LOL
Harper really can’t undo much of that. Maybe it will be a quiet few months at least as he organizes our new rural overlords and teaches them that a moral majority means a majority that is made up of 36.7% of something.The comments have been buzzing with the discussion of what Harper’s downtown free victory will mean. (And, yes, there is a downtown in Edmonton and Calgary but this is a fact unknown in the real downtowns of the nation. Places which include Annexes.)
genx@40
I don’t think it means much. I think for the moment the Tories are going to stick with the very pragmatic, minimalist agenda which they enuciated during the campaign. Basically tick off the promises they made against the legislation they pass. (My friend Kevin Grace writing at VDARE (and my liberal friends are advised not to click there else they read things they really do not want to hear) suggests otherwise,
Stephen Harper remains an enigma. He has been bedevilled in two consecutive elections by charges he harbors a “hidden agenda.” It is easy enough to dismiss this as scaremongering, but I can say with all honesty (and I have studied the man extensively for a decade) that I have absolutely no idea of what his agenda really is. Harper is a man of many surprises. It would be foolish to suppose his trick bag is empty.
kmg at vdare
The CPC has a mandate to prove it is worthy of a real mandate. Rural overlordship or the triumph of the socons will pretty much ensure an election within 18 months in which the CPC will not win a majority. But a steady drive towards reducing the size and scope of the federal government with a return of money first to citizens and then to the provinces, could easily set Harper on the road to a couple of decades in office.
Yes, Flea, Harper will have to navigate betwixt the Scylla and Charybdis of the theocons and the libertarians; but if Grace and I can enjoy drinking beer and throwing thngs at his television set whenever Lloyd “I interviewed Sir John A.” Robertson said something extra fatuous, there is certainly hope for the CPC. Of course the navigation will not be without its cost, after all, Odysseus lost six crewmen as he sail between the monsters. For Harper it will come down to the question of which six and when.
January 26th, 2006 at 4:57 am
“Rural overlordship or the triumph of the socons will pretty much ensure an election within 18 months…”
What no rounding up of and summary executions of eastern Canadians? No mass graves? Now I feel ripped off.
Well, I would have if I had voted. :”>
January 26th, 2006 at 5:01 am
Sean, ethnic cleansing of Spadina is a project for the second term…there was a memo.
January 26th, 2006 at 5:03 am
I fear the reintroduction of Classics Illustrated as the sole state approved medium of light entertainment for children under 22.
January 26th, 2006 at 7:06 am
“I fear the reintroduction of Classics Illustrated as the sole state approved medium of light entertainment for children under 22.”
Oh, shit. Couldn’t you have told me this a day before I went out and dropped $15 on ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’?
January 26th, 2006 at 7:44 am
You know I’d kill to get the set of Classics Illustrated I had when I was a kid…Pretty much saw me through highschool being able to give plot summaries of, er, classics.
And, Sean, the revised version is, “Heather has two momies, three daddies, a dog and Uncle Zeke whom we are none too sure about”. No longer PC to exclude the poly people.
January 26th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Not if you are a “NuCon” brand CPC!
My favorite Classics Illustrated was the Count of Monte Cristo. Terrorizing yet the name of a great sandwich.
January 26th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Mine was Ivanhoe…I trace my inherent Zionism to the beautiful Jewess. I wonder if it is even legal to publish the word “Jewess”: politically incorrect in oh so many ways.
January 26th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
The biggest thing I remember from junior high was that you could always tell when a class was reading Lord of the Flies because cheesy posters—invariably featuring the decapitated head of a sow on a stick—would adorn the hallways.
January 26th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
I have noticed that while, as an Annex resident, I often make fun of the Annex there is a remarkable dearth of humour directed by Canadian bloggers toward the quirks of their own neighbours. There is a niche to be filled here, people! Assuming, that is, you live in a neighbourhood sufficiently interesting to make light of.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:25 am
The whole of Victoria, Flea…from Oak Bay behind the tweed curtain to James Bay where we are presently hanging our hats is filled with oldsters of Swede like fitness, compulsive recyclers and leftish old ladies with bad hair – but, having lived in an around the Annex, it will be tough to reach the high standards of self-contentment and, dare I say it, self regard, which flows down Admiral Road.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:37 am
“...there is a remarkable dearth of humour directed by Canadian bloggers toward the quirks of their own neighbours..”
Ahem.
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/13
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/22
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/54
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/59
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/65
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/137
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/139
http://www.urbanrefugee.ca/content/217
Okay? Okay.