April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

Harper

Tories Preparing Attack Ads

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“We poll better on offence,” said one government official. “That’s always sort of guided us.”

Well isn’t that special? Nice to know they have the bully and arsehole voter demographic sewn up.
Personally I fail to see the point in targeting Ignatieff. He already is allowing Harper to govern unopposed.

Apparently the ads will focus among other things as branding Ignatieff as a flip flopper. Really? They want to go there. With a leader who breaks his own election date laws. Who appoints a record number of senators after a career of working against the senate. Who signed a declaration in support of women’s rights and equality and then gutted SWC and brought forward legislation in the budget that would end pay equality. These are but a few among the many other ways he has proved his disregard for Canadians especially female Canadians.

Though he did not win his pined for majority, Harper is still unfortunately PM. For him to constantly belittle the opposition, in effect belittling the citizens of this country who choose those members as their representatives, shows that Harper is a bully both politically and personally and is not fit for office.

The Harper/Ignatieff Coalition

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In a move that showed Canadians Liberals have their best interest at heart, newly minted Liberal leader Ignarieff voted down the Harper budget. Citing lack of initiatives to protect or create jobs, complete disregard for the women of Canada, and a deficit which will take decades to pay yet resolves nothing…… Oh wait no.. that’s not what happened at all.

Sure the budget wasn’t worth the cost of the paper it was printed on. Sure women received absolutely nothing. Sure ordinary working class Canadians were once again told to stuff it in favour of an estimated 3 billion to paid to those who not only can afford to keep their homes but renovate them too, sure there were reports of infrastructure payments –oh did we mention they got the idea from a spam scam? ya– you put up the money first and then we’ll give you riches…sure the budget held all this and more but Ignatieff voted for it anyway.

OOOOO but there were caveats. Yep there were. Big special important ones too. Like the Cons gotta keep Canadians informed about where their money is being spent and gotta check in and keep the parliament informed…uh pssssst Iggy…isn’t that how a democratically elected government is supposed to perform anyway?

What was the point in the Liberals electing appointing a new leader?

Harper Still Ill Informed & Not a Leader

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If anyone still needed proof of Harper’s lack of understanding of the realities of war, disregard for human rights and general inability to empathize with those of us who are not robots, Harper has just provided that proof.

“My understanding of international law is, to be a child soldier, you have to be in an army,” he said in the pre-taped interview.

Well obviously Mr. Harper’s understanding of international law is sorely lacking.

The international Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and UNICEF have broader definitions than Harper does of what it means to be a child soldier.

The coalition acknowledges on its website there is no “precise definition.”

The international group, however, considers a child soldier to be anyone under 18 “who is a member of, or attached to, government armed forces or any other regular or irregular armed force or armed political group, whether or not an armed conflict exists.”

UNICEF also defines a child soldier as anyone under 18 “who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity,” including cooks, porters, messengers, and minors forced into marriage or recruited for forced sexual purposes.

The disregard that Harper shows for this young man who has already served 7 years for a crime he has not even been proven to have committed is shameful and chilling and should serve as a warning to us all.

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Blame it on Hamas

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With apologies to Kris Kristofferson

Harper’s up in Ottawa he’s really in stew
Canadians in Gaza what’s he gonna do?
But then he hears a whisper into his tin robotic ear
Lets just blame it Hamas

Blame it on Hamas, blame it on Hamas
You’ll feel so much better, knowing you don’t stand alone
Start the accusation, tell the bleeding nation
Get it off your shoulders, blame it on Hamas

Conservatives won’t take the blame, won’t take responsibility
Lies are cheap and easy, the truth it don’t come free
It’s not our fault if lives are lost
We’ll just blame it on Hamas

Blame it on Hamas, blame it on Hamas
You’ll feel so much better, knowing you don’t stand alone
Start the accusation, tell the bleeding nation
Get it off your shoulders, blame it on Hamas

So while civilians in Gaza are blown to little bits
Conservatives wax arrogantly but they don’t give a shit
They just sit there useless immune to all the cries
We’ll just blame it on Hamas

Blame it on Hamas, blame it on Hamas
You’ll feel so much better, knowing you don’t stand alone
Start the accusation, tell the bleeding nation
Get it off your shoulders, blame it on Hamas

See POGGE for the news story

Here is the original song