Man... Sorry to hear about the bike. I'll bet he took it at *gunpoint* too, the same way Liberals confiscate one's earnings.
Posted at 2006-01-11 09:56:22 [PermaLink]Exactly, P.K. The bastards don't need "American Friends", they just steal their funding from the Taxpayers (lemmings).
Posted at 2006-01-11 10:02:38 [PermaLink]Stephen Harper drinks.
Stephen Harper drinks merlot. American merlot.
Just like George Bush. American merlot.
Mike Harris drinks American merlot
Paul Martin says "I'm not drinking any f---ing American merlot."
Choose your Canada.
(hat tip to comments on Coyne's blog)
Someone please turn the pink bicylcle one into video format with voice over. Please. It would be awesome.
Posted at 2006-01-11 10:42:02 [PermaLink]Stephen Harper owns a warm parka.
Last fall a US submarine broke through an ice flow.
A Canadian ice flow.
In Canada.
Where was Stephen Harper that day.
He's not saying.
We're not making this up.
Choose your Canada.
Stephen Harper shaves everyday.
Otherwise he’d grow a moustache.
A moustache just like Hitler’s.
George W. Bush shaves too.
Do you want a prime minister with a hidden fascist moustache?
Choose your Canada.
Stephen Harper pees in the snow
Canadian snow
Keep it pure
Choose your Canada
Nice Damian, much better than the first batch.
Someone really needs to make that Susie Smith one inot a video. I bet Rick Mercer could do it and get Harper to actually appear. It would be the "reptilian kitten eater" of this campaign.
People would love it.
Regarding Librano attack ad about troops in the street. It now appears to be correct - except they got the parties mixed up:
"Senior Liberals turned out last night to hear rookie politician Michael Ignatieff warn that Canada is facing a national unity crisis in which "we need troops, warriors and chieftains" ready for the political battle over Quebec."
"It's over the horizon but it's looming,"
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What happened to the Conservatives' "Demand Better" slogan from a while back?
That was good.
And I still want a bumpersticker of it - and this as an American.
Yahoo! This ad campaign is blowing up in the Librano's faces real good.
"OTTAWA (CP) - Soldiers past and present say they are insulted and outraged by a "despicable" and "incredibly stupid" Liberal campaign ad suggesting Canadian cities would be subject to military occupation under a Conservative government."
"It's pretty dumb to use soldiers as a wedge issue," said retired general Lewis MacKenzie, who ran for the Tories and lost in 1997. "It took my breath away; I just couldn't believe anybody could be that dumb."
"Soldiers, sailors and aircrew are formally prohibited from making public political comment or responding to political policy. But that didn't stop some from e-mailing expressions of outrage to advocacy and veterans' groups."
"People I work with echo my disgust that Canadian politicians are now using Canadian Forces personnel, past and present, to threaten people into voting Liberal," said one airman from Cold Lake, Alta."
"The airman, who has served for 26 years, wrote in the e-mail to a national veterans' group that the ad appears directed at least partly at immigrants whose experience with militaries are almost invariably negative."
"We can only see this as a desperate attempt to win a few votes from what some would call the ethnic minority," he said."
"We have been honoured to walk Canadian streets. We have gone to the aid of municipalities in ice storms and the odd snow flurry in Toronto. If a city asked us for armed help during a crisis (as in the Oka or FLQ incidents, both a Quebec problem), I hope we would serve Canada well."
Retired colonel Alain Pellerin called the ad an act of desperation that is particularly "despicable" since CF members - even the chief of defence staff - are muzzled and cannot publicly respond.
"To use the Armed Forces for a purely crass political aim, to me is despicable," said Pellerin, a former infantryman who heads the Conference of Defence Associations, a lobby group and think tank.
"He said it's even more offensive given that it's virtually the only reference the Liberals have made to the military in the entire campaign."
"In an online blog, former navy seaman Lance Levsen of Delisle, Sask., said he was angered by the ad."
"That ad doesn't attack Harper and the (Conservatives). It attacks me," Levsen wrote. "The group of people that this ad targets are suggested to be a threat to peace in our Home and Native Land. That was me. ME! "
"That ad targets my comrades who had the courage to join a profession whose job description includes death. That ad targets the heroic people of the UN peacekeeping missions who stand between warring factions defending peace."
Well done Liberals - you've screwed the pooch this time.
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Very funny -- especially the one about Little Susie Smith and her bicycle. Perhaps parody isn't dead after all.
Posted at 2006-01-11 15:21:16 [PermaLink]The Libranos can't expect any help from the NDP either:
"NDP Leader Jack Layton dismissed Martin’s statements as scare tactics."
"Martin “has nothing left to say to Canadians other than to tell them that unless they vote Liberal, the sun will not rise, spring will not come, and volcanoes will destroy the earth,” Layton said while campaigning in Hamilton, Ont."
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Here's one for John Duffy to ponder:
"Paul Martin wants to ban weapons in space."
"Leaving Earth totally defenceless in a potentially hostile galaxy."
"When you control guns, only crooks and cops have guns."
"So now if we don't have cops, where does that leave us here on Earth?"
"Choose Your Planet."
These ads are, in a sense, hard to parody, because they are so self-parodic. I mean, if you were going to sit down and write what you thought was a parody of a possible Liberal attack ad, one that *just* went over the line, how far off would you be from what they actually released? Not too far. My husband and I saw "Mike Harris" and "Health Care" while watching the late news on, respectively, Monday and Tuesday, and we just burst out laughing, the both of us. They were so bad, they were hilarious!
However, Susie and her bike is a good parody of these ads and someone should "produce" it if they can. I doubt Mr. Mercer would, it would be far too pro-Harper for him!
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Damian, as I'm sure you're aware, your attack ads made it to Page 4 of this morning's National Post dead-tree edition. Well done.
Posted at 2006-01-12 05:00:05 [PermaLink]Damian votes Conservative...
Damian likes bacon...
You know what else had bacon? Beloved childrens character Piglet...
Did Stephen Harper tell Conservatives to kill Piglet?
With guns...
In our cities...
We don't know, he's not saying.
Choose your Canada