http://stevejanke.com/index.phpA blog about news and politics by Steve Jankeen-ushttp://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/photo.jpgagwnblog@gmail.comTue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:28 PSThttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00angrygwnrss20http://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with Live.comhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/rRj602NTQmI/326710.phpTue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:28 PST326710@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/326710.phpWhich is worse?  Justin Trudeau, the closet separatist, or Justin Trudeau, the smug jerk? The controversy over Justin Trudeau's remarks continues.  As you probably know, Little Trudeau got into some hot water when he said that Quebec ought to leave "Stephen Harper's Canada", and that he would go with it: In a French-language interview with Radio-Canada on Sunday, the Liberal MP, whose father Pierre Elliott Trudeau fought sovereigntist sentiment, said he's enormously sad about...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/z88bgtVbpuM/326431.phpFri, 03 Feb 2012 17:41:02 PST326431@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/326431.phpBarack Obama describes his Christian faith in front of an audience, in part to justify his high-tax class-warfare policies. But in case you had doubts, he assures you his Christian-inspired policies are right because other religions teach the same thing. Um, that's not quite how faith is supposed to work. When President Obama made an address at the National Prayer Breakfast, he explained that his class-warfare policies were rooted in his religious faith. Does Obama have faith? ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/r-AtXbbOA2I/325737.phpTue, 17 Jan 2012 15:13:27 PST325737@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/325737.phpThomas Mulcair, a candidate for the leadership of the NDP and so the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, won't give any consideration to the discomfort many Canadians feel regarding Mulcair's dual citizenship.  That other citizenship?  It's French.  Why did it have to be French? Let's be brutally honest here.  The news that NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair would retain his dual citizenship should he ever become prime minister is generating a lot of...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/bwGQDhrU1Xk/325378.phpThu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:48 PST325378@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/325378.phpDaniel Turp, a separatist, wants the courts to apply Canada's Constitution to the decision by the Canadian government to leave the Kyoto Protocol.  Exactly what part of the Constitution makes the Kyoto Protocol a forever-binding commitment is not spelled out.  But no matter.  Even if the law is not on his side, Daniel Turp is making an effort to get the mob on his side.  Nothing trumps the law like a crowd of angry separatists. As an amusing side note, none other than...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/Ft92JCfLL9A/325306.phpTue, 03 Jan 2012 18:21:08 PST325306@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/325306.phpIt takes a special kind of casual arrogance to insult the people around you without seeming to even try.  Former Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff, in writing about how Canadians will react to health care changes, shows he has that special gift. There is a quote today that explains perfectly why Michael Ignatieff led the Liberal Party to such a historical loss in the last election.  Without even seeming to try, he manages to insult Canadians everywhere. The context is...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/U_DQeU6e9OA/325266.phpMon, 02 Jan 2012 16:56:22 PST325266@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/325266.phpAnother Liberal diagnoses what is wrong with his party.  If Daniel Veniez is an example of what the modern Liberal Party member is like, the real problem is pathological gutlessness. For an entrepreneur, Daniel Veniez is a singularly gutless individual.  He has written an extensive piece on what is ailing the Liberal Party.  Now you'd expect this former CEO, this former policy advisor, this former Crown corporation chairman, to call it like it is. What we get instead is the...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/mJn591uakQI/325095.phpTue, 27 Dec 2011 15:50:20 PST325095@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/325095.phpDid anyone notice that bit of cleverness in the NDP's proposed floor-crossing bill?  It has a synergy with the proposed demi-merger with the Liberals. A few weeks ago, a private member's bill introduced by NDP MP Mathieu Ravignat would make floor-crossing by MPs a very difficult proposition: Members of Parliament shouldn't be allowed to switch parties while in office according to a private member's bill from a New Democrat MP that is being debated in Parliament Wednesday. ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/WzSmaYtxmfk/321872.phpMon, 26 Sep 2011 16:29:53 PDT321872@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/321872.phpAre the Liberals caught in a positive feedback loop? During the election, I described the Orange Crush as an example of a positive feedback loop.  Essentially, an increase in support for the NDP was picked up by the pollsters, then reported in the media, which then led to an increase in support, and so on, until the level of NDP support locked at whatever maximum it could reach (the party picked up all the support it would ever get). Now I wonder if we are seeing the flip side. ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/PJBJ01wj-Hg/321632.phpTue, 20 Sep 2011 15:59:44 PDT321632@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/321632.phpThe NDP has a historic opportunity to show Canadians how the party would enhance national unity.  All the party has to do is give party members from Quebec a fixed minimum share of the overall vote. Surely what is good enough for the country is good enough for the NDP. Let's see if Thomas Mulcair has got what it takes to demand of the NDP what he demands of the rest of us. Thomas Mulcair, the deputy leader of the NDP, is weighing his chances of successfully running for the...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/cQHLLrTmXJA/321210.phpSat, 10 Sep 2011 10:05:59 PDT321210@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/321210.phpNDP interim leader Nycole Turmel is pleading for party unity as the leadership race kicks off.  There is a specific audience for her words.  I wonder if the NPI is ready to rise again. It is said that the secret of the success of the Liberal Party in times past was its propensity to campaign from the left, but govern from the right. I wonder if the NDP plans to turn that on its head.  Nycole Turmel, the NDP's interim leader, made a plea for party unity as the the rules for...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/_eBIFVQpoqI/321090.phpWed, 07 Sep 2011 13:58:27 PDT321090@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/321090.phpI don't have anything nice to say about interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel.  Skip this post if you are easily offended. While I was away on other business, the controversy regarding Nycole Turmel's recent, ongoing, and simultaneous memberships in sovereigntist Quebec parties exploded.  I really wasn't going to cover this because (a) it's old news now, and (b) she's just the interim leader of the NDP, so she doesn't amount to much. But I've gotten some emails since I came out of my...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/wD3s9M1hN6A/321071.phpWed, 07 Sep 2011 09:23:35 PDT321071@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/321071.phpIn watching the contortions being suffered by Liberal Party and NDP supporters over whether to attempt a merger or not, I am astonished at the single-mindedness of former prime minister Jean Chretien.  He is looking out for himself, but Liberals foolishly think he's giving them good advice. Should the Liberal Party and the NDP merge?  The debate rages on. You can divide the people in this debate into three groups. The first group are those blinded by desperation.  Mostly...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/hDi0CyqINjk/317772.phpSun, 19 Jun 2011 10:03:14 PDT317772@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/317772.phpThe choice taken by the Liberal Party to avoid making a decision on a new leader for a full two years means that Bob Rae will have the time to make the party into what he wants to make it, leaving the next leader little choice but to carry on with whatever decisions Bob Rae has taken on a so-called "interim" basis. I know it doesn't matter inasmuch as the Liberal Party is not all that relevant anymore, but I want to consider the Liberal plan to delay a leadership convention for a full two...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/ffZswh3oeeg/317457.phpSat, 11 Jun 2011 09:34:11 PDT317457@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/317457.phpHow irrelevant are Liberal bloggers?  They can't even be bothered to maintain their blog aggregation site. The Liberal Party is irrelevant.  Their utterances of their leader, Bob Rae, and their party president, Alfred Apps, are irrelevant.  The newspaper columns that continue to be published by Liberal apologists are irrelevant, at least when those columns focus on the irrelevant Liberal Party. And by extension, Liberal bloggers are the most irrelevant of all (bloggers are...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angrygwnrss20/~3/Rxeka_9bui0/317170.phpSat, 04 Jun 2011 21:43:57 PDT317170@http://stevejanke.com/http://stevejanke.com/archives/317170.phpThe electoral process is not meant to reflect the mood of the electorate, but to amplify it. You're in a crowded room.  Say it's a dinner party.  Around you there are numerous conversations going on simultaneously, the flatware clinking on plates, perhaps a television droning in the background.  And through the din you pick out the voice of someone trying to get your attention. According to Jack Layton, you should be ashamed.  You are listening to only a small portion...