Hudak PCs want to put prisoners in your neighbourhood (part of a continuing series)

It’s in their platform.  And I can tell you – I promise – this PC policy will end up doing them more damage that the funding of private religious schools.  It’s their policy Vietnam.

Check this out:

A 34-year-old Croswell man eluded police Thursday afternoon after escaping from an inmate work detail at St. Clair County Sheriff Animal Control…

A tracking dog from the Port Huron Police Department was called to the scene but was unable to locate Miller.

This isn’t the first time an inmate has escaped from a work detail at animal control…

In 2007, Robert Rawza ran from the shelter and was on the lam for about a week. He was sentenced to serve 18 months to six years in prison on a charge of escaping jail. He had been in jail for violating parole by not registering as a sex offender. As a sex offender, officials said he shouldn’t have been in a work detail, which are for nonviolent criminals.

Donnellon said there always is a risk in using inmates for free labor for the different county entities and municipalities.

This, I suspect, is just the start:


The godlike genius that is Urge Overkill

In plenty of pain (it’s a long story), we made our way to the ‘Shoe tonight, whereupon I – after twenty-plus long years – was finally able to see Urge Overkill.  Why weren’t they stars?  What happened to Blackie? Is Cam Carpenter known to every band in the universe?


Channel changer?

Susan D. on the Grits getting in on the pre-writ ad game, here.

My take? The problem isn’t the tactic. The problem is the strategy.

The Reformatory campaigns worked because they defined two unknowns – Dion and Ignatieff – before they could define themselves.

Harper is a known quantity. The Liberal leader-to-be isn’t.

Negative always works best when you are creating an impression. Not changing an impression.