tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post4232188581778308555..comments2024-03-28T03:54:21.932-04:00Comments on Canadian Cynic: Burning Down the CultureCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-5116377288295114882008-08-16T11:06:00.000-04:002008-08-16T11:06:00.000-04:00Yeah, that's one reason I will never call the Stev...Yeah, that's one reason I will never call the Steven Harper Party "Tories". They're Reformers who took over the party, but they're not what the Tories always were before that.<BR/><BR/>I never agreed with either group, but at least the Tories had some passing relationship with running a country, rather than ruining it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583242351453043902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-84900732808271528852008-08-16T10:37:00.000-04:002008-08-16T10:37:00.000-04:00"Grit your teeth"? Hee hee, cute pun!Over the yea..."Grit your teeth"? Hee hee, cute pun!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Over the years, like them or not, the Libs got Canada stabilized and the budget balanced and whatnot. They also did some things I bitched about at the time, like the GST, but those taxes were, I believe, a necessary part of the balancing act.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile Harper and his boys rigged a leveraged takeover of not one but two old(er) political parties, blended them into a new party, duct-taped the mouths of all but a few representatives, and focused on slowly (but not secretly) whittling away a lot of the things Canadians value most.<BR/><BR/>Two things are obvious -- first, the New Conservative Party is actually pretty good at what they do. Second, what they want to do is not what we want done.<BR/><BR/>No teeth-gritting required. Hand me that ballot.<BR/><BR/>NoniNoni Mausahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11198589990083966806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-24201948654399616302008-08-16T10:31:00.000-04:002008-08-16T10:31:00.000-04:00I just read this to my roommate, who's worked in g...I just read this to my roommate, who's worked in government for many years, and she says that as much as she dislikes the Cons, the program these cuts were made under came from a Liberal government. So while this all falls into Harper's plans, and he's only too happy to remove Canadian culture from Canada entirely, the idea of having business-like metrics for the arts can't be laid at his feet.<BR/><BR/>You can bet he <I>wishes</I> he thought of it, though.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583242351453043902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-60942665706454744412008-08-16T08:34:00.000-04:002008-08-16T08:34:00.000-04:00Nice one, psa.I do wish the 'New Conservatives', a...Nice one, psa.<BR/><BR/>I do wish the 'New Conservatives', although they smell way past their best before date, realized that there is a difference between efficient and effective.Romantic Heretichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15988507771792100606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-78661256984482156002008-08-16T07:48:00.000-04:002008-08-16T07:48:00.000-04:00I wish our society would grow the fuck up so that ...I wish our society would grow the fuck up so that 30% of us didn't see these assholes as some sort of viable political choice.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-56371154684799681532008-08-16T02:48:00.000-04:002008-08-16T02:48:00.000-04:00I feel your pain, my darling. I wish you the best...I feel your pain, my darling. I wish you the best of luck giving those rat bastards the kick in the arse they deserve.Dana Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-10998017375001044852008-08-16T00:39:00.000-04:002008-08-16T00:39:00.000-04:00I know you understand this, psa. Probably better t...I know you understand this, psa. Probably better than I do and I have worked closely with many of my city's perf. arts groups over the past two decades.<BR/><BR/>Beijing York, who really does understand the mechanisms very well, lays it out in a comment <A>here</A> over at Red Tory's.<BR/><BR/>Their ideological rigidity does not allow them to realize that they are attacking and tearing down the very mechanisms that assist in, and you think they would get this, <I>increasing business</I>, making the arts and arts groups more <I>commercially viable</I> and <I>fiscally responsible</I>.Frank Frinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05727863730658037306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-91722996969184596402008-08-16T00:15:00.000-04:002008-08-16T00:15:00.000-04:00They understand the price of everything but the va...They understand the price of everything but the value of nothing.Frank Frinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05727863730658037306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-17219853638522494842008-08-15T23:46:00.000-04:002008-08-15T23:46:00.000-04:00PSA, sure wish the citizens of this country could ...PSA, sure wish the citizens of this country could see through these phoney pious pigs the way we do. I don't think we're there yet and "god" help us if an election is called and these morons form a majority, which it looks like they could very well do if the younger generation doesn't get off it's ass and vote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com