Black Dog

Damn that liberal media!

Unfortunately, voters don't think too much about their choices and thus are easily swayed by emotional appeals, so a nuanced approach like that is likely to be ineffective. I think that's been the NDP's problem for a while: an inability to articulate their message in a way which is both simple and non-threatening to soft Liberal supporters who vote Liberal more out of fear of the alternatives than any commitment to that party and its policies. With one of those "bad apples" being the PM himself? I mean, Jesus Christ: even if Martin was in the clear and just too stupid to know what was going on under his nose, he should still accept responsibility out of principle. That would be one act of real leadership in his otherwise unremarkable tenure.

Well don't think for a second that the Bloc or CPC would hesitate to smear the NDs jsut for tryin to hammer out policy. And, given the public's recitence to viewing the ND as a reasonable alternative to the usual crap, I don't see why they should expose themselves to any more flak than is necessary.

Well, then you'll be pleased to know that "A.D" returnes Monday, November 7 with two back to back episodes. Check your local listings.* *I've always wanted to say that.

That doesn't really leave him anywhere to turn then. At least by propping up the Lib's in return for concessions, the NDP comes off as the only party trying to make this minority gov't work. I would think that should help them win a few more seats when the election finally does come. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I trust you are familiar with the term "guilt by association"? I don't think the political concessions that the NDs could win outweigh the potential damage of staying in bed with the Liberals.

Nobody wants a winter election, so I don't see that in the cards anyway. But it's ineviotable, so might as well start positioning for it now. Layton should try to carve a niche for himself away from the duceppe/Harper outrage chorus and away from the crooked Liberals.

Link For the record, the issue is not whether it's okay to hold those suspected of terrorist involvement, but how it's done. It is gross hypocrisy for a nation that claims to be a bastion of freedom and liberty to hold individuals indefinitely, to deny them the right to a trial, and subject them to abuse and torture.

Sometimes we are embarrased that you are Canadian too... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> DFTT, Shakey.

I say the time has come to back off. You lie down with dogs, you get fleas and Layton andd teh ND's should be distancing tehmselves from the Liberals. An election is coming, sooner or later, and it's best to head off the inevitable accusations that would come of working with a party that has proven itself to be riddled with corruption and incompetence. There's no more "waiting until the report" to fall back on. Where ar eyou hearing this? According to the Globe, the ND's were calling for restrictions on the transfer of federal funds to provinces that pay doctors who both work in the public system and offer services for a fee.

Don't you know eureka that it's entuirely reasonable to base the laws of a 21st Century industrial society on a strict interpretation of a 230 year-old document, who's agarian framers left considerable room for future interpretations? It's scary to think that 200 years of jurisprudence could be overturned by a handful of wingnuts to please a base of people who's worldview derives largely from a literal interpretation of a 3,000 year old collection of myths.

Okay, I'm gonna break my Troll Blackout for this one, because it's just too funny. One of the bedrock traits of communism is secularism. Miost Communist states were officaly atheists. There are no states that are both Islamic and Communist. So the above formulation is, predictably, complete (thouigh comical) nonsense. Oh and it took me all of 5 seconds to find the following headline: "Paris riots continue for 6th night" on the CBC web site.

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Well, there's just so much pig shit flying around here these days, I just kinda thought it was appropos. I'm curious, though: who did you used to be?

US losing war on terror

"Everyone thinks it is over for Karl and they are wrong,"

No, but if you'll recall, Frist is an opponent of the filiubuster, calling instead for a straight-up-ordown vote to confirm SCOTUS candidates. Miers didn't even get that far, thanks to the machinations of the radical right (a faction whom Frist himself is aligned with: remember "Justice Sunday"?) If someone chooses to use their interpretation of the Constitution to override longstanding judicial precedent, that person is an activist. So the right wants activist judges.

Google search: "turd blossom+karl rove"

So why feed it? Ignore it and it will go away.

So why not do something more productive instead of wasting your time with this LGF reject? It's like putting pants on a pig: the pig gets mad and you end up covered in shit.

I wonder: would that include sacrificing the third holiest site in Islam? Anyway, this formulation is crap. It won't happen. As I've said a million times before, these people aren't stupid, and they aren't about to throw away their power here for the vague promise of the afterlife, no matter how ferverent their beliefs might seem to us. Well, then I withdraw my comment that no one said anything of the sort. And, yeah, I would draw a equivilance between Israel and Iran, as well as North Korea, India, Pakistan or any other nation that is willing to excrabate the problem of nuclear proliferation.

What part of "will remain under investigation." don't you understand? The game ain't over yet. Only the most hardcore partisan could possibly characterize the indictment of a sitting senior administration official (first time in 130 years that's happened) as "nothing".

You morons. For all you know, the photog pointed the camera and yelled "smile!" Right I forgot: the monolithic "left". Not necessarily. But all those regimes are demonstratably worse than Saddam Husseins. Yet the U.S. does brisk business with China and Myanmar, pussyfoots around North Korea and works on a policy of appeasement with regard to the Khartoum regime. Meanwhile Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Arab states enjoy tremendous amounts of support from the U.S. So yeah, it's a little odd that he U.S. would opt to pursue its "freedom" campaign through bombs over Baghdad, rather than by peacefully exterting its considerable influence on some of its clients and business partners. Here's the other crazy thing: if the U.S. intended to turn Iraq as a bastion of freedom, why did they not have a plan to rebuild it?

Um...that's not moral relativity, but moral equivilance. And no one expressed those sentiments here. Ha!

(Should I bring up Ralph Klein's three-sheets-to-the-wind interview and victory speech following the 2001 election here? Nah. Oh wait: I just did.)