Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I was really impressed by Dion’s lunchtime speech today (aside from his ESL grammar of course). He certainly was showing some charisma, and was putting Harper’s games playing in context for the media. It’s clear that soon again Harper’s Conservatives will attack Dion and Green Party leader May for a “backroom” deal in their respective riding contests, but Harper is willing to wheel and deal with Dion over the PHONE on the fate of the current parliament!

CTV has the video.

It’s not hard to see why Dion scoffs at Harper’s claim that other parties are preventing parliament from working. The Conservatives are the ones who are preventing parliament from working, because it’s busy weeding out Conservative corruption (In-and-Out, Cadscam) and ethical problems (10%ers, Bernier). Scott provides a link to why an early election call is preposterous if Harper wants to save face.

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Yesterday was quite different. After I had the afternoon off anyway, and no plans, I called up some friends and we went 5 pin bowling for a couple hours. I averaged about 176 after 44 frames, with a couple of >200 games. My car appears to be sucking gas, so either a Grand Prix sucks (likely) or someone is siphoning my tank and that’s why it gets just 18MPG in the city driving I’m doing. I could almost see the needle going down yesterday while driving between the library and bowling alley. Then it went back up again. Accuracy is not important in gas gauges, just as it isn’t for toner cartridge level meters or progress bars.

We wrapped up the night of cooking an unintentionally vegetarian (almost vegan) meal partly from my garden (and mostly from Superstore) at my place, with “Mission Impossible III” [9/10].

I remember the olden days, when Members of Parliament would only communicate with members of their constituency — the people they represent. Now, Conservtive MPs have brought a new, more partisan way of thinking to Ottawa, and that is to use our tax money to communicate with voters in ridings where they don’t have a member of parliament. Most people would call this “advertising on the taxpayer’s dime”, but not Conservatives. They have big shoes to fill when it comes to wasting taxpayer money on illegal advertising schemes. And so far Harper is proving he can fill those shoes just fine.

Join the Facebook group to end “10%er” Conservative propaganda mailings.

Here’s my solution this week.

I’m going to mail conservative junk mail to other junk mail providers who have postage-paid return envelopes. One Junk Mail deserves another! I’ll send Propagandist Spammers Rob Clarke (who I collected 9/16 fliers from in the recycling), Lynne Yelich, Leon Benoit, Gerry Ritz, Garry Breitkreuz, Brian Jean, Andrew Scheer, Rick Dykstra and the others (yet to arrive) some junk mail in return. It’s the least I can do to communicate how I feel about their representation. Conservative garbage in power… Conservative garbage get out of my government!

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Hat tip to Challenging The Commonplace and GAB for pointing out ACR’s campaign to end partisan 10%ers.

Macleans has noticed the trouble the Conservatives are trying to get themselves into with this waste of taxpayer money. Will other media put the Conservatives in their place?

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ACR’s Frink writes “I’ve managed to pick up about 20 that were delivered to my 55-suite apartment building.” That is certainly comparable to the approximately 5-9 I pick up each time the Conservatives spam my 16 unit apartment building in Liberal Goodale’s riding.

ACR’s most recent rant on the subject is available here. Pogge adds a little needed profanity. Wandering Coyote also has ongoing coverage. Garth Turner has an update, and is growing even more frustrated.

Conservatives stand up for Canadians… unless:
-You have a cell phone.
-You use copyrighted material.
-You breathe our atmosphere.
-You like junk mail. (I just got more Conservative Junk Mail today! Hooray, I don’t feel lonely anymore!)

There’s just a small taste of how Canadians are being stood up by the Harper Conservatives.

This is just too priceless. What’s even funnier than the Fisherman claiming that he might pull the plug? That parliament is chaotic because of the Liberals! Just who is in charge???

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One funny poop story led me to another odd one about a criminal. Have a look at the turd — the art, not the criminal.

A war in Georgia is a little too much unsettling on what is a day that supposedly represents a movement toward world peace and mutually respectful competition. Wars also don’t improve air quality, although the Olympics are having a momentary positive effect if you don’t count the planes that took the athletes to compete, and the energy to make and transport the throw-away junk souvenirs.

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Also disappointing, but not really surprising is that Jim Prentice has again let Canadians down. When he’s not looking out for American businesses that want to sue children and dead people for downloading music, he’s defending Bell and Telus who want to charge you to get cell phone spam. This does fit with the Conservative trait of defending large businesses who want you to pay through the nose. Remember fees for using bank machines? Jack Layton was there for you, and Stephen Harper got a stern talking-to from the bankers.

Since before the last election, Stephen Harper was going on and on about a Made in Canada solution to deal with greenhouse gases. That mantra has fallen down since he revealed he doesn’t really care about greenhouse gases or air pollution, but the point is he wanted a solution that we made. It would be ours, and in theory it would be best. Well, people who know what he really meant, was that he wanted a Made in America solution to greenhouse gas emissions, and he has been working on implementing it since he came to power.

Now he’s made the mistake of fixing Canada’s (food) labeling law. This change requires that products with “Made in Canada” or “Product of Canada” are actually mostly Canadian in origin and content. If he doesn’t relabel his “Made in Canada” pollution strategy to “Made in USA”, will he be violating his own law?

Seriously, the food law is a good change. I just had to bug him about his “Made in Canada” crap he’s fed us before. The King of Carbon has a lot of experience with the poop slinging. When he’s not insulting Canada, he does a fine job of saying every other country’s government with a carbon tax is just out for a cash grab.
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A name well known in southern Saskatchewan is Amber Redman. She went missing years ago, and her remains were found this year. One of the men charged with her murder, had been in jail previously (as reported on CBC Morning Edition). He had raped someone, and shot another woman in the face! Guess how much time he was sentenced to? 4 Years! If that judge isn’t kicking himself/herself now, he/she ought to be. If the latest verdict is guilty, let’s hope the next isn’t so lenient.

The Fort is on a bad streak of violent stories, for such a small town. I would certainly think twice about attending any house party there with alcohol.

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In regard to reducing the dangers of alcohol, here’s one theory that may be worth considering.

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Aaron at BTC pointed out the Conservatives’ latest website blunder (http://www.conservative.ca/EN/2874/100160). Also interesting is that the Conservatives’ own slogan has apparently failed, so they are attempting to write the Liberals’ too, “Stéphane Dion’s Liberals. They’re just not worth the risk.” Paraphrased as: I know we’re terrible, but the Liberals are just not worth the risk! Don’t even go there girlfriend.

Also related in that blog post to this one, is that youth crime needs to be nipped in the bud whether it’s downtown Toronto, or small town Saskatchewan. Idle hands, wrapped around alcohol and a knife/gun, are never going to lead to anything good. Give those hands something constructive to do, such as making music, and maybe tragedy will be avoided more often than not.

Apparently their eyes don’t work too, 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.