Taking sloppy liberal thinking and tearing it a new one -- but always with a touch of class.
Weekly Archive: May 22, 2005 - May 28, 2005
May 28, 2005
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I find the Public Accounts of Canada: Transfer Payments (2003-2004) to be a fascinating document. Whenever I decide to spend twenty minutes or so perusing it, I always find something interesting, usually disturbing. Recall that this document is a list...
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The Conservatives seem to have shaken their post-Stronach funk, and are attacking the Liberals on multiple fronts.
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After some link mining, I've extended the list to 223 ranked Canadian blogs. This covers blogs of many political persuasions, as well as non-political blogs. After the last ranked blog, I've decided to include the list of Canadian blogs that...
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The rankings of Canadian blogs and of the Blogging Tories have been updated for today (Saturday, May 28, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear...
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As per a request, I've created a new blog ranking just of the Blogging Tories. It appears immediately below the main rankings. Of the 112 Blogging Tories, only 60 make the list -- the rest are not registered on the...
May 27, 2005
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Jacques Corriveau, closed friend to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, and the man said to have handled most of the cash being moved between the ad firms contracted under the Sponsorship Program, and various Liberal Party functionaries, denies he touched...
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I shouldn't be so petty, but to brag about closing the barn door after the horses had bolted (horses barely able to move, laden as they were with bags of taxpayers' money) goes to show how little good news there...
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From the Ottawa Citizen, concerning the anti-Catholic cartoon on rabble.ca (see this post for details):"I object to the Catholic church's position on homophobia," [prominent Canadian feminist writer Judy Rebick] said.So what exactly is the Church's position on homphobia? From New...
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Liberal whip Karen Redman stirred up a minor controversy when she said the Liberals would ignore confidence votes that might occur before the end of the summer:[T]he government was considering ignoring defeats on matters of confidence. "There are options," Liberal...
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This Canadian Blog Rankings seem to be a hit (thank to Political Staples for the original idea and for doing the original groundwork). I still get 4 or 5 emails a day from Canadian blogs asking to be added to...
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Being anti-Christian is the last socially acceptable bigotry. But be warned, these socially acceptable bigots use language not usually considered acceptable in polite society.
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The ranking of Canadian blogs has been updated for today (Friday, May 27, 2005). New feature: The movement of the blog up or down the ranking since the previous day. If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to...
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Everyone welcome Jason Monteith from Mississauga, of Reasonable and Right. Another conservative who feels compelled to blog. A statement on the way the main stream media in this country ignores our concerns for the most part....
May 26, 2005
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I've made a few changes to the blog layout. First, the graphic banner has been replaced with a straight text banner, no graphics. I don't know that the graphics were adding much to the blogging experience, and in any case,...
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The ranking of Canadian blogs has been updated for today (Thursday, May 26, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem. Then send me an...
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Now that's a title sure to get me some traffic! From Michelle Malkin:If "proper socialization" means teaching 14-year-olds about group oral sex, we can only pray that more parents choose to raise social misfits.In the most exhausted voice I can...
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From the Globe and Mail:The Conservative Party's inability to overtake the Liberals may have more to do with its agenda than with Stephen Harper, according to a new opinion poll. A Leger Marketing poll, conducted last week, shows the Liberals...
May 25, 2005
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The NDP will be looking for more opportunities to inflict their policies on a country that did not elect them:The NDP will seek a long-term agreement to prop up the Liberal government in exchange for a handful of concessions, party...
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From the National Post:An aide in Prime Minister Paul Martin's office told the sponsorship inquiry Wednesday he was paid $28,000 under the table to work for the Liberals in the late 1990s. He said the then-boss of the party's Quebec...
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One of the things that can happen to anyone following the ins and outs of the Gomery Inquiry is to forget the scale of the numbers. Over $300 million went through the Sponsorship Program. If Jean Brault is to be...
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Taking a break from Gomery for a moment, I thought I'd browse the details of the 2003-2004 Public Accounts of Canada, detailing "transfer payments". The transfer payments are not just the big federal-provincial transfers (though they are on the list),...
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The Liberals are laying the groundwork for paying pack a fraction of the money that disappeared into the Sponsorship Program, and that others have said went to the Liberal Party. Their justification: the inability of the auditors to go back...
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The ranking of Canadian blogs has been updated for today (Wednesday, May 25, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem. Then send me an...
May 24, 2005
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Don't panic...yet. She's moving to some posh condo complex at 700 Sussex drive. From CFRA News Talk Radio:Canada's newest cabinet minister has bought a new home just steps from Parliament Hill. Belinda Stronach is believed to have paid one million...
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From section 7.3.2 of the Kroll Report, a sample contract is deconstructed. Out of a total of $46.32 million: $460,000, or 1%, went to sponsorship $8.34 million, or 18%, went to actual work done $26 million, or 56%, went to...
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When the Liberals set up their trust fund, they offered to put in $750,000 against what they might have to pay out to return money received illegally. I wondered how they came to the figure of $750,000 -- I figured...
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$2 million -- that is the amount of taxpayers' money the Kroll accountants say they could identify entering the Liberal Party coffers. That's over two-and-a-half times the size of the so-called trust fund the party has set up to pay...
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From CTV:The total amount of money lost in the sponsorship scandal now appears to be $355 million -- more than $100 million than was originally thought.That's 40% more than we've been told. I used to find amazing that Jean Chrétien...
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With all the sound and fury with Adscam, the constant chorus has been that nothing has actually been proven. Everything is an allegation, no one has faced a court, wait until the report before calling an election, blah, blah, blah....
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Alfonso Gagliano's lawyer could not persuade a federal judge to allow the disgraced former minister under Jean Chrétien to join the former prime minister in an attempt to have Justice Gomery removed:Both men have argued that Gomery is biased against...
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From the website of the Liberal Party of Canada:The funds will be managed by the Ottawa law firm of Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. The trustees have been directed to disburse the funds based on a decision of the National...
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Today might be another red-letter day and the Gomery Inquiry. The much anticipated Kroll Report is to be delivered, or so I have heard reported on the radio this morning. The orginal Inquiry schedule had the report being delivered two...
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A lot has been said about the appointment of Belinda Stronach to the post of Minister of Human Resources, and the role of the hefty donations made by the Stronach family to the Liberal Party and to Paul Martin personally...
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The ranking of Canadian blogs has been updated for today (Tuesday, May 24, 2005). If you are a Canadian-based blog, and you want to appear on the list, first register with the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem. Then send me an...
May 23, 2005
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Unfortunately, this moment of clarity does not paint me in the best light. From David Frum's latest piece at the American Enterprise Institute (also published in the National Post):We've been hearing for a month how popular all that new Liberal...
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Captain Ed wonders why Belinda Stronach was campaigning for the Liberals in the Newfoundland by-election:Her recent defection cannot have built much trust in her convictions, and her opportunistic elevation to the Cabinet only reinforces the garage-sale tactics of the Martin...
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In this previous post, I described how the Magna family of companies was one of the top contributors to Paul Martin's leadership campaign. That is to say, Magna companies wrote out cheques to Paul Martin's personal campaign and not to...
May 22, 2005
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There is a government website for the Ethics Counsellor. Try the link if you like -- it seems to be down, along with all the information held inside. But via Google caches, I've extracted the disclosure statements of Paul Martin....
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The actual quote from Proverbs 16:18 is "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." (King James Version) Keep this in mind as you read this:Partying Liberals were treated Thursday night to the incredible sight of Belinda...
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The ranking of Canadian blogs has been updated for today (Sunday, May 22, 2005). Changes: I've removed the table format (which was always a temporary kludge and, not suprisingly, problematic -- Firefox and IE seem to have very different ideas...
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