Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Apparently their eyes don’t work either, because they didn’t see the RCMP raid Conservative Party Headquarters either.

Cadscam hit a snag Friday after the RCMP said that they couldn’t consider audio evidence of Harper admitting to a bribery plan, in criminal charges. Good thing the Internet provides the recording for anyone to listen to. It’s a crime to offer financial considerations to an MP in return for their vote. Good thing that the Criminal Code of Canada is still available on the Internet as well. Resourceful Canadians can put two and two together and get the right answer, even if the RCMP can’t take down a criminal with audio evidence.

The zombies have started to think they’ve won, and are crawling over Jeff’s comments thread. Harper hasn’t won, even though he’s done better than Nixon so far, at avoiding consequences of a damning audio tape.

Wells goes over the top, and I guess he did it on purpose, because look, I’m writing about his ridiculous comparison. To compare one of Canada’s leading environmentalists, and the leader of the Green Party to traditionally pro-establishment/NDP and environment-ambivalent Buzz Hargrove, is frankly absurd.

Channeling my inner-Wells, let me just say that Stephen Dion is Canada’s worst hybrid nightmare because it would never call an election, but if it did, it’d be sure to let other MPs vote about it while it leaves the room.

There’s also a whole schwack of commenters on Wells’ blog who seem to think it’s a good idea to exclude smaller political parties from televised debates. If televised time isn’t going to swing an election, why did the Conservatives try so hard to cheat an extra ~$1.2 worth of airtime out of the last election? Do the mainstream parties have buddies running defense at the head of the TV and media stations running the next televised debate? They’ll keep May out of the spotlight for those short hours, because they know it will strengthen the slide of voters away from the Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP.

UPDATE: May has responded, not really to this, but to the next smear, and that’s one where the Conservatives are vividly SMACKED down. If there were any justice, talk radio would be playing Nelson from the Simpsons saying HA HA after reading what Harper said about Canada, compared to what May just wrote. If the Cons are going to open that “pride in country” can of worms, they are going to get vermicomposted!

The drive by smear of my reputation attacked my love of country. It claimed I had said Canada had the worst government on earth. The Harper lackeys claimed this showed “shocking ignorance of the deplorable human rights situations faced by other people around the world.” I am quite well aware of shocking human rights situations. We held a press conference last week decrying the human rights abuses of the government of Colombia and urging that Canada not proceed with a new trade pact with Colombia. What I said at the Global Greens Congress in Sao Paulo (and anyone can see it on YouTube was part of a speech on climate change, setting out the response of governments around the world to the climate crisis:

“I am ashamed to admit that the Canadian government is now the worst in the world.”

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What is galling about being attacked is that I believe Canadians are the most blessed people on earth, living in a beautiful and wealthy country, one that prizes community and shared well-being. I am fiercely loyal to Canada and regard receiving the honour of being an Officer of the Order of Canada as the greatest of all honours. (By the way, none of the other leaders have received the Order of Canada). Having received it, I stand on guard for Canada. So the gall of these nasty little minions in issuing a press release attacking my love of country began to raise my ire.

And then the irony hit me. Who do we know who went about attacking those very qualities that makes Canada such an incredibly generous and wonderful place to live?

These are quotes from Prime Minister Harper when he headed the National Citizens Coalition.

Here’s one from a letter he wrote to the National Post in 1997:

“Canada appears content to become a second tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second rate status.”

Or this one from 1997, which was part of a speech he delivered to the right wing Council for National Policy:

“Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term and very proud of it.”

And he made that statement in the United States. Hard not to see a real problem with love of country in those speeches.

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Hat tip to Mark, and also to Mike of RationalReasons.

I created a silly little video tutorial (maybe NSFW) that shows you how to open, and then turn off/on an OLPC XO laptop.

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- YouTube star Lisa Nova does a commercial in my video, in an effort to boost views, and perhaps convince YouTube to find a solution to the cleavage question — what will stop people from inserting unrelated breast shots into videos, so they have a sexy thumbnail, and thus more clicks?

If you can’t beat them, tie them!

Lisa Nova offers up some neo-cheesecake video clips that you can insert into your dull, practical videos that don’t naturally contain cleavage at the chronological centre of your online videos. YouTube classically creates a thumbnail of your video based on the middle-most frame of your video. This has driven vloggers for more than a year now, to force a non-sequitur frame of an attractive woman into the middle of their otherwise non-woman-related video. The result is that the most popularly viewed videos on the daily top 20 list, contains 90% boobs, with a smattering of celebrities in various non-boob-revealing positions. Lame-o.

Hmm, I wonder if I could save YouTube by offering up some Saskboy beefcake video clips? HAHAHAHAH!

If you don’t leave a comment, I may be forced to produce such a video!

Jim, you are always entertaining, I’ll give you that much. When you’re not telling us that the Conservative’s taxable $1200 for parents is the solution to “child poverty”, you try to convince us that the sky isn’t blue, or gas prices aren’t fixed through collusion. It’s the free market that sets prices identically everywhere down to 9/10ths of a cent, don’t you know?

Duffy sets Prentice up and actually gets him to say that there is no collusion in pricing between the oil companies. It is just the gas station looking down the street.

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That’s right Jim, it’s the minimum wage employee working the night shift at my local Shell. “Oh look, Pedro over at Petro Canada has just raised the price again. Damn, I better phone the boss. What an asshole.”

And to think, this dude is the one in charge of eventually legislating away the Internet with no Net Neutrality bills, and the pending Copyright Act. “Why no, Bell, Telus, and Rogers don’t collude…” just wait for him to say it, I suppose.

Answers? I meant Stonewalling, sorry for the typo.

Feds Slow To Respond

By Sarah Mills
Updated May 13, 2008 - 2:58pm

The federal Infrastructure Minister is all but ignoring Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco’s plea for action on the Building Canada fund.

Fiacco insists the government is dragging it’s feet on handing out the infrastructure funding and that the construction delays on the IPSCO Place redevelopment will cost an additional million dollars.

But Lawrence Cannon won’t speak to the media on the issue.

Instead releasing a written statement that acknowledges IPSCO Place was agreed to be a priority, but insists the process is continuing WITHOUT delay, following it’s intended course.

Other Saskatchewan Conservative MP’s have not returned calls for comment either. Gerry Ritz, who made the announcement on behalf of Cannon, declined to comment.

I added some bold text to highlight the problem.

Here’s an interesting idea worth participating in. Jon Swift is (was?) a popular blogger from the United States, who has been missing since the Ides of March (approximately). Prior to his disappearance from the blogosphere (and possibly this earth) he co-ordinated a liberal blogrolling event to counteract Blogroll Amnesty Day started by some hotshots without respect for blogging’s grassroots.

If you’re interested in trying to encourage Swift to confirm his location/safety, please also post a link to Simon’s search and maybe Swift’s blog as well.

UPDATE: Jon is apparently still well, just has suspended blogging without going through the fanfare of an announcement.

New York Times bestseller Paul.
At least he’s at the top of some list.

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Hat tip to Zaphod