So if a child is married to an adult in another country where such things are legal, is her husband allowed to keep raping the child if they move to Canada?

Because according to the CONs, she is still the old fuck's wife.

And if a woman moves to Canada from a country where women aren’t allowed to vote or run for office, does that mean she can’t vote in Canada when she becomes a citizen?

What a bull-shit line of reasoning to impose narrow, twisted, vile beliefs on others.

Harper keeps saying he won’t re-open same sex marriage debates, but he is changing our laws through the back door, getting Canadians used to the ideas, altering our very identity as he clearly has been stating he intends.

No one in steve’s party publicly expresses intent to change legislation without clearing it through him first.  Enough retired MPs, senators, and insiders have told us so and we have seen what happens to those who oppose him – Bill Casey, Garth Turner, Chong…

So when his CONsorts keep gunning for women’s wombs across the country, there is no doubt fatso wants the abortion issue to come out.  He can claim he didn’t open debate,  he can claim Canadians want it.  He can let his atavistic crew push through some law that opens the door to abortion (giving fetuses same status as Canadians when a woman miscarries due to an attack) then say it’s really a legal argument and he can hardly stop debate.  Or hell, just do away with debate at that point.

Death penalty?  Oh, no…he won’t go there, he says.  But once again, he is trying to change our mindset by picking and choosing which Canadians on death row in another country will be defended by our government.  You know, while all people are equal, some just plain don’t deserve equal treatment.

It’s a gut knowledge thing, ya know?  Tim Horton type wisdom if you get my meaning. 

The CONs play on that gut thing, play on divisiveness, point fingers at “other” until too many fail to look to reason when our laws are modified.

Because by then, too many just think it’s right because it kind of feels right.  And for those who in frustration try to protect our rights and freedoms as well as fair and equal systems for all, the systems that had been in place to defend those rights are so eroded and murky that there is less and less hope for sanity to prevail.

Our crime minister has no hidden agenda.  It has always been obvious – through his early speeches, his early affiliations, his ongoing actions in politics.

The almighty Economy seems to trump everything here in Canada.  Canadians buy into the bullshit that CONs are more fiscally responsible and that The Economy takes precedence over human rights, health care, the environment, the future of our children, decent public services, housing…

But too many Canadians forget that money – especially in a system where wealth resides in the hands of a privileged few – cannot guarantee a safe, healthy environment, equality, care for those in need, separation of church and state, health care for all regardless of wealth, protection of the innocent: things Canadians have long valued above all else.

So...Harper & Co.’s #1 priority is the economy...

Sure.  That’s what they are saying, right?

Except...

Today, at the time I checked it, National News Watch carried 2 articles related to the government and the economy.  It also carried...17 articles on the gun registry.  Some of those were opinion pieces, but many were prompted directly by the CONs actions and statements on the registry:

Harper and three of his cabinet members will interrupt UN visit

Harper vows gun registry will be scrapped some day

Tories turn Google against rural MPs in gun-registry feud

MacKay blasts long-gun registry

 Tories won't give up on gun registry

Baird slams 'Toronto elites' over gun registry

Seriously.  If you were in charge of running the country, would the gun registry be anywhere near the top of your to-do list?  Would it even make the top ten?  The top twenty?

How about this, or this, or this, or this, or this, or this, or this or this, or this?

Yeah, scrapping that registry is real important shit.  Should save lives.  Make our lifestyle so much better.  Raise our standard of living.  Build a safer world.  Go miles forward in fighting poverty.  Reduce racism.  Provide jobs.  Improve health care.  Assure better education to all.

...well, maybe not.

But it will make a small percentage of gun owners happy and will put some of their money in the CONs coffers.

Certainly worth the effort and expense.  Certainly more important than everything else.                   

You’re really mad at the CONs for this, right, wingnuts?

A new panel created by the Harper government will move to raise employment insurance premiums by the maximum allowed, despite calls to leave payroll taxes frozen in light of Canada’s fragile jobs picture.

Canadians will start feeling the hit on their paycheques when the two-year freeze on EI premiums announced in the 2009 budget comes to an end on Jan. 1. Employers will also have to cough up more in premiums for their workers, which economists and business groups warn could hurt employment.

That’s a double-whammy, there.  Hurts employment and…here it comes…takes money out of the hands of hard workin’, Timmie’s drinkin’ Canadians to support them-thar no-account, lazy unemployed soashlists.

Damn!!!!

So you right wingers are making your protest signs at this moment, correct?

But don’t despair.  There’s plenty of bad news for the bleeding heart Liberals and socialists as well.  While people with jobs will be paying more into EI, people who have been paying into it and now need it will receive less.

As of Saturday, Ottawa will cancel an extra five weeks of regular EI benefits and end a program that provided up to an additional 20 weeks of benefits for longer-serving employees.

For older workers who suddenly find themselves unemployed after years of long-term service this is a crushing blow, says Ontario’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Monique Smith.

…The EI clawback is nationwide.

The CONs don’t get it, and Steve must have cheated his way through economics.  They treat stimulus action like a check list:  promise made, promise kept!!!!  As long as some action was taken that could be coupled with a PMO press release and a photo op, mission accomplished as far as they are concerned.  Setting rigid deadlines with no regard as to the current and future economical and job climate shows ignorance of the problem, and lack of concern for those they claim the actions were supposed to help.

The Bank of Canada is talking about “unusual uncertainty” in reference to the economy, saying that the stagnating U.S. economy is what’s keeping economists awake at night.

Higher deductions on paychecks, uncertainty over employment, cuts to EI that working Canadians, laid off during the recent crisis...those things are very close to home for people.  Photo ops in front of cool, expensive military equipment that we don't really need, a stadium in Quebec, and billions for prison cells for unreported criminals probably won't  win the CONs a lot of votes right now.

Steve wants to focus on the Olympics?

Sure.  I'll help.  I'll post everyone of his damn photo ops, and his lackeys'.

As people struggle financially after Christmas and worry how they'll get through the year, they can see our politicians hard at work.  Enjoying the Olympics.  With tickets most of us can't afford.  With paid time off that few of us have.

And all on our dollar.

Take lots and lots of pics, Steve.