kelownabomberfan

So Alex Cord is now the last Airwolf standing...

So if I am reading between the lines here I think you are saying Manitoba should legalize prostitution....interesting....

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/08/analysis/hidden-key-snc-lavalin-scandal This is fascinating. All Canadians need to read this article.

Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’ Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion. She cited the “caging of kids” at the Mexican border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch — and argued that he wasn’t much different from President Trump “We can’t be only upset with Trump,” the freshman firebrand told Politico Magazine. “His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was,” Omar said. “And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.” The explosive comments about a man lionized by Democrats were only the latest in a series of incendiary statements that have put the national spotlight on Omar, a Somali-American Muslim who spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya after her family fled the violence in their homeland. In February, her second month in office, Omar responded to a tweet about House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s threats to punish her and another congresswoman for criticizing Israel. “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she tweeted, a line from a Puff Daddy song about $100 bills. Critics said Omar was perpetuating a hateful trope about Jewish Americans and money. She recently got into another hot mess after another tweet was slammed by some as anti-Semitic. The ensuing firestorm rattled the Democratic House majority and spurred days of recriminations and tense negotiations that led to the compromise package condemning bigotry that sailed through the House on Thursday, with only 23 Republicans voting against it. The party’s leftist wing, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said Omar was being singled out when others at the highest levels of government had said things that were worse and escaped censure. More moderate Dems, including Jewish lawmakers such as New York’s Eliot Engle, wanted the resolution to focus only on anti-Semitism as a direct response to Omar’s comment, which questioned the loyalty of politicians who accept donations from pro-Israel PACs and organizations. Ultimately, after days of chaos and acrimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was able to unite her caucus — and box in a big majority of Republicans — to back the compromise. And Omar — along with Rashida Tlaib of Michigan the first Muslim women in Congress — said she’s willing to keep speaking out and be a Republican punching bag if it helps advance her agenda, a prospect that likely makes many of her fellow Democrats cringe. https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-obamas-a-pretty-face-who-got-away-with-murder/

We know how to handle Mark Stone...

People I know in the Manitoba government said that the NDP motto for hiring was "if it takes two people to do the job, let's hire five".

On why he decided to leave the government Randy Boissonnault (Liberal): Mr. Butts, if you did nothing wrong, why did you resign? Butts: … I think I was put in a position where I had to ask my colleagues to fight another colleague over accusations a colleague was making, and I think that put the prime minister in an impossible position given the nature of our friendship. https://nationalpost.com/news/if-you-did-nothing-wrong-why-did-you-resign-what-mps-asked-gerald-butts

Canes are a bunch of jerks. So I've heard.

I am thinking the same thing - if Mueller has nothing of consequence they might as well just go hard to win in 2020 and forget all of this impeachment stuff. It's almost too late already anyway, as campaigning starts in the next few months. And you are right, it should be a cake-walk for the Dems, just like the last election was. One small bright spot in the Trump darkness:

Even the New York Times is turning on the Canadian show-pony that they were all ga-ga for only a short while ago. Yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/opinion/canada-scandal-justin-trudeau.html It’s no coincidence that she was replaced at the justice ministry by David Lametti, a member of Parliament from Montreal who even now has not ruled out saving SNC-Lavalin with a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. The rule of law is a very grand Canadian virtue until, it seems, it proves to be a barrier to Liberal electoral prospects in Quebec. It is a small country, after all.

maybe they are hoping to get coverage on ESPN 8 "the Ocho" with Cotton and Pepper doing the commentating...

and the funny thing about that move would be that they would have to hire Guy Boucher back as no one else on the coaching market speaks French....other than maybe Claude Noel...

Didn't Raybould testify under oath?

Philpott resigned as Treasury Board president Monday. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters) A few hours later, at a rally in Toronto to gin up support for a carbon tax, Trudeau made a manic entrance, grinning and high-fiving and flesh-pressing and trying to look happy, before grabbing Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in an awkward hug, and, puzzlingly, yelling, at a Liberal rally, "Are there any Liberals in the house?" Then, more empty message track. "In a democracy like ours and in a space where we value our diversity so strongly, we're allowed to have disagreements and debate, we even encourage it. This matter has generated an important discussion." Oh, and also, he's taking it all seriously. So there's that. Happily, the Commons justice committee actually is taking it seriously. Even as, at exactly the same time, Republican members of a congressional panel spent the afternoon childishly heckling former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's efforts to testify – one of them erected a giant placard reading "Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!" – the multipartisan panel in Ottawa behaved like adults. Unlike her own party leader, who is as devoted to message track and empty rhetoric as the prime minister, Conservative MP Lisa Raitt's questioning of Wilson-Raybould was serious and probative. It was in fact a public service. As was the scoop by Globe and Mail journalist Bob Fife (along with Steven Chase and Sean Fine), who detonated this crisis. The question now is whether Canadians are going to hear any real answers from their prime minister, if indeed he's capable of offering any. Actually, there are more honest moments in the pantheon of Trudeau's quotations than in any of his performances in the past few weeks. Back in 2013, former Global anchorman Tom Clark asked Trudeau about his intellectual substance. His answer: "You know, I'm not going to go around reciting Pi to the 19th decibel or you know wave my grades, or test scores to people. I'm going to simply do what it is that I have to do." Most people can't recite Pi to any decibel, let alone decimal. In another encounter with Clark a year later, this time jammed into the cabin of Clark's little airplane, he talked about the necessity of educating people (read: all of us). "I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed." To the National Post's John Ivison, he declared: "Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving." (Actually, according to Wilson-Raybould, Trudeau cares a great deal about winning, to the point where he's ready to overturn a prosecutor's decision, if that's what it takes). But it was to CTV that he was probably most candid. "At one point," he told the program W5, "people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing." Or not. On the evidence of the past few weeks, I'm thinking not. https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/trudeau-talking-points-1.5044266

Gerald Butts testifying this morning. The Liberals on the panel voted down the motion that Butts testify under oath. What rat bastards.

one demonstration of how the LEAP movement is tearing the NDP apart was demonstrated to me in spades when I was watching their leadership convention. Daniel Blaikie got up and did an impassioned speech about how the NDP stands up for labour and he was talking about the pride he felt touring aerospace industries in Winnipeg and all of the unionized staff etc etc. A good speech, I thought. Young Blaikie sat down, and the next up to the mike was some young female LEAP'er from Quebec, who blasted Blaikie for supporting "evil" aerospace industries, and how all of those companies should be put out of business to save the world from global warming. Young Blaikie's shoulders just slumped. A party that divided, just can't stand.

LOL - yes "common sense", what an odd term to be used when it comes to the LEAP people. Anyway, LEAP is driving people away from the NDP in droves. And that's a big benefit to the Liberals.

yes. The LEAP'ers seem to be in control of the NDP now, and the NDP is bleeding support because of it.

Liberal minority would work, but I'd hate to have Jagmeet and his LEAP'ers as the king-makers. We've got the Greens/LEAP here in BC propping up the NDP and it no good.