Write Your Own Caption(s)
There’s forty-plus pages of lovely “stuff” in Stephen Harper’s oddly belated platform, but what captivated me, aside from money to increase our nation’s “slaughterhouse capacity” and the promise to “Make it easier to investigate and prosecute bid-rigging and hard-core cartel behaviour such as price fixing” etc., was all of the gorgeous pictures, many of which invite the reader to insert their own caption(s).
Wow,
The amount of Canadian election content on your website seems to be linked, somewhat, to the polling results. When the Liberals are down and the Cons up, hardly a post in site. When the Liberals rise and the Cons drop, all sorts of posts spring up.
Just an observation.
Actually, that’s not true at all Bryan. RT has posted consistently whatever the polls are. He had some quite critical pieces on Liberal election strategy just last week.
Nice try though.
Lyin’ Bryan.
I can’t think of a caption. Cuddly Harper is such a creativity-killer for me.
As much I don’t like the man, and he gives me the creeps politically speaking, that is a very cute picture.
Maybe he smells like bubblegum?
Is that real hair?
Hey Bryan, could you LIE a little more there, bub? Do a search on “polls” on this site… Go on, do it. I hardly ever mention them. They haven’t really changed in two years, sometimes they’re up a little… sometimes they’re down…
I’ve been extremely critical of the Liberals throughout this election — they’ve disappointed me deeply on all kinds of levels, but for the most part I’ve been keeping my mouth shut. I could rattle on about how hapless their campaign has been, but what good would that do? To support the Harper government that I despise? Some option. Or to boost the fortunes of Jack Layton… a sleazebag socialist and frivolous panderer of the worst sort.
Harper released his platform today A WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION and I think that it’s more than fair to comment on it. Or I could turn my attention to… the dreadfully sinister McCain-Pain campaign and their “War on Intelligence in the Universe” or the dire economic crisis or…
He looks so uncomfortable in that photo. Like “Ugh… baby on my face.” Aren’t politicians supposed to be the ones kissing babies?
LOL. That was my impression too.
“Urgh. Get this smelly thing off me.”
Alternatively…
“Are we done now?”
Is that art on the wall behind them?
SQ — Yeah, but it’s all good now. Harper has backed off the whole “trash the useless hippie artists” position.
My girlfriend who just dropped by said with the lipstick in that photo – Harper’s lips look like a woman’s lips.
Geez, after all the attacks you got the other day when you wrote about Dion/ball hockey….you’ve become one of the nasty Liberal media biased all of a sudden.
Paranoia is a sickness Bryan – go get help.
Go figure, huh. Such is the fate of moderates. We get it from both/all sides at times.
“aside from money to increase our nation’s “slaughterhouse capacity” ”
Funny story. Some how our country outsourced all of our slaughtering operations down south. When they closed the border it really, really hurt cattle producers.
(fuck R-CALF)
Hey people, enough with the caustic crap. It’s still a great country and always will be. This was supposed to be a caption contest:
“Daddy, never mind if that big, bad M. Dion nipped you at the post, you’re still number one to me.”
Forced against her will, she whispers into Harper’s ear, “You’re a nasty prick. I hate you.”
Hey people, enough with the caustic crap.
And still, legions of Conservative blogging youth continue to go unmentored and unguided.
“Lead us!” they cry. Yet their plaints fall on Peter’s deaf ears and fail to melt his glacial heart.
When he talks to me , I smell bunnies
No, Ti-Guy, what they are telling me is: “Look, we don’t take the party line all that seriously either–we like our fun too–, so don’t worry, but can you please do something about that dangerous, irracible prude who thinks we’d all be better off if we had to justify everything that came out of our mouths with reference to some never-specified objection that we are lacking something called “evidence”, which we take to be shorthand for telling us we are idiots.” Reluctantly, I agreed.
Is that dullard still talking?
Beijing York and Bill D. Cat made me laugh
You both win my vote for best captions.
Right, the dullard you chase all over the blogosphere and can’t resist throwing ad hominems at, as well as accusations of boredom, wherever he may be. The world is closing in, Ti-Guy. Tick, tick, tick…
Right, the dullard you chase all over the blogosphere…
You liar. I only come across you at the progressive blogs you haunt. When I heard Olaf was blogging again, I went over to have a look…and left pretty damn quick when I saw you and one of your looong paragraphs there.
Peter — Don’t you resent the “nature” of this election? Never mind all the partisan b.s. Why was it called again? And what’s the most likely outcome of it?
Ti-Guy:
Kiss-kiss.
RT:
Good question. Many thoughts. Please blog on this after the election. For the moment, I don’t think I can take one more “liar” accusation., especially from people who have no idea what the word means.
*presents cheeks* Here you go, Petey.
I don’t think I can take one more “liar” accusation., especially from people who have no idea what the word means.
So you’re claiming that I chase you all over the blogosphere is a truthful assertion? I only come across you here, Dredtory and Dawg’s Blawg. Three progressive/liberal/left blogs where you spend most your time lecturing the great unwashed socialist, America-hating masses hanging, no doubt on your every word.
Liar. Liar. LIAR!!!
Peter — I’m not making the accusation of “liar” and I look forward to discussing this in future… presuming that is, I’m around then.
Caption: Like McCain, Harper has found that a younger running mate can revitalize a campaign.
And what’s the most likely outcome of it?
Status quo .
Bill — Exactly. Which brings me back to my question… What was the point?
This was (likely) a failed gambit by Harper to get his oh-so desired majority on the leading edge of a recession (that HE PREDICTED! and knew full well was coming!… according to the latest Conservative spin). And don’t you think that’s a little reckless and irresponsible?
Actually I look at the pic and I see a man so far removed from his emotions that he doesn’t know what to make of lives so much more fragile than his own. I think the best thing that could happen to Stephen Harper as a human being would be to lose, leave politics and come to terms with the fact that his own coldness cost him the office he sold his soul to attain.
Look back a while , comment wise . Somewhere a cat named Bill said something along the lines of … this is going to be the weirdest election ever .
I’ll stand by it until next week . Then it’ll be some serious smack talk , or some serious crying …..
And don’t you think that’s a little reckless and irresponsible?
Yes , and yes . However I temper my rationalizations with WWJC do ? ( JC being J. Chretien , naturally ).
That’s a very sensitive appreciation of this truly awful picture.
Someone fetch Jerry a hug . Make sure he buys some emotion offsets to make things feeling-neutral though .
It’s easy to be right all the time, Bill, when you say nothing at all.
Props to Bill for predicting “the weirdest election ever”… like the mystic oracles of Delphi, his cryptic prognostications have come TRUE!
As far as WWJC goes, I had walked away from politics during that time — it’s a legitimate question on a certain level, but wholly irrelevant on another.
That’s me Mr. Right .
— it’s a legitimate question on a certain level, but wholly irrelevant on another.
What do you mean by that ? Heh .
As diametrically opposed as we are politically , it is pretty funny to admit flawed logic , once in a while .
Bill — I meant that quite seriously in a smirking kind of way… good for you predicting a weirdly fucked up election. And how odd this all is in the middle of an economic meltdown… and now we’re left trying to sift through the entrails of what one party promises and another firmly avows they will do…
Bill.
I have no desire to feel neutral, look what it’s done to Harper. And if you didn’t catch it, there was actually some empathy in my statement: the man is terrified of feeling and all it takes is a little girl to make his pain obvious. He needs to go away and feel for the rest of his life.
The worst part of all this is that there is absolutely no direction forward from any party . As a snapshot of a nation , right now , we are fucked .
That’s not a partisan shot , that’s across the board .
Bill — I would agree that there’s very little from any of the parties that instills much confidence at the moment. I like some of what all of them have to offer, but on the whole… not so much.
He needs to go away and feel for the rest of his life.
You are correct Jerry . It’s as simple as ABC , all it will cost you is one vote ……. plus tax ….. lots and lot’s of tax .
The worst part of all this is that there is absolutely no direction forward from any party
And what would you have liked to see?
Jerry — Do you really believe that? I think there are certain levels of basic economic tolerance within which we need to operate. The notion that we will be “taxed to death” is fundamentally ridiculous.
Fumbling forward is preferable to turning the clock back decades and making it impossible to ever catch up. I have absolutely no favourites in this horse race but I would rather see a Dion minority over a Harper anything.
I commend you for your compassion Jerry. That is something that Harper should develop when he goes on that much overdue spiritual retreat.
And what would you have liked to see?
Much , much better , from all sides . Maybe Kim was right , …..elections are no time to discuss policy … .
You are correct Jerry . It’s as simple as ABC , all it will cost you is one vote ……. plus tax ….. lots and lot’s of tax .
God, this is stupid. We’re going to get Harper because 35% of the Canadian population (that bothers to vote) is stupid.
I went 20,000$ into debt (since paid off) to educate myself just for the privilege of witnessing the birth of the Idiocracy.
Much , much better , from all sides .
What a capitulation. I didn’t ask what you wanted to see from them. I asked…what would you like to see? What is your vision of Canada?
You don’t even deserve democracy.
You don’t even deserve democracy.
You’re right , it would be so much easier in the state you yearn for .
I’m shocked you can’t answer my question.
Did you even graduate high school?
The Canada I want , is quite obviously different than what you want . YOU , and your ilk , want to run MY LIFE for me , ’cause you know better and all . Me , I’d like the opportunity to make the occasional choice for myself , thank you very much .
The Canada I want , is quite obviously different than what you want . YOU , and your ilk , want to run MY LIFE for me , ’cause you know better and all
Good Lord….a teenage temper tantrum.
I’d like the opportunity to make the occasional choice for myself , thank you very much .
Are you nuts? Where do you think you live?
“your ilk”… LOL
It’s not his fault. He had no choice but to use that word.
This is libertarianism gone completely off the rails. Freedom and choice to do…what? Damned if they know. But whatever anyone else thinks, that ain’t it.
I’ve come to the conclusion that they simply don’t want to think anymore and are livid that democracy imposes such a thing.
I’d like Bill (or any other Conservative for that matter) to define what “your ilk” is precisely. I know there are some around who attempt to do this, but it’s usually so pathetic.
Ilk=liberal fascists. But it really means is anyone who has an articulated position on anything.
God, the last thing I want to do is control other people’s lives. What I want…about the only thing I want…is clarity. I was somewhat energised by the notion that a renewed conservatism might sweep away the mystifying post-modernism that had infected liberal and social democratic discourse over the last few decades, but I realised to my horror that what is calling itself conservatism these days is not a challenge to anything, but simply a manifestation of empty, purposeless, meaningless lives.
“I’d like the opportunity to make the occasional choice for myself”
not a chance.
KEvron
“the last thing I want to do is control other people’s lives.”
i dunno, i kinda like controlling bill’s life, such as it is.
KEvron
I have no interest in controlling anyone’s life… that’s what shifts me to the libertarian side of the equation
Now, if you want to get into a discussion about subtle influence… well that’s where “liberals” come into the picture.
On the caption:
“Yo, Harper! You can get my vote if you make sure mommy has to stay home all the time with me!”
Someone call Zorph…he’s trying to eat that kid!