We get letters: This. Week’s. Winner.

From Carl T. At carlgen@gmail.com:

You And People Like You Live In This Country Will Not Fight Or Die To Protect It. Then You Claim That They Are The Only Ones Who Believe In Peace.  And They Want To It Do On Tax Payers Dollars.   If You Have Children I Hope They Get To Know  About Real  Life. Not Some Racial Liberal

 Hoping You Remembered.  November 11. And Could Look At Yourself. In A mirror. C.T.  

Sent from Carl’s iPad.


The Hudak PCs are very nervous about Sandra Pupatello

Check out this vile little missive, here. When I read that, it didn’t sound like it was a letter from your average citizen. Along with being total bullshit, it had a decidedly phony feel to it.

An impressive young Liberal I know felt similarly. He started digging. And look what he found: “Scott spends a great deal of his time volunteering and working with the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and has acted as Secretary of Essex Progressive Conservative Riding Association.” There’s more on this guy. Lots more. Bottom line: he’s a Hudak hack.

Not only would it have been helpful if he’d disclosed that to the Windsor Star – it would have told the rest of us that, when they look at the field of Ontario Liberal leadership candidates, there is one candidate the PCs (and NDs) fear the most.

And that candidate is Sandra Pupatello.


Calgary Centre! Could it be?

When I was in Calgary to promote Fight The Right, the impressive Calgary Centre Liberal candidate showed up at my speech thing – and a lot of Greens, too. They were all so hungry to win, you could tell they could taste it. It was awesome.

Some of them asked me for advice. “Keep doing what you’re already doing,” I said. “You’ve got a centrist Calgary mayor and a centrist Premier, both of whom beat the Right. You guys are already doing what you need to be doing.”

Calgary Centre! Tonight, can you hear that sound? That’s the sound of Messrs, Harper, Kenney et al. starting to shit their pants.


Israel, Peres and Twitter

I strongly support Israel, and Israelis.  I always have. I don’t support the current leadership of CIJA, who have effectively become a communications/lobby arm of the Conservative Party of Canada – and who have thereby diminished the voice of Jewish community when (not if) there is a change in government.

I met Shimon Peres when I was in Israel, years ago. What a great man! What a legend! I can tell you he is also far more moderate, and far more strategic, than the erstwhile “leaders” found in organizations like CIJA. I have faith in him, and the difficult decisions he and others must make in the coming days.



Something I have been wanting to say for a long time

I have the Man Flu today, so I am in one foul mood. Stay away.

As such, this fits my mood perfectly. Spotted by Steve Ladurantaye. (Oh, and Steve: thanks for help on delivery. It came for about a week and then stopped. Now all they send is bills. This, too, puts me in a bad mood!)