Entries from November 2008

November 30, 2008

Tory Tape Worms

These gormless, unethical nitwits really shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near recording devices of any sort.
The NDP says it may pursue criminal charges after the Conservatives covertly listened in, taped and distributed audio of a closed-door NDP strategy session.
Priceless. As is this elaboration by Thomas Mulcair in the same article concerning the now infamous [...]

November 30, 2008

S&S Employee Orientation Video

Sebben & Sebben: Building the law firm of tomorrow today!
Featuring the voice of Stephen Colbert as the deranged co-founder Phil Ken Sebben.

November 30, 2008

“Help! Help! We’re Being Oppressed!”

It’s little wonder that the Conservatives manage to raise greater amounts of donations from the hardcore party faithful seeing as they’re absolutely shameless when it comes to making feverish, hysterical pleas for money on any premise whatsoever (often entirely manufactured and phony — impending destruction of western civilization, etc.).
Even though prideful boasts that their [...]

November 30, 2008

Kill or Be Killed

Scott Reid lays out the case for terminating the Harper government with extreme prejudice.
Fate tends to be grudging with gifts of this significance. To ignore it would be an error every bit as historic as the one Mr. Harper himself has made.
So don’t get fancy. Don’t get confused. And don’t get weak in the [...]

November 29, 2008

Atheist Advertisements

Only in America would such a thing be considered necessary, or for that matter, be regarded as being “offensive” or at all controversial.

Big surprise that O’Reilly would weigh in on the matter given his predilection for waging a neverending “culture war” with secular humanists. Here, he interviews spokesman Fred [...]

November 29, 2008

A Strategic Retreat

Well, well… Harper flip-flops (again):
After 24 hours of peering into a yawning political abyss, the Harper government took a step back on Saturday, dropping a plan to kill subsidies for political parties.
“When it comes to the funding and subsidies that political parties get, we just don’t think it’s worth getting into an [...]

November 29, 2008

Colbert on CBS

From last week, Stephen Colbert appearing on the CBS Early Show and on The Late Show with David Letterman, promoting his Christmas special.

November 29, 2008

Attention: Conservative Hypocrites

To all of those Tory supporters fuming with outrage at the possible “overthrow” of Harper’s minority government in an “undemocratic coup” and who are especially aggrieved at the thought of the Bloc’s participation in a progressive coalition government, please read the following letter from your Dear Leader to then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson dated September [...]

November 29, 2008

Bob Rae Speaking About the “Crisis”

From a speech in Victoria earlier in the week.

November 28, 2008

Barbara Walters Interviews Barack Obama

Must be nice to have a leader that inspires confidence…

There are five more parts. It’s quite a charming interview.