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December 1st, 2009 | 
Author: If I suddenly disappear from view (other than family vacation next week), you’ll know why. I sent this to our Prime Weasel yesterday:
Re: Grits lash out at PM for ‘reprehensible’ comments
Messr’s Harper and Baird:
I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Rae’s characterization of your comments today: reprehensible. To suggest that anyone wanting to get to the bottom of allegations of complicity in war crimes is anything less than patriotic is to do a disservice to the brave men and women who serve now and have fought and died before them.
Self-serving politicians who do nothing but blither and hide the truth are the less than patriotic ones. Critically thinking Canadians support the Opposition’s effort to get to the bottom of these allegations because they are attempting to find the truth. If you and the military have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear. By standing in the way of a legal inquiry such as you are only serves to continue to tarnish the image our our brave men and women in uniform. The longer that you refuse to cooperate, the worse it looks.
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The Conservatives are on the losing end of another Federal Court ruling. In effect, the judge told them to shut the hell up and do the right thing already:
The Harper government is violating Abousfian Abdelrazik’s constitutional rights and must fly him home immediately, a Federal Court judge ruled Thursday in a landmark decision.
Mr. Justice Russel Zinn ordered the government to bring Mr. Abdelrazik home even though the United Nations has listed him as an al-Qaeda operative, finding that ministers and bureaucrats have treated him shabbily and trampled on his rights.
Yep, he’s on the UN list. But, that doesn’t wash with Justice Zinn: Read the rest of this entry »
The Conservatives seem to have a problem with leaving government documents laying around.
First, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier left a NATO briefing book on his girlfriend’s coffee table. He later resigned.
Last night, I watched the CTV news in utter amazement. Not only did another minister (or one of her aides) do almost the same thing, she left it in a worse place: the Ottawa news bureau of CTV. The pages are all numbered and larges swaths of the binder are marked secret.
The joke is that the binder was left there for almost a week and either nobody in the minister’s office noticed or they were too embarrassed to look for it.
The materials include handwritten notes, information regarding Conservative government strategy, background documents and reports regarding AECL’s Candu division in an internal briefing binder, said CTV.
I am so sick and tired of the racism that has permeated the western world since 9/11. We’re oh-so high and mighty proud of the strides we’ve made in race relations since the mid-20th Century, yet the entire fricking country is scared to death of brown people.
Seriously. Check this out and tell me what you think:
Supporters of Abousfian Abdelrazik — a Canadian citizen blacklisted as a terrorist and stranded in Sudan — accused the federal government of racism Friday for refusing to issue him an emergency passport to fly home to Montreal.
“We denied the passport on the basis of national security,” Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday at the NATO summit in Strasbourg, France.
I seem to be doing a whack of spleen venting today. Sorry about that. If it doesn’t float your boat, hold tight until tomorrow. It’ll get lighter. I promise. 
Canada is currently being run by a bunch of neo-conservative, Bush-emulating, two-faced, cretins. That we knew.
We also knew, even if it was painful, that our Federal Minster of State for Science and Technology is a chiropractor. Well, it turns out that he’s also a Christian (not in and of itself a bad thing) who won’t say if he believes in the scientific theory of evolution. Even the dude in the funny hat calls creationism a “pagan” belief.
Canada’s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won’t say if he believes in evolution.
“I’m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don’t think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
PETA’s at it again and it’s a doozy:
Yep. Sea Kittens. Nobody wants to eat kittens, do they?
People don’t seem to like fish. They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you’re swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.
Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy—stat. Whoever was in charge of creating a positive image for fish needs to go right back to working on the Britney Spears account and leave our scaly little friends alone. You’ve done enough damage, buddy. We’ve got it from here. And we’re going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it’s time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?
I like fish. I like fish a lot. I like it fried, baked, battered, breaded, grilled … You name it. It’s good for me AND tasty.