Harper Knows His Base ~ And So Do We

I have been writing on the internet as the Twain Shall Meet for about seven years now. For the first two years I was only on the discussion boards at MSM web pages, and commenting on News articles.


And I have gleaned a fact or two about the conservative base. I don't claim to have ever made any of them less conservative. It seems that that has never been an option. Though I have had countless interactions with the far Right, I don't believe we can change them. Intransigent as they are we can still defeat them and their right wing ideologies, we simply have got to out number them, not on the discussion sites, but at the polls on election day.

When dealing with the far right I have tried to offer links to information that sheds light on the subject and hand. They don't read them.

This was a comment from a CPC supporter on CBC.ca ~ The article was discussing whether harper would prorogue Paliament to hide from the Senate ?PMO scandal.

Blue2DEnd2013/06/10
at 6:04 PM ETOf course they'll recess early. The union-loving NDP think all people need the summer off and the Liberals need a break too to stew about electing the Papineau Pony to run their ship into the ground.






Sometimes I ask questions of them that require them doing research. They generally do not do that research and the questions go unanswered.










BCWorkinman2013/06/10
at 8:01 PM ETeveryone here thumbs ProudAB down but, he is, of course, right. Harper has to take the hit but it is the front line civil servant that has dropped the ball along with their less than satisfactory managers that as yet have not instilled the importance of securing their computers and flash drives.
As well, you all hate Harper so much and I find it odd yop don't realize that the civil servants do as well. They do not cooperate with the government of the day if they don't like them and they slow down productivity, lost things or misplace them etc. Meanwhile, because they can't be fired without an act of Parliament short of them committing murder, their managers' hands are tied.








Sometimes I notice them trying to turn the channel. Now, who does that remind you of, eh?

Harper knows his base.
by: Kim_Leaman




This just In:    Harper Resigns.
by: Kim_Leaman

Stephen Harper Up to His Armpits

On Friday May the 24th Justin Trudeau said; 

"The Prime Minister is in it, up to his armpits." 

But, he did not say what exactly he was in, up to his armpits. 

Personally I thought he meant Kent. 

Which my friends & I have made synonymous with Sh*t. 

Guess who I caught messin' round out behind the barn?

Luckily ~ I had my Camera.

Stephen Harper
Both Incremental and Excremental

Less than ten seconds after I heard the news that Nigel Wright, chief of staff at the Prime Minister's Office had sent Senator Mike Duffy a cheque for $90,172.oo to cover his fraudulent expense claims for housing in Ottawa, I was on the phone to a political friend. We both knew that this would have Harper up to his armpits in what we like to call 'Kent', although you may know it better as Shit!

I had long thought Stephen Harper was stupid and I had long since known that Mike Duffy was none too bright, but I actually thought that Nigel Wright was cut from a different kind of cloth. Thanks, Nigel for proving me wrong.

There really is no point in retelling this story in all it's strange and wonderfully glorious details.
Much has been written about it in the last two weeks
but please let me tell you a few details that may have escaped you.
I promise to Try to keep it interesting.

You probably know already the strange story of how the unlikely Mike Duffy was made a Senator, but let me give you recollection of it. It was because of the interview which was conducted by Steve Murphy the News Anchor at CTV Halifax. He (Murphy) interviewed Stephan Dion, the Liberal leader at the time, shortly before the 2008 federal election.

Murphy who was in my opinion always an insufferable Conservative boor  asked Stephan Dion an impossible and hypothetical question which was worded in such a way as to be confusing to a man whose first language was markedly Francais Canadien. The question was not only hypothetical but it was in several tenses, past and present and terribly confusing.

Here is that Question:
 "If you were prime minister now, what would you have done about the economy and this crisis that Mr. Harper has not done?"

Anyway, Dion stumbled and asked Steve to repeat the question which Murphy did. But instead of making it clearer he made it, if anything more confusing. After several attempts including several times out to see if he could get a sensible question out of the insufferable Murphy, Stephan finally got the general gist of the very odd question and gave what he thought was a sufficient answer.

Now, I saw it live, so to speak, and CTV Halifax played the edited version without the outtakes. But since this was the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada during a Federal election campaign they sent the whole thing off to to the CTV National Bureau and it fell into the 'oh so unethical' hands of Mike Duffy and he did some creative editing and played it all,  false starts including out-takes, time outs and all. This editing included scathing criticism which (and which I cannot now find) he added after the fact as a narrative which made Stephan Dion look ridiculous in the extreme. It was only an hour later that it was on CTV Halifax Nightly News and it of course was the version Duffy edited.

Long story made short. As a result of this strange interview and Mike Duffy's lack of integrity Dion was done like Dinner. And this in spite of the fact that he had a plan to bring the Kyoto accord up to speed, through a well thought carbon tax and the fact that he saw the 2008  recession coming a mile off, unlike Jim Flaherty who was later completely blindsided by it.

The Dion Debacle - The Day After

CBC: CTV broke ethics code in Dion interview:  Standards Council................."

"The arbiter of ethics on the airwaves ruled Wednesday that CTV violated industry codes when it included three false starts in a broadcast of an election interview with then Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council found CTV Atlantic's 6 p.m. newscast was "discourteous and inconsiderate" when it ran the awkward false starts after the anchor promised Dion they wouldn't be broadcast.
It also found the question that was put to Dion "confusing."

After Mike Duffy had been made a Senator I put a statement which I knew wasn't true, intentionally in a blog article saying that Steve Murphy once attacked the Dalai Lama, just to see if it got a reaction. It did and I soon received an email from Murphy, which quickly turned into this conversation.

Note: The Ad Campaign, I refer to in this email was a series of Ads depicting Steve Murphy at the Halifax Harbour, standing next to a "Tall Ship" and going on about his unending love and respect for Canada. It was launched within a week of the Dion (Mugging) interview and I was convinced at the time as I still am, that it was a direct response to the bad press this incident inspired aimed at Murphy's incompetence and lack of professionalism and integrity. 

Funny.
He didn't add that the question was even slightly odd?

Related Links

Duffy resigns from Conservative caucus

Ethics watchdog reviewing payment to Duffy

Harper’s failure to address Senate scandal is hurting his party: Editorial

Wallin quits Conservative caucus

2013-05-25 - The Chronicle Herald Editorial Cartoon

This is a Tweet I sent out to after Harper finally spoke after seven days to his caucus only and after having invited the press corps, took no questions from them before flying off to Peru to talk trade.

This week in Pictures @ The Twain Shall Meet

Let's See This Again, eh?

Labrador ~ Here's Your Chance to Vote Peter Penash-Away

Penashue thought that "The Coast was Clear!"
So he stole this riding!
This time the 'Coast' must be clear
that they Won't be
Taken for Granted!

As I was perusing Peter Penashue's Facebook Page,I noticed something that fits right in with the Opposition's narrative on the now disgraced (former) MP and (former) Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs history of service. The Page contains hundreds of photographs  posted in 2011, hundreds. The odd part is that he stopped posting them on April, 30th, 2011 just two days short of the last federal election. What's so odd about that, you ask?

Well! Take a Closer Look

at Peter's Photo Stream and on that very page you will see that there were only two photographs posted in 2012, and both of them were PMO approved photo-ops of spending announcements with plenty of human props. And that is not hundreds is it now. And moving on to 2013, the first photo graphs were , not posted till January 28th, 2013. And this my friends, was that he was informed that he was under investigation by election Canada, and that the investigative had concluded that he grossly exceeded the spending limits for the 2011 campaign.  Election Canada gave him a deadline to explain the roughly $48,000.oo that he had no right to spend. This was several weeks before he resigned as a Minister and MP and left the  caucus of the Conservative Party of Canada.

And this is Quite Amusing ~ Don't you think! 

It has been deleted from his Facebook Page!

Carefully compare the two links
to see that they are identical
Then you click on it! 
http://peterpenashue.ca/media_/news-releases/letter-from-the-honourable-peter-penashue-to-the-people-of-labrador

Not Surprisingly the Document to which it links has been Deleted! Reg Bowers has been! 

Listen to Reg Bowers | Unedited

Listen

Reg Bowers, the "inexperienced volunteer" former Conservative minister Peter Penashue blamed for "ineligible donations" made to his 2011 federal election campaign, says he "unintentionally" accepted at least one corporate donation, which is illegal under Canadian law.

Again, Not Surprisingly 

a link that lead to this Document appeared 

on his Facebook page on March 15th 2013

That fine print at the bottom says:
Authorized by the Official Agent. Lol!

Wow!  It's still there on Facebook 
click to comment!His Original 2011 Campaign Video  
I'd better see if I can copy it
 before it goes the away.

Rex Murphy isn't all that Impressed!

Peter is back on the Campaign Trail and I think he is in way over his head!

As Labrador by-election gets going,
Liberals start with big lead

by David Akin

There are other recent Blogs on ttSm  that deal with Peter Penashue
Just go on down the page or  use  the search Function
Near the top  and To the Right.

Power And Propaganda ~ Harper Introduces "Robo-Me"!

It's an all too real "Pinky and Brain" thing!

One of these Men is a Robot!

April 01 is my Anniversary of sorts,
and I still need your help! 

A short Personal Plea
 in my own Voice.

I'll be back!
Hope you are the same!

~ Power and Propaganda ~ Meet Bill ~

The Blogging Progress

Bill has an older brother
although it appears that:
It may too late for him 

CRUSH

Power & Propaganda ~ Harper Land Media Coverage

This is the First Installment in the 
Power & Propaganda Series

I'll be back! LOL! 

~ The Charm Offensive ~ Harper's Credibility Lost in Space!

Perhaps that is why intelligent Canadians find it so Offensive!

Although, almost all Canadians would agree that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is the real McCoy... Hadfield assumed command of the ISS on Wednesday, making him the first Canadian to command the station that orbits more than 300 km above the earth. Hadfield, who arrived at the station in December, has been wowing his Twitter followers with his photos from space and taking questions from school kids across the country about life in space.
 Pardon the interruption   This! Just In:

As I was writing this, CBCNN is on, as always! I just over heard this and need  to add it! I seems that Canadian figures skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford just won a medal at the world figure skating championships and of course CBCNN is now covering it and when the started the interview, told the reporter that she had "just now" received a Tweet from the PM.   How "exciting", she said!

The Fact that the PMO is watching you and the CBC, so they can send you a Tweet in real time with this much control over the timing that the Prime Minister, (who by way, didn't write this Tweet!) is able to be seen to do that right across Canada is actually frightening.

How Exciting! The Prime Minister of Canada's Twitter Account is Nothing but a BOT!

"LONDON, Ont. — Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford captured a bronze medal in pairs Friday at the world figure skating championships in a result that had onlookers shaking their heads.

Duhamel, from Lively, ON, and Radford, from Balmertown, ON registered 204.56 points to improve upon their fifth-place finish in last year’s world championships...."
Anyway, Harper was ^NOT even there. But he still was able to succeed in insinuating himself into the story.  The massive manpower and budget of the PMO provides with a huge amount of power to get Harper's more his fair share of the glory of any Canadian in the spotlight! 

CBC Coverage

I'll start again!
Although, almost all Canadians would agree that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is the real McCoy... Harper is another matter.

Harper's Charm Offensive is relentless. The well funded campaign runs 24/7 and it has been doing so for years now.

Do you Remember 

All of the Props He Used? 

The now infamous Blue Sweater Vest? The kitty? Yo Yo Ma? The Vancouver Olympics? Nickleback? The Chinese Pandas? Randy Bachman? The Amritsar Temple? The fainting student?

Brian Adams? Justin Bieber? Taylor Swift? Haiti? Libya? The Queen's Jubilee Medals? Omar Khadr? The child in today's picture?

I don't expect that you remember all of them. But many of you will, and many of you will have an longer list.

That Brings Us to the Silliness that is #pmhadfield

How could this man who Muzzles thousands of Scientists
^NOT expect this to Backfire?

Additional reading: A Friend on Facebook writes This!

Stephen Harper Says the NDP Refused to Support War on Hitler? ~ He Needs to Be Relieved of Duty ~ He is "Clearly" Insane ~

IN the last couple of days has Harper crossed the line. In his insane rant/answer to a question of urgent import on his plans for Afghanistan, He was asked directly if he would be extending the deployment past 2014. Watch the Video. He is losing it.

Yes, he said Hitler.  "We are ^NOT like the NDP we are not going to have an Ideological position .... regardless of circumstances". That was insane enough, as it was. No one is as ideologically driven as Stephen Harper. Then he went on the add, breathless and stammering.....:

"the NDP, ....the NDP, .....the leader the NDP ..  in 1939, did not even want to support War against Hitler! ...... "  

The New Democratic Party of Canada was hardly responsible for anything said in 1939,  being founded in 1961! **********************************************************************

History of the New Democratic Party of Canada

From Wikipedia, the free 

encyclopaedia         (DON'T wonder Off!   ~  OPEN THESE LINKS IN A SEPARATE TAB ! ttSm )

n 1956, after the birth of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) by a merger of two previous labour congresses, negotiations began between the CLC and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) to bring about an alliance between organized labour and the political left in Canada. In 1958 a joint CCF-CLC committee, the National Committee for the New Party (NCNP), was formed to create a "new" social democratic political party, with ten members from each group. The NCNP spent the next three years laying down the foundations of the New Party. During this process, a large number of New Party Clubs were established to allow like-minded Canadians to join in its founding, and six representatives from New Party Clubs were added to the National Committee. In 1961, at the end of a five-day long Founding Convention which established its principles, policies and structures, the New Democratic Party was born and Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected its first leader.^[1] In 1960, before the NDP was founded, one candidate, Walter Pitman, won a by-election under the New Party banner.      **********************************************************************

Both the PM and John Baird (CON MP ) repeated the absurdity
on Friday the 27 April, 2012.  I am searching for the video.

#HARPERHISTORY ON TWITTER

Ezra Levant's Finest Hour ~ My little Pony ~ Justin Trudeau, Senator Marc Brazeau ~ Charity Fight for Cancer Reseach

Ezra Levant's Finest Hour.

Boy he sure got as excited he played with of that "My Little Pony". He was almost like a kid with a new toy as he dished old in insults to my political opponent. It typical of Conservatives style he would of  treat of opponents as the enemy incarnate.

Then, Enter His Guest Senator Marc Brazeau. 

Oh, he (Ezra) had a momentary problem and was hardly able to hide his excitement while finding himself so close .. to those 'Pipes' and 'Tattoos'. Ezra, You Dog You!

At The Weigh In ~ Amateur Video 

Senator Brazeau ~ Trash Talking

 Brazeau said he resented the National Energy Program 

I would thought he we to to young too remember it.
He was all of 5 years old, a prodigy no doubt.
And I doubt whether of the angry would have reached  
Maniwaki Quebec.   

Senator Brazeau thinks is a about to fight my Father! 

~ Justin Trudeau

Trudeau Just Before the Fight

Marc Brazeau Just Prior T. Fight

The Fight!

The Bard of Cape Breton ~ Roger Cuzner 

Oh Yes, The Hair Cut!

Ezra , we need talk! You should my Pipes!

Stephen Harper Hates The Canadian Charter of Rights of Freedoms

Stephen Harper's Regime has been Fighting the
The Charter of Rights of Freedoms,

since the first days he was elected prime minister.

Youth who get It! 

Harper Would Made Mince Meat Out of the Charter.

Bob Rae on the 30 Anniversary of 

The Charter of Rights of Freedoms

Harper Tells You Exactly What He Thinks About You!

Reached from Chile Stephen Harper a Statement!

"In terms of this as an anniversary, I think it's an interesting and important step, but I would point out that the Charter remains inextricably linked to the patriation of the Constitution and the divisions around that matter, which as you know are still very real in some parts of the country," Harper said.

Harper had also been asked to comment on perceived problems with the application of the Charter in the courts, but he said he didn't want to wade into that issue.

But many Conservatives have criticized the Charter, saying some have taken advantage of the document to drag out court cases. There's also a view that it has allowed judges to make laws rather than parliamentarians."

Harper dismissively labelled it Divisive. He had no proof of it, but he is always pulling this shit (Kent). Reminiscent of the Long Form Census which they vilified with the use of hearsay, and an number unsubstantiated complaints! 

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Harper Land ~ First Majority Budget ~ Harper Fires Thousands

                                                                          I told ya so!

Budget Day 2012 was a very strange but sadly ordinary day in Harper Land. Stay Tuned, it will take a while to digest it. And, since they aren't very thorough, and ignore evidence, it is bound to have a lot of unintended CONsequences.  For one thing, we are going to have to listen to the phrase 'Nickel Back' even more often. He always throws his friends a bone.

Now that Non Cons can read it, We will see just exactly who, and how many Canadians that it does leave penniless. The numbers might surprise you. 

Republican Interference? ~ The View from the Front Porch Looking North ~ This is Not just Voter Engagement

Has Harper Crossed the Line?

Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon 
on January 10th, 49 B.C.
which turned out to be One river too far.
So, why do modern men still cross lines
that Precipitate their Own Undoing?

Why is Noone talking about the Conservative's Relationship with Front Porch Strategies? 

To me, their tell-tale shared backward looking Ideology and all that they both promote sheds light on the very heart of the Robocon Scandals that include not only Tele Town Halls as well as  Robocalls, but a whole litany of other unreported activities. 

Front Porch Who? ~ Who Are They? 

There is lots of evidence to be gleaned from some of Front Porch Strategies own gloating rhetoric and many incidences of both unilateral and mutual congratulation and mindless glad-handing. These are obviously not just business relationships and just as obviously are rooted in the same dark Right wing Ideology that Most Canadians would not tolerate if it was revealed to them.

There is much more than an exchange of services happening here. There is much in this relationship that speaks of  a growing connection between the Harper Conservatives and the  Right, American Conservative Movement. A look at some of the Issues that Front Porch Strategies promotes shows a very close relationship to the American Religious Right and the big money of the Republicans and shows their passionate interest in dredging up a lot of issues that Canadians have long since felt were already settled. Many of them are issues that even Harper claims are already settled. According to Harper for instance there is no reason or plans to resurect the abortion debate. 


Here are just a few screen shots taken from the very public facebook Page of Front Porch Strategies. Just a few pictures to whet your appetite.

What is the Heartbeat Bill? ~ This from the Companies official Public Facebook page:

So what other issues do they promote? Well they are seemingly in lock-step with the Harper government's views on Israel vs. Palestine and openly lobby on Facebook for more support for Israel, and less consideration for Palestinians and are clearly promoting a very unbalanced approach. 

So? Who Do They Do Work For?

I am having a hard time to decide which clip of Newt Gingrich best typifies his incredibly dangerous and dismal Ideology. Should I raise his racist rants? Should I talk about his stupid take on taxes, his attacks on Muslims, or his outrageous treatment of both of his ex-wives? There are just so many clips, and so little time. Of course all of those topics are open game in america.  And again I want to ask you to ask yourself if you think that any company that so actively and passionately promotes nothing but Right wing Ideologues is not very likely to have more than just a business relationship with those who share that Right Wing Ideology?

At any rate I picked this clip because it shows how very practical he can be. This was just moments after his having lost the Republican Primary on Jan. 31st, 2012 in Florida: (Unofficial 100 percent) Mitt Romney 46.42 percent (775,014), Newt Gingrich 31.9 percent (533,117), Rick Santorum 13.3 percent (222,799), Ron Paul 7 percent (117,104), other 1.3 percent (21,613). ).

Beware the loser that will promise you the Moon! 

Wondering Why the Christian Alliance seems so familiar?

Harper looking None too Happy
to be photographed
outside of Alliance Church

"About two decades ago, Harper shifted away from the mainline Protestant denominations of his father and began finding a home in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, which has about 2.5 million members and 14,000 congregations worldwide. One fifth of its members live in North America, with Alberta a Canadian hotbed.

Since Harper moved in 2003 to Ottawa, he has been attending the capital city's Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, called East Gate, under the guidance of Pastor Bill Buitenwerf.

On the outside, RockPointe Church looks like a bunker. On the inside, it's a cavernous auditorium with no crosses, altar or pulpit. Instead it has a "stage" on which its many pastors champion conservative moral values while strolling like casual talk-show hosts, remarking on how "cool" things are, exclaiming "Right on!" and referring to adherents as "You guys."

Trask believes the more than 2,000 evangelical Protestants in his thriving church, as well as most of the 2.5 million evangelicals across the country, are enthusiastic supporters of his old friend, the prime minister. "Read more:

And Who Do They Work for North of the Border?

Knocking on Doors? Seriously? Via Tele-Town-Halls? 

Matt (below) is the CEO of FPS

Yeah they will bring us into the Twenty first Century all right.
Complete with Republican Dirty Tricks

Dean Del Mastro? That Rings a Bell eh?

View this entire FPS Rant on another ttSm page

And yet Another Contradiction by Front Porch Strategies who have Categorically Denied that they even Make

Automated Calls!

A link to the FPS Video
So, do you still think that the Harper Government has no idea what went on with all the calls that they paid for during the election? 

They seem pretty damned well organized to me, even taking the time to thank the company that was kind enough to bring American attitudes and issues right to their door. Are you comfortable with front Porch Strategies importing their Pro-life and Anti-Palestine campaign here?

They do as you may remember, also promote Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum. 

    What Could Be Less Canadian Than That? 

I just wanted to add one final worry about this American Right wing spin machine. They have been saying for a week that they do NOT do Robocalls and only did Tele-Town-Halls on behalf of the Conservatives. As you have just seen that clearly is the case. Oddly they still deny having such capabilities, but they need to be careful what they say on publicly on Facebook.

Feel Free to Comment below.