Today, I refer you to the fine free opinionizing of:

• Kady on a quiet day in Ottawa and WikiLeaks leaks.  She’s a media machine.
• Lilley on climate change and related confabs.  He’s unconvinced.
• BigCityLib on No Plan Timmy – funny and insightful, comme toujours.
• GritChik, unimpressed – and who wasn’t – by those who joke about getting molested by rent-a-cops.
• Bowie, damning Dion (I think) with faint praise.
• Calgary Grit, on Danny Williams.  I won’t miss him, personally.
• Dawg has gone to Milan! I think my invite was lost in the mail.

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Harris:

“The Liberal leadership has to be nursing a death wish.

Take Bob Rae’s speech this week to the Canadian Club. He ripped into the Tories for “perverting” our foreign policy. This barely a week after Kinky Bob enabled the government to extend the Afghanistan mission until 2014.

When this inconvenient truth was presented to him by skeptical listeners, Kinky Bob huffed and puffed about how we had to listen to diplomats and NATO. No mention of the fact that the people who provide Bob with an office want no part of the mission.

Even former head cheese Stephane Dion can’t stomach Kinky Bob’s shaky logic. Ahead of the parliamentary debate on Afghanistan, Dion ridiculed the notion that training the Afghan army makes sense. Why train them, he said, when these are the same guys who sent the Soviet Red Army packing after nearly 10 years of futile war?”

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“I am writing in response to this article. While the Star acknowledged that Sarah did not consent in any way to the article, it is important to underscore the extent to which her wishes were disrespected. She and I recognize there is a curious public. We also trust that same public would agree that no young woman should be subject to the unfortunate tactics that were employed to breach her personal privacy.”

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I just got helped out by a person named Jazzmine at the Rogers outlet at the Eaton’s Centre.

She was awesome. Don’t lose this person, Rogers.

There. First nice post about Rogers customer service ever.

UPDATE: I posted this too soon.  Get this: I needed a Blackberry to replace the old one.  Simple.  They told me I needed to put a new SIM card in it.  Simple? Not for Rogers! I deal with “customer service” about a half-dozen times – I’m listening to their Muzak as I type this – and the idiots have summarily removed service from my iPhone, the old Berry and the new one.  They’ve even reassigned my phone number somewhere.

You can’t make this up if you tried.  Oh, and I take back everything I said.  Rogers sucks.

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Repeat after me: telling lies is not free speech.

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Timmy and his boys take their no-plan show on the road!

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Please, please, please God: please make her Obama’s Republican opponent in 2012. Please.

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Um, sorry, CBC web heads, but six points is not “significant.”

Margin of error and all that.

Nothing has changed. Nobody has a clear lead. You’re welcome.

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I’m very excited to hear that Christy is thinking about running. If they’re going to have a shot at re-election, the BC Liberals need someone who isn’t in the current cabinet – and who is popular. Christy meets both criteria.

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Abbott to join Liberal leadership race, Falcon, Clark close to declaring (Liberal-BC-Leadership)
Source: The Canadian Press
Nov 24, 2010 19:53
By Dirk Meissner

THE CANADIAN PRESS

VICTORIA – The race to replace B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell heats up significantly Thursday with Education Minister George Abbott officially joining the contest flanked by at least a dozen members of the current Liberal caucus.

Sources close to Health Minister Kevin Falcon and former Liberal cabinet minister Christy Clark say the two political veterans are seriously close to joining Abbott and former Liberal cabinet minister Moira Stilwell…

Sources also said former Liberal cabinet minister Christy Clark, who left politics in 2005 after two terms in the Liberal government, is poised to enter the race, with an announcement expected soon.

Clark is currently working as a CKNW radio hotline host in Vancouver, where many of her daily topics deal with dissecting the mysteries of B.C. politics.

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Wow.

You know, on a day when:

(a) A young girl’s violation at the hands of CATSA is front page news across Canada

(b) Everyone – left/right, Canadian/American – is pissed off, and justifiably so, at CATSA and the TSA, and

(c) It is already known that CATSA and TSA are scrambling to back away from their idiocy

…I’m not sure I’d be all jokey-jokey about it, and coming to the defence of the goons wearing rubber gloves. That doesn’t seem like the smartest strategy, to me.

I mean, the only thing worse than that would be…oh, I don’t know, flip-flopping on the war.

Oh, wait.

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