Reverend Meredith is having a little trouble turning the other cheek.

Even when the offense is an imagined one.

Don Meredith...slammed ...Ignatieff and (Jennings) for Ignatieff's use of the phrase "wait a cotton-pickin' minute."

In a statement, Meredith said the use of that phrase was "at the very least, insensitive, and certainly offensive to many people."  Meredith said it's a phrase that "hails back to a time when slavery was acceptable and an entire group of people were held to be lesser than others because of the colour of their skin."

Except it isn’t. 


Have yourself a nice cup of tea, Don.  A few deep breaths, a prayer for serenity...

(Marlene) Jennings, whose ancestors were, in fact, slaves in Alabama, laughed at Meredith's accusations.  "I am not offended when someone uses the phrase cotton-pickin'. It's part of the vernacular," Jennings said. "I think the Conservatives are desperate to change the channel."

I think Marlene is most likely right.

Complete contempt for Canadians

That's what harper keeps showing, over and over.

Two more Senators appointed.  During the holiday break.  Partisan as always.  Unelected.  One was rejected by voters.  Qualified?  At least one isn't.

The good Rev. Don Meredith -

He replaced Mark Warner as candidate for Toronto Centre after the CPC decided that despite Warner winning the nomination, he wasn’t the right stuff for the CONs.

What they wanted was someone like Meredith: social conservative, volunteer Senior Pastor at the Pentecostal Praise Centre, tough on crime, tough on sex for fun, tough on sex without proper legal documents, tough on gays, tough on same sex marriage, and tough on people who have the audacity to have bed bug infestations.  

And he really, really qualifies for harper’s promises of an elected Senate by having lost the 2008 by-election - coming fourth - in Toronto Centre.

Yet wingnuts are cheering in comment sections about how now, finally, we can have Senate reform.

WTF?????????

Now we have another ignorant politician who is so vapid he thinks bedbugs are the result of poor hygiene and that homosexuality is a choice.  Another who believes that laws should be shaped by inspiration we get from mythical beings.

Update: in his own words, h/t Alison

Larry Smith is qualified by CON standards because Larry does sports.  And Larry once toyed with the idea of running for the leadership of the CPC in 2004.  And Larry lives in Quebec.

So Larry, the talk goes, is qualified by harper standards to hold a cabinet post as yet another unelected, unaccountable guy making decisions concerning public funds and legislation.  Like Mike Fortier did.  Badly.

The CONs are not denying it out-right but are using that coyness we all love them for - there are no plans for him to join the Conservative cabinet, a Conservative official says. 

Uh-huh.  And harper will never ever appoint unelected people to the Senate because it’s so undemocratic.