tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post5437768168176239526..comments2024-03-28T00:01:34.598-07:00Comments on The Galloping Beaver: Tom Flanagan gets a wedgieDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-77916048293227506442012-04-24T17:50:26.116-07:002012-04-24T17:50:26.116-07:00Well played, Dave. The mental image of Flanagan w...Well played, Dave. The mental image of Flanagan with a wedgie was excellent.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-49988611979532630012012-04-24T15:18:33.760-07:002012-04-24T15:18:33.760-07:00Holly, I wouldn't believe that the 50% who did...Holly, I wouldn't believe that the 50% who didn't vote weren't pure Alberta cowpiss either. <br /><br />Niles, if a federal election resulted in hundreds of thousands of NDP votes going Liberal to prevent a Conservative majority would that be "more progressive" too? I'm not saying that's going to happen anymore. Yet I seem to recall that since 2006 the argument Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-42628293120902589152012-04-24T13:41:35.134-07:002012-04-24T13:41:35.134-07:00Don't assume people who move to Alberta are al...Don't assume people who move to Alberta are all more lefty; some of these people become more "sterotypical Albertan" than born Albertans.<br /><br />Crai Chandler is from Ontario I believe, as is Harper.Holly Stickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01137842937086115228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-65240611758342266382012-04-24T13:07:54.569-07:002012-04-24T13:07:54.569-07:00Niles--
That's the real thing, right?
Pushin...Niles--<br /><br />That's the real thing, right?<br /><br />Pushing the envelope edge farther and farther to the waygone right such that middle moves also. <br /><br />Which, in my opinion, is the real long game of the Straussians (like Mr. Flanagan) behind the curtain.<br /><br />The same thing is going on in British Columbia right now.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-35364067050129370592012-04-24T11:38:58.848-07:002012-04-24T11:38:58.848-07:00Dana, at this point, knowing it was a stark choice...Dana, at this point, knowing it was a stark choice between the PCs and the Wildrosicrucians, people voted to keep out the tea party that decided Alberta needed to be Texas North in all legislative aspects. So, yeah, more progressive. Reality is always stranger than fiction.<br /><br />I keep hearing Redford is a Red Tory. I'll believe it when it happens but she does have new MLAs so maybe Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04096047389811381098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-59882587383269281732012-04-24T10:24:52.177-07:002012-04-24T10:24:52.177-07:00I try not to think of the current crop of pro medi...I try not to think of the current crop of pro media as being able to reproduce sexually, as it implies to me that they'll simply grow a new crop of plants who look to political press releases like flowers following the sun.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13258259356749068135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-27056596695197950722012-04-24T10:24:12.854-07:002012-04-24T10:24:12.854-07:00Somewhere in amongst all the reading I've been...Somewhere in amongst all the reading I've been doing this morning I found this stat: Alberta's population has grown by 800 thousand in the past decade alone and that number represents approximately a quarter of the population of the place.<br /><br />Extrapolating from that it's not much of a stretch to assert that around half of the present voting age population of Alberta were not Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-57228281333769153482012-04-24T08:52:49.893-07:002012-04-24T08:52:49.893-07:00I think you're on mark with the civil service ...I think you're on mark with the civil service comment. I've met or know a number of people working in there who most definitely aren't on the political right. Additionally, Alberta's boom brings in people from all over Canada (and the world) who might not necessarily subscribe to 'freeborn Albertan' Wildrose craziness. Am quite pleased to see that the pollsters got it Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-16911510266814635152012-04-24T08:41:50.184-07:002012-04-24T08:41:50.184-07:00Steve the myth of the leftwing media is just that ...Steve the myth of the leftwing media is just that a myth. It was invented by the rethugs south of the border and like every other idea the Canadian right wing has, it was imported.<br />Our right is a fully fledged foreign ideological import. It's like the comintern of old, equally as batshit crazy, equally as unfeeling and uncaring but with more Jesus and a lower level of intelligence.<br />harebellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02068261389110085815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-9177747466248190112012-04-24T05:48:31.450-07:002012-04-24T05:48:31.450-07:00The pollsters are part of the right wing conspirac...The pollsters are part of the right wing conspiracy.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-75153053251738847422012-04-24T03:50:30.358-07:002012-04-24T03:50:30.358-07:00Here's hoping real change will happen. With ...Here's hoping real change will happen. With the PC's I have my doubts. They take 44% of the vote but 71% of the seats and in the two local ridings we get a businessman and a lawyer (because god knows we always need another one of those) as MLA's with about half the vote each. <br /><br />The PC's have really dropped the ball and ignored our region for a long time. An Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-17887330209331085352012-04-24T00:01:39.986-07:002012-04-24T00:01:39.986-07:00The PC's are relatively progressive compared t...The PC's are relatively progressive compared to Wildrose. They've had a bad scare, and the Liberals are going to stress that the PC's owe the Liberals for all those votes that moved over in order to save us all from the barbarians. Redford occasionally shows signs of intelligence and sanity. It could be worse.<br /><br />And Ted Morton lost;(I'm so glad Byfield did too), while Holly Stickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01137842937086115228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-45556555341162232152012-04-23T22:21:16.222-07:002012-04-23T22:21:16.222-07:00Let's leave your comments in both posts Dana. ...Let's leave your comments in both posts Dana. <br /><br />It's an important point.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-15079670068004157872012-04-23T22:15:17.608-07:002012-04-23T22:15:17.608-07:00You reckon the Alberta PCs are progressive do you,...You reckon the Alberta PCs are progressive do you, dear? <br /><br />Gopod save us from regina moms.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-31460894141716811552012-04-23T22:08:22.303-07:002012-04-23T22:08:22.303-07:00I firmly believe it was the social media that gave...I firmly believe it was the social media that gave the PCs the victory. Without all our exposes of and jibes at the WRP Alberta voters may well have taken the leap to the far right instead to toward the centre. Here's hoping federal politics move toward progressiveness, too!the regina momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01450243661848540975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-13458193052136935542012-04-23T22:02:07.723-07:002012-04-23T22:02:07.723-07:00I posted this below with Boris' post pre-resul...I posted this below with Boris' post pre-results but really it belongs here. Feel free to delete from wherever you see fit. (Geez, what a pit of despond that might turn out to be.) <br /><br />"What's the likelihood that the polling companies who got this so monumentally wrong will have an explanation by morning?<br /><br />The news media, such as they are in this sad, benighted Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.com