Oh, Shiny Pony!

74 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Pony!”

1. Nice picture of three of the Liberal Party’s stooges.
   What BC and batb said about an empty society looking for an idol.
   This little clip should be played every day for six months prior to the next election. This is almost as good as John Turner telling Mulroney during the national debate that he had no choice in making the hundreds of patronage appointments.

2. The one way that PMSH can very quickly turn things around for the Conservatives would be to suddenly announce that he’s decriminalizing cannabis. Not legalizing it as that would open up a huge can of worms, but decriminalizing it. Once this is done, the BC moonbats will suddenly vote Conservative and pretty hair pneumocephalic boy won’t be able to thrill BC crowds by relating how he shared a few joints with Marc Emery.
   Maybe that’s what the sudden decision to make cannabis a prescription drug was all about. As of 1/1/2014, one will need a prescription for medicinal cannabis and won’t be allowed to grow ones own. The latter proscription isn’t going to stop anyone in BC from cultivating what they perceive as a plant of great ceremonial and medicinal importance. Given that the majority of doctors won’t prescribe cannabis (and I dread the lineup in front of my clinic as I’m one of the few doctors in town that has said I’ll prescribe it) and there will be a major problem between those patients who have legitimate needs for cannabinoids and the lack of physicians who are willing to prescribe cannabinoids.
   The system before was that patient X would get a license to grow 50 plants as he needed 5 grams of weed/day for his post-spinal cord injury pain. If patient X had a very good crop, he wasn’t allowed to keep more than about a pound or so at his residence so the remainder would go to other people with medicinal needs for cannabis. That’s been the largest population group I’m seeing who have a next door neighbor with a cannabis cultivation license and they’re amazed that their arthritis pain suddenly has gone away. Given that suddenly the provincial colleges are clamping down on opiate use in non-cancer pain, there will be a huge unmet need for analgesics which can be met with cannabis.
   So, if PMSH is smart, a few months before the election he’ll simply decriminalize cannabis suddenly letting the free market meet the pharmaceutical demands of chronic pain patients. This will piss off the Hells Angels, corrupt judges and police who are currently making good money to look the other way, and others who find the war on some drugs very profitable. These individuals don’t have enough votes to change the course of a federal election, but having BC vote solidly Conservative will.
   Doctors will breathe easier as they will no longer be overwhelmed with people wanting cannabis prescriptions, open research into cannabinoids will be possible and indoor growers will pay their power bills. Cannabidiol looks as if it has signficant anti-inflammatory, anti-epileptic and mood stabilizing properties and some of the major research in the cannabinoid field is not with respect to cannabidiol (which doesn’t make people high) and interesting terpenoid compounds that are found in cannabis. Canada could become the world leader in cannabis research as a result of such a bold move by PMSH.

3. Does it seem as if Ms Freeland is centimetering closer
   and closer to her own personal “tipping point”?
   She vaguely reminds of someone else just as lovely
   and talented whose name escapes me at this moment.
   Look on the bright side: Red Star gal will make Tommy
   Malcair’s life a living hell once elected.

4. LAS and LDD.
   Take comfort from the BC election results. Pollsters are lost at sea. After the BC election, I have no faith in any polls.

5. Historically, all the worst Liberal policies were passed by Liberal minority governments with the support of the NDP.
   They rarely ever bite eat other, rather, having the same agenda, the Liberals only lack the NDP’s haste in advancing it.

6. Just what we need, drug dealing doctors who work for the government.

7. LAS and his ilk are correct in that they will vote for the hair and win at least a foothold considering Canada’s current morally bankrupted, vacuous society.
   It’s why they support Obamba and Al Qaeda amongst any other cultures of pedophilia when they comment here.
   I remember spending many years in North Africa and the Middle East, where it is well known by all to hide any shiny objects from the Bedouin camel herders or they would steal it, regardless of its true material value.
   It’s about base emotion and instinctive lower hominoid greed, the mark of the true “knuckle draggers” within our society.

8. Two years to find out. I’d be patient if I were you.

9. The difference in BC was that the memories of what the last NDP government did to that province – running it into the ground – are still reasonably fresh in the electorate. As much as BC loathed the Liberals (and rightfully so), they just couldn’t in good conscience elect the almost-communists to ruin the place again.
   The last Liberal federal government, as much as we might hate it, did have a good fiscal record and generally didn’t screw things up too much in the minds of the general public. They imploded on the Martin/Chretien feud and Adscam, neither of which have anything to do with the Pony. I really don’t think there will be that “Ewww, we just *can’t* vote these guys in” moment for them.
   And we all underestimate the swooning women at extreme peril. Too many women (and girly men) *LOVE* the Pony. Nobody feels that way about Harper.
   I would love to be proven wrong, to see that Canadians will go right up to the brink of voting in Pony, then have a sanity check and stop themselves. But Obama had a four year track record of failure, got slaughtered in the first debate, and still got reelected. I no longer have much faith in average voters.

10. Freeland gave herself away when she blew back “home” donned a red dress and declared Canada to be “at a tipping point”. She has no clue about what’s going on here. Sadly the people in Toronto Center don’t care as long as she’s wearing that red dress.

11. Mr. Harper has appointed 64 or so senators since becoming prime minister. So he’s had trouble with 3, or 4.7% of those he’s appointed. So far, that is, but I’m quite certain that we’d all know in spades if there were problems with others.
    In the nature of people and politics, a 95.3% appointment success rate (so far, that is) is pretty good, I’d say. I’ve voted for Harper since he became leader of the Canadian Alliance, beginning with the Perth-Middlesex by-election in 2003, and will do so again. I never expected him to be perfect, just better than the nonsense that preceded him, which he is, in pretty abject terms.
    It rather seems to me that:
    – deficits don’t just disappear overnight, especially given the, er, “uncertainty” in the global economy;
    – trade agreements don’t just fall into your lap (CETA, which Jeffrey Simpson conclusively pronounced three weeks ago was going nowhere, is a significant step forward, and I hear tell that the business community is pretty excited about it; India and other Asian deals will almost certainly be helped by this development);
    – pipelines don’t exactly build themselves;
    – health care reform didn’t cost Jim Flaherty his job, whereas Dwight Duncan, who was adamantly opposed to the long-term funding plan, lost his;
    – a national securities regime is an obstacle course, which has now shown some progress, despite obstructionism from Quebec;
    – Senate reform was a can of worms to begin with, made even worse by obstructionism from Quebec;
    – Broadcasting policy reform will be hard, made even more so by obstructionism from the CBC, but it’s starting.
    I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t care less about turning marijuana distribution into another LCBO (what, with public sector unions and pension plans?; an utterly meaningless proposal from a meaningless guy who leads a party whose best days are behind it). And I do know that every election in my lifetime has been fought on Canada’s long-term economic prospects. So, overall, the so-called “lack of progress” is a bit illusory, actually. In my view, you don’t change your CEO, just ’cause a dilettante, whose father happened to be CEO, shows his face. “That’s not Canada,” as Chrystia correctly says.
    The Senate “expense scandal” was a case of the blindingly obvious from the beginning, even before the shameless change in media narrative this week (the villains are now victims, are they?): the media has decided that Harper has to go, and they want Justin, full stop. Attawapiskat was a bust, and so were robocalls. But, of course folks like LAS, who aren’t conservatives, want the CPC to change leaders. Perfectly reasonable position: why would you want an unprepared dullard like Justin to go up against a guy who stands to be the first Conservative prime minister since John A. Macdonald to win four elections in a row (unlike Diefenbaker, getting stronger each time)?
    No time to go wobbly, as Maggie said.

12. Trudeau’s polling lead has been much more solid and far more long-lasting than Iggy or Dion’s. That you can’t see that is your own fault.
    Broadcasting policy reform will be hard, made even more so by obstructionism from the CBC, but it’s starting.
    No it isn’t.
    No time to go wobbly, as Maggie said
    Harper is all wobble all the time.

13. Oh, come on! I knew it would be you: everybody here knows your job is to shit the bed. Who’s paying you, exactly?
    Why not full disclosure? What’s your name?

14. “He should have inherited his mother’s job which was to blow aging rock stars and show off her pussy” —
    That’s disgusting. Margaret Trudeau was misguided in her youth (as were so many others at the time), but she has redeemed herself many times over. There is no need to make disparaging comments about her in your enthusiasm to diss on Justin. It’s totally lacking in class and makes you look ignorant.

15. Come on. Margaret Trudeau is nothing more than an aging hippie tramp. She wasn’t “misguided” in her youth – she made her own decisions, along with ever other stupid and foolish hippie flower child from her era.
    People seem to forget that when hippies roamed the earth there were plenty of sensible families/youngsters that did not go in for that culture. But writing about the sensible people does not sell books. How often we see that.
    Margaret Trudeau can stew as far as I am concerned. And I hope her evil, arrogant and conniving husband is rotting in hell.

16. “…Margaret Trudeau was misguided in her youth …”
    Youth? She was 32, married, with three kids.

17. Say friends, do you remember the last two Liberal leadership hopefuls? Of course you do. Who could forget Step-On Dionne and Michael Ignominious? They were both part of the brain trust, yet somehow or other they ended up looking weak, and, well, not all that intelligent after “stoopid ole Harper” got done with them. And in fairness, I think they were both quite intelligent. Notwithstanding the intelligence of the former and the intellectual stature of the latter, they both were both destroyed by the Harper machine. Today the Harper machine is going after a few senators to make the point that if a public servant is fast and loose with government money that is really TAXPAYERS’ MONEY, that person should not be part of the Canadian parliamentary system. Once that “set up” is in place that idiot Harper and his machine will show the Canadian people what Justin has been doing with the taxpayer money he put his hands on. Couple that with the “who’s your daddy” ads which were set up for the Conservatives by the outlier Chrystia Friedland I think the next federal election will keep the recent Liberal blood letting during elections as an ongoing tradition that many of us have come to love.

18. Justin Trudeau doesn’t have to do anything other than show up and be passionate with platitudes in order to get Jack Layton numbers.
    The problem will be getting his numbers above that.
    With a unified Conservative Party and a dedicated Quebec-centric leftist party, the best Justin can hope for is probably a Paul Martin 2004 minority, but I doubt it.

19. True in every word. I agree with all of this entirely. The Senate expense scandal is very small beer indeed compared to the approximately 500,000 times that amount that the Ontario Liberals personally caused each Ontario resident over the gas plant cancelations. This is entirely an Ottawa press gallery-cooked up event to get the Conservatives to trigger a leadership review.
    And I agree with you that Canadians in the voting booth are a pretty hard-headed unsympathetic bunch. I can’t think of one federal election, going back at least to the early 1980s when they weren’t voting their wallets. Even Diefenbaker fits this pattern. After one term with a huge majority government in the early ’60s, Canadians decided quite rightly that they weren’t ready for showtime. Not after the various policy incoherences of Dief and his merry gang.

20. The truth is she did those things. As far as redeeming herself, please do give examples.

21. Toddler, gotta love it? Can I steal it?

22. Overheard in the Rolling Stones Limo ” she has the best teeth I’ve ever come across…”.

23. Sure, only you have to call him The Toddler.

24. Seriously he looks like an uncomfortable little boy in the interview.
    God help us all.