Do you think the council is aware yet of the drug references in the Beatles’ 44-year-old song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds?
How about Jerry Lee Lewis’ Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On, which is about sexual intercourse? That one started being played 54 years ago.
Check out The Killer’s lyrics, standards council, where he goes on about grabbing his bull, ahem, “by the horn.” He’s not talking about the agricultural sector, folks!”
In fact, my fiend Snobelen is paying for it – when he takes me to lunch later this week, that is.
Boy oh boy, this’ll set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons.
That was much-quoted political scientist Heather MacIvor speaking to my friend Linda Diebel, and it got me nodding my early-morning head, big time.
It’s true.
More than any other partisans, Conservatives can’t take a punch without crying about it. They can’t. They will flood your inbox, or your comments, with angry and abusive emails. They’ll call others a “Lie-beral” and a “leftard” and whatnot, for sure, and they do that sort of thing a lot. But if someone like me actually gives them some of their own medicine in a column or on a TV panel or what have you, they’ll start shrieking like babies about the “lamestream” media’s “left-lib” bias, how they are always being unfairly targeted, blah blah blah. Happens without fail.
I’ve been doing this web site thing for a decade, and I can tell you that it is very, very rare for a Conservative to actually say “yeah, you’re right” when they are on the receiving end of a criticism. Most of the time, they go completely apeshit – Hell, all the National Post does, most days, is rush to soothe the hurt feelings of conservatives, and defend every bloody thing they do, no matter how idiotic. It’s like Prof. MacIvor says: they can’t take it.
When it comes to criticism, partisan Conservatives are sucky sucky babies. They’re the Touchy Tories.©
Now, let’s see how they react in comments, shall we? This will be interesting.
Holy smokes! This morning, there sure are a lot of pundits saying there’ll be an election in 2011! The Globe, in particular, has gone slightly bonkers.
If a lot of this seems familiar to you, well, that’s because it is:
That’s just one newspaper. It took five minutes to find. The rest of them are just as bad.
Everyone take a frigging Valium. Jesus.
Casting an anxious eye toward’s Sun TV’s debut, perhaps, the CBC told me on the weekend they wanted to start trying out new folks for Power and Politics. No probs, said I. Understandable. Go for it. Fill your boots.
This afternoon: CTV called! Until Sun TV starts up, they are apparently happy to offer me a stool from which to pontificate! CBC doesn’t want me, but CTV does!
Meanwhile, the Sun – for whom I happily work, typing columns read by my mother and, er, my mother – doesn’t mind me doing anything with anybody. Nobody intimidates them. Interesting, that.
TV politics sure are weird, sometimes. No wonder I read newspapers.
Some days, you feel like you’re living in la-la land. Take yesterday, here in Ontario, for example.
For a while now, Ontario has had a Green Energy Act. A popular one, with around 22,000 people signing up in the first year. Thousands of jobs have been created or are soon on the way.
And across rural Ontario, farms are diversifying their income by making renewable energy.
Then along comes Tim Hudak, the Tory leader, quoting all these so-called facts. Facts that come from sources even the Wall Street Journal — owned by the same guy who owns Fox News — question. About how renewable energy is so bad for our economy. A study supported by climate change deniers and supporters of California’s controversialProposition 23. The US government has also debunked the study, citing flawed methodology, contextual oversights, and a lack of transparency and supporting statistics.
I’m all for an intelligent debate about energy policy. And if people disagree with Ontario’s HST, that’s their right. Anyway, back to la-la land, where people like to have their cake and eat it, too.
Because you can’t scrap a job-creating, farm-income-generating law without being honest about everything that will happen next.
So what’s Tim Hudak’s plan for all the farms receiving farm income?
For the Niagara Falls church putting in solar?
For the new manufacturing plants in Windsor, Guelph, and more?
If Mr. Hudak wants to shut these down, then say so.
But renewable energy simply is not behind the electricity price hikes Ontario has seen. And the jobs, farm income and cleaner air that more Ontarians are enjoying deserve a better debate than what we’ve seen on the HST. A tax Mr. Hudak opposes but will keep.
See what I mean about la-la land?
Dr. Rick Smith
Executive Director
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