boo hoo, paul coffin

so paul coffin is having a bad day.

he's not feeling well because he pleaded guilty to fraud.

i have to give him credit--he's taking responsibility for what he';s done. but come on. coming out of court, he refused to give an interview. i can understand that. but the apparent reasoning, according to his lawyer? he's having a bad day. he pleaded guilty. he feels badly about what he's done and what he'll have to do to rectify the situation.

for the love of criminy, buddy, you want not to feel badly? STOP STEALING, ASSHOLE!

smiling...

i've been a little blue today, but the following memory warms the cockles of my heart:

the liberals implementing many reform party/canadian alliance policies as official policy. even when they claimed said policies to be their own.

that's all. it just makes me smile.

a letter to pm the pm

i sent this this morning. pm@pm.gc.ca is his address.

Mr. Martin, I see you as a low person. Perhaps one of the lowest.

You and your ilk demonize Stephen Harper as being a religious wingnut and yet you're a supposed devout Catholic.

You talk about eliminating the democratic deficit and then postpone opposition days, as well as ignore what was, if not a clear confidence vote, a clear indication to hold an immediate confidence vote.

You buy votes with my money and then pat yourself on the back for being so good to "save" our country. (Thereby, in actuality, promoting Québec and, yes, western, separatism sentiment.)

You launder my money by passing it along in envelopes.

You lie. Yes, you. Vowed to eliminate the GST in the Almighty Red Book. That's right, you wrote the G-- damn thing.

How can I, a lowly Canadian taxpayer, believe you at all?

You have lost all moral, if not legal, authority to govern, yet you refuse to accept it because you have no morals. Which, I suppose, speaks volumes about what kind of Catholic you are. And which is why, I suppose, you and your ilk demonize Mr. Harper. Maybe you're afraid of someone standing for something. Taking a stand. It's also known as having a backbone. Cojones. In the words of Stephen Tyler, your get-up-and-go must have got up and went.

Mr. Martin, I (I'm ashamed to say) voted Liberal once--back in 1993. ("I will abolish the GST.") There are lies, damn lies, and then the whoppers you told. And continue to tell. You can not expect me to vote Liberal ever again.

May God have mercy on you but may the Canadian electorate rip you to shreds.

Sincerely,
Dave
Winnipeg, MB

next steps for the cpc

i happened upon a post by cpc pundit stephen taylor outlining what the conservative party, in his opinion, needs to do.

i think he's pretty much bang on--especially in terms of changing the tone of discourse from trying to convince people that the liberals are corrupt (is there any doubt?) to stating the obvious corruption as a backgrounder for the next point to be made. as well, he's also bang on that the range of questions in question period (thank God they never call it answer period) needs to be expanded in order to point out the differences between the liberals and the conservatives, thereby showing canadians the conservative vision for canada.

are you listening, mr. harper?

good news?

colby cosh points out today that the numbers (polling, that is) can only get better for the conservatives in ontario. it seems the main reason those polled were leery of supporting the conservatives was the lack of desire for an election right now. the main reason people were leery of supporting the liberals was the fact of it being time for a change in ottawa. cosh goes on to reason out that, since an election is no longer imminent, the conservatives' fortune will climb, and since more damning testimony is coming out from gomery (is anyone listening? hello?) every day, support for the martin ("come hell or high water") liberals will fall and fall as more and more people come to realise that they don't have to support organised corruption. there's a glimmer of hope yet.

this brings me to something that's been stewing in my mind for quite a while now. everyone in the liberal party keeps bleating "wait for the gomery report; all testimony right now is merely allegation." well, pardon me, but first off, this is sworn testimony. so if it's later proven to be false, these guys could go to jail for perjury. second off, some of them have upcoming criminal trials, so anything they say in gomery would have to be pretty much exactly the same things they say in the criminal trials, and what they're saying (admitting to) is criminality. third, think about this: if i'm charged with a crime and go into court saying "yes, your honour, i committed that crime and this is how i did it," does that not bypass the need for a trial? am i not automatically guilty? so wouldn't this be the same? you don't go into a hearing and admit to having done something wrong and get disbelieved, unless what you're admitting to having done isn't as bad as what you really did. and maybe that scares me the most--they're admitting to payoffs in restaurants, kickbacks, and payment for no work done. what aren't they admitting?

what's right (and wrong) with the conservatives

like my profile says, i'm a card-carrying member of the party.

but that doesn't mean i agree with everything in their platform.

and that's a beautiful thing about the conservative party. i can disagree with some points in the platform, and i'm not called a neanderthal, a racist, a bigot, or a goose-stepping neo-nazi. (yes, that's been said, believe it or not! and the nazis, remember, were farther to the left than the ndp!)

it's a good thing that i can respectfully disagree , although, in the end, even though i hope that never changes, it may be the party's downfall. or at least the reason it never gets into power.

the liberals, on the other hand, rule with an iron fist. if you don't toe the party line, you're a wackjob and are booted out.

anyhow, i sometimes wish the conservatives would go back to their grass roots, rather than being liberal-lite. they have had, and subsequently abandoned (or appear to have abandoned), some great ideas, for example:

• fixed election dates
  
• triple-e senate
  
• proportional representation
  
• dumping the gun registry
  
• private delivery of publicly-funded health care (this is NOT a bad thing--it ensures people will have equal access, but more widespread access, thus reducing wait times!)
  
• scrapping the gun registry
  
• giving tax credits to stay-at-home parents (thus providing the best child care money can buy!)
  
• enforcing tougher sentences for sex offenses and crimes committed with guns
  

a couple of things bug me about the party's platform, though. to wit:

• who the hell cares whether it's called a marriage or a union? let same-sex couples join together--there can be nothing wrong with two people loving each other and professing that love; just make sure anyone who refuses to perform such a ceremony because of religious or other beliefs isn't persecuted for abstaining
  
• i'm sure there are others, but right now they escape me
  

note to stephen harper: i think you can be the next prime minister of our great country. wanna know how? don't be a copycat. don't try to emulate the "please everybody" liberals. because when you flip flop more than a fish on the dock, people start to believe the drivel about a "hidden agenda". stand for something. even though people may not completely agree with what you believe, they will at least respect you for standing by your beliefs and principles. even though our canadian society has become a cesspool of corruption and immorality, especially in government, there is a groundswell of people wanting to embrace a more just, more moral way of living. you just have to outline for them how you will facilitate it.

do it, stephen. for the good of the country.

the ranting begins...

i have so much rage and sadness and disbelief about the political landscape in canada now. or, as it's being called, bananada.

when paul martin postponed opposition days because his party was being dragged through the mud, i was shocked.

when paul martin decided a vote of non-confidence really wasn't, i was appalled.

when he slimeballed belinda stronach to cross the floor and thus swing what the liberals were calling the "real" non-confidence vote in their favour, i wept for our country.

these guys will hold onto power at all costs, and it makes our country into an essential dictatorship. a banana republic. the soviet republic of canuckistan. and we're now a laughingstock on the world stage.

rightly so, too.