Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Apr 30th 2011, 3:09 am
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Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...sement866.html
Just what you need when your campaign is stuttering a bit: a large, stupid, f**k adding some extra 'weight' to your cause.
Excellent news! That one caught everyone by surprise. "Let's stop the gravy train" was even said by the man Ford for 50th time this year (presumably so he can jump on it and eat all the gravy).
Just what you need when your campaign is stuttering a bit: a large, stupid, f**k adding some extra 'weight' to your cause.
Excellent news! That one caught everyone by surprise. "Let's stop the gravy train" was even said by the man Ford for 50th time this year (presumably so he can jump on it and eat all the gravy).
Apr 30th 2011, 3:20 am
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Harper looks like a nonce. That is all.
Apr 30th 2011, 3:58 am
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Apr 30th 2011, 4:33 am
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Apr 30th 2011, 4:18 pm
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
We aren't the only ones who think harper looks like somebodies kiddie diddling uncle though. I pointed this out at the office the other day to much "hmm, now you mention it"-ness.
May 1st 2011, 6:44 pm
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Just what is it about the conservative government that drives many B.E. posters to express, often in crude terms, their visceral hatred of Stephen Harper and his party?
Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?
Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.
Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?
Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?
Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.
Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?
May 1st 2011, 7:37 pm
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Just what is it about the conservative government that drives many B.E. posters to express, often in crude terms, their visceral hatred of Stephen Harper and his party?
Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?
Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.
Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?
Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?
Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.
Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?
That Canada didn't kneel down alongside was due to Liberal and Progressive Conservative maintenance of relatively strict regulation, something that Harper is on record as opposing and something he would almost certainly have abolished if he had had a majority to force it through.
May 1st 2011, 8:09 pm
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Though having a PM who looks like a nonce is somewhat embarrassing for a country. I'm surprised that anyone would have an issue with this rather obvious fact.
May 2nd 2011, 12:17 am
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Just what is it about the conservative government that drives many B.E. posters to express, often in crude terms, their visceral hatred of Stephen Harper and his party?
Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?
Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.
Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?
Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?
Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.
Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?
May 2nd 2011, 12:47 am
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
Jack Layton reminds me of the spiv in Dad's Army
May 2nd 2011, 1:00 am
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
I don't think anyone said he's a nonce. He looks like a nonce because of the Mormon hair but looking the part and being it are not the same. He is a religionist of course but, as far as I know, he's neither a priest nor a choirmaster. He's probably not a nonce.
May 3rd 2011, 1:49 am
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Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
To the extent that the EU, including Britain, is on its knees, that is a consequence of deregulated banking and unbridled greed in the financial sector followed by crippling "too-big-to fail" bailouts using taxpayers money.
That Canada didn't kneel down alongside was due to Liberal and Progressive Conservative maintenance of relatively strict regulation, something that Harper is on record as opposing and something he would almost certainly have abolished if he had had a majority to force it through.
That Canada didn't kneel down alongside was due to Liberal and Progressive Conservative maintenance of relatively strict regulation, something that Harper is on record as opposing and something he would almost certainly have abolished if he had had a majority to force it through.
Mr. Micawber had the common sense answer:
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
May 3rd 2011, 2:03 am
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