Harper and his Boys' Night Out

[Charles Anthony]

I do believe you just got your first "f**k you Canada" from Harper

What is it exactly we are getting from you????

I forgot: we are getting highly researched social science! Thank you!

We need your profound evaluations and judgments! Do not stop!

Our salvation will only come from your illuminating research in Canada!

[August1991]

I think we all know they didnt come out of Harper's personal pocket, but the tax payers.

On the contrary, the PMO may have bought the ticket but then it billed Harper. So, Harper paid for the ticket out of his PM salary.

The symbolism is far more important than the sums though.

[Johnny Utah]

With Liberals whatever Harper does he's Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't..

[sharkman]

With Liberals whatever Harper does he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't..

See Johnny, the thing is Harper hasn't done anything scary so far, and everyone has realized he's actually not scary after all, but kind of boring. The Liberals are highly concerned about this. So enter the new plan: make him into a pig gorging himself on the public trough. Pretty smart guys, these Liberals. Except, they themselves have been doing it for so long that they've lost all sense of judgement and think a mere hockey ticket is a good fight to pick. When they're on record spending over 50,000 on expense accounts for things like swanky restaurants and the like.

Maybe in a year or two they'll come around. Personally I think instead of trying to demonize Harper the Boring One, they need to get a FRICKIN' LEADER!

[Temagami Scourge]

I don't care about harper attending a hockey game, but I do want to point out that this is the very best line i've seen here in a long, long time:

"If anyone else tried something like that he'd be on it like the CPC on the oil industry payroll.

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Now that is funny! damn funny!

thanx NC.

[killjoy]

See Johnny, the thing is Harper hasn't done anything scary so far, and everyone has realized he's actually not scary after all, but kind of boring. The Liberals are highly concerned about this.

+1

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[Kindred]

Charles Anthony is following me around the forum, posting stupid posts to everything I say, accusing me of being a Chinese Government Official, a spy and ripping apart everything I say, with, I might add, absolutely NO intellectual content in any of his posts that are made in response to mine.

If you care to check my IP you will see I am in Canada and I am a Canadian.

forgot: we are getting highly researched social science! Thank you!

We need your profound evaluations and judgments! Do not stop!

Our salvation will only come from your illuminating research in Canada!

From another thread :

Thank you for educating us! We are so ignorant of our own selves!

We need Chinese government spies to educate ourselves in our own country! We are so stupid without the Chinese government! We can not think for ourselves!

We should close all Canadian schools!

We should learn only from Chinese government professors! They know everything!

We should only go to Chinese government schools!

We can learn everything that we need to know from the Chinese government!

Thank you Chinese government for coming to Canada to educate us! Thank you!

I thought there were rules against this kind of singling out and bashing a member. Seems to me I read something about that in the Rules and Regulations. I realize there are all kinds of people in this world and on this forum .. but I do object to this kind of bullying and harassment from this person, from the very first post I made.

[August1991]

Charles Anthony is following me around the forum, posting stupid posts to everything I say, accusing me of being a Chinese Government Official, a spy and ripping apart everything I say, with, I might add, absolutely NO intellectual content in any of his posts that are made in response to mine.

If you feel this is a problem, notify the moderator by reporting the post.

[Kindred]

Thank you - I will see if it continues...

[MightyAC]

Politics is such dirty game. Our country is run by people who are in a perpetual popularity contest...sad.

In general, I'm not a fan of Harper but in this case there is no story. He was flying out West anyway and all the MPs purchased their own tickets. The fact that other MPs came with Harper is irrelevant because the plane was flying anyway.

''The idea that you can take a private jet and get tickets to Game 6, that's a pretty incredible thing to be able to do,'' said Ontario Liberal MP Mark Holland. He noted the coveted seats to the sold-out game were unavailable to the average person.

Harper is not the average person and the tickets he bought would never be sold to the general public anyway. If I had any clout or fame whatsoever I would have used it to get a ticket to that game as well. There are many legitimate reasons to criticize Harper, MP Mark Holland and others should stick to those instead inventing mini-scandals.

I knew this would be used against him, even though he is required to travel with security etc. and was going out there anyway, as were the MP's. etc. Harper paid for his own tickets, and somehow that's a bad thing !

The CPC are obviously held to a higher standard than other parties.

What is noticeable is that there is little for the opposition to rant about, therefore they have to really nitpick, not to mention that the liberals in opposition seem to be floundering. They've lost their 'entitlements' and are no longer ruling with some 'divine right' .....

Scriblett, I'm guessing you just quoted the wrong message because I agree that this is a non-issue.

[MightyAC]

With Liberals whatever Harper does he's Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't..

That's politics in general. The opposition bashes the government on every issue. The Cons did the same thing a short time ago.