What Frank Graves Said

Frank Graves gave this advice to the Liberals:

‘I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and homophobia, democracy versus autocracy. If the cranky old men in Alberta don’t like it, too bad. Go south and vote for Palin.’

Any party that truly stands for these things is half way to getting my vote (attention NDP brain trust). City dwellers have been pushed around for far too long by ignorant, bible thumping, shit kickers. It's time to say "Enough".

Update: Needless to say, Graves is being savaged by Conservative talking heads (He was just smeared by Kory Teneyke on CBC), who obviously want the CBC and other media outlets to blacklist him (though they are strangely silent about Allan Gregg's role on the CBC, I'll note). Bravo to him for telling it like it is.

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Question Of The Day

How much money from urban Canada is squandered in rural Canada ? If the long gun registry is killed, urban Canadians should ask that question every time the government spends money there. Oh, and we should start to question the need for things like the milk marketing board too. I can get my milk from American dairies just as easily. Screw em. That's the new Canadian ethos under the Conservatives. Let's embrace it.

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Does Anyone Understand The NDP Long Gun Policy?

Including the NDP? They are probably going to vote with the government to scrap the long gun registry (on the limp excuse that the bill is not a government bill, so they are powerless to whip it)but then say things like this:

On the committee side of things, Comartin says the NDP has several ideas on how to amend the bill when hearings start in early May. Comartin says New Democrats would also like to streamline and decriminalize some aspects of the registry. Although, unlike the Liberals, the NDP would not allow a blanket pardon on all first-time offenses and Comartin says the fees should stay,

"Much as we pay to register our dog and register our car, we should be paying to register our guns. Not as a profit-making for the government but simply to compensate the government for the cost of the system."

To which I have to ask, what is the sense of saying you want to charge for registering firearms when you are helping to scrap the entire system? That's like you are in favor of installing smoke detectors as you are in the process of burning down the building.

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You Need Me On That Wall!

Doesn't Walter Natynczyk's letter sound like the beginning of Nicholson's testimony in A Few Good Men? I expect within a few days the good general (and his Conservative handlers) will be screaming "You can't handle the truth!", over and over again.

PS. I love the lawyer's cheek in asking "whether shooting someone from behind is consistent with the rules of engagement".

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Ten Or Twenty Years From Now

When the horrors of Afghanistan are finally acknowledged, Canadians will say "We just didn't know". Let me be the first to call Bullshit. We know, but it is so bad, we just don't want to know.

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Today In WTF Moments

I had to read this paragraph twice. It concerns the lack of information surrounding the investigation into Helena Guergis. Her lawyer claims he doesn't even know what the allegations are and this is the PMO's repsonse:

The chief spokesman for the Prime Minister, Dimitri Soudas, told reporter David Akin that Guergis' lawyer is incorrect and that Guergis was informed directly of the allegations by the Conservative Party lawyer, Arthur Hamilton.

To which I have to ask WTF? Guergis was informed by the Conservative Party's lawyer? Was there no official from the government available? Do we even have government officials connected with policing and the law anymore? Has the government privatized the administration of justice? WTF?

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Thought For The Day

When the big topic on Power and Politics is Iggy's use of "political class" in a sentence, the show has officially hit rock bottom. Evan Solomon is an arts reporter and covers politics like it is a play. Is this the best the CBC can do?

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