Harper had pizza with someone who calls Muslim children “parasites”? (updated)
UPDATE: Other things Harper’s house guest has said, here: Muslims are “ungrateful beligerent foreign savages,” Indians are “parasites” who “extorted tax dollars [for] booze, smokes and junk food,” blacks are “illiterates,” the poor are “lazy and stupid,” Sikhs are “backward foreigners,” and Chinese cause SARS.
Goth alert
My youngest – blonde-haired, freckled, skateboarder – is into (wait for it) Bauhaus. And not just the dark British band’s well-known stuff: he’s into B-sides, like ‘Crowds.’
Wow. From seeing them at the Broken Arms in Ottawa in 1980, playing ‘Double Dare‘ and blowing my mind (such as it then was), to being Dad to a pint-sized Goth-to-be, on the beach in Maine. Life is strange, among other things.
Nearly $400,000
Three things.
One, I thought it was gracious of Stephen Harper to offer a state funeral. I wonder if he’s now having second thoughts?
Two: at the time, it was well-known in political circles that NDP organizers were turning that funeral into something other than a funeral, and it was appalling. I wonder why nobody said anything?
Three, that is just a huge amount of money – money that could have been used in many other positive ways. I wonder if Jack Layton himself would have approved?
My guess? No.
Ford Follies, a continuing series
The best part is the accompanying photo. Caption contest!
Ornge ethics
Uh-huh. And after you whistleblow to the OPP and the AG, McKerlie et al. will terminate you.
What a load of bollocks.
Hot Grit rumours: you read ’em here first
One, I am verily informed that Mr. Trudeau is going to run. If accurate, that is great, great news.
Two, I am told the Trudeau campaign will make a point of insisting that all of the team (or its bosses) are under age 40. If accurate, that is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. (And not just because I’m a boring old fart, either.)
There you go. Speculate and pontificate away!
From yet-to-be-published weekend column
…this segment, provided early, because this issue continues to follow a woman who is undeserving of the treatment she has received:
“…the Conservatives are in a very large glass house in this case. Over the years, I have personally witnessed plenty of Tory Parliamentarians staggering out of the Parliamentary restaurant, or their office, and troop to votes.
Over the years, plenty have participated in legislative duties while drunk, or stoned, or incapacitated in some way. By maligning a much-loved figure like Fairbairn, the Tories risk a spotlight being shined on the conduct of their own members. They won’t be happy about the outcome. At all.
The despicable treatment of Joyce Fairbairn will be remembered as one of the cruelest episodes of the mean-spirited Harper era. All sides look bad in it.”