Shorter Paul Jackson

As part of a new feature on this blog, I present Shorter Paul Jackson:highlights from Paul Jackson's rants for those smart enough not to read his column. Today's entry:

Dawkins is the author of The God Delusion, which has allegedly sold one-million copies, a pretty insignificant number considering how many copies of the Bible, Talmad, and Qur'an are sold each year.

Quite obviously Dawkins has no knowledge whatsoever of Day's political acumen.

Friends, I fully believe when I die -- if I keep to the straight and narrow -- I will meet my grandparents, parents, sisters and Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu friends in Heaven.
My pet Shih-Tzu puppies, Muffin and Dolly, too.

For sure, though, I will not meet Richard Dawkins there.

Strange piece of Liberal Trivia No.362

I was watching the deleted scenes from The 40 Year Old Virgin and Canadian actor Seth Rogen (star of Knocked Up) makes a reference to Pierre Trudeau. I'm too lazy to go back and transcribe exactly what he says but he basically explains that because he's Canadian he wouldn't care if Bill Clinton watched the movie, he would care more if Pierre Trudeau watched it. Now I'm not sure if he would care more because Trudeau is Canadian or if it would be impressive because he was watching from beyond the grave...

Anyway, just a little random piece of Liberal trivia that I enjoyed and thought you might too.

Highlights from the Drumheller By Election Blitz

How Sweet it is

Quebec speaks

I was disappointed to see that the people of Quebec have elected a minority Liberal government, not because I don't like the Quebec Liberal Party (at least they can get elected) but because for the next few years there will be a minority government. Looking at the results, which are not finalized, the Liberals have a 3 vote margin between them and the ADQ. Now this is a huge hit for the PQ, those separatist bastards we all love to hate. The CBC has speculated that in voting for the ADQ and Liberals, the people voted for a united Canada, but lets remember back to 1995 when the ADQ supported the Oui side with the PQ. Also remembering back to the past couple Quebec elections, the ADQ said that, if elected, they would simply wait ten years between being elected and calling a referendum. That doesn't sound like a united Canada to me.

Thinking about this scares me. I'm certainly glad to see the PQ get a thrashing, (I can still remember the things that I did to René Lesveque's bust in Montreal), but is shifting from Leftist separatists to right wing separatists a good thing? Since separation is never a viable option, and we all know what right wing parties in Canada do, I will say no.

As Jean Charest almost lost his seat tonight, I am hoping that he will soon resign as Prime Minister of Quebec so that the Liberal party can replace him with someone more youthful, someone who can deliver a Liberal majority government in the next election, which may not be that far off. Let's just hope that Dumont does not embrace separatism as quickly this time as he did in 1995.

Tax and Spend Tories

Well the Tories are now showing their true face. In the last week alone the Tories have pledged 12 billion dollars in spending. That is double the budget surplus.

Dion summed it up quite well:

We have a government that is spending like crazy in order to try to seduce the Canadian people,"

Mr. Flaherty, what happened to Fiscal Responsibility?

Alberta No Longer Debt Free!

A few months before the last Alberta General Election; former Alberta Premier, Ralph Klein, announced Alberta was debt free.

Well that sure did not last long. The province recently announced, it is taking out a 300 million dollar loan to pay for infastructure projects. Yes the same projects, which the Tories cut, to get the province's debt free status.

Well so much for fiscal responsibility.