I really don't like Jack Layton.Dr. Medulla wrote:
Canadian politics gets innerestin'
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It's a curious thing—I don't know any NDP supporter who likes him (more to the point, his personality is repellent), yet the NDP under his leadership has become a solid third party again after near federal extinction in the 90s.Inder wrote:I really don't like Jack Layton.Dr. Medulla wrote:
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Layton's a pretty high-profile political personality -- Mcs Laughlin and Donough, though experienced pols, definitely didn't have that going for them.Dr. Medulla wrote:It's a curious thing—I don't know any NDP supporter who likes him (more to the point, his personality is repellent), yet the NDP under his leadership has become a solid third party again after near federal extinction in the 90s.Inder wrote:I really don't like Jack Layton.Dr. Medulla wrote:
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They certainly weren't the kind of figures to build the party. Likely wouldn't have mattered anyway—the collapse of the Tories ensured a Chretien dictatorship throughout the 90s.Inder wrote:Layton's a pretty high-profile political personality -- Mcs Laughlin and Donough, though experienced pols, definitely didn't have that going for them.Dr. Medulla wrote:It's a curious thing—I don't know any NDP supporter who likes him (more to the point, his personality is repellent), yet the NDP under his leadership has become a solid third party again after near federal extinction in the 90s.Inder wrote:I really don't like Jack Layton.Dr. Medulla wrote:
Can't help wondering why the Liberals and NDP don't agree beforehand to not attack each other during the next election and govern jointly should the Libs win a plurality. Makes too much sense to me. The Liberals won't gain enough for a majority and the NDP hasn't tasted anything resembling power since the early 70s. Plus it would create the stability that apparently everyone is clamoring for. If they really are serious about showing Harper the door, there's the strategy.
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Quiz time: Which federal leader's signature is this?
If you guessed Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe, congratulations.
If you guessed Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe, congratulations.
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One area where Canada sucks worse than any other nation: the tar sands. An ever-growing environmental disaster—apart from the GHG's, it creates massive toxic pools that can be seen from space, and if the retaining walls ever break they'd empty into the North Saskatchewan River, which eventually leads to Hudson's Bay—and one that actually uses more energy than it creates.
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Ruh roh..
Jaffer facing drunk driving, cocaine charges
Rahim Jaffer, husband of Simcoe-Grey MP Helena Guergis, has been charged with drunk driving and possession of cocaine.
Police stopped Jaffer, a 37-year-old Angus resident, on Sept. 11 on Regional Road 50 in Palgrave. Caledon OPP say he was speeding through the village.
Jaffer will be in Orangeville criminal court on Oct. 19 to answer the charges.
His license was suspended for 90 days.
Jaffer was elected MP for the Edmonton Strathcona riding in 1997, a seat he held up until last year's federal election, when he lost to the NDP.
Jaffer was one of the youngest members of the Conservative caucus. He was first elected in 1997 as a member of the Reform Party at the age of 25. He was well-liked and respected by his fellow MPs and by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who appointed him national chair of the Conservative caucus shortly before he left politics.
Jaffer had a reputation as a gadfly in the capital and could often be seen at bars around Parliament Hill. But he settled down toward the end of his days in elected politics and eventually married Guergis the day after he lost his seat.
A Conservative source said the former MP was in Ottawa today, but was keeping a low profile and not mentioning his recent arrest or the charges against him.
The Ugandan-born Jaffer had hoped to win back his Edmonton-area riding in the last election but reportedly lost favour with the party brass, who sped up the nomination process last spring and failed to notify him.
He told the Canadian Press at the time that he planned to settle down, finish the MBA program he was taking, get to work starting a consulting business in Ottawa and support his wife.
"Both Helena and I are seriously thinking that if we want to turn attention to family, it's probably wiser that I sit this election out and focus on ourselves once this MBA is done," he said in May.
"In the future, who knows? Maybe at a later time, once our kids are grown up and can support us, I might go back to politics."
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Obama: "I'd rather be at a Teabagger Rally"
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"Praise be Allah, Canadians are assholes."dd_ wrote:Add a caption to this image:
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Obama's making the same face I do when I see this thread has been bumped!Dr. Medulla wrote:"Praise be Allah, Canadians are assholes."dd_ wrote:Add a caption to this image:
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Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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"We're not that big."
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I laughed so loud at this that Ali got angry.Flex wrote:Obama's making the same face I do when I see this thread has been bumped!Dr. Medulla wrote:"Praise be Allah, Canadians are assholes."dd_ wrote:Add a caption to this image:
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Wolter wrote:I laughed so loud at this that Ali got angry.Flex wrote:Obama's making the same face I do when I see this thread has been bumped!
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That's what I get for eating at Tim Horton's all the time. My #2 was THAT big. The plumber was there for weeks.eumaas wrote:
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Is it just me, or is Obama looking a bit haggard?