Flat Tim reacts to the unfriendly PC warning notice.

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…and look what’s in it! They’re giving out ibuprofen to their people!

Do you think they expect Hudak is giving his followers a headache?

 

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An interesting vehicle and message!

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I. Am. Not. Making. This. Up.

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Collect ’em all!

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Greg Sorbara speaking to reporters from OLP war room at PC convention about the Hudak plan to put criminals in your neighborhood. 

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• The Canadian Press:  “Hudak’s predecessor John Tory — now a radio talk show host — also diverged from the party position, saying forced labour is “going at the problem the wrong way.”…”If we’re going to spend the money on chain gangs, I’d rather spend the money providing courses for people because the objective really has to be — other than for the real bad apples that are going to keep offending over and over again — to try and get people who often don’t even have Grade 12 out of prison and into a job, so they might stay on the straight path,” he said during his show on Toronto radio station CFRB.”
• Toronto Star: “…are chain gangs a practical way to deal with prisoners? Do they combat crime? Are they a cost-efficient way to clean up highways? Even Alberta says no. That province considered mandatory work gangs in the 1990s but rejected the idea. The key reason is security. Some prisoners in provincial institutions are dangerous. Do Torontonians exiting the subway at Yonge and Bloor really want to squeeze past convicted thugs scrubbing graffiti from the sidewalks?”
• Toronto Sun: “On Thursday, the chain gang plank dropped. Hudak will require prisoners in provincial jails to work a mandatory 40-hour week, cleaning roads and so on…Do you really want violent offenders released to work in the community? Keep ’em behind bars, I say…Hudak may have an identity crisis in this election.”
• Toronto Star: “Critics say such bumper sticker politics sound great but in reality it would be an unwieldy and costly program that would need a large number of extra guards. “I thought Tim Hudak was running for the premier of Ontario, not the governor of Alabama,” said Warren (Smokey) Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union…“What we have here is a failure to think an issue through,” said Bradley, paraphrasing an iconic line from the classic chain-gang movie Cool Hand Luke. “The public expects governments to keep convicted criminals who could be a danger to our society behind the high walls, behind steel bars.”
• Toronto Star: “HUDAK’S YAWNING CREDIBILITY GAP…time to provide Ontarians with numbers that add up.”
• Globe and Mail: “DO ONTARIANS REALLY WANT TO SEE CRIMINALS CLEANING UP THEIR PARKS?…There are good reasons no other province has gone anywhere near what Mr. Hudak is proposing…Mr. Hudak has overstepped…some of the voters he’s courting will resent him for going only for the gut, and not for the head.”
• Barrie Examiner: “HUDAK SHOULD NOT BE A HARRIS DOPPELGANGER…As much as Tim Hudak might admire Mike Harris, the comparisons won’t help him become Ontario’s next premier.  So Hudak had better be careful with his slash-and-burn announcements.”

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I’ve got an idea. I want you to get a camera and shoot some video of your friends and family – particularly women – and ask them the following question:

“What do you think of Tim Hudak’s plan to put convicts in your neighbourhood to do work?”

Then send their answers here – to comments or wkinsella@hotmail.com. I’ll put together the best answers for all of us to see.

I don’t think Timmy will like the results.

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SFH goes back into the studio tonight, recording our latest masterpiece, WDYHM (Why Do You Hate Me).  To get tuned up for that, I spun some Fucked Up – and then, coincidentally enough, started to read the new Spin.  Wherein the Toronto hardcore band’s ‘David Comes To Life’ LP – which is slated to be released early next month – garners nine stars out of ten.  I have been reading Spin since the start, and I can’t recall ever seeing that before.

Listen to some of what they say:

“The band’s maximalistic approach means that even the most ostensibly straightforward task — writing a collection of songs about love — becomes a huge undertaking, as evidenced by David Comes to Life, Fucked Up’s third studio album and first kinda-sorta musical. An 18-song bildungsroman that runs nearly 80 minutes, David is alarmingly caustic, disarmingly graceful, and loaded with all sorts of unnecessary lyrical twists and fake-outs. It’s one 
of the most overly complicated hard-rock records 
of the past ten years. It’s also one of the best…

That such moments orbit a nebulously structured narrative doesn’t really matter — 
a leaner, more logical band wouldn’t be anywhere near as interesting; and besides, David‘s epochal enough as it as. For years, numerous hacks — yours truly included — have been tossing around the phrase “post-hardcore” with little care, diluting an already amorphous term by throwing it at any group with speedy time signatures and a few effects pedals. Fucked Up, though, have finally provided a proper definition, with a sound that pushes hardcore out of the VFW halls and basement shows and into the arena. 
Can’t wait to see how their name looks 
on the marquee.”

I can’t wait to hear it.  In the meantime, here’s their first official video, of ‘Crooked Head.’  Epic.

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