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- Damian Penny: Just slightly behind the times.
- And by "we," I mean "people other than me."
- Neo-conservatism, in six panels.
- You're just NOW figuring out how this works?
- The entertaining dangers of home schooling.
- A little late to the party.
- Well, THAT didn't last long, did it?
- Religious freedom, in a nutshell.
- The things that happen when you're not paying atte...
- "And if you don't like THOSE principles, hey, I've...
- Well, NOW I won't have to feel guilty about it any...
- This just gets better and better.
- "Me? No, I'm not with those guys. Honest."
- The shamelessness of David Frum.
- The seven habits of highly effective sergeants.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: July 28, 2006.
- Uh oh ... now things are going to get ugly.
- "Wankersphere! About ... FACE!!"
- "Plan B. We have a Plan B, right?"
- The right-wing love affair with history (relevant ...
- Sorry ... tell me again about the "Angry Left."
- Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- It's just Damian being Damian.
- Only the names have been changed to protect the gu...
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- That's progress. I guess.
- The joy of having it both ways.
- All civilians are equal but, apparently, some are ...
- A man can only take so much of this, you know.
- You keep using that word "handled" ...
- Apparently, shit happens.
- Burning people alive and feeling good about it.
- Sometimes too stupid for words.
- I'm guessing this still counts as "measured."
- Mission freakin' accomplished!
- Oh, God ... I'm sooooooo confused.
- Oh, THIS should be delightful.
- Attention deficit disorder as a foreign policy.
- If you hate reality, well, there's always the Blog...
- Just slightly behind the curve, as they say.
- Canada tech news: AMD purchases ATI.
- The carping from the peanut gallery.
- The danger of conventional wisdom.
- Softwood victory smackdown! Whoo hoo!
- Hell, no, I don't mind the competition.
- Floyd rocks.
- 10 a.m. delivery, or they're free.
- Not what they meant by "winning hearts and minds."
- Afghanistan: Mission not quite so accomplished.
- Not quite the whole story.
- "You keep using that word 'measured', ..."
- Peter MacKay: Whiny-ass titty baby.
- Stephen. Plane. Anti-aircraft missiles. Some as...
- Oh, those wacky pro-choicers!
- Government surveillance humour, Canadian-style.
- It's just Ann being Ann.
- Don't worry -- that's just Stevie being Stevie.
- Too dumb to even make fun of.
- "You have the right to remain an imbecile ..."
- Then we can airbrush out all the dead people ...
- It's called "synergy." Don't waste it.
- And the creepy parallels continue.
- Another evangelical douchebag for Christ.
- Ironically, they don't even LIKE the Jews.
- Your right-wing line of the day.
- Today's example of terminal, fundy stupidity.
- Canada needs a Ralph Reed.
- Sometimes, a shoulder massage is just a ... hey! ...
- How can you tell when a wanker is lying?
- Those tax-and-spend Conservatives.
- Too-tired-to-give-a-crap open thread.
- Some straight-shootin' shit there, pardner.
- Is Damian Penny the worst blogger in Canada?
- What the f...?
- Anti-Semitism, AIPAC-style.
- That gosh-darned liberal media.
- Nuance? We don' need no steenkin' nuance!
- Oh ... this can't end well.
- Dead Canadians in Lebanon -- let the calls for pol...
- Conservative discourse, as it were.
- Blogging Tories Short Takes: Jul 16, 2006.
- Theological scholarship, as it were.
- You might want to hold off on that cheerleading.
- An affair to not quite remember.
- Gosh darn that liberal media.
- The stupidest man on the planet.
- When your doofusness is out there for all the worl...
- Well, this is timely.
- It's what dreams are made of, isn't it?
- Israel to Bush: Bite me?
- Thinking ahead, CPoC-style.
- There is a God after all, oh, yes.
- Right-wing snark, as it were.
- The fickliness of the trollosphere.
- Proud to be hermetically sealed.
- All animals are equal ...
- Some people have decidedly unhealthy obsessions.
- The thriftiness of the Conservatives ...
- America, I have a dream.
- What you call "unclear on the concept."
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6 comments:
Think Petey was crying when he wrote that? "Betrayed... sniff... again... anguished sob..."
Is he whining because Harper got the photo-op instead....notice MacKay was in the meet and greet line when the PM's plane landed here in a full suit yet.
Condi Rice gets all the attention and respect in the U.S. and poor Peter is left waiting for approval from the PM as to what to say.
Is Stevie making poor Petey look inept? Yup!
Actually Peter is probably sobbing back on his father's farm with a rented dog, I'd imagine it was Sandra Buckler that wrote the letter and signed Petey's name.
One way to solve this problem...hold honest and non-biased press conferences with the media instead of wanting to throw reporters in jail who fail to follow the CPC 5-point plan as the moronic Colin Mayes suggested earlier this year. McKay is a dolt.
Hey MacKay :
Regarding those "hourly updates on the status of operations" you say Steve was getting.
Did none of them include the information he was mounting his personal rescue operation in the wrong friggin country?
G&M : "But the rescue mission ended up adding confusion and delay to an evacuation effort that was already running into serious snags, and that was shifting its focus from Cyprus to Turkey, where most of the Canadians, who could number as many as 50,000, will be brought.
A special diplomatic effort was needed, involving dozens of officials, to shift schedules so that at least some Canadians would arrive in Cyprus during the PM's visit."
As a member of the PPG, I must disagree with SOME of what you're saying. MacKay is actually doing a decent job in the past couple weeks. He has been the face of this crisis and whether you agree or disagree with the government's stand, MacKay has done a fairly decent job defending and communicating it. This is a bit of a surprise victory for MacKay as he is not known as the sharpest knife in the drawer.
As far as the Globe and Mail piece, it was bang on and even MacKay knows that. The letter was merely a push back to the media. A warning (no doubt written by the PMO) that they are willing to fight back publicly if we dare to report anything that puts them in a bad light. What news consumers need to realize is that the vast majority of us, just don't care what they think of us. We didn't care under the Liberals and we don't care under the Conservatives. You'll notice none of that letter actually says the story is not true. This government, through its absolutely amateurish communications strategies, has forced the media to rely more on "anonymous" sources. There is a hint of irony in this. Because they are trying so desperately to control the media, they are quickly losing any control of their message. Every journalist prefers information on the record, but expect to see more off-the-record reporting. Public servants are starting to talk to us and I don't expect it will be too long before members of caucus start giving us substantive information on the condition of anonymity. In other words, the non-cooperative strategy of Sandra Buckler et al will bite them in the balls. I'm sure that will be used as further illogical evidence that the PPG is biased against a Conservative government. In reality, it has nothing to do with bias. It is merely the price any government pays when they force journalists to get their information from anonymous insiders.
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