Jimmy Wilson

Then,just as I have thought,conservatives think it's about the money...'Cause it's always about the money with these types ethics,scruples,and authenticity be damned! It also lends a little insight to Mr. Duffy's commentary from last week in that he was told by Mr. Harper that he feels that the rules are inexplicable to the (conservative) base...The obvious implication being that Mr. Harper feels most of his base is a bunch of mouth breathing rubes who couldn't possibly grasp the complexity of the issues... As an aside,it certainly explains their bumper sticker sloganeering that gets "the base" all riled up...But I digress... What I meant by the Canadian voting populous was the voting populous in this country,as a whole...Not the ideoligical parties you seem to be intimating I'm doing...The point being that I suspect there are more than a few conservatives out there that aren't too happey with what's going on here... As far as your shot at me "hating Stephen Harper"...I don't... I'll tell you what I do dislike,though...Excessive neoliberalism,creeping Corporatism,The Canadian Senate,and,excessive powers in the PMO... I'll leave the rest for you to figure out...

No...But I'm seeing certain ideological types taking the PM at his word... I'm not prepared to do so...I'm also not prepared to take Mr. Duffy at his word...

An RCMP investigation,"that will ultimately clear him of any legal wrongdoing."... Inside knowledge?

If he's done nothing illegal,ostensibly,he has nothing to worry about...Including speaking out! In fact,he's the lynch pin that could set the record straight...I suspect you're right that his lawyers have told him to be quiet...Unless he ends up having to testify under oath... Of course these are all assumptions...Like assuming the Prime Minister is telling the truth...

Well...Although he's been disparaged,we have not heared from Mr. Wright....

It's interesting...I don't think the amount of money matters... By way of comparison,the McGuinty mess in Ontario is far worse.And even Mr. Clement's Gazebofest in Muskoka was worse... The amount of money is not the issue at all..The issues at hand are ethics,scruples,and,authenticity.Remember,Mr. Harper and his party came into power based on the fact that much of the Canadian voting populous bought the idea that he (and his party) were going to run a clean and ethical government that was far different from the Liberal regime.Never mind the fact that the Conservative ideology plays well in the West and rural Ontario.The problem with this Senate scandal,along with the ethical lapses that have befallen The Harper Government,is that it chips away at the very things people turned to the Conservative party for... It appears that The Harper Government knows very little about ethics,despite pleas to the contrary... It appears that Mr. Harper,or at least the minions in his office (people he should know about) are increasingly unscrupulous... And the biggest thing is that whatever air of authenticity Mr. Harper had about him it is rapidly evaporating!And it is the authenticity issue that will bring him down amongst the voters.People expect politicians to be unscrupulous and unethical,but if they don't have the ability to seem authentic with the populous,they're deader then door nails...

How are Senate votes "free" when there is a whip in the Upper Chamber for both party's?...

More poignant Lou Reed....

Immigration or the lack of immediate economic opportunity (1st generation) many immigrants not necessarily predisposed to Western Culture have? Or is your contention that certain ethnic types are predisposed to crime regardless of economic standing or longstanding historical racial/ethnic bias?

His interview with Tory was a fluff piece...

Duffy just threw 20 sticks of dynamite on the Senate scandal as it relates to the PMO and Mr. Harper himself...

You don't find Casper The Friendly Ghost frightening?

Perhaps Harper needs to take some advice from Frank about his "decisions"?

The studies were defunded because the findings of said studies would fly in the face of the agenda of the corporate legislative enablers sitting on the government benches in Ottawa...

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True...But only to a certain extent...Not every "leftist" is a wild spender of the public purse...Tommy Douglas NDP govt's is Saskatchewan when Sask. was a definate "have not " province tell that tale.. There have been others that were,shall we say,...An unmitigated disaster in that realm... Of course,the individual rights/personal freedom angle conservatives spout is always tied to the wealth redistribution excercise which includes "corporate tax cuts" and "right to work" legislation...And the failed idea that if the wealthy of society get theirs,it will trickle down to the rest of us.This is an infantile as it is Corporatist... Your teacher was correct,in that Capitalism (unfettered) is an extreme position that would result in a return to the economic dark ages that resulted in one of the largest mass migrations in the history of this planet,namely European Mercantilism,the poverty it caused,and,the migration to the New World...And for those that were left behind,the embracing of horrific counter balances,namely Marxism and Fascism...

Very true... Of course,this is only matched by those on the right who hold the infantile view that more Capitalism must equal more personal freedom... If one questions the veracity of this notion one inevitably gets called a "Pinko/Commie/economic luddite" etc...

'77's Some Girls was the last really good 'Stones album... '81's Tattoo You is very good,but,most of those songs had been written in the early '70's... I have '78's Emotional Rescue and....You're right...It ain't so good...

Corporatists in disguise?

I read this in the Hamilton Spectator a few days ago... It is the privatization of Ontario Hydro that is the genesis of what got us into this mess..Liberal incompetence didn't help... http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/10/09/the_banality_of_billiondollar_boondogles_cohn.html# If the link doesn't work,it's Martin Regg-Cohn's column from last week in The Toronto Star...