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- Captain "Special Ed" screws another pooch.
- Harry Reid: 1. Blogging Tories: 0.
- "War?" What "war?"
- Outrage? What outrage?
- And the Crazed One unleashes her yapping minions.
- Michaelle Jean meets Dustin Hoffman.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 31, 2006.
- What can possibly go wrong?
- Why the word "chickenhawk" just isn't enough.
- Blogging Tories Long Takes: May 30, 2006.
- There's funny "ha ha" ... and then there's funny "...
- Did I mention that I hate Microsoft? No, really.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 29, 2006.
- Sorry ... what was all that "values-based" stuff a...
- Dear Stephen: Two can play at that game.
- Really, really stupid quote of the day.
- The mote in one's eye, and all that.
- For cat lovers only -- too damned funny for words.
- CPC to RCMP: Bite me.
- And a good time was had by all. And will be again.
- With God, all things are possible.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 28, 2006.
- Look out! Fake outrage alert. (Part 2.)
- The man with his finger on the button.
- Neo-con journamalism, as it were.
- The principles of Alberto Gonzales.
- Look out! Fake outrage alert! (Part 1.)
- Don't forget Bloggerapalooza.
- Dixie Chicks to Wanker critics: Bite me.
- The unbounded joy of the Internets.
- Werner Patels: You are SO banned.
- Revenge is a dish best served by wankers.
- "Not only that, it turns on a dime, I guarantee it."
- Karl Rove arrested for carnal knowledge of barnyar...
- Maybe there is a God after all.
- This isn't rocket surgery, folks.
- One of these things is just like the other ...
- Bloggerapalooza!
- Redefining "stupid."
- Dear Damian: Put up, or shut the fuck up.
- It is officially retraction time.
- Dixie Chicks to Blogging Tories: Suck on THIS.
- You want to "cure" something? Cure THIS.
- Colour me unconvinced.
- Thank God for the wankersphere!
- Perspective? Wankers don't NEED no steenkin' pers...
- Hey, HERE'S a suggestion!
- Another smear, another swift boot to the nads.
- "Look! Bright, shiny thing!"
- And "disavowed" is shown the door.
- Glenn Greenwald and The Angry Left.
- The yellow stars that weren't there.
- The hoisting and petarding of Damian Penny.
- "AT&T: How may we violate your privacy today?"
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 23, 2006.
- NOW you've done it, Stimpy!
- All-night stakeouts just got a lot more fun, I'm g...
- Dear James: Bad blogger. No biscuit.
- Biological evolution, and the argument from person...
- That was then, this is now.
- Hold that thought, sweetie.
- Dear John:
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 22, 2006.
- "Um ... that's not what I meant."
- You can annoy some of the people some of the time ...
- "Off to the big city" open thread.
- Man, those retractions sure are taking a while.
- Not a student of history, is he?
- I'm sorry ... you call THAT a "retraction?"
- The Department of Wingnuttery.
- When the president talks to God ...
- Retractions, and the weaselitude thereof.
- The "National Compost" still flogging that baby.
- Crazy-Assed Racist Redneck meets Godwin's Law.
- "Bring me the head of Dan Rather!"
- And the terror alert colour of the day is "Jew."
- But it makes SUCH a great story.
- Your daily wankery.
- Evolution and the Inuit.
- God loves you. Yes, he does.
- Not quite getting the idea here.
- Dueling sock puppets.
- The joy of selective memory.
- Well, isn't THAT convenient?
- Harperology 101.
- The joy of gaffes.
- More pearls of wisdom from the Falafel Man.
- Dear Steve: Extrapolate much?
- Stephen Harper and the joy of selective outrage.
- Oh, by the way: Stephen Harper lied.
- Tom Friedman: Particularly hacktacular!
- The Globe's Terry Weber: Hacktacular!
- "Hotter Than Hell" apparently hotter than ... oh, ...
- "Well, OK ... but that's DIFFERENT!"
- Attack! Attack! ... RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 17, 2006.
- Christianity, as it were.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: May 16, 2006.
- Apparently, that "mandate" honeymoon is over.
- The hilarity of low expectations.
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8 comments:
When will these conservatives stop lying?
Oh, that's right... never.
Celestial Junk has a point, if by "being deadly accurate" he or she means to say "deliberately misconstrue". McLachlin writes about 'unwritten constitutional norms' and Vellacott and CJ read 'mystical god-like powers' - it's all the same thing...
You pretty much *have* to go with "unwritten constitution norms." Because the constitution says NOTHING about, say, whether parents can spank their kids.
But you look at the basic principles of the constitution, try earnestly to decide how those would be expressed in a societal situation, and try to bring down a decision that is in accord with those basic underlying principles in the constitution.
Every honest judge on the planet will be doing it that way -- there *IS* no other way. Unless, naturally, we're going to forbid everything not explicitly mentioned in the constitution.
(I've always been amused at how I heard NOT ONE PEEP about "activist judges" when the court decided parents could spank their kids. That was never explicitly written as a law. The court enshrined it as law, with that decision. But right-wingers? Nary a peep!)
Thickslab, I saw your post over at that Celestialwhatever blog, and followed up with one of my own. :-)
I congratulate Mr. Vellacott for ensuring the name, face and actual (reasonable, considered) stances of Mdme Chief Justice McLachlin reach Canadian public awareness in a way she NEVER would have gotten if she was just left to quietly do her job with the rest of the SCoC.
That whacky woman and her mystical ways. Although, I'm not sure why he would balk at her wielding god like powers. Isn't he a proponent of bringing religion and state together to halt the degenerate decline of our once great Dominion?
I await other CPC MPs joining the good Reverend (or Pastor, or Martyr as some would anoint him) in his innovative educational methods.
Who's next?
Now that the parties with the majority of seats in Parliament have jointly decided to uphold standards required of MPs, and so brought about the resignation of Villacott for his negative comments on the Supreme Court, who is next?
How about the three parties calling on Environment Minister Rona Ambrose to step down as chairwoman of international talks looking into ways to strengthen the Kyoto protocol on climate change? Given the Tory party's decision not to abide by Kyoto, her retention of that position is a mockery and a disservice to Canadians in the eyes of the world.
The only honest course is for her to resign and let a representative of another country which supports Kyoto take her place.
It is not fitting for Canada to support this mockery of world values any longer.
Perhaps the Liberals could table a resolution in Parliament directing her to step down?
And now Vellacott's resigned, before a vote of confidence could be made. His resignation cites, not his own behaviour, but how the Liberals on the committee were bitter partisan creatures who made it impossible for him to go on. But he doesn't blame the Bloc members.
Wow. I guess that consulting advice by Lutz on what Conservative MPs need to say has been fast tracked into use.
Yes, but if you read Vellacott's unhinged resignation statement (it's on the globe and mail's website, it makes itself quite clear just how unhinged Vellacott really is.
Some of the semi-literate, ill-informed shit that's being spewed in the comments re: the Vellacott thing are so awful it's almost sad.
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