They screwed up the David Chen case. They screwed up the Humane Society case. They screwed up that Ponzi scheme case.  They screwed up most of the G20 cases. Now this: a Crown Attorney actually makes faces in court, like a child, and a mistrial is declared. In a murder trial.

Time to clean that place out.

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“For starters, Stephen Harper – once the feared Reform Party outsider – is no longer feared so much, if at all. As with all prime ministers, Harper has become pretty familiar to the rest of us.

For a decade, the Liberals kept Harper and his conservative colleagues from power with frightening tales about what the right-wingers would do to social programs, health care and race relations.

But after five years, our social network is mainly what it was; health care is more or less intact; and the party with the most racially diverse caucus in the House of Commons is, well, Harper’s.”

UPDATE: Delacourt weighs in on what I’ve tried to say, and what Martin has said much better than I could.

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And if you don’t like our position today, we’ll have a new one next week!

November 22, 2010: “Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday he is now willing to support a vote in the House of Commons on the federal government’s plan to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan beyond 2011.”

November 12, 2010: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper said…at the end of the day, he and his cabinet will make the final call about a new training mission there.  And Liberal Foreign Affairs critic Bob Rae said he has no problem with that.”

UPDATE: And the game is afoot, as they say, thanks to Monsieur Duceppe. Wonder if it’ll be a whipped vote?

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Heh.

Proving Monte’s point, below. I loved this one. Leftards! Liberals! Socialists! Grrr, I’m angry! Grrr!

—–Original Message—–
From: Tom Robinson
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:12:32
To:
Shut the fuck up goof.

If this was the USA, the many Conservative commentators would eat you alive.

None of that softball shit we get here in Marxist Canada.

You’re a piece of shit Kinsella and you can take that to the bank,meat head.

Wait till your hero Omar Khadr comes home.

That’s when shit is going to hit the fan.

Are you going to babysit Omar, you anti-American piece of shit?

Warren Kinsella is a fucking piece of shit junkie.

Go smoke another one junkie.

My response:

—–Original Message—–
From: wkinsella@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:29:25
To: Tom Robinson
Reply-To: wkinsella@hotmail.com
Subject: Re:

Thanks, Tom! God bless you and your team of doctors!

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When I read the comments section of any website that covers political news, I get the urge to destroy the very Internet that Al Gore invented and that I perfected.

Yes, some of the reader comments are insightful. Some are witty. This is especially the case with Sun readers! But it pains me to note that most of the comments on most websites most of the time are comprised of conspiracy theories, sweeping generalizations, random thoughts and ugly venom. If you struggle with depression, please avoid reading them.

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My buddy Ian, always worth reading:

“Federal Liberals would do well to look closely at the recent election of Rob Ford as mayor of Toronto. Though political analysts talk about anger or attach labels of left, right, liberal and conservative, the truth is that Ford’s success had less to do with these things than with his ability to focus a message of change. For the most part, Torontonians recognized one thing about their city after two terms of David Miller: Taxes had gone up but services had not increased or improved. While most mayoral candidates debated how to provide better or more efficient services (in essence, how to spend your money), Ford focused on taxes. He had the right message in the right place and repeated it with clarity and determination.”

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Awesome look, great concept, terrific writing. (They wrote to me a while ago to say they’d be featuring web sites and blogs and whatnot, and here they are. But Werner Patels? Good God. Not an auspicious start. What’s next, Five Feet of Hate and Blazing Crosses?)

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I don’t want to make this personal, so I will not – not! – call him a rude, pompous, soulless rageaholic who is, was, and always will be a tourist in the Liberal Party of Canada.

I won’t do that. I just won’t.

Thank you.

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“For years to come, political scientists will ponder how a genial, peace-loving former NDP politician was transformed into such a tough-talking hawk. After all, this is the same man who once declared that Canada’s participation in such conflicts “isn’t the wisest and best course for the world or Canada.” He said that in January 1991, when he was Ontario’s NDP Premier, and when the Mulroney cabinet chose to help remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

Said Rae at the time: “Is this a cause for which I would be willing to go to the desert and fight for? The answer is no.”

Well, that was then and this is now, I guess. If asked, Rae will have a suitably plausible explanation for his change of heart about all this war stuff. He usually does.”

POST-SCRIPT: Rae was apparently livid, last night, that I posted on Thursday an email I received from within the federal Liberal family questioning his motives (which was picked up by NNW, days later). He even posted a Facebook status update about it, because I’m a “blogger” who makes stuff up, etc. W/e. Here’s what I posted on FB in response: “A politician like Bob Rae should know that his caucus colleagues are questioning his motives. It may not make him happy – but they are.” I’ve heard from MPs, Senators and many grassroots folks – they’re extremely unhappy about what Rae has done. And shooting the messenger will be about as effective as it usually is.

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