rabbit’s foot (the code name of the prized possession of the film) and he doesn’t care who he has to kill to accomplish his mission. Hoffman’s Owen Davian is such a fun evil character that I wished we could have seen a little more of him.

Ian Brodie: The Liberals’ Latest Smear

It should be no suprise that the Liberal opposition is willing to engage in a drive-by smear against an advisor with no means to defend himself:

Justice Minister Vic Toews, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, PMO chief of staff Ian Brodie -even the Prime Minister himself- have also expressed a deep suspicion of the Supreme Court in the past. In fact, much of the Conservative government’s policy is guided by the right-wing “Calgary School� of thought, which is highly critical of Canada’s judiciary and Charter jurisprudence.

The reference to Brodie is a reference to this. Friends of The Court is essentially a book about the Supreme Court’s evolving attitude toward interveners. It’s something called an “academic book.” But no matter; it and, by extension, Brodie can be dishonestly smeared by Liberals who have never read the book.

Does Gerard Kennedy have Hairy Feet?

A shocking revelation:

Gerard Kennedy, unless he had his shins blown out while fighting in “the war” (reference, duh), is significantly shorter than Wee Dalton McGuinty. By my measurements, this puts him roughly into hobbit territory.

McGuinty owes Harper an Apology

Much has been made recently of the horrible slight from the prime minister to Dalton McGuinty that occurred when Harper, a Conservative, made public the scandalous news that he hopes John Tory, a Conservative, will win the next Ontario election. The response was quick:

“I just feel it’s totally inappropriate to spend time backslapping with Tories in a very partisan fashion and then give the Ontario Legislature the bum’s rush,” said Ontario Minister of Education Sandra Pupatello, who sought out reporters yesterday to deliver a blistering attack on Mr. Harper. Ms. Pupatello said the general reaction around Queen’s Park is that Mr. Harper’s behaviour was inappropriate, rude and “quite juvenile.”

So one of McGuinty’s ministers is openly insulting the prime ministers, and it’s Harper that owes McGuinty an apology? Where is the Tory equivalent of Pupatello? Nowhere. But no matter, Harper’s committed the ultimate sin here: He just plain wasn’t nice to Ontario’s limp-wristed, ineffectual premier:

By contrast, at the Prime Minister’s one meeting with Mr. McGuinty, Ontario Liberals say, Mr. Harper behaved rudely to their Premier.

Shocking! And where, incidentally, are the anonymous Tory sources telling the media that McGuinty was cold as well or that he did this or he did that? Nowhere. Which illustrates the primary difference between the professional staff of the PMO and McGuinty’s Playpen of advisors, besides the fact that the former just happens to have the ear of the Globe and Mail.

McGuinty needs to rein in his cabinet and his staff, and in the meantime owes the prime minister an apology.

[By the way: What the hell kind of name is "Pupatello?" Is Ontario's education minister a magician or a guppy?]

Stalinist ‘Gulag’ Theme Park Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

Have you grown tired of those boring old theme parks like, Canada’s Wonderland and Six Flags? Perhaps you should check out, “Lithuania’s Grutas Park, aka Stalin World.”

Today, though, the park attracts thousands to see, cheer and jeer symbols that used to instill fear and outrage in people in this former Soviet republic, which, along with Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia, regained independence during the 1991 Soviet collapse.

CNN has more…
h/t: The Rebel Sell Blog

Dear Ontario…

Do you know what this means? It means essentially that we don’t need you anymore to form the government.

Enjoy your decade in the opposition, shmucks.

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