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Maybe it’s just my twisted sense of humour, but I found this tweet to be the dumbest (and funniest) I’ve seen since, well, the last stupid tweet (there’s plenty).

My questions:

1. If a photo got someone fired, why would they want to share it again with anyone?
2. Why would they want to share it with a newspaper, who may republish it, and get that person fired again?
3. Am I missing something? Next up: send us a copy of your criminal record, so we can put it in the paper! It’ll be fun! Wheeee!

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With his intention to rob Canadian seniors of the old age benefits they’ve already paid for, Stephen Harper is in big trouble. But not for the reason you might think.

Politics is all about the effective use of symbols. Ask Jean Chretien or Brian Mulroney, they’ll tell you. Or they’ll show you.

Case study one: Summer 1993. Conservatives have just picked ex-justice minister Kim Campbell to be their leader. Campbell’s brainy, but she also doesn’t take herself too seriously. Earlier, someone circulated a photo in which a coiffed Campbell — bare shouldered — holds her Queen’s Counsel robes in front of her. The photo was republished around the world. One gushing account in Britain’s The Independent carried this headline: “A provocative picture may help Kim Campbell become leader of her country.”

The British paper wasn’t entirely wrong. Soon after her selection as Conservative leader, Campbell became the most popular prime minister in decades.

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I can’t find the column anywhere. If anyone else can, please send along a link!

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I can’t recall, in all my years, a traffic accident taking so many lives.  This is just horrible.  Say a prayer for those left behind.

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Contest time! Who can find the number of commenters on this web site – or in the media, if you have time – who insisted the Harper regime would never, ever touch abortion? Best examples welcome!

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Boy oh boy, she’s got guts.

Dunno if she’s going to be successful. But, ladies and gents, we now may well have a solution to the joke that is Mayor Rob Ford.

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Will Harper choose to raise the plight of men, women and children now being slaughtered in Syria on a massive scale, following China’s veto of sanctions?

Or will he choose to sell oil first?

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…now other retailers should follow their ethical example.

And the Prime Minister should start acting like one. But I’m not holding my breath.

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I’m on the back stretch of the new book, and have hit a bit of a research roadblock.  I am looking for any and all articles containing commentary about the photo of this young man water skiing, way back on the Canada Day long weekend in 1993.  There is surprisingly little I can find.  Anyone who can help will get my thanks, and a mention in Fight the Right!

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