Wow ever since the wave l'orange hit the belle province (my high school French always fails me) it has been looney tunes around these parts.
We've seen posts where some young lib bloggers have turned into blogging torries in their attacks on the ndp and some young dipper bloggers have been predicting a NDP majority with daily updates on the number of seats.
Even some of the old pros, the presumably nonpartisan scribes, since they are not carrying party flags, the guys I turn to when I'm looking for the voice of reason and the wisdom of experience, are not escaping unscathed.
Some of these bards of progressive poetic justice, the backbone of the joint, have turned into rabid dippers, rapidly knee jerking out responses to imagined Jack attacks. Eventual Mea culpa aside, it is quite disparaging for someone who doesn't care if Jack, or Iggy get the nod, just as long as Harper is gone.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Ignore Harpers Voter Suppression tactics
Do not believe the bullshit that the conservatives can no longer get a majority.
Our country is still in danger.
This was more brilliantly explained, earlier today by DAMMIT JANET, so if we want to avoid the big step to the right, go to their post here and then get out the vote.
I would also suggest that you should vote smartly and place it for the candidate that has the best chance to drive a stake through the heart of these assholes, but then again, I am a strategically focused ABCer.
Our country is still in danger.
This was more brilliantly explained, earlier today by DAMMIT JANET, so if we want to avoid the big step to the right, go to their post here and then get out the vote.
I would also suggest that you should vote smartly and place it for the candidate that has the best chance to drive a stake through the heart of these assholes, but then again, I am a strategically focused ABCer.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Orange wave hits Mississauga
Mississauga Willy reporting in.
For those of you who are not familiar with the political landscape of Hazels hideaway, here is the history. Mississauga has four ridings and for the most part, or at least while I have lived here they have been predominantly red, with a tinge of blue provincially, when Harris took over.
In 2008 the city got hit with Harpers blue wave and one seat fell to a conservative candidate, for a lack of a better word. Close but it fell.
According to Democracy Watch, you know the strategic voting guys, at the outset of the election there were two Mississauga ridings in play, where vote splitting would let the Conservatives hold on to one very closely contested riding, Mississauga Erindale and gain one seat in Mississauga South.
They have been adding the fluctuating poll results and the projections have been moving up and down for each riding based on the daily results from two pollsters (EKOS and NANOS) and it has been close.
The Orange wave started to take permanent affect on the April 24th polls in Mississauga and as you can see from chart below the intent to vote NDP has increased by 10% since the last election. The intent to vote Liberal or Green has fallen, 5% and 24% respectively and the intent to vote conservative has increased 5%.
Currently Harper is leading in two ridings, with the NDP surge possibly having a greater effect in the Mississauga South riding. I believe the conservative rise is coming from the collapse of the Greens and worried blue grits, usually the wealthier of the group, who by the way live in Mississauga South by the lake. They might be believing what the corporate media is saying and are afraid of the socialist NDP, as CTV is now regularly calling Jack and crew (4 times in 5 minutes tonight BTW).
To offer some hope that Harper doesn't gain another seat in Mississauga, these Democracy Watch riding projections are not showing any measurable increase in the number of voters for this election. If the advance polls were any indication in Mississauga we could see another 7,000 votes cast.
If the majority of those additional votes are for the NDP, Harper gains another seat in Mississauga, if they are sleeping liberals, he might loose Mississauga Erindale for no net gain.
I think Mississauga South is lost in either case.
That's all, party on dudes.
PS: I am no Steve V when it come to polls and the only one that really counts hasn't happened yet.
Personally I don't care who is the Official Opposition. Hell the Bloc had their shot.
I would just rather not have to live through a Harper majority, so the rest of the country better go massively Orange because we are not doing so well in Mississauga.
For those of you who are not familiar with the political landscape of Hazels hideaway, here is the history. Mississauga has four ridings and for the most part, or at least while I have lived here they have been predominantly red, with a tinge of blue provincially, when Harris took over.
In 2008 the city got hit with Harpers blue wave and one seat fell to a conservative candidate, for a lack of a better word. Close but it fell.
According to Democracy Watch, you know the strategic voting guys, at the outset of the election there were two Mississauga ridings in play, where vote splitting would let the Conservatives hold on to one very closely contested riding, Mississauga Erindale and gain one seat in Mississauga South.
They have been adding the fluctuating poll results and the projections have been moving up and down for each riding based on the daily results from two pollsters (EKOS and NANOS) and it has been close.
The Orange wave started to take permanent affect on the April 24th polls in Mississauga and as you can see from chart below the intent to vote NDP has increased by 10% since the last election. The intent to vote Liberal or Green has fallen, 5% and 24% respectively and the intent to vote conservative has increased 5%.
Currently Harper is leading in two ridings, with the NDP surge possibly having a greater effect in the Mississauga South riding. I believe the conservative rise is coming from the collapse of the Greens and worried blue grits, usually the wealthier of the group, who by the way live in Mississauga South by the lake. They might be believing what the corporate media is saying and are afraid of the socialist NDP, as CTV is now regularly calling Jack and crew (4 times in 5 minutes tonight BTW).
To offer some hope that Harper doesn't gain another seat in Mississauga, these Democracy Watch riding projections are not showing any measurable increase in the number of voters for this election. If the advance polls were any indication in Mississauga we could see another 7,000 votes cast.
If the majority of those additional votes are for the NDP, Harper gains another seat in Mississauga, if they are sleeping liberals, he might loose Mississauga Erindale for no net gain.
I think Mississauga South is lost in either case.
That's all, party on dudes.
PS: I am no Steve V when it come to polls and the only one that really counts hasn't happened yet.
Personally I don't care who is the Official Opposition. Hell the Bloc had their shot.
I would just rather not have to live through a Harper majority, so the rest of the country better go massively Orange because we are not doing so well in Mississauga.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Voting with my heart
Give it a rest Dippers, your partisanship has become even more obnoxious than the Libs around these parts for the last week and half.
Now, strategic voting is considered a Lib/Con plot to hold back the NDP.
Excuse me, there are 45 ridings that are in play, where a split vote between lib, ndp and green will give Harper the seat. In some cases we can prevent him from gaining the seat and in others we can take a seat way from him. In some seats the NDP candidate can win if the Liberal and Green voters suck it up and vote NDP. In others the NDP and Green voters need to suck it up.
I live in one of those ridings, every vote that the Green and NDP voter holds back from the Liberal candidate in this election in my riding will help the conservative hang on to the seat. The differences between the con and the lib has been 300 votes in the last two elections. The NDP and Green votes combined equal less that 12 percent of votes cast for the last 2 elections.
Get it, neither the NDP candidate, nor the Green candidate have a chance to win the seat and by voting for them I'm helping the conservative candidate. Yet the advice I am getting from the dippers around these parts is to vote with my heart.
Well excuse me, even though I am more in line with NDP policies, even though I am more socialist than capitalist, even though I have been more outspoken against the Liberal appeasement of Harper than the NDPs, I am voting with my heart.
I'm voting for the Liberal, because in my heart I know that every seat Harper looses moves him farther away from destroying my country.
Get a grip.
Now, strategic voting is considered a Lib/Con plot to hold back the NDP.
Excuse me, there are 45 ridings that are in play, where a split vote between lib, ndp and green will give Harper the seat. In some cases we can prevent him from gaining the seat and in others we can take a seat way from him. In some seats the NDP candidate can win if the Liberal and Green voters suck it up and vote NDP. In others the NDP and Green voters need to suck it up.
I live in one of those ridings, every vote that the Green and NDP voter holds back from the Liberal candidate in this election in my riding will help the conservative hang on to the seat. The differences between the con and the lib has been 300 votes in the last two elections. The NDP and Green votes combined equal less that 12 percent of votes cast for the last 2 elections.
Get it, neither the NDP candidate, nor the Green candidate have a chance to win the seat and by voting for them I'm helping the conservative candidate. Yet the advice I am getting from the dippers around these parts is to vote with my heart.
Well excuse me, even though I am more in line with NDP policies, even though I am more socialist than capitalist, even though I have been more outspoken against the Liberal appeasement of Harper than the NDPs, I am voting with my heart.
I'm voting for the Liberal, because in my heart I know that every seat Harper looses moves him farther away from destroying my country.
Get a grip.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Vote ABC
Taking Cathie's lead I too have just added the Project Democracy widget to the sidebar.
I live in a Key Contest riding of Miossissauga, Erindale:
If you live here and want rid of Harper, all NDP & Greens should vote Liberal.
You probably know how your riding sits, but enter the postal code for your cousins, your co-workers, all the non politcos that you know, and then let them know what the effect of their vote will be. Feel free to piss off everyone you know, this election is that important.
Thank you this a non sponsored message from an ABCer.
I live in a Key Contest riding of Miossissauga, Erindale:
This is a swing riding that Conservative Bob Dechert took by just under 400 votes in 2008. Former MP Omar Alghabra is running again and when he won last, he won by 328 votes.
The NDP and Greens received over 8,000 votes combined in Mississauga-Erindale, but neither have a chance of winning. This is tragic vote splitting causing a retrograde Conservative candidate to win. Liberal Omar Alghabra stand the best chance to unseat the Conservative.
If you live here and want rid of Harper, all NDP & Greens should vote Liberal.
You probably know how your riding sits, but enter the postal code for your cousins, your co-workers, all the non politcos that you know, and then let them know what the effect of their vote will be. Feel free to piss off everyone you know, this election is that important.
Thank you this a non sponsored message from an ABCer.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
My exconservative colleague sent me this
An oldie but goodie he said. Apparently he is voting NDP this time out. I guess he missed the point of the evideo or it is just too much to ask:)
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Canadian youth can own this election
For the last five years, the Harper conservative party has spent millions of dollars attacking the leaders of the opposition parties, with vicious, exaggerated, and fabricated, personal attack ads.
Please allow me to repeat this.
With all the priorities over the last five years, that any government in the G7 should be concentrating on, the Harper conservative party has spent millions of dollars attacking the leaders of the opposition parties, with vicious, exaggerated, and fabricated, personal attack ads.
Millions of dollars, not collected from the twenty to one hundred dollar, heart felt, donations from the 5 million or so, true believers in conservative policies, but from corporations, oil companies, pipeline companies, banks, Canada’s fortune 100, many of whom are no more than foreign owned subsidies.
Corporations, each funneling up to $186,000 a year, through nonprofit, right wing think tanks. Funds to be used for advertising as per Election Canada Rules. Funneled through outfits like the National Citizens Coalition that Harper used to run with it’s large unpublished membership of neoconservative politicos and corporate owned executives.
These viscous and cowardly ads, started on Harper’s first day in power have been none stop, regardless of who the leader of the opposition was. Dion gets booted and the attack switches to Ignatieff.
Meanwhile, when the election starts, Canadians and the Canadian media go on about how they are the dreading the forthcoming political attack ads. Excuse me, there has not been one week during the last five years when Harper’s party has not been attacking the opposition leaders in prime time television ads.
However, it has been a two pronged media buy, with the government using corporately financed advertising to attack the opposition and our money, our tax dollars to positively promote themselves.
The CEAC (Canada’s Economic Action Plan) virtually ended close to a year ago, e.g. home renovation credits ended, the deadline passed for new infrastructure projects. Yet the Harper government spent more money in the last quarter of 2010, (just prior to being booted in contempt of parliament), recycling the Canada’s Economic Action Plan advertising, than Proctor & Gamble or any other private corporation has ever spent in a year in Canada.
This is one of least productive governments in Canadian history, yet by advertising a program that has been described as a pork barreling opportunity for conservative held ridings, a program that ended last July, the government is trying to convince Canadians that they are still working hard to get the economy back on track and convince us, using our own tax dollars.
Being a progressive blogger or probably more accurately of late, a progressive blogger follower, none of this is news. We collectively have been pounding the keyboards about this for the last five years.
Hell, I’ve given up on adding the media links to my posts, to somehow prove what I am saying has some truthiness. If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, you have not been paying attention. In reality if you are not part of the progressive bubble, we are screaming into everyday, you are not reading this post anyway.
However it is election time and Willy has been talking to none politicos, dinner parties and the like. The great unwashed, well off, old, white, men, who are disgusted at political attack ads and believe that they are a waste of time.
Yet they are unsure about Ignatieff, because somehow he seems to be in it for himself and the Harper government seems to be working hard on the recovery.
Canadian youth can own this election, because all the old farts I am talking to are stupid.
Please allow me to repeat this.
With all the priorities over the last five years, that any government in the G7 should be concentrating on, the Harper conservative party has spent millions of dollars attacking the leaders of the opposition parties, with vicious, exaggerated, and fabricated, personal attack ads.
Millions of dollars, not collected from the twenty to one hundred dollar, heart felt, donations from the 5 million or so, true believers in conservative policies, but from corporations, oil companies, pipeline companies, banks, Canada’s fortune 100, many of whom are no more than foreign owned subsidies.
Corporations, each funneling up to $186,000 a year, through nonprofit, right wing think tanks. Funds to be used for advertising as per Election Canada Rules. Funneled through outfits like the National Citizens Coalition that Harper used to run with it’s large unpublished membership of neoconservative politicos and corporate owned executives.
These viscous and cowardly ads, started on Harper’s first day in power have been none stop, regardless of who the leader of the opposition was. Dion gets booted and the attack switches to Ignatieff.
Meanwhile, when the election starts, Canadians and the Canadian media go on about how they are the dreading the forthcoming political attack ads. Excuse me, there has not been one week during the last five years when Harper’s party has not been attacking the opposition leaders in prime time television ads.
However, it has been a two pronged media buy, with the government using corporately financed advertising to attack the opposition and our money, our tax dollars to positively promote themselves.
The CEAC (Canada’s Economic Action Plan) virtually ended close to a year ago, e.g. home renovation credits ended, the deadline passed for new infrastructure projects. Yet the Harper government spent more money in the last quarter of 2010, (just prior to being booted in contempt of parliament), recycling the Canada’s Economic Action Plan advertising, than Proctor & Gamble or any other private corporation has ever spent in a year in Canada.
This is one of least productive governments in Canadian history, yet by advertising a program that has been described as a pork barreling opportunity for conservative held ridings, a program that ended last July, the government is trying to convince Canadians that they are still working hard to get the economy back on track and convince us, using our own tax dollars.
Being a progressive blogger or probably more accurately of late, a progressive blogger follower, none of this is news. We collectively have been pounding the keyboards about this for the last five years.
Hell, I’ve given up on adding the media links to my posts, to somehow prove what I am saying has some truthiness. If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, you have not been paying attention. In reality if you are not part of the progressive bubble, we are screaming into everyday, you are not reading this post anyway.
However it is election time and Willy has been talking to none politicos, dinner parties and the like. The great unwashed, well off, old, white, men, who are disgusted at political attack ads and believe that they are a waste of time.
Yet they are unsure about Ignatieff, because somehow he seems to be in it for himself and the Harper government seems to be working hard on the recovery.
Canadian youth can own this election, because all the old farts I am talking to are stupid.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Where is a god when you need one
Because if there was one handy, Stockwell Day would spend his after life rotting in hell.
This former evangelical minister, ex-leader of the reform party and now retiring ex-menial, minister, is now considered the calming, honest voice for the contemptuous Harper government. Last night on Strombo, (video below) Day lied his ass off, in trying to explain one of the most corrupt acts that this excuse for a government has pulled off in four years.
On the morning of their last day in power, on the day that they knew they were going to be found in Contempt of Parliament, Harper’s government offered an opposing report on the G8/G20 spending spree. An opinion that went against the majority of our representatives and a constructed opinion that included a quote from the Auditor General that claimed, they the Harper government used sound processes in spending $1.2 billion of our money and that these funds were spent as intended.
Forgetting, for a just a moment that these funds included up to $500 million of outright pork barreling (buying votes & political payback) exclusively to conservative ridings that were nowhere near the summits, the quote was an outright fabrication.
The quote used was from ten years previous, from a CBC television interview, in response to Liberal spending regarding the immediate aftermath of 911.
And Day’s explanation (at min. 2:04 of the video below)
“the person writing the report, looked at the report the governor general had given, she had addressed subject A & subject B and the guy putting this report quickly, took a quote from part B and put it in part A, and I am not going to judge and say he didn’t do that deliberately (Day’s eyes close) but we are going to find out and get to the bottom of it.”
Excuse me, Day, subject A and subject B, that span ten years, dealing with completely different events, not to mention different political parties is being passed off as possibly a clerical error or god forbid an over zealous unnamed individual. You, Peter MacKay, the head of the Committee and your contemptuous leader know who wrote the report and who ordered it to be fabricated.
Unfortunately Stockwell, you will get older and in a couple of years as Canadians start to forget that you ever existed, you will lie awake at night remembering the futility of your wasted time spent on this planet and in those agonizing moments you will remember your despicable performance last night.
And somehow that thought may help me sleep better tonight, you despicable sack of shit.
This former evangelical minister, ex-leader of the reform party and now retiring ex-menial, minister, is now considered the calming, honest voice for the contemptuous Harper government. Last night on Strombo, (video below) Day lied his ass off, in trying to explain one of the most corrupt acts that this excuse for a government has pulled off in four years.
On the morning of their last day in power, on the day that they knew they were going to be found in Contempt of Parliament, Harper’s government offered an opposing report on the G8/G20 spending spree. An opinion that went against the majority of our representatives and a constructed opinion that included a quote from the Auditor General that claimed, they the Harper government used sound processes in spending $1.2 billion of our money and that these funds were spent as intended.
Forgetting, for a just a moment that these funds included up to $500 million of outright pork barreling (buying votes & political payback) exclusively to conservative ridings that were nowhere near the summits, the quote was an outright fabrication.
The quote used was from ten years previous, from a CBC television interview, in response to Liberal spending regarding the immediate aftermath of 911.
And Day’s explanation (at min. 2:04 of the video below)
“the person writing the report, looked at the report the governor general had given, she had addressed subject A & subject B and the guy putting this report quickly, took a quote from part B and put it in part A, and I am not going to judge and say he didn’t do that deliberately (Day’s eyes close) but we are going to find out and get to the bottom of it.”
Excuse me, Day, subject A and subject B, that span ten years, dealing with completely different events, not to mention different political parties is being passed off as possibly a clerical error or god forbid an over zealous unnamed individual. You, Peter MacKay, the head of the Committee and your contemptuous leader know who wrote the report and who ordered it to be fabricated.
Unfortunately Stockwell, you will get older and in a couple of years as Canadians start to forget that you ever existed, you will lie awake at night remembering the futility of your wasted time spent on this planet and in those agonizing moments you will remember your despicable performance last night.
And somehow that thought may help me sleep better tonight, you despicable sack of shit.
Monday, April 11, 2011
When pogge gets chatty
About three years ago I wrote a post about how pogge could get
more traffic from a two word post than Willy could get in a week.
Wow, he should be getting a whack of traffic tonight.
more traffic from a two word post than Willy could get in a week.
Wow, he should be getting a whack of traffic tonight.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Analysis of Hubris, the movie
Before YouTube, MTV, hell before almost everything for a great many people, many of us late night folk would wait until the airways cleared from the powerful AM stations and tuned into the new, fledgling, local FM radio stations, CHOM in Montreal and I think something sounding similar in Vancouver and Dave Pritchard on Chum FM in Toronto. It was the only time and the only place that we could hear our music. The audio was limited to small stereo receivers and the visuals were self prescribed.
But then for a brief moment in time, Reiner Schwarz talked a TV station into giving him a half hour devoted to night music and Reiner mixed it up good. Classical, jazz and our music played while the camera zoomed in and panned out on sections of amazing paintings and cool photographs, with Reiner rambling on, between sets. The show didn't last long and maybe it was just experiment, but it had a lasting effect on me. Of course back in those days most things did.
Anyway, this is my tribute to Reiner Schwarz, night music and my first political movie. Play it late at night.
Updated editing, April 10, 2011.
But then for a brief moment in time, Reiner Schwarz talked a TV station into giving him a half hour devoted to night music and Reiner mixed it up good. Classical, jazz and our music played while the camera zoomed in and panned out on sections of amazing paintings and cool photographs, with Reiner rambling on, between sets. The show didn't last long and maybe it was just experiment, but it had a lasting effect on me. Of course back in those days most things did.
Anyway, this is my tribute to Reiner Schwarz, night music and my first political movie. Play it late at night.
Updated editing, April 10, 2011.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Apparently conservative MP Bob Dechert is smiling
According to the Mississauga News last week, Bob Dechert conservative MP for Mississauga Erin Mills is smiling because the NDP nominee and candidate from the last election bailed out one day before declaring his candidacy. Not only did the ex-nominee leave his party high and dry, he declared that he was now planning to help Mr. Harper get a majority.
It seems obvious that the ex-candidate is an ambitious young man and one would now, have to question his motives for running as an NDP candidate during the last election. The NDP garnered 4,774 votes or 8.5% in 2008 and the Liberal incumbent, Omar Alghabra who garnered 42.0%, lost his seat to the now smiling Bob by 397 votes.
The NDP quickly filled the unexpected vacancy with a very capable candidate, one would assume, but the bottom line is that NDP will never win this riding or come close and if we want to replace smiling Bob and his equalling arrogant leader, Mississauga Erin Mills NDP supporters should vote for Omar this time out.
Just to clarify, although I am an Omar supporter again this year, I am not a Liberal party member and according to the CBC voter gizmo I am somewhere left of the NDP and Gandhi. However, I would strongly suggest that if you want to support the NDP In Erin Mills this year, send them twenty dollars and vote for Omar.
Bob, we are going to wipe that smile from your face.
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