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They rolled him out in a wheelchair with hot nurses and a drip bottle of Jaegermeister. So badass. I was surprised at how entertained I was by their performance, I’m not a punk music junkie but I love a good live show.

They exuded a comedic confidence you don’t see in younger bands. Some of their songs are “Horny Single Mom, F*ck Buddy, Super Poke, Onterrible dedicated to MP Tim Hudak (whom they detest), and Double Bubble Trouble inspired by the bubble girl at the G20 last year. They had a full on industrial bubble machine too.

They made me think about getting older, we’re always getting older. Now. Now. Now. Oop, there slips another moment of your precious life. Don’t waste it people. You never know what is going to happen from one day to the next. So, why waste time feeling like crap, being lazy, grumpy or old? If these guys can rock a full crowd’s socks off the night before open heart surgery at 50 on a Wednesday night, you can do anything.

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The surgery was a success! He’s moving to I.C.U. shortly, and will be playing geriatric punk rock again before you know it!

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Whoever advised Hudak to vote against the budget – without even having read a word of it – is no friend of the hapless Ontario PC leader.  As one senior Ontario Liberal told me this morning:  “Whoever advised him to take that position is doing so because it’s an easy way to get rid of him.  If he defeats the government four months after the election, he’s done.”

Personally, I’m all for it.  Winning four elections in a row – and this one’ll be a majority, I guarantee it – will be fun.  Seeing the end of Tea Party Tim’s leadership will be a bonus, too.

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Craaazy night, last night at the Bovine Sex Club, attended as it was by 100+ miscreants, and we sold out of records, too!  It was nutty, it was wacky, and the three “nurses” in spandex were a big hit. The pic on top was taken by our Daisy colleague Byrne Furlong – who, last time we saw her, was body surfing in the pit – and the one below was taken by another Daisy stalwart, Katherine Fidani, who ensured that everyone was using the right talking points.  Click on the photos to buy Why Do You Hate Me today!

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Tonight at the Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen Street West! SFH (finally) releases the greatest album in the history of, er, the last ten minutes: Why Do You Hate Me!  Free album with cost of admission!  And it even features a tune as written from Timmy Hudak’s perspective on his home province!

Debauchery! Depravity! Dissipation! Dissoluteness! La Dolce Vita!  You’ll get it all tonight, folks!  And world-famous rock video director George Vale will be there shooting a vid, and you or  your body parts could be in it!

Come dig our big gig, as Jesse Jackson might say: the very next morning, Ritalin Boy is going in for heart surgery (seriously).  We’re raising money for Heart and Stroke, and we’re raising his spirits, too!  Come say good luck (and, possibly, goodbye) to Ritalin Boy!

And now, here, for the first time ever on the Interweeb, is the WDYHM album cover – click on it to get the download, get merch, and get involved with the hottest musical sensation since Emo and Hair Metal!  It’s worth it! For, as the critics say:

• “[Shit From Hell] is most dead-on accurate band name of all time…” 
• “Drooling delinquents in the bodies of bitter, fat, middle-aged doucherinos…” 
• “Sounding not quite as good as a jet engine sucking a family of raccoons through the intake, but still better than Sum 41.”

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Before he even read the 2012 budget, this is what Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak said:

“[The] PC party cannot support this budget.”

The Ontario NDP, meanwhile, isn’t saying. But every PC trained seal is going to vote against it, Hudak says.

If there is an election – just four months after the last one – it’ll be on the head of the smirking frat boy named Tim Hudak. That’s a promise.

And we’ll win a majority. That, too, is a promise.

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In democratic politics, every leader is a direct response to the leader who immediately preceded them.

Thus, Brian Mulroney’s folksy Irish blarney was a reaction to Pierre Trudeau’s aloof asceticism. Jean Chretien’s populist federalism was an answer to the Mulroney regime’s flirtations with Quebec separatists and corporate elites.

Paul Martin’s government tilted anti-federalist and to the right, in the way that his predecessor Chretien had been an unapologetic federalist and progressive. Stephen Harper’s small-town Canada, hockey-loving, Tim Hortons affectation was deployed effectively, and brilliantly, against Martin’s millions, as well as the two ivory-tower types who followed, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff.

U.S. President Barack Obama was the polar opposite to George W. Bush; Bush could not have been more dissimilar to Bill Clinton; Clinton was completely unlike Bush’s father, George Sr., and so on and so on.

In politics, opposites attract votes. What, then, are we to make of Thomas Mulcair?

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Liberals trying to turn the tables on opposition over Ornge scandal

(Ornge-Opposition) TORONTO – Ontario’s governing Liberals are trying to turn the tables on the opposition parties over the Ornge scandal.

Government house leader John Milloy says both the NDP and Conservatives knew about the changes at Ornge that shielded public money from government oversight.

He says the NDP received a letter in 2010 about the organizational changes that allowed Ornge to create a web of for-profit entities that were owned by its senior officers.

Milloy says the Tories were briefed by Ornge on all of their operations last May.

…Milloy says the opposition didn’t sound the alarm either, despite their recent howls of outrage over Ornge.

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I haven’t said anything about the Ornge file, as I have a personal conflict of interest.  But the stinking hypocrites in the Ontario PCs and true NDP have finally persuaded me to make an exception.  As Ontario Liberal Government House Leader John Milloy just brilliantly pointed out in the Legislature, the deputy leader of the PCs, Christine Elliott, knew all about what was happening over there almost two years ago.  And she did zero, zippo, zilch.

Oh, except for lobbying for an Ornge base in her riding, that is.

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